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Chicago!

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Ananamas is still frozen but ALIVE. It is Wednesday and I have not had power since Firday night. Last night was my coldest night yet. If anyone finds my cell phone please return it. I think I put it in the trash at McDonalds.

My Wife

I Guess It's Time To Break Out The Flack Jacket....

So it looks like the natives are taking potshots at me. And no I don't mean verbal shots from parties offended by the content of this blog. I am talking about someone un-strapping their "gat" and busting off a few rounds. Using my CSI skills I have determined the weapon to be a pellet gun. To the guilty party, if you can read, I am coming for you. You won't even know what hit you. This is going on my list of work memories.

So in almost five years in my current job I have been

1. punched ( the guy was so drunk he missed my head and hit my shoulder, then he asked if I would give him a ride home)
2. hit on by a man (the guy sat on my desk and told me my pants looked sexy)
3. stalked
4. flashed
5. threatened with arson
6. threatened to be killed
7. threatened twice by different people to "have my a$$ handed to me" Forgive the language but it is a direct quote
8. fired the same guy over 20 times because he "forgot", in his defense the guy was certifiably crazy

There is probably more but this is a quick post. Also 8,6,4 and 3 were all the same guy over a three month spree.

Look out for more than just falling prices.....

Keep an eye out for over the top customer service that can be a little embarrassing to the customer being served.
So let's set the stage. On the way home from work my wife called and asked that I pick up a few essential items...

• Tortilla chips
• 1 can of caso
• Wheat bread, I am really that new Mrs Bairds
• Yoplait whips for Jackson
• Baby Warsh
• OJ
• GJ
• 3 Wire plate hangers, smaller size (this is where my story really starts)

So I do all my shopping on the grocery side of the great beast that is the south side Wal-Marts. I move on to the last item on my list, wire plate hangers, smaller size. I look all through housewares and crafts with no luck. Now if you know what I am talking about wire plate angers are not the manliest of items to search for. I find a blue vest and explain my situation.

"My wife sent me to get some wire plate hangers, and I am having some trouble finding them. Do you know where they might be?"

Well it turns out that my super Wal-Mart team member was not a part of that department but rather worked in cosmetics. She agreed to help me anyway. My new friend and I looked for like 10 minutes all through housewares, "the gadget section", crafts, and hardware. I decided to give up because I had enchiladas and nachos waiting at home.

I proceeded to the checkout section on the other side of the store. I got in the back of the line. A couple of minutes past and I heard something over the load speaker. Apparently my partner did not give up as easily as I did.

"Would the gentleman looking for the plate hangers please return to the housewares section"

Well, there was no way I was getting out of line and chance letting people know that I was the guy looking for plate hangers. A couple more minutes past. All of a sudden I see her coming my, plate hanger in tow.

"Sir I found your plate hanger in the hardware section"

Well at this point I explained that while I appreciated her hard work in needed 3 of them and in the smaller size. So she dragged me out of line to show me where they were.

So thirty minutes later, after searching, being paged over the load speaker of Wal-mart, getting tracked down by an associate, and bonding with my new best friend I had my 3 plate hangers int he smaller size. They are located just beyond the paint in the hardware section and are a bargain at $1.07 a piece.

Today was going better....

So I guess I am looking older. I needed to mail a package so I head out to the UPS store. The girl behind the counter who looked to be 15 and kept calling me sir said that I looked exactly like someone that she knew. It wasn't a friend from school, it was one of her college professors. She said that we could be twins.

If this was the only time something like this had happened I would think nothing of it. A couple of months ago I was talking with one of the kids in the youth group at church who goes to Kickapoo. I mentioned that I had gone to Kickapoo as well. He replied asking if I had gone there when Brad Pitt had gone there. Come on! The guy is closing in on 50!

My question for you is am I looking older or are people under the age of 20 just stupid.

Today is starting off bad

Well today is starting off pretty bad. I am going to use this blog as a tally for all the bad that goes on today. Now if something goes right I will let you know. Now check back often today as I am sure that a piano or an anvil will probably fall on me.

1) Slept through my alarm by an hour and twenty minutes. This made me pretty late getting in the office
2) Arrive at said office to find there is no heat and it is a balmy 45 degrees. At 9:40 it is now 52. Our building super said that she would be able to get someone out in the morning.
3) When I left work last Wednesday my coffee mug was still full. Now on Tuesday morning while I was able to make coffee there is two inches of green/black mold in my cup.
4) OU lost to Boise State? Come on it was Boise State.
5) My Nalgene bottle broke which I thought was impossible
6) The waxed paper cup that I used to put coffee in, aside from imparting the taste of wax in my coffee, melted and leaked all over my desk.

11:20 still no heat