Well, the weekend is over. What did I do? I slept in a bit on Friday, probably close to 3 or 4 hours of sleep. Tried to take a nap about 11am but that was worthless so about noon I went to the NAPA to pick up the last spin on filter I needed for the neighbors Kubota tractor. That was as far as i got on that project. Friday night, the night before the kids wedding, my GF's mother and aunt and uncle flew in from Michigan and we brought food to the hotel so everyone could meet each other, GF's family including her daughter the bride to be, the groom, The groom and I got to meet my GF's aunt and uncle for the first time, and the visiting guests got to meet the Pastor and his wife and the locally adopted gramma the kids met through church. After a few hours of mingling the Visitors went to their room we came home.
That is when I asked all the male subjects involved if their clothes were clean and pressed, the general attire for the men was dress pants and a dress shirt and tie, very simple. The groom and his new suit and a white dress shirt. I asked multiple times and after much grumbling from her three sons I got them to corral their clothes even if they there "clean" and I tossed them and mine in a quick wash cycle and as soon as the washer stopped I hung everything on hangers and they were all wrinkle free by morning. GF took her 4 daughters to town for the bride to get her hair done and other errands. I was at home with the 4 young men. I started getting ready in plenty of time and when I put on the new black pants she bought me I was not impressed. When she brought them home she said try them on for waist and length, no problem, but I had just woke up for work and didn't check anything else. Well, they are some sort of modern hipster type design with skinny pant legs and barely stretched over my dress cowboy boots. There is no way I was gonna be seen in public with those pants. At this same time I was asked about an iron to press the write shirt for the groom.?!?!?!. From what i gathered from what he was trying to explain is that is the same shirt his father wore when he got married many years ago and it was sent to him from China for the wedding. Well, every fold looked about as sharp as a piece of note paper folded in half using your finger nail to make the fold sharp and crisp. I had a steamer and and iron and it took 45 minutes to make that shirt look presentable All the while my hipster pants were driving me crazy. As soon as that darn shirt was done I looked for my previously owned black dress pants and couldn't find them, eventually went to storage and grabbed my black suit pants which fit but somehow were a little snug around the waist. We packed up the various items us men had to bring to the church and the groom started his car and placed a few items in the back, I thought we were ready to go and he was planning to put on his suit at the church but NOOOOO, 25 minutes later with his car idling in the street he finally emerged wearing his suit and looking quite well. (I guess brown shoes with a dark blue suit is in style these days?). I did my duty and asked 3 times before we left..... shoes? pants? belt? shirt? jacket? tie? rings? anything else? Surprisingly I got the groom to the church with everything he needed and sort of on time.
The groom called his parents in China and did the face time type video call so they could see the wedding, even if they didn't understand the words. The Pastor is very cool and at one point asked the groom if he wanted to say anything to his parents and there was about 10 minutes of video conversation between him and the bride and the parents, with a little bit of bowing involved. Lot's of pictures, the greeting line, and then down to the multipurpose room for dinner and mingling.
The wedding was at 5pm, we had everything wrapped up and we were headed home by 9pm. Our neighbors stopped at a couple stores after the party ended and drove past as we were unloading the perishables from the cars to the house. I talked to them a bit and realized it was only 9:45pm. I don't think I ever attended a wedding involving anyone who is at least part Italian to end prior to 1am so I invited the neighbors over and we sat and drank and BS'd for several hours.
Today I installed those spin on filters and topped off the hydraulic filters and used the tractor a bit to make sure it worked. Parked it and pulled the dipstick to check the fluid level. Well, those empty spin on filters introduced air into the hydraulic fluid and when i pulled the dipstick it started purging foamy fluid. I quickly replaced the dipstick and waited a few hours, eventually getting the system topped off but by then the visiting family were at the house so we sat around and BS'd for 5 hours so I didn't get to the oil change on the tractor. I will do that tomorrow (today) before work and get that returned to the neighbor.
Aside from that, nothing much happening in my world. =-) I was exhausted and asleep by 8pm and woke up about 1:30am and can't get back to sleep. I really need to quit this overnight work schedule so later this week I will visit the cabinet shop and talk to the owner again. Not so much to pressure him to hire me but to encourage him to keep the business and let him know I would be a reliable employee to help make his management responsibilities a lot easier on him and his family.
