I just need a thingy

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I just need a thingy. If I buy this thingy, it will solve all of my issues and make me more productive. It will help me to achieve all my goals and more. I can incorporate everything into this thingy. I will only have to go into my thingy to control all the other thingy’s.  In addition, it will make all my other thingy’s work better for me.

This thingy will give me more time to do the things I really want to do. Spend more time with my loved ones. Heck, I could write a novel. I will have so much free time on my hands, I might get bored.

It will reduce paperwork. I will have a more organized desk. If someone wants information, I will be able to pull it up in a moments flash. So, you want the electric bill from Oct 1999. Here you go.

I asked the sales person. “Will I be able to get ahold of Tec support at any time, day or night”? “Will I be able to get ahold of a live person right away, or will I have to go through a touch tone menu?” There have been times where I have found myself yelling at a non-real person that keeps repeating back to me, “I am sorry I do not understand.” 

I told the sales person “I have also at times  e-mailed Tec support with my problem.” Because I did not want to have to yell into the phone. This problem is something I needed to be solved now, and getting my e-mail back in two days. Followed by another e-mail asking me how the service I received was. Sometimes, I got the how was the service I received before the maybe answer.

“You can go on our web site and look for answers also,” the sales person told me.  “We have a great menu for FAQ’s and they are very helpful. ‘He continued.

“How much is this thingy going to cost me?” I asked. 

“We have a low price of $$$ just for today” he said

“Is there a contract with this?” I asked, “If I decide that I want to cancel will there be a penalty for this.”

I think by now you know where I am going with this. Yes, technology is wonderful and there are many good products out there to make our lives better.  Unfortunately, we need to keep purchasing more of the technology to keep up with just having the technology.

Upgrades and security downloads bog things down.  That little circle just sits there and spins. I restart sometimes just to get things to work right. This really interferes with my Zen and flow.

What comes with your initial package is incompatible with existing thingy’s.  You have to purchase plugins, additional cost for synchronizing everything up. You spend hours searching FAQ’s.  You print out instructions to try to solve it yourself. This is because you know it is going to cost you money to call Tec support. 

Then again, if I got that thingy, I would not have this problem??????????

Road construction

Road construction

Road construction, slow constucksion.  It is everywhere you go. I had an estimate the other day and I came upon a roundabout to go through. The exit, I needed to exit out of shutdown.  A big red barricade, with a stop sign right there.  I did not notice the detour sign prior to this exit.  According to my directions, there was the house I was looking for.  Right there on the corner of all this mess. I could not get there. It was right there in my sights and I could not reach it.

So yes I did, I went around the roundabout one more time and took the exit next to the one I needed. Hung a U-turn and parked on the side of the road. Locked the doors and walked to the house. The person, I was going to meet was watching me. When I got to the door the first thing he said laughingly was “I wish I could do that.” He went on to say how he has to go all the way around about 1 mile out of his way, just to get to his driveway.

Construction people are very oblivious to traffic around them. Why should they be, they are amongst traffic all day and I am sure it all becomes a blur.

Years ago, when I was driving school bus, yah, I have had many jobs. I like to think of it as I am well crossed trained in many things. Anyways, those people (you know, the ones that have these wonderful project to ensure our safety) were putting in a new stop light on a very busy hwy. They had temporary lights up while they worked on the permanent lights.

 I was driving 30 some elementary school children in the bus at the time. The light was green going my way so there was no problem until a worker darted out into traffic in his small  work vehicle. ERRRRT, I am sure I laid rubber, slammed on the breaks and barely missed hitting him. The car next to me was not so lucky.  He caught the tail end of the small vehicle.

I do not know if I did the automatic arm stick out because I was too busy reacting to the vehicle suddenly in front of me! I doubt very much it would have worked anyways!

“WOO HO” “LETS DO THAT AGAIN” the little girl in the front seat yelled out after it was all over and I was pulled safely over on the side of the road.

WHAT? I Asked. I turned around and all the kid were laughing and gathering their stuff that had just flown all over the bus. “This is why I tell you kids to sit down all the time”, I yelled, at all of them. Funny how after that they sat in their seats. Ok maybe just for the rest of the week.

