If I have a problem with something, here it will be.
One day it is hot here, and the next it is back to normal. It gets cool to cold in the evenings, sometimes, and others it stays blazing hot. What’s with the earth, anyway?
I think I’ve settled the last of my car issues for the time being. Next up is to try to get in better shape and stop eating so much plane and hotel food. I don’t know how likely that will be, but I’ll have to try.
In the meantime, go check out some new diversions.
Cars suck. They eat more money than they should and require way too much attention. And when you think everything is going to finally stop costing you money, something else comes up and costs far more than you think it should. Maybe I should start walking or riding bikes everywhere? Nah.
It’s been over 95+ the last few days here and that is just miserable. I’m waiting for people to burst into flames but it just isn’t happening. People are getting crazy though, talking about staying indoors with the A/C on all the time and eating ice cream. It’s mass hysteria. Good thing I’ll be on airplanes to combat all of this lunacy for the next week or so.
I’m back and I’m quite out of it. Traveling where you don’t know the language is very difficult. Missing a connecting flight is even worse. Getting home and finding out you have no car is the worst of all. Is this making any sense?
Turned in the Jeep today to the body shop, but not before waiting almost an hour for the shop owner who never showed up. I then proceeded to the rent-a-car place where I got the keys to a shiny new POS Stratus. This thing just doesn’t go, and calling the handling vague would be an understatement.
I’m off on another week long business trip. Maybe I’ll find something less collision happy to do this week. In the meantime it’s Au revoir USA.
I got rear ended tonight near highway 85 and 101. I was just stopping for some traffic ahead and the next thing I know… wham! My rear bumper is rather broken and the other guy has no more front end or radiator. The thing is, this car is nearly out of here, with the lease due in two months. What a crappy thing to deal with this late.
And the kicker is that the guy (Indian) only said “I’m sorry.” Like that’s supposed to pay for the bumper. Damn California drivers!
Just my luck. I plan a vacation and the weather is so bad it delays me getting here, then makes it not possible to do what I came to do: dive. At least the people are nice and the drinks are cold.
Now whatever will I do with the rest of the week?
Sometimes I think that people just don’t listen. I have setup my land line so that it forces caller ID before people leave messages. That screens just about everything out. But, somehow this crazy woman got through. I have no idea what she’s saying but I tried to figure it out. If you want to know, maybe you should call her at 209-962-7628.
Listen to the Original recording
Listen to the Enhanced recording
Can you tell what she’s saying?
It’s all over but the crying, or at least the paperwork. The end of one job and start of another happens tomorrow. I wonder what will become of it all.
In other developments, expect yet another domain to work on shortly. This one will focus on an over enthusiastic desire to spend money by attaching motors to balsa wood (and sometimes foam) and ramming them into the earth at high speed. Fun for the whole family.
After a week of push, push, push to get a project done there’s nothing like going home on Friday knowing it didn’t happen. Oh, and drinking for more than 12 hours straight does nothing for your metabolism. Really.
I’m not one to rant, but this work stuff is for the birds. Really! What do you do when you are just so tired of the same old same-old that when the next thing happens you snap? Well, if you are me you rant. Not sure that it does wonders for my social standing but I feel a bit better.
In any case I’m about to the point where being a cashier at Target sounds really good, or at least less better than the gut wrenching stress of the current job every week. If only I could fix that pesky cost of living thing. Hmmm.