Category Archives: Everyday Stuff

If you had read Harold’s post a few weeks ago, you know of the issues we’ve had with a local homeless guy, who is not all there.

Since then, Harold has gotten me my mace and I make sure I have easy access to it when riding.

I rode into to work Saturday and guess who I saw? That same sorry SOB. I saw him about 20yds out. I slowed down, got my mace ready and saw him do the same shit. Instead of riding on the his right, he moved to my right, and then started to tuck his head down and aimed for me when he was about 5-10 yds out I yelled “You try to run me off the road one more time motherf****r and I will mace your sorry ass!!!!”

His head came up real fast, stared at me, and put is hand out as if to say okay and moved away from me. I called Harold when I got to work, he was pissed off. He called the cops and they sent an officer out to talk to Harold. This one actually took a report and filed it. He knew exactly who we talking about.

The officer said he couldn’t arrest him but next time I shouldn’t even warn him, just mace him.

Harold talked to our lawyer he did say that the officer was incorrect, because when he aims for me and even when he misses it is assault.

So next time, that mother is going down. We’ve warned him and I’ve warned him by myself, so now he is free game. We haven’t done a damn thing to him and yet he keeps trying to run me off the sidewalk. He must have a thing for female bikers, cuz he sure in heck hasn’t tried it to Harold.

I was so aggravated and depressed Saturday that it actually helped me that I yelled and stood up to him. It got some of my aggression out……which I may get into later.

It was busy as heck at work that night, but we still got a lot accomplished so that was cool.

Yesterday was grandma Schinkel’s birthday. It is hard to believe that she has been gone for 7yrs. I miss her.

I’ve just been working. We did try to go out for dinner last night………but of course with it being Friday….lets just say we ended up with sandwiches when we aiming for steak….lol

I had one customer that put a crimp in my day today………the jerk…I may go into if I get the time.

I have to be at work very early tomorrow.

I did take a few pictures of the newly painted bedroom tonight. I’ll see about posting them tomorrow.

I’m not going to really get into it cuz I’ll start bawling, but it looks as if Aurora may be going through her final stage of life. She is giving all the same signs that Randi did before we had to have her put to sleep. I’m trying not to focus on it for obvious reasons and I keep hoping that we are wrong about…..but I’m not holding my breathe. So right now, I’m just trying to enjoy my time that I have left with her. =( I will say that working helps to keep me from losing it.

It was my day off today. We had decided last weekend that we would be painting the master bedroom. We also put up a new ceiling fan. The old one made lots of noise, didn’t always worked and some of the light sockets didn’t work on it. The new one has 4 working lights and we are trying out some “sunlight” bulbs. They are bright, doesn’t have the yellow of the others and they take a lot less power then regular bulbs.

So we first we got everything out of the room, broomed the very dusty ceiling, Harold fought with the fan for over an hour and then we started on the painting. It is looking good.

Once we get it back together I’ll take some pictures & get them posted. It probably won’t be until tomorrow night since I have to work early in the morning.

We are finally done with the seasonal crowds at work. It feels both good and weird…..when you don’t have to kill yourself to get something done.

I got a really sweet surprise the other day at work. Jackie gave me a certificate for where I get my nails done for my birthday. She had actually gotten me a candle holder with a cat on it, but (very appropriately) her cats broke it and they threw up on my card. I just think that is so funny, since we are both cat people and we both are so use to our cats doing something funky in our lives. =)

We have already made plans for my next day off. I have 2 days off together and we planning on heading down to Ft. Lauderdale to spend it with friends. We are looking forward to getting out of here even if only for a day or two. =)

I’m going need to head to bed soon & I want to do a little surfing…….so I’ll chat with you later.

Well, it sucks……..I have to head back to work today. It wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t know that we have a ton to do without enough folks get it done and I haven’t had a fully weekend off since before Thanksgiving…..which gets old. But I did enjoy this weekend, even though the Colts lost. =(

I got all but one of the evaluations done, since his isn’t under the deadline. I really didn’t feel like doing them. A few that I had to do were on some of our best employees, those were hard in that you can’t just give them a perfect score, there is always room for improvement as a basic part of being human. So net picking is involved. A few were on those that can do a good job but are so inconsistent and depends on their “moods” that I don’t feel that they have earned a raise. These evaluations are based on what I see, Cheryl needs to go over them and change what she sees as the general manager and then send them to our DM.

We are going to start prepping the master bedroom this week, so on my next day off we can be ready to attack with the paint brushes. =) We are tired of the white. Unfortunately, prepping is not as easy since I have a lot knick-knacks on my hutch that I need to take down so we can move it.

I did get some reorganizing done on some of my cat pictures that we have take over the years. So the cat page is done! Didn’t take me a long as I thought it would, so that was cool.

Mom called yesterday. Sounds like Heather really enjoyed the books we sent. =) Told mom that our idea for the summer was for them to come down about a week before their anniversary, visit for a few days and then leave us the kids for a few weeks. This would be great for them not having to worry about the kids for their day. =)

Well, unfortunately I need to finish this up and get off to work. My bike wheel is fixed so I’m going to ride in and get some cardio in.