HERE I am about 2 weeks later. no richer or poorer. no better or worse. i got my crown out in and my gums are infected so I'm on penecillin checkthaspellin and mouth rinse. that's exciting. my blast cabinet came so now I'm trying to build the perfect blast gun . I made some steps in the right direction today. and my decision not to buy a 45 dollar fish tank stand has resulted in me building my own. tools and materials have cost me about 250 dollars so far and it should be completed in a couple weeks. had a nice weekend in the desert with my girl. we wanted to get out there before it got too hot so we took our weekend jobs off. it was nice to be alone and remember what I like about her without any distractions. fence still isn't built. the neighbor wants her handyman to build a side fence and wants me to mimic him. whatever... if it makes her feel better. that's fine. she has a point. I don't do these every day for a living...but I could and I would do fine. better than average probably. we are taking care of some birds for irenes coworkers who have gone to the phillipines. they are identrical to my two long lost birds. wierd. okay I wanna do more reading of the definitive flash guide before I go to sleep. goodnight for now.

Fence posts, wrong turns, big ugly labor of love and mutilated gums
The fence posts are up! hurray! plenty of digging and leveling and cement mixin' . they're up. that was one accomplishment of the weekend. Today I drove a limo. I got to drive Marshall Goldsmith to the airport. He is a great guy. He gave me tips for the upcoming personal show which will be listed publicly on the stock market this valentines day. His daughter (kelly) was on survivor africa and he is one of the top paid executive coaches in the USA and perhaps the world. So that was fun. After that run I was sent to Irvine to bring a customer to LAX. I was told to head back down 55 south to catch the 405 and then go north to LAX. I accidently got on the five and figured I would see the 405 north turn off from there too. Wrong answer...I drove way too far south when my customer suggetsted I turn around. Luckily we got to the airport on time. I think I was almost in laguna when I turned around. If you wanna see how big an idiot I am, look at a map of southern california. Anywho, The passenger took it really well. I'm glad that people from Dublin, Ireland know their way around the highways better than I do. That makes me feel like a genius.
Today I removed the giant box I kept my printer in and replaced it with a silk scarf for a dustcover. I worked on the giant ugly box for weeks so that Irene's desk would be less cluttered . in the end she found it ugly, bulky and inconvenient. now I know how my dad felt when he worked so hard on so many projects and my step mom Marylu tore his heart out by making fun of them. Granted my father has made some ugly awkward stuff in the past but until tonight, I never understood why he seemed offended by her comments which were simply "the truth". Now I know that when you build something for weeks and put a finish on it etc. it's not just a woodworking project. for us guys, it's the embodiment of our love and consideration for our girl. Even if it's ugly and it sucks. Ladies, please be kind if you get any home made gifts for valentines day.
in other news I had a tooth prepared for a crown on fiday and I think that the jangled nerves in this rotten cracked tooth may have contibuted to my headaches and generally miserable demeanor for the past year. I was hoping to gage how bad I felt after they got it cleaned up but an overzealous hygenist cut my gums open like a blooming onion before they took a mold of the base for the crown. they wanted to seperate my gum from my tooth. The dentist wasn't there to supervise and she went psycho on my damn gums. I was like ,"ah hurf lah heyow!!!". "that hurts like hell?", she asked? "yeah", I said. but she kept at it and then let me sit there for twenty minutes waiting for the impression. I left the office in a daze after athree hour stint in the chair. The last hour was the worst. the novacaine had worn off and it was the most brutal treatment I was ever put through in a dentist office. She wasn't even a dentist. So.... to make a long story short, I may be better off with a new crown but I can't tell if I feel better because my scabby shredded bleeding gums have been throbbing since friday. I hope you all had a good weekend too.

wow, so much has happened since I wrote last time. 1) I went to the dentist and had two fillings. one on each side of my two upper incisors. in the back of the teeth. I replaced fillings I had gotten when I was about 12 years old. The technology has changed so much since then. I remember a lot of pain associated with the original fillings . I didn't feel a thing yesterday. 2) I bought a 6 quart crock pot at Frye's electronics and burnt my retinas by trying all the new LED flashlights and using the "shine it in your eyes brightness test" for flashlights as it's prescribed in astm and european standards. I then cooked some great beer pork chops for supper 3) I removed two giant concrete casts that used to hold posts from my back yard so I can start my new fence. they were about 30" deep and 10" in diameter and embedded in the dreaded "clairemont clay" (that's what they call the soil here). It was Brutal work and I got some sort of injury on every part of my body except my left leg and my head. We got them out though and we are ready to pour some new ones with the two end posts so we can build a fence in between. I'm off to Frye's again to keep my friend company because he helped with the digging and he has an inheritance check burning a hole in his pocket.