March 13: Poisoning Vines, Nuclear Meltdown, and Taxes

Watching!!

Spring is now moving on in now. The highs are hitting the 50's with regularity. Today is daylight savings time. I did not know this till I went on Facebook. Speaking of Facebook, I now know why some folks can always respond quickly to posts.
Well, the man who owns the brick building facing the backyard want to again kill the vines. I do understand that vines can screw up the mortar on bricks. I just think it adds so much to the look in our backyard. I really object to his plan to poison the area in my backyard where the roots are. Now I am not going to allow someone to poison my yard not with my animals and plants! He may own the building but I own the land on my yard. I have to keep and eye out so that the building owner does not allow his contractor to traspass on my property without me being there!! This man owns the Home and Gift Store, so I will have to pay a visit ofter and stay alert!'
I have a conference call tomorrow at 4, so I have to leave early from work again. This for a part time job and the company is called Bil-Jac and they make premium dog food.
I just took 6 hours to e-file my taxes. Well, the e-file was rejected due to a SS#/Last name problem. So NOW I have mail in the form and hope I get my refund in 2 months! (GEEZ!) At least Turbo Tax promised I would get my $$ I paid them to take 6 hr of my life to wait 2 months for MY money!!

Japan just had a 8.9 EARTHQUAKE last week. Now the 17 nuclear plants are in danger of meltdown. Here is an email alert I just got recently:

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Breaking News Alert: Officials believe a hydrogen explosion occurred at Japanese plant
March 13, 2011 10:43:09 PM
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Nuclear officials believe a hydrogen explosion has occurred at stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant. A massive column of smoke was seen belching from the plant’s No. 3 unit, the Associated Press reports. There's no information yet on the extent of damage or whether the containment vessel was damaged.

http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/WUOQBH/OJPCKI/67LMM1/FBEWYH/PA8RW/UP/h

For more information, visit washingtonpost.com

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Hiatus: First Week of March 2011

My Security Outfit March 3rd 2011

The Curtis Building: Was to be My Assignment

Well, Its been almost a week since I last posted. I had  a buzy week looking for part-time work. I went to orientation with this company called Securitas on Wednesday. It was all day and I got my suit and my assignment. I went to the the assignment at the Curtis Building at 6th and Chestnut on Friday and Saturday nights   On Friday I decided to resign from this job as an overnight security during each weekend. Even I realized that this was going to be too much and I returned my suit back to Securitas at the Navy Yard and I am now looking on Craig's list at this time.
On Thursday night I had a Zoning Board meeting. We spent over an hour debating whether Community Health Care on High Street would be granted a variance to build a large digital messaging sign.  More on that mess is on  a separate posting.
I got an iPhone and have been spending lots of time with that. Boy you can Facebook your face off for sure and kill 2 hours on the bus with no problem. Its a pretty cool phone for sure. I got all these contacts from an old email and I tried to go to the apple Store to get them off but no success as of yet. I might try to go today or tomorrow in downtown Philly to get this done.

 While I was at the Apple Store, I saw some urban youth running amuck and then the police came by.

We then spent time at a friends house for a yummy dinner. Boy that was needed for sure. Fred cooks the best meals that is for sure.

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