On to the non-complaining part, if there is one. Subtle hint, there isn't.
I hardly ever talk politics or US politics here, don't plan on starting, but Maeghan told me something the other day I have to mention. I forget what we were talking about but one of my running jokes is whenever someone tells me I am not allowed to do something, I say I am American, and I can do what I want. It gets a groan from everyone, but I suppose that is my objective, so it works.
In some cases, I mention I am from Texas so that gets me even more privileges. Or it should. I think that brings up what we were talking about. I mentioned in the last entry that I could not trust these Austrians to cook the BBQ. Won't go into the reasons again, but I was telling them that they were not allowed to cook and that I had mentioned it in my blog. I made the mistake of mentioning that I had used Juanita's name and that got me in trouble but that is not part of the story.
I said, I was from Texas, and we know how to BBQ, which is always true and other places can only claim to make things that closely resemble BBQ but are not really the same thing. Not Austria for sure, but other places where BBQ is king, like maybe Memphis or KC, I will even give you those eastern places like Virginia or thereabouts, but they do weird things with sauce, so you can't really trust them.
Maeghan told me that right now, Texas was not being looked upon as a shining light of anything. She said most of her friends were making fun of Texas and Texans because of all the things they hear and read about it. She did not go into specifics, but I can imagine what they are saying. I mean, really, we have the wishy-washy senator from hell that cannot stay straight on any topic without feeling out whoever is footing his bill to see what he should be saying. I mean, the man is a menace. He allows his opponent to say incredible things about him and his wife and make claims that were never true and were against everything he had been elected to do and then decides that this is the guy he should be following and everything he says is gospel and we should all be following whatever dreams he comes up with. I mean, really? I am ashamed. But I am not there, and I do not know or get the full story so maybe I am wrong, but I don't think so and if you are tying your hopes to these fanatics, I pray for a miracle to try to get us back to being what we used to be instead of a dictator wannabe who will do anything to destroy everyone and everything to get his own way.
Now I have always said, most of the world is looking down on the US these days. They think it is a joke and is no longer the leader that is needed. It depresses me. I don't talk about it. I will stop now, not my place, I don't live there. But I do have to feel the fallout of knowing that is I say I am American; I will get laughed at. Not pitied, not hated, just laughed at.
I'm done. I told Maeghan I had no defense for that.
William is going on a lot of excursions lately. Not sure why but he seems to have one every week. Since there are apparently only five people in his class and most of them do not go, they can go more places. He says only him, and one or two others ever go and he doesn't go sometime, he doesn't bring home the permission slip if he does not want to go. The school has their own bus, and the driver sits around all day with nothing to do, so I guess taking the kids somewhere works out for them. He is going to some gym this week for physical studies. He went to a play last week. I think they went to some museum or park a few weeks ago. Not sure if they ever actually do schoolwork, but they seem to be just trying to get the kids to attend school more. Or maybe it is just to get William to enjoy school more. Not sure, but he goes so that is a good thing.
He did have some homework the other day, or he asked me some math questions. More geometry questions really and that is not something I really remember. Lots of formulas and stuff to deal with. I can help him look them up but there were a few questions where I had no idea what they were asking for. Don't know if he finished it or not. It seemed difficult, so I doubt it, but maybe he did since he did bring it home with him, so he was probably interested in it. I should have followed up.
I am supposed to spend a few days in Toowoomba in a couple of weeks. It is about 2 1/2 hours away so they are going to put me into a motel or something. Probably just for one night. I am not sure what the plans are at this point. It is over the weekend, work on Friday and then again on Monday and Tuesday, so probably just the Monday night. I will have to take the car so they will be without a car here while I am gone. I told them I could take a taxi while there, but they said it was not feasible. Not sure why. We will have to see if the job actually goes through. They have a tendency to cancel these things last minute.
We did not make it to the Brisbane Festival. Actually, we were there for opening night, but they cancelled it. We were just in town picking up Maeghan and Shayla, so we were going to stay and see the opening ceremonies. We wondered why there was no one there but then we found out they had cancelled them because of rain. Not sure if the fireworks went off the next night, it was raining then too, they might have postponed that also. Haven't heard or looked it up yet. We ended up going to dinner at some place in Chermside. The food was kind of strange and it was a specialty beer place where they served off brand beers. I had beer, everyone else had food. The beer was what I expected, not very good, and the food was kind of lackluster. It was ok, onions rings, chicken pieces with way too much salt and some BBQ chicken wings that had some really weird sauce on them that made them not very good. Juanita had a steak and salad she said was good, but I did not try it. It wasn't worth the price I paid but it was a night out, so that was good I suppose.
I am tired of waiting for them to get back to me about this job and what they want me to do, so I am going to end this. If they get back to me and tell me to wait, I will start typing again, but I doubt if that will happen, so I am just going to leave. I get paid for this so they will probably want me to stay until they can find someone, but I might just tell them to go away. Maybe that is one of the reasons they hate Americans.
So, until next time,
Later
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