time in the big house

I've never been to prison.

Actually, I have, I've been in the Ashtabula County Jail twice. Once when I was a little kid I got busted stealing a bouncy ball from Ben Franklin, and the second was a school field trip. Kind of a messed up field trip.

Mom was so pissed about the bouncy ball that she put me in the car and took me to BF to make give the ball back and apologize. I was a sobbing blithering idiot doing it, then she took me a block over to the jail and asked the nice guard to let me into a cell and scare the hell out of me. The guard, sharing my mother's appreciation of shock punishment for children, agreed.

I was taken into an empty cell near booking with a CO and read the riot act. I took it as well as a 10 year old could take it, still sobbing and being a blithering idiot. I'm sure Mom was just outside the door waiting and watching to make sure the big bad CO didn't go too far, at least I hope she would've been. I remember the guy was smoking and ashing in the stainless toilet. The walls were beige (of course) and I think the plastic mattress was blue, why I remember is beyond me.

It did scare the hell out of me, but I still tried shoplifting things over the years.

The f'ed up part is, the CO that had me in the cell ended up marrying Mom. You all know him as Larry.

It's funny really. So many people think they are writers but really they just ramble on with words and sentences that look like they tried to copy something from a manual or spec table. Sometimes you stumble on the occasional blog who's author is intuitive, creative or artsy and can write something that you want to read or makes you laugh. I don't try to be either, my thoughts are my thoughts.

My previous job had me writing technically most all the time. Odd thing is I never had any formal training for it, I was just able to pick it up as I went. I've thought about that from time to time, about how I've been fortunate to have the opportunities I've had and make what I've made out of life. I didn't follow the road of the typical high school kid; off to college after graduation then a job in my field. How often does that happen, anyway?

I like me now, and that's really all that matters.

Customer Service Workers of the World Unite!

Customer Service Workers of the World Unite!

I love the next blog button, this guy seems to have some isues and a funny spin on them. I hope he keeps posting.

I'll get all Lou Ferrigno on your ass

OK, so I probably won't get all hulk like, but the sterioids the doctor prescribed along with the antibiotic sure kicked the shit out of my poison ivy.

Thank god, now if I'm lucky, it'll scar.

weekend fun

can be summed up with these

a good time is being had

here at my buddy chris' house, we are partying and drinking and eating and bacci'ing

i am loving it, am tipsy and have hijacked his pc for this post.

i have lots of crooked pix to post later

peace!

my brain hurts

chad? it's raining and your windows and sunroof are open.

thats how audient woke me up about an hour ago. now i'm home and ready to fall back into a fitfull slumber as i've some heartburn and a brain-ache.

thanks for the meat on a stick, good cheap vodka and scotchy.

ow

alien larvae

the bastard should be shot

UPDATE!! A nice lady at the vet, where the kitten was headed to for it's trip to a better place, took it in and will nurse it along. A happy ending indeed! The vet said the little thing was only a day or two old.




I was just on a call, and a construction guy called me over and showed me this kitten. It was in a plastic shopping bag, it still has it's umbilical cord. It's eyes weren't open so it can't be but a week old. It's off to a better place, but while I was holding it, it was trying to suckle the heel of my hand.

Why are people so fucking ignorant?

I don't get it.

The Fed says the economy is slowing; so the Dow goes up 160 points, but the dollar looses value. The CPI is up .3%, not the .2% they thought it would be, but that doesn’t consider energy prices.

So, the stock market is up, but the investors really aren’t making as much money as they thought because the dollar weakened, and the price of oil will go up because the dollar weakened.

