(Old) Drudgery In The MMP

I guess we were short handed today, either people calling out,or exploding into flames. I started on the 300 Table, then started loading the 300 Bottom White set, then got flipped over and started loading the Top White set, then back to sorting on the Table for most of the set before finishing Middle Red. It was a hot chaotic mess all day. Plus it sounds like at least one person had heat issues, and this is before sunrise. And Carmen’s A/C has been struggling the last 2 days. dunno if I need service, or cooling a black car that has been sitting on an asphalt parking lot in direct sunlight and 95 degrees temps for 4 hours is more than the Kia Corporation planned for.
Also:
Roomie: “We need a gallon of milk.”
Me:

Is he related to Strong Bad?

< crosses appropriate and inappropriate appendages >

:champagne::shortcake::partying_face:HAPPY DOPERVERSARY COOKIE!!!:partying_face::shortcake::champagne:

“I don’t have enough insects in my yard, so I shall order them from Da Jungle”. [Yakov Smirnoff]What a country![/Yakov Smirnoff]

I’m around, just don’t have much to say lately.

Happy Doperversary there Cookie


I wasn’t trying to sound all fatcat, but I’m sorry if I did. The only helpers I have are weekly housekeepers. I live in the smallest place I can stand precisely to minimize the mess that needs cleaning and, indirectly, the price of them doing it.

I recognize that a big part of MMP is performative venting about our personal frustrations, whatever they may be. In IRL dealings with other people I often hear similar drudgery laments, but in more detail. At which point I ask “Why?” Often there is no good answer they can formulate except

    Them: “I’ve always spent an hour scrubbing the inside of my teakettle every Saturday.”
    Me: Why? Nobody else does that, and the tea is fine."
    Them: “Oh.”

But I like cheese! [With apologies to Blazing Saddles].


As to cruises and day of week doormats …
IME the ships I’ve been on are plastered with video screens. Every elevator, every elevator lobby, every stairwell, the entrance to every venue. They all show some variation of the daily schedule, the next destination, and the current day, date, time, and time zone.

Also, all modern ships seem to have an app that you really need to put on your phone to have a good experience. The app will have all that, let you make reservations for whatever on-ship or off-ship, look at what’s scheduled each day, etc. You can get along without it, but that entails standing in a line to wait to have an overworked customer service person look up the same info in the same computer for you.

Cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese,
Eating Trader cheese.
Goodness, how delicious!
Eating Trader cheese.

enjoy your cake slice, chefguy!

i am watching the katmai bear cam. salmon are jumping and not a bear in sight at the falls. they must be hanging out at other parts of the area.

The 4.5-hour meeting wound up lasting only 2 hours! :tada: I’m back at my cubicle now. I could have worn headphones for that long and stayed at my desk, but no one cared that I used the empty office for a few hours. At COB yesterday I was facing 6.5 hours of solid virtual meetings today, but meetings around here tend to be like the staircases in the Hogwarts dormitory.

The only downside to the meeting ending early is that now I have to actually find stuff to do until it’s time to go home… :grin:

I know what you mean: when I joined in July 2004 I was a junior tech writer, my cat and my mother were both still alive, I was about to start grad school, I’d been living in Virginia for only six years, and I’d just moved into my first townhouse (after a decade in apartments). And I was all of 32! That all feels like forever ago!

I wanted a breakfast burrito this morning. Unfortunately, I broke the yolk. So I had to have two eggs in it.

Texting with a guy who can move my stuff from Ferndale to Birch Bay, maybe on Saturday. I’ve got a unit here waiting for me (as I said, for $80 less than my existing 8x14 unit). I needed the Declaration page from my homeowner’s insurance to show them. That was a chore…

I called Safeco’s number and opted for Homeowner’s Insurance. I was asked if I’m over 50. Press one or two. I pressed one. I was offered a Free Gift™! A medic-alert thingy. I was transferred to an agent who launched into her sales spiel. I tried to stop her, but she wouldn’t let go of the script so I hung up on her. I called back, this time pressing 2. I said, ‘Don’t start your sales spiel. I’m calling about homeowner’s insurance.’ She launched into her sales spiel. When she finally shut up, I told her I’m calling about homeowner’s insurance. She said that they have nothing to do with homeowner’s insurance. So I hung up on her when she started up again, and tried calling again. This time I didn’t press any buttons. I finally reached a person. He emailed me what I need and… it turns out that what I need is the two pages I already had, and from which I got their phone number.

