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Puppy sounds remarkably snuggleable.

Hades Annex continues to aggravate. The turnover lately even has the HR guy unhappy.

Throw in sister-in-law tantrums over brother-in-law’s updates on his activities as executor of their mother’s estate (DBIL plans an even 3-way split in accordance with their parents’ wills, SIL seems to think it’s just horrible that anyone is thinking in practical terms and for some reason thinks she should involve attorneys in this) which does not make DH happy, and life is an ongoing exercise in annoyance lately.

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Friday for me. I just have to choose which favorite bar to hit first.

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Bonus points: touch-typing with an injured right index finger is not fun (minor cut while washing a kitchen knife. It’s currently wearing a bandage until I’m confident it won’t start bleeding if the bandage comes off).

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'Beamette is ensconced at hospital and things are going well. She’s simultaneously incredibly happy to get the treatment and very eager to get it over with.

SF is amazingly quiet right now; hardly anyone on the road, or out and about. My hotel is interesting. Quirky even. It’s supposed to be close to a bookstore that I’ve wanted to visit, so maybe I’ll be able to work that in. I am so tired. I’ll be eating and then heading to bed.

Happy Toesday everyone.

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Glad you both are settled in. Sweet dreams, sleep tight.

Hope you get to cruise the :books::books::books::books::books::books:

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Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. I suspect I shall spend the morning heaving.

Yaya!

Ouch, Nettie!

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FCD got thru the night without falling, so I had an almost normal amount of sleep - HUZZAH!! But at one point yesterday, he did use the bathroom door for support and partially pulled the top hinge out of the frame. I’m hoping I can just drive the screws back in and be done with it, but I might have to get bigger diameter screws. We shall see. In the grand scheme of things, that’s a no-biggie.

A quick look at the forecast shows rain expected after lunch. I may try to take Roxy out for a bit before lunch, depending on the temp and how FCD is doing. I’m really nervous about leaving him alone - remember how I mentioned the stubbornness of his parental units? Guess what is apparently an inherited trait? :roll_eyes: I don’t know if discussing that with him will result in anything but denial. It’s that thin line between determination, motivation, and pig-headedness that I don’t think he sees. And for the record, saying “You’d do the same for me” doesn’t work. So that’s fun… :stuck_out_tongue:

After I send the kid home this afternoon, I need to load her b-day presents with batteries, then wrap them. Daughter and I have decided that she’ll take one home with her and leave the other two here. Did I post that I got her these? They’re apparently very noisy with flashy lights. They will live in the basement!

Tomorrow will be adventures in cake-baking. There’s not a lot she can help with, but she likes to stand on a little stool and watch. And I can let her try her hand at frosting, and she can definitely embellish it with sprinkles. Which reminds me of her latest game (skip if you can’t handle toddler cuteness…)

We have a half-wall that defines our entry foyer. Yesterday, she took her little stool behind FCD’s recliner so she could stand on one side of that wall, and I was to stand on the foyer side and place my food order. Then she’d “cook” and “serve” my food. The child makes a mean pizza with blue sprinkles! :rofl: Apparently she plays a similar game at home, only in her play kitchen.

I need to leave in a few more minutes to fetch the child. Here’s hoping we can squeeze in a nap for her today, too!

Happy Wednesday!

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 58 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 89 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. We shall procure comestibles today and I shall betake myself over to the church house to deal with some stuff. I also need to get hold of the HVAC folks about whatever it is they need to do to finish up. Haven’t heard back from 'em on that. Maybe a mention that they will get paid when I have a completed work order in hand will be enough of a prompt. Sup shall be Chikin Divan, AKA couch chikin, sallit, and rolls.

MOOOOOOM sorry for all the woes with FCD, It would be good if’n he could get into the doc earlier but as we all know, it would not be good to hold your breath until that happens. I like RoxStar’s cookin’ game.

Talky tell your mom you have engaged the services of the world renowned Swampington J. Bear as your interior decorator and he has recommended floor to ceilin’ orange shag carpetin’ throughout with periwinkle accents.

Taters appropriate/inappropriate appendages crossed re the job interview.

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, woe of woes and bother of all bothers, I suppose I shall purtify and don acceptable bein’ about the public attire. How I do suffer!

