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Happy Birthday FCM!!!
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Ali, 
I slept in today, mainly because I was up till 3. I might clean the bathroom, and do the dishes. It’s sunny and cool, Maggie may get a dogpark trip this afternoon.
Sean, you forgot, new Cool Kids need to send beerverages to me and swampy. I might have to buy a crock pot.
Welcome olives!!!
Ooh yay, new members! Now I don’t have to feel like such a newbie. 
Welcome to the club, Olive, Chickie and QD! Come on in, the water’s fine. At least, I think it is… tentatively sticks a toe in it
Sean, that Hot Fudge Cake recipe looks delicious, and like something I may even be able to attempt making in the coughdistantcough future! Thanks for sharing!
Nava’s sauce recipe sounds very good too. Maybe I can get Ali to make it for me–Ah, I mean, try cooking it meself, o’ course!
Happy Birthday, FCM! Here’s hoping you’ve eaten way too much cake and had a night to remember, however you define it.
By the way, those’re adorable photos, Olive. You and your husband look amazingly cute together, and so gleeful, too!
In personal news, it seems my parents are now seriously considering adopting a new dog. It’s only been two weeks since Blitzen was put down, but the death has been taking a toll on my dad’s health, so I can understand the need for him to have some company during the day. They’ve filled out an application for a very cute labrador/husky mix and are going to meet her next Monday. If the proceedings go without incident, they may have the new pup within a couple of weeks. The most amusing part is, the dog has the same name as me, so if they do end up getting her, the times when I go home to visit could get a bit confusing. I wonder how often I’ll think I’m being told to “Sit! Stay!”
Hi everyone!
I haven’t been here a lot sharing my mundane-ness and pointless-osity. I feel derelict.
Update on Dumb Bus Driver: You may all remember the accident a guy had in October, drove a bus full of kids off a road, wiped out most of someone’s sod, their mailbox then crossed the road and took out another mailbox?
He beat the two tickets he got, so I’m being forced to return him to work, but he’s on Double Secret Probation AFTER he completes another 15 hours of refresher training.
The next time this guy sneezes or farts, I get to fire him.
Why do you want a crockpot for your beerverages? 
:dubious: I’d druther drink them, if it were me…
Welcome to the new Cool Kids!
I went down to the Civic Center this morning to get tickets for Tip-a-Snake (our annual charity dinner) and stopped in to watch a bit of practice. I noticed Connor (my sponsored player) wasn’t on the ice, and saw him sitting in the stands. When I went over to say hello, he removed a wad of bloody gauze from his mouth and grinned at me, showing a two-tooth-wide gap in his upper teeth. He was leaning over the rail on the bench Friday night at the away game and got a stick in the mouth. It went through his lower lip, chipped a couple of bottom teeth and broke two top teeth. It will be two weeks before he gets his partial plate. My poor boy!
Ooh, I forgot to say hi to Chickie! Welcome to the nicest place on the SDMB. 
Okay, Swampy, I’m hard at work. I just took a breather to have a bite to eat, and now it’s back to the salt mines. Besides, I need to get this finished so I can get to the gym early enough this afternoon it’s not too crowded; I hate having to compete with the after-work crowd. Especially since some of them are serious exercisers who make me feel painfully inadequate. I prefer going midday when there’s lots of slow overweight people like myself; we can sweat and struggle together!
You do have some prizewinning bus drivers, don’t you, MBG?
Unrelated random thoughts. Don’t feel bad, I confuse The Voices, too.
Ok, it’s like this… if you want your check mailed to your house, then it stands to reason you’d have, say, a mail box. It also stands to reason that if you mean by mailing it to your house, what you really mean is to a post office box, then you’d like let us know what that P.O. Box number is and the post office to which we should send said check. It also should stand to reason that if you fail to let us know exactly where your check should go, it will come back to us and then we will have to somehow track you down so we can find out just what to do with your money. Do not get all poed at me because you either don’t know where you live and/or don’t know where your mail should be sent. However, because you chose to do so, you can now make the 40 mile round trip to come here and pick up said check personally. Ok, that last part was just because I could and he pissed me off. Younguns! No wonder I go through so much nerve tonic.
