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| Thursday, November 19th, 2009 | | 5:15 pm |
Sarah Palin.
When I first saw the News I thought they were talking about the mall in Grandville. But it turned out that Sarah Palin started her book tour right across the street from where I work. Glad I had the day off. | | Thursday, November 12th, 2009 | | 2:47 am |
Stuff.
Yesterday night I spent five hours in the bath tub. I could leave it at that and have everyone come up with their own idea of why. But that might get too weird. It was over-due for caulking. A few years ago I used "mildew resistant kitchen and bathroom sealant" and the tube lied. It mildewed within a couple weeks. Didn't think it would take more than 2-3 hours. It was horrible. Spent the first two and a half hours pulling and scraping the old caulk. Took a half hour break to watch My Name is Earl Then pulled more moldy nastiness from under the shower doors. Caulked everywhere I needed to then washed down the shower door rollers and track. Cut and scraped off the excess caulk where I needed to. Finally put the doors back on the track. (After warning everyone that there would be no bath-tub for the next day and a half earlier in the day) I Started just before the 10 O'clock News and finished around 3:30AM. Should be worth it though. It looks really good. Hopefully it doesn't mildew up right away like the last time. This was part of a list I threw together last Thursday after cleaning the house. Some important things like "open enrollment for insurance" due by Friday and "Find kids hats and gloves that fit them" due by 'the first cold morning I send them to school.' Some not very important but 'I'm tired of looking at it' sort of things. I didn't think this list item was that important but I am glad it is done. It had been pushed to the bottom of the list over and over for a year or two now. By Tuesday I said to myself "If I do this entire list on these three days of not going to work, I might actually get a day off next week." Got all but one thing done. A cleared to-do list can really make your week. Having no major projects on my next off days I almost feel relaxed already. | | Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 | | 1:05 pm |
Writer's Block: Last supper
I know the correct answer is "spend it with a loved one." That is what you say when they are around. The real answer is "Get on the first plane to Cancun." Last meal would be drunken college girls. (In the dirty way, not the twisted sick one.) What do I need to eat for? Why waste time on food? Food is for keeping one alive. Depending on the time of year the location may change, but you know.I guess, the reason that it is my last day might have something to do with it also. | | Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 | | 1:54 pm |
Neighbors.
Early May a guy bought the house next door. Since then they have been repairing it. Seems like they are re-doing the same stuff over and over. I swear I saw the same guy painting the back deck five times. They laid sod over the whole yard and has left sprinklers on like six hours at a time. Now he parks vehicles on it in the back. Has a Mustang and Jaguar. Workers have an Escalade and new trucks. He said he works for an auto factory... but is spending over 10x what his his annual salary would be on a house he doesn't even live in. I was suspicious as crap and seriously going to post about this months ago. Money laundering, workers are police watching someone in the neighborhood, or some other kind of scam were my first guesses. On the news couple weeks ago they said they caught a gang of crack dealers that were buying houses and fixing them up like this. They pay the workers in crack which they are selling. The 'profit' on the house is the cover for the income for one. The income from 'repair jobs' is the cover for the others. The houses that they showed all looked exactly like the house next door. ADT sign, sodded lawn, painted foundation from the siding down, new gutters. Everything about what they described on the news was exactly what I have been seeing. Nice cars racing up and down our street. Etc. After that news I stopped seeing people over there for a week. Some of the vehicles have come and gone. So, they must be still around. I haven't seen them nor heard their cars squealing around. The news guy said "one of the men got away." I am not sure if it is my neighbor... who seems to be laying low. But it would be a little funny. I wasn't looking forward to this guy moving in. | | Sunday, October 25th, 2009 | | 1:59 pm |
Cars.
