Early Friday morning

This online stuff is good.  I dunno what I did before I got online in 2000.  When I got home on Tuesday morning, the first thing I did, after feeding the cat, was to try to log into OD, and couldn’t get online.  I freaked, and assumed that something was wrong on this end.  I tried this and that, and rolled back the machine to the day before when it worked fine, and still couldn’t get online.

It was about then that the lights came on and I called Comcast and found that my service had been stopped. 

ooops. 

With no reason to keep the compter on, it got a day’s rest.  I had that night off, so I fired it up again to write a few letters (do they still make typewriters?) to the IRS and Oregon revenue blah blah blah and then shut it down again.

I had talked to the boss Tuesday and found that he’d pay me Thursday, so I knew I wouldn’t be offline too long.  I went to the library and waited to use one of their online machines and checked my email, and my OD and limped home.

I have been walking more lately- I do not want to be unable to walk, so I have been making myself walk, and damn the pain,  Not that it hurts so much any more, but to be  unable to walk easily is disconcerting.  I worked at it pretty hard after the wreck, when my left leg and ankle were damaged, and damn if I’ll just sit around this time either.

I’ve never particularly liked my body – I used to feel that there was me and there was my body, and I was in charge, not it.  I don’t think I’d make a "good" disabled person, lol.

I’ve always been tall and thin – and lately, outright skinny, compared to most of the rest of my world, seeing as they say that 56% of Americans are overweight or obese.  I worry about gaining weight too, but not losing it – I could stand another 20 or 25 pounds.  I’m 163 pounds, the last time I got weighed at the clinic for my foot problem. and the "ideal" weight for my height ( 6 foot ) is 180 pounds, so I’ve been sometimes concerned that I don’t gain weight easily.

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(heh.  that’ll make me popular here, grin)

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I’m working Saturday morning with the Saturday papers then a few hours later with the Sunday first edition.  I’ll be delivering about 300 Sunday firsts, so Saturday will be a nearly 100 dollar day for me.  It was either that or feel slightly guilty that the boss would have to do all 800 some papers by himself that day, since the #2 driver is busy with softball Saturday.  We were talking, the boss and I, and #2 is apparently very slow, delivery-wise, so the boss, while wanting to do the right thing by the guy, who is eager to work, is kind of regretful that he’s not even half as fast as either of us.

And more money to me is good.

Now that I can get online again, at home, I can cruise Monster and jobdango and look for more work.  One of the elementary schools on my Milwaukie route is looking for school bus drivers, and I think I can do that – I’ve driven everything else, why not?

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Ahh, but time to go get the Fridays, so its off to work for me now.

I will be back.

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(one other good thing about being online is I can check on the fire’s progress and make sure, as sure as I can, that Jhni and her daughter are safe from the fires)

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