Up! Up! Up! Where???

Tuesday morning after CC last night.  It's nearly 7:45 by the time we arrive and the bar area is packed with patrons.Who are all these people and why are they here?  Monday Night Football?  It's Veteran's Day for chrisakes.  Maybe the game was earlier and these are just the hangers-on.  I wander about greeting all the guys, Wylie, Ronnie, Delhart and Donny.  Huh?  Eventually a few strung out guitar phrases sound from Ronnie's Strat, Wylie climbs the stage and away we go!  He's in fine form!   We are usually here about 6:45, so being an hour late as we had journeyed out to SCMAD only to find the parking lot empty...must be tomorrow night, shit!  So we about-faced and drove off to CC late.  Somehow the holiday status of this Monday escaped us both, getting no mail should have exposed the reality but alas it was not so.  Performers abounded (is that a word?) last night too, guitar players, bass players, a harmonica guy, female singers galore and we drank the requisite amount of cheap-as-hell Rolling Rock and enjoyed ourselves and our entertaining company emmensly (sic...I can't get the Blogger engine to spell check this entry for some damned reason! Grrrrrr).
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This morning this fine Dell laptop is doing it's presto-chango tricks on my blog entry as I type.  This slows down the writing process as I have to double check the placement of every damned letter and word I type. Shit, shit, shit!  Heat?  Maybe...so i FIRED UP (SEE...now it went CAPS on me!!!) Speccy and checked all the hardware temps inside, I did that yesterday.  I found an array of high (60C) temps on the CPU and the video chips so ordered a laptop cooling device yesterday afternoon.  Today I still suffer.  Speccy reports:
CPU
 Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T7200 @ 2.00GHz 54 °C
 Merom 65nm Technology
RAM
 4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 332MHz (5-5-5-15)
Motherboard
 Dell Inc. 0YD632 (Microprocessor) 58 °C
Graphics
 Generic PnP Monitor (1440x900@60Hz)
 512MB Quadro FX 2500M (Dell) 62 °C
Hard Drives
 93GB Seagate ST910021AS ATA Device (SATA) 35 °C
Optical Drives
 TSSTcorp CDRWDVD TSL462D ATA Device
Audio
 High Definition Audio Device

This result with the DVD/CD tray open and the memory card slot holder out...both to help air flow.

 

Enough is enough! Back to Sanity!

So it's over for 2012. Good. I predicted the Presidential outcome over 6 months ago. 

The KatKam is running.  We are currently feeding about a dozen ferals daily and I decided I'd
photo them at the bowl.  Many new kittens apparent. 

Eyes are getting settled, "floaters" are there but not so many and the vision is clear as a bell on my
right eye but the left is not so very sharp...worse than I thought it would be.  I'm still very happy with
the results though.  Eye drops continue every day however, 4 times a day Kelly chases me down and I submit, sort of, while growling. 

We've discovered the Empress Theatre in Vallejo as a good, if not great, music venue.  The theatre itself is wonderful, a throwback to the ones of the 40's and 50's.  Glitzy and comfortable seating, enthusiastic audiences and a long list of musical attractions.

Weather is clear, cool and leaning towards winter with snowfall in the Sierras growing.