back form the day o’ doom!
Phew… I had barely a moment to myself today… Kevin and Dale were both out, so I was putting out fires all day long. I got everything done without having to stay late, however, so it’s good for me. It was nuts… like someone kicked over an ants-nest.. everyone runnning around, nattering and stressing. bah! feh! But it’s all over, now.
thirty-six minutes until hidden video… I hope it’s better than last week’s, all the others batted 1000. 🙂
Hmm… Kevin’s sister went into the hospital last night, and Dale’s on vacation… Looks like I’m in for a lot of work today. Paul just called me up and asked if I could come in any earlier… I told him that my bus leaves in 15 minutes, and I’ll be in by noon… he offered to come pick me up… I don’t really see what difference that 45 minutes will make, but it’s fine by me.
I hope that Kev’s sis is ok…She had some sort of procedure done last week, and they nicked some area near her colon. She’s stable, but it looks like she’s going to have to have a temp colostomy done… lasting for 2-3 months. I’m guessing that it had some sort of maintenance regarding her hysterectomy.
I’m guessing Paul’ll be here in 15 minutes… and then it’ll take 15 minutes to get back. (That is, unless he gets lost… somehow, I think it’d be funny if I got in *late* due to all these folk’s panic.)
It’s not like we send blood and organs out to needy patients… It’s Ramada, for goodness’ sake! Nobody’s going to die if things take place an hour later down the line.
Silly, easily stressed people.
New cuteness in the office… bailey the puppy… going to try and usurp Newt and Dexter for the adoring folks in accounting.
I’m going to go visit Danny again tomorrow while his wife is at church. Good deal all around…I’m going to have to rustle up a game to bring with me…usually we just chitty-chatty, but I figure he’d like a little strategic distraction, too… he’s getting a little punchy being stuck at the house for so long.
Playing cards, or maybe pocket chess. I wish I could find my brawl decks…it’s buried in one of the “unpack later” boxes.
I know! I think it’ll be a day for bitin’ off hedz , or orcs in the hood.
Looking forward to the visit, but not the location. Dan’s A/C is out. He’s got fans, but I’ll be getting out of the house just in time if I leave at about noonish. I should launch from here about 8am if I want to spend about three hours at his house.
I spent a little time working on the home page today… I think I have it sort of how I like it. A little more twisting and tweaking, and I’ll be happy, methinks. I have to hand draw more “signage” on my palm.
At some point, I’m going to have to dig up my ball cap, too… I’ve been getting a lot of sun lately, and don’t want to burn. I may have some of my sun block in the medicine cabinet, but I prefer not to use that stuff if a visor will do the trick…I don’t go in for the “war paint” look. (Well…not all the time, anyhow.) I’m a big wuss-boy about burns… I get SPF of at least 15, just in case.
got up early this morning to walkies, but I’m not quite up to it yet. made it to the gas station and back, but the beach was too much effort for me today, in the tail end of my sick-yuck.
I hope my sweetie’s feeling better… the poor girl’s had to deal with one pesky trouble after another and certainly deserves the weekend to relax and recuperate.
I really want a digicam. That wacky mp3 player one looks like a nice fun gizmo, and cheap too. a nice thing to take with me on outings… there wasn’t anything that called out to me today to take a snapshot of, but I’m sure taking pictures of the airport, or sunrise on the beach would be fun.
Payday. (Last one before the end of the month) That’s something to be happy about… my budgeting is working nicely, building a comfortable little nest egg. when I first started my LJ, I was in financial straits… paying the bills for three grownups as well as myself. Thankfully, they’ve all recovered from the income troubles they were having, and I no longer have to squeak by paycheck to paycheck. I know so many people now that are taking care of adult dependants… Kevin (my boss) with his sisters, nephews and brother in law seems to have it the worst. He’s 33 years old, and is tending to the needs of four adults and three children. I wonder how he manages to keep himself fed, clothed and as stress-free as he does. I know of other folks, even younger, tending to the needs of parents or siblings too… I suppose there’s one caregiver and at least one care-needer in every family. (Poor Kev just is taking up six other folks’ slack)
I found myself thinking of walking with my love, hand in hand…as I’m frequently wont to do…she travels with me in my heart everywhere. thought about swinging arms, and laughing… always makes me walk farther than if I were alone.
