Been watching the Olympics a bit. Michael Phelps is over rated and no Mark Spitz. The Chinese gymnasts look younger then 16. Beach Volleyball, baseball, BMX, softball, badminton, ping pong and a couple other events should not be in the bloody Olympics. Too damned much time has been used up showing us beach volleyball, mostly the skanky USA womens team.

The weather has been nice for August. But we might pay for it in September.

I love my ipod shuffle.

Montana may have had a stroke, seizure or something last weekend. He seems fine. But at almost nineteen years old, he is not as active as he was when he was a younger cat.

Had a dream last night that I was on a cruise ship. And on the wrong one too. The night before I dreamed of seeing several UFOs in formations. One set was closer to the house and the other set was on the right and further away. I was playing with the dogs, it was dusk and there was other stuff going on. They were in the southwestern sky. Don't remember too much of either dream.

Okay today is supposedly a lucky day and I wish I could get a lotto ticket.

The summer Olympics start today. Am sort of looking forward to watching some of them. The thing that holds me back is the fact that they are taking part in China. I wonder why the committee chose them, what next the evil part of Korea or maybe Darfor?

For some reason I have taken interest in "That 70's Show". Even though I watched most of it during its run. Now I find myself setting the DVR up to record some of the episodes. I know at some point the fascination with the show will end and I'll become attached to something else. But thats life.

Forgot to mention that we saw "Hellboy 2" on Saturday. It was a pretty good movie, I had seen and liked the first one. The ending opened up the possibility of there being a third movie. After we saw the movie we had dinner out and then I went to Best Buy. I am now the proud owner of an Ipod nano and Robot Chicken Star Wars. I have been playing around and tweaking the nano, which I love. Got the purple one, which is very nice looking.

I did a load of laundry yesterday afternoon and did a small amount of mowing. Did both because I thought it was going to rain. Sure looked like it was going to rain at any point, but once again we get nothing. Might have to do the load of laundry over again.

Friday the Olympics start and I am not sure how much of them I am going to watch. Will watch some of the opening ceremony and take it from there.

The heat wave broke and we have a bit of a cool wave. It's been nice sleeping at night without sweating the whole time despite having two fans going, one of which is in the window bringing slightly cooler air in.

My Mom's birthday was yesterday. We went out to eat at Red Lobster. Not the most exciting fair but that's what she wanted. Had a lovely meal, despite it being rather hot. Was going to make her cake, but with it being so hot (95+ weather for the past few days) I didn't want to heat up the house more then necessary.

It is supposed to get cooler later in the week. Don't normally like to complain to much about the summer weather, but sometimes I just cant resist. We have had a couple periods this summer with hotter then normal temperatures and thankfully they haven't lasted long. Otherwise it has been a pleasant summer so far.

Its now August, Moms birthday is Monday. We vote on Tuesday and the heat is going last a few days. Guess that even though it starts getting better temperature wise in August, Summer decided to play the ace up the sleeve. If we play our cards right, Mom and I should do fine. We have a few things planned this weekend, mostly things for Saturday. Any and all cleaning done on Sunday will need to be done early. It wont be easy but we should come out of this fine. We have had hot weather like this before, its not fun but we can survive it.

Well I am glad I was able to do some mowing and laundry yesterday. From last night until earlier this morning, we got two inches of rain. Mom and I had gone out to dinner as well as do a little shopping, and as we were coming home the rain started.

The temperature Monday was supposed to be 98 but was twenty degrees cooler. But, this weekend is supposed to be very hot.

Was going to do some laundry and a little mowing this morning but it rained just enough before I could do anything. So will try again tomorrow. The total amount of rain was about one eighth of an inch.

Still waiting for my jury duty check. Guess as with everything, when the government is involved things take time.

We have had weather recently that seems a bit more normal for July in Kansas. Dry and hot, with occasional cooler days. Some parts of the area have had rain, but it hasn't rained in more then a week. Maybe its closer to two weeks.

Hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico hit southern Texas and parts of Mexico. I think they said it was a category two hurricane, which is a milder storm. If you can call something like that mild.

Estelle Getty passed away. Although I haven't seem much of her work, I did love her on "The Golden Girls", she was probably the best character.

Kiska's birthday is tomorrow. Its hard to believe she is going to be three years old.

Went to have the car worked on this past weekend and only got the oil change taken care of. Seems like some places have no idea what they are doing. Mom took care of getting the appointment this time and thought she was clear on what needed to be down. After we dropped the car we had breakfast and then did some shopping, when we got back the car was done. We thought it had been done a little bit too quickly. Once inside she was told that they didn't usually do the one thing we needed done on a weekend because the places they get parts from are closed. Well we would not have gone there if we had none that ahead of time. So even though we got something done that was needed, the other thing was far more important. Now we are more then likely going to postpone the other thing until some other time and maybe go elsewhere to have it fixed.

