I stayed up late last night with Caleb. Like past midnight late - that's really late for me - and then woke up tired and groggy this morning. Glad I took the day off work.
He was dealing with last minute stuff this morning and then we headed over to my ex's house to pick her up and then headed off to the airport.
U.S. Airways, charges for each checked bag. We got away with only paying for the large bag at $25 and then his smaller bag he was allowed to take on board the plane, so didn't have to shell out another $35, which was really good cause' I am counting my pennies right now.
Off the subject for one line of sentence, we should be getting our end-of-fiscal-year bonus within the next month or two, that will help immensely.
Well, we got his bags checked in, his boarding pass, all that stuff and then off to sit down and spend our last hour plus talking. At close to an hour before the flight leaves, Caleb was picking up his stuff and heading down the aisle. Mom was like, already? Yes, we had sat there talking for a long time, Caleb was obviously ready to be done with us and Phoenix and all of it - not in a bad way, he's a very respectful kid but he's totally psyched about going over there - so I said yes, it's time. He should be going through that security checkpoint at least an hour before the flight leaves, at least, that's how I do it. Make sure there are no issues and if there are, you have time to deal with it.
Remember the days when you could just go with the person all the way to the waiting area to board the plane? I wish it was still that way. If a person wants to bomb or blow up a plane or use a plane as a bomb and if they are motivated enough to do whatever it takes - such as 9/11 - they they are probably going to be able to do it regardless of security checkpoints. It might make it harder for them, but not impossible. Whatever, I'm sure that will never change now that it's implemented so deal with it.
Watched him go through security and then he walked right off without looking back, he was gone.
Took the ex home, we had a conversation about some things going on in people's lives - pretty serious stuff actually, nothing I am going to go into here - got her home and me? Got back here and sat down. I'm am exhausted from staying up too late last night. I have nothing pressing to do today, which is a good thing.
Still, I happened to look up at the clock a while ago and realized I could go outside and watch his plane taking off! I can't see the runway but you can definitely see planes leaving the airport and heading up into the sky. At 1:59, a US Airways jet took off, it looked like a 757 and it was at the exact time it should be there. Another plane on an adjacent runway had taken off a minute or so earlier, but it was a Southwest plane - you can pretty much easily identify the brand even from 4 miles away. I watched that plane flying up and up - then level off a bit - and then it disappeared into the clouds. There goes my son!
Momma cried, I had a light misting in my eyes. I realized I had gotten all - or most of it anyway - out of my system at church on Sunday. God really dealt with me about some things after I had started thinking him leaving, so the tears were on Sunday, today it was just cool to see my boy heading off into a new life, an unknown adventure, what does God have in store for him? Took me back to my missionary days when there were many times you didn't know what was going to happen next or how God was going to provide.
Lately, Africa has been put on my heart. I don't really know anyone in Africa, I know of some missions over there but don't know the people running them personally. My gosh, though, there has got to be more to life than clocking in 5 days a week at 6 am and doing the same thing, day after day after day. I know I shouldn't worry about such things because the Lord is our provider, but I think about going back to the mission field but then I think about my golden years and how it will be to be totally broke, no money, just getting social security checks to live off of, which aren't even a guaranteed thing anyway.
Well whatever. 2 more days of work and then a 3 day holiday weekend. I don't think I will do much of anything, I'm ready to just stay home and mess around the house and yard. Just checked, it's almost 3,000 miles to Hawaii. I was curious because it's a 6 hour flight, much of it over open water. I'm envious!! I want to fly overseas, too!
G'day.
ben
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Less than 24 hours now.
Will I get past this?
Of course.
Will my son be okay?
I trust in the Lord to watch over him.
Will I shed some tears at the airport?
You better believe it.
I don't care what other people think about
men crying, there are situations where it is
not only appropriate, it is warranted. I am
most certainly not a wimp/pussy-whipped,\
lemonade-bleeding, yellow-bellied sissy.
I don't mean that in a violent type of way, I
am a man and I am a man that cries when it
happens - which is infrequently but yes, it happens.
I love my son dearly. There are a handful of people
I love on this earth - no offense to long time readers,
many of you I really like : ) - but nothing even in the same
realm as a father and son. I know it may be more unusual
in this day and age of fatherless (well, they have fathers but
they are nowhere to be found) offspring to actually be
a man and a father that will openly state that I really
love my son, but so it is. He means the world to me. I
would gladly sacrifice my life for him if such were to ever
occur.
