Rain. Rain, More rain.
I was at working thinking: uhhh, yeah, I'ma go home early today. There is nothing going on, contractors aren't working, only a couple of customers came in, it's go home early day. It just gets....
boring and I now have 140 hours of vacation time saved up. So, at almost lunchtime, I go into the will call and the warehouse manager is like: yeah, I'm taking off early. I said yes, let's get out of here! I was sitting at the computer. He says< NO, don't clock out yet! They're getting us lunch today! Okay then, I'll stick around for free lunch, lol.
Got off just before 1:00 pm. No desire to do anything, went straight home. I mean, yesterday and all that digging and shoveling and moving dirt around? Just took it comppletely out of me. Not complaining, good workout, just when it's boring and I'm tired, I would rather go home than stick around to do much of nothing.
Got home and went to sleep. I don't know for how long. I only know when I woke up it was dark. The only thing that woke me up was when the landlady came home with the baby and the baby was crying - loudly. Good thing. I was completely out of it, as if I had gone to bed for the night.
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Now Saturday. Misssed out on two very good looking Danes. Just got to them too late. But it's okay, there will be more. I'm ignoring the $500, $700, $900 and $1,200 versions. Duke cost me $100 and was easily one of the best dogs I have ever had. I'm not going to show the dog, I just want a good looking Dane.
Another rainy day - and cooling down considerably, at least my version of it. It's 53 degrees and going out in the rain? Not my version of fun. But I went to Walmart anyway. I was looking for several things, but one of which was thermal underwear - which they don't have yet. I would have thought they would have had that on the shelves by now - winter is just around the corner. Supposedly the rain will stop tomorrow. It just throws things off, including me. Rainy days make we want to sleep. Well nothing going to get done outside today. I have already thoroughly clenaed my bathrood today and spiffied up my bedroom. Not much else left. Excepting making spaghetti later on. My version of it with meatballs, spicy italian sausauge and 80% lean ground beef.
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Now into Sunday, Sunday morning to be precise. Rain has finally stopped, sun is shining, should be a beautiful day.
But, the temps are starting to come down and that signals alarms in my brain to complete what I started: getting all of
my winter clothing out and assessing what else I will needd to brave the winter temps with rain that is inevitably coming...
and having to endure for 50 hours per week. I'm missing one pair of Alpaca socks. I have 3 pair, only found 2. Going to
go through everything, those socks cost $25 per pair. Well worth it, yes, though I didn't buy them, Valerie did like a year or
more ago. They keep your feet warm even if they are wet. With that kind of price tag, though, I am definitely going to go
through everything to see if I can find the third pair. Really would like 5 pair total.
Still looking at dogs, Great Danes namely. I thought about getting a smaller breed, something around the medium sized dog and
thought again. Great Danes don't need a large space, they need to be exercised regularly. But they are perfectly content to
lay around and do nothing as long as they are with their human companions. They are very much a human social dog and want to
be with their owners as much as possible. My current bedroom has plenty of space for a Great Dane. But, I am in no hurry. I
missed a couple of good ones but more will come. People get rid of them after they have had them for awhile when understanding
how large the animal is and getting into situations where that sized creature isn't workable or even allowable. Owning my own
home I had as many of the those sized animals as I wanted - which I did, 3 at one time. I likely will never have 3 or even 2
dogs ever again unless I end up living on a large property with acreage, for that many large dogs do need a lot of space inside
or out of the home.
Which I have thought about trying to get some land. Preferrably wooded or at least partially wooded. Preferably with a small
stream running through it and deer and pigs close by. It would be nice to go out your back door with a rifle and not have to go
very far to "hunt" for deer, lol. Though this area is heavily wooded, it is not in the mountains. Just a dream. I have a house
in Phoenix, would have to get rid of that first and right now? It's paying for itself and the people taking care of it are
content to stay there. How long, I don't know. When they decide to leave, that is when I will have to sell it. I'm just hoping
by that time, the value of the house equals at least what I owe on it. Is that asking for too much? lol
Nothing on the Val front. I don't expect there to be excepting to deal with the divorce. Hopefully have time later on today to pore
over the reply - though it is self explanatory and it is just fill in the blanks. I want to get that filed, though and get this
thing rolling. She wants it over? Fine, let's get it over with. All of her friends and family have blocked me on various social
media excepting one. That is her best friend. Val made it a point to ask everyone to unfriend me/block me, so I am not sure why
her best friend still has me on there. I am guessing after the divorce she will do the same. I can only surmise that she is still
friending me on Facebook to see if I will post anything negative about the divorce on there. I have no intention of posting anything
at all about it until after it is done and even then, it's going to be something like "well, that chapter of my life over with, what's next?".