Anyway, I’m off to the new storage place, and then back here to dig up molehills.

Pilot, we’ll use Navigator on this cruise but the rugs would still be nice. Princess has an app and a gazillion screens all over the place, but rugs would still be nice… :grin: Tho it shouldn’t really matter, should it? Vacation and all, yanno.

I picked up the last of FCD’s meds refills, so one less thing. Polish sausage for supper, so one more less thing. Tomorrow, we’ll get rid of all trash and recycling. Nothing else planned.

Hello, folkses. Today, I slogged through the usual NYT games and puzzles. I did the Atlantic crossword, and after 3 days of trying, I solved their Brackets game, today. I’m not getting cocky, though. It’ll probably leave me scratching my head tomorrow.

It’s hawt out, or so they tell me. Local radio is notifying of cooling stations for those who must be outside. We have a guy coming to install a new storm door today. That’ll be aard vark, but at least we’re not sending him up to put in our new attic fan. That would be cruel. I hope we can save that for a cooler day.

The other day, we saw a surveyor doing his transit thing at the end of the street, where they’re fixing to put seven new lots where there are now trees.

VanGo, enjoy the LP! I hope you brought a turntable. (Antique hi-fi humor.)

FCMom, considering how often I check my watch and phone to see what day it is, maybe I should get day-of-the-week rugs here.

We’re down to our last jigsaw puzzle, the “mystery gift” puzzle we got for ordering 4 from Springbok. It really was a mystery for a few days, as it came with no pic of the finished puzzle. Then, with part of it done, Mrs. Nott could spot it in the Springbok website. It’s called “Flower Shop Feline,” and she printed a picture of it. She’s been grumping about the Springbok puzzles being too tricky. I don’t know the difference, being rather new at this.

Catch you later.

At this time of year they’re usually stuffing themselves on berries and grubs, but the salmon runs are starting up.

I never have all that much to say, as my life is pretty boring. I suppose I could wax philosophic, but I don’t like hate mail.

New storage unit obtained. Got a 10% veterans’ discount on the rent. CWO2 Wifey (who is also authorised for the unit) texted me a picture of her VA card. :slight_smile:

chefguy,

walker got 10 salmon in a row.

chunk has an injured jaw and shoulder and is taking care not to engage.

the salmon are crazy plentiful so far. near 50k!

now i’m trying to decide should i have french toast or salmon on friday…

It’s been a nice chill day today. The Thunder had their championship parade this morning and it’s been A Big Deal for the city. Tons of businesses closed and my office let people work from home if they were going to watch the parade - I imagine the amount of streaming could have taken down the office’s internet, particularly troublesome for those actually trying to get something done.

I’ve never seen a sportsball parade before so I’ve nothing to compare it to but I found it entertaining. The players spent the first five minutes in open-air buses before getting out and walking the rest of the route to interact with the fans. Tons of people and they were all very excited and worked up. My sister went down to the parade about 3 hours before it started and they had to park about a mile away. She said there were people posted up with lawn chairs and little charcoal grills. Talk about some serious commitment!

JtC I’m glad you didn’t get taken in by Aspen Dental - they’re well known as crooks around here too. It’s gotten to where I don’t know of any chain dental offices that aren’t scammy.

sticky buns Good luck! Sounds like it could be a good job!

BBBoo That sounds like about the only acceptable reason to be late having your first coffee…

Happy Doperversary cookie!

I think it’s becoming a thing, all of the resorts I’ve stayed at have had signs on the doors giving the day and date.

Thanks all for the reassurance, I’m just fine with the whole thing, Hubs is the one who will pass out if he sees the needle. There aren’t any traveling vets out here, and I hadn’t thought about a farm vet, but that’s a great idea.

