I was watching something on Animal Planet about Great White Sharks. Actually the wife was watching and I found myself glued to it as well. These are some seriously ferocious bastards. They grow up to twenty feet long and move amazingly fast.
Damn, I’m tuckered out. Worked about 12 hours today, came home, ate dinner, then cut about half the lawn. We are trying to get the house cleaned up a bit for the party and with it being so dry I haven’t cut the grass in a month or so. It needed it, or at least the weeds did anyway.
One thing about this new job is that I am on the damn phone constantly. A couple of months ago we went a little bit over our minutes so I bumped them up to 2100. That seems like a lot, but there are three of us on the family plan, and mine doubles as the home phone. I figured that with paying out so much in cell costs it was a waste of money to have a land-line. This past month I apparently went almost a thousand minutes over that 2100. Hell, I used all 2100 myself. I carry my charger with me in my car I am on it so much now.
When I get home I average about 15-20 calls a night, even from the stores where the managers are on duty. What the fuck is up with that? My question most of the time is “what did so-and-so say when you asked them?” That usually ends the conversation then and there, but some of them are pretty persistent, particularly considering that one of them is a fuck up and doesn’t answer his own phone most of the time when they call, especially if it’s after 9PM.
I keep telling myself it will get easier, and I know it is just a matter of time, but I am growing very impatient.
Damn, yesterday was just too short. That working seven days with one day off stuff sucks. Luckily I just have to work today thru Friday and I am off this weekend for the Boy’s going away party. Don’t forget if you are coming, shoot me an email at rmiles AT charter DOT net or just leave a comment (although the way the site has been lately you are better off emailing). Anyone that wants to bring anything just bring your favorite side dish and a drink.
We will get started around 4PM or so until whenever. Good folks, good music (debatable) and good food. Good god, this sounds like an advertisement. Now I suppose I’m gonna have to pay myself or some such garbage.
One of the things I am really lousy about doing is sending greeting cards. I’ve got a box or two of Christmas cards tucked away in the closet that I bought several years ago that just seem to not get sent year after year. The same thing goes for birthdays, anniversaries, etc…What I have taken to doing the last couple of years is just sending online cards. With PictureSandbox Greeting Cards you can send your own “phreeting” (photo + greeting) that you have personalized like these.
With it being my day off I probably would have gotten started much earlier with my posting and some of the yard work I wanted to do, but when I got up this morning my connection was down. Once I got home from the doctor I fooled with it for a couple of hours, got frustrated and took a nap.
I finally got my connection going about three this afternoon and have been fairly busy ever since. Oh well. Hopefully tomorrow will be a fairly short day. I have a ton of stuff to do around the house to prepare for the party this weekend, and I also need to get my site fixed.
Well, maybe one more just for today. This is the last one that I took at the ren fest on June 3rd. Next week I suppose I will have to go back to general ones that I find on the Internet.
I did see something truly unsettling a couple of weeks ago though. Of course kids love the temporary tattoos, but my daughter and perhaps one of her friends gave themselves temp tattoos and my nine year old had a little eagle or something right at the small of her back. doh! I wanted to claw my fucking eyes out.
…breathing a sigh of relief. Good deal. I would have hated to lose my keyboard to a shitty replacement.
…after having spilled coffee on it yesterday morning. I thought I had snatched it off my desk fast enough and gotten everything wiped up but when i got home last night most of the keys on the right side were sticking. A little cleanup later..
The keys are drying right now. Hopefully everything will be slick once I get it back together. I hate the keyboard I am using right now. The keys feel mushy and everything is just slightly different which makes for a ton of freaking typing errors.
According to this article using black Google rather than white Google saves energy. Why’s it always got to be about black and white any way? Damn racists… Anyway, that means my web site is saving you money every time you come here. You can send all extra proceeds to my Paypal account.
Another one that I took at the ren fest…
It was actually a decent back pic, but could have used some color. That should be nice in about forty years…
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