June 29 - July 2, 2020 (Monday-Thursday)
''Week in Review''

Following my workday  Monday (Jun. 29)  I was not entirely clear on whether to simply return to the apartment or wishy-washy stop in for a check-around at a ''Publix'' location, not really with any set goals of doing any amount of shopping, but I  was  somewhat playing around with the idea of perhaps grabbing a cold case of  ''Seagram's''  ''beer coolers'' as an impulse buy, particularly just so I might have the chance to again experience their ''passionfruit/mango'' version which I'd taken the biggest liking to but which (of course, surprise... surprise...) are not available for  individual  purchase.

So I decided to drop-off my work equipment then head back out to the grocery market, still not in any sort of enthusiastic or hurried mood, so I wasn't intent on taking the most direct routes to get there, which led me to impulsively turn right from ''Main Street'' onto ''U.S. 19'' then double back at the first southbound U-Turn which, rather than completing the turn, I'd decided to follow straight down the length of ''Green Key Road'' to wherever it terminated, which to my unexpected realization brought me once again to '' Robert K. Rees Park,'' which after all of the time that had passed I'd believed that it was by following the full length of ''Main Street'' that had brought me there when I'd initially accidentally discovered it. So just to not entirely waste the error, I decided to take a quick stroll of the beach and boardwalk preserve path, took a few test snapshots with the new phone's camera, then resumed my trip to the supermarket.

As I would surprisingly learn, it turned out that the ''Seagram's'' coolers had been included as one of this current ''weekly specials'' which was offering 12-pack cases of the items as part of a ''2-for-1'' deal, which converted a ''possible'' single-pack purchase into a ''definite'' FOUR-case grab (three ''bottled'' varieties plus one ''canned'' pack; the latter being included only because it offered an assortment of interesting flavor varieties not included in the bottled form).

Because of the all of the extra bottles and cans, I was required to engage in some major reorganization of the refrigerator shelves in order to accommodate them all. As I was pretty much close to completion of the reorg job, I finally decided to break the monotony of the dead silence by turning on the computer, only to encounter yet another Internet connection disruption that wasn't permitting me to reconnect online wirelessly, even despite ''rebooting'' the Modem/Wi-Fi. This disruption then inspired me out of curiosity to take a chance to see if I could re-establish ''Ethernet'' connectivity, making the surprised discovery that direct access was ''seemingly'' restored, albeit half-assed ''intermittently,'' which seemed to finally clear-up and remain fully connected following a full-system shutdown & reboot. (The restoration of direct Ethernet access being very much appreciated, as since using the Wi-Fi back-up I was being terribly inconvenienced as it related to awkward methods I'd been using whenever it came to entering my various access codes & passwords, as I was overly concerned about any even remote possibilities of keyloggers who might have managed to gain access to my private network.

On  Tuesday (Jun. 30),  as part of my files clearing-&-sorting process that I've been trying to periodically go through ahead of my next scheduled Out-of-State departure from this miserably boring flat stretch of Earth, I decided to engage in a little bit of touch-up work on the pictures I'd snapped from my Father's family photo album during my first visit with him when I stopped over during my Coast-to-Coast trek after leaving Hawaii in July 2012. Inspired by this, I finally found the motivation to send out a new set of emails: one to include the [in]famous ''toddler pic'' of myself that had been taken at Atlantic City, NJ to my Mother; then, since I'd already had the email program open, finally decided to follow-up on ''Gracie's'' most recent email with a proper reply.

I delayed until just a little past Midnight  Wednesday (Jul. 1),  to perform another complete clean-&-wax job on the motorcycle -- (initially, I'd intended just to spray-hose it down and apply a little extra ''plastic preserver'' goop, and maybe have another go at the windshield polish, but it became another full-on job, including a full ''paste waxing'').

Finally got a bit of a (somewhat forced-motivation) park run  Thursday (Jul. 2),  the timing of which coincided rather nicely with an unanticipated light rain that had decided to pass through. The after-effects though made it clear that some-''thing'' is genuinely attempting to interfere with any steps I'm trying to take to re-establish some sort of a physical activity routine, as my right knee decided to go unapologetically ballistic on me.

I've also been experiencing rectal bleeding off and on all week since the weekend: assuming that it's that problematic hemorrhoid flaring-up again.

