How I spent my Saturday – a boring MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I cleaned my back porch. It was no biggie cause really all I needed to do was knock down (yet again) some spider webs and vacuum up grass and dead bugs. I really like the fact that the lizards eat the bugs but I do wish they’d clean up the carcasses. Or maybe it’s the spiders who are leaving carcasses. Sloppy eaters!

I also have some burgers ready to grill. ACBG called me earlier and said he’d be through work by around seven, so I told him I’d grill us a burger. I might even fry some bacon so we can have homemade bacon cheeseburgers. YUM!!! I have some fresh tomatoes plus some lettuce so we’ll have our veggies too. That’s important. Oh, and he’ll be staying over. :smiley:

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So that’s what they’re calling it these days.

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It’s For Maximum Value. I know this because I was hired at a Kroger and went to orientation and then got wind of a better-paying gig. So I called and quit.

Now I have to do laundry 'cause I don’t have the kind of job that they’ll let me do nekkid.

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I think **Sean ** is really going to be washing his hair next week; not getting his computer cleaned.

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Oops. I got caught cleaning. Since I clean about as often as I file, suspicions are aroused. Especially since my method of cleaning involves large garbage cans and the shredder bin. I got rid of some of the excess swag, though. One of my co-workers needed some pens and leather portfolios. That gave me the excuse to clean out the rest of the drawers, but I must have gone too far. Now I’ll have to be circumspect for a while. Or quit. One or the other. It’s too hot to quit, so I’ll have to behave for a while, or at least until it cools off some.

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The Telemarketer speaks, I Respond: The Sequel

I answered the phone to day atwork:
:ring:
Me:Hello?
Telemarketer: Is this 555-5555?
Me" Yes, how may I help you?
TM: I am with <meaningless acronym>, are you a fulltime employee?
Me: How may I help you?
TM: Are you a fulltime employee?
Me: What can I help you with?
TM: :angry: Is a manager in the store, may I speak to the manager?
Me: I am the manager.
Tm :angry: Have a good day. :click:
Me:WTF?
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Other than that, it was a quiet day before the day before vacation day. I kept
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getting songs stuck in my head all day. At least I wasn’t dancing to them.
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that say to people “raving loony” or “cellphone in pocket on vibrate”.
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It’s always the crappy songs too. it’s never “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” or “My Way”
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it’s the silly stuff like the llama song. Oh well.
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Taters, You are doing the right thing about that guy.
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MBG, i hope things get better for you soon. Feel free to vent whenever you need.
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bobbio, I have vowed that the next time I move, I am burning everything that doesn’t fit into the station wagon.

FCM, is the flavored seltzer sugar free? That stuff is nasty.

I wasn’t a picky eater, mika. I used to have to fight my dad for the last helping of spinach.

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I can’t read those pithy lil remarks, dg . Hello, all–I am exhausted, after one day of this. Why am I doing this again?

Seriously, my computer stuff sucks–and they go too fast. (but at least I have accessed my email account and cruised the uni site–some hadn’t done that). This one guy, Matt, speaks too fast and flicks his cursor all over the screen and changes pages w/o telling us etc. Sorry to sound crotchy, but I would like to be able to do this at home.
Met some real nice people, though. And I’m no dumber or smarter than any of them.

Wish me luck–off to read about 400 pages of articles tonoc. oy.

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We are chatty this week, aren’t we?

Gotta agree with the whole crowd, Taters. You’d need to know Mr. 20 (and his family, I’d think) a whole lot better before it would feel OK.

Sorry about your blues, MBG. I haven’t been in a similar situation, but I’ve been on the edges of enough marriages to understand how things that seem small can become ginormous over time. I second Puggy’s suggestion of giving another round of counseling a try. Vent whenever you need to.

taxi, Faraway Best Friend’s sister got married around Christmas a couple years ago. She had one of the best thought out wedding ceremonies I’ve ever been to. She used Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring and Clarke’s Trumpet Voluntary as her processional. She also used a couple of pieces from Handel’s Water Music. There are a bunch on this handy CD made just for brides. Not sure how any of this would sound on a violin, but maybe you can let your violinist know the type of music you like and then she could make suggestions? (And, no, I didn’t remember all of this on my own; just went and dug out the program from her wedding.)

