The turtles are absolutely terrified.
I had read that they probably will be for even up to several days worth.
I did not expect them to be THAT mortified, however.
But, thinking about it:
I just took 2 reptiles that were living in a glass aquarium for 4-1/2 years.
Living in an artificial envirnonment in a teenager's bedroom, they knew nothing more
than a log and water. That was ALL that was in that aquarium. There were no plants,
no fish, nothing but water, gravel on the bottom and a log in the middle. I mean - really.
Umm, well I intend on at least trying to put plants in there. They say turtles may - or may not -
eat them.
Well, anyway, I took them out of their box, put them on the dry area I made for them, they just sat there,
looking at me. One of them jumped into the water and went to the bottom. The other did the same.
They wanted nothing to do with me, lol.
I stood there and they were clawing at the side of the pond, apparently trying to get away from me.
I decided to make some hiding places for them so they might settle down a bit - of which they went directly for.
So that's that. I just left them - other things I wanted to do and I figure I will spend more time tomorrow out there and see if they are "coming out of their shells" a little bit.
No, I am sitting here waiting on primary results. Supposedly the first rounds of results will be given out at 8:00pm which is in less than 5 minutes.
ben
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
HOT Day
There were just six of them. 6 pallets. Loaded with heavy fittings for ductile iron pipe. A contractor returned all of it and now we are sending it back to the manfucturer, it is oddball stuff that we can't resell and are not going to just keep in "inventory" forever. The manufacturer will charge a 25% restock fee, but at least the contractor gets something back out of it.
Well, my job was to make all of that stuff fit for transporting on LTL trucks. LTL is simply a term for less than load - not a whole truckload. You see them all over - Conway/Saia/Bestway all kinds of companies specialize in picking up materials that are not a full truckload but are FAR too heavy or large for UPS or Fedex to pick up in one of those vans they drive around.
Well, I have ample experience with these freight companies. The stuff gets moved around endlessly until it makes it to it's destination. It doesn't just get moved around, it gets bashed into by other freight and crashed into by forklifts and hand trucks. So, I had to really package the stuff well.
WEll, it was 110 degrees out there and that's in the shade. Banding the stuff up and then walking around each pallet endless times with shrink wrap to entomb it in plastic and then tape it up and the move it back outside? About killed me. I had another heat headache, I HATE those. I will freely admit that this summer has totally kicked my @$$. I have never experienced so much heat with the humidity levels at what they are for such an extended period of time. 111 degrees with up to 50% humidity? It's like being tortured. I'm not trying to be funny, either, it is literally HELL out there right now.
I got done with that and felt like passing out. Even my manager took one look at me and asked if I was okay. I didn't say anything, what's to say? It totally SUCKS outside during the daytime, especially for those of us that have to work in it.
I went on a delivery run after that - something finally came up and I decided today, after going through all of that, would be the day to cheat and totally blow the diet. Ohhhhh, and I did. No, not the sub sandwich this morning that had ham, loaded with veggies and topped with a little vinegar, mustard and pepper. Nope, that's been a staple of this diet, actually. It's the only fast food I can find that has low calorie and low fat offerings.
Ahhhh, no, I went for the Dairy Queen Blizzard. A LARGE one. German Chocolate. I hadn't had one of those - I dunno, in a year? I stay away from ice cream because I love the stuff so much. You wanna put on a nice gut, just eat ice cream every day. It was heaven in a cup. I devoured it - too fast actually, should have taken a little more time and enjoyed it a little more cause' honey, there ain't gonna be no more of those offerings for quite a long time. You know, I didn't feel bad at all after I ate it. I thought - I have done so well making good eating choices and literally shoving temptation back down my throat and not giving in SO many other times, I thought it was a treat well-deserved.
I think next month I will do something out-of-diet, but it won't be ice cream. Instead I'll have a meal of something that I haven't been eating and just forget about the calories. I am totally resolved to continue eating the way I have been since I started this diet for a long time to come, I don't have a problem with what I am eating because I happen to like the stuff. I DO need to find some new recipes, I will be spending some time doing that soon enough.
