Halfway through the cooking and cleaning. Wish me luck.
It’s not that, Mindfield- although that sounds awful. It’s just (TMI!) when he wakes up he’s all clogged up with horrible green phlegm, and has coughing attacks that lead to retching. Not fun.
That reminds me- someone QD knows very recently contracted flesh eating bacterial infections from a small cut, and two days later had his arm removed. Good thoughts and prayers for his recovery would be appreciated.
we’re on a new server? that would explain why I have access! (and, btw, yay)
The snow stopped by the time I got to work. That’s my kind of snow - only lands on roofs and lawns.
back still hurts, but there is a heating pad here at work so I have been using it.
now, let’s see if the edit feature works
it does! 
Because I likes ya, I’m gonna pass along some advice my baby bro, the CPA/CFO type told me. Get a home equity like of credit. Then the cash is instantly available should you need it or at the rate that you need it.
My mom has one, and the only time she used it was to spot me an emergency loan, which I paid back in a week. We have one also, which we’re using to do upgrades on the house. The nice thing is, we got checks and a VISA card to use to access the account, so when we bought the new furnace/AC, we just wrote a check. When we get ready to finish the bathrooms, we can use the VISA at Lowe’s to buy all the stuff. And as we pay down what we use, it’s available for us to use again for up to 10 years (that’s our deal - dunno what other institutions offer). At the end of the 10 years, if we owe anything, we can’t draw any longer - we just pay it off, and we have 10 years to do that. Plus the interest can be written off.
And again, I don’t know how other places do it, but at our credit union, if we’d never touched the money, it wouldn’t have cost anything at all. Well, except for the appraisal. Anyway, my baby bro is a money-smart guy, so I offer you this info, FWIW.
TGIF!
ScruffyDog is at the groomer’s at this moment. The vet said she’s about 10 years old, about 9 pounds, and she’s got some tumors in her mammaries and he can’t tell if she’s been spayed, so it looks like my tiny little performance bonus is going into doggie surgery. But **FCD ** has become very attached to her, so what the heck… However, if ScruffyDog keeps pooping in the living room, she ain’t gonna live long enough to have surgery! We may have to confine her to a crate while we’re at work. Heck, this morning, she pooed while **FCD ** was sleeping in! Not good. Not good at all.
And so ends another week in paradise.
Pugs I’m very sorry for your loss. I can’t imagine how I will do in the same situation, but between me, my sister and our brother, I think I’m the one that’s going to have to stay calm.
Actually, they work just the same - meaning neither do anything for you. No disrespect intended here, rigs but the best you can do for any cold is treat the symptoms. It’ll last just as long if you take zinc, Vitamin C, or Gramma’s Secret Cold Oil. Keep yourself comfortable, and able to breathe. Rest if you can, and keep yourself hydrated (that mucous uses up a lot of your body’s fluids). I’ve got a cite if you’re interested.
Okay, what else have I missed since Tuesday?
Sean - be careful going home - I understand there is a mob of Jewish Mothers with vats of homemade chicken soup waiting for you…
Whew. What a week. I just finished my second of two assignments due … now. That’s right: Both of my classes had homework assignments due 4 pm Friday. I finished one of them on Monday night and the other about half an hour ago. And the professors haven’t posted the next ones yet. Which means I’m FREE! This, my dear Cool Kids, is a rare occasion for a physics graduate student.
Of course, I still have TA stuff to do, like the first round of grading from the second lab (the first one was odd and didn’t have the usual format). The kiddies have their first exam next week too, and I get to help grade that.
Okay, so I’m not quite free. But I’m free enough. YAY. And it’s snowing! YAY!
Well, finally! I checked and checked and checked off and on all afternoon and the server was always down. Made me a sad bear. 
Still if it’s all new, improved and spiffy it’ll be worth all my suffering.
I’m gettin’ taken out to dine. See, ACBG got this $50.00 gift card from Dead Lobster as a Christmas present. So, free Dead Lobster food! I know, not the most exciting place to eat, but they do have those nummy garlic cheese biscuits. Ima eat me some shrimps. MMMMMMM… shrimps.
FCM thanks for the tip. A line of credit was more what I was thinkin’ about. I’ll probably do it to get the floors redone. Heck, with that, I could hire me some burly painters I can watch paint my house. I’ll put an ad in the paper. Wanted: Burly House Painters. What? A bear’s gotta have some fun after all.
