Was that tool I saw drive by? ::Waves:: Hi ya tool!
Peachy sticker is now stuck on the refrigerator. It’ll stay there for a few days then I’ll throw it away. I always decorate the fridge with my peachy sticker after every election for a few days. No, there is no particular reason, I just do. So There! 
We just ate pizza. I also had a couple beerverages. ACBG is reading the paper so I surf for a bit. Then it’ll be snuggle time before Gilmore Girls comes on.
I’m obsessing. I finally heard, for the first time, Weird Al’s “Hardware Store” (it’s on Poodle Hat) I’ve now listened to it 17, make that 18, times in a row.
rosie, I’m right there with you. “Hardware Store” is a fantastic song. IMO, Weird Al’s original material has been getting much better lately.
As for the chocolate issue - really, I don’t understand how chocolate becomes an “issue.” Chocolate is good, end of story. Unless it’s bad chocolate, but that goes for anything. I like chairs, but a crappy chair is, well, crappy.
FCM, what are Egyptian eyes/eggs in a basket/toads in a hole?
Blah. I have another migraine. Or maybe it’s the same one I had yesterday.
On a brighter note, I will get reimbursed for my hospital deductible from last year. So, yay for that. It’s a wash and everybody’s happy. I’ve got no complaints, even if they wouldn’t have reimbursed for it, $100 for a week in the hospital sounds reasonable to me. Beats the $2,000 for 3 days I had to pay back when I had Blue Cross/Blue Shield.
“Egyptian eyes/eggs in a basket/toads in a hole” are, the way my dad made it, a very yummy breakfast food. You need 1 egg, 1 slice of bread, and some butter.
You start with some butter in a skillet on medium heat - while the butter is melting, take the slice of bread, white bread works best, and tear out a hole in the center of the slice. Put the bread in the skillet. Crack open the egg right over the hole in the bread. When the down side of the egg/bread thing is cooked to your liking, flip the whole thing over and let the other side get to the same level of doneness. Transfer to plate and enjoy. We used to put a dollop of maple syrup on ours
I do mine a little different - I butter both sides of the bread, put it on the pre-heated pan, and use a small glass to cut a hole in it. Then I crack an egg in the hole, and toss the buttered disk of bread on another part of the fry pan. And I’ve never eaten it with syrup. I don’t even use salt.
Yum.
Busy MMP today, I see. I have the oval-with-a-U.S.-flag “I voted” sticker. I used to stick them on the calendar, but now they’re on an index card on the fridge.
Sounds like a bureaucratic paradise, Nava. Seems like it would be enough to have you standing in the voting precinct to make them think “Hey, maybe she’s NOT in NY.” But that would be logical and bureaucracies aren’t actually renowned for their logic.
I was complaining about the number of judges we had on our ballot, but we didn’t have 69, so I guess I didn’t have anything to complain about. I didn’t count, but we had about 15. And, yes, I took a cheat sheet. Well, a cheat index card.
Sorry about all the sickies. I guess my moratoria don’t actually carry much weight. 
Hey, Dotster, the sesame noodles were actually very easy. The sauce was actually much thinner than the ones I’ve had at my favorite Chinese restaurant, but the flavor was very similar, even though the sauce was much thinner. I didn’t use a food processor, so there were whole sesame seeds in the sauce, which I liked a lot. I’ll post the recipe after a while.
Hi lightingtool! Nice to see you wander by. Hope you got to vote.
Glad I’m not the only one who plays music obsessively. I’m very good at listening to the same album over and over and over, with additional repeats of my favorite songs.
I just had some Mexican hot chocolate. I was out and restocked after LiLi wrote about it the other day. Stirred it with a real molinillo. Mine looks like the top one. It was just what I needed.
Now I need to do work. I’m still watching Firefly. I’m up to Ariel, for anyone who’s interested. Haven’t watched it in a long long time. Still interesting.
Don’t think I’ve ever had toad-in-a-hole. Maybe for breakfast tomorrow.
Hi to anyone I missed.
Back later.
GT
Firefly remains my very favourite glowy-square-box thing to watch, ever.
I am about to wash the dinner dishes, and then maybe collapse. I’m working tomorrow, so I hope I don’t get more sick. Blergh. If I am very ill, I’ll just go in to cover breaks, and stare blankly into space.
Mine too. I’m up to Trash at the moment, although I got distracted earlier and missed most of War Games.
I think it’s time for you to have some nice hot tea, or hot limeade, or some other nice hot beverage that will make you feel better. Go crawl into bed. Dishes will still be there tomorrow. ::Shoves a choice of hot beverages through the CD tray::
Wish the election returns would hurry up and come it. The really big races are settled, but I’m more interested in some of the smaller ones. Looks like our state representative might have been unseated. He didn’t campaign much and didn’t bother to return the League of Women Voters survey. (He seems to have a very organized office; the one time I wrote him, I received an immediate response.) He’s a Republican and probably the more qualified candidate, but I think he took his district for granted.
Now I’m back to work. Actually getting a bit done.
GT
Something nice and hot would be comforting, but our apartment is always too hot in winter, and I’m frying in a tank top right now. What we need is full-on snow and -30 temps, with the windows open.
Thanks. The limeade is yummy. I think I’ll just put one shot of amaretto in it…
I was mistaken for a rat today(you peons can keep your manager jokes to yourself )! I was moving some things on a display when one of my employees came up and screeched. She didn’t see me, so she thought the rustling noise was a rodent. For the easily confused here are some pictures:
dogbutler rat
I noticed customers at work had stickers, so I guess my precinct workers just didn’t care.
rosie, you don’t vote, and don’t like chocolate? You’re one of them Communists, aren’t you?
LiLi, the last time I had real company was when a neighbor stopped by to borrow a couple of beers.
Before-Bed-Driveby.
Busy day at work. Felt blah all day, but not as bad as Monday. It’s been raining all day and probably won’t stop 'til Thursday. At least it isn’t freezing cold.
Got a spam E-Mail today that had nothing to say that I cared to read but had the best subject line: “roast barnard.” Yes, that’s right: Band name!
Okay. Gonna go watch House since I missed it at 9, then I’m going to sleep.
Blargle I need chocolate. It’s good for my germs, y’see. Yes, I’ve got germs. Lots of 'em. I made it into work today despite having been awake since 1am. The last couple of days I’ve had a sore throat and a bit of a headache, yesterday it all got significantly worse. Last night I went to bed early with a cup of lemon and ginger tea (with sugar and a shot of whisky), some paracetomol and decongestants. Had a lovely sleep for a couple of hours then I was wide awake, all snuffly and not able to breathe.
So in between being hot and cold, blowing my poor little red nose, coughing, sniffing, sneezing and generally being grumpy, I’m sitting here in the office wishing I was anywhere else. But the boss expects me to be here today. One day I want to be dispensable.
Oh, and we had virtually no UK news on BBC’s Breakfast show this morning. Apparently you lot are having elections and that means nothing else is happening in the world!
Sounds like Ophie spent so much time pedaling for other people that she forgot you. Maybe you need an additional cat?
Here…have some extra chocolate!
How is it morning already?
GT
Thanks, GT - poor Ophie’s had to work very hard today because one of my friends has a cat with IBS who’s at the vets on a drip, and another friend has a cat who’s gone walkabout. Definitely we need another one otherwise she’ll pedal those little legs away to nothing, but the additional cat plan doesn’t come into operation until January.
It’s morning already because I’m over here and you’re over there…in fact, give it another hour or so and it’ll be afternoon. Am off to the shop now, need more tissues!
Ooooh, I can do pictures now!
Here’s Nicky in the crockpot. I had washed the liner and he just had to get in the base to see if he would fit. You know how cats are.
Here’s an arty shot of him that my daughter took.
This is Molly the Powershedder. She really looks dumb in in this shot because she has her eyes closed.
Understand, please, it’s not that I don’t, it’s that last night I wasn’t physically able. (I know you were kidding but I want to vent a bit) I believe in voting. I used to believe it mattered. Now I believe it’s a necessary ritual to make the public think they actually have some sort of power.
written in the early 70s, that’s possibly the most wonderfully ironic lines I’ve ever heard. Anyway, I will take steps next year to get an absentee ballot just in case I am still in physical distress. [end vent]
One of the ads is for knockout transgenic mice.
dogbutler, you share all sorts of similarities with rats. Like… four limbs. You’ve both got four limbs. And, if you got infected, you could be a plague vector. Maybe.
Hmm.
I’m feeling better, although not 100%. I’ll go in to work, explain, and if I need to I’ll leave early. Aslong as I’m there till three it should be fine.
Hump day! And traditionally one of our slow days, so despite recently unpredictable work flow, I’m going to hope that it’s a nice slow day. It was wonderfully foggy out this morning. I like fog. I’m not sure why, it’s just cool. Perhaps because it’s an indication of warmer temperatures and a lack of wind which means a nice comfortable day – or morning, at least, since I expect more rain today. Bleh.
BiblioCat - Cute kitty, beautiful dog. Lab?
anyrose - Officially the individual does have power, it’s just that spread amongst millions and millions of people, it feels like an infinitesimally small amount such that only in the most diaphanous of margins could one person hope to hold any significant sway over which way it ends up going. What turns me off politics are the negative campaigns some of them run. While it’s one thing to point out an opponent’s less desirable traits and platforms, it’s quite another to do so without explaining one’s own position and serves only to imply that the candidate in question wants you to vote for him purely on the grounds that he’s not the other guy. That sort of street corner politics doesn’t inspire me to want to vote for anyone.
I wish I could say that Canada’s reputation as a “nice” country could extend to our politics, but we pretty much follow suit in that arena. Pitiful.
dogbutler - Were you by any chance doing a James Cagney impersonation at the time?
I know, I’ve only missed one local election in 17 years of voting.
LiLi, maybe I should put plague vector on my nametag? :eek:
Bibs, I bet Molly likes the crockpot pic best.
