I always know there’s treasure buried somewhere in the junk

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Good morning my friends! I hope you’re well on this (I think) very cold morning. Perhaps it’s -40 out there. I don’t know. I will consider it sunny, 75°, with just a slight breeze, until it’s proven otherwise.

I didn’t have that bad of a sleep. Lately, I’ve been having trouble falling asleep. I can’t get the volume correct in the first (or sometimes second) try. Then, like last night, I fall asleep when he pauses talking, and as soon as he starts back up again, that’s when I wake up. Even on some of the tried and true Sleep Daddy’s. His voice is relaxing, but after some silence m, or at least just done really soft music, his voice is a little jarring.

Back to work this morning. The all day shift. It’s not bad m, is what I keep telling myself. I don’t mind Sundays. “You open at 10, then you look at the clock and it’s noon. Then you look again, and it’s 3, and that means you start your closing checklists.

Sometimes it works like that, some times you look at the clock after opening at 10, and you work 3 or 4 hours, and then you look at the clock, and it’s 10:15. That’s just how it works out in the grand scheme of things.

So let’s get some more coffee, and a shower coming up soon. Then I’ll almost be ready to greet the day. Fuck yeah, everyone! It’s the lords day!

Stronger than a couple hundred bottles of Johnny Red

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Here I am, fam. It’s ya boy. Yeah I was up early today. Opening shift at the shop. It was very slow at the beginning, but TinyTown slowly woke up and needed to buy shit.

So we sold the shit.

And they were happy with that.

Other than that, I went over to Shady Acres, brought in wood pellets, cleaned the stove. Then I went back upstairs and fixed their Netflix for them, and made sure it’s working, and told my parents that if needed I could drive my dad to CapitalCity if he needs me to so he can get chemo.

Back to work tomorrow. Technically only an hour longer than today, but open to close feels a hell of a lot longer. Probably because I have to both opening and closing paperwork.

Good times.

Now to find replacement shoes. Because I’m old.

There’s a real good chance that I’m gonna burn the whole town down

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It’s day light here again. That means Podrick is awake and being an asshole. I was first woken up around 5am, with my brain trying to identify the sounds I was hearing. Once I figured out what he was doing, I was able to get back to sleep. I dozed for about another 40 or so minutes through his shenanigans, or at least tried to.

So we got up, and I got the lights on, and the coffee going. The cats have been fed. Podrick is lounging on the shelf in front of the big window. Pippin is still in the bedroom dining on the bed.

It was supposed to snow here yesterday. We were expecting like 5-6”. But nothing really accumulated. It was much too windy, and the snow, when it started, was like just about 2 hours late, so of course nothing really landed. A customer was saying about an hour and a half south, they got about a foot of snow.

Back to work again this afternoon. And I’m opening tomorrow, so I have to set my alarm right now, so I don’t forget. There, the alarm is set. Everybody’s working for the weekend. Me? I’m working for Monday. That’s my next day off.

Moar coffee please.

Well, I guess he forgot about the Smoky Mountain rain

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Good morning everyone. It was a bit of a morning. I would’ve been able to sleep a little better, if my nose was unstuffed. Oh, and answer me this: why does everything feel so much hotter when you’re in bed, and then you get out of bed, and you’re bundled up, because it’s so freakin cold in the house?

But I digress.

Podrick was up at his normal time this morning. I ended up taking a soda cap away from him. I don’t care if he plays with one in the morning, but why does he have to play with one 6-8 feet from by ear holes? I snatched that shit away from him quick-fast. Then he just found something else to play with.

I’m trying to navigate Podrick playing with something, and a Sleep Daddy, that was starting to annoy me, I tried a couple different ones, and finally just said fuck it, and just landed on one, and hoped that I could sleep, even just for 20 minutes. I dozed on and off, all while trying to find a comfortable position that I could still breathe in, AND that wasn’t holy fuck it’s hot, vs. why is it so cold? I would just find the perfect spot, then a blanket would fall over my face, or my nose would plug, etc, etc.

Back to work this afternoon. I’m working through the weekend again as we’re a little short handed. But either way, the weekend is gonna be a good one. There’s snow in the forecast today; 5-6 inches or so. But wait, after it snows, it’s supposed to get windy. So what was the point of it snowing.

I need more coffee.

Well, the road was hot and flat as a ruler good hundred miles between me and Missoula

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It snowed again, in the night.

I’ll let that sink in. I believe all of us have, once again, been fooled by false spring. There’s usually 2-3 false springs. So yeah. Fucking false spring.

A little bit of bad news yesterday. My gramma has passed away. Early yesterday morning my mom said. She simply just stopped breathing. I believe she would’ve been 96 (?) next month. I spent the majority of yesterday at work thinking of all the things we used to do when I was a little kid.

One of my favorite memories was, and this is stupid. I don’t remember who got it, I think it was my grampa. It was a 5 or 6 foot rubber snake to put in the strawberry garden to keep other animals out, I guess. I remember chasing my gramma’s around their house with it, laughing like a maniac. I still remember their phone number as well.

Nothing too much planned for today. We’ll be heading into SlightlyBiggerTown for some supplies, because I worked last Saturday, and I’m working this weekend, so my day off is the only time we’ll have the time to go. So we’ll pop over and grab some Subway sandwiches for a late lunch/massively early dinner.

I just want it to stop snowing.

I want spring.

I don’t need second winter.

I do need more coffee.