It is raining heavily, so I will have to walk across the street in the rain. Only a few feet so I should be ok. Today has not gone well so far and it has only started. The boss not being here at the moment is a plus so it could get better.
I left at 7:15 this morning, hoping to get here by 8:30. At 8:30, I was not even half way. The traffic around North Lakes was stop for several kilometers. I am not sure why other than the traffic lights controlling when cars can enter were not working. So a lot of cars were trying to get on at the same time and it had traffic backed up for a long ways. I didn't get here until 9:30 so I might not be able to leave at 3 like I wanted. Probably do it anyway and lie on my time sheet about when I got here. No one actually checks on me so I am free to do that.
An interesting development was that when I got here, they had a caged possum in the lobby. Some one was saying they needed to call animal control to get it removed. There were four guys standing around who I assume were the ones that caught it. Not sure where but it was inside the building. I have no idea where they got the cage from. All gone now so I assume they found someone to come pick it up but it was a little possum sitting in a cage. They said it had some injuries but I didn't look that close. I told Maeghan that someone had brought it in as a pet. She asked what its name was. I said Karen. Only seems fair. And no one will actually get that joke and I am not going to explain it so it is what it is.
Maeghan is sick today. She did not go to school. William is really upset about it. He has been trying to stay home all week. Juanita told him that the school has said he cannot miss any more days. If he does, he will be suspended. Which makes no sense. Send the kids home who are not going to school. Isn't that what they want in the first place. I don't know if the school actually said that but William is buying it for now. I don't think it will be much longer before he just refuses to go anymore. I am not sure he is actually doing anything at school anyway. He tells us he has math on Mondays, then nothing to do. Construction on Wednesday. Sports on Thursday. And some extra curricular thing on Fridays. Tuesday, he says he has nothing to do. So he is pushing for not going on Tuesday. That's when the not allowed to miss school argument occurred. We will see what happens next Tuesday. I have to work this weekend, so I cannot help him with finding a job. Although I have been told that the guy I am working with is going to go over there today and he might finish before tomorrow. I am supposed to do site support on Monday and Tuesday for what we were going to be doing this weekend so I am not sure what kind of support I can provide if I have not even been there yet. He is supposed to call me this afternoon to tell me if we are working tomorrow. But that turned into a story about me instead of Williams desire to find a job.
I think Shayla is coming over this weekend. Or, if she can get to our house, she will be. They want me to pick her up after work but I am not really closer to her and it is certainly not on my way home. It is another hour and a half to get to her place and then two hours to get back home, so I am not looking forward to it. They have not asked yet but I heard them discussing how she is getting here and they asked me if I was working near her. I said no but I don't know if they believe me. I am on the same side of town as her, but instead of her being south west of where our house is, I am east of where she is, so I have to drive all the way across town to get to her and then drive back to get home. Not a good use of my time, especially since they will want me to cook when I get home and that will probably not be until about 7 tonight. If I leave at 3, then I might make it back by 6 but that is during Friday night traffic and lots of people go north on the weekends so it becomes stop and go almost every Friday for most of the trip.
On other news, the big dog has started pooping in the house, or mainly just in Anna's room. I am fairly certain that it is because Anna never lets the dog out to go poop and keeps her door closed all the time. When she is home, the dog wants to be in the room with her, so if she does not let it out, there is no where for it to go. So now it is going in the room. Normally, this dog is very good about letting you know it wants to go out. It stands at the door and whines if the door is not open. I don't know if it is standing at the bedroom door and she is ignoring it or it has just decided it is too hard to wake her up. It has done it twice so far. Maybe it is just a one off thing but I think that since it has found it can do that once or twice, it will be ok to do it all the time. I always try to let the dog out when I get up, or a couple of hours after I get up since I normally wake up at 3. I just feel uncomfortable opening the door to let the dog out when they are sleeping in there. Kind of awkward I think. Never am really sure if there is not someone else in there with her or not. Most of the time I know, but there have been a couple of occasions when I was surprised that someone had stayed the night. William has made the comment that the walls are very thin but I don't think she has realised that yet. But enough of that.
I think I am going to go now. I know there are some other things to talk about, like the EKKA. This is the stock show for Brisbane and we have not been since we have been back in Brisbane because they have not had it because of the COVID. This year, it is happening again and we are just trying to figure out a day to go. You have to buy the tickets online for a specific day and you cannot change it once you have bought it. We don't know when I might be working or when the kids are out of school so we will probably have to go on the weekend when it is more expensive. But I will leave that until the next time. I have a headache, which I do most of the time, and I am tired of typing. I'm getting this neck thing that people get who type a lot, or I think that is what it is. Maybe I just dreamed it. In any case, I am going to go now.
So, until next time,
Later
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