Pool update, Hold em, Date, geeks

Unibomber poker kid. 

First things first.

The weather has been rainy all week, but today on the way home the sun came out. We have a chance of thunderstorms the next few days. It they miss us the ground will be dry enough to work this weekend. I am hoping for the best!

The son, daughter, wife and I are playing a family texas hold em "poker tour" at the house. Son and daughter came up with the rules. My son takes his games very serious. That is him, trying to hide himself so we wont be able to "read" his expressions and figure out what he has.
The daughter, the first night, bluffed a huge pot out of me and the son "the profesional" players. She had nothing, but played the giggly "I got a pair of aces" and we fell for it. She didnt win the tourny but that one hand made her night! Its the little things that make your day more often than not! (holly cow, hearsedrv the philosipher?)

Me and the wife went on a double date last night with her brother and his wife. My kids baby sat his 15month old. We have not been on a date in ages. I am a grouchy old fart that hates people and hates eating out, that is why its been years!
Met at bro-in-laws house after work, went to dinner.
Now I hate restraunts.
Last night our waiter is "Todd". some young punk, earings in both ears, half a brain, happy how the hell are you buttwipe. I hate that crap. This guy wasnt too bad, but most I cant stand. "HI, MY NAME IS STUPID, HAPPY, DUMB, GOOD LOOKING, YOUNG, BITCH, AND I WILL BE TRYING TO MESS UP THE WHOLE MEAL FOR YOU TONIGHT, AND I EXPECT TO GET A 20% TIP WHEN I AM DONE!"
I waited tables and never acted as bad as they do. To me a waiter should never be seen or thought of. A good meal is when you dont know for sure if your waiter is a guy or girl. The best restraunt I ever took my wife too, the waitress/waiter? was awesome. She or he took our order, brought the right drinks and brought the food. thats all, and damit that is all I want. If I wanted some young female to flirt with me I would be at a topless bar, hell! Just bring the food and drinks and stay away from me. Leave your "flair" in the toilet were it belongs!
Now "todd" did mess up in the worse way though.
My drink.
I drink bourbon and coke. I love the taste of bourbon mixed with coca-cola. Not pepsi,not Dr. Pepper, but coca-cola.
BUT, NOTICE I SAID BOURBON? FOR THOSE THAT DONT DRINK OR DONT WAIT TABLES. BOURBON IS MADE ONLY A CERTAIN WAY AND ONLY IN KENTUCKY. NO WERE ELSE. JACK DANIELS IS NO BOURBON JACK IS A WHISKEY. HUGE DIFFRENCE.
Well stupid, who I have been calling "todd" brought me a "jack and coke" when I sent that crap back, he asked what was wrong. I asked "what is that?" he said Jack and coke like you asked for, "no I asked for Bourbon and coke"....."ohhh well its the same thing" Susie were is my 2 x 4?


http://www.straightbourbon.com/

That link above, all waiters and waitress's should read. Its in english. Learn it, live , be it!
Other than stupid not knowing crap about his job, it was a really good dinner. I didnt say bad things to the waiter, and enjoyed the company. The meal was ok, nothing like my wife cooks but slumming once in awhile is ok.

BUT IT GETS BETTER!

We goto a 8:10 movie. The stepford wifes. Now the movie was ok. nothing bad nothing great, I enjoyed it, sitting next to my hottie!

but the fun part is, we go in, and just after they take our tickets, they have a ropped off area. Little sighns, "line for 12:01am showing of spiderman 2 is here. and damned if 4 hours before midnight there are uhhh there are, well there are,
ohhh hell,
there are some freaking geeks sitting down, waiting for the midnight showing of the premier of spiderman2.
Not kids mind you, but people over the age of 16.
And it gets worse.
There is a guy, probably 18? 17? and he has a spiderman uniform on!!
I kid you not! He is wearing a spiderman outfit, sitting in a roped off area, in a major metorpolitian area, waiting for the premier of spiderman2!

Made me wish I had my spiderman undroos on!

Me and bro in law got a great laugh out of it!
He is a police in that city and does security at that theatre, and he said "you should have seen the re-release of star wars!, all guys my age, waiting hours dressed up like star wars characters!"
dont ever call me a geek again! I may know alot about computers but Im no GEEK
dont put me in the same cat as them freaks!

Well, I am hoping that I can get alot done this long weekend on the pool. May the rain gods move to west texas were its needed!

Boy did I piss someone off!

