Glenn Ford has passed away. I liked a few of the movies he starred in.

Was watching Project Runway last night and still can't get over that Angela got the boot at long last. Yes Angela, you're out. Go back to your little isolated Ohio farm and shut the heck up. Your lousy "International Jet Setter" outfit made it look like you were all dressed up to go out and slop the hogs. You should have been eliminated long ago. Talk to your stupid mother about how sad it is you lost and keep your stupid designs to yourself. Not sure how Angela got on the show or managed to stay as long as she did but ding dong the witch is gone.

This makes entry number 400 in my little blog. :->

Some areas north and south of us hardly got any rain. East of us had tornado activity or sightings of funnel clouds at least. So it was a big storm front that past through. The total, I think I mentioned this yesterday, is about four and a half inches. Most of that rain came Sunday.

Haven't picked out who I am going to follow in football this year. I have the schedules for the pro and college teams that were printed in yesterdays paper, will take a look at them today and see who looks good. The KC Chiefs and the Chicago Bears are a given for the pros, will pick out at least a couple more NFL teams. As for the college teams, Northwestern is the only team I know I want to follow this year.

I have slept pretty good the past couple of nights, despite having had dental work done on Saturday. In fact I am surprised I slept as much as I did Saturday. I don't have any paid related to the work I had done, which is good.

So far we have gotten four and a half inches of rain. It looks like we might get some more before the day is over. A inch and a half of that rain came in a heavy downpour mid-afternoon. We have flash flood warnings and heavy storm warnings until midnight tonight. It's like I have said many times, when we need rain we get some but not enough or when we need it we get too much. Well at this moment we have the latter. If we had gotten that much rain over the course of a few days, it wouldn't have been a bad deal, but that much in such a short time isn't good. The ground cant absorbs a great deal at once and when we get too much, we get flash flood warnings. If it doesn't rain the rest of the week, I will be happy. Don't take what I am saying as complaining, I am happy we are getting some rain. It's just we don't need this much at once.

I spent close to an hour downstairs getting water out of the basement, I usually prefer to have Mom help but she was too tired to help. We have a window well that needs to have a new cover and when Mom finally gets around to helping me with a few things around the house, it will get taken care of.

If by some chance we do get more water in the basement, I will try and take care of it in the morning before Mom goes off to work. If I don't I might wait until she gets back home, but I could do it where I have the garage door down a bit and locked so no one can get in.

We got some rain Friday and it looked we were going to get rain Saturday but got nothing. Early this morning, Sunday, I woke up and heard it raining. Since I didn't dump the rain out of the rain gauge the total from today will include Fridays rain.

Well, I spent four hours, yes FOUR hours, in the dentists chair yesterday. And it wasn't near as bad as I thought it would be. For a few moments of terror I though I was going to need root canal, but I may not need it. I am crossing my fingers that I wont need it. I have a temporary tooth in and in a couple weeks I will get my new crown put in. In all it cost around $1,100 to fix my tooth. But I did get a lot for that though. There was exam,I did get a free tooth brush and dental floss. But you could say I paid for them anyway.

Broke my crown while eating breakfast yesterday, have a dentist appointment on Saturday. Had to walk to the bank this afternoon to take care of getting out online bank account. The account had gone dormant after three weeks ( we didn't know you needed to access it at least once every three weeks) and then was it was deleted after three months. Because we need to check our balance now and again or need to see if a check cleared, I had to walk to the bank and get the paperwork started on us getting an online account going. When I was almost home I heard thunder, I looked and saw a storm front that seemed to be following me. Not long after I got home, it started to rain.

It has been nice temperature wise all week. Even when it has gotten into the nineties during the day, it cools of in the evening and the house gets comfortable.

We got three quarters of an inch of rain Friday night/Saturday morning. The forecast for the week looks pretty good. Maybe people can begin to live again and without the blast furnace going.

Have some things I need to do today and I will do them despite having a headache and being tired.

I do not remember much detail of the three dreams I know I had last night, but I do remember what went on in two of the dreams. One involved me being in war (I have played three Medal Of Honor games several times, in fact I have played Frontline and European assault many times and I played a Call Of Duty for a bit but didn't like it and sold it), the other dream involved a sunken boat. Do not remember anything about the third dream, but what I do remember is that I didn't feel uneasy or frightened but what I was seeing and going through. I felt calm about everything.

Would like to take this opportunity to thank Mother Nature for Monday and Tuesday. Both days were very, very nice.

It looks like normal summer temperatures will be returning for the rest of August. Although today and Friday will be fairly hot, but I can deal with a couple days of it.

Bruno Kirby died the other day. I enjoyed some of the things he was in, he was a very good actor. He was only 57, so its a bit sad that he died. Not that it isn't sad when anyone dies at any age.

