Weekend adventures!

Since my dad was home for a few days in between trucking school and his internship, I decided to go home for a visit for a few days. I packed up Tovie and left on Thursday. The first real issue was in getting Tovie home. He gets carsick, so I'm generally reluctant to put him up front with me. Plus, Tovie doesn't like the front. I roll down the windows and he tries to escape - or, he tries to sit in my lap or crawl under my feet. Since he'd just broken two chains, I was a little reluctant to chain him in the back, opting instead to borrow Angie's kennel. I put the kennel in the back of my pickup, Tovie in the kennel, and headed off down the road.

For some reason, the kennel just doesn't like the back of my truck, and it turned over several times and began to attempt an escape from the back of the truck. At that point, I pulled over, put Tovie in the front with me and called Jeremy to come get the kennel. The drive home was accompanied by much drool, lap-crawling, and construciton work (the pass was being re-paved).

Finally, we got home, and I tied Tovie in the shade with food and plenty of water. I also gave him his bone, because Dane was not there to steal it. Unfortunately, right about then, Mom turned Drover loose, and Drover came and stole it. And disappeared with it. That's two of Tovie's bones down to scratch. Anyway... Tovie behaved himself very well at home, and also had a bath, which he didn't enjoy very much.

Other adventures included computer adventures and mishaps. I installed Linux on my computer because Windows was eating all my memory and computing power. It took around ten minutes to boot up and shut down my computer because of Windows junk. I'm now down to about a minute. So that was fun.

One mishap was that I went outside to help my mom with chores, and when I came back, the latch to my laptop was broken. I don't know who, or how, but somehow, it no longer closes and the spring in the latch is gone. So now it either is on and running or turned off. I can't put it on standby to conserve my battery. No fun. Another mishap is that somehow my battery cord melted. Well, not the cord itself, but the box that has the adapter in it. It would take some serious heat to melt that thing, and the case is warped and has bubbly imprints in it and started to come apart at the seams. I wrapped it in electrical tape to keep it safe, but I still have no clue how that could have happened, short of someone tossing it in the oven - which couldn't have happened, because none of the rest of it is melted. Plus, these things are made to withstand the heat that they produce.

Anyway, it was a lovely visit home. I got some laundry done and played some Monopoly with Ari and Lori. Lori won. But only because Ari made a rotten decision to hand over his two railroads for Parkway... Then everyone landed on the railroads. Fun stuff. Anyway. On the way back today, I just tied Tovie in the back like I should have done, and it worked fine. He wasn't even as sick as he usually is. So he's over at Jeremy's now, and I've got to start moving some stuff over there. I'm kinda nervous about staying there all by myself, honestly. I mean, it'll be cool to be completely on my own (other than Jeremy's paying for utilities and whatnot) but... do I really want the whole house to myself? I kinda think it'll be a bit lonely. But maybe with work starting, I won't have time to worry about that.

And that's the last thing that I wish to discuss in this blog - work. I begin it tomorrow. Just a quick mention of this - but I pretty much won't be mentioning much about my work. There's confidentiality laws and stuff that protect the people I work with, so I won't be saying much. I can say, though, that I'm going to be helping teach people how to live independently. I'm also going to be taking them swimming! Hooray! Anyhow, I start tomorrow. I'm sort of nervous, but kind of excited, too.

Anyhow... More updates on life as it comes along!

--Anna Grace