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The Bunnies present Spiderman I & II!!
It must be spring…! My jasmine is putting forth tiny little buds. This plant was given to me last year by my future MIL. Two years ago she gave me a clipping in water and instructed me how to make its roots grow. Well, I do not kill plants and actually take care of them fairly well but I simply have never been able to make clippings grow roots. So of course it died. Then last year I tentatively asked if she could just grow the clipping for me, and voila! Now I have a semi-juvenile jasmine plant to go with my jade plant.
Jasmine plants are my favorite plant. Stuff like Queen of the Night (name of a plant) blooms in the dead of the night, so if you wake up to go to the bathroom or whatever you have this gorgeous heady scent filling the house. My mom had lots of jasmine plants that would bloom at different times of the day so it always smelled gorgeous. It’s hard to keep them alive and springy in upstate NY though. Even my mom lives 2.5 hours south and even that’s a huge difference in temperature!
Morning, all. It’s a lovely sunny, warm day here. Of course, tomorrow it’ll be considerably cooler. But today we can enjoy opening the windows and breathing fresh air. And then sneezing and sneezing and sneezing. Although at least we don’t have to deal with pine pollen like Swampy does. From living in Georgia, I remember pine pollen season – when your whole car turns green overnight. It’s actually quite impressive.
meli, I saw a story the other day where some departments several schools, including Middlebury, UCLA, and I forget who else, have actually forbidden the use of Wikipedia as a primary source. A history professor at Middlebury realized what was going on when several students gave the same misinformation in a test, and he realized that it was from Wikipedia. So it’s a trend that’s definitely spreading. I’ve always regarded it as a good quick starting iplace to get basic info, but for any technical subject, I’d definitely want more authoritative sources. Also, apparently Wikipedia just severed ties with its theology “expert” when they discovered that instead of being the multi-degreed talent they thought he was, he turns out to be a 24-year-old kid living in mom’s basement. 
The several thousand articles he submitted will all have to be checked now, too. Oops.
I plan to stay home and do as little as possible today. Well, except for maybe doing a bit of work, lots of knitting, and probably hauling the idiot dogs outside and giving them a good brushing. It’s shedding season around here, too. Of course, with these guys, it’s always shedding season, alas.
I talked to my sister and my mom yesterday, and now I’m really worried that she’s not getting adequate therapy. She said, “I’m doing everything they tell me to do!” but they didn’t even tell her to continue doing her exercises several times a day after she got out of the hospital! :eek: And the only walking they’ve had her do is to the bathroom and back! :eek: So I asked my sister to make sure she does a bit more walking and her exercises, in addition to her one PT session a day. They’re exercises she can do lying in bed, it’s not like they involve gymnastics, but the last thing I want is for her to get adhesions in her knee and need further procedures to break them. Which involve anesthesia. :eek: And I also do not trust the therapist who’s taking care of her at the nursing home – she was my dad’s therapist years ago when his Parkinson’s got so bad he was in a nursing home, and I was seriously unimpressed then; she either didn’t do enough or did too much with him. It was a mess. Mom, of course, assumes she must be WONDERFUL because she took care of Dad. 
So we’re sending Lapin Blanc out to take care of her for a week or two after she gets out of the hospital and hopefully make sure that at least at that point, she does enough exercises to get the inflammation down and get her knee feeling better. There’s just no other way, no matter how old you are. Which Mom, of course, ignored completely because she’s so pleased with being an Old Person now. Mothers!!!
Off to do something constructive. Like caffeinate some more.
I have weird dreams lately, but mostly not because I’m having a bear (N.O.B.) of a time sleeping through the night lately.
Grr.
That happened here too! I moved into this “quad” here at work, and then my neighbor moved in. The two other people who sat across from us both left shortly thereafter. A replacement for one of them came for a couple months… and left. Some contractors sat in those desks for a little while… and left. :eek: We really were starting to think it was us! But now we’ve got two new neighbors and they seem to like us well enough.