It won't even have specific reference to the divorce. I did have a good relationship with her friend for quite a while, though. She is a neat
lady and has a very interesting life going on on her farm.
I tried to take my car in on Friday to get the heater core replaced. For whatever reason, that place was closed and the next in line is never
open on Fridays. I am going to call tomorrow and see if I can get it in the second place, it's close to work, like 2 blocks away and they
are Christian. I don't expect a Christian establishment to do any better or worse than a non-Christian establishment, but I do like to
support such business - mom and pop type of thing - whenever I can. But that's only if they have time some time this week to get to it and
get it done same day. Obviously I can't leave the car overnight. And if their prices are reasonable. It's going to cost around 3 bills or a
little more to get that done. It's just nothing I want to get involved with on my own.
Well, I am going to church today. I don't really want to drive that far but the messages are so good and speak to my inner man. It's definitely my kind of church. The pastor doesn't pull any punches, he delivers the message and if you don't like it, tough. That's the way it's supposed to be. Christians shouldn't be trying to find a church whose pastor "tickles their ears" with his "nice" messages. I want and like to be challenged in my walk with the Lord and last week was definitely a challenge. It was about judging people. It was the most sensible message about that subject yet and it definitely go my attention. I understand that I can be judgmental at times and I really have no right to engage in
such, but I do it anyway and likely, most people engage in such at some point or another about a particular subject or swubjects.
Anyway, have to get offa here.
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Well there's nothing like a salesman handing me a spiff for doing something for him that has been - irritating - him for quite some time.
It has been annoying me too, but I thought the parameters were different than they actually were.
The situation is all the mud up against the main building. It has been there since before I started working there. It is what meets customer's eyes when they want to go in and talk with a salesman, inside salesman or management. It's pretty ugly.
What I didn't know was that there is concrete underneath all of that mud. I had thought it was - for whatever unknown reason - that it was dirt there from the beginning. Well, the salesman in question had asked the other driver to clean it up and he would buy him lunch for a week. I got involved with it out of having not much of anything else to do and because when I found it was concrete underneath there, well. I would have cleaned that thing out of there a long time ago.
And also, because I KNOW what kind of job the other driver would do. And that preconceived notion was not off. He emphatically stated he was going to stop at a certain point and that would be that. Fine, I said, but I'm going as far as the concrete goes - which got deeper and deeper and deeper. At the end of the line, it was covered with a foot of mud. It hadn't been cleaned in 6 years, hence the situation at hand. Well, I got out the pressure washer and cleaned out the other side - which wasn't as bad bud still ugly and then helped him shovel. But, he refused to go any further with it than what he said - which didn't phase me at all.
I continued until it was all exposed and then found a pipe that had been installed to drain it out into the grassy area next to it. Well, that pipe was only 4 feet long and it was completely clogged. Dug that out, dug out a new ditch - 14 feet long, put in a new pipe and then dug out a channel beyond the end of the pipe. Down yonder, there is a large pipe going underneath the parking lot and the street and clear to the other side draining out into the woods. Got that installed and then did the litmus test Will it drain? Took the hose off the pressure washer, put it in the concrete and then turned it on full blast. It was awesome. I like when I do something and it - works. It drained that water out the other end of the pipe and then continued on down to the other pipe and out. Backfilled the ditch, stamped the grass back on top of the pipe and that was that.
