**Happy Birthday Bobbio!! **
I Like your plans for Sharon. But I agree she probably won’t let you get through your speech… Tell her she has a choice: shut up and listen or walk out the door now.
Happy Birthday Flutter!! (Won’t be here on the right date)
**Spaz **-- I gather WowCrackRoomie is gone? Good riddance! 
Yay, boos, hugs, gropes etc… to all!
Not singling anybody out for teary (temporary) farewells – I’ll miss you all while I’m gone! see you all again on or about August 14th!!
Bye…
That is my style, too. I’ve done the same thing to VWife on occasion.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BBBOBBIO![/center]
Would you believe that this cake template already has your name on it, VBob? So I know one year ago today was the last time I modified it in any way. Dontcha feel extra special now? Oh, and I like the camera/note/lecture idea. The stealing of change – fine, it’s stupid but forgivable. The stealing of prescription drugs someone obviously needs for their condition – so not so much. You’ve a bigger heart than I would in those circumstances (ass, meet curb) so she should feel damn lucky and privileged to be under your part-time employ. Does she clean for other people too?
So I saw something really cool this afternoon. I was outside on my afternoon break having a smoke as usual when I was looking up at a passing cloud that was presently obscuring most of the sun. It’d kind of neat because with my sunglasses on, polarized as they are, I see the sun’s corona peeking out from the fluffy edges of the cloud in a rainbow of colours.
So I did that today and noticed something else was up there with the colourful corona: The floating puffs of airborne dandelion seeds. And then the sun came out, so I moved closer to the side of the building I was on so as to place the sun just beyond the rooftop. Sure enough there in the blue skies, backlit by the sun’s corona, were hundreds upon hundreds of the seeds floating by in the day’s moderate winds. Through the magic of parallax, I could see that there were little white puffs floating many hundreds of feet in the air, little white specs high above increasingly larger little puffs closer to the ground, all floating more or less southward. It was a bit like watching snow fall, if snow fell towards the equator.
It’s probably a little mundane and certainly pointless, but it was a rather pretty scene. I wish I had my camera.
:eek: Yikes!!
I noticed. Nice shoes - wanna f… 
Oh wait, that’s not what you meant, was it??
Happy BBBobbio Day!!!
And good luck with The Lecture. You’re a more patient individual than I.
Pretty good day at work, despite finding out that my old project has come back to haunt me a bit. The Proj Lead and some above him decided that we need to change the format of our final product. So while I don’t have to rewrite it, I do have to rework it, and the program we use isn’t the most user friendly. I think I got 3 of 11 or 12 pages done. I promised them to him by the middle of Aug - I think I can make it.
**FCD ** has an interview tomorrow with a contractor that works on the same base where I am. If he gets the job, we can carpool - their office is maybe a mile from the gate where I enter the base. And since he wouldn’t be commuting all the way to Goddard, he could afford to take a pay cut (within reason) and not lose any money. So we shall see…
SIL is at work till 9. I have to give the lad props - he worked several hours on his own yesterday, sanding walls and putting mud and tape on the bedroom ceiling joints. He has a good touch with joint compound. And yes, I’ve told him so - gotta give positive reinforcement and all that. Anyway, while he’s at work, I’m going to try to finish the ceiling in the closet and maybe mud all the corner joints in the bedroom.
Plans for the weekend will be tiling the bathroom and laundry room. Which means I have today and tomorrow to get the laundry done. No biggie - only 2 loads to go. And since daughter is staying at the camp this weekend, we won’t have the invasion of dirty laundry to contend with.
All I need to do now is get motivated. Yeah. That’s gonna happen.
No, he’s still around, but he’s on strike two. That means he and his disrespectful brats have a high place on the On Notice board and one more strike from any of them will result in a swift kick in the balls and a toss out the door. Complicated Roommate is trying to be a peacemaker. He came by his name honestly.
Have a good vacation Nooner! We’ll straighten up Room 304 for when you get back.
blinks My birthday?
It’s not until… November. Thank you though!
That’s quite a vacation he’s taking!
Bobbio, you are a much kinder person than I, were I in your situation. I hope she takes it to heart.
Rosie, tell Beebs he looked very handsome and that I miss seeing him here.
