I’m on a seafood diet. I “sea” food and I eat it! 
What???
Somebody was gonna do it. You know THAT!
I won’t be here tomorrow - vacation, yay! - so happy birthday early Tupug!!
I really really really have to talk to the Big Boss today about a raise. Our fiscal year starts in Oct so they’ll be doing budget stuff this month so I really really really need to get my request in. But… ugh. I also really really have the feeling that they’re going to shoot me down, even though I’m just asking for a cost of living increase. So I’m really really stressed. And my boss doesn’t seem to like me all that much - he always looks very eager to get away from me whenever we have to talk - and that’s making it worse. I just want to get it over with… but I also want to put it off. And the boss is out right now anyway so it’s really not a choice at the moment. Why couldn’t we just have a normal annual COLA like everyone else?? ::le sigh::
Happy early birthday, Tupug! I hope you enjoy your day and the many years yet to come!
Taxi, best of luck to you with your request for a COLA. In regards to your boss; maybe he’s just not one of those “warm, fuzzy” types. My boss, who really is a good guy, is just like that. He has his “personal bubble” (though he’s never said it out loud), and it seems like he just wants to leave the room as soon as he comes in to talk to me. At any rate, best of luck to you.
I have to leave work early today to sign my son up for his classes, buy his pictures, yearbook, ASB card, daily planner, and gym uniform. After that, it’s off to buy school supplies and clothes. Well, we’ll stop at home and pick up my daughter after the signing for classses bit, so we can pick my daughter up to buy her supplies and clothes too. Agh! I hate this time of year, it’s just as expensive as Christmas.
Draelin, your “customer” must live in a cave or something. Sheesh! Good luck with that one.
Lissla, I have never been a fan of Nutella. That stuff is just way too sweet. Back in 1980 my aunt, uncle, spoiled-brat cousin, and Oma came from Germany to visit us. They brought some Nutella. I didn’t like it then, I don’t like it now. My spoiled-brat cousin just LURVED it spread on squishy, white Wonder bread, which is just gross. My younger sister, on the other hand, just loved it. Different strokes, for different folks I guess.
The wax inside the sealed lava chamber won’t bloopitty bloop, or just the light won’t come on anymore?
First, don’t take the lava chamber apart. There are no user sevicable parts in there. Just some wax and a coiled spring and the liquid. If you open it up, it’s ruined. (There’s also a column by the “Cecil” guy about Lava Lamps. It’s an old one, so you have to search for it.) If it’s just the light won’t come on, is the bulb dead? And you really have to tear up the bases to get them apart.
Now, if the light comes on, but the wax won’t get bloopy, just wait it out. Turn on the lamp and let it go for a while. Maybe a coupla hours. We were having Lava Lamp malfunctions after the move and it just took extra time for the wax to get bloopy and now everything is Jake.
taxi, good luck with the raise! I hope you get it–you deserve it!
So many people taking tomorrow off. I was going to take the day off to go to a funeral, but with the gas prices and everything, I think I’ll just stay home this weekend and relax. I don’t have to work on Monday–yay!!! I just have to decide if I want to make key lime pie or something chocolate.
Happy birthday, puggy!
Happy Birthday Eve Puggy! I’ll sing for the real deal tomorrow.
I think I might have some flooded out refugees at my house this weekend. I’m not real sure yet, but the offer was made. Even told 'em they could stay as long as they needed to. There’s not a hotel room to be had in Mississippi, Alabama or Jawja apparently. I spent an hour on the phone with a friend and her husband who live in Slidell, LA, trying to book em a room in either Meridian or Laurel, MS. I found one room in an Econo Lodge in Laurel. Also, there are two Red Cross shelters opening up here for folks from Louisiana and Mississippi who are being transported in. WOW!
Yup, that seems to be the case. He said he’d already been thinking about raises for everyone so that was very good news. (I’d been wondering if in addition to begging for my own raise, I should suggest raises for all the staff because we’re all in the same boat. But I didn’t have to!)
I think you’re right though that he just isn’t the “warm, fuzzy” type, although when one does have an actual conversation with him he can be very nice. It’s strange that he doesn’t like to talk more, though, because his job is based largely on talking to people.
But anyway, I am going to get a raise (even if it’s a small one). Yay!
My VP is a woman who is bright, funny, and genuinely cares about her employees. She’s also a swearing, shrieking harpy whose every word sounds like a scolding. Some days, it’s hard to remember she’s actually nice.
swampy, that’s generous of you, and you continue to impress me as Good People.
Pugster, happy early birthday!
Taters, Nutella on squishy wonder bread? I think I need a moment to myself. Any errant Nutella you come upon, send to me.
So I’ve just been asked by aforementioned swearing, shrieking harpy that I have to talk to the new receptionist because she’s not picking up the phones fast enough. VP Harpy would do it herself, but she knows she’s scary.
sigh They don’t pay me enough for this.
Here’s a billion dollar raise, Draelin. You deserve it. Hmm. Let’s make it billion dollar raises for everybody!
:Waits impatiently:
This whole ‘changing reality with the power of my mind’ thing doesn’t work. The Matrix lied to me.
