Odd things that people leave behind....

Rarely does anyone leave things behind that aren't trash. They bring the trash here, pay storage on it and then leave it for me to clean up. I often wonder why they took the time to pack it up in the first place if they didn't want it. Anyway... every once in a while things are left behind that make you wonder about the renter. This is one of them.

My office has been taken over by Lady Bugs. Their evil orange, biting cousins anyway.
I sucked them up with the vacuum. I know that isn't going to kill them...but I couldn't have gotten to them otherwise, they were on the ceiling!

The End

Finally, yesterday the customer comes into my office and wants a pad of paper and pen. She wants to write down her new gate code (see yesterdays entry for the full story) and I take it and read it back to her to ensure that I am reading it correctly, since it is written in her handwriting. She goes off on me "Great! Now I have to come up with a new one, you said it outloud!" I mention that we are the only two people in the office but somehow I have forgotten that our cell phones are bugged and now "they" have the number. Opps my bad! Rest assured I never spoke the second number she wrote down out loud! I know it's sad and this person probably needs to be on some meds, but if I don't see the humor in it, I will be the next one on meds!

I'm Stuck and I Can't Get Out

Okay....before telling you of my latest and great adventure in the world of storage, I will start out by telling you about Elise getting another award at school. My friends and I are joking now that they are just starting to make stuff up and grasp at reasons to reward her HA HA! She won Good Character again. I have a wall in the k I know I'm biased but she's a pretty cool kid :)



All by it's self.....found this laying on the ground in the facility.


A couple of years ago, Elise picked up a Wheel Bug. Very nasty looking thing. Not sure if I had ever even seen one before and after looking at it, not sure why she would want to touch it. She just isn't chicken like Mom. Anyway, it stabbed her in the hand and injected the stuff it uses to turn its prey to mush so it can suck out it's guts. Her hand took nearly 4 months to completely heal and she still has the scar. I walked out the door the other day and for the first time since, I saw one sitting right on the key pad stand.


This morning I got a phone call from a frantic customer who had followed someone in nearly two hours ago. She asked me if the gate opens before 6 am and I told her no that the hours of access are between 6am and 9pm. So I ask her her name and she tells me and I ask her at which facility is she stuck. What she has done, although there is a Kiosk at which she can pay right outside my office door, she has chosen to follow someone in. After sitting here two hours now she cannot get back out. She gives me her credit card information and I take it and tell her I will be at the office in just a little bit. Once again she goes into a high pitched squeal asking me to “Run the number, run the number now!” I tell her I am in the car I can't do that. I am on my way there right now and will “Run the number” the moment I get in. By the way, during the time I am taking her number over the phone, she tells me there is a guy there who is messing with her phone signal. I never think to ask her who this man is that there messing with her phone signal since she is suppose to be in my facility and by herself.

About 5 minutes later, I arrive at my office and go in and immediately key in her credit card information, giving her access to the doors. She simply sits in her car. She has seen me pull in and go into the office but she isn't attempting to open the gate. I go out and she will only roll the window down ½ inch and the windows are tinted. She tell me she is busy and will come talk to me in the office later. AAAUUUHHHH! I'd really rather you didn't.

I come back in and when she called to tell me how she had been locked in for two hours, the guy she followed in while he was leaving had left at 8:35am, her phone call is at 8:36!!! One minute now is = to two hours! She was asking me when the gate opens so she could be sure that two hours was a correct amount of time that she COULD have been in there waiting. On top of this she has just attempted to key in every number know to man and none of them are her actual access code. How was she planning to come in and out anyway, even if her bill had been paid if she has no clue what her access code is!

She calls me with her number blocked so I can't just dial her right back, so I call her after looking her number up in the system and she immediately tells me she isn't “*&$%^” and hangs up. I just finished talking to her on the phone and it was her. Geeeeze oh Pete! First contact of the day! I hope it's not an Omen.


BTW: she sat in the car for exactly 36 minutes before getting our of her car and even attempting to use her number on the door to get into her storage. This from the frantic customer who had sat here for 2 hours already waiting....

This customer has not left yet and is still out there going through her stuff. I am hoping she will get too busy to come in before I have to leave at 1pm. Its only 10:56 right now so I doubt I will get so lucky. She wants to change her gate code once again and probably go over all the ways she knows she got broken into.

Happy Birthday to Me!

September 6th was my Birthday and India got me a fire pit. I was very happy to have one as I had been saving up the wood for a very long time and had several wood piles going cut to the perfect length :) It's all burning quite nicely!




My ferns are doing quite nicely as well. I am going to try to save them over the winter and see if I can't "bring them back to life" again in the Spring.

Order of The Sleepless Knights

Went out Friday night to the Order of the Sleepless Knights event at Denny's here in Terre Haute. Met up with a bunch of Geocachers and didn't get home until late.












Didn't eat a thing while I was there and just had a couple of cups of coffee. :) I was good as usual.

Ryves Hall Youth Center Invaded by Nerds

A group of nerds arrived this evening at approximately 6PM and exposed the children to things that should the dare to get involved in would guarantee them a life of expanding waistlines and virginity.

All this under the guise of teaching them about Amateur Radio. Muhhhhhaaahhaaahhaa!

And now another installment of.....

"Look what I found in my lot today."

I should have been doing this all along. There have been some really cool items over the past five years and alas some are now lost forever.

I should also keep a running tally of the money (change) found in the parking lot too. It would eventually add up to a decent amount I think.

The things I find at work.....

On Friday I found this little guy just outside the gate at my North office. At first I thought it was a nail...as I was picking it up it appeared to be a nail that had a bunch of messy solder on it.

After I picked it up I realized that it was a little gnome. He appears to have been run over a few hundred times but still very easy to see what he is once you have it in your hand.

I have no idea what he was made for. Maybe he was just a bubble gum machine toy or maybe he was part of some game.

I got bored...

I decided to change my hair AGAIN!

Got the plants watered when I got home and had a veggie delight for dinner. I haven't had a slice of bread for over a month and a half now I think. :) Oh well. it hit the spot.

I know it's probably just a phase I'm going through or rejection bringing it on, but I have been feeling so gross, fat and ugly lately. Perhaps, along with losing weight I need to work on other parts of me too, I know I dress so drab. My shirts are two sizes too big all the time and I wear big baggy shorts. I hate it though when you see some fat chick wearing skin tight pants and every fat bulge and tummy fold shows. I think it would look better if you DIDN'T see all that. :) I just need to work on my selfconfidence. :(

Here is what I did when I got home tonight!