Soooo
One of my sisters wrote a little blog about the pc help desk guy she had to work with other night.
Now her point I believe was that she couldn't understand the language the guy was using, he was talking "geek" talk, but by end she was thinking she could talk "geek"
She was not bad mouthing him, but me being the type of guy I am, slammed her for calling the guy a geek, or rather talking in geek etc. And of course I threw in my 2 cents on what I think of DR's.
Now mind you, I was just at the DR a few weeks ago when I hurt my back, but hey I can still say there all a bunch of idiots cant I?
Anyway, someone else commented after I did.
Now I thought he said about what I did. However, my writing style is such, that its hard to take me or think that I'm serious. This other one was, lets say you could tell I didn't write it.
She kind of got upset about it and pulled her blog down for a few day, but lucky she is a girl and got over it and put it back up. (not only is she a DR., she has a 2yr old, and she's 18 months pregnant on top of all that, can you imagine being a male in that family? That is why men invented everclear!)

Heck, I have one that is a Dr. Another that has a PhD, another that is a nurse, another that is adopting Russian children (I am a former marine, that last ones pretty tough for my brainwashed self to handle) another studying acting in college, but maybe the worse is one that is in law school.
I have plenty of sisters to throw mean cuts at. Although, they all have college degrees, heck I bet they have average of 7 yrs of college each between them.
Do I really want to get into a war of words with them online?
I don't fricken think so!
So I try to chill, not say to many mean things, like Dr's are idiots, phd's are dumb, lawyers are scum sucking pigs, Nurses dont do nothing, actress don't live in real world (gonna leave the Russian kids alone, don't mess with kids, I do have some morals buttheads) but I don't say them things very often and if I do, its said in a loving, joking brotherly manner!

Now in person, no problem, they get outline, remmeber the 2x4?
that's what I'm talking about!
but online they would think they would whip my skinny butt!
cant have that now can we.

Edited: I want to point out that the Dr. sister and the lawyer sisters, husband drink bourbon with me! so, I really dont want to get the girls upset less they wont let the guys come out and play anymore! Hearse.

The state of Texas owes me damit!

The average monthly rainfall in my area is 3.41 inches of rain for the month of June.
Now coming from West Texas that is alot of rain. Here that is not alot. We average about 32 inches of rain a year.

I started my pool the first weekend of the month.

Area lakes at the time were about 13 feet low. Water rationing was a given, for the 9th year in a row. Drought conditions etc. All of DFW would suffer once more.

As of today we have received about 8 inches of rain in the dfw area for the month.
8 @#$#%$^$% inches!

Every lake is 100% full, and this will be the first time in 8 years that we wont have water rationing.

All because I started digging a damn hole in my backyard for a pool.

It rained about 2.5 inches since friday afternoon. My backyard is a mud pit. the pool did not fill all the way up, just about a two feet in the deep end, that I already pumped out.
suppose to rain until wed?
Really pisses me off.
I had laborers lined up to do cement work today and tomorrow, and next weekend was gonna install the liner and all the plumbing.
That is shot to hell.

The only part that has been hard on putting in my own pool, is the fng rain!
Hell if i wanted this kinda rain I woulda moved to Houston.

Walls nearly all up, and some info on construction sequence

Panels from stairs view.  

The Picture above shows what I have finished as of Thursday the 24th.

I have 4 panels left to do. This saturday, I should put in the cement "coller" and get insdie the pool ready for the mason cement bottom.

Let me explain about this pool.

It is a vinyl liner pool. The top 42" are a polymer plastic, with a polymer brace at each junction of the panels. There are 20 panels plus the walk out stairs.
On the outside of the panels, you put in cement, 8" thick and approx. 2' wide. this is called a collar, it adds support to the walls. once that is in the pool walls are not moving! Each brace has a 2' long 4" sq brace that is drove into the ground before the cement is pored.

Then you plumb in the main drain in the deep end.

After that is done, the bottome is made from mason cement and sand wet mixed and leveled 2" thick. this provides the smooth, none moving bottom.

The deep end, is made by coming off the back wall 4' and is dug down to 6'2" and is a 4'x6' rectangle in center, with slopes up to the bottom of the 42" walls.
Its kinda like and upside down pyramid with top of the pyramid cut flat.

After the bottom is put in, plumbing is run for the pool.
As soon as plumbing is done, you put in the liner, and fill it up. While the pool is filling up with water, you backfill on the backside of the walls with sand. The backside is were the color is and the black braces are. the bottom has the coller, on top of that you fill with sand to the top as the water rises, to create equal presure on both sides of the walls. I have allready bought 12 yards of sand and will buy another 6 yards next week, that should be enough.

once the pool is full of water, check pumps and filters make sure they all work, and you could swim. Of course without any decking, be litte hard to ge in and out!

so I am poring deck all around it also. That is the last step!

My goal today is to be filling it with water on the 5th of July.

started on the side panels.

Start on the sides. 


I have started on the side panels.

I have 2 corners, the stairs and 2 more pieces done.

Sweated out 4 gallons give or take a quart of water!
making ok progress.
I have alot to do yet!

fence is back up.

Got all the back fence back up.

