Stickies

It's raining today.  I feel happy(er) for some reason.  I took a couple of boxes to Goodwill and then stopped at Marc's to get some muchy sticks for the dogs.  For some reason. they price those sticks 15 for a 99 cents.  So when the checkout person asks me how many I have, I usually say "three dollars worth."  They never ever trust me, so I have to think in tuples of 15.  I got $3 worth of brown sticks  because I'm good at figuring how many white sticks and brown sticks map to $7.   The old price for these things used to be 18 for 99 cents.  Clearly, a 4th grade teacher manages this store.

I got a call from someone at AT&T who said he'd call back and actually did.  Of course it took about 2 hours.  He said he had to escalate my trouble ticket to two managers and he still didn't know what was up with the Cleveland central office.  Lovely.  I did hear from a friend that phones were out at AT&T or rather, that there was some "disruption."  This is why I really like wifi.   With multiple layers of coverage, you almost always get online.   The two cups + string approach that AT&T/SBC/Ameritech favors can get blow'd up.  

Every day that I walk out and see the For Sale sign, I get mad.  The anger is directed at myself.  Why am I even bothering?  Jimmy suggested something last night whilst we out walking los perros.  Brodie (late of Cleveland and now living in sin in El Centro, California) might be able to come back and watch the house and, just maybe, the dog(s).   Annie the Wonder Doodle is high energy but she's a big baby.   Jimmy would prefer Annie's company in his truck vs. Rocky.  And I know that Brodie likes Rocky.  This might be a good solution and would allow me to find somewhere else, somewhere that's dog and/or cat friendly.   Definitely not something in Cleveland.   We'll see.  Ideas are always a good thing to be tossed around.