July 17, 2012
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I shoulda framed the damn thing, or at least took a picture of it. I received a pretty ornate certificate in the mail thanking me for my service, and including me, by special congressional order, to become a member of the American legion [paraphrased]
. it was worded so eloquently, as if I had survived my tour of duty and had won the medal of honor (or some such bologna). I don't even like guns and war (unless it's a good wartime movie that I'm watching). the package came complete with address stickers with bald Eagle pictures on them, and a fancy membership card. I didn't sign up for any of this...is this what they send everyone in order to make them feel as if they already joined some special club? silly shit.online banking definitely shows the funds running low (being that I didn't opt to use my vacation pay, or unemployment to cover my week unt a half off), so I deposit the money I've been collecting from da room mate, from my fire proof safe into my checking. that ought to be enough until my next paycheck...
yesterday, I got a bit fed up with having internet service that popped on and off randomly. seems forever now, I'm always resetting the modem a bunch of times a week. I call my provider, and he suggests that I need to go to the local providers "store" and trade in my old modem for a new one. Rosie and I take us a drive in the dune buggy to grab us one. couple hours after installing, I get the same drop-out [
]. I call again, and get someone who said the first person I talked to was wrong in his analysis. she steers me instead to try the modem on the TV cable (a cable installed by the cable guy himself). once done, she says that it's got a lot stronger signal on her end, so I unhook basically everything from the desktop 'puter in my bedroom and relocate behind the living-room TV. so far, so good! I can't go online with my desktop anymore, but I got my wi-fi back. I'll prob'ly glean whatever's important from the desktop, wipe it clean with a fresh install of windows, and give it away. it's gettin' old. better, at this point, to be used as a boat anchor than anything else
my stay-cation has only a day left, and being that I work third shift, I gotta get back into the routine of sleeping during the daytime. damn, and I was just starting to enjoy the sun again. it bites being a graveyard shift vampire
. some day a better job will come along, that is if the economy ever gets any better, and this drought we're stuck in doesn't turn things for the worse. it seems like forever since we've seen anything that'd turn the brown and dusty yard back to green. meanwhile, it looks like the Kid's area of the country and Texas are getting too much water. I can only imagine these drought conditions are gonna boost the price of corn (and everything made of corn, which is everything) way up soon...I buy some corn on the cob (which, a month ago, was only 12 cents an ear, and is now 33 cents...soon to be $170 a piece) for Sundays grillin'. Brian (almost neighbor/room mate) grills up some brats and corn. delicious! this may be my last beer drinkin' day as well. I've been doing many sixers of craft beer/imports over the past week and a half, now I gotta prepare for going back to the stalag
, which includes buying some new shoes. I threw my grubby kickers away the first day of the vacation. I best hit the shoe store today, or go to work bare-footed (store, it is then).anyway...food!
later: oh oh. I get a post card from my vet (Rosie's vet) simply saying "please call us for last weeks test results". good gawd! I don't do well with bad news (jumping to conclusions, as always). what are they gonna tell me, she's got an incurable disease? she's already lived 18.44% longer than your average Beagle life expectancy (statistic pulled completely out of my ass for the sake of making a point). they open at 9. I'll give 'em a call. if they expect an expensive fix (to whatever she may have), all I gotta tell them is "you can't cure old". she'll live out her days on the porch with me, drinkin' beers. but again, I'm jumping to conclusions, maybe the test results show that she's immortal
[news at 11].
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