Up The Creek Without a Drama Paddle!!!

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please note that when I was typing this blog, the voince in my head that spoke it sounded alot like Kelsey Grammer from Frasier. so it might help if you imagine Fraisier Crane speaking this.... as a monologue.... but in writing......
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Well then if we're all comfy and settled in, let's get started. Shall we?

in the not inconsiderable time since I last joined you much has happened. Over a month has passed and time, as it is ever prone to do, marches on with its normal steadfastness and commitment to unceasing certainty. (I'm feeling abit wordy this evening, so if you want a short blog, I recommend checking out my links to some other blogs :)) That being said I'll do my best to fill in the gaps that I'm sure you're all dying to hear about.
I'll start with work, I've been asked to change shifts at work. I was entering work at a unsightly but not quite horrible 7:00 AM CDT (that's 5:00 AM for you west coast types) and getting to leave at the unmentionable hour of 6:00 PM CDT (that's 7:00 PM for you east coast types) I have been asked by my overseer to come in at the obscene, ungodly, and , dare I say it, unholy, hour of 6:00 AM CDT not to be released until neigh on to 5:00 PM CDT!!!! Ladies and gentlemen, needless to say, This has rocked my metaphorical and literal world! I am sure that at some point in the indeterminate future I shall adjust and move forward with my normal life and routine but until that day comes, I am abit, as we say here, off kilter.

We recently had some houseguests! My loving bride's "BFF" and her two lovely daughters came to stay with us at "Casa de El Goldo". So that brought the current count of inhabitants to 3 adults, 5 children, 2 rabbits, and approx 45 million stuffed animals. They had a lovely stay adn we did many fun and wonderfull things such as going to the swimming pool (where we freaked out C by letting her child swim in the deep end of the pool, and no, no one was permanently injured. unless you count the parakeet....) the baseball game (children are apparently do not appreciate the fine art of large booming fireworks going off just above their heads as we adults do) and we went to the creek. This last part was, I'm afraid, an unmitigated disaster. Let me first defend my self by saying that we do this all the time, so I thought nothing of jumping into this outing full speed. C and her kids are city girls. They are fully at home in macy's or Nordstroms, places I don't feel I can afford to breathe, but not so much in a creek in the woods.
I'll tell the full story another time, but suffice to say two children (and I suspect 1 adult) ended in tears, or very near them, by the end of our 20 min adventure.

I'll sign off now as my wife accuses me from time to time of writing posts the "size of War and Peace" (by Leo Tolstoy as you all know I'm sure, as Woody Allen once said "it's about Russia")

So in the intrests of brevity, good night, good luck, and good fortunes.