Also discovered that the boots my Sister had purchased for me during her visit when I was still residing in Virginia has similarly engaged in that infuriating  ''peel the sole portion away from the toe tips''  routine that's appearing to become the ''New Norm'' for all shoes nowadays... and I've BARELY ever even worn the things for ANY significant amounts or lengths of time! I swear, it's all part of some sort of ''Cheap Materials / Big Profits'' conspiracy! -- NOTHING of ''quality'' anymore, no matter HOW MUCH anybody pays for a product!

July 10 - 16, 2020 (Friday-Thursday)
''Full Week (from Weekend-start) in Review''

En route back to the apartment after work  Saturday (Jul. 11),  I stopped into the ''Little-54'' Walmart to grab a few household items to coincide with the pick-up of my special order online purchases, once again barely managing to stake claim to one of only two remaining ''refilling-sized'' bottles of hand soap, only missing out on the second one due to the fact that I hadn't thought to pick-up both at the same time as part of a physical comparison of one ''advertised brand'' and one ''store brand,'' but had instead allowed one of the items to remain sitting on the shelf, which allowed another woman to pick it up, inspect it, then decide to replace it, which then placed it in reach of another man who quickly grabbed it before I had a chance to do anything with it.

So on my way out, I tried on three separate occasions to contact somebody at the ''Pick-Up'' kiosk by using its ''call button,'' only to be left standing around like a dweeb and being reduced to confront any number of people wearing an employee's uniform, even going through several different people in this instance as well, until finally being attended to: even so, a search of their records indicated that there no packages there in my name, suggesting that I'd either inadvertently identified the ''Ridge-19'' location as the retrieval site (which I'd highly doubted) or perhaps absentmindedly directed the ordered items to be shipped to my Post Office Box. As I would be making my next stop at the Post Office anyway to retrieve my ''Amazon'' deliveries, it became evident, when I was greeted to three separate ''parcel locker'' keys in my inbox, that the Walmart orders had indeed been sent to my delivery address.

Received a text a half-hour prior to end-of-shift at work from ''Mimi''  Monday (Jul. 13),  which was leading into a  Pussy-Eating  encounter, which we scheduled for the same day: She would arrive about an hour after what had been initially planned and only had time enough to spend about an hour and a half, but still sufficient enough for her to experience two intense (and perhaps a couple of ''micro'') orgasms.

I delayed getting my IRS-requested ''schedules'' forms downloaded to my USB stick for printing out until later in the day  Wednesday (Jul. 15),  which was the deadline for the universal filing extension due to the  novel coronavirus  outbreak. I was banking on extended lobby hours & mail collection times, only to find out later (much later) that such was not the case.

Before taking my USB to ''Staples'' I decided to conduct a ''test run'' of sorts, ahead of my scheduled out-of-state trip next month, to get a sense of the (dis)comfort levels of taking a long motorcycle road trip in full ''Female'' attire (balloon-filled bra and panties) in advance preparation of en route ''restroom stops,'' as well as an attempt to get comfortable with the idea of walking about as a (clearly?) ''male'' unisexually dressed and stacked as a ''female.''

After getting my tax form printouts-- which the lovely lady working inside the printing allowed me to have without payment --I stopped into the nearby ''The Home Depot'' hoping to acquire a set of antibacterial cleansing wipes, but just as with everywhere else they were experiencing lacks in receiving & retaining those supplies. While there, I was beginning to experience worsening intestinal issues which only seemed more or less a minor nuisance, but since I wasn't able to purchase anything in store I instead held out on using their restroom facilities and decided to wait until I returned to the apartment; but by the time I'd returned I was not only feeling worse in my gut but was also by this time dealing with a migraine that had also come on -- both of which together were incapacitating me enough to make the filling out of my tax forms a difficult task, so it was later in the evening before I was able to completed the paper work and drop it off at the Post Office. Regardless of any disruptive circumstances experienced, I'd still managed to delay far too late to make any difference and get the mailing postmarked on time -- even though, in reality, I was supposed to have submitted those schedule forms within ''20 days'' of having received the follow-up letter from the IRS, which was dated  March 13.

On  Thursday (Jul. 16),  I contacted ''Sam's Club'' via chat to learn how to validate/register/use the ''membership'' my mother said she'd gotten for me in one of her most recent emails.

