imagines Spats sitting in a room, surrounded by insects, with a small clear area around him. There are spiderwebs everywhere but on his computer. On the window sits a family of potato bugs. In the corner is a termite mound
There’s our Sean, looking out for his fellow MMPers!
Hey! Where are Ex and welby this week?
The sun is out today, which makes me think it’ll warm up earlier today. Additionally, I actually woke up cold last night. All the windows were open (I love fresh air) and I wasn’t sleeping with any blankets.
I need another cup of joe.
**Sean ** and VBob - its only the a/c, and I’ve called and electrician
Let us know if you get a date. 
Now I’m picturing rosie calling an electrician and saying, “Hi! Are you single? You are? Well, I have this circuit breaker that keeps tripping and I need you to come take a look at it. How’s Friday night around sevenish for you?” 
When my a/c was acting up last year this burly a/c guy came to my house. I got a little swoony. What?
Well hot diggidy dawg!!! Tomorrow we have a rush on for wire hangers. The wire hangers are fun. It’s an easy job and I get to go around (well, at least mentally) in Joan Crawford mode all day.
Wire Hangers!!!??? Wire Hangers!!!???
Wiiiiiirrrreeee Haaaannngggggeeeeerrrrrssssss???
I just might have to watch Mommie Dearest tonight. What? I’m gay. I’m required to own it.
To Swampy, and any of the PNWeners who attended Swampfest 2005, I just wanted to say that Hubby and I went to Chinooks last night for dinner. Yummy! We both had crab and shrimp salads, mine was a Caesar and his was a Louie. I had a fresh peach cooler and we top it all off with a fresh peach cobbler made minutes before, with ice cream on top(we shared). We coulda had blackberry, but decided on peach in honor of our favorite “Georgia Peach,” swampbear.
Nummy picu. I remember how good that place was. Peach cobbler in honor of me. I :o
No need to blush. It was a good excuse for dessert!
Well, then, if I served as an excuse for some high calorie chowin’ down, then that’s just jakely jake! 
It’s very strange…I don’t miss being at work AT ALL. I wish, though, I didn’t have to go back. I feel sort of rushed this week because of prepping for the road trip. I feel guilty if I sleep in and I feel guilty for not getting as much done around the house as I’d like.
I’m about ready to leave for my errands, then I’ll return to more cleaning. Go me. :rolleyes:
Has the air conditioner been serviced recently? Some years back, my mother’s AC unit was tripping the breaker, and when a good service tech came out and checked the thing, it was determined that the guy who worked on it previously put in too much Freon, which essentially jammed the unit. Not enough can also cause it to run badly.
There are a couple other problems that can go wrong with the thing that would cause repeat overloads. It’s also possible that the breaker itself is simply worn out and won’t hold the proper load. If you think a “bus” is something you ride downtown, and “working hot” means cleaning out the attic on a summer afternoon, don’t even think of messing with this.
If this were my home, I’d first look at the breaker and replace it if it looks old and funky. (Or was just old) Then, I’d go end to end on the wiring and make sure all of the connections are tight. Then, I’d look into the AC unit and make sure there’s not a nest of raccoons inside and that it’s not being choked by weeds growing into it. Then, if it’s still misbehaving, I’d call the AC tech.
Don’t feel bad, Taters. I think it’s just a sign that you needed a vacation.
Had to go out to Target. I hadn’t been there in more than 3 days and they were threatening to revoke my membership. Well, actually, I badly needed cough syrup and tissues and other related items. Also, when I went to make hummus I found that I couldn’t move the large bowl on my food processor - somehow put it away wrong and now it’s acting like it’s fused to the base. Since it wouldn’t whirr, it was hard to make hummus in it. So, while I was at Target, I got myself a nice new food processor, which I have now used and found to be quite satisfactory. My old one was quite aged (more than 15 years old) and I’d been thinking about replacing it, so I don’t feel too bad. I was just happy to find an acceptable food processor on the first try. Felt kinda dumb to have placed all the hummus ingredients in the old processor only to have it go on strike.
So I had a nice lunch of hummus, pita bread, tomatoes and cucumbers. And mango with sour cream for dessert. I was nearly hungry, even. Then I had a nap.
Insects are icky. But I don’t do anything about them unless they’re indoors.
That’s all I’ve got for the moment. I’m thinking about a nap. It’s starting to look like it may rain sooner than predicted. Yay!
GT
I had bad dreams. And then I had to take a pee test. The two are not related.
are you sure??? :rolleyes:
Quite sure. Except that pee tests suck, because peeing on demand is very difficult for me. But the bad dreams were all about my mother. Or my sister, just for a change of pace.
Well, today’s just special. I had an over-eager partner (not mine) that I had to spank via email - fun! But first I had to listen to the relo person rant about why didn’t he plan in advance instead of last minute and he hasn’t even been approved, blah blah blah. Meanwhile, I’m thinking, look, lady, I don’t even support the guy and I really don’t care one way or another, just tell me yes or no, so I can tell him yes or no.
Then cow-orker comes over to ask a question about something very, very basic, which she should know by now, seeing as how’s she’s been here since November!!!eleven!! Then again, other co-worker had to explain, again, how to change her outgoing voice mail message last night. We have a very common voicemail system and we have little instruction cards for it with diagrams and everything.
Then I got an urgent mail sent out to all administrative assistants from our supervisor for something that needs to be taken care of right away, except for you, Jahdra, this doesn’t apply to you since you don’t support people at this level. Because, I don’t know, she couldn’t figure out how to click the little plus sign in the address bar and remove my name from the disti list, instead of singling me out in front my peers? Or no, actually, I’m *not * their peer, as you so cleverly pointed out in the email.
Oh, and is it acceptable to be upset with someone who didn’t do the job that you were supposed to do, but they got assigned to it when you went out on disability suddenly, and decided not to do it and now people are calling me about it, even though it hasn’t been my responsibility for over a year? And I don’t have access to that information anymore, so I can’t help them anyway?
Grrrr! I’m feeling very cranky today. I think it’s all the pseudo-work I’ve had today. I get all excited about actually doing something and poof! It’s gone in a cloud of smoke.
I thought you were going to clean your new place of insects before I get there.
We all know what a pee test means - a new job! Tel has a new job! Yay! 
Jahdra, sounds like your office environment needs a reboot. What is it about office dynamics, anyway? Why does Scott Adams have so much to ridicule? What is it about these organizations that give everyone such headaches? 
No, it doesn’t mean that I have the job. It means I had to take the test before they’ll even say for sure that they’ll take me. 
Man, I hate this. I also typing cover letters for my resume. I feel so stupid writing them. Why do I have to write these things anyway? [/whine]