I broke a tie rod end on one van, and a wheel bearing on the other. Within 24 hours. I have been trusting a guy to do stuff like this for the last couple months. After about 8 years of not trusting anyone to touch any of my vehicles. He isn't getting much other business, so this is good for him. He, however, is worried about it hurting my wallet. See I figured it out: ([Initial cost of vehicle]+[Insurance]+[Fuel]+[Repairs])/[M iles driven] My vehicles get me each mile for 25-45 cents. None of them owe me any mileage. I buy older broken vehicles, don't have a car payment, never need full coverage. A new car or used car from a dealer costs from $3 to $8/mile for the first couple years. I expect to spend money on them. My three vehicles still come out to way less money than one new car. I buy broke vehicles for the sport of it, not because I am broke. Ten years of not making car payments or insurance payments... I owe my vehicles, they don't owe me. Which is why I don't have a heart attack when one needs repairs or gets hit. I have been surprisingly relaxed considering what just happened the last couple days. ------ Edit: I am not recommending this to anyone. Especially if you don't work on your own stuff, and/or rely heavily on your vehicle taking you long distances w/ no backup transportation. My work is only 8 miles. Along a street that is door to door businesses nearly the whole way. I can walk if I need to. And I do full inspections upon any hint that something may be wrong, before long trips, and during oil changes. | | 1:43 pm |
Friends
I read through my 'friend of' list last night. Most of them haven't been updated this year. A few have. Other than that one time that I removed everyone for a couple weeks just to see what would happen, I normally only remove people when: -They say "I am never using this journal again." or, -I come here after being gone for a few days and there is three miles of page scrolling to read my friends list. So, yeah... if you are reading this, you know. I probably don't hate you and I do check my 'friend of' list 2-4 times per year. Seeing as I have no idea who still (ever has?) reads this. Since not many comment any more. | | Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 | | 2:19 pm |
Worktime ramblings.
At work on my laptop writing this in notepad. If I had interweb access here I would never get anything done. I was looking through the laptop at a bunch of notepad files that I wrote at work this way. A couple of which I don't know if I remembered to post them after getting home. I was really stressed out and life at the other work sites was mostly horrible. I guess that is why we have journals. To remember what life was like before and compare. Am I moving forward? Also helps with the question of: "In a year from now will you remember what you were most worried about today?" No. Stop being stressed about it. I believe I feel least stressed, and healthiest, I have been in the last three years. Not really 100% back into this whole working thing yet. Used to be I would show up, work the whole shift with little or no breaks, then go home with mental notes of what I needed to get done the rest of the week. Now I can hardly find anything to work on. I'm here, but why? Used to be for the machines. Make them run better than ever. Prove that I am the best. Now, I just don't know. Supervisor the other day said that two other people wanted my job, but he went out of his way to get me hired because I can fix stuff. I have the troubleshooting skills. That was a huge compliment. Seeing as getting me back was a bunch of hoops for him, and for the other guys he would only have to change their schedule. A lot of people can do my job, aparently I made a good name for myself here. Better get my mojo back soon. ----- Got a new furnace Thursday. Had a guy check out the old one, and it was over-all better to get a new one. Higher efficiency, no worries for several years, not much more cost than repairing the old one with Obama's tax rebate on efficient furnaces, insulation, windows and whatever. That was, I believe, the last thing on my summer lay off to-do list. Haven't seen the list in months. Might have been something else, but it couldn't be that important. I should try to find that thing just for fun. I am more caught up than ever on house and vehicle maintenance and repairs. The important ones anyway. ----- Today I took the list of phone numbers out of my wallet and re-copied it. I keep the air and oil filter part numbers for all of my vehicles too. Tired of looking up the same part twice per year. I usually do this when major changes happen, it gets torn up too much, or I have nothing better to do at work. Last bunch of times I put the month and year in the corner. Last recopy was October of '08. Pretty sure 12 months is a new record. I only cut three people and one building from the list this time. That has to be a record too, in a person/time way. ----- Artprize in Grand Rapids. They say this is getting international attention. Is that true? I have the feeling that very few people outside of Western Michigan knows anything about it. ----- Chicago! They were talking about Olympics in Chicago. Maybe 4-5 hour drive from here. Got my hopes up... but No. Can't have it here. I believe we are close enough to Chicago for it to effect our tourism. Especially since there is a daily passenger train between here and there. ----- Detroit. It is about *&^%$%! time last week. Not that I care. First win since the end of '07. I think it is because I watched it. I never watch it. They won the pre-season game that I watched. Then they won the first game I watch during the season. I will be working on game days, so expect them to do 1-15 this year. ----- Propane. (Mostly a note to self here) Grilling a 2AM steak after work, I ran out. Had to switch tanks half way through. (Now, maybe I can look back and know about how long it lasts in winter months.) 47 degrees and rainy. Not a bad night for grilling. ----- Going back for another 9 hour shift tonight. I didn't get much of anything done. I hope that I find some work-related thing to pass the time. I want to slap people that talk about being at work playing games all shift. I am sure the people paying them to do a job feel the same way. | | Friday, September 25th, 2009 | | 9:24 am |
Fall.
