• So it appears. I head to Alb. to pick her up later this a.m.
• Mad credit card customers at our pumps last night.
• Fixed the problem this morning.
• Someone scratched their tag into he plexiglass on one of my pumps. Assholes.
• No cheap fix on that vandalism either. I have to replace a complete LCD unit to remove the tagging. Assholes.
• I need a vacation. Soon.
• Had to break off and cut a key for someone while writing this just now.
• The simplicity of the task and no one else seems to be capable of cutting a key for a customer.
• I shouldn’t be bothered by this ignorance, but I am.
• Happy birthday Marylou. 87? I’ll ask Nina when I pick her up, if she’s really returning to me that is.
• Check back often for the age info, but don’t hold your breath.

Each day I have to sit in my chair and look at her sitting across from me. It’s horrid burden I face daily.

I hate it when I miss a call by the last ring, but when I call back immediately it rings 9 times and then goes to voicemail. What did you do? Drop the phone and run away?

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. . . but how long can that last?

• Pilates today.
• The countdown has started.
• Erin fell asleep in my bed watching cartoons last night.
• She slept straight through till 7:00.
• The kid can sleep!
• We’re cuddling now watching Scoooby-Doo right now.
• Lowe’s this morning after Pilates. Gotta buy paint.
• Chicago style hotdogs for lunch?  Sure, why not.

“Here’s all you need to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid”  ~ George Carlin

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Yesterday.

• Breakfast with Dennis in Pecos.
• I was pretty convinced that I was not picking up Erin.
• After breakfast, Dennis and I drove up the canyon to Terrarro because we weren’t quite done talking.
• It was a nice drive. 45 minutes or so, round-trip.
• After dropping Dennis off I still wasn’t planning on picking Erin up from Dilia, in fact I was taking pictures. (See other post of today.)
• I remembered an old mining complex just outside of Pecos and I hunted it down, found it and drove right past it to see where the road ended.
• iI took the pictures on the return trip.
• As I was heading to another location, Tori called. She broke out in “hives.” Probably a poisoned rat bite or something.
• I stopped by her house and checked her back and it seemed like she actually had broken out in hives.
• I ended up picking up Erin. Well played Tori.
• No more pictures for my Sunday off.
• Tori decided that she will no longer cook for us and that Nina needs to come home now.
• Pizza or chicken carryout is planned for Monday & Wednesday.
• I’m thinking that I need to buy a new backup drive.
• I had to reformat the drive today to do my weekly backup.
• This had me very nervous last night as I made a backup. Too much can go wrong and I have no backups right now.
• I may buy the Apple wifi station with the built in 3 tb backup drive and let it run backups nightly.

If life were fair Elvis would still be alive today and all the impersonators would be dead.   – Johnny Carson

John was late for work. This is not the first time and it’s getting old. This seems to happen mostly when Nina’s gone and it leaves me in a slight bind. I really can’t spend a great amount of time downstairs because someone has to be upstairs in case ML wakes up.

I woke congested today. I hate when this happens.

Right now I’m just sitting here waiting for Diana to come and watch over ML for the day. I’m also trying to decide if I will pick up Erin or if I make Tori do the dirty deed. She hates seeing Will and I really don’t care. Tori tells me that they are afraid of me, but I can’t figure out why. I treat them all nicely.

I am going to have breakfast out still, even though Nina’s not here. Can’t break a good habit, right?

One of the best things about a Sunday drive is discovering that you’re lost.

Sitting in the gravel this morning while working on my Jeep is not conducive to good ass health. I took the spacers off to see if I could run without them. The answer is no. That means I had to put them back on after the test. Twice the ass to gravel contact. Bummer.

I have decided that I like getting dressed with the lights on. When Nina’s home I dress in the dark, or semi-dark actually. I’m considering if Nina will be receptive to me using lights while I dress. It’s for the best Nina.

Dinner last night was at Canella’s Restaurant in Pecos. Tori joined Dennis, Joe, Steven and myself for dinner. We had a nice night out and I think it should happen more often. I had a steak and it was good. It has been a long time since I’ve had one. Dinner got louder once the performer arrived, but that didn’t stop the fun, we just got louder too. The guy is an old cowboy singing old country songs. He’s pretty good, but I still prefer no live entertainment with my dinners. Sorry Tex, but that’s the way it is.

I had lunch with Joe, Steven and one of Steven’s friends at Arrow’s Ridge today . I brought the food, 2 frozen pizzas and we cooked them up there. Spent a couple hours up there and we had a good time.

Joe and I talked of meeting in Ouray to go 4 wheeling together. Virginia and him, and Nina and I. Could be a fun time. We probably  head in different directions from there  with them going north and west and us heading home.

Nina meets with 2 moving companies next week, one on Monday and the other on Tuesday. I’m curious as to the cost. I would be there for the actual move.

The gods that were smiling when you were born are laughing now.