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To all of the Veterans out there I want to say Thank You from the bottom of my heart. You are all heroes.

Posted by Linda at 07:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

News Carson City has a brief report about arson and a missing boy. The folks involved are my next door neighbors on both sides of me. The fires happened at the house to the north and the missing boy was from the house to the south. I never knew the boy, but that is not surprising with the hours that I have to keep.

During the evening my attention was drawn to the activity of the fire fighters. I was first told that they would be done with what they had to do in about an hour. Well, as it turned out they weren't done until many hours later due to the additional fires. Later, and perhaps while the fire fighters were still doing their work, a caravan of trucks drove up which really caught my eye. I first thought that someone further down the street was throwing one huge party to draw in so many vehicles all at once. It did become apparent some hours later that there was no party and that these folks were searching for the boy. This was also the first I'd heard about a boy being missing, and the time was now around 3 am. Danny and I both briefly spoke with the searchers as they'd wondered if the kid could be hiding in our garage or in my car underneath a down throw that I keep in it. I explained to them that our garage was always locked with a deadbolt and that I never left my car unlocked. It was highly unlikely that the boy was hiding in either place.

Not long after that a huge helicopter came in from the east and began the aerial search for the boy over the many open fields of sagebrush that we have here. The coyotes were howling too so there was really a lot of noise.

About 4 am our neighbor two houses to the north was on the phone with us as he'd been woken up by the chopper. That was when I found out that it was the shed that had burned (I'd previously thought it was the master bedroom of the house and I didn't find out until this morning that more had been burned when I took a look at the online version of the Nevada Appeal). Anyway, this was all happening in the middle of my day so I wasn't kept awake by the noise, and I can tell you it was really, really noisy with the chopper flying around and around and low to the ground until daybreak.

At the time of this writing, all appears to have finally settled down around here. The dozens of trucks and cars have left for the most part, although there may be one or two out of my line of sight. Rich likely has a load of paperwork to do if he had proper insurance on his stuff that was damaged and/or destroyed. Personally, I won't miss the noisy Mustang but that's just me not liking anything noisy. I've got a backyard now filled with footprints from the hiking boots that the searchers wear and wonder how long before the winds we get here will simply erase them into oblivion.

Why the boy did what he did is really anyone's guess. I have a few opinions without even having known the kid, but they're best left unsaid.

Posted by Linda at 10:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Yes, it has been quite a while since I took the time to scribble something down here. Sorry for that.

Danny is good. He's off to work right now so he can't get in my hair while I work on one of my projects.

I'm good too. Still keeping weird hours but that's all part of working the graveyard shift. Yes, work is going good too. Loads of printing nightly still. I think we went through 2-1/2 cases of copy paper last night plus all the other forms that we print. On the average we manage to keep three laser printers constantly busy for a solid 3-4 hours each night, a continuous form laser printer busy for 5-6 hours and a band printer busy for one hour. You could say that we do a lot of printer baby-sitting since we're constantly feeding them paper and forms. We do a whole lot more than that, but the printers are squeaky wheels and they get their attention.

More later, got to go check on a neighbors kitty cat now while it's still light outside.

Posted by Linda at 05:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I'll once again find the time to keep up with this as I should (and used to do). As a catch-up, here's a brief summary of what's been going on over the last several months.

Continue reading "Someday..." »

Posted by Linda at 10:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Are you a parent of a high school student here in Carson City, Nevada? If so, please check to verify that Carson High School has your correct telephone numbers. Your child may be truant and you may never hear about it.

I am sick and tired of receiving calls about some kid's truancy on my cell phone. If I answer the call, it is only a recording. If I don't answer then they leave a voice mail. The trouble is that one cannot return the call to the phone number they call from. They're wasting my precious time and I can't be bothered to find their number in the phone book to let them know that they need to change their ways. This isn't something that anyone should ever simply leave a voice mail about - missing one's education is far too serious in today's world.

I sure am glad that I never bothered nor had the time to have kids...

Okay. Rant over.

Posted by Linda at 06:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

A few months back I took a nosedive into rebuilding a much larger site. It's nearly finished and hopefully I'll have a large chunk of uninterrupted time to do all the chores that are involved to get the new version up and running. It feels like it's taken forever, and perhaps it has taken longer than it should. I've spent too much time dinking around, changing this or that and sometimes starting over from scratch. But all that is behind me and I need to forget about it.

Work is good. I've been at my current job 1 year now, and more than half of that time on the graveyard shift. I think I'll stick with this job for a long time to come.

My Danny is fine too. He is always the one around here who can never find anything and can lose something within five minutes of having it in his hands. I am constantly called on to find things that I've never laid my eyes on until he loses them. Fun huh?

We took a vacation a few weeks ago. It's been quite a few years since I've actually gone anywhere during my vacation time but this was a special occasion - his Mom had her 80th birthday! What a time we had celebrating! I can't remember when I've eaten out so many times in one week. It was all good, and despite the weight that I gained I survived all the fun.

Be good to yourselves. Not sure when the next time will be that I'll get to update this.

Posted by Linda at 12:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Much too long. I've been busy, there are some things that must get done no matter what else is on my plate: gardening, reading books, building and rebuilding sites and work. And sleeping way too much. But mostly I was just spinning my wheels trying to deal with a schedule that is abnormal for me: day shift. Fortunately, that horrid shift is behind me now.

Continue reading "It's been a long, long time" »

Posted by Linda at 09:24 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)