Over a period of 8 weeks the average high temperature here will go from 70 to 40. Seems like a larger drop that happens even quicker. But I looked it up. A few weeks after that I won't expect it to be above the freezing point very often. They say this is going to be a less harsh winter than the last few, but still. This time of year I try to make a commitment to find something to do outside that will take at least a half hour every day. Used to try for an hour, but that is far more difficult than it sounds. Run out of stuff to do quick. Otherwise I find myself scraping ice off my car in 25 degree weather feeling like I won't live long enough to get where I am going. First year I did this I went out on my first 30 degree work day, shoveled the whole driveway, and brushed off the car without losing feeling in my fingers. It was the best winter ever. Also I find: My vehicles are less likely to have mechanical problems in the winter. Gardens and yard are taken care of. Summer stuff is properly stored. Winter stuff is moved to easy accessible area of the shed before I need it. Over all life is easier. This year I have a problem. I just had the summer off of work. I am already prepared for winter. It will be hard to find stuff to do outside during this 6-8 weeks. One van needs an oil change. Other two vehicles are way too early for that. Vehicles are clean and (should be) mechanically able to last through March. Tune-ups are within the last couple years/battery terminals were cleaned this summer. I will have leaves to mulch, but the compost and gardens are pretty much good to go. Already washed the outside of the house windows. Porch was painted... I might be able to fill the half hour five times. ------- Edit: HA! I knew if I mentioned the cars being ready that I would find something wrong. Between posting this and now I changed the oil in the van. Front left stabilizer link is disconnected at the bottom. Odd, I have had these break on about every vehicle I have had but never had one come apart like this. (Usually these are broken when I buy a vehicle. The owner has no idea why it is clunking in turns, they just assume it is bad. The part is $27.99. Shouldn't take more than an hour to replace.) ------- Edit II: Part of Edit I makes me sound like a horrible person. If someone is going to try to sell me a vehicle without even mentioning the possible suspension issues then I won't mention that it is usually a $10 fix. Let them believe it will cost me $300 to 500. What else aren't they telling me that I didn't happen to notice? If they are the one to bring it up then I will tell them that they commonly rust and break within ten years and that I can fix it relatively quick and inexpensively. | | Sunday, September 20th, 2009 | | 2:28 am |
Time for my every-other-month "I just bottled wine so every random crap that comes into my head... or whatever" post. I take a shot off every bottle. I was over due for a bad batch. This one tastes like junk but holy fuck I feel good. No Idea what I did wrong. Maybe it can be fixed. Wine bottling music: (stuff I wouldn't normally listen to, but while bottling I feel the need to have music that is specifically about, or at least mentions, home made wine.) [stop me if I already listed these after my last batch, don't remember admitting to any of this] Rodger Miller, Chug a lug. Ville Valo, Summer Wine. UB40, Red Red Wine. Tracy Byrd, Watermelon Crawl. Charlie Daniels Band, Drinkin my baby goodbye. David Lee Murphy, Dust on the bottle. Rehab, Bartender. Garth Brooks, Low places. Hank Williams Jr, Country Boy Can Survive. Country music is junk to me most of the time. But, of course, no other style of music seems to mention wine or toasting. "If I owned a pool table, I would play every day and be king pimp of the pool world." is said by anyone and everyone who doesn't have a table. Seems like it would be true. I wish it were. I don't play every day. Much better than I used to be, but still not great at it. Sometimes I get buzzed, turn around, and say out loud "holy crap we have a pool table, that is awesome beyond belief, always dreamed of having one." I do the same thing with my drill-press. I can now jump the cue ball clear over another to hit a ball I am aiming at, but not with enough consistency nor accuracy to try it in front of other people. Fringe. I will admit to watching Fringe. It is the new and improved X-Files. Hopefully it doesn't eventually go to crap like X-Files did. Probably will. House. Also. I missed nearly all of last season. Wish I could watch this one. Likely will be working during those hours again. Bones. Shut up, I like Bones. I don't know why. Don't remember when nor why I started watching it. More to love. Stupid show with no interest at all to me. But I watched the whole thing anyway. He picked the wrong bitch. Glee. Has everything. Decent music and dancing, Chicks in cheerleader uniforms, Always thought the psychologist from Two and a Half Men was funny... High school was