Quiche was nummy! Daughter has gone home. I’m gonna finish the scarf I started yesterday.
MWAH!!
What a day!
My used to be homeless, found a place to live, and now is homeless again friend called me, he was standing out in the rain with his two year old so because his step-father kicked him out of the house. Not much I can do for him from here so I told him to go back to the house with his son and ride it out until I can figure something out for him.
He wants to come back to MD, but even then he has no place to go.
He is finally cooled off and back home and being rational again.
I had a long talk with my mother which was nice since we don’t get to do that too often. Her bf wants her all to himself and when the HFH is here we can’t talk because she listens in on everything. As well as the bf and HFH fight over my mothers attention, they both get mad if she talks to anybody else.
If I’m in the right mood it’s fun to watch but mostly it just annoys me.
So I didn’t get anything done today except talking to people. Tomorrow I go back to my list and get it done.
G-d damn mealy bugs.
Are those the ones I get in my flour and shredded wheat cereal? I hate those. :mad:
Nah, you should play this. 
Isn’t that how she came about in the first place? 
Irked, it monsooned, steak and sallit for dinner. Hockey tonight.
Yay for a place, Jim!
Nice deck, FCM.
My dad is getting payback for all the times growing up when we didn’t let him relax when he came home from work. Always drama Matt in the hospital, someone in trouble for swearing or not doing homework, always something.
So today I come home, first day this week I’m not making dinner, I can relax…except the doors are all open, windows and fans…he’s got one hell of a guardian angel, cause what could have been a housefire was just one blackened pot on the stove and an entire house full of black smoke. So I’m putting bowls of vinegar around hoping it will eventually soak up some of the smell. Poor mollie, her poor nose must be hating life. Dads going out on business tomorrow, hope I can get some of it taken care of tomorrow night, lol. Stinky! No damage at all, even his kitchen laptop seems fine, but holy cramp that smell…
No, they are the mother fu…insects that attack my orchids.
Thanks all, it has been a stressful few days.
Irking with the hippies tonight and we have Aaron Neville (Dumpstaphunk) tomorrow. More irk Sat and Sun then I move on Monday. Phew.
I gotta irk, so I gotta run
Cheers
Jim
I’ve got an interview with T-Mobile tomorrow for their call center. Inbound customer service. Fingers crossed. I’m not the best with interviews because I get SUPER nervous and stammer a lot and speak really fast. Hopefully I don’t fuck it up.
Doggio, I suddenly feel a need to post a link to Ministry or S/Tendencies, but don’t want to disrupt the fine folks of MMP land (at the moment, anyway…)
Also, I’m close enough to the Canad-jun border to actually drive by and make a plea to the Hockey Gods on your behalf (or, more precisely, the team you’re rooting for now), if you want.
What say you?!
Also, good luck, TP… 
S/Tendencies? Do you really want a Pepsi?
and I’ll take any offering to the Hockey gods for the Blackhawks right now. Gotta beat the curse.
Good luck on the job, TP!
Just don’t say fuck and you should be fine
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. 'Tis <snerk> 69! <snerk> Amurrkin out with a predicted high of ONLY 85 and rain/tstorms/apocalypse this afternoon. It ain’t happened yet!
If Midget takes all our music advice, this should be the best ukulele performance evar!!! 
Apes that’s some sage interview advice. You should heed that TP.
flytrap what’s the matter? I thought you ate bugs. 
Ok, now I need more caffiene and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then, alas, irk purtification must commence. At least 'tis Firday.
Happy Firday Y’all!
Good luck with the interview, TP. I’m sure there will be all manner of appendages crossed for you.
Nuts, it is to be hoped that the Jobcentre cretins see the error of their ways but sadly they often need a clue by four to help along the way. Appendages crossed in your direction too.
Yay for a new home, Cap’n! Boo to moving though, that’s no fun at all. Will there be a housewarming party? Are you inviting the Sri Lankan spiders, just to keep on their good side?
I am at irk, doing something for a colleague who’s off sick at the moment. Since it involves hassling people and poking them with my sharpest pointy stick, I do not see a problem here. After irk, I am meeting a friend in town and going for a yummy Thai meal. It’s long overdue, I’ve had to put her off a couple of times until my finances could support it, such is the life of a lowly-paid temp!
It’s a rainy morning in southern Merrylande and forecast to be a rainy day, thanks to whatever is left of Andrea. As an aside, there sure are a lot of ways to pronounce Andrea, and I think I’ve heard most of them from various talking heads on TV. Plus it’s the name of my former boss’ SO, which reminds me that he was supposed to contact me about lunch some day. Anyway…
So far the rain is great - nice, steady light showers. The deluge is allegedly coming later - in fact, half the state is on flood watch. That’s one thing we don’t have to worry about -we’re on one of the higher points of our neighborhood and virtually all of our yard slopes away from the house. In a super-heavy rain when the outside drain is clogged, we have gotten some water into the basement, but it’s a poured concrete floor - not too much to damage there. And we just cleared the drain 2 days ago - I think we’re good to go.
Today’s main plan is to finalize the design for our pergola and work out the shopping list. We thought about making it out of red cedar, but that would be crazy expensive. Plus the existing deck is trimmed in white - it’d be nice if the two looked similar. So we’ll see what the plan will be.
Meanwhile, the house is quiet and I’m still in robe and flip-flops. And thanks to cloud cover, it’s almost dark in the house. Nice way to start the day.
Happy Firday!!
Violin audition today…in 12 hours. I am playing the Beethoven Romance in F for my piece.
Then, in sixty and a half hours, I have my annual violin recital hosted by my private lesson teacher where basically all her students perform a piece with the pianist.
I didn’t yell at all during the birth…ooooooooh riiiight. I get it now
We had a hail storm yesterday. I took pictures to show y’all, then went and forgot my phone today.
One of 'em musta hit me upside the head.
All of today and beginning of tomorrow is almost guaranteed rain due to the remains of a tropical storm. Not getting above 18 degrees Celsius today. Sucks for the little kids in my neighborhood that love to play outside the whole evening, especially on a Friday. Yeah, our neighborhood is really into kids playing outside, going to each other’s houses, etc. Good for me though because I haven’t had a peaceful day to work on my card magic in a while and today I won’t be pressured to go outside by my parents (and myself as I kind of feel bad sitting inside when it is nice out), so today is the day when I can work on a few sleights and learn some tricks. At the same time though, I have to practice up for my audition as well and have a lesson today.
Quite a gloomy day it is here, which I actually really like if it happens occasionally.
Ha ha!
We have a lot of rain here too, Anon. And Beethoven rocks!
I’m currently overdosing on caffeine. I have a driving lesson today. With the rest of the day off, I may brave the rain and my leaky shoes and go downtown on a mission.