I happen to have a few minutes, so I figured I would let you know I am still sucking air. Haven’t had a lot of spare minutes, so as always the blogging goes away first.

I had been cutting spline for a wood contract – that finished with a whimper. It’s all cut, and ready to go, but the delivery date got moved – again. I had finished the spline, and was slicing up the last board I was using to put some extra pieces in the order (I’m cool like that) when the motor on my table saw retired. Great timing. Anyone with a spare 1 1/2 horsepower electric motor they won’t need, let me know.

The office manager has been on vacation this past weekend, so most of the pre-BlackFriday preparations are being done by the owner and myself. The preparations consist of Kate telling us what needs done, and then me supervising and facilitating the process. Since this is my first job in retail, and consequently my first Christmas in retail, I’m learning a lot of things very quickly.

Gotta run – time to get going, since I need to stop by the warehouse on the way to the store – which is not a new thing, but this time of year we start siphoning off all the merchandise we have been storing up all year, so I pull up at the warehouse empty and leave loaded, a reverse from the rest of the year.

Chat ya later…

Thank you for stopping by, In GOD We Trust, God bless you all, don’t buy or breed cats or dogs while homeless pets die (spay, neuter & adopt a pet, one by one, until there are none), Wear Red on Fridays, and support Warriors for Innocence!

Well, having left (several) messages a the number provided, and still not having heard anything back or even gotten a message back, I am beginning to wonder just how acute the need for donors is.

It is still weighing on my heart, so I will not completely shut that door. Maybe close it most of the way to keep the draft down.

If you are a friend on Facebook, you have probably seen my plaintive appeals to help vote Kidstop Toys as the Best in the Valley. We keep falling behind, so if you could help out that would be great. Just follow the little linky thing back where I typed “Best in the Valley”. Thanks.

and, by the way, if you happen to be in the neighborhood of 69th Street and Shea Boulevard in Scottsdale any time soon, stop on by and I will personally give you a tour of the store. With McGuire and Murphee’s permission, of course.

Chat ya later…

Thank you for stopping by, In GOD We Trust, God bless you all, don’t buy or breed cats or dogs while homeless pets die (spay, neuter & adopt a pet, one by one, until there are none), Wear Red on Fridays, and support Warriors for Innocence!

No, not me – I’m a nice guy, and don’t get black listed. I do, however, get about a ton of “questionable” comments that WPSpamFree think might be real comments. Not here – over at Black Canyn Railroad Museum. For some reason, even though the settings at both sites are the same, that one gets hit with a LOT more spam comments. Sure, some of them show up over here, but I am in the middle of wading through over thirty spam comments and adding their IPs to the WPSpamFree “blacklist” – which is supposed to automatically mark as spam and trash any comments coming from those IPs. It wouldn’t be so bad, but thirty is since Sunday evening, when I spent more time blacklisting over fifty – since Friday.

Sometimes, it doesn’t seem worth the effort to chew through the straps in the morning.

Chat ya later…

Thank you for stopping by, In GOD We Trust, God bless you all, don’t buy or breed cats or dogs while homeless pets die (spay, neuter & adopt a pet, one by one, until there are none), Wear Red on Fridays, and support Warriors for Innocence!

Most of our home has been tiled ever since the pets outnumbered the humans. Many of the original pets are still around, making them fairly old in dog (and cat) years. One sign of old age is forgetting things. (see my post from … uhm, yesterday, I think …)

Another sign is incontinence.

The closet in our master bedroom is (was) one of the last two “rooms” in the house that still had the original carpeting that was installed when the house was built. The other is the office/train room/storage area, but that’s not going to last – I’ve already had to cut out sections, and now it’s a case of unloading the room and removing the carpet. Last Friday, someone relieved themselves in the closet, and Saturday TMBWitW spent a lot of time removing everything form the closet so it could A) air out and 2) have the carpet removed. I tore up the small area on Sunday morning. Next step (now that you can actually go in there without holding your breath) is to clean the floor real well, removing the carpet tack strips, and then buying the new flooring.

We’re thinking engineered wood, like in the bedrooms. I’ll get some pictures and keep you updated.

Chat ya later…

Thank you for stopping by, In GOD We Trust, God bless you all, don’t buy or breed cats or dogs while homeless pets die (spay, neuter & adopt a pet, one by one, until there are none), Wear Red on Fridays, and support Warriors for Innocence!

So – sure hope you’ve got your vote on!

Since I’m registered as “No Party Affiliation” I have to go to a polling place this morning and request a ballot for a particular party. Except Democrat – they don’t want any non-Dems voting in their primary. Since I have to leave earlier, this kinda throws off the whole “routine” thing I was working on!

Now, get out there and VOTE! Or, if you don’t, then just be quiet about the direction the country is taking. The adults will try to get this sovereign nation, these United States, back on the right track.

Chat ya later…

Thank you for stopping by, In GOD We Trust, God bless you all, don’t buy or breed cats or dogs while homeless pets die (spay, neuter & adopt a pet, one by one, until there are none), Wear Red on Fridays, and support Warriors for Innocence!