No doubt that you have seen the events that transpired on Wednesday in Washington DC. It was something that I have never seen before and nothing that I ever thought would occur in my lifetime. At the time of writing this it’s Thursday evening. There are calls for the 25th Amendment and/or Impeachment. Growing up I heard that you should never talk about 3 things … politics, sex and religion. I never understood about politics that is until President Trump was elected. My opinion is that he has proven to be less than Presidential and that he should be removed and replaced as quickly as possible. Leaving him in power to finish out his term is too great of a risk to take, since he is unstable who knows what else might happen. What I think will happen is that he will be allowed to remain in office and finish out his term. I think after his term is finished or come the time, he is no longer in power that he will flee the country and go into hiding to avoid the massive criminal cases that are no doubt being built against him. While I don’t think he is the antichrist I think that he is close to it and for sure evil.
Today I had the strangest incident occur in my career. We had a person report that their computer was hacked and then become verbally belligerent and refuse to cooperate with anyone who reached out to try to help. Taking it a step further the person would just spout off and then hang up. We had no clue as to what truly happened and started digging into it. Long story short turns out there was no hack but rather human error. Rather than admit that a mistake was made the person stuck behind their original story even when we had irrefutable proof of what had occurred to the contrary. The thought that entered my mind is, wow this person must be a Trump supporter. Cry and claim your being attacked but have no proof and whatever is shown to you to refute your claim, you respond by calling it fake news. This person I determined to be bat shit crazy did the stupidest thing ever and got all of upper management involved and said that we were not trying to help. Unless there was some medical condition at play, I think this person will at a maximum be fired and at a minimum be talked to. This was the most screwed up thing I have seen and I have seen a lot. We spent hours on this and if we had cooperation and less drama it would have been a 15-minute phone call and we would have been done.
In other news I bought a battery charger, not that I needed one because I had one already. I bought it because it was more modern and simplistic to use. When you hook it up you get a voltage reading of the battery. Then if you elect to charge you get progress readings as to the percentage of the charging cycle. There isn’t an estimate of completion but for $35 I think it was money well spent. I easily was able to confirm that my battery is toast and needs to be replaced. I scheduled service which was mildly difficult but they will be here next week to pickup the vehicle and take it in. While it’s there I told them to change the oil even though I am at 30% might as well save a step. The best part is that the battery and/or anything else that is wrong will be covered by the factory warranty. I’ve got 5 thousand miles left or until 09-11 before the warranty expires. While my vehicle is in great shape, I am eager to buy a new one. I don’t know why but a couple years after I lost my spouse, I got a mad case of new car fever and it calms down and flares up. No kidding but 6 months after I bought what I own I was ready to trade. I have never been a vehicle guy but things and people change. What I drive now is a luxury vehicle and ever since I got a taste of amenities that I never had before, I don’t want to give them up but instead want more. I do realize that drives the price up and like my late grandmother said the more bells and whistles you have the likelier you are to see those bells and whistles break. I take care of most of the things I own because they are special to me and I want them to last. Although admittedly I am in a bit over my head when it comes to my home, all the more reason why I want to sell and move to something smaller and more my style. Perhaps that will happen but I don’t have high hopes or plans of that right now.
My little furry friend has been extra bossy and crabby this week. I have been watching her face and it looks like one side is slightly inflamed. I took a peek at it last night and she permitted that. Honestly, I was scared of what I was going to find but it appears that she has some swelling and redness around the gum of one of her fangs. It doesn’t seem to bother her but since her sister had oral cancer that is what is foremost in my mind. I know that she is old and dying, but I want to maximize the amount of time that I have with her. Her appetite has also picked up even more than it was already, I hope that it slows down a bit. I don’t want her to stop eating just slow down a little bit. If she should lose her appetite it will be difficult to get her going again, just based on family history. I’ve been successful with her departed family members most but not all of which at some point stopped eating. I worry a lot about her but the fact remains that I can only control so much and that at some point she will die. I know that each day brings us closer to that point in time but at the same time I hope that she is like the Energizer Bunny and she keeps on going for a couple more years. The really difficult part for her will be when life goes back to normal and I have to return to the office. She is so clingy and demanding to be by my side that I fear she will go into depression and that might be the beginning of the end. I would like to quit my job but my creditors wouldn’t be too happy with me and I wouldn’t be able to survive long term so I have to work until that winning lottery ticket comes my way.
