March 1, 2012
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a REAL weekend type weekend!!
the day before yesterday, I put in for a 1/2 of a vacation day for Thursday night. I should have heard whether it was approved or not yesterday. luck would have it, that while we were being split up as a team, to be farmed out to other lines that needed peeps (ours being down due to no rails...no surprise), I asked our boss if my half day was approved. he quickly said that I could take the whole night off, if I leave a revised 'vacation slip' on his desk. before he changed his mind, I was gone. quickly filling out the new, and heading out the door...I don't have to show up again until Sunday night (YAY! I GOT A WEEKEND!!). I stop off to my favorite beer store for a couple of IPA sixers, in order to become that recovering alcoholic from dry days gone by
. this first beer is magically delicious (Sierra Nevada's Ruthless Rye 2012...mmmmmms!). I'm typing via my laptop out on the porch with the old dog vying for my attention. there's a calm springy feel to the air and it sounds like the cutey Asian girl next door is having yet another party (there's always a ton of cars parked along the road out front of her trailer).[...]
dude! the powerful smell of a skunk just wafted over us. yet another sign of springiness...
after waking up, I go to let the dog out (did I tell this story? it happened a couple days back), I spot a yellow envelope folded into the handle of my storm door. I don't have my glasses on, so I gotta fumble around and find my readers to see what this is all about. once my glasses are found, I see it reads "shut-off notice" on the outside of the envelope (great! how'd this happen?!). I open it up, grab my phone, and just as I'm ready to dial, I realize it's not even for this address. it's for cutey Asian neighbor. I take it over and stick it in her door handle. breathing a sigh of relief that it wasn't for me. I guess I really should have put my address back up after repainting the place. now I gotta wait 'til it's warm enough for the number stickers to stick (which won't be long, being March already!)
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