who ordered that?

It certainly wasn't me. I want to know how I return it.

I got up for work yesterday morning and got a bit of a shock when I let Duke outside. I was not expecting all that snow and it was still coming down. It snowed ALL day long.
I got home from work, put my stuff in the house and then went back outside to shovel. While I was out there a kid came by on a 4 wheeler that had a plow on the front of it. He stopped at the end of the driveway and asked me if I wanted some help.  He said his plow didn't have a lot of weight on it but he would punch out the end of the driveway and then be on his way. When he was done he said it was on the house. Let me tell you, that kid made my day.
I certainly didn't get any help from a certain little white guy who lives here.

Nope, he was inside, wrapped in his nice warm sweater hanging by the register.

Today I have the day off since I worked yesterday. I have no plans for the day. I'm just going to do whatever feels right at the moment.

A fishy story

Imagine if you will, a 10 gallon aquarium sitting in your house. Four little fish swimming around happily until suddenly without warning their world is turned upside down.
In the time it takes for a person to fall backwards into an aquarium, their home was floating around on my living room and dining room floor.

Actually the fish weren't exactly floating. They were more or less doing a flip flop, help I can't breathe kind of thing.
Are you aware that the reaction time from an event such as this until one can respond and start grabbing towels in quite remarkably slow?
So let me explain what happened. I bought a new desk and Wade and a friend were carrying it in from the car. (This was an unassembled desk in a box) They get just about even with the fish tank when Wade's friend loses his grip on the box. The box crashes to the floor and his friend falls backwards against the fish tank. All three of us stood there with a look of shock and Duke was thinking "COOL, we have an indoor swimming pool"

The next day, Wade's friend came back over with a replacement aquarium and the three surviving fish were released from their prison back into their new home. When we were cleaning everything up, we only found 3 of the fish, which were put in a bowl for hopefully safe keeping. I was convinced that Duke must have had a fish dinner that night but while sifting through the gravel from the old aquarium we found the fourth, now deceased, fish. May he rest in peace in that great fish tank in the sky.

Happy New Year

Pardon my sparseness today. I'll explain the events of the weekend in another post. I just want to wish everyone a Happy New Year.
As this New Year begins may it bring you peace and

No title, no photo

Not the way I had planned to say goodbye to 2011 but then again I didn't have a plan to begin with. Even now as I sit here attempting to be clever in bidding our year adieu nothing is falling in to place. I'll blame it on the fog that is still lingering in my head.
The past 12 months have given us laughter and tears, good times and bad and yet we moved on. Not dwelling on the bad or lingering to long with the good. And so it is that I shall say goodbye once again 

• Farewell - English (formal)
• Bye - English (casual)
• totsiens / tot siens - Afrikaans (standard)
• tot weersiens - Afrikaans (informal)
• tot wederom - Afrikaans (informal)
• wederdom - Afrikaans (informal)
• koebaai - Afrikaans (informal; derived from English "Good-Bye")
• ghoebaai - Afrikaans (informal; derived from English "Good-Bye")
• baai - Afrikaans (informal; derived from English "Bye")
• arriewarie - Afrikaans (informal; folk etymology from "Au revoir")
• tatta / tata - Afrikaans (children's language)
• vaarwel - Afrikaans (formal)
• elalleqa - Arabic
• khodaa haafez _ persian
• aabar dekha hobey - Bengali
• Donadagohvi - Cherokee
• Hagoonea' - Navajo
• Ahoj - Czech
• Ja ne / じゃね (informal) - Japanese
• Ja mata ne / じゃまたね (formal) - Japanese
• Sayonara / さよなら (if you will not see them for a long time) - Japanese
• Auf Wiedersehen - German
• Bis dann - German
• Tschüss - German
• Ade - German
• Tschau - German
• Bis Spater (Bis Schpaater)- German
• Viszlát! - Hungarian
• Arrivederci - Italian
• Addio - Italian
• Ciao - Italian
• Buona sera - Italian
• Adieu - French [add-ee-uh] (farewell) very formal
• Au Revoir - French (aw reh-VWAH)
• À bientôt - French (see you later)(ah bee-EN-toe)
• À demain - French (see you tomorrow)(ah deh-MAN)
• Hejdå - Swedish
• Aloha - Hawaiian
• Le'hitraot - Hebrew
• Shalom - Hebrew
• Aavajo - Gujarati

Punha Bhetu - Marathi

• Sampai Jumpa - Indonesian
• Adios - Spanish
• Paalam - Filipino
• Zai Jian - Chinese, Mandarin
• Zoi Geen (the "g" is pronounced like geek) - Chinese, Cantonese
• Farvel - Danish
• Namaste (same as hello) - Hindi ( this video shows you how to pronounce namaste: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXlcpjgyrOg )
• Fir Milenge (see you) - Hindi
• Alvida (Goodbye, bit formal) - Hindi
• Ayo - Papiamentu
• Rub Rakha - Punjabi
• Feri bhetaula (lit. we'll meet again) - Nepali
• Do zobaczenia (see you) - Polish
• Żegnaj - Polish
• Adeus - Portuguese
• Tchau - Portuguese
• Do svidan’ya/До Свидания (until we meet again, formal)- Russian
• Poka/Пока (pronounced pa-ka, informal) - Russian
• Do vstrechi/До Встречи (until we meet again) - Russian
• Selamat jalan - Malay
• Selamat tinggal - Malay
• Tot ziens - Dutch
• Dag - Dutch
• Doei - Dutch
• 再见 - Chinese
• Yasou (YAH-soo) - Greek
• Hwyl fawr - Welsh
• Annyeonghi Kyeseyo(if the person you're talking to isn't leaving) - Korean
• Anyeonghi Gasyeo(if the person you're talking to is leaving) - Korean
• Näkemiin (See you) - Finnish
• Hyvästi (Farewell) - Finnish
• Hasta La Vista (see you later) - Spanish
• Adios - Spanish
• Te veo despues - Spanish
• Vale- Latin (to one person)
• Valete- Latin (to more than one person)
• La revedere - Romanian
• Veloma - Malagasy
• Sige la - Pangasinan
• Khuda Hafiz - Urdu
• zai jian - Chinese
• Ha det bra - Norwegian
• Ha det - Norwegian
• Sees - Norwegian
• Snakkes - Norwegian
• Vida parayunnu - Malayalam
• Vidaiperukiren - Tamil (very formal, in fact no one uses this)
• Ok maams - Tamil (very informal, use with mates only)
• Poitu Vaarein (Taking leave but will visit again)- Tamil (standard fare)
• Vaarein (Will come again) - Tamil short for Poitu Vaarein
• Slan - Irish
• Aavajo - Gujarati
• Чао - Macedonian
• Doviđenja - Croatian (litteraly means "Until we see again")
• Bog - Croatian ( litteraly means "God", but can be pronounced Bok! so it is differencianised from the word "God")
• Ćao - Croatian ( Primarily used in Coastal Croatia, because of it location very close to Italy, where you would say "Ciao" and the prounanciation of Ciao and Ćao are similar, if not the same)
• Mattae Sigona - Kannada (Used for meet you again sometime)
• Chao - Serbian/Bulgarian
• Nawatha hamu wemu - Sinhalese (This means "Catch you later")
• Subha dawasak - Sinhalese (This means "Have a nice day")
• Nasvidenje - Slovene (Formal)
• Adijo - Slovene (Bye)
• Čav - Slovene (Also čao and is pronounced as italian ciao)

list copied from  http://www.wikihow.com/Say-Goodbye-in-Several-Different-Languages