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Mornin’ all…up and at work here. Nothing spectacular going on in the house of mouse. What can I say, I have a boring life. I can’t decide whether I like it that way or not…

(((nolabel))) I spent a year in that kind of depression without drugs or doctors. It’s hard, but I believe you’ll get through it. You’re a great parent for recognizing the problem and helping her through it. It’s hard on you, I’m sure. The best thing you can do is be there for her, and it sounds like you’ve got that covered.

(((Pie))) feel better soon.

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Morning all! Day off! w00T!

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I need more friggin’ sleep.

My new video card arrived yesterday. (Bloody fast, considering I only ordered it Saturday night from a place on the west coast) Naturally that meant I had to run some benchmarks to compare it to my now-previous card. That just highlighted how useless synthetic benchmarks can be; the best case scenario painted only a 11% improvement in performance, yet nVidia’s own Geoforms demo, as well as Bioshock (which is what had me up late) ran so much better it was unreal – at at least a 60% improvement if not more. I’m impressed. One mid-range GeForce 9600 GT that cost me just over $200 kicks the whimpering snot out of a dual-card 7950GX2 that I paid over $600 for a year and a half ago.

I also had to deal with some stupid trolls on the blog I help run. What the hell is wrong with some people that they have nothing better to do than try and stir up crap on a niche but popular tech blog? It’s not like we did anything to them personally. They just seem to have no life outside being idiots online. Oh well – it’s not like finding their IP and stuffing it into the “Mark for moderation” filter is hard. I just weep for the future of humanity sometimes.

But enough geeking.

Did I mention the wife and I watched the Bourne trilogy over the weekend[sup]*[/sup]? Pretty good series. We also watched the Wicker Man remake (did not like the ending) and went to see The Bucket List (great flick; Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson are still awesome.)

Swampus - My morning purtification ritual involves as little as possible. I shower and shave the night before because I know that when I get up in the morning, the majority of what little energy I have at that point must be put towards keeping me vertical and shambling around while holding off a temporary but acute craving for brains. Thus, my morning consists of waking up, having a ciggie and a few minutes of surfing, then fixing my hair, taking my vitamins, a spritz of cologne, gathering my crap and leaving. (This morning also followed this with a good bit of shivering and checking behind me for body parts that may have frozen and broken off unnoticed. Brrr-r-r-r-r-rains-s-s-sss-s…)

Spaz - Once I arrive at the supermarket by my work for my ritualistic morning coffee (now there’s a segue!), I always make myself a blend of hazelnut vanilla and burnt French vanilla caramel. Great Og, but it’s good. Bordering on a foofy Starbucks-level blend, but good.

Rebo - You might as well face up to one of the natural laws of the universe, which is that nature abhors free time: The more work you try and pack into a particular time span in an effort to complete it all within that interval, the more work TPTB will see fit to give you, seeing as you’re so damn fast and efficient. This is actually the corollary to the original definition of the law, which states that the more things we invent to make long, tedious and sometimes arduous tasks faster and easier, the more tasks will appear to fill the time we’ve saved with our inventions.

Sometimes, nature is an asshole.

Hank - You need to smack your brother upside the head. With his telephone.

Manha Manha / Flutterby - Huh. A rim-roller. I always thought part of the fun was getting your thumbs all raw trying to roll those damn things up.

I can has nap now?
[sub]* Did I mention I have apparently been spelling trilogy with an extra I after the L all this time and just now caught it? I don’t know where I picked that up from, but I must’ve been doing it for decades. Lordy.[/sub]

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Morning, all. Up. Caffeinating. Pronouns gone. Back later when bring pie (N.O.P.). :smiley:

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Feel better Pie, it sucks being sick.

{{{{to Labeless and daughter}}}

Mindfield I’m used to rolling the rim up with my fingers. I learned the trick of it when I worked at Tim’s. When you finish drinking your coffee, you press the top together so it’s flat and then roll. It’s much easier that way.

Currently I’m at work and caffeinated but waiting for paperwork. Tonight I have a spinning class. I missed last week though, cuz I was just getting over the flu and was still logy. I have my spindle and some roving in my bag (along with a pair of socks) but they frown on my knitting or spinning while I don’t have anything else to do so I don’t.

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Evening all. Crappy day at work is now over, hubby is out and HRH is asleep.

{{{Pie}}} UTI sucks butt!

{{{Tagfree}}} It must be rough watching your child go through this. I hope you all come out of it safe and sound!

Well, most of the other lawyers in the office are off to Madrid tomorrow for the in-house conference, leaving just me and 2 other lawyers on duty until Tuesday. Which means I will be pretending to work to the maximum extent possible! Bleagghhhhh! I would love to go to Madrid and wander around the Prado Museum - Dali, Rubens, Picasso, Gaudi - what’s not to love??? Sigh. I guess hubby and I will just have to pay our own way in the future!

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Morning!

Hugs for **Labeless **and Pie.

McUne, I meant to say thanks the other day for the quilt advice. Good to know that it’ll survive the washer. I’ll have to take it to the laundromat 'cause it’s queen size and we have a tiny little washer. I’m really not happy about the washer so I think there’s going to be a new one in the not-too-distant future. But a laundromat trip for the quilt for now won’t kill me.

