One of my customers owns a little motel down the road a ways. He’s from India. He asked me why people just toss their money at you when they pay for stuff ( Read more... )

Touka just got her first hair cut.

EEEEEE!! She looks so CUTE! Less like an oft-used dustmop, she looks just like a dog.

And you can tell she's a girl!....because her pink collar shows, and also apparently mini-schnauzers, once all the hiney ringlets are shaved down, have a naked ass.

For like the hundredth time I’ve banged my knee right on that spot that takes you straight down swearing like a mutherfucker!!

Great desk for what I paid for it; $40 at a thrift store. Mostly real wood, solid (as fuck!), lots of drawers….

And that's the problem. Drawers on both sides. Including my swing-out side.

I’m going shopping for a new desk ( Read more... )

Monday. My day off and another day of keeping appointments. Today, Mom’s mammogram, a home-site appointment with an agency that’s going to bring a piece of equipment that will measure her oxygen absorption rate while she sleeps, and a consultation with the a guy who will fill in for the regular gardener while he recovers from a stab wound.

When I ( Read more... )

Morna has been coughing occasionally for a few days and vomited Sunday night. Twice. While I was cleaning up one pile of vomit, Touka was eating the other. Naturally I yelled “No!“ and made a lot of gross-out sounds, but Touka ate the one faster than I could clean up the other. Even grosser, as I rushed to the garbage bin with a paper towel full of ( Read more... )

I’m bummed tonight….or what the Canadian Tater would call brooding. Brooding about some elements of my job.

Probably greater than 65% of our male customers make certain assumptions when they see me behind a liquor store counter.

• I don’t know what I’m doing and/or can’t do anything without their guidance.
• My boobs are his boobs.
• I like dirty jokes.
• I’m ( Read more... )

It’s been around 104F/40C for the past week.  Expected to be a little cooler today, around 97F/36C.

Hot.

Hotter in Orangevale, though, by about 10-15 F degrees.

I think of two things when it’s this hot; when Deven was in Iraq and it would get ridiculously hot, and my baby grandson Kirk, who has rather severe eczema. Then I don’t feel like complaining ( Read more... )

My MOTHER is obsessed with the Michael Jackson story.

Night and Day, it's all about Michael.

Every conversation starts with the latest on Michael. I come home from work, tired and achy, and get to hear all about the memorial, the investigation, the doctors, medications, kids, and the place she keeps calling Never-Never Land. My oldest brother called ( Read more... )

I just paid our local windows man to put new screens on half the windows in The Big Blue (I'll get the other half next month). The idea is to keep out the creepy crawlers when I crack open some windows to let the heat out while the swamp-cooler's running.

Well this morning I found a lizard in my room. And he's still in there, having escaped when I ( Read more... )

I broke down and hired a couple guys to take care of my yards. It wasn't easy to accept that I had to have help.

They'll mow and weed-eat and edge for $25/wk. I had a yard dude at mom's place for $20, but he was only one guy, and that was a few years ago, so I'm happy with the $25.

Right now the yards are little more than huge weedbeds, so I've ( Read more... )