I’m guesstimating the total. There are about 100 banker file boxes filled with books; maybe a third of them are hardbacks.
And if I can ever get in touch with the contractor who promised to help me build bookcases, my basement will be Ye Olde Englysh Manor Huse Librerry.
It isn’t tall enough for two floors of books and an iron spiral staircase, though. pout Someday, maybe.
Sure, SCL. Let me give it a try and see how it comes out; it doesn’t look like it’s exactly demanding, obviously. 
I’ll let you know when i have one done so you can give me your address. I also found a really cute pattern for catnip mice. I tell you, someone has come up with everything.
What surgery are you having, Kat? Did you tell us and I forgot already?
Sorry about all the crap, Rebo – that sounds like an awful mess! I hope Ernie feels better soon. Poor baby. 
I don’t remember who I’ve told what anymore, Mama Tiger. I’m going in for kidney surgery, due to a renal mass (renal cell carcinoma).
I thought my ears were ringing… at least I hope this is what was causing that ringing.
I have been gone the last month or so for the very tragic reason that the government building where I work has started blocking the SDMB! Terrible I tell you. This means that I am not going to be posting nearly as much as I used to, seeing as all but maybe 50-60 of my posts were made from work (I can’t imagine why they felt the need to block message boards). I’ll try to be better about it though and start showing my mug around here on a regular basis again.
On that lighter note: I am still hanging out with Meli as often as time will permit, but as to whether or not she is hanging out with me (or just tolerating my presence) you would have to ask her 
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Hi guys, I think I am back.
Nice OP FCM, and as long as you didn’t go in the hole $$$-wise I would count it as a good day. Getting experience with what people are interested in, and an idea of what other artists/crafters are pricing their goods by is a good thing too. I know that I have a difficult time pricing my stuff, and in the past have had folks insist on giving me more $ than I asked for. I miss craft fairs, the closest we come to them here are the Christmas bazaars, which begin in September and carry through the season. We do have small venues (I know, it is to laugh, but places like the tiny float plane building as well as a couple of the coffee shops do “shows”) in which people, mostly quilters, hang their stuff up to display and sell. Back in the '70’s I was a regular at the street fair in the U District in Seattle, and I always bought a lot of stuff that just happened to catch my eye. I also agree with (?) in saying that you might want to do a few large pieces, I know that I am always a sucker for a large, pretty vase or bowl!
I can’t keep up with everything I have missed, but I’ll strain my brain and try. I am glad to see missrosieposie is back up on her feet, walking the stairs, driving and even working, good for you! And you too MamaTigs! Stupid neighbors with chickens too btw. Yay on Jah for the job, good luck to the other job searchers. Condolences on your grandmother’s passing meli, I need to send my gramma a letter. li-li the barfing is a drag, but at the end of it all you get a baby! As I have mentioned I always barfed throughout my pregnancies, but the first trimester was the worst, after that it was just random barfing. You ought to be getting the hang of opening up your throat and letting go by now, I found that fighting the nausea made things worse than just letting go and barfing did. I also found that taking prenatal vitamins later in the day, with food in my tummy, helped keep them down, as did breaking them in half and taking them spaced out over the afternoon. In a few more weeks you are going to feel little butterfly motions that aren’t morning sickness, but the baby moving, and that is a wonderful thing! Ummm…that’s all I am able to shake out of my brain at the moment, I’ll try to keep up this week!
Last time I was here I was anticipating my adult children coming down to the island for Crab Fest, and I was feeling sniffly. Well, the weather has been so bad that daughter #2 canceled her plans to come, and daughter #1 and her husband were due in that Friday night but didn’t get in until Sunday morning. They had planned to leave Monday but stayed until Tuesday. Crab Fest was okay, I didn’t go downtown as it was drizzly and foggy, but I was brought my two favorite Fest foods - pork-on-a-stick and a Bruin burger. The first is a Fest tradition that the Filipino community sells, grilled hunks 'o pork on a stick with a yummy sauce, and the second is a traditional money maker for the High School (Kodiak Bears) and is a seasoned hamburger/cheese filling wrapped in bread dough and deep fried. #1 couldn’t go on the fair rides as she is in her third trimester and so wasn’t too into hanging out downtown, but we had some good mom/daughter time. We grilled dinner here the first night and over at the sil’s parent’s house the second, and we all went to see POC3 and I can’t wait to 1) own the dvd and 2) see POC4!
By the time the kids went back to Anchorage I was sick sick sick. It began in my head and throat and ended up in my chest, but I have coughed it all out and am feeling better now. Although last week was taken up with the handling of fish. I sent my parents 40 lbs of red salmon, and we made a deal with a friend and gave her 20 reds to cold smoke for us, she gets to keep 10, but it’s worth me not having to do the work! Some of that will be going to my parents, too. I forgot to put any halibut into their package, so I will need to send them some of that as well. Skiffman and the guys left to fish commercially today, so I don’t have to play with fish again until September when the silvers are running, thankfully.
