I can't believe it's mid-October already. Crazy, man! Just crazy!
The condo finally sold (I think I mentioned this before but I'll say it again because it's great news). I haven't heard when the closing date is but it should be fairly soon I would think. Next week I'm having a guy come in and clean the furnace and also hook up the electric for a garbage disposal but those are the only two things the buyer wanted done.
It will be nice to have that monthly condo payment back to put toward the house payment.
The Odious Scumbags at Time Warner Cable (the stupid fucks) sent me a bill saying I owed them money from "pre May 2009". WTF is that? So I sent a nasty gram back and told them that if they didn't give me SPECIFIC DATES, they weren't getting squat. And they won't, either. I'll take their greedy asses to court before I pay them a CENT. Fuckers stood me up TWICE and I'm going to forget that shit.
They'll be lucky if I don't sue them for continued harassment.
The rain has finally stopped by my old granny hands and my abused back are still aching and stiff like it's going to rain again. I guess it's supposed to get pretty cold tonight. I'll have to make the dog sleep with me so I can leach the heat off of her.
I also need to order a load of wood. But I want to make sure I have some $$ to pay the electrician and the HVAC guy next week. I guess I'll have to pick up that wood at my parents and use what I cut last weekend and make it last.
Last weekend I brewed and got a washer and a dryer delivered. I also picked up five 55-gallon plastic barrels for storage and other nefarious purposes.
Man, what a difference having a washing machine and a DRYER makes! I was hand washing everything (after the first washer broke) and hanging it out to dry. With the rain, it was taking stuff 4-5 days to dry out. Ugh.
Now! I put the wash in then stick it in the dryer and it's DONE in about an hour! WOW! Modern conveniences are pretty cool!
The cider is fermenting in my cellar as we speak. I have put it in the old coal bin (yes, my house is old and I like it that way) and hung up a curtain in the door to keep out the light. Those little yeasties are just going to town on all of that brown sugar!
The temp seems to remain at a constant 68F with 60% humidity. I'd need to get it a little cooler if I wanted to make some cheese down there but it's the perfect spot for it. All dark and stays at a constant temp/humidity.
I'll have to check on the fermented product tonight or tomorrow. Once the yeasties stop scarfing on the sugar, it will be time to "finish it off" by back sugaring, adding the spices and honey. YUM! That's the FUN part!
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The Rogue Goddess saw shadows dancing at 1:32 PM
Some rambling and disjointed thoughts -
I sold my condo!!!! YAY! Finally! I'm very relieved at this. VERY.
And just in time to brew cider! Ah! I am thankful.
I've managed to find a plastic food grade container to put the final product in and I have gathered all of my ingredients. Now I just have to wait for the moon to give the sign (Friday). So I'm taking off on Friday to brew.
Also my new washer & dryer is being delivered. YAY! No more hand washing and line drying! (Not that I mind the line drying but the hand washing was getting a little tedious).
It will be so nice to just throw in a load of laundry and forget about it. I have to say that I was shocked and disgusted at the prices on some of those machines. I mean, really.
And I discovered I don't like those front loaders at all. Too much bending over to pull the wet clothes out. I'd prefer that the dryer have a lid that pulled down instead of opening to the side but they didn't have one of those. AT ALL. Kinda bogus.
But they are new, under warranty and have a large capacity so I am happy.
Now I need to get a load of firewood delivered for the winter and get the satellite hooked up. Wow. TV. It will be very strange. Like when I when to college and had cable for the first time ever in my life. I was mesmerized by it. lol!
That's pretty sad, I know, but it's the truth.
I've also realized that I feel so much better after I skate. It doesn't matter how crappy I skate as long as I do it. I just feel so much better physically, mentally and emotionally.
That's another thing I'll have to do now that I have the money - rejoin the skating club and start hitting more sessions! I really miss that!
The Yeti has decided to take ANOTHER vacation (I guess a week off and three days of seminars were too much for her - eye roll). So she's out until early next week. Then the following week she's gone again for more "training".