fun. Should definitely try to stop watching this one, but as it looks now Wednesday will always be my day off. [The girl is in Jr High so it will likely be on in this house anyway.] Notice we only have FOX. We get other stations, but need to move the antenna different for each one. Fox is the easiest to get. Anyone remember that when Fox was relatively new? Al Bundy got out all the aluminum foil and said "FOX viewing positions!" Work. "If I had a million dollars I would spend it all." In reality many people should agree with that, but when it is a question of: spend it all and work, or live on slightly less money than we have now with never having to work... I think the answer is obvious. Most likely will go back. Wish I didn't have to. If I didn't have to then I would want to. I love my job. Spent some time today touching up paint in the basement. Huge difference. Didn't realize how yellow the one wall was. I am a fan of White in many forms as long as the tint (if any) goes blue, green, or red, NO YELLOW! Now that it is 'superhide flat white' the whole area looks brighter and bigger. Made some other minor improvements too. The cars should be ready for winter. Removed the batteries from all three, cleaned the terminals, etc. Need to do that if you want them to start when it is -20 degrees. Almost went to change oil. Always get the urge to do it in September, but regret doing it. If I do it now then I will be stuck needing to do it in snow with blue fingers. No garage. Will do it end of next month, I swear. Enough oil and filters to do it now. Pogo. Spending way too much time there. No idea why. Need to get a new hobby I guess. | | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 | | 10:31 pm |
Kick in th crotch.
Y'all remember when I left work four months ago. I asked over and over which of the three it was; 1. Couple weeks off the schedule to save payroll. 2. Whole summer layoff. 3. Permanent termination. Would not give me an answer. Finally, after a few days of badgering, he gave me an answer of "For the summer only" ---- New management. I was scheduled full time hours this week. I worked an 8 hour shift Monday. Tuesday & Wednesday off. Expecting to work today through Monday. Boss called me today. I have been permanently removed from the computer. They can't pay me. I can't work for them. I have to apply for my job and get hired to be on the schedule. Applied today and because I answered a question honestly I couldn't apply. "Have you ever bypassed a safety procedure to get a job done quicker." I don't know anyone who works on mechanical that has never in their life done that. (Especially in positions where they care about speed of repair more than anything. Taking three minutes to lock something out for a ten second repair will get you ass raped by the boss.) If the question was "would you ever...?" (future) But it was "have you ever...?" (past) WHO HASN'T? MOST PEOPLE DO IT MORE THAN I DO. If I cut the power to a machine w/o locking it to put a belt back on no one is going to power it up. I am physically between them and the power. That couple minutes of time saves me a half hour of hearing 'do your job faster.' When I did the hiring (for the exact position that I am applying for), there was an "honesty check" feature. It would tell you the % chance that the applicant was lying based on answers being too 'perfect.' I almost lied, but decided not to because they said all I had to do was apply. They would push the paperwork through. The website automatically screened me out because I am an honest person? That's racist! ---- The funny thing is that Tuesday... I was going to post about this... I got a phone call. I was suspicious of it for several reasons, and had a full time job so I didn't call back. As far as I knew she was a spy from my current company. Or a joke calling for one of my prankster friends. -It was a cell phone from Kalamazoo. [Not far south of here, but no business phone?] -Lady said she owned a business and was hiring. [Usually owners don't do hiring except in real small businesses. Or if they are just starting a new one. She said 'for expansion purposes'.] -She said "I heard you were looking for part time or full time work" [Not 'I saw your resume on the _____ website.' No Idea who would go around saying "You should see if spot is available because he has super-cool-hip-hop-style." although it wouldn't surprise me. I should have gotten a heads up if that were the case. -Didn't even hint at what the company did. [Does it have a name? What basically are you looking to hire for?] I have half a mind to call her tomorrow even though it seems too late. Nothing to lose now. What do you think? I won't take a pay cut. I will take half as much pay somewhere else before taking fifty cents less in my current job. I better not lose my vacation either. (I burned it up before the lay off, but new hire will get half the vacation time than what I now get after 8 years. | | Monday, September 7th, 2009 | | 1:13 pm |
Hi ho.
