Thursday
So, I get on Facebook this morning and I have several messages. I have added all kinds of friends to Facebook in order to get Cafe World neighbors. I put my Facebook UID up on an "Add-Me" forum under Cafe World and bang, all KINDS of requests come pouring in.
The funny thing is, some of these people want to get into conversations about things that have nothing to do with an online, unreal restaurant.
The funnier thing is they are from all over the world and are writing me messages in their languages! lol. I don't speak French or Bulgarian, thank you. However, Google translator does, and from what I am seeing, it does a pretty good job of it.
So, a lady in France says it's her birthday and she thought it a fine b-day gift to herself to be talking to an American man. Yikes. Well, not too scary, there is a great expanse of water separating us. I bid her a happy b-day and moved on to the next message.
This is a kid in Bulgaria - who plays Cafe World - and is inviting me to his event. Yikes, this is scary. Why? Cause, it's a kid on Facebook, but again, another great expanse of water separating us, I ask him WHAT group he is referring to. This is, of course, all in Bulgarian. To me, a rather odd looking language in print. I go to look at his group: he is forming a group of people to take a stand against short recesses, lol. He furthers it by saying that they don't have enough time to line up, get out of school, run down to the nearest store, get whatever and get back in time. Didn't want to throw a wet blanket on his party, but around these parts, kids aren't ALLOWED to leave the school campus to go ANYWHERE unless it's time to go home.
More messages. Don't have time for it. Gotta git to work. I have these pre-work rituals and if I don't get to all of it, I feel like something is missing that day and it can be hard to shake.
My muscles - feels like all of them in the upper body - are sore. I have been working out with weights. My muscles weren't exactly getting flabby looking, but it isn't the look I want, especially in considering attempting to find a lady. Attempting to build up the chest, biceps and triceps to start with. If I keep at it long enough, I may decide to start up at a gym. They don't cost near as much as they used to and you don't have to get into any contracts.
Speaking of contracts, Cox cable doesn't require a contract for their high speed internet. I have been pondering whether to switch over and dump Qwest. Cox's internet comes through their own cable, Qwest's internet comes through "twisted pairs" they call them, the phone lines. Allegedly, the cable route provides much faster service.
Social Security to run out by 2037. This is the latest report. I will be in my 70's at that point in time, if I live that long. I don't know what to say about that. Politicians don't want to do anything about it, they never do. It is an unpopular subject for them and there are no easy fixes.
Work day arrived, on-time, and I'm done.
G'day.
ben
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Friday
So, I have been looking for a good used queen sized mattress and box for the bedroom that is being vacated. I finally found one that is used, but still in excellent condition at a great price. Delivered. Delivered it was, that pain is over with.
Start a new set of pains. For being "furnished" bedrooms, they are woefully lacking on any furnishings. I am starting a quest to find some stuff to put into them to make them more appealing and functional as a bedroom. I don't have a single dresser in any of those rooms. No big hurry, just scour the ads - even the free ads sometimes people are giving away really good stuff - every day until I find what I want at bargain-basement pricing.
Meanwhile, the tenant that is moving out left a message with another tenant that she is coming today to get the rest of her stuff. At noon. I will be calling her in a couple of hours - it is very early for most people right now at 5:42 am - and inform her that I am concerned about her moving stuff out of my house and potentially having her friends that are helping her leaving the gate opened - and my dogs go running down the street. The point will be to considering coming a couple of hours later when I'm home and can control the dogs.
While all of that is going on, the trailer tenants have upped their quest to find a job somewhere. They have been attempting to find a gig in an apartment complex in doing maintenance or even partial managerial duties plus maintenance in exchange for a room and a small salary. I bid them good luck and fortune on each attempt. Nothing solid, yet, but hopefully if they keep at it, they will find something eventually.
Wow. I'm rather mesmerized by the pictures of the clashes and the stories of 10's of thousands of people protesting in Egypt against it's ruler, who they want ousted. That's some serious business right there, I'll be keeping my eye on that series of news stories. For me, it is so much better to just READ the news and not have all the interjection from any of the news agencies that tend to mix in their own, political agendas. I don't want to hear that junk from either side of the line, I just want to hear/read news at it's face, truth, not spin doctors and hype preachers attempting to morph something into a thing that it is not. Of course, you say, the written version may have that same junk in it as well. Perhaps, but not to the extent that you HEAR it on TV.
I was looking into switching my internet service over to Cox cable, completely changing the subject. Basically, every thing I have read says that cable internet is far superior to telephone line internet, which is what I am using.
There is a huge downside to getting cable installed. First, you have to buy your own modem unless you are also going to do the phone service for a minimum of 3 months. Second, installation is not free. What planet did this company just fall from? Everyone else gives free installation, that's part of the deal to get you to want to switch over. The flip side, though, to it is there is no contract.
You get 3 months of reduced pricing and after that it is regular price. The only real incentive is faster internet speeds. Like, 4 times faster than what I currently have. I have found used modems online at cheap prices - and that's for a modem that Cox "approves" of for use with it's system. Installation fee? Other fees? No idea, I was sort of taken back once I found out that none of that stuff is free. With Qwest, the phone service provider that is also carrying internet, the installation is free and there are no contracts, either. The modem is NOT free, however, and I paid $100 for that thing I have in there right now.
The problem is that the highest level of service I can get in my area is 7 megs per second. It's okay, but definitely not great or even that good. Cox is offering up to 50 megs per second. I wouldn't go that high because the monthly fee is something like $90 per month, but I could get double the speed I have now for about the same money.
I'll have to think about that one for awhile. Actually, I need to call Cox and find out what all the fees add up to and then I'll make a decision.
However, this entry? Is history as time has run out. Today is our company's bi-annual inventory - which I do not partake of because for whatever reason, they do not want drivers participating. Which is funny, because I frequntly do cycle counts, warehousing, pulling orders where counts are critical, but no biggies. They will work the weekend, I'll be at home : )
G'day.
ben
Ben,
Don't neglect working out your legs as well. In fact Cardio at our age needs to be priority #1...
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