House hunting, a home-sweet-home MMP

[VunderBob]

I was sound asleep in the VunderNest last night.

Ka-F*cking-BOOM!

What hell was that? I looked at the alarm clock, it was 0100 exactly. Am I going to be paged for an explosion and fire?

There was a brilliant bluish-white flash, about a 3 second delay, and…

Ka-F*cking-BOOM!

once more. Oh, it’s only a thunderstorm, but’s hitting awfully close to The Lair. Lather, rinse, repeat about 3 more times, then came about 5 minutes of a deluge, and it was over. The online weather forecast said there was a chance of rain overnight, but the TV weatherdolt said the storms would fizzle before getting to the area. Guess where I place my trust with a forecast.

Normally, I could sleep through a direct strike by an F3 tornadey.

Obvious blurfage for y’all today.

[scareyfaerie]

VBob, if I took the spoon out of my cuppa I would have missed the chance to spend a morning with the drunks, druggies and timewasters at my local A&E! The eye hospital used to have it’s own casualty dept but now it’s been merged with the main A&E dept in the big hospital so I got to waste 3hrs of my life sitting around waiting for a prescription for some eye drops.

Very frustrating because having waited nearly an hour to see the triage nurse, she confimed what I already knew I’d got, then told me although she knew what treatment would work (same stuff I had on the last three visits), she would have to get the doc to look at it first and write the script for me. Bah!

Anyway, I have medication and I’m happy now 'cos already it’s a bit less hurty than it was first thing this morning. That must have been when last night’s medicinal beerverages wore off!

Get well soon, all you sickies, it’s not fun at all.

Gotti, when you get settled, send me a postcard…

[dogbutler]

It’s my day off, so I have to go to work. Anyone wanna clean my apartment and do laundry for me?

Yay for eye meds, BooFae!

Congrats on the Weird Earls, and the vein mojo, BBBobbio.

[VunderBob]

@swampbear

BBBobbio interestin’ night. Glad your iv stick went good. Here’s hopin’ Mark’s mom is doin’ ok. So, was DD guy wearin’ a wifebeater? If not, he was definitely out of uniform.

I don’t know what he was wearing, because he was reportedly checking in at The Graybar Hotel while we worked on her hand. Since he was of an ethnic persuasion not known for donning wifebeaters, I doubt it. Leaves the racetracks visible, ya know.

He could probably hit a vein easier than I could too, dammit.

Maybe I should get him a couple, so he would be in uniform the next time?

[Man_With_a_Cat]

Happy Almost Friday!!!

Starbuck**$** now has holiday flavors for all you sugar in your caffeine fiends. Nothing like a yummy peppermint latte and a tangerine for breakfast, I always say!

Today shall be spent being the Good Visible Boss, mostly in my office all day, typing inconsequential memos, meaningless correspondence, and destined to be ignored directives, all while being vastly underpaid, overworked, mostly un-appreciated and stressed.

I am the reason the gods created beer.

[VunderBob]

@Mr Bus Guy

I am the reason the gods created beer.

Remeber: The reason we work is beer is not free.

[Noone_Special]

@SpazCat

A question for the Jewish Mumpers out there: Last night I was redoing the church directory for the concierge notebook* and I got to the synagogue part. One of the synagogues was named Beth Israel. Squirrel AGM noted that there’s always a Beth Israel, but since neither of us is Jewish we didn’t know a)why and b) what it means. Is there a reason or is it the Jewish equivalent of “First (Denomination) Church”?

“Beth Israel” means “House of Israel,” or more loosely, “Congregation of Israel.” “Israel” being not only the name of the country but also another name for “The Jewish People.”

In other words, yea, “First Jewish Church.”

[Tupug_Anachi]

@gotpasswords

I’ve had them before. Are you offering to pass the bottle around?

Heh, that good, huh?

I was going to comment on mbg’s idea of breakfast but decided I’d get razzed.

Glad the eye is improving, boofae. and all the other sickies need to get better!

I ended up being twenty minutes early for work. I dunno, it just happened. Is it Firday yet?

Tupug

[Man_With_a_Cat]

@Tupug_Anachi

I was going to comment on mbg’s idea of breakfast but decided I’d get razzed.

What? That’s a damn healthy breakfast, if I do say so!

It reminds me of an old Boy Scout treat, where we’d stick a candy cane into an orange and drink the juice out through the cane.

[IvoryTowerDenizen]

Hey y’all.

I haven’t turned my office lights on yet. I kinda like sitting in the dim.

[Mindfield]

Is it Firday yet?

No?

Damn.

Nothin’ exciting going on. Have to renew my health card this evening. Woo. (I’m a little late doing that.)

BusDude - Bleh. Never liked Charbucks. Tastes like roasted ass. Second Cup (which I think is a Canadian chain) has it all over them, though they lost some of my respect when they started making their chai latte with powdered stuff, because now it just tastes like weak store-bought crap. Even then it’s still better than the alternatives. Also your breakfast choice is perfectly fine as far as I’m concerned. Of course, I’m here drinking my own concoction of French Vanilla Hazlenut Toffee Coffee so I’m in no position to judge.

