2011 - Day Three Hundred Fifty Five; Wednesday...

I did a tour of quickie-marts in South Austin today, looking for something that must remain a secret for now. If I were to tell you what I was looking for, it would ruin the surprise. BUT, at the final stop on my quest, I did see this display of nutritional food items for purchase. I think it pretty much covers most of the food groups; yellow, red, blue and green. I think it is a fair statement that I have not seen that much crap in one place in a really long time. It's been a long time since I had a twinkie, and I have to admit I was tempted...

Exciting progress was made in the office today, and for that I am happy. I am actually getting a head-start on the New Year, so that is a good thing. I can take off for the Holiday and not have anything nagging in the back of my little pea-brain.

Property management meeting tomorrow, then Meals-On-Wheels, then screwing off for the rest of the afternoon. I will go into the office on Friday, but I expect it will be a short day. We will see...

Deeds, Actions, Changes, EMPTY CALORIES, Kindnesses, Whirled Peas, FUN!

2011 - Day Three Hundred Fifty Four; Tuesday...

You know, there has never been any real political overtones to this journal. Well, okay, except for the photo-shopped picture of the Governor of Texas with Richard Simmons behind him. I have to tell you, all I have to do is THINK about that picture and I laugh out loud. I think it is good enough to post again today*. BUT, I digress. What brought this all about is the CRAP that is going on in Washington. The District of Columbia Washington, not the salmon swimming up the streams that no longer exist Washington.

I am of a good mind to not play with these folks anymore, and if I, in my usually passive-it-will-all-work-out-okay-and-it-will-all-get-sorted-out-in-the-end kind of way is having these ideas, I can only imagine what a bunch of non-registered I-have-no-purpose-but-I-have-a-sign-and-a-crayon occupier types are thinking. My opinion is, these folks that were elected (many of them not by me) need to watch out. I smell change, and they need to figure all this shit out. I am not supposed to be as smart as them, so FIX IT and FIX IT NOW!

Whatever.

We now return to our regularly scheduled rants...

The Boy Dog is feeling better, thank many of you for checking in on him. Winding down to the Holidays. I have a couple meetings tomorrow, one is a telephone conference call, and another in the office late afternoon.

*That is the first time I have ever re-run a photo. The credit goes to Richard not to Rick. Richard makes me laugh, Rick makes my cry.

Deeds, Actions, Changes, RANTS, Kindnesses, Whirled Peas, FUN!

2011 - Day Three Hundred Fifty Three; Monday...

Wow, today was a busy day. I sent out four Property Management Contracts, Reviewed two sales contracts for colleagues and talked with two other potential clients. Crazy. But, I will take it, bring it on!

One of my FB friends actually had the nerve to complain about the rain today. Probably not so much the rain, but the prolonged grey skies and damp and cloudy weather. I hope none of the weather Gods were paying attention at the time.

It rained all the way home on me this afternoon. When I was leaving Austin, it was not really raining, just dribbly. These clouds were still in Austin around the University of Texas. The building you see at the bottom of the photo (for those of you that are not from these parts) is the LBJ Presidential Library on the University of Texas Campus. Pretty clouds.

BUT, the further north I got, the stranger it was becoming. The sky turned a weird yellowish color, and it rained pretty hard, and that followed me the rest of the way home.

Tomorrow is another day.

Deeds, Actions, Changes, RAIN, Kindnesses, Whirled Peas, FUN!

2011 - Day Three Hundred Fifty Two; Sunday...

Well, the dog is still not feeling really that well, he had me up twice during the night to let him out. Better than not letting him out, though! Jody may take him to the vet tomorrow, not sure. At one point this afternoon, his teeth were chattering like he was freezing cold, no idea what this is all about, but he seems to be making some slow positive progress.

If you are going to make a pile of eggs, chances are you will end up with a pile of egg shells. I am not sure why we are keeping these shells, the compost pile is full, and nothing else will fit in it, so we are just making a pile of shells. Kind of interesting though.

I went out this morning and fed the cattle and gave them a fresh bale of hay, all were accounted for and the newest calf (named him Junior) is bouncing around like a little kid. All is well.

Jody and I went into Austin today, where I was previewing a property for management, and then I went to Burlington Coat Factory and got nine pairs of socks. If I have to wear long pants and (more frequently) suits, at least I can have stylish socks. And they have the cheapest socks. You get what you pay for, but I see absolutely no reason to wear the same socks for years and years. Socks should have a six month life span, that's it. No need to prolong the inevitable.

