Echoing Muppet here, welcome back Gotti and DH! Was that one of the Rosie O’Donnell R Family cruises? Glad to hear that you had such a good time!
That Liberte yogurt is so good, it tastes like cheesecake to me, so I have no idea what that other yogurt must taste like!! LOL I am certainly hooked on Greek yogurt now, and they’re not all the same. My local Safeway has just started carrying the Stoneyfield farms organic brand of greek yogurt; it’s okay, especially the one w/honey, but … well, all they have is the non fat one and it’s just not quite as tasty. Although it is good for you. It’s like when I (accidentally - hah!) get the Fage total (whole fat). OMG, that stuff is like sour cream… better!
Okay, now I want some cheesecake.
Sending get well vibes to those Mumpers who need them …
The stew turned out quite well, thank ye. I know all of you said it’s hard to screw up beef stew, but the girl I was living with over the winter managed to do so - hers was salty enough to make me fee dehydrated afterwards. Eek.
Mine did. The Real Students (those with white coats, i.e., beyond the selective first grade) hung one on a door all us newbies had to walk through on our way to check out class lists and see whether we were group A or B, on our first day.
We had an extremely spectacular fire once (complex glass aparatus with flames coming out of seven points). After closing down the gas in the lab, ensuring that it couldn’t spread to anything else and distributing extinguishers and fire blankets, all we could do was wait for it to die down. There was general agreement that it was a pity nobody carried a camera, as we should have taken pics, turned them into postcards and sent one of them to any prospective quimiquito. If you can’t deal with fire, don’t bother coming!
The happiest times of my life have involved the sharpest learning curves. If I could, I’d never take those projects where “other people” define the solutions, because
often those other people aren’t as good as figuring out the client’s needs as I am (what? I’m good, damnit! Specially with engineers and scientists, which is why my main areas are Quality, Production and Maintenance)
“no engineer has ever thought another engineer’s design was any good” (as said by one of my current engineer-clients)
Morning all! Welcome back, gotti, glad to hear you had so much fun.
I am tired today, 'im indoors was snoring and woke me up at about 5am (and not in a good way either, so you can put your mind back in it’s sewer, swampy) so I was up very early to feed the feline overlords. Busy day at work today, I have 29 students who failed an exam and want feedback and then the scripts have to be sent to the external examiner for her to look at. Lots to do!
Thanks! One of my favs is Toby my baby boy goat I got last spring and hand raised. He follows me around and has no idea he’s a goat. I also got baby piggies last year. They meet for the first time here.
Wow, just wow. She’s not just an idiot, But thank God she’s a stupid idiot.
Alastair Moonsong Good luck in your studies. I have a rule, I don’t eat food with more then 3 syllables, I think I’m going to expand that to include taking courses with the same. Your post made my brain hurt. ( Not that it takes much…)
crininey.jicket Yes my turkeys answer my whistle, most all of my animals do, they come when I call them too. Do you think I spend way too much time with them? :dubious:
gotpasswords It sounds like you had a blast! What ship were you on? My son was/is again a videographer for Princess Cruises for a couple of years, he and his wife just signed on again. They are doing Alaska for the first 3 ,onths, then the Mexican Riviera. His wife is one of the featured singers in the shows. They have signed me on for a few cruises, they really are a blast! I have always found cruises to be very gay friendly, a whole shipful would be excellent!
The Blue-sighted Shadow Bummer about the mis-colored yarn, but it sounds most excellent. pics plz.
Everyone else, feel better,drive safe, have a good day at work/school/etc. Pick the appropriate bits.
Morning all - up and caffeinating here. Farmer Chick, I love your animal videos, and the goat-meets-baby-piggies one is great, thanks for sharing.
It’s still outrageously cold here–18 degrees F outside this morning, at least there’s no wind chill. :eek: I’m getting ready to bundle up, though, and toddle out there. Carefully, because this means it’s still very icy, unfortunately.
Happy Hump day all, except Swampy, for whom this is Thursday (I think!). LOL
Blaaaaaaaaaaaaargh. I wanna go back to bed. There’s a warm snuggly boy and a small trouble-making cat in there… that’s much more interesting than what’s waiting for me at work.
Nava, so are you saying that you literally went through trial by fire? That’s neat. The worst you could run into in an Ethics program was inflammatory debate… but that’s not nearly as impressive.
