Nice To Be Back Home

My trip over the weekend and up through Wednesday was a busy one.  I thought that we were going to be traveling ~1100 miles, but I think it ended up being 1200-1300.  It went very well though.  I was technically on the clock for 65hrs throughout the 5 days, so I was feeling pretty tired when yesterday night came around.  We worked from job til job until it was closing time and had to stop, only stopping to hit a quick drive thru for lunch, so that we could get everything done on time.  It was a success!

Last night felt sooo good getting to sleep in my own bed.  Some of the hotel beds aren’t bad, but there is nothing like sleeping at home.

I love the trips away from home like this because it is neat to see different towns and cities and what other places are like other than home.  Hendersonville, North Carolina had probably one of the nicest looking towns I have seen.  It reminded me of some of the ones you see on TV shows.  At one of the hotels one night I saw on some brochures that we were a few miles from Chimney Rock, North Carolina.  I grabbed this pic online, but that looks like it would be an awesome site to see.  There is supposed to be a park there with it, so that would definately be a neat trip one weekend to check out.

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Today’s Gas Prices

Today on the way to work we noticed that two gas stations at the same intersection had about a 17¢ difference in the 87 octane gas price.  Which naturally told me that the lower price station was about to do a price increase.  We stopped and filled up since we were sitting at ¼ of a tank anyways.  Sure enough, coming back through there, less than 30 minutes later, showed the expected price increase.

I think over the next few days, maybe a week or so, North Georgia will be seeing $4/gal for the low grade.  Even with this price, and Read the rest of this entry »

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Memorial Week Plans

I’ve got my leave request filled out for Tuesday-Friday after Memorial Day weekend and will turn it in today for approval.

My parents are building them a new place in McCaysville Georgia, a very small town about 60 or so miles away from here, so that whenever my dad retires they can move over there and live. They are both from around that area, and love the feeling of a small town rather than Dalton. Dalton’s cons for them are: having just a half acre lot, living in a subdivision, neighbors that have drinking parties and have their music playing til way late at night, gangs, gang graffiti, traffic, etc… I’m used to all of that, but they love McCaysville so much better. Read the rest of this entry »

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Survivor & Lost

Now that the season of Big Brother is over, the only two can’t miss shows that I’m watching are Survivor and Lost.

This season of Survivor seems like one of the shortest ever. I think them bringing back the “favorites” kind of hurt the show rather than help it. Everyone already knows how they each play their game, so that has taken a bit of the excitement from the show, in my opinion of course. Even with that, I still don’t miss it each thursday. This season has had the most blindsides and backstabbing ever, which adds to the drama that makes you want to see it each week. Read the rest of this entry »

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Not Too Much Happening

I haven’t blogged in a few days because not too much is really happening. My brother and I finished up that Census project we were on, and so far have only got one back to be resubmitted after correcting a few things We’ve been working outside for the past 3 days GPSing the utility poles, fire hydrants, crosswalk poles, water valves, and any other major thing along a road that is about 5 miles long in total. Included w/ all that stuff is also the edge of the asphault. So now that it is May and nice and warm out, I’m pretty burnt from the sun. You’d think I’d learn to remember the sunscreen

Tomorrow we are heading down to Watkinsville, Georgia to do another security install for my brother. It’s probably one of the better ways to spend a wet saturday..making some money

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Petland

My brother and SIL came up today and told us that they wanted to get some kind of little pet for their apartment.  It was either a hamster, gerbil, or guinea pig.  I had no idea that Dalton even had a pet store now.  The only pet store that I knew we had was H2O Pets, and they’ve been closed for years now.  But we have a Petland here in town now Read the rest of this entry »

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Rained Out

We had planned to go to Rod Run up in Pigeon Forge, TN this weekend, but 70% chance rain on Saturday has pretty much killed the plans.  We’ve went the past 7 years and lucked out w/o it raining at all.  But my guess is that when it gets rainy, everyone will pack up and leave because it actually starts on Thursday and lasts through Saturday.  One of my buddies is betting that it won’t be dead, but my thoughts are you can’t really cruise the strip w/ it raining, and people aren’t going to be out walking around looking at cars w/ it raining.

Oh well, maybe we’ll make it to the one in the Fall or the next Spring one in ‘09.

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Good Thing For Deadlines

Because if there weren’t any, there are some things that would never get done.  Taxes for sure.  Ugh, the thought of needing to do them.  Time is ticking and I need to get on the ball.  I always dread doing them because of all the sorting papers, finding papers, etc.  Hopefully I’ll have the motivation in the morning to get everything together and run them by Jackson-Hewitt.  Every year this sort of thing happens.  I always end up not getting them done until almost the last moment possible.  I think I hate them that much

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Spring is Finally Here

Technically the first day of spring was a few days ago, but it’s now starting to feel like it should.  I’m sitting in my batcave of an office right now(no windows at all and can barely see daylight through the hallway ) checking out the 10 day forecast, which is showing high 60s to low 70s for most of that time.  I can’t say how happy I am that the cold weather is almost gone   Read the rest of this entry »

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Our Unique “Pet”

Since it’s been right at a year since she came here, I thought I’d share some about our unique pet that’s been hanging around.

Last March sometime, me, my dad, and my brother were on our way down to Miami to pick up my brother’s bike that he had bought.  At some point on the trip, my mom called and she was like, “You’ll never guess what is in the backyard!”  My response was “a Unicorn” :lol:  ROFL

Well it ended up being this wild turkey that had somehow gotten in the backyard, and from where it came we have no idea.  She’s been living in our backyard every since.  When it gets close to sunset, she’ll fly up in one of the trees and crash there for the night. Read the rest of this entry »

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