Next week will be a short one for me, 3 days to work and then 5 days off. Two of those days are vacation, two are weekend days and One of them is a holiday. Not a bad deal 2 for the price of 5. I for sure won’t want to go back to work after having a long stretch off. My co-worker who is about to be a new father found out that we offer 12 weeks of paid leave. You don’t have to use any vacation days but you do fall under FMLA so that if you exhaust the 12 weeks and still have to take time, you will need to find a new job. With FMLA you can piece meal it, you don’t have to take all 12 weeks in a row. However, as part of the benefit that is offered for parental leave you have to take the last 6 weeks in a row or you forfeit them. It is going to be rough when he is out. We talk every work day for at least an hour if not more. We have what I consider to be a friendship and he is my primary outlet right now during lock down. Not having that interaction on a daily basis will be difficult to adjust to and I know that I will be calling him just to check in, if only for 5 or 10 minutes.
I don’t know about you but thus far what I have seen of 2021 I am ready to ask for my money back and move on to 2022. That is honestly when I think the largest part of the pandemic will be truly behind us and when all 12 months of the year will be back to business as usual or more normal. I think that this year still holds some joy but there will be an awful amount of pain until the pandemic is under better control. I saw a meme on social media that said we should let Amazon deliver the vaccine. If you’re a Prime Member you get 2 days service and if you’re not then you have to wait 2 days longer but in the course of a month, we could have a good percentage of the population immunized. While that is humorous there often is a lot of truth in humor.
We made it to the weekend. Friday night into the early part of Saturday I woke up and couldn’t go back to sleep for a few hours. Then a couple hours after I got back to sleep the cat woke me up because she was hungry. I had little energy on Saturday to get moving as I had wanted to, so I slept a good portion of the day and by the afternoon I was in full gear but I didn’t set out to accomplish what I wanted, just covered the basics of getting the mail and cat food. I had to scrounge for food from the freezer but I didn’t starve. I really wanted to go out and then I found that White Castle has a sloppy joe slider. Wow I have been so hungry for sloppy joe’s it is almost worth going to grab some but as per usual I talked myself out of it. I spent the evening watching YouTube videos. I came across Mark Rober the guy who designed the ultimate glitter bomb to combat package theft. I watched that. Then found a video on his page where he surprised a 12-year-old boy who had a rare form of brain cancer with an epic 13th birthday party after his cancer treatment was done. That’s when I experienced a new emotion where I cried and laughed at the same time. I challenge you to watch the video (which I will post at the end of my ramblings) without expressing some form of emotion. I’m not saying your going to cry but you for sure have to smile or chuckle at the least. It was the best thing I saw in quite some time.
Sunday, I got up had breakfast and started watching TV. That was a huge mistake because the sugar wore off and I went back to bed. The cat and I had an epic cuddle & nap session where she just relaxed and stayed next to me until I actually woke up, which is rare. Normally she gets me to sleep and then abandons me. It was great but the day was getting away from me. I grabbed of all things a candy bar and a Mt. Dew and powered through getting dressed, reviewing what was on my phone and then shoving off to the grocery store. I was able to get some decent food and saw some eye candy to boot. It's still way too cold outside and while I wanted to visit a few other places I opted to go home. Since I know my vehicles battery is on its last legs I don’t want to get stranded somewhere. Plus, I will have ample time later this week to hit up those places as long as I still have the energy. I am working on getting my clothes through the dryer. Then I will wrangle with the trash and hope to cut my hair, shower and shave. Nothing terribly physically exhausting. I still have to do my work report and we have some people changing titles tomorrow so I have to process those changes today. Then it will be back to waiting on the cat and keeping her company until it’s time to finally see some good TV. Nancy Pelosi is doing an interview on 60 minutes. The Circus is back on Showtime, Shameless is on and the next episode of Your Honor is on. All of which will be far too much to consume in one night but it will give me some good entertainment for a couple days.
Here's hoping that this week is better than last and that I can actually accomplish all of the things that I have put off for way too long with my time off. Cheers!
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