Today we went to Lowes and bought a furniture dolly. I can put their carrier on the dolly and roll them up the ramp. (I can still lift and move 40 lbs, but I have to be able to hold it close to my body. Their carrier is just too big and awkward for that.)

That’s a better way to wake up than coffee any day of the week!

I wouldn’t have looked in the tank for the valve, but I would have to see if the innards were all where they were supposed to be.

How very odd.

Poor Sadie, so much fuss and bother when she is trying to nap!

Poor lil lady. I’ll bet that is so embarrassing because she’s a good dog who doesn’t poop in the house.

Sounds pretty infuriating, but hopefully the peaches made up for it.

Happy Doperversary, chefguy! It’s so good that you are here!

Do you have a windshield screen? They really do help to keep the heat out. Also, leave the windows down at least an inch.

:rofl:

I’m really hoping this happens! You deserve a job you enjoy and pleasant co-workers.

I’m enjoying hearing about your travels, dang about the loud ladies.

Because nobody else is as CDO as I am!

Drudgery is different for other people as well. I enjoy cooking. I enjoy the entire process from shopping to plating the final produce. I make good food that looks pretty. I spend the time to make salami roses or use a melon baller instead of just chunking it up for snacking. Many people have told me that radishes that haven’t been cut into curlycues taste just as good as the ones I serve and all I have to say to that is “pretty food tastes better!”

I wonder if there is anywhere close for you got get blasting supplies.

Sad, but you can’t stop the money.

That’s pretty much how I feel as well.

All of the people I heard complaining about Aspen were back in AZ, it looks like the service is bad country wide.

I’ve got an appointment with a local dentist that comes highly recommended as long as you understand it will be at least a month between appointments.

Besides going to Lowes, we took the back roads to the middle of Harts. Such lovely country, I sure do wish we were young enough to live back in a holler. We ended up at a local meat processing company that sells onsite.

Their prices were much better than the grocery stores and we know where the meat comes from which is nice. Bacon was 5.99 a lb and all of the meat was vacuum sealed in clear plastic so we could see all the sides.

One of the owners is dabbling in cheese making so we also got some Colby cheese, sweet butter and garlic butter.

We walked out with several bags of meat and dairy products for less than 60 bucks. If the meat proves to taste as good as it looks, we will be getting all of our meat there from now own. We will have to remember to stock up before winter because when those roads freeze, they aren’t going to melt off and I doubt that road has ever seen a county snow plow.

On our way out, we stopped at my favorite patisserie where I was dismayed to learn that instead of putting our choices together in a box, they now put them into individual plastic containers. That didn’t stop me from buying a treat, though. I might be a tree-hugger, but I am also kinda spineless in the face of a chocolate cream horn.

Are almond, soy and oat milks on the lower decks?

And I’m enough of a folk music geek to have sung that one. :stuck_out_tongue:

I got a couple of boxes from the studio packed today. Things are coming along nicely. I am going to look for about five of the plastic totes with hinged lids and a couple of milk crates (those I can get at DG if needed) for paper pads in my studio.

Now for chillage.

I just saw a bunch of large hinge-topped storage boxes at CostCo.

Feeling better this eve. Immodium is a life saver and a staple of my life.
Just washed my hair and planning on reading Us magazine. The main story is Tom Cruise but hes never been an interest of mine.

Howdy Y’all! What with laundry, quality cee-mint pond time, and the makeage of sup, I have had a busy day! I barely had time to squeeze in nappage and day drinkin’, but I persevered and managed to make time. It’s hard to be productive when one mustn’t neglect one’s RDOS responsibilities.

Cookie happy doperversary!

I pulled up most of the remaining viburnum, leaving only one low shrub. There’s so little of it, it’s more like a shr. We bought three small Hidecote lilacs, and I’ll plant them out in that spot tomorrow.

I’ve been getting back to my novel by lightly editing the first draft, which is chapters 0 (introduction) through 9. Call is draft 1.5. I’m through 6 chapters; 4 to go; an taking notes on the next, as-yet unwritten chapter. My shoulders are a bit sore.

HVAC is supposed to make the repair tomorrow. Then I’ll have more control over my air–The very air, I say!–and might suffer the high pollen a lot less.