But harmless. Just loud. I’m pretty sure I’m gonna have a bunch of them in the yard this year (expected invasion date is June 1st for us.) The ground has been undisturbed since 1990, when these suckers were put in the ground by their parents.
I’m only concerned with the -o storms. Last summer, we got hit by Alberto and Ernesto, and no others.
2007 list:
Andrea
Barry
Chantal
Dean
Erin
Felix
Gabrielle
Humberto
Ingrid
Jerry
Karen
Lorenzo
Melissa
Noel
Olga
Pablo
Rebekah
Sebastien
Tanya
Van
Wendy
Looks like Mayberry will be hit 3 times this year… 
The Ice Cream Truck of Incarnate Evil is back.
Fortunately it only passed by. Slowly, but mercifully without stopping. Just the same it induced a brief PTSD episode.
Love bugs sound really creepy. They’re probably harmless, but the very idea of seeing things covered with swarms of bugs just squicks me the hell out.
Ellen - Are you saying that each time you sync you’re accumulating duplicates of your existing alarms? May be a synchronization issue with HotSync. If you right-click on your HotSync icon in the system tray and go to “Options” you should be given the configuration screen wherein you can set options for the various sync-able components and conduits on your Palm, including your schedules and such. If you click on one you should be able to tell it what to do with data when syncing: “Do nothing,” “Desktop overwrites handheld,” “Handheld overwrites desktop,” and “Synchronize data.” The first, obviously, tells it to twiddle its thumbs. The second and third is basically used for when you want to transfer data from that particular app in one direction only – handheld to desktop, or desktop to handheld, with the sender overriding whatever data is on the recipient. The last compares the data on the two devices and swaps whatever is missing. Try deleting all duplicate alarms on your PDA, then configuring HotSync’s scheduler conduit (or whatever conduit sets your alarms) to “Handheld overwrites desktop.” This should completely overwrite whatever your desktop says with what your handheld says. Once done you can re-set it to “Synchronize data” and it should, in theory, play nice and not duplicate your alarms again.
Whew! I’m back and all sweaty, and not in a good way. But the hallway and the dining room have been shampooed - wonder how long it’ll take to dry? I’m guessing I’ll have to lay towels in the hall when we take the furniture back into the assorted bedrooms.
We were going to hire someone to clean the carpets, but this Bissel of Mom’s seems to do fine. I could tell exactly where we’d previously cleaned cat hork or dog pee - the carpet foamed a bit more. :eek: I hope I rinsed it well enough this time.
I was going to start reassembling the rooms, but with a wet hallway, that would be a bad idea, damn the luck. Instead, I’m doing some laundry.
Work related - I got a new assignment today, and it comes with a new cubicle. First thing tomorrow, I need to move my stuff. On the yay side, I get away from the flake in the neighboring cube who was pretty much driving me crazy, and I’ll be sitting across from Tony, who I love to death (we worked together on the last big project) On the downside, there’s a woman in that office who can be a bit of a pill. She’s probably in her mid 40s and she still thinks it’s appropriate to stick her tongue out when she disagrees with you. Correction - she thinks it’s funny. I’m wondering if that’s why she’s in the midst of a divorce???
Fortunately, the new assignment won’t affect my vacation plans, so that’s good.
And that’s all for now.
Thank yew Minderbinder! I shall do that very thing.
Sean, are we supposed to get the cicadas this year? (I’m in Kentucky.) We got Brood X a couple years ago; from what it said in the paper the other day, it seemed like this year’s bunch is more Iowa, Illinois, Indiana – that-there direction.
Well, not ‘zactly. Although they aren’t of the bitin’ or stingin’ variety, their death splatters all over the front of a vehicle plays hell with the paint job. It is one of the hazards of living in this state. In face, Florida translates to “we love us some bugs.” 
Iyem a busy lil bee today so appropriate responses all around.
Squirt something really foul on her tongue when she does that to you. Or just grab her tongue and start walking around the office with her in tow.
And now I really have to get back to work.
Mindfield, do you remember a summer in the late 90’s early 00’s when we had those terrible gnat swarms? That was icky. Yuck. Yuck.