For me, this is a monumental step in my son's life. This is
parting of ways, so to speak, but in a good sense obviously.
It's the natural course of things, your offspring, at least in this
culture (other cultures a bit different I have read, heard and
experienced first hand). It is what should happen, I do not
believe your offspring should be living with you well into
their 20's, much less 30's or the rest of your life. They should
find their own way and they should go for it.
I can say that I instilled this into my son since he was a single
digit aged human. I always told him that if he wanted to live
with me after he got out of high school, he BETTER be going
to college or doing something that will lead to a career.
I think someday he will thank me for putting that into his head
and his heart. How can you venture out in life and experience it
for yourself if you keep yourself chained to your parents house
and their rules? I see all this nonsense going on with the younger
generation and I find it totally unbelievable.
My son has a good head on his shoulders and I am confident that he
will do well in life. That doesn't necessarily mean he will make a
lot of money, I don't measure success in life as being rich and owning
a lot of things, I would rather measure life in the sense of what you
did in obedience to the Lord's calling on your life and how you applied
it to your life.
This is the way I look at some things in life.
I am happy my son is going, in case anyone is getting the wrong idea.
It's just that my heart and my inner man has to get used to the idea
that he won't be at my house and us having long talks about the Lord
and the things going on in both our lives.
Ben
Will I get past this?
Of course.
Will my son be okay?
I trust in the Lord to watch over him.
Will I shed some tears at the airport?
You better believe it.
I don't care what other people think about
men crying, there are situations where it is
not only appropriate, it is warranted. I am
most certainly not a wimp/pussy-whipped,\
lemonade-bleeding, yellow-bellied sissy.
I don't mean that in a violent type of way, I
am a man and I am a man that cries when it
happens - which is infrequently but yes, it happens.
I love my son dearly. There are a handful of people
I love on this earth - no offense to long time readers,
many of you I really like : ) - but nothing even in the same
realm as a father and son. I know it may be more unusual
in this day and age of fatherless (well, they have fathers but
they are nowhere to be found) offspring to actually be
a man and a father that will openly state that I really
love my son, but so it is. He means the world to me. I
would gladly sacrifice my life for him if such were to ever
occur.
For me, this is a monumental step in my son's life. This is
parting of ways, so to speak, but in a good sense obviously.
It's the natural course of things, your offspring, at least in this
culture (other cultures a bit different I have read, heard and
experienced first hand). It is what should happen, I do not
believe your offspring should be living with you well into
their 20's, much less 30's or the rest of your life. They should
find their own way and they should go for it.
I can say that I instilled this into my son since he was a single
digit aged human. I always told him that if he wanted to live
with me after he got out of high school, he BETTER be going
to college or doing something that will lead to a career.
I think someday he will thank me for putting that into his head
and his heart. How can you venture out in life and experience it
for yourself if you keep yourself chained to your parents house
and their rules? I see all this nonsense going on with the younger
generation and I find it totally unbelievable.
My son has a good head on his shoulders and I am confident that he
will do well in life. That doesn't necessarily mean he will make a
lot of money, I don't measure success in life as being rich and owning
a lot of things, I would rather measure life in the sense of what you
did in obedience to the Lord's calling on your life and how you applied
it to your life.
This is the way I look at some things in life.
I am happy my son is going, in case anyone is getting the wrong idea.
It's just that my heart and my inner man has to get used to the idea
that he won't be at my house and us having long talks about the Lord
and the things going on in both our lives.
Ben
Monday, August 26, 2013
Shake up at work today.
Got in and found an email from the ops manager: So and So is no longer with the company.
He was an inside salesman. They have recently hired people to take inside sales positions, but they have no clue what they are doing yet, it's a pretty long learning process to learn the business and learn everything that goes into being and inside salesman.
So, this morning we find out the GM is coming to our branch - he doesn't do that often, maybe once every 6 months. We have no clue. I leave before he gets there, not a lot to do but we tend to get stuff done when it is in the system to get done. By the time I get back, he is already gone and the situation is that he is asking my manager if he will at least temporarily move back downtown and take over an inside sales position so that they aren't short-handed while these other guys get the training and get up to speed.