I’m sleepy today. We had a memory foam pad on top of our bed for a while but decided to try to take it off and just use the mattress this week. Uh-uhn. It’s not working. It makes my shoulders hurt and I wake up every hour or so because I’m uncomfortable. I think the mattress topper has to go back on tonight, even though that’ll mean taking the sheets off the bed and remaking it. I need sleep!
It’s back to the 50s (Amurrikun degrees) here today after being in the 80s yesterday. It was so nice yesterday. It’s too early for pollen or bugs or anything here so it was just a beautiful day. I went out rollerblading and then just sat and enjoyed the weather. It even got to 76 degrees inside! I love spring!
Man, it’s amazing outside. No – better than amazing. Amazingly amazing. I wanna move my desk outside and work there. Except the planes heading in for a landing at PIA would get a bit noisy. I might open the side door though, let some of that nice spring air in.
Almost all of the snow has disappeared – even the mountains created by the plows have shrunk to insignificance. That, for me, is the true sign that we’re well and truly done with winter.
Oh, I’m feeling a lot less groggy and scatterbrained this morning. I entered the right forum on the first try. 
Oh, my God, I can’t walk out of my front door without being hit in the face with the scent of orange-blossom–like a brick wrapped in a perfumed napkin. Yech.
bursts in Hello! I’m back from being lazy as of … checks watch … now. I’ve been reading along, and boy are youse guys chatty this week. You must have spring fever, the lot of you. Swampus is eating bear meat (and eating bear 
), Haze is talking about the Saharan Renaissance, and kai is turning pom fur into rodents, just to name a few examples.
I love you guys. 
To demonstrate this, have some puns:
I’m finally back in good ol’ Hangover, New Hampshire. Today I will run errands, and get everything sorted and ready to start the next term, which happens tomorrow. Technically it happens today, but I don’t have class until tomorrow.
As far as Wikipedia is concerned, I don’t think it should ever be cited as a formal source. I think it should be used as a starting point for research, because the good articles will cite their sources, and you can go use those to fully inform your work. If the article doesn’t cite its sources, it’s probably wrong anyway.
Nava, best of luck getting the job and healthcare situation sorted out. BionicTigs, I hope your sister’s knee turns out okay.
Nava is getting a new car when she goes, right? ducks and runs
Many, many years ago (but in this century), I was working in a factory, in an office shared with two other people permanently and as many as six occasionally. One of those two people was the Safety Manager, so the office was clean and generally orderly.
One day in late March, the Supply Chain Manager dropped by and started pointing out ways in which we should rearrange stuff and straightening piles. The SM would have, for example, a shelf with some books set vertically and a few horizontal ones acting as a bookstop; she’d set the horizontal ones standing up and spend a futile five or ten minutes trying to get the pile to stay put.
At one point she got called to her office and the guys breathed a sigh of relief. One of them asked “what the heck got into her?” and I said “spring cleaning. She can’t do it at her mother’s because it’s her mother’s, she can’t do it in her house because she paid an interior decorator, remember how she was in fits over not liking one of the prints but doesn’t dare change it because she paid so much for it? So, she does it here because she can.”
She did it every year…
Spats, what’s a car?
Spats, that first pun is awesome.
I have TWO children home sick today! Headachey and sleepy, they are, with stuffed heads. I blame pollen and the early arrival of spring. Yes, yes, it’s gorgeous but it’s dangerous. Husband got his allergy shot today, lil baby had hives on his gorgeous little bottom for eating too many walnuts … WHAT NEXT??
The most damage I could manage was to misspell a congressman’s name in large-point type. whoops.
Hey, Middlebro is allergic to chorizo and chocolate. You get one chance to guess his two favourite sandwich fillers (not at the same time).
Heh, Spats. Very good.
