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I'm ready for 2023. This year has been one of the most crappiest ones I recall. It started off losing my aunt back in January. Then a couple of days after her death, I have the woman whom I happened to have been engaged to start some strange behavior. Apparently she was upset with me for asking her about the car I gave her money to buy off her friend. She had been giving her friend who was selling her the car enough time to get her personal life worked out with various things that had recently popped up. I waited for my ex fpr over a month to start the process of getting that car paid for, and for her friend to order a key for that car because her friend lost the key to it.

Anyway, come August, I had a backed up sewer for over a month. Try to call various places to have work done with digging up the problem out in the yard. In the mean, I'm getting back flow from two of my neighbors sewage. There are four house on the same sewer line. Finally got this resolved with a price tag of $2,600. Then all of a sudden, I get a detached retina two months later.

Then we get hit with a polar vortex on Dec. 23. Happens to be my daughter's birthday too. My water pipes froze, and my floor furnace had to play catch up the next three days.

And then yesterday morning, my garbage was picked up by the city, and for some strange reason, my city issued garbage can is missing. I called them and the woman said that they may have broke it, and that she will pass it along to them to bring me up another 96 gallon garbage can. I was hoping that they would have delivered a another one here at the house while I was at work. But I got home last night and what do ya know, NOTHING! Now I have to put my garbage somewhere until at least Monday since it's now the weekend. And I'm not even sure if the sanitation Dept. will be open Monday since they like to get a off day off as a holiday since this falls on Sunday this year.

Trying to at least salvage the last day of the year. Since I'm off this weekend, i ordered me a pizza. Watched some Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Weekend At Bernie's. Going to watch a couple of big football games here in a bit. I also went outside and shot a little bit of basketball in my backyard. Felt great, but it was a little difficult hitting the basket with my depth perception in my right eye right now as it's still healing from that surgery.

Going to shoot some basketball tomorrow to start the new year off. Here's hoping for a much better year in 2023!

would you believe I'm that stressed out about stiletto's I actually forgot what day/date it is

Anyways a happy new year to one and all

...to work that is. I got my first week in since my return on Christmas Day. I wasn't sure if I was going have somewhat of a difficult time trying to get back into the groove of things, but as it turns out, not a problem at all. I know I didn't miss the drama at work, but I did miss my work, along with some of the people I work with.

I'm now off this weekend, so I'm going to try and relax during this time, and sleep in tomorrow morning.

Looks like I missed a lot of drama going on in a few blogs this week on here, but that I don't miss either.

My condo has central air conditioning with coils for electric heat. The bathroom has electric heating coils on a separate switch to the exhaust fan. The heat hasn't been used since last year. Dust accumulates on the coils and the first use emits smoke as the dust burns from the coils.

I go through this every winter, whether it's a 1200 watt space heater or central heat... an allergy attack that knocks me out for a few days!

Last month, I visited my brother in Ohio. It was 17 degrees Fahrenheit outside and his furnace had the interior around 78 degrees. The problem was the lack of relative humidity. My guess it was 'sinus cracking' 10% inside.

Florida is usually more than 80% with temperatures in the 80's and going to the Ohio extreme had me on antihistamines and saline nasal spray for a few days until I returned to Florida.

This weekend, South Florida may have the warmest temperatures in the nation. It was cold last night with temperatures to 42 degrees around here. My front door has jalousie glass and you can feel the cold wind blowing through the slats. Room temperature right now is 66 degrees. Yeah, it's chilly inside!

I'll be out of here this afternoon to visit family and my plan is to remove the covers to the heaters and vacuum the coils... all of this maintenance will be done while wearing a KN95 filter mask. Prior to leaving, I'll turn on the heat to 70, enough to burn off the dust so when I return the smoke will have cleared and I'll change the filter to the a/c system.

Once 11 months of dust burns away, the air should be good and I'll get out the vaporizers to bring up the humidity!

Happy Holidays...

I've got an issue with pull tabs. They are on food products everywhere.
This morning, I tried to open a container of oatmeal and the pull tab broke off.
I needed a knife to pry it open.
Lemon juice has a snap open top and the first use requires removal of a pull tab.
It broke.
Same with the rice vinegar... broken pull tab.
Milk... pull tab.

Now, I know that I can be a bit fussy for a guy, and have been told that I was fussy like a woman a few times (also been called bossy like a woman a few times too at work).

One of the things I'm fussy about is how I eat a piece of pie, or cake and ice cream. When I eat either of these food, it has to be on a small plate, with a fork. I know a lot of people prefer a bowl and spoon. Now, if it was just ice cream with out the cake, sure, a also prefer a bowl and spoon.

Just like for example, chicken noodle soup. I like it in a bowl, buy I prefer a fork with it. After the noodles are gone, I take the bowl in my hands and slurp down the rest of it by drinking it.

Surely there's got to be some of you out there that feel the same as I do. Love to hear what some of you think, and perhaps share if you're fussy, and how so.

I took a few days off from morning exercise and needed to get back into a routine. It rained during the night and the streets were wet, but that didn't stop me. Sometimes I'll pass other residents of my community and give a hello or good morning response. The winds were calm but I smelled cigarette smoke and 30 feet ahead in the walkway between 2 cars was a heavy-set woman sitting on a walker with wheels. She must have been waiting for the transport bus, puffing away before her ride arrived.
I had my cellphone and was conducting business so I raised my hand to give her a half wave acknowledgment. That didn't break her attention as she was focused on the cigarette.

I think they call these Rollator walkers in Europe.

The name Shawn is both a boy's name and a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "God is gracious".
This name is the anglicized version of the Irish Séan, which itself comes from the Hebrew name John.
Alternate spellings include Shawne, Shaun and Sean.

As for spelling it Sean, I'm glad my mom didn't go that route with my name. That spelling always made me think of the word "seen". I feel that the spelling "Shawn" is the best way. IMO



Shawn Colvin


Shawn Michaels


Shawn Johnson


Shawn Mendes


Shawn Weatherly


Wanna tell us more about your name, please share.

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