Bridges & Traffic

We here in the Tri-Cities area FINALLY get the bridge work done and then I read this. I have to say I'm really glad I don't live in San Francisco right now!

The truth is that I didn't mind the delays so much as I minded the other idiots on the road. The signs say for miles to merge left and so like a sane person I do and then just as I'm ready to get onto the one lane open on the bridge here comes some moron racing up in the right lane and dang near pushing me into the divider as he cuts in front of me. Everybody knows that there is a lane on the left coming from Pasco merging into the left lane on the bridge right there!

The other incident that didn't really put me in danger but scared me a bit was on 182 between TRAC and the other bridge. I'm driving along noticing there's a lot more traffic due to the blue bridge being closed keeping a close eye on everybody when in my rear view mirror I see a jacked up brand new pickup behind me swerve into the left lane cutting someone else off. The scary part was that he swerved so hard the entire truck was tipping sideways. I thought he was going to end up rolling over and causing a major pile up.

Really glad our bridge construction is done and I'm not in SF. At least we didn't have pieces of the bridge falling on us! :)

What I'm Up To

Listening To: The Final Detail by Harlan Coben

Looking Forward To: The weekend! I will probably end up having to work most of it again just to get as caught up as I can but at least I won't have to answer the phone and deal with 15 interruptions an hour. Never did get to the movie last Friday, as the coworkers bailed at the last minute, so I might head out to one sometime this weekend.

Reading: Cut to the Quick by Dianne Emley

Watching: The vehicles pour into the yard. Thank God the cut off day is Friday!

Working On: Vehicles, vehicles, vehicles. I still haven't touched a crochet hook. I know this auction is good for business and that it's job security but I hate getting slammed. We're up to 243 vehicles. Help!!!!

Sunday in K-Town

Sunday we all went out to K-town for Mom's birthday. Meg brought baby Alli who looks just like her daddy who couldn't come because he had to work at the hospital.

Jennifer with Meagan and Alli.

Amanda, her two boys (Trent and Tyler) and husband Chris with baby Alli.

Chris and Alli

Tyler with his new Bakugan toy.

Trent with his ever present Nintendo!

We all helped carry mom's new greenhouse from the shop (where they assembled it) to the yard. Dad is inside anchoring it to the ground.

Three of mom's five cats. Only the momma of these three is a house cat now as she's kicked the four babies out to the cellar. Her furniture was taking a clawing!

What I'm Up To

Enjoying: My new necklace! She's got some cool new stuff she did that isn't in the shop yet that you can see here.

Listening To: The Murder of King Tut by James Patterson

Looking Forward To: Working all weekend to get caught up. (Sarcasm doesn't translate well to text.) Though we might take off early tomorrow and go to a movie.

Reading: Frankenstein Book Two City of Night by Dean Koontz

Watching: Whip It

Working On: The November auction. Vehicles, vehicles, vehicles. I just physically inspected about 100 of them. So far there's about 225 listed and they're still taking consignments for another week. Now I need to spend the next three days doing paperwork to get caught up with the 100 that are already here. Washington keeps changing the rules on me this year. In the last six months they've implemented the federal DOT Number form requirement AND the new automatic $5 donation to the state parks and rec program unless "opted" out on the Title Application (ANOTHER new form). There they go making my job even more complicated than it already was! I haven't even touched a crochet hook in over a week.

Ohhhh but the good news...I finally found a program (Synergy - it's FREE) and figured out how to get one keyboard and one mouse to work with both my desktop and laptop. Now I don't have to physically disconnect the keyboard and mouse from the desktop and plug them into the laptop. The keyboard and mouse stay plugged into my desktop and I just scroll the mouse across the desktop screen over to the laptop screen and the keyboard types on whichever computer the mouse has active. Now I just need to figure out if it works with a configuration like Mom has, i.e. two monitors hooked up to a desktop and one monitor hooked up to a laptop. ~~~ Oh no I'm turning into a computer geek! I'll take whatever makes my job easier though!

Dust Storm

Interesting view of the dust storm I was in on Sunday.

2016 Olympics & Other Ramblings

Ok, so maybe I'm not patriotic enough but could we just be happy for Rio?!?!?! What's with this sense of entitlement? Seems to me the US has had the games here quite a few times in recent years and there ARE a lot of other countries out there who participate!

Very, very happy that one of my favorite sites A Bunny A Day is back! Loving her latest painting as seen here. She has a new fashion blog where she also sells some of her jewelry at Scarlet Buffalo. (I will not mention how much of my day can disappear while browsing these two inspiring sites. - You never know when the boss will stumble upon your blog. )

This seems to be the week of blast from the past people. Giz stopped by the office today and so ok we've seen him within the last few years but he is from life about 20 years ago. And the one that really surprised me...I answered the phone (again here at the office) and who should be there but Aunt Joan?!?!? For those of you not in the know this is my ex-aunt who I haven't seen for at least twenty years. She's coming to visit the weekend of the 16th, so to my sisters...get ready because Mom will want to have a get together!

Current mood: Feeling a shopping accident at the local yarn store coming on! I really should stick to the cheaper yarns...the $15 a skein silk yarn makes a $60 scarf. (Makes for an expensive "hobby.") Ahh well have to spoil myself sometimes. :)