July 29, 2011 Friday Afternoon

The sun came out today in Milwaukee. It has been cloudy, rainy and very humid this past week. Looks like there is not much relief in sight from the heat for the next week. The next electric bill will be very high from having the central air conditioning on for the past couple weeks and more. Spent last night watching the CBS TV line up which included Big Brother. We do like that show and have watched it from the beginning many many seasons ago. Went to bed around 10:30 PM after the news. Couldn't sleep so we had sex. Fell asleep shortly thereafter.

This morning I was up by 5:30 AM letting Vito outside. Just figured I might as well stay up and get the morning routine done. Fed the dogs and gave Vito his shot. Tony left for work around 7 AM. Did a little around the house before going to lunch with the guys. Tony met me there since he had to leave at 1 PM to meet a potential buyer for the Cadillac. The potential buyer is driving up from Chicago to look and hopefully buy the car. Hopefully he will buy it. Tony and I kinda had an argument this morning regarding this. The guy is driving up from Chicago to Milwaukee and if he decides to buy the car he wanted Tony to then drive it back down to Chicago where the guy lives, and then the guy would drive him back to Milwaukee. That made no sense to me and did not sound good. You hear of too many of these deals going wrong and someone ends up dead. I finally put my foot down and told him either I or an employee must go with him in another car, for the 2 hour trip, and drive Tony back home. Rather than counting on this buyer to drive him home much less Tony dead somewhere in Chicago. He told me at lunch he would do just that if the guy buys the car. Jeez, sometimes I wonder what the hell is wrong with Tony. You hear of these scams and people ending up dead from adds on Craigslist and EBay all the time. Tony is just too trusting. I reminded Tony that for what he is selling the Cadillac for he can afford to pay one of the employee or have me drive down to Chicago as his ride and protection.

Tony just came running in the door saying 'the Cadillac title is not in my bag, do you know where it is?'. He was very frustrated. He started rummaging around in areas we put important documents and could not find it. I then went through the lock boxes he went through and said 'this envelope that says Cadillac title'. I swear that man would be lost without me sometimes. He went running out the door title in hand. I guess the potential buyers is very interested in buying it, now they just have to haggle over the price. I have my fingers crossed. I am sure the next fight between us will be when I remind him we still have his Lexus I had to buy for him about a year ago to pay off. I think I will wait until later in the weekend and let him think he has money for a while. LOL. But seriously, I do plan on paying off one bill before I start another. In Tony's mind he thinks we are just going to go out and buy another convertible, something newer than the 1965 we had been driving. In my mind I plan on paying off the Lexus and then when he sells the Lexus he can buy us a summer drive around convertible. We both have our own other cars we drive daily. I guess I am more frugal. No plans tonight. I think we will end up watching last Sundays episode of True Blood and a movie. Tomorrow there are a number of block parties all day and I am sure we will hit them all, a couple more than once throughout the day. One block party is the entire block of the bar my ex owns with his partner. The other block party is on Brady Street and ends with a big Drag Show at 9 PM. It is always so funny watching all the straight people have fun watching the Drag Show each year. The first time they had one at this block party a few years ago I wondered how it would go over. Each year it becomes the main attraction of the block party. Go figure. It is suppose to be very hot this weekend so I will be out in limited time periods throughout the day. I can not stand this heat and humidity we have been having the past week or more.

I do read all my comments I receive. Thanks for the shout out on the last music mix. I plan on making another one next week so keep checking back. Always nice to read comments and know someone is reading or listening to me.

One last subject: The Debt Talks. I know some of my followers are not in the USA. Please know that most of us 'little people' are very disgusted with our elected officials in Washington. It just amazes me they can not get their shit together and get anything passed these days. Thankfully the Tea Party is screwing the Republicans more than the Democrats at this time. I just don't get it. I would be willing to take a 2% cut in my social security, that I paid into all my life mind you, if the people making over a million dollars a year pay an additional 2% in taxes. Also the big corporations should stop the loop holes and tax credits they receive. The Republicans seem to want to only hurt the people that have the least to loose and are not willing to give up anything in return. I also think if our Washington Elected officials can't come up with a plan they should stop being paid and their benefits cut immediately for not doing the job they were elected to do. It is just ridiculous that I have to budget and make cuts every day but they can not keep the country on a budget. Did anyone see what the latest profits were for the big oil companies this past quarter? Something has to change. We still give those same companies tax breaks. Unbelievable!