My life as it happens

If Only There Was a Way We Could Both Get What We Want

Woman #1: Now you see that dude right there? That one in the green swim trunks.
Woman #2: Okaaaaay, yeah, I see him. The one with the red hair that's skimboarding?
Woman #1: Yeah, him. Now, I would so hook up with him. Look at those abs. Don't you just wanna run your hands all over him?
Girl slathered in tanning oil, staring at them: That's my boyfriend.
Woman #2: Oh. How long have you guys been going out?
Girl: Four months. What's it to you?
Woman #1: Just weighing our chances.
Girl: Chances of what?
Woman #2: Sleeping with him.
(girl makes disgusted noise and walks away).
Woman #2: Don' t worry, Shar. She's hideous. We'll follow them when they leave and the next time they go to a club or something, we'll hunt him down and get what we want.
Woman #1: We always do. Wait...which one of us gets to sleep with him? (they glance at each other, saying nothing) I've got a bigger rack.

--Pismo Beach, California

I've noticed it has been harder to come back to blogging than I would think. Since I was away for so long I've lost my blog mojo.

Uhg.

Then when something hits me that i should blog about... there's not a computer in site.

Oh well, guess I'll just have to keep reading everybody's then.

I don't know how the drive through guy wasn't laughing at this.

With all the heavy rains and storms from last night I couldn't get hardly any sleep. So I'm like a zombie and to make matters worse I snapped at my GF.

Now I'm dog ass tired and in the dog house...

what a fucking day!!!

Well, my sisters wedding went off without a hitch. She got married in a gazebo at a country club which also provided the banquet room for the reception afterward. It was an open bar and needless to say I was a frequent visitor. It was nice to see old friends who I haven't seen in years and catch up only to remember why I left Houston to begin with. Their all good people, don't get me wrong, but even though most of them are in their late twenties they still seem preoccupied with the high school days. No matter, I still had fun.

As always, when you get a large family all together you have to plan somewhat for the unexpected, however, no one could have foreseen several cars breaking down and a rental car (a minivan) my uncle was driving get shot at. So when we get home, only slightly buzzed, I heard the news and the cops came by to take a report and my buzz was gone. . Apparently a car drove up next to my uncle, fired a shot into the rear window of the minivan and then sped away. My uncle is from rural Kansas and shit like this just doesn't happen, so he was a little freaked out. Then I had to change clothes and tow my other uncles truck from a parking lot to our house so Dad and I could work on it in the morning. Let me tell you, by 9 o'clock in the morning it was 88° and humid. Not a fun time to be stuck under the hood of a truck changing out a water pump. So by mid day, the truck was fixed and felt like rewarding myself with a little beach time. So my GF and I loaded up my truck and we were going to head to the beach in Galveston, get some good seafood and just chill. My aunt and Uncle came along too, so we spent the afternoon and evening driving around Galveston looking at the damage from the last hurricane and took a lot of pictures. The restaurant we went to was okay. Priced a little high for what you got, but satisfactory none the less. By the time we got back to my parents place it was 11:00 and we were all ready for bed.

On Sunday, just my GF and I went out to visit a few of the local attractions. Nothing spectacular, it was just nice to be alone with just the two of us. When you spend the last 3 days around a large number of people, you just have to get away.

So on Monday we took off to head home and it was a nice fast drive of only 12 hours. My dogs were happy to see me again and it has been great to get back into a familiar routine.

While it's nice to see everyone it truly is great to be home.

To start off, where have I been? Right here without internet access to the blogs, but I have been viewing them through Skweezer on my desktop so I can keep up with ya'll. It hasn't been easy because I can't comment, I can only read. I will say I have missed you lot and my days have not been as enjoyable being away from blogland. Now since your reading this, with the aid of a little begging and a 6-pack of beer I was able to coerce the IT guy to re-instate blogs through the DNS server, so here I am.

This weekend I'm heading down south to my sister's wedding. It's a Friday evening wedding because she is marring a military guy and he has limited time between his next round of officer school out of state. She also wanted to get married in a gazebo and the best place she found with a banquet hall for the reception only had a Friday date available. The nice thing about a Friday wedding is that it gives me the whole weekend to recover. With an open bar, there is bound to be a few people praying to the porcelain goddess by the end of the night.

Boy it's good to be back!!!!!

Oh yes, I will try to catch up on your blogs.

Hello All,

It's been quite a while since I was able to post anything on here or check out other peoples blogs. I do hope everyone is doing well. My life has been just a tad hectic as of late, but it's a good hectic. Work is keeping me busy, although only 4 days a week, and my personal life has me hoping around from place to place to do something almost every night. I really should slow down as the flowers are starting to bloom, tree's are getting their full color in and take the time to smell the roses (mind you better watch out for the bee's).

I've been to a few sheepdog trails so far this year and have done very well. Unfortunately, this last weekend was the last one I'm going to go to till November. Speaking of falling in a bucket of shit and smelling like a rose, I was paid on Saturday to train/work my dogs for a Scottish Highland Festival. For the Scottish Games, they called me up and said they would pay me $200 to put on at least 3 15-20 minute demonstration throughout the day. In all honesty, I had a blast watching some of the events and the best part was the kids. They would sit on the side of the arena while I was doing my demonstration and root for the sheep to get away. Just lovely. I also got to hear some old folk music and see some dancing. It was quite enjoyable.

