The fair people at the local sewer plant are apparently not too concerned about leaking some good old fashioned raw sewage into this great state of Florida as I called them and got the "We'll be out sometime this week" response. Who knew the city sewage folks and the cable guy had so much in common. That would be sometime between 7 am and 5pm Monday-Friday. Don't worry sewer guy we'll be here waiting for your awesome scheduling system. As the days trickle by and so does our open sewer line I wonder what kind of damage we're doing to the environment. I guess the good news is Quentin isn't potty trained yet. We called to follow up today and due to the quality handling of our taxes the state is shut down because they're just irresponsible enough to figure out how to shrink their work week a few extra days a year by having to close for furloughs. Hooray! Today is January holiday. It's that special time of year when you just get the day off because the thermometer almost achieved 70. So, who knows what the next steps are. With the ridonculous (short i) costs involved I don't think we're going to be making the first move. It's a pleasure to see our tax dollars put to no use at all. Let me add a bit of perspective. Carrie tried to return a book to the library today. Of course it's closed on a Friday due to budget cuts. And around here closed really means closed. They actually locked the book return depositories. So even outside the library the depositories are closed. What a crock! That's your city providing all those great services. I'm voting down party lines the next election. If you are currently in office I'm voting for Mickey Mouse. After all he does live here and manages to stay open 365 days a year.
Speaking of sewer we had our first blow out in quite some time. Quinny wasn't feeling well and these days if you turn your back for a second some sort of surprise will be coming your way. Well, we did and when we turned around there were some chunks on the floor. It was assumed he tossed his cookies, but upon closer inspection those were definitely not cookies. He actually had a blow out and a big one. We had to bust out the dog "mistake" cleaner that was buried deep under the sink to clean that one up. It actually might be a first. I'm just happy I wasn't holding him because that would've really put the exclamation point on a fantastic week or the Packers season.
On a more positive note we do seem to be making some progress in the sleep department. We let him go this morning with his 5am wailing wake up call and miraculously enough he went back to sleep after 15 minutes and didn't wake until 6:30. I almost feel like he can be trained after all. We are hoping we can replicate that kind of success tonight. If we can sleep in until 6:30 on the weekends, well, I don't even know what that kind of positivity will do around here. We might be able to thaw out the whole state with such an abundance of warm and fuzzy feelings. By the way did anyone notice that Florida, as in that pointy state in the south, broke the top ten for best public education? At the time I assumed I was reading the National Enquirer but it turns out a legitimate publication has listed such southern educational powerhouses as Arkansas, Florida and West Virginia in the top ten. States not in the top ten? That would be any state outside of Ohio in the Midwest. Pay your taxes up there! I guess now that we moved down here our state is using our tax dollars so wisely, investing in education, that we don't have sewer workers and can't keep our libraries open. Libraries really aren't that important for education anyway. Books? Who needs em'! We're top ten in the country in edumacation! With this kind of success we may never move.
We're looking forward to a nice weekend of home improvement. No, no we're not fixing no stinking sewer pipe, but we are going to turn the "Florida" room into Quinny's personal toy box. Many, many posts ago I said we felt bad because we didn't have any toys for him to play with. Do you know how people tell you to be careful for what you wish for? Well, that would be me. Check. Lesson learned. We have toys coming out of every orifice this house has, and more and more keep opening up daily (see sewer post) so we need to reclaim our living room. It should be nice for both him and us and frankly we really don't use that room currently. (Sadly, it was a poker room when staying up past 10 pm was still common place). Times, well they do change. We'll post some pictures. Well, we will if it turns out looking nice. I leave you with a picture of Grandma teaching Q how to climb the stairs. I'm not sure if that was helpful or not. We just doubled the square footage we have to track down our little Dennis the Menace.
No comments:
Post a Comment