Ummm, well, that didn't sound very good. Especially finding out the main warehouse manager would come over to our place. I get along with him, I guess, but I find my current manager much better than him. When I find out who would take over the main warehouse, well that's even worse. That guy is - not very good. He thinks he knows everything and has that kind of attitude. He is not a good manager in terms of how to treat employees. But the biggest drawback to this dude is that he tells everyone no when they ask him if they can squeeze in a delivery. He doesn't even consider it, he just blankly tells them he can't do it. In a business like ours, we find ways to make things happen. The main branch has several vehicles, not just semis, that can be used for pickups and deliveries. There are numerous people that are authorized to use regular, company vehicles. It's a joke to just flatly say no, we won't do it.
But whatever, that's not my decision. My manager told the GM he would rather not move downtown but if they need the help, he will both run the store AND do inside sales work. He also offered that I could take a position down there - as I said I would but only if they don't lower my wages. Apparently it's some company thing that they may not be able to transfer me to such a position without lowering my wages, I would not agree to that so if that's the case, it's a non-starter.
So that's that. No idea what the final decision will be. I doubt, though, that it will take them long to make those decisions, once they start on something like this, they waste no time in implementing it. So we'll see.
Meanwhile, the countdown: 2 days. My son is gone for a year, leaving in 2 days. Not too much more time and right now he's hanging out with his mom at her house. Has been since yesterday morning. I do hope he will come back over here and spend a few last minutes with me, but that's not something I would ask him to do, just hoping.
That's it. Took a bunch of the Hostess I got from church yesterday to work - that all disappeared. I ate one small bag of it - too much calories in that junk, not worth eating too much of it, but there are 2 junk food junkies at work. I don't know how or why the church got all of that stuff - no clue. It's all the new stuff that the newly revamped Hostess is putting out. Hostess is back, though I don't know if they have the entire line of stuff going yet.
ben
Got in and found an email from the ops manager: So and So is no longer with the company.
He was an inside salesman. They have recently hired people to take inside sales positions, but they have no clue what they are doing yet, it's a pretty long learning process to learn the business and learn everything that goes into being and inside salesman.
So, this morning we find out the GM is coming to our branch - he doesn't do that often, maybe once every 6 months. We have no clue. I leave before he gets there, not a lot to do but we tend to get stuff done when it is in the system to get done. By the time I get back, he is already gone and the situation is that he is asking my manager if he will at least temporarily move back downtown and take over an inside sales position so that they aren't short-handed while these other guys get the training and get up to speed.
Ummm, well, that didn't sound very good. Especially finding out the main warehouse manager would come over to our place. I get along with him, I guess, but I find my current manager much better than him. When I find out who would take over the main warehouse, well that's even worse. That guy is - not very good. He thinks he knows everything and has that kind of attitude. He is not a good manager in terms of how to treat employees. But the biggest drawback to this dude is that he tells everyone no when they ask him if they can squeeze in a delivery. He doesn't even consider it, he just blankly tells them he can't do it. In a business like ours, we find ways to make things happen. The main branch has several vehicles, not just semis, that can be used for pickups and deliveries. There are numerous people that are authorized to use regular, company vehicles. It's a joke to just flatly say no, we won't do it.
But whatever, that's not my decision. My manager told the GM he would rather not move downtown but if they need the help, he will both run the store AND do inside sales work. He also offered that I could take a position down there - as I said I would but only if they don't lower my wages. Apparently it's some company thing that they may not be able to transfer me to such a position without lowering my wages, I would not agree to that so if that's the case, it's a non-starter.
So that's that. No idea what the final decision will be. I doubt, though, that it will take them long to make those decisions, once they start on something like this, they waste no time in implementing it. So we'll see.
Meanwhile, the countdown: 2 days. My son is gone for a year, leaving in 2 days. Not too much more time and right now he's hanging out with his mom at her house. Has been since yesterday morning. I do hope he will come back over here and spend a few last minutes with me, but that's not something I would ask him to do, just hoping.