I’m jealous of whoever it was that mentioned the Dunkin’ coffee. We’re Dunkin’-less out here and it makes me sad. :frowning:

I finally took some pics of the new house so now I just need to find a few minutes to upload them and post them. Maybe by tomorrow I’ll have something to show everyone here.

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Dotty, if it makes you feel any better, I spent a day in Madrid a couple of years ago and hated the place. I mean, aside from the Prado and the Reina Sofia, it was really just dirty, unfriendly, much too busy and strangely personality-free. Maybe it’s the jet-lag speaking, but I was more than happy to hop on the train to Seville the next morning and wave adios.

Now, if your lawyers were going to Barcelona, that would indeed be cause for much jealousy and gnashing of teeth. :slight_smile:

All this talk of Spain is bad. It’s bloody cold there, and I’d do just about anything for a chance to be instantly transported to a sunny Iberian plaza so I could kick back with a nice glass of sangria. Sniff.

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It’s revenge on all the Canadian Mumpers and their Tim Horton’s talk. I mentioned that the roll-up-the-rim contest was going on to Complicated Roommate and he brightened right up. Because he’s going to CALGARY. :mad:

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Maybe I’ll see him in line then lol.

Actually, I haven’t had Tim’s in a few weeks. I don’t go all that often, I usually buy a tin and make at home. (The secret to making Tim’s at home is buy the full fat coffee cream, that’s what makes it so addictive.)

Tonight I’ll have to stop there. It’s the best option for a meal before my class, and I like the chili though I may just grab a coffee and hit the cafe up the road from the store for one of their addictive grilled cheese.

Darnit, now I’m hungry and my lunch hour is two hours away. I wonder if I have anything good to munch.

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When did a trip to Calgary in the middle of winter become cause for jealousy? :dubious:

I can see being jealous of Madrid… but Calgary? Srsly?

(though I see the jerks are currently enjoying a balmy 10C as compared to our goose-pimples-on-top-of-your-goose-pimples -12C, so maybe there is reason to be jealous after all. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.)

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basks in the balmy weather

It’s brown though. Very brown. Or grey where the slush/dirt sprayed up from vehicles.

Or in the case of my front yard and foyer through to the kitchen, muddy.

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Muddy? You have mud? We got about 3 days of rain for the year, so I suspect my daughter will grow up only ever reading about the stuff (rain and mud)!

Ahhh, Barcelona! That’s where I would like to go. I would love to see La Sagrada Familia! Sigh … I’ve never been to Spain (I think I said that already)!

ETA: At least temps are back to normal - a lovely 26C today with light breezes!

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Yeah, I’m not very coherent in the mornings either, so I do as much I can the night before. The most I can manage before my first cup of coffee is minimal makeup and getting dressed, and maybe a comb through my hair. I can’t wait for the weather to get warmer so I can just stop wearing hats and tie it up in a ponytail.

The temperature is in the teens today. WARMTH, PLZ.

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I think the only reason I have mud is because my son and his best bud from next door were playing in the yard. They have a tendency to go to the kitchen sink, fill up buckets or whatever else with water and bring them outside to mix into dirt by the house.

There was a hole by the house, filled with water, along with mud all over my sidewalk and front step and then inside. Have to scrub the floor again, I got most of it but only spot cleaned.

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BBBobbio we deal in whole life insurance. So far, the bad weather has not scared anyone in to thinkin’ they’re gonna die, so thus far no increase in bidness due to bad weather. However, we do get calls from folks who seek out insurance for burial and such on themselves after they deal with burying a family member/whoever who had no such insurance. Dang, that was morbid! True though.

MinDude bein’ as I am of great natural beauty, my mornin’ purtification of shavin’, showerin’, dressin’ takes about twenty minutes. I mean, c’mon, can’t do much to improve perfection now can we? :smiley:

Howdy Y’all! Sneakin’ in a lunchish time post from da cave. Had to get out of the place for a bit. No prob though cause I’ll probably be there til around tennish tonight. We got new folks around and that means more QA stuff on my part, particularly monitorin’ phone calls and checkin’ applications and stuff. Fun times!

Later Y’all!

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I have no clue of how I got it in my head that you went to work for a general insurance orifice.

:smack:

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Just a drive-by; gotta go to work…

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I need a drink. Or possibly a new job. After shuffling everything around, yes! It works! Oops, they forgot to double check. No, the video conference equipment* isn’t available on that date. Wee. That’s two meetings to be rescheduled now. (Four, actually, but who’s counting?) No wonder I spend significant amounts of time surfing the net. It accomplishes the same thing and is less stressful.

:deep breath: This is not my problem, this is not my problem. All I can do is try again, I have no control over this situation. /deep breath

*Why, if we contract out, do we only get to use one set of equipment per office? Couldn’t we, I don’t know, rent more, since it’s not ours in the first place? Argh.

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Hey everyone. Even if I condensed this month (which I did try) into the barest of significant events, it would still sound like a soap, so I will just check in, let you know that overnight we accumulated over eight more inches of snow, and it is still snowing. Perhaps March will be less eventful so I may hang out with y’all!