I missed my shift.

I was woken up by a call from Pete. He was asking where I was. I told him in Seattle. He said I was supposed to be on call. I was mad at myself for messing up my on call schedule. But there was nothing I could do about it now. It was a little after noon when he called. It is weird, most days he never calls when I am on call. It would have gone unnoticed, except he called. He sounded pretty upset with me about that. I am a little worried that he will can me over this. I really hope he doesn't. I would be really upset by it.

I got up and made some breakfast. Then I got my clothes that I wear when I do ride alongs. I was getting ready to leave for Bellingham when Joe called. He said he is calling in sick again. I left anyway. I decided I would go get a wedding gift for Moe and Tara for their wedding tomorrow.

I drove to SouthCenter and went to Target, one of the places they were registered. I got them an iron they wanted. I also talked to Dave. We are going to hang out tonight. I decided to go look at some Dakota's and see if there are any I like. I went to the Dodge dealer in Renton. I did not see any that were a stick shift. So I drove to Bellevue Dodge. I looked at all those Dakota's. There were none there either. I talked to a salesman for a few hours between driving one of the automatic's, talking funding, and trade-in on my truck. We got it so my payments would go down a little bit and I would owe a little more, but I would have a brand new truck that did not have nearly fifty-thousand miles on it.

I did not get a truck. I called Jon and we are going to go over some stuff and look at trucks for a while and see if we can find one that would work and make a good deal on it. I am use to having a lot of head room in my truck. The Dakota does not have as much room. So I am not sure I am going to do it, but only time will tell.

I talked to Dave when I was done. We were going to meet up in a while. I drove out to four-corners and waited around for Dave to get ready. He was doing his laundry. We decided to meet at McDonald's off of Benson in Spring Glen. So I drove there. We went to a casino to play cards for a while. Dave was dropping a lot of money so we decided to go down to a bar he likes to go to in Kent. It is called Andy's. It is a dive, as Dave said. But the do Karaoke there. He planned on singing there.

When it was announced there would be no more Karaoke tonight Dave got mad about it, because the owner was doing it due to one person complaining. So we drove to Auburn to another place that does it. A girl Dave knows came along. Dave and her did a song together. We were there until closing time. Dave's friend was saying when the Samoans go to Andy's there is almost always a fight that breaks out. They were there when we were there. I am glad we left. Then Dave and I went back to the casino and played cards a little while longer. I ended up losing my money for the night. Dave also lost for the night.

We left around three am and went home.