I’m another one who’s been closely following your threads, and (hoping not to be offensive) I pray for you, your wife, Ian, and Mi-chan pretty much every time I go to Mass. Lots of hugs, and know that we’re all here for you, and we’re good with tears. We give LOTS of hugs out. The waiting to find out must be terrifying. ((((TokyoPlayer+Mrs.TokyoPlayer))))
MBG is kindly requested not to pee in here anymore. Okay?
ew. I do not like speaking with this woman, and you want me to hold on to her tongue? :eek: I think I’ll just do my best to be very busy and ignore her as much as possible. Or I could stab her in the face. To-may-to, to-mah-to.
Hey y’all! Job interview was well… let’s just say… it was. Actually, let’s just say I came home and wrote a nice and polite email withdrawing my name from consideration for the job. Next to no budget or money, really bad audits two years in a row, super low staff morale… I ain’t stoopid folks! :eek: It was for a local non-profit lookin’ for a new director. Nobody with any sense will touch that. It just needs to die and go away. I mean, just… :eek: It’s been six weeks since they met payroll last and still there are folks workin’ there??? 
Let’s also just say I cut the interview short, thanked them for their time (while thinkin’ gee thanks for wastin’ my time) and while I didn’t run out of there, I walked real fast. Just… :eek:
Oh, and one I had for tomorrow is actually Wednesday of next week. I got a call today apologizing for giving me the wrong day. No biggie. Hey, we can all mix up a date once in a while. I have two interviews on Thursday and one next Tuesday as well. They can’t all be like the first one… :eek:
Plus, I was catchin’ up earlier and lost my internet connection. It just came back about half an hour ago. I figure somebody down at BellSouth/AT&T/Whateveritisthisweek burped or farted. So I went to the pool instead and relaxated. What a life!
I was working on some stuff while H, the other CPA in the office besides the boss, stood around with a client and chatted with her. They were standing in the lobby, which is where my desk is. It’s a joke around here that I have the biggest office of all. Anyway, the client was talking about her daughter. She is very proud of her and praised her lavishly. I hope she tells her daughter that she’s proud of her too, and that she appreciates her mother’s pride in her. My parents have always thought of me as a disappointment, so I have no idea what it would be like otherwise.
OK, pity party is over, back to work.
Hi people!
Between work, the Heroes thread, and the MMP, I’m just now caught up enough to post! I wish I could remember what I read!
Lucy and Ernie were very happy to get home last night. At least Ernie was, until I had to clean his ears and put in drops. I’ll try another tack this evening, since I couldn;t administer them this morning. I’m supposed to do drops twice a day. He’s a strong little booger, and can climb me like a cat, claws and all!
Lucy tolerated the heartworm treatment just fine, and was very glad to be home.
Gonna make a beef and broccoli stir-fry tonight, with fried rice on the side. Mmm.
Shuttin’ 'er down, see y’all manana…
Oh I forgot to say earlier… we checked out the new-ish Trader Joe’s over the weekend, and, based on LiLi’s recommendations, picked up some of the triple ginger snaps. Oh. My. GOD. They are so frickin’ good.
I am so macho! I put our bed together and placed both night stands where they belong - we can sleep tonight. Yay! I also assembled the captain’s bed in the green room. And that’s all the furniture that’s being moved today. Both **FCD ** and I are pooped.
Sure would be nice if the supper fairy would visit…
Whelp, I’m home. And so is my tax assessment. I owe $523.80. 
(That’s not the appendage I wanted to stick out, but it’s all that’s handy here.) That was my last employer’s fault for not taking enough off my paychecks. On the other hand, they also owe me close to $600 in retroactive GST refunds, which they will naturally process separately and will not themselves use to settle my outstanding tax debt. They’ll leave that to me. Viva bureaucracy!
Nacho platter for dindin tonight. With grated cheddar cheese, salsa, sour cream, and marinated jalapeño peppers on Hint of Lime nacho chips. I’d have dumped some chili con carne into the mix too, but they don’t carry the brand I like at my home-local supermarket anymore. :mad:
FCM - I hate putting furniture together. Last piece I did was the new computer desk I bought over a year ago. Damn thing took me 6 hours – and that was in addition to the 2 hours it took me to disassemble the old one. But it’s a thing of beauty, so in the end it was worth it. :: Tim Taylor grunt ::
Swampy - Wow, that’s unbelievable. They haven’t made payroll in six weeks? Man. I was part of a startup back in the early 90s (just before the intarweb started taking off) where it was just me and the owner – who spent the vast majority of his time in university in Quebec (one province over) so it was really just me running day to day operations. The guy was always late on the cheques. The final straw came when he ended up being two weeks late and I told him I just couldn’t do it anymore. I couldn’t even imagine sticking around a company like that for six bloody weeks without getting paid. I’d be telling them to get my ROE ready after two.
