i'm interviewing a couple of handymen today for some odd projects around the house and after the first one, I'm thinking it would just be easier to buy a book and do it myself.

The first one that showed up was 20 minutes late - i'm ok with that, i'm usually late. Then I showed him the bathroom and where I wanted to put in the pocket door and he asked me what a pocket door was and then proceeded to tell me that the beams in my house were important - no shit sherlock. Yea, so that pissed me off. Then we went outside to show him the gate that needs to be replaced and he couldn't figure out how to open it even though I said push it hard, finally I had to open it for him and then he told me the post was strong, I didn't ask whether or not the post was strong, I asked how long it would take to install a new gate. He told me he could put some plywood up and hinge it - that's not what I asked. If I had a new gate, how long to put it up?  I finally gave up and didn't even show him the rest of the projects. His english wasn't very good and he smelled. I'm all for the little guy trying to make in this world, but seriously dude, listen to your clients, don't assume they have no idea what they are talking about.

At this point, I'm thinking I should just start taking Sat/Sun's off and work on the projects around the house, it would be easier...unless any of my friends know of some great handyman's in the area that speak english, possibly single would be great too :)

will report on the second one..later this afternoon

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living alone has its disadvantages - when you're sick you still have to get up and feed the cats and do the laundry and get the mail and take the trash out, do the dishes when all you want to do is sleep. And then when you try to sleep, you're not sleepy..ugh. I have the flu, i'm hot then cold then hot again and while I've tried not to work that much, I'm still working, if I don't work there is no money coming in..simple as that. And tommorrow, I'm interviewing handymen because honestly I just don't have the time to do the things I want to do and I really don't know how to install a pocket door, although I could probably figure out to fix the fence and the gate, I just don't have the time anymore.

And why can't I dream? I'm start to dream and then its interrupted, I would like one night of just dreams, good dreams, not weird dreams, this afternoon I started to dream of something good and sexy and then it turned into a gunfight with lots of bombing and people bleeding - god, what is that? Why the hell am I dreaming of that stuff?

And I'm smoking way way way too much, I know something's gotta change. Maybe its time. I know I need to uninstall that damn video game. I'm not focused on anything else but playing it which is stupid.

I feel like crap. I don't know what is going on with me. I need to get my head back in the game, stop worrying about all the little stuff and I need to dream again. I really would like to dream again. Focus on one thing at a time..maybe that's how I get focused again.

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