VBob - I’ve been awakened by storms like that. Thor banging his damn hammer right over top of my apartment building. It almost always signifies a fierce storm that inevitably fizzles out after 5-15 minutes or so. It just sucks when they hit long before you’re due to wake up because now you’ve gotta spend half an hour trying to get back to sleep.

Nava - Hey, the original V may have been prose at best, but it was some damn good TV that still manages to hold up pretty well after more than 25 years. The remake is decidedly shinier and CGI-ier, I wasn’t too impressed with some of the casting, and the first episode felt condensed, but so far it’s got me interested enough to watch the next installment. Maybe you should torrent the first ep.

Mahna[sup]2[/sup] - Unfortunately I know what you mean. The wife and I went a little nuts buying post-Halloween-sale junk. Sweet Tarts, Charleston Chews, Nerds, Junior Mints, Junior Caramels (which, for some reason, only the Junior Mints came in an extra outer plastic wrapping), Starburst, Crunchie, Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp, Reese cups, Sour Patch Kids, Swedish Berries, Skittles (regular and sour), Fuzzy Peach, Pringles, and half a dozen other things, all in individual just-one-more sizes. Well, I guess diets are what new year’s resolutions are for…

Alright, off to get some work done.

[Tupug_Anachi]

@Mr Bus Guy

What? That’s a damn healthy breakfast, if I do say so!

It reminds me of an old Boy Scout treat, where we’d stick a candy cane into an orange and drink the juice out through the cane.

The pucker factor…Make it stop!!!

[Nava]

@Mindfield

Nava - Hey, the original V may have been prose at best, but it was some damn good TV that still manages to hold up pretty well after more than 25 years. The remake is decidedly shinier and CGI-ier, I wasn’t too impressed with some of the casting, and the first episode felt condensed, but so far it’s got me interested enough to watch the next installment. Maybe you should torrent the first ep.

I can’t, at least legally. And I hate breaking other people’s copyright for something like “it’s not available where I am but eventually it will be but ohmygoshIcan’twait.” I mean, it’s not like it’s the cure for the cancer I don’t have…

[Mahna_Mahna]

One of my coworkers came to work today with a box of homemade creampuffs he made in his baking class.

Oh. Em. Gee.

Clearly, TVCTPMO has a pesky sibling known as TVCTMMF (aka The Vast Conspiracy To Make Me Fat). Sigh.

[taxi78cab]

Oooh, peppermint mocha sounds like a good idea. Thanks for letting me know BusDude.

Today’s one of those “there’s a ton of long-term stuff I should be doing but nothing that has to be done today so I have no motivation” types of days. Wheee!

[Lissla_Lissar]

Am getting tired of the weird extra queasiness that the flu caused. On the bright side, it’s kept me from eating leftover Halloween candy.

[gotpasswords]

Leftover Halloween candy? What’s that?

Actually, I know what it is, and usually by now I would have left a sack of the stuff at the office break room, but we weren’t home last Saturday, so had no candy at all this year.

The Repast Faerie is in a weird mood. Yesterday, we had DIY pizza. I think our biggest mistake was using “whomp” dough. It was well, doughy. The finished product was edible but not amazingly tasty.

Tonight, we’re having roast duck, asparagus and mashed NOTs. Hopefully it all tastes better than the pizzas.

[swampbear]

Howdy Y’all! I’s tahred! After work, twuck got loaded up with a bunch of stuff to take over to the church and price tomorrow for the annual yahd sale on Sattidy which I shall not be at bein’ as I have to work. Anywho, after all that, dindin was BK cause that was all the cookin’ I was able to do.

I have a confession. All those froufrou latte/mocha/steamed/quadshot/espresso coffee things? I’m not all that impressed. Gimme a big ol’ mug of Folger’s or Maxwell House. Y’all may now look down your lorgnettes and exclaim “Well! Really!” at me.

[Catamount]

@Noone_Special

“Beth Israel” means “House of Israel,” or more loosely, “Congregation of Israel.” “Israel” being not only the name of the country but also another name for “The Jewish People.”

In other words, yea, “First Jewish Church.”

Me = informed.

MBG, how do you drink orange juice through a candy cane?

[FairyChatMom]

Home late today. There was an open house at FCD’s work, and I got to see several UAVs that his company has worked on. I also saw a couple of the products they developed - way cool stuff. It’s obvious the company is full of geeks! They also had good food and beverages, so I didn’t have to make supper.

Saturday, we’re going into Fredericksburg to a wallpaper store. The walls in the little bathroom are in pretty bad shape and paint won’t help. I really don’t feel like spending a week mudding and sanding and mudding and sanding… so if we can find a nice wallpaper, the walls will be done this weekend. So yay.

In other news, there’s nothing. But tomorrow is Firday, so there’s that.

Please send chocolate. KTHXBYE!