Today's Goal

I took Tressy out for a walk this morning and as usual took one of my cameras with me. For some reason I've been fascinated with all the wild sunflowers and been snapping pictures like crazy of them. I keep seeing the building in this picture (the red brick building) and my goal for the day is to find out what that building is. I guess I'll leave for work early and drive that way to look for signs.

I found out I'm water

What is the element of your soul?

Water You are Water. You are usually a very calm person. You can usually be very level-headed about things. Don't be mistaken. You may be calm, but if someone stirs the waters, you are quick to react, but you usually won't unless it's of dire mportance.

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Life without AC

When I moved to Colorado, I was so excited that I was moving into a house that a) had a bathtub and 2) had air conditioning. I've been in 7th heaven just being able to soak my achy shoulders and muscles whenever I want in the tub. A shower is great but not when you want to just light some candles, put on relaxing music, get a glass of wine and soak in a nice hot bubble bath. The air conditioner here died on Sunday afternoon and the house has been in the 90's for the most part. Of course, my room has been cooler. I brought my portable room air conditioning unit with me from California. It was such fun carrying it up the stairs. It weighs at least 60 pounds and I was carrying it by myself. I keep my room dark for the most part to help keep it cool. I run the ac unit at 80 in the day time while at work and down to 72 at night when I get home. I have the ceiling fan on 24/7 and I also have a small tower type oscillating fan next to the bed. My 4 legged daughter stays in my room during the day and I want to make sure she says cool. My roommate's room is like an oven and downstairs isn't much better. Last night she was hinting that I should pay to fix the air conditioning unit. I told her no way, her sister who is our landlady is responsible for fixing it. If it's not fixed.. not my problem, I at least have my portable unit for my room. Her parents are downstairs now and seeing if they can fix it. I'm curious to see what the final result will be tonight... Will post an update when I know.

HP TECH SUPPORT SUCKS

I have an HP desktop that I have had for just under one year. You'll see in a previous blog how I have had problems before and had to ship to HP for a new hard drive. I spent 1 1/2 hours with a tech who kept having me do the same thing over. I told him I'd been online with a tech Saturday but kept quitting a disconnect on my lap top with the tech. He kept concentrating on my monitor. I told him to take the book and shove it up his ass and to stop and listen to what I was telling him. I finally demanded to speak to a supervisor and he said no .. not until I answered every one of his questions and did what he told me to do. I told him if he valued his fucking job he better put his supervisor on the phone. My problem with the computer is once it is shut off, it will not turn on until I have disconnected the power cord then held in the power button for 5 seconds, plug back in the power cord and hit the power button again. This makes it boot up and work. They kept saying it was solved when it would boot up when you hit restart. I kept saying no.. not fixed and they weren't closing my case since it wouldn't start normally. The supervisor said I had to go through the steps with him from start. I said he could again go fuck himself.. that I was calling HP, writing a letter to HP, documenting the date and time of my call.. sending emails to everyone I know about their tech support, going to make a page and make sure it's seen by as many as possible. He told me I couldn't do anything like that and started asking me questions.. i told him to bend over drop his drawers and stick his manuel up his ass then hung up on him.

Washer's and Dryers are just too complicated

I found this weekend that I'm behind the times whenit coms to modern washers and dryers. My landlady has apparently the latest. The washing machine is all open.. nothing in the middle for my clothes to get caught on, it determines the water level after sensing the size of the load. The one thing I really wasn't prepared for was when I started to put my clothes in the dryer. Suddenly the washing machine started communicating to the dryer on what kind of clothes it has just washed and the size of the load. I found this out by watching the dryer come on and the lights between the two flashing. It was just down right scarey. Both will even tell you after sensing the load and what you've programed them to do how long of a wait you'll have before done.

Our Dog Run Friend

The last couple of days I've heard 2 birds making a lot of noise talking to each other.. or at least I think that's what they've been doing. I finally remembered to take my camera with me when I took my 4 legged daughter out for her morning walk. Just before getting to the dog park, a hawk flew over us, circled and landed in a tree near us. Once we got inside the dog park and Tressy was running free, the hawk flew over and sat on a limb near the fence and watched us. Once in a while it would squawk at us but watched our every move. I was able to stand just below it and take pictures. If we moved too far away it would fly to another tree to be closer to us and watch what we were doing. Now I need to find out what kind of hawk this is.. and if male or female. Then come up with a nickname for it.

What I saw Today

Since I'm starting a new life in Colorado, I thought I'd start a what I saw today blog. Today, well actually yesterday morning, I took Tressy for a walk and found a dog park here in the townhouse complex. I took her there this morning and let her run for about 30 min. I can take my lap top or a book and sit down there while she runs when the weather is nice. This is the closest she gets to a backyard to run in for a while :-(