What was your day like?

[Edwin]

M.Runca, we are glad that you are interesting in things posted here on the forum! You are welcome. Keep coming back, M.Runca, read what people are writing, post what you want; there is no pressure here, it is just a lot of fun, and for the most part people are very kind here, so it is upbeat to participate in this. Just anything you want to write is great!

[Edwin]

Smiley, your 21 year old sounds like a fine young man! Autistic people often are quite brilliant, and talented. We watched a television program years ago, and they had this autistic guy on the show playing the piano, and the way he could play was unbelievable! He was playing very difficult music, and making it sound wonderful. I don't think he read the music, but he heard the music, processed it mentally, and was able to reproduce it on the keyboard just from what he had heard!

You guys are the giants of the land! Some of my ancestors were tall, but my brother and I are taller than our parents, about the height of our grandparents, and some of their parents were taller than that! Then there is Crisi who I know wishes she were taller, but then she is taller than my older sister!

My Dad had a supervisor in the motor mechanic's room where he worked at one time that was very short. We lived in a house, and still own it that his Dad built, and everything in that house is for short people. He never had any trouble bumping his head in the basement, but I did!

[Edwin]

This has been a strange weather summer for us! Early in the summer we had very cold weather and lots of rain periodically. The weather turned very hot for us in August, and was that way for a long time. It has been a long time now since it has rained, and everything is very dry here! We wish we had rain! Now that it is fall, and winter should be coming it is still very hot on some days during the middle of the day. Just a few days ago it was over 100 degrees in the valley, which is very strange this late in the season. We had one night that there was actually ice, frozen water in the water hoses! It got cold enough here to frost a little during a night or two, and it actually feels cold tonight!

Earlier in the summer, August, I learned the hard way that it is too hot to walk the doggies even before noon, which I thought would be cool enough! I had to come back to the house one mile short of the normal walks. My big doggie, Scooby, was not only hot and tire, but he was sick, and I felt really badly about that, but he did recover quickly. I went walking almost as late in the morning just a few mornings ago, and the same thing happened, only he didn't get sick. He just laid down in the shade of the tall weeds, and I knew what that meant. He was hot and tired, so we went right home, skipping the last mile of our walk. I went a little over an hour earlier the next day, and we made it fine that day. When we walk in the evening, the first half of the walk or so is slow, because if he thinks it is hot, he will not walk fast. Towards the end of the walk, it is almost like someone flips a switch. Before the walk is very slow, then with the cooling tempterature he wants to walk faster than I can keep up. He is a Swiss Alps Doggie, and snow, cold, and wind are nothing for him, although I try to keep him warm and safe anyway, but he does not do well in the heat. He dug him a cellar, and if he thinks it is hot he will run down into that cellar! Our doggies are almost human!

[purex]

I got sick a week since last week, Monday. I got fever, cold and cough. I try to drink a lot of water and biogesic to relieve my fever.

Today, someone visit the office and try to advertise their product,mostly herbal products. I thought it is in credit or cash, then I try to get one of their product, bam good for cold and sinusitis. Then she said, need to down payment, I was surprise then because I already open it and I cannot return it anymore.

Next time, be transparent when you sell something, because you might surprise people you interact.

[Edwin]

Yes, purex, it sounds like that sales person used some shady sales tactics on you, and that is unfortuneate. Some people when selling misrepsent themselves, and pretend to be an expert when they have very limited knowledge. Some people misrepresent the product when selling also. There are some sales people who are pushing products that have very little value, but they are asking for a big price. Then some misrepresent what a product can do for you. It sound like this sales person took advantage of you by allowing you to think one thing when something else was true and that bordered on dishonesty. The sales person needs to have transparency!

[crisipicada]

Today, was a busy day. Wow a lot of clients come over here. I need to assess their payments and issue official receipts. Just today, deposited almost 20,000 for our collection. I tract the record regarding our fire code fees, it is almost the same compare last year and it is still end of September. I am thankful that our generating income is increasing, this is due to the services of the inspectors lately. They have been very busy to inspect the buildings and establishments and so their fire fighting device need to upgrade, too, thus increase in the payment of the stores who sells fire fighting devices. Therefore, increase in the fire code collection.

