this week is starting off with what i can only assume is a sinus infection, so that’s not ideal. i’m also down two grandparents, which likewise is not ideal
Brilliant. Gave my wife £50 as she was going to do some shopping with her sister and I said I’d pay for lunch.
They didn’t have lunch but she spent over £50 on wrapping paper and ‘gift bags’ even though we have loads at home 😒
My week is starting off pretty good. I feel like a different person. I’ve got new plans for my life and have accepted the world that I live in. After all the hardship I’ve been through, I think that time has finally passed. I just need to flow with the river of life and see where it takes me.
we’re trailer camping in the west virginia mountains for a couple of nights before heading to my sister’s house. my niece is turning thirteen this week, and i’m excited to hang out with her because she thinks i’m the “cool aunt” which is what i always hoped to be.
I finally got the planned-for-three-straight-weekends-but-always-thwarted strut channel install done on my van today. This means the next project is finally solar, at which point I hit planned baseline for this housing choice. Last day at work was Friday, and I’m taking this week to do van stuff, move out of the warehouse and try to put feelers out for groups aligned with a recent course correction on the career front. Feeling pretty good about my projects and finally admitting to myself in no uncertain terms that I can’t do a bullshit job anymore.
Tried to go for a nice relaxing bike ride today but got jumped by someone’s off-leash dog. No injury but came very close to being thrown off the bike. The owner blamed me for not getting off my bike to walk it calmly around his dog even though it was a bike-friendly pathway and was marked as such.
Here’s hoping the rest of the week goes a bit smoother.
off leash dogs are the worst. i’m a huge dog lover, but put your dog on a leash! i don’t care how well trained your dog is, they’re not a robot, so unless it’s a leash-free zone… and even then, they’d better be under voice control.
I agree on out-of-control dogs being a problem, but it goes both ways. Mine wait by the roadside when I tell them to (and we always make a show of it so the oncoming people can see we’re aware of them), and we still get yelled at by a lot of dickwads on bikes even though they have 3/4 of the road to themselves.
And frankly, keeping a dog where it can’t run and play off-leash on a regular basis is animal cruelty.
I have family members that have owned poorly trained dogs, and have been around places with aggressive dogs. Ive also met many people with “oh dont worry he’s friendly” dogs who then are not friendly.
I love dogs, but I always have a respect and caution around dogs I dont know.
As an aside there was one time I was walking around a walking path in a park when around the bend comes a fairly large dog trotting down off leash at a reasonable clip. I was initially agitated that the owner would let their dog off leash especially at the pace this dog was moving and kept waiting for the owner to also cross the bend. They never did and as my eyes focused I began to come to terms with the fact that this was a coyote and we got off the path to let it scoot by and it paid us no mind.