And with these tid-bits, how is good news that the Fed might not bump up rates again in a few months?

nothing of import really

in the last few days, not a whole lot has happened.

ryan is of to florida, he left yesterday. he decided to head down there to give life a try somewhere else. I wish him the best and i'll miss him. inspite of the fiasco we had a while back, i'll miss him. he's my brother, come on.

it's hot, damn hot. hot enough for some crotch pot cooking. hot enough i buzzed my hair off.

the truck is good, the sabb is good, the mazda still sucks. i swung by the saab dealership to get my plates and title work and had hem put a new hood emblem on. they washed my car, all they did was put a hood emblem on and they washed my car. they better have, the friggin emeblem was $46.

any one wanna buy a mazda? it's got new tires and the a/c works!

if i could find the person that crapped so much stuff in this house, i'd give em a smack. there is a pile of stuff next to the drive. i thought it was all leaves with some weeds and crap growing up through it. nope. well there were elaves, but under the leaves was a pile of dirt. a wet pile of dirt. i tried to dig it up and since it hot as balls, i stopped.

time for a tall glass of iced tea.

3 and counting

3 days with rain outside and no leaks inside.

shazam

bad truckstop chinese

work took me to ashatbula today to do an estimate.

i was reminded that the people in astraybula are the same as they ever were. Having worked in the cleveland area for that last 5 plus years, my reasons to visit bula have been nill, and then only to visit family really.

i saw more k cars and rusty grand ams with plastic windows than I have in a year out here. a girl with abnormally short arms and missing teeth gave me the stink eye, maybe because i was staring. a lady paused to finish a cigarette before going into the building i was looking at and i noticed she was fat, had a support bandage on one leg, was wearing slippers, had a biggie frosty in the other hand and dress that looked like a mu-mu.

ashtabula only has itself to blame for the recent stagnation it's been experiencing. ashtabula, the only city in the world, the WORLD, to have an elected city manager and the last one was named "augie" who hadn't graduated high school, and he won hands down then quit before his term was up. couldn't see that coming?

so on my way out of town, i realized at 2:40 i hadn't had my afternoon grub. i decided that magic dragon from flying j was the answer. not sure why, but i did. wish i hadn't.

so for $5.95 i had me some governor's chicken, fried rice and an egg roll with a big soda. the chinese was in a big styrofoam container. so irested the container on my chest, ate while driving at 70 mph with my knee and answering e-mails on the blackberry.

guess i was a little dummer when i left. that's dum, P R K, dum.

fixt roof

as you can see, there was much going on at the new KNOB HQ. the roof, it don't leak no more. and with the nasty storms that blew though today i don't mind saying that I think I did a good job.

much thanks to the helpers, my brother, steph and the dave. without ya'll it wouldn't have been done as quick or as fun

not to mention my rad truck, it hauled all the crap without a care in cleveland.

now on to the rest of the interior stuff, and oh yeah, siding the dormers. not sure what to use, cedar or vinyl...

roof n stuff

tomorrow i will embark on fixing my roof ,finally!

sunday an impromtu get together will be held for my bro, he's moving to FLA next friday.

swing by if'n you want

home

i just got home a little bit ago.

it's so nice to come to my home. i know it's mine and I can do with as I please.

i'm so happy i bought a house, and now i have my own Home.

sweetness for only $600

i bought a 1981 chevy 3/4 ton pick up, four speed manual (3 with the granny gear) and an in line six.

body is good for the year, it's been painted kind of robin's egg blue, and rocks. a brake is hanging up, but that didn't slow her down on the freeway tonight.

i'll call her sweetness

oh, and the basement has no more linoleum on the the one side.

working hard

today i worked my tail off in the house.

there are no more walls in the basement seperating the kitchen from the bathroom from the laundry from the furnace from the water heater.



there is no more stupid island in my kitchen with cabinets above it nor a dishwasher. the dishwasher is in the living room. i replaced the sink base and sink and counter the sink is in, moved the stove next to the sink and the fridge where the stove was.



there are no more crazy ramblings and green stripes in the living room.

in all, three pick up truck loads of stuff went out of here.

chad's fungus emporium in the basement is closed.

many many thanks to mom, larry, ryan, bella and oberon for all their help. it's starting to feel like the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a freight train heading right at me.

pics came