Whiner
Topic: Rant
I know that I whine and complain about the life of small town America that I find myself in the middle of but I'd like to take a few moments (before the moments pass) to share my thoughts on the good of living out here.

I don't worry that my children are going to be hit by a stray bullet in a gang shootout. Yes, there are some gangs out here, but I think they're the gangs that were kicked out of the big cities and got lost so they are not very competent and they are not in large numbers.

I know that if I run out of gas on the way to work I'll be able to walk to the nearest farmhouse and odds are they'll have a gas can and some gas to give.

I can use "I ran out of gas" as an excuse to be late for work, since there`s no gas station between me and work, 25 miles away.

Houses are cheap.

Well, that's it for now, moment over.


Nothing much going on in town, not that I'd really know if there was.
I was watching Extreme Home Makeover on ABC the other day and saw the season finale where they put a pool in these kids' backyard. They did this in SEVEN days. A couple years ago they tried to build a pool here in Wakefield. They did it, but it was about 3 months over on time so the swimming season was cut short. I understand, a city pool (and waterslide) is much larger than a backyard pool but still, if you figure it out, I don't think that backyard pool was any less than 5 times smaller than the city pool. 7x5=35 35 days to build it! It took at least three times that. Here's the kicker. The pool was open for that short first season, then the next year it was open for the full year but some people noticed that there were some cracks in the floor of this BRAND NEW pool. Turns out there were cracks, a lot of them, so now the stupid city is suing the contractors for shoddy work and there will be no pool season this summer. Not only did they take too long to build it, they didn't even build it right. Boo hoo. Word is that daycare providers in town are very happy with the pool being closed. Now parents won't be able to just drop off the kids at the pool for the day for a meager 2-3 dollars.
I hate the pool. This last year it was open they chained these floating animals to the floor of the pool that kids could climb and play on. It truly was a daycare center and it got to the point where we didn`t even want to take the kids there because we actually wanted to stay there WITH them and enjoy the pool, but it was such an annoying place to be we just quit going.


I'm hoping to get to sleep before 2am tonight so I'm going to go. I'll have a story later in the week.

Have a good night.

-Wakefield