That's it. Took a bunch of the Hostess I got from church yesterday to work - that all disappeared. I ate one small bag of it - too much calories in that junk, not worth eating too much of it, but there are 2 junk food junkies at work. I don't know how or why the church got all of that stuff - no clue. It's all the new stuff that the newly revamped Hostess is putting out. Hostess is back, though I don't know if they have the entire line of stuff going yet.
ben
So, I have Wednesday off - to see Caleb off on at the airport - and then a 3 day holiday weekend coming up. I'm not really looking forward to Wednesday, to be honest, just because of the significance of what is going to take place. I had always wanted at least 3 kids, would have helped mitigate this situation if such were the case. But it isn't and now the so-called "empty nest syndrome". Doesn't mean I'm not happy for my son in pursuing his dream, I just know how my heart felt yesterday at church when I started pondering this whole situation.
Anyway, the party on Saturday. I didn't go into it with the pics I posted because I didn't have the time when I posted it, lol. I was going somewhere, don't even remember what now. Anyway, I sat down at a table with 2 old friends and we started making jokes. Pretty funny stuff, actually, then a 4th person and another old friend I hadn't seen in ages sat down. After reacquainting ourselves yet more came and sat down with us. So it went until a man came up through a side door, squinting at me and a look of recognition.
I had no idea who this person was, but he definitely recognized me. I just sat there and said hello to him after he came up shaking my hand and spent two hours after that attempting to figure out who this person was. It finally came back to my memory. He used to go to the same church I went to now going on a decade ago - we weren't really close or anything so I think that why he had been put into the dark storages of the basement portion of my memory banks, lol.
But there was a completely different atmosphere there, much different than the last time I was there for a party for whatever reason, which was at least a year ago. The old abrasiveness of what had occurred at the church had rubbed off. The air wasn't charged with negativity and it was a cool party. I determined myself to make the rounds and speak with everyone that I knew from the past there, whether I wanted to or not, lol. Also met some new people that were there because of Caleb. On attempting to leave, I got hung up with yet 2 more people and we talked for at least another 30 minutes - which is when I remember it was my dad's birthday!
So I went over by where Caleb was, made the phone call and we both wished him a happy birthday and talked for a while.
That was it for the party, 4 hours of talking was enough for me. There was a good hour long portion of it where we took pics and then we all prayed over Caleb - and by that I mean just about every individual and couple there not only prayed over him, but gave him prophetic words. It was good. I recorded much of it and intend on putting it on a disc for Caleb to listen to if he so desires, there was a lot spoken over him and in such events like that, it's difficult to remember everything that was said.
And now? Monday morning, lol, another weekend cashed out and gone, there was NOTHING in the truck routing system for today as of the time I left Friday afternoon. I surely hope that something was put in there over the weekend, because there is NOTHING to DO at the shop at this point. We have dealt with everything, the place is clean and I have no desire to sit around on my @$$ all day, attempting to burn up 8 hours. I can't do that, I'll figure out something to do if such is the case, but I hope it isn't the case.
With that, I bid you a g'day.
ben
Anyway, the party on Saturday. I didn't go into it with the pics I posted because I didn't have the time when I posted it, lol. I was going somewhere, don't even remember what now. Anyway, I sat down at a table with 2 old friends and we started making jokes. Pretty funny stuff, actually, then a 4th person and another old friend I hadn't seen in ages sat down. After reacquainting ourselves yet more came and sat down with us. So it went until a man came up through a side door, squinting at me and a look of recognition.
I had no idea who this person was, but he definitely recognized me. I just sat there and said hello to him after he came up shaking my hand and spent two hours after that attempting to figure out who this person was. It finally came back to my memory. He used to go to the same church I went to now going on a decade ago - we weren't really close or anything so I think that why he had been put into the dark storages of the basement portion of my memory banks, lol.
But there was a completely different atmosphere there, much different than the last time I was there for a party for whatever reason, which was at least a year ago. The old abrasiveness of what had occurred at the church had rubbed off. The air wasn't charged with negativity and it was a cool party. I determined myself to make the rounds and speak with everyone that I knew from the past there, whether I wanted to or not, lol. Also met some new people that were there because of Caleb. On attempting to leave, I got hung up with yet 2 more people and we talked for at least another 30 minutes - which is when I remember it was my dad's birthday!
So I went over by where Caleb was, made the phone call and we both wished him a happy birthday and talked for a while.