July 17 - 19, 2020 (Friday-Sunday)
''Weekend in Review''

 Friday (Jul. 17),  just prior to leaving to leaving for work, began what I'll be referring to as,  ''Ledz Phukk Wiff Dis Nikka'' Weekend:  beginning with my inability to locate my cameras' SD memory cards, after having them sitting in the exact same spot for weeks, as I had intended to bring my larger camera tripod to the jobsite in hopes of perhaps capturing images of  ''Comet NEOWISE,'' '' which I'd only learned about a mere hours earlier. (How did this important event so effectively slip under the media radar?) Of course, after returning from work, without the pressures of racing against the clock, I'd managed to relocate them just in one of the two spots where I'd known I'd left them but for some bizarro reason kept not being able to see earlier.

Then the next day while at work  (Sat., Jul. 19),  my laptop began experiencing hard drive problems and made booting or remaining booted into the Operating System extremely touch-&-go, which motivated me to begin looking into another  ''Windows 7''  loaded or installable system: but because of all of the dancing around I had to do trying to navigate all of the different choices and questionable specs provided by the individual sellers, I instead decided to look into just purchasing a replacement hard drive... along with a replacement built-in keyboard (which I could've actually done instead of buying a full-sized USB keyboard as I did), as well as an extra memory card to expand the RAM, plus a new ''Thumb Drive'' with the goal of loading a bootable  ''Linux''  distribution, including an additional one just so I can restore the encryption ''security vault'' I'd accidentally formatted out years ago.

And as if the issues with the laptop were not enough, the motorcycle also decided to have ''Fuel Injection'' issues again. At first, both trips to and from work seemed to be having no MPH issues, but on the trip back I was struck with the idea that I should test the RPMs with a full pullback of the throttle: upon doing so the engine revs actually  decreased  severely, and when I tried to ease back down to my normal cruising speeds the revs gunned-up like crazy until I worked the throttle back down into the ''sweet spot,'' and this continued until after I'd detoured to the Mass Street ''Winn-Dixie'' location for a few items and restarted the engine.

And if all of that were still not enough, whatever malevolent forces of The Universe that are conspiring against me are seemingly on a never-ending quest to continually troll me! -- Now that it somewhat seems that I'm beginning to receive a bit of a reprieve from all of the bodily discomfort issues I've been forced to deal with of late (the rectal bleeding I'd been experiencing having finally ended Tuesday [Jul. 14], plus the painful situations with both the ''popping'' issue with my right knee, which I'd been confronting head-on, and even to a noticeable extent the persistent joint pain in my right pinkie finger, which both appear to be gradually subsiding), those Dark Forces are now showing themselves to be lying in wait for me to begin taking that long road trip in order to set me up with another of those ultra-painful back-of-the-shoulder flare-ups, as it gave me a little taste of a reminder during my ride back from work Saturday of what's been lying dormant for much of the time.

Our site supervisor called me on the company phone  Sunday (Jul. 19)  to ask if I'd be interested in returning to working the additional shift on Mondays: despite having no genuine desire to do so, I decided that the additional coin might be of benefit, due to the litany of expenses I've taken on over the year, my expectation that there'll be another rent increase after this current lease ends in November, plus the likelihood of ACA ''Obamacare'' monthly premiums skyrocketing thanks to ''President Death's'' destruction of the health care ''mandate'' (along with the ''DemonRats'' voting down Bernie Sanders and his proposed taxpayer-funded Single-Payer  ''Medicare for All''  Universal Health Care solution).

During my ride back from work, I familiarized myself with the location of the nearest ''Sam's Club'' so that I'll know where to go to get this ''membership'' thing processed.

July 24 - 26, 2020 (Friday-Sunday)
''Weekend in Review''

Encountered my first ever  ''Karen''  moment in the New Port Richey ''Sam's Club'' parking lot right after returning from work  Monday (Jul. 20)  when I'd decided to register and receive my card. It resulted from my initial-- and very genuine --concern over a vehicle that had just pulled into the ''stripe zone'' of one of the handicap-designated parking lots at the same time as I was parking in an open space on the other side of the throughway almost directly opposite of what I would eventually learn was a ''she.''