I have been reading my friends list, but not commenting. Hard to keep up everyone has been posting a lot the last few weeks. Going to work today. Didn't think I would be ready. Work shouldn't be any different than what I have been doing at home. With the bonus of not chasing kids the whole time. Seriously got a lot done this summer. The painting thing that I mentioned doing so far has only been the basement window boxes and beam support. But, has made a huge difference. I was slowed down by having to replace some rotting wood. (Vinyl windows with new wood were installed a few years ago, but the original 2x10" boards were not replaced.) Re-installed the window wells that were behind the shed. That should help. Neighbors had a couch in front of their yard with a "free" sign on it. One broken foot. I had a whole set of feet from the last couch that we got rid of. It is a bit torn up, but a sheet covers that. It is a fold out, which is awesome. I put it in the game room next to the dart board. Much more comfortable than the porch glider (with the gliding part removed) that was there. Had a few more parties. Might not happen much more. Need to get some new people. Old friend came over needing car repairs. His car was packed with boxes of stuff that he swears wasn't stolen. Claims it was left over from a promotional giveaway. They were mostly cases of sample size products but there were several cases of things I have a hard time believing they would give away. I believe they weren't stolen. I shouldn't with our history, but I do. | | Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 | | 1:14 pm |
Interweb crap.
Everyone says "Get rid of Interweb Explorer." It wasn't broken, so I didn't change. It is a shared computer. All the cool kids have Firefox, so I just assumed The Wife couldn't handle it. The Wife downgraded to the latest version of IE. -Java didn't work. Which annoyed me because I just got the club pogo free trial for two weeks and couldn't play any games. -Everything ran like junk. -I can't have a desktop background anymore. Just a banner that says "THIS COPY OF WINDOWS ISN'T PAID FOR, PAY UP YOU BASTARD!" and a little pop up window, that says the same thing, in the corner needs to be closed every five minutes. So I did what everyone has been telling me to do for the last couple years. Downloaded Firefox. Still couldn't make Java work for a couple days. Did everything that the 'to solve this issue' pages said. Twice. It eventually started working on it's own about six hours after I gave up. Everything looks the same, but Firefox runs about 3x faster for some reason. Thanks, everyone, for talking me into it. Not having to wait until the end of the post to spell check and having to find where the words are located... is awesome. | | Monday, August 17th, 2009 | | 12:37 pm |
Tubing
What have I been doing the last two days? It is like canoeing without a paddle. Or like white water rafting without white water. You park somewhere near a boat launch on a river. Get a ride to another boat launch up river. Get on some form of floatation device. It takes about four hours to float back to your car. Sounds stupid. No? It is. I would say you are stuck with all kinds of people for that four hours. But you are only really stuck with the kind of people that would agree to do it. Water is cold. No way to stay (or get) dry in that time. Some part of you is always in the water. With the right group of people it is OK. Like a party where no one is allowed to leave early. Can't even make a 'beer run' if you run out. You are all tied together. People stick coolers in innertubes and tie them to their tube. I floated my backpack on the side of mine. Easier access. Bring enough beer for two people because you will run out. The previous owner of my house had a boat. He left two ropes with plastic floats and carebeaners on the ends. I wraped one end around my tube, clipped the backpack to the second clip, and clipped the other end to another tube. The end of the second day it got windy and rainy for the last half hour. Not the best time to be in 40 to 50 degree water and soaked. But everyone survived it. Won't likely go back until the end of next summer. Funny story. It was 10AM on Saturday. I was wearing white cotton pants torn off and stringy just below the knees, one of my most worn tropical print shirts, and sandals. There I was dressed like I had been stranded on an island for three years, in a Family Fare buying canned beer and gatorade. | | Saturday, August 15th, 2009 | | 9:37 am |
Rafting.
Today I plan to float down a river for 3-4 hours on a tube with the girl. Tomorrow I plan to do the same on a different river with the Father in Law. So, if I go missing... I guess you guys get to divide up all my stuff. | | 9:26 am |
Writer's Block: Theme Dining
It would have to be like Carlos & Charlies next to the Marina Club Motel in Cancun. That place is awesome. Take a cab, dock your boat, or sleep next door to it. Beautiful tropical environment. I had breakfast there every day for a week. If I had a large boat and lived near there... life would seem worth living. Of all the businesses to own, however, restaraunt wouldn't make my list. | | Thursday, August 13th, 2009 | | 2:22 pm |
Changing focus.
