Happy Toosday!
It is 22 degrees above freezing and looks dreary outside.
Today is also pizza day and laundry day.
I just grabbed some breakfast and now waiting for everybody else in the house to get up, get showered and get out.
If I were like other people in this house I’d start my laundry before everybody got showered but I’m too nice.
It really does mean a lot, and I managed not to slip into a funk. Just a small wibbling meltdown and then a brief pity party. Then Sticky and I chatted. And then I went for a walk and discovered that my apartment complex actually looks very nice during the blue hour, especially as it has a lot of well grown and maintained trees. I ended up sitting at the poolside, enjoying the way the sky changed colors.
And then I picked myself up, dusted myself off, and went back in to mess with the kitties. It works out.
Taking my chances with the weather today. Thunderstorms are predicted but I biked to work anyway. It looks like the worst of it will pass through mid-day. I hope.
Good deal!
I hate Facebook. I look at it 3x a week, add 4 comments a month, and generally despise it’s purpose.
I don’t feel well. I have seen people still taking sick days at work. what’s still going around out there?
Ugh.
gotti yay for DH! Continued good thoughts for a speedy and full recovery headed out.
gigity I know my own ick is pollen related but there does seem to be a bug of some kind afloat as well. Feel better!
Me too. Unfortunately it seems like a necessary evil on some levels. I particularly hate it today, though, after seeing some of the comments about what happened yesterday.
Hope you feel better,** 2gig**. (That doesn’t seem right. What is your nickname??)
Good luck, freebie, I went out for a run this morning and it started raining within 15 minutes of my return.
I wish he’d frikkin’ show up already. I gave in and registered at Plenty of Fish. I think I’ll have less luck there than I’m having with OKCupid though. I suppose I should look at one of the geek sites, but the last one I used was basically useless unless you paid.
Seconded!
Still trying to copy old disc pics to photobucket. It’s the only pic-sharing site I’ve ever used, and a long time ago, so this may take a bit. I’m on a new machine, so I think I might have to re-copy the disc to my current folders, then upload.
Keep a stiff upper lip, everyone…whatever that means.
Concur. Still haven’t figured out how I want to post pictures. Unless I can just use my blog. Would it be legal if I did that?
With luck you’ll get most of it back. I think the way it works is that they take out taxes as if that’s your normal, repeating salary, which raises your bracket for that one paycheck. When I was going to get a retroactive raise, HR recommended that I contact payroll and add on a bunch of fake dependents for just that one paycheck, so that they wouldn’t take out so much. I slid most of it off into my 457, instead, so it wasn’t necessary, but that might be the way to go if you get another one. Although if you get them regularly, you might want to be careful about taking out too little.
Anyway, hope you get it back next tax refund time.
Mawnin all and good afternoon to our far East Mumpers 
So let me tell you a story about an orchard.
My computer geek and I were talking a couple of months ago about what to do with six+ acres of land he owns that are about an hour NE of Austin. The land is narrow, say 50yds wide and has a gentle slope and has few trees. There is also a barn(in terrible shape) with water and elec, the frame of a greenhouse and a house in front that his elderly parents(hoarders) live in. The land is just outside the city limits of a small town so we are exempt from regulations. I suggested we try to grow some hazelnuts because I like them, he suggested we get a bit more ambitious. We went up there and had what I dubbed the “random camping event” basically to check it out. There we developed the “plan”
Our goal is to create an orchard that is drip irrigated and because we have a long gentle slope we can use cisterns.
This year we shall clear the land of weeds and unwanted trees, currently about half done.
Build a camp house and bath house, he has a wife and kids so it has to be done. The camphouse will be shipping containers but tent camp is well established and usable also the bathhouse is nearly complete in the barn, toilet, shower and sink with hot water.
Install irrigation main line and cistern
Start worm farm, build rabbit hutch, mend fences, buy two goats and layout the land for trees.
All to be done this year working one weekend a month plus a couple of longer trips.
