At last its Friday evening

Dear Family and Friends,
After a week of intense work and few rewards I anticipate next week to be better.  Today I cranked out two reports, one for a home built in 1935 and located high in the Oakland hills above Piedmont.  It was a funky little house which had been rebuilt several times over the years.  Think of that, it was built during the depression, was a new home during world war II, existed all through the 50s, 60s, 70, 80s, 90s and is still faithfully serving its new owners now.  I enjoyed writing the report and it certainly was easier to move the digital photos into place in the report than to take the photos which involved several hours of driving all over the hills on narrow twisted little roads that even made the GPS give up a couple times.  And this time the report was not rejected by the system.  I must be learning.  Now I just hope for more orders from them.

The second report was of the strange three story high home which looks like a new york store, very strange looking and has a lot size of less than 2,000 Sq.Ft.  I finished that one at 5:45.  Lois and I were both hungry so she bought me a Subway sandwich which I really enjoyed, I ordered the 6 inch wheat with the garden burger.

Once I got back home I decided the front lawn could benefit from a clipping.  Jason is letting me use his weed eater system but lately it won't stay running. Tonight I found out the problem.  The fuel line that extends from the carb into the tank was actually broken in two places, sort of hard to suck fuel through a broken line.  I was glad to make that discovery so now its just a matter of purchasing a new little fuel line, installing it and we should be in business again.  I love the system, it has attachments that include:  blower, rototiller, weed eater and edger.  They all work very well but all need the basic 4 stroke engine to be running strongly.

My duct tape repairs of the grass catcher have failed so tonight some grass blew up and into my face, no problem, the lawn looks great at least in the dark it does.

Once I emailed the second appraisal out I then turned to the bank account, reconciling the last month.  Would you believe it came out to the penny the first time?  Now that just does not happen to me very often.  I also discovered that a reason for my present financial discomfort, last months income was about $3,000 below the norm.  That can have a negative effect on things.

I walked this morning thinking that a walk would help clear my head of negative vibes.  It sure did.  It was a lovely morning, cool and crisp.  I even tried running for a few blocks and that took my heart by surprise.  Once I had breakfast I was very sleepy so I took a nap in the work chair but had a terrible time waking.  Finally I tempted myself out of the chair with a promise of Starbucks if I would drive down and fill the diesel tank.  Probably good thing I did that.  It took 13.2 gallons and I think it only is supposed to hold 13, yikes that was close.  A nice thing happened too, Safeway is once again giving a 10 cent discount per gallon if you have spent $50 in the food store.  Well I had so my diesel cost just $3.01 per gallon, the best price I've seen in a very long time.  So my fillup was just $39 and I'm set for the next 550 miles.  Thank God for the diesel bug.  It is a money saver and I happen to love to drive it.  I have to admit having the IPOD makes driving even nicer as it is very simple to listen to books while I drive and I can check the email messages by just pulling up to any McDonalds or Starbucks.  All of this is until I can afford to move to the Iphone but I'll do that when the big four are paid, health insurance, house payment, van payment and motorhome payment and then there is E&O insurance that is due right now and dental work that is vitally needed and there is that skin biopsy that I need on my lip to check for cancer.  Well I'm not bored with life, not in any way.

So my dear friends, now you have the weekend to pull your family back together, will you do it?  Why not.  I'd just say do it while you can and do it to your best ability.

Love

tim