Feeling Better

I'm feeling a lot better today than I have been over the last couple days. Although I am still sick, just feeling better. I've kept myself secluded from Chip by locking myself in my bedroom (there is no lock on the door, just keeping door closed, you know what I mean) so he wouldn't get sick and now he is sick. So, I rode my bike over to Albertson's and got him his own bottle of Robitussin and Nyquil and 2 bags of Halls and a box of tissues.

Boy when I got to Albertson's I could feel the tightness in my legs in the front. Wow, that was tight. I need to start riding my bike to the store more often to at least get some exercise but if anything else I need to ride my bike just to get my legs used to riding a bike so when I start going for bike rides to the bike path my legs wont cramp up on me and I won't get too tired too easily. When I was a teenager I rode my bike all the time. Sometimes for a few hours a day going here and going there. I rode my bike everywhere since I didn't have a car and since I don't even know how to drive. So If I was young again I could probably ride my bike on that bike path all the way through then back again to come home. I'd probably be the skinniest guy on that bike path lol. Here's to hoping that some day I will be the skinniest guy on the bike path, that is if I ever get to go on it.

Sick (Part 2)

I took my temperature and I'm 100.3. I feel really achy, dizzy, congested (nasal and chest), sore throat and I just have that feeling of dread. You know that feeling that you think you are going to die lol. I also have loss of appetite. You know what this means don't you? VACATION!!! Hehe. No, I wish, I still have to do the dishes and scoop the litter box. I still have chores. I've locked myself in my bedroom so Chip doesn't get it. If he gets sick I'm going to have to take care of him in addition to my chores and I'm gonna get sick again. It's a bad chain that we can never break. That's why my door is closed and I'm only going out to use the bathroom.

Ghost Hunters

Wow, tonight's Ghost Hunter's episode was really good. They caught 2 EVP's that were really good. Well 3 actually but one of them wasn't speaking English, you couldn't understand what he was saying. The woman that owned the building said it sounds like Polish to her. The other voices which was in the attic sounded like he was saying "We want" but they think it was saying "What do you want?" which makes a lot more sense. I think he was saying what do you really fast so it sounded like we. Then Tango was up in the attic and he was basically cussing the ghost out and you could hear when Tango took a breath a voice that said "Leave me alone". Awesome.

I've always believed in ghosts no matter what people say back to me. When I was a kid I used to see my grandmother Mimi or so I thought it might be her. I don't know for sure what it was. And ever since we've been in Bakersfield I've been feeling what seems to be a cat jumping up on either the couch and my bed. I'm not afraid of a cat ghost because I know that cats are innocent creatures and they don't have any evil inside them. Dogs are different though. Take Cujo for example hehe.

Bike Repairs

I rode my bike to the store the other day and I noticed that my back tire has been going flat and it wont stay inflated and so today I decided to go through my boxes in the closet to find the inner tubes that I got when I got the bike originally. When I bought the bike I bought those tire tubes that have the green goo inside of them which is supposed to fix your puncture if you run over a tack or a nail but I didn't know that it doesn't protect the sides, just the outer part. So, I took the back tire off and pumped the tube up by itself and held it under water which is what you do to find the leak. Found it, fixed it. All new again hehe.

Then I realized that the seat was really too high up so I lowered it and boy does that make a hell of a difference. So, I feel accomplished today hehe. I rode it over to our neighbors and back and I noticed it wasn't stopping fast enough so I got off the bike and looked and my front and back brakes are shot lol. Which means I better not even think about getting on it until I go to Snyder's Cyclery to buy some brakes and while I'm there I want to see their lights and a helmet. Not too many people wear helmets so I'd probably look dorky but I'd rather look dorky than dead.

When I was 16 my parents bought me a bike and they bought me this light set that had front and back lights that ran on a generator (the back wheel and my peddling was the generator) so I'd like to see if they have something similar to that, those are a bit more difficult to steal because it's a lot of work to get it on so it must be a bitch to get off. I do recall how horrible the lighting was for the headlight. Every time you start to slow down the light started to fade away lol. I'd like to see if they've made improvements on that system.

No More Plastic Grocery Bags!!!

I've been hearing this thing on the news about how the government is going to make retailers charge customers .25 cents per plastic grocery bag.  That's why I bought all those reusable cloth bags from Albertson's when they first started selling them for $1 per bag.  Whenever you go to the store with those bags they give you a .05 cent refund per bag so if you bring 3 bags you get .15 cents off on your bill.  It's sort of an incentive to use those cloth bags and eventually the bags pay for themselves.  Sometimes they have a sale like if you buy 4 bottles of the 1 liter bottles of Lipton tea you get a cloth bag for free.

 

I tell you that so I can tell you this.  We bring our cloth bags to the store so we have totally run out of plastic grocery bags which is what I normally use to scoop cat litter into then I put those bags into the 5 lb. buckets that the litter come in (empty buckets of course).  But since I have no more bags I have to just scoop the litter directly into the bucket then to keep the smell down to a minimum I put the lid on it. 

 

Well, you know what happens when there are wet items left inside a closed container don't you?  Condensation happens.  The lid of the bucket has sweat all over it.  Cat urine and feces sweat.  What happens when you open the lid?  The juices fall due to gravity.  Normally when that happens the juices fall to the ground but if your foot is right next to it and you don't have shoes on because you are about ready to go to bed and this is the last thing you do before you go to bed, it falls on your foot.

 

Well, that happened to me tonight.  Cat urine and feces juice all over my foot.  I couldn't do anything about it because I figured I might as well just scoop the litter and get it done fast so I can run to the shower.  I didn't want to shower then scoop cause then I'd have to wash my hands all over again so I just did my duty then ran to the bathroom.

 

Thank you Al Gore for bitching and complaining about global warming.  See what you did to me?

 

Grossed out,

Mike

Pineapple Express

This morning Chip wanted to go to Albertson's to get some meat to BBQ and he decided hey, let's go to Home Town Buffet instead. He said it would probably end up costing us more and all we'd get is the meat but at Home Town Buffet it would be a lot cheaper and we'd get more than just meat. So I said ok good deal. But we got there too early and they were still serving breakfast for another 15 min which to me is no biggy because I love breakfast. Even at dinner time I love breakfast. So then we left there and he said hey, I don't feel like going home, let's go see what's playing at the movies so we went and saw Pineapple Express. Hilarious movie. I myself don't care for pot but I do love a good pot joke lol. Seth Rogan seems to be a very funny guy and he is working his butt off this year doing so many movies.