I’m sorry, I meant I didn’t know anyone IRL other than myself. Sorry! But we can be anime-buddies, although I haven’t watched anywhere near what you have. Let’s see:
Ranma 1/2
Maison Ikkoku
Inu-Yasha
Record of Lodoss War
and lots of individuals, like Slayers, Ninja Scroll, etc. Plus I’ll watch nearly anything. My problem becomes the cost - it’s so expensive - and there’s so much else to buy!
I don’t have cable, though, so I can’t watch any of it on TV. (Hate cable - grrr).
Another boring day. But I can weigh in on vacuums - I have a Eureka 12 amp bagless, and it handles my border collie/lab hair factory quite efficiently. It does help that we have an air compressor and my sweetie uses it to clean the filter every once in a so often.
Which reminds me - the shed factory has covered our lovely cream color carpet with bunches of black. I must de-hair it, I guess. <sigh>
Glad the week has passed the halfway point. These 10-hour days are wearing on me. It wouldn’t be bad if I was doing something, but sitting thru lectures and doing pointless exercises is not particularly engaging. One and a half days to go…
Well, gt, I think that I’d be able to just walk up to your front door and asses your repairmen, couldn’t I? Seeing as I’m not stalking you or anything.
“Asses”? You do mean assess, right? I guess you could assess the asses. 
Whew! Very long day today. I did manage to finish some taskers hanging over my head, but have new taskers and deadlines to attend to. In addition, I need to take a CBRNE on-line course, go to a birth month annual review (I’m way delinquent on that one), go to a customer service class, attend two Composite HealthCare Systems classes, start doing my monthly roll-ups for a couple of reports, prepare some pivot charts (with trendlines) and tables, and finish a data call for next week. I don’t have to attend the BMAR until next month, but I need to complete an online test before I go to that too. All the rest needs to be completed by next week. Arrgh! I’m drowning…
I’m making jambalaya for chop-chop tonight. I’m cheating and using the Zatarains as a base, but I did buy sausage and chicken to go with it. Quick, easy, more than filling.
Well, need to tend to din-din now.
Why yes, I suppose you could, but it wouldn’t be nearly as dramatic or fun. Also, they didn’t seem like the type of guys who would appreciate being assessed. I mean, we couldn’t stand there and talk about them as they were working or anything. (As in: “Well the chubby one might be OK if he’d lose some weight… and both of them could use a bit of grooming…”) And, on preview, I see that Taters found an amusing typo. Their asses weren’t really worth looking at, IMO, in case anyone’s interested.
I have decided that 76 is the optimal temperature; for the moment at least. I’m kind of regretting not asking for a programmable thermostat, but I figure it’s probably cheaper if I buy and install one myself (or, even better, con a friend into installing it).
Since I haven’t been at work, I don’t know if we got the virus. I’d planned to go in for a conference call in the morning, but I’ve been so enjoying my time off, that I’m just going to call in. That’ll give me more time to set the house to rights and will let me avoid that yucky “back at work” feeling till Monday. I’ve really been overdue for a vacation and I’m afraid that this one isn’t really going to count.
In the meantime I’ve been to Tar-jay, Wild Oats and Giant Eagle and acquired exciting stuff like night lights (old ones burned out and didn’t have replaceable bulbs) and laundry detergent and some drawers for under the pantry shelves. Also groceries that my niece and nephew are likely to eat. And stuff I like too. Very thrilling.
I’m cleaning out the fridge (after grocery shopping :smack: ) as well. Just about everything’s put away.
Lissla, I’d go for the TV from Mom and Dad, since the vacuum is probably cheaper…
Off to finish cleaning.
GT
Wow. I can’t believe that I said that I was going to asses them. Well, I might ass them, or something, but I don’t know what ass means as a verb.
I meant assess, of course.
Samurai Champloo! Chobits! Cowboy Bebop! Hellsing!
Lazy Husband is a big anime fan. Quasi-Daughter and Driving Husband are moderate fans. I’ve seen a fair bit of anime with them. There was discussion about dressing up as the Cowboy Bebop crew for Hallowe’een, but thankfully it was dropped. I’d have to be Faye. Ugh.
I want a data dog.
What a blicky three days I’ve had. Day number one the alarm clock of evil never went off and I didn’t get up till an hour after I’d wanted to leave. I stopped in Mexico for my sister, picked up tortillas for my aunt and got to my mom’s place in seven hours. How can sitting for so long make you tired?