Looks ok from inside my yard, because most of it is hidden by shrubs and trees.
Its not straight, but it is level until it drops to my neighbors yard.

today I should get going hard on putting the panels up.
the way this pool works, is the sides are a polymer plastic with big braces, with a 8 in by 2 foot concrete color around the outside to keep them in place.

the bottom of the pool is a sand mason mix.
then you put the vinyl liner in place.

for those that went to destin the pool at that house was same type of pool.

pool update.

Wife and I cemented in 6 post yesterday.

First time to use my new cement mixer.
I bought a cement mixer new for 204 bucks tax and all, had to put it together myself.
I could have rented one for 222 bucks for a week! hummm what to do what to do!

wife figured out the best way to mix the concrete, as in what order to put the ingredients in! If it comes to it, for the concrete for the pool and decking, she could mix while I pore it in.

we make a good team!

should get the fenc up today and start on the sides.

Bro in law is coming over after lunch and I am working half days this week, we should get alot done!

The dig is done! woo hoo!

The dig is done! 

Finally finished the dig!

Saturday, me and my brother in law spent 12 hours working with a skid steer loader (bobcat is brand and the one I rented was brand new, it was a big SOB) and got all but the hopper end done.

The hopper is the deep end, its 6 feet deep, 4x6 sq with the sides sloping down to it.

I hired some hands today to finish out the hopper end.
It all needed to be dug by hand. It would have taken me about 3 weeks to finish, what 3 guys plus myself did in 5 hours today!

I also have all the post for my fence dug, wife and I have 4 set ready for concrete, tomorrow will finish the other 5 and pore concrete around them. tuesday we should be able to put the fence back up.
What the deal is, my backyard sloped as much as 2.5 feet from my patio to the back fence. we used the dirt from the pool to level it out. Thus I had to remove a big portion of the back fence, raising it up as much as 2.5 feet.

This week we should have the fence done and sides done. And one of my 3 inspections done!

I will update later this week.

A poem for my pool

A friend wrote this poem thinking of me.
I think its pretty good myself!

A Man and His Pool


while sitting one day sipping a cold one
the kids and she who must be obeyed
wanted a pool
who needs a herb garden
we want a pool we want a pool

the poor man was beat
he had to take the heat
and then listen to them whine
Oh for a glass of wine

Online he ordered what was the answer
till the big day
the truck driver on his way asked if he had a forklift
No was the reply to this
to massive disgust all around
4 pallets and 1600 lbs

Oh my back On my back
and now he is installing it
with pto from work
Or is he

I should be Kerry's running mate.

What better choice than me?
Im a democrat.
but i appeal to all the redneck republicans.
I speak there language, literaly!
If you listen to me talk and goerge bush, we sound alike, make no since, dont say nothing of importance, and think a 2x4 upside someones head is way things should be done.

I'm serious now.
Im driving to work, someone cuts me off? Get my gun and shoot them!

Terroist crash planes into World trade center, Goerge, gets a gun and wipes out a country!

Same thing, both pretty dang stupid, dont make since, but by golly, we fell alot better!

so I apeal to the gun totting people! (mostly redneck republicans)

We both are from midland tx.

we both had failed buisness. (although, I didnt close mine oweing people money)

Now reason dems like me, I believe in social service, I believe in helping the poor (unless its the sob that cuts me off!) I dont mind paying taxs. (for yall dumb rednecks, how do we pay for the roads you drive on? the guns we use to kill the millions of innocent people in foreign countries? taxs stupid!)

I believe that since I am a male I cant tell a woman what to do with her body (although there are a few I would really...oh never mind, thats bad!)

so yea, i could apeal to both side a little, Id make a much better president than george
although, a turd in a punch bowl does that!

so call kerry tell him to pick me, and I can quit my job, funnell billions of govt contracts to friends and family, and all will be good in the world!

If you can think of some more reasons why I would make a good running mate, put em down!

advice! 

Really bad day for some!

Talked to buddy yesterday. His youngest son had birthday, so he was gonna take the little one out for all that is wanted by a 4 yr old.
Chuckee cheese, laser tag and toys are us.

Now he ended up doing this, but it started off pretty bad.
Heck for one guy was probably worse day he will have in a long ass time.
His older son, comes in from playing outside, he is about 7 I think, and goes straight to bathroom, to take bath. This kinda odd, as is fact he don’t want anyone to come in.
Well momma finally gets in, and
This is hard to write about sorry.

The poor guy got into poison ivey and guys were is the worse place you can get poison ivey? You got it!, that is were he got it!
Momma had to take him to the DR.
They might think about going ahead and inrolling him in counseling as I don’t know about you, or him, but that would mess me up for long time!

So next time your having a chitty day, just think, you could have poison ivey on your dingus and be sitting in a dr. office wondering if things are gonna keep working!

