Happy Toosday!
Up too early, again. Since irk sent an email saying they needed move coverage, I logged in for a bit.
It’s cold out, I’m not sure how cold but I can feel the cool blast when the dog goes out.
SSDD
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 38 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 73 and sunny for the day. Temps are slowly creepin’ up back to normal range. The pollen orgy continues.
I shall spend a good portion of today in the near south forty. I have five places I need to get to but they’re all fairly close to one another so it’s doable. Still a buncha drivin’.
OK, I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy demands to be fed. Then, alas and alack, irk purtification must commence. Le Sigh.
Happy Tuesday Y’all!
blurf. possibly coming down with a cold. grumpy achy sleepy. blurf.
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. It’s 33 degrees on the 4rd day of Spring. :dubious: I’m doing laundry ,then it’s off to hockey. 
Where there any Swamp Bears in that movie?
Morning, mumpers! I am up, shevelled and at irk being irked by irksome things. Not least the fact that I have a training day tomorrow and I’ve just found out that lunch is not provided. Honestly, they expect people to go on these sessions and won’t even provide a few curled up sarnies for lunch? What’s my incentive, people?
I’d love me some manual transmission.
Although, automatics are so…automatic, turn it on, get up to speed, set cruise…take a nap. Easy peasy
No but -------------- since he does live in Da South -------------
Up and productive; more so than usual. Volunteered to work an extra shift Saturday. With people calling in sick for the holiday we could end up really worked.
I hate one of my neighbors (not sure who it is, just that it’s a guy with no apparent accent). Lots of yelling and cursing after midnight that woke me up, then I couldn’t go back to sleep. Working on three hours of sleep is going to be SUCH fun.
Four stalls this morning, including one “reflex” when I saw a semi-truck coming in behind me while I was stopped at a light. :smack:
Ooof. This is going to be an interesting time - how long did it take you manual drivers to pick it up consistently?
On the health side, the pollen is falling like yellow radioactive snow, and while I don’t suffer bad allergies (thank heavens) the pure quantities involved have me sniffling, red-eyed, and headachey. The worst part of spring. Stupid tree-sperms.
Most mumpers get a nickname, Bulldog (which sits on a prominent place on the front of a Mack twuck!) :eek: Kind of like the “rebeW” brand of another Doper.
**Lasc **- It’ll be instinctive before you know it. Gotta build that muscle memory first.
Greetings from my new workplace. I’ve done a little work and my boss has walked me thru a few things. I’ve been making myself some cheat sheets. Now I’m having lunch. I’ll be outta here in about 3 hours - it’s orthopedic appointment day.
I discovered this morning that my key didn’t work in the main door, but the receptionist had lots of spares, so she gave me one that works. Yay! Luckily, one of the guys in my group gets here early and he let me in. This place has free coffee, tea, and hot chocolate, and canned sodas for a quarter!!! How cool is that??? On the down side, they’re not using the latest version of CREO, and I miss my right click shortcuts. But I’ll deal…
Now, as long as they keep me busy.
Blurf.
Child off to school. Husband off to work. Migraine. Stay up or not stay up.
Bulldog - couple of weeks to learn manual then I loved it. If you have time, practice runs around the neighborhood or in empty lots are very helpful. You’ll get there.
Sunny - not stay up. Which, if I hadn’t spent 90% of yesterday doing, I’d do right now.
BLURF. Irksome irk. Phones still down. Tomorrow will be two weeks. Hard to believe the phones would be out two weeks in a commercial building on a military installation but there you have it.
Finally at 6 am my little boy peed. He went over 24 hours without peeing. Hopefully we have turned a corner.
I’m supposed to be creating DXF files from some drawings. But they’re so HUGE, they take forever to download. Nuts!!!
Butters, sometimes it seems I can’t go 24 minutes without peeing…age difference, I guess.
Hope he’s doing better.
FCM, my CAC died yesterday and my appointment wasn’t until next week, so I had to do a walk-in appointment. They gave me number 106; the board showed number 63 being served. 2 hours later, I got a new CAC…which I will turn in about 40 days from now when I retire.
Have found one nice thing–my e-mails can be…blunter…than they used to be. I suspect this will get worse (or better, depending on your POV) as my days continue to lessen.
Bulldog, I concur, my dad took me out on a new expressway they were building (it wasn’t open yet, but he cut around some blockades) and let me stall the thing out again and again until I finally got the ‘feel’ for it. It’ll come, sooner than you think, and the nice thing is, the skill doesn’t go away. I had to drive a manual in Holland 25 years after my last manual car and handled it without significant problems.
My father taught me to drive a stick on his van. I was 5’2" and weighed about 99 pounds. I had to stand on the clutch to push it in.
My first truck had a stick, I don’t know that automatic was even an option. The first time we took it out driving I burned rubber in every gear. My father started laughing and said, ‘you know you can get a ticket for that, don’t you?’ Another time we got stuck on a hill, I was trying to make a left turn into heavy traffic. Finally, we switched places. About a half mile from the house my father pulled over so we could switch places. I asked him why now? And he said. ‘you don’t want the whole neighborhood to see me drive you home do you?’ My father could be cool that way.
One time I got stuck on a hill, and much to my embarrassment the entire hill of cars had to back down with me so I could get a running start up the hill, pause at the stop sign, and keep on going. I drove a stick for years before somebody showed me the emergency brake trick. Another time I was teaching a friend to drive a stick and she parked my truck, not knowing that it had to be in gear. The next thing I know my truck is rolling down the hill with me chasing after it, I managed to jump in and pull on the emergency brake.
I learned to do rolling starts, and when the clutch went up, I learned to drive without one until we got it fixed. With another truck I learned to ignore the damn shift light and trust my own instincts.
Bulldog, soon enough you’ll get a feel for what is right, and you won’t even think about it anymore.
And if you get sneezy and dopey, I’d go see Doc! 
Bulldog, I learned how to drive a stick as a kid on the farm. It really didn’t take long. I do, however, have to get a feel for the particular clutch on different vehicles still.
Yay, Louie for making pee-pee!
I got volunteered to lead a kids’ activity during the annual picnic/egg hunt this weekend. Since there will be a large group of mixed ages, I’m thinking an egg-on-a-spoon relay with the big kids helping the little ones. We can use candy filled eggs and the relay team that wins will take all.
Happy Tuesday!
Howdy Y’all! Day two of four survived. YAY! Shortly I shall begin dindin prep. Eye-talian chikin (needs warmin’ up), broccoli and cheese rice from a box (don’t judge!), succotash (flytrap’s fave!), and crescent rolls (again, don’t judge!). All easy to make and nummy.
I said yestiddy I do not know how to drive a stick. I did learn to drive a manual truck on my uncle’s farm as well as a manual tractor. I hated both of 'em.
red I once told a bunch of kids that the prize for findin’ the prize aig was gettin’ to take me home. One kid said if he found the prize aig he was throwin’ it away. I liked that kid! 