Happy Hump Day Y’all!

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Thought you might be entertained to know that a certain toddler’s breakfast request was sprinkles. Not on something, but as the main dish.

She got a cheese sammich, because, apparently, cereal just wouldn’t do it.

:rofl:

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I am up and at 'em this morning. I was going to make the drive down to Olympia because I need to take care of some fleet admin business, but it can wait until Monday. I have too much on my plate today to worry about getting a car washed, vacuumed and cleaned and then taking pictures to send to my FSR at GSA. My Monday calendars are usually pretty devoid of meetings, so that will work better for me AND traffic will be slightly lighter.

So, my county has rolled back to Phase 2, which means restaurants revert from 50% capacity to 25% capacity among other things. It’s one of only three counties in the state to have to do this. Le sigh. If people would just wear their freakin’ masks and quit making such a fuss over it, things would be much better. I become eligible to get jabbed in a couple of days. When that happens, I’ll contact my HMO and try to get that done. I expect it will still take a while until I actually get a jab as there is somehow a vaccine shortage in my county too, according to county officials.

I am glad to read there were no falls for FCD. I’m still going to hope he can get in sooner, rather than later. It just seems ridiculous that someone all of a sudden prone to falls isn’t getting in any sooner.

Thanks for the well-wishes on the interview, everyone. It’s a phone interview. I was surprised it wasn’t being done over Teams, but maybe one of the panel have connectivity issues.

Sprinkles for breakfast sounds completely unappealing, lol!

I am glad things are going well for Beamette, Sunny. Sending best wishes that all continues to go well.

So much on my plate at work today, I don’t even know where I’ll start. It just never stops, but it’s the same for everyone within my branch and division, so I am in good company. I do wish it would slow down some, but they always find more for us to take on. We somehow have to take on functions there were performed by multiple people in the past; procurement, fleet, leasing, contracting, HR, travel, policy, compliance, IT, and many more. So what maybe five or more people did in the past is now handled by two people but in many cases one person. No one ever works just a straight-eight or nine hours. We all put in extra just to keep up. Still, with all that being said, I still much prefer this organization to my previous organization. I actually work for and with very nice people who lift each other up, celebrate other’s successes, and freely help out if asked.

I think I will need more than my usual two large mugs of coffee today.

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Morning all. Thought I was sleeping in but it was only 6:30am, so nappage is a definite possibility. Need to mail bills a bit later on, but this is my non-soccer coaching day so I am in no rush. Still need to fold and store the underwear and towels, but that’ll take 10 minutes…sometime… Rain is expected and temperature will barely reach 70F today.

Taters, sounds like other offices are dumping duties on you, Been there. Hit the coffee as hard as you need too.

Sunny, best wishes for Beamette and you.

FCM, sounds like Roxy is in the ‘too cute for words’ stage, much better than the “OMG, what did she just do” stage… Happy cake baking.

Nets (since you don’t care for Nettie IIRC, I’ll keep trying out new names), family can be…trying…sounds like SIL is looking for something specific (the house??). Should follow the will, hope it all comes out good.

OK, think about looking for the newspaper and then foraging for edibles. Need to check the credit card statements, they aren’t due for a week but I try to check them weekly to make sure there are no ‘surprises’ on them. All y’all take care.

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Sunny, I’m glad to hear you & Beamette are settling in. I hope only the best for you both.

swampy, the image you’ve conjured is my childhood and a very, very good reason never to ever hire a decorator! Way back in the 70s, my mom took some terrible advice and had our living room painted pumpkin orange and it stays with me to this day.

FCM, I’m glad you got a (somewhat) decent night’s sleep.

Every day at the company where I work is meeting day, but Wednesdays take the cake. Starting in about 3 minutes I’m back to back until 4:30, double booked in spots (though my attendance at some of these discussions is unnecessary so I may be able to sneak in actual work and a small bit of chillage since I rarely eat away from my desk). I don’t like people very much sometimes.

Overlyboy is up & eating; overlygirl is off to school. The husband is still in bed. Everyone is where they should be. I’m gonna try to squeeze in a run this evening after taking mom to the hardware store or, even better, during one of those meetings where my presence isn’t needed - if I don’t, how will I ever prove my mom wrong? :slight_smile:

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Thanks. I took it to the Pit so I could really let loose, and also, reached out to one of the newly-made assistant managers, essentially leaning on our friendship & texting that this was really REALLY a big deal to me. She said she’d bring it up with management.

