Blah. Tired today. Is it naptime yet?
::wanders off groggily::
Funny story. A woman that serves on my city council ( a Democrat) got a phone call when she was running for a district seat. It was from the RNC that asked if she needed some help financing and getting stuff done (paperwork, fees, signatures, etc.) She said she could use some help, so they started talking. A few minutes later, she finally put it all together and said “you know I’m a Democrat, right?”. The next thing she heard was a dialtone.
Ooooh…I have been having email discussions with 'im indoors about hexmas pressies (largely because I’ve been badgering him to give me a list of games etc that he might want, 'cos I get every member of his family on the phone asking if I know what they can get for him). Any road up, he had decided to buy me a new MP3 player 'cos my old one is starting to fail and it only holds about 4 albums worth of music - good for the gym sessions and not much else.
He sent me various options that he thinks would be good, bearing in mind that he’s the geek in the house. I dismissed the iPod because I just don’t want one of those things, offered him the option of a Creative Zen one I’d seen but he’s decided what I really want is one of these instead. Hmmm…do I really?
Up, caffeinated, and Nelly is walked.
Bluuuuurf. Caffeination under way.
VWife breaks out today. She’s mad at me because I have a mandatory project meeting at 2:30, and she wanted out by 1:00. Tough titty; she’s gotta wait, unless I can get my part covered ahead of time, which is unlikely.
I missed a call last night ('cuz I was off duty) that I would have enjoyed taking. A 26 y. o. woman in normal labor. I’d like to deliver a baby under good circumstances some time before I have up my stethoscope…
I owe, I owe, off to work I go.
Drive by-I’m late for work.
Re the presents and the teens: nail polish and makeup kits. Or photo albums.
Have a good day, all.
Home. Showered. Tired. Ready for beddy bye. Pronouns missing.
Yay, boo, hugs, woohoo etc…
Sleep Now! Later Y’all!
Since Baptists don’t wear collars, I have no idea who the minister is unless he’s behind the pulpit. Any day I can scandalize a Baptist is a good 'un. 
The Whiskeypalians have the right idea. Lutherans would do the same thing, except it would be at a potluck dinner…
Good morning!
It seems I’ve lost my debit card. I hate it when I do something stoopit like that. I think i left it at the restaurant where I ate lunch yesterday. I’ll have to wait a couple of hours until they’re open, though. Dammit. I hope I don’t have to get a new one! I did check the bank account online and there are no bogus charges.
My son has gotten a promotion! Yay! He will be training to be a bartender in the restaurant where he is a waiter. Good for him!
Better get to work… have a great day!
Congrats to the son, Rebo!
Ugh, too cold, too tired, don’t wanna work.
And the Catholics would discuss it while drunk.
Rebo, I hate that. If it doesn’t turn up, you’ll definitely have to get a new one. Bleh.
I’ve decided I’d rather wander today than do housework. I’ve got an appointment at 2:30, but I can get up to the new store (work- wait, former work- just opened a new store two weeks ago) and check it out, and drop off a baby shower invite for one of our former staff who was transferred. And go to baby stores and look at carseats and strollers. The only one I really really want so far is the frigging expensive one. Damn.
And tomorrow is all-day baking so I might as well clean.
Tired, but caffeinating and in a surprisingly amicable mood. Spent most of my evening last night shuttling my attention between the new Law & Order: SVU and House episodes, my dad coming over for some technical assistance with his computer, and setting up the new iPod. With regards to my dad’s computer, he had a fairly simple problem that involved not being able to burn DVDs. This was due to the fact that the version of Nero he had installed was designed specifically to work with his previous CD burner and would not recognize his current DVD burner. (He bought a whole new PC from someone in the building – it’s a pretty pimped out machine, so it’s kind of odd seeing my dad, Mister I Don’t Need To Read These Books Wait Why Did That Happen How Do I Fix It Goddammit Why The Hell Does It Keep Doing That What Do You Mean It’s In The Book, with a mad tower case filled with (what is now) midrange gear and windowed side panel through which the LED fans and EL wire glows and all that fun stuff. It’s a bit like seeing your grandmother dressed up in leather chaps, a Harley jacket, and silver Oakleys, revving her riced out Kawasaki, looking for all the world like she’s three seconds away from saying, “Step off, 'less you want a cap in your ass.”