The second day I wake up to find that a microburst of rain has knocked down 15 power poles around Tucson. If you’ve ever been to Tucson you’d know that even on a good day it takes forever to go anywhere but with half the city blocked off it took two hours to get to my mom’s doctor’s offices, a ten mile drive maybe. Then on our way back we got stuck in funeral traffic. Not just any funeral, a police officer’s funeral cortege that snaked about eight miles long, pretty much all through a busy section of town. It was so sad, a nice young man with a wife and two kids.
We were going to go shopping but my mom said she was too tired. I hate when she and my sister do this. They never say they’d rather not do something because it’s not their cup of tea, oh no. They say okay and add something ahead of your activity. When they’ve had their fun, suddenly they’re too tired to do your stuff. Sheesh, just be honest and we can take seperate cars. I noticed she wasn’t too tired to go out dancing that evening, hmph.
Today I went grocery shopping with my mom and then I drove home. Home where my bathrooms are nothing special really. I put in a new toilet seat and towel bars and stuff when I moved in and it’s one of the nicest things you can do for yourself. Standard issue bathroom junk is pretty bleak sometimes.
I’ve done way more than my share of sponge painting and never want to do it again. We had the accent wall in our bathroom, like NoClueBoy mentioned, but the wall was huge. The guy who built our home was pretty much insane, but the bathroom was one room his insanity paid off. Oddly, the front door (which was actually the back door, except it wasn’t) opened directly into the bathroom, with double sinks and a huge vanity area on the left. On the right was the little bathtub room, the linen closet and the little toilet room. That way you could have the entire family in the bathroom at the same time if you needed to, which was pretty much every morning. There is no sponge painting or bathroom rearrangement in the world that makes 5am endurable, though.
Donkey, my sister’s last roommate, the Psycho Beast from Hell, would have been your most hated customer. She saved the box from everything she ever bought and would pack stuff up and return it whenever she wanted something new. She always got her way, it was horrifying to watch her return something that should have been un-returnable. The girl was manipulative and conscienceless in the extreme, and people would give her what she wanted just to make the creepy girl go away. If a woman dressed head to toe in LL Bean and wearing tiny rimless glasses ever comes into your store, you’re in for an interesting time.
Ha! I am the Otaku Club advisor and I know nothing about anime. Well, almost nothing since in two years I’ve picked up a tiny little bit. They asked and how could I say no to their hopeful little faces? Except for really accessible stuff like My Neighbor Totoro, I just don’t understand what the hell is going on.
Wake up people!!! It’s Thursday and we are only on page 3. Surely someone out there is doing something interesting, has something humorous to contribute, or just feels like chatting.
Me, I gots nuthin’.
Unless you’re fascinated by the fact that I just reviewed my work e-mail and decided that there’s no necessity for me to even participate in the conference call this morning. So, instead I will focus on restoring my humble abode to something slightly better than the controlled chaos it was in prior to the arrival of the furnace/AC people yesterday.
Mom and crew are due back here this morning, so it needs to be decent-ish in the next couple hours.
GT
All I got is the part where I set my hair on fire, but I can bore you to tears with some more mundane stuff …
On Wednesday nights, my girlfriends usually come over to hang out. (During the television season, we all sit down and watch Smallville–but come September, we’ll probably switch to Lost, and tape the other one.) But last night, nobody could make it, and I spent the evening by myself.
As a result, I kept thinking it was Thursday night. It wasn’t until I woke up this morning that I realized I was wrong. To soothe my wounded brain, I decided to wear sweatpants to work today.
(You may think the two things have nothing to do with each other–in my mind, they do. You really don’t want to hang out in my mind for an extended period of time.)
I picked a taupe color for my new carpeting because it went well with the travertine floor. It may have been kizmet that all of the Anachi dogs are varying colors of beige…almost…well, the Australian Shedder/chow/hair factory is actually bi-colored red and cream. BUT, what he shed’s the most is the undercoat which is definitely beige. So it works out. I don’t think you want to get black carpeting, though, fcm.
donkey, I thought you did that on purpose. 
taters, I luurves the Zatarains Jambalya mix with sausage and chicken. So nummy. Why cook it from scratch?
Today is going to be a real snooze. My team leader is out on a personal day and I just heard that all of the account execs will be attending an association luncheon of some sort. I got nothin’ on my plate except to get my billing started and that will only take about an hour. 
Tupug
Nope, unfortunately it was an accident. Thankfully swampy wasn’t here to see it and make fun of me.
