Looks like we’re in for a very hot, steamy, sticky, unpleasant weekend. So we’re going to buy wood pellets for our stove!
The company we buy from has a pre-season sale, but you can’t order over the phone - you have to show up in person. So we’ll drive to the closer location and place our order for 3 tons, delivered. Then we need to make space in the garage for 3 tons of pellets - we’ve still got about 480# left over from the last batch. And if it’s a mild winter, the 3 tons should last almost 2 seasons, so there’s that.
I’m going to stop by the library on my way home and (finally) get a library card. Then I can get ebooks from the state - yay!
But for now, I’ve got a pile of stuff to do for Josh. He’s my fave engineer here.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 73 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 88 and a chance of rain/tstorms/apocalypse this afternoon. We shall see. The big item on today’s agenda is laundry. I have stuffded bell peppers in the slow cooker as I post. I’m thinkin’ squish and carrots as vegetative matter. I yanked out a box of brownie mix (don’t judge!) and will make brownies as a dessert. My friend will have a meal and we’ll have a meal so I call that win-win. I think I might betake myself over to the liberry as well.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then I suppose purtification should commence as well as laundry.
I have the windows open as it’s only 68 degrees outside. But it’s going to be hot later but a little airing out is always good thing.
I’m getting ready to head up to take shower and do any last minute straightening before the A/C man gets here. Because I signed up for their service plan he is only doing the A/C, not the furnace, but it is costing me nothing as this is included in the plan. Signing up for the plan has already saved me a bunch of money. I got a 15% discount on the hot water heater and now the service checks are free.
Nothing wrong with box brownies Swampy.
I think they are better than most from scratch brownies. Not all, but most.
My pups breeder is funny.
The father has Trump in his pedigree name, so they call him Donald. Since my pup is the smallest of the bunch and he has two bigger sisters and two bigger brothers she suggested I name him Barron.
I told her if I did that half my family/friends would laugh and the other half would disown me. lol
blurf I too would like the 3 am until 1100 sleep schedule as i am a night owl. Just waking now at 0730 but I worked 13 hours yesterday including commute so that put me home at 7pm but twas a very busy Moanday or i jinxed myself, one of the two. So now one must draggggggggg out of bed, shower and get ready for irk. Oh joy!
½ a roll, two shots & a single bullet?
Looters tend to bypass the empty storefronts in favor of a corner bodega where they can get something they like to eat; knowhatImsayin’? :o
There was a documentary about the founder of Walmart. They showed film footage of him coming into the office at 3:30 AM. I know there are people who are going to take this getting up very early as some kind of sign of being virtuous, but it overlooks that some people simply have a sleeping disorder. Either they get up too early or they are night owls with DSPS. It doesn’t matter what time you go to sleep or get up, what matters is what you do while you’re awake.
I’ve worked with people who would showboat about they were the first ones into the office in the mornings, while they contributed very little to the project. Likewise, there are people who would showboat about staying late and also contributed very little to the project. Either way, the style over substance is a way to deceive yourself and others.
Change of plans for me. The A/C people called and asked me to reschedule as they have a lot of emergency calls for broken A/C.
That is rescheduled for next Toosday, today we are going to pick up the groceries.
I’m going to take a short nap since I got up too early.
Or maybe I’ll go sit on the porch for a bit before it gets too hot.
Pepper spent her first night sleeping in the crate. She did great, and I am a happy camper. My other dogs are happy campers. So many campers!
In a little while, I am off to take her to be boarded whilst I am in California for my medical appointments. Off to the airport later today for a quick trip down.
Happy Toesday people. If you want to gain a new appreciation for toes - get a puppy!
My uncle Javier used to boast about sleeping only 4h every night until that day one of my cousins had a day and pointed out that the 4h siestas needed to be added, even though they did take place in the afternoon.
I normally wake about 5am-ish, earlier in high summer and later (or not really for all day) in high winter. But I’m convinced it’s some sort of genetic defect and I try not to be too much of an ass about it least the afternoon and night people take their revenge. (In Spain we say that someone who’s too much “is the milk”).
I am normally firmly in the night owl camp. Left to my own devices, the 3 am- 11 pm sleep is not far off my preference. And as of today drumroll, I am officially left to my own devices! I was supposed to be irking til the end of the week, but I wasn’t bothered, and there’s a new person wanting to start asap, so midway through today, he asked if I was OK with this being my final day, so, I guess it is!
The new co-irker I was irking with today is probably not gonna be coming back either. She literally just Could. Not. Stop. Talking. Even when directly asked to please not talk to me while I was busy, she couldn’t stop for more than a few minutes. She followed the boss around, just rabbiting on aimlessly (she spent about an hour at one point loudly trying to work out the Chinese horoscopes for all the staff, including ones she hadn’t met).
Even when I was leaving, this silly woman, who I’ve worked all of two shifts with, was still trying to talk over my goodbye conversation with (now ex) boss. I’ve met people who talked too much before, but she’s just something else. Anyway, that’s all now my favourite sort of problem- someone else’s. I just have to find somewhere to move to.
The beside alarm goes off at 4am except for the past two mornings when it has failed to go off at all. Fortunately I have a backup alarm on my phone that goes off at 4:45, so I was still able to make it to work on time at 6.
day and pointed out that the 4h siestas needed to be added, even though they did take place in the afternoon.