Category Archives: Life as it is

Summer is here and our garden is starting to really sprout up.

The zucchini and summer squashes are starting to pop.

The string beans are reaching for the sun.

And the flowers are starting to add some nice color to the back yard.

A rant on Random Thoughts on the word Random who would have thought.

Today I stopped at a grocery store, who’s name I shall leave unmentioned, to pick up a few things for home.  This particular store has a self scanning system that is used in conjunction with their loyalty card. It makes things quick and easy at check out, scan and bag your items while shopping then at the self checker scan a bar code that sends the shopping list to the main computer then scan your card at the register to retrieve your order from the system. Scan your credit or debit card and then your out the door. 

Well today it was not quite that easy for me at the register. When I scanned my card I got a message that an associate was needed to finish my order. Now this would not upset me usually, but this is the second time this has happened to me, it also happened at my last visit to the store.

So when the associate comes up I asked her what this was about and she said that my card was getting a random audit. This is exactly what I was told the last time this happened to me so I made a comment about this not being random. The associate that was taking care of me said that it happens all the time. Well I said that if it happens all the time then it is not random.

Her reply was to tell me that a lot of people come in and have their card audited every time that they come in and that is just random.

Google defines random as      made, done, happening, or chosen without method or conscious decision.

Now to me being chosen every time some one comes into a store to be audited means that this is not random but has some other reason for the audit. My real gripe here is not that I am being audited every time I go to a certain store but rather that someone tells me that this is a random occurrence. 

The summer is about to start and one of my favorite things to do during the summer is to take long drives on Saturday. This summer I am planning on taking some full weekend trips as well. As I am self employed as a cleaning service provider and have a regular routine of customers that I do, it makes it difficult for me to take time off. Weekends are like gold to me and I always try to make the best of them. It has been over 15 years since I started doing this and have not taken a real vacation since I started.

This past weekend I took a trip to Hershey Pennsylvania.

Leaving Friday afternoon right after my last job to the hotel in Harrisburg expecting the drive to take about seven hours with a final drive time of eight and a half hours due to multiple traffic issues. Not really a big deal as I enjoy driving.

A good nights sleep and then a day of fun at Chocolate World. A little ride through the making of chocolate from bean to packaged product. Then a 3D movie with the Hershey characters to save the chocolate factory. After the movie I took the trolley tour of Hershey town. I got to hear the history of Milton Hershey and how he had started four candy companies that went bankrupt before he had a successful candy company. That company almost went bankrupt as well but got saved by a company from England making a large order that got him out of debt. Continued orders from England got him into making profit. The candy that he sold was caramels.

After some time in Chocolate World learning about the history of Mr Hershey and the company itself it was off to the amusement park for some fun and laughs.

The park is full of rides including eleven rollercoasters

For me I stayed away from the more thrilling rides and took the more calming rides for me.

This was more my speed. It is a short elevator type ride that rotates as it goes up and down and give the rider a full panoramic view of the park and surrounding area.

After a full day at the park and a lot of fun and memories it was back to the hotel for a good nights sleep before the ride back home.  The day was very nice, not to warm with just a bit of overcast.

The ride home took another eight hours but it was a very nice day so the drive was fun. All in all it was a fun weekend and I am looking forward to the coming summer. 

Thank you for reading.  Forrest

I am so furious right now. I just found out that my sisters ex-husband and father of their child has gotten the courts to take away 24 hours of their child’s time with her mother. A time that during their weekly time together is the only time the two of the get a chance to spend together.  This man has been doing anything he can to torment my sister ever since he threw her out of his life almost five years ago.

My sister spent most of the last five years living in the same home a I do so I have been seeing all the things that this man has been doing to her for no real reason other that sheer hatred on his part. Every time my sister gets things together he comes out of with some court order to make her time with their daughter less and a way to get him self more money in the process.

I have to point out that he is a county sheriff and although I like to believe that justice is blind I am really starting to believe that with this most recent court order that the courts side with one of their own.

The whole story. My sister just recently moved. She is now about an hour away from here. Her share of custody starts on Friday when my niece gets out of school till Monday at 4 pm, During school times my niece gets dropped off at school and goes home to her father at the end of the day. Since moving my sister has made sure that my niece gets to school on time Monday morning. Her ex did not like the fact that their daughter was with her mother so far from school so now my sister has to bring their daughter to his house on Sunday night taking away from my niece time with her mother.

Any way   thank you for allowing me to rant a bit.