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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’m slightly more awake now.

LOUNE, you should be happy. I’m not a morning person today.

I don’t remember who posted about lists in Excel, and I’m too lazy to go back and look today, but I think that is a wonderful idea!! I’m a HUGE list maker, my husband makes fun of me for it, but hey at least I get everything we need.

Each year we go camping and I tend to make the same list, and finally this year, I typed it up and saved it. Don’t have to recreate the wheel each year. Plus you are organized. I can’t tell you how many family members always come over and ask us to borrow something because they forgot it while camping. I was a girl scout, I learned how to be prepared, LOL.

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Yeah, he’s alept alone for the past few years.

He also described you as “grabby” and a snorer.

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W00t! We have internet!

Hello everybody! Everything’s okay, the move went well (although it was fricking hot) and all our stuff is scattered about. I’ve got to head up to the old place and scrub the bathroom and wipe down the kitchen. It’s appalling and embarrassing how much cat hair and dust hides behind furniture you never move.

I’m still all tired.

Today I’m off, so it’s chores and unpacking, and then there’s a nacho party at Lazy HUsband’s tonight? Which we’ll probably go to, and I’ll have to watch Alien vs. Predator or something.

See, you’re wrong. Negative number would be much, much more pleasant.

We’ll have pics of our new home as soon as we locate the camera.

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Happy Friday, Everybody!!!

Unless shite happens, this is going to be an easy-peasy day. One team leader is off on vacation, my cow-orker is off today, there’s a birthday luncheon that promises to be one of those long ones, and nothing is pending on the horizon.

taters, they are just jealous of your efficiency.

kay, that’s great on the baby moving. Although I had two C-sections and both were complication free, it ain’t no picnic.

McUne, belated congrats.

haze, she who laughs last, laughs best. I’m SO proud of you! :smiley:

li-li, don’t sweat it. Everybody finds a furball or two when they move. Glad you’re back.

The pool dig, plumbing, and rebar passed inspection and they should be shooting the concrete today. I am very happy with how well this is all moving along. Everybody keep fingers crossed that it remains as speedy.

Guess I’ll go find sumpin to do for a while.

Tupug

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Taters, I’ll bet you a small pile of money that the majority of the weight loss is dehydration. I base this on my annual Allergies From Hell[sup]tm[/sup]; when they become a raging sinus infection that turns into bronchitis, I don’t wanna do anything except drill into my nose with a 3/8" bit. Eating and drinking are the first to go. The good news, at least for me, is that something as simple as amoxicillin tames the green crud very quickly.

Good vibes head your way for your kid…

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Good morning everyone!!

Hey, what happened to Dotty last night? Did I chase her away too? I took a shower. . . yesterday. Maybe I have to brush my teeth too.

rosie, good luck with the show, but it is NOT raining men!

~waving~ to LOUNE and popcorn shrimp Toby.

swampy, you’re having waaay too much fun at work.

Taters, organization skills are a requirement for analytical jobs. What an odd thing for that guy to say. I hope your son is better soon.

McUNE, congrats on the new job! :::snoopy dance:::
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kai**, nice to see you again. Good news about your daughter!

Lili, welcome back. . . glad the move went well!

I’m awake and sort of moving. Happy Friday everyone!

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Up, caffeinated, and working. A glorious long weekend awaits for some of us Ontarians, and I plan to enjoy it in the usual manner: Sleep. :smiley: Monday we’re going over to a friend’s place though, where I will be cooking a nice dinner of Shrimp Fettuccine Alfredo. Yeah, that stuff’s a heart attack on a plate, but I use low calorie margarine and 18% table cream instead of the 35% the recipe usually calls for, and I use half as much margarine and just make up for it with extra Parmesan, so it’s not a total fat-fest. :slight_smile:

'Dozers are currently in the process of tearing the crap out of our front parking lot. I was not expecting this; apparently it’s been on the lunch room bulletin board for a while. I never read that thing, so I wasn’t prepared to arrive this morning to find a pair of bulldozers caterpillaring around a bed of gravel that was once asphalt. They’re working pretty quickly though. With any luck it’ll be finished by day’s end and we’ll have a fresh new parking lot. Not that this affects me in any conceivable way, since I don’t drive.

I’ve been known to make lists. This is mostly because my short term memory capacity for remembering items decreases with the more items that are on that list. So I make lists for anything where it is important that I remember everything on that list. I make these lists on my Treo, in what is effectively a scratch notepad, so I can take that list wherever I go. Lists are especially important when I’m planning something that requires me to bring along a number of items, because as I go I will probably think of more things that I need to bring, so I can just add it to the list instead of trying to commit it to memory – a surefire way to forget it within 5 minutes.

