Chatted with my neighbors over the fence yesterday and today.  Very pleasant couple.  Friendly, sharp, great story tellers. 

Helped the mister unhook a chunk of fence.  This guy is closing in on 80, about a foot shorter than me, stooped and, since he goes shirtless, I can see that he has had surgery on both shoulders.  He is also stronger than me!!  We were both holding onto plumbing wrenches, pulling in opposite directions and he was winning!!  If the joint hadn't finally given way (our goal) I would have been humiliated!!

He was a cowboy for a while.  A real one.  Rode the fence line of a ranch aback a brown mare.  I have got to get to know this fellow more. 

Got some of the greatest news last night.  Local school superintendent is OUT!!!!  Sure, we'll have to pay him off to the tune of $400,000.  But it is worth it to keep our children safe from his Dickensian ideas.  Did I spell that right?  He seriously just wanted to crank out a low skilled, zombie work force.  Only 3 or 4 of our high schools are geared towards college.  Recess was taken out of a few elementary schools and replaced with "organized physical guidance."  Some schools ate lunch in their class rooms.  Music and art?  Forget about it.

His down fall was an alternative school and a plan that did not allow for parent input or due process.  Mostly, it was just heavy handed disrespect towards the students and their families.  Lot of law suits.  One of them mine.  I really don't think the school system won a single one.  The judge didn't like the superintendent.  She said so when the paper called for his resignation.  I like that judge.  Always have.  Now even more.

Anyway, off to a game tonight.  Haven't been in quite a while.  Busy, busy.  I hope we do well.  Really in the mood to cheer tonight.

Anything else?  Paper work in.  Didn't stick around for the interview.  They are interviewing for utility assistance this week.  Pretty sure I wouldn't qualify for that.  Just dropped off the stuff and ran.  Had to wait for them to make copies of some of it.  Almost didn't get my citizenship papers back.  Someone had to ask someone if it was a legal document.  Duh!  See the little eagle thingy in the corner.  That was placed there by some sort of US official.  It's a frickin' federal document!  They have a copy of it already.

Oh, here's another "system error."  When electronic filing of income tax first started, the IRS had a free program only for invitees.  I was one of the lucky ones.  To electronically sign, one had to put in their birthday.  Simple, no?  I did just that and it told me I was wrong.  Input again.  Wrong again.  Called SS office.  Can't tell me anything by phone.  Went in.  Was asked my birthday.  Told them it was in February.  Nope.  Wrong.  Gee, you'd think I'd know.  Apparently, on a form somewhere, the 2 was changed to a 7.  My birthday is in July.  I asked that it be changed back.  Can't without paperwork.  How was it changed in the first place.  Error.  Well, error it back.  Can't.  I'd have to bring in my birth certificate.

Made an appointment and showed up with my BC.  Won't take it.  Not an American document.  No shit.  Do you see where I was born?

Made an appointment and brought in my Citizenship certificate.  Nope.  Wasn't issued on my birthday.  Of course it wasn't.  Neither, for that matter was the BC.  But my birthday is clearly written on it.  Typed on it actually.   Won't do.  I'd have to bring in both.

Haven't done that in the last 12 years.  Suppose I should one of these days.  Instead, when I electronically sign my tax returns, I state that I was born in July.