I know we’re only page three, but really, I have nothing exciting to add.
I went grocery shopping last night and they were out of my brand of cigarettes. It was annoying, but what can you do? I thought, “Well, on my way in to work tomorrow, I’ll just stop at my regular coffee place and buy ciggies there”. So, even though I was running slightly behind this morning, I stopped at the aforementioned coffee place. They were out of my brand too. Well, they had my brand, but only in 72s or 100s. I chose the 100s. Crap, doesn’t everyone realize the Marlboro Lights are for me?! What is is the big freakin’ deal. Why can’t people keep those stocked fercrissakes!
I have many, many things to do at work today, plus I may have to go to a dinner meeting after work. I’d really rather go home, but I need to meet with this person before my data call is due next week and she’s in town from Texas.
Tonight Mr. Taters and my son will be going shopping to buy stuff for an all-guys, no women allowed, hiking trip. They call it the Death March, so my son isn’t thrilled. I think the son will end up enjoying himself and will look back on this trip with fond memories.
I better get cracking here. So much to do, not nearly enough time.
ARGH! The computers have been down all morning. Just got back up about 15 minutes ago. Have you TRIED living without computers at work?? It makes for even less happy people than the Coffee Outage a couple days ago.
:: deep breath ::
OK, so anyway… I had a major work night last night. I did laundry, cleaned the cat box (emptied it and washed it out), emptied the dishwasher and restacked it, vacuumed, and made bread. I was worried about the bread because it took WAY more flour than it’s supposed to but I tried it this morning and it was quite nice.
Lunch for a co-worker today - going out to a kinda nice-ish lunch place - and then Restaurant Week dinner at a very nice place. Should be a good day, food-wise!
I keep feeling like today should be Friday, but it’s not. It’s been a long week, and I’m ready for a weekend so I can sleep. A lot.
I don’t have any exciting news for the MMP. I just got my hair cut, and it’s still a little wet, so I haven’t decided if I really love it yet. It’s a little bit different. I’ve been letting it grow out, and I like it a little long. Now it has some little choppy bits around the front and I’m parting it on the side, so maybe I’ll look like a different person. But most likely it will be like every other time I get my hair cut, and I think it looks really good but no one else (not even my very bestest friends) notice that I got my hair cut. I want highlights, but I can’t afford to get it done at the salon and I don’t want to do it myself, so it’ll just stay the same old color for now.
It’s cool and rainy, which is a nice change from hot and humid.
taxi, I’m still looking for the banana bread recipe. I might have to make Lissla’s chocolate cake, so I’ll have something to tide me over until I find the banana bread recipe.
Ashes[sup]2[/sup], do you have any other stories about the Psycho Beast from Hell? She sounds like a breeding ground for horror stories.
The 72’s freak me out. I just don’t understand them. And look at it this way–buying the 100’s gets you more cigarette for your discerning smoker dollar. 
Thanks. I think KeithT’s making banana bread this weekend so if his turns out well and you don’t find your recipe, I can send you his recipe.
I’m going to have to try Lissla’s chocolate cake too. It sounded really easy (YAY!) and very very yummy.
I don’t have a lot this week either. I had a meeting at 8 o’clock to discuss my insurance with our HR person. After about 10 minutes of her going into her spiel, I just asked, “Is this where I saign?” I figure, it’s just me on the policy, and I haven’t used it since I got it in November, so why should I care? If I really really need insurance between now and when I (eventually) get married, nothing that’s offered here is going to have enough coverage anyway.
Then I had a meeting at 9 with one of the owners about bidding for an overhaul job for a Navy ship. The whole of the meeting was
Kinda pointless. So I had some free time this morning after the useless meetings, and ended up typing up request for quotes for all the stuff anyway. I’ll probably send them out today anyway, just so I’m not caught empty-handed when word comes down that yes, we need these things and we need them right away. That happens to me a lot here. But I always come through, so they like me.
I did find out that at the production meeting Tuesday, when my request for vacation for four days next month so I can move my stuff from a condo in Va Beach to a house in Chesapeake was being discussed and approved, that a whole bunch of people volunteered to help us move. Without me even asking or dropping hints. How cool is that?
So someone in my building just made a personal phone call. Only somehow she turned the intercom on, so everyone heard it. I couldn’t really understand much of it, except for “Where you at,” and it ended with the man she called saying he had to go to the bathroom. Nothing like a little TMI to liven things up at work!
Thanks for the reminder. I need to go have my wife added to mine, and I keep getting busy and forgeting.