I tried calmly explaining to her that by parking in the striped ''wheelchair access zone'' she would run the risk of getting her vehicle towed if anyone in authority were to come by and inspect.

Rather than accepting the polite corrective suggestion to reposition her vehicle to the open & available designated space right next to her, she instead began with her ''sense of entitlement'' excuse of ''claiming'' to have had the appropriate placard, but still refused to acknowledge or accept that she had parked incorrectly, even as I continued to  politely  and   respectfully  point out to her that I was only calling attention to the situation out of concern for the fact that she could possibly be returning to no car if she were to leave her vehicle parked in such an inappropriate way.

But sadly, as it turned out, I'd unknowingly ''triggered'' one of those scathing bitter-&-angry ''hyperbitches'' who apparently viewed herself as an  ''entitled vagina-possessor''  who seemed to be one of those shrews who was not accustomed to people ''correcting'' her in any way, shape or fashion, and who would proceed to escalate the drama against anyone who would not back down from her.

Suddenly, her extremely  ''unfeminine''  physical characteristics began making all of the sense in the world, as I was dealing with an  ''Old'' ''Short-&-Fat'' ''Tatt-Covered'' (at least covering the entirety of both of her arms) ''razor-stubble headed'' (literally)  trashy-looking  White Woman  who seemed to be making absolutely No Effort to not present herself as a vicious misandristic man-hating Uber-Dyke -- even while somewhat ironically dangling a ''Star of David'' pendant from her corpulent neck.

Unfortunately[?] I ''responded in kind'' somewhat, but only by raising my voice volume to match hers and to express the same degree of indignation, still insisting that I'd only intended to ''help'' her out of a potentially unfavorable situation and had not been trying to pick any fights or get into anybody's business: she decided to keep escalating it to such a point that I'd finally pulled out my smartphone in hopes of recording her antics on video and making her ''Internet Famous''; but because of my continued unfamiliarity with operating the phone's various Apps, I'd decided not to fiddle with it for too long.

I eventually tried to shut down the shout-fest by informing her that if she was going to insist upon remaining parked in such an inapproriate, ''illegal'' manner, then I'd simply report it to Sam's Club staff and have them call for a tow truck to have her vehicle forcibly removed.

By this point, someone must've reported what was taking place between us and had contacted one of the security staff on duty, which I could only assume was a ''loss prevention'' person, as he was dressed in unassuming ''plain clothes'' with nothing to indicate that he was part of any security detail except for a very small pendant around his neck that resembled a tiny ''sheriff's badge'': it was   only  when he tried to defuse the situation and took over confronting that shrieking trashy-looking cunt that she  FINALLY  decided not only to begin behaving in a more appropriate and ''respectful'' manner but also to (surprise! surprise!) REMOVE her vehicle and park it in the available ''properly designated'' spot that had been there right beside her the entire time!

I left the store immediately after registering my info and receiving my card: I did not venture back out there until just after work  Sunday (Jul. 26)  for the purpose of refueling my motorcycle, experiencing some disappointment over the fact that Sam's fueling stations only operate within specifically designated time frames and are not accessible 24-hours.

I was to also learn when I went in to work on  Friday (Jul. 24)  that  ''TWO''  of the regular staff members of the Facility where I'm employed had contracted the ''2019 Coronavirus,'' but it was being kept hush-hush, supposedly out of some misplaced concern about not wanting to cause a ''panic''... (when will these snowflake assholes EVER learn that the way to properly address a dangerous situation is NOT by ''covering over'' it, ''downplaying'' it, or ''remaining silent'' about it!?

July 27 - August 2, 2020 (Monday-Sunday)
''Full Week in Review''

Rather than directly returning back to the apartment  Monday (Jul. 27),  I'd decided that I wanted to take a brief detour through ''Holiday'' to check out what it was like, but I'd initially made the mistake of turning onto ''Alt. U.S. 19'' from the ''southern'' direction (from which I'd never accessed this route before) and accidentally found myself riding back through ''Palm Harbor'' when I'd mistakenly presumed that continuing along that route would bring me back out onto ''U.S. 19'' at the point where I'd entered (...my mind was definitely ''somewhere else'' during this time).