Oh, I forgot to mention - last night I applied to teach lower level math, up to algebra, at the local junior college. We shall see…
Happy New Server, everyone! I’ll have to see if the edit feature works for me, too. That way when I hose my coding, I can redeem myself.
I was a gooooood girl and went to the gym. Then I came home and had a lovely shower. Now I’m back at my desk pretending to work. Envy me my exciting life.
On the exciting front, however, even though Papa Tigs hasn’t been able to sign us up for insurance yet, he now has both a garage parking pass – as contractor scum, they took away his parking last year – and a real honest-to-goodness office. So things are clearly looking up. He has to have an office with a locking door because he has a bunch of laptops that can be checked out by the inpatient soldiers, but the lovely space managers said all he needed was a cubicle with – get this – 40 sq. ft. of space. For a GS-13. Gotta love the gummint. But by appropriately sucking up, he got what he needed. For now. So we shall see.
Icky. I’ve had coughing fits that have threatened to eject bits that should never see the light of day, but while they can trigger the gag reflex, they’ve never actually caused a full-on eruption. I guess I ought to consider myself lucky. Colds are quite bad enough as is without tossing in a bit of reverse peristalsis. Hope hubby feels better soon, then. He has my sympathies. From a distance, though. 
:eek: That’s scary, that is. I haven’t heard of a significant case of necrotizing fasciitis around these parts since Lucien Bouchard. That stuff scares the hell out of me. I hope he recovers quickly.
Well, shoot. There goes the backup potential of the placebo effect.
Edit feature? I must post again to try out this edit feature.
Hey, it works!
At least he got his own space. I’ll take it, however small it is. I’m a GS-11 and I share an office with three other individuals. One is an 11, one is a 4 or 5 and one is a 6. This office was originally designed to house two people.
Ah well, at least I’m not sitting right by the door. I guess that’s a plus. Others have it worse. At least I can shut the door if things get too noisy outside our office. Others don’t have even that.
Hope everyone that is feeling sickly starts feeling better soon.
Gotta go.
scantilly clad? that might cost more.
very cool. Algebra was my best math.
Y’know, there’s nothing like being handed a project a 4:15pm on a Friday that they need by 5pm - like nothing else, I tell ya. :rolleyes:
All you sick peoples - start wearing those hospital gloves when you post, 'k?
I’m going to skip the gym tonight, I’ll get that in tomorrow. Tonight I have to go buy the Wife a new Tee & Vee for the bedroom. The VCR in the one we have their pooped and died yesterday and so now we cannot record All My Spawn on a daily basis (I don’t allow use of the Main, Primary TV/DVR for that crap). So I’m gonna be a good boy and get her a new one and have it all ready for her to use later tonight.
My neighbor the Enabling Policeman is having a party tomorrow night. Good thing I can walk home from his parties, ya know?
I think I’ll make a pot of Jewish Penecillin for dinner, and I don’t even have The Sick[sup]tm[/sup].
Ahhh … ahhhHHHKKHHHHSSSHH!
snopth
Sorry, what?
I’m a 13, or I was till we went on NSPS, and I might have about 40 sq ft… in a cubicle… next to the microwave and fridge…
I love my job I love my job I love my job
And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for: Scruffy!!
Page thru - there are 6 pics of her post-grooming, including one of her curled up under my desk, snoozing. She’s had a rough day, poor baby…
Ooooh, cool. Nice new server is up and running. I think private messages are enable too, at least for the moment. You have to go into User CP and turn them on in Edit Options.
I’m tired and have to go to work tomorrow - boo. But I’m home and considering dinner.
Awwww…pics of ScruffyDog…she looks completely different!
Guess I’ll go find food and then come back and catch up on everything.
GT
Awwww… Scruffy is a cutie all purtied up.
Dinner is et. Twas good. I et crunchy jumbo fried shrimps and so did ACBG. He et all of his and part of mine cause I got full. Boy’s got him an appetite.
I gots to play with stuff up in this new server…
WHEE! Look at me editin’ away! WHEE!
ETA: We got a [del]victim[/del] host(ess) for Monday?
*did you mean “BTW”?
If no one has stepped up, it’s been a while since I’ve OP’d - no idea what I’ll write about, but maybe something bizarre will happen over the weekend.
FCM - don’t throw things at me. but I liked Scruffy better scruffier.
