I hope they are not looking at this.

What mental disorder do you have? Your Result: Paranoia You are constantly thinking about what others may be saying about you behind your back. You may also feel people have conspiracies against you, or they are out to get you. In crowds you may feel like everybody is watching to closely.
Manic Depressive
ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder)
OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder)
What mental disorder do you have?

ME!!!!

But dont let them know.

Tough time

I am trying to switch back to days. After sleeping in the day time for about 15 days I now have to switch over to sleeping at night. I normaly dont have too much problems with this but for some reason it is difficult this time. I tryed all the stuff I normally do but it seems like I start getting very sleepy around 5 oclock. Last couple of nights I have only managed to make it to 8 or 9 and my butt is really draggin by then. I hope to get all the way switched over by Wednesday.

Brando put up the Christmas tree yesterday and I put up a few lights outside. We also watch Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer last night. It beginning to look alot like Christmas. I hope to hear pleanty of Carols and Christmas songs on the radio in the next few weeks.

Yin just woke up and came into the living room and said Uh Oh. I asked her what was uh oh and she informed me that the tree is broke. I let her know that it is not turned on yet and not broken. Now she is curled up in a ball on the couch. We are not sure if we will be able to place prizes, as Yin calls them, under the tree due to curious little hands. We will probably find out in the next day or two.

Happy Gobble Gobbel Day

Just wanted to take this time to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. I am on my last hootowl and will be rising and shining tomorrow to head south to the folks house for Big T-day with my family. I know my darling Brando will look at me from across the room with those eyes as I pile on another dolop of food on my plate. After I will be perfectly miserable and wonder why I ate that last piece of pie. I tend to over endulge a bit at this time of year. Wish me luck on keeping my stomach from distending and my wife from eyeing and telling me I told you so.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!!!!!!

Another weekend come and gone

We have had very busy nights on startup. The group has been getting back to the shop about 4:30 am to eat and have a break. We were hoping for a quite night because days left a couple of small jobs to check on. But just like clockwork, after first break we kept on working through our lunch and through second break. I will be glad when this is all over and I can relax. I am looking forward to my week off at Christmas. It is not getting here soon enough. I hope everyone had a nice weekend and dodged the deer on the roads. My bubby and dad is doing their best to thin the heard to keep them off the road.

Hectic

Today I arrived at work hoping to have a quiet evening since we have worked our butts off for the past few nights and things looked like it was starting to calm down. I walked in the door to be hit with about 10 different jobs and everyone wanting to tell me where they were on each individual job. I walked over to our coordinator and said "What is the priority of each job?" After getting a better view of where we stood for the night I set off to get some work done. It isn't much fun to have so much to do with so little time. Oh well that is the way it is out here....Feast or Famine.

It is pouring down rain now and we are inside hoping it will move out but the radar shows other wise. Looks like it is in for the rest of the night and probably the day. I am not looking forward to getting soaked. It don't look that deep now because it only came up to the waist of the ducks.

Thar He (Bo Bo) Blows!!!!

Today I was on a mission to get the remaining rebels from the super top secret project pond and get them to their new home. The first two fish were easy to catch. The water temp is cold so it slowed them down quite a bit. The last is a Blackmoor goldfish. He is of coarse black and the water with the few leaves that have fallen into it has turned into a dark tea color. He was really really hard to see. So after bailing out about 75 gallons or so of water. I was pretty well convinced that he didn't make it. The next bail I dumped in the yard had a good size little Blackmoor goldfish wriggling around on the grass. I scooped him up in a gallon container with a little water from the pond and hot footed it inside. Holding my prize with a sense of self satisfaction I exclaimed to Brando, "I found him!!!" She walked up to me and said after looking at the nearly black water in the gallon container, "Your joking right?" After she netted the contents so she could see him she learned otherwise. His fins look a little chewed but I am glad we took the extra effort to get him in the tank. Yuri named him Bo Bo. I guess he looks like any other Bo Bo that I have ever met.

The Big Crash

Today I Crashed. The days of 4 and 5 hours of sleep finally caught up to me and I slept like the dead. Brando asked me if I had heard Yin because she was bad and loud. I reassured her that I didnt even hear my head hit the pillow. I went to bed and 8 am and my eyes popped open a 3:30 pm. I feel a little more like I am among the living now. This turnaround is to be over in 4 days and then start up with begin which is scheduled through the 20th but may go long if their is any trouble. I hope everything goes smooth.

