April 12, 2005
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Late Night Snack, Shrimp & Crab

Going to pick up a few items at the grocery and spotted snow & alaskan crabs and couldn’t resist making a late night seafood snack! Shrimp crabs boiled in red pepper seasoning and dipped in garlic butter!!! With slow/mellow jams playing in the ears and topped with a nice scotch!

April 11, 2005
by dhoytt
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Garden Ready, Test Server up

I have my vegetable garden ready to accept plants in the backyard. I went over the garden 3 separate times with a rototiller to get the ground ready.
The first time I ran the rototiller just to loosen the soil after turning over the soil with a shovel to find out the soil’s condition. The second time I turned the soil over again with a shovel trying to break the fine tree roots from the pine trees in my neighbor’s backyard. These roots were spread all over and turned my nice loose soil close to the consistency of clay. The second pass with a rototiller chopped up the roots I broke manually with the shovel. The third time I ran the rotoliller was to further break up the roots as well as mix in some new soil plant food.
I also went ahead and re-planted some strawberry plants I had removed and placed in planters to get the soil ready. I also planted some tomato plants, Ace Tomatoes & San Francisco Fog Tomatoes. I planted some cayenne & habanera peppers as well as cucumbers.
I still have some other plants to get and place in the garden.
In the midst of everything else I have going on have my new test server up and ready to test features such as the new scrolling play list etc for my music page.

April 6, 2005
by dhoytt
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Getting Busy In The Yard…

Did the work at home thing so that I could step right outside after work and get into the garden. Took the new rototiller out of the box and put it to immediate work in the vegetable garden bed. Did that and dug up around a young almond tree that I let stay in the vegetable garden bed as a separation point but needs to go now!
Besides the rototilling and digging I had to use my new weed eater as well to get the grass growing up along the planks of my raised garden. I then was able to trim along my west fence where the bushes and trees hang over from my neighbor’s yard with my electric hedge clippers. Now that my electrical issue is clearly solved I can get out there and get a few additional moments in the yard and see clearly in the kitchen!!
Yes, I was able to use my outdoor patio lights for the first time in a while thanks to my electrician former neighbor who returned from his trek overseas.
Didn’t get much done on the web site today except lining up music.

April 5, 2005
by dhoytt
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Spring Cleaning etc..

I am getting ready on the house ready for the warmer weather and streamlining some more as well. You know the saying “out with the old and in with the new”.
Well to some extent I am doing that as an ongoing process that was slowed by other events out of my control.
I am revamping the old computer room, the living room looks quite different already and the rest of the house is following along.
I still have my vegetable garden to get going as well as cutting down and hopefully re-planting some trees in the front and getting some ferns and other shade plants in my front gardens. This year instead of manual labor with the shovel as I usually do I am using a rototiller to save time since my weekends are not free at this point.
Once I have all changes made I will bring in home cleaning service/maid service and just start enjoying and traveling a bit. Then come on back and dive into my side businesses.

March 14, 2005
by dhoytt
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Misperceptions of People

Here we are in the so called “Age of Information” yet morally and intellectually we are still using variations of the same superstitions of the past thousands of years as evident by the perceptions and opinions we carry around. I will not use some of the phrases thrown around since it will directly offend some. You know the karma will get you! (oops)
We ignore facts and rely on perceptions borne of class and ignorance. We have the data at our fingertips but ignore the facts and stick to whim in all phases of life and all social and racial lines. The sad thing is people cease to hone the powers of perception beyond the formative years. We make some small adjustments but mostly make the same judgments in different arenas.
In other words we will not make the exact same mistake over again but will repeat the same error over and over. For instance when you were young you may have played a lot of childish games of some type and thought to try something daring but it didn’t work out and actually turned out to be foolish. Well you will never make that mistake again!
What if the same type of logic you used then to make that foolish error during the game leads you to do something even more foolish later in life? Yet your perception of yourself is because you have a job, children or other responsibilities is that you are more mature person. Yet your baseline logic and actions have not changed, you are making the same mistakes in a different arena. Have you actually matured or just gotten older?
Peope let’s use our powers of perception more fully and look at actions and facts not BS.
This category is for random thoughts for the main site. Random thoughts don’t mean they are not relevant!

February 24, 2005
by dhoytt
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Hitting The Weights In The Garage….Again

Once again as I moved items out of the house into the garage and then out of
the garage I cleared up enough space to get my weight’s out in position so I can
go from station to station and get my weight lifting routine in.

I usually hit my legs first doing "leg curls" alternating with "leg
press"
on my leg press machine. I then hit my "leg extensions" for my
quads alternated with "seated toe raises".

Then I hit the upper body doing the "bench press" alternated with
"stomach crunches"
on my "roman chair".

From there it alternates in order but I always get in the following:
Pull downs for triceps
Military Press for shoulders
Dumbbell fly’s for the chest
Curls
– 30 minutes of hitting the stationary bike and I don’t mean slowly
cruising!

Because I got a late start I didn’t hit the bike tonight. I had to set my
weights back up the way I like them so there was a lot of adjusting going on I
will not have to do the next time.

The reason I hit lower body and upper body on the same day is because on the
days I don’t hit the weights I really hit cardiovascular really hard.
This is how I have always worked out and it really is good for strength,
stamina and endurance.

Plus you really get good quick results if you can stand the initial hit your
body feels for 2 -3 weeks and tough it out! You have to eat well and at the
right times of the days when doing this at least 75% of the time. I know this
and still have a hard time because when hitting the runs I go on your legs feel
like lead and its a real fight making the last part of a 5 – 7 mile run or
finishing off a late night work out during those second and third weeks.

Later I mix some other exercises in when I hit a certain level and on the
days I do cardio I also do push-ups and stomach crunches right
after the run. This is also the time my allergies are at their
worst so that’s another foe to fight.

February 16, 2005
by dhoytt
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Glad For Rain??

That’s right I wanted a little bit of rain to not only dampen the earth but my allergies as well. That first bloom actually started in late January this year.
Oh well getting ready for that and some other fights this year….haha…that’s right just getting started!…What Do I mean….we will see….

February 9, 2005
by dhoytt
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Warm Weather, False Spring, Allergies

I love the warm weather and the spring like feel in the air but February is when my allergies start kicking up ever since I moved back to Sacramento in the early nineties. Before that I lived in Sacramento without any allergy issues very strange.
Well last year was not as bad…well actually I’m not sure since I put in most of my floors then and did not use a dust mask and was down a few months from that episode.
Well I need to get my hands on some more raw local honey and take my vitamins on a regular basis.