Taking It Off

I think I am due for a haircut. Definitely a trim up of the beard. For the past few years I have been clipping my own hair, trimming that black, grey, and white forest down to a quarter-inch. the beard... well, it has changed shapes and styles through that time.Lately (read: the past year and a half) I have been letting the beard just grow. I think I have trimmed up the edges twice in that time, just to keep split ends from getting worse. So, today, I think I'll spend that 45 minutes in the bathroom with the clippers and get the job done. Afterwards, I am sure I will look older, as more grey/white will show than the black/brown.

I'm up a bit early today. Seems I woke around 3:30 this morning, and though I did give it the old college try, I just could not fall back asleep. I'm sure I will be awake until at least 7-8 before being able to nap a couple more hours... and that is if I am lucky.

Father's Day is still coming on Sunday. Middle Son is going camping with a friend. Oldest Son did text me that he was able to change up his work schedule and would be able to do dinner. I had asked him last week about it... trying to combine his birthday dinner (from mid-May) and Fathers Day. The Daughter and family still have no idea when they will be in town next, so am not expecting them. Though, it would be a great surprise!

The Reverend Mother has written several times over the years about how much she misses seeing her kids, or grandkids, and great-grandkids. Over the past 2-3 years, I think I am beginning to understand what she means. I have noticed it a bit more over the past 7 months with the oldest Son not living at home. Though the Daughter has been out of the house years longer. I miss my lil Doodad and I truly wished they lived closer.

Enough of that this morning....

PeacE

Hump Day

Wednesday is here. I could care less. I was out a bit later than I meant last night, which means I had a couple drinks more than I probably should have had. This morning I was sluggish - not hurting mind you, just sluggish. I went back to bed and napped until close to noon. Even now I still feel tired, at almost 2pm. Maybe it wasn't the drinking, but am coming down with something. I don't know.

Dr. saw the youngest yesterday. He is basically done with everything related to his arm break. Waste of my time and insurance for a 5 min appointment they could have called and did one of them video ones.

I think I am off to read for awhile.

PeacE

One Last Look

Here in about twenty minutes the youngest Son and I are headed to the doctor for his last visit for the broken arm. I don't completely understand why there has to be this visit, considering the cast came off about 3 weeks ago, or so. In my uneducated mind, I suppose it is to verify that the "holes" in his arm from the external pins have healed and not gotten infected. Either way, I am sure our portion to pay will be another $75 give or take for this visit. Our costs after insurance is dang near meeting our family deductible this year alone for this incident. The Wife says this should be the year I check about my knee and the possible surgery or replacement. Me, well, me and doctors don't care for each other. Rather, I don't care for them.

Father's Day is this coming weekend. The middle Son is more than likely going camping with a friends' family...so now were are down to three of us being home. Maybe we will still do a dinner out. I don't know.

I did pick up that little evap cooler from Home Depot for $40 the other day. Started it up yesterday. I spent too much on the dumb thing. Using it in the one room, with the door closed (mainly to keep animals out) I noticed maybe a five degree difference overall. This device is more of a "personal evap cooler" you would put at your work desk (or counter - whatever) and have blowing on you all the day. That is about the only major cooling I felt from it. I set it so it blows on the Wife while she is at home on the computer...

Guess that is about all I got today.

PeacE

Random Crap

It has almost been a week, and I still pretty much have nothing to write about. Or is it that I just don't feel like writing? Sometimes it feels more than the other. Other times not so much.

Father's Day is in a week. I have never been much of one for holidays, or any sort, and Hallmark holidays make me angry. For some strange reason, this year this holiday is making me feel weird. I have four kids: Two are pretty much grown and on their own - Two still at home. I contacted the Daughter (lives out of town) and they have no idea when they will next be up in our direction. the oldest Son, lives in town but works many hours, never knows if he will have the time off work, or won't be called in. Believe me, I contacted both this week. When asked why, I told them for Father's day... maybe we could do dinner out. Doesn't look like it is happening. And I feel a bit sad about it all. An Unusual feeling for me.