Swampbeer - Beer run. Put out. Push in. Pull out. Jeez, did you have to wear latex? <snerk>

Hank - Now that’s putting the guy in his place with class. :slight_smile: Sucks about the teaching bit though – they really need to get their act together. That’s just wholly unprofessional.

LiLi - Glad the move went well, even if you picked a record-breaking hot day to do it. I must respectfully disagree that -35°C would have been better than the heat yesterday, however, as that’s just crazy talk. Unless you’re a penguin.

Heff&Roo - Red Green? Bleh. Lame show. Rick Green was the only good thing on it, but even there his talent was wasted. Give me back The Frantics/4 On The Floor any day! Oh, and Prisoners of Gravity, too.

[sub]Boot to da head! (Naaa naaa!)[/sub]

Sean - Buying condoms (separate from feminine hygiene products) says “I’m gettin’ some.” Buying a lot of condoms says “I’m gettin’ some regularly.” Buying feminine hygiene products says “I’m gettin’ some, but not today. Today, I must do this in order to ensure that I will continue to get some in the future.” Buying feminine hygiene products without shame or self-consciousness says, “I’ve been married long enough to have come to terms with the fact that this scenario is unavoidable and my Harley days are behind me. Please hold my diaper bag.”
[sub]In case it isn’t clear, this is intended as humour. I do not necessarily subscribe to these ideas. Completely. Maybe a bit. Perhaps.[/sub]

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Morning everyone! Glad y’all appreciated my little story. :slight_smile:

He took it gracefully, I’ll give him that. He laughed, raised his glass, and said, “Touche,” then drank. I’ve always been wary about referring to our whole trainwreck, even in front of friends who know all about it, because we’ve always played the let’s-pretend-nothing-is-wrong game when we’re together as a group. But it’s kind of silly because everyone DOES know that it happened, and after everything I went through I think I have the right to make snarky comments to his face, if nothing else.

Thank God it’s Friday! Li-Li, glad to hear the move went well.

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Good morning everyone. Happy, happy Friday.

li-li, I’m glad the move went well.

I overslept, big time, dammit. I had planned on being up NLT than 0700. Instead, I didn’t open my eyes until 0930. That is really sleeping in for me.

Shower has been taken and in a few minutes I’ll head upstairs to blow dry my hair and stuff.

Next step is to call the doc so we can get my son in. Keep your fingers crossed.

I also have several errands to run today. I was hoping to get a pedicure today, but it looks like that’ll have to wait.

You know, I’m still sleepy. I think I could have slept for at least a couple hours more.

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Hey Y’all, just a quick post before gettin’ geared up for work. Today is a dark blue pocket t with blue jeans. I tried to get into the Dope a buncha times this mornin’ but couldn’t til just now. :mad:

Anywho, gotta go get ready to make the beer. This should also be a kinda easy day. Just checkin’ equipment, etc cause the fillers should still be down for maintenance time. They were taken down at ten last night and are supposed to be down til tomorrow morning. Oh and today is (duh!) First Friday, so after work we hang out, drink a couple beerverages and have snackies for a bit. Should be fun.

Later Y’all!

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That’s roughly how I was feeling last night after cajoling the router to pass packets. For some perverse reason, it decided to stop getting an IP from my ISP, so I had to plug in all of the boring details manually.

Then it was time to convince the laptop that I had a network again, and remember where Mac hides the slots to plug in network names and passwords to enable automatic connections. But, it’s all good now. For now.

We’re doing another PBS night - if anyone’s in the Bay Area and wants to watch an evening of mystery (actually the show is called Mystery!) I’ll be on KTEH (San Jose’s channel 54) answering phones. I’ll be the one dressed in Renaissance garb. :cool: Actually, all 25 or so of us will be dressed up. The fun part is we got an email yesterday that they’ve reconfigured the studio so the hosts will be in front of the volunteers instead of on the other side of the room from us, so we’ll get a lot more visibility.

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Acutally Roo, I don’t have a new job yet. Just a phone interivew. But I’m crossing my fingers. :slight_smile:

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I might be a penguin. I don’t want to talk about it. That’s personal. And -35 means snow and wind and hot chocolate and curling up on the couch. It’s a lot better than right now (Which is 32, humidex 38)

The fun part about the move was Mr. Lissar talking to the telephone people on Wednesday, and hearing them say, “You won’t have phone access today. The employee who was supposed to do your switchover didn’t do it.”, and him saying, " I won’t have phone access because the guy decided not to do the job?"

“Yes, sir.”

“Do you see this as a problem?”

