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Whew, glad that week’s over

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

The week includ­ing the 4th of July was sup­pos­edly a short week, a week with less work days, and hence should have been a more relax­ing week. As it turned out, it was more of a bru­tal week than I’ve had to deal with in a long time. Time at work has shrunk now that I’m once again work on our mas­sive, quar­terly update. Plus we’ve got another big project com­ing down the pipe soon. Then at home, well…

Wednes­day, we hit up the Trans­form­ers movie with AWelkin and Bryon. The spe­cial effects were incred­i­ble, but the writ­ing and direct­ing sucked. I also thought the main human char­ac­ters of the film over­acted their parts, but oth­ers in our movie going party insisted they did a fine job work­ing with the crap they were given. *shrug* I’m not an expert in movies so they could be right but in either case it was still a really bad movie.

Sat­ur­day, Ariesna and I got up early so we could hit up the farm­ers mar­ket tak­ing place down­town and still have time to visit some garage sales. Now we do reg­u­larly visit the weekly farm­ers mar­kets around town, but at a recent neigh­bor­hood cock­tail party we heard that the first week­end of the month there’s a larger ver­sion which takes place. So we went and were unpre­pared for just how mas­sive it was. The mar­ket took over sev­eral city blocks worth of streets and was jam-packed with ven­dors and shop­pers. We found a stand sell­ing some fruit tarts and bought one each for our break­fast as we looked around¹. We also bought a few books at the library’s booth, some creamed honey and a loaf of pump­kin bread. Then we escaped, huz­zah! *grin*

After leav­ing down­town, we parked the car at the house and walked over to the garage sales. Only again, we under­es­ti­mated how mas­sive it would be. There had been signs posted for roughly a week, giv­ing the street, day and time. We’d also heard back at the cock­tail party it would be 4–5 houses get­ting together to sell their stuff. Only it was more like 20–25, spread across 4–5 blocks. We walked around all of it and when we were at the far­thest part of it, we found a steplad­der for $10. Sure it’s old and prob­a­bly not rated to sup­port some­body of my size, but it was $10 and we’ve needed one ever since we moved into our house. Ariesna hung out with the lad­der, while I walked all those blocks back to the house, gack. Then a quick drive over to pick up Ariesna and our new lad­der. Whee!

Sun­day, nat­u­rally hav­ing the steplad­der meant I got to have the fun of climb­ing it and clean­ing out the rain gut­ters on the garage. For extra fun, then I cleaned off the steplad­der onto the garage’s roof and cleaned some of the house’s rain gut­ters. And then back down the ground, switch­ing to the exten­sion lad­der we bor­rowed from Ariesna’s dad and fin­ished clean­ing all the gut­ters of the house. Yes, sev­eral times my ver­tigo did kick in. No, it was not pleas­ant. Oh and yes, our slightly tilted garage appar­ently did shift under­neath me a bit while was mov­ing around on it’s roof.

Com­bine all that err, fun with 90 degree heat and you’ll under­stand why I’m so pleased to be going back to work (where some­body else pays for the air conditioning).

¹ Mine was rasberry/lemon, Ariesna’s was rhubarb. Mine was so much better.

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