Yup I went to the auto show but I didn't make it to the museum but I still plan to. An exhibit featuring artifacts from Pompeii including the casts of people who died after being covered in volcanic ash and lava, though gruesome in some regards, is still an amazing sight. I want to apologise to a couple of my friends. I read your blogs but I couldn't leave a comment. Whether it was my computer or the Internet last night (Wed.) I couldn't say. For example I had no problem with Beth's or Carole's but I couldn't leave a comment on Nancy's or others.  Anyway the auto show was fun as it always is. I have loved cars since I was young. Every year my father would take me to all the dealerships in the fall when all the new models would be debuted and ever since then I have an emotional connection to cars and their styling and performance. I only owned one performace car (read fast) in my life. It was a blast to drive. When it worked. It was the biggest pain in the hind quarters, no what I mean to say it was a big pain in the ass! It drained my bank account at the time. It was all my fault because I did a lot of reading up on it and they pretty much said the same thing. When it worked it was great but it was prone to all kinds of problems. I bought it anyway. It gave me one good year of service out of the 5 total years that I owned it. It was a 1991 Ford Taurus SHO (Super High Output). I did buy another Taurus afterwards but it was more of the garden variety. I just got rid of it this passed August. I have nothing bad to say about it. It gave me 11 years of good dependable service and was still going strong when I traded it in. It was a comfortable, reliable car. In 11 years all I replaced were tires and a small bit in the rear suspension. That was it. No oil leaks. No oil burning. I only hope my present car car work as well.

I did make a movie of the auto show but I opted for a slideshow of the pictures I took. I tried to find car based music to play underneath it but only came up with one and it was too short so I ended up setting it to a bluesy tune that was almost the exact length of all the pictures. That is next.

   

I can't seem to stay awake much past 9:30 or 10:00 these days. I get quite a workout breaking down pallets and they should provide a bus line to get from one part of the store to another as it is needlessly huge for the business it does. It's a very nice store and it's only 6 or 7 years old but it didn't have to be this big. Oh and the parking lot is terrible. We are next to a McDonalds and this attracts large groups of birds. Particularly pigeons and sea gulls. They are constantly flying about leaving little gifts from their feathered colons. And what makes it worse are the people who come to feed them. Of course there's not much that can be done about it.

Well I actually had a lot more to write about but I can't remeber what it was. I have a couple of hours of consciousness left. I will attempt to visit around, do my dinner dishes and hit the sack. Boy am I tired these days.

Goodnight/good morning/ good afternoon my friends,

I'm outta here.

It's been a long week but I survived.

Perhaps grueling would be a better word. It's all connected with work. Without going into detail it was a combination of sick calls and late deliveries. I still have one day to go as I am working a late shift today. However I am looking passed the days work to get home and watch The New England Patriots play The Denver Bronco's here at home. As much success as all The Boston area/New England teams have had the last 11 years and as good as the Patriots have been they haven't won a playoff game since 2007. I know boohoo. Tonight's game features Tim Tebow who has been all over the TV the few weeks. I of course will be rooting for the Pats. I am amused at all the talk of Divine intervention because of Tebow's constant mentioning of "The Lord". Personally I find it a bit much. He's not the first player to do this and there's nothing wrong with it but all the people who think God will intervene in a football game are off the deep end as far as I am concerned. It's gonna be cold tonight. With the wind chill factor it could get close to 0. Tebow has been in the national spotlight. You can't watch a national news brodcast with seeing a story on him. I've got nothing against him. He's a very good player and I don't blame the people from Denver for going loopy over him. We would do the same here but this national ferver is over the top and we have a pretty good player on our team, Tom Brady. This day is going to be a blur to me as I can't wait for my work day to be over. I should be home in time to watch the bulk of the game. I can't wait! Go Pats!

