P.S. Flytrap, I live at one of those big, fancy-schmancy places with a name; it’s called Drumthwacket & the address is 354 Stockton St, Princeton, NJ 08540.
Please don’t break in while I’m away as I don’t have very good security.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 58 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 88 and sunny for the day. I am all stuffded up this mornin’ with a stoopid sinus headache. I have made the executive decision to message TPTB and call this a sick day. I just ain’t with it right now.
Happy Tuesday Y’all!
At 8 last night, I dragged myself to bed. I did try to watch a little TV because that usually knocks me right out, and I was dead to the world well before 9, not waking till the alarm went off at 5. I’d have slept a little longer if it wasn’t for work, but for the most part, I’m feeling almost human again, so there’s that.
Without the overcast, I was surprised how bright it was outside at 6AM and how high the sun was in the sky at 6:30. And we’ve still got almost a month till the solstice! This is a pretty good time of year for morning commuting, except that I’m driving partly in the glare-y direction. Anyway, here’s hoping for a good day.
Happy Tuesday!!!
so much blurf. the headache is back 
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled.
{{{{{Rose}}}}}
Been up for a bit and time to consider dinner. May just look through the freezer and see if anything inspires me.
Happy Toosday!
It’s bright, it’s sunny, and supposed to get up to 81 today.
Today is grocery shopping day, and straightening up the house day. I’m not going to irk so much this week like I have been. I’m falling too far behind in things around the house and that starts to get to me.
Spidey - mostly my weekends are like my weekdays. The only difference is I don’t have scheduled irk hours so I can sleep later and irk when I feel like it instead of on a schedule. I have the most boring life imaginable, but I like it that way. It also helps that one of my closest friends doesn’t irk and the other one irks weird hours, so they aren’t bound to a M-F schedule either.
What does bother me is that Sah-son lives this life style, because when I was his age I lived for my weekends and I was very active and social.
My goal for the summer is to get him out more and find something he likes to do.
Well, I’m up. (add Blurf as required)
Just to change things up, I went out to Break Fast this morning at the Sunny Street Cafe. Had Buttermilk Pancakes and Bacon and then did some grocery shopping, mostly because I was out of razor blades. Had a $100 bill I wanted to break so I bought this and that and ended up with a $100.67 bill…much of it for a 15-pack of Mach-3 blades.
So groceries stashed and frozen foods freezing. I got notification this weekend and Monday that my Government 401k (called the Thrift Savings Plan) has been purchased and I’ll start getting those (modest) checks in June, and OPM (Office of Personnel Management) has my records and will start sending me money in June…albeit it’s only 70% of what I should get and with only US taxes deducted, until someone (in, say, 3-4 months) actually reads the damn paperirk and decides what I am entitled to. It’s the Government, but it’ll meet the bills.
Nice surprise in waking before 0700 this morning, my brother IM’ed me on Facebook. We’re fairly close, but not very communicative, so I was surprised and pleased by it. Mentioned I am on the SD, so maybe he’ll even read this…nah.
So only thing left on today’s agenda is 300 pages of reading, and evening walk, and an afternoon nap.
Jealous yet? 
:p:D
Holy crap, **MetalMouse **- how expensive are razors blades?? What little shaving **FCD **does is with cheapie throw-aways, and we have so many in reserve, I haven’t bought any in years. Will I have a heart attack when I have to renew our supply?!?!?
Lunch break. Busy morning. Plus some good news - in certain conditions - like me needing time off for FCD’s surgicals, they’ll allow you to go into the hole for leave. I was talking to my boss about working on Moanday to make up for some of my lost time, but he told me about the alternative. So yay! I won’t miss pay, and it’ll just take a little longer to accumulate vacation time again. I can deal with that. And I get my long weekend, plus 2 more days to play nurse. That’s kinda, sorta almost like a vacation if you squint a little. 
Moooommm and MetalMouse There was very recently a theft of razor blades in the Keys. Made the newspaper and everything. The haul was $1600 worth of blades from two different drug stores.
