Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 74 Amurrkin out and partly cloudy whatever that means, with a predicted high of 86 and afternoon rain/tstorms/apocalypse. We plan on some quality cee-mint pond time today, so chances are the apocalypse will descend. Rah. I promised fried chikin for sup so that must also occur.
Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Afterwards, onward into the day.
Happy Sattidy Y’all!
doggio, I looked at the Rio when I was shopping for my S10. I would have considered it this time, but I’m not sure that I could get in and out of it when I’m 65. 
Mooooom, do you buy your wood pellets from an Amish vendor?
Up, caffeinating, breakfasting and getting ready to change rental cars this morning. This afternoon, I get my hair cut and after that, it’s chillage. I have an easy supper in the crock (chicken, black beans and greens) because I still don’t feel like doing something more complicated.
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Closing shift tonight.
Well, if I can make a car last 18 years, I would be happy to have an awkward entry or 2.
Morning all. Up, dog walked and breakfast et. Who says one cannot eat grilled chicken, potatoes and okra for breakfast?
Happy Weekend all!
Happy Saturday!
Already humid outside, was overcast, but now the sun is shining.
I thought I had my weekend planned, but irk sent an email asking for those of us who can to irk this weekend.
I need the money, of course I always need the money, but I also need to get some stuff done around here.
I’ll figure it out sometime today.
I’ve been pretty busy this morning anyway. I woke at 3, got a few things done, and went back to bed at 6. I woke at 7:30 to find Ripple’s face in my face.
No - we go to a farm supply store. The Amish sell the same brands, but at a higher price, and they don’t deliver and stack in our garage.
Speaking of which, we’re back, having been refunded. We breakfasted at Denny’s, hence heartburn. I’ve got my first load in the washer with 3 more to go. And it’s not noon yet!! 
Well, it’s 1000, I’m up, sipping a cup of coffee, and not rushing off to work in the dark, which is wonderful. I have to work today but not until this afternoon.
^^^^^ And I have a fancy new Dope membership and title to show off! Yay me!
So I have a story I just have to share:
On Wednesday at work my frustrations were about to boil over. See, the classrooms all have desktop computers installed, but the internet speeds are snail slow. The [del]inmates[/del] students actually like this because they can claim, with some justification, that the reason they aren’t doing any of their assigned work is because the various websites that we use are slow to load. I’m really new in this particular position so don’t know what the accepted protocol most instructors have for this situation. However, I decided that this was a crock and everyone was wasting their time. So on break I mentioned to the other faculty that were on shift that I was going to 86 the computers and pull out the big books that they used to use—old school teaching. I was warned that the students would riot and everyone would go to the boss and complain and make up accusations about me and I would be better to just leave them be. I was warned that one particular student in particular, which here I’ll call Jane, would be the worst offender and again I should let sleeping dogs lie. Yeah ok. Not.
So Thursday I got there early and told the boss what I was planning so that he would be forewarned and prepared for the onslaught of complaints he was about to receive. He was cool with it, so I went into the classroom and wrote a notice on the board that there would be no more computer use without my expression permission. I made sure all the books were set out on the table and prepared myself for war.
And… nothing happened. The students each picked up a book and started working. I was flabbergasted, but quite happy. Jane started doing actual work, and by the end of the day she’d done 8 or 10 pages of work. Yesterday was similar—no computers, all students doing book work.
As I was packing up and locking up the classroom at the end of the day the department head (the guy who I had given the advance warning to) and one of the head teachers came in and asked me how it was going. I told them that I was a bit dejected that Jane had only done half a dozen pages of work in the 6+ hours she’d been in class.
They looked at each other for a long second and then department head informed me that that was most work Jane had done in something like 8 months. The other teachers were somewhat scared of her because of her reputation as a shitstirrer and leader of the “bad kids” clique. Thus they basically let her do her own thing. In 18 months she has only earned half the requisite GED credits and everyone has given up on her as a lost cause.
Yet she actually did work when I asked her to. Amazing.
A good end to the week, I must say.
Anyway, we’re off tomorrow to visit Crater Lake NP. We live an hour and half or so from the park but I haven’t been up there since, IIRC, 2013. My wife, who’s lived here her whole life, has never been. So it’ll be a good day. My graduate school classes begin on Tuesday, so it’s back to the grind then. Yuck.
Hope everyone is having a good day!
Hey swampie, guess what I just found out? See, our Episcopal Diocese of Kansas will be electing a new bishop in October. There were two candidates, but now a third has been added by petition. But whoever the winner is, it will be a woman! All three candidates are female!!! That’s the first time in the ECUSA that all candidates in such an election are women. Isn’t that cool?
One of the candidates formerly served here as a canon. She got married here, I was at the wedding, and her father-in-law is a member of our congregation.
I reckon your laundry load has doubled and then some.
My laundry is the same as it always was. The other adults in the household are more than capable of doing their own, and they do. 
Last load in the dryer. **FCD **and I just made the bed, and he’s napping. Our housemates are in Solomons for the Dragon Boat Festival - it involves rowing races on the Patuxent River. It’s nice and quiet. I think it’s time for some Netflix.
Howdy Y’all! Been a lazy day here at da cave. We got in some quality cee-mint pond time. All food ingestion has been via sammiches and chips. I shall be good again tomorrow and actually cook for suppage. Today, however, sloth continues to ensue.
CupCakes 
The ECUSA survived havin’ a woman as PB so I reckon your diocese will survive havin’ a woman Bishop. 
My church has a woman as Senior Warden. So far, we have survived earthquake, famine, plague, pestilence, and the buildin’s fallin’ in, so I guess we done good.
Ouch. At the soccer fields from 7am to 3pm (the promised rain/thunder/lightning never materialized) so I am Thor all over. had enough energy left to go eat at the Golden Corral, so I am now sore and stuffed.
Lancia, amazing sometimes what people will do in situations; glad it worked out so well for you.
cupcakes, swampy, so while Catholics can’t conceive of Woman Bishops, The ECUSa has Bishops that can conceive…
FCM, when you finish your laundry, do you want to come and start on mine? I need to get to the laundromat since my stuff is in storage, but I just can’t seem to find the time. The baskets are beginning to overflow…
Sunny, hope school goes well for the Sunbeam.
Tis been a bizzy day!
I got the rental cars switched. Now I’m driving a Corolla. Yay! Easiet to get in and out of and all of the controls are in teh expected places. I should know what and when I will get my new wheels sometime this week.
I also got my hair cut this afternoon, so no more woofy hair. The chicken, black bean and spinach stew is good.
Not if it’s altar boys.
I drive a Corolla Red. You will love it.
The Corolla was my first choice originally but between teh price and the difference in insurance, it won’t be what I purchase. 
I’m just glad to be in one for the duration.
After dozing on the bus on the way to my dad’s house today, I got to the house and got into bed. I conked out and slept soundly for an hour. I needed coffee to wake me up.
Worked, came home. It was monsooning on the way home. And there were pickup trucks full of rednecks running around in the rain.:dubious: gonna test drive a Rio tomorrow.
I know. And quitting is fairly easy; so far its been 5 times this year alone but that is far behind my record set in 1988 of 22 times. Some day? Could happen. For now I will settle for just getting it a little less as time passes and in that I’ve had some success.
This was the last day for one of our all-time great managers who is going over to the delivery side of the operation. Did a double plus some to share it all with him. Much joy at good times past and the brightness this puts in his future.
You could just call him HN. We had a friend with a cat named PITA for one sort of particular pain.