Hmm, guess I should get back to work. I donwanna.
Can anyone help? I’ve been a subscriber to the dope for about two years. In that time we’ve had two grandkids (one girl back in 11/07) and one boy (7/08) all faithfully noted in mmps. Everyone wants pics.
Okay, I’ve got $107.75 saved up for a digital camera. What do I do now? Digital camera, that I know (also for sending pics to other grandparents/aunts & uncles, etc). Then what?
Once I’ve got a pic saved, how do I transmit it to dopers? This from someone who’s had the same email addy since 1998. Thanks for your help.
PS if you answer soon, I might also add pics of two of the cuter cats (sunshine & Lynx) around.
Love, Phil
Sorry… I blame Taxi, she mentioned it first :o
Heh; I’m a November kid (well, not really a kid anymore… :() too! Which day in November?
Well, definitely signing out, now… see y’all in two weeks!
**Phil ** - I’ve found the best way to share photos here is to get a photobucketaccount, or something similar. Then upload your photos following the site’s directions, and post a link.
Easy-peasy!
I thought it might be someone’s Bday when I got up this morning, but I was wrong.
I am home from work and it’s monsooning out–it’s pouring with thunderboomers and lightning! I love it. It’s hot as hell out–yuck. I had a nice, but BUSY day at work–Annoying Coworker wasn’t there. I don’t like getting up at 0400, but I like getting out at 230pm.
Off for nappies (as in sleep, not diapers!)
Oops! That should have been “Happy Birthday, mousie!” Their posts were right next to each other, and I must have gotten the two posts confused. Sorry about that! And happy birthday a day early to mousie!
We were supposed to be headed to a team offsite at 3… it’s now 3:25. I wanna leave! (The team “offsite” is more of a let’s-get-together-and-go-have-a-beer, which should explain why I’m eager to go.)
After that I’m off for the weekend. See y’all on Monday!
Sigh.
I love my job. But right now, I’m trying very very hard to choke back the urge to strangle a particular coworker who blithely walked away from her mess and has left me to clean it up.
She decided, at the last minute, that she’d “work from home” today, despite the fact that she doesn’t have the appropriate setup there to access some of our key systems. She did this knowing full well that she already scheduled a day off tomorrow, and that Monday is a holiday. So, by my count, she’s just taken herself a 5 day weekend with a major deadline breathing down our necks - as in, TUESDAY morning.
So now I’m trying to decide whether I also blithely walk away from her mess and let her deal with the consequences, or clean it up because everyone is going to suffer if it continues to get ignored.
Oh, and on top of that, I’m out of legally allowable overtime for the week once you factor in the 2 hours I’m putting in tomorrow morning by coming in at 6:30am… which I’m doing so I can finish something else for her that absolutely needed to be done before noon.
AAARGH.
/vent
One wonders what exactly Mindude might have been smokin’… 
MOOOOOOM sounds like you laid (layed?) down the law but good to SIL. Maybe you should look into that as a career option. Like, Motivation Consultant. 
Muppet you’re too nice. I’d let her stuff alone and when it all comes down next week you can innocently say “Well, I thought that’s what you were doing when you took that work from home day last week!” Then again I am Mr. Meany Pants.
Ok, back to work. I promise. Really. Goin’ now.
::VRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOM::
**Muppet ** - your coworker needs a serious wet trout treatment. What a slacker!!!
That sucks Muppet hugs
Noone The 18th is my b-day. Close enough to the cusp that I get asked if I’m a Saggitarius sometimes but still quite a Scorpio…
swampus, I’m inclined to play Meany Pants too… but the fact is that when the shit hits the fan, I’m gonna get splattered with it too because it doesn’t matter WHY you missed the deadline if you’ve got a pissed off client. Might as well do it now and save myself the pain.
There are two types of people in this world - the Velcros and the Teflons. I’m a Velcro. 
However, I’m done playing along with her delusional belief that I’m her flunkie and that she can just pass of something to me whenever she decides that it’s beneath her. She may be a Fully Qualified Project Manager (as she never fails to remind me when the opportunity presents itself), but on this particular project she’s just a plain ol’ analyst… just like me.
Or as the five-year old in my head puts it “She’s not the boss of me!!!”