Then and now

Here’s a picture of what used to be the cave. I took this pic yesterday.

Here’s a picture of the cave I took last September.

I took this yesterday snorkeling. The black and yellow fish had blue bottomfins that really didn’t come out in any of the pics I took.

And I stopped my car and took some pics of this ship. I’d like to spend a year on a ship like this. Maybe two!
I’m not sure what I’m going to do today, just play it by ear!

No more cave

This morning I shut off the alarm and went back to sleep. I woke up when the OI Girl called. She was surprised to catch me in bed, as it was a first.
This morning, I’m cleaning up the apartment, then leaving for work at 9:30 or so. Last night I went to a co-workers birthday party. They have a new house. It is nice, on the water. There was a lot of liquor at the party and I’m sure they went on all night. I just stayed a couple of hours, then left. There were some good chicken shish-kabobs!
Yesterday, after my post, I started doing better. I went snorkeling at lunch at the place where the cave is at Smiths cove. Guess what? I collapsed, no more cave. Glad I wasn’t in there when it fell! I was there before and saw it but this is the first time I posted about it.
Then I went back to work, and found out I was working today and it almost put me back in the shit, but I didn’t let it. It they want me to start working every Saturday for the rest of my life, then I want to take every Monday off for the rest of theirs. That’s what I’m going to ask for next week. Maybe I shoulda kept my mouth shut, for fear of jixning myself, but oh well.
After work I’m going to the beach.

Friday So what?

Something’s wrong with my attitude. I feel like I’m on the verge of loosing my temper and yelling. All my life I’ve been fighting anger, not so much anger, but the symptom of anger, loosing my temper and having a screaming fit. My dad always did that, I don’t want to be like him. Lately I’ve been doing really well. It has been over two months since I lost my temper and hollered at anybody. Not two months since I felt anger, just two months since I’ve acted on it. But now work is getting to me. Since my boss retired, it seems like I’m overloaded. Im May, I’m working every weekend, and a lot of evenings. I don’t get overtime or any compensation. I’m supposed to get compensation time, but have accrued hundereds of hours, and never get to use as much as I earn. I try to put on the brakes and not accumulate so much comp time, but I guess I don’t have any brakes. Anytime anybody else puts on the brakes, and refuses to do a job, I am the one they call to step in and do it. If a job needs to be done, I won’t say no. Yesterday after work I sat in traffic and as soon as I wallked in the door at home the phone rang, they have a problem with a computer and want me to come back. Luckily I was able to get it working over thephone, but not always.
But it’s not all everybody else’s faults either. My voice can sound angry and frustrated even when I’m not. My tone of voice when I explain something can make people angry sometimes. To me that’s confusing, I’m explaining something and all of a sudden they get pissed and I have no idea why. To me it seems to come out of the blue. I have problems dealing with people. I know how things work, but not how people work. People who know me must think I’m kind of a weirdo. Or an asshole. I’ve been called intimidating. It’s not as bad as I make it sound, but I have a situation I have to deal with at work. I have to do it without loosing my temper and screaming, like dear ‘ol dad. It stresses me out to see it coming.

I want my blog to be better

My blog is boring, Everyday it’s: I feel good, I feel bad, I went to the beach. Different versions of the same crap, day after day.

The past few days I feel like I’ve been forgetting a lot of stuff. Yesterday, I went to work, when I got there I realized I was working late and should have not come in untill about 3PM. So I came back home and went back in the canals after I went to the beach for a while. It sounds stupid, but I want to build a fort, like when I was a kid, a secret place back there. I’ve been clearing a path, and I had this long pole and I wanted to pole vault across a canal and use the pole as a one-way bridge to get across. But I was too chicken to try it. I stood there a long time and refused to jump. It wasn’t that far, and the water wasn’t that deep, but it was that nasty stinky mud type of water that you don’t want to fall into.
I’ll get across.
I got seriously overheated and dehydrated back in the canals. Hot, no breeze. I had water and drank it. But I felt kinda ill in the afternoon.

I think this blog sucks. It is boring. It’s like boiled chicken and plain white rice, no salt, no spices. Every day. day after day. Bland, mushy. I don’t know what I want it to be, but this isn’t it.

