Next Time
I've been putting off this entry. Not like I've had ample opportunity to do it anyway but I still put it off when I DO get some free time. I guess I just hate catching up after so long, yet with each passing day, that task becomes worse.
So screw it, I'm just going to tell you about today.
I went to work, as I often do. My boss is going on vacation next week, which sounds cool but I'll be way too busy with stuff to really enjoy it. He's not really around much anyway to tell the truth. i did find out that this July 26, my birthday no less, I'll be on a plane to Minnesota to participate in some corporate training program. Staz was not pleased. She has always made my birthdays special, and I love her for all of the things she has done in the past. She'll just have to postpone this one a day or two.
After work, a short day which all Fridays are, I drove 3 hours to her parents house. The reason why I'll explain in a minute. But on the way, I picked up an unexpected passenger, a stray kitten of all things. As I told Staz later, I never would have thought to do this before I met her. See what she's done to me! But she was so cute, and so little, and so HUNGRY. She was very thin and full of ticks. So I picked her up and drove along. She was not quiet for the ENTIRE 3 hour trip. She meowed incessantly. It was funny at first, but wow it got annoying. She fell asleep all of two minutes. I tried to find the animal shelter at every local stop, and actually succeeded on a few occasions but they were always closed. She was with me until my very last stop, where they were ALSO closed, but a very nice gentleman offered to take her in while he was closing up.
It was a little anti-climactic, sort of like tying the world cup or kissing your sister you might say. I felt happy that she was off the street and had food and shelter. But at the same time, I knew that she still needed to be adopted, and that that may not happen. It left me feeling sort of empty. How do the people who work in rescues do it? Work so hard to save them when they may or may not find homes in the long run? It must be very tough.
Oh yeah. Why am I at my future in-laws? Especially when Staz is not? Cars. Her dad, the very smart and very capable former mechanic is someone I often consult in these matters. And today was no exception. Through a very thorough going over and diagnosis of Staz's car, he saved us several hundred dollars in unneccessary replacement parts. Money we can spend on some badly needed new tires.
And tomorrow? A quick trip to my unasked for and quickly-becoming undesired 2nd job. On a Saturday. Staz is not pleased. Neither am I. I know I have to say NO at some point. The time away is starting to affect our relationship, and no amount of extra income is worth that. I've really go to to learn to not be so damn nice to people.
Oh yeah, not to pat my back too hard but I finally upgraded our home PC to 1.0 ghz processor. Woo hoo. Don't laugh, it's the maximum our motherboard can support. Not exactly the blinding speed I was hoping for but at least it's good to see a G behind the CPU speed.