You look positively relaxed, Hank!
Sorry about all the hockey drama, SCL. Ewwww on the wire out of the toe thing, also. I have a friend who had that recently. I think it’s supposed to protect the toe, but ewwww.
I’m up and awake and considering heading out for work right now so that I can get stuff done before I wake up. 
Happy Saturday?
GT
Hank , that bottom picture is, uh…it’s something. lap dance, we need the lap dance. I mean the picture. Ah hell, no I mean the lap dance, we need the lap dance…
I could NOT sleep this morning. I think Cuervo having a ‘play with me’ morning had something to do with it. Sometime around 5:30, I was up, staring out the window and just decided about an hour ago sleep was not coming back, so here I am…
Coffee is brewing, I’ll have some Cheerios in a minute and get my butt to the gym. I have a bot of running around to do today, a bit of typing-ish work for work, then the rest of the day shall be devoted to nothing. I do nothing VERY well…
Mornin’ Y’all! I’m back in da swampcave. I got home around ten last night and went right to bed. I still haven’t unloaded my junk outta da 'Stang yet. Gotta go do that. First order of bidness was caffienation though. We must have our priorities.
Bobbio all the Sailors and Marines I saw at the NAS were of the baby variety. Since I like mine all burly and seasoned, I saw nuttin’ of interest. 
Snakes I was hearing reports on the radio about north Columbus. Yikes! Really ripped that place up. Also, Americus is pretty messed up. That’s awful about the hospital in A town. They had to move patients down here to Albeeny. Baker County, a little county just south of here got hurt pretty bad too. Six people dead and all kinds of property damage. I also heard that Richland, GA was pretty messed up. I drove through there last night but on the main road so I didn’t see the town but I’m told it damaged some buildings and such. Nasty storm!
I have to make a bunch of cheese crisps today and finish up a final report from all my consultin’ type stuff so’s folks can have the purtied up version of stuff. The cheese crisps are because our Bishop will be here today to dedicate/consecrate our new building at three this afternoon, with a reception to follow. I cannot understand a word the man says cause he talks real fast to compensate for a slight speech impediment he has. So, all his words runtogetherrealfastlikethisandIsittherethinkin’,huh?wheneverhetalks.
Good morning! I have caffenated, took out the trash and recycling, and Swiffered and Roombaed the floors. All that before work, too.
MBG, I agree.
Ok, I’m made cheese crisps and drafted a report. I think that means I deserve a nap.
Good morning everyone! I’m up and caffienating. Lord, I need it. Couldn’t sleep for shit last night and kept waking up every hour.
Well, they’ve finally done it. I can’t access the boards from work anymore. :mad: 
I was totally bummed, but there’s nothing I can do about it.
I’m glad to hear everyone is doing alright, but the tornado stuff sounds awful.
Nothing but good ol’ Pacific Northwest rain going on here. It’s not too awfully cold either.
MT, I’m glad to see you’re recovering reasonably well. Do take care of yourself, though, and don’t push it!
Yesterday was full of work and meetings. The main topic, of course, was the whole Walter Reed thing. It will be interesting to see how things shake out there.
Nothing much else going on. I think today will be a relaxing day and tomorrow is going to be a chores day. That’s about it.
Back from work. Didn’t get lots done, but I at least got time to think about editing an important document and do a little on-line research to make sure we’re getting stuff right (we weren’t, really).
Sorry to hear about being blocked at work, Taters. I’ve never even tried to get here from work (wouldn’t have the time even if I tried) but I’ve always assumed it’s blocked. Seems like it would improve morale for a lot of people to be able to access it at least from time to time in most workplaces.
Had a lovely lunch of grilled cheese with carrots and red pepper on the side. Sharp cheddar on brown sugar/cinnamon swirl bread. Yum.
Need to go get some additional caffeine (I’m really craving a real latte from around the corner) and then it’s off to the Central Ohio Home and Garden Show.
Later…
GT
Well, sombody just got T-boned in front of the apartment. nobody is hurt, but the Tundra’s drivetrain went from |—| to -__/ :eek:
What does “got T-boned” mean? (I’m foreign, me no speakee Engrish…)
So, last night, we went to this amazing bar on the north side called Matilda (it’s near Belmont, for those of you who know the geography). The basement part of the bar was ours for three hours, from 8-11pm. Obviously people were drinking quickly to get the most out of their cover charge ($15). We started off playing “Never Have I Ever,” and after we had sufficiently shocked each other started dancing to the music. I haven’t danced like that since undergrad. There was some mild scandal: we caught GentleManWhore (called so because he seems like such a gentleman yet has slept with several girls in our program in the past six months) making out with one of the girls in a corner - I was more surprised than some because GentleManWhore had been pouring his heart out to me just the other day about how he had a hopeless crush on Scottish Darling. (He didn’t have a chance with her anyway, so I guess I can’t fault him for moving on.) There was some flirtation between another girl and our resident Brit, who is actually currently dating someone else in our program - of course she wasn’t there last night. Nothing too terrible, though.
