That’s one thing I don’t get about the baby holders that have started showing up in the handicapped stalls - they are mounted near the floor. I personally am not concerned about public restrooms, since I have to use so many porta-potties (and there is nothing like a well used pot on a hot and humid summer day…mmm, meat bees…), but seems that many (most?) mommies wouldn’t want baby that close to the restroom floor.
Use words. They really do help.
Shrugs and goes off to other threads.
This is very good advice. When I was trying to get rid of my stuff, I had so many people contact me saying that they needed it right away and then wouldn’t show up.
Points snotty nose in the air, I’m happy that one of you peons understand how much I’m gracing you with my words 
Just to show my kindness, I’m goimg to post a funny to me story. Which probably should go to the Workplace thread, but you plebs will just have to admire it here/ 
The best fireproof vaults are made by one company. These vaults are so ubiquitious that everyone who uses fire proof vaults knows the company by name. Changing the combination to the lock is so expensive that most places don’t want to do that and keep start up combination.
A few years back, I was moving documents from one vault to a different one, and the lady who was supposed to open it for us, couldn’t get the vault open. She was trying and getting flustered and just couldn’t do it.
Vaults are more like gun safes than bycle locks. No slop is allowed. So after the poor flustered woman said that she had to go back to her desk and unlock her drawer to find the combination, I got tired of waiting and oened the vault, while yelling “I’ve got this door, can you come back and use your key?”
Lots of outrage happened. A total shitstorm happened. The emails flew and I ate so much popcorn.
At the end of the drama, the combinations were changed on both of the vaults that held nothing but old documents.
Today, I opened another vault.
I’ve never seen baby holder in a restroom, but that is probably because I don’t use the handicapped stall. I’ll start looking in them if they are empty.
Today my MD took two divots out of the side of my neck. It was supposed to be one, but she likes me, so I get extra. I can’t sleep for shit, and when the bandages aren’t pulling it itches under there. The only good thing was the way my daughter’s eyes lit up when I told her I have a suture kit and I’ll let her take the sutures out.
The labwork I got up early today to do before coffee didn’t get completed until after I saw Doc, and there are abnormal values I can’t figure out, and I won’t hear from her with an interpretation until at least Monday. I can’t shower or run for several days, but when I told my wife the MD said “no chores for a week” she knew I was prevaricating, somehow.
Not my best day. I’m guessing this weekend is pretty fucked.
What were you doing lying on a fairway? You should know how rabid Dr’s are as golfers. You should be grateful that at least she patched you up.
I missed the delivery of my new HDTV today because I was up all night again and said I’d just go to bed for a few hours. I set my alarm, I swear I did but I guess I was out like a light. Fortunately they decided they’d show me mercy and catch me on the way back to the warehouse which is nearby.
The new set weighs almost nothing - about 40lbs according to the listing. It’s not the beastie I’ve got now. That’s going to require the hand truck if I plan on actually stuffing it someplace other than the part of the house where it is now. Will need much coffee to get the mojo to under take the install.
I’m telling people the bolts will be installed next week, or alternately muttering to myself just within the earshot of an audience “but Buffy makes it look **so **easy!”
Thank you, thank you, a thousand thank yous
It appears i hate windows 8 so much that it has impeded my ability to spell
Always wait at least a year before upgrading. I’m still perfectly happy to use w7 and I have licenses for w8.
I really didn’t have that option but thanks anyway.
Yeah, buying a new computer “off the shelf” these days almost assuredly comes with Windows 8. I got one with my new laptop last year, not even thinking about the OS, and within a day of messing with 8 I said “fuck that” and fixed it to my liking.
(I’m sure the Windows 8 defenders will come in now and say I must cope with new tech or obviously I’m a luddite or I don’t know how to use the Windows key. Screw that, I tried it, I hated it, someone else hated it enough to change it. And the Windows key didn’t do what I wanted. I want the classic Start Menu, thank you very much.)
