I think I was talking about cooking? drinking? BBQ? last time. I don't recall. I do know I mentioned that ribs were on sale the other week and I bought several packages. I cooked them but did not make my sauce or cook them on the BBQ. A big disappointment. They were ok, but they were just like having a pork roast. Good, but not my special ribs that I usually make. I was just too tired to do it and ran out of time. It was ok, but not what I had planned. I did manage to buy about double what I wanted so I have some in the freezer that I can cook later in the way I wanted to cook them. I will definitely smoke these next time. And make my sauce, which is the real treat. I probably won't make it as hot as I would like but it will be good I am sure.
Maeghan has been sick the past week. A cold or something. She has missed a lot of school and she will miss more this week as she has doctors appointments. Apparently, it manifests itself when I am not there as she seems to be ok when I am. Not really ok, but probably good enough to go to school. Maybe this won't effect her grades or anything. She did have to miss her work and her driving lesson but since Juanita cannot pay for the driving lessons, and I certainly cannot, she might not get to go to those anymore anyway. I am not sure how many lessons she needs to have before she can get a license that says she can start driving on her own, or with one of us in the car, but I think it was only five or six lessons to do that.
The driving instructor did upset her pretty badly last time. I wasn't there but I am told he yelled at her several times and they almost had three different accidents. He takes her out on the main roads and it was raining so most of the other drivers were not behaving very well anyway. A couple pulled out in front of her and scared her but then the instructor yelled at her and that didn't make it any better. I wasn't there and even if I was, we are not allowed to ride with them. She left the lesson crying and saying she didn't want to go back. Hopefully, it is only a temporary thing and she will change her mind.
The main problem is, we do not have a car for her to drive to practice for her license. She requires special controls on the steering wheel and special adjustments and padding for the seats. There has been an ongoing discussion about whether the government are going to pay for the modifications or not but that is not the biggest problem. The main problem is the car we would want modified is ten years old. It is my old Ford Focus. It is the right size for her and it still runs with no problems, it hardly has any mileage on it, but they say they will not modify it because it is too old. They told us this originally but then they said they could get special dispensation. Now they say they are not going to do it. I don't know if that is a final decision or not but if they do not, we do not have the money to buy a new car. I am not sure what we will do then. I might be able to get Craig to do the modifications but they will not be 'official'. The government will not certify it as 'properly' modified if Craig does it but they might allow her to get her driving hours in using that car. She has to have something like 200 hours driving with someone else in the car before she can drive on her own. Then another 150 hours driving on her own until she can take the driving test and get her real license. I am totally guessing about the number of hours needed but I know it is a lot. Not like when I learned to drive at school when we had to take a class for six weeks and then the instructor took us on a road trip and we got all our hours in. I got my license when I was 15 but they cannot do that here, or I don't think they can. I really have no idea.
I had to go to lunch so I am not sure where I was. That is the main reason I have not been posting. I can't really do it at work anymore as I have moved into the build room where people can walk in on me and I cannot see them to hide what I am doing. Only when I am at certain desks, and the desk I am at now is not really one I can use but the boss is not here so I am doing this anyway. And now I just heard him behind me so I have to go.
I just added the picture. It appears to have worked but we will see once I have finished, which should be soon as I am running out of time to finish this. I should get some time around 4:30 as I am working the late shift, until 5:00, so everyone else should have left by then. If not, I will just say publish and not finish it. Who knows, maybe it is better that way.
William is getting bored lately. Since they do not have internet anymore, a different story, he is relying on his phone data, which I pay for. It is only 60gig so he cannot watch or do all the things he used to. But he still tries. He runs out of data about halfway through the month. When that happens, his speed is slowed on his phone so he can no longer watch anything on his phone. So he goes to the Xbox and tries to do things there. That also is a problem without internet but there are a few games he can play so he does that. But he gets board with it and since no one will play with him, he complains about it. I don't play with them as they do not actually play the games I like and if they do, they do not play them, they just run around and do whatever the want. It's annoying. I did get them rocket league but neither one of the kids like that game for some reason. I thought we could all play it together but they don't want to. Plus there is the problem that all my stuff is online so I can never actually sign in as me. If I do, then when I get back to my machine nothing is synced or I lose a lot of downloaded stuff and it is just not worth it.
Both the kids play Minecraft. They can play that on the local machine although it does not save anything since that is also done in the cloud. They have to start new every time. I have no idea how to play Minecraft. I have tried a couple of times but it is beyond me as to the point of the game. I guess that is the point. There is no start or end to it, it is just played. Not my type of game I guess so I guess part of the problem is me. They can sit and play that for hours. Building things, tearing them down and building them again. I might like it but since I have no idea how to build anything I don't spend the time on figuring it out.
Speaking of my machine, I have an Xbox gold account. In case you don't know, that allows you to download three or four games for free each month. They are usually older games but I do it each time. I now have close to 200 games. I have played maybe 20 of them. I don't buy games anymore since I have so many to play. I miss out on most of the new games but since I play RPGs, I spend hundreds of hours on each one and never get to the ones I download each month. I have so many games, most of them are not even downloaded anymore. They are in the cloud ready for me to download when I get around to it. I won't go into the details of that as it doesn't really matter. I am hoping to share the internet with them at some point but that looks more and more unlikely. But that takes us into sad territory and I don't feel like it right now.
Since the kids do not come over anymore, they do not get to play the games I have. They spend all their time watching things on Netflix or Stan or YouTube because they can't do that at home. Since it is only a couple of hours each week, if that, they don't have time to play the games. Maybe someday, it will change.
I should probably be going now. This keyboard makes a lot of noise when I type and it is very quiet in here so I am sure everyone is wondering what it is I am typing. Before I get into trouble, I will be going. I keep saying I will do this from home, but I have an Xbox so it keeps me entertained and I never get bored enough to type on my computer at home. It just sits there being lonely. Like me.
Until next time
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