For those of you experiencing summer, be thankful. It is currently 48 degrees, overcast, and threatening more drizzle. Tomorrow, more of the same, temps in the high 30’s/low 40’s with fog reducing visibility to 1/4 mile. I have one crocus and one scilla blooming, and two tulips have sent up buds. Out of 400+ bulbs I planted last autumn. The slugs are mowing my columbine down, and the only thing out there that looks ready to bloom is my trollius. Wah…
Well, I think I am gonna pack it in for the night, maybe watch a movie with the kidlets and gear up to do something productive tomorrow. Night all!
:sigh: Don’t you just *love *the smell of crisis in the morning? :eek: :rolleyes: (see below)
Mama Tiger – go get them for those chickens. Also, get near their dog sometime, fall down and claim it attacked you. One visit from Animal Control will most likely convince them you can give as well as you can get.
Kat – I see I’ve succeeded in starting something of a fad, with the tiger colors! 
Li-Li – how did the afternoon go?
MBG, Rebo, dogbutler, **ems **and all the rest of you people having bad days… hope today is better for you. Also, may I join the club? The amount of stooopid bugs we’re still finding in the must-be-installed-tomorrow release is nearly overwhelming. And I get to fix them all (hey, I put most of them in there in the first place, so fair is fair, I guess)
Where’s Haze?
**Swampy **-- appendages are getting cramped! I’m uncrossing for now and I’ll recross them this (my) afternoon when you get up
Everyone else on the left hand side of the pond – Good night! Sweet dreams!!
Last but definitely not least – {{{meli}}}. Sorry for your loss
Meli, I’m sorry for your loss. My grandparents are long gone with the possible exception of my maternal grandmother but we lost touch with her about 30 years ago and have no idea what became of her.
Jah - good to hear your new company has already realised that you need space and solitude to be at your most productive!
Swampy, if I keep my appendages crossed for much longer, I’ll lose all the feeling. Will you hurry up and get a job, please?
Kai - good to see you again! Sorry you’ve had a nasty dose of The Sick too, recovery is good.
LiLi, there’s some good advice on here today about your barfing situation. And what’s with Mr Lissar’s mother? Does she need to be hit with the wet trout? How can she be contemplating marriage with someone she’s been seeing for two whole weeks? Give the woman a medal, she’s obviously been eating top-quality stupid food.
Roise - I bet you’re so glad to be back at work. I’m hoping you’re making sure everyone’s properly sympathetic about your knee and they’re supportive of your new needs. I know when I first started getting mobile after I had my first one done, I couldn’t sit comfortably for too long and had to keep getting up for a little wander about.
Special One - sorry to hear you’re all bugged out today, maybe it will get better soon?
Appropriate responses to anyone else I might have missed. We have cake today, my morning is looking up already.
Abuelita died in '95, yet I still miss her. Dad died in '00, and while I do have some regrets I can’t in all sincerity say I miss him. We have this notion that those who are close to you biologically should also be close emotionally and mentally, but how often is it not true!
{{{{Meli}}}}
kai, could you stup talking about puking? I almost never puke but that doesn’t mean I enjoy the thought.
buggy one, do you think Raid would work?
Jahdra, once in a plane I touched the shoulder of the guy in front of me and showed him the sticker on my laptop’s cover (my business cards hadn’t arrived yet). He turned whiter than the background of the Power Point presentation he’d been reading: we happened to be from competing companies and, while his data wasn’t anything I cared about, it definitely shouldn’t be displayed in what’s after all a public place. I think those people have the lines between “work” and “elsewhere” so blurred that they don’t realize the world is not their home office.
BooFae – thanks for the sentiment. At least they aren’t cold bugs or flu or anything. Software bugs I can handle.
**Nava **-- those are MY bugs. Mine!! How dare you threaten their lives? :mad:
Good morning, all. Sure was busy in here last night!
Sorry about all the crappy days out there; hope things are better today. So, db was it work-related crap on your day off or other? It stinks either way, of course…
Happy to see Al and kai again.
Aren’t bugs fun, SO? We’ve been finding bugs in our January release for just ever. (Well, since January, anyway.) All things that can be fixed, but that’s what you get for having people change scope on you constantly and add about a month’s worth of testing without consulting you.
Off to get ready for work. Another day filled with exciting challenges. Argggggh.
GT
Haaaaaarrrruuuuuummmph. ::Gruff snort of contempt for mornings:: to y’all. Caffeine is being consumed now.
The fire chief is off honeymooning, leaving the training meeting in the hands of the training officer. 'Twas the proverbial Charlie Foxtrot… :rolleyes:
About 2 AM, I woke up and answered an ambulance page. A crew on a run was transporting a critical patient to the hospital, and blew the transmission on the unit. I answered the call to take them a new one, but it was gone with another crew member, and the original crew was back on the way to the horse pistol by the time I got there. So, I was a glorified taxi driver.
Good mornin’ y’all! It’s a rainy/stormy mornin’ here in south Jawja. What Snakes had last night is movin’ through here now. Rain is promised throughout the day, which is good. Lightnin’, hail and so forth are welcomed to stay away though. Matter of fact I hear thunder outside as I post, so I’ll probably turn puter off in a bit.
