Whew!!! Been a busy few weeks around here. We've been having nice, sometimes humid, weather around here so that means lot's o' Spring Cleaning inside and out. Cathy, Liv and I tend to be clutterers. When we get home from work/school we tend to want to just plop down wherever and veg. Whether it's in front of the tube or computer or back in the craft room we just like to relax and do our thing. This leads to shoes being taken off and left where they lie, mail piling up on the table, you get the idea. Typical everyday life. My folks and Sis are coming to visit next Thursday from the Bay Area and the house is officially a disaster! Need to clean it up. Also have to finish the outside stuff we've been working on. We a "moat" of flower beds surrounding our house. It's about a foot high, walled off by those red wedge shaped bricks you can get at Lowes. It looks nice, but the previous owner had too much stuff all crammed together. Lot's of ground cover plants, some with flowers, some with nice leaves. Some decorative grasses (really nice ones, and then some that look like crap). Liv has three big juniper bushes in front of her room that need trimming (Thank God for the electric hedge trimmer) and there is another row of them to the right of the front steps near the front door. Ask the Perfect Line about junipers.....they can be spider colonies. He used to have an entire front section of his house in SM covered in junipers. They were cut in an interesting wave pattern which looked pretty darn good. Cath has been clearing out the crap, and keeping the good. The beds are looking really open now. We also have a "pre-rusted" metal Victorian Bicycle planter stand (you know the bike where the front wheel was ginormous) which holds three potted plants. It looks real good in the flower beds and we have some purple pansies and some blue butterfly flowers as well as some little reddish flowers. It looks nice. We also had this tall, scraggly bush that had those red berries on it that you were always told as a kid were poisonous if you ate. It's gone now and the space it occupied is so opened up it makes our house look bigger!!!! It's not that it wasn't a bad looking bush, it was the only one of it's kind and looked really out of place. That's the one thing Cath and I noticed, the previous owner had this knack for putting anything, anywhere. There seemed to be no ryhme nor reason to her vegetation placement. We still have the rest of one of the tree/bushes to hack up, then to get rid of the other tree bush that is right near our house. Now the funny thing about the bed it sits in is the previous owner planted a crapload of Day Lillies. In the winter they all die out and go into germination mode (they are bulb plants). When they come alive again they have huge expanses of leaves and one thin stalk that grows out of the middle with a really nice looking flower (ours are a deep orange color). The problem is the previous owner planted them all so close together it's like a dozen headed Hydra!!! A floral one that could easily be killed with a machete.....sorry about the Geek moment there. Next we need to straighten out the carport. We have boxes full of clothes that didn't sell at the yard sale and need to be carted off to the Goodwill Trailer out the City Dump about a half mile away or so. I like that we have a City Dump that is free!!! One visit a day and you have to be a resident of Wilson County (that's the County I live in). They have four ginormous debris bins and several bins that say "metal only" "Newspaper/paper recycle", "plastic recycle" "lawn debris" and "household garbage". One of the reasons Cath and I want to purchase a truck. You can fill up the back of the truck with kitchen garbage (bagged of course) and haul it off to the dumps and dump it for free!! How cool is that? No garbage day to worry about, no garbage company to pay. We pay for garbage pickup now. It's 60 bucks every quarter which isn't bad. I'm not about to haul nasty, bagged food garbage in the back of my car or Cath's car for that matter. The Ginormous debris bins are kind of cool. They are so tall that they had to build a paved hill between them. You drive up this hill, and you are right over the tops of the bins. You take your debris and toss it over then drive off. I remember back home in Cali where it was like 20 bucks a carload to go to the dumps!!! Outside the gates of the dump is the aforementioned Goodwill trailer. Boy are they going to hit the jackpot donation wise!
I've been reading about the Super Goober's car woes. Man P I pity you bro. He will just get the Perfect Line and probably Tim to help him out. The Perfect Line loves working on high end sports cars and P has an Audi S4. Sweet car. Hope all goes well man.
The Discourser has been hugely busy with school crap. Wow, he's the Safety Coordinator for his school district. That's pretty damn impressive, and he's the best guy for the job. He's a smart cookie and knows his crap.
Ntt is working hard at good ol' EA still. Getting ready for Alpha he says. From what I gather that's when the current game project is pretty much finished and they go into lockdown mode to get all the pieces working cohesively so they can start printing up the games and sending them out to stores. From what he says this means 7 day weeks!!!! Holy Crap!! But he does get lot's of comp time and often takes a month or two off paid. From the complexity of video games nowadays, he deserves it man.
See, I'm not the only one busy, busy busy...........
Ciao for now.
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