Today’s Tom Kitten’s 9 month birthday. Nine months ago I said, “Darling, I think my vision’s a little blurry. I think we should call the midwife.”, and Thomas was born about six hours later.
My new great-nephew is in the hospital again. 5 months old and can’t keep food down, losing weight instead of gaining it. He’s been under a Peds GI specialist since he was a month old. Finally, have months of try this and check back in a month", they’ve decided to do something. He’ll probably get a feeding tube inserted tomorrow.
**Congrats, BBBBobbio!!
doggio** - Tell your car Merry Christmas for me. Just keep chanting 200K, 200K!
New job’s going well. It’s strange to actually be busy at work. No time to play on the Dope.
Christmas is coming whether I’m ready or not. Funny how that happens.
Germy prayers and good thoughts headed out to great nephew. Poor baby!
NOTE TO SELF:
Christmas at doggio’s place could be interestin’.
The Agape Supper was wunnerful! Lots of good food. Interestin’ takes on “Middle Eastern” food. Ok, smoked venison definitely is not what one would have expected 1st century Christians to have eaten but, as I pointed out, 1st century South Jawjans probably would have eaten venison. There was stuff like hummus, couscous, lamb, goat cheese, and fruit stuffs that would qualify. All in all a good time. Plus wine. There was wine in the 1st century Middle East definitely.
(I just noticed the time and think I’m late, but maybe I can squeak by in Taxi’s time zone?! puppy dog eyes Sorry!)
Congrats, BBBBBobbio! Sorry about your cast, MBG - been there and done that! I think the monster looks great, LiLi and especially like the idea of the septimus! LOL
I need to toddle off to bed … one more day of work this week. Still planning my Christmas meals–Christmas Eve is probably going to be seafood, Christmas day probably roast beef. I think I might attempt scalloped potatoes to go with the roast beef. I’m also going to make my jell-o salad.
I said you could not have lunch without morning, I did not say you had to be vertical through the morning in order to have lunch. Littlebro eventually had to learn that if you roll out of bed at 1pm, it makes more sense to get lunch than milk’n’cookies.
In other news:
AAAARGH! THE SUN! THE SUN! Well, ok, “Lorenzo” had been missing in action and it’s nice of him to come back, but sweet Baby Jesus on a rocking horse, did it have to be shining directly into my eyes? I’m glad I had a baseball cap around, it’s making it possible for me to see.
CONGRATULASHONS [SIZE=“3”]and WISHES FOR CONTINUED HAPPINESS
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Up early. Nat had nightmares and then got up early and came to our bed, and then we had these repeated conversations about “It’s not morning yet”, and “DO NOT PLAY THE TOY PIANO WHEN THE BABY IS SLEEPING” and “TURN OFF THAT LIGHT!!!”
I think there’s only going to be two of us in the office tomorrow, and four on monday, and two Tu-Th, and only me next friday. I guess I have no business sense, but if it was me, I would have asked those few people whether they wouldn’t rather have the day off (I know at least one of the other people still has vacation days left, she’s been told there has to be someone from