Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Another long day, but I’ll be hittin’ OT by noon.
We had rain overnight and it’s still a bit drizzly. Not enough to wash the mess off my car, tho. I’ll drive thru a car wash on the way home.
This morning, the BBC news on NPR was talking about the Challenger explosion - hard to believe tomorrow’s the 30th anniversary! And based on conversations I’ve heard in the office, the guys in the cubes on either side of me weren’t even born when that happened! I’m surrounded by babies! Again!!
But I just need to get thru today and tomorrow, then I’ll have a 3-day weekend, so yay! And thanks to Lily, I have a hankerin’ for fresh pineapple - guess I’ll have to stop at the store on the way home, too!
Happy Wednesday!!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 53 Amurrkin out and drizzly with a predicted high of 58 and rain. So natch I shall be out and about today. Fortunately it will be all local, so at least there’s that.
Thanks for all the condolences. Mumpers be the best! I should know the final arrangements today. I am assumin’ the funeral will be at the Episcopal church in large and in charge Dawson, but one never knows.
OK, that’s all I got. I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, alas and alack, irk purtification must commence.
Happy Hump Day Y’all!
I was 6. Does that make you feel any better?
As **doggio **says, I’m up, sheveled, and about to head in to irk. Part of me doesn’t want to go due to renovations starting next week 
but the other part of me needs something to do to keep me from worrying. The good thing is now I know why I’m worrying and I recognize that it’s pointless. Doesn’t make it easier to stop, though.
First of all, welcome to Lily and condolences to Swampy. 
I had a fruitful day yesterday. I couldn’t get an earlier appointment at Best Buy yesterday, but I kept the one I already set, so I’m good. Even though I know a radio isn’t the be-all and end-all of existence, patience isn’t something that comes easy.
I go back to work today after two days off. I’m in hibernation mode, so it’ll be an adjustment. I have a lot to do from last week, and I have to get caught up from whatever came in Monday and yesterday. Fortunately, I have Sunday available for overtime. 
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Hump Day. Blurf.
Condolences to Swampy and his friends’ family, and {{{gotti and DH}}}
Welcome Lily; I joined this bunch about 4 months or so back, I compare it to the group of retiree’s down at the Hardee’s sipping coffee and comparing their various fidgets and crochets. A nice, amiable bunch (and FCM keeps a benevolent eye on us all, because she’s NICE, Dammit!!
Happy Hump Day!
It’s a cloudy 36 degrees outside and this is about as good as it’s going to get. A good bit of snow melted away yesterday. The dog will now go from the porch to the deck.
I need to do some laundry today, well maybe tomorrow. Sometime, I still have half a blurf and I’m trying to get it together. I need some breakfast.
Cute kitty** Midget**. She doesn’t look so fat. I could tell you some fat cat stories from pet sitting. I watched some very fat cats, cats whose bellies rubbed the ground when they walked. One was really shy and he’d hide his head behind the furnace or the stove and think I couldn’t see him. Or he’d try to flattened himself on the floor, looked like a big black and white football. Silly cat.
{{{Swampy and Tom}}}
{{{Gotti and DH}}}
Looks like the sun just came out, I wonder for how long?
Getting ready to go see the doctor for the usual 5,000 mile check-up and a toe that has been bothering me for a bit. From there to work. Such is my excitement for a cold January Wednesday.
(Not that I’m complaining. Excitement is overrated at my age)
Yesterday just after noon, I asked my boss for work. Today around 9 - roughly 6 anna half work hours after I talked to him, he came to give me some work. Except the first of the things I was supposed to do couldn’t be done. I’m supposed to be helping one of the other drafters verify library parts. Except he’s a lousy teacher, and the first thing he gave me to verify wasn’t done the way he thought it should be. I understood it, but he had a fit, so he took it back and I have nothing to do now. ugh.
**FCD **is with his surgeon at the moment - he’ll call me afterwards with (I hope) the final pre-surgical update. Always something.
Meanwhile, I’m out of work again. And so it goes…
Amputate…at the neck.
HELP! We’re doing a “team lunch” tomorrow. 11:30 @ a Mexican place.[ul]
[li]1. That’s waaay to early for me, as in 1pm is typically considered an early lunch for me. Eating that early affects when I need to eat dinner & messes up evening plans.[/li][li]2. I don’t like Mexican. [/li][li]3. While I can afford it, I’ve already got leftovers in the fridge that may get tossed, especially if I ‘need’ to go out for lunch that’s just wasted money.[/li][/ul]
In short I don’t WANT to go but do I HAVE to go given its a ‘team building’ thing? What say you Mumpers?
Go and just have a beverage. Plead allergies or something…
Spidey go and don’t eat. Order a drink and be social. Not that kind of drink! Eat at your normal time. Go with “I brought a lunch” or “I can’t eat Mexican” (well, I can’t - stupid IBS), or “I’m not hungry right now”. If the point is the social time, then go enjoy that and skip the rest of it.
Irking from home again today. Poor daughter still has migraine. Stoopid migraines. I am sooooo tired and I went to bed at 8:30 yesterday.
Not much else to report right now. Going to have a bagel and take a shower. Maybe I’ll be more awake after that.
Welcome Lily!
I also crave pineapple sometimes Lily.Just bought a whole one the other day and I don’t think it was worth the trouble to peel it.
At irk of course. Where else would I be?
Blurf! Hugs Swampy
So aggravated with the world.
Once that pineapple hankering takes hold, it’s nearly impossible to shake. The husband kindly procured a stash for me last night.
I am currently enjoying my morning coffee and trying to pep talk myself into getting ready for work.
Spider-Man - Go for a beverage and the team building.
There is so much to agree with on this thread. I also am aggravated with the world. Moreover, there is NOT ENOUGH COFFEE!
Oh, and Mooommm, I was 17 at the time of the Challenger disaster. We’re not all children. Well, chronologically I mean.
One nice thing about Wednesday at work - it’s the day our trashcans get emptied. Mine was pretty full of mostly lunch and breakfast trash, so I’m glad to have it purged.
No clue what the afternoon holds - we’ll see if anyone gives me work to do. I’ve pretty much run out of stuff to amuse myself. One more day…
Mmmmoooommmm If you have a CAC you can join the Navy Library for free and read books. Lucky for me I have a private office with a door I close so no one knows if I’m goofing or not.
Alas, I not only don’t have an office, I have a cubicle that is open to an intersection, so folks coming from the back of the room have a view of me the whole way down the corridor. At least on the computer, depending on how my windows are arranged, I can kinda sorta look like I’m doing something. 
Spousal unit just called - his surgery will be a bit more involved than we’d thought - they’ll be keeping him overnight rather than doing a day surgery. So I’ll have to take 2 days off for sure. Damn the luck. This time next week, they should be wheeling him in to the OR…
I got a cost of living raise. A whopping 1.23%. Living large.