Thanks to Starbucks coffee is a necessity now. Now I want to try different types and styles. The stuff they sell at Caseys aint too bad but I still like Starbucks. But for $1.09 a cup for Caseys I think I will choak it down.

Brando just purchased a 29 gallon aquarium for the dining room and the fish that is in the super top secret project pond (a.k.a Area 52...one level of secrecy greater than 51) is gonna move in with us. She happened to wrangle 2 fish out into the there new glass prison and when I wake up I will try and get the remaining rebels. She mentioned that they were big in the pond and said that they are huge in the aquarium. I cant wait to see them. I will try and post pics in the next week or so.

One more thought before I go. I just wanted to express to my wonder family that I have seen very little of lately that I REALLY REALLY MISS THEM. Who new a week could be sooo long. Well back to the grind. I hope everyone had a nice weekend.

Halloween starts in November

Today my lovely wife Brando, darling daughter Yin and I went to Wally World. We headed back to the home and garden stuff to see if they still had any halloween stuff marked on clearance. Brando asked if I needed any fog juice for next year. "How much?", I asked. She informed me that they were $2.12 marked down 75%. After stammering for a bit I answered in the affermative and she asked me how many? I said, "All of it." We walked way with 16 half gallons of juice. That should get us for next year and the next. It beats buying it for almost 9 dollars a half gallon. They didnt have much else we were interested in. After picking up Yuri from school we retreated to the house and watch Cars on DVD. I really like this movie. I recommend it to anyone.

Greetings from the graveyard shift

I am typing this in the wee hours of the morning so it may or may not make sense. How is that any different than any other time you might ask? None at all. It is 3 in the morning and we just got in the shop from unhooking our control wires from a valve. It wouldnt have been too bad but it is on the third floor and it is raining. I am soaked and cold and ready to be done for the night. The good news is that quiting time is as 5:30 am instead of 7. Today on the way home my febble sleep starved gray matter was doing the micro sleep thing. I would focus hard on the road just to snap away with a quick jerk of the wheel and theat scared question in the back of my brain of " just how long was I out?" My car on auto pilot took me home where I crawled into bed to stare at the ceiling until 9 am. I awoke at noon and went to the living room to see Brando and Yin for a bit. Feeling tired again, my tired but went back to bed until 3pm where I awoke feeling pretty good. My brain hasnt switched over yet because with all this sleep one would think that I would not be too tired right now but my eyes are droopy and my typing will put the spell checker through its paces. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. Goodnight Princes of Main and Princesses of Narnia.....or something like that.

A Place For Everything

And everything in its place. We finally got everthing out of the yard. However the garage has seen better days. The mausoleum and stones are all put away and waiting to amerge next year. All in all we had a really nice Halloween and my stress level is almost back to normal. After working like a dog today to get everything picked up we retreated into the house to spend some time talking with Pilot and Knittergirl, drinking warm Chocolate Silk coffee and watching The Village. This movie is possible one of my most favorite movies of all time. I remember talking with one of my coworkers about this movie and he told me that the movie was bad and disappointing. I think it could be a bad movie for someone with limited intellect and no imagination. I watched it the first time and really enjoyed it and enjoy it more and more with every subsequent viewing. Maybe the place for me is in The Village.

All Over

Well my favorite holiday has come and gone. I must say that I did my best to have a good time and for the most part I did. I stress terribly around this time because of all the stuff that goes on at this time of the year and throw in a training trip for work and it just about puts me over the edge. I hope that now that all this hub bub is over I can now relax. I dont remember stressing so much last year but I dont think I was this busy. This weekend I plan on trying to find a place for all the Halloween stuff and getting the yard back in shape. I also need to get the pond cleaned out and check to see if the fish are still kicking. I hope to get back to my ole self again soon. I dont think I could have stood to wait for Halloween any longer. I had fun but I can honestly say that I am glad it is all over. The final tally for the night was right at 100 tots and this year we handed out beanie babies and playdoh with a hand full of candy. Brando made sure to tell Yin and Yuri to get plenty of candy at one of the local parades because she wasnt going to buy candy for the tots. We went through the candy and picked out all the good stuff. Does this make us bad people?