Friday March 30 2012

I am sitting at work just counting down the hours until I am out of here... This office is such a mess.
 The attorney's paralegal (Kim) was supposed to show up at 9 or 9:15 to finish up that huge mess of an appeal. It is 9:30, and still no show... See the photo of the desk!

Saw Hiyah outside this AM. He was working again! But not for too long. By 8 AM he had his 40 ounce and was heading inside...

Wednesday March 28 2012

Pretty quiet in the hood since the great "police presence" last Friday. I'm still working  temp for the attorney. Yesterday, he interviewed & hired someone else while I was sitting there! WTF? He hasn't sat down with me and told me how to do a damn thing. I print off pages, type letters, use a dictaphone- which I had NEVER done, and papers just keep piling up on the desk and NOTHING goes out. He is so far behind on work because the paralegal he had working for him was telling him she was working on things, but never did them. What a joy. The girl he hired, is only getting her AS in paralegal next quarter. She has no more knowledge about what needs to be done in the office than I do. We are not legal secretaries, which is what I think he really needs. She never used a dictaphone (I asked when he left the room) and she doesn't know anything about trials. Oh well...
This morning I got a phone call from another temp agency. Putting my name into NY Life for an admin asst position that pays $16 an hour. Oh Boy!

Friday March 23 2012

What a dog's life!

Exhausted

This just looks wrong. The dog has taken over the couch. She looks like she passed out. Look at that tongue hanging out of her mouth. She looks like the knuckleheads across the street.

Well, speaking of the knuckleheads, while I was at work- YES I found a temp job at an attorney's office!!!- Bill was at home today. He looked outside to see a sea of white police officers and they were all over the house across the street. Then, a couple of officers talked to the landlord- Ben. Fingers were pointed and voices were raised by the officers. Then, someone was put in the cruiser and taken away. I'll be damned, it was quiet all evening....I don't know what they said to Ben, but it was obviously serious.

I guess the comment that was made by the black officer to my neighbor (which I told to the crime prevention officer)- I don't arrest family- made someone besides me mad. There was not one black officer out there.... Wouldn't want anyone to have to arrest family...

Thursday March 22 2012

No Loitering sign

The landlord across the street had some writing painted on the house. Look- it says No Loitering!
Yeah, that's going to stop them. Last night, at 11 PM, 3 drunks were sitting there yucking it up. One kept saying " I know that M-F" at least 25 times in a frigging row. Then he got up off the porch and dropped his beer. Ha Ha!

While I was uptown this afternoon, I parked on York Street. I had never noticed this before. I saw this black Subaru sticking out in the street. I thought, what a lousy parking job. Then I realized why. These trees are growing in the street! Savannah is crazy about trees.

Trees in street

St Patty's Day Revisited

Hiyah- in Green

Totally forgot to put Hiyah in here! This is 8 AM on St. Pat's Day.
Here is Hiyah, doing his best impersonation of an Irishman.
Wearing the green and kicking it with a beer! He's the man!

St Patty's Day Wacko's

Yeah, it's a DUDE

Wanted, clothes and about 10 pounds

A little warm for the full metal jacket

??????

MOMMY, look at my new Underoos!

Girl, Think WAX for the 'stache

1st prize, Biggest ASS

Yes, the crazies and wacko's were out for the parade. Since I could hardly see the parade, I spent a good deal of time people watching.
Big Ass needed the Underoo's the other one was wearing....

St Patty's Day 2012

Parade beginning

NY firefighters

Clydesdales on parade

This is what it looks like to be at a parade with 1 MILLION people! I'll post more pictures later of some of the inappropriate and/or outrageous...

Friday March 16 2012

Let sleeping dogs lie

 Chip is really putting in a hard day. He looks totally wiped out. Louise got her lazy behind off the couch finally, only to lay on her nest.

I saw Hiyah working this morning! Here he is, with his back to me, sweeping the sidewalk in front of the hair accessory store and the LIQUOR store.... "nuff said there...
I saw this .... walking up town. I don't know what it is. All dressed in white with gold trim and some kind of weird headgear. Looks like some throwback to the Egyptian pyramid days.

Hiyah is sweeping the sidewalk for his beer!

Louise, on her nest

What the hell is that?

Tuesday March 13 2012

 

It is almost St. Patty's day. A big day (or week) in Savannah! The city has greened the fountains. The big one in Forsyth Park really attracted a lot of attention. Although Saturday is the parade, the tourists are already here. They are enjoying the fine weather and all the flowers that are bursting out.

St. Pat's Day and the Greening of the fountains

 

Went to Krogers and what do I see, the SKANKS are back in town. These are some disgusting looking creatures. I recognized the dog first. It's a good looking blue pit bull. Then I saw the 2 skanky girls.  They are hanging out here with about 4 guys. These are nasty looking and SMELLING creatures. I remember last spring when the showed up at Starbucks. The cop told them to "move it along." Believe me, you will smell these things before you see them.....

The SKANKS are back!

Thursday March 8 2012

Smashed pumpkins in MARCH

Dang, we had some rain. 4+ inches on my gauge.

I couldn't believe I saw smashed pumpkins in the street in March! These gourds really have lasted a long time.
We had 4+ inches of rain this weekend. Water was everywhere. Lots of streets wre closed, Victory was under water. It was a real pain going anywhere. Still, they say we are in a drought.

I was walking Chip in the alley and my neighbor was looking at his old Datsun. He just now noticed that 3 tires and wheels were missing... I told him they have been gone for many weeks, I think months. He decided to take the one remaining wheel off so the thief wouldn't have a full set... Really?

Saw this woman waddling down 35th towards David's Crabs. Woman, look in the mirror. Do you NEED to be eating fried anything?

Stop Girl! No more fried food for you.

WOW missing 3 wheels

Friday March 2 2012

The lawyer finally removed his SUV

Happy Friday!

Hiyah making quiet

       

The lawyer at the end of the street finally moved his big SUV. It had 3 parking tickets on it this week...
11 AM, and someone's weekend is ruined. One cruiser drove by and then about a minute later, 4 cruisers pulled up.  The cops had one dude up against the front of the car handcuffed. Off to jail he goes.
Hiyah came walking back from the liquor store in the middle of the fracas. He sat on the porch with is 40 ounce in a brown paper bag and watched the drama unfold. He was unusually quiet....

And the adventures of Rachel's car continue.... She had gone to Auto Zone to diagnose the car getting hot before Christmas.  They said it needed a thermostat. Cost- about $20. BUT that doesn't include labor and antifreeze. We got an estimate from Pep Boys, $170 for everything. Then, yesterday I told her to bring the car to Dave. He had some clips and was able to clip the front bumper cover on the car so it  doesn't fall off. Yay!! Well, we asked Dave, how much to put in a thermostat. He said, let me look at it, maybe the fan isn't coming on or something. Turns out "something" was the real answer.. The overflow tank has a rubber hose that the radiator is supposed to suck the water out of the tank to go to the radiator. Guess what? The rubber hose was GONE. So, while the overflow tank was full, the radiator was close to empty! No water was able to go into the RADIATOR!!! Dave put in about a half gallon of antifreeze and some water and ran the engine for a few minutes to make sure it was totally full. Now the beast is running much happier and cooler!