“Well, sir, we might be able to have you hooked up by Thursday evening.”

“You might?”

“Yes, sir.”

I hope we get something free out of them. Or at least an apology, or something. We notified them about the move last week. They also told us that it was policy to only activate one phone jack per household, which is monumentally stupid and weird. We’ve got about seven phone jacks in this place, and we can only use one?

Laundry is done, and I’m going to lie around for a bit before unpacking.

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Gah! That’s twice now the F*&^%#$ hamsters have eaten my post!!!

Sorry, but I am not going to do that again!

Yays, boos, hugs and best wishes as appropriate. This day has been a total f%$#&( write-off! Time to give up and go to bed!!! :frowning:

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Well, I spoke to the doctor’s office and my son has an appointment at 2:30 today.

As soon as they heard about the weight loss, they we’re all over it. His appetite definitely not been up to par, so I’m sure that contributed to the weight loss. He usually eats everything in sight.

Wow, li-li, your phone service people are definitely jacked up. That sucks.

Somehow, I’ve been booted to the computer upstairs. I don’t know how that works, hmmmm. I guess I’ll set up the printer here. Next, I’ll have to hook up the other printer to the downstairs computer. That way we’ll be able to print here and there.

I should head down to the sporting goods store and buy a new air mattress and some propane tanks for our little grill and our campstove. I also need bug repellent. At least I’d have that out of the way.

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Looks like I timed my nap well so I didn’t even notice the Dope was down. Yay! There’s nothing more annoying than not being able to visit the Dope. Even when I have at least 20 zillion more productive things I should be doing. I didn’t sleep very soundly, but I did have lots of weird dreams while the cat snuggled up next to me and cranked up the purr. It’s always so relaxing to have a cat purring you to sleep!

Yay for a successful move, LiLi! Boo to the stupid phone people, though. Only one jack? That’s nuts. Why shouldn’t all the jacks be active once they turn the phone on? I’ve never heard of having to turn each jack on separately.

I hope your son feels better soon, Taters. Sinus stuff is so frustrating. There’s not very many things nicer than when the antibiotics kick in and start fighting back the green stuff! So good luck getting him seen today and getting him feeling better soon.

Back to doing something productive, alas.

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Another work week down the tubes - yay!

And another very weird dream leading to a broken night last night - boo! One of the weirdest parts of the dream was when I had to drive 2 girls, one of whom was Haze, to prison. :eek: Our sweet, innocent Haze, a convict - who’d’a thunk it?!? There was also a part that involved a coworker who just left for a new job, and a lot of stuff about ceramics. And I woke up exhausted. Stoopit dream.

In a little bit, I’m going to change into grubbies and start loading the van for a trek to the convenience center. It’s been a trashy week, and there’s a lot of recycling to go, too.

Taters, hope the Dr finds a simple explanation.

**Puggy ** - get that pool done - I need to cool off!! :stuck_out_tongue:

**kai ** - safe trip and happy grandbaby!!

**MamaTigs ** - BWI isn’t that bad, or maybe I’ve just had more practice than you. DCA is the airport from hell.

Everybody else - I forgot, so consider yourselves hugged or butt-patted, as you desire.

Other than that, nothing. TGIF!!!

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Well, I did get fined once for staying in a park after hours. I knew my past would catch up to me some day. :frowning:

Oh and I forgot to say - good luck with the interview, McUne!

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Home from work. I didn’t kill anybody, and I wasn’t killed, so I guess it was a good day.

Yay for getting Intarweb tubes, LiLi. I have pet hair everywhere, dog hair on the ground, cat hair up on the furniture.

Prayers and good wishes for the Taterson.

Haze in prison? I’d watch that movie. :smiley:

Good F*&^%#$ night, Dotty Potty Mouth. :wink:

Pool party at puggy’s! swampy can bring the beer.

kai, enjoy the trip

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Back from the convenience center. Garbage and recycling have been disposed of, and the garbage cans have been hosed out - they were pretty gross. :eek: I’ve got the sprinkler giving a drink to one of the small gardens in front of the house, and later I’ll move it to the other garden. This drought is murder on my sparse yard plantings.

**FCD ** should be home soon with his car. Then we’ll go out to eat, and claim my car, which he will have left on the lot at the shop. Tomorrow, my car goes to the dealer for my second of three free oil changes, and then we’ll go shoe shopping. Not girly shoe shopping. I need sneaks, and I want to go back to the place that carries the ones I like. And **FCD ** needs some new Rockports - his are literally falling apart.

I’m thinking I may use a beverage to help myself sleep tonight. I need some rest, dagnabbit!! No dreams! No cats on the head!! Just sleeeeeeeeep! please??