Congratulations! Our baby daughter was baptized yesterday too!
Better than my high school nickname. 
I got mucho cleaning done. Apparently, phoukabro did not know that appliances could be cleaned. The kitchen sparkles. Lovely phoukabro got everything on the grocery list I asked for - including beer! - so I made a yummy sauteed veggie/brown rice/shrimp/salmon dinner. He doesn’t eat dinner, so he’s taking his half to work for lunch.
Except, now I’m hungry again, and I really, really, really want to make brownies. Well, actually eat brownies. I’m not particular.
Tomorrow, I mail my books on CD back to the library in CA, call a not-too-faraway suburb to see if a particular job opening is still good, and if so, run out there to pick up an application packet. There will probably be more cleaning.
Cleanin done, packing done and TSA approved, Casa de Jim is clean for a guy, had dinner with friends. Hope everyone is happy and safe in their beds
Night Night
NYC tomorrow
JIM
There’s nothing quite as jarring as an electronic buzz/beep yonking you from a deep sleep. I heard **FCD **get up before his alarm and throw the switch on the clock - how nice - I could sleep in! A few minutes later, it was apparent that he’d moved the switch to Alarm rather than Off - that was almost an hour ago and I think my pulse is about back to normal. So, yeah, I’m up at this ridiculous hour. I’ve got a load of shorts and T’s in the washer, and the compressor just kicked on, upsetting the cats. Of course, it is right under the stairs which are off this room, so it’s particularly loud here. At least it only lasts a minute or so…
Plans for the day include at least one more load of laundry and maybe a little yard work. I’m still caffeinating, so my brain can’t think beyond that.
Safe trip, Capt!!!
And Happy Tuesday, one and all!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 74 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of only 87 for the day. Well, brrrrr! 
Beryl is still hangin’ around. So far not a whole lot of rain but looks like today might be a day of rain. Of course this will bring on a flash flood watch as all that rain fallin’ in creeks and tributaries must flow south. Rah.
Have a safe trip Jim!
Hope the job’s still open kanga.
MOOOOOOM I always wake up before the alarm goes off so first thing I do is turn it off. Sometimes I forget so about half an hour after I get up I hear the alarm goin’ off and have to trek all the way to the bedroom to turn it off. Why must life be so hard!
Ok, time for more caffiene and the feedin’ of rumbly tummy. Then, alas, 'tis back to irk so purtification must commence.
Happy Tuesday Y’all!
Up, caffeinated, off to irk.
First load of laundry on the line, second in the washer. I don’t have enough dirties for a third, so I’ll launder again later in the week.
I’m dressed and contemplating breakfast - do I want to run to WaWa for a sammich or just pull whatever I can find out of the pantry? Decisions, decisions…
I am at irk, it is irksome.
Have a good trip, Cap’n - don’t forget to send me a postcard!
After a week of beautifully sunny weather, today is overcast so perhaps we’ll be lucky enough to get some rain so I don’t have to go out and water stuff later. We have been promised thunderstorms but so far they have been empty promises and any signs of storms have passed us by.
We have a 4-day weekend coming up due to Lilibet’s jubilee shenanigans so I get bonus unpaid days off. As if that’s not enough for you, the olympic torch relay comes through my town on Saturday so that means all the feebleminded oiks will be out, half the roads will be closed all day and it will be complete mayhem.
I am keeping out of the way and hoping things have calmed down by evening before we trek to the untamed wilds of Bilston to see New Model Army. A live band? Who knew?!
My mum wants me to go over to hers at some point so I can take her to the garden centre to buy compost. That will have to be Monday, I am not giving up my post-band lie-in on Sunday, not for anything.
Ho hum. Back to irk now…
Today, and then a half day tomorrow and then SCHOOL IS OUT FOR THE SUMMER!!!
CatDude school’s out for Summer already down heah. That paragon of higher learnin’ known as Lee County High School had its graduation on Sattidy. Other high schools had graduation the week before. It’s nice not havin’ to slow down through the biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig ass school zone I drive through to get to irk.
MOOOOOOM if you haven’t done so already I say go get a sammich just cause you can. I’m havin’ me a chawklit chip cookie right now just cause I can.
BooFae I remember the torch run when the Olympics were held in Etlanner in 1996. Stay away. Trust me. I wish somebody had told me.
Ok, now why is it I have to go to irk? Oh yeah, I remember. I’ve grown accustomed to luxuries such as eatin’ and livin’ indoors.
ETA: First on two!
oft repeated here:
Why do we irk? Because Beer Is Not Free.
Obligatory YouTube link – with muppets, even! 
Mawnin all,
I am a typing to you from thirty thousands feet in a jostly jet, so please excuse my errors. Alas five am came early but I made it. Any hoo have a great day all, air blurf
Cheers
JIM
Hey all!
Busy day, much irk to do.
The good news is that I just got a call from my temp agency for a 2-week full-time gig as a PC tech. It’s in the mid-cities, so that’s a commute, but it’s worth it. In the meantime, I have a bunch of applications to get out there.
Phoukabro is going to take me to his gym so I can have a look around. My gym’s branches out here are run down and nowhere near as nice as what I was used to in CA.
Hope all are doing well. XO
This is great You definitely deserve life giving you a break for a change!
School’s still in here, or at least the school buses are still slowly prowling the streets.
We gave one of our bathrooms the deepest cleaning it’s had in the three months we’ve been there, and judging by the crud, probably the best cleaning it’s had in a year or more. BLECH!
DH starts the new job today.
Sometimes, having good ethics is a pain. On Saturday, I was at the hardware store. As I was putting my purchases into the car, I spotted a wallet on the ground next to a vehicle. I take the wallet into the store and give it to the service desk. Didn’t even peek inside. So far, the universe has rewarded me by not having enough money in my checking account to buy gas or food for the next week. 
Even worse, based on the car’s license plate, the wallet belongs to someone who most likely voted for Amendment 1. Had I known that before taking the wallet into the store, I might have dropped their drivers license into a mailbox and kept everything else.
**gotti **- no, you did the right thing and you know it. Plus you don’t know that the wallet belonged to the driver of said vehicle or that the driver of the vehicle was the owner of the vehicle. You done good. That’s important, IMHO.
Something took up residence in my right-hand gardening glove and it objected to the insertion of my hand. The back of that hand is all swollen up and itchy. I am not amused. But I did get the little round garden disassembled, including removing all the hostas and surrounding rocks. Then I dumped dirt on it and raked it even, more or less. I wasn’t too fussy because I’ve got a guy coming soon (I hope) to grade that hole section of yard.
Plus all the hostas I dug up have been bagged, soaked down, and placed on a small table on the corner of my yard with a sign that says “Free Plants” - last time I did that, I rehomed a bunch of stuff. So yay.
I’ve got 2 loads of laundry on the line, I’m done with most of my yard work for the day, and I’m about to hit the shower. Oh, and swampy, I did go get the sammich. GMTA!
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On my home world we call the equivalent of your Monday <series of clicking sounds>
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You mean you don’t have --------- good Lord! This planet sucks more than I thought it did. Talk about backward!
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Your species first had one available with the Flying Ford Pinto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzv4q5EEy1k
That alone set your civilization back 100 years.
Now ------ so long and thanks for all the fish!
MOOOOOOOM think I just flew over your house
JIM