| | I went to a really cool place on Sunday. 
My sister and I went to a place just outside of Eugene called Bring
Recycling. They are a non profit organization that accepts
donations of used building material and resells them at reasonable
prices. It's a cross between a junk yard and a lumber yard and it
was oh so fun to look around there! They are very well organized
and have hundreds of old windows, doors, sinks and lots of other
things. I want to get a bathroom sink and a replacement kitchen
window there...and maybe a few other things. Yesterday was the
first day back for the regular repair guy and he was in good spirits ....but today he seemed irritable and cranky  .
He is very fussy about "his" repair area and as much as I tried to keep
everything just as it was while he was gone, he found plenty of fault
with how things were. I expected him to be unhappy about having
the wrong kind of tape in his tape dispenser...he had a stash of the
kind he likes hidden somewhere. There were some links of chain in
a pile that got moved (BIG mistake apparently) and as much as he likes
to have every tool in place on the wall above the workbench, there are
apparently a few tools he likes to have NOT put away, but sittting on
his bench, ready for use and he snapped at me when I tried to put one
of them away today. He also snapped when I put back the
rectangular bins of cords and bulbs rotated 90 degrees. He didn't
actually say anything, but as soon as I had set them back on the shelf,
he yanked them out and slammed them back in how they "should" be.
To me it makes more sense to have them the other way  ,
but there is absolutely no arguing with him. I could never
understand why everybody was so glad to see him go when he went on his
surgery leave two months ago...but now I'm starting to see why.
He is on "light duty", which means no heavy lifting, which means he
won't resume his delivery duties for a while. And with his right
arm still sore and weak, I guess I will also be helping him with
repairs. So I'm afraid there won't be much for him to do except
find fault in what everybody else is doing. 
I got a call today from a research firm that is conducting a mock trial
here in Eugene on Thursday. They are looking for mock jurors and
after answering a bunch of questions, I qualified and since I have the
day off on Thursday, I thought it might be a fun way to earn $100 for
half a day's work! So I will be doing that from 9:00 a.m. until
1:00 p.m. and there was talk of refreshments, bathroom breaks and
sandwiches for lunch! I wish everybody were so willing to feed me
and give me money.  My
computer problems haven't gotten any worse and I am getting used to the
routine of doing a few extra things to get my computer running close to
normal when I'm starting it up. The only thing I don't really
feel comfortable doing is my internet banking. I really don't
care if anybody is watching anything else I do...I don't know why
anybody would want to. My health insurance at work will start on
the first of April. I've been without health insurance for
several years and have thankfully been extremely healthy...but the
closer I get, the more nervous I get that something terrible will
happen before my insurance starts. So I've been very careful
about where I go and what I do and have just been much more cautious
than I normally am.
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