Well, I’ve got a problem at my condo and I’m not entirely sure how to get it taken care of. I mentioned before here that I thought there might be some sort of animal living under my house because Gavin had been eating lots of little pellet poop in the yard. Turns out I had a hole in the side of my condo leading to the crawl space and I suspected at that time, there might be a rabbit living under the house. To my dismay, I ventured down into the crawl space a couple weeks ago and there are 2 sections under there. The main part which runs under 90% of the condo was very clean and I could not locate any sign of animal activity. Unfortunately, the small addition that was put on to this unit has a foundation that fully encloses it and there is no access to this 10×10 area from the main crawl space. That’s where the animal is and now it’s starting to stink. I’ve got a couple of options. I can call the landlord and see if he can tell me how to get into that part of the crawl space (I suspect he has no idea). I can dig a bigger hole next to the smaller one to see if I can get past the foundation wall but this is problematic because this is a condo, the owner of the condo doesn’t actually own the structure and I’m not sure I want to get in to screwing around with how this place was built in order to solve this problem. I can call animal control or some pest control company and pay them to come and figure it out or I can just continue to live in what is quickly starting to smell like a barn. I think I’ll go with the first option and see what the landlord has to say. Unfortunately, I likely won’t get a response until Monday so I’ll just have to put up with it until then. In the meantime, if you have any ideas for how to catch a rabbit (although I think it might be dead already and that’s why it smells so bad) I’d love to hear it.
In other news, I continue to amaze myself with my geeky fascination over technology. Over the years, I’ve built up a rather impressive collection of old computers, cases, parts, hard drives and the like. You know you can’t just toss that shit into a land fill so I’ve just never bothered to recycle any of it. Last night, I hauled it all out, pulled out all the good components from the 4 old computers and reassembled them into a new hybrid computer. My goal? My big flat screen TV has an option to connect a computer to it and I have this urge to sit in my recliner and be able to surf the web. Actually, there are all kinds of web sites available now where you can stream TV shows and movies (either free or for a fee) and by connecting this computer to the TV, I can now watch old re-runs of Silver Spoons, Family Ties, and the Golden Girls on Hulu.com on the big screen TV! Shit, who needs cable any more, I can watch whatever I want for free via the Internet with the right technology. So this morning I am re-installing an operating system before I head out to the lake for the day and tonight, we’ll see just how well it performs.
Anyhow, I need a life.
I’m going to be 35 freakin years old on Monday. I’m not entirely sure where the past 10-20 years of my life has gone but I can’t say that anything that’s happened has been all that bad or that I regret any of it. I’ve always tried to live my life the way I want to live it by my rules and for the most part, I get support from the people who matter for doing so. I never thought I would end up back in retail, I certainly never thought I would end up living in Traverse City (seeing this place primarily as a vacation spot for most of my life), and I never thought that at this point in my life I’d be single again. That last part bugs me a little bit but at the same time, I really don’t mind where my life is at right now. I’ve always been fairly solitary, I do pretty well on my own, and to be completely selfish, I enjoy spending money on myself rather than supporting other people. I make more money now than at any other point in my life (as it should be), I’m healthy, my parents are healthy, and I can pretty much do whatever I want, whenever I want within the confines of a retail schedule of course. Looking ahead, just 35 more years until I’m 70 and hopefully (fingers crossed), I’ll be retired and living comfortably by that point.
I thought I’d share this picture with you as I approach my birthday. They say that being gay is something you are predisposed to at birth and that social conditioning plays a roll but it’s not the only factor. Do you think this kid is being socially conditioned to be straight or does he just have parents with boundary issues? I can’t even begin to imagine Hooter’s being an appropriate venue for a 10 year old’s birthday party! He apparently doesn’t seem to mind.
