Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Day 3 - The update...

Hey, I know everyone would be shocked to hear of what I did today. You are probably really curious to know, so you'll have to read the highlights below. Something really shocking...

Monday:
9:00 - Worked on new worship music for church... got to learn about 15 songs by Chris Tomlin, Third Day, Todd Agnew, Hillsong. It was actually a good learning curve as I usually don't get a lot of time to practice.
10:30 Checked SF Giants headlines before bed, no new signings. I'm wondering if they will really re-sign Pedro Feliez again.
11:00 Off to bed, had to get ropes and special gear to crawl over the pile of clothes. It is turning into an obsticle course.

Tuesday:
6:30 - Alarm goes off (guess what? snooze)
6:39 - Alarm goes off, snooze
6:48 - Alarm again, I swear last time, snooze
6:55 - stayed awake before the alarm could go off
8:07 - Off to Chevron for my special .99 coffe. Secret recipie but it works, 1/3 filled with English Toffee machine mix, 2/3 filled with coffee, a splash off half and half creamer. I did that math on the way to work, if I did that every day and Jamie got her fountain soda every day, we'd spend $60 a month on morning drinks. It made it a little depressing drinking that, so I stopped doing math.
8:18 - Arrived at Farmers
11:34 - Lunch
12:45 - Back at work... looking for exit polls on the internet. Feeling confident the Republicans will hold onto the Senate
2:25 - customer called and talked about his cattle for 19 minutes and complained about a $5 service charge for the other 30 seconds
3:30 - Joel calls to warn me that the cops are again using radar on the speed trap. It is terrible, I know I'm getting 10 tickets this year as that hill is the highest statistical area of tickets handed out. My Realator should have warned me about that before moving. Props to Joel for the warning, saved me some dough today.
5:00 - Off to home to watch election results
5:15 - Pasta and meatballs in the tv dinner
5:45 - Republicans are loosing bad, started round 2 of 4 of my Tiger Woods championship
6:30 - checked election results, not looking good, back on Tiger Woods
7:45 - The house is a mess, I decided to do all the dishes and throw away trash. I filled an entire garbage can of tv dinner boxes and other trash from the counter. I only did this because I could no longer see or get to the espresso machine. It was desperate times.
8:15 - back to Tiger Woods, ate a bowl of jello and whip cream to initiate the next set of dishes that will pile on the kitchen counter
9:00 - Chatted with Brother Jeremy and blamed him for the Republican mess as his state was a major swing state
9:30 - Thought about softball game for next week, can't wait until Monday
10:00 - Started having panic attacks about the speed trap that I'll be driving through tomorrow... decided to consider setting cruise control at 35 mph.
11:15 - Getting ready to crash and enjoy the tv being on all night while I sleep, Jaime usually turns it off once she can confirm I'm in a deep sleep. I usually keep it on a major network channel so when I start the launch codes to wake up, I catch 30 seconds of news updates in the morning before going back to sleep during the snooze cycle.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank God for at least one Republican among my children. On another note, shame on you Joel (I know you're reading this) for warning Mike about the speed trap. Whatever happened to "obeying the laws of our land." Please don't encourage my son to drive like a crazy man! LOL

Anonymous said...

I really don't speed. It is the worst speed trap in Redding. It is a road that should be 45 mph but it is 35 mph. It is also a small hill. It literally is the highest statistical spot that tickets are handed out in Redding. Just pure terrible. It is so bad, that I force myself to put the car on cruise control at 35mph on that road.

I can not tell you how many people I know that got a ticket on that road. A fellow Farmers Agents is friends with the motor cop that writes the tickets on that road.

Stay far away from Old Alturas / Victor Ave if visiting Redding!

Joel and Leslie said...

I totally agree with Mike. I got my first speeding ticket there too. There were also two other people pulled over while the cop was writing my ticket. And it should be 45mph. People have actually tried to change it, but because there are a couple houses with long driveways along the road they fought against it. so they left it at 35.

Anonymous said...

Okay, Joel and Mike, I forgive you both! LOL