hmmm that’s a new spin on things
I was brought up in the protestant church but now i’m agnostic
A Prognostic?
I’m so glad to know there are so many of us who really don’t have work to do at work. For a long time I thought I was the only one with so little work and so much time. I need to convince them to let me work from home so I can watch tv or clean or something when I don’t have actual work to do. (Yeah, because they’ll really go for THAT. Oh, well.)
I musta missed something last week. Why did you have to have surgery Wile E? Hope you’re feeling better now!
I’m a Cathlapse. 
Oh it’s not really that i have no work. I have two types of work. Type one means i need to be using my eyes and my brain a lot so i can’t really surf. Type two means i can take my attention off things and let them chunter away while i surf
Actually i accidentally did too much work today so it’s going to take ages on Monday to catch up with it. And i think i may have accidentally swapped onto a 7am shift for Monday. I’m not sure though. 7pm on Friday night with no way to contact anyone to confirm it is NOT a good time to be remembering this shift swap. :smack:
I like the word “chunter.” It sounds dirty, but isn’t, really. Although I’m sure any number of people here (myself included) could find a way to make it so …
I have feast days and famine days, as far as work is concerned. For a while, I was the Office Assistant, the Internet Department, and the Receptionist. Now I’m only the OA, the Internet, and Receptionist from 3-5:30 every day. The people who have held the first two jobs before me were either mentally deficient or really good at covering up that they had no work to do. Of course, we sell lots of giftable items, so December will be all about the work … but on a Friday afternoon, there’s not a whole lot going on.
Until people who got out of work early start placing orders at 4:30, of course. Jerks.
People who get out of work early are spawn of the devil. You just shouldn’t sell them anything at all!
I mean honestly, first they are all virtuous cos they dragged their asses out of bed at some unGordly hour (most likely when i was just going to bed) and then they are smug cos they get to leave earlier than the rest of us. Burn them i say! And no gifts neither!
um, zelie, I know you couldn’t possibly mean me, whose work hours are 6AM-2PM, which gets me home by 2:40…
At least two Husbands and a Quasi-Daughter are about to descend upon me and demand dessert. I think we might have some chocolate ice cream somewhere.
Afterwards we’re going out to a co-worker’s band’s cd release. It should be fun. I think they do sixties style indie rock or something. It’s not rap or country, so it should be bearable, even if most of us are into industrial and goth music. And maybe it’ll be danceable. Hmm. What do you wear to an indie rock concert? Flares and a tie-dyed t-shirt? Should I debut my cutout shirt? Hmm.
FCM of course i don’t mind you. What with the time difference i reckon we almost work the same shift 
Lissla the cutout shirt would look good at an indie rock concert. Maybe with some old comfy jeans (bootcutesque if you have em)
What…nobody’s up yet? C’mon MMPers, you’re wasting a perfectly good Saturday morning! (OK - so maybe not - maybe you’re actually out doing stuff, which is probably where I should be.)
I’m still deciding what to do today. I’ve read the newspaper and am figuring out what I really need to do. On the list so far:
On the ought to do list:
Laundry
General housecleaning
Mow lawn
Start some more plants
Get some pictures organized and ready to send to Mom
Finish off collection of stuff for White Elephant box (I’m debating which list this goes on)
Finish minutes for a group that I belong to and send them out (mostly e-mail, but there are a few that need to go out on paper) - I need envelopes for this…
On the want to do list:
Go look for a laptop
Do some general shopping
Watch movie(s)
Hang around reading
Take a nap
It’s a football Saturday (game is at 3:30), so I need to plan travel carefully as I don’t want to get caught in traffic (I have alternate routes for trips that normally take me through the traffic zone…). Maybe I’ll actually be good and start with something from the “gotta do” list.
GT
I’ve been up and on line for a couple of hours - my sweetie is still sleeping - but I had nothing to add to the MMP. Today will be a home-chore day. We were going to go sailing, but bad weather was forecast, so we canceled. I look out and it looks lovely! Oh well - next weekend.
I need to brush my teeth - is that TMI this early in the morning?? :eek:
Vunderwife has many medical issues besides, and related to, her weight. One of them is arthritis, and as a result of her bypass last week, she had to stop Celebrex cold turkey for a month. She can’t move without pain and extreme effort now, and she’s lucky to get downstairs to the living room. No 2 mile walks for her like I did…
Yesterday, she needed to get some labwork done, so we made an afternoon of it, because it was the first time out for her since coming home. After getting her siphoned, we detoured to the local Costco to get some stuff, and stopped at Wendy’s for a cup of chili.
As we were headed home, she started acting funny, and A LOT more grouchy than usual. Got her inside, and firmly ensconced in her big ol’ recliner. She was in so much pain that she was nauseous; it was centered under her left shoulder blade. Uh-oh. She’s had blood clots before, so we knew the basic signs, and this sure acted like one in her lung. The odd part was that it was also her last day of lovenox injections, and her coumadin should have been up to therapeutic levels anyway.