I am SO happy that between school and my little business I have a pile of Win 7 licenses. Now if I could just find something to straighten out Active Directory…
Do tea balls count as colanders? How about those plastic things you put your chopped-up-and-washed lettuce in?
I want to make sure that my colander count is correct.
Tea balls? No…
I definitely don’t have 7 colanders. Can I still hang out?
How about sieves and slotted spoons?
I REALLY don’t want flatlined to tell me I can’t hang out in her threads any more.
We have an old widescreen tv that we inherited in our basement, and that frigging thing took four men to get down the basement stairs. I think it will stay with the house when we move rather than try to get it up the stairs again. 
How about an equivalency chart - tea balls and slotted spoons are equal to half a colander. I’m not sure about sieves; they’re more colander-like than not.
I’ll just go now. 
My sister called me about a half hour ago from my niece’s wedding shower. Apparently a little gray shorthaired female kitten showed up at the host’s house a couple of days ago and they’re looking for a good home. My sister wanted to bring it over to me straight away.
I’ve been without a cat for nearly two years now. I want one, but I’m deathly afraid - and I told her this - that it will smell the bad spots from where my last cat peed everywhere and say “oh, this is where I’m supposed to pee”.
Now I’m cleaning like a madman and getting ready for a kitten I’m still not sure I want to take in… I mean, I do want another cat, but I’m terrified of more cat pee and had pretty much firmly resigned myself to waiting until I moved, which I was expecting would be next spring.
And if this cat ends like the last one, I think may never have another cat again.
I got this hexagram shortly before getting my job, and again last night. So I suppose the cat is my second guest. (The guest isn’t necessarily a person. It can be an opportunity, and event, a thing, and it might not be what you’re expecting or what you think you want.)
Hexagram 5: Waiting
Six at the top means:
*One falls into the pit.
Three uninvited guests arrive.
Honor them, and in the end there will be good fortune.
*
Maybe it’s an answer to the dream I had Thursday night, which I posted in the lekatt pit thread.
I went to my old house, which was abandoned and run down, but I still owned (IRL none of these things). I went down to the basement and called out for Little Guy, my pride and joy who died 7 years ago. He appeared and ran to me, and we embraced. A voice asked me why I kept going to that place. I said “Because even though he’s dead, I still get to see him.”
Man, this is opening some unexpected wounds.
Put down aluminum foil over the old pee spots, and get that Nature’s Miracle enzymatic cleaner. Lots of litter boxes until she figures out what ones she wants.
You can do this.
If you don’t like the look of aluminum foil, you can buy strips of plastic carpet runners at most big hardware stores. You place them upside down so the little plastic pegs that hold the runner to the carpet are face up - it is prickly on their paws and they don’t like it. Worked really well for us in breaking the bad habits of the world’s dumbest feline.
I only have 5 colanders, but I think the chinoise might give me some extra points for style!
Also? I can’t win today. I got out of going to visit Tony’s idiot father and stepmom, but only after much bickering with Tony. (Really, I don’t know why he thinks that nagging and being unpleasant will wake me up more effectively than coffee. We will just argue, and I still won’t be awake. Just fire up the Kuerig: much faster and easier than arguing and apologizing.) Finally, after I stumbled around for about 45 minutes bathing the babies, packing their diapers and snacks and extra clothes, trying desperately to get coherent enough to make coffee and drink coffee and try to get going, Tony finally said “you don’t have to go, just help me get everyone together.” Naturally, I jumped at that chance!
And now, instead of getting a nap, then cleaning and getting crap done without interruptions? I’m barfing my guts out because I stressed so much about the bickering this morning. Yay.
At least I have my colanders…
My local group allows Wanted posts too. Can be helpful.
I did get a lot of response (this was on an older Sunbeam Mixmaster. Works fine, I just upgraded to a Kitchenaid ), which did make selecting the recipient a bit of a challenge. I decided to filter by whose message looked like they could most make good use of it (and the two who wanted to turn a working mixer into a parts donor got deleted. This is still totally usable).