Here we are, 32 days later since this whole odyssey began...

and I have egg on my face.

While it is true that this company from another city that's contracting the job does work for water companies, they also do other work as well.

Yesterday I reported that (again) little was being done, which has been the norm.

As I was leaving for work, I saw a man standing there with a tube in the ground. The hose was connected to the pole, with the hose going down into the hole. I couldn't see anything down there walking by, but I was hearing a hissing sound.

I thought - "I'll definitely look into this when I get home from work tonight."

Surprise, surprise! When I got home, the hole was filled in and smoothed over, with just a big yellow pole sticking out of the ground.

So today, with no one around, I went out and looked at the pole. Imagine the shock - it said it was a gas line!

Now I know that all of my frustration was for nothing.

You see, the building where I live is total electric. The whole ordeal, aside from a big unsightly hole in the front yard, had nothing to do with me.

My late father's words come back to haunt me. Just as I'm getting ready to say: " I thought...", my dad would say:

"That's what you get for thinking."

Or should I now just say...

Never mind?

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Today the workers showed up, took the cover off the big hole, one climbed into the hole (for a minute), then they put a garden hose on the ground, put up more orange cones and (you guessed it) left.

REALLY stretching the work.

This divide in my country is getting worse, not better.

All of this hate is breaking my heart.

This is the kind of division that started our civil war almost 160 years ago.

We are one country, not two.

United we stand, divided we fall.

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

- Abraham Lincoln

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I dreamed I was somehow back in time and had captured Hitler.

Of course, after I turned him over to my superiors, he escaped.

Damn, I thought I'd saved thousands of lives.

"My dog he got three legs, your dog he got none."

... but not holding my breath for that day when no one has anything to complain or brag about.

Me included.

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A big THANK YOU to all of you veterans out there for your service & your sacrifice.

Have a happy Veterans Day.

The response time today has been slow.

So slow that I forgot what I was going to write about.

Don't you just hate when that happens?