Now our AC is fixed. I need to vent a little about my new abode, which I know is all relevant to the time of year. I understand this that storms will come and go and no one knows what will happen from one day to the next however, I have lived in rural areas all my life and never had so much failure of infrastructure and broke parts in my life.
Thee events have me really wanting to move much sooner than I originally wanted to. Logic says the cost isn’t prohibitive but not effective. However when calculating loss and inconvenience, long term costs are outweighed by short term comfort and sanity.
Right now, if asked by my cute wonderful spouse if I want to move? YES. Just tired of the problems. Beautiful country but they suck at taking care of the area. I have never had so many power outages and just felt so isolated before in my life. I’m from Tennessee BF Egypt areas too. This is ridiculous. I don’t want to hear another redneck joke about a Tennesseean again from these idiots when it takes a week to restore power to a small rural area just 40 miles west of Chicago. Give me a break. In the words of one of my favorite AFV videos, “Now How you gonna tell me….” You can’t provide high speed internet out here yet? I have to use satellite DSL to get to the internet and can’t get cable. Really? This close to Chicago you can’t upgrade the facilities enough to provide cable and internet. Don’t ever talk about how far above raising you are from a southern boy!
Anyway, I have plans for this weekend. We’re grilling a little. Making some spinach lasagna on Sunday and I need to get parts for my bike so I can enjoy the bike trails around here. Plus a trip to the square to see what the market has to offer now that corn should be grown and I think I saw peaches and tomatoes too.
I’m making fried chicken, beans and mashed potatoes with cornbread tomorrow night. I need to get my wife by the library and check out some more music. I find myself in rotations. I listen to classic rock for a while and then back to country. The reason is that I get tired of the same old songs all the time but I can’t stand the new rock and pop crap. Country is the closest to original classic rock anyway.
So what happens is I give it a year or so and then new country music comes out that’s good, I get tired of it and switch back to rock for a while. I am finding though in my old age, acoustic guitar appeals to me more and the singing with the accompany accompany accompaniment is more pleasing to the ear and my voice.
I am also still in need of getting back to school and improving the grey matter a little. I have plans. Some long term plans include
(SOMEWHERE HAS BEEN NARROWED TO THREE AREAS NOW! BUT I’M NOT TELLING!)
Opening a Kennel somewhere
A used bookstore with a coffee house somewhere
Writing songs for extra dough
Of course writing books/journalism as a hobby(Free for a local rag or something)
Playing at diners or small bars in a duo or trio maybe o if I get back to stage presence I used to have doing it alone.
Biking
Disc Golf
Hunting
Fishing
Camping
Cooking
And what’s cool is most of this my wife would do with me in some fashion (Except the hunting)
What do you have going on now? Drop a comment!
XO ILY YM
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