Next year we shall plant
Pecans, hazelnuts, apricots, olives, avocados, figs and a couple of other trees
Build raised bed gardens for maters, squish, watermelons and the like
The goal is to have food for our use and sale, a beautiful place to go, a place to teach children the value of hard work and keep us healthy and strong as we age.
Yes we are insane
Happy Tuesday all
Jim
Back in my (recent) medieval reenactment days I went by Tugig which turned out to be quite unique. Here I also answer to giggity, hey you!, or if any of my exes show up, the dickless wonder, though I will debate that issue.
C’mooooon garage… I wanna know how my car is.
I know it’s probably a good sign that the place is always busy (though being too busy to answer the phone is a bit annoying), but they shut in 40 minutes, my car’s been there all day, and I hate being in solvency limbo.
Oh well, at least it’s nice and sunny.
Ps, So can I come move in then Jim? Sounds nice, and I promise to pretend to be planted 
Dating sites suck.
I’m not sure where the Sah-guy and I stand.
He sent me a text yesterday am and I still haven’t responded because anything I have to say is going to be nasty.
I have been so tempted to close out the joint checking account, turn off his phone which is in my name and change my phone number, walk away and never look back.
I know I shouldn’t do or say anything until I cool off.
Ouch! Yeah, 36 hour rule.
Go ahead and prep yourself if you feel that way then walk away for 36 hours. If it makes sense at that time then Bam! It’s done.
Or 24 hrs. Or 48.
But not less than 24.
Meeting with boss is going ok. Key word there. It was supposed to be 2 hours and we just took a lunch break and are heading back in in 45 minutes. We are finally getting some feed back from her which is what we wanted for the past 2 months. We have some changes to make, but that is ok. She was pretty decent about her input (as best she can be). I will take it. Its not over yet but I feel better. Though I might have just me’d myself.
Damn.
The garage answered the phone.
Solvency is overrated anyway 
Not sure exactly what needs fixin’ yet, but the car failed the emissions test, which I know enough to know could mean potentially expensive problems. It won’t get sorted until thursday at the very earliest, which means I’d better book alternative transport for this weekend, 'cos I ain’t betting on things being easy, and there’s a chance that the fix will be more expensive than the car’s worth, in which case things get interesting.
I think I’m going to spend the rest of the day curled up with alcohol, cartoons and a sulk.
Just remember that we have summer temps in the 40c+ range for long stretches at a time. Also, you will not be planted I need you to work. 
Being single sucks, three years for me now. No being married doesn’t count.
Jim
They’re better for me than any other method I’ve tried. At least you can be upfront about what you want and you don’t have to pry every bit of info out of people. And it’s cheap.
My problem is that I’m looking for a very rare kind of guy: either asexual or poly (so he can have someone to sex up all the time) and not a douchebag
Here is ourLeo cat. That’s an old picture, but it’s the only one I have right now. Sorta blurf, because I tired & moving sucks.
Jim that sounds like an excellent but tirin’ plan there. We’ve started a ministry at the church house called “Food For A Thousand.” Or, I should say we’ve started a “Food For A Thousand” ministry. We have eighteen raised garden beds planted with various veggies such as squish, beans, maters, cukes, peppers and such. Down the road plans include diggin’ a well for irrigation of the gardens as well as plantin’ an orchard. The produce is grown and given to local food pantries and soup kitchens so there is always fresh produce in season. A church member who has a biiiiiiiiiiiiig farm is donatin’ some land on his farm that can be used for row crops such as corn, N.O.T., greens and such. Since we do have a long growin’ season hopefully we can have some type of produce growin’ almost year round. Sounds like that’s your idea as well. I love the idea of givin’ people a chance to have hands on involvement and seein’ the results of their labors. It’s good to give money and money is needed but it’s also good to do sump’n and see the results first hand. We’re even makin’ our own compost. The whole thing is just really cool IMO.
Nuts appropriate/inappropriate appendages crossed that the news about the wheels is not too bad.
