**lieu **- there’s a faint hope that she might learn to behave before she winds up in prison. The boy who lived next door to us when we were kids was a horrible brat. He stabbed my brother in the head with a nutpick one time! :eek: Peed in the back yard in full view of everyone - a real charmer… :rolleyes:
About 10 years or so after they’d moved away, they came back for a visit. Bratty Jimmy had become very polite, articulate, impressive teenager Jim. I’m not sure what had happened in the interim, but it was amazing. Maybe your niece will have a teacher or 3 who will yank a knot in her tail and help her straighten out.
Would it be possible for you to say something like “Penelope, we don’t <insert offending behavior> in our house.” Or maybe your daughter could lay a slap-down on her cousin??
If nothing else, you can entertain us with tales of the brattitude!
**FCD **is home futzing in his shop. He wants me to teach him to throw pots. Retirement is going to be interesting.
Moooom, get ready. When my father retired, he drove my mother absolutely batshit insane for the first several weeks.
At the time, they lived in a townhouse complex. The bedroom and laundry facilities were on the third floor. On Dad’s very first day as a Retired Person, he walked from the bedroom all the way down to Mom’s crafting area in the basement and said “The washer’s done.”
Mom said “Did you put the clothes in the dryer?”
Dad said “No, I just thought you’d want to know.” And left. He spent the rest of that week politely informing Mom whenever one of their appliances finished its scheduled task because he had absolutely nothing better to do. I don’t know exactly what was said when the predicted explosion happened, but Dad tends to put the clothes in the dryer now.
Mom, I hope he finds some interests that both engage him heavily and frankly give you guys some breathing room. You’ve been going through some big changes re: employment back & forth, and having a bored man around is not good (I can say from firsthand, rather first person experience)!
Yeah the retirement thing certainly jumped up as a shocker. I’m glad you mentioned you hadn’t mentioned it because I really do try to keep track of people’s important life-threads.
Beyond that - to everyone - thank you for your kind thoughts. I’m doing fine. And in the spirit of keeping certain topics off the boards that’s as much as I will say about it.
Good chance of t-storms and hot here in the DMV. I was hoping for a spring. No luck.
Oh, I definately say something when she gets to certain level, parents in the room or not. If nothing else I’ll scare her, warning that the undertoad in the hot tub is gonna come get her.
I am bummed! All the nice pottery I delivered to the store in April and NOTHING sold! First month since I’ve been selling there that I didn’t sell anything! Oh well…
**FCD **broke my shampooer while he was trying to fix it. I was afraid that was going to happen and I tried to show him how it needed to go, but, of course, I got the evil eye, so I left. Now I need to find a new shampooer. I should have just fixed it myself. :smack:
Back from the road trip/visit/road trip/wedding/road trip. There were a few hours spare before the wedding, so some of us went to the NFL hall of fame. Half of it was down for renovation. Sometime I’ll tell my sister that her daughter scheduled her wedding two weeks too soon. (Joe Namath will be cutting the ribbon at the re-opening, then.)
Wedding gathered relatives from long distances. It was good to see so many of them again. I’m going to have to poke my goofy cousin from San Diego more often. He’s only a 2/3 of a state away, even if that state is California. (~460 miles) Wedding was beautiful and the food was surprisingly tasty.
Have read all the banked email at home and work. Not quite back up to speed. Total of eight days driving for usually 10-12 hours a day. Not that I did most of the driving, but I can still feel the vibration of the engine.
While I was gone, my DIL collected some friends, stripped the fake paneling off of my bedroom walls, patched the holes in the plaster, and painted the walls. It looks a lot better. I’m going to have to get her to tell me who helped and send thank you cards. The walls are lath and plaster, so the patching was not easy.
Everything out of the van, but not everything unpacked and away. No longer know what’s in the fridge. Oh, well. I’ll adjust later.
Breakfast was protein powder. We’re trying it. Doesn’t taste bad. Have also been nibbling on nuts.
I always heard it as Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia and supposedly that is why the DMV was changed to the MVA because people would get confused when they saw signs for the DMV.
However, having had worked for the DMV/MVA (actually I worked for DOT but we were at the DMV/MVA). I think they did it to spend money. You have to get all new signs, forms and documents, and letterhead. All the old gets thrown out and lots of money gets spent on the new.
I remember when they were building the new Data Center and it wasn’t enough to have Data Center on the building. They had to make is sound more impressive (and pay for more letters) by making it the
‘FUNCTIONAL DATA CENTER’.
I scored no brownie points by saying 'as opposed to a non-functional data center?. What’s the point of have a data center if it doesn’t work?
New shampooer ordered - it’ll get here next week. The new one not only does carpets, but it’ll clean hard floors too. So yay. And it’s a canister model, so it won’t be as clunky to use. I see some major carpet cleaning after it’s here. And between its sale price and a $20 rebate and free shipping, I think it’s a pretty good deal. Now I just have to rehome the dead one…
Accordin’ to the weather PTB is’s 89 Amurrkin out but feels like 91. I say it may be 89 Amurrkin but if feels like 110! Then again I just walked across an asphalt parkin’ lot so that might have sump’n to do with it. The gist of my post is, IT’S HAWT OUTSIDE!!!
Missed the edit window. Forgot to say howdy from da cave. I had to make some site visits this afternoon and now have paperirk to deal with from doin’ all that. I was closer to da cave than the orifice and I can handle paperirk from home just as well as at the orifice so here I be. Also, I just put in a new light bulb (pronounced laht bub) in the overaid light in the study and it’s real bright up in here now. Wonder how long that laht bub had been out. The fixture uses three of 'em and usually I don’t notice until at least two have burned out.
How many mumpers does it take to change a light bulb?
One and he or she must immediately post all about it in the MMP.
It was bucketing down when I got off irk. Now that I’m all showered, it’s sunny and birds are chirping. At least I don’t have to water the tomatoes today.
It’s 86 degrees here and it felt hot when I let the dog out.
I don’t need to go out today so I haven’t.
I haven’t had to change any light bulbs either but I did have to refold the towel in the bathroom. We have always folded the towels lengthwise and hung them over the rack, my mother’s bf likes them stretched out over the rack.
He goes in the bathroom and stretches it out, I go in and fold it.
One day I may fold it up and put it somewhere he will not like.
I am however extremely upset because I just found a few little mousie presents at the foot of my bed, which means the little sucker has been getting on my bed.
I just washed my bedspread (it’s really a quilt my grandmother made) and now I have to do it again and I am PISSED!!!
If it weren’t for the hounds from hell I’d go get a cat and be done with all this bs.
So I guess I’d better be getting busy I have two hours before I have to irk, irk IRK!
I went out to check on some things outside, ya know water the porch plants, turn off the pool cleaner, drag the trash can from the road and talked to my neighbor a few minutes. I am now all hawt and sweaty and I was out there maybe thirty minutes. Must shower before headin’ over to the church house for Evening Prayer. ICK! Dindin is forage the fridge. Ain’t in no kind of mood for cookin’.
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How many mumpers does it take to change a light bulb?
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How many mainframe security administrators does it take to change a light bulb?
None. It’s a hardware fault.
How many theatrical lghting designers does it take to change a lightbulb?
After a long conference, it was decided to use several fresnels, and ellipsodal, warm tones for a cozy atmosphere and a strobe to effect lightning striking in the background, for that stormy effect. Also several gobos will be used for tree patterns on the cyc. What was the question again?
How many stage managers does it take to change a …
Done.
How many theater electricians does it take to change a lightbulb?
None, it’s a lamp.
OK, how many electricians does it take to change a lamp?
You gotta grievance? Go take it up with the union.