I think I’m in a really bad mood.

New Worlds Record!

I live in a small apartment complex, 5 apartments in a row, in a building that is probably smaller than your house. We all know each other and Guess what appeared out at our trashcans yesterday? A Christmas Tree! It has to be some kind of new worlds record, doncha think? I can’t wait to razz my neighbor whose tree it was. (I’ve been in 4 out of the 5 apartments, so I can guess fairly accurately where it came from. Unless somebody dumped it, but I don’t think so, because it is on the parking lot side of the trashcans, not the street side.
Yesterday I went onto work early and then forgot and stayed till the regular time. I could have left early.. After work, I went to the beach, but forgot my towell. Instead of walking the four minutes all the way back home, I just laid on the sand with nothing. It wasn’t too bad. My dog does it all the time.
Today is Wendesday, split shift day. Beach here I come!

Here’s what I’m trying to pass off as an abstract photo

Pettiest of Theives

Yesterday after my post I went out to my car to go to work and found it ransacked. Apparently I had left my door unlocked and one of the crackheads decided to check it out for stealable stuff. Taken was:
One towel, orange, large, like a blanket.
One hat, green (the one in my profile picture).
One underwater flashlight, black (About $60 in value) (A torch, to all you UK’ers)
So far that’s all I notice missing, maybe the hat or flashlight will turn up, maybe more was taken.
Not taken was a plastic bag full of coins that was on the floor that they apparently didn’t see, probably because it was dark and they didn’t have the brains to turn on the flashlight they stole. They probably would have wanted the coins more than anything else.

It’s more like a joke really, a punishment for leaving your door unlocked. It’s not the first time it’s happened to me, and it’s happened to all the people who live at my apartments. If you leave your door unlocked, odds are that someone will go through your car.We all think we know who it is. I’d lke to see some dummy walking down the street in my hat though. It was my favorite.

No Post Again

This is about the third day in a row I have nothing to post about. Today I go back to work. It seems like there was no weekend at all.

I the morning yesterday I went to the beach, Here’s a pic of my dog and his new umbrella. The beach was just getting good when it got to be time to go to the funeral, which lasted over 4 hours. There was an Asrtonomical Society meeting last night which I missed, because I just got home from the funeral and changed and could have made it out there late. I really wanted to go, because I wanted to show off my new binoculars. But I was starving, and went out to get food and ended up with beef ribs that were great!
I go out and go grocery whopping and spend $200 and not have any food. I buy condiments and frying pans and stuff. (I actually have only 1 frying pan, not a lot of cookware.) But I don’t buy any food. (That should be grocery shopping not whopping, I decided to correct it here not there.) I figure if I buy food, it would just go bad in the fridge becausse I never cook, but really, I wonder if I never cook because I never have anything cookable… (Excluding microwave burritos, I found some really old ones in the freezer)

Sundie

It’s a beautiful day, I am going to the beach this morning with the dawg. He has a new beach umbrella that gives him shade. Plus it provides me a place to tie him up!
This afternoon is a funeral. Yesterday I bought new shoes and a shirt for the funeral.
Lat night I thought of something really good to post about this morning but now I can’t remember what it was. I hate that when that happens.

Happy April Fools Day

No jokes here. I woke up at 5 and was listening to the radio, and it quit, so I got up and went in and fixed it. We play the BBC at night, and since the guy dropped the tree on the satellite dish, we are geting our BBC off the internet. Sometimes it drops out. The new dish is at customs, without an invoice, so I can’t get it out till I get one from the BBC guys, who were supposed to email it but I haven’t received it yet. I’m also working later today, an outside broadcast. The IO Girl is mad at me, I went to bed early last night (10 minutes till 10) and had my phone on silent and she was calling and calling. This morning she said that if something happened to me, she’d have no way of knowing. I called her before I went to bed, she was working late and didn’t anwer either, I left a message.
I felt OK till I talked to her just now. I’ll be better again in a few minutes.

Here is a picture that has nothing to do with nothing, I laughed when I saw it the first time.