It is Friday & I was paid early (should've been Monday). I have decided to have a drama & stress-free weekend as I have the house to myself due to drama. Even when DW (might not be much longer) returns tomorrow from vacation with her bio kids, I may still be on my date with myself. I am going to chill today & be gone all day tomorrow since I do not know when they're returning. Heck, I'm thinking of going somewhere by myself next weekend for Labor Day.

Eff off to our tiny little town keeping us locked down when we haven't had any new cases in over a month!
Eff off to the heat and humidity and smoke which are creating a nasty trifecta of sh*t in the air that makes breathing right now a chore.
Eff off to bosses who can't get their sh*t straight so I am essentially doing their job and pretty much getting the short end of the stick.

Sigh..so not really Friday to me.  Talk to me on Monday when oncall switches to my teammate.

Eff off to the two all day Zoom meetings I had this week.  PAINFULL...so very PAINFULL.

Eff of middle of the night support text messages over nothing.  Loss of network connection = 30 text messages to Halo's phone.  Support ring tone is "Houston We have a problem" in Tom Hanks voice.  Yep I'm geeky.  I got that message over and over at 2 a.m. the other day.  Stop futzing with the network...

Eff off Mr. Halo...after Halo being in defcom 5 meltdown for the last few days (halo has had no sleep)...he FINALLY SNORTED and woke up to the fact Halo was ready to self combust and take him with her.  He gets an Eff off..cause he could have stepped up earlier and avoided defcom 5 and the inevitable combustion.

Hats off to my two kids...after Mr. Halo ate all of Halo's pretzels...the one snack I eat, they went to the grocery store and bought a huge container of pretzels for Halo.  Even Halo's kids sensed the rise in defcom and knew immediate evasive action was needed.

Eff off to chronic disease, the medication to treat the disease, and the side effects it causes. And then more drugs to treat the side effects.

Fires are burning all around me - to the north to the south and to the east. So eff off to choking my way to work and back every weekday.

Eff off to lazy skids.
Eff off to no where to go this weekend, and all weekend to get there.

BUT most of all, eff off to people who steal from firefighters...

Eff off to another power outage yesterday due to a tornado which leads to another brisk cold morning shower. 

Luckly no damage and everyone is fine. Hopefully power is restored some time today. 

I am willinginly working about 1/2 day. Took a bike ride into my actual office, working my rear off to get things done before noon, then I'm off for a longer bike ride with a stop on the way home for a small delicious lunch snack, then home, a little more work and then drinks on the patio with DH.

EXCELLENT weather is helping this. 

Eff off Friday, I don't need 'ya.

I HATE that this has caused a divide and made masker and anti-maskers. I have an outdoor family funeral this weekend for a man who was like an extra grandpa to me but a large part of the fam is apparently going to go maskless in a show of solidarity with each other. 
Since I am in an adjacent field to the medical profession I see more things than they do and am closer to medical science process and info and am one of the mask wearers. I'd love to hug everyone and chat! But it ain't gonna happen. 

Ok So I mentioned on someone other's blog about using suicide as manipulation what I've been going through at work.  

I work in the utility industry. There is a lineman, a 55 year old man, who has been a friend for 10 years.  He left his wife for a coworker.  Said coworker was also married.  This was two years ago.  They didn't make it very long because they got in a bad fight cause she was mad she was supporting them while all of his money went to wife he left and son. They both went back to their spouses.  her husband died in a car wreck in November and he texted her the same day asking to get back together and she said, "Quit texting me, stalker."  So for nine months now he's been texting me about how much he loves her and how much he wants her back and what a terrible mistake he made and he can't live without her.  It's been horrible.  He will say he's going to throw himself on her car in traffic and kill himself.  He's going to shoot himself in front of her if she won't take him back.  He texted me a picture of a gun and said if anyone came to baker act him and if I reported him, someone was going to die.  He's very ambiguous as to if it would be the cop or him.  I told my boss back in November but they said they would tell him I reported him and I would have to give up the texts and that they couldn't protect me.  

So last week on my last day of work he texted me that he was going to take off his rubber gloves at work and get electrocuted and he mentioned his apprentice.  it was once again ambiguous as to if he would take out the apprentice too.  So I turned him in.  I gave them forty pages of horrible texts over nine months.  They told him I reported him.  He sent me a bunch of hateful texts.  they sent him to counseling last Friday and Monday and that was it.  I stayed in a hotel with my kids cause I didn't feel safe.  

Last night I returned to work and do you know what?  It was me and him.  Those mother cluckers put us together on shift.  me on the radio and him in the field cause all the other llinemen went to Lousiana for mutual aid.  I'm so angry I could spit.

And to top it off, I have this email waiting for me and all of my coworkers where we have to read our company's policy on workplace violence and sign off that we read it and it's our duty to report threats of work place violence.  Again what a slap in the face to me.  They did nothing to him.  They did nothing to protect me. Or that girl he used to date