Hot! Yes it has been very hot in this part of the country. So much so that for a couple of days last week it was hotter here than in my favorite city Las Vegas. Now that is pretty bad because it is also usually very humid here too. Much looking forward to fall myself. It seems when the weather cools a little and the kids are back in school and the football season is starting up... well it is like a whole new New Years all over again.
It is very rare that I ever get sick very much. It has been almost 15 years since I even had the flu and I never take that stupid, "don't know what exactly is in it" flu shot that they offer every year. Thus when I woke up on Monday morning with a headache, nose and eyes running and feeling just plain horrible, it was a very rare thing for me. To top it off feeling horrible in this heat just makes the whole "summer thing" a pain in the ass.
Finally I had to take some kind of sinus pills and Advil just to live. I got up Monday at around noon and started to make a pot of coffee. You see I have trouble taking pills and the heat of the coffee seems to make the pills go down better and faster. So here I was my tired ass still very sleepy and I bumped the coffee pot against the sink and Wham... the thing broke into a million little glass flecks. After cleaning that mess up I went out to buy a coffee pot since at this point I need and want this coffee and also I need to take these pills. I didn't fell like getting cleaned up so I just put on a baseball cap and a t-shirt with some shorts and crocs. I was just going 3 miles to the neighborhood WalMart store. Well I learned that this store does not carry coffee makers anymore. Oh crap so now I have to drive another 6 miles to a Target. This place is packed as people are buying back to school things and it is the lunch hour for many people too. I find the coffee maker but the lines are huge. While standing in line my nose and eyes start up again and stuff is pouring out onto my face oh boy it is horrible. Plus I already look like crap since I didn't bother to get cleaned up. Just a horrible crazy summer day! I feel better now but boy early in the week I doubt that I would have felt up to even a trip to Las Vegas if I had a vacation planned.
The rest of the week went well as work was not too bad and after my bout with sickness was over the week started going back to normal except for the heat of course. Friday was spent shopping with nephew for school clothes and books etc. He starts school on Thursday of next week his first year of high school (9th grade). Boy oh boy where does the time go?
On the Las Vegas front I have been looking a lot at the old Tropicana Hotel and what is taking place there. First they have a new owner and now they are in the process of building new towers, rooms, casino, pool and entrance way. This is a old hotel and was once called " The Tiffany's Of The Strip". The James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever was filmed there back in the 70's. From all accounts the place is starting to look great with a real southseas style and look to it. It helps that it is in a great location and they have a lot of land to build on. I do hope they make it and don't have to blow the old lady up. We have lost too many of the great old hotels in LV and need to keep some of them for history sake if nothing else. Looking forward to checking it out during my next trip out whenever that may be.
On the job front well "its a job". Next week I have to take more "punishment classes" due to the "bad attitude" review that I got last year. It seems going to work and doing your job and never calling in for 15 years is not enough anymore. Not looking forward to these classes at all. Sitting in a circle with a bunch of people you don't even know or care to know and having everyone talk about their feelings and themselves is not my idea of fun. Oh well.
For the rest of the day I have big plans in my head but the heat outside my make me decide to sleep my weekend away again and stay inside. However right now I plan on getting my haircut, having lunch at Jimmys Egg ( pork chops I think) and then reading some books and taking a nap. Later I think I will grill hamburgers outside and maybe watch some old movies. This is the life I tell you!
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