LiLi - Ugh, don’t remind me. I had to watch where I walked if I was crossing grassy areas, lest I get a face full of gnats. Why is it they always swarm at exactly head-height? Blasted things.
Puggy - Eugh. Cleaning copious amounts of bug guts off my car is not the way I’d want to spend my time. I wonder how bikers manage?
That was one of the items I forgot: love bugs. Only one i know about is the movie one. Well, until I started reading about them in this thread, anyway.
Extra-crappy day at work. Ugh.
I should be out planting stuff, but I think I’m going to be bad and skip that today.
I think I’ll go for a walk and then come back and read for a while.
Hope the scared-shitless phase passes soon, TPlay. Here, have some chocolate.
I’ll be back after a while.
GT
The winds have shifted to the east again. That means smoke. It smells like peat burning outside. That would have to do with the winds from a burning peat bog yet again. YUCK!!!
ACBG is neck deep in paperwork stuff tonight, poor thing! So, no spend the night night yet again. Le sigh. Maybe I’ll have another beer. A couple more and I can post like Haze.
I lveo yuo gysu!
I am never ever ever gonna catch up, so I decided to post bits and pieces as the time and muse strike.
tarra you might want to try dicentra (bleeding heart, either the standard or the fern leaf variety) hostas, dead nettle, siberian iris, columbine, ferns, fritillaria (a fall planting/spring blooming bulb), maybe one of the shorter foxgloves, mints do well in the shade, just plant them in the soil in their pots, or they will overrun your containers. My parsley does very well in mostly shade. I also plant all of my regular spring bulbs in a not very sunny part of my yard, and between that and the cool temperatures here I have daffodils and tulips into July. This is just off the top of my head, I am certain gt and/or others will be able to add to this list.
It is 42 F, raining and blowing like crazy. And to think that on Friday it was so nice we grilled pork loin on the deck and I even had a bit of sunburn on my face. The only thing reminding me now that it really is spring is the first red salmon of the season we ate night before last. Skiffman and his skipper spent Thursday subsistence fishing (gill netting) and they caught eight red salmon, but the stupid sea lions took two.
The most fabulous thing happening in my life right now is that both of my daughters and my son-in-law will be here Friday!!! They are coming for Crab Fest, and it’s the first time the entire family will be together in something like five years, I am soooo excited to have all of my kids here with me! And #1 daughter is entering her third trimester, so I will get to feel my granddaughter kick…joy!
Smooches and hugs to everyone…later!
BooFae, you’re right, it is Harwich my Dad is leaving from. Did you take that particular cruise last year?! I’m sure he’ll enjoy it - I was looking at all the ports earlier today and all the side trips at each place…wow!! And yes, I’m jealous too, Swampy, but I really do think it would be a race to see who would drive whom crazy first - Dad or me.
Yay Kaiwik! Thanks for the tips, especially about the herbs. I’m going to try a few of them again and will try the ones that don’t mind shade, cause my patio is quite shady. Both of my grandmothers were gardeners and I do enjoy working with plants, but have not had the best of luck with indoor plants. My patio planters, though, with the impatiens and begonias, have done fairly well. crosses fingers and knocks on wood three times, just in case (don’t want to jinx myself for this summer!) Well, guess what I’m going to be doing this coming weekend. Good thing, too - I need some quality outdoor time, I think. 
tarra my front yard is so shady that there is more moss than grass in the lawn. Johnny-jump-ups, (violas) lemon verbena and lemon balm, and bee balm (monarda) would probably do well also. If you are interested I can look through my catalogs for things like trilliums and jack-in-the-pulpits and other woodland flowers if you are interested in that sort of thing. I am going to move a lot of my perrenials which have been doing okay in the front to the back deck, which is all sun, when the sun deigns to shine, and I am also moving my rhubarb up onto the deck as it is in a shady spot and the slugs slime it all up. They make a very nice edible ornamental. Rhubarb that is, not the slugs. If you have a big enough pot you could probably get a smaller rhododendron or azalea to bloom nicely too. You know that we are both going to have to provide photos of our endeavors later in the season, right? That goes for gt and swampy and anyone else with grubby hands and dirt under their nails!