Society for the Preservation of My Sanity

I am totally unable to think of a title today.

Lemme try to get ya up to date on all the dazzling array of things going on here in G-ville.

Tommy had to work AGAIN late into the night Friday. I swear! When it rains it pours. He's tried and tried to get free to do some hunting with Casey. All they've been able to manage are some short trips up on the ridge behind our house. To say the least, the pickin's are slim up yonder.

But there have been various vehicles to fix and pages to answer so any real days of hunting have not come to pass. Tommy has actually said to me that he's not really interested in going. That, my friends, is truly amazing! But Casey wants to go, so Tommy's tried to take him.

After two days in a row of working so late, he took him Sunday morning early up on the ridge and then again to another place that evening.

No luck, of course. The thing I hate most about hunting, other than how it makes most hunters go completely braindead, is the whole government regulation of it all.

Yes, I understand that it keeps animals from being hunted to extinction. I realize that. But of course, getting the government involved means it's gonna cost you out the wahzoo.

And it does. It's getting so that you have to be a rich guy to be able to hunt at all. Then there are the poachers who pressure the natural wildlife so that they change their habits or move to other grounds. Then there's all the hunting shows and all the gizmos that suddenly you HAVE to buy. It's become just a business now. I guess I just think that for landowners should have more rights over their own property and able to hunt their own farms and such.

Of course, then you'd have people buying up lands just to hunt or charge others a fortune to hunt.

*sigh* I know this can be a touchy subject, but all in all, I just wish it didn't have to be such a hard thing for my husband to take our son for a stinking hunt! Buying one license and set of tags is bad enough. Not completely outrageous....but on the other hand it is. But when you have to buy more than one to even be out with your hunting equipment? It's just crazy.

Guh.

So anyhow....Casey's team won its soccer game Saturday. They only have two games left. They've been undefeated so far except for week before last's game. And that one was infuriating. First off, both teams had stand-in coaches (Tommy's "co-coach" for our team) and both were a little unfamiliar with things and maybe a little nervous. (I KNOW Tommy was!) Then there were the referees. GAH!

I realize when you have to depend on volunteers to do things, you can't be too choosy, but one of the two gals is so sorry, I don't think she'd strike at a snake. Then there was the whole thing of them not agreeing on some calls. Or one calling something she was too stinkin' far away to have even seen. THEN there was the fact that for at least two of the six quarters the other team had an extra player!!!

Gah! See, we had two players absent and they did, so we were going to have to play all the kids the whole game. Somewhere along the line, a sixth kid showed up for the other team, but since a couple of the kids on that team were wearing jackets that weren't their jersey colors, well, I guess that's why no one noticed before we did.

Anyhow, they stopped the game when OUR team had control of the ball...when they holler "Stop, stop!" and the kids are confused about what's going on...the ball rolled on and was stopped by the other team. When the extra player was removed, the stupid ref started the game back....with the other team now in control of the ball. That wasn't the only time that happened. But none of us felt sure enough about arguing it to make a stink.

Also there was quite a bit of pushing and roughness from the other team that was NEVER called by the refs. The kid who was mostly responsible was truly apologetic and I don't think he was trying to be mean. BUT I know his coach-slash-father trains his team that way. He is really competitive and pushy. Gah.

Makes me sick for an adult to be that way. So, in the end, our kids lost by one point in a game that was grossly unfair.

*sigh*

Corey's worked pretty much a full week for the past several weeks. This week is no different. He's trying hard to save up money for a paint job for his car.

Speaking of the Trep, it seems to be doing fine now. Praise the Lord for that!

Tommy's work has been even more stressful than usual after one of the workers coming to him with some disturbing news. It seems that one of the crew chiefs had done a maintanance thing with this worker the week before. Normally, this work is done by a different couple of guys, but this chief was needing extra time so he could take a trip his mommy was going to pay for, so to help him out, Tommy let him do this job with this particular worker because the superintendent wouldn't let him use sick time for it since obviously, he wasn't sick.

Turns out that this chief LIED about how much time they worked (the job is done during the night, from like 8pm - 1am) AND not only that, but he'd skipped a bunch of the sites that were supposed to have had maintanence done, but signed off on them as done. And it gets only worse....the chief, as he passed by a site without doing the maintanence would look at the other guy and say, "You're not gonna tell on me, are ya?" GAH!

What makes it worst of all is that this guy proclaims to be a Christian. Most of the workers have long since learned that he's a liar. Things like saying he'd be somewhere, then not showing, or he'd bring something that he'd never bring, etc. The guys all knew that you couldn't trust what he said. But for him to lie about these kinda things? And encourage someone else to lie for/with him. AND after Tommy making special effort to help him?!?!?

GAH!

The chief-liar-guy was on his trip all last week and after Tommy having to work SO much and be SO tired and stressed...he's having to deal with this guy today.

He and the superintendent had been discussing what should be done about the situation. Tommy and I think the only option, unless the guy confessed right from the start, would be to fire him.

The super had said at the very least, he'd put him off a week without pay and take his company truck. But even after this guy comes back...well, everyone's going to know why he was off and they're going to be really resentful of having to work under him after knowing he's a big blow and all he got was a week off work.

I dunno. But I have just been praying that Tommy would have wisdom and energy today. He was out last night AGAIN on a pager call til after 3am.

My poor husband is in such need of a week off himself!! Gah!

Me? I'm doing fine. Just fretting about my hubby. I sent in my papers and money to go to the class reunion. *sigh* I guess I'll be glad I did. But it's too early to say right now. ;)

I haven't heard anymore from ex-hosting person. I dunno if she's given up or just found someone else to express anger at. Who knows? I did have to explain to Dad what had happened. Boy, he was hot! I told him the circumstances and he was just as angry as I had been. He couldn't understand at first how someone else had had access to his files. When I explained the details, he was furious saying how there should be some sort of law against destroying another person's property even if it is a set of files.

Sheesh. I told him I've already been all over this and back again. *sigh* Anyhow...at least I got a construction page up with his contact info.

Tonight is soccer practice so I'd better git. I hope Tommy's going to be able to come home in time...he's supposed to deal with the first 30 minutes of practice on his own because Coach isn't able to come til 7pm. (they had to move the time up a half hour because it gets dark too soon!)

I'm pooped after working up nine packed shopping bags full of greens! Gah! I'll be glad...later. Right now, I'm too tired!

That pretty much catches you all up. Boring, I know. But that's the best I got to offer today.