The weekend is almost here and although I won't be working there's nothing much going on. Hopefully, it'll be a nice quiet weekend. It's terribly dry here as we haven't had any rain in quite some time. The grass and plants in everyone's yard are just dieing out. We also have been getting some smoke from the fire in south Georgia and northern Florida. We're not close and it's truly amazing that the smoke could travel so far. I am in northeastern Georgia.

A couple of weeks and it's off to Palm Coast, FL for a little vacation. We'll be staying in a condo with my sister-in-law and brother-in-law. That part I have reservations about as the sister-in-law has this way of making plans for everyone, then getting irritated when any of us don't want to follow the plan. Otherwise, it will be nice as I haven't had a vacation in a couple of years.

Just Another Day In Paradise

I saw this on a sign outside a plumbing business on my way home yesterday. I wondered if the person who did it was sincere or if they were being sarcastic. I suppose in the plumbing business it could go either way. I can see it being paradise when you look at the money you make but making the money would be anything but paradise.

I once had a pipe under my house to bust. Of course it was the dead of winter and I had to repair it myself as at the time I didn't have the money to hire someone to fix it. It was cold and I had to lay int he mud and water under the house to complete the job. It was at this time in my life I definitely learned a new respect for plumbers.

News In The Meantime

It's been a while since I last posted. It's a combination of depression and just being lazy. Feeling I have nothing worthwhile to say doesn't do anything to promote posting either.

Since my last post, I have been to Florida and found out that I have high cholesterol and am taking medication for it. Two different pills together. They want me to drastically change my diet but I have a very difficult time in dealing with that. A couple of the main things is to stay from fried foods and back off red meat. I can back off the dreaded red meat OK but a lot of what I like to eat is fried. Fish, chicken, pork chops. I can handle them baked but not as in that's the only way I'll ever be able to eat them again. I don't know.

The situation at work is no better that it ever has been. Same old, same old. The one bright spot here is that I have less than five years until I can retire. At least it's something to hold on to.