I have been so beat down from work this week. I got home threw some food down my gullet, took care of some domestic issues (laundry and the like), and then I was asleep. It's not getting any easier and I can't wait to get out. I have a few years to go but I might be able to retire in a couple of years depending on how comfortable I feel with the money I have saved. I wouldn't be averse to working part time after I retire but I am approaching 41 years (April 1st. no joke.) and my company has been through many changes since 1999 with a series of owners and constant changes in policy and general confusion as to what the hell is going on. My original company started in 1915 and we were the benchmark in the supermarket business around here. Quite innovative. We used to have a bundle pick-up meaning you would pay for your groceries, they would be put in a numbered box on a conveyer belt which would disappear into the floor. You would drive around to the side of the store and your groceries would magically appear and put into your car. You know those plastic mesh bags oranges come in. My old company contacted Dow Chemical in the 50's and had this developed. If you were in the supermarket business around here years ago working for "Star" was a feather in your cap. But that's the past. I guess I am fortunate to still be working but it's getting near the end and I am getting tired.

Tomorrow I hope to go to the Museum of Science to view an exhibit on Pompei and Monday I will be heading to the auto show. I always enjoy seeing cars I will never be able to own. Can't wait!

Alrighty then I have been ramblin' on (The check's in the mail Carole.) for a while here and I must soon get myself ready for work.
GO PATS!

I'm outta here.

MSN Help. No help at all.-MSN cancelled.

You know I actually wrote a blog last night. I switched to the new Blogger design and didn't quite understand how it worked and instead of publishing I apparently deleted it. I'm back to the old familiar Blogger look. At least everything is labeled. I ended my quest on finding a way to change the MSN administrator so I could change my password. So I could save a couple of things and then shut the whole MSN connection. About a twelve year connection that led me to Windows Live Spaces. For me that was an enjoyable time. I met and spoke with people from all over the world. Singapore, California, Maryland, Australia, England. It was all a wonderful connection. Laughs, private laughs. A death. A fight verbal between 
a guy and myself concerning a problem with the late friend of ours Duckie. It started when Duckie was upset over something that was said to or about her by this person. I commented that this person could make fun of me if he wanted but leave Duckie alone. Duckie died sometime in 2009 I think. She happened to live very close to me, maybe 20 to 25 miles, though we never met. The whole thing was fun though. We all know what happened to Spaces. The whole Microsoft connection From Spaces to MSN. Always a landmine here and there though I don't blame them for my most recent woes.  

Since my email address was hijacked the password was changed. I had no control over what emails went out from that address. For me to change my password and gain control I would have to be the Administrator of the email address. The only way I was going to change that password is to identify and prove to MSN I was the actual administrator of the address. On a search for help on MSN I submitted my problem. They emailed back, fairly quickly saying I was who I said I was and that they would email back a solution in about 24 hours which they did. The email said, click on this link to change your password. I thought, "Cool!" What do I learn when I get there? The first instruction, Log into your MSN account. I CAAANN'T!!! THAT'S WHY I EMAILED MSN HELP IN THE FIRST PLACE! Ahem. Pardon me for shouting. Below that is written, "Only the email administrator can change the password." No Shit Sherlock! To sum up this blast of hot air from the east (If you live in the U.S. that is) I went back to MSN and began to look for how I can cancel my whole MSN subscription. I found it and I did it. MSN KAPUT! However if you look at the top of my blog you still see my old address. Why? I don't know. I can access this blog from several places. Changing this blogs administrator is as difficult as changing it at MSN.I may eventually settle down in Google. I have a Google address, a Verizon address and a hot mail address now.
I emailed Beth, Carole and Nancy. Carole's email came back to me because I entered all my address by hand and may have miss a dot or something. I think Nancy's email came back because it's just an old one. I will check into seeing what's wrong with Carole's address and Nancy you can get it from Beth if you need it unless there are other options.

As I mentioned before MSN will begin a monthly charge for it's email service on March 1st. If you don't sign up everything disappears. So it was gone one way or another. I ain't payin'!

I still have more to do computer-wise but I have begun shifting things around but I believe I'm in much better shape than I was a few days ago.

I've gone on long enough.
I'm outta here.