On a related note, on the I-9 Form, you must put the address of the house/apartment/trailer/cardboard box you live in. A post office box will not cut it because nobody lives at a post office. It must be a physical address. Yes, we must take out taxes. The U.S. and Jawja gummints are big on that. It is not optional. Anybody want a bunch of kids in a school work/study program? They’re free. :rolleyes:
So, how’s everybody else’s day goin’ so far?
I’m up! Time to go shopping. It’s a lovely day for it, too. I think my first stop will be the car wash, though. Something was fruiting earlier, and the birds got into it, and decided my car was the appropriate place to relieve themselves. Stoopid birds.
Welcome, olive!
Happy Birthday, FCM!
I have birthday offerings of Scharffenberger and a box of See’s.
Just for you, Swampy. Link. There’s one of me and FCM, too, when she was here in Houston a couple of years ago.
YAY! I say in honor of her bday, we should all go rearrange FCM’s face! 
I shall look forward to face rearranging this evening.
The Voices don’t bother me much. I tell them to shut up or I’ll poke them with another Q-Tip.
Well, I just got caught up, and
Happy Birthday, FairyChatMom!
And welcome to the noobs! This is a very fast-paced fun place. I love the description somebody (who was that? I have no memory, I swear) gave upthread…
Oh, just freakin’ lovely. Yesterday I ordered 100 ft of this cable that I couldn’t find anywhere else in the country. They told me that I would have it this morning. That way we could complete repairs to this Navy ship that has to get from the base to a local shipyard in the morning under it’s own power. But the cable is still sitting on the loading dock of a company in Etlanter, and they didn’t seem too concerned about this oversight until I called looking for the stuff. So now, unless I can pull a sufficient amount of the equivalant cable (because I can’t find it anywhere else in the country) before 3 p.m. EST this afternoon, Technical Thingies will be known as the company that prevented the USS Cole from getting underway.
If it was some other ship, it wouldn’t be so bad. But everyone starts saluting when the name of that ship is mentioned.
anyrose, that was a really sweet tribute to your sister.
FairyChatMom, I only aspire to be a cool kid, but please accept happy birthday wishes and Lindt truffles anyway.
Bribery will get you everywhere.
Don’t you just love people who really care about doin’ a good job Sean. :rolleyes:
Snakes yikes about Connor. Poor kid.
Mailboxless kid (or as the post office would put it mail receptacless kid) came in to get his check. He had to come to my office to get it. He had to endure “the look” and a lecture about his mouthin’ off to me. He is now sufficiently cowed. I probably enjoyed that a little more than I should.
MBG there any office pools goin’ on about how long til dumb bus driver is fired?
Uhhh…looks like I’d better hustle some chocolates off to the Vunderlair as well!
There ain’t enough :rolleyes: in the world right now for me on this one. Especially since, up 'til Friday afternoon, the ship was going to be towed. But then someone decided it wasn’t, and we took on this work as emergent repair. Most of us here are ex-Navy, so we all understand how schedules change and that sometimes you have no choice but to bust yer butt and get it done. But when the game is changed mid-quarter with the only reason being “because I said so”, it’s annoying. And when someone else, a reputable company by what I could see, says that they can do something and then don’t, and on top of that are confused why you’re upset they blew it, well, that’s where I start to get irate. Because ultimately, it’s me and my company responsible, not our subcontractors or supply people. As it should be.
Failure to sail for a Navy ship is bad. When it’s missing a planned or emergency deployment, it’s a cause for grave concern. When it’s just because someone wants to show everyone else how big his tool is, that’s assinine. But it’s still a failure to sail.
Plus, I’m still a little off-balance from what I saw on television last night.
??? What did you see on TV that has you off-balance?
I sincerely empathize on your whole work situation there. You’re right, there just are enough :rolleyes: s to cover those type of things.