Jake’s Life

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!

Definitely not the best picture (I was going pretty quick to catch up with this tow truck on my way home from work), but funny.

Yep, looks like State Patrol done broke down!

Not of my reader’s themselves, although it can mean that.

Last night, while standing out in the 28 degree weather working containment, I thought to myself,”I wonder what the other bloggers are doing right now?” It was about 0400 my time, and with others on the East Coast they were likely just starting their day. I can’t exactly take a photo of what I was doing, but I can find things in my daily like that I can photograph and post.

So here’s the deal: For those of you who read my blog, e-mail me a photo of your daily life, whether it’s at work, on your way to and from, out shopping, working out (locker room pics only!), whatever. I want to see a fractions of the lives my readers live through their eyes. Yes, I read your blogs (for those of you who have them), but I want to be there with you, just for a second. Camera phone, digital camera, kindergarten sketch, whatever. Just do it!

For every single photo I receive from others, I’ll send them a few in return. If you want a photo posted with a link to you, let me know too!

This morning my kitty made a new friend!

He’s obviously a Russian Blue, just like my Trinity, except he has the pure green eyes, and she has the yellow-green. Eerie.

Well, as promised, here are some photos from our day trip to Deception Pass on Saturday. It didn’t go quite as planned, with him harping me as to where we were going, me caving in, getting pissy, him getting pissy, deciding to go minutes before work called me in later that day, and the 45 degrees and sunny tuning into 38 degrees and rainy, but we still made it happen.