I can't believe it. I slept almost 12 hours last night and I still feel tired. Damn. What's the world coming to? I went to bed last night before 8:00, kind of on a whim. My back was hurting and I thought that if I acted like I was going to bed, the wife would come in to see if I was ok and I'd get a massage. In case you don't know, my wife has like, magical hands. She could massage a knot out of high tension cable. But, I wasn't so lucky. Apparently, she thought I really was going to go to bed and got pissed off, so she didn't come in. Next thing I know, I'm rolling over and it's after midnight. Damn. Oh well...I needed the rest anyway.

Our washing machine went on the blink a week or so ago. It's one of those stack units with the dryer atop the washer. They're good space savers, but the tub in the washer is so small that you can't wash very much. I called the landlord who hooked me up with his repair guy and they sent a guy over to check it out last Wednesday. I hadn't heard anything from them by Friday so I called back and was told that they'd be bringing a new machine on Monday. Well goody goody. Unfortunately, they were on another job yesterday that took them all day so they never got to us. They're going to try again today. And they'd better hurry. We're getting pretty deep in stank-ass clothes.

I spent most of yesterday morning running around looking for a damn green floodlight bulb. As part of our X-mas decorations, we got a "power stake" that has extra outlets and also has two floodlight holders on top. The wife wanted to put this in our yard, out by the road where we have 4-5 trees, and light up the trees with green and red bulbs. Problem is, at Walgreens, where we got all the lights, they only had the red bulbs. We spent 4 days looking everywhere for a damn green bulb. We hit Wal-Mart, K-Mart, the mall, Walgreens again and finally Sears. Nothing.

So, yesterday, I went to Home Despot to see what they had. Of course, it was fuckin' busy. I get a break though, the lightbulbs are right inside the front door. I find blue ones and yellow ones and the place where the green ones are supposed to be, but no greens. I ask for some help, after waiting 10 minutes for some Home Depot hack to finish his conversation, and he says to try electronics, they might have some. So, I head to electronics where they have 3-4 big wall displays of security floodlights, you know, the motion sensor ones. Anyway, I look and look for bulbs, but no luck. What pisses me off is that one of the light displays has a red and green bulb in it. What's worse is that there is a manger-type person training 3-4 other employees in a register there. I stand there and stand there and stand there and finally, after like 15 minutes, one of the women looks and says, "I think he has a question." All 5 of them look at me and I tell them that I need a green floodlight bulb, that there were no more up front and that I was told to check back here. They all look at the manager-type, she looks at me for about 2 minutes and then says, "Those kind of bulbs are up front, by the door." Well, no fuckin' shit! I stare at her for a second, trying to calm down and figure out what I'm going to say, when she smiles, says thank you, and then goes back to training. The other 4 morons don't even blink, they just go back to standing there listening. What a fuckin' waste of time.

Pissed as a bear, I pack Icebear Jr. back out to the car and head over to Lowe's. I did get them back, though. On the way back to the front door, I called the wife on my cell phone and as loud as I could told her that Home Depot didn't have what we wanted, I couldn't get any help and that I was heading over to Lowe's. Hee. And it was worth it. I drove the 10 minutes over to Lowe's, found a parking spot close to the door, unlike at Home Depot, walked in and within 1 minute, found the floodlight bulbs and lo and behold they had GREEN. Hoo-fuckin'-rah! After paying the $5 for the bulb, which was cheaper than Home Depot, I headed home to "intsall" it. I can't really tell much of a difference, but it does look better than that 150 watt white bulb we had. At least we won't blind the neighbors with it.

So, now we've got all our X-mas lights working and we're all happy. We've got almost all our X-mas shopping done so we're all happy. We've got our bills paid so we're all happy. We've kept really good track of our account and we know exactly how much money we have so we're all happy. We're some pretty happy fuckin' people right now. Don't I sound fuckin' happy?? Don't I?! Well, I am!

Well, I'm gonna stop for now. Got some work to do and today is just a gloomy, lazy day. I almost feel like going back to bed. Heh...but I won't. Anyway, you all take care.

Bi-Polar Bear

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