A Coagulating MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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There is one word, FCM. And one gesture. :: points :: Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

I’ve been home for a while and have made a yogurt marinade, cut up some chicken boobies and they are now merrily marinating in the fridge. Am going to go out and do some pruning and weeding. I don’t think I’ll plant anything this afternoon because it poured earlier and is probably too wet.

Today is the first of a series of concerts on the lawn a few blocks away, so I’ll probably time my walk for then.

I’m sure there’s something else I should be doing, but who knows what…

nashi: key to sounding like their candidate is to make sure you’re speaking their lingo in your resume/application. If they ask for x years of y experience, make sure that it’s very clear how you’re meeting that. If there are multiple ways to express something, use any key vocabulary from their job posting, without sounding like you’re regurgitating their ad. That will at least get you past an initial screening in a lot of places.

Off I go.

Hugs.

GT

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Thanks for the tip; I’ve been using that strategy for writing cover letters by throwing in some of the information that 1) they mention in the ad and 2) is field-specific stuff that is related to the advertised position. A little bit of “here’s what I can do and here’s what I want to learn” goes a long way as an early career librarian.

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A better caption for that poster would be:

DENIAL
Not just a river in Egypt

:smack::smack::smack::smack::smack:

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If it’s from The Onion, okay - it’s funny. Check out the comment near the bottom that talks about the technology the theater used, and the supplier the couple intends to sue. And why didn’t her girlfriends have black babies too? :eek: :wink:

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I am now afraid to watch 3D pR0n. Not that I would ever do such a thing.

Tacos turned out especially good. Maybe I really wanted tacos too. I stopped by the sto’ and got a small beef brisket which is coolin’ down now after bein’ made into corned beef. I have also cook and smashed some N.O.T. which I shall make into N.O.T. patties as a part of tomorrow’s dindin. I bought a large head of cabbage also. Half of it will be steamed tomorrow for corned been ‘n cabbage. The other half will get turned into coleslaw for Thursday’s dindin which shall be reuben sammiches and slaw. Two meals out of one brisket. I feel like a star of one of them teevee cookin’ shows! :smiley:

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I believe we need to start a campaign: swampy for TV chef! Of course, OYKW could just videotape the cooking process and post the results on YouTube. :smiley: I’ll bet we could get you lots of views!

Went to the concert - it was fun! Lots of dance-inspiring music, so kids were all over the place dancing. There were more adults than usual dancing, too. I’m not sure how people can sit in their lawn chairs and not dance.

I was going to go for more of a walk, but…didn’t.

I’ve cooked up my chicken. It was yummy. Just slightly spicy. I made tzatziki, too and had it in pita with lettuce. I’m having a Greek-inspired salad for lunch tomorrow. No olives or feta in the house, but good tomatoes and chicken and a few other veggies. I’m already looking forward to it. (I’m on a major salad kick.)

Gonna knit for a while, then it’s off to sleepy-bye.

Hugs.

GT

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Well, I managed to figure out what I was doing so I didn’t waste the whole day.

Let me back up.

I stayed home so I could work on my portfolio site (also it was cold and I wanted more sleep). I installed the theme I wanted for my new Wordpress portfolio. There were a couple of things I had to do to bring it up to the current version. That wasn’t bad. But I couldn’t get the portfolio pieces to actually show. Finally figured out the exact hoops I needed to jump through.

So, I still need to customize the colors and make thumbnails, but I have a portfolio with my logo and three pieces up. Which is not very good, but it takes longer than if I was doing it in HTML.

(not sharing the link yet).

In other news, I’ve had a headache all day basically.

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Thought of this just outside the edit time:

Oh, since there are creative people here, after I get the portfolio going, I’m making a blog on my personal site and need help coming up with a name. The site is called Curiously Lydean. Some quick brainstorming has come up with

  • Doodles
  • As You Already Know
  • Mystery Box (which sounds vaguely dirty…)
  • Furoshiki (because like a furoshiki it’d be used to wrap up my day. It’s reinforces the idea everyone has that I’m an otaku / weeaboo though, which is not something I need to encourage)
  • Curious Doings

Any other, better ideas?

(and apparently when I’m tired with a headache I forget how to use a Dvorak keyboard.)

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ YAWN 'Tis 71 Amurrkin out with yet another hunnert degree day in store. Glad I irk inside.

ShinyCat for some reason Curious Doings strikes me as good. Then again, I like the word doings for what that’s worth.

gt I could just imagine OYKW videoin’ me and attemptin’ to load it up to youtube. The man just about refuses to use a computer outside of irk related stuff. That’s ok though cause there’s other stuff he’s real good at. :wink:

Ok, now I go in search of more caffiene and food for rumbly tummy. Then, alas, irk purtification must commence. Le Sigh.