It is cleaning day. Major changes in this process starting soon. First, I would like to mention that we are no where near as wasteful as this will make us sound. We recycle everything the local centers will take, compost everything that we can compost, reuse things until there is nothing left of them. The broken box mattress, for example, is now; scrap wood for projects, a roll of foam that I will eventually use for something, and a cargo blanket. Very little of it won't become some part of something else. We are a family of five and have the smallest available trash barrel. The problem came with The Wife living in an apartment for a bunch of years. This place had one small dumpster for eight apartments and four town houses. It was always full to the point bags would end up on the car-port roof. When we moved everything was boxed. If we left any thing at all we would have lost the security deposit. Also, the former owners of this house left a bunch of stuff. We missed a few trash pickups in our first year here. A few years ago I started a 4 day cleaning rotation. House divided into three parts and one day off. Eventually the house got clean enough that I could do the whole house at one time. To stop myself from cleaning all the time, I started doing the whole house Monday and Thursday only. At some point when the barrel started not getting full I decided to clean some part of storage once per week. Moldy drywall scraps, all the junk from the apartment, all the junk that got swept under the stairs, shed, cabinets, drawers... I have been through the whole house at least three times. After 100+ weeks of this, the barrel has been less than half full the last two weeks. Finally there is no junk left. Mission completed. ---- If I don't say it here I won't do it. It is hard to stop doing something I have been doing for so long. My plan is to use the time for a different project. Painting and finnish work. Before we moved in we painted the interior walls and trim. Everything on the main floor except the kitchen. Many of the door ways and some of the walls need minor touch-ups. Attic windows, basement windows, most of our doors, the rear stairwell, kitchen cabinets, around the shed window. Eventually finnish off the basement wall. The bathroom needs some re-caulking. A couple electrical outlets to install in places that there are none. I painted the stair risers last week and added one cover over the side of the stairs. Made a larger difference than I ever would have imagined. I cut and installed risers a couple years ago because stuff was piling under the stairs. Toys, dirt, even rotting potatoes. Difficult to clean out. So after doing it... I cut risers out of the wood that was left over from making my shed door. Can't kick stuff through anymore. Can use the area for storage w/o everyone seeing it. Until now they were paintless. I replaced the ugly metal light switch cover that had paint on the edges too. Now that I have had enough time off to make everything work, I guess it is time to make it all look good too. ----- There was one other project too, but it seem kind-of stupid. I want to do a basic food inventory and FIFO. I have found some pretty old food laying around. Might actually have some cans or boxed food that have been pushed to the back for ten years. I know I have meat that has been in the freezer over a year. I plan to call it "Eat it or throw it out Thursday." All old food, all day. | | Monday, August 10th, 2009 | | 8:37 pm |
| | Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 | | 11:00 pm |
Monday!
Last week one of the guys that used to come over on Monday nights came on Tuesday night at 1AM... I know, I already wrote about that. Tuesday night I got a weird message from a cell number that I didn't recognize at 2:30AM. It was one of those messages that are just a couple people talking but you can't understand what they are saying.... You know, like the phone is in a purse or someones pocket and the owner doesn't know that it is still on or that it even dialed. I didn't hear the phone ring because I was dead from still being up from the day before. Yesterday I got a call just after 2AM. It was the same cell number from the weird message. Turned out to be one of the other people that used to come over Monday nights... the one I recently went to Cedar Point with. He was at a bar and was about to be kicked out for closing time. A few other people wanted to stay out a little longer... You know the pattern... They came here to shoot pool. I didn't mind because I had nothing better to do. Tired of being alone or with mostly kids all of the time. The new guys were pretty cool. Not worried about damages to my stuff nor complaints from neighbors. The girl was funny. She wasn't trying to be, but was. I only had five beers left and was out of rum. Can't buy alcohol after 2AM here. Guy left more than five beers when he last came over, so I let them go. They were old anyway. The last one I had tasted like it got warm then re-cooled. Yuck. One drunk guy was completely lost. I asked what he was looking for. He said he couldn't find his beer. But thought for sure he left it at the bar... The beer had been gone for a while and there is no bar. It would have been even funnier if I had actually put up the "employees only" sign on the door he was trying to go through. I wanted to put one on the laundry room and the power room. The laundry room has a curtain for a door, and the power room has a banner on it... so no real room for the sign. Girl kept talking about "BBC" (which we ended up listening to for a while because she took over the computer) and her weight (which was pretty low.) I dunno what it is about my friend bringing over ladies that can't stop talking about their weight. One complained that she was 211, which she repeated over 211 times. This one was low 100's up from high 90's. (Tiny for a 33 yr old. Not showing bones like you would think.) Wouldn't stop talking about the little bit more she would like to gain. I said "Don't worry about it you are fine." She turned a little red then stopped talking about it. OH AND, My wife came home half way through her shift. Everyone was worried. New lady said "Wives are usually mad when they come home early and find people there." Of course they would be. Wife only cared that we were out of beer. I opened a bottle of wine. ---- The best and worst part about Monday: My boss called and asked if I wanted to come back to work. I love my job and want it, but I am not ready to jump back into workoholism. Unemployment hit 15% so it isn't exactly embarrassing nor even looked down upon to be without a job any more. Nearly to the point that people with jobs are jealous that they haven't been laid off. "All the cool kids are enjoying their gove'ment checks and endless vacations." Good times. I go back in a couple weeks or beginning of September. He wanted to verify that I was planning on going back before setting up the scheduling. I may have not mentioned it, but when my friend came over last week... he said it looked like they were hiring for the position that I was laid off from. I didn't want to think about it then. Still don't. | | Friday, July 31st, 2009 | | 1:40 am |
Monday.
