The weekend is here, hoorah. I got the phone call I have been waiting for yesterday, saying that my vehicle is ready. Unfortunately, I found that there was a minor part of the repair associated with the mirror that wasn’t completed. The mirror on the passenger side is not level and I noticed it right away when I got in but figured it was my eyes. The more I drove the more I said turn around and get it checked. They did a nice job and outside of the mirror being slightly off you would have no idea that anything ever happened. I went back and called them out on it in a polite way. I have to bring it back next week and they can take care of it in about a ½ hour. When I got home and looked over the paperwork, I found that they put on my new tires but forgot to do an alignment so I will have to mention that when I go back. I will also probably will have to pay for it, but there is no point in putting on new rubber if you’re not going to do an alignment. It rides okay but I would rather be safe than sorry. I am not happy about going back but I would rather get these issues addressed than leave them. Auto body people are part magician or so it appears to me. I like this place and they do really great work, my insurance company likes them as well, but I would just as soon not have an accident in the first place. Once I got home, I opted to relax and watch TV, wound up taking a nap with Ms. Gator. Then just like last weekend I got dressed and grabbed the mail. Stopped in for a burger at Denny’s and the hot guy that waited on me last week was working and sat me, but I had a different person serve me. I kept my eye out for the guy that I like and boy that booty is a perfect bubble. In case you didn’t know I am an ass man, there are other things that are important to me but the physical feature that I look for most is the booty. I really wanted to say something to him but again I have no idea that he is gay. Plus, he is probably way younger than me and I don’t know even if he is gay that he would be interested in me. I know that I would like to know more about him and get to know him, not to mention jumping in bed. I feel alive when I find a guy that I like but taking the chance and reaching out to ask is where my nerves get their workout. It’s a bunch of emotions wrapped up and it can only go two ways. I am used to the rejection way and that is devastating but someone once told me, your already at no so ask you don’t have anything to lose. I will probably be back again but getting up the nerve to ask him out probably won’t happen unless I really psych myself up for it. If I do decide to move forward the first question, I will ask is his age just so that I am positive I am getting someone that is of legal age. Looks can only tell you so much and I think he is probably in his late 20’s or early 30’s but better safe than sorry. On the work front I am dealing with so many emotions. We got some not so good news about one of our offices that is making changes to their card access system. It’s a matter of making a programming change that would fix this but like anything else in this world it costs a lot of money and apparently, we don’t want to spend the price despite the fact that we pushed them to come up with a solution. This means that we have to make some changes on our end. Everyone involved knows the solution and it’s pretty simple. However, my boss wants to make this extra complicated because he came up with complex solution. I know that is what he is going to pitch to management and they will go for it. I pleaded with him to go with the simple solution and he told me that we don’t get to make big decisions, as if to defend his oh so great crappy solution. I clapped back with yeah but you’re the pitch man and you’re selling the solution so for my sake please really sell the simple solution. Both solutions accomplish the same thing, they solve the problem but his idea will involve way more work for me. I already know that he is not going to sell the easy option but at least I asked.
Monday will be the last day I get with my co-worker who just became a father. He is going to finish up his parental leave and will be gone for 2 months. There will be new people starting and there are always people that elect to leave or are asked to leave, I wear many hats and also deal with setup and tear down of accounts. On top of all of this were changing antivirus providers. I’ll let you guess who came up with that big idea. Exactly the guy who said we don’t get to make big decisions. He is making the project extra complicated, by micro-managing.
The summation is that we’re going to be short staffed and a bunch of work is headed in on various different fronts. I was already nervous enough about my co-worker leaving then throw in that building thing and I am not a happy person. I have no doubt that I will succeed but who doesn’t want to hit the easy button when they can? I understand that I have a job to do but at the same time if we can ease up on creating work since were going to be short staffed why not. Common sense and logic fail to exist in the working world or so it seems to me. I know this too shall pass and another doosy of a problem will take its place in no time at all.
I am so upset and stressed out by what I feel is impending doom that I am making silly little mistakes. Friday night I deleted the latest episode of Young Sheldon from my DVR when I actually wanted to watch it. In order to view it I had to install the CBS app on my Roku and because of my strict DNS filtering & ad blocking I had to use the hotspot on my phone to get the episode to play. Trackers are in most everything on the internet and at least for me it wasn’t terribly obvious until I started blocking them. Usually when I have a problem getting some place or watching a show it’s all traced back to DNS Filtering. Oddly enough the latest issue of Young Sheldon, he got a computer virus and lost everything. That brings me to talk about data back up and the people that back up data are the people who have been bitten at least once by data loss. It’s a horrible feeling and really no matter what you do when the data is gone unless you have a good backup regardless of how important it was it’s gone forever and there is no getting it back. That’s why I have photos backed up in multiple places in the cloud, I don’t rely on just one service. I could probably insert an ad here for a data backup provider. If your fortunate enough to have not been bitten by data loss, I hope you can learn from others (including mine) misfortune.
I was supposed to have my second dose of the COVID vaccine Saturday but I pushed it to Thursday. In a few days I will try to push it to Saturday so that I can be done with it. I am not looking forward to it and would really like to not get the second shot. Who wants to sign up for a sore arm plus all of the possible side effects? However, it does beat getting the virus in the first place. If you have been reading my posts you already know that I don’t have good luck and I am not a fan of needles. Chances are that if I would get it that I wouldn’t survive. At any rate I am scheduling it on a Saturday so that I can clear my schedule and have an entire day to feel crummy if that should happen. If it does and I bounce back on Monday, great, if not then I’ll take Monday off, it’s not like I don’t have the time. Ideally, I’d just as soon not involve work so that I don’t have to disclose that I am vaccinated. Since they aren’t mandating that everyone be vaccinated, I don’t feel that they are entitled to what is my personal health information. Plus, I already know that I am home for the rest of this year and possibly part of next based on the way my doctor is talking today. The whole COVID thing is very fluid so anything could change but I don’t have high hopes for that because at the end of the day, you can’t fix stupid.
I had something interesting happen to me yesterday, I was driving to get the mail and I spotted two large birds that were circling the road ahead and they opted to land in the middle of it. Turns out it was two Canadian Geese. I had plenty of time to stop but they landed as if they were entitled to the right of way and brought traffic to a halt. People behind me were honking and didn’t understand but after mother goose got out of the way I think they figured it out. I kind of ½ way wanted to get out but I knew that they attack so it was far better to sit patiently until they moved. The oncoming UPS truck honked at them and it did no good at all, he started to go around them and that was super dangerous. If memory serves, they are protected by US Federal Law so you can’t harm them but then again there are people that hunt them. Tomato – Potato. While I wanted to run the damn thing over, I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if I did. Good thing I am not a hunter, well other than a manhunter. Get it man hunter!
On that happy note I guess it’s time to tie a bow in this and wrap it up. Hope your doing well, keeping your sanity and staying safe. We forge on to the next week ahead, perhaps kicking & screaming but forging forward nevertheless. Talk with you all again soon.
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