What Weird Week?

So Monday night was something. Bekah got hone from her weekend with Connie in the hill country. I was to make one of her favorite meals. It all went rather perfect. New was amazing. I left the grill on to cook off some the spices that lung you the grate. Then I heard that work was canceled because of contaminated water. This doesn’t happen. I got in a conversation with multiple work text. I forgot about the grill for a few min. Next thing I know a neighbor is dining the door bell concerned. So I go out and it’s a little fire. All the old drippings which had basically become coal. It was smoky. I easily distinguished of it with a little water, which added to the smoke. Problem diverted. Time for bed. Nope. Someone called the fire department. I start hearing sirens I say to Bekah: “What do you want to bet those are heading our way?” Sure enough the flashing lights are in front of our house. The police and firemen were very nice. They clearly saw nothing was at stake but had to go through procedure. Everyone wanted to know if dinner was a disaster. The fire marshal wanted to know where the chicken was that I grilled because I kept talking about how good it turned out. I made them all laugh. Anxious I was, I put it to good use and gave some hard workers a little joy. It was all rather embarrassing but in the end comical and I’m happy for it.

So we had a “bad water day”. Work was canceled, the city was told not to drink or even bathe in the water. Weird indeed. A contamination of unknown origin. The stores were overrun by panic shoppers. The same frenzy of f***er’s that I saw when the pandemic began. People had loaded carts full of water. It was an insane sight.

The days itself was rather enjoyable. It was gloomy and I watched a show and generally just enjoyed myself. Not accustomed to having a Tuesday off. What I was accustomed to was working short weeks. When will I actually have a full week. Who cares. Go with it.

It was also National Pizza Day!!! Since every restaurant in town were closed I couldn’t order. I could have bought a frozen one, but since I had all the ingredients to just make my own I choose that option. Taste better anyway.

Wednesday it was back to work. The campus water was okay. My water was okay. Half the town still was not okay. I showed up at work at 10. Nothing going on anyway. It was another gloomy day. I was getting used to this.

Next morning the roads were icy. I slid around a little making my journey to work. It’s funny. They delay so often on days which the roads are just fine. It’s actually icy and we all have to come in. Well, for a short period. Email came out saying everyone could go home at 10. Pretty much the opposite of yesterday for me.

So I went home. Went to HEB for cat food. They had a true champion putting out salt in the lot. It was better than ever. He used a fertilizer distributer. He got a thumbs up from me. After that I was home, watched TV & played a little Nintendo again. What the hell. It ended up being icy all day. Some parts of town got some heavy sleet. The gloom persisted and the majority were sad. Not I!!!

Friday was delayed to 10. It was eventually canceled altogether. The roads were worse and it was only getting colder. Temperatures reaching the single digits with wind chills in the -20s. This isn’t the west Texas we know. It was warm when the week began. So weird, but I’ll take it. I love it.

So I only worked 1 full day all week long. I spent Friday mostly on the couch. I ventured out and restocked my provisions. A blizzard is expected. That evening I watched my final Jimmy Eat World concert. Part of my Christmas present from Bekah was a 3 part virtual concert series. Well worth the money and it was towards a good cause. It was fun. In true concert form, I got a little tipsy.

Song of the Week: “For Me This Is Heaven” by Jimmy Eat World. Well since I was watching them live… Song that was officially realized in 1998 but found and album in 1999. Hits a note. Lots of memories. They play is so well.