FarmerChick, that’s a hilarious video. I just about died laughing when Toby got really ornery after a couple of aborted attempts to slide down the side of that little shed thingie.
OK, on that note, time to drag my sorry ass into work, since my bank account refuses to grow money on its own. Sniff.
Not so cold here - neener, neener! S’posed to get up to around 78°F today and sunshiny! I wish I wasn’t stuck in this office.
I finally completed that sucky task I’ve been working on for weeks. Yay! I have other stuff I can procrastinate on now!
Mr Rebo went to the eye doctor and ended up getting what constitutes “bifocal” contact lenses. Different eyes have different prescriptions. He was trying to get used to them, then he went to the bar. Alcohol does not lend itself to helping your brain figure out which eye to look out of. He went on and on and on about it… I finally had to tell him to shut up and change your contacts already! It was pretty funny, actually.
I can’t see the piggy/goat video at work! Stoopit blocking software. I’ll check it out when I get home.
How do four whiteboards disappear from the face of the earth? I found three of them last week and now there’s only one. I’ve been all over this stupid building looking for the others. Damn students.
I got to the subway station, and the first train that came in was waaaay too crowded, so I had to let that one pass.
Then the second train came along, and I managed to squish myself in, laptop bag and all… only, they had a door malfunction, so they held at the station while they tried to sort it out… which is when a claustrophobic woman a little further down the train went into a full-blown panic attack. Ever been in a small enclosed space with someone who’s freaking out? Yeah, not good.
So anyway, they re-opened the doors and let out the woman, and then informed us that they couldn’t fix the door problem. Everyone pile out of the train, please. Joy. Bliss. So now the platform is full with an entire train’s worth of people, plus all the other people that accumulated while we acted out our little 15-minute drama entitled “Help, I’m Trapped In The Subway With a Screamin Woman”.
It took another three trains before I managed to squish myself on and get to work. All of which could’ve been avoided, if only I’d been able to squish onto Train #1… hindsight’s a bitch.
Total time to get to work: 60 minutes.
Regular commute to work: 20 minutes.
I wanna go home.
Sending lots and lots of good vibes in your friend’s direction, Soapy. May the universe achieve balance by exchanging my morning from hell for a seamless and successful surgery for her.
The goat is so cute, FarmerChick! Baby goat and wee piggies! Squee!
Tomorrow’s my day off, but it’s going to be a busy day - guests coming over for dinner and I have to go back to my parents’ place to pick up some stuff I forgot - the most important being my bc pills. :smack: Thank God it’s my off week anyway.
Now I have to go figure out why my sink smells funky. Ick.
This just in under ‘Good to Know’: Guffawing into your coffee mug will cause a mini-tsunami of java to crest on top of your nose and run down over your lips and chin.
I think a mother can never spend to much time with her kids, FarmMa.
Soapy, you and your friend are most certainly in my thoughts.
Heh. That does sound like a sitcom episode, Rebo.
I’m off to find a yoga DVD of some sort today. I need to work off both calories and that little bit of anxiety that keeps nagging at me.
Y’know, for all that Mr. J can fix and build, sometimes I think it’s a miracle he can actually made this outgoing call on his cell phone:
Mr. J: I was waiting for the boat out to work. There was a pod of killer whales jumping, slapping their tails and feeding right in front of the marina! I watched them for, like, a half hour!
Me: Awesome! Didya get pictures?
Mr. J: Noooo. I don’t have the camera with me!
Me: What about the one on your cell phone?
Mr. J: Oh, yeah.
Me: :smack:
Mr. J: Maybe I should play around with that so I know what I’m doing in a pinch.
Me: Yeah. Much better than “See that swirl of water? There’s a killer whale under it.”
Mr. J: (laughs)
Me: :smack:
Catch you later, all. I’m off to run through some threads. Not nekkid or anything like that.
FarmerChick, I love your critters. And how can you spend too much time with them? They’re hilarious! Especially the turkeys. And those little pigs, little piggy grunts, awwww! Too cute.
It’s like when I (accidentally - hah!) get the Fage total (whole fat). OMG, that stuff is like sour cream… better!
There’s a warm snuggly boy and a small trouble-making cat in there… that’s much more interesting than what’s waiting for me at work.