The night ended on a surreal note when one of our mentors took us to another bar called Carrol’s, which was a western/country music bar. :dubious: I am not judging anyone’s musical taste, but after dancing to hip-hop and cheesy 80’s music, we were in no mood to hoedown to Johnny Cash and whatever else they were playing. Plus the bar was grungy, oddly lit, and full of drunk and horny men. We got out of there pretty fast.
I’ll post pictures later. Two of our friends had cameras but they’re both probably still asleep. 
Now, I need to go make myself look presentable and go to the library to get some work done. Hope everyone has a lovely Saturday.
T-boned means that two cars collide thusly:
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Basically, the front end of one car rams directly into the side of another car.
gt, I figured it was only a matter of time before the site got blocked. I did check it for fun, but I honestly used for some work stuff too. For instance, if I needed some help figuring out how to do something in Excel or Access, I’d go to GQ and ask a question there. I usually received an answer in short order too. The message boards come under the category “Chat”, so that’s that.
I didn’t get to check the site often while at work. I’m usually very busy too. But, all the same, it was nice to come in if I could during lunch and get a chuckle or two from something someone posted.
Off to get cleaned up.
Good afternoon, all - dang, it’s closing in on evening! I almost slept thru the night - or I slept thru most of the night. I think I got up around 11:30 and threw down a shot of generic nyquil. Next thing I knew, it was 6:30, so that was something like 7 hours in a row - not bad.
We breakfasted at Rallo’s, then made our way to the craft show and home show in Timonium. There were only 2 potters at the show, and one had tons of mass-produced items. He made them himself, but he made lots of the same thing. I did stea…um… get a few ideas from his works. The other booth was a husband and wife team - more unique pieces, tho I suspect they just didn’t put everything out at once. Besides those two booths, there was lots of the usual stuff and not nearly enough that was unique and interesting.
The home and garden show side was about as annoying as they are - vendors kept asking “Are you going to remodel? How are your gutters? Have you ever seen this?” and on and on. We did find a hot tub that we really liked, and we talked to a guy about foam foundation forms. It wasn’t a bad way to kill a few hours.
Afterwards, we drove up to my mom’s house, only to find that she wasn’t home. But I know where she keeps her food so we had a free lunch on her. We got back here a bit before 4. The critters have been fed and a load of jeans is in the washer. I think the rest of tonight is gonna be spent bumming around.
Tomorrow, I paint and play with clay.
Doncha wish you was me??
See, the lunch thing and occasional question-asking ability would be my argument for not blocking the boards. Too bad.
Sounds like my brother yesterday. He called to tell me there was an intruder in my home. :rolleyes: But he bought cereal and replaced the hot-cross buns, so I guess I can forgive him the stolen banana.
Hanging out waiting for it to be dinnertime. I’m going to a friend’s for din din…
Back later.
GT
I have emerged from my slothfulness, I think. I even got dressed! I put all of the projects I was working on away, because they were driving me crazy, and cast on for this. For some reason, I thought it was a difficult pattern, but on re-reading, it’s garter stitch knit on the bias. That’s it. I have yarn in a lovely color called Paris Memory,which is muted plum, teal, and gold. It’s very spring-y, which is perfect for the weather we’re having right now.
I had a cheese sammich and a bumbleberry blossom for late lunch. Yum! Now I’m knitting and ripping CDs. I’ve ripped about 20 CDs today. At one point, I apparently had a compulsion to collect *everything *certain artists did (domestic releases, international, live, dance mixes, why?) I’m ripping them all anyway, even if I don’t recognize half the songs.
Afternoon/evening, all. Haze, you and your friends do lead an…uh…interesting life! Man, when I was a student, we didn’t have nearly as much fun. Also, of course, none of us were legal and we were in a state where you could only buy bottles of the good stuff (or the bad stuff, as long as it was stronger than beer) at state-run stores, where they could spot fake IDs a mile off. Of course, we did engage in other forms of recreational chemistry, but I shall say no more about it. Not little ol’ innocent moi.
I will do all my PT and do what I am told to do PT-wise, but if that young [del]terrorist[/del] therapist tries to do to me again next week what she did to me yesterday, she will have to fight off both my [del]dogwhackers[/del] crutches (now renamed terroristwhackers) and my daughter. See, she had me do mostly stuff that I do already, which was fine. But then she apparently was under the mistaken impression that because I’m making good progress, I should be much, much farther along than I am. So she climbed up on the table with me and proceeded to bend my knee a whole lot farther than it should have been able to bend. It was so awful that I ended up coming home so sick and miserable I couldn’t eat, couldn’t find a position to get comfortable in sitting or lying down no matter how many drugs I took, and basically tossed and turned the whole damn night. I’m willing to be a good patient, but not when they’re trying to kill me!
So today has mostly been spent on the couch with my feet elevated, trying to regain some semblance of pain reduction again. I don’t mind if it hurts a bit – heck, I expect that. But to have the whole inside of the joint feeling like it’s on fire, to the point where even an ice pack can’t cut through the heat and swelling emanating from my poor mistreated knee? Not my idea of a good time.
