The Mind Of OverlordTomala

Tonight for dinner was a homemade bacon cheeseburger. And speaking of food check out this website. One of my prized minions (KBQ) found it.

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/

Now onto money. My favorite place to spend it is ebay, because everything is cheap there. I get special clothing, jewelry, computer parts, laptops, teasets, and a bunch of other stuff off of there. My camcorder came off of there for $237 with free shipping! The computers that I use, all 3 of them came off ebay. My oriental clothes? Also ebay (in fact I got coupons recently! glee).

There you have it. The Overlord approves of ebay.

I like trees. They do a lot of things for us. They turn carbon dioxide into oxygen for us hoomans. They provide a sturdy place for birds to build nests. They are leaf factories. If carefully placed, they can hold a hammock. Some trees provide for climbing fun.

This weekend we watched some home videos from 1994 so my son’s girlfriend could see some funny movies of him at age 4 1/2 years old. The best part was from Easter 1994. I was recording the action. My daughter, who was 8 1/2 years old was sniping all the eggs. We’d give my son a hint, then SWOOP in she came and stole it. We kept hearing, “Sissy, that was mine!” Well at one point he said in a maniacal voice “I GET CANDY!!!”. We watched that scene quite a few times.

Well, back to the topic of trees. It’s amazing how much our trees have grown in the last 15 years. Oaks, Ashes and a lone Pine tree. They’ve all been busy growing. Then we saw the Silver Maples that all died from borer beetles. The place has changed quite a bit over the years, especially the swimming pool and pool/game house. The yard is kept much nicer … since the yard man is no longer a 4 1/2 year old boy.

Living in the country has been very enjoyable. Being able to see many meteors a week and a half ago was fun. It was fun that would be hard to do living in the city.

When I was young, we lived on a six acre place in Sonoma County, California. We had a great fir tree (20 – 30 feet tall) in our front yard that made for great climbing. I’d climb it and sit near the top of the tree and just relax. It was usually our home base for hide and seek games. I miss that tree, and though I can see the old place using MSN maps, the tree in the front yard is gone. The other fir tree is still there next to the driveway, but it was not a very good climbing tree.
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Speaking of trees, I like the Age of Kadish Tolesa in Uru because it has very majestic trees. They kind of remind me of the Great Redwoods in California. Sometimes trees can be problematic. If you hit your golf ball into the woods, the trees make it difficult to hit the ball where you want. Trees don’t have much give when hit by a car, unless you’re lucky and run into a balsa wood tree.

Trees are good. That is my opinion of course. If you disagree, I’d like to hear why.

It was a typical summer day. Fog all over the place. So I made some homemade tomato soup and homemade hot cocoa. Deposited all of my checks today and tonight we had some homemade chili. And I can’t forget the rootbeer float I had. That was good too.

Today was a good day. We had ribeye steak tonight with salad, homemade pickled beets, smoked salmon, and steakhose fries.

Didn’t buy much today, a meal bar here, an energy drink there, simple stuff to get me through a hectic day. We’ll see where tomorrow takes me.

Overlord over and outish.

Well here it is, August 22nd. Although summer is not officially over until somewhere around September 21, it really seems to be over now, as school has started. No, I wasn’t held back for another year in Third Grade, but my son leaves for his second year in college on Tuesday. He’s attending at a school near Chattanooga, Tennessee.

He’s been home for close to four months, but it went quickly. We played golf again this Thursday and we both had our moments. He was ahead by three strokes through the eighth hole and playing well. Then I had went par/birdie on the ninth & tenth to his double bogey/par and we were even. Woo Hoo, the game was ON! When it was all said and done, I had won by five strokes and he was properly and utterly defeated. Lots of fun. He had beaten me the last several times we played so it was good payback.

I had one embarrassing moment. On the eighteenth tee he was dragging himself along having already conceded my victory. I stepped up and hit my drive into a few trees at the bottom of the fairway. OoooOoops, there were people down there, waiting to hit I had to move ahead to the green and apologize for almost killing them. I also thanked them for finding my ball.

So tomorrow we’ll have the rest of the family over for a bon voyage party for him. We’ll get out and get the yard looking nice. That’s another thing. I’m losing my summer yard man.

So on Tuesday, he’s doing the thirteen hour drive by himself. We told him to stop often and stay focused on the road. That means to already have his iPod playlists ready. Don’t send text messages while driving and eating.

At least now I have a Twitter account so he can keep up with what I’m doing while he’s busy studying. “I’m sitting on the front porch”.

I’ve been enjoying my one and only day off. Last night I did this:

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