So I feel mostly better about it today. Yesterday was a Pretty Bad Day, though, and I’d really like for today to just not suck, please.

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Afternoon, mumpers! Weather app says “Cloudy with a slight chance of a clown flash mob. Because that’s not fucking scary at all” and promises me 11C/52F all day, mostly cloudy. Which would explain the sun, right?

We’ve just been alerted to widespread internet/network outage on campus which means we’re unable to access most of our systems from off-campus. Just said to my boss that I’m glad we waited until next week to go back, I wouldn’t have been at all happy having wasted £15 to travel to campus just to sit there and do nothing.

shoe sorry to hear about sleazebag customer, I hope you get a better day today.

Sunny good to hear that you’re settling in ok, and Beamette is getting what she needs.

Mooooom reading about RoxStar’s attempts to help with the cooking reminds me very much of the Milly-Molly-Mandy books I had as a kid. She used to stand on a chair and help with the baking, I think she was allowed to eat as many raisins as she had fingers and toes :slight_smile:

Taters best of luck with the interview!

Not quite sure what to do with myself now, I have a couple of minor jobs I can do via Teams as that doesn’t need VPN access, and I am planning an early finish because tonight we are actually going to the pub! Did the adult thing and booked a table for tonight, so I will get to see my two pub friends for the first time in ages, apart from a couple of distanced driveway chats.

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There’s a surprise retirement party for our receptionist. She used to be Customer Service, but a medical condition prompted her to replace our former receptionist who retired a couple of years ago. My boss retired last June, and we didn’t give her a send-off because of the pandemic. Yesterday I realised that my former boss, the former receptionist, and our former Admin had not been invited to the party so I told our new Customer Service person and she raised the issue to El Jefe and our current Admin.

My former boss has not had her second dose of vaccine, so she will not be able to attend. She was happy we reached out to her though. (I can’t believe she’s not fully vaccinated yet, since she has medical issues!) Phone and email messages were left for our former Admin, but there has been no reply yet. Our current Admin is trying to find contact information for our former receptionist.

The party is at a Mexican restaurant, and the only thing I saw that I could eat on the menu was ceviche. I guess I’ll just have to have that, and a bunch of margaritas. :stuck_out_tongue: Afterward, we’re going to look at our new digs.

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Mrs. L.A. made avocado dip. She used to call it guacamole, but everyone else puts more stuff in it so she suddenly started calling it avocado dip. She makes it with avocados, garlic powder, and mayo.

I was going to have a Vegemite sandwich for breakfast, but I saw Mrs. L.A.'s guac in the fridge. So I had two slices of low-carb toast with guacamole on it. (Also a slice of cheddar. And coffee.)

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Get a rope.

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Swampington J. Bear~I like your style! Carry on. Start ordering the lava lamps and bead curtains. Surely there is some flocked wallpapers to be ordered as well.

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FCM I’m glad that FCD had a better night. You could threaten to get him one of those “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” things, if he won’t be sensible.

When my kids were young, my uncle would come visit and bring them the noisiest toys that he could find. Something about his kids didn’t get them (ha!) and the kids would have fun, but I knew the truth - he was being a smartass. We deactivated the noisiest ones after he left. :stuck_out_tongue:

Taters good luck with the job interview.

Talky here’s to hopefully productive multi-tasking. Meeting days are the worst.

shoe I hope today goes better for you. Yesterday sounds horrid.

boofae I want a flash mob, socially distanced and masked of course. I’m not sure about the clowns…

Yep.

I managed to eat an astonishing amount for dinner - ok, mostly it was a steak. It was much more than I’ve eaten in a long time, and this morning I still feel full. Bleah. I’ve watched a bit of the Derek Chauvin trial, but I’ve turned it off. The “defense” witness is an idiot, who is under investigation for helping the police in at least one coverup. I doubt the jury will be allowed to hear that though.

Happy Half-way There Day!

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I had to drop the truck off at the fix the truck place this morning-the check engine light was on. Apparently the damn squirrels that live in my garage have been nibbling on the wires. Little bastards.