But that wasn't the end of this project. Everybody parks right in front of all of this it is under a huge canopy - trashed, has been since I got there as well. And the other end of the concrete - which pours out into the driveway in front of the will call warehouse. Totally covered with dirt and mud as well. Looks like hell. This consumed almost the entire day. I can tell when they like something I'm doing in the yard because they will not give me any deliveries. Lol. Except one, which was a huge emergency. A contractor had broken pipe that delivers water to an elementary school - whoops! Got that out there quick, not that far away and back to the yard and back to the mud elimination project. Well, unfortunately, the water hose and the hose on the pressure washer combined wasn't enough to cover the entire parking lot in front of the will call. I got as much done as I could, plus dug out a ditch to drain the water. The will call manager told me there is a grate and pipe underneath the grass there - somewhere. Uh huh. This is how far they let it go. There is NO visible grate, it's all grass. Yeah.
Here's the kicker. The salesman didn't buy me lunch. He came out, handed me 4 20's and said thank you, to which I said thank you back! Lol. Not like I wasn't getting paid by the hour to do that stuff as it was! That was a nice bonus. But I didn't feel right taking all of it so I said I would give half to the other driver. He said no, he'll take care of him, too, but.....Ohhh, I think I'll give him half what I gave you. Okayyyyy. But don't tell him! Sure enough, the other driver comes up later saying he got $40. Did he give you the same? I didn't want to lie, so I said, yeah, he gave me enough to buy lunch for a week as well. That driver would have gotten all pissed off, raised a stink, yada yada yada. He didn't question it, got all happy and that was that.
Meanwhile, I finally and I do mean finally found a site to print out a reply to the divorce paperwork. You know, it makes a big difference what exact wording you put into a Google search. I knew that and I kept trying different things. I don't even know what I put in there, I just know I finally found a site run by - whoever - .org site - that had everything on there I was looking for. Yes! I can file - have to go to courthouse and I'm relatively sure it's going to cost to file, but whatever, too much to potentially lose here if I don't and get a default judgement against me, I am specifically referring to the massive amount of credit card debt that she had accumulated long before we were married. I am not paying for that. I want that in the divroce decree.
Gonna take a day off, I think to file that, even though I'm sure it will only take a few minutes. Well I'm not sure, I just want a day off. In fact, I think I will take time off Thanksgiving week whether I go home or not - no-one has claimed it but 2 people have it the week before and after. Well Thanksgiving week at work? Pretty boring. Same with Christmas. Booooorrrrrrring. Contractors take 2 WEEKS off during the Christmas season in these parts. I'm not kidding. Never heard of such a thing until I came out here. Actually I don't know what to do. I want Black Friday off - but maybe that's not really important this year. My son is still in Portland. I won't see him if I go home on Thanksgiving. Have to confirm that with him but pretty sure he's going to be gone for another month or so.
Winter's coming. Not fully prepared - yet. Will be after this weekend. Though my new rubber boots showed up today in the mail. I need new thermals, a couple sets. And a couple hats. Oops...just ordered the hats. I'm not going to freeze this winter as much as I did last winter. The wet feet were the worst. Rubber boots will eliminate that problem.
Allergies kicking my butt today. Just non-ending. To think I had overcome allergies almost completely until I moved out here. Gag.
Oh, the reason I keep posting pics of potential Great Dane pups and adult dogs on my Facebook wall? I'm friends with my landlady and I know she sees all of my posts. She hasn't said anything more about it, yet, I just know they want to get rid of a dog before I can have one over here. The pics serve as a reminder : )
I have other things to say, but this blog is not the appropriate place to say them. No biggies.
It has been annoying me too, but I thought the parameters were different than they actually were.
The situation is all the mud up against the main building. It has been there since before I started working there. It is what meets customer's eyes when they want to go in and talk with a salesman, inside salesman or management. It's pretty ugly.
What I didn't know was that there is concrete underneath all of that mud. I had thought it was - for whatever unknown reason - that it was dirt there from the beginning. Well, the salesman in question had asked the other driver to clean it up and he would buy him lunch for a week. I got involved with it out of having not much of anything else to do and because when I found it was concrete underneath there, well. I would have cleaned that thing out of there a long time ago.
And also, because I KNOW what kind of job the other driver would do. And that preconceived notion was not off. He emphatically stated he was going to stop at a certain point and that would be that. Fine, I said, but I'm going as far as the concrete goes - which got deeper and deeper and deeper. At the end of the line, it was covered with a foot of mud. It hadn't been cleaned in 6 years, hence the situation at hand. Well, I got out the pressure washer and cleaned out the other side - which wasn't as bad bud still ugly and then helped him shovel. But, he refused to go any further with it than what he said - which didn't phase me at all.
