Happenings

To my surprise, I received a check today in the amount my associates and I won for my company in a judgment against a local slumlord we rented from for a brief time. I say surprised because this crooked old man never came through on anything he said and didn't do jack shit as a landlord. This coming Monday I fully expected to have to file to have liens and whatnot put on his assets. Of course, I received more than a check.

So I'm down a country back road on one of my evening runs when an SUV happens to pass me then slowly comes to a stop several yards up and backs up until the passenger and driver, two guys, can see me. They ask me if there's access down to a local river and I tell them probably not anymore as there's a residence built on the hill above it but that it won't hurt to double check. They thank me and then the driver asks, hey, haven't I seen you on tv somewhere? Maybe, I respond slowly, looking around for potential escape routes.

Yes, I'm voting for Obama! More than that, I'm a Democratic delegate in my precinct for him which means that I have to be at some county convention this weekend at 9 AM in the morning. Brutal.

After an unseasonably eventful winter season packed full of floods, wind storms, blizzards, car accidents and, yes, an abnormal amount of business of all things – it's usually so dead that I have to put essentials on credit and pay it off later on during the year – I needed something to get me out of the house. Something to get me off my ass and unplugged from the computer. So with a spontaneous decision Monday morning I made my way out my snowy driveway, through a springtime hailstorm so severe I had to 4x4 it over the ice-covered hills and signed up for a college course.