That was it for the party, 4 hours of talking was enough for me. There was a good hour long portion of it where we took pics and then we all prayed over Caleb - and by that I mean just about every individual and couple there not only prayed over him, but gave him prophetic words. It was good. I recorded much of it and intend on putting it on a disc for Caleb to listen to if he so desires, there was a lot spoken over him and in such events like that, it's difficult to remember everything that was said.
And now? Monday morning, lol, another weekend cashed out and gone, there was NOTHING in the truck routing system for today as of the time I left Friday afternoon. I surely hope that something was put in there over the weekend, because there is NOTHING to DO at the shop at this point. We have dealt with everything, the place is clean and I have no desire to sit around on my @$$ all day, attempting to burn up 8 hours. I can't do that, I'll figure out something to do if such is the case, but I hope it isn't the case.
With that, I bid you a g'day.
ben
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Well, it was a pretty cool party last night. All the old = edgy - stuff from the past seemed to have disappeared with most of the people there. Meaning, all the judgementalism and finger-pointing and bad-mouthing must have gone away with the winds, because excepting for one person, I felt none of that there last night.
Saturday, August 24, 2013
I met with my pastor yesterday for a couple of hours at the church. I'm not going to go into the specifics of the reason we had met - it wasn't a bad thing or something negative, but it was on a personal level coming from both of us so just not going to go there on a website that anyone on earth can read.
It was a good meeting and I was happy to have had spent the time talking and praying with him.
Anyway, today is Caleb's big sending-off party. I'm guessing the whole thing will be a bit uncomfortable since it's my ex-pastor and his brother and their respective families throwing the party. Long time readers know oh-so-well what I went through with these people in the past, so not going to go into all of that again, either. I'm going for my son's sake and for the potential that there may well be people from the past that I haven't seen in a decade that I might get the opportunity to meet up with.
No guarantees there and no disappointments if not. I am half-hoping the meeting I had with my ex-pastor quite some time ago at the Starbuck's might be continued on today. Nothing too serious, just perhaps we can at least have some kind of agreeable relationship. Those people have been part of Caleb's life since he as born, literally. They were there for his birth - though I was the only one that got to go into the operating room and see him removed from my ex's belly, lol. They cut her open and I saw all of that stuff in there and I was very proud of myself that I didn't fall on the floor and pass out. They weren't quite so sure, I had apparently turned white as a sheet seeing all the blood; guts; whatever all of that is that was in there. I flatly said no, I am okay, I will make it through this and I did.
But they were there for him his entire life. I'm sure he probably thinks of them as god-parents. I certainly don't hold it against Caleb for having the kind of relationship with them, but from my end of things, I doubt I will ever see the kind of relationship we had - or I thought we had anyway - before the church fiasco/nightmare. That whole point in time and the events that took place during that time just changed my view of them completely. I forgive them but I don't have to be close to them. But who knows. There are others that will be there that will also "charge" the air a bit.
But I'm still looking forward to it. Many of them sowed into Caleb's trip - that's Christianeze for giving money to, lol - and I am happy that they helped him out. Caleb is still about $600 short but I guess he will be allowed to go, anyway, but he will still need to pay that money eventually.
So that's pretty much today. I have done cleaning around here and normal Saturday stuff, other than that, just passing the time until it's time to go to the party. I am one of those punctual people that always shows up early - but I am going to show up 10 to 15 minutes later than the stated start time. On purpose, yes. I have my reasons and I figure it's a good plan, lol.
Oh, forgot, guess I better get outside soon and get the pond filters cleaned, never-ending chore during the summer when the fish are eating a lot and - clogging up the filters with their waste, lol. Winter is MUCH easier, they eat very little and the filters don't hardly ever clog up. The benefit of summer is the fish grow - and grow - and grow. The big ones I wish I could put a stop to their growing, too much bigger and they are going to have to be moved to someone else's pond somewhere - but the small ones can grow several inches in a good summer season if they are fed enough.
Well, better get with it. Got busy talking to a minister in Africa - funny the things you can do on the internet nowadays.
G'day.
ben
It was a good meeting and I was happy to have had spent the time talking and praying with him.
Anyway, today is Caleb's big sending-off party. I'm guessing the whole thing will be a bit uncomfortable since it's my ex-pastor and his brother and their respective families throwing the party. Long time readers know oh-so-well what I went through with these people in the past, so not going to go into all of that again, either. I'm going for my son's sake and for the potential that there may well be people from the past that I haven't seen in a decade that I might get the opportunity to meet up with.
