some people are such dickwads
My thoughts and hopes for a speedy resolution go out to SurrenderDorothy. But I’m afraid to post in that thread least I become one of bot3’s targets. I won’t feed the trolls.
eta - that first sentence was about bot3, not about sah-kid. sah-kid was just being a teenager.
Yeah, well done.
pardon all the damn typos
i tried to fix them and it took longer that the 5 minutes allowed
I feel like HELL
Sari I’d tell the kid to suck it up and wear the suit all day. Then again I’m a big ol’ meanie so what do I know.
Ok, how hard is it to give somebody a final count of people who have signed up for a fish fry so the needed amount of foodstuffs can be bought? Impossibly, horribly hard apparently. I have asked, begged, whined and outright demanded to know a final count so’s stuff can be bought for the fish fry at the church house on Sattidy. I got nuttin’ so far. Fine. I hope three hundred and fifty bajillion people show up expectin’ fish but get nuttin’ because it was just so difficult to give out one number. I ain’t askin’ anymore.
Thus endeth the whine
Damn.
This is about that parable, right? 
My next door neighbor’s recent plight had me a little bummed last night. He was a senior manager for HP but was caught up in the large September layoff. We had lunch one Saturday so he could pick my brain about lateral positions in the oil industry but called that evening so see if I too got food poisining from that meal. No, and come to find out at the hospital he has some liver disease. I went over a couple of weeks later to share what I’d found in my job inquiries for him and was shocked at his appearance. The liver problem has made so many other things go wrong and just this week we learned his kidneys are failing too, he’s on transplant watch and can’t leave the hospital.
We learned last night through a support group email she send us and two other neighbors that the wife, an absolute gem of a woman, is having difficulty with her tires going flat, making it tough to get to the hospital. His HP medical hasn’t covered many of the expenses and she worried out loud about their financial situation, having to look for a job herself and what impact that’ll have on being there for him and their two kids. My wife and I agreed we’d much rather buy them a new set as a Christmas gift to each other. So I went over last night to let her know I knew someone in the tire business who owed me (a lie) and that I can take it in for her. Well, right now I think pride is making it difficult for her to say yes. I understand that, but I hope at some poing she’ll let us do that. These are wonderful people and the events of the last couple of months have been devastating. It’s not near as bad as what SurrenderDorothy is going through now, but together they do hit home awfully hard as to just how rough things are for some folks.
Sorry this was long, just had to get it out. People are hurtin’ across the board.
That’s what she said <snerk>
I posted in the SurrenderDorothy thread. I feel so bad for her and hope that she is able to find some help. The @sshat can flame away–we got him (her?) roasting in The Pit.
Swampy, I had a biopsy last week and it came back benign, so fingers crossed that your SIL continues the chain.
:p:p
Sah, just think…you got all the crap that would have happened during the next few days out of the way already! And you weren’t even really awake! So now you can enjoy the nice, long weekend without crap happenening; I have so decreed!
Yeah, we’ll see how that goes. 
Nothin especial here. We do have weather, though, which is a change. MrTao woke up at 5 as usual, and said he came out into the living room and thought he was on a pirate ship. The whole house was shaking due to massive wind gusts outside, and apparantly there have been accidents and such in town due to…, well, I guess we could blame the dust, but really, it all ended a couple hours ago, so I don’t know what peoples’ problems are this morning.
I just know I missed the wind, darn it 
On the plus side, it’s still kinda breezy and overcast and dusty, and a good day to make posole, yay!
lieu whether or not the neighbor takes y’all up on the offer, the missus and you have earned some major karma points. Good for y’all!
StickyBuns since YP is one of the folks I can’t get an answer from, maybe we should fry two fish and five hushpuppies and tell him to have at it. 
Actually, I finally did get an answer. YAY! I know to plan for more than those who signed up cause it’s always that way. Plus, I have procured burgers and buns for free as a fish alternative. Go Me! Plus also, volunteers to make cole slaw. I asked them all to give me receipts but I bet pretty much none of ‘em will cause that’s how they are. Plus also, I have two additional volunteers to help with the fish/hushpuppy fryin’ so I can run around and wig out about settin’ stuff up, is there enough of this, is stuff bein’ kept warm or cold as needed and all that fun stuff. Hey, somebody has to wig out over last minute details, so I’m willin’ to be that person.
I just got confirmation that my favorite ‘show’ friend and her husband will also be exhibiting at my last big show of the year. I was a bit worried because they didn’t show up at a show over the summer that they were scheduled to be at. They’re both 70ish and have had some health problems, but I guess they’re still doing there thing so HOORAY! It’s a three day show, so it will be nice to be assured of at least one familiar face. 
Drive-by blurfs.
Bad hair day 
sah-kid got swag or so I’ve been told
sah-kid wears nothing but black.
He’s not goth or anything, he just likes to fade into the background, he’s very very shy.
The suit he bought, picked it out himself a few years ago for my nieces wedding, is cream colored. He got a black shirt and a black and grey tie.
He looks good in it
He said he got a lot of compliments from teachers and other students, I’m so happy for him to get positive feedback. He was bullied in middle school, maybe now after some getting nice comments he’ll open up a little and get friendly.
You go sah-kid!
flytrap I shall check out that video when I am at da cave. Yeah I’m weird but I figure blastin’ out a tune at irk is not a good thing.
Leftover beast roast, N.O.T. and carrots for N.O.L.. YUM! I baked a ham Tuesday so tonight’s dindin shall be ham ‘n cheese omelets, grits and toast cause I got me a gnawin’ and a cravin’ for that and I’m the cook so I rule.
ETA: Yay about your friends StickyBuns!
Everything EAST? Wow. I guess maybe we should stay here in SoCal, then. We might be the only spot left once everyone else heads off to Atlantis, lol!
thank you Swampy
sending positive vibes for SIL
thank you Tao I hope your decree sticks
I am finally feeling awake and alive
off to walk hell pup
and then maybe a nap
I don’t suppose there’s any point to what I’m about to say, I guess it’s just venting… I have this online ‘friend’ that I’ve known for 7-8 years. We seem to run into each other here and there. We hadn’t spoken in a long time and then he found me again right about the time that D passed away. He wrote that he was so happy to have found me again and how I was one of his favorite people and how he was just absolutely determined to have found me and lo and behold he did.
Well, he knew what happened and we talked about it a bit. He and I had been pretty close at one point so we had a pretty in depth conversation about everything. A couple of days later was his birthday so I sent my best wishes and a funny picture. And what did I get in return? Nothing. And, I haven’t heard anything from him in the months since. The only reason I’m even bringing it up right now is because apparently one of his email addresses got hacked because I just got a lovely bit of spam from him. I honestly hadn’t even thought about him in awhile but it just makes me feel a bit :mad: right now thinking about it all over again. I mean, honestly, WTH? Why seek someone out telling them how much you’ve missed them and how wonderful they are if you don’t actually have any intention of talking to them? And to be clear, by the way that he found me, it was immediately clear about what had happened in my life. So, it’s not as if my grieving should have taken him by surprise.
Ok, senseless rant over.
In better news, I’ve just finished a homework assignment!
I am totally going through friend withdrawal 
My friend for the last 8 years lives in NJ, which means he hasn’t had power in over a week now. I have literally not spent more than 24 hours without seeing him online. I’m on the computer most of the day through work and recreation, and he’s friends with most of my real-life friends as well.
He says there’s nothing we can do/send him that’ll speed things along, so basically I’m just hanging out here, wishing I could do something but unable to. Missing my buddy and worrying about him. Totally sucks.