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{{{{{Any and all who need or want one}}}}}

I went to the local farmer’s market today. It’s pretty early in the season, but I scored what should be really good sausage, some strawberries from heaven (picked yesterday, organic, teeny tiny and the sweetest I’ve ever tasted), and a little single-serving apple pie. We may not have an Amish market here, MT, but we do have nice Mennonite bakers! It’s just as well that I’m mostly broke until Friday or I’d have ended up with a lot more stuff. I’m told the selection will widen later on in the season.

I missed the market last year because of the fire and everything getting closed down or cancelled. So it’s going to be fun heading over there on Tuesdays to see what’s what. There’s people with arty stuff I want to look at, too, in case I win the lottery and can ever afford it!

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LiLi why would you want to buy a costco cake when you can make a yummy homemade cake?

Smarty Pants why do you hate Excel? If you ever need help either PM me or email me (email is in my profile). I’m not an expert, but help in the classes and LOVE excel. I managed to get my hubby addicted as well.

{{{{Rigs & Smarty}}}}

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Get behind me Martha Stewart!!!

Get behind me Martha Stewart!!!
Sorry, tired now. No more cooking, thanks. :smiley:

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Today was hectic at work. I think tomorrow will be quieter, since my boss is doing year-end roundtables all day and my other, sort-of, boss is doing Take Your Kids to Work Day. Yes, I know everyone else did that in April, but we’re special. Since I’m not doing either one, thank Og, I should be able to get plenty of work done. And it will be blessedly quiet in my cube.

I wrote a long screed about work, but then I remembered that I work for an accounting firm and I was going on about Form A and Form B with Addendum X and, yeah. So, something happened that shouldn’t have and it’s nobody’s fault, but it has to be fixed. I get to write up what-not-to-do for next time and hopefully, everything will be all fixed up by Thursday.

((((To everyone who needs one))))

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McUne, it’s not really a hate thing, per se–it’s just so persnickety and persists in doing what it wants, not what I tell it. Well, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it! I know, GIGO and all that but still–if I have a formula set for an entire column and then I have to add another line in there why would Excel assume that I don’t want the formula to carry through on that line? Does that make sense? Of course not.

Poor Haze, the monsoons are teh maxx suxxorz and I have all the sympathy in the world for you. The only thing worse is when it stops raining, gets horribly hot and the humidity is so high you can wring the air out into a glass. Our shoes used to turn into big blobs of green fuzz if we didn’t take them out of the cabinet at least once a week and clean them off. Yuck.

I tell you what, I don’t know what I’d do without this board sometimes because it’s kept me sane(ish) through some very weird times. If I can’t get a cheerup section going I can at least get monumentally pissed at some scheisskopf and that serves as distraction enough from my immediate troubles. I remember what it was like prior to teh intarwebs and this is MUCH better!

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Smarty Pants I agree that Excel is persnickety and does what it wants. A couple of instructors actually say that in class! If you are in the middle of your data or near the end, if you insert a row above the formula, then Excel “typically” should automatically calculate it, but it doesn’t always work that way. At least you can autofill the formula down instead of typing it all in.

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There’s no way I’d make it. I ignored the MMP for too long.

Hey everyone! Two minor points of interest to ejaculate: I’m getting a small promotion at work, from a pharmacy clerk to a Technician II (I’m currently a tech I, but not getting paid for it, because I agreed to do it for the lower pay as there wasn’t a spot on the payroll open for a tech, and I needed the work experience for pharmacy school, but we all see where that got us). The promotion entails somewhere between a $1.50-$2.00/hr raise, which is significant when I’m making right at $1.00/hr above minimum wage.

Also, I had sex in my new house for the first time tonight. Well new house as in I’ve been living here for about 3 months, and I’m renting it with 4 other people, so hardly my house, and somehow, miracle of miracles, none of the roommates saw him and I didn’t have to explain why there was a 40-something year old man taking a piss in the other room. Except for the one roommate who left and came back while we were making out in his car, but it was dark outside and she probably couldn’t see any detail.

Happy Tuesday everyone!

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Morning all.

{{{rigs}}} and {{{Smartie}}}

Yayyyy on donkeybear gettin’ a rise <snerk> AND a pay rise!!!