I like nutella, but mostly with peanut butter. It’s too sweet otherwise. They’re good together on whole grain bread, especially if you make toast. Yum. I haven’t breakfast yet- Attacks Husband and I got home after 3 a.m. last night, after Epic Adventures (a conversation with a chatty drunk guy and seeing a bunch of sluttily dressed fifteen year olds hanging around downtown). Nice walk. Nice night.
Today do I want to clean my desk off and experiment with my serger, sweep, clean the kitchen, or lie on the couch reading?
Well, it’s the thought that counts. 
Nutella is too hazelnutty for me. But the GF and her girls like it.
Draelin, I’m constantly dealing with people who are looking for things that we shipped to them. Put the tracking number in either the UPS or FedEx website for that very purpose, and then fax or forward the results to the customer. Once it’s in their delivery system, it’s out of your hands. You could give that a try. It usually gets them off my back.
**Happy Birthday Puggy! **
There’s no need to slide any further toward s(mumble mumble)y, you can do what I’m going to do. Step one, find a vampire. Step two, convince them to make me a vampire. Step three through infinity, live! It’s step one I’m having trouble with, darn it.
So last night I decided to conduct a little experiment. I had some gin and I had a bottle of cantelope flavored soda. Gin plus ginger ale isn’t bad, so why not cantalope? Because it’s disgusting, that’s why. The kind of disgusting that is pretty much equal with eating boogers found under the desk tops. So yeah, strike that from your bartender’s recipe book.
Good on ya Swampy. In a way, I hope you don’t have anybody stay with you because everybody already has a safe place to be. I’ve had to stop watching the news because I just start crying. When I was 11 my little sister and I were evacuated (the 'rents had gone to work) because of a flood and it’s… well, there just aren’t words to describe how bad it felt and it wasn’t a drop in a bucket compared to what’s happening in the gulf states.
Wait a minute-- there are places where you get COLA automatically? Really? Right now our union is being offered a one percent raise though the gov gave us 3.1% COLA and they want to eliminate dependent coverage on health insurance, plus cap it for everyone. Maybe it’s because it’s a union thing, we don’t get COLA automatically, hunh. Wow. So go get your raise taxi, in fact, raises for all the MMP! 'Course, it’ll have to be raises in something besides money, how about oxygen?
Tell me about getting the bulb out Rue! Mine is a rocket ship base so the bulb is waaay down there in a skinny place and I can just barely reach it. But I did reach it and unless the mystery of new-bulbs-that-don’t-work has struck again, it’s not that. I have no idea how to get it apart to check the wiring, though I admit I’ve only tried for like two minutes. I don’t think it was jiggled since I just came in one morning and nothing, just click click, nada. So far there are tons of lava lamp websites but none of them sell the guts. How has this not been brought to the president’s attention? Hurricane schmuricane, I want my lamp to bloopity bloop. Call out the National Guard-- schnell!
Happy B-Day, Tupug, dahlink!! You’s one classy dame!
I’m off tomorrow, and I’m off early today - yay. My holiday weekend plans include painting the inside of my closet (it needs to be white, not dark purple) and picking up sticks in the yard. Methinks we’ll be doing a lot of heating via fireplace - I expect my heating oil bill will border on obscene.
But that’s a future worry. For now, I’m free till Tuesday and I intend to enjoy myself!
I am surrounded by fools! People are still acting all panicy over gas. I actually heard somebody, who had filled up his car on the way in to work this morning, say he’s gonna stop on the way home to top it off again. He lives a whole 4 miles from here and hasn’t gone anywhere since he got here this morning. :rolleyes: I know that cause I’ve spent the better part of the day staring at him. Ok, not staring, but workin’ on stuff with him.
My invitated refugees aren’t coming. They called and said they were going to hang out at her mother’s house in west Alabammy instead. Don’t blame em cause it’s a bunch closer to their home in Louisianny. They seem to think they’ll be able to go back and check on stuff early next week. Hope it’s true.
I either want pizza or KFC for dinner tonight. But not both. I can’t decide on which one and I have to decide because I done been told I have to decide. ACBG is buyin’ it, I just have to say what. I hate this kind of pressure!
I just volunteered the Train Room at Chez VunderBob (still without a working layout) as being available for harboring refugee(s). I sent an e-mail to Lutheran Disaster Services making the offer, since I didn’t know where to go otherwise.
Wish I had enough annual available to go down there with a trunk full of tools, my handy dandy chainsaw, and a whole lotta shootin’ iron…
Tidying the desk has won so far. Napping might be a priority, too. I’ve got a lapful of nice black cotton jersey fabric and I’m trying to decide if I want to be experimental with it. It’s very thin and drapy. I’m trying to envision a top. I don’t think I could do a mandarin collar, but I could do some deep v-neck tank top thingy.
Err, Tupug, is it your birthday today or tomorrow? I’ve been holding off because I thought it was tomorrow, but everyone’s saying happy birthday today. I’m confused.
I’ve decided I want pizza tonight. I’m glad that’s over. The pressure was almost too much! Pizza with everything! MMMMMMM… and salad, cause I got some bag salad at home.
FCM ACBG is taking tomorrow off too. Course he’s on call on Monday so it’s not like he’s taking extra time off. I told him he could clean my house since he’s off. I won’t say what he told me I could do when I said that. Let’s just say, if I could do as he suggested, I’d have no need for him.
swampy, m’dear, you do crack me up!!!