Oh, and of course, we stopped at Dairy Queen for spoilers. I had a small, working my way back down to some kind of discipline, one spoiler at a time.

This week should be kind of quiet compared to last week. We shall see...

Deeds, Actions, Changes, SOCKS, YES!, Kindnesses, Whirled Peas, FUN!

2011 - Day Three Hundred Fifty One; Saturday...

Slept in a little bit this morning, but I am not sure by whose measure I am judging that. My own I guess. I did not get up until after 5, and the Boy Dog had not moved but maybe six inches overnight. We were both pretty worried about him, and I was relieved that he was still breathing this morning, but that was about all. Throughout the day he has made good progress, and he has taken some water, a little bit of food, and he has gone outside to pee. All positive signs, and he is making a good come back from whatever in the hell he ate that nearly killed him. We are hoping no one tried to poison him or anything else around here, but I am not thinking that is what it was. He just ate something that was very attractive to him (like he was gonna miss a meal) and t really made him sick.

I was teaching a class at the Board this morning, so I left about 7:30. That was the first time I left in the light in a long time, at least it seems that way. I have been leaving in the dark and getting home in the dark. CRAZY! This is a photo of the sunrise from my rear-view mirror this morning as I was on the way to the Board.

After the class, I met Jody in Georgetown. I got him an OnStar FMV (For My Vehicle) for Christmas, and it was installed today. Tomorrow we will have it activated. I like the things OnStar can do, and it is great. We now have it on three vehicles. My friend Bart swears by it after he was involved in a bad wreck a couple months ago in Dallas. It is truly a good service, I hope no one ever has to use it, but it is good to know it is there.

Tomorrow will be a day of feeding cattle and doing a few chores. We may go into Austin to do a little bit of shopping. Hubert is going to come over tomorrow afternoon as well, we are thinking of planting some wheat in the pastures to give the cattle something to graze on. There is really nothing green for them so anything will help I think. We shall see...

Deeds, Actions, Changes, ONSTAR, Kindnesses, Whirled Peas, FUN!

2011 - Day Three Hundred Fifty; Friday...

Well, the dog kept us UP ALL NIGHT LONG. Projectile vomiting, the whole works. Just when you thought it was safe to go back to sleep, the whole thing would start again. It continued well after the time that I got up to get ready to go to work (4:15 or so) and he was in and out of the house like a little kid. Nothing much was going on by then, he was just annoying. And needy. And acting like a Velcro dog. We expect he ate something outside that REALLY did not agree with him. We will never know what it was, and that is just as well. Jody called the vet this afternoon, who suggested we give him two Pepto-Bismol tablets, and the has been resting comfortably ever since.

Got some good work done at the office this morning and again this afternoon, and in the middle of the day I attended a Staff Appreciation for the Austin Board of REALTORS. The luncheon was held at NXNW, not far from the Board. I did not care at all for my dessert as you can see from this photo.

BLECHHH.

Deeds, Actions, Changes, DOG VOMIT, Kindnesses, Whirled Peas, FUN!

2011 - Day Three Hundred Forty Nine; Thursday...

What a day. I got to the office about 8 o'clock this morning, and it pretty much rained on me all the way. Carrie called and said she would pick me up in five minutes, and we would head off to the capitol. It was raining a little bit when we got there, and it was raining a LOT when we were heading back to the car, less than thirty minutes later. We were on a time line, first of all because we needed to be back in the office for a 9 o'clock meeting AND because we only put 30 minutes worth of dimes in the meter, at 6 minutes per dime.

We made it back to the office, but not ON TIME for the meeting, but IN TIME for the meeting. We had a good PM meeting, and we were pretty much getting ready for our Holiday Luncheon at Green Pastures. We had about thirty people attend the luncheon, and it was very nice, although IT TOOK FOREVER. Really! Why should any luncheon in Austin take over four hours. There is not any excuse for that. None at all. BUT do not get me started on this or I won't shut up. Whatever... This is the photo of the group of us, and we did have a very nice time.

One more luncheon tomorrow, and then next week should be pretty calm. That is what I am hoping for anyway. I will do my very best to try and make that happen.

Deeds, Actions, Changes, LUNCH, Kindnesses, Whirled Peas, FUN!