Thinking of going to Home Depot today to buy an evap cooler. It's one of those little ones that only cools like 45 sq. ft. but would help make a difference in one of our rooms. The Study/office was an add-on to the home (another bedroom) many years ago, is made of block, and is on the west side of the house so catches a lot of the sun in the afternoon/evening. We have a ceiling fan, and an oscillating fan in there, but it still gets mighty warm. The a/c for the house is not much use,  as this was added on to the existing ventilation, and basically has no out put for heating or cooling. Wintertime is nice back in the room (my opinion), The Wife and I kind had the same idea about this cooler last night... and for $40 bucks am willing to try to see if it makes just enough difference....

The middle son has been invited with a friend's family to go camping next weekend. He just graduated HS, so he'll pretty much go. But it made me think that I never took the family camping. Or fishing. Things my father and I loved to do when I was growing up. Most of that reason is because it is AZ and so hot in the summer. Fishing is a pain unless you drive 3/4 the state away and near a lake... otherwise all you do is burn and get heat stroke standing on the lake shore to catch tiny bluegill (if you are lucky). Camping you have to travel up-state to get the elevation to where it is cooler, and then you have to luck out to get a spot. Fires are prohibited most of the summer due to the dry weather. And as we all got older, it got harder and harder to do the physical things needed to get things together, etc.

I guess this week is going to suck. I'm feeling bad about stuff I didn't do with my kids. Feel bad because no one can get together just because. At least the Wife said I could buy my own Father's Day present online (need a new headphone/mic set for my Warcraft game).

PeacE

Another Monday

Monday has come around again, and as usual, I don't care for it. Not because I have to return to work (I wish) but just because it signals the start of another week, where something else will go wrong.

Saturday evening the Wife and I went out to dinner. We almost didn't. We decided on Longhorn Steakhouse near our home. Turning into the "Mall" entrance, we happened to see several fire trucks, and an electric company utility truck. Didn't think too much about it as where we were going was still 1/4-1/2 mile around the way. We get to the restaurant, and walk to the door. There we are greeted by the manager (I'm guessing) saying that the power was out, and they had no idea when it would be restored. Immediately we thought back to what we had seen, and thought, awww man.

Decided that since power was out around the restaurant area there, we would go across the freeway and try Outback. En route, one of the signal lights (near the Mall area) went out, but didn't change our idea to get out of the area. At Outback, we go in, and due to the social distancing measures, they were full, had an hour wait, and were not taking any more due to them closing at 8pm per the Governor's curfew rule. Sigh. We decided on Denny's a couple miles away. While heading in the direction, we passed Garcia's, and changed our minds. Luckily, we only had a 15 min wait, and they also were closing at 8pm. By the time we headed out the door after eating it was 7:50. Overall was not a bad night.

The weekend also found us out of black ink for the printer. The Wife ran up Staples about 6pm. they were already closed. Then looked online and found Walmart a few miles away had the cartridge we needed in stock, so drove there. Shortly after leaving they were back. Even though store hours said open til 8:30, they were closed as well (near 7:30-8:00) so no ink. Today finds me taking the youngest Son to a dental appointment at 10:30, then we are going to Staples to pick up the ink.

Bad things happening? Yeah. While at Outback on Saturday, the passenger side front door of my car, the lock/unlock toggle switch "popped out". Was able to put it back in place, but now it doesn't work at all. Trying the Driver side, it only unlocks, and won't lock any doors, so have to open, lock and shut all four doors. The key fob doesn't work at all (hasn't since I got it). I will be going to our regular car care place and seeing when they can get it in to get fixed. Be my luck will need two new sets of lock switch mechanisms.... sigh.

It's definitely summer here in AZ, with temps over 100 most days. Not bad as many years, but still too hot to do much in regards to outdoor things. The middle Son was nice and mowed the lawn this morning. I had been debating when to do it for the last week, and just couldn't get myself to do it because of the heat. Even if I did it in the morning.

