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Isn’t unpacking just dumping all the dirty clothes next to the washer?? :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Please don’t give him any ideas…

Am I missing the sarcasm here? There were 10 paid holidays, now there are 11. Frankly, I think that’s far too many. In fact, I thought that when I was still a govvie. Had I the power, President’s Day and Columbus day would immediately disappear. Thanksgiving would become a Friday or Monday - Thursday is a stoopit day for a holiday.

My proposal - Memorial day, Independence day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas stay. Feds get 4 more “floating” holidays to take as they wish. The gummint can continue to recognize whatever days they wish with speeches or decorations or whatever, but I don’t see the need to shut down everything for everybody because politics or whatever. If a person or an event is important to you, go ahead and celebrate. But just because we add a number to the year is no reason for you to get a paid day off, dammit! Stop wasting my tax dollars!!! :stuck_out_tongue:

OK, rant over.

His health insurance is thru his military retirement - the school can’t afford to insure its workers. But mostly what made him look old were those pale, bony knees exposed by the baggy shorts.

Up awaiting the arrival of my toddler charge. Hope he slept well yesterday after zoo day. Daughter texted me a couple of pics of two crashed kidlets - the weather was certainly perfect. I wish Tobias had sufficient vocabulary to tell me about the day.

Not sure what we’ll do - I have some laundry that needs laundering. Or I could maybe take him to a playground. I dunno.

Happy Summer Solstice! Now the days will begin to get shorter. Dammit.

And Happy Tuesday!

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This was dinner tonight. I’m trying to learn how to cook.

I bought a mix of chicken bones and such from a butcher who gets it wholesale and made stock from that in the afternoon.

Used chicken thigh meat (most meat comes boneless here, which is very disappointing because I’m used to making sparerib soup) and vegetables, with a variety of spices and added that to the stock.

The kids liked it!

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 72 Amurrkin out and N.O.S. with a predicted high of 86 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. The big item on today’s agenda is laundry. Oh the thrill of it all! Beyond that there shall be the usual sloth and general overall uselessness. Sup shall be chikin enchiladas, rice, and refried beans. Fartfest to follow.

shoe this is money you deserve, so yay for you for it comin’ through. Just be happy that rotten place of business had to pay up big. Also, hooray for you and your young gentleman caller!

MOOOOOOM FCD’s handiwork is way cool. I never got a lot of those federal holidays until my last gig

.Nellie welcome back! Glad you had a good time.

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah,

Happy Tuesday Y’all!

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Do you keep them in the freezer? That’s where I keep ours as well as thyme and marjoram; they seem pretty fresh when I use them.

After I laid down with the headache yesterday, I ended up falling asleep for about 3 hours. Didn’t eat dinner until close to 10:00. Woke up at 5am with a cramp in my leg. I’ve been experiencing them about every other day for the past week or so. I’ve googled best foods with potassium. Going to make a concerted effort to buy and eat them.

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Good morning!

It’s currently 52F and lightly raining. The expected high is 61F, with a 100% chance of rain and rain showers throughout the day.

The weekend was jam-packed. I thought yesterday would be a day to catch up on some rest, but that was not the case. My son wanted to go to the plant nursery, so I bought some plants for the planter he gave me for my birthday, and he bought me a new Japanese maple tree. For now, I’m going to transfer it to a large pot. When we got home from the nursery, I organized my planter box area and planted all my new plants. After that, I did some chores while hanging out with my son, who graciously bought us dinner.

shoe, as so many others have mentioned, you have the right to feel pissed again, and you deserve the money. I will send you hugs because hugs shouldn’t come with conditions. Hell, I left the hellhole I used to work for just over four years ago, and I still get pissed about that place. I try to let it go, but when I hear the management has not improved nor changed its ways, it just angers me. People should have been fired, damn it.

nellie, I’m glad you had a great time!

Sadly, it’s back to work today, but fortunately, I only have to commute upstairs. All the same, I still didn’t want to get up for work, of all things. I don’t mind getting up early for stuff I want to do, but work is just annoying. Just sayin’.

I am hoping for a much quieter weekend this coming weekend. We’ll see how things pan out.

Okay, need to finish my coffee and finish cleaning the kitchen. Onward with the day!