So I just turned on my computer a few minutes ago, and will probably turn it off again soon as sitting here is also definitely not comfortable. And for those of you who I know will ask, yes, I’m doing my regular exercises today anyway! They just hurt like a mother****** again.
Can someone tell me again why I did this to myself?
That wire out of the toe sounds oogy. I had metal sticking out of the inside of my foot for a couple of months, but my toes were untouched, thank heaven. How can the poor thing wear shoes? What surgery requires a wire sticking out of your toe?
Sorry to hear you finally got blocked at work, Taters, although I’m surprised you weren’t blocked a long time ago. At Papa Tigs’ facility, you can barely go to any web page not directly run by the Army. They carry security a bit far, methinks. And yes, the Walter Reed crisis is getting nuts. The Washington Post is definitely aiming for a Pulitzer in this one; every time folks think the worst is over, they come out with a new “expose.” It’s nuts. Now the Fools on the Hill will be running hearings out of the main auditorium at Walter Reed starting tomorrow. Sometimes it’s not good to be too close to the Bad Hair & Wardrobe Club!
Okay, the knee says this is enough. Back to the feet up and my knitting. At least I’m getting a lot of knitting done. Although I can’t find more Misti Alpaca Laceweight color #5018, Cranberry, anywhere – Jahdra, if you have a local store where you could lay your hands on four skeins of it for me this week, I can Paypal you the money instantly and love you forever! My email is in my profile if you can. It’s on back order everywhere.
BionicTigs, I found 3 skeins of 5018 at a LYS and have them on hold until Monday. Is 3 better than none? If so, I can pick them up and send them to you. She said she’s had a lot on backorder for months from them. Also, LittleKnits has 2 skeins left in that color, but they have a $25 minimum purchase. I’ve bought from her before, and she ships very quickly.
The church is now consecrated and blessed. I do mean blessed. I think the only thing that didn’t get blessed is the terlets. Supper tonight was reception food. Standin’ around munchin’ little noshes and sammiches and such fills ya up. Tomorrow is brunch Sunday so I made some jambalaya. It’s good just not as good as the jambalaya I had at Bridget’s on Wednesday. I think that’s cause you just can’t do better than somebody’s mama’s jambalaya.
It’s all of eight thirty and both of us are yawnin’ like crazy. I think maybe beddybye time and a little tv is in order. Nitey nite y’all!
I was wondering where you’d gone off to, Jah. That shawl looks lovely.
Sorry about the overenthusiastic PT. Maybe your doc needs to intervene or at list weigh in with his/her opinion.
Glad to hear the church is finally all built and dedicated and everything. So…what did the bishop have to say?
Back from dinner, takeout from a VERY GOOD Indian restaurant. Yummmmm.
Getting tired, so I guess I should consider beddy-bye.
GT
I am back home, after driving through some sort of snow squall to get here. Horizontal, blowing snow and lots of it.
And to the guy who at 0300 just HAD to turn his TV on VERY LOUD and keep it on–I am not sorry I called the front desk. If the front desk hadn’t done anything about it, I would have knocked on your door–AGAIN–(I did so earlier in the night, but then he went out from 11-3, I presume) and this time I wouldn’t have been nice.
Tired and grumpy Rigs here. But I have a 100 in my YA lit class. and a solid B in my Reference one. On campus was much better than last semester.
I promise to get caught up with all MMPers in Monday’s Post. Off to bed now.
(I see no one missed me while I was gone…must up my bribes, um, gifts…)
rigs, of course we missed you! Also, meeks, Ex, Rue. Sunrazor, Chaoticbear, Scout, and all the kids who don’t want to play with us anymore. Update on the wreck: The boner drove off while the bonee was waiting for the cops. Of course it will be hard to find a flat black 92 Ford f-250 with the front end smashed in. :rolleyes: Work went, I only had to yell at 10 unattended children(Am I at a Dollar Tree or a daycare?). My back is hurting. Anyway, food, beerverages, and bed.
wampy, yay blessed churches!
BionicTigs, Tell the torturer that you need slower rehab, or stronger drugs(or both)
FCM, sounds like you cornered the market.
<snerk> You said boner!! </snerk>
Hi people! I’ve been a busy Rebo the past couple of days. Cleaning, laundry, shopping, cooking - I’m so damn domestic it’s pathetic.
I made some tacos and Meskin rice for dinner, and one quesadilla that we split. And one AWESOME chocolate meringue pie that I started yesterday. I used Ghiradelli chocolate, both bitterweet and unsweetened. Man, it was rich. Yum!
I’m glad MT is back with us, and seems like the sickies are starting to feel better. Good! No more Teh Sick, people! I have spoken.
I think we’re gonna go out to eat at Red Lobster tomorrow. Yum! (I know there’s better seafood around, but I’m not payin’, so who am I to complain?)
Later, my peeps!