I swear, all that moron does is boondoggle and spend money. It's pathetic. I don't even know why she has a job. She certainly doesn't do anything aside from expense all of her nonsense and act like a complete barrier to getting anything done.
Maybe I'll just start disappearing for weeks on end and see if anyone notices! HA!
And since SHE is absolutely useless everyone has been coming to ME and wanting to know what's going on.
Like the evil fiend I am, I just send them to her and say, "it's her job. She hasn't been in the office since she started so call her cell phone and ask her."
Apparently it's starting to sink in to her thick head that I'm not going to do her work nor pawn it off on someone else. She's been getting some nasty calls from our customers wanting to know why she isn't doing her job.
Her excuse has been "I've been on vacation/in training/in meetings" but ya know what? Nobody is going to give her any slack. During the first 6 weeks, ok. Yeah, you're new and learning. It's been FOUR FUCKING MONTHS and you're STILL unable (unwilling is more to the truth) to function? Nope, nobody gonna cut you slack on that BS!
She's finally started to get called on her crap and it's about time. I'd sure like to know who in the hell is protecting her - it's got to be somebody pretty high up the food chain for her to still have a job and not actually show up.
Anyway - enough about that fugly hag.
I'm thinking of having a Halloween party but I'm kinda torn. I'd like to invite God & everybody but then that would mean kids. And I'd just like to keep the kids and my hard core drinking friends separate. That's just me.
The optimal would be to have TWO such parties. Maybe both on the same night. Kids ok before 10pm and after 10pm I let the fang face killer loose on 'em! heh, heh!
I dunno. Fangers will probably wonder WTF is going on but she'll recover quickly enough. I'll have to keep her in my bedroom so people don't step on her.
So we'll see. I'm still contemplating this. It would be a lot of fun. And nobody would mind the overgrown lawn! lol!
My fang-faced killer is doing just fine. I think she has some eye allergy or something because she has scratched her one eye raw. Poor thing. It seems to come and go.
She loves having the yard and likes to lay at the end of her rope watching the street and "buffing" at the squirrells.
That's kinda like between a bark and a snort. It's just a soft "buff". Some times she gets all indignant and huffs and puffs and buffs (that's kind of amusing to watch). But mostly she just likes to lay on the sidewalk by the house or near the herb garden and watch the street.
I've brought all of the plants in that I want to overwinter. It is getting cold and night and that is bogus.
That and with the days getting shorter it makes me want to just sleep all of the time. I'm not alone - everyone here is just dragging along.
My upstairs bedroom is actually nice and toasty and I love it. The dog climbs up to see me some nights and hides under the bed. Her snoring is enough to wake the dead but I find it oddly comforting. And it helps me locate where she is so I don't accidently step on her in the morning.
Speaking of the dog, she still likes her long walks and has even taking to making me run (gasp!) on occassion. You know I don't like this very much but I'll do it. Fortunately for me she doesn't run very fast so I can just trot along and keep up with her.
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The Rogue Goddess saw shadows dancing at 12:15 PM
September seemed to drag and yet go fast.
This is probably going to be a really long post so I'll try to break it up.
Work - let's get this overwith. The elusive Yeti (aka our new "manager") has been in the office a grand total of 10 days since the beginning of July.
Her sorry ass hasn't a clue as to what's going on nor does she care to know. She's too busy planning her next boondoggle or figuring out how not to do anything or pawn it off on us.
I'm completely disgusted and NOBODY seems inclined to do a damned thing about it. When I complained, I was told that *I* need to set the job expectations for her. WHAT. THE. FUCK??
I'm NOT her manager or I would have fired her useless ass years ago.
Basically all she does is go to "training" (that has nothing to do with the job) or go on vacation.
She has done NOTHING but nitpick at stupid shit (like "who approved this 6 years ago?" when nobody really gives a damn but her). It's like the only thing she CAN do is nitpick over dumb shit because she has made no attempt whatsoever to learn what her job is or how to do it.
She has no idea what Mark and I do - she just keeps piling more work on us and when I ask her to set priorities, she's like, "well, they're ALL important!" I just look at her and tell her I'm not going to do ANY of them until she prioritizes things. Then she gets all mad.
