Jake’s Life

I really haven’t posted that much lately. This year, rather. Things get busy…you know how it goes.

Here is my official check in, photo style:

My accident (I hit a patch of ice, spun out, hit a median, went up onto the median, and got stuck. My entire axle was pushed several inches to the left.):

Holiday Report (Gifts, etc.):

I also got a car detail kit from a co-worker.

Weather report:

Sandro and I finished moving on Sunday to our new place. It feels great to be out of the old one and here with each other. We made a last minute switch in new apartments from the 2BR to a 1BR down the street, and we’re so much happier with it. The apartment we moved into is less than two years old, everything is new, we’re on the 3rd floor (which makes it easier to be a day sleeper), and we find things everyday why we love the place even more.

On moving day Sandro’s parents decided that we have a moving truck and can get their new 63” TV from the store for them. By the time we got it to their place and to the floor it was to be on, we got their 52” TV for our new place!

Here’s Sandro on move-in day…we still have a few things on the shopping list…

Our bath tub, which I can actually fit in!

We have pretty high ceilings, so here’s something short to give you an idea how high they are.

Our fireplace.

Closet.

Kitty found an issue…the ledges are skinny…

It’s getting to freezing temperatures around here at night now, which means turtleneck time!

Well, a work day that is.

I get in the car and put on my mean, yet empathetic friend who is here to help, face.

I drive around, answer calls, see what’s going on.

Then I drive around some more.

There’s always at least one, “Huh, good,” moment.

Darkness falls, and I’m still going.

Close to the end of my shift I’m tired and at times a bit loopy.

By the way, I picked up my new badge last week. We used to have a seven pointed upside down star, which we still have, just inside a large shield now.

The cute Russian boy gets ready to wash my car at work.

 
The clean car.

Sandro and I were really excited about going to the annual Washington Beer Lover’s festival today, but once we got there they ran out of parking. There was also at least a two mile line of cars waiting to get in the other direction. We scrapped the idea and went to the Taphouse instead, then went to see The Happening. It wasn’t all that great.

This entire week was weird. I’m sorry, I thought it was April, but evidently Mother Nature had different ideas for our Spring in the Northwest.

Complete with winds which knocked trees down into roads and parked vehicles.

I was getting into my work car the other night and forgot my bluetooth headset was in my lap. It ended up in the storm drain.

Gas prices are also pretty ridiculous right now. Thank god we have fleet fuel cards at work.

Taser arc, just for fun.

This weekend was weird, too. I was off work at 0200 Monday morning and slept from about four until noon, then again from one to nine. Back to sleep at two, then up at ten, back to sleep at one, then up at six. I got way too much sleep, which explains why I’m up so early for work today. If I didn’t have things to do I would run to work early and take my patrol car to the car wash and detail it out (it was just assigned to me and still…has the last person in it).

Yesterday I had a killer headache, so I popped half a Percocet (which, by the way, was prescribed to me for headaches when I had shingles…which I still have but that’s another story) and napped. Sandro came over and brought “headache medicine” for me.

We ran a few quick errands to get dinner, pick up something from my work (where he met one of my more attractive co-workers and confirmed my suspicion that he would find him pleasant to look at), and then came home, cooked dinner, had a few drinks, then made babies. Well, tried to anyways.

I got the schedule I wanted at work, which is 7pm to 3am. This leaves me enough time during the day to run errands and spend time with Sandro during the week, and allows me to unwind after work for a while and still get to sleep before it’s light out, which makes it really tough to sleep. I was also put in charge of vehicle maintenance supervision, so that allows me some flexible overtime in overseeing their condition and repairs during the week or one my days off.

Just in case you were wondering…I like the navy blue way more than the green and tan!

Here are some photos I dug up of my dad, mom, and me when I was a baby.

My dad and half brother.

Irony!

I’m horrible at transferring photos from my Blackberry to my blog in a timely manner, so here is some catching up.

V-Day card I gave to Sandro. It’s almost waist high for him.

View from the cockpit.

Ready for meeting at my new job.

I said I was ready, didn’t I?

Sandro being lazy on my lap.

Not in the mood for BS during my last week at work. Taking pictures of myself does encourage me to get working out again though.

Statue on the mantle at Sandro’s parents’ house. Strong and just…I like it.

The other day we got a flash snowstorm that lasted for a day or two. On the drive home in the morning it got really bad getting into the county I live in. Once I’m off the freeway I have to go down, then up a huge hill, then through windy roads to get home, which were pretty much all ice by the time I got there. And, of course, instead of being in low gear and taking it slow like me everyone was trying to race to work, which is why they were stuck and couldn’t move in the middle of the streets.

I love it. Sandro said I wouldn’t, but I do.

I love the fact that I can press one button and be in my mailbox with four accounts coming to it. I love not having to always hit “Send/Receive” to check my mail because of Blackberry’s push e-mail. I love having an intuitive user interface that’s easy to use and smooth. No hiccups, no hunting for things, everything is right there.

It takes better pictures too!