Have a good one!

Ohhhh poor me

pool is about 2 foot deep, to 3 foot deep full of water 


This picture does not capture the whole thing.
Basically, I am putting in my own in ground pool.
Now most say "ohhh we put in an inground pool, we love it!" Well your a wimp and I dont want to here how you had an inground pool put in. If you did not have a shovel in your hand digging it yourself you did not put in an inground pool. you paid someone to put in an ingound pool.

when I say I am putting in an inground pool, I mean I am doing it all, from digging it myself to putting the water hose in it! (I do accept help from friends and family! so I will change it to "we are putting in an inground pool". we being me and my friends and family.

I was going to subcontract out the digging of the hole, but lazy drunk white trash fers didnt show, didnt call etc, so I rented a backhoe and got after it!
Now my grandfather convinced me that I could do it, and he was correct!....that brings up a point, if as we get older we realize our dads were not as stupid as we thought they were, does this mean that there dads are even more smarter? (more smarter? is that like more bigger? ahh you know what i mean so shut up!)

well, 3 days into it, it started raining, finally tally, rain gage 8 inchs, pool 3 feet of muddy water! wooohoo dont need no water hose now do I?

I did get all the water drained and most of the hole dug. This coming weekend I will be renting a skid loader to finish the dig, me and my brother in law decided that doing the last 2 to 6 inches by hand was to dang much work! (2 inches is alot when it comes to dirt, some might think 2 inches is small, but they would be wrong! Thats perverted humor for those that dont get it!)

Now if you have read this far, you might wonder how is asshole hearse able to stay in a good mood or rather how has he kept from going postal?
I will give a cronological order of things. bear with me.

sat, dad shows up, i rent backhoe, friend shows up, we dig all day.
sun. dad, me and bro in law dig. get about 70% done.
sun night rains 1/2 inch.
monday, 4 pm able to start up dig again by myself (i had taken the whole week off work)
tuesday, black tuesday, it starts to rain at 7 am, ends up stoping thursday evening. I
Call my boss ask if i can work the rest of week, since i cant do anything on
the dig, no problem he say. i am pretty pissed but what can you do.
Wed., goto work in rain, bad drive, pissed whole time, get to work, and find out friends
dog had died, while his wife and kids were out of town! family pet, kids are 3
and 7 or some such, had the dog 11 years he is bumed. so my little rain not to
bad.
thurs. talked to friend about his dog tell him that sucks (Real guys dont show emotion
duhhh) he says, "I was felling sorry for myself, upset i had lost my dog, called
my wife, she is crying, she is back in town she grew up in with visiting family
and friends, and her good friend from high school, 2yr old had cancer and they
had just 'unplugged' him, and he passed away, so my dog dying is not nearly as
bad as that" KINDA PUTS THINGS INTO PERCPECTIVE, WHO CARES ABOUT SOME DANG
WATER IN A HOLE!

Friday, get back to dig after work,
Sat, get going on dig, but its slow, hard work, starting to get mad cause so muddy, so slow etc, wife talks to her sister, and gets the news that a fellow policman that works and is friends with her brother was killed by a drunk driver on a traffic stop in the town they work in. again, puts the pool into the place it needs to be in!


I am taking it easy most of this week, gonna hopefully finish the dig this weekend.
Kinda worried though, every time i get going on the dig, something unpleasant happens!

River is overflowing into our 7 acre lake! 

My sister and her blog

one of my many sisters has her own blog.
now a few things.
I should not have graduated high school, she is in law school!
When I was a senior in high school, she was like 7 yrs old, and had already read more books than I ever would!
so she can communicate just a little better than I can.
Well maybe that is not is 100% correct.
she can write much better than I can, but that does not mean I cant get someone to understand what I mean.
a 2x4 upside the head gets a point across pretty good.

for some good reading check her site out.

MOM

Well I figured I might want to clarify or explain (is that the same thing?) some things.
I just sent email to whole family about my blog, and I realized a few things.
1. I am the worse speller in the family.
2. I do not know enlish, I know redneck speak.
3. I do not have the cleanest mouth.
4. I am damn honest in what i write.
5. I did not capitalize the I in the above!
6. My profile is called mikey humor! so take it with a shot of tequila!

If I make you upset with my blog, remmber whos it is! If you want to say something about my english usages, send all complaints to goergebushisanidot@whitehouse.gov!
I talk as good as our beloved president!
(but i have a bigger ______ so I am better off)
Mikey!

Hills fish! 

My daughter likes to fish. But she does it kinda diffrent.
she wants to catch them alive, with nets!
I dont know why.

been busy heck so sue me

Been real dang busy.
digging a big hole in my backyard!
Ill post more info on it this week.
maybe
i might just lay around all week im so dang tired.
got a long story, and will have to work on it!