Listen, you stupid bitch - if you made ANY sort of attempt to LEARN what is going on and what needs to be done, I'd cut you some slack. But so far all you have done is shove your work off on us, go on vacation and boondoggle. So, no, I have NO respect for you and I'm not going to help you in the least.
The useless dumbass.
Whatever.
Then - get this - one of our suppliers flatly refuses to send me the documents I need to set up their account. I mean they said, "we won't provide these documents."
Can you fucking BELIEVE that? I finally said "No docs = NO BUSINESS. Is that clear?"
That's a direct quote from my email to them. Oh, ho-ho - suddenly I'm bombarded with the documents I've been begging for! Did a light finally go on? That if I don't set up your account, you don't get any $$$??? Why in the HELL should I have to be so bitchy? Why?
Why can't I just say "please send me XXX" and they send it? Why do I have to scream, copy God & everybody on emails and finally say "NO MONEY" before they respond?
And it's the same fucking company repeatedly. I've finally started telling people NOT to use those idiots for anything because we can't get information out of them. That seems to be the only way they respond. It's disgusting.
Our big-wig talked to THEIR big wig about this over the summer but NOTHING has changed. They seemed shocked when our big wig told them what losers they are. Well, they obviously don't CARE because they haven't bothered to fix the situation.
Some Good News - The stupid German bitch is GONE! Praise be!
And they finally admitted that THEY lost all of the samples we sent to them (gee, ya think? After I sent the signatures of the morons who signed for the boxes?) Idiots.
It's one thing for them to say, "I don't know, I'll check" vs "WE DON'T MAKE MISTAKES!!" (and yes, that is screaming like the dumb bitch does).
So I'm sending the tracking numbers to them copying God & everybody and requesting return receipts to make sure they have NO EXCUSES not to be receiving something (unless it gets stuck in customs but then customs calls us).
I'm so glad those idiots have shut up. Of course, the Yeti was nowhere to be found during all of this. No. She was too busy trying to re-write an SOP that she has NO CLUE what it's about.Talk about useless. *sigh*
On the HomefrontMy washing maching broke in September so I've been hand washing everything. It's time-consuming. Fortunately it's just me and the dog so we don't make a lot of laundry but it's enough.
I never did have a dryer so I've been hanging clothes out on the line and now in the cellar to dry.
My refrigerator STILL freezes everything and I haven't been able to sell my condo.
I don't have a dishwasher, either, nor a TV.
As a matter of fact, Those Bastards (Time Warner Cable - the scumbag shit eaters) are trying to bill me for 1) someone else's account (oh, HELL no) and 2) cable since June when I've been moved out.
Well, they can suck it. They could have shown up ONE of the TWO times I scheduled them and gotten my business but NOOOOOO. They couldn't be bothered to show up OR call TWICE so fuck them.
I cancelled my account and now they want to bill me. FUCK THAT SHIT!
So I'm going to have to march down there and shove the cancellation notice in their moronic faces. I really despise TW Cable.
I haven't really missed having TV. I've been watching old cheesy horror movies ("Oasis of the Zombies", "Teenage Zombies", "The Head", "The Blue Hand", "Werewolf vs Vampire Woman" and the like) when I want to watch something. Otherwise I listen to the BBC on the internet or the radio.
And I'm starting to get most stuff put away at the house which is nice. It's been chilly so I haven't had an opportunity to dig in the yard lately altho I DID mow the grass this weekend.
I think I'm going to have to break down and buy a washer and dryer this week. As much as I hate to do it because I'll have to charge it. Ugh. But the laundry is piling up slowly and I just can't do a load a day because there is no where to dry it.
I could go to the laundromat but I don't think so. Bunch o' freaks hanging out there and I tend to be a freak magnet. Not a good idea to go there.
So I'm off to see about a washer & dryer. I'll try to be more diligent about writing but we'll see how that goes.
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The Rogue Goddess saw shadows dancing at 2:16 PM
