Dysfunctional family holiday
Mood:  not sure

 

    

 

      Sigh, Looks like this upcoming holiday season won't be as happy as it could be again this year. No olive branch for the ex. She still sits on her ersatz self righteous throne.  Her odd belief is that she is never wrong it seems. She chooses for her and I not to have a responsible adult parental relationship for our kids. She won't get beyond her petty attitude. She won't respect me, blows me off. Judge not lest you be judged. I don't expect contrition from her and she knows she won't get it from me. I won't ever vindicate her poor decision making. It's over, move on. She should accept the best she can do is try to get along. Dump that dark spot that clouds her soul. I keep on pushing on. My resolve strengthened more with each bitter move she makes. We can hope one day a little light of goodness will flicker to life in her heart.

TBB

Toshiba Phone systems are bad!
Mood:  loud

 

 

 

    I work for a dealer of Toshiba phone systems. I have been a phone tech for 20 years, Toshiba systems are the most difficult I've ever worked with. Toshiba has an aggressive marketing department but the product is not up to snuff. Toshiba systems are very unpredictable and often take hours to do simple things. Updates are constantly needed to make the products work right. Toshiba over complicates everything. Task that are easy in other systems suck with Toshiba. If you want to dial into an ies32 voice mail you have to use microsoft netmeeting to get to it. Backing the voicemail up is a drive mapping horror. 

  What really bites is the tech support. Their leader, Pedro the Bull, actually thinks they are top notch. He has the nerve to say "congratulations" when he successfully guides you through one of their painful process. Doesn't he know that he is tech support to SERVE techs? His lack of humility shows how out of the picture he is. The other tech support guys seem nice but Pedro is a pain. Buck up boy.

    Kroger is a big grocery chain who have dropped Toshiba, excellent. Now Kroger uses Nortel BCM 400 switches. I'm glad I have Nortel certification. I will be doing work for Kroger installing BCM 400s. Nortel is in bankruptcy but I see a better future for them than Toshiba.

    Suck it up Toshiba. Phone systems are to serve end users first, then be valueable assets to to the dealers. Get it together.

 

Served Frozen
Mood:  chillin'
Now Playing: Ice Ice Baby

 

 

 

      Lordy readers, my whole area had freezing rain. It turned to ice and coated everything. The next day you would hear loud pops then thuds in the snow. Tops of trees snapped off and fell. This is my front yard...

 

    Very minor roof damage but lots of trimming and sawing. I was with out power for 5 days. Fortunately I have 2 driveway entrances...

 
   Most of the ice and snow is gone. The smaller branches piled up. The big branches will get the chainsaw. Thanks for the support of friends and family.

 

   I wonder what an ice storm in New York City is like?

TBB 

The writing on the wall.
Mood:  not sure

 

 

   Again this year I can tell already that the ex is going to be a stick in the mud for her kids this Christmas. Each year I hope she will get over her self righteous vanity.  Each year I wish the ex and I would try to be friends for the kids. This year like last, my ex gave me a birthday card. This year like last I threw it away without reading it. I hate false attempts at friendship. Getting along for the kids is the best it will get. She may put on her blinders but she knows that I can't and won't be friends with the kind of people who would write bad about me on the world wide web.

   Sorry kids. I hope your mom gets over it.

   TBB
 

My vain ex.
Mood:  chillin'
Now Playing: Wouldn't want to be like you, Alan Parsons

 

 

My crazy ex. She ponders my living with my girlfriend.

I was against my ex having someone move in with because I KNEW she would move her friend/boyfriend now husband up from Florida to be with her. I pushed her buttons to hear her feedback. The situation played itself out just like I thought. I knew she would defend having him live with her. The writing on the wall and the walks like a duck talks like a duck scenario. She planned her whole boyfriend thing long before I questioned her about the move in thing.

My ex and her husband are the only 2 people I don't trust or respect at the current time. There is no issue of righteousness from them. They aren't right enough in their own opinions to regard. Would you indulge opinions from someone you can't trust? Never lend credibility or worry about the rants of people like this.

I lived with my ex before we were married. I would not have done it if we had kids from separate relationships. I would not have thought about living with someone now but yes, my ex did it and I hope to be doing it as well. Principle, right?

Never indulge the vain and self righteous. They may get to think they actually are right.

Good Day...TBB

Cave Adventures
Mood:  energetic

Hi Readers,

        Things are going good these days. I'm spending this week with 2 of my daughters. This past weekend we wanted to cool off so I took them to some unique caves.

                  

    These caves were man made many years ago. Granite rock was taken out yet the structure stayed intact. The complex is still accessible and people travel from far away to see it. It was a welcome adventure on a hot day. My girls loved it. Glad to share this with you. I hope all my friends are doing well.

    The Blue Baron.

 

Vanity unfair
Mood:  chillin'
Topic: Oh Well

Hi there,

    I occasionally read one of the blogs my evil ex writes. She knows I read it cause she writes what she wants me to see. She's been particularly saucy lately.  She mentioned i should "get over it". I think the "it" is the fact she writes about me poorly on her blogs. I've told her I don't like it. If she wants to work it out like adults we can talk it over, mediate or compromise. None of these solutions will she try. Instead it seems she childishly tells me it's her way only. After trying a long time I gave up hoping to be friends. I asked that we still talk for the kids sake.  Her vanity won't come down. She's not right.

       So because she's stubborn our kids have to suffer. She now seems totally over the edge choosing to take me to court instead of talking to me about the kids like I asked her to.  Taking money away from both of us.  Seems she's fed up with hoping to brainwash me and now launching a vindictive campaign to use my kids against me.

       Suggestions of sexual impropriety with my youngest daughter. Very sick of my ex. She's the one with 2 grown men at her home. Neither of which has she known more than 7 years. Serious consequences have come up because she did not tell me about the impropriety when she became aware of it. More on this later.

        I still hope someday she'll become less idealistic about her abuse of the freedom of speech. I hope one day she'll  snap back to reality for her kids sake. Is the freedom of speech worth cheating your children of  normality?

 

 

 

 

TBB 

Karma train a comin'
Mood:  cool
Now Playing: I wouldn't want to be like you. Alan Parsons

Aha!

     Seems the Karma train me be rolling over my evil ex. She took me to court this past week on some substantiated and non substantiated issues. She had her say though I'm sure the judge was wise enough to see through her bullshit.

     Her husband lost his job the next day ( he's in on the mean crap too ) and the EE hit another car with her minivan. She had no damage but caused problems to the person she hit. 

     What goes around may very well come around.

 TBB,

WWW2 is warming up
Mood:  cool
Now Playing: Watching you

   

 

 

 

     Things are happening subtly around me. I have a mole spy with a gmail account. She's watching and telling me about a particularly bitter person and their private www2 web blog. Thank gosh for copy and paste.

TBB 

Chasing Sundogs
Mood:  energetic
Now Playing: Beatles: I'll follow the Sun

Howdy there,

 

       I was making a trip to the eastern part of Kentucky. It was a very cold day. The sun was out behind the chilled clouds. I had my digital camera with me. I saw this phenomena.

         It's where cloud ice crystals act as prisms to the sun on the horizon.  2 fake "suns" called  Sundogs or parhelions appear equal distances both right and left of the sun. If the clouds were real thin I would have seen the whole dome surrounding the sun. Here's another view of the right side. The field of view was too big to take in one full picture.

   Go to Wikipedia and check out Sundogs and Parhelions.

 

TBB.