No guarantees there and no disappointments if not. I am half-hoping the meeting I had with my ex-pastor quite some time ago at the Starbuck's might be continued on today. Nothing too serious, just perhaps we can at least have some kind of agreeable relationship. Those people have been part of Caleb's life since he as born, literally. They were there for his birth - though I was the only one that got to go into the operating room and see him removed from my ex's belly, lol. They cut her open and I saw all of that stuff in there and I was very proud of myself that I didn't fall on the floor and pass out. They weren't quite so sure, I had apparently turned white as a sheet seeing all the blood; guts; whatever all of that is that was in there. I flatly said no, I am okay, I will make it through this and I did.
But they were there for him his entire life. I'm sure he probably thinks of them as god-parents. I certainly don't hold it against Caleb for having the kind of relationship with them, but from my end of things, I doubt I will ever see the kind of relationship we had - or I thought we had anyway - before the church fiasco/nightmare. That whole point in time and the events that took place during that time just changed my view of them completely. I forgive them but I don't have to be close to them. But who knows. There are others that will be there that will also "charge" the air a bit.
But I'm still looking forward to it. Many of them sowed into Caleb's trip - that's Christianeze for giving money to, lol - and I am happy that they helped him out. Caleb is still about $600 short but I guess he will be allowed to go, anyway, but he will still need to pay that money eventually.
So that's pretty much today. I have done cleaning around here and normal Saturday stuff, other than that, just passing the time until it's time to go to the party. I am one of those punctual people that always shows up early - but I am going to show up 10 to 15 minutes later than the stated start time. On purpose, yes. I have my reasons and I figure it's a good plan, lol.
Oh, forgot, guess I better get outside soon and get the pond filters cleaned, never-ending chore during the summer when the fish are eating a lot and - clogging up the filters with their waste, lol. Winter is MUCH easier, they eat very little and the filters don't hardly ever clog up. The benefit of summer is the fish grow - and grow - and grow. The big ones I wish I could put a stop to their growing, too much bigger and they are going to have to be moved to someone else's pond somewhere - but the small ones can grow several inches in a good summer season if they are fed enough.
Well, better get with it. Got busy talking to a minister in Africa - funny the things you can do on the internet nowadays.
G'day.
ben
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
New ice machine finally arrived at work on Monday. I spent the last day installing the thing. We should have gotten one several years ago when the store opened, but for whatever reason it never happened. Well walaah.. All the free ice I will ever need. I can take a cooler to work with me, fill it up with ice at the end of the day and bring it home. We go through a LOT of ice in my house, the automatic ice maker in the big refrigerator cannot keep up with the demand.
Which doesn't matter to me, I don't proclaim "free ice" to prospective tenants, if it's there, great, help yourself, if not, go buy some. But, still, I can now bring home large quantities of ice on a daily basis as long as the machine is full. Contractors that find out we have that machine may come in in the morning to fill up their ice chests, that's fine, they won't come in the afternoon to do so. I had just gotten the thing running before I left yesterday, so I can't say decisively that it can put out large quantities of ice in a short period of time, but, the thing had already dumped it's first load in less than 20 minutes and was freezing it's next one when I left.
I am optimistic that the entire thing will be full when I arrive at work this morning. It will be a new habit to get used to - taking home the ice, but one that I will readily grab onto. The water is filtered, too, meaning the ice should have no "taste" to it at all.
Well, that was it for this morning, lol, it's time to be off to work - which has been painfully slow as of late.
G'day.
ben
Which doesn't matter to me, I don't proclaim "free ice" to prospective tenants, if it's there, great, help yourself, if not, go buy some. But, still, I can now bring home large quantities of ice on a daily basis as long as the machine is full. Contractors that find out we have that machine may come in in the morning to fill up their ice chests, that's fine, they won't come in the afternoon to do so. I had just gotten the thing running before I left yesterday, so I can't say decisively that it can put out large quantities of ice in a short period of time, but, the thing had already dumped it's first load in less than 20 minutes and was freezing it's next one when I left.
I am optimistic that the entire thing will be full when I arrive at work this morning. It will be a new habit to get used to - taking home the ice, but one that I will readily grab onto. The water is filtered, too, meaning the ice should have no "taste" to it at all.
