Rick's Daily Journal

+7 pm....ran dogs from the airport...got water....deposited check.....called VA for direct deposit.....getting ready to head to San Francisco....enthralled

-28 pm.....Tacey slept all day and got up at 8:30 pm and complained about what I cooked and went back to bed.....I made pesto chicken....Rainee, John and the kids came for dinner.....Kealey spending the night......got water at Fox...ran the dogs....made electric bill out for Jimmie.....brrrrrrrrrr and darkness

-29 am.....Didn't see Tacey at all yesterday.....did not do much to speak of.....got letter from VA telling me they denied my claim for ptsd.....depressing.....feel I have been let down by my country.....Burnie came home from the hospital and Damian came and woke Robin and took him over there....Rainee, John and the kids came over for leftovers last night.....what's for dinner.....a pall fell over the crowd

-9 pm light snow.....read meters Christmas Eve....Robin and Damian went to Taceys work on Christms Eve and Robin got hammered.....we had tacos and pirogees for Christmas dinner.....talked to Brett online tonight, he is spacey but doing well.....very pleasant day....the girls got way way too many gifts....I am glad I did not ruin Christmas for everyone this year......

-20 pm....Burnie is in intensive care...she fell in bathroom and hit her head.....prognosis does not look good....Tacey took off from work to go see her along with Rainee and Robin....last night Autumn gave me something that is a secret between me and her....she trusts me so strongly I am touched.....darkness all around me

-13 am.....got a letter today from the VA......they gave me 20% for Agent Orange and are still working on the other portion of my claim.....having a hard time staying awake of late.....got Tacey a dozen roses yesterday for her birthday....went to China 1 for dinner with Rainee , John and Tacey on friday.....place is not very good compared to anything in San Francisco....

-16 pm......Had doctors appointment today with Tsigonis.....have a glucose tolerance test tomorrow as requested by the VA.....wing window was blown out last night as I was coming home from the store.....was a rock and hit me while I was going 65 mph....got my check today....Tacey has been working on the Christmas tree ever since she got off work..I think she is on a run again....had a potluck at my meeting tonight.....a really nice affair, got to meet the spouses of a lot of my friends....did a little shopping for grocerys....ran the dogs east from the airport.....watched a movie at Rainees..How to lose a guy in 10 days....talked to Brett on line last night , he is getting better with the computer stuff but still a long way to go......meaning of life?

-17 pm....cooling off again....been sleeping too much...paid some bills.....no check .....hopefully I will get paid next week...........John bought another Nissan pickup last week?....for what I do not know......a little over three hours of daylight............been running the dogs every day out on the dike....today we ran from Peger out to the airport.....lots of people running their dogs out there but encountered no problems thanks to four wheel drive.....looks like the accepted or majority way is to run them east from the airport.....today I ran them west.....took Kealey to Burnies on sunday...Burnie does not look well at all....she is a shadow of her old self.....as may I be someday....take me out and shoot me for heavens sake

+3 night....warmed up yesterday....worked on 2042 sewer tuesday......Hilton came out and steamed the line by 2051....still have this nagging feeling that I am going to be shot while driving....I am so numb

-19 pm..temp went down to -29 last night.....been in sleep mode for last few days.....just cooking and cleaning and running the dogs....going in search of a flu shot tomorrow....the criminals spent the night last night.....4 hours daylight.....meter reading is going to be tough this month.....might have to do it on two seperate days....seems darker this year for some reason.... talked to Brett last night for a few hours......he is still having a tough time using his G5.....think it might be much worse if he bought a PC......at least I can talk him through his difficulties with a Mac.....Tacey has slept for the last two days after being up for three....all the news that is fit to print

-1 pm.....temperature has been going up all day.....was -31 at 6:30 am......printer broke on me today so I bought a new one at Sams .....other printer was 4 years old and giving me all kinds of trouble.....watched Pirates of the Caribean at Rainees tonight....ran dogs and met a cow and calf on the dike....had dinner at Rainees too....leftover Lasagna....read meter at 2081 new owners....is my life boring or what....lol

-38 PM......brrrrrrrrr another cool day in the north......picked up check and went to bank..ran dogs...helped John get his water pump primed......went to a meeting at the hospital..borrowed Johns truck for the night meeting.....weather is supposed to break tomorrow and go up to -8 which will seem like a Chinook......did not sleep well last night....

-33 this evening...trying blogger on Netscape to see how it works.....it looks different than Safari....talked to Roger tonight, his girlfriend up and left and went back to Texas with no reason fo going...Roger is stuck with a ticket since he was going to go back with her....Brett was online briefly, was his first day at work at the VA hospital and we talked late into the night last night so he is tired....paid some bills yesterday....life is exciting under the land of no sun

-29 pm......was -17 at 4 pm, it has been dropping fast....supposed to go down to -40 tonight....had dinner at Rainees, she made lasagna...John bought a new water pump and had me wire it for him.....pump would not work as he has no check valve so he is in a mood that I frankly detest.....kind of a slow day for me....blogger is acting up so I will make this short