I like many styles of tacos. Sometimes just the basic meat and cheese or beans and cheese or sour cream; sometimes with all sorts of stuff: lettuce, avocado, tomato, cilantro, chopped egg, and all sorts of other things I’m forgetting. The only unchanging requirement is that it be on a corn tortilla.

OK, swampy, what is it exactly that they’re putting in the Albeeny water. (Maybe it’s just the drinks at the Miss Clueless Albeeny 2006 Pageant?) Can y’all hear my very natural-sounding Southern accent?

I’m currently not working on my presentation again. Gotta finish it tonight because I’m making everyone else show up for a meeting tomorrow at 8:30 to review all of our slides. Guess my part should be done too, huh? I’m currently in one of those tricky situations where I have to finesse my way to fixing other people’s presentations. We have a couple of new management types who have experience in a similar field. They keep confusing their old field with where they are now and I keep having to correct them. It’s making me crazy. They’re one rung up from me and one of them could wind up being my boss for a while, so I have to be careful. They’re going to make us look stupid in front of a bunch of people if they don’t get their act together. I hate having to be tactful with them.

Off to fire up the work laptop.

I’m hoping to be back later with the report that I’m done.

GT

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Oh no. I wasn’t a *picky * eater. I didn’t like anything.

I can guess why. I spent those four early years in India and probably the food here just wasn’t as good.

I am typing this one-handed because (shutup) Picante (my gecko) is crawling on my left hand. We had a small cricket crisis. We have a cricket container that has these specual tubes to lift them out with. Well, they were a little too low to get in the tubes, so we put in a layer of styrofoam to boost them up. That was yesterday. Today we went to feed him only to find the crickets had eaten the top layer of styrofoam. So we had to rush out to get more crickets, as that’s not what they mean by “gut-loading the crickets”.

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Crickets eat styrofoam?

Today’s cat observation from the Kid: “man, dad, cats pee really loud”

So…yeah.

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Yeah…who knew? Little bastards.

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The ones I get at WalMart cost 50 cents for a liter bottle. I don’t need that fancy name-brand water - Sam’s Choice ain’t half bad! Especially since it’s cheap!

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This is probably the most insightful thing I’ve read all day.

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It’s not so much seltzer water I want. I drink that buy the case already. These are just for special treats.

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She’s good for those insightful things. When she was 5, she decided that it was sad that Jesus didn’t have a grandma. I assume she meant on Dad’s side of the family.

I wrote a country song over that.

No, you wouldn’t have heard it anywhere.

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Thanks a whole freakin’ lot, bucko! :dubious: :rolleyes:

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Hey, I had that stuck in my head all day! :eek: :smiley:

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That’s it. 9:22 is a good time to stop working for the day, eh?

Left the office at about 4:30, did a shortened version of the workout, dang the place was deserted today, only a few of the ‘regulars’ and maybe 50 people altogether. It’s a big place, 50 is nothing.

Then to KFC, home, and I’ve been working since.

Uh, ok, and posting here.

No one tell the people in the DoperGang thread I’m a spy. Someone needs to stick their heads out to see what people know about us…

Ah yes, (rambling begins here…), the ‘regulars’ at the gym…There’s Skinny Running Eurpoean Lady, she was there today. Maybe my age, always in spandex, always either on that moving stair machine, or running on the treadmill. Harley Cut Off Shirt Guy was there, he does a lot of core/crunchy type things. not a lot of weights or cardio though. Sorority Girl was there - an asian girl, always wears something from her sorority at ISU. Runs and does the elliptical, but never for long. Friendly Hog the Machines Guy was there. He tries to leave towels on 2-3 machines at a time, so he can circuit train without interruption. Jerk.

I’m reading the Harry Potter books! Thought I’d see what the fuss was all for.

Which reminds me, I should get off here and read…

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peering into left ear
“Ayup, badger infestation. Stuck in there good. Run you a solid three grand to clean it out. Even got mushrooms and snakes in there. It’s pretty bad.”

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Somehow, doggio’s post didn’t display exactly right in my browser. Had to hit reply to it to read the stuff stuck in his ear. It just looked smudgy in the original.

My presentation is complete. Even the second part, which I almost forgot about (it was only 2 slides). Other part wound up being about 18 slides. I thought it was pretty good that it only took me about an hour and a half.

Styrofoam-eating crickets? Are you sure they’re human?

What?

Hmmm…haven’t seen the DoperGang thread yet… Guess I’ll go look. Promise I won’t say a thing.

Hi scout!

GT