Well, that was it for this morning, lol, it's time to be off to work - which has been painfully slow as of late.
G'day.
ben
Monday, August 19, 2013
I've Been Subpoenaed
The City Prosecutor just won't give it a rest.
I disagree with the man about putting the lady that owns the 3 dogs that mauled my Great Dane - Duke - on probation for 3 years. He refused to bring it down to a maximum of 1 year. He states that he wants "something" on the record so that if it happens again, he can get much more aggressive with prosecution.
Well I'm not out for blood. It's a dog, he was treated, he got better, it's over. Would have those dogs attacked a human like that? I have no idea. I can't foresee what I don't know. A great number of dogs will attack other dogs and never consider humans as something they would like to bite into.
Granted, duke had dozens and dozens of bites all over his body. His left ear had been chomped so badly it was loaded with staples to put it together again. I get it, it was bad. The dog was bloody from head to toe. There was blood all over my car seat after I had taken him to the vet. Again, it's a dog and dogs get over it.
What I want and what is fair and reasonable is her to pay Duke's vet costs. Pets are considered chattel, there is no getting pain and suffering for a dog. He was in pain and he definitely suffered. He limped for days after that attack. He wasn't feeling good and I gave him aspirins for several nights to help. Again, it's a dog. Yes, if I would have been there, I would have probably attempted to kill all 3 of those dogs. These are animals and I do not believe any jury on earth would find me guilty of whatever charge might be trumped against me if such were to happen.
The police? The prosecutor? They are claiming this lady was trying to clean all the blood off of them to conceal what those dogs had done to my dog - amazing that, allegedly, those dogs were also covered with Duke's blood - when they went to her house to confront her on it. This is their beef with this situation, though the prosecutor has said nothing about that to me, I found that out from the lady herself. My only problem with this lady - which is substantial - is that she will give me money and then disappear for weeks. She doesn't give me that much: after all this time I have received around $80 from her.
Court date set for next month, I have no choice but to go. I don't know what the judge is going to say. I don't know what is going to happen though I am pretty sure they are going to attempt to get me to agree to all of this. I will say no to 3 years probation. If they won't bring it down, I will refuse and they will have to drop the case. Let's be reasonable.
First day back at work, getting off the last subject, after being off for 9 days. I'm going to tell you right now that I could easily get used to being able to sleep until 7am instead of having an alarm blaring in my ears at 4:30 am. But in the job I am at now, that's not going to happen. Whatever the case, I sat down after getting in the door - I am always the first one there - and go onto email. Manager will be gone today, no clue who is taking his place. Turns out, the Operations Manager.
Well for the most part, the Ops Manager and I get along pretty well. He came in and we shot the s*** for a while before I went off to get some things done - though in terms of deliveries, unbelievably slow day. I got back from that and..........waaaaalaaaaaah.............our new ice maker had arrived. This is a commercial scal ice maker. Every new store is supposed to have one, ours didn't get one but now finally, after several years, one shows up on a freight truck. Why do I want a commercial-grade ice maker? Because, we live in the desert. I am at hot construction sites. I want ice at the shop for when I am outside working. And to be quite honest: at the end of the day? Fill up a cooler and take it home!
I emailed my pastor to discuss a bit with him about his stance on praying for people after listening to his sermon yesterday. Turns out he meant nothing of the sort. He understood after I explained to him how that may have come off. I am guessing he is going to re-explain all of that this at Sunday's service.
Lots more, but enough for one entry.
ben
I disagree with the man about putting the lady that owns the 3 dogs that mauled my Great Dane - Duke - on probation for 3 years. He refused to bring it down to a maximum of 1 year. He states that he wants "something" on the record so that if it happens again, he can get much more aggressive with prosecution.
Well I'm not out for blood. It's a dog, he was treated, he got better, it's over. Would have those dogs attacked a human like that? I have no idea. I can't foresee what I don't know. A great number of dogs will attack other dogs and never consider humans as something they would like to bite into.
Granted, duke had dozens and dozens of bites all over his body. His left ear had been chomped so badly it was loaded with staples to put it together again. I get it, it was bad. The dog was bloody from head to toe. There was blood all over my car seat after I had taken him to the vet. Again, it's a dog and dogs get over it.
