Turtle Update

So the turtle and I are getting along fine. He’s up to three crickets a day and I suspect could easily devour more. I worry about feeding him too much though. I give him snacks of krill, blood worms, plankton etc. to pacify him in-between the crickets. Are you listening to this crap? Since when did turtles become ruthless carnivores? I’ve dropped in the pellets that supposedly can provide up to 60% of their diets but he won’t touch them. He just kicked the carrots right off of his turtle perch into the water. Live bait is highly suggested because of the health benefits. I just might do it.

Other than my daughter’s turtle eating frenzy’s, not much else is going on. Oh sure, work is keeping my very busy but no one wants to hear about that crap. Well, except that I will probably be off to Germany in a couple weeks. We’re probably going to buy a couple lasers from a company there and I’ll need to go sniff that out. I’m trying to push for an equipment buyoff in say around… October.

Still no more on the dating front but I have some inclination that at least one if not two women at work have some interest in me. I have some interest in them too except I’m pretty sure at least one of them is already spoken for and I’m still not too excited about the idea of getting involved with someone I work with. It’s never a good combination in my opinion.

I may take on a laminate flooring project over the next couple weeks. That will give me a justified excuse that my house is a mess but only until I finish. Then I’ll have to hunker down and get this place truly organized.

I hope all is well out there in your lives.

Jeff

A Bit More From Me

Hey all. I’m still around for the most part. I still don’t get to read up on your blogs much so it really adds a tinge of guilt when I see you folks still checking in on me and leaving comments to boot. Thanks though.

If you were worried that I was off and heavily involved in a new relationship with my recent date, no need. Nothing has happened since and I’ve decided to not call anymore. Here is what I suspect: she inadvertently dropped a few comments that made me a little suspicious that she was still into her ex. They were subtle mind you but with him having trouble with his new wife and her and me going from another date to unreturned calls, it just made me wonder.

And that ladies and gentlemen is something that this guy with a freight train of his own baggage does not want to get involved with. Egad.

Several good things have come out of this though. For one, I went through some racked nerves and even a butterfly or two in my stomach and came out unscathed. This may not seem like much to you but let me tell you; this is big. My dating experience prior to marriage was minimal and well for lack of a better description, rather juvenile. I was just a teenager then. Also, I realized that I really need to get this freaking divorce over with! Yeah, that’s kind of a big deal…

I’m really starting to miss my kids too. It took a little over 2 months but I’ve come to realize that I’m not much for the single life. I realize I was okay with the full time dad stuff. Sure lunches, cleaning, homework, driving, driving, driving, stress, silly rambling conversations about the logistics of volcanic eruptions in our backyard and getting them to bed on time were tough sometimes. But I really miss it. A weekend night or two is quickly proving not to be enough. But this arrangement is still working for the original reasons we did it. I guess.

Someone gave my daughter a turtle for her birthday. They wanted to get rid of it and she wanted one, everybody is happy right? Well, I was a little less than thrilled when I came to find out that this particular turtle is illegal to buy or sell in our state, prefers to eat live bait, needs a ginormous aquarium and can live up to 75 years. Go figure.

Jeff