In 2 hours I go to get the turtles. Never had turtles as a kid, I think it might be cool. But, if I end up hating it, I can always sell them on Craigslist, those kinds of turtles don't last long on there, people buy them up if you are giving a good price. They actually had posted these turtles for sale before I even saw them, but contacted me via email - they don't really want money for them they want a good home. I promise to give them a good home while they are here and if I end up liking having turtles around, they will be here until I either lose the house to foreclosure (hope not, but reality is reality) or they die, or I move - though if I move and it is voluntary (not foreclosure) to another property that I would buy, all animals - dogs/fish/turtles/some humans - would go with me. These are preformed ponds and come out of the ground easily. It's DIGGING the ground out FOR them that's the pain the - rear. No, coming OUT of the ground is simply the act of removing living water creatures - put them in temporary quarters - take out plants - temp quarters as well, pump out the water, grab a hold of the liner and walaah - it comes right out.
Uhhh, gotta go out and feed the fishies : )
ben
Well, my job was to make all of that stuff fit for transporting on LTL trucks. LTL is simply a term for less than load - not a whole truckload. You see them all over - Conway/Saia/Bestway all kinds of companies specialize in picking up materials that are not a full truckload but are FAR too heavy or large for UPS or Fedex to pick up in one of those vans they drive around.
Well, I have ample experience with these freight companies. The stuff gets moved around endlessly until it makes it to it's destination. It doesn't just get moved around, it gets bashed into by other freight and crashed into by forklifts and hand trucks. So, I had to really package the stuff well.
WEll, it was 110 degrees out there and that's in the shade. Banding the stuff up and then walking around each pallet endless times with shrink wrap to entomb it in plastic and then tape it up and the move it back outside? About killed me. I had another heat headache, I HATE those. I will freely admit that this summer has totally kicked my @$$. I have never experienced so much heat with the humidity levels at what they are for such an extended period of time. 111 degrees with up to 50% humidity? It's like being tortured. I'm not trying to be funny, either, it is literally HELL out there right now.
I got done with that and felt like passing out. Even my manager took one look at me and asked if I was okay. I didn't say anything, what's to say? It totally SUCKS outside during the daytime, especially for those of us that have to work in it.
I went on a delivery run after that - something finally came up and I decided today, after going through all of that, would be the day to cheat and totally blow the diet. Ohhhhh, and I did. No, not the sub sandwich this morning that had ham, loaded with veggies and topped with a little vinegar, mustard and pepper. Nope, that's been a staple of this diet, actually. It's the only fast food I can find that has low calorie and low fat offerings.
Ahhhh, no, I went for the Dairy Queen Blizzard. A LARGE one. German Chocolate. I hadn't had one of those - I dunno, in a year? I stay away from ice cream because I love the stuff so much. You wanna put on a nice gut, just eat ice cream every day. It was heaven in a cup. I devoured it - too fast actually, should have taken a little more time and enjoyed it a little more cause' honey, there ain't gonna be no more of those offerings for quite a long time. You know, I didn't feel bad at all after I ate it. I thought - I have done so well making good eating choices and literally shoving temptation back down my throat and not giving in SO many other times, I thought it was a treat well-deserved.
I think next month I will do something out-of-diet, but it won't be ice cream. Instead I'll have a meal of something that I haven't been eating and just forget about the calories. I am totally resolved to continue eating the way I have been since I started this diet for a long time to come, I don't have a problem with what I am eating because I happen to like the stuff. I DO need to find some new recipes, I will be spending some time doing that soon enough.
In 2 hours I go to get the turtles. Never had turtles as a kid, I think it might be cool. But, if I end up hating it, I can always sell them on Craigslist, those kinds of turtles don't last long on there, people buy them up if you are giving a good price. They actually had posted these turtles for sale before I even saw them, but contacted me via email - they don't really want money for them they want a good home. I promise to give them a good home while they are here and if I end up liking having turtles around, they will be here until I either lose the house to foreclosure (hope not, but reality is reality) or they die, or I move - though if I move and it is voluntary (not foreclosure) to another property that I would buy, all animals - dogs/fish/turtles/some humans - would go with me. These are preformed ponds and come out of the ground easily. It's DIGGING the ground out FOR them that's the pain the - rear. No, coming OUT of the ground is simply the act of removing living water creatures - put them in temporary quarters - take out plants - temp quarters as well, pump out the water, grab a hold of the liner and walaah - it comes right out.