From last night through this morning, several storms dumped an inch of rain on our area. Even though the humidity is one hundred percent, it doesn't matter because we finally got a sizeable rain fall. Now if the dastardly heat much of the country has been dealing with would just pack its bags and leave.

Last night I once again had odd dreams. The only thing I can remember is that one involved oranges.

Forgot to mention that Mike Douglas, the TV host, passed away. I was a weird kid that grew to be a weird adult. But I remember watching his show when I was younger. I also watched Match Game and Dinah Shore, among other shows, when I was a kid.

Woke up yesterday and saw clouds. Thought it might be an indication we were going to get rain, but the clouds and the fog burned off by mid-morning. The day wasn't too bad otherwise. Looks like maybe we might get rain or a chance of rain once or twice this week. We certainly can use it, we are around eight inches behind for the year in the area.

Had a couple strange dreams last night. One involved me being on a basketball/dodge ball team. It was odd that some of my teams switched from being men to girls younger then me and a couple were twins. The other team taunted us, but we ended up winning, even though it appeared I was the only one who knew how to play. The other dream involved Mom and me being in some town I was not familiar with, but many people knew or at least acted like they knew us. We were walking around and decided to go to some bar, when we got to the door there was something blocking our way which was just pushing out of the way. The guy that helped us push the stuff out of the way wasn't sure the bar was open, but we looked through the dark glass and saw people inside so we went in. We sat down, placed a drink order and looked around. Even though we both felt a little uneasy about being in the place we decided to stay. At some point we changed seats, the lights went out and a movie began to play. There was a woman sitting next to me that began to take her clothes off, which was annoying. After a couple minutes, I grabbed the dress she was trying to take off and threw it several feet away. She never looked at me, but complained to the guy she was with and that's where the dream ends.

Mother Nature has been toying with us. There have been some storm systems pass us by and dump rain on some other section of the country. Worse yet, earlier in the week rain had been forecast and it really looked like we would get some, but we didn't. The storm ( as I already mentioned) just gathered its strength and gave the rain to someone else. Well finally yesterday we got a small amount of rain. It may not have amounted to much but we did get some rain and it cooled off a little. Right now we have a little bit of fog. I am hoping that the heat doesn't continue much long and does not care on into fall.

Have been having trouble sleeping, mainly caused the heat. And when I have slept, I have had strange dreams. Mostly I just remember an image but no details. This morning I had a dream where I was being put into a hospital. I remember I didn't want to be there. I was just arguing my case as to why I shouldn't be there and the argument fell on deaf ears. The last thing I remember was being told to lay down on a particular bed while I was talking with my mom. We were going back and forth with why I needed to be in the hospital and how we were going to pay for it when I didn't have insurance. That's all I remember.

Not sure what all I am going to do today. I do have some chores I need to get caught up on. But I am tired, from the troubles with sleeping and having to deal with the heat. So I am not sure just how much I will get done. Of course I will get the dishes and cat boxes cleaned, but I think I might just do one a or two light chores and call it a day.

Been dealing with computer issues and the heat the past couple days. Had to do a system restore after getting a trojan and it's screwed everything up. They outta just put an expiration date on computers like the do on seemingly everything else. That way you knew you had so long to have that particular computer.

Friday was a nice day for Moms birthday. It cooled down a little and allowed us to have fun an the Nelson-Atkins museum, Crown Center and then have a lovely meal at Red Lobster. We ate Lunch at the Rozelle (sp?) Court at the Nelson. After we were done at the Nelson, we went to Crown Center. Then we went home and rested a little while before heading out for dinner. She loved the gifts I got for her and had a pleasant day. Then the weekend came and brought the damned blast furnace heat with it.

The weekend was hot and nasty. Anyone who says they love summer should be shot on sight. There was a chance for rain last night, but Mother Nature is tormenting us again and we got nothing. Although, I think so parts of the metropolitan area might have gotten something. Today looks like rain and there's a slight chance for tomorrow, but I don't think Mother Nature will give us what we need. And what we need is rain and cooler temps.

Saturday, I looked at the Moon and for a moment I thought the glow coming off of it looked like a cross. It was strange, I don't know if because of it being not quite full or if was the angle. But it did look like it had a cross glow coming off it.

I spent most of yesterday convinced that the weather and forecasters were taunting us with claims it would rain. But yesterday evening the blessed rain came and brought its friend cool temperatures. So far the clouds are staying, hope they stay all day, and there is a chance we might get some more rain. My guess is that we got in the neighbor hood of half an inch last night. When Mom got home, which was late, we went out on a quick errand and the rain got a bit heavier as we got closer to home. Not only did we need a break from the blast furnace, but we needed the rain.

Mom's birthday is Friday and she managed to get the day off. So we are going to go out and have a little fun, then have dinner at her choice of restaurant.

Part Two of Items Of Mystery.

Items of mystery.

Okay this bigfoot is fake, but still.