July 14, 2011
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....I do me a big slab of pecan pie and continue drinkin' coldy's, then relax out on the lawn chair to get that sunburn I should have gotten back in June. while doing that, Ron (aka Chas Manson) comes over and hands me a folded magazine (if you read far enough back into last summer, he pulls this same routine. seems while he's dumpster diving for empty pop bottles, he finds the raunchiest of porn and feels the need to share it, when he's done with it, with the next single neighbor guy). I throw it in the trash after he walks away, then wonder if he's ever been online? it's prob'ly 98% porn without all that silly page turning hassle
. then snap back into reality when I realize it's Ron. he's kind of stone age. he prob'ly still marvels at his transistor radio and hasn't made that leap to color TV yet...it'll be another 30 years before he discovers the convenience of the microwave oven. anyway. he stops me again as we do our barefoot pooperdog walk and hands me another folded magazine. I play along and promptly throw it in the trash when I get home. don't get me wrong. I'm not against porn, but this stuff he's giving me is completely classless. only stuff one might find while dumpster diving at the gas station...later, Rosie and I make some hamboogers on the grill.
anyway, I'm currently awake due to a silly dog having to pee. it's nice outside. a cool 65 degrees. the stars would be cool to gaze at if not for the overly light polluting orange glow of the street lamps (don't get me started...). oh well. I try anyway. if you stare in an area of space long enough you see what looks like a star, but it's moving. is that the ISS? then another. how big does a satellite have to be in order to see it from the ground? I'm kind of surprised there isn't thousands of moving dots in the sky, being how much space junk (weather, communication, navigation, space exploring, reconnaissance, etc., etc.) satellites circumnavigating this planet. we'll prob'ly see that in the next 30 years, meanwhile, Ron will be enjoying his first microwave burrito that he had dumpster dove for the day before...
so normally, when I order something online, I enjoy (for no good reason at all) hitting the UPS tracking site and usually see the item head south first, then north to the MItten (as was the case for both my work pants order, and my guitars). but this can't be the case with the bedbug order, being it's shipped from Florida. I can't imagine they'd fly it to Cuba first (for example)
. I look at the order online and assume it'll all come in one package being the package weight says 9 lbs. nope. the UPS guy brings two boxes today. I open both. one box for the mattress cover, one for the box spring cover...where's the third box with pesticides and what-not? I look on both boxes (and the labels) for "1 of 3", "2 of 3", thinking maybe that 3rd box is still on his truck. by this time he's long gone. anyway...I ordered all the items at one time, they're shipping parts of the order separately?! good gawd, that's gotta cost 'em a bunch (free shipping for me). if I don't see the 3rd box today, I'll give their 800 number a call and see what's up. ...back to sleep for a bit
minutes later: I'm curious about that tracking thing again, so I hit the tracking link from an email they sent, and it shows the product still in Toledo as of 7pm last night. that must be the 3rd box. I look a bit more and see another email with a tracking link. even though I ordered everything from the same company, all at once, it looks like today's packages came from Indiana (via Georgia...? nah, just kiddin'
). ok, now I got a clue. sleep. I need sleep.
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