I'll try to stay in touch. Ya'll be good, especially you Milly who should be bad *ahem*.

Almost every fun site, pictures, humor, online auctions and blogs have been completely blocked at work. So I will not be able to get on here as much till I can get internet where I live.
Aparently while I have been away for the last 4 days from work other co-workers have apparently pissed enough higher ups off with veging at their computer instead of working.
Fucking dumbasses!!!!
So I'm screwed for a while and will try to get back on here when I can.

Just a little update.

On the first day, God created the dog and said:

'Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or
walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years.'

The dog said: 'That's a long time to be barking. How about only ten years
and I'll give you back the other ten?'

So God agreed.

On the second day, God created the monkey and said:

'Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I'll give you a
twenty-year life span.'

The monkey said: 'Monkey tricks for twenty years? That's a pretty long time
to perform. How about I give you back ten like the Dog did?'

And God agreed.

On the third day, God created the cow and said:

'You must go into the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under
the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer's family. For this, I
will give you a life span of sixty years.'

The cow said: 'That's kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty
years. How about twenty and I'll give back the other forty?'

And God agreed again.

On the fourth day, God created man and said:

'Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I'll give you twenty
years.'

But man said: 'Only twenty years? Could you possibly give me my twenty, the
forty the cow gave back, the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog
gave back; that makes eighty, okay?'

'Okay,' said God, 'You asked for it.'

So that is why for our first twenty years we eat, sleep, play and enjoy
ourselves.. For the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family.
For the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren. And
for the last ten years we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.

Life has now been explained to you.

There is no need to thank me for this valuable in formation. I'm doing it as
a public service.

To start things off, since I'm moving off the farm I decided to sell all my sheep. Wasn't real happy about, but I had too, and boy did I take a beating. First, I had to borrow a truck and trailer, since A) I don't own one and my truck that I do have is to small and would never pull a trailer. When my neighbor dropped the truck off, he told me it had a slow leak in the one of the tires. No problem, I'll air it up and it'll get me to the sale barn with little fuss. Oh no, it had a slight gash in the sidewall of the tire making it useless. So I had to hobble along to the local tire place and get a used tire. Really no big deal, cost me $26 and I'm on my way. The sheep where a little difficult to load given that this is a cattle trailer and sits up a little higher than most, so some of the ewes did not find it so easy to get up in this thing. Not to mention it was jammed packed. So after a couple of hours trying to get them loaded they are good to go and I'm heading off to town.

Things are going good and then my GF calls and is worried about me and wants me to find someone to go along with me. So I call her dad and he has no problem going along with me. He's never been to a livestock sale, so this was a learning experience for him as well. So about 50 miles into my 90 mile journey, I lose the tread off the other tire while I'm in traffic on the freeway. Keep in mind I just lost the tread and the tire is still aired up . So I take the next off ramp from the freeway and call my dad to find me a tire shop near by. Keep in mind I'm the city, with a trailer load of sheep, riding around on a very bad tire. I pull into the closest tire place and try to buy a new tire.

(them) Sure we'll sell you a new tire, just bring in the old tire.
(me) It's on the trailer.
(them) stunned look, is the trailer loaded?
(me) did you not just hear what I told you?
(Them) uhm, I don't know if we can take the tire off, the sheep might wiggle around to much, could be a safety hazzard. Let me talk to the manager.
(me) fine!
(them..,. 15 minutes later) we can't do it, to much risk.
(me) fucking pussy's, nobody wants to work anymore unless it's easy, (... leaves)

(me to GF's Dad) Alright, where hobbling down to Louisburg that's fifteen miles away. It's a small town so they'll have a tire shop that's willing to work. So I'm cruising down the road, slowly, and finally I get to Louisburg. Pull into the shop and had no problem, old guy at the counter said the same thing happen to him last week, no problem to change it but all we have is new tires. Shit, ok, how much... $150 installed.

One hour later, we are back on the road and it's around 2:30 in the afternoon. I've been on the go since 6 that morning and I wanted a beer and burger. So we pull into a little pub on the outskirts of Louisburg and have a pint and burger. No big deal, we are on our way after a much need beer. About 45 minutes later we arrive at the sale barn, get unloaded, sort lambs and ewes and an hour later we are finally headed home at 5:30.

As we are driving home, we start hearing a noise coming from the engine compartment. I'm going fuck me running... watch it T, I'm gonna get 5 miles from my house and the truck is going to explode on me.

As I'm about ready to drop T off at his truck, we check the engine and it just looks like a fan blade is rubbing a little so we bend it in and I'm back on the road.

Sure as FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I get 20 miles from my house and the fan spins off into the radiator, I loose the main belt to the truck and I'm sitting dead.

I get on the phone and start making calls. Finally after 30 minutes I can find someone who can pull me into town and drop the truck off at a mechanic and I can catch a ride home.

I finally get home about 8:30 Friday night and on Saturday I go talk to my neighbor again and he says he'll take care of the truck. It turns out it won't cost that much to fix and I've got enough money in this thing that he's not worried about it.

Thank God!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyways, to make matters worse, I didn't get what I needed for my sheep so I have to add a considerable amount of money to the loan to pay them all off.

That's life for ya.