My interweb isn’t working. It apparently waited for me to
rent a movie on Amazon and then turned itself off. Oddly enough, the data on my
phone won’t connect either. I can turn on the hotspot thing, and my computer
will connect to the internet from that, but my phone won’t actually connect to
anything. WWF, IMDB, chrome etc, nothing on my phone will go online, but I can
use my phone to make my computer connect… Mysterious. Since I can’t connect to
the “my Verizon” deal on my phone though, I can’t see if there’s enough extra
data right now to be burning through it just so I can watch a movie at
midnight.
I feel a little bit like total shit and should be in bed
anyway. I went to work for Carla today, but after 2 hours of weedeating at their
farm in 90° heat, Tammi picked me up and brought me to a jobsite to help put
down a sidewalk in front of the house they are fixing up. By the time Salvatore
and I put the sidewalk down, the temp was up to 95°, with whatever amount of
humidity equals “my crotch is so sweaty it looks like I pissed myself,” and
Tammi asked me to do some digging in front of the house to lower a few spots
down and fill in a few holes while they went inside to work on the steps in the
air conditioned house. That doesn’t, and didn’t, sound like an unreasonable
request so I went at it
The thing is, digging in Virginia is a pain in the ass. The
“dirt” is actually this unforgiving red stuff that is equal parts compacted
clay, rocks that range in size from golf ball to buffalo skull, and hate. There
is a very good movie called Blue Ruin that
is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains not too far from here that made me laugh
because this small, non-physical type-of-guy was able to quickly dig a grave in
the mountains in this same malicious red stuff in no time flat. There was even
a big pile of red ugliness next to the grave. Hand digging a grave around here
would be quite the endeavor, you could almost see the shadow of the rented
excavator on the edge of the shot of him next to the hole he had supposedly
dug. Total bullshit scene. Still a great movie though.
I held out for about
2 hours before I started to get pukey and confused from the heat. I kept
finding myself forgetting what I was supposed to be doing. My heart was beating
really fast and I felt like I was about to collapse. I finally had to just go
inside and tell her that I couldn’t do anything else outside. I was having to
rest about half of the time, and I didn’t want to be getting paid to work half
of the time and spend the other half leaning against the house in the only 3
feel of shade on the property. I’m just not used to that shit. I just got over
being sick, and regardless of how much water I was guzzling (about 6 quarts in
2 hours) I felt dehydrated and weak. After about 15 minutes inside, I was good
to go, but I stayed in the house and worked on things in there. I know she
would’ve rather had me doing the stuff outside, but she was cool about it. It
was understandable, nobody needs to be out there in that if they don’t have to
be. I’m sure that if I spent more time doing it I would acclimate and it
wouldn’t effect me as badly, but I just couldn’t hack it anymore.
I still feel fried from the heat. My head hurts and I know
I’m exhausted, but I can’t seem to make myself sleep.
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