To humor her, I called the surgeon’s service so I could talk to him, but I had my pockets already loaded to leave when I did. He said that with the two drugs in her system, clots were unlikely but stranger things have happened, and he asked why we were still at home. Off to the ER we went. Being Friday evening, it was a full house. She went to the head of the line so she could have an EKG immediately. Then we had to wait. And wait. It was close to an hour after showing up before she got a room.
A chest x-ray was clear, and a VQ lung scan was inconclusive. Her blood chemistry was OK, with an INR (measure of clotting ability) of 1.8, which is within normal range. Something was happening, but it wasn’t a clot, and she was pretty whacked out on dilaudid to get some relief.
I told her jokingly as we left that she better have a good lawyer, because making me miss Stargate SG-1 and Battlestar Galactica (HER favorite shows, BTW) was grounds for divorce. I’m also ticked off, because while waiting for the lung scan, I found a couple of magazines with recipes I wanted to adapt and try; they got left on the bottom of her gurney when she was discharged. :wally 
Ultimately, we still don’t know what it was. The working diagnosis was pleuritic pain, which is logical because she’s had lupus-related pleurisy before, but not this bad. We got home a little before 2AM, so I’ve just now pried my ass out of bed.
I just knew someone had to be out there!
FCM? Nothing to contribute? Not possible. Your mere presence is a contribution in itself. I’m sure I could think of much cleverer (is that a word?) things to say, if only I were awake.
Teeth…thanks for the reminder. I knew I hadn’t done something yet. ::wanders off to brush::
VunderBob - sorry to hear about the trip to the ER. Hope VunderWife’s feeling better today.
It amazes me that ER stories are the same everywhere. There seem to be few-to-none that are able to treat patients without an extended waiting period. (I know there are lots of people who use the ER for non-emergency stuff, but there has to be a way to make sure the people with actual emergencies don’t have to wait so incredibly long…)
Off to get stuff done…
GT
Now Vunderbob you KNOW you need to go out and get her some Stargate SG-1 and Battlestar Galactica DVDs to make up for having missed them last night Hope she’s feeling better now though.
I got up early cos i was expecting my exercise bike to be delivered between 7am and 1pm. They didn’t come til 9am but that was a good time to come. Annoyingly they wouldn’t take it up the stairs so i had to do it all by myself. 29kg!!! And i had to go up two flights of stairs to get to my flat. That’s a lot of lifting for a little fat person who needs to exercise more!!! I’m just glad that my new neighbour moved her coffin out of the way or i would have been fuming - i couldn’t have got the bike past.
Anyhoo - here i am sitting on the living room floor putting it together. I’m ok with flatpacks but i don’t do electronics. Unfortunately this has a bit of both so i’m slightly nervous. I couldn’t work out the first instruction so i skipped on and did an easy one from later. Now i’ve got to go back to the start. Wish me luck!
Maybe it’s part of the exercise bike company’s plan to make sure you now get lots and lots of exercise?
But this is the part that really intrigues me. You mentioned it earlier in the week and I forgot to ask: coffin??? Explain. (Or is there some other non-U.S. meaning of coffin that I’m not aware of?)
GT
LOL
She just moved in and put a HUGE fridge-freezer right at the top of the stairs. There was only a few inches to get by. I was rather anxious that it would just be abandoned there and that she would turn out to be an awful neighbour. At this point Fellahbilongzelie pointed out that if i was going to get involved in a neighbourly war then i should remember that fridge-freezers can double as coffins if required. Hardly any smell leaks out
But as it turned out she seems lovely and dumped the coffin on the street yesterday so it’s all good. And her baby is beeeeyooooootiful.
I used to respect you, Bobbio.
No, just kidding. I just don’t get the point of sci-fi.
Open question to anyone: Why do I wait 2 weeks (literally) to shave, and then complain about how hard it is to shave when I finally decide to do so?
No one?
chaoticdonkey, sci-fi (meh) is what science fiction (good!) turns into when Hollywood (bad) starts screwing around with it.
I, myself, have just arisen from my repose. This is partly because I was out late last night playing in my game group’s 30th Annual Kingmaker Game™, but also because I am starting two weeks of vacation, so have to get into the mood by lazing around a bit.
Bobbio, I hope your wife is doing okay. It’s bad enough that you had to spend Friday night in the ER–even worse that there’s no really definite diagnosis. To make up for it, you should do something really fun next Friday.
donkey, maybe you should try a weed whacker next time you wait two weeks to shave. That’ll cut right through those tough whiskers!
zelie, did you get your exercise bike put together? I used to have one, but I used it mostly to hang clothes on, so I gave up and sold it at a yard sale. I’d rather walk, anyway.
Well i have done the first instruction (1. Assemble the front (33) and rear (25) stabilizers to the base post with 4 bolts (24), 4 nuts (28) and wave washers (30)) I had to take a minute to work out which were wave washers (i figured the wibbly ones) and the difference between a bolt and a screw but it seems to have worked.
On to instruction two!