Not much going on this morning. It rained a bunch last night, and now it’s clear and cool! This weekend is supposed to be awesome, with lows in the 50’s and highs in the 70’s, and low humidity! Even in March, the humidity can be miserable here.
So I’ll help Mr. Rebo install new siding on a couple of walls this weekend, and putter around the yard a bit.
Is it Friday yet? 
After work yesterday I quickly discovered a downside to this whole ‘Spring’ thing. It turns out that my “new” car does not have any a/c, so I went from being nice and comfortable walking around outside to miserable and dripping with sweat in a matter of seconds after getting into my vehicle (maybe I should just walk the ~30 miles to work).
I have actually had several professors recomend using Wikipedia as a starting point for research, though they have all gone on to say that it was invalid as a source. But that was just for papers, for the purposes of Meli’s assignment I think Wikipedia was probably enough. None the less I have her book in my car and am driving it back up to her today after work so that she needn’t worry about the issue for the assignments she has for Wednesday.
Work these last several days has been a bit frusterating. My new not-technically-my-boss-though-he-has-more-say-in-my-day-to-day-activities-than-my-quote-un-quote-real-boss-does has moved out here to Michigan (making him the only other person from our company in this state) and the government still has not finished setting up his network access. So for several days now I am constantly not logging into his machine (why would I do anything like that, I mean, it is against the rules) for him so he can get some work done, the most annoying thing about it being that when I am not logged into his machine it doesn’t prevent me from doing any work on my own.
I can’t wait until they finally decide that he is no more a security risk here in Michigan than he was in Colorado, though I think that moving from Colorado to Michigan would be motivation enough for anyone to become a security risk.
I’m starting to think the building DH runs is cursed.
The new phone system is acting a smidge hinky, or more accurately, its users are having problems. At first they thought the intercom function was broken as someone tried to call him, and the line just rang and rang. They entirely forgot that new phone system = new phone numbers. :smack:
Major Oopsie Department: Last night as he was about to leave, DH heard water from the ladies’ restroom in the lobby. He also saw water on the floor outside the restroom. :eek: He goes in, and finds that it’s raining in the restrooms. At about the same time, a tenant on the second floor comes shuffling in just as fast as they can shuffle hollering that it’s raining in their apartment, which is above the restrooms. :eek: :eek: DH runs up to the third floor, to find a lake. It seems one of the construction crew bashed something into a toilet and didn’t realize that they’d mortally wounded it. The crack probably held for a day or two then let go.
Closer to home, it’s madness here! They’re spending $700 or so per person to replace several hundred chairs in this building, but we can’t get someone to keep coffee in stock! Don’t they understand we’re all going to fall asleep and the customer-facing website will fall apart because the coders are all groggy?
Howdy, all! Gah! It’s only Tuesday! Why does it feel more like it should be Wednesday? Still loverly here and the temps will climb a little more each day this week.
What to have for dinner? Seems I seriously miscalculated at the grocery store last weekend and must make a stop on the way home tonite for the protein course. Suggestions?
I ate ground bear (N.O.B.) once a long time ago. I didn’t care for it. Buffalo OTH is quite delish.
I have much to do today so back to work.
Tupug
Anyrose, and everyone,
no, I’m not canadian, and unfortunately I have no knowledge of canadian daylight savings regimes. The latitude at Frobisher Bay is approximately the same, but you would have to go all the way across the atlantic to visit me.
My username is borrowed from “The white seal” by Kipling. Why; I guess because I familiarise with the arctic setting described in the story, and I like water very much. If I am reinkarnated sometime, I hope it is as a seal. Even in the chinese horoscope I’m a water buffalo. The most beautiful place in the world is down in the calm tranquility of the kelp forrest, amongst the elusive schools of fish and sparkling seaslugs.
Its even because I like water so much that I became a marine biologist.
Band name!!
They sparkle??? ::Runs of to Google images to take a look::
Well, they certainly are colorful. I will say that.
A car is a thing that turns gasoline into traffic jams.