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Good morning all. A comfortable night is to be followed by a mixed bag of weather, nice this morning and not getting above 80F, but a good chance of afternoon tunder-boomers, and tomorrow will be more of the same. Gym is on the agenda and maybe a quick shopping run, but not much else, so sloth will be my main activity.

shoe, glad you’ve…relaxed. Got a e-mail today from my insurance company that I am getting a check for $24.87. No idea why, but I can use the money just as well as they can, so use it with that in mind.

Cat Glove, hope leg cramp goes away (I get them rarely, but man they wake me up fast!)

Taters, happy planting.

swampy, that reminds me, need to wash my towels today (leaves this post to get them started…ok, that’s underway). Also need to do my weekly water meter check, was doing it almost daily and now trying it weekly as I have a better idea of my usage. No leak is going to sneak up on me again!

Sensei, looks pretty edible to me. And like you and shoe, I prefer to be in the hierarchy; maybe as a sub-boss for something, but not bossing/evaluating/programming work for multiple people…not my style. I can do it in a pinch or if no one else is available, but don’t care for it.

FCM, I always though 10 days holiday was just about right, my only complaint was how they were distributed, I recall there were large gaps a couple of times and year then others were the holidays seemed bunched.

suzie, don’t own a cat but i enjoyed the story.

flyboy, sorry to hear about their loss, but 22 years is like Methuselah in cat years, isn’t it?

nellie, most of my unpacking goes in the laundry or right back in the closet/shelf; no problems at all. Of course, it might take me 2-3 days to get around to it…

OK, this is the 20th of the month so need to pay off my credit cards and be about the day. Have a good 2sday all.

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G’morning, kids! My extra-long weekend wasn’t extra-long enough, I seriously thought about calling in sick this morning just to sleep in. But! I have dragged my sorry carcass in to work so as to do such exciting things as “alphabetize” and “put disc in case.” There’s a ceremony later today though, and a potluck feast, so that’ll no doubt be a pleasant and educational diversion.

Weather’s supposed to be very blustery yielding to thunderstorms this week. Normally I’m all for storms - “‘Wild nights are my glory,’ Mrs Whatsit said” - but the county fair is this weekend and I was rather looking forward to having Something To Do. I hope it doesn’t get stormed out.

Taters, having just googled Japanese maples - wow! What a gorgeous tree!

Sensei, sounds like you’re most of the way to a lovely curry! You might try coconut milk with the rest of it, that’s how I like to make it.

Moooom, we are of quite opposite dispositions - I have been hating these long days. It’s hard for me to wind down and go to sleep when it’s still light out after freakin’ 9 PM. I prefer the dark and cold… :vampire:

What an adventurous weekend, shoe! Sounds like you got what was coming to you in more ways than one…
… I’ll see myself out. But seriously, I didn’t, like… I mean, I was brought up that dating was practice for marriage. If you weren’t intending to get married, you had no business dating! So I’m only a recent arrival in the land of sex-just-cuz-it’s-nice. And ya know what? It’s nice.

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Slow day volume wise, but the really late Air helped. No more Twilight for me for a while, at least till volume picks up.

“Why wait?” - cats
But nothing wrong with being 2nd bannana. I enjoy life more not being in charge now.
And dinner looks good.

I’m more of a Scotty. Fix things and drink 100ft tall tentacled aliens under the table.

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Yeah, I forgot about the cat aspect.

Thanks about dinner!! I’m trying to learn more about cooking.

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That’s a great idea!!

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I’m a McCoy: Not in chain of command, not really supposed to hang around on the bridge, but valued for my opinions, which often come from a different perspective than the institution’s.

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I kept them in the plastic, ventilated box they came in, and put them in the vegetable drawer in the fridge. I used to just clip rosemary from the bush in the front yard, but it died. We have a couple of small plants that Mrs. L.A. picked up from Trader Joe’s growing in a pot. The supermarket rosemary came as a mixture of herbs, apparently for stuffing a chicken. So now I have those leftover.

It took three hours to drive to the orifice this morning.

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I’m in the basement, and I can smell taco meat cooking. I went upstairs. Apparently we’re having a Taco Tuesday birthday party for me and a cow-orker. They even got low-carb tortillas for me. :slight_smile: :taco: :taco: :taco:

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Took Ursala Kitteh in for her Solensia shot and nail trim. A not so pleasant aroma wafted from the carrier as we were departing. Kitty poo!