Monday. It is just one of those days where you want to draw a circle on the desk and write "Bang Head Here" and do it repeatedly.

PeacE

Nothing of Interest

Not much to gripe about today. Aside from the 2am hour and I am awake and writing this....

Protests continue. Riots not so much. Lack of knowing what Congress is doing as media is focused on BS.

Just another day in paradise.

Kinda ticked this morning. I play World of Warcraft, and have in recent weeks joined a Facebook group, which in turn has a couple 'Guilds' on one of the 'worlds'. It's a 35+ age group, with many probably in more the 40s & 50s. Had some person get through the approval process to join, and they "stole" many items from our guild bank. It happens.... But then they took the time, to go through several of the members on the roster, and wrote small notes on several of them that were not very nice notes. Most of our notes are our names on FB, but many were changed to vulgar things. One of my characters was hit, I'm a "spazbot fucktard" so I'm just so impressed. This person also added "guild events" to the calendar like today is "Retard Day" and other similar type things. Needless to say, I am sure he won't be on for long once the GM sees this. Luckily one of the late night players caught most of this and was able to drop that character's access level for the time being.

That whole situation just makes me angry (like so much these days). By age 35 you would think you would be more of an adult than this. I mean, if I were angry at someone in our group, or at the group as a whole, I wouldn't stoop to this kind of activity. I'd probably write a couple notes to the GM and maybe say a few choice things in guild chat, then leave the guild. Why does one feel they need to deface/belittle people and steal things? Sigh.

Welp, I am off to bed again to try to get a couple more hours sleep....

PeacE

WTF?

This morning I am literally just shaking my head at the amount of fuckery going on in the world (not just the united States). I mean, this crap is so fucked up, I can't even wrap a sane thought around any of it, in such a way I could make a convincing thought of supporting, or denying it. A Conspiracy Theorist would be having orgasms over the possibilities that exist for all this crap happening in the world. I do have some general thoughts on some of these subjects... and I'm sure not here to convince anyone, as even I cannot make up my mind what is right and what is wrong it seems.

George Floyd, Minnesota, and protesters. This is probably 90% of my bitch today. Let's start world-wide. Why the hell are people "across the world" doing protests for this alleged incident that happened in the US? I think RM said something yesterday about seeing the same picture of protesters supposed somewhere here in the US, and then was supposedly in France. I recall this happening a lot with pics during the Covid issue - people on beaches, etc. Now, why are we protesting in many states of the US over this? And the looting? Because you are so upset over this issue you need to loot and destroy property, allowing the government to enforce curfews to give them more power? Sigh.

I am so mixed up about everything. Pictures of Floyd's "execution" are weird (license plate on police vehicle saying "POLICE"? Cops filmed not talking to each other, ambulance that no one called showing up and no one ever verifies that Floyd is dead). Just way too many weird things. I have even started seeing "articles" saying Soros and the Dems are behind a black man's execution because of Biden's gaffe recently. I wouldn't put it past them... but really?

Another that gets me is the protesting/looting going on all over the country. Dallas I have seen "alleged" pictures showing pallets of bricks sitting near intersections of where looting have occurred, as if placed there for use. Admittedly the pics show no signs indicating a construction company, or site, but is that the angle of the picture, or photo-shopped out? 

And last night started reading about how there was 700 earthquakes near Yellowstone Park in one day,or some such crap. I read more into that one, and discovered they experience 700-3,000 of them in the same time period... so it isn't as bad as media is making it. Speaking of...

Media. That's where much of this bullshit is coming from. Sparking things among the sheeple and mind-controlling mass amounts of people that can't think for themselves. Who controls the media now?

I want to not read/see media, but ow else am I to get any information on certain things? How do I know which to believe and which not to believe. What is fake news, which is bad reporting? Which is government controlled to force a certain viewpoint for a certain result?

Sigh. It really is tiring. Sorry for cussing so much RM.

PeacE