What I want and what is fair and reasonable is her to pay Duke's vet costs. Pets are considered chattel, there is no getting pain and suffering for a dog. He was in pain and he definitely suffered. He limped for days after that attack. He wasn't feeling good and I gave him aspirins for several nights to help. Again, it's a dog. Yes, if I would have been there, I would have probably attempted to kill all 3 of those dogs. These are animals and I do not believe any jury on earth would find me guilty of whatever charge might be trumped against me if such were to happen.
The police? The prosecutor? They are claiming this lady was trying to clean all the blood off of them to conceal what those dogs had done to my dog - amazing that, allegedly, those dogs were also covered with Duke's blood - when they went to her house to confront her on it. This is their beef with this situation, though the prosecutor has said nothing about that to me, I found that out from the lady herself. My only problem with this lady - which is substantial - is that she will give me money and then disappear for weeks. She doesn't give me that much: after all this time I have received around $80 from her.
Court date set for next month, I have no choice but to go. I don't know what the judge is going to say. I don't know what is going to happen though I am pretty sure they are going to attempt to get me to agree to all of this. I will say no to 3 years probation. If they won't bring it down, I will refuse and they will have to drop the case. Let's be reasonable.
First day back at work, getting off the last subject, after being off for 9 days. I'm going to tell you right now that I could easily get used to being able to sleep until 7am instead of having an alarm blaring in my ears at 4:30 am. But in the job I am at now, that's not going to happen. Whatever the case, I sat down after getting in the door - I am always the first one there - and go onto email. Manager will be gone today, no clue who is taking his place. Turns out, the Operations Manager.
Well for the most part, the Ops Manager and I get along pretty well. He came in and we shot the s*** for a while before I went off to get some things done - though in terms of deliveries, unbelievably slow day. I got back from that and..........waaaaalaaaaaah.............our new ice maker had arrived. This is a commercial scal ice maker. Every new store is supposed to have one, ours didn't get one but now finally, after several years, one shows up on a freight truck. Why do I want a commercial-grade ice maker? Because, we live in the desert. I am at hot construction sites. I want ice at the shop for when I am outside working. And to be quite honest: at the end of the day? Fill up a cooler and take it home!
I emailed my pastor to discuss a bit with him about his stance on praying for people after listening to his sermon yesterday. Turns out he meant nothing of the sort. He understood after I explained to him how that may have come off. I am guessing he is going to re-explain all of that this at Sunday's service.
Lots more, but enough for one entry.
ben
The worst part of extended time off vacation: sitting here half awake, downing coffee, wishing it were this afternoon so I could be home, off work and not doing much of anything, lol.
Church was interesting yesterday. Number one, they had the lights off over the congregation. I guess people like it, I don't. It puts me to sleep. 2, the pastor made a rather startling announcement that he had almost quit the church - ie:, the church would have folded, due to disappointment and not seeing things go the way he had hoped and then 3, gathering from his sermon, he is not interested in praying for people individually and you need to do that for yourself.
Biblically speaking, seeking the Lord is both an individual and a corporate activity. He had, however, asked if he could pray with me about a situation last week to which I had said yes. It just turned out that we both had things come up and didn't have time for it. It was kind of strange hearing that coming from a pastor of a church yesterday and I am going to have to rethink whether I want to continue with this church. No hurry on that, though, let things play out and see what happens.
I dunno sometimes.
Whatever the case, time to be off to work.
G'day.
ben
Church was interesting yesterday. Number one, they had the lights off over the congregation. I guess people like it, I don't. It puts me to sleep. 2, the pastor made a rather startling announcement that he had almost quit the church - ie:, the church would have folded, due to disappointment and not seeing things go the way he had hoped and then 3, gathering from his sermon, he is not interested in praying for people individually and you need to do that for yourself.
Biblically speaking, seeking the Lord is both an individual and a corporate activity. He had, however, asked if he could pray with me about a situation last week to which I had said yes. It just turned out that we both had things come up and didn't have time for it. It was kind of strange hearing that coming from a pastor of a church yesterday and I am going to have to rethink whether I want to continue with this church. No hurry on that, though, let things play out and see what happens.
I dunno sometimes.
Whatever the case, time to be off to work.
G'day.
ben
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