today is going *poorly*
running late.
in clumsy oaf mode, I’ve broken the door, because I lost my temper when the keypad didn’t work for the umpty-umpth time, and smacked (I only smack inanimate objects) it, putting a hand-shaped dent in the cheap, hollow plywood piece of crap they call a door.
I just went to kevin’s office, and told him to let me know how much a replacement cheap, hollow plywood piece of crap they call an excuse for a door will be.
Back from my errands.
Picked up some cleaning supplies for the bathroom, I ran out of tilex.
Got an area rug, and a futon for the living room… plus a indoor doormat to match the area rug.
minor groceries, just fluids & cereal, really
some trinkets of happiness for newt (plastic bags to play in, and milk rings) myself (the cereal toy… looks like a digital watch) and for my sweetheart(not tellin’..she’ll have to drag it out of me or romance it out. 😉
Thought a bit more on Jack & Liz’s story… I’d like to see if I can get the effect of changeling in there, minus the amnesia. Trying to write more as a semi-script for a film or movie, too, just to get the feel of it.
Pondering the coming days of gifties… my brother, Kevin, Newt, Moonflower, and Mom are all coming in the next few months. I was at K-mart today, and saw all sorts of kung-fu DVDs for cheap (like $5 per…) and I showed some restraint. but… I could get 5 or 10 of ’em for Kev, and that’d make him happy. He likes chop-socky kung-fu more than I do. Maybe that, and or a video game.. easily enough done.
Derek… I wonder if he’d prefer cash to a gift, as he’s going through tight times right now. I offer to give him cash now and then, but I think he feels guilty for taking it… He will if he’s starving but not a moment before. maybe money and a nicely written letter. I don’t know.. I could get him a sound card, too… he’s still using a mute system.
Newt, he’s not in the picture until the first week of October. I can’t believe he’s going to be 2! The simplest to shop for… Nip, toys, and lots and lots of love.
Such a steady flow of work, this is the first time today I’ve had a chance to poke my nose in more than a millimeter. It appears that I may be here rather late… all manner of stuff to chug through. I think that I’ll order my happy self a pizza to compensate. Going to have a lovely cheese pie, and some mountian dew, and perhaps comiserate the situation with Kev, who’s still here too.
Slushies for lunch! yumm. Not lots to report since last time. 🙂 Kev got his b’day present from me finally, and I look forward to using it once he’s through. The beauty of giving video games. I don’t understand why so many people are getting let go from work these days… and they all seem to be swell folk too… Hopefully it’ll free them all up to find better jobs. small consolation though. *hugs* to Tangerinegirl, Cider, and sanssoucci. (and to anyone else who may be job searching.)
a few things.
1. out to supper and maybe see the exorcist with Robby
2. spend some time with Suzy?
3. sleep with the weirdling gear on
4. bring poor Cathi a care package for her cold.
5. play with Newtie
6. wrap Kevin’s birthday present.
7. give Kev his present!
8. spend time with little bro
hey! apple jacks are now in pink and green! when did that happen? weren’t they originally all pink?
also. Newt likes apple jacks!
They don’t taste like apples, but we eat what we like!
but just goofing off. waiting for a file to finish pumping down the pipe, so I’m surfing now that I’ve finished my duties. I’m actually ahead now because I polished off everything in my inbox. (the beauty of working at night is that there’s no bothersome telephone, or marketing types breathing down my neck for stuff, which only slows me down.) I found my one of my Benny Goodman CD’s in my buddy Kevin’s computer, so I’m jamming to Big Bands, like some silly Hippy/1940’s guy hybrid. I miss newtie.. so I hope I’m not here much past 11. Must remember to reactivate the newtcam. I keep forgetting! If I had DSL, I could leave it on all the time.
woo. Or even Wu! (Doug, that is) harper #1 in my book, and all around swell guy apparently called danny up last night, giving out his new phone number… sadly, he either doesn’t have the line hooked up yet, or some other weirdness is causing conection trouble. but rest assured that we’ll hear from him soon.