At irk waiting on my 5 guys burger. Not much else going on here today.
Johnny Rocco, no doubt.
Howdy Y’all! I slept with Ben for a little while this mornin’ and feel a lot less sinusy so yay for that. I considered loggin’ in to irk but decided, nah. I got the leave time and I’m outta there in just over two months so might as well use the leave.
MOOOOOOM I use the cheap razors. They are still cheap, so never fear! Bein’ as I have a beard, I see no need to buy spendy razors.
OK, Ima surf teh intartoobz for a while. Dindin will be easy to make as 'twill be snausage, cabbage, carrots, and parsnips with fart fest to follow.
Laterz!
sari, sah-son may want to check out the Meet Up site for your town to get out of the house. There ar meet ups for just about any interest under the sun.
metal mouse, the price of razor blades has gotten ridiculous in the last couple of years. Some retailers have actually begun to put them in the locked cases.
Today has been steady. The drama diva who has been on loan to another department for the past six months will be back next week so the irkload will once again become scarce.
PT this afternoon and dinner with a friend at the local Polynesian place.
The absurd cost of blades was somewhere in my decision to just let it grow long. I’m somewhere between what’s called a “yeard” and “terminal growth.”
That 15-pack of Mach 3 blades was probably $40-50 at the grocery store.
Glad I don’t need to shave.
I used to do my legs once a year whether they needed it or not. I haven’t had to do under my arms in over 20 years.
Home from grocery shopping. The windows are open, the breeze is blowing in. I need to put the Moso bags on the porch for some sun. Sah-son is going to go out later to trim around the outside of the fence. Then he can spray some bleach on the weeds.
Thanks Red, we’ll check out the Meet Up site.
This will take a lot of explanation to a punchline that probably only my sister will find funny, but what da hell…
When we were kids, we would always slam (insult) each other, and most of the time she would get the better of me because she could think faster than me on her feet, but if I had the processing time, I could easily out do her.
One of her favorite lines was, “If I had a dog as ugly as you, I’d shave it’s ass and teach it to walk backwards.” Fast forward many years, and dearly departed Sadie The Perfect Dog had a growth on her butt that had to come off. Naturally, the vet had to shave back there to do the surgery, and the stitches were still fresh when I took a picture and sent it to dear sister, claiming it to be a formal portrait.
One of my favorite names for her is Wedgehead, and this is the setup.
I saw the liver doctor yesterday, and the big outcome was that it’s time for another biopsy. The caveat was they want to measure wedge pressure, which is the internal blood pressure in my liver. This will involve running a sensor on a catheter down my left jugular vein, through my heart, and into the liver.
My sister will be happier than hell to point out as they start running the sensor, I will be a for real wedgehead.
Blurf.
The cast came off yesterday, along with six weeks’ worth of dead skin. :eek: The orthopedist gave me a lace-up brace and a prescription for PT. My first appointment is Thursday afternoon. He wants to see me back at the end of August to see how I’m doing.
Right now, I’m sitting in a chair getting a pedicure to get rid of the dead crap and because I want my feet to look nice. It’s my anniversary, after all. I have been Mrs. Doors for 14 years. The sprog is making steak and potatoes for dinner and TV will happen after that.
Home at last. Whew.
Looks like I’ll only have to take 2 hours of advance leave, so yay! Unless my math is off… I’ll find out when I see this week’s pay stub.
This last week is going to be sheer hell for my sweetie. He can’t find a position that doesn’t hurt. And there’s nothing I can do to help…
Happy Anniversary Rockin’!
Maybe I overstated the cost of blades, but they were $36.99 for a pack of 15, so yeah, expensive. I usually use 1 per week on average so I have nearlyu a 4-month’s supply now, so about $9/month to be a clean-shaven man.
Just completed my nap and am still a bit foggy. Hot outside (about 81F) but inside is comfie.
Wait a sec, 81° isn’t hot! It’s loverly - in fact, that’s what we’ve got right now! The house is open and the sun is shining! LOVERLY, I tells ya!!