I continued until it was all exposed and then found a pipe that had been installed to drain it out into the grassy area next to it. Well, that pipe was only 4 feet long and it was completely clogged. Dug that out, dug out a new ditch - 14 feet long, put in a new pipe and then dug out a channel beyond the end of the pipe. Down yonder, there is a large pipe going underneath the parking lot and the street and clear to the other side draining out into the woods. Got that installed and then did the litmus test Will it drain? Took the hose off the pressure washer, put it in the concrete and then turned it on full blast. It was awesome. I like when I do something and it - works. It drained that water out the other end of the pipe and then continued on down to the other pipe and out. Backfilled the ditch, stamped the grass back on top of the pipe and that was that.
But that wasn't the end of this project. Everybody parks right in front of all of this it is under a huge canopy - trashed, has been since I got there as well. And the other end of the concrete - which pours out into the driveway in front of the will call warehouse. Totally covered with dirt and mud as well. Looks like hell. This consumed almost the entire day. I can tell when they like something I'm doing in the yard because they will not give me any deliveries. Lol. Except one, which was a huge emergency. A contractor had broken pipe that delivers water to an elementary school - whoops! Got that out there quick, not that far away and back to the yard and back to the mud elimination project. Well, unfortunately, the water hose and the hose on the pressure washer combined wasn't enough to cover the entire parking lot in front of the will call. I got as much done as I could, plus dug out a ditch to drain the water. The will call manager told me there is a grate and pipe underneath the grass there - somewhere. Uh huh. This is how far they let it go. There is NO visible grate, it's all grass. Yeah.
Here's the kicker. The salesman didn't buy me lunch. He came out, handed me 4 20's and said thank you, to which I said thank you back! Lol. Not like I wasn't getting paid by the hour to do that stuff as it was! That was a nice bonus. But I didn't feel right taking all of it so I said I would give half to the other driver. He said no, he'll take care of him, too, but.....Ohhh, I think I'll give him half what I gave you. Okayyyyy. But don't tell him! Sure enough, the other driver comes up later saying he got $40. Did he give you the same? I didn't want to lie, so I said, yeah, he gave me enough to buy lunch for a week as well. That driver would have gotten all pissed off, raised a stink, yada yada yada. He didn't question it, got all happy and that was that.
Meanwhile, I finally and I do mean finally found a site to print out a reply to the divorce paperwork. You know, it makes a big difference what exact wording you put into a Google search. I knew that and I kept trying different things. I don't even know what I put in there, I just know I finally found a site run by - whoever - .org site - that had everything on there I was looking for. Yes! I can file - have to go to courthouse and I'm relatively sure it's going to cost to file, but whatever, too much to potentially lose here if I don't and get a default judgement against me, I am specifically referring to the massive amount of credit card debt that she had accumulated long before we were married. I am not paying for that. I want that in the divroce decree.
Gonna take a day off, I think to file that, even though I'm sure it will only take a few minutes. Well I'm not sure, I just want a day off. In fact, I think I will take time off Thanksgiving week whether I go home or not - no-one has claimed it but 2 people have it the week before and after. Well Thanksgiving week at work? Pretty boring. Same with Christmas. Booooorrrrrrring. Contractors take 2 WEEKS off during the Christmas season in these parts. I'm not kidding. Never heard of such a thing until I came out here. Actually I don't know what to do. I want Black Friday off - but maybe that's not really important this year. My son is still in Portland. I won't see him if I go home on Thanksgiving. Have to confirm that with him but pretty sure he's going to be gone for another month or so.
Winter's coming. Not fully prepared - yet. Will be after this weekend. Though my new rubber boots showed up today in the mail. I need new thermals, a couple sets. And a couple hats. Oops...just ordered the hats. I'm not going to freeze this winter as much as I did last winter. The wet feet were the worst. Rubber boots will eliminate that problem.
Allergies kicking my butt today. Just non-ending. To think I had overcome allergies almost completely until I moved out here. Gag.