Uhhh, gotta go out and feed the fishies : )
ben
Tuesday
Tuesday
Yesterday afternoon, I found an order that our main branch was taking out that is supposed to be for our branch. The trip includes going to Tucson and then up to the mines in the mountains. My attempt to thwart the action - failed :(
The reasoning was that there was going to be stuff in our system to do locally today, we can't be traipsing around the countryside. Well, there is nothing in our system - as there was nothing in the system yesterday before I left - and now - nothing to do when work starts besides attempting to invent things to do, as always.
Vote for J.D Hayworth or John McCain - that is the question.
Easy one there. We ALREADY got rid of Hayworth once and the ads McCain has run against him? Hayworth couldn't refute and actually ended having to apologize for his part in running ads in Florida that bilked people out of a lot of money.
I'd RATHER vote for someone else - but there is no-one else besides some dude I have never heard of and won't be voting for.
Anyway, I have my pond set up for the free turtles. A small pump that I already had, an aerator and that's it besides the pond I also already have. This one is going to be an experiment. If they turn out to be too much work and trouble, I can sell the suckers for $25 or so a piece and be done with them.
Tenants.
1st tenant I was going to hand an eviction notice to yesterday stated that she was coming up with enough money to cover at least one week's worth of rent. Okay, well, I want to see that no later than the end of today or - the eviction notice will be handed to her.
2cd tenant - avoiding me. I gave her the friendly notice - well I put it under her door, she was home and never did leave yesterday. She doesn't come out when she's home except to use the bathroom so I don't ever really see her. If I don't see the money in the next few days, it's going to be an eviction notice. Actually, in 2 days so I can have her out by the first of next month. She has a job, I don't know what her problem is and I noted on the notice that if she is going to continue to have problems paying on time, she needs to discuss with me the situation.
The only "guaranteed" money I ever get is from the ex-Marine, and that only because he gets money from the military every month. Whatever the case, dealing with deadbeat tenants gets old.
Work day is here, gotta get offa here.
G'day.
ben
Yesterday afternoon, I found an order that our main branch was taking out that is supposed to be for our branch. The trip includes going to Tucson and then up to the mines in the mountains. My attempt to thwart the action - failed :(
The reasoning was that there was going to be stuff in our system to do locally today, we can't be traipsing around the countryside. Well, there is nothing in our system - as there was nothing in the system yesterday before I left - and now - nothing to do when work starts besides attempting to invent things to do, as always.
Vote for J.D Hayworth or John McCain - that is the question.
Easy one there. We ALREADY got rid of Hayworth once and the ads McCain has run against him? Hayworth couldn't refute and actually ended having to apologize for his part in running ads in Florida that bilked people out of a lot of money.
I'd RATHER vote for someone else - but there is no-one else besides some dude I have never heard of and won't be voting for.
Anyway, I have my pond set up for the free turtles. A small pump that I already had, an aerator and that's it besides the pond I also already have. This one is going to be an experiment. If they turn out to be too much work and trouble, I can sell the suckers for $25 or so a piece and be done with them.
Tenants.
1st tenant I was going to hand an eviction notice to yesterday stated that she was coming up with enough money to cover at least one week's worth of rent. Okay, well, I want to see that no later than the end of today or - the eviction notice will be handed to her.
2cd tenant - avoiding me. I gave her the friendly notice - well I put it under her door, she was home and never did leave yesterday. She doesn't come out when she's home except to use the bathroom so I don't ever really see her. If I don't see the money in the next few days, it's going to be an eviction notice. Actually, in 2 days so I can have her out by the first of next month. She has a job, I don't know what her problem is and I noted on the notice that if she is going to continue to have problems paying on time, she needs to discuss with me the situation.
The only "guaranteed" money I ever get is from the ex-Marine, and that only because he gets money from the military every month. Whatever the case, dealing with deadbeat tenants gets old.
Work day is here, gotta get offa here.
G'day.
ben
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