Those of you that knew Crazy at his previous job would apprecaite what Laura and I did to the keys to his (Kia!) rental car. 

Crazy had a wreck a few days ago.  He is 100% ok (or at least as ok as he was before the wreck).  His car (humbly called the "POOmobile" due to the way his license plate reads) was not however.  Credit goes to Toyota for him walking away from this one.  Notice the trunk is as destroyed as the front but the center part is just fine.  His clothes are even still hanging in the back window.

I believe our subdivision put a dock in before I had a blog...  this was one of the most bizarre things to watch them construct.  The little construction crew created two 4'x6' platforms and drove in 2 posts...  anchored one end of the platform to the posts then drove two more posts (in the water - using a sledgehammer from a canoe) in to hold it above water.  Then they took the other platform and submerged it at the end of the other one and then drove in two more posts at the end of that platform.  So the end result is more or less an underwater platform (which I assume is for embarking/disembarking on the long voyage around the tiny lake).  Maybe I should buy a kayak.  Not sure why they don't want anyone to use them though.  I wonder if this sign will be permanently up.

The original freak is back in true hissing form.  He should be here through Sunday.  Bella is so happy.

Crazy.  You know who you are.  For those that don't know, here is Rob's drawing of him from a Maccaroni Grill table cloth:

I have been waiting to post this since I wanted to see them in action, but it has been a couple weeks now and I haven't been stopped by a train yet.  A few months ago, someone was killed at the railroad crossing near our house.  I suspect that because of this they installed new railroad lights and gates.  It was previously just the white "X" sign and a stop sign that nobody ever stopped for.  Since the gates and lights went up, they pulled up the stop sign, so it will probably be a couple more months before I remember to not stop there.

Just because I posted that last message to the blog, on my way home from work yesterday the sun came out.  Only for about a minute and a half and then it was gone again.  It was so bright I had to get out my sunglasses.  The camera couldn't even register the color of the sun it was so bright:

I am really getting tired of rain.  It has been raining all week.  The forecast has it raining for at least the next 10 days.  I can't believe how insanely wet this time of year has become.  When the rain finally lets up, I might get a chance to mow our now well-watered weeds.

So apparently one of my (now former) co-workers had a former co-worker that would say some very funny things at work.  They made a web site of his sayings.  An example:  "A margarita will help you greatly"

Wisdom of J Dog

It's been a while since I posted anything on here because I have a new job now.  While it's sad to leave some friends behind at the old one, I am in a much better place now. 

I believe they could not determine for sure where the hive is, so they just sealed up the access holes for it.  Let's hope they don't decide to move farther inside the building.  These bees are apparently the ones that were outside the hive when they sealed it.

This is my next-to-last day at my old job and there is a cleanup crew here to stop a bee problem.  Apparently they have a hive between the brick veneer and the rest of the building.  A few have made it inside, but for the most part, they're interested in the pollen, etc, in the woods surrounding the building.  I think they will try to transport the hive if they can locate and remove it.  Might make for another interesting picture if they have to remove a chunk of brick.

Well, I gave my 2 weeks notice with my humble company here on US280.  I will tell you that I certainly won't miss the traffic.  I will still periodically have to venture back to 280 for Target and a few other things, but for the most part my commute to the new place will be much, much easier.

 

One of my friends from work had a Lunchables for lunch the other day.  I had forgotten that those even existed.  I'd like to think it was intended for one of his children, but it's pretty funny if it wasn't.  It had tiny tacos, a CapriSun, and a little box of Nerds.  Amazing how many memories it brought back.  He added the yogurt.

My team won without me 5-3 on Saturday....  and we lost 3-0 on Sunday.  I believe this is the last game of the season (until the fall).  Maybe it will give my back some time to feel better since it has been hurting.

On Saturday we went to Abby and Judd's wedding.  Congratulations to Abby and Judd!

Laura and her sister Caitlin were enjoying themselves:

Last night I took this picture of a rabbit in our back yard.  Would you believe this picture was taken near dusk without a flash using a 300mm lens?  (I was a considerable distance from the rabbit).  Thanks to having a manual camera and photoshop for helping this picture look normal under such odd lighting conditions.

I forgot to post that on Saturday and Sunday we were in Huntsville:

We went to go see Laura's sister do synchronized ice skating:

We had a soccer game last night...  we lost 1-3.  We had a ref that couldn't blow a whistle very loudly and one of our players ended up with a yellow card for continuing to play after the whistle "blew".  Nevermind the whistle didn't blow a second time before he was given a card.

Our tournament schedule is available here.

Once again Laura outdid herself with her creations for Mother's Day.  This time instead of just a snowman for her mother, she made a cow for mine.  Check them out:

You can see the rest of her creations here.