Well, it is Sunday and I could just come on here and talk about something I haven't on here before.  That would be my fantasy football league.  The only problem is that it is something that is supposed to be a source of joy and fun but I just keep losing!  I started out losing, then went on a short winning streak that saw me headed for the top of our league, and now I have lost the last three and I am pretty sure come Tuesday I will be in last place once again.  I know there is nothing I can do to control how this is going, but my players should not suck this bad!  I am sure that my regular readers know nothing of this fantasy football or why I should care about it, so I am just going to leave it at that and hope things get better from here on out.

Work has been going good, but my day off Friday was terrible.  I went out to my favorite thrift store in town that day and was happy to find this computer desk I am now sitting at available for $20.  I quickly purchased it and hauled it out to dismantle it and put it in the car.  It was a cold and slightly rainy day.  That detail is important for you to feel my pain.  When I got out there I discovered that my front tire was flat, the tire I just bought not even two months before.  I was outraged.  So now not only did I have to dismantle the desk and put it in the car, I had to haul out the spare and change a tire.  It was ever so much fun.  I then made my way across town to the Walmart I usually go to in hopes of getting some discount for their crappy tire.  I didn't, I just got more bad news.  They had like a 3 and a half to 4 hour wait.  I was shocked, but accepted it.  I did that because across the street from this Walmart is a second run theater and I was going to go and catch Tropic Thunder for a buck.  Well, after I crossed the road and ate lunch at Firehouse Subs (which is awesome if you don't know) I went over to the theater to discover the movies didn't even start for another hour and a half.  Not only that, but Tropic Thunder was no longer playing.  That meant that the only movie I even wanted to see there was Ghost Town and it didn't start for about 4 hours!  So, no movie.  I did a little shopping and went back to sit in automotive and read my book.  Only problem was I discovered I did not like the book I was reading so instead I just sat there in silence for a while.  On the one bright side, it only took them somewhere between 2 and a half and 3 hours to fix my tire as some people gave up before me.  I would have thanked them, but that seemed unnecessarily mean.  I was supposed to do laundry that day as well, but I wasn't about to ruin the rest of my night so I just went home and chilled.  I did the laundry the next morning.

My book collection is getting really out of hand.  The only problem is I read to slow to ever get rid of any.  And, on top of that, I am not sure I would want to part ways with them.  The bookcase sitting next to me used to contain a number of books, and I had read a good portion of them.  Since starting my new job, I have changed what is on every shelf and I have now read 1/20 of them.  I feel like I should stop buying them but as more come into the store that just look too interesting I must buy them.  Yes, I am judging books by their cover and it is seeming to pay off.  Really it is the titles that catch my eye more than anything.  I just got a book titled Pecked to Death By Ducks.  It says it is a book about travel.  Anything that sounds funny comes home with me.  Eventually Cynthia is going to kill or divorce me over this latest obsession.

Ok, I have killed some time and now I must leave you.  Until next we meet, take these words of advice...don't buy lots of books if you are a slow reader.  Bye bye.

I went out Wednesday morning after I wrote on here and looked at our car.  The damage is bad, but not so bad that I can't fix it myself, I think.  I removed all the headlights and everything and brought them inside with me.  I looked up the parts I would need for sure and ordered them off eBay.  It cost me about $100.  Once I buy all the replacement bulbs it is probably going to be closer to $150.  That isn't terribly bad.  I would really need to buy a new side panel, new hood and new bumper if I wanted everything as it was, but it is not worth it to me.  I plan on banging out the dents in the hood and the rest I just don't care about.  The aesthetics of the car are not that important to me.

Anyhow, today I found a book at work I might be able to make like $70 off of.  Not sure yet until it sells, but I think I should be at least $50.  I set it aside because it looked interesting and once I looked it up I was pleasantly surprised.  Also at work today, I got a free bookcase.  Someone sold the store their book collection and once we got it all they didn't want their shelves anymore and gave them to the owner.  He didn't have a use for them so he let us take them if we wanted.  I carted one out to put in our bathroom to keep towels and certain books for reading on the crapper.  Those would be mainly comic and humorous books.  Plus, I will probably keep some magazines there as well.  It was a good day.

Nothing else has really happened.  I am just kicking back and waiting for the new parts to show up in the mail.  I can't wait to have them back in working order again.  We also bought some of those deer whistles to startle off the deer.  I just hope it works.  I am a bit skittish now at night.  I hope that passes soon.

I am done.

I have come to the realization that since I don't sit at a computer now for 8 hours a day I don't think about writing on here as much.  Well, here is a little nugget of something from me to you.

This day was not a good one.  Cynthia was away at her parents house so I had the day and apartment to myself.  I had to work from 2 to 8 but that gave me a lot of hours to do other things.  Well, I woke up with a headache so I went and fell back asleep on the couch.  When I came to again, I found out there was a thunderstorm going on outside and it was a bad one.  That made me want to stay in so I just went back to sleep.  When I finally got up, I had about 2 hours until I had to go to work.  I did nothing for a while, then around 12:30 I got a call from a phone number I was not familiar with.  When I picked up, it was one of my co-workers calling to inform me I didn't need to come into work today because the state shut us down because the owner of the store owed back taxes.  What's funny about that is that he does peoples taxes every year because he owns a tax service as well.  Well, I couldn't just believe this so I quickly got dressed and headed over to the store.  It was closed.  I hung out for a little bit with my co-workers to find out more about the situation.  They said that we were at least going to be closed until Friday, which I have since come to find out wasn't true.  I had started making plans accordingly.  Too bad for me. Anyhow, from there I was going to go out and do some shopping when my cell phone rang again.  This time it was Cynthia informing me that her dad's brother had killed himself so she was headed home.  So, I went home and waited for her.  The rest of the day has gone just fine, even good to say the least so I don't know why the first part of it sucked so bad.