I am now off the hook for jury duty. Even though I haven't had a summons in almost four years, I am glad I don't have to do jury duty. Maybe the next time I get a summons, it'll be a nicer time of year.

Not too much going on around here lately. Its been pretty nice temperature wise and we have been getting some rain. But I know its all bound to change at some point.

Have jury duty this week. Went yesterday and waited all morning to be told that all the cases were pretty much done but that we still might be needed. So until later in the week I am still on the jury duty hook.

We have been having nice weather so far this summer. That is until yesterday. Warmest day so far this year.

We decided not to see the movies after all. Both were things that were sort of interested in, one was getting terrible reviews. Think I will wait until their air on HBO or something to view them.

I finally bought a couple of those digital to analog converter boxes. We went to two places while out yesterday and neither place had them. So I just bought them online, whole lot less hassle that way.

Have a few fireworks for this evening. There have been a few people setting stuff for the past couple of days, but not as bad as it has been in past years. But we still have a group of morons who thinks everyone wants to hear their crappy band play. Wish the cops would actually do their jobs and tell the idiots to turn it down.

The new computer we bought last week is working out great. The other computer was finally just too much of a problem and needed to be replaced.

We got three and a half inches of rain from eight pm Wednesday evening until sometime early this morning. A majority of it came last night. Not surprising, there is water in the basement and I wont be able to do laundry for awhile. Some areas got hail, though I don't think we got anything other than just rain.

Mom has today and tomorrow off. We are planning to see a couple movies, but I am not sure we will see them. Also plan on a little shopping.

George Carlin as died. He was one of my favorite comedians. Sometimes I would hate something he had said in some act and not listen to anything of his for awhile, then something would make me think of him and I would like again. That didn't happen often though.

Have been doing well with drinking less coffee. Now and again I will have a problem, but not often.

Ebay sales have been sort of slow lately. Figure the sagging economy and the fact I don't have anything really exciting to grab people. Will have to retool a few things and maybe even go through my stuff to come up with something new to sell.

The Boston Celtics won a NBA championship for the first time since I was in high school and beat the Los Angeles Clippers, i mean Lakers to do it.

Cyd Charisse has passed away. I liked a couple of movies she was in. Forgot to mention that Bo Diddley, Jim McKay and Yves Saint Laurent passed away recently.

Tim Russert passed away over the weekend. I knew who he was even though I don't tend to watch political shows. Was said he did as young as he was. But things happen for a reason we don't understand sometimes.

Well we got laundry done yesterday morning, then did shopping for supplies and groceries in the afternoon. The first time since I started reducing the amount of coffee I drink I actually felt tired in the afternoon, but I figured do the laundry and the shopping helped me feel tired.

I decided this week to reduce the amount of coffee I drink, as I already mentioned. No one told me to do it, just felt like it was time I did it. So far I feel a little better and I am sleeping a little better. But this is just the beginning of the experiment, who knows how I will feel in say a month or two.

Saw "Iron Man" this afternoon and it was really good. Was not sure I wanted to go because it has Gwenyth Paltrow in it and I dislike her much, but despite her being in it, the movie was quite good. Might even get it on DVD when it comes out later this year.

Had a sever storm warning tonight. There were reports of possible tornadoes or at least funnels. We got a heavy downpour, while it didn't last long we did get over an inch of rain and water was running down the street. Good thing we haven't had a lot of rain lately because it would have made the flash flooding worse. It took awhile for the runoff to stop, now its staying in the ditches.

We had gone out to eat, spur of the moment sort of thing. As we were in the restaurant, the TVs tuned to the local changes, showed the weather reports. I guess who cares if there is a show someone wants to watch. We can now say "I watched the weather report and a TV show broke out", yeah its stupid but who cares. I did get a couple pictures of the storm clouds.

Mowed the backyard on Saturday and glad I did with the rain we got yesterday and the chances for rain we will get. We are in another weird weather cycle. There are parts of the country dealing with flooding and then there are the severe storm warnings locally.

Over the weekend, Mom mentioned she might take Friday off. We could do a few things on Friday, including laundry, to relive the pressure from the weekend. Might even see a movie too, which we haven't done in weeks.

Sergei and his allergies are doing better. His ear had gotten bad enough we thought about going to the vet, but his ear has responded to some home remedies so we may not need to take him in at all.

It's June already. One step closer to the actual start to summer and one step closer to the heat and humidity of a Midwestern summer.

We were going to go to a movie, Mom wants the see Sex and the City so kill me now, but she's not sure if she really wants to.

Sergei is starting to have problems with his ear again. Guess it is like an allergy thing with him. But at least we know what to do for him. He doesn't mind to much having his ear messed with.