I do hate it when it turns out like that!

It’s Tuesday, October 28, 2008 and we are counting down the minutes to the ‘fall back’ reset of our clocks coming up early Sunday morning (ours will be done long before the exact time the official clocks change). That ‘fall back’ is always better than the ‘spring forward’, at least from an immediate gain or loss point of view. If anyone ever needed some fall back relief I think I would qualify. I hate to say it but I think my thinking is beginning to suffer from electrical circuit fatigue or unscheduled disconnects. Last week I accused ‘Ole Roy’, our shop foreman, of not being able to hear and respond to his own pace maker ringing. (Just for the record, he doesn’t have a pace maker.) It turned out to be my very own phone ringing in my very own pocket and I didn’t recognize the ring tone since I had recently changed it. Man oh man, I thought I had put over a good one on him in front of an audience but it turned out to be on me instead. I do hate it when it turns out like that.

I’m not finished yet. Sunday morning I left at 6:30 a.m. to go for early prep for our Church services but I left my cell phone at the place where we are staying. I have an explanation for why I left my phone. I have to keep it plugged in all the time due to the fact that it currently is our source for contact on a 24-hour basis. Plus, I do my very best to tip toe around so as not to bother ‘you know who’ when I’m getting ready. You add all of this together and the bottom line is still the same. I left my phone and didn’t have it to call my mom at 8 a.m. sharp, but my wife did bring it to me and I was able to call her at 8:30 a.m. sharp. I do hate it when it turns out like that.

Yesterday morning I arrived at work at 4:40 a.m. I always go and unlock the shop and other buildings just before 6 a.m. I lock the office when I leave and I did check to make sure I had keys in my pocket and I did. I thought the ones I had were to the office but they were to the damaged house and the temporary storage unit instead. Therefore, I had to set up camp in the shop office and hope that someone with an office key would get to the property before Ole Roy showed up. Of all days, he just had to be in early and there I was sitting at his desk in his office. He said, “What do you think you are doing in this office?” I couldn’t really come up with anything better, therefore, I blurted out the truth and told him I had locked myself out of the office. (This is why there were no images on yesterday’s blog, I sent it from the computer in the shop office.) Two weeks in a row I have contributed to making Ole Roy’s day, week, month, and perhaps have given him a gift that will keep on giving all the way through the upcoming holidays. All I can say at this time is: I do hate it when it turns out like that. Stay tuned because who knows what kind of hilarity lurks just around the next bend? Have a great day and may God bless. Amen. ……More later.