week in review

I have been home only two weeks and I am becoming a slacker as far as updating this thing. Shannon has been doing wonderful of course. One day I decided when getting on the bus to go for a walk and on a little adventure to go to another bus stop. We walked to where the bus stop is sourt of located, but there was just one problem I couldn't find the pole with the sign indicating the bus stop. Shannon had no idea I was looking for this certain pole, so i took out my cane and tried to find the thing with no luck. I stood there for a few minutes waiting to see if a bus came by and one did and drove right past me because I was not standing at the pole. If a person is not standing at the bus stop pole most drivers will not stop. In the city of Charlotte the bus stops are not consistent, some are in the middle of a block while others are near the corner. Some are on the traffic side of the street and others are on the building side of the street. There really is know way of knowing unless you frequent a particular bus stop from block to block where the bus stop poles are located. It was so frustrating because I ended up having to walk back to the familiar bus stop. There are several places I could take the bus in the city, but if I don't know where the bus stop is exactly located its pointless and I am very limited in where I can travel independently. To top it all off it had started raining at this point which just added to my frustrations. Traffic sounds so much different and allot closer in the rain. Shannon could have cared less that it was raining, but I was not thrilled about getting wet. I found out a few days later that the bus stop pole I was needing was on the building side of the sidewalk and not the street side of the sidewalk. I have talked to a few people and there is a proposal to the city to put some type of indication as to the exact location of the bus stops. Something needs to be done for sure. Another thing that was pretty frustrating was that my efferts to be more independent and do something I have never done before did not work out to well. I am going to work with Shannon on finding certain places I frequent allot and that stupid bus stop pole is one of them. One day last week me, Shannon and a good friend from work went for a walk. Shannon did wonderful and had quiet a few distractions that we encountered. We were walking down this side street right near to work which had sidewalks. There were allot of loud annoying barking dogs inside of fences and Shannon totally ignored every one of them. All and all it was a good week and now Shannon and Muffin are playing imagine that one. Hopefully the rain is gone for a while and the sunny warm weather that is back is back to stay for a while so we can get out and take nice walks. On another note its Sunday afternoon and there is no football on, don't exactly know what I am going to do with myself for the next four and a half months. I am a huge football fan if you have not figured that out all ready, I watch it when it comes on and pretty much until it goes off. NFL network will have to do for now I guess. If anyone knows where I can get team stuff for Shannon let me know. I will update again when I have a chance! Until next time...