Anyway, problem solved easily enough, though he still has a problem with his printer where there are lights flashing that ought not to be flashing because when they’re flashing, it generally means there’s a problem that’s a little more serious than a paper jam. Not something I can fix, really; he probably needs at least one new print head, maybe several.
VBob - I don’t know why, but I envision this scenario wherein you have to return to the church, and end up meeting the minister (who was there at the previous incident) and introduce yourself, Ace Ventura style, by turning around, bending over, and talking with your butt cheeks, saying “You may remember me from our last encounter…”
What can I say? It’s still too damn early.
BooFae - Ooh, those Archos players are sweet. Besides my iPod, that would be my second choice of PMP. Everything I’ve read about them is pretty positive. My only gripe about them is that a lot of things (like codecs to play other music and video formats, the web browser, and so on) cost extra and you have to buy them from Archos’ website. But out of the box it’s still highly capable anyway so it doesn’t really matter. It might also be a bit on the large side for using while at the gym or otherwise engaging in physical activities. If he’s definitely getting it though, tell him to get the 605, not the 604. The 605 is this year’s generation and has nicer features.
Hmm. I appear to have a certain level of geekiness in common with 'im indoors.
Fleader - If it makes you feel better, I’m in Brampton, ON (more or less right beside Toronto), it got down below freezing last night, and Brampton bylaws do not allow apartment buildings/condos to turn on the A/C until mid-June, or the heat until mid-November. What’s more is that in between the changeover from heat to A/C and vice-versa, there is about a 6 week period where there is neither heat nor A/C, also per the by-law. So our A/C was turned off at the end of September, and we’re still about a week away from having the heat turned on.
Likewise, our heat will be turned off at the end of March, but we won’t have A/C until mid-June.
Whoever came up with these bylaws needs to be flogged.
Good news on the physical homefront. I may have lamented that the VunderLair was overrun by feral cats recently. The local animal control ossifer came out and placed a couple Havahart traps, and last night both were full with the breeding pair! w00t! w00t!
The tom is Sylvester, who was dumped on us by The Former Denizen. There’s a good chance that once he’s nutless, he can be (re)tamed, because he’s a former housecat. The mother is one of his kittens (yeah, feline incest), and she’s wild beyond hope. As many times as she’s attacked me, she’s not been shot only because I never see her when I have my rifle handy.
The current three kittens are still on the lam, however.
A friend of mine os of this denomination. She tells me their guiding principal is “Where’s there’s four, there’s a fifth.”
Evening all. Busy busy day today. Took handover on a file and nobody bothered to mention, probably ‘cause they’re both too frackin’ lazy or stoopid (or both), that the temporary waiver period for satisfaction of a bunch of drawdown conditions expired TODAY! I had to find it out when I called the client - NICE! That looks reallllllly professional! C*NTS! So I spent the afternoon speed-drafting an extension letter and gently probing to find out what else I haven’t been told or has slipped through the cracks.
On a brighter note, Noor is over her head-cold and blocked ear, as her first top tooth popped through a couple of days back and the second one is due very shortly, if my unwelcome prodding in HRH’s mouth is anything to go by. We went back to the paediatrician today for a follow-up and she gained 250g (over 1/2 a pound) in the last 4 days! :eek: 
She now weighs in at 9.75kg (21.5lb) and measures 73cm (nearly 29in). Not bad for a kid who turned 7 months old yesterday!
Rebo, I hope your debit card turns up - that’s a bummer!
Extremely belated, but …
Happy Birfday MamaTigs!!!
Mork, I know what you mean about parents surprising you. I got a text message (SMS) from my mother 2 days ago. I didn’t even know she knew how to read them, let alone send them. She normally only turns her phone on when she’s going shopping and then usually forgets to turn it off again, so the battery runs dead and she doesn’t realise until she tries to turn it on the next time she’s about to go out shopping! To give you an idea of how much she uses her phone, she has a prepaid sim card ($20 credit with 1 year validity). Every year, she has to buy a new $20 recharge card to extend the validity, and I think she’s got well over $100 of credit now!
boofae, that be a sweet possible xmas present.
rebo, hope you find your card. I use mine for everything so I’d be very upset.
