And we're back

I might actually get a good amount of blogging done in the coming weeks. One of the computer techs at one of the high schools just went out on maternity, and they're making me sit at her desk for 3 hours every morning to give the impression that everything is working. Not a big fan of having to sit in one place and play help desk, but it does let me sit in an office by myself for a few hours every morning. Can't really complain about that.

Dandelions are a bitch. I don't remember having a severe dandelion problem last year, but this year they're all over the place. So I spent this weekend buying hoses and sprays and spraying my yard to try and kill the bastards. Last weekend I got one of those big containers of Weed B Gon that comes with its own little sprayer thing. You suck in an amount of chemical into the sprayer with a syringe like motion and then spray. It was good for the little front yard, but then I went in the back and got a real idea of how many dandelions were back there and said, "To hell with this! There's got to be a better way." And then I started making inventions in my head. It was a hose, see, that has an empty layer between the inside and the outside. You would fill the middle layer with concentrated chemical, and the middle layer would sweat a certain amount down into the hose through minuscule punctures as water traveled through it. So I was making plans to contact physicists to help me with the whole how fast gravity will drop the water into the hose, contacting a biologist and a chemist to figure out what chemicals would best kill that blasted dandelion and see if maybe we could mix them with something that will make the grass grow fuller. Of course, then I went to Home Depot and found something better, cheaper, and far less complicated that did basically the same thing, mixed the concentrate with water from the hose, and was already invented and for sale. What's even more annoying about the dandelions is that, at first you think they must want to be destroyed because they're bright yellow and you know exactly where to spray. But then they don't come out like that on a rainy day like today. So today I can think they're gone, but they'll just be back tomorrow. And what's even more annoying than that! If the neighbors don't take care of their dandelions, those spores are just going get blown into my yard and grow, and then I'm in the same old sad predicament. And the neighbors aren't taking care of theirs. Let me tell you about that.

After I moved in last year, I found out that the house next to me was owned by a couple who just happen to be the daughter and son-in-law of a librarian who works at one of the schools I support. She was a lady pastor at the church down the street. Very quiet. Bliss. So the librarian comes up to me a couple weeks ago while I'm picking up sticks and tells me her daughter bought a new place and, since she didn't want her daughter to lose money selling the house, she bought the house from her daughter and now is going to start renting it out. To three college girls. God. Damn. It. I cannot fucking get away from them can I? So, they haven't moved in yet (and the yard is just growing over, there's the connection) and I'm really hoping/PRAYING that they don't cause a lot of problems/NOISE. I'm hoping they'll avoid it, because on the other side of their house is an old man, he's not really crotchety, but if they're pissing him off he'll tell them. And it's basically a family neighborhood, so I'm hoping if they cause problems people won't put up with it. And if they're really being assholes I guess I can always just drop by the school she works at and complain to their landlord. Have to do it fast though because apparently she's retiring in June. CONVENIENT! Anyway, just really hope they'll keep their shit in order, because I DO NOT feel like moving.