28, busy and bored, de-signed, a win?, sick of it
The weather the past week or so has been FANTASTIC. I don’t think we intentionally had the AC running at all during that time.
Friday night I relayed to Ali all I found out regarding the attempted CC fraud. Of course this has made both of us rather paranoid. I have printed out all the fake gmail account emails as well as the CC statement. The problem is since those charges were fraudulent they were instantly removed from my statement. I am going to call the sheriff’s office again today to get a clarification. They said they needed a copy of the statement with the fraudulent charges on it. Since those charges are not on the statement because my CC company immediately cancelled them, I’m not sure where I stand. I think I will go to the sheriff’s office regardless today to talk to them about it.
My 3 day weekend started with a super busy Saturday. Ali was behind at work so she decided to go in on Saturday. I was on the first day of a three day weekend so that means one thing normally, bust ass like mad to get all the work done so I can do whatever afterwards. I went outside and trimmed up the remaining trees that were in the back half of the property. Some of these hadn’t been touched in years and years. It wasn’t so bad since it was only a total of 5 trees. Then I went inside and cleaned the bathrooms, the bird cage and did some other minor indoor clean up. I remember thinking it was ironic that I was the one cleaning when Ali was home three days during the week. However I rationalized it because Ali was at work on Saturday and during the week she had been having some serious issues with her back hurting. Plus it doesn’t kill me to do the cleaning once in awhile. I was surprised that it was 1pm and I had most of what I wanted done, done. I came up with something else to do.
I pulled the party van out of the spot it has been more or less sitting in since we got back from out west to examine the large wet spot under it. I wanted to verify what substance it was. A quick swipe of the finger confirmed it was oil. So I popped the hood, checked the dipstick and saw it was a quart low. I told Nicki we were going on a trip. She was very excited. I stopped at the convenience store to grab a quart of oil and throw gas in the van. What I was doing was making the trip out to Lehigh Acres to pull the For Sale signs of our lots. The market is so depressed right now the only way we could sell the lots would be at a number barely over what we paid for them which we aren’t interested in doing, hence there was no reason to have signs up.
So I get to the first lot on Genoa. As I drive up I don’t see the sign. Well I figure maybe it got knocked over or something. I get out and walk back and forth looking for the sign. It is nowhere to be found, someone snatched it. Bastards! I angrily hop back in the van and head to the Bell Blvd lot. This lot had the sign stolen once before. The last time we went there I installed a sign hanging off a mailbox mounting post to make it less likely to be easily plucked from the ground. Well the sign and post were there but they were knocked over. From the looks of it they had been knocked over for quite awhile. The signs themselves were busted up. I was even more annoyed. Of course since we don’t live exactly close it is quite difficult to police our signs. My theory is the signs are stolen, knocked over by other people trying to sell lots in the area to minimize their competition. Who knows, maybe even the realtors themselves do it. I don’t know for sure, all I know is it annoys the hell out of me. Oh well it doesn’t matter anyway, we aren’t going to unload the lots at firesale prices.
Late in the afternoon I decided to plop down to watch 28 Days Later. 28 Days is a modern day Dawn of the Dead. When I was younger I would routinely watch scary, horrifying stuff like this. It gets the adrenaline going. Since Ali hates stuff like this, over the years I simply have not sought it out. Well now since there are a lot of times when I am home alone it is a perfect opportunity for me to watch movies that Ali would not deem watchable. I saw Dawn of the Dead. That was some scary, scary stuff. There is something classically horrifying about watching your friends get attacked and killed by zombies and then have them become a zombie themselves and be faced with killing them or being killed or zombified yourself. This situation presents itself quite often in 28 days.
The movie is pretty damn nasty. You get attached to characters only to have the become infected with the “rage virus” and see them killed. There is tons of gore, tons of horror. It is all very well done. If you like that sort of stuff you would like this, A.
On Sunday morning Ali was planning to go to the gym. She said her back was feeling better. So much so that she was thinking about doing a spinning class AND a group power class. I told her she shouldn’t overdo it but I wasn’t strong enough in my warning. She did the group power class and came home looking for an icepack. She aggravated her back again. I told her it’s funny, she did something I normally do, push things when they shouldn’t be pushed. last night she said she hardly slept cause her back was bothering her so much. Backs are a touchy thing.
The Eagles played the Redskins Sunday. I pretty much expected the Eagles to lose. Into the fourth quarter they were well on their way. The defense allowed the Redskins to march up and down at will for most of the second half. However the Eagles managed to mount a comeback and actually make some plays on defense. At the end of the game there was almost a monumental f up by the Eagles. The Redskins had no time outs and just turned the ball over to the Eagles. The Redskins were down by one. The Eagles had the ball with something like 2:13 to go. They had the ability to basically run the clock all the way out and end the game. Instead they hand off to Westbrook, the Redskins part like the Red Sea and allow him to go in basically uncontested. This was brilliant on their part because after the Eagles kicked the extra point, the Skins were only down by 8, a touchdown and two point conversion away from tying it. Of course Fat Andy didn’t even think about this possibility. Luckily for the Eagles and Andy, their coaches oversight didn’t get a huge glaring spotlight cast on it because the defense was able to squash the Redskins final comeback attempt. The point is a good coach would have eliminated the possibility of that chance from ever coming to be. Oh well, they won.
My day off yesterday that was pretty chore free wound up just not being all that great. In the morning I did a couple chores to make me feel useful like washing the truck followed up with cleaning the water equipment. After that all I did chore wise was unleash my robotic cleaning arsenal on the house. I had the 3 roombas sweeping, the Dirt Dog running in the garage and finished up with he Scooba scrubbing the kitchen, utility room and bathroom floors. After that the day was mine.
Of course one of the ways I spent the time was playing WoW. I had yet another incredibly frustrating incident that follows the same script as most of my other frustrating incidents. I got grouped up with a bunch of annoying as hell, ADD-riddled kids. The group unraveled within the first 10 minutes but only after a series of insults back and forth. Afterwards I was just disgusted and logged off, seriously wondering why I spend time playing a game that can make me so angry over virtual, meaningless shit?
To clear my head I decided to watch the second 28 flick, 28 WEEKS later. The movie starts with an absolutely terrifying scene as a cottage of people hiding out gets overun with the zombies, killing all but one person. The story line of the second one was actually a little better than the first movie. It was scarier, more gory, more disturbing than the first, a hard trick to pull off. It makes one take a look at mankind and just how fragile our existence could be if a deadly, untreatable virus was introduced into the human race. I’d give this one an A as well but be warned, nightmares are a pretty safe bet as a result. I woke up this morning at 5am with scenes from the movies running through my head.
Eh this is long enough.