It's 7 in the morning. No one is here. Except, of course, the students. A couple have already knocked on the door and wanted in to use the printers. They seem to be getting here earlier and earlier each week. But I am tired of talking about work, which means I will come back to it later. Except to mention that I had to help several of them with the printing. Which allows me to rant about MacOS and the general setup here at the office. But now that I think about it, I don't want to get into it so lets just ignore it.
We ended up going to the Caboolture market. A big market but it is just a big field, dirt, rocks, and lots and lots of tents. Nothing special at all about this market. No place to sit except at the food places and they want you to buy something if you are going to sit there. Just lots and lots of the same things.
We thought it had gotten bigger than the last time, but they had just moved it closer to the entrance we go in. A few things had moved around. They are now using the couple of barns that are there for things. One is a giant vegetable market, the other had junk in it. But instead of what we thought, that they had expanded into this end of the field, it turns out they just moved a lot of the stuff from the other end down closer to the buildings. I don't think it was any bigger, but Juanita and Maeghan insisted that it was. William didn't care.
I did notice that there seemed to be a lot more plant stalls. It seems every third stall was selling plants. Mostly the same plants as the last one but one of them had some specialized chilis. They only had one or two plants but I think I might go back to get a couple. It I ever get around to building my greenhouse they got me for my birthday a few years ago. It gets too cold to have them out in the open right now but they would probably survive if I had the greenhouse up. That would mean I would have to go back to that market and hope that they still had the plants so we can assume that is not going to happen.
I think they want to go to the other market this weekend, or maybe even the West End market. Both of which we require us to be up earlier than we were this week. We got up early, or they got up early, I am always up early, so we could have gone sooner but we ended up not leaving until a little before 10. The market closed at 11:30. They seemed surprised but I had told them it closed at 12 and they did not seem to believe me. I was surprised at 11:30 but it didn't matter as we were just about finished when it did. Only had one more section to go to.
I did go by the big vegetable building on the way out and they were selling everything half price. I am not sure they actually charged me half price as the people yelling half price were not the ones actually ringing up the customers when they left. I got a big bag of mushrooms. It was ordinarily $7.99 but they told me $5.00. I got some green onions also for $2 and the total was $9 so I assume they charged me full price. But $7.99 for a big bag of mushrooms wasn't bad anyway, so I didn't say anything. Problem is, now I have a big bag of mushrooms. I am the only one who eats them. So I have to eat them all the time so they do not go bad before I can get to them. I had a bunch last night, fried with onion and chilies and mixed with rice. The morning I had a mushroom omelette, but there is still a very large bowl of them left. I don't think I will get to the all, so maybe they were not such a bargain, but I will give it a shot. They are brown mushrooms and taste pretty good, so I will be mushroom heavy for the next couple of days. I didn't set anything out to cook for tonight, so I am having mushrooms. Not sure what the others are having.
Maeghan got a water bottle for her bird. She wanted another bird, but they are $65 and she did not have any money. She gets money next week so maybe she will get it then. I told her the bird does not know how to drink from a water bottle. She agreed but she said the bird would figure it out. I have my doubts.
Maeghan is currently looking for some roller skates. She seems to think she can roller skate somewhere. I tried to tell her there was no place to use roller skates around here and her legs were not strong enough to use them. I have to try to tell her that without making her sad because she would feel bad if I said she can't do it. My only point is, she needs to build up her leg muscles before she tried roller skating. I told her she needs to learn to walk first, which was kind of a joke but does have some truth to it. Roller skating is harder than walking and if she gets too tired walking, then she will not be able to roller skate very far or be able to handle rough terrain and such. I am not sure what her plans are as I was totally exhausted by the time we were at Kmart and looking at skates so I did not hang around to see what she was going to decide. Just one more thing I need to talk to the kids about. Instead of being a source of entertainment, I need to be a father.
Juanita gave William $20 to spend at the market so he would not touch his own money for his trip. He didn't find anything but took out another $20 so he could buy a knife. A fake knife, but one that costs $40. He says is saving all the stuff he buys for a display at his own home when he gets one.
I started this entry yesterday and rereading it, I am not sure where I was headed with William. I will make do with what I can make up.
So William says he is going to have one display wall with all the things he has bought over the years. Lots of fake knives, swords, some fake guns and other stuff I assume. I admire him for the plan, not sure if he will feel the same way once he has his own home. Not sure he will ever have his own home. With the way things are going, housing will be well out of anyone's price range, or at least the one's in the middle class. Rich people will still have houses and poor people will have public housing, but for the middle class, not so much. You can't afford the down payment and you cannot find houses in the areas where you would like them to be. But that is political stuff and no way am I going there in this blog.
I think we are going to plan on going to the other market this weekend. Old Petrie. I'll have to get everyone up early but it was a fairly cheap outing and I am trying to save money for retirement. Can't keep dipping into that money if I expect to retire. I have enough to retire, but if I want a new car or anything new while I am retired, I am not sure where that money will come from. I need to get all that taken care of before that happens. Maybe Maeghan or William will get a good job and take care of me. I doubt it, but it would be nice. I don't see that happening unless William gets real lucky and gets a job where he can move up or Maeghan gets a job working in an office and gets to be in charge at some point. It's possible, but probably not before I have to start taking care of myself. Plus, I wouldn't accept it. I don't like other people paying for me. I have always said, if you are out with me, I pay. Doesn't always work out but I hate it when it doesn't.
I suppose I should just go ahead and end this one now. The day is just starting and I haven't opened the doors yet. In fact, I just had to get up and open the doors. Not sure why no one has knocked yet. My boss did just come in and we had a long talk about me applying for his job. I told him I would not be doing that. Alzheimer and all. Not a good look when I can't get a sentence out in the middle of a meeting. But that's the way it is. I get by with what I can do.
Going to be heading out. Maybe come back to it later as there does not seem to be a big crowd of students around. Maybe they are having a meeting or something. I was really busy yesterday, hence I never got back to this entry, but today seems to be starting slow. Hope it lasts.
Until next time,
Later
Remember
It will all be ok in the end, and if it's not ok, then it's not the end.
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