Thar be snow!
Welp. It snowed more than I thought it would. Still only around an inch or so. Just enough to make it look pretty. Looks like I’ll have some pretty scenery on the way to Sabetha today!
No matter what I feel bad.
I won’t lie. One of my biggest weaknesses is organizing my time. I’ve tried carrying a planner, I’ve tried digital calendars. But when it comes down to it, there’s only so much time in a day/week/etc. Its only a matter of time before my forgetfulness coupled with my underlying urge to try to make people happy gets me in trouble.
I had been on vacation for a while right? And in between cussing sessions with my car, Grandma Pat calls and asks if I can come up for Thanksgiving. I explain to her that Andrea and I already planned on being in SWK for the holiday, and that I have to work Friday, but that I could probably make it up for the weekend after (i.e. tomorrow). Well sometime late Tuesday I check my e-mail and there’s a little reminder in there that I have a remote Saturday (tomorrow) from 1-4. DAMN!
So dreading it, I call up Grandma and Grandpa to tell them I’m not going to be able to make it Saturday and will try to get up there Sunday, but that I probably won’t make it in time to see Uncle David. So they put David on the phone who always gives me jabs about keeping in touch with people as it is ha ha. But he’s pretty understanding. So I wrap up the call feeling bad, but relieved that the tension is over and once again there is certainty in my future. However unpleasant it may be.
Not to long thereafter, Jenn, our night DJ comes in to work, and I was telling her about the whole fiasco (popular term these days) and she offers to do the remote for me! What a nice girl! She’s always going out of her way to be helpful and its nice to work with somebody who will actually do a favor for you from time to time. I asked if she would still let me have the money though, and she said no. Bitch.
In the end the the best possible outcome came through. Well I’m going to have a slightly smaller paycheck, but other than a bit of guilt for for weaseling out of a responsibility I agreed to weeks in advance, I’m relieved. Oh. And I still have turkey to eat. All is right with the world.
11.23.07Let’s start a pool.
Well there hasn’t been too much posting lately. Partly because of how busy I’ve been trying to get the car going again, and all the traveling. (I’m going to Sabetha tomorrow too!) But mostly I think I’m being too picky in the relevancy of what I post. I was looking back through the archives and there’s a lot of posts that are just quick little thoughts, or small little moments of the day, that are just a joy to go back and read. It brings back the memory of something that would have been otherwise forgotten.
So starting today I’m going to post AT LEAST ONCE A DAY, no matter how insignificant. I already know its not going to last. Haha. I have a resurgence of posting for a few days, then it always falls off. So I’m going say 17 days of posting without missing one (including today). That’s at least a post a day until December 9th. I can do it!
It should make it more encouraging to visit the site, but more than anything a couple years from now I can look back at the posts and say, “OH yeah! I forgot about that.” Ha ha!
Fiasco
What an under used word. Its so fun to say. It just rolls off the tongue. Unfortunately the experiences associated with the word aren’t as enjoyable.
I’ve been working on the brakes on my car. Changing brake pads, and new rotors as well. The good news is, the shudder that I used to get when I pressed the brakes is gone. The bad news is, I can’t get the stupid brake light in my car to go off. I’m just about at my wits end. It’ll be going on day four of messing with this. Gonna try to bleed the brakes and master cylinder one last time. If that doesn’t work. I’m going to tear the whole damn thing apart and start over!
More as it develops.
11.13.07New Mario Kart Wii Pics!
Man, I gotta get me one of those Wiis!
That looks a lot like a Mario Kart 64 track! Color me excited!
More pics can be found here!
Long lost older sibling.
Here some pictures we snapped of the Toronado we saw for sale while we were down scoping out the wedding place. Creepy how close the colors are! When I painted my car, I never would have guessed there’d be another one out there almost the same color!
The one up front is an ’83 and was for sale. (Probably would have bought it if I had the cash!)
Not that my car is rare or anything, but just crazy to find one THAT similar!
11.9.07It keeps going…and going…
I don’t know which would be a cooler picture. This one, or the 220,000. But I didn’t want to waste 0.1 miles worth of gas @ 3.18 a gallon just to snap a picture. Ha ha!
Going to re-do the breaks this weekend and put on all new belts. Then next month it’s new shocks and springs and pretty much just odds and ends from there. Just tryin’ fix things faster than they break!
11.5.07Yay, Me!
I looked through my notes that I had made on my scratch pad for last weekend. Sure enough, I had written down that the winery was open 10a.m. to 7 p.m. But, I thought I’d better check the website just to make sure. Yep, it was down as being open at 10a.m. to 7p.m. on Sundays!
Isn’t it odd how the mind can play tricks on us? Maybe you young people don’t notice it as much. But I honestly thought I had imagined the extended hours! It’s so nice to know I’m not losing my mind! haha
11.1.07Trick or Treat-ing Vultures
So Halloween has come and gone this year. And the Scrooge that I am, I decided I didn’t want to hand out any Halloween candy this year. Its not that I don’t love the kids, its just that I didn’t really feel like sitting by the front door for 3 hours waiting for kids to show up. So I made sure when I got home I didn’t turn the porch light on so these Trick or Treaters didn’t get the wrong idea. After all, I didn’t even have any candy in the entire house to give away!
So I get home from work yesterday evening around 7:00 or so and head out back the let the dog out of her pen and run around a bit before I let her in the house. After I get settled in a bit I flip the back porch light on so I can go get the dog’s dishes and let the dog on. I grab the bowls and head back in to clean all the leaves out. No longer than 3 minutes later there’s a knock at the back door! Trick or Treaters!
“Are you handing out candy?” They ask.
“Uhh…well I didn’t think you’d see the back porch light,” I said, a little miffed that they had the audacity to even ask. Even these kids knew there was something a little off about going to someone’s back door asking for Halloween candy or else they wouldn’t even have had to ask. But with a smile on my face I just said, “I don’t have any candy but let me see what I can dig up.”
I recanted my childhood memories of digging through my Halloween candy knowing full well that every kid remembers exactly where they got the best treat that night, and the worst treat. I was bound and determined not to be the worst treat. Ritz crackers? No! That won’t work! Sugar, I need something with lots of sugar! The clock was ticking and the dog outside on her leash was getting more insane with each passing moment these strangers were on the back steps. Suddenly I spotted it. It might actually work! A box POP-TARTS®! Please, please, please let there be two pouches of pastry goodness inside the box... Victory! But what would the kids think about Pop-Tarts® as their treat? Wait a second…I don’t care, they shouldn’t have come knocking in the first place!
“Ohh COOL! Pop-Tarts®! Thanks!” they said.
Mission accomplished and lesson learned. If you don’t have something to give away, don’t let a single outside light burn on your house. Don’t even light a candle on a windy Halloween night outside your house, for the Trick or Treaters are waiting in the bushes for their chance to strike.