Category Archives: Life

Automobiles, Life, Local, Trips

Going for a Ride

When I first moved here, one of the biggest challenges of being in a new city was navigation. It was simple enough to read a map – there was no such thing as GPS back then – and get from my house to a major destination like the downtown, my job, the mall, etc. But the challenge became finding the obscure places, like the dentist office and where to get your tags renewed, and finding alternate routes in case there was a traffic jam or bad weather that blocked the fastest route.

It used to be fun to take the bike and just head out for a couple of exploring the back roads and learning my way around. Now that I know most of the roads and alternate routes, and I have routine of places to go, I almost never just “go for a ride” anymore. I kinda miss that. Maybe I should spend a couple hours next weekend and head out of my comfort zone, just to look at the scenery and see what might have changed.

Friends, Life, Local, Nature, Outdoors, Recreation

This Grass Grows Fast

We have had a lot of Spring rain, so between the rain, the grass seed I put down last month, and the warmer temps, my yard is growing grass like crazy. It needs to be cut at least once a week in normal weather, which usually burns an hour of my Saturday mornings. My grass could actually use a second, mid week cut to keep it from getting our of control.

I went ahead and cut the grass this morning around 8:00 and got it out of the way. I even bagged the clippings so that the lawn doesn’t have a problem with thatch. A quick shower, then I was off to my girl’s house to scoop her up and head over to the Lake. It was crowded as hell, and we barely got a place to park. In fact, there were so many fucking kids running around screaming and crying that we got sick of it and left earlier than planned.

Dropped her off at home to get changed and cleaned up, then we are heading downtown for some bar hopping and clubbing. That’s my weekend so far.

 

Automobiles, Life, Local

Fuckers Egged My Car

Came out to my car this morning and found someone fucktards had thrown eggs on the car sometime during the night. I had parked on the street because my girl had got to the house before me and she was parked in the driveway. Looks like they got my neighbor’s car on the street, too.

Two of the eggs hit the windshield and one hit the drivers side window, side mirror and slid down the door. I got the garden hose and tried to wash it off, but dried egg is a fucking mess to try to clean off. I had to go inside and get some dish washing detergent and put that on the egg stains, let it set for a few minutes and then scrub the hell out of it with a kitchen sponge. Of course, all that scrubbing ruined the fucking wax job. I’m just glad it didn’t actually eat away any of the paint. I can take it to the car wash tomorrow and get the whole detailing package to fix the marred  wax.

Those little ghetto punks have crossed the line this time. we’ve been having trouble on my street for about 3 months now. I think it’s time some of us who live here get a little more aggressive about finding out who these punks are and putting a stop to their shit.

Food and dining, Life

Make Up Sex is Always Intense

Had a big fight with the girlfriend last week. She was so mad she wouldn’t talk to me for 4 days. I was getting pretty pissed off about the whole thing and started to wonder just how badly did I want to talk to her and try to work things out. Just when I was about to give up and write her off, she sent me a text message and said she needed to talk to me. That was pretty weird, and to be honest, my first thought was, “What the fuck does she WANT?”

So I texted back and we met up at Appleby’s. She was still mad but she said she was sorry for acting the fool. By the time we had a couple more drinks and ate some dinner we were back on track. I brought her home and we had some intense sex. I don’t like the way those fours days were going, but in a lot of ways it was very cleansing and we are feeling pretty good today.

Home improvements, Legal, Life, News, Outdoors

Installed New Motion Sensor Lights

My neighbors have been all upset these past couple of weeks. Seems some kids or young adults with nothing better to do have been cruising our street at night and vandalizing cars, mailboxes and yards. So far none of them have been stupid enough to try to actually break into a house or spray paint one of the houses. But you can bet that if these fuckers are not caught and stopped at this level of of crime, that they will get bolder and start doing even more serious damage.

That’s the problem with criminals. People want to be merciful and give them – especially kids – a second chance. But that doesn’t work. You have to do something to get their attention and make them not want to do it again. Just putting the little fuckers on probation accomplishes nothing other than keeping courts busy and lawyers rich.

With all the shit going on around here, I decided to install new motion sensor lighting around my house. I put two lights at the front door, one at the back door, two over the garage and also one on each of the four corners of the house. They can come on by use of a switch in the hallway, or I can set them to only come on when something moves within 10-15 feet of the house. I went ahead and set them to be very sensitive to even small animals. I would rather have the lights come on a few times unnecessarily because of a raccoon or a fox, than to have them miss showing some ghetto thug cutting across my yard or trying to bust out a window.