Trying to stay up all night tonight. Sleep in the morning, get up and go work 16 hours. Back to that again, the off week is over. I gotta stay up, anyway, I'm baking another loaf of bread. Getting to be quite the baker, now. Still only have one recipe, though. Wheat: good fer ya!. Karen and I seem to eat all I can bake, we've never had any get moldy yet. I really do need to start doing different stuff, though. Lotta recipes online, and I've got a couple-three books besides the one that came with the machine.

Just checked the machine. Two hours and forty minutes left to go. When it gets done I'll have a big slab of bread and a big glass of Ovaltine and go to bed, that should work out about right. It definitely gives me something to look forward to...

I'm trying to figger out how I want to do the sound in my new space. I've got one set of speakers hooked up to the sound card, and another set hooked up to the TV card. And I've got a 1971 Model Fisher 180 Amp/tuner, not hooked up to anything right now. The problem is, it only has a tape input; without a switch-box, I can only run one mode (plus the radio) off of it. And I need to do something about the FM reception, it's really crappy in this basement.

I haven't got the VCR or the camera hooked up yet, either. Maybe I'll do that and grab some frames and let y'all look at my new space! Wouldn't that be fun? (For me, anyway.) Sure, that'll give me something to do to stay awake. I'll do it! Wait right here... OK! How about that! The dork in his lair... except for the little green dots all over. I must've saved it in transparent background mode. Here, let me fix that... Ahhhh! Much better, but I still look like a dork. I can't fix that.

I didn't know I knew how to do that... wrap the text around the image. Must be something new in MSIE 3.0. I do like the way it looks, though. Ain't this FUN?

I finished cleaning up the kitchen... I almost said "for Karen" but that wouldn't have been correct, especially politically. I live here too, and I told Karen that I would clean up the kitchen. But I really did it for both of us. Boy! This is a hard world we live in... I might go clean up the bathroom for her, too...

I've been feeling glum about this journal lately. I'm getting lots of "hits" and I'm staying in the top five on the open pages stat list... but I feel like I'm being ignored by most other journalers. I think a lot of it has to do with the net atheist logo, but that's not all of it. I just feel that sometimes what I'm doing isn't significant, and that gets reinforced regularly. I do have some very loyal readers, though, and I really appreciate them. Thanx a lot, Guys and Gals! Anyway, I guess I'm just not really clear what I'm doing here, even though I thought I was. And I've never been wrong about anything before...

Maybe it's my sense of humor. Like that last line in the last paragraph... it could sound really egotistical to someone who doesn't know me. It was meant to be humorously self-deprecating, though. Maybe if I would put a *smile* in there, it would be less likely to be misunderstood. OK, I'll try it. And I've never been wrong about anything before...*smirk*

Oops... that didn't do it, did it? See, I just can't resist. It's a long-standing character fault, I inherited it from all of my relatives. Yes, that's right, I come from a long line of smart-asses. I even have two smart-ass kids. And grandkids, too. Yes, even Lacee is developing into a smart-ass. And she's not even blood relation!

I did do some work on my front page again, removed the second graphic and replaced it with text. Not quite as purty, but it loads real fast! I also found out that I never did complete my Nilky Page properly. I never FTP'd the final files... that was in June when I did(n't) do that update. So anyway, they're all in separate files now.

I just went up and made some decaffe coffee... the breadmaker has one hour and twenty-one minutes to go... that means I got a lotta more time to write stuff in here. I'm 'bout outta things to say, though...

Oh no I'm not! I just remembered that I haven't mentioned that Karen and I are going to Texas to see JD and Tyler and JD's new Lisa! Karen got off some extra time, so we'll leave on Thursday Morning, get to Dallas in the afternoon, see some sights, get a motel, get up, see some more sights and then head out to Huntsville Friday afternoon. We'll probably leave there early Tuesday AM, we both have to be back to work on Wednesday. I'm really looking forward to it, seeing the kids and doing Dallas. I've been through there many times, but never had time to see the assassination scene and all of that touristy stuff. So it'll be fun.

I've had a few people signing my guestbook lately, too! It doesn't work most of the time, though, so ya gotta be persistent about it. I've signed a few where I've had to try five or six times to get on the site...

Well, that'll do it for tonight. Maybe more later, but I kinda doubt it. I'm gonna FTP this and go read all the other journals...

A little later.... 03:58, to be exact...
The bread was good. I knew it would be, though, and so did you, didn't you?
I finally decided to put up a ME! page. Pretty egotistical, huh. Sorry. I also changed some more stuff around on the front page. I hate being bored! So I screw things around... making them better? Time will tell. O'well, it's a living, anyway.

I just figgered out how to get to the top of the list in Open Pages! Just spend a few days not doing entries... people keep checking, and the count goes up!

Talk about yer useless information...*smile* Like, who really cares? Hmmm... who's doin' the checkin'?
(I did it right that time!)