It’s been fairly contentious anyway, they broke two pieces of stained glass when they loaded it out. They paid from them, but it took several letters and calls to get it.
Out for a walk yesterday, I took a bumblebee straight to the nose. Fortunately it was the insect and not the autobot.
I’m almost done stacking - I had to take a break and get rehydrated. I got rid of the sweatshirt, and even with just a T, I’m sweating like crazy!
When I’m done, I’ll post couple of pics so you can appreciate my labors.
Sorry about the hassles Picu! That really blows. Reminds me of the time my sister was taking a nap with her newborn baby. Due to the heat, she was wearing just underpants and a bra and sleeping on the covers with the baby in the bassinet beside her. She was rudely awakened by the apartment complex’s maintenance man standing over her and saying, “I love my job!”. Apparently he was there to change a battery in a fire alarm. Thanks to my pushing, my sister complained to her landlord and got 2 rent free months and a written guarantee that no one would enter her apartment without her permission.
Sweetie asked me to call Game Stop to see if they have Star Wars Battlefront II. He’s been trying to find it for years but apparently it’s very hard to get a hold of. The Game Stop guy said they don’t carry anything before xBox 360 and suggested I try this store in Worcester. Amazingly enough, they had it and for only $25 (Amazon, whey the have it, get a minimum of $45 for it). So, I drove all the way to Worcester to get it for him. He’s playing it now. It’s a good thing he didn’t go with me because we’d still be in that store. Nerd Heaven I tells ya!
Just cooked up 2 pounds of chicken liver for class tonight. I have no problem touching liver or dissecting liver but the smell of cooking liver just gags me. I hope that the Terrible Iggy Dammit realizes what I put myself through for him.
**Mom, **everyday is “Block the aisles” day at The Walmarts around here. I have to go to Walmart on my next trip to McMinnville 'cause they’re one of the few places I can find size 14 shoes. And I wanna see if they still sell generic saline solution. I use a lot of it and none of the stores in my little town sell a generic anymore except Fred Meyers, and their prices keep going up. I suppose $3.00 a bottle is better than $5.00 a bottle for the name brand, but I used to get it for $1.49 a bottle at Bi-Mart. :dubious:
Picu, you have a glass studio? We do too, for fused glass. It didn’t start out to be a glass studio, but it is now. Someday I’ll tell the story. But not now.
That’s all I got.
So, what has **FCM **been doing all day, you may ask… I did this, and this. The ibuprofen seems to be helping, but what I really need now is a shower, and someone to make supper. I think all I’ll get is the shower. Oh well…
This made me laugh out loud, literally.
My brother and I grew up with wood heat. I don’t know how many times I showed him how to stack wood so the ends don’t collapse, the moron never got it. To this day he pounds a couple of T-posts into the ground, strings some bailing wire between the tops to keep them from bending over, and hopes he has enough room between the posts for however much wood he has. Often he has to re-position the posts and cut a new length of wire.
If I was on speaking terms with him I would show him that pic, let him know I was right all along.
Really? The jenga stack method wasn’t discovered by me? Well, there goes that Nobel Prize for Firewood… 
Seriously, I’d never seen it done that way, but I’d seen wood stacked like the ends for sale. I just applied some thought to the problem of how I would contain the wood on the concrete pad, and there it was. Great minds think alike and all that.
Nope. Sorry. 
That’s how we stack it too. We didn’t know how to stack it our first year here so we had posts in the ground like Fiat mentioned. When Sweetie’s brother in law came for Christmas, he laughed at how we stacked it and showed us the right way. It really does work very well.
I think you get bonus points for figuring it out yourself though.
I finished writing the flashback for issue one for my Nano series. It ended up scripted as five pages. I’m not sure how many pages I’m up to for that issue, but I have at least five more I figure. I guess the first issue will end up ‘double-sized’. Now I need to get it typed up and maybe finally get to the climax of that issue (not to be confused with the climaxes of the porn I’m also writing, of which there may be multiple in a chapter if you know what I mean waggles eyebrows )
I confess. The reason I don’t have a fireplace is because I don’t know how to stack firewood. I am hopeless.
It has nothing to do with the fact that you probably only need a fire 2 or 3 days a year?
Actually it has more to do with the fact that if’n I had a fireplace I’d have to clean it and since I don’t like cleanin’ up to begin with, why would I want sump’n else to clean.
I be a lazy bear.
Culinary Boy had an appointment at the VA today, so we made an outing of it. We got lunch at Zaxby’s, then went up the Blue Ridge Parkway and made a picnic at the first available overlook. We had some time to kill before the appointment, so we stopped off at the Folk Art Center for a whirlwind tour of their upstairs exhibits. Then we went to the VA. His appointment was only 30 minutes, so I said I’d wait in the car. I read The Well of Loneliness. He came back after 30 minutes and said he had to get his prescription filled. I read more of The Well of Loneliness. Forty-five minutes later he was back. There was A Line at the pharmacy.
Steak is in the broiler, twice baked N.O.T. are warming in the microwave, broccoli is steaming in the steamer. Five minutes to yummy supper!
I will take the bonus points for figuring out the stack secret. Does that come with chocolate? Or maybe a back rub??
My dad taught me the great firewood secret when I was a kid. I have no clue why he didn’t teach my brother. My dad would go to the local newspaper’s printing office, get a few wood pallets, and we would stack the wood on them. No posts or wire, wood stayed dry. We would wrap it with a big tarp, and dad kept a big wheelbarrow on the porch. Every couple days we would take the wheelbarrow over to the woodpile, fill it up, and bring it back to the porch, ready to feed the woodstove for another couple of days. Criss-crossing the ends, I never had a woodpile collapse. My brother, on the other hand, has had several collapse, usually when the wood isn’t lined up with the posts and simply tips over.
Or a can of tuna.
That’s all I got. Monday is finally over. Blurf.
Bri2k
Good stories. Your program sounded like lots of fun, rosie. And your flight landing story was cool, too, FCM.
::waves at SO::
Long day that started with me running late.
Voting tomorrow, finally.
Hugs to all.
GT
The hospital I work at has merged with another, and I am spending the next 2 weeks at the"other" hospital training physicians on the new electronic health record. I have to be there at 6am which means I have to get up at 4:30 am. I have NEVER gotten up at 4:30 in my life. But it’s 6:30 pm now, I finished my first day, and I’m still awake. You will all have to carry on without me for the rest of the week.
Well, I feel better today, but that’s because I’ve had some limited success with the dog, and Mom had to deal with Dad all day long.
She had to take him to a couple of doctor appointments, and on the way out from one, he started getting all impatient and testy with her, insisted she hurry up, and when she pulled out of the parking lot and got in line, a distracted driver hit her. Not her fault, but totally wouldn’t have happened if she hadn’t given into Dad and his hurry-hurry-hurry.
She tells me about it. I hug her and commiserate, point out that I scrubbed one large spot of dog-pee-soaked carpet, and offer to run to the store for her. Then Dad comes by and tells me I need to be nice to her, because she’s having a hard day.
That man’s going to wake up dead one of these days, and he’ll have no idea why.
In the meantime, I have two goals with the puppy:
- convince her that the kennel will not eat her.
- catch her peeing outside and reward the hell out of her.
Number 2 was successful. Number 1 may take a while.