LiLi, just buy the durn cake already, and shove a slice through the CD drive for me please!

snowbunny, hush up already about farmers’ markets and sweet strawberries and home-made apple pies! I just had breakfast (an egg and cheese sandwich, if you must know) and now I’m craving apple pie à la mode! :smiley:

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Well first off, donkeybear, shame on you for neglecting us so… sniff On the other hand, what could be better than money AND sex? That’s fabulous–I’d settle for either one, myself. Glad you got both! Now stop ejaculatin’ all over the MMP–that’s what Rm 304 is all about, mister!

Apparently there’s some guy in Boston who thinks I oughta be talkin’ dirty to him right now. I may be computer savvy but the appeal of IM sex chat cross continent completely escapes me. I’m such a Luddite. OKCupid is kinda fun, I have to admit. Much more dynamic than other dating sites I’ve frequented. Also there’s a 22 YO who apparently thinks I’m cute–won’t he be disappointed when he finds out I’m not rich and that even if I were I don’t pay kids to fuck! W00t!

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Sounds a bit like a roller coaster – scary yet exhilarating, and ultimately satisfying, all at once! :smiley:

Go for the jalapenos! Life is all about smoke-coming-out-of-your-ears-hot food!

{{[sup]…[/sup]x100[sup]…[/sup]{{ Rigs… :frowning: :eek: }}[sup]…[/sup]x100[sup]…[/sup]}}
And – what about your daughter? She still needs to get to Boston, doesn’t she? Did she fly out by herself, or is she going to go alone, later? With someone else…? If this were my situation, I think this would be the part that sucked hardest – the effect on the kids :frowning:
More {{{}}} for you, just because…

The more I hear the horror stories coming out of other relationships, the more I realize this almost seems to be the norm. I don’t think people are really “built” to be in lifelong monogamous (I started typing “monotonous”. Coincidence…?) relationships. Blurf. More {{{}}} for **Smartie **and Rigs

**GT **-- yup, that’s pretty much the iconic shot of Tel-Aviv, from Old Jaffa! I am so tickled pink that you recognised it :slight_smile:

**Haze **-- what is your time zone, GMT+9 without DST? So… almost 3 PM already? If you need something to keep you up for another hour or so later in the evening we can always talk for a while… just sayin’ :wink:

{{{Beebs}}} – your post did not sound terribly encouraging… :frowning: In all seriousness (for a change :p), Keep us posted, take care of yourself, and ::fingers crossed:: that it’s something not terribly serious, and not permanent, after all!
Take care!

ETA – Smartie, just string the 22 YO along by telling him you’re his age, just with 25 years or so of experience! :smiley:

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Another night shifter reporting in here. About to give up, but I’ve been plugging away at this stupid job all evening. At least everyone speaks English well.

beebs, you can’t sneak through here – we see you! And random smooches don’t substitute for explanations, young man!

{{{Any Mumpers who need it}}}

I have a fairly major accomplishment to report: I have worked all evening long using my left thumb only for the space bar! Okay, I’m only up to about 60-75% of my normal speed, and I have to concentrate a lot more and pause my recordings more often, but it’s becoming far less stressful. Except that now my left thumb is tired since it’s not used to being worked so hard, so clearly I’m going to have to build up the strength in those muscles.

But this means that if I can get up to full speed or close enough thereto, I can then get the joint surgery on my right thumb that I’ve been needing for several years now that would put my thumb 100% out of commission for three months (I had the same surgery on my left thumb ten years ago, so I know what happens – it’ll be in a cast, pinned, so I can’t move it even if I want to). I simply haven’t been able to even contemplate the surgery because I couldn’t see how I could ever transfer my space barring to my left thumb. But thanks to a thread here on the Dope a couple of days ago, I got re-inspired to try again, and this time it actually is starting to work. Thanks, Dope!

So please send good thoughts my left thumb’s way --I’m going to spend a couple months alternating hands to build strength and get up to speed (strength-wise, it helps that I’m left-handed), and then it’s time to go talk to the hand surgeon. <ulp!>

Life is just filled with fun decisions, isn’t it? But at least tonight I can pat myself on the back for finally facing a difficult challenge and starting to have some success with it. Re-channeling one’s brain after 40 years doing things one way is not easy!

Okay, time to stop babbling and go to bed. Because although I don’t have a human baby who gets me up early, I have a canine one. Oh, how I wish we could install a dog door!

