November.....ah...now this is better!
Getting into the meat of the month now, and what can I say? Things are looking up.
It would seem that the slow season has passed in the world of TV repair. I was able to make a sizable deposit to the company account and make certain that I got the backpay I was so nervously missing (NOT that this will keep me from leaving this place as soon as possible!)
Truck has mysteriously stopped swapping fluids (and I do mean mysteriously)....It could have been packing oil trapped in the water jacket of the engine, or some wierdness of breaking in, but WTF! I didn't need that kind of a scare. In all my years of tinkering with machines I've never seen the like of this being anything less than a grim portent of very bad things, now I'm a bit confused, cautiously relieved, but still confused.
Another relief came in an encounter with Miss H (Remember the strange - and I don't mean to use that term lightly in this case - young lady who showed up on my doorstep with the TV, beer and chihuahua?). She snuck up behind me and did the whole "hands-over-the-eyes-guess-who" routine while I was waiting on payment for a side job. Naturally, I couldn't guess who (and as experience has taught, I knew better than to try). She had vanished, didn't answer calls, heck, she completely disappeared for nearly 4 months...so I was pleased that I was able to see her again unaccompanied by an 800 number and the words "Last seen....". I nodded and smiled amid a flurry of excuses, happy enough to see her alive that I didn't feel a need to bitch her out about the disappearing act. Truth is that I had written her off as a lost cause months ago. One of these days, she'll remember to get her TV back and I might see her again, but for now I can be satisfied in the knowledge that it was not something I said or did and I'm at least 180% better off for listening to my internal voice of reason and not pursuing a relationship with the little pixie!
I hope that this trend continues!
It would seem that the slow season has passed in the world of TV repair. I was able to make a sizable deposit to the company account and make certain that I got the backpay I was so nervously missing (NOT that this will keep me from leaving this place as soon as possible!)
Truck has mysteriously stopped swapping fluids (and I do mean mysteriously)....It could have been packing oil trapped in the water jacket of the engine, or some wierdness of breaking in, but WTF! I didn't need that kind of a scare. In all my years of tinkering with machines I've never seen the like of this being anything less than a grim portent of very bad things, now I'm a bit confused, cautiously relieved, but still confused.
Another relief came in an encounter with Miss H (Remember the strange - and I don't mean to use that term lightly in this case - young lady who showed up on my doorstep with the TV, beer and chihuahua?). She snuck up behind me and did the whole "hands-over-the-eyes-guess-who" routine while I was waiting on payment for a side job. Naturally, I couldn't guess who (and as experience has taught, I knew better than to try). She had vanished, didn't answer calls, heck, she completely disappeared for nearly 4 months...so I was pleased that I was able to see her again unaccompanied by an 800 number and the words "Last seen....". I nodded and smiled amid a flurry of excuses, happy enough to see her alive that I didn't feel a need to bitch her out about the disappearing act. Truth is that I had written her off as a lost cause months ago. One of these days, she'll remember to get her TV back and I might see her again, but for now I can be satisfied in the knowledge that it was not something I said or did and I'm at least 180% better off for listening to my internal voice of reason and not pursuing a relationship with the little pixie!
I hope that this trend continues!
posted by Solderjunkie | 9:22 PM
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