Friday 03 October 1997 08:11

I am worthless, I am so tired. Frequently during the night, I thought "Shoot me, dammit, just shoot me!" This is not a comment that I voiced aloud, since I frequently interact with people who wear guns. One can never be too careful, y'know...

Anyway, I got up too early yesterday, now I know that for sure. I was kinda suspicious when I got up, but I just shrugged it off. Dummy.

Not a very busy night, either. Nothing to really keep me awake. But I persisted in staying awake anyway. And I found out at 06:30 that I hadn't done things that I routinely do early during my shift... so I was immediately way behind; but I got outa there at 07:05 anyway.

My oldest boy, JD, is going to be writing me everyday with his doings, kinda like a journal; I do believe that he will eventually go on-line with it, I hope so anyway. We might be the first father-son journalers online...

This is going to be short, 'cause I have to get up at 15:00 to go see the urologist. The one that I slept through the appointment with last Wednesday. (That is a weird sentence; I'll maybe fix it later, or just leave it there to laugh at later. time will tell...)I'll have both alarms set, and probably do an update later tonight.

Karen is going to pick up Brian in Lawrence for the weekend, and Steve and his lovely wife Mary are coming over for a small cookout tomorrow evening. So it should be a fun weekend.

I'm already looking forward to my days off.

More later...

Jeesus!

Go look at what Cory has written!

Excellent!

-----16:31-----

Paybacks are hell.

I got up when my alarm went off, at exactly 15:00. Checked email, took a shower, went to see the Urologist.

He was "called back to the hospital for an emergency" and I could wait (might be less than an hour... might be forever...) or re-schedule. I took the easy way out, and re-scheduled.

It's a hot day here, temp around 88F. As I was getting into my truck, I noticed a pretty young (for me that's around 35) girl walking fast. She looked like a typical hard-bodied yuppie, and I didn't think any more about her as I pulled out of the parking space.

However, she yelled at me as I was pulling out of the lot. She wanted a ride, it seems. Well, OK, hop on in. She explained that her car was out of gas, and there was somewhere she had to be at 17:00, and there was a lady that owed her money for cleaning her house, but she had to walk over and get it because the lady had loaned her car to her daughter. But by the time she had got there, the car was in the ladies' driveway and the daughter wasn't there. The lady told her that the car wouldn't run after the daughter brought it back, so she couldn't give her a ride back. She did get her money from the lady, though.

This was all in the first sentence she said to me.

I mentioned that it was a hot day for walking. I should've kept my mouth shut.

She said, "I knew in June that it was going to be a hot summer; it's going to be a hot winter, too. people dying, you know. I knew in June that there were going to be funerals, when the mercury went up."

She put her fist on her forehead with her thumb to her temple and raised her forefinger, pointing it straight up.

"When that mercury went up, I knew. I knew that they would die.

And they did.

I went to all the funerals, you know.

All of them."

Her fist was still against her forehead, finger extended. She paused, removed her hand, contemplated it for a minute and then put it in her lap.

We arrived at her destination, she said a very polite thank-you.

The world is full of weird people. Usually, there is something in their appearance that makes non-weird people shy away from them; this gal caught me completely unawares.

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So, I have an appointment to see the guy next Wednesday; I'm planning on sleeping first, though, and setting my alarms.