{"id":4754,"date":"2022-04-21T03:40:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T03:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/?p=4754"},"modified":"2022-04-21T03:58:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T03:58:58","slug":"relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;Ha ha!\u00a0 Joke&#8217;s over.\u00a0 Just give me my wallet back and you can keep all of the cash in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0At 6 am this morning, I asked the Dragon Lady if she had my wallet.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t find it.\u00a0 I knew where I had it last.\u00a0 I had been looking.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t care about the cash.\u00a0 What I did care about was NOT having to cancel\/renew a debit &amp; credit card not to mention a school fuel card &amp; credit card as well as a lifetime hunting license, social security card and voter&#8217;s ID card.\u00a0 Oohh!\u00a0 \u00a0I shuddered at the thought of trying to gather all of that stuff up.\u00a0 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away&#8230;&#8230;.I lost my ID and had to re-prove my existence in order to get it all back.\u00a0 In all honesty, I was prepared to just admit that I was an illegal immigrant and that I would register as a democrat if they just didn&#8217;t make me go through all of that crap again.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Most of all, I didn&#8217;t want to have to jump through all of the hoops in order to get a new copy of my driver&#8217;s license, which is made worse because I have a CDL.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 At 10 AM, I had to be at High Plains Technology Center (the Dragon&#8217;s place of employment).\u00a0 I got there, walked in and said, \u00a0&#8220;Ha ha!\u00a0 Joke&#8217;s over.\u00a0 Just give me my wallet back and you can keep all of the cash in it.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0She looked at me and said, &#8220;You seriously don&#8217;t have it?&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No.\u00a0 And it is a sizable amount of cash.\u00a0 Just give the rest back to me.&#8221;\u00a0 I was joking.\u00a0 Not about the cash but I didn&#8217;t think that she took it.\u00a0 I really thought that it fell off of my dresser and her queer little dog had snatched it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0It was a HUGE relief when the wallet was found.\u00a0 And it was found in the washing machine (I looked twice).\u00a0 Guess who found it?\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0 The Dragon Lady.\u00a0 Hunh?!?!?\u00a0 Suspicious?!\u00a0 \u00a0No.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I held true to my word.\u00a0 Keep the cash and give me the rest of it.\u00a0 She said, &#8220;I am scared of keeping the cash?&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0 What?\u00a0 Why?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;You have $666 in there.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t like that number.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OOOHHHHH SNAPPP!\u00a0 I told her to not take it all.\u00a0 &#8220;Take $665 but whatever you do break that number up.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She replied, &#8220;I don&#8217;t need any of it but I did buy $200 worth of plants today.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Me&#8212;&#8220;Take it. Take It.\u00a0 Just please break that number up.&#8221;\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want no bad ju-ju around here.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And as the evening wraps ups, I decided to break the seal on a gift.\u00a0 I hadn&#8217;t had it before but I knew it would be good because John Q Kelln AND Tom Kester have both told me it would be good.\u00a0 I trust them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I popped the seal, poured a little bit over a couple of rocks of ice, took a sip and then proclaimed, &#8220;That&#8217;s really good.\u00a0 Smooth.\u00a0 I like it.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0The Dragon Lady then said, &#8220;Perfect!\u00a0 That fixes all of this.\u00a0 We were worried about that bad # and now you are ending this evening with Angel&#8217;s Envy.\u00a0 It got better.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Thanks to those that brought me a bottle of Angel&#8217;s Envy bourbon.\u00a0 The timing was perfect to break it out (It has been here for more than a month).\u00a0 To those that delivered such a prize&#8230;..I raise a glass, &#8220;Cheers to the success so far and for those awards yet to be realized.\u00a0 Trust me, one never knows the timeliness of how life works out.\u00a0 Thank you.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 For all of you poor souls that read this drivel.\u00a0 Take a moment and think about how EFFED up your life is without any cards, ID, etc.\u00a0 My phone also didn&#8217;t work for several hours this morning.\u00a0 As a whole, we are too dependent on these items.\u00a0 I am guilty.\u00a0 You are too.\u00a0 Get your minds right.\u00a0 Otherwise, you will end up buying a high dollar goat without a plan.\u00a0 It&#8217;s OK if you have a plan.\u00a0 But a sin without a plan.\u00a0 Have a good one.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;Ha ha!\u00a0 Joke&#8217;s over.\u00a0 Just give me my wallet back and you can keep all of the cash in it.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0At 6 am this morning, I asked the Dragon Lady if she had my wallet.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t find it.\u00a0 I knew where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4757,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754\/revisions\/4757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}