Up - I woke up around 4:30 but opted to stay in bed and try to sleep. I made it past 6:30, so that’s good. I actually feel rested. And I’m listening to the radio, since I now have a stereo with a tuner in this room. Yay!
Taters, that doth well and truly suck. But may I be so bold as to suggest that you make a spare key now? When I had my very first car, I lost my one and only car key when I brushed against a large shrub outside my door, and a branch picked my pocket. Really! I didn’t find my keys till after the locksmith came and made me a new key - when I was walking back to my apt, I brushed against the shrub again and heard my keys jingle. Anyway, from then on, I always made sure I had a spare car key at home. Tell your daughter to make a spare of hers, too.
I’ve got a chore-full weekend planned. It’ll get started after my sweetie and I go to breakfast (after he gets up.) There’s laundry, a little furniture re-arranging, some record-unpacking, and some claying. We’ll see how much I accomplish.
I’m up! And, actually, I slept pretty well. Usually after TVMan gets out of bed I have trouble getting back to sleep, but not today.
Next I suppose is breakfast and then I hear we’re going to be taking inventory of vacuum tubes sometime today. Oh joy! (Ok, I wouldn’t mind except for the part where he said that they all have to be tested, too, and that if I’m not careful that I might get shocked.) :dubious:
Also I hear that we’ll be going to the bank, but I don’t think we’ll be going anywhere without some quality shoveling time.
Just got back from being snowed in/hoteled at work. Homesuites WIFI couldn’t seem to handle an Itouch. (I think Palm T/X is coming out of retirement. ) Missed my kids, my wife, even the damn cat crawling up on my chest at 5AM and purring. I’m going clean the walks & maybe take eldest sledding (youngest broke his wrist & is in a cast again, but he has a B’day party to go to today anyhow).
I upgraded my thermos! I have been bringing a thermos of coffee to work because some [del]Dumb-Ass Hemorrhoid Sucking Fuk-Wit[/del] business headed entrepreneur, decided to end all company sponsored coffee. :eek: :mad:
I believe some empty-headed policy suck-up actually said “Do you know how much we’re saving by not providing coffee?” While holding a $3 Dunkin Donuts styrofoam cup of coffee. :smack: :smack: :smack:
And while I was perhaps pushing it, my 1-quart Starbucks Special just wasn’t carrying in enough home-brewed coffee for the job. So, I went to the internet & found a 2-quart Stanley Thermos, which I ordered from the pictures on-line to be delivered to a local store for purchase. It arrived yesterday and I opened the box last night, and that puppy is Huge!!!
Youngest said it looks like a gun. So I hoisted it up onto my shoulder War Machine-style and said “Yeah? Whats your point?”
No worries, FCM. I did have a spare made. At first he was going to charge me extra for that, but then he relented and made it for no charge.
Oh, and we did originally have two keys. But the other key broke off in his door a couple of weeks ago. I did not pay to have that one extracted. He can do that one on his own when he has money again.
yikes, Taters, Tot has had his share of problems, huh? With my first car it was tires - I had flats every other month - if someone was doing home improvement within a 6 block radius, I found the one nail that missed the dumpster
Egad, Count, (hey, how does 123 sound for a nickname?) if my office stopped providing coffee, productivity would drop to zero
I’m not a coffee drinker, but there’s a coffee club at work - it’s $57/year per person, and the 2 folks who run it and collect the money will buy the coffee and creamer, everyone uses a personal mug. Of course, I work for the gov’t, and I’m sure there’s a rule somewhere about not providing refreshments with tax dollars.
Just finished rearranging the new stereo tower, speakers, and the recliner. It looks pretty nice, and the speakers are aimed towards the living room and kitchen, so we can listen in our main living areas. Yay! I also ran the vacuum, so the floors look less grungy. **FCD **is napping, but when he gets up, daughter and I will be moving some stuff back and forth between the two small bedrooms. SIL is taking the trash. My third load of laundry is washing.
Thanks Rose & FCM. I even suggested having employees opt in to an employee paid program (one Heck of a lot cheaper than cup-by-cup retail) but no one wanted to listen.