I have no plans for saturday…what to do. maybe just have a rest? my forward week is looking busy, update ID, take car eof a few bills for Suzy while she’s in the pokey, birthday goodies for Derek & Kevin. I should spend some time with Danny and Ray this weekend, I really haven’t spoken to Ray since oh, maybe a month or so ago. Perhaps Saturday will be good for that.
reviews on the googly eyed scotto are mixed… I think I’ll save it for ‘surprised or hyper’ moods when I get my paid account.
Doing a contract job for food for the poor. I have mixed feelings about feeding people overseas when there are hungry folks in my city. Is it wrong to want things better locally first, and then spread out from there? Another tactic is to hit the hungriest first, and go to the less hungry, I suppose… but how does a person calulate that sort of stuff? “Well, 1000 people died here last week… only 800 in haiti died.” The economy of human life is a difficult one for me to calculate. Is it wrong to feed the hungry at all? Opposing nature? (Don’t look at me, I’m totally in favor of good works… and opposing nature. If I wasn’t all my friends with glasses would be much worse off, not to mention the my back, athsmatics, and other ‘defectives’)
Looks like September is here! Time to pay my rent again, and spend some dollars, yen and ducats on the huge pile of people I know that have September birfdaze. Some biggies I like to splurge on this month… *edited out gift info, as they might be reading this!* Rest assured that buddy Kevin (boss at work, good guy), little bro Derek (who turns 28 this year! yipe! He’s my baby brother, man!), Suzy my driver, Mojo the Finn, and Newt’s 11 month anniversary will all be getting nice prizes for being all such wunnerful dollies.
Now that I’m looking at my Calendar, I see that my Peace river trip is only a month away (10/6-10/9) canoeing, camping and just good times all in all. I’m in such a better mood today, it’s loopy. We’ll see how I feel, the closer to byebye time I get tonight. will I leave at a decent hour? or will I have to chug through another late nighter to get stuff accomplished for the long weekend! I’ll have monday off, hoo hoo hooray! (no hips, thanks.) Full weekend, Fred is coming down, so I can tell him about the stuff at work changing around, going to the norton museum, starting a new character in RPG-ville, a 1930’s game detective, supernatural, semi-powered. Everway on Sunday? Visting little bro on monday? Argh. I’ll need to do laundry in there sometime too. Maybe tomorrow morning, before the ball gets rolling. Heaven knows I don’t want to have 6 loads just sitting there for eternity, crying in the corner how I never wear them anymore.
Well, that was a ramble. Will Robby come with me to the norton? Will janedeau want me to unlink from her? who knows?
Production Concept: We Like Pie
Brief Summary: Four people on a road trip reflect on their travels, and review sampled pie along the way.
Extended Summary (selling points): Think ‘Road Rules’ in book format. Two girls and two guys driving around, going through the trials and triumphs of traveling from point to point, having a good time, but not without the dramatic point or two. Four distinctly different personalities, with a common goal, Pie. Included will be ‘biographies’ written about each of the journeymen, by each of them. (I.E. Scott writes bios for everyone, Kevin writes bios for everyone, etc.) Also, there’ll be commentary about the trip from center to center, and reviews of the pies sampled. Reviews will understandably vary from person to person. Each person will get two slices per visit, a ‘signature pie’ and a varied slice of choice. (I.E. Nicole will always get a slice of apple pie, and at least taste some sort of other pie.) Pictures of the travels are a must. Cover shot idea: Nicole and Heather in pink waitress outfits, pie in hand, over shoulder, Kevin and Scott squishing each other’s face with same. (Preemptive or after attack?) Possible spin-offs: We Like Soup, We Like Naps, and We Don’t Like Liver & Onions. Perhaps a ‘We Like Pie’ franchise, vending pies to those who would be cool like us…Planet Hollywood style, with paraphernalia from the original road trip.