Nighty-night, all, and I expect to see a full explanation from beebs when I log on in the morning!

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Forgot to say earlier – Go Celtics!!! Championship #17!!

:D:D:D:D:D (See, even this guy is green!!)

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Little too late there, Nooner, I went for the sallit because I also picked up some yummy strudel bites in blueberry and razzleberry so I figured I could EITHER have the nommy but oh so fatty burgers OR the sweet little morsels and as I’m a typical chick I had to go for the pastry. I’m so predictable!

Monotonous relationships–that was a Freudian landslide if I’ve ever seen one, heh… I have my doubts about them as well, but it’s like any endeavor; to do something well for a lifetime requires passion, dedication, attention, work, and love. To find all that motivation just within ourselves is difficult, to coordinate with another person in order to heterodyne increases the difficulty exponentially. It’s less surprising that the divorce rate is high than that quite a lot of people actually manage to stay married for the duration.

I like messing around with the minds of horny little boys–they think they’re such playas and can wind an old lady around their finger because they’re cute. It’s kinda like a widdoe mousie showing its fangs to the trapdoor spider, heh heh. Of course, sometimes they’re just genuinely fond of older women, in which case a catch and release option becomes available…

Thinkin’ brawny Schwarzenegger thoughts for your left thumb there, Tigs!

Yeah, and beebs better get his butt in here and 'splain himself, otherwise he just might find there’s a whole mess o’Mama Spank up in this yere MMP!

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So I was sitting right where I am right now on Saturday morning. In my supervisors office at the computer, just goofing off until some test finish incubating so I can go home.

The next thing I remember is walking back to my work station, but apparently in the time it took for me to get there I 1) Lost conciousness 2) Began seizing and foaming at the mouth 3) Fell off the chair 4) Have no memory of this.

My supervisor drove me and my car home, and my Mom picked me up and drove me to my PCP/hospital emergency room (there is no way I’d be an inpatient at the same hospital where all my fellow employees could look me up). Tests and scans and scopes and all. I was there Saturday morning until Monday evening. They did every test under the sun and I was the worst patient EVAR. Seriously.

I have little patience, and I despise being locked up. So when they turned an alarm on my bed that would sound if I ever got off it I quickly learned to disable it. “Mr. beebs, mr. beebs, you’re not supposed to be walking about the halls. Please get back in your bed!” I was caught. This happened a couple of times, apparently seaizing into fits of unconciousness makes you some sort of fall risk blah-blah-blah.

By Monday I was still waiting for one specific type of scan, had to wait all day for this friggin EEG, still have the gunk in my hair. I was so out of patience waiting for the final report for the discharge papars that when it came time for the nurse to come and take out my venous catheter I just raised my arm and showed her, “I already did that, just give me the papers.”

On the bright side they sent me away with presciptions for Prozac and Ativan, the latter being especially yummy and very helpful for sleep.

Oh, and I saw the Hulk movie last night!
Your former hospital bed resident,
beebs

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Glad you’re okay beebster! Are they planning on running any more tests? Was this just a one-off thing? Tell me to shut up if you don’t feel like sharing!

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Yes, I have more appointments. Hopefully it was a one-time thing. Don’t worry about asking the questions. Just don’t call me beebster.

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:: slaps beebs with a wet trout :: Bad patient! I’m sure rigs will come in to scold you more soundly.

Yup, Noone, it’s GMT +9 here. I usually don’t get sleepy until around 6pm, but today I have a dinner date with a friend - hopefully being out and about will help me stay awake. I haven’t left the house since Sunday so am feeling kinda gross and frumpy. Tonight will be my first time setting foot in downtown Seoul since forever. People are way more fashion conscious in this part of the world; I remember being surprised at how casual people went about in Chicago. I suppose I better get myself back into dress-up mode now that I’m back. Grumble. Fortunately it’s stopped raining - hopefully for the rest of the day.

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Ah yes, I was sad to see you move, but at least I see we’ve added a new recruit to the night-shift.

Sure sure, you always tended to post at late hours, but back then those posts were always slurred.

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Heh. If I ever do a durken post from here, it’ll be the middle of the day for you US MMPers. How disconcerting.

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I see nothing wrong with drinking through lunch; all as long as it’s vicariously.

Your resident troublemaker,
beebs