It has been two months since my monday night parties mysteriously stopped. In that time I painted the entire game room floor (w/o measuring 6 to 700 square feet, I would guess), hung the pool cue rack from my old bar, bought a couple new pool cues, repaired enough darts to have four good sets, and moved a bunch of stuff. Tuesday night around 1AM I was relaxing. Non-drinking so completely awake. Just opened Pogo High stakes poker... when the phone rang. Call ID came up with my father in laws cell. It was one of the guys wanting to play some 9-ball. Call ID just weirded out for some reason. Anyway, I said "sure come over." I had nothing better to do. Wasn't going to be able to sleep or anything anyway. We shot maybe 7 or 8 games of pool. Wasn't used to not having to pass the same cue around. Started a game of poker $5 buy in. Enough to make it worth trying, but not enough that it really matters. He won the first pot. We played a second round that went until after my wife came home from work. I won that pot. He ended up staying until Noon. New record. | | Monday, July 27th, 2009 | | 2:29 am |
what is new?
Saturday- The yard party last weekend was alright. Weather people kept saying cool and rainy... but it wasn't. ---- Tuesday- I was driving down our street and saw something with a sign that said "FREE." Went around the block and stopped to look. Bed frame with six drawers. The girl broke her bed frame. Also was constantly complaining about not having enough drawer space. (More using it as an excuse to not keep a clean room... which the mess doesn't bother me, it is the fact that loads and loads of clean clothes are being put back in the laundry because... well. Whatever) Nothing wrong with the frame. A couple drawers needed minor repair. ---- Wednesday- My father in law brought a mattress from his mothers house. Their family passes furniture and stuff like that around. The girls old lower box-mattress was broke... looked like a truck ran it over. Impossible to believe a few young girls did that much damage. Anyway we were having a beer after bringing it in when my friend called. He wanted his front brake pads replaced. I said "sure, bring it over." So... I did brake pads. He wouldn't buy pads to replace, then get a refund. I had to pull them then go to exchange them. I made him get a new tire at the same time. It was peeling all the way around to the point that the steel belts could be seen. Not safe. --- Friday- friend came back over to get his oil changed and to pay for the brake service. Saved hundreds of dollars on a bed then got handed a bunch of cash for a very simple task. Good week so far, no? --- Saturday- Talked the girl into a bike ride. Five miles to my father in laws. Three miles from there to a place to play mini golf. Another six miles back. I could do rides like that all the time, but no one will ever go with me. ---- About an hour ago- I bottled a couple gallons of wine. If this post ends up not making sense... it may be because of that. Took a shot off each bottle and drank the partial 'bottom of the barrel' bottle. ---- I started playing on Pogo again. Not sure how I feel about that. Usually that big of a time waster means that I am not signing up for enough projects. The fact that it took two and a half months of not going to work before resorting to Pogo should count for something. Although I am not done yet. There is much to be done. Does anyone that is actually reading this ever go to Pogo? Anyone? --- Note: I was about to say "screw spell-check on this one" but didn't. In all of this there were no spelling errors except one paragraph, which had four words wrong. Weird. |
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