July 21, 2008 

Monday 12:12am 

  think I would sleep for a week if I could get away with it. Other than a two hour 'playtime' when I was at the mudbog pits yesterday, I think I have put about 60 hours in, in the last 4 days. It is just after midnight and I am taking a break from work to write a blog to revamp my brain, then back at it again. I started at 5 am Sunday morning, it is after midnight now and I have a couple more hours of work to do. I have had a couple work days from 5 am to 1 am back-to-back. I am tired!

 I am craving Hain orange or cherry Jello. I do not have any, so I will have to suffer past the midnight snack craving. I think the jello appeals as I was in ALOT of dust today... err yesterday and my throat hurts. I like Hain brand as it is all natural. 

The weather has gotten nicer and it was/is very sunny. I finally smartened up as I headed out the door this morning and grabbed a baseball cap my friend "C" had given me long, long ago. I hate continually burning the top of my head. However, my hair is getting its summer highlights finally. 

Great! I just remembered the garden water has been running for about 6 hours now. I best go out into the darkness and turn it off before I flood out my garden. *sigh* I guess I will grab a couple hours of sleep and then get to work again.

1:42pm

On standby at work for a few minutes. After the water got turned off this morning, I  slept until 5:30 am, then up and back at working again. I am taking tomorrow off!!! I might make some homemade Jello though. Between naps.

8:30 pm

Another long day. But it was an exciting and fun last few days, even though I was working. It was the town's 4 day local event of the year, which is why I was so busy for work. I met a wayward chicken from the local barnyard... actually he is a 4-H kid I know and have judged for rabbit showmanship and conformation. He was kinda cooking in the chicken suit and I had to inform his mother. He was not looking too good with the heat. I was worried he was working on heat exhaustion.

 I got to sit up on a fire truck, on the hoses to get a good view of one of the events right in the thick of things. I found hoses are harder to stand on than I thought. I was not sure I was going to take a tumble off there a time or two. If I had, at least it was right next to the ambulance.

It was also interesting to meet behind the stage with an international rock band from Germany. They are quite talented and I enjoyed listening to them very much on and off the stage. I spoke mostly to Norbert Munser, their keyboardist and I am glad I could understand him with his accent. It would have been neat to hang with them longer, but they had a 10 hour drive to the next gig.

I saw my first ever baby races which are pretty cute and hilarious! The pie eating contests were... umm.... amazing? I did not realize a human could inhale food like "Cyrus" my farm dog could.

Then there was my red-neck-blink-of-an-eye mud bog racing  experience.

Pictures: A friend sent these today when he read that I didn't have any closeups with me and the mudbogger. I am not really that fat, I am wearing really baggy clothing which is not mine. I wanted to make sure I did not get my good clothes yucky as I had to go back to work after my run. To show you how big the machine is, I am 5'6" and it is at LEAST 4 feet from the ground to the floor. So almost 9 feet from the ground where my arms are on the roll cage. This is right before I ran it.

Then my work computer had the motherboard die on it this week, so it was a challenge to get my job done. Alot of it was done on my laptop, but with SLOW speed bush net and my computer. My personal laptop and my other work computer hate each other and I can't get online with my computer at work as it is secured and no one seems to remember any of the passwords or who installed them. It was a rather slow and frustrating business to say the least, but I persevered and won (at the very end I had to call the local professional geek and having him talk to my other geek who is in another town as all the 'normal ways' were not working- It's not what you know, it's the who you know theory??).

Last night when I was working on my work, I heard this horrible banging from the barnyard. I yelled at 'Crystal' the milk goat through the window to stop doing whatever she was doing, then almost got my shoes on to investigate as I thought maybe it was the pigs up to no good. Then I laughed as I realized I was was hearing the faint booms from the fireworks in town signaling the end of the annual event until this time next year.