Wow it’s Monday again already. Marv woke me up a couple minutes early and like normal I just wanted to go back to sleep. He took a break with sleeping with me for a day or two and now things are back to normal. He didn’t move out of bed yesterday until I fired up the vacuum cleaner. I was in the basement but that sound much like a plastic bag has the same effect on him. He runs and hides. Everyone else runs when they hear the motor but plastic bags, nah they don’t get scared at all. Friday night I was on the phone and Marv wanted to see what was behind the door ( I still think he is looking for his other father). I opened the door and he wanted to go in the garage, I yelled at him not to and he just looked around and then walked away. The garage is a bad place for a cat, mischief is just lurking out there. Everyone is still doing okay, which is very good!
Today were supposed to get a free lunch but given what happened last time I brought my lunch. This is for the whole office so the odds of things going south are slim but still there is a slight risk there. It’s to celebrate the home opening of baseball – yippee. We could wear jeans today but I opted not to. I dressed normal like it was a typical Monday, if I wear jeans I might think it’s Friday and then get super depressed when I realize it’s Monday and I have to come back tomorrow. Fried Chicken is on the menu for lunch. I’ve still got some of that in my fridge and I am throwing it out tonight. I hope the animals don’t sniff it out and get into the trash. I will be extra careful but still that doesn’t always work. I am having left over Maggiano’s for supper tonight and of course it is Lasagna. I wish I had some garlic bread to go with it but I will take what I have. Back to a regular menu tomorrow, yuck.
I started watching a movie on Netflix last night called Hotline. It’s about all of the various different hotlines in the world everything from suicide, gay help, sex to prayer. Kind of interesting, I never really stopped to think of how many hotlines there are available. There was a unique suicide hotline that just listened to people. They didn’t use any type of technology, they didn’t call the police or try to trace the call. Wow I hope they have a high success rate. Most people that call are in crisis and they need some help. I couldn’t work there knowing that it was still possible that I lost someone because it was policy not to call the police. Granted most people just need someone to talk to and that solves the biggest part of the problem. Still there are some people who will actually do it. I mean I have thought about it and gone so far as to develop plans. I won’t admit to that publically because it raises flags and would get me unwanted attention. I still have times when I’d like to give up but thinking about the progress that I have made and what I have to live for, which is mainly the cats is what keeps me going. I’ve said it many times but if it wasn’t for the cats I wouldn’t be here. The pain of moving forward without the one you love by your side and in your life is so very real and all encompassing, that life it’s self looses meaning. Why go on? Simple because I know that is what he wants me to do and because I would be depriving myself of so many opportunities.
Last night I cleaned up the DVR and got rid of a bunch of shows that I had planned to watch but in reality know that I won’t watch. I didn’t see any point in taking up space. I will admit that the two features I miss of my TiVo are 1. The ability to have a 30 second skip to easily fast forward through commercials and 2. The ability to transfer recordings to my PC so that I can keep them forever by either storing on a hard drive or burning to disc. Uverse does have a skip feature for commercials but it isn’t nearly as easy as the TiVo function. Plus I used TiVo forever so the remote was in my memory, I didn’t need a light to see what I was pressing I knew by heart. The Uverse remote even though I have had it for 4 months going on 5 I still don’t have it memorized and need that light. Outside of that I am very pleased. The content on Here TV seems to be dwindling and I am starting to rethink paying $7 a month as I don’t feel like I am getting my monies worth. I do get to see something now and then that I like but for the most part it’s filled with crap. Vampires, Witches and things that go bump in the night – gay or straight not my cup of tea. Then again I have the 450 package meaning that I have over 450 channels to watch and often there isn’t a damn thing on that interest me. So glad I have Netflix and Amazon to help out. There are those times when no matter where I search there is nothing that is of interest to me. That’s usually when I give up and either browse my phone or call it a night. One would think with over 450 choices that something would appeal to me but I can be very picky at times.
I made a switch over the weekend. I moved the UPS from my partners former computer room to my bedroom to power everything in there. Then I took the one I had and hooked it up to the sump pump in the basement. I think that is smart thinking so that there is a battery backup in the event of a power failure the sump pump could run, even if only for a short time it may be the difference between a flood and no flood. It hasn’t happened in the 15 plus years I have lived there but who’s to say that it will stay that way. Better safe than sorry. Plus I have a larger battery now in my room, so my stuff will run longer. There was no sense in letting something good go to waste since it wasn’t being used. I was supposed to clean up his office this weekend but that task fell by the wayside. The crap isn’t going anywhere so it will be there waiting for me when ever I am ready or get around to it.
Here’s hoping for a calm and fast moving, traffic free week. I realize I am asking for a lot but hey why not shoot for the sky! Now off to hum drum work. I am working on a short list of people that need to have their monitors swapped and getting responses from everyone to schedule is like pulling teeth. The monitors aren’t due back until June but I am under pressure to complete the task quickly. Makes no sense to me but whatever. I will just be glad when it’s over, then I can return to hum drum. Oh yeah we no longer have to send daily reports about what we did in our non phone time. That is kind of cool so if I wanted to I could go back to goofing off – yes freedom! I was kind of addicted to the report but I am super happy that I no longer have to think of my every move and remember it to put in a report.
Happy week – talk with you peeps later!
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