Well, Spring almost started.

I had a rough start to the beginning of the month, the 2nd was my daughter Margaret's 18th birthday. I was hoping to take her out to the Space Needle for dinner only problem was that she had to get dressed up. She doesn't like to do that, so instead of a night out I just got her a nice cell phone. When I gave her her birthday present, it was the first time I've seen her in 2 months. She stayed just long enough to get her phone and get it activated. She was supposed to come over this weekend with her brother for a visit, didn't happen. When I arrived to pick up her brother, I was hoping she'd come out and say HI, but she had already left with some friends. I guess now that she's 18 she no longer feels that she has to visit her dad. To bad child support isn't based on how often you get to see your kids, I bet their mom would make sure that I would get the time the court says I'm supposed to get!

My stepson, Jasper, is adding frosting to the drama cake. He's taking collage classes that he and his dad are splitting the cost of. Well, grades are out, his dad wants to see them, he won't show them, he won't even show us. The last time he pulled this stunt was high school when he failed several classes. We have him signed up for basic health insurance, we are paying that based on his income,17.00 a month premium and he makes a 15.00 co payment per visit and 15.00 for meds. To keep that coverage we need proof of his income, which he has yet to give us. His insurance is about to be cancelled. I have lived without health insurance,it sucks.

Things are rough at work, the business is being investigated by Liquor Control because it was reported that an under aged employee has been buying herself beer and drinking it on the property. She was written up and was supposed to be suspended for a week, the suspension never happened. This really bothers me, in December, I didn't make sure the gate was locked and although there was no proof that someone went back there on my shift and broke into one of the tow trucks, I got 3 days off. A coworker "copped" an attitude with the boss and was suspended, he later quit. These suspensions took effect immediately, hers has yet to happen, I don't think it will. The boss feels betrayed and is upset because a former employee ratted him out. I am on the fence on this, I have been there 14 years and don't always agree with the way he treats his employees, but I need this job. There is a lot of favoritism there and I feel morale is low because of it. Oh well enough bitching about that.

We had a couple of nice days last week, Saturday and Sunday. It was great, only problem was on Saturday I couldn't get any sleep due to all the motorcycles riding by. We live next to a biker tavern. Andrew got a kick watching all the motorcycles go by. I gave up on sleeping and just sat up with him and watched the show. I was too nice to stay in anyway.

Sunday, I went down to Famous Dave's, picked up a couple slabs of ribs and a chicken,came home, ordered Wrestlemania on pay-per-view and vegged. Great show!!

Easter weekend, my son, Nicholas came over and on Saturday we BBQ'ed some steaks, tasty meal!!!! Stayed up late watching Idle Hands on FEAR.NET. I love this movie!!!!

Easter Sunday we slept in, had Andrew hunt some eggs in the house as it was raining outside. I will be making a nice ham dinner this evening before I have to run Nicholas home.
A few weeks ago I decided to invest in some equipment to make busking easier.

I bought a Crate Taxi battery powered rechargeable speaker and a Sennheiser battery powered wireless headset transmitter and receiver. I am looking forward to trying this out. I think I will head out to the Seattle city center on the first warm dry weekend this summer and see how it goes.