At any rate, it is road construction season so please be careful and be alert.

never look back

 Never Look back

I was driving down the road and suddenly I realized I was following my mother in her new car. I started to honk my horn and wave. No response! OK I Honked and waved again.  No response.  I then Hung my arm out of window waving and honked again. Nothing! No response.

Finally, she pulled into a discount store parking lot and so I followed her.

 I got out and asked her; didn’t you hear me honking at you? Didn’t you see me waving at you?

No, but I did hear someone honking, but I never look in my rear view mirror. I did not ask why, I already know the answer!

She is a helper of the time warp aliens(they suck your time away).when I get a picture of them I will post it.

 People probable honk at her all the time. She is one of those old people on the road driving 10 miles slower than the speed limit hugging the right side of the road cause the oncoming traffic is to scary.. Of course, you cannot pass her cause oncoming traffic is too heavy.

My brother, my almost twin, flew in last month to buy her this car. Her old car had broken down. She had also just recently moved closer to my sister and me. We were driving her where she needed to go. Well me a little, my sister a lot. Thank you sis.

My almost twin was miraculously able to buy a decent used car in one day.  He flew in on Friday and had to leave on Monday morning. Car dealerships are not open on Sundays. He had to hustle.

I told him that mom should not be on the road and he replied many people should not be on the road. He went on to say she would get depressed and she would be dependent on us. Thank you bro and I mean it.

Since then she has come over twice out of the blue.

 Just pops in!  

The first time I had just got back from being in the road for three hours. I had all kinds of paperwork and phone call to make. As I sat at my desk with all my paperwork in front of me, she just sat there looking at me.

OK!, I broke down and said, “Let go look at the rhubarb”.

The second time was last Saturday I was walking out the basement door when the C.O. aka my hubby, and her were walking from the garage. Well at least it was the weekend. I will give her that.  I was just going to start cleaning the house (darn it).  Again, we just dropped everything that we were doing.

 I took her to look at the baby ducks. Then we went for a walk and gathered some herbs that she wanted.  The C.O. checked under her hood, I do not know why she was so concerned considering she just got the car less than a month ago. My mother then went on her merry way.

Update! She showed up today while I was gone doing errands and left food!

Oh well!! I am sure I wasted a lot of her time in the past.

Actually, I need to pay her back in whatever means she wants because my siblings and I were her life's work.

That's my flow

Always know your competition

Always know your competition and deal with them appropriately.

Dang-nabbit I have been up and down this gravel-covered road and nothing. Zip, Nada, Not a blasted agate anywhere, I had been looking for weeks with no luck. What happened? Where were all the agates? Had I taken all of the available agates in the whole region? I was concerned, REALLY, concerned.

 I like to collect agates; it started when I was a little girl. There was a man down the road that would pay me 50 cents per pound. He used them to make jewelry.  This started my agate hunting adventure.

I have a large non-agate rock in my possession also (it’s on my mantel above the fireplace). It is just a normal gray rock about the size of a shoe. I have the words “my rock” painted on it with red finger nail polish. Why do I have this rock? I have no clue. Other then I was in the army at the time, in a place that I had never been before. Therefore, I took a piece of it, decided to carry it with me for the rest of my life.  

Anyways, I was baffled until one-day. I meet the neighbor’s adult son with his two boys 5 and 7 years of age out at the end of the driveway. I bent down to look at a potential agate. “Oh you collect agates to” he said.” We have been finding all kinds of great agate on this road.” “We even found one the size of a baseball on the corner of 110^th and Manning. It was great…bzzzzt….I could no longer hear a word he was saying. My mind was too busy screaming obscenities to him.

 There was a dagger in my heart. ” Really, I said feigning a smile. “Who gave you the right to hunt agates in my territory?” my mind continued to scream!

“Yah, it’s so much fun collecting rocks and we even got a rock tumbler,” the oldest boy yelled out.

“Really” I said. “I looked down at them and saw the glow in their little eyes, and their sweet little smiles.  “Wow, that’s great, I am really happy for you.” At that point, I realized I had more than enough agates in my possession.  I stepped down that day. I gave them the position of the official agate hunters of the territory.

After all, what am I going to do with all those rocks?  When I am dead and gone, my people will have no idea what to do with my rocks

So Always check the competition and make sure you deal with them appropriately.