Oh, the reason I keep posting pics of potential Great Dane pups and adult dogs on my Facebook wall? I'm friends with my landlady and I know she sees all of my posts. She hasn't said anything more about it, yet, I just know they want to get rid of a dog before I can have one over here. The pics serve as a reminder : )
I have other things to say, but this blog is not the appropriate place to say them. No biggies.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Interesting day. Got up early, got to work early, got to Pineville, LA - early enough. Contractor knew I was coming and would be calling for directions. The only thing I had was LA 28 in Pineville. Well, 7 phone calls and no answer, so I got off of Pinesville Expressway, got off at LA 28, found a supermarket parking lot and - made more phone calls, lol. This is one case where driving down the road and looking around? I would have never found it. It was 2 miles away, in the back of an already existent subdivsion that they decided to add to. It's always fun to see contractors trying to remove huge bundles of pipe with the wrong equipment. Drop and break, oops!
Back to the yard - 2 hour drive, but stopped at a Relay station, got 100 gallons of fuel and free lunch. Yup, they give free lunch for over 50 gallons. This is one of many gas stations/small truck stops that has a restaurant and they serve some fine food. It was, with free drink and sides, a $10 meal for free. I take advantage of that as often as possible.
Back to the yard, find a certain type of pipe I had moved around yesterday? Had been completely changed around. I asked the warehouse manager what was up with that? He saw the other driver moving it but didn't know what he was doing with it. I said well you know you have to rotate the stock. That pipe stacked in the rear of the rows has been sitting there for well over a year. If we don't get rid of it, the pipe is going to get brittle and the gaskets are going to dry out and start to fall apart. So, this driver decided to undo everything I had done. Retarded. I didn't bother to ask him why. I instead went over there and pulled ALL of that pipe out, put the new stuff in the back and the old stuff in the front and that takes care of that. That driver will not go to that much hassle to get at the new pipe. If he does, I will - not talk to the manager cause' he's down for the count. Whatever he has, it's kicking his butt and they are saying he's gone for at least 2 weeks.
New driver? Waste. Likes to sit on the forklift and talk on the phone. We have ENOUGH of those kinds of people, we don't need anymore! When the manager gets back I'm going to make a strong suggestion: GET RID OF HIM. They guy is still a temp driver working for a temp agency, it's ony a matter of calling up the agency and saying his services are no longer needed, thanks. He takes TWICE as long to make a delivery and has admitted that he is taking his sweet time on purpose.
Well, finally, an inside salesman told the other driver if he would get rid of the mud in front of the building, he would buy him lunch for a week. I have been wanting to clean that place up for a while, it looks like a dump, literally. It's filithy, dirty and yucky. Very unappealing for customers to come in and see a place looking like that. Well I GREATLY expanded that idea from the git go. Hey, let's deal with ALL of this. Not enough hours to do that today, but we got the front of that building looking spiffy - a condition it hasn't looked since I started working there. I then told them that I was going to do the entire cement surface when I have time. Take an entire day - at least - to do that but that places looks so ratty.
The idea actually got some traction. I am a clean type person. Let's clean! If there ain't nothing to do, I can think up lots of "other" things that really should be done. Lately, I haven't been asking to do things that need to be done that - I don't know, they don't want it done or just too lazy to do it? And since I started doing that stuff, 2 others have come in line with it.
News flash: We are interrupting this program to bring an urgent message: Sheriff just showed up at the door and had the divorce papers in hand. I do not believe in divorce and would have not filed for it. But she has and I am not going to contest it. Let's get this over with. I am more than done with this relationship, it is over and it is history.
Well whatever. I don't even know what day it is. Losing track of time. Seems meaningless. I've got my mind on too many things. Distracted. Disconnected. But, not confused or going crazy. Focused on some things, though. The Lord for one. Going to now go on the quest to find out what needs to happen next with a reply. I have 20 days and I'm going to get this done right. I know from first-hand experience and have seen it all too many times about people that go off the deep end during divorce proceedings and start making demands for money, property and everything else. I have no clue whether she will do that, but if enough people speak enough junk into her brain? Very well could happen. Texas law pretty specific though. Whatever you had that was yours before you entered the marriage is yours afterwards. She has masive amounts of credit card debt that I had absolutely NOTHING to do with and that's what I want to protect myself from.