Things have been about the same around here lately.  Just working and getting by.  I still bring home 2 to 6 books every day so I have filled up a book case and then some.  I'll have to take a picture of it sometime and post it on here.  I have also been bringing home DVD's every now and then too.  I never get around to watching them it seems.  They are pretty new movies for the most part and I have now decided that I need to watch them quickly because I thought of a place I could take them to and trade them for some new books. I think my book obsession is getting out of hand but I don't care.  I love it.  When it comes time for us to move again I may not love it as much though.  Me and my lousy hardbacks.  Why can't I still just be happy with paperbacks?  I always said I was but lately I have become a book snob.  Not only does it have to be a hardback but it also has to be a first edition and in great condition.  I act like I am going to sell them someday but I have a hard time parting with them.  Oh well, maybe when my next obsession kicks in I will be able to.

Ok, I am going to wrap this up.  Hope everything is going well for all of you.  Peace.

Well, here it goes.  My life has been pretty good.  Things are working out better than I could have expected after the job change.  I am making less money but it turns out that we are spending less money too.  Probably part of that is because I get most of my merchandise from my favorite store now virtually free,  I am even there on my day off a lot.  It is great having first dibs on all the cool stuff that comes in on a regular basis.  I would say that there has not been a day yet that I did not leave work with at least one item.  It has ranged from one item a couple of days to some with close to a dozen.  And there has not been a day yet that I can remember where I did not bring something home.  Cynthia says otherwise, but my bookcase says she is wrong.  My need for a third bookcase totally says she is wrong.  I say that I need a third bookcase but I would have no place to put it so I have to pray that we can get a house eventually with a library attached to it to store my vast collection.  Mainly what I have been buying is humorous books or just books with titles that catch my eye.  It is wicked fun. I just hope it never runs dry.

Now for the bad news.  My teeth hurt off and on a lot.  We tried to get me on Cynthia's insurance when I left Avis but we have not jumped through enough hoops yet.  It looks like it is going to go well, but if we don't get this taken care of I don't think I can hold out on seeing a dentist until next year.  I have dreaded this dentist visit for like the last 12 years.  Yep, probably haven't been to a dentist in 12 years.  When Cynthia and I went in for her dental work recently, it was the first dentist office I have even been in close proximity to in years.  I keep imagining he is going to take one look in my mouth and just say, "Mr. McDougald, have you ever considered dentures?"  To which I would have to say an unhappy yes.  I am sure it will not come to this, but it is where my overactive brain takes me.

Let's see, have I mentioned on here that we were getting a free car from my brother-in-law?  If I didn't, well, we did.  It gets us from point A to point B and back again, which was all we really needed.  I did have to put $315.00 into it already to get an essential repair, but the rest of the repairs are unecessary at the moment.  The biggest problem, in my opinion, is that our blower doesn't work thus leaving the car without heat or AC.  Not such a big deal in the fall, but come winter it is going to be a very bad thing.  I am hoping to find a good mechanic before then.

Ok, turns out I gotta go.  Cynthia and I are going to the Tulsa State Fair tomorrow.  Maybe I will post about that since it is my day off.  I also plan on going out to see the movie Choke.  Just so you know Mom and Dad, this movie is not one you would appreciate so don't going to see it just because I am.  I'm done.

Yep, it is true.  I am so happy at my new job.  I have only been there two days so far, but the hours there just fly by.  There are a few difficult things about the job, but I am getting them down.  It is so nice to actually feel like I am helping people with something.  Someone will come up and ask me for a certain book, and half the time I seem to know right off the top of my head who the author is and where the book is.  And if I don't know I can hit up the internet at find it that way.  Another thing, they have given me some sweeeeeet deals on books and stuff so far.  Things that would have cost me about 25 to 30 dollars so far have ended up costing me $7.  And I thought I was going to end up spending my whole paycheck there.  Now I don't have to.  These are all reasons I love this job.

Now the bad part, the hours and pay.  I am making $8 an hour, which would be almost fine, but I am only scheduled for 35 hours this week.  I know I was only guaranteed 35 but I figured I could make 40 easily enough.  Now, I am not so sure.  Guess I need to get someone fired so they need me more.  Just kidding of course, but maybe not.  Also, before I started I thought we were going to have "set" schedules, but that changed a little bit just before I started.  According to the people there it will change back but because of all the new people they have moved everyone around.  So for this week, I have Thursday and Saturday off.  I am sure I am off Saturday because they don't think I am ready for the workload, so maybe next weeks schedule will be better.  And that is all about that.

I don't suppose you remember me stating that I was going to ride a bike to my new job all the time do you?  And, if you do, I lied.  I bought a bike shortly before I started there and I did ride it to work yesterday.  Actually, I rode it about 2/3 of the way and walked it the other 1/3.  Biking seemed so easy in my memory, but of course my memory was maybe 150 pounds ago.  It burned up my thighs!  I had Cynthia come and pick up the bike and pick me up at the end of the night.  I decided that the bike would only be used when Cynthia was out of town or had to have the car for something.  I know I am bad, but I can't show up to work half dead every day.  Deal with it.

Ok, that is about all.  I'll write again soon.  Ta ta.