During my next attempt to turn-off at Holiday, I'd again managed to ''overshoot'' it (not realizing until well into the start of the weekend, while fiddling around with the online 'weather map' at the jobsite, that Holiday was right next door to Tarpon Springs to the north); so instead I used this as my opportunity to finally investigate the ''shoreline-side'' of ''Trouble Creek Road'' to see where it led & terminated. During this trek, I'd discovered a couple of nature preserve / recreation parks, the first one being ''Eagle Point Park,'' the other being ''Anclote River Park,'' spending brief times at each, snapping a few photo/video images of each largely not very impressive location on the smartphone before continuing on along the length of road which, rather than reconnecting me back onto U.S. 19 as I'd anticipated, looped me right back onto ''Alt. 19.''

Tuesday (Jul. 28)  and  Wednesday (Jul. 29),  for some unknown reason, my bed-&-bath rooms felt victim to an invasion of Giant Cockroach corpses: in response, I decided to expend a heavy amount of death spray in the only areas I could think of that could possibly be their points of entry: behind the closet wall where simple board covers a hole where the pipes to the bathtub run, and under the hidden portions of the face-washing basin.

Also on Wednesday, around 8:30, I called for tow truck to remove a silver Toyota ''Prius'' from being parked directly in front of our dumpster and extending itself out into the path of the sidewalk. Naturally expecting a quick response, I'd be watching the scene until just four-minutes shy of one full hour before the owner of vehicle returned from wherever he was jacking-off at, only to watch him sitting inside the vehicle for an additional eight minutes before finally pulling out completely -- and NO TOW IN SIGHT! After this, I had absolutely NO INTEREST in calling the contracted tow company with a ''status update,'' so in all truth I had absolutely no idea when or even IF a tow vehicle ever showed up on site.

I didn't want to be a ''dick'' about the situation, and  normally  I would've deemed it sufficient to just leave a ''reminder note'' informing of the error and would not have made such a huge deal out of it; but as a direct result of the  ''Sam's Club Karen''  incident, my long-dormant ''meanness'' streak has been reactivated, causing me to now want to contribute to seeing these self-absorbed ''entitled'' pricks suffer the consequences of their own smug ''The Rules Don't Apply To Me'' actions.

Retrieved my laptop computer replacement parts from the Post Office en route to work  Friday (Jul. 31),  which I'd left sitting all week even after I'd been notified of their arrival on Monday.

On top of all of this, I still had to deal with the entire week of trying to track down & exterminate the next phase of nesting ants that established colonies in some sneaky places, mostly inside my walls -- a problem which I thought I'd completely eliminated several weeks ago when a was able to track down a huge colony inside a couple of my item packaging & standby moving boxes but had chosen not to mention at the time out of pure laziness and a lack of any real motivation to post any updates about anything. It wouldn't be until  Sunday (Aug. 2)  that I'd located their (hopefully last) hiding spot underneath items I'd stored atop of my clothing closet shelf, which was only uncovered quite accidentally as I was rummaging through the collection in search of my ''Fuji'' dejikame ''AC Power Adapter'' in order to conserve battery power for a planned test of the camera's ''Manual Settings'' feature, which until shortly after I'd arrived to work with it  Saturday (Aug. 1)-- hoping to get some ''zooming'' shots with the tripod that failed miserably --I'd had no idea was even possible, having erroneously believed up until that point it had no such settings and was  completely  ''Automatic'' in all of its functions.

August 3 - 9, 2020 (Monday-Sunday)
''Full Week in Review''

Got struck with a migraine that developed over the final leg of the weekend, which became problematic at the end of my workshift  Monday (Aug. 3)  which sent me to bed... and somehow in the process I'd managed to somehow completely lose track of a full day, because it was suddenly  Thursday (Aug. 6)  before I was even aware of it.

I didn't decided to begin switching out the components of my laptop computer until Thursday, but delayed bothering with trying to install the Operating System onto the replacement hard drive until the following morning  (Fri., Aug. 7),  but neither the 64- nor 32-bit install discs would load beyond the ''Starting Windows'' transition screen, which enticed me to start fiddling around inside the BIOS, until I made the decision to  ''reset''  the BIOS to the ''defaults'' setting, which resulted in a non-ending repeated ''non-loading'' off-&-on loop, which forced me to push the project aside yet again.