I'm trying to remember everything I did over there. Fix fencing. Feeding cows in winter/freezing rain conditions. Fix tractor, riding mower, van. Replace a water heater including tearing out dryway and replacing wood that had rotted and covered with black mold. Installing flooring. Painting - at my expense, all over the place. Install refrigerator with new water line/connection. Fix plumbing in well house. Buying kids clothing and food. Lots of food. Splitting firewood.
I'll think of it all by the time any court date arrives. I don't even want to have to go there, but if she forces the issue, I will.
Winter's coming and besides freezing cold temps, the other bad part is darkness. I am not a fan. I like daylight and I like to be out in it. Well work definitely gets me out in it, but leaving for work in the dark and coming home in the dark - a bit much.
I guess what I have my thoughts on is the future, what's left of it anyway. I have some kind of fantasy of finding the perfect soul mate, get a property up in the mountains and have some acreage, and just - live life together. It's a pipe dream. I know this now. It's nothing that I can ever achieve in my lifetime. I would be very hard pressed to ever consider marrying a third time. That's just - too many for me. I was her third, third time's a charm right? Guess not. I wonder if she'll go off immediately and try to find another man, just as she did with previous ex. She'll have tales to tell of all 3 of her exes and the "mistakes" she made.
I, on the other hand, will mostly put her completely out of my mind and attempt to shelf all of this as part of history and just try to move on. I have my past, I bring it up occasionally, but I don't live in it daily.
Whatever. A reason I'm wanting another dog. No demands, no fault lists, no this that and the other thing. The numbers of Danes in this area that are advertised on various forums has exploded in the last 24 hours. Adults and pups. Really, if they can get rid of that dog they want to get rid of I would likely get another dog - quickly.
Enough.
Back to the yard - 2 hour drive, but stopped at a Relay station, got 100 gallons of fuel and free lunch. Yup, they give free lunch for over 50 gallons. This is one of many gas stations/small truck stops that has a restaurant and they serve some fine food. It was, with free drink and sides, a $10 meal for free. I take advantage of that as often as possible.
Back to the yard, find a certain type of pipe I had moved around yesterday? Had been completely changed around. I asked the warehouse manager what was up with that? He saw the other driver moving it but didn't know what he was doing with it. I said well you know you have to rotate the stock. That pipe stacked in the rear of the rows has been sitting there for well over a year. If we don't get rid of it, the pipe is going to get brittle and the gaskets are going to dry out and start to fall apart. So, this driver decided to undo everything I had done. Retarded. I didn't bother to ask him why. I instead went over there and pulled ALL of that pipe out, put the new stuff in the back and the old stuff in the front and that takes care of that. That driver will not go to that much hassle to get at the new pipe. If he does, I will - not talk to the manager cause' he's down for the count. Whatever he has, it's kicking his butt and they are saying he's gone for at least 2 weeks.
New driver? Waste. Likes to sit on the forklift and talk on the phone. We have ENOUGH of those kinds of people, we don't need anymore! When the manager gets back I'm going to make a strong suggestion: GET RID OF HIM. They guy is still a temp driver working for a temp agency, it's ony a matter of calling up the agency and saying his services are no longer needed, thanks. He takes TWICE as long to make a delivery and has admitted that he is taking his sweet time on purpose.
Well, finally, an inside salesman told the other driver if he would get rid of the mud in front of the building, he would buy him lunch for a week. I have been wanting to clean that place up for a while, it looks like a dump, literally. It's filithy, dirty and yucky. Very unappealing for customers to come in and see a place looking like that. Well I GREATLY expanded that idea from the git go. Hey, let's deal with ALL of this. Not enough hours to do that today, but we got the front of that building looking spiffy - a condition it hasn't looked since I started working there. I then told them that I was going to do the entire cement surface when I have time. Take an entire day - at least - to do that but that places looks so ratty.
The idea actually got some traction. I am a clean type person. Let's clean! If there ain't nothing to do, I can think up lots of "other" things that really should be done. Lately, I haven't been asking to do things that need to be done that - I don't know, they don't want it done or just too lazy to do it? And since I started doing that stuff, 2 others have come in line with it.
