Parenting/Family

Still haven’t heard from the Boy yet but the Wife spoke with his recruiter today, who told her that sometimes it is a pretty large group and they just run out of time to call parents at the beginning but that he should have time to call later this week. I don’t even know what company he’s in to get some idea about graduation yet. As soon as I get his mailing address we will be able to write as well. I know the girls miss him terribly, as do I. He is there though, that much we got out of the recruiter but that was about it. Hopefully all is well with him. Thanks to those that have called or sent their best wishes for his success.

That going to bed at three crap coupled with getting back up at five has kicked my ass. I have to be back at work tonight at eightish so unless I just get a bunch of high paying stuff to do it’s NAP TIME!

I am crossing my fingers and hoping the Oldsmobile makes it through the rest of the summer with all of the driving that I am doing. It is 13 years old and has over 200k miles on it, needs a serious tune-up, and the Auto air conditioning doesn’t work. That is the only part I hate about having to drive it to work and back. If I were only making one trip it wouldn’t be such a big deal, but some days I am in the darn thing all day long making six or eight trips between the stores…

One thing I have noticed since I made the change that sped up commenting is that it is also re-indexing MUCH MUCH faster. It used to take about three or four minutes just to post an entry and that was on a good day. Now it’s more like 40 seconds. SWEET. I am very happy with that. Still having some problems with the Fast CGI implementation like I can’t log into the movabletype control panel now, but I sent tech support a ticket, hopefully they can get that fixed before I get home tomorrow morning.

I am so tired that I am beyond tired. This will probably be my last post tonight, which is not necessarily a bad thing since I have been posting like a monkey on crack the last hour.

RePete has a fever of about a hundred two tonight. She is sleeping, but also congested. What sucks is that tomorrow is a blackout day for me, meaning it is an absolute NO-NO to take the day off. She is going to have to go with me in the morning, since with tomorrow being graduation it’s not like the wife can take it off (she teaches). I will go in for about an hour in the morning and then head home. Hopefully I can get RePete a pretty early doctor’s appointment and get her looked at.

I almost got killed tonight. That wasn’t much fun. It’s a good thing I got new tires on the wife’s car a couple of weeks ago. I managed to get home about six this evening, and within a ten minute time period two people called in from the two stores where I have no managers today. That shit blows. I made this one girls cry. She called in right before her shift started, and I told her that if she was sick that was fine, I didn’t want her coming to work, but that if she was that sick she needed to go to the doctor, therefore she needed to bring me a doctor’s note stating that she couldn’t work. NOT a note saying she had been seen, but it needed to say that she couldn’t work tonight. She’s already missed one day this week and I am getting tired of this crap from the employees when their manager’s are off. My people didn’t pull that shit and stay employed long. Most of them rarely missed any work, and I knew that if they were out it was because they really were sick.

That’s about enough of the crack monkey posting tonight. More tomorrow…

Oh yeah, that train of thought got seriously derailed. Anyway, I had to drive to the town about fifteen mile south of where I live to pick someone up that was willing to work tonight, and on the way back I was doing about sixty, right behind another car. This dumb-fuck pulls out to cross the road right in between the first car and myself. I had to swerve way to the left to avoid slamming into the stupid fucker and if I had not had new tires I would have gone back off the road. Some people just don’t need to be driving. Had I been going a bit slower and not had a passenger I might have run into him just to get a new car, but I was late and needed to get this guy to work…

Now I really am done…later all and have a wonderful night.

Unfortunately while all of you folks are going to be out having cookouts and picnics, playing sports and boating, I get to work 🙁

Just par for the course I suppose. I did schedule myself an easy weekend though, at least I hope so. One of the days I am going to have to work pretty late, but the rest of the time I should be able to shoot out the door pretty quickly.

I am particularly groggy this morning. Enough to where I have to use spellcheck. I didn’t sleep worth a crap. The four year old crawled into bed at some point and it’s all elbows and assholes everywhere. I may have gotten three hours of sleep all together and I can feel it this morning. Maybe I will feel better after I’ve sucked down some coffee.

My doctor’s visit didn’t go too bad yesterday. My blood pressure, which has been high for some reason on my last two visits was back down to 127/80 which is right around what it normally is. I was happy to hear that. I think it was high on my last visit just because my back was hurting.

She couldn’t find much explanation for why I broke out and just gave me some cleaning pads, like Stridex. She said it could have been something as simple as something getting onto my razor blade or face and bacteria getting on my skin. Nasty.

My lymph nodes are slightly swollen as well which I knew. The swelling has actually gone down quite a bit. She did give me an antibiotic to help finish the job though. At first she tried to give me the Z-pack but that is the one that I had such a serious reaction to last year so I told her that, at which point she looked it up. It doesn’t go very well with the cholesterol medicine that I am taking. No shit. I thought I was having a heart attack when I took it last year.

Just damn -If I could put a little copyright sign here I would 🙂

Pete’s softball team is down to eight players now. Just the minimum to play. There were some issues earlier in the season with the coaching and several of the parents, us included, complained about it to the Mayor as well as the rec department. It wasn’t even so much the coach as it was her family members that attended, although she could be quite sharp at times. She was good at what she does though. Apparently she won’t be back coaching any teams in the foreseeable futre.

Pete hasn’t been feeling very well lately. As a matter of fact she had to stay out of school Monday due to the fact that she felt so bad. Hopefully she is a bit better today.

Anyway, she went ahead and played last night, which was good because if she hadn’t they would have had to forfeit the game. As it was they had their asses handed to them and lost 18-0. That is probably the worst game they have played in the last two years. Pete did manage to get a hit but was caught out before she made it to first. She is hitting better though, and I know that helps it to be a bit more enjoyable. Now if she could just learn to throw and catch a little better she would be kicking some serious butt.

The big thing is that she seems to be having more fun. We won’t let her quit, once she decided she wanted to play she has to finish the season, but if she decides not to play fall ball or play next year that’s OK.

…I was actually able to get some last night. I went to bed shortly after nine PM and didn’t get up until about 4:30. Heck, that’s more sleep than I have managed to get in the last couple of weeks at one shot. I may actually have to try that again tonight. I have been just exhausted every day and that is part of it.

I get busy doing stuff in the evening and forget that I need to hit the sack at a decent time. There need to be several more hours added in to each day just so that I can finish.

I was hoping to possibly get that big $1k opp this morning, but such is the luck. Time to get ready for work.