Round up - Gun Range, Colds, and eHarmony

I took a friend to the gun range last weekend and let her shoot a shotgun and a couple of handguns. She seemed to have a good time, and it was nice to get out to the range. It was a really nice, warm sunny day. We have had so much COLD weather that it was nice to get a decent day. My dog's water has been frozen over the last few days, and today was the first day it wasn't frozen over when I changed it in the morning.

I've had a cold for the last few days, and I'm almost over it. I actually had to go home early from work yesterday around 2:00 pm because I was feeling fairly lousy. I came home and immediately went to bed and didn't wake up except to answer a couple of phone calls. I had one bottle of Nyquil in the house, and it was 3/4 full. So I need to stock up again sometime.

I bit the bullet and got an eHarmony account a couple of days ago. We'll see how it goes. I'm just not cut out to be alone. I need a good woman in my life.

Taan needs a MySpace page for 2008 / Spam Filters for E-mail

Taan needs to get himself a MySpace page for 2008! ;-)

I enabled Spam filtering with my web host for my e-mail accounts, and along with Thunderbird's SPAM filters I have seen the SPAM messages basically disappear! Wow! How refreshing to not have 450+ a day across my four accounts, and then after Thunderbird wipes out 400, having to go through the other 50 and mark them as SPAM. :-)

I de-decorated/undecorated the house today. I took down the ribbons on the garage lanterns, the wreath over the garage, and the front door wreath.. and I took down all the stockings and ornaments from the tree and the house and packed them and the tree away. Everything went into the attic, and I did a quick straightening of the garage.

It's beautiful and sunny today, a wonderful first day for the new year. Last year I did a ride with Rodney, Henry, and their friends on the first of the year (along with Marie) but nobody called to ask me if I wanted to go out today. It's only two, and if Dad wasn't visiting I'd go out take the bike for an hour spin or something.

Farewell 2007

I'm glad 2007 is almost over. This has been a year that I am happy to put behind me. I went through a divorce and lost my best friend in the process, made a few new friends, reconnected with some old friends, and feel like I am losing a friend by trying to gain a new one now. You can't win for losing at times it seems.

This year has taught me how fickle people can be, how people can say one thing to you and mean another. I always mean what I say, but I think others find it hard to accept you as genuine when they themselves aren't always that way.

I don't wear a mask, put on a false front, pretend to be someone I'm not. I may seem moody, but I don't smile when I'm not happy just to put others at ease. I can't be untrue to who I am, I can't fake who I am.

I hope 2008 is a good year for all of you, that you are all blessed with success financially, in your relationships, with your family, and that it is a better year for all of you than 2007 was.