Pam's words to me this morning just before she left for work: "Just five more sleeps."
Recent studies suggest that because of a parasite commonly found in domestic cats there's a link between cat ownership and mental illness. It seems "crazy cat lady" may not be a baseless appellation.
However, the question of which causes the other....
I met my friend yesterday at a Paradise Bakery in Tempe and, as is required by MacDonald DNA, was there 15 minutes early. I went in and sat at one of the high tops facing the door which gave me a good vantage point to see the people coming and going in what is clearly a meeting spot for that area. Five minutes later I realized how different the SE Valley is from the SW Valley. Almost everyone there was dressed in ... I'm hardly a fashion maven so I'm not sure what to call it. Expensive, stylish, and more like Macy's than Kohls. Ladies all had colored and styled hair, men wearing resort casual, but it's an expensive resort.
Take it down a couple of notches for a similar spot in the West Valley. Still dressed nicely, but with exceptions you wouldn't get the sense they worried about looking just-so before they left the house. I guess that's a reflection of the income shift, east to west.
By the end of the year, DV, we'll be living three miles outside of Elmira, Oregon. They don't have a Paradise Bakery or anyplace else to get something to eat, but I hear the Taco Time in Vaneta, another two miles down the road, serves decent food. And we know Country Side pizza is good because we ate there last time we were in the area.
Blue jeans, T-shirts, plaid flannel if it's winter, labels all on the inside, and boots.
No right or wrong, righteous or bogus, just different. And I know which we prefer.
Five more sleeps.
I took the passenger door lower hinge to the metal shop this morning to drive out the badly worn pin and install the a one. An hour later I left with the job done, but not without help from Pete and John, two old guys who both worked in the trades their entire career. Together they used a torch, a hydraulic press, a big hammer, a really big vise, and a cut-off wheel. All of that saved me $80, the price of a repop hinge, so I'm happy.
Question: What do a former Detroit Pistons guard and a fast horse have in common?
Answer: Both got their names from someone who sort of knew Bible stories but didn't bother to check the spelling.
Isiah Thomas and current Triple Crown hopeful Pharoah.
Both of 'em, fingernails on a chalkboard for me.
We got measurable rain with some thunderstorms thrown in for good measure. Last night I said any rain in June would set a record that's stood for 20 years. I was wrong. It set a record for forever. They have never recorded any measurable precip for the month dating back to the earliest dates of weather tracking here, something like 1904.
Passive-aggressive snarky is just SO hard to leave be. And the longer I have to think about the perfect reply the harder it is to hold my tongue (keyboard).
I am now on my fourth headlight switch. The last one they sent me wouldn't lock onto the knob & shaft assembly. I called and complained so they sent me a new one that arrived in today's mail.
I'm no fool. Before I go through the considerable hassle of installing this one I'm going to see if the spring lock will grab the detent on the shaft.
Yes, it does.
Unfortunately, the button that allows you to then remove that shaft so the switch can be installed doesn't work.
AAARGH!!!
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