May follows into June, & July & October the years fly by..

The base of the entry on the PNOP site is what to say when a telemarketer calls  and has a great number of great ideas.. I will admit that I listen to several radio shows that have this gag on every now and then, and I HAVE USED SOME OF THEM..  Mostly once I answered the phone after it rang a few times and said hello.. Waited to hear a voice which sometimes there is and sometimes there isn't a voice.. The ones where there is no voice is a checker call.. A checker call calls your number and if there is an answer of any kind that sends your number to every telemarketer and you can count on being inundated with calls for the near future.. But in this case, this day there was a lady that started to speak and as she started to say something (asking for someone by name but in a sound it out way) I then said as she was just about done asking, "HELLO"  and she started to say that again.. I said hello ... she was taken aback as then she started to say again and as she started to talk I said "now you talk, it is your turn, it is how conversation goes"  and she started to say something again at which point I get agitated and say louder "HELLO   HELLO    HELLOOOO"  and she is clearly getting pissed and then I just say "I wish you people would stop calling"  then hang up...   See sort of a take on the call checker thing..  Another time I had someone call while I was editing a radio show on the computer and it was the Opie & Anthony show and they can get rank with their language and I picked up the phone and it was another telemarketer and I sat the phone down fairly close to the speaker and basically had them on hold for a while.. Hope you enjoyed the hold music, which was a nasty discussion about something  no doubt.. I came back a few minutes later and put the phone to my ear, the dial tone was there..      When I'm creative I can do all sorts of cool things to these people..

I was looking at the different FB pages yesterday (for  things you know..)  and saw that Lucy had said something to the effect of wishing her brother safe travels.. Mom made a comment of wishing we could have talked to him more but..  Lucy was in a snit this past couple of months..  My comment would have read about the same way only I would have said "hope you have a safe trip home and maybe if you get back this way either Lucy will be over her temper tantrum or isn't married to Donald anymore"  either thing is possible although I think the later is more likely at this point..

Speaking of which (the temper tantrum)  I do have the entry complete for showing her  being    the way she has been... but I will wait until maybe after the first of the year to post it, depending on what happens  over the fast approaching holidays..  I figure we will be here without them this year (Donald and Lucy)  or maybe he will come and she won't because she has a bitch   headache associated with her being a bitch  pregnant..  And Christmas will be the same so.. Of course there is a chance she might act like nothing happened ala like when she got back from Poland and everything was hunkydory (whatever that means)..  She has a tendency to be that way..  Very junior high esk...

Also she has on her facebook page a link to a site with some new lights that she has (?) gotten for her DJ thing.. Thankfully they are no strapped for money anymore..  And I was worried  (NOT)..

The new glasses verdict:  Yep, got them last Wednesday on one of those quick trips.. As soon as I put them on in the store there I thought that same exact thing that I did with the other pair I got some nine years ago.. They aren't as strong as I thought they would be.. Shit.. Then I thought let me wear them a bit and see ..  I walked out of the store and felt just like I did the week before   "HOLY   SHIT THAT SUN IS BRIGHT"  and the week before it was because my eyes were dilated and so I knew why everything was blurry, on this day things weren't blurry but just bright for a few seconds.. Then the transition lens kicked in and everything was fine.. I was heavily disappointed with the other glasses in a few ways one of which they never seemed to fully transition to dark like I thought they should.. These new ones did transition quite well as when I got in the car I was wearing full shades, no doubt these were better.. The old glasses were fine except there was a screw on the left side that was reversed (it stuck up thread wise) and all I kept thinking was how stupid they looked all this time.. I don't know that anyone ever noticed that except for me.. I rarely wore them outside  or in public events..  actually that should say never wore them.. But because these transition as well as they do I don't feel that bad about wearing them outside now.. Some habits are hard to break but eventually I hope to wear them more.. One other thing about wearing these new ones is they feel like I am looking through a prism.. The glass on the edges isn't "smoked" looking and are clear (the old glasses were a smoked glass look on the edges) so these are like having a prism.. The prism effect to me is they have  a mirror feel, reflective look when I look to the sides.. I can't explain it any other way than to say it is like a prism.. Light gets reflected from this..  Just a lot different than anything else..  For this reason they seem brighter...    But they seem quite good, not as thick as the old ones either.. I thought the others weren't as thick but found out they were almost as thick as my old "glass" glasses were..

Badge Henry

(P.S.  A thought did cross into my mind shortly after pushing "publish" for this entry, with regards to Lucy..  Now some nearing two months after the blowup I have thought about every angle to it and today I came up with this.. : After an earlier squabble of sorts (the snow day this past late winter/early spring she was acting a bit put out about me not going down there and as far back as then I was saying get a backup plan)  well she wasn't happy with things but didn't freak out completely (although I'm thinking Donald would say to the contrary) But I think the main reason she freaked out this time was because she was ready to move on.. To no longer have me watch him and I have to say while it was a tear in the family that I am more than grateful to no longer have to worry about that.. There were just so many things I worried about and like I told them (her on many occasions) I'm not a babysitter.. Don't get me wrong, I didn't mind watching him when I did and wouldn't mind watching him a little now.. Just not more than two days a week..   Hopefully she won't get over her bitchfest   feelings towards me anytime soon.. I like not worrying about him her and the whole lot.. The amount we readjusted our schedules was just astounding.. They would have no clue how much we juggled to help them, and it is nice to not have to do that anymore.. )