The Adventures of Being Me

I got snow on my TV. I lost a channel that went all digital. I scanned the airwaves with my digital antenna and no go. Another analog station said 2 stations went digital today and I get one of them, very clearly. Oh well, better get cable cuz it looks like the only place I am going to get a converter box is on the black market and I don't know criminals to get one. Stores are sold out and can't get one online from a familiar store. I tried sooner to get cable but the state government took over the compnay so couldn't get service in my area. I'll call Sunday or Monday when I finally get a day off. Now I can get service. IS THIS PUNISHMENT FOR BEING POOR???????????????? Later.

Happy Late Valentine's Day, I spent it fighting with my brother over my taxes. He came over to my parents' house to visit Dad in rehab and I went over to get my taxes done. We hit a roadblock. He needs the paper forms the government sends to do them. They didn't send any. He can't do my taxes w/out them. Oh, the government doesn't send them if you do them online, which is how he has done them for years. Then why is he complaining? Mom and Dad don't have internet. Excuse me, I have internet. Problem solved.Problem not solved. My internet is slow, the laptop fan vibrates more than his comfort level, my bank never sends interest forms, I cashed in savings bonds he doesn't know where to place on the form, I have tuition I never got a statement from the make-up up school to announce the total cost, and I made a withdrawal from my Roth IRA to pay for school and don't have the total of contributions made prior to 2008 that is required on the form. Sorry, I neve...

My brain is mush. I went to the grocery store to turn in my pop cans (5 cents a can in Iowa) and I forget them in the trunk so had to walk back to the car. Got yellow flowers with yellow vase I'm sure Mom will like and a balloon. Got to the hospital and asked for his room number. Sorry I was too tired to write things down when speaking to Mom. Dad looks terrible. Very pale and arm skin getting folds, I'm guessing from losing weight. I noticed his knees are all swollen from the arthitis. Nurses kept entering to ask if he needed pain medication. Not if he doesn't move. He laid down reading the newspaper while Mom and I chatted. Asked the usual to Dad, How are they treating you, How are you feeling. Surgery is tomorrow early in the morning, 5 hour surgery. Then had to do tests and such before carving into him. Tumor is size of a fist, or orange. And it is new cuz he had an x-ray of his spine last November for his shrinking spine and that tumor not there, they double checked. A...

hey there. Thought things couldn't get worse. They did. They transferred my part-timer to Ladies shoes. They have 8 people in that section besides him. So I am all alone in my section, which means every time I take a break someone has to cover my ass. And they always leave a mess for me to clean up (sorry they put things back wrong so I actually prefer this) when I come back. Every Saturday and Sunday I have to call a manager for coverage cuz everyone I ask says they're too busy. Except today cuz I have it off. I'm sure my section will be a pig sty when I show up tomorrow. My manager better not be getting mad over the disarray of my section (she did this after I had 2 days off) cuz I'm the full timer and I am in charge of all this so just do my job like I'm suppose to. Excuse me, I can only do so much and watch the sales floor. Anytime I have a backroom project clothes people keep coming back yelling I have a customer (I don't have monitors in the backroom). I k...