Heh. I didn’t want to get in any trouble for posting a picture of someone’s kids on the interwebs. Funnily enough, that shot I took to demonstrate how big the dog was and how small the humans that were supposed to be controlling it were turned out to be a really nice family photo - too bad I don’t know who the parents are so I can share it with them. 
Party at Chimera’s house!
Damn, it’s hot out, and my apartment A/C isn’t the greatest.
Oh, it’s lunch time. I’ll fire up the stove and cook…
Yeah.
Sure thing. Bring the… er, you know.
My mother has Munchausen’s Syndrome…and cancer. It’s like the most perfectly shitty shitty thing ever.
Well, no sense letting it go to waste. Could you photoshop in the faces from this pic? Just the humans; that dog is obsolete.
Not looking for anything plausibly realistic; just it’s been a long time since we had a family photo. 
It is miserably hot. 106 degrees hot. When I went out to feed the goats I swear they were bleating “aaaaaaair cooooonditioooooning”.
When I came out here to housesit, like a doofus I only brought one pair of shoes - my leather ballet flats, which I love and don’t want to ruin. So my feet have goat hoofprints on the top and are cooked well done on the bottom from the hot concrete while I was watering the plants. Wetting the concrete helped for a moment, then my feet were steamed in addition to being fried.
The German Shepard likes to bite the water coming out of the hose. I’m afraid she’s going to drown herself.
I really, really wish I was back in Tennessee.
Where the heck are you, SCL? Its triple digit heat here in central AZ. Are you anywhere close? And if so, can I borrow a goat or 2? I spent the morning weed-wacking Tony’s yard, and have to go back in about an hour. Goats would be helpful.
A non-rant: I am the plumbing queen. I fully expected to flood my house when I changed out my kitchen tap. I planned for that. I had plastic and towels handy. I had buckets and a mop handy. I just knew that I’d mess this up because I’m a plumbing virgin.
It was soooo easy. I followed the advice and directions and it worked! My tap works and I only spilled a few drops of water.
The only thing I didn’t plan for was the cats reaction to mom on the floor and the forbidden cabinet open. When Spike jumped on my belly, I banged my head on the drain pipe. Next time I do plumbing, they will all get locked up in the bedroom.
I’m in west central Georgia, flatlined, next to Fort Benning. About an hour south of Atlanta. I’d offer to lend out a few goats, but they’re not mine. I’m housesitting again, but for a smaller crew this time. The horse is at the trainer’s and one of the dogs went with the family, so I only have two dogs, four cats, a bird, five goats and a minature donkey to care for.
The German Shepard (German bred and the biggest female I’ve ever seen personally) got out of her crate on her last family trip to the Florida house and ate the blinds off of the front door. Since the house is in one of those gated communities with nonexistant yards, she no longer gets to go to Florida but has to stay with Aunt SCL. Since I have cats instead of dogs I’m not really used to being licked - two swipes and all my makeup is gone.
I’m in TN and it was 107 in my driveway yesterday. It sucks. (Though I will say I’m not missing the humidity)
We’re headed for the Catskills in NY today. High temps expected to be in the mid 80’s…
(Was that a stealth brag or a threadshit? :p)
Since my A/C has been slowly failing over the last couple of days and it will be a couple more before the apartment complex gets around to doing something, it’s time for an extended drive. My car AC is awesome.
Minor bitch (oh, the inconvenience! :p) I got a $50 iTunes card for my birthday. Last night I bought Hot Fuzz. iTunes wasn’t letting me download it. Was able to do so today. Then I notice the entire Extended Edition HD Lord of the Rings package is $59.97. I’m about $20 short, so perhaps next friday when I get paid…
Then I get to go back to work tomorrow and deal with the fallout of my little confrontation with Clueless George from Friday morning.
Step 1: Ask my opinion, then treat it with such over the top theatrical levels of contempt and derision that I turn and walk away.
Step 2: Open a chat to me and tell me my opinion is DUMB.
Step 3: When I close the chat without comment, walk over and badger me about the issue to the point I tell him to stop and ‘let it go’.
Step 4: Insult me again, walk back to his desk and OPEN ANOTHER CHAT WINDOW to tell me how wrong I am.
God, I’m just seething over this. He was so out of line and unprofessional.
The issue? You know that guy in Texas (I believe) who went over to confront his neighbors and ended up shooting several of them and killing a school teacher? He sees no reason why the guy was even arrested, let alone convicted. My position was “you can’t ‘stand your ground’ on other people’s ground” and that the law clearly says you cannot claim to be standing your ground when you are acting in an illegal or confrontational manner. Since he went over there with a camera and a gun, he was clearly seeking a confrontation and was potentially acting in an illegal manner. Apparently that opinion is a “leap of logic” and is DUMB. :rolleyes:
You reminded me of this, and I had to watch the first four and a half episodes to find it.
Cut your losses, Chimera. Any time he speaks to you, ask him to connect it to a task that either one of you are currently working on (unless you can make Clueless George as entertaining to us as flatlined did with Shredder Guy. But I have the sense that Clueless George is getting you down a lot more than SG ever did with flatlined, so, I’m thinking you’d do better to keep your interactions work-related).
Oh, yeah, humans on the floor are irresistable. My mother used to have to lie on the floor when her back went out. I’d come home from school and find her on the floor, holding up a book, and with all five cats nestled up and down her sides.
PSA: Lancia made a July mini-rants thread!
Yup, my recruiter and account manager said I should ignore him and not speak to him at all. I said that’s not possible as I have to work directly with him. They asked me to not to offer my opinion on anything not work related. I’m going to give that a shot, but I have my doubts. I tried ignoring him, I’ve tried telling him to stop. It’s apparently more important to him to be RIGHT.
Like I told them, now is where I need someone else to tell him that he is acting in an unprofessional manner and to knock it off.
I know its July, but I had to bump this thread to thank Dunkelheit for taking the effort to find that clip. I laughed, then watched it again and laughed some more!
Thank you so much!
You’re welcome. It’s telling that that scene has stuck in my head for 28 years. 
I’d forgotten how funny that show was, and how many of my catch phrases came from it…