Really

Are you kidding me?  The highs and lows in the last 24 hours have been "fun!?!" Got a gig in Dallas. Yipee. Love working out of town. Enjoyed a few libations with friends last night before going home to finish packing. Wanted to be on the road out of LA by 5:30am and drive all day to El Paso.  Got up on time, took Ramona out the front door with her food, water bowl and bed and got her settled in the car.  Went back upstairs to grab my suitcase, coffee and the garbage.  Went down the back stairs to toss the garbage in the dumpster and found this man asleep on the stairs just inside the back door . NOT a resident but a street person complete with his bike.  When I'd returned from Yreka I saw that the back door was not locking and notified the manager.  Left a message on his cell and a written work order included in the envelope with my rent check.  Per usual nothing was done so this guy just made himself at home.  He was sprawled out so I couldn't step over him. I barely touched his out stretched hand with my foot and said, "you need to leave."  He awoke, snarled at me and wouldn't budge. I kept an even keeled demeanor and an unemotional tone in my voice and told him again "You need to leave. Your are trespassing."  It's also 5:30am on a Saturday morning and I don't want to scream and yell and wake my neighbors. Long story short, he won't move, I'm not giving ground either.  This is bullshit.  He shouldn't be in the building. After he says "Bitch call the cops, I don't care," I reach to get my cell phone. Suddenly he is up, grabs the phone from my hand and throws it against the wall.  It breaks.  He laughs and starts screaming " I won bitch, I won."  Then jumps on his bike, peddles down the main hall of the apartment building and out the front door. It was surreal. I pick up the pieces of the cell phone and pray it will work.  Nope. Nada. Zip. Zilch.  So I am leaving on a 12 hour drive for a new job without a cell phone.  I got over it around Palm Springs.  Figured I need to enter the 21st century and get a smart phone.  Was holding out for the Verizon iPhone as I am a mac baby BUT it looks like I'll be getting a Droid in Dallas. Other than that Mrs. Lincoln how was the play?

Pics of the trip will be posted tomorrow once I'm settled in Big D.  By the way if I say "ya'll" once someone needs to shoot me.