This third shift stuff is for the birds.

I mainly blog over on my Myspace account but I figured I would also put it here since I am trying to blog here more often. I don't know why, it feels like I am talking to myself. Oh well. Here is my blog:

Ok, I work thirds tonight. I have to be in at 9pm and stay for 10 hours til 7am. The time is 2pm. I lay down with hopes of getting 5 hours of sleep before my shift today. I even have arranged with the girls's Godmother for her to pick them up from school so that I wouldn't have to worry about them! So what could possibly go wrong with this plan????

Wait for it....

At three-ish, I wake up to the loudest intermittent grinding sound. Try as I may, I couldn't tune it out no matter what I tried. After all, I was the one that was out of the normal sync of things-being that I was trying to sleep in the middle of the day. If it had been the neighbor across the street that sort of runs a little shop out of his garage, I may have just dealt with it and suffered through...But no....this intense noise was coming from the driveway of the empty house directly across the street that is vacant and for sale. The owners (or who ever) decided to park their crappy boat in the driveway and work on it with POWER TOOLS FROM HELL (I would have still been able to deal with the noise of someone running the lawnmower in my living room to give you an idea of just how insane this noise level was. I decided I was going to go outside and say something since they are officially on my turf now--they don't live there! I walked over there and the guy with the PTFH couldn't even hear me but there was another guy in the boat that had to get his attention. I politely (trying not to grit my teeth) informed them that I worked third shift and asked them just how long they planned on being at it. The PTFH guy was a fucking moron and just looked blankly at me but the other guy apologized and estimated only another 30 minutes. I thanked him and turned and came back in the house.

Ok, I know I have a tendency to get a little wordy in my blogs but its for good reason. I really do believe that this noise exceeded any rationally expected-middle-of-the-day noise. (lawn mower, leaf blower, loud children, normal automotive repair, etc.) Not to mention, how dare these assholes bring their crappy shit to repair into a neighborhood they don't even live in! Thats just rude!! Oh well. I am probably just pissed off because I am tired. Thats all I got for now. Thanks for listening. Think sleepy thoughts in my direction!!!!