I just finish my report and printed them. I need to segregate the forms like the deposit sleep and the collection slip.

[Edwin]

Wow! Crisi, that is great that your business is increasing. That spells good times for you all, huh, and upgrades for the fire department, allowing them better equipment with which to do a better job. They should pay you more, Crisi!

Night before last I made a terrible mess in two places out by my reefer trailers! I was looking for the right thickness of wafer/chip boards to repair my bathroom floor with. I told Carol was was going to quit working at 10 p.m. but I had to dig through lots of boards to find anything that I could use. Then after that I put my old bathtub that we brought from where we used to live on cardboard, so that I would not scratch it, and pulled it over by the house, ready to put in my bathroom! It is so heavy, that no one is going to break the bottom out of it, like they did both the bathtubs in this house before we got it. Carol had a shower stall put in her bathroom, and that is all she wants. I told her that I may want to draw a hot bath, and lay in the water sometime to make my back feel better, so I am putting a bathtub/shower combination in my bathroom! It is a very old tub, and has class. I will take a picture of it and put it on here, when I can get around to it, but not with me in it taking a bath! Sorry to disappoint you!!!!

Anyway I worked until 12 midnight, and then I spent an hour or so on two different days cleaning up and organizing the big mess I made!

I walked the doggies today 6.5 miles, and then after lunch I started working on my bathroom again. I am slow, and the work is hard and slow, but I will get there with it. I have some of the boards that I need in the kitchen ready to be cut out, when I am ready!

[Edwin]

I got up this morning in fairly good time. After I did my moring duties, shaving, washing my face, combing my hair, and water the outside trees/plants, I went walking with the doggies. I got back in time for a late breakfast. For some reason I was tired, so I sat in my chair and slept longer than I intended to. Then I went out to my old 40 foot reefer trailer to hunt for a toilet that I knew I had there that I brought from the last place where we lived and worked. They were renovating some rooms there, and just throwing things out, so I got this really nice toilet, and I am going to put it in my bathroom with other nice old things, like the sink and the tub, an old one but a nice one! I brought it from the same place. Anyway I had to move a lot of boxes, but I uncovered and brought it in the house ready to be installed in my bathroom. I also did not organizing while hunting, so things should be just a little bit easier to find next time. That took me all afternoon, and was a big job, but I made it. I had a nice supper, grated potatoes, cucumbers, one tomato, milk and 2 weiners. It was a good supper. I am going to play the piano now as Carol wants the computer/internet, and that is okay!

[crisipicada]

Almost raining again. The weather is getting hot. I always sweat a lot and want to be cooled. This is not good because it makes a lot of us flu. My sister got flu due to weather condition Me, Still have cough and not more cold. My fever also is gone. Thanks God.

[Edwin]

I am glad you are better, Crisi. People in the other house near ours have been sick with the flu/cold. I don't want to get sick because I talk about how healthy I am, but so far this sickness that so many people have been getting here has passed Carol and I by. Our weather has turned very cold lately, and we actually have a fire in the pellet stove to try to keep warm, and we are wearing jackets besides that!

We went down town this morning and ran around with our kids. Carol had her doctor's appointment, and most everything was very good. She has gained 2 pounds which does not make her very happy. Her triglyserides are high because she ran out of medication and thought she was doing okay without it, but the doctor thinks she needed it. There was one other thing about her blood that was a tiny bit high, but I can't remember what it was. The doctor thinks she needs to take a little more insulin to keep her blood glucose level where it belongs, as it has been running a tiny bit high, but most every thing looks good for her.

When we got home my son-in-law and I laid a few more cinderblocks/concreteblocks on my cellar wall that we are building. We need to build it faster rather than slower because the weather is turning colder, and we need the walls finished to protect our water from freezing!