Happy Hump Day Y’all!

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Blurf.

VWife and I went to Fred’burg, VA, last night to buy a used minifridge. We had a full sized one we brought with us when we moved, but it was too durned big for the house. Being good NC rednecks, it previously lived in the garage. Besides, it was never full; used to hold the overflow from the kitchen fridge.

So, we got a 4 foot tall mini with a freezer; just enough to hold an extra gallon of moo juice or two, and a few other extras. It’s also much better suited to life in the new place, so I guess that now makes us sophistificated rednecks.

Back to irk. And sweating.

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Morning Mumpers. It’s Day 2 of vacation. Day 1 was hanging at the pool, having 3 martinis with sushi(that was the liver rumble, Ruble) and got a cage for Miss Nelly. Today is laundry and Convention meeting.

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We were on vacation last week and deep into some canyons where we were working some cattle. It was the FIL’s 70th so a bunch of friends had come out to watch since we brand the old fashioned way. The foreman’s wife had taken my daughter and about a dozen guests about a half mile down to see some really old pictographs. One gentleman walked in front, them my daughter, then the rest. Suddenly they heard the unmistakable sound of a rattle. He told my girl to stop and looking down saw a Prairie Rattler about 5 inches from her foot. Fortunately it was not curled and it’s head was away from her foot. Also, she did have her cowboy boots on. Once it had crawled off under the rock in the picture he had her continue on.

When I heard this I 'bout died. I’d been busy w/ calves and didn’t even know she’d left. It would have taken a couple of hours to get to a hospital so that could have been a really bad morning. What’s weird, she really wasn’t even fazed by it, hadn’t even told me about it. I asked if what the man said was true, that the snake was about 5 inches away. She held up her thumb and index finger spread apart and said yeah, about 5 inches. I love snakes but that was a little too close a call.

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lieu :eek:

Howdy Y’all! Sneakin’ in a quick lunch time post. I just had two tacos. Pity my co-irkers. :smiley:

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I was feeling more positive yesterday after talking to the realtor then the appraiser just came through and was a real asshole. Oh well.

mr ems got home yesterday. Yay!

Still hating the new job. Boooooo!

It is Wednesday which means Happy Hump Day!

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Holy crap lieu!

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I’m at the pool enjoying a barley pop.

lieu :eek:

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Lieu, I’ll see your rattler, and raise an alleygater.

Waaaaaaay back in the Summer of '93, my bioFIL died in Baton Rouge. VWife was the only child that would have anything to do with him, so she assumed the duties of executrix for someone that was intestate and worth $$$$$.

Thirty days after he died, we went back to Louisiana and Missisippi to settle his affairs, and took 5 yo VunderKind along to make the event into as much of a vacation as we could. Before we ever got all the way there, we spotted signs for Klibert’s Alligator Farm, and naturally, VKind wanted the tour.

We were about halfway through the tour when the guide said, “This is our breeding pond…” there was a chain link fence about 15 feet from the edge of the pond, and a huge mound in between that was a nest. VunderKind runs right up to the fence, grabs it tight, and sticks his nose through in the classic pose you’ve seen every little kid do.

A few seconds pass, then there is a huge bang as a 13’ gator made a standing broadjump from where she was in the water, and hit the fence right at VunderKind’s navel with her nose. If he jumped an inch, he went 3 feet straight up, and was running when he hit the ground to hide behind his mother who was 20 feet or so from the fence.

VWife was white, VKid was shaking, and I was laughing. Then the tour guide said, “If that mama wanted him, she would have had him…” VWife got even whiter after that gem.

So, what does VunderKind do when he gets back to his daycare upon our return? “Hey everyone, guess what? I almost got eaten by an alligator!!!”

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About the closest I’ve ever been to a snake that wasn’t on the other side of glass at the zoo was when the UPS guy told us we had a baby something poisonous just off the front sidewalk and offered to kill it.

Gladly!

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Here! It’s hot!

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Home and about to head to the dentist in a few. It’s way too hot here - ugh.

Since I have this dental thing to do, we’re going out to dinner after. And we’ve got to run to WalMart, where, among other things, I intend to get some balloons. If Al is making me play boss, I’m going to fill his office with balloons! :smiley: I’ll be nice, tho, and not fill the balloons with glitter, so when he pops them to throw them out…

:smiley:

36 work days to go.