There was also one more (final, this time?) war against the ants invasion this week: first uncovering another spot inside my clothes closet under where I keep my motorcycle helmet stored, while spraying in a few more strategic potential spots within the space; then shortly afterward (because of this latest spraying?) being greeted to an escaping swarm of the little monsters vomiting out from my bathroom's electrical socket.

Also, my apartment care duties have really been shamefully falling by the wayside of late.

August 10 - 16, 2020 (Monday-Sunday)
''Full Week in Review''

Decided to make a brief stop into ''Publix'' during the ride back from work  Monday (Aug. 10)  (can't even recall if I'd even had anything specific in mind when I did so), made a couple of ''expensive'' purchases, including an impulse buy of a pack of ground lamb (Nine-effing-Dollars -- WTFWIT?) along with some on-sale ''organic'' items of a couple loaves of nutty/seedy bread and a dozen eggs ... the latter of which I returned for exchange  Late-Friday Morning (Aug. 14)  after discovering a couple of days earlier that I'd inadvertently placed the carton in one of the ''troublesome'' spots inside the refrigerator which resulted in the eggs freezing and bursting).

It was another week of being in the doldrums and not feeling up to doing much of anything outside of sleeping and watching random online presentations.

Ants and wall mold are still proving to be unyielding headaches which keep forcing me to stray on top of in a never-ending battle of wills.

Attempted to "reset" the motherboard BIOS of my laptop  Sunday Morning (Aug. 16)  and at first it seemed that it corrected the problem... until the OS disc froze and would not fully load, then the non-start cycle issues returned again.

August 28 - 30, 2020 (Friday-Sunday)
''Weekend in Review''

Delayed doing any of the planned pre-trip light maintenance until  Saturday (Aug. 29)  only to be stopped cold during the oil change portion of the job, again due to the top-right bolt of the oil filter compartment being so awkwardly positioned that I was completely incapable of any kind of effective leverage to remove it, causing me at one point to spill nearly all of the old oil out of my collection pan when trying to reposition the motorcycle in an attempt to try to get a better leverage position on the connection, finally forcing me to abandon the job, especially since all I seemed to be doing for the most part was stripping down the bolt head.

During the maintenance session I was also confronted with the realization that the  ''cooling fan filter,''  which I was only expecting to clean off & restore had all but been disintegrated (seemingly by the engine fan); so in an act of improvisation I resorted to fitting (as best as I could) one of those cheapie ''scour pads'' I'd purchased at ''Dollar Tree'' -- (also causing me to wonder if perhaps it was the result of the fan filter's destruction that might have been the contributing factor behind some or all of the ''Fuel Injection'' issues I'd been having these past weeks/months.

I'd received a couple of ''voice texts'' from my mother the following day  (Sun., Aug. 30);  during the second message (sent in response to my earlier acknowledgment of the first one she'd sent) she informed me that ''Gracie'' had finally committed to having the surgery to remove her fibroids, but also that she was still having issues with maintaining a level of cleanliness inside her apartment which again resulted in another eviction threat from  ''the new owner(s)''  of the complex.

---

ARCHIVES

* ''5-Year Archive'': Autumn 2001 - Winter 2006 *
* ''5-Year Archive'': Winter 2006 - Winter 2011 *
* ''5-Year Archive'': Winter 2011 - Winter 2016 *
* ''5-Year Archive'': Winter 2016 - Winter 2021 *

Winter 2016 (Dec-Feb) / Spring 2017 (Mar-May) / Summer 2017 (Jun-Aug) / Autumn 2017 (Sep-Nov) / Winter 2017 (Dec-Feb) / Spring 2018 (Mar-May) / Summer 2018 (Jun-Aug) / Autumn 2018 (Sep-Nov) / Winter 2018 (Dec-Feb) / Spring 2019 (Mar-May) / Summer 2019 (Jun-Aug) / Autumn 2019 (Sep-Nov) / Winter 2019 (Dec-Feb) / Spring 2020 (Mar-May) / Summer 2020 (Jun-Aug) / Autumn ''Fall-Out'' 2020 (Sep-Nov) / Winter 2020 (Dec-Feb) / Spring 2021 (Mar-May) / Summer 2021 (Jun-Aug) / Autumn 2021 (Sep-Nov) / Winter 2021 (Dec-Feb)

((Return To ''Current'' Page))

Click for weather forecast

Click for weather forecast