We are supposed to have another couple days of decent weather and then this next rain storm hitting California will bring us a couple days of rain/snow. We need the water, I am no where near a flood zone, and in my opinion let it rain or snow and fill up our aquafers and reservoirs.
That is when I asked all the male subjects involved if their clothes were clean and pressed, the general attire for the men was dress pants and a dress shirt and tie, very simple. The groom and his new suit and a white dress shirt. I asked multiple times and after much grumbling from her three sons I got them to corral their clothes even if they there "clean" and I tossed them and mine in a quick wash cycle and as soon as the washer stopped I hung everything on hangers and they were all wrinkle free by morning. GF took her 4 daughters to town for the bride to get her hair done and other errands. I was at home with the 4 young men. I started getting ready in plenty of time and when I put on the new black pants she bought me I was not impressed. When she brought them home she said try them on for waist and length, no problem, but I had just woke up for work and didn't check anything else. Well, they are some sort of modern hipster type design with skinny pant legs and barely stretched over my dress cowboy boots. There is no way I was gonna be seen in public with those pants. At this same time I was asked about an iron to press the write shirt for the groom.?!?!?!. From what i gathered from what he was trying to explain is that is the same shirt his father wore when he got married many years ago and it was sent to him from China for the wedding. Well, every fold looked about as sharp as a piece of note paper folded in half using your finger nail to make the fold sharp and crisp. I had a steamer and and iron and it took 45 minutes to make that shirt look presentable All the while my hipster pants were driving me crazy. As soon as that darn shirt was done I looked for my previously owned black dress pants and couldn't find them, eventually went to storage and grabbed my black suit pants which fit but somehow were a little snug around the waist. We packed up the various items us men had to bring to the church and the groom started his car and placed a few items in the back, I thought we were ready to go and he was planning to put on his suit at the church but NOOOOO, 25 minutes later with his car idling in the street he finally emerged wearing his suit and looking quite well. (I guess brown shoes with a dark blue suit is in style these days?). I did my duty and asked 3 times before we left..... shoes? pants? belt? shirt? jacket? tie? rings? anything else? Surprisingly I got the groom to the church with everything he needed and sort of on time.
The groom called his parents in China and did the face time type video call so they could see the wedding, even if they didn't understand the words. The Pastor is very cool and at one point asked the groom if he wanted to say anything to his parents and there was about 10 minutes of video conversation between him and the bride and the parents, with a little bit of bowing involved. Lot's of pictures, the greeting line, and then down to the multipurpose room for dinner and mingling.
The wedding was at 5pm, we had everything wrapped up and we were headed home by 9pm. Our neighbors stopped at a couple stores after the party ended and drove past as we were unloading the perishables from the cars to the house. I talked to them a bit and realized it was only 9:45pm. I don't think I ever attended a wedding involving anyone who is at least part Italian to end prior to 1am so I invited the neighbors over and we sat and drank and BS'd for several hours.
Today I installed those spin on filters and topped off the hydraulic filters and used the tractor a bit to make sure it worked. Parked it and pulled the dipstick to check the fluid level. Well, those empty spin on filters introduced air into the hydraulic fluid and when i pulled the dipstick it started purging foamy fluid. I quickly replaced the dipstick and waited a few hours, eventually getting the system topped off but by then the visiting family were at the house so we sat around and BS'd for 5 hours so I didn't get to the oil change on the tractor. I will do that tomorrow (today) before work and get that returned to the neighbor.
Aside from that, nothing much happening in my world. =-) I was exhausted and asleep by 8pm and woke up about 1:30am and can't get back to sleep. I really need to quit this overnight work schedule so later this week I will visit the cabinet shop and talk to the owner again. Not so much to pressure him to hire me but to encourage him to keep the business and let him know I would be a reliable employee to help make his management responsibilities a lot easier on him and his family.
We are supposed to have another couple days of decent weather and then this next rain storm hitting California will bring us a couple days of rain/snow. We need the water, I am no where near a flood zone, and in my opinion let it rain or snow and fill up our aquafers and reservoirs.