Distribution Methods: Preferably by a standard publishing house, but guerrilla-style COD marketing if needed. J
Pies already sampled: Nicole: Apple with Vanilla, and Scott: Chocolate Sundae Pie, Served by Phyllis, at Denny’s, Pompano Beach, September 12, 1998. Nicole: Apple with Chocolate, IHOP at Pompano Beach, on October 7, 1998.
Scott’s take on the Gang: (as of 10/5/98)
Kevin: Well, I’ve known Kevin for quite a long time now. Since 1984, back in the good old days of high school, as it were. I made fun of his brother at a school function, and we’ve been fast friends ever since. We shared enough common interests to hang around and filmed silly home-movies that only the makers can appreciate, or even enjoy. Kevin is quite the throwback, behavior-wise, in the best of all possible meanings. A noble, honest, genuine, giving person, he doesn’t drink, smoke or consume any non-prescription drug, including aspirin, as far as I know. He’s somebody I’d gladly let marry my sister, if I had one. A science fiction fan, a connoisseur of vintage television (especially cartoons), and a scholar of historic warfare, especially World War Two. Tastes in music run from Frank Sinatra to Phil Collins, with a smattering of Julie Andrews in there for taste. He has a good sense of humor, (from my point of view, anyhow) in that he can make stunning observations on the world around him in the blink of an eye, from bodily functions to references to ancient episodes of Happy Days. He’s gentle to children and adults alike, and I’ve never known him to get angry without undue cause. He gives to charity, an unusual trait in someone his age, has a strong sense of right and wrong, and even better, acts on that sense. Not only mentally fit, he takes reasonable care of himself physically, and has spent a number of years studying the martial arts (as of this writing, he’s rapidly approaching his black belt.) He only gives advice if asked, and when he gives it, it’s usually the good stuff. If I had to pick a flaw in his character, I’d be hard pressed to find one, save that if someone can be generous to fault, he is. Super-hero personality closest to his is Superman. My final analysis: Kevin Albury is the perennial ‘Mr. Nice Guy’. He’s swell, and represents the Daddy of the group.
Nicole: Both of the girls came along in my travels much later, when I returned to work with Kevin for the second time. Nicole I’ve known about five months, and she’s a nice person. Among her strengths I’d say one of her greatest is that she has quite an element of Will Rogers to her personality, in that she can get along well with virtually everyone she meets, and is the most outgoing of the lot of us. She also has a definitely powerful sense of satire when it comes to watching how people work together. Not only does Nicole have a lovely demeanor; her visage is about as easy on the eyes as it gets around here. Nicknamed Scully by Kevin, (in honor of the X-files character, natch,) she’s quite well designed physically. Odd but cute traits include a ‘Zelda-blink’; (fans of Dobie Gillis will understand what I’m talking about), a quirky smile, and the first circumstance of an actual bubbly-sort of laugh. I honestly think it sounds like a giggle of soda pop rising up, very neat, and pretty infectious. Her company is always welcome, as a guy can talk about ‘boy-stuff’ in her presence. She possesses a strong common sense, even if it isn’t always acted on. (In other words, she one of the people I know who is otherwise intelligent but still smokes. Forget the common cold, I want a quick, easy cure for nicotine addiction.) Personally, I think that she and Kevin would make a cute couple, but she suffers from the “but we’re already such good friends, I don’t want to wreck it” syndrome. Regardless, I consider her a pal, and so does he. Super-Hero personality closest to hers is She-Hulk (sensational, not savage). My final analysis: Nicole Hanak is ?!?
Heather: The ‘little sister’ of the group, more to follow.