Best of luck, Herbs!
rigs, you look like Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally in your graduation picture.
I am up very early today because we’re actually kind of busy.
BTW, where are Noonie and Beebs both???
morning all, up and caffeinating this morning - thankfully! 
more later on… and hi, CutiePie!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ here too. Caffiene needs to kick in soon.
It’s cloudy and hyoooooooomid out! Looks like it could be a rainy day which is fine by me cause I’ll be stuck inside a buildin’ all day. Or, I may bring work home this afternoon to get started on since tomorrow is work from da cave day.
Taters the chicken boobs were nice and moist. Not as moist as the thighs, of course, but they weren’t all dried out like baked boobs can be if one is not careful. Death chicken has enough moisture in it to keep ‘em from drying out. Speakin’ of which, dindin tonight will be leftovers with sallit and probably broccoli since I have some that needs to be used.
Ok, time for more caffiene. Also need brekkies and work purtification.
Later Y’all!
I stink, the weather stinks, and my work stinks. Hohum.
:D:D That’s just about how I feel at the end of the work day
Blurf.
Usual weekday morning shtuff: went to the Y for a sweatfest, foraged, and I’ve had my second cup of wake-the-hell-up-already. Another boring day on the island of Pago Pago.
Carry on.
It’s about how much I love alphabetizing. Most Boring Job Evar. Even worse than trying to find books to return to the publisher. At least that involves guesswork. “Hm. I wonder where I would have stuck this book if I were stupid and/or a customer?”.
Hiya, Meeks!
It’s morning. Someone make it stop.
Morning all. I think I’ll clean today.
Howdy all. Another day of work over - tired, grumpy and fed up with Ramadan, and it’s only the 9th. Sigh … another 21 days to go. Blurf!
Hubby worked until 4am this morning, then went back to work from 8-12 today, came home and went to bed, leaving his keys in the door (inside), so when I came home at 3:30pm (tired, thirsty, hungry and gagging for a smoke), I couldn’t open the door. Salvation just inches away and no way to get in!!! Hubby is renowned (sp?) for sleeping the sleep of the dead, so I spent 10 whole minutes ringing his mobile, ringing the doorbell and trying to throw rocks at our 1st (Americans, read 2nd) floor bedroom window! He finally woke up, came down, opened the door, grunted at me and went back to bed. Hi honey - nice to see you too! Lock me out of the house again during Ramadan and I will personally slit your throat! 
I is sleepy today.
Have a short story to tell you. Our Operations manager is notoriously slow at getting old equipment removed from our office, and twice now we have had to resort to some drastic measures to get him to take it. He is very good in everything else, and has a great sense of humor. Anyway…
The first time, it was the old postage meter. Weeks went by, and he wouldn’t get it removed. Then two months.
Finally, my boss took a picture of it, and made a Powerpoint animation of throwing it off the building, and e-mailed it to him. Lo and behold, it was gone within the week.
Now it’s the old copier. It’s been here since June, with him saying “Ok, next week, next week.” Finally, about two weeks ago, we took the whole thing and wheeled it out into the parking lot and took pictures of it right in front of the company sign, and opened up all of the doors/drawers and took more pictures and e-mailed the whole thing to him.
It was gone this morning.
Went to the library yesterday. That’s the second time I meant to get just 1 or 2 books and came back with six. One of them was The Color Purple, which is one of my favorite all-time books ever, and another was To Kill a Mockingbird. I haven’t read that one since I was fifteen. I am only up to “Part 2” (not Chapter 2, I’d guess about a third of the way through the book) and I am impressed at how different and how much more mature that is now that I am an adult. I am picking up on so many different things I never noticed when I was a kid. I notice Atticus way more, for one thing. Used to be I was primarily interested in the kids.
Good morning!
I’m all caffeinated and just about to start painting the hallway. We have a color called Dusty Trail - a light tan. It will look so much better than Rancid French Vanilla. 
I’m pretty pumped right now, but I will let you know how I feel by this afternoon.
Tonight is The Eagles concert!!! I’m very excited! I haven’t been to a concert in a long time. Too bad I can’t partake of the green stuff anymore… 
Ok - off to start scoring a Feud, and then painting!
Have a great day!
Morning.
I’m up, I’m caffeinated, and I’m now trying to figure out exactly what report I’m supposed to be running. His email just says “I’ll be away today. Please run the Delete Report.” Problem is, I’ve never run this report before, nor have I seen a copy of this report… ever.
:smack:
I guess I’ll just surf the Dope for a while and wait for inspiration (read: another manager) to arrive.
meeks, maybe I should do that with our old copier. It’s been sitting in the kitchenette for a while now, and it’s placed in such a way that it’s like an obstacle course just to get to the water cooler or the microwave.
As a bonus, we have no parking lot, but we do have a ravine out back. Hmmmmmm.
Ah, these religious holidays; bringing families together for generations.
It is a cool, sunny day outside. See? My handling of the weather did the trick.
Ok, FULL DISCLOSURE NOTE: the recipe says you can use chicken breasts or thighs. I have always had better luck with thighs. IMO, the cook time is too long for the white meat and tends to dry it out. I supposed you could wrap the breasts in the bacon and try that (it’s called barding, IMS), but I never have.
I was all rushed this morning to get to my doctor’s appt and then I looked at the calendar again and it’s at 2:15 pm. [sub]oh[/sub]
Mika–love the stories! I’d love to do that with some of our stuff.
Sounds like an obvious solution to me!
What a great way to harass someone into removing old equipment! And yes, a ravine sounds about perfect. Either that or a slide show with stills from the ritual Office Space smashing of the printer interspersed with photos of the copier at the edge of the ravine. That might have some persuasive power.
Once again, I woke up this morning all sweaty from night sweats. Damn, I hate menopause sometimes. Here I thought my hormones had finally settled down, and I’m back into the soaking-through-a-clean-t-shirt-every-night routine. At least it’s only one t-shirt; at its worst, I was going through 3 or 4 every night. I guess I’ve gotten so used to it that I don’t even notice it during the night; you’d think being all damp and uncomfortable would be enough to wake me up, but nooo, I sleep right through it so I’m even damper when I wake up. Yuck, yuck, and yuck. Here’s hoping it’s just a phase and it’ll go away soon, it’s disgusting!
And speaking of disgusting, Nava, I highly recommend that you be the person behind the camera at your mandatory work [del]drunkfest[/del] party. I’d suggest saving the photos for blackmail purposes, but considering what they’ve apparently proudly showed you, it sounds like there’s not much chance of anyone involved having any shame. Too bad, it would be a great way to up your contract rate.
Back to work. Such as I have, which isn’t much. Yay!
Set to the Jaws theme.
Good morning! Quick drive by! I need to try yet another fix to access a system for data mining. I have my doubts, but I’ll try it.
Be back later!
YAY!!!
So, the fastest way to skim the MMP is the scroll wheel on the mouse. Of course, you can’t read a damn thing, but you can technically say you skimmed.
I been working my little tootsies off, but at least it’s honest work.
Most of it anyways.
I have a new commercial crush. Not worth starting a whole thread over, but that girl sitting with her friend the meatatarian in the Wendy’s commercial?
:: faint swoon ::
Larding. It’s called larding. (unless you can find a way to wrap the chicken in Shakespeare).
But wait! Wikipedia saves my sanity:
I am going to get up and do Stuff. Truly–like my laundry. I did fold the stuff from yesterday last night. Then it’s off to the library to get some new books. Any recommendations?
I’ve been thinking about having Nat accidentally pour a full bottle into each of the computers at work. It might be less than convincing as an accident, but at least we might get some computers that aren’t from '95. No joke.