My Life In South Carolina

This weekend was chocked full of borderline psychotic episodes. It started out on Friday night when my son made the announcement that his cousin would be staying the night. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind that kind of thing I just need to know in advance. I have to prepare myself for such life changing circumstances.

The boys were pretty good and I found myself repeating the phrase “be quite” less times than I imagined I would. They were asleep by eleven-thirty or so, and I was cool with that.

I can’t stand it when his friends are over and they feel they need to “party like it’s 1999.”

Saturday morning I realized that it was up to me to do the yard work this weekend. So, naturally I was pissed about that. I hate it! I suck at it, and would just as easily pay someone to do it every week if I could afford it.

My nephew charges a smooth fifty bucks for his services, and everyone else seems to be in line with him. I remember cutting grass for people in my neighborhood for anywhere from three to five bucks a yard, and was happy as heck with that kind of payday. A five dollar yard was a goldmine. What the heck is wrong with kids today?

Saturday night I watched Horton Hear’s a Who with my son. Let me save you some time if you feel like this movie may be in your future.

The book was better.

I feel asleep shortly after it started. Hell, my son even feel asleep while watching it, and he can make it through some really bad movies. What was I thinking? Did I actually think it would be any good? Jim Carey was involved so I thought it might be just a little funny. Turns out, it wasn’t, not even close.

Not a lot happened Sunday. I spent most of the day bored out of my mind. However, I did watch this on Hulu. If you’re like me and hate everything that has to do with new music, then do yourself a favor and watch it. It explains my hate for new music better than I can in this forum.

I did check this station out on-line. It’s actually a station worth listening to. It’s really to bad we don’t have any stations locally like it. It’s only available through the Internet, and I can’t carry the Internet in my back pocket yet. So I guess I’ll have to listen to it via my PC.

So, it’s back to work today. I have to book a trip to LA, bleech. It’s a nightmare in the making.

OK, So our Governor was working on his on “stimulus package” in Argentina. That all came out pretty quick didn’t it? He didn’t lie about it though like some other politicians have. One that I can think of in particular…ahem. So lets get moving.

My stupid truck has been acting a fool for the past two weeks, so I broke down and took it to my brother in-law and let him take a gander under the hood at the mass of metal and wire to see if he could make sense of the mess. God knows I can’t. Hey, he’s a mechanic that’s what he does so he would know right? It didn’t hurt that I used him for a little free labor either.

In my defense and to show I’m not completely worthless, I did do a little web research and came up with a solution from the many symptoms it was exhibiting. I even printed them out and presented my skills at web research to him when I arrived, and proudly I might add.

I was looked at like I was a idiot or something, and he just kind of went, “heh” and threw the work I had done for him in the trash with the rest of the same kind of things that other people had brought in. It turns out the problem was nothing close to what I discovered.

I spent most of the evening helping him by drinking his beer and staying out of the way. That was my job and I was darn good at it. It’s good to know I have a fall back career if needed.

So, as a team we fixed the problem and it only cost me like twenty-two bucks.

I just found out Michael Jackson died. WTF? I have never listened to a Michael Jackson song voluntarily, but it just seems weird that he’s dead.

I watched Fox News for about an hour after I found out, mainly just to see if there might be any foul play involved. No one seemed to think there was, so no scandal to look forward to.

I also noticed that everyone had only good things to say about him. What was it? Two years ago when people wanted to string him up by his little white balls after being accused of molesting some kids. It seems now everyone is cool with him.

So with my truck being fixed and lets see, Farrah Fawcet, Ed McMahon, and now Michael Jackson dying. Oh! don’t forget my Governor and his “stimulus package.”

I will be calling it a day.

It’s OK, we found him. Everyone continue with your business, nothing to see here.

It seems our Governor was missing for about four days or some-such. You know what? I didn’t miss him, didn’t really know he was gone. Don’t get me wrong I voted for him, and am a fan. This is not some political rant about him or anyone else. I just think it’s funny that he was gone for four days and no one really knew where.

Maybe he needed a vacation. I mean, after having everyone bitch at him about this stimulus money for the past four months I guess he needed a break.

Well, enough about that.

I’ve been trying to watch Tropic Thunder and The X files: I want to believe for about three days now. I can’t do it, I fall asleep every-time I start any one of the movies.

I’ve seen about the first thirty minutes of Tropic Thunder and thought it may be alright. There was enough comedy to keep me interested. The X Files on the other hand was just a dark as the TV show and I seem to drift off within the first ten minutes or so. Maybe I’ll just give up on that one, but then again Gillian Anderson is still hot, so maybe I’ll give it one more chance.

My truck is breaking, its something in the engine and I have no idea what. I know nothing about motor vehicles other than gas, oil, and the occasional wiper change.

I did a little Internet research on the problem and found something just like mine. The steps to correct it were even included. So, I’m going straight up mechanic tonight.  I checked the part location earlier just to make sure the Internet was correct and burnt my hand. It’s already starting to go downhill so we’ll see.