Job interview is at eleven this mornin’. Did I mention it’s at a prison? Doesn’t counseling and testing inmates at a state prison sound like fun? Hey, they called me cause they found my resume on line. The downside (well, besides it bein’ a prison) is it’s 45 miles away. But what the hey, if the pay’s good it’d be worth considerin’, right?
Ok, I need to go purtify and also get off this here 'puter cause I hear boom booms closer and closer.
Later Y’all!
I don’t know, swampy a 90 mile round trip commute can get old pretty fast. I had to do that for almost two years when I lived in Virginia Beach and the ship I was on was undergoing an overhaul in Newport News.
Meli I am very sorry for your loss. She sounds like she was a great person to know.
Oh good, my morning fun is going to be watching Big Fat Paulie try to change out a toner cartridge on the color printer. He can design complicated instrumentatiuon systems, but can’t figure out the very first step in this process.
Mayberry to Portsmouth is that far… :dubious: Seems the only alone time I have any more is when I commute.
In the last couple weeks, he seems to have adopted a ‘baby’. It’s another stuffed toy. A small, pink bunny. This one does NOT get ‘special’ attention, just dragged up with him when he sits next to me on the couch. He cleans it, sleeps with it. and generally takes care of the little thing.
Sometimes I wonder how an Orange cat, and and his gray, stuffed love-toy managed to produce a pink rabbit baby, but there’s no other explanation.
I’ll probably be gone the rest of the day. Some important schtuff to deal with the boss over, then an early escape for a group exercise in turf management and fluid retention. (golf).
See ya!!
I hate Tuesdays. Yawn
I’m having trouble prying my eyes open. I’ll no doubt be back after coffee. But Og almighty, they still haven’t fixed the traffic pattern in my town.
I have only one practical way to get to work. I mean, there’s several side routes but all of them add miles & traffic lights to my commute. The highway one is the best.
But they have been doing something to it forever. They are not repairing it, I don’t think. I think they’re repairing the bridge. WHICH THEY JUST PUT IN A YEAR OR TWO AGO.
AARGH! Every day my commute is hell. I used to like my commute.
A good night’s sleep sure can change a person’s attitude. I feel good this morning. No pooping last night! Yay! I hope it continues throughout the day.
I’ve already finished what little work I had. Now I have to wait until the engineer gets here to see if there is more stuff to do.
Have a great day, everyone!
Our office doors were painted over the weekend, and they just retouched some of it last night. The whole place is filled with paint fumes. Fortunately it’s a gorgeous day out there, so I’ve got my office-to-foyer and foyer-to-Earth doors open, which is letting abundant sunshine and fresh air in and sucking all the fumes out. It’s also letting all the noise in. (The building is directly on the flight path to, and only about 6 miles from, Pearson International Airport, so planes are getting pretty low by the time they’re over my head. Plus, we’re in an industrial area so there’s lots of truck traffic.) Good with the bad I guess, and I’d rather deal with passing planes and trucks than huffing latex.
I finally got some decent work done on my remix last night. I have a bad habit of composing these passages that build up to a certain point, and then I lose all sense of where I ought to go next, so I sit and listen to it repeatedly, hoping the feel of the flow will put some sort of idea into my head so I can move on. I solved that problem last night, so it’s progressing nicely. I have to have it done by this weekend, too, if I want to enter it into the contest. I hate being pressured, but on the other hand it helps keep me focused. I’m a lousy self-starter when I feel like I have plenty of time and let other things distract me. Sometimes I feel like I need Swampy hanging around to make sure my nose is to the grindstone. 
Morning, all. I’ve been up and caffeinating for a while, although not to much avail. I just plain didn’t get enough sleep last night. Once again, I stayed up too late working since I’ve got a deadline. Why do I always have such tight deadlines? Oh, I know: It’s because I take on more work than I should be able to do in any particular time period. In other words, my own stupid fault. :smack:
Anyway, I’ve got nuttin’ else this morning. Except that I like my commute best of all: I just have stumble down the hall to my office, passing the coffeepot en route, and since Alice usually beats me out of bed, the coffee is ready and waiting for me. Service in the morning is soooo nice.
Back to the salt mines. Everybody have a good day!
Whew!! That was quite a storm driving home last night. There was sideways rain and lightning all around. Glad I don’t have to take the Interstate. More of the same or worse due today. I repeat…summer’s here.
I am putting off doing a project one of my team leaders wants me to do. It’s really not one of my duties but she has nobody but me. BUT I really really hates it. See, it involves making cold calls to journalists in NYC trying to cajole them into making appointments to listen to us tell them how wonderful this backwater development in a third-world Caribbean country is and could they please please write an article about it? I HATE making cold calls. I would rather have a colonoscopy. If I didn’t mind them, I’d be in sales and making a crap load more money. Bleh!!
Good to hear form kai and ali.
Good luck, swampy!
Off to work.
Tupug