TAZ goes to the vet

The title reminds me of a book I was given as a child, called something like George goes to the hospital.  I had to have my tonsils removed.  It was all fun and games until the day of the surgery, then pain!

I digress, so I was commended for doing an excellent job of debriding the wound.  It not only saved me money but the vet was really impressed.  I’m just happy the patient complied.  We sat for 15 minutes in the waiting area and then probably another 5 in the exam room.  Finally the vet popped in, she gave him a quick look over, all of two minutes.  There goes $60.  He needed a long acting antibiotic.  The choice was mine either an injection or pills.  I chose the injection because I know it will do the trick and no worries of him spitting the pill back up.  If he isn’t showing signs of improvement within 7 days then we need to go back for another shot.  Otherwise, he should be all good. 

Like all of our other cats his coat flakes.  Turns out he has extremely dry skin.  We have to start putting fish oil on his food to help his coat.  I guess we will be doing that for everyone.  Hopefully it helps. 

I got out of that place for just pennies under $100.  The good news is AT&T screwed up and sent my partner a rebate of $50 that he wasn’t entitled to.  It’s my money because I paid for his phones.  So I used that and then paid the rest on my own.  So reality wise it was like $42 which isn’t too bad.

As we were leaving a couple came out with a cat all wrapped in a blanket.  The cat was upside down, the lady was holding it and crying.  The cat had major damage to his face.  I can only imagine what the rest of his body looked like.  The guy had to take the cat from the lady and he started to tear up.  Then he said sorry I didn’t get to know you very well.  Oh Jesus, it’s time to get the hell out of dodge.  I felt so bad for them.  I wanted to help them and my inner voice told me to get involved.  It took every fiber of my being to pull myself away.  I kept telling myself Dude you don’t have the money and you can’t save the world.  You have 9 mouths to feed …don’t do it.  So we left.  I still felt bad.  It’s an emotional thing to see and I really don’t want to go through it myself or see anyone else go through it.

On the way home from work, minding my own business (this sounds bad doesn’t it) and the car in front of me decided to change lanes.  They did and then I heard this pop.  I looked at my windshield and it look like there was a bug on it.  It took me a little bit to realize that was no bug, that was a crack in my windshield.  It’s just a star but it was enough to make me mad.  I am so protective of my possessions, especially my car.  Then for something like this to happen.  I told myself well if you wouldn’t have driven to work then you wouldn’t have been here and this would have never happened.  That of course won’t fix the damage.  So tonight I will be headed to the auto parts store to pick up a kit to fix it.  That will be my little weekend project.  I did my research on-line last night.  The key is fix it and as quickly as possible.  You will need direct sunlight to help the compound/resin cure.  If you don’t have sunlight then you can use an Ultra Violet light, but I’d just as soon spend as little on this as I can. Crap first a tire problem, now a windshield problem.  I don’t need anything else.  Especially since I will be traveling on Friday.

My evening wasn’t totally taken from me but a good portion was.  I still had time to open my mail and I saw a check for a whopping $3.93 from a class action law suit.  It’s money I didn’t have before but with so low of a settlement why bother to even ink a check?  I thought okay I will try using my scanner and doing an electronic deposit.  I can also take a photo of the check from my iPhone and send that to the bank.  Just like every time before I tried and they can’t read the check.  Really?  It looks plain as day to me.  I made sure everything on the front was showing and of course that is the side they had problems with.  Fine, fine I will just go to the bank and deposit the check.  I don’t know why they advertise something that is supposed to make your life easier but it doesn’t work!  Sounds like Lewis Black’s bit on Cell Phone Carriers from his latest stand up routine “In God We Rust”. 

I took some me time and had a small dish of Carrot Cake Ice Cream.  The whole time I was eating it I kept thinking you are so fat.  I then had to decide to shave or wait a day.  Since I don’t like the white that has begun showing up, I decided to shave.  I ripped my poor face to shreds but at least there are no whiskers!  It will heal in a couple days, just as long as it doesn’t itch or burn we are good.

Speaking of itching, the other day when I was getting my hair cut I told the lady that my head itches like mad at times.  I attribute that to being short.  One of the many reasons why I use Paul Mitchell Tea Tree Shampoo.  I just love that stuff.  She said much to my surprise, you need a break.  Switch up your Shampoo.  Then she recommended a Matrix product, which they don’t even carry.  I’ve been playing around all week with Shampoo and today so far is the first day it doesn’t itch.  I didn’t get the Matrix product but I am seriously thinking about picking some up tonight, just to try it.  Me and hair care products that is one sure fire way to my wallet.  I’ve got very little self control as it is and then you put something like that in front of me.  Wow. 

See my grand mother and I shared the same hair color and she always took extra special care of her hair.  You didn’t dare screw with her hair.  Well I picked that up from her.  Now she only had her hair done once a week.  There was no shampooing daily.  It was just hair spray and more hair spray.  By the end of the week her head was itching so bad.  Since I switched to a shorter headed of hair many years ago, I gave up hair spray.  I just use things like Pomade and/or Gel.  It’s one or the other, not both together.  I guess that’s my girly side coming out.

On a work note, I got Facebook to give me one site yesterday.  Now I only have 7 more to go.  The site I was given I pulled off line right away and set the page to be deleted.  Since I sent everything to them yesterday morning I was kind of surprised that I didn’t get a flood of e-mail like the day before.  I don’t care just as long as they give me what I need so I can do my job.  I understand they are paranoid and have to make sure you are legit.  I gave them our website, which lists all of the places we own as well as their addresses.  I also provided a copy of my business card.  The problem is there are so many names in play, nothing connects you to the parent company which I am a part of.  Sort of like a shell game.  So I understand it looks like I am trying to defraud them or pull some wool over their eyes, but I am not.  It’s all totally legit.  I just hope they figure that part out soon.

Yesterday afternoon I was asked to go computer shopping.  I was given the specs on a machine and told to get a quote for it.  What they wanted was the equivalent of a BMW.  When I came back with the price they were sticker shocked.  They asked me how we could lower the price.  So I got them more of a compact Chevy model.  They liked the price but I still have the feeling it was a bit over priced.  I am waiting to hear if they want me to place an order.

It is no secret that we go through machines like candy here.  With every machine comes a copy of MS Office.  Yesterday I noticed we were running low, so I asked about ordering more and was given a green light.  I spent just under $10 thousand dollars on Office.  Kind of silly when you could get a license agreement and pay way less, but they don’t want to go that route.  There would be some sticker shock but in the end it would be better off for the company.  I guess all things in time.

Here we are another boring Wednesday morning.  I’m sure some work will come my way.  I haven’t broken the news about traveling on Friday, I a saving that for tomorrow.  Plus it sounds like I may be back on the road for a week.  We had a place switch internet providers because it was cheaper and they need help with getting hooked up.  They just asked me when I would be down. So I am working with them to see what we can work out.  I have plenty to do there so it wouldn’t be a boring week.  The question is would a week be enough?  I honestly don’t think so, perhaps a week and a few days then were talking. 

Well off to see what kind of trouble I can get into.  I will talk with you peeps later!