Morning, mumpers! I am at irk and wishing I wasn’t. We had a call this morning from ‘im indoors’ sister, in tears, because their dad is in hospital with severe pneumonia. He’s been poorly for some time and has been in a care home for the last year because of his medical condition. Sadly the doctors are not hopeful that he will survive this one, so 'im indoors is off to Scotland on the first train he can manage.
A few good thoughts headed his way would be appreciated.
Swampy, I answer to anything, so any nickname will be fine with me. The vegetable stock came out great, by the way. Fantastic stuff. My family, and my freezer, are quite happy with the results.
I send good vibes to all that need them. Life is tough enough without having more crap dumped into our laps.
I’m in the process of making sausage gravy and biscuits for breakfast. After that, we’ll get started on the yard work that wasn’t finished yesterday. Our daughter discovered that the woodsy area out back is an absolute haven for assorted large and small spiders, and very large snakes. The snakes aren’t a problem. The spiders are. We have to get back there today to get the area cleaned out.
I’m really going to hate having to do a very impromptu strip show, and the ensuing embarrassment of me finding a spider crawling somewhere on my person, because there will be screaming/crying/sobbing, and probably some running away, which will make the peeing/pooping of myself quite messy. Good thing I’ll be outside, I guess.
Deity help me.
I must say, -CH[sub]3[/sub]COCH[sub]3[/sub] is a female dog to type, as nicknames go…
Just got a call from a local employment agency (excuse me, Da employment agency, they’re very chi-chi). They had my CV from thereabouts of 2002… I have an interview on Thursday for a job close to my house. Given that they’re the kind of folk who want a picture in the CV (potentially illegal, but who’s going to sue) and the last ID-type pic I have is from about 12" less worth of hair, I probably should go get fresher pics. The strange thing is, this specific agency used to be the only male-dominated ER company in the area (the only females used to be the receptionist and the intern), but the call has been from a woman. I’m curious to see whether they’ve actually managed to stop being a bunch of chauvinistic pigs. The position would be “QM Manager with EHS responsibilities”; for years, whenever I’ve applied to positions like that I’d be told that I couldn’t do it on grounds of never having been a “QM Manager”. Did I mention I’m intrigued? And, if I do get this job, will I be able to keep my ass nailed to a chair, or will I get The Roaming again? Will any of the agencies that are trying to fit me (and those clients who still can’t find “today”) call first? The suspense, it’s killing me!
Just a driveby to say I’ll stop and read later. Need to unpack from this weekend and re-pack for the haunters convention this weekend. Just about normal for me most summers.
1 more day to go 1 more day! I am headed out shortly to go to the post office to hand in the mail forwarding forms and 110 Euros for the privilage! (that is not spelled correctly I am sure…)
I imagine that Lin Yu Chun was thinking not that “Forever’s going to start tonight”, but “It’s gonna seem like forever before I get off the same stage as this doofus. Can’t someone PLEASE load me into the photon torpedo tubes, and fire me into the sun instead?”
Shatner, meanwhile, looked like he strained every creative sinew in his possession, as he ran the gamut of emotion from A to… well, A.
Maybe they need to upgrade their celebrity accompanists here. What’s David Hasselhoff doing these days?
Howdy Y’all! It’s been a fun filled mornin’ of the GD Labor Office (actually that wasn’t bad, only about an hour), gettin’ an oil change for twuck (again not that bad, only about an hour) and job huntin’ (lots o’ resume/app work and more to come but my eyes are tahred and need a rest from puter screens for a bit).
Yee and Haa.
Back later with more breathtakin’ highlights of my life.
One of our administrators here is taking a job at a nearby district after the end of this year. She sent an e-mail to a bunch of us as kind of a goodbye and all that. The very last line of the e-mail?
Well, with no actual notice despite knowing it was coming, the Great Cubeville Shuffle happened today. I’m 80% moved, meaning my books, papers, and computers have moved and are being settled, but yet to come are an equipment rack and 3 shorty file cabinets full of electronic junk. Those come Thursday, when the swabbies and truck are available.
Who the heck only eats 5.4 servings of chocolate a month? I consider it a chocolate-low *week *if I only have 5.4 servings.
Haze, do we have the recipe for that cajun chicken pasta? (I suppose I could go look at the blog to find out.) If not, recipe please!
{{BooFae, 'im indoors and family}}
Good luck with the job search, swampy. Good for you for standing up for your principles. Principals? Whichever one isn’t the kind whose office you get sent to.
Good luck with your job search too, Nava. The picture-required thing does sound a bit hinky.
snowbunny, speaking of animals and springtime, we saw a pair of squirrels chasing each other around and attempting to… um… get their groove on over the weekend. Quite hilarious actually.
{{Soapy}}
Our Chicago weekend was good, despite mostly overcast and sometimes rainy weather. We went to the Field Museum, the Clarke and Glessen Houses, and the Lincoln Park Zoo. And we ate. And ate. And ate. It was good.
My department’s started a peer-selected reward system, and my whole team won for being “everyday heroes.” We got gift certificates to giftcertificates.com which can then be turned in to gift certificates at other retailers. I want a couple things from LLBean so that’s what I did with my gift certificate, which I attempted to use today. Except that when I went online to order, I found out that the gift certificates may only be used on the phone, by mail, or at a retail store. :rolleyes:
Our big excitement, though, is that we’re now part-owners of a plane now. KT bought into a flying club so we’re one of 6 owners of a Piper Cherokee Archer. It’s pretty cool.