News flash: We are interrupting this program to bring an urgent message: Sheriff just showed up at the door and had the divorce papers in hand. I do not believe in divorce and would have not filed for it. But she has and I am not going to contest it. Let's get this over with. I am more than done with this relationship, it is over and it is history.
Well whatever. I don't even know what day it is. Losing track of time. Seems meaningless. I've got my mind on too many things. Distracted. Disconnected. But, not confused or going crazy. Focused on some things, though. The Lord for one. Going to now go on the quest to find out what needs to happen next with a reply. I have 20 days and I'm going to get this done right. I know from first-hand experience and have seen it all too many times about people that go off the deep end during divorce proceedings and start making demands for money, property and everything else. I have no clue whether she will do that, but if enough people speak enough junk into her brain? Very well could happen. Texas law pretty specific though. Whatever you had that was yours before you entered the marriage is yours afterwards. She has masive amounts of credit card debt that I had absolutely NOTHING to do with and that's what I want to protect myself from.
I'm trying to remember everything I did over there. Fix fencing. Feeding cows in winter/freezing rain conditions. Fix tractor, riding mower, van. Replace a water heater including tearing out dryway and replacing wood that had rotted and covered with black mold. Installing flooring. Painting - at my expense, all over the place. Install refrigerator with new water line/connection. Fix plumbing in well house. Buying kids clothing and food. Lots of food. Splitting firewood.
I'll think of it all by the time any court date arrives. I don't even want to have to go there, but if she forces the issue, I will.
Winter's coming and besides freezing cold temps, the other bad part is darkness. I am not a fan. I like daylight and I like to be out in it. Well work definitely gets me out in it, but leaving for work in the dark and coming home in the dark - a bit much.
I guess what I have my thoughts on is the future, what's left of it anyway. I have some kind of fantasy of finding the perfect soul mate, get a property up in the mountains and have some acreage, and just - live life together. It's a pipe dream. I know this now. It's nothing that I can ever achieve in my lifetime. I would be very hard pressed to ever consider marrying a third time. That's just - too many for me. I was her third, third time's a charm right? Guess not. I wonder if she'll go off immediately and try to find another man, just as she did with previous ex. She'll have tales to tell of all 3 of her exes and the "mistakes" she made.
I, on the other hand, will mostly put her completely out of my mind and attempt to shelf all of this as part of history and just try to move on. I have my past, I bring it up occasionally, but I don't live in it daily.
Whatever. A reason I'm wanting another dog. No demands, no fault lists, no this that and the other thing. The numbers of Danes in this area that are advertised on various forums has exploded in the last 24 hours. Adults and pups. Really, if they can get rid of that dog they want to get rid of I would likely get another dog - quickly.
Enough.
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
I'm back on this blog. The other blog was "isolated", or seemed that way anyway. I have no further reason to stay over there - probably a few posts here and there but this will now be my main blogging account again.
The only thing now on the divorce front is that I called the sheriff's office today and they are going to arrange to have the divorce papers served to me tomorrow evening where I am living. Their hours and mine don't work as far as going and getting them. I'm at work before their office opens and quitting time is the same as theirs. Contemplating when to tell her I am getting my stuff back.
But, my manager is in the hospital, half his face is paralyzed. It was allegedly some contagious illness, but we are starting to have our doubts. It got worse today and he went to emergency room. I'm definitely not wishing this on him, but this happens to some people that have strokes as well. Who knows, hopefully the docs come up with a much - easier to fix - diagnosis than a stroke.
Of course, when the manager's away, the mice will play. Evidenced today. I had only one delivery and it was short-lived. I spent the day working around the yard, cleaning up other people's messes. Especially in the pipe yard. In fact, our alleged "yard man" makes more messes in there than anyone and doesn't clean up after himself. I fixed the yard this morning only to find he had moved a bunch of pipe to get at some other pipe - but then didn't put any of it back. He also unloaded a truck and just dumped it in the other yard instead of putting it away. It was the inside salesman, though, that were doing much of nothing. There is plenty for them to do and they are - not doing it. Our manager ... has trouble putting his foot down. I dunno, but we are going to lose customers if something doesn't change. I heard it yet again yesterday from a customer that named names and went off about them.
