They like to do them at the same time, since they’ve already cut into the abdominal cavity. Different procedure though.
As I searched for pretzels in the grocery store, an attractive young woman walked by speaking on her cell phone. In a pleasant voice, she asked, “Are they all buried?”
I just kept on walking.
Pretzels be damned.
BLURFI am so aggravated I could just scream. After Irma I was told the computer equipment was dead and was so old there was no replacement. Then I was issued a laptop and a hotpot. Then someone actually came along and fixed the old equipment. Then Big Navy turned off the now functioning computers. So, just use the laptop. But the hotspot does not work. Well try to plug in the Cat 5 cable. Okay, it works. Then why not just turn back on the old desktops that were turned off? Can’t do that. New laptops on order for everyone. :smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack:
**Butters **- how long have you worked for the Navy? C’mon, you know how things work… It’s Firday - think chill thoughts. 
In about 7 hours, I did everything that I could do for FCD’s project. If he gets the answers to my questions and lights a fire under his sluggard junior engineer, I can probably finish it all next week. So I guess I won’t be doing a long-term 5-day week. Which is fine.
We’re going out for supper. Not sure where, but I don’t have to cook, so I’m good with it. Our furnace was serviced today - we need to turn off the pellet stove and make sure the furnace does its thang. Nothing will guarantee an Arctic winter like a non-functional furnace.
… or not. **FCD **changed his mind about going out, so I just threw together a chickie salad with the leftover rotissed chickie. We’re in for the night.
Howdy Y’all! Been an afternoon of wait on ATT but when the guy got here he did everything in about forty minutes so there’s that. Poor guy has been through hell today. I was his fourth install. I suggested he go have a beer or six. He agreed. Anywho, I have a shiny (well it’s actually flat black) new modem and cheaper service so win-win for da bear! OYKW has pizza and is happy. I want sump’n to eat but don’t know what. Guess I should figure that out.
Yaay bear!! New cable is good.
Having skipped the 'Dope all day, yes, I’m still alive. Though perhaps unmissed.
The day started with a blood draw and generally got better after that. Of course I was supposed to fast for that but forgot and had my first cup of creamed coffee before I remembered. :smack: Then when I got to the place they told me I had no appointment. Which meant much extra waiting. Why no appointment when I have the confirmation email right here in my phone? Because I’d made it for their other location across town. :smack::smack:
After that fine start, the rest of the day just had to improve. Much erranding and spreadsheeting ensued and I actually got my admin backlog *almost *off my desk. Yaay me! Just need the people who took Fri afternoon off to call me on Mon to clear up the last of it. All that and a nap.
Dinner is trapped once again between the rapidly closing jaws of increasing hunger and decreasing ambition. It’s worst when that happens on Fri or Sat night because then a quickie meal out just to avoid cooking gets mixed up with the Hordes enjoying their Weekend Night Out.
Chickie salad was good. Ice cream later.
Our Dr office doesn’t make appointments for lab work. You just show up and sign in. They start at 7:30 - I’m always there at 7 when it’s fasting blood work. I get a terrible headache if I don’t have breakfast at a reasonable time. I’m such a delicate flower.
This is LabCorp. They don’t require appointments either. But since easily 75% of their work is typical routine checkup bloodwork that has to be drawn fasting, half their daily customers show up in the first 30 minutes they’re open.
So they offer online appointment registration. And in effect the appointment people go to the head of the line when they arrive. The non-appointment people wait for a gap in the flow of appointment people. So how many appointments do they issue in each 15 minute block? More than they have workers to handle.
So you in effect have two choices: Make an appointment a couple weeks in advance and waltz in and back out in 20 minutes total. Or arrive at 7:30am and sit there until 9:30 idling in the slow lane while appointment after appointment walks in, gets seen, and waltzes out looking smugly over their shoulder at the chumps. I had planned for Door #1 but ended up in Door #2. Dumbass.