She is fine. I visited Ariel. She is fine. Getting 2 estimates on replacing my patio door. I haven’t opened it in years because I am convinced it is so rotted that it will not close.

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Thank you!!!

Weird thought, but it may help you. I’ve started using a device called “Nerivio”. It works by interrupting pain pathways. It helps somewhat with my migraines, but the interesting thing that I’ve noticed is that when I’m using it regularly my back pain drops to a barely noticeable level. It’s prescription but maybe the doc would let you try it out?

She’s a giver!

One of our cats, Boo, has resting bitch face and she sounds like she’s about to claw the heck of a person. She’s very sweet, but man she comes across as mean.

That looks delicious!

Holy moly, we sure are a chatty bunch. I’m gonna have to allot at least 2 visits a day just to catch up. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Yesterday we shanghaied the kids and spent several hours working on the garage and getting all of the cardboard and other crap out of my hallway. Now someone could walk into my house and not feel that they’re in a warehouse. Of course, my vacuum cleaner promptly broke so I was forced to use a broom, like a peasant. Humph!

I’m feeling beat. Today we get our new mattress and I get my hair done. This time it will be purple with fuchsia and periwinkle highlights. I’m looking forward to. I’m also considering buying a new hairdryer and curling iron kit from Dyson. 2 problems: it’s expenschivo and I’m not sure that I would use it very often. I don’t usually make a fuss about my hair. But the Dyson stuff is so tempting.

Other than that, life is just scooting along.

Take care and Happy Tuesday.

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Thank you, to you - and the many other voices in the chorus - that helped give me perspective. I was MAD but I didn’t know why, and that’s a :imp: feeling.

I called G.C. and we’re working on setting up an actual ferrealz date. Once he’s done with school stuff.
I didn’t disclose this weird windfall yet, but I did say, “Dude, I do not mind taking a day off. Shit’s been weird lately.”

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Just let me add: {{{{Shoe}}}}

You deserved every bit of that money. You worked hard for that place and they treated you poorly. Cash the check, walk away from them and find a better place than that for a pulled pork sandwich.

Dickey’s is like the McDonald’s of BBQ

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Even worse, the Burger King of BBQ.

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the number of paid holidays employees receive is really quite a difference between private companies and governmental units. I don’t remember how many I received my first job out of college, but my second job was for a drug store chain and we received 6 paid holidays: NY Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Day. Now that I’m thinking about it, if memory serves, I received the same number in my first job but instead of Memorial Day, we had a paid day off for Battle of Flowers Day; this was in San Antonio. I have heard that the staff in my municipality used to receive 13 paid holidays but this year they received 14 paid holidays: NY Day, MLK, Jr Day, Presidents’ Day, Good Friday, a Muslim holyday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans’ Day, Thanksgiving, Day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and NY Eve. The new one this year was the Muslim holyday. I agree that this is too many. I think that the 6 that private companies observe plus another 3 or 4 floating holidays should do it for governmental units. Since I’m currently PT, I get zero paid holidays.

Aside to FCM: you don’t think employees should get NY Day or Labor Day off?

That’s awesome. Obviously they value you. Enjoy!

I’m going to look into this for Hubs. Thanks for mentioning.

Busy day: let Bella out to potty, showered, worked, Krogered- got bananas, watermelon and coleslaw, watered garden, took Bella for walk, made sandwiches for daughter and self, filtered 3-1/2 gallons of wawa. Sometime soon need to start making dinner. Got organic ground beef out of fridge last night for hamburger/cheeseburgers, will make a skewer of bell peppers, heat up baked beans, bake a sweet tater, and make dressing for coleslaw. Hoping to have a fire tonight and make s’mores.

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I had two ‘tacos’. (‘Tacos’, because while one was taco-shaped, the Carb Balance tortillas are flour. To me that’s a burrito. The other one was burrito-shaped.) And some brisket-and-beans chili. Didn’t need the beans, but the cow-orker who made it did go to the trouble. I’d brought up one of the Monster Zero Ultras I found on my desk the day after my birthday, but our accountant brought in a case of Coronas so… :beer: Dessert was a Carvel ice cream cake from Fred Meyer’s. I blew out the blue candle, and my cow-orker blew out the pink one. I didn’t have any, but it looked tasty.

Now back to irk.