Slowly talking myself into another dog. Been looking at Danes - lots of pups. A few free adult Danes on there as well, but likely problem dogs that will need a lot of work. Not sure this place is a good fit for such an animal. And a rescue agency - but their Danes are older. 6, 7 years old. That 3/4's of their life done and gone. I understand life offering up problems to keep a large dog, but some of the things I have been reading? Lame excuses. All of the pups are costly. $300 to $1000. I will not spend a thousand dollars on a dog. No thanks. I might spend up to $200, I would possibly consider $300 if the dog just took my heart away, but a thousand dollars? Not. They haven't been able to get rid of their problem dog yet, can't get my own until they find a new home for it.
I have had numerous run-ins with that problem dog and it is now obeying me. I won't tolerate an out-of-control dog. I am no Milan but that thing was ridiculous. It still is. It's mainly because it's an outside only dog and it gets very little attention. So, I give it some. But, I am not going to train it, well just enough to obey me to sit down, shut up and chill. It now puts it's tail between it's legs, sit down with it's ears back and gives this pathetic look at me, lol. Proper training would take a lot of time and they are getting rid of it. Not my dog, not my problem. Unless they give up on trying to find a home for it.
Well, have to be at work early. New account. Contractor wants material there by 8 am at the latest. yes, well it's an hour and forty-five minute drive to get there. So, offa here!
The only thing now on the divorce front is that I called the sheriff's office today and they are going to arrange to have the divorce papers served to me tomorrow evening where I am living. Their hours and mine don't work as far as going and getting them. I'm at work before their office opens and quitting time is the same as theirs. Contemplating when to tell her I am getting my stuff back.
But, my manager is in the hospital, half his face is paralyzed. It was allegedly some contagious illness, but we are starting to have our doubts. It got worse today and he went to emergency room. I'm definitely not wishing this on him, but this happens to some people that have strokes as well. Who knows, hopefully the docs come up with a much - easier to fix - diagnosis than a stroke.
Of course, when the manager's away, the mice will play. Evidenced today. I had only one delivery and it was short-lived. I spent the day working around the yard, cleaning up other people's messes. Especially in the pipe yard. In fact, our alleged "yard man" makes more messes in there than anyone and doesn't clean up after himself. I fixed the yard this morning only to find he had moved a bunch of pipe to get at some other pipe - but then didn't put any of it back. He also unloaded a truck and just dumped it in the other yard instead of putting it away. It was the inside salesman, though, that were doing much of nothing. There is plenty for them to do and they are - not doing it. Our manager ... has trouble putting his foot down. I dunno, but we are going to lose customers if something doesn't change. I heard it yet again yesterday from a customer that named names and went off about them.
Slowly talking myself into another dog. Been looking at Danes - lots of pups. A few free adult Danes on there as well, but likely problem dogs that will need a lot of work. Not sure this place is a good fit for such an animal. And a rescue agency - but their Danes are older. 6, 7 years old. That 3/4's of their life done and gone. I understand life offering up problems to keep a large dog, but some of the things I have been reading? Lame excuses. All of the pups are costly. $300 to $1000. I will not spend a thousand dollars on a dog. No thanks. I might spend up to $200, I would possibly consider $300 if the dog just took my heart away, but a thousand dollars? Not. They haven't been able to get rid of their problem dog yet, can't get my own until they find a new home for it.
I have had numerous run-ins with that problem dog and it is now obeying me. I won't tolerate an out-of-control dog. I am no Milan but that thing was ridiculous. It still is. It's mainly because it's an outside only dog and it gets very little attention. So, I give it some. But, I am not going to train it, well just enough to obey me to sit down, shut up and chill. It now puts it's tail between it's legs, sit down with it's ears back and gives this pathetic look at me, lol. Proper training would take a lot of time and they are getting rid of it. Not my dog, not my problem. Unless they give up on trying to find a home for it.
Well, have to be at work early. New account. Contractor wants material there by 8 am at the latest. yes, well it's an hour and forty-five minute drive to get there. So, offa here!
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