httpv://youtu.be/j_csBXWlUA4

The above video shows an amazing thing, the buffalo can obey traffic laws and stay to the right when stampeding on public highways. Some think the buffalo are fleeing the park prior to a volcanic eruption that they can sense somehow. It is also reported that ½ of the elk herd are missing.

If this volcano does erupt, I have seen models that predict that we will be royally screwed here in NM. Those models also show that the rest of the country may also be screwed, but not as bad as western states.

And the libs were worried about global warming.

. . . with winds only gusting to 65 m.p.h. We’re looking at Friday as the earliest possible windless or low wind day.

• today is BK day with Erin
• tomorrow we say goodbye to Erin again
• dinner with Joe and Virginia was nice
• Steven was there too

Nothing else right now. Peace.

Shaping up to be a nice day. I meet Catherine, Sandra, and Doug for breakfast in 1½ hours at the Spic. Dinner is with Joe and Virginia at Dick’s Liquors. Both places have been accused of having insulting names. My kind of places.

How I Met Your Mother

You know, the TV series that had the finale last night.  I did not enjoy it. It was a let down in many ways. The only highlight was the last scene where we were left with the implication that Ted and Robin will end up together. Oh well, it’s only TV.

The show, along with my day, was fraught with interruptions. Calls from the store about people wanting to cash check and general stupidities. I swear I will replace my store sign with a “WE DON’T CASH CHECKS HERE, STUPID”, or I would if I hadn’t already ordered my new sign.

Other Shit

Erin was placed on the payroll yesterday. Well, not officially, but she thinks so. At breakfast on Mondays, she pays the bill and I let her keep the coins that she gets back in change. Yesterday she asked if she could keep the bills too. I said OK. The bill was $26.17 and I gave her $27.00 to pay with. She returned miffed. Since she was going to Wally-World with Nina, I told her that if Nina told me that Erin was a big help, I would pay her. She was placated.

Around dinner time I was reminded of my promise. After checking with Nina, I was informed that she was a big help and deserved to be paid for her help. I gave her $5 and you’d have thought I gave her $500. She ran and put the money in her piggy bank. Nice to see she is developing a work ethic.

GM & Keychains?

I was watching the news this morning and saw the GM problem with cars that would shut off unexpectedly. The one thing I got from this is the fact that an overloaded keychain could shut the car down. This causes me to think of many of the keychains I’ve seen that are owned by some women (Tori) that contain about 10 pounds of decorative shit suspended from the ignition switch. You KNOW that can’t be good for any switch but GM is taking all the heat from this. Sure they may have done better, but when you buy a car that costs peanuts, you don’t get  quality. Could it be that the drivers are partially to blame for the accidents? Maybe, but we’re not seeing the complete picture. Just my opinion.

Other Job?

My other job may disappear soon. Many may ask “other job?” but it’s something that I don’t really advertise much. My boss there was given 2 weeks notice and today marks day 14. I was basically a customer service rep for a website since 1994. The site, which will remain nameless, is most likely going away to be turned into a clone of the parent companies other sites. I did not get this name, but I was around to help the owner with code checking in the early days. Oh well, all good things shall end.

Peace

Dear Abby,
My husband has a long record of money problems. He runs up huge credit card bills and at the end of the month, if I try to pay them off, he shouts at me, saying I am stealing his money. He says pay the minimum and let our kids worry about the rest, but already we can hardly keep up with the interest. Also he has been so arrogant and abusive toward our neighbors that most of them no longer speak to us. The few that do are an odd bunch to whom he has been giving a lot of expensive gifts, running up our bills even more. Also, he has gotten religious. One week he hangs out with Catholics and the next with people who say the Pope is the Anti-Christ, and the next he’s on his knees 7 times a day with Muslims. Finally, the last straw. He’s demanding that before anyone can be in the same room with him, they must sign a loyalty oath. It’s just so horribly creepy!
Can you help?

Signed,
Lost

Wow, the month’s are just sliding by. Tomorrow we start with our expanded hours, closing at 9:00. We are starting to get more calls after closing asking if we are still open. Even after tomorrow’s additional hours, we will continue to have calls after hours asking the same question. 9:00 will remain in effect until sometime in mid fall. By then we will be loving the extra hour of quiet.

We had brutal winds yesterday. The early morning hours were nice, but that quickly passed. 50 mile gusts that seemed more sustained than gust-like. Dennis was out on his bike yesterday and he said I should be glad I didn’t go out.

More wind is expected throughout the week. The weatherliars all talk about “this storm” or “that storm” coming through and all we get from these storms is the freaking wind. The storms pass to the north of us, the winds seem to target us.

Relax . . . we’re all crazy . . . it’s not a competition!

Yep, she’s home.

No riding today, way too windy.

Breakfast at Harry’s Roadhouse. Specials are strange and different every week and mostly pretty good.

Yesterday, I went to a birthday party for Joe’s mother. Family only & I’m family. It’s nice to be loved. Gloria’s (the mom) sister pulled a steak knife on me a few times, but I won her over by the time I left. One of Joe’s cousins gave me a fairly thorough interrogation, wanting to know who I was, why I was at a family only event, and she wondered why she wasn’t allowed to bring a friend. Hey Joe, you got an interesting family there! I had fun though.

Once again I am tired of the wind. I’m done with it.