Cool front came through and I actually wore a jacket to work this morning. Very sunny and pleasant though.
taters, which Follet book is it? I just finished reading A Thousand Splendid Suns ::sniff!::
That is all.
Tupug
Morning, all. Kinda sorta. I slept like a rock last night, and definitely slept too long; the dogs were dying to go out when I got up. And now I have to gulp down my coffee cause I have a dentist appointment in 45 minutes. 
To get a small cavity filled. Which normally would be a cause for only moderate :(, except that it’s on a front tooth so I’m afraid half my face will be numb when he’s done. Which I really, really, really hate. Especially since I’m dentist-phobic anyway. And have I mentioned that I need to get 3 crowns, for one of which I need to get a root canal just to put in some kind of pin to anchor the crown cause there’s not enough tooth left to support one, plus I need to have my oldest crown replaced? I am going to have to force myself to do all that; I just hope that once I’m done, that’s about all the crowns I’ll need for a while – I don’t have many uncrowned molars left!
Kids, remember, spending your formative years without fluoride for your teeth, as I did – unlike my kids, who I made sure got it, whether in the water as most places do or, as happened when we lived in a city without fluoridated water, by supplement pill for my kids – can cause many, many years of unhappiness in the dental chair.
Good on yer, McUne, for helping that family. The year I was in sixth grade and my dad went back to graduate school so we had no money, some family friends helped my parents provide Christmas gifts for me and my sister. It was much appreciated by all, believe you me. If you need any assistance other than suggestions, let us know, okay? I suspect there’d be a few Mumpers who’d be happy to make a small contribution. Or at least one, me.
Anyway, hugs, boos, whatevers as appropriate, and I’d better finish gulping my coffee and eating something before my trip to the dentist. Have I mentioned that I hate going to the dentist?
And the Methodists would gossip about it over cookies at coffee hour. We do love our coffee hour.
Days ago, LiLi, you mentioned the Midnight Louie series. I keep meaning to say that I’ve read some of them and I agree they really aren’t that good. But sometimes you need a mindless, silly sort of book and they’re all right for that. Oh and good luck getting through the last 9 weeks of morning sickness and everything!
Great idea, McUne. I have no kid ideas either, but I think it’s a great thing you’re doing.
Sorry on the dentist stuff Mama Tigs. Hugs.
Good luck with the move, FLeader. We’re moving in January so I know the packing-dread. And the only two weekends between now and then that we don’t have plans are 11/17 and 12/31. It’s going to be interesting to see how we get ready for this! Sorry you and **Mork **don’t have heat. That really sucks.
Isn’t the working world fun, dotty? Why doesn’t everyone do things in a timely fashion and do them right the first time? :rolleyes:
I thought today was going to be painfully insane, but it’s looking like it’s only going to be very mildly insane. Yay! (It’s probably not good that I’m that excited over mildly insane, is it?) :smack:
MamaTigs, I’m sorry about the dentist. I hope it goes quickly and painlessly.
I came in this morning to the good news that I need to reschedule a 4 hour meeting with more than 2 dozen partners (think VPs) next month. What fun. The reason it’s being rescheduled is that no one wants to participate, but it’s mandatory, so they have to have the meeting eventually. Or maybe they can keep rescheduling it until the fiscal year ends next June, and then we can start again for 2009. :rolleyes: Scheduling partners is like herding cats, only cats are easier.
Grrr. When they made this dentist appointment for me, the young woman making it absolutely insisted I would not need to take antibiotics before it. (After a total joint replacement, you have to take a precautionary dose of antibiotics before dental work for at least two years.) She insisted that there would be no chance of anything the dentist did causing any bleeding, so I wouldn’t need them. I argued with her, but finally gave in.
So what’s the first thing I find out? The dentist won’t touch me without the antibiotics. Because he has to give me an injection. :smack: So I’m rescheduled for next weeks. After I take my antibiotics. Needless to say, he wasn’t thrilled that I’d been given bad information, but since it was their office’s fault, at least he wasn’t annoyed with me!
So I came home and threw the Kong for Isaac till he settled down. So now it’s time to get back to work. And I get to go through all the worries about the dental stuff again next week. Oh, joy. :rolleyes: