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First, an announcement. This is for the people that find themselves here from MySpace. Most of my entries here at LiveJournal have been "friends only". You will have to create a LiveJournal account yourself and I'll have to add you to my friends list to read those. Most of the reasons I had for doing this no longer apply so I'll be doing a lot more public posts from now on.
Anyway...
Yes, I have a MySpace page now. I don't know how much I'll use it but several people in my family have them, so I wanted to make one in an effort to keep in touch with them. Someone already had the name DaveB so there I'm "DaveB002".
The pain in my arm I mentioned in my last entry turned out to be tennis elbow. If you've never had it count yourself among the lucky as it is very painful. I haven't had a decent night's sleep in two weeks because of it and I'm popping pain meds like they're M&Ms. Now it seems to be abating slightly but it still hurts a lot from time to time. It's a dull aching pain that travels to the forearm sometimes and up to my shoulders sometimes. At work it seems to ease up after I've been working a little but it hurts like hell after work.
Thank you for the birthday wishes. I turned 38 Last Thursday. We didn't do much. Everyone pitched in and gave me a very nice circular saw with laser track and a few other bells and whistles. VERY nice! The one I've been using until now I got for my 23rd birthday... about time for a new one! I really needed a new one so I can start getting serious about fixing a few things around here.
Saying which, when we moved in here I had to make some emergency repairs to the floor in the master bathroom. I didn't have the right tools to fix it properly, and doing it right would have meant completely redoing the plumbing for the shower and the toilet, so I did one of those "temporary" type jobs. You know just to get by for a little while until I can get the time to do it right. Anyway, I had cut a small rectangular hole for some water lines that came through the floor and I really thought it would be okay that way for a while. The problem is the hole is apparently just big enough for a small animal to fit through... specifically a small possum. Three, actually. I bought a live catch trap and managed to trap all three of them and released them down the road a couple of miles. Hopefully that's the last of them.
Gotta fix that floor.
Speaking of unusual critters, we left our house a couple of days ago, went around the corner and came face to face with an emu. Of all the things you expect to see on the backroads around here, that is definitely in the lower part of the list. Years ago there was a flirtation around here with the idea of raising ostriches and emus for the meat. It flopped after a year or so but I guess some people still keep them as pets or something. We drove around a little trying to figure out who it might belong to but we didn't see any likely homes for it. It was gone when we got back so I guess they found it. That or someone is barbecuing some really big drumsticks this weekend!
We got the kids' school shopping done. I grew up in California in the eighties so going to the mall was something we did for fun. Now I thank God every time I go to one and leave without killing someone. People piss me off so much sometimes! I always leave public places like that with the urge to buy an island somewhere and live there. Next year I'm handing Ann some cash and wishing her the best of luck 'cause I ain't goin'!
I got about half the mowing done yesterday. Hopefully I can do the rest today but they're calling for rain most of next week around here. It's a lot to do; there's about three acres I keep mowed here. We're on a corner lot so it just looks funky to mow some of it but not the rest. I ran out of gas yesterday so today I have to sell some blood and get some more. $3.57 a gallon the other day. Sheesh!
I ran into a former coworker of mine the other day. I kind of thought my leaving that job might trigger a sort of landslide and it seems I was right. Counting myself, six people have left the shop. One retirement, four transfers and one leaving entirely- that would be me. Maybe they'll get desperate enough to offer me a substantial raise to come back. Nah! They can't won't match my current pay. I do have to admit, though, even though I'm beginning to like this job more and more every day I still liked the other one better. We were a lot more technical there than we are here. A little more challenging. The biggest challenge at the power plant is doing your job without shutting the plant down.
Better stop now. Hope all is well with everyone.
Anyway...
Yes, I have a MySpace page now. I don't know how much I'll use it but several people in my family have them, so I wanted to make one in an effort to keep in touch with them. Someone already had the name DaveB so there I'm "DaveB002".
The pain in my arm I mentioned in my last entry turned out to be tennis elbow. If you've never had it count yourself among the lucky as it is very painful. I haven't had a decent night's sleep in two weeks because of it and I'm popping pain meds like they're M&Ms. Now it seems to be abating slightly but it still hurts a lot from time to time. It's a dull aching pain that travels to the forearm sometimes and up to my shoulders sometimes. At work it seems to ease up after I've been working a little but it hurts like hell after work.
Thank you for the birthday wishes. I turned 38 Last Thursday. We didn't do much. Everyone pitched in and gave me a very nice circular saw with laser track and a few other bells and whistles. VERY nice! The one I've been using until now I got for my 23rd birthday... about time for a new one! I really needed a new one so I can start getting serious about fixing a few things around here.
Saying which, when we moved in here I had to make some emergency repairs to the floor in the master bathroom. I didn't have the right tools to fix it properly, and doing it right would have meant completely redoing the plumbing for the shower and the toilet, so I did one of those "temporary" type jobs. You know just to get by for a little while until I can get the time to do it right. Anyway, I had cut a small rectangular hole for some water lines that came through the floor and I really thought it would be okay that way for a while. The problem is the hole is apparently just big enough for a small animal to fit through... specifically a small possum. Three, actually. I bought a live catch trap and managed to trap all three of them and released them down the road a couple of miles. Hopefully that's the last of them.
Gotta fix that floor.
Speaking of unusual critters, we left our house a couple of days ago, went around the corner and came face to face with an emu. Of all the things you expect to see on the backroads around here, that is definitely in the lower part of the list. Years ago there was a flirtation around here with the idea of raising ostriches and emus for the meat. It flopped after a year or so but I guess some people still keep them as pets or something. We drove around a little trying to figure out who it might belong to but we didn't see any likely homes for it. It was gone when we got back so I guess they found it. That or someone is barbecuing some really big drumsticks this weekend!
We got the kids' school shopping done. I grew up in California in the eighties so going to the mall was something we did for fun. Now I thank God every time I go to one and leave without killing someone. People piss me off so much sometimes! I always leave public places like that with the urge to buy an island somewhere and live there. Next year I'm handing Ann some cash and wishing her the best of luck 'cause I ain't goin'!
I got about half the mowing done yesterday. Hopefully I can do the rest today but they're calling for rain most of next week around here. It's a lot to do; there's about three acres I keep mowed here. We're on a corner lot so it just looks funky to mow some of it but not the rest. I ran out of gas yesterday so today I have to sell some blood and get some more. $3.57 a gallon the other day. Sheesh!
I ran into a former coworker of mine the other day. I kind of thought my leaving that job might trigger a sort of landslide and it seems I was right. Counting myself, six people have left the shop. One retirement, four transfers and one leaving entirely- that would be me. Maybe they'll get desperate enough to offer me a substantial raise to come back. Nah! They can't won't match my current pay. I do have to admit, though, even though I'm beginning to like this job more and more every day I still liked the other one better. We were a lot more technical there than we are here. A little more challenging. The biggest challenge at the power plant is doing your job without shutting the plant down.
Better stop now. Hope all is well with everyone.