It's Friday! (For me.) All I have to do is get through this night and it's all good in da 'hood. I'm ready for the weekend. I need to get some wood pellets for the ferret cage, so I can clean that. Hopefully, Menards will have some in stock. (They're not a summer item.) I'm going to be annoyed if they don't. I can buy wood pellets at the pet store, certainly... $10 for a 10 lb bag. Therein lies the problem. At Menard's I can get 40 lbs for about... $4. So. Menard's better damned well have some in stock. (They did last year, but that doesn't mean they will this year.) If they do, I'll buy... 6 or 8 bags and be good till late fall.
If not?
Well... we'll have to come up with a plan B, I guess.
Work
Eh. Nothing at all happening there. They were kinda busy in the rest of the building, at least early on, last night. So nobody even came over to talk to me until 0130... and only then cuz I had to have control call Nick... #1, my radio battery was dead and #2, I really had to pee. (I wasn't paying attention to the radio, so I didn't realize they were busy until I called control. And the reason that I don't pay attention to the radio, unless they call me directly, is that I can't respond to anything anyway... so there's really no point.)
I watched Letterman who had Emma Watson from the Harry Potter movies on... (I believe Daniel Radcliff will be on tonight...) I'm not sure Emma knew what to do with Dave. He was nice to her, of course, but... this is Letterman, after all. She's going to turn out to be a pretty decent looking kid, me thinks. Then I watched... Ferguson... cuz he amuses me to no end. He had Julie Chen and Michael Ian Black on. (I really like Michael Ian Black... another kid that amuses me greatly. )
After the late night TV talk show business, I moved on to The Lost Boys. I love that movie. It's a vampire movie and I hate vampires... but they kill the vampires, so I love the movie. Besides that, it's a funny vampire movie. "Look at your reflection in the mirror. You're a creature of the night Michael, just like out of a comic book! You're a vampire Michael! My own brother, a goddamn, shit-sucking vampire. You wait 'till mom finds out, buddy!" How can you not like a movie with lines like that? Seriously.
The Lost Boys ~ My brother's a vampire scene...
After The Lost Boys, I started on the Springsteen's complete video antholgoy 1978-2000. (More correctly, it's about 1975 to 2000, best as I can tell.) I got through the first disc... guess I'll start the 2nd one tonight. After that I don't know what. I guess I'll have to find some more dvds to watch... or something. I dunno.
Tomorrow
Hopefully, I'll be buying wood pellets at Menard's at some point. Plan to stop at WalMart on the way home and get a 2nd controller for the PS3 and a game. Want to get a 2nd controller so me & Zach can play war games together. Go blow shit up and kill pixelated peeps. You know... all that bonding shit.
I asked him if he wanted to drive me into Menard's and he said he didn't know. Whatever. Thought he might like the chance to drive, for giggles. He seems more interested in sleeping in, though. Lazy bitch. Doesn't matter to me, but if I were 15 and someone was offering to let me drive somewhere, I'd have been all up on it... and I'd been driving for 4 yrs (not alone most of the time, but driving) by that time.
So. We'll see how strong the desire to drive is... he'll either drag his ass outta bed or he won't. I gotta go in either way, so it matters not to me.
Mom should get her truck tomorrow. She was supposed to get it today, but they didn't get it finished in time, so she'll have to pick it up tomorrow. I suppose she was probably disappointed... or maybe not... who knows. I know something like that would disappoint me... but we're a little different when it comes to vehicles, so there ya go.
Probably won't do much more than those two stores and clean the ferret cage before meandering off to bed. Kinda depends upon how tonight goes, I suppose. I've had a headache wanting to get started most of the day. There are storms popping up here and there and the humidity is through the roof. My body knows this shit even when I'm sleeping inside in the air conditioning. It wants to revolt. It's doing ok now... but shit can change.
The Rest Of The Weekend
Supposed to go out with Kate on Saturday to Red Lobster. So that'll be fun. Finally get a chance to sit down and chat with her a bit. We don't have a lot of opportunity to do that these days. Just get in a few words in passing in the mornings if we happen to run into each other and that's about it.
Man, I miss the days of working with/haning out with Kate. (And Brent, Brad, Malachi, Jeff & Levi... back in the day when the job was actually fun, despite it's retardedness.) Now there's just... no fun involved in the job at all. There was a lot of suck about the job back in the day, a lot more stress than at this new facility, but... we had so much more fun there. I miss those days quite a bit, honestly.
Other than hanging out with Kate, though, I don't really have anything on my agenda. Maybe me & the boy will just play video games all weekend. Save the free world and shit like that.
Vacation Photos
I didn't visit anyone last night cuz I wanted to get these damned photos finished so I could post them... and finish them I did! (amazingly enough!) I wasn't sure I would get them all finished last night... there were actually about 90+ photos more than I thought there were... eeeek. But... I got 'em all done. Expect photos for the next several days, aight? (Seriously... there are a few hundred of them.)
Here's the first (actually second, the first was posted a while back.) batch... enjoy!
Cavern formation... looks like a many toothed monster!
More formations... almost a column... but not quite.
They call this formation the lion's tail, for obvious reasons.
For some reason, this formation didn't have a name... it should have... I've named it The Boobie.
This formation was still forming... it was wet & slippery looking.
Cactus of some variety... I think this is the one that made flowers that taste like strawberries or some such thing.
Weird little cactus.
Larger shot of the weird little cactus.
Ocotillo! I love these things.
Odd vegetation, this ocotillo.
View from the Cavern area.
Same thing, looking another direction.
Little cactus flower.
A lizardy friend.
Same character.
A rather dead snake that my mom insisted I take a photo of... she was certain this was a rattlesnake. (It's not. Not even close.) I told her she wouldn't know a rattlesnake if it jumped up and bit her in the ass.
Yet more cactus.
What do you call these... milk weeds? I forget. I just thought they looked cool.
Today's Video
Magic Slim & The Tear Drops ~ Going To Mississippi
I'm ready for the weekend. I need to get some wood pellets for the ferret cage, so I can clean that. Hopefully, Menards will have some in stock. (They're not a summer item.) I'm going to be annoyed if they don't. I can buy wood pellets at the pet store, certainly... $10 for a 10 lb bag. Therein lies the problem. At Menard's I can get 40 lbs for about... $4. So. Menard's better damned well have some in stock. (They did last year, but that doesn't mean they will this year.) If they do, I'll buy... 6 or 8 bags and be good till late fall. 
He was nice to her, of course, but... this is Letterman, after all. She's going to turn out to be a pretty decent looking kid, me thinks. Then I watched... Ferguson... cuz he amuses me to no end. He had Julie Chen and Michael Ian Black on. (I really like Michael Ian Black... another kid that amuses me greatly. 
