Feb 2 - 8

So, a few weeks ago I was working in the garage and I grabbed some globes and starting doing some work. About a minute later I feel a bite on my hand and it hurts. I take off the glove and see nothing. Apparently, there was something there because my hand started to swell up. After a few hours I didn’t feel pain anymore.

Yesterday I am working out back and find some old gloves and so I put them on the ground and I stomp on them to make sure there is nothing inside. About 2 minutes later I feel pain like I never imagined. It was like someone took a needle and ran it all the way down my finger into my arm. I take off the gloves again, and don’t see anything but then I notice the remnants of a black widow nest on the back of the glove. Now I am panicking, my finger is starting to swell up and so I wash it (and of course it was the middle finger) with a garden hose. Again, the pain was unimaginable. I read up and decided, I would be ok, however I did feel wiped out. That night in the middle of the night, I woke up to this pain in my stomach and my knees. I wish I had something funny to say, but I don’t. Ouch.

I want to say farewell to wonderful customer, who passed away on Saturday. He  worked with special needs adults and was just a good person. He went by the nick name Scottie.

Good bye, old friend.

Jan 19 - 25

Ok, so I did a terrible thing and you can't tell my neighbors. I am walking along on the street waiting for the dogs to do their business, when I see one of them start the process. In the middle of this process i get distracted (no, I wasn't texting). So now I look down and I can't see it, I can smell it, but i can't find it.
So I reach down with my bag and pretend to pick it up.

Please don't let this out.

Jan 12 - 18

So, my wife and I were watching Pluribus on AppleTV when this scene of this restaurant came up.

The aliens take over Earth and they are trying to make this character happy. This restaurant had burned down, and so they rebuilt it for her.

This building is very similar to ours, but the sign is the sign we had (Walt's at the time) before the County made us take it down.

Anyway, it was fun to see it on national TV.

Jan 5 - 11

When you walk two dogs, and they both do their business, you manage to get it in one bag (too hard to carry two bags). It's difficult to carry a bag and hold two leashes. So, I wrap the bag and place it in my sweatshirt pocket. I know this sounds disturbing, but the important thing is not to forget. I'm still walking the dogs when I get a phone call from my son. He is screaming, 'The goat got out!' I ask how. He didn't know, but a neighbor had come knocking at the door to let them know. I drive to Orangevale in a panic, and fortunately, they had grabbed some apples and led the goat back into the yard by the time I got there. I spent about 15 minutes searching for the escape route when I finally realized that the goat had forced its way under the chain link fence. With help from my son's caregiver, we managed to temporarily block those openings.

So, I go home for dinner, and while I am sitting at the table, I realize that there was something I wasn't supposed to forget, but I just can't remember.

Now my wife reads this and says, 'WHAT?'