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Just made a Twitter site, my user name is ChetSwanson if you are interested. It doesn't have anything on it right now.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Help; I’m Lost…
Okay, we have the telephone, we have letters, we have email and we have blogs; now we have texting, MySpace, Facebook and Twitter.
Can someone please tell me what purpose there is to the last four? Guess I'm getting old, but if we have all these fancy ways to socialize how do we manage to keep our personal and work lives organized? Guess I'm getting too old. I now have Facebook and haven't got a clue what purpose it has. All I see is that any time a friend, or a friend's friend makes any kind of comment it shows up on my page?
I suppose I'm going to have to learn to adjust; and then maybe I can be cool and know what's going on.
By the way, congratulations to Sean and Melissa who announced their engagement at dinner yesterday.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Tickets to Elton John & Billy Joel
What an interesting experience today. Tickets for Elton John and Bill Joel's show in Seattle this November went on sale at 10:00 this morning. I was sitting at the computer logged into the Ticketmaster website just before that. I was supposed to try to get 3 good tickets for my wife and a couple of friends. Every 10 seconds or so I would hit the refresh button hoping to catch the site just as the tickets went on sale.
Bingo, all of a sudden I was ready to go. I requested 3 "best available" tickets and got three on the floor about 1/2 way back from the stage. Then things started going downhill. I called my wife to see if they sounded all right. She wasn't sure that we wanted the floor tickets, so had me try again. Everything went to pot then; the next set of tickets was at the farthest end of the venue from the stage. Nope, try again. However, that was probably a big mistake because no matter how hard I tried I wasn't able to find 3 tickets together. So even though it was only about 8 minutes into the sale, we ended up with 2 tickets, not three. Sorry ladies.
Oh well, Key Arena is a fairly small venue, so even though the tickets are still some distance from the stage, the girls should still enjoy the show.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
I'm Really Still Here...
I have certainly not been very good about keeping up with my blog on anything resembling a regular basis. For that I apologize. It isn’t that I don’t have anything to say. Heck I always have something to say, even if it doesn’t make any sense. Just too many things going on at home with too little time, and I haven’t been able to just sit down and write anything.
The show season for our budgies is just about here for 2009. The first show in the Northwest is only a month away. The Northwest Budgerigar Society will hold its show in April in Tigard, Oregon. I don’t have many birds that are in show condition right now but I’ll try to put together some kind of a show team so that I can support the show. Want to see some photos from past shows, or even some of the budgies? You can link to the photos at my Flickr site at http://www.flickr.com/photos/12359546@N05/sets/. Photos from three of our recent Northwest shows are linked to from this page. Also on this page is a set of photos of my aviary and some of my birds. The Washington club has its show in late July in Kelso, Washington and the in October the Cascade clubs holds their show in Tigard, Oregon.
This has been my third poor year of breeding birds in a row. I started setting up my birds in early October and so far have only banded 16 chicks. That’s way behind what a normal year should have produced. Part of the problem this year is me, not the birds. Since I’m uncertain about staying in the hobby I think I just haven’t been in the mood. I find that I have to almost force myself to go out on a daily basis to take care of the birds.
My small troubles about the birds make me wonder how my dad’s family managed to be dairy farmers for so many years. Twice a day, 365 days a year you have no choice but to trudge out to the barn and milk the cows. At least I can sneak in a weekend now and then by making sure the seed jars and waterers are full.
‘Nuff for now, just a few more weeks to my 64th birthday; that’s a lot more years than I would have though anyone could live when I was a kid. Of course my dad’s mother lived to the day before her 101st birthday, and one of my dad’s brothers will be 98 later this year; so maybe I have good genes.
The show season for our budgies is just about here for 2009. The first show in the Northwest is only a month away. The Northwest Budgerigar Society will hold its show in April in Tigard, Oregon. I don’t have many birds that are in show condition right now but I’ll try to put together some kind of a show team so that I can support the show. Want to see some photos from past shows, or even some of the budgies? You can link to the photos at my Flickr site at http://www.flickr.com/photos/12359546@N05/sets/. Photos from three of our recent Northwest shows are linked to from this page. Also on this page is a set of photos of my aviary and some of my birds. The Washington club has its show in late July in Kelso, Washington and the in October the Cascade clubs holds their show in Tigard, Oregon.
This has been my third poor year of breeding birds in a row. I started setting up my birds in early October and so far have only banded 16 chicks. That’s way behind what a normal year should have produced. Part of the problem this year is me, not the birds. Since I’m uncertain about staying in the hobby I think I just haven’t been in the mood. I find that I have to almost force myself to go out on a daily basis to take care of the birds.
My small troubles about the birds make me wonder how my dad’s family managed to be dairy farmers for so many years. Twice a day, 365 days a year you have no choice but to trudge out to the barn and milk the cows. At least I can sneak in a weekend now and then by making sure the seed jars and waterers are full.
‘Nuff for now, just a few more weeks to my 64th birthday; that’s a lot more years than I would have though anyone could live when I was a kid. Of course my dad’s mother lived to the day before her 101st birthday, and one of my dad’s brothers will be 98 later this year; so maybe I have good genes.
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