LabCorp here, too, but no option for appointments. Luckily, I just have to deal with it once or twice a year, so it’s not a major pain, just a minor one. Apart from being stuck, which is a pain because I have crappy veins, but that’s another story.
Daughter and SIL got their Christmas present today - the pack-n-play crib. It wasn’t a surprise since we picked it out together. I saved about $40 ordering it on line, plus it showed up at their door, so they didn’t have to haul it home.
Work clothes are laundered. The maintainace guys have had the golf cart parked outside the apartment half the day. Gordie has been violently warning them about The Invisible Mole People. Making my take on Nashville hot chicken for dinner, with roasted potato wedges, and black-eyed peas with roasted jalapeno and country ham.
FlyGuy, we miss everybody when they get stuck in real life. Well maybe not Flytrap.
Poor Pepper pup.
Butters, sounds bout right for Government. Have a beer and a deep breath.
Look at the bright side Butters; at least you’re not paying for it. Oh, wait.
{{{PepperPup}}}
TGIF!
Groceries bought and supper (ribs) et. The only other thing that I plan to do this evening is wrap the white elephant gift for the Dirty Santa exchange at tomorrow evening’s party.
Tomorrow, I’ll get the oil changed, do a load of towels and fix the dish to take to the party. Sunday is a tea party with friends and family. Then I will deliver some homemade Italian wedding soup to my friend who broke her ankle. Between her two sons and friends, we are keeping her horses in good care and providing an evening meal for her and her husband.
Dinner has been consumed and the 2018 Cook’s Pest Control check written (5% off for paying by check). To bed early as indoor soccer starts at 0800 sattiday so no sleeping in.
Forget it, Butters, it’s DoD.
Hope Pepper Pup is doing OK.
Best $400 I ever spent.
Not a clue what company is behind my Quacks Lab–just know he wanted some of my precious bodily fluids mid cycle, he told me to come in, his person at the front desk told me to come in, and when I came in I got shit from the front desk about coming in. I’ll let the Quack chew ass this time. The snark will descend from orbit if it happens again.
Mooooom, my best friends had a boy, and a Pack-and-Play. The now 6’8" child was named Sean.
Yup, it was the Sean Pen.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 50 Amurrkin out and foggy with a predicted high of 75 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. No big plans today. OYKW needs some new pants so it might be a trip to :eek:The Maul:eek: to try on pants and then home to order online. That’s the way I shop as of late. MOOOOOOM online shoppin’ is the best! The stuff comes to me and then I pay for the stuff.
Hope PepperPup is better today poor baby!
I get stuck just about every time I go to the doc. I didn’t on the last appointment but I have a feelin’ I will be when I go in January. Fortunately the vampires at my doc’s office are good and I have good veins from which to draw blood. It rarely ever hurts.
Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy demands sustenance. Then I shall purtify and at some point I reckon I shall accompany OYKW to :eek:The Maul.:eek:
Happy Sattidy Y’all!
Up, (somewhat) sheveled - the (lined) pants I wanted to wear aren’t where they’re supposed to be. It’s 27° out & I’m going to play outside.
Blurf.
Just got off the phone to the electric company; they wurbled a bit, claimed the bill was quarterly instead of monthly (then why did I get it a month after I stopped pre-paying, huh?) said “Oh! I’ve found the error, it should be £350!” :rolleyes: Nope. Look again please.
Eventually got put through to a supervisor who confirmed that yes, it was all total nonsense, and some muppet had processed the meter changeover wrong and recharged everything that went through that meter. Hope it wasn’t the engineer that came out, he was nice (and quite cute )
The next version should appear on the account on 24 hours (not quite sure what it’ll be, but the supervisor’s phoning me back on Tuesday in case I have another round of nope, still wrong). It does make me cross though, I shouldn’t have to spend so long phoning round to get this stuff sorted, something that glaringly wrong should really flag up on their system.
Now I should, assuming I still have any money, go get started with shopping for Christmas presents. I don’t really wanna though.
Up, caffeinated ,and sheveled. Off to work. Hockey after work.
Nut, that is crazy.