If you drink coffee at $3 per, $57 a year is less than 20 cups, or maybe 20 bus days. For a full year, I’d do that in a heart beat. Until then, its Mr Coffee meets Mr Thermos. (Starring Abbott & Costello)
[Vincent Price]“Oh, I’m sorry, did I miss all the fun? I’m the Invisible Savings…!”[/Vincent Price]
Sorry I just made it to the party guys. I’ve been forking all day. ;) Ok, not really, only for about the last hour I’ve been researching different fork designs to try next. I just saw a really great one… Somebody made the discarded fork handle into a barrette! I thought was an awesome use for my leftovers.
Is it bad that I am now picturing 123 as The Count of Sesame Street fame?
I’ve been in jail today, but not like that. It was Inveraray Jail, courtesy of a field trip organized by the university’s chaplaincy services. I haven’t been able to look at the pics yet, but there should be a lot of snow in them. We saw many deer, because the unusual snowfall has made them go to relatively-low areas, close to the roads. We also stopped at a place called “Rest and Be Grateful” Pass: the new road is a mild, long slope, but the old road was a horror if you were on foot, “you may want to walk” on a horse and took a couple years off your life if you had a cart. One of the other students fell on her bum and, after verifying that she hadn’t broken anything, started making snow angels
We left this morning to book the puddle jumper part of our flights from Honolulu to Lihue and back. Our friend was nervous about trying to book this stuff on line, so she asked us to come to her place and do it. She fed us breakfast in return. We got that done, with little hassle.
However, I got back home to see a post on FB from my daughter. Seems some idiot backed right into her car as she was trying to go past his parking spot. He didn’t even look, just backed right out. Worse, she didn’t get his insurance information. I dunno, I think she was just flustered by the whole thing. It’s not a whole lot of damage, but all the same, she now has a dent on the front quarter panel of her car, next to her headlight. Her boyfriend was annoyed. Poor kid, she sounded pretty down when I talked to her on the phone.
Just last week, her boyfriend found out he needed over $1.000.00 work on his car. It’s just not the month for cars in the Taters household. Please, please, don’t let anything go wrong with mine or my husband’s cars.
I’s home from day 1 of 2 of Fahr Skule '10. My topic this year is Bombs, Booby Traps, and Explosives.
So, we had a bomb search exercise, and my team got blown up within 2 minutes of starting the search. Actually, all the teams did. The instructors then gathered us around and said (and I am HTG quoting), “We did it that way on purpose. You’re firemen and rescue personnel, not bomb techs. So when the sheriff or your chief tells you to go search a building for a device, you tell them to go fuck themselves.”
:eek::D:D:D
The two bomb techs teaching the class are really warped. I like that in people…
I have boobies, but they are not traps. Although you might be able to hide underneath them.
I’ve been helping TVMan with inventory. It turns out that the old tube tester settings manual and I are not getting along allergy-wise. The paper which is very old stinks and now I am wheezing and feel like part of my face is swelling up. I’ve quit working and took a Claritin. TVMan is looking to see if he can find the manual online so that we can download an allergy-free copy.
Do you have a problem with stinky books at the library, rigs?
The bomb story made me laugh–reality check!
Stinky books in a library means one thing: mildew, the scourge of libraries everywhere. The smell of old dried paper is an aphrodisiac. If there is any musty stink, that paper either got wet at some time or was exposed to something stinky and wet, or it’s too humid in the place where the paper is kept (or it wasn’t clean when it was stored). So, no stinky paper in MY library, although my skin is aging rapidly in the desert air there…
I am up from a 2 hour nap. I feel like shit. Such is the day of me. My pt was very nice this morning, although she came late. My pt was the best part of my day at work, though.
Reminder: whilst I am the Coolest Person on the Planet[sup]TM[/sup], I am also a 47 y/o “soccer mom”. I have been a nurse for 20+ years. My uniforms have always been crisp, clean and un-stained. Today at work I found waiting for me in my locker, the attire the suits want us to wear–one person on staff must wear this daily (we would rotate the “honor”). Keep in mind, that these are the same suits who told us that we could no longer choose our own scrubs/uniforms to wear because they wanted conformity and professionalism in appearance.
Our uniforms are “ceil” blue–picture a light lavendery blue. Our scrubs (which is what my dept wears) are teal green (which is a horrid color, btw, for scrubs). We have only been given a top to wear, so it’s to go with either ceil blue or the scrubs.
I will post a pic as soon as TH finds his iPhone. You may want to sit down.
(Ok, I wouldn’t mind except for the part where he said that they all have to be tested, too, and that if I’m not careful that I might get shocked.) :dubious:
