Ausborne Blog

I am about 95% complete with another project. This time the project involved a lot of paver stones, the moving of a lot o dirt, removal of grass, and the movement of a sprinkler head.

We have a large dirt and rock area behind our fence to the side of our garage. It has always been a place where things go to get forgotten about, or otherwise be put out of the way because there isn’t another place for them. It is also the place where the garbage and recycling cans reside.

This brings me to the reason for the project I just undertook. I was tired of having to figure out a way to get a heavy fully loaded garbage can through the mud and dirt, over the rocks, through the gate, then over some lawn and out to the street each week. The lawn just outside the gate was getting pretty matted from walking on it, too, and I got tired of the ugly.

I decided, on a whim, to see what it would take to smooth out the dirt a little bit, so I got a pick and hoe. After I found that process to be not too horrible, I went and bought about 30 bricks, some paver base, and some paver sand. After I got them in place, I realized that I had the time and strength to do a little more, so I got 60 more bricks.

After those were in, I found that my project still wasn’t done, so I went and got 100 more. Surely, that would be enough to get the majority of the rest completed!

Uh, no. Not so much.

All told, I purchased about 600 (maybe more) bricks, and the equivalent amount of base and sand, and really spent a ton of time getting this project done.

I still have a few stones to cut and set, and about 10 bricks that need to be set on the border. I also need to figure out how I want to cut some corner pieces for the area outside the gate.

Other than that, the project is done, just in time for me to start another semester of school.

I had the pleasure of calling the cops tonight. Evidently, some people in the cul-de-sac south of me were embroiled in a really heated domestic disturbance. Here is my summary of the event:

1) Yelling between a man and a woman, about 70 percent her
2) Lots of breaking glass
3) More yelling, about 80 percent her
4) They took the argument out to the front yard and driveway
5) She accused him of giving her a bloody nose
6) He said she did it to herself to make him look bad
7) She said that she would tell the cops he did it, and the cops would believe her because he’s on parole

What I have learned:
1) The police response time to my neighborhood is 20 minutes

Fabulous.

It’s Pioneer Day here in Utah, and it is evidently celebrated with fireworks. I’m working at the Salt Lake Bees baseball game tonight, after which there will be fireworks. As of the time of this writing, it is 12-1 (Bees leading) in the top of the sixth inning. The Colorado Springs Sky Sox pitchers, well, suck. If they could occasionally get a few batters out, I might be able to get home sometime tonight.

UPDATE: I eventually got home after the Bees pulled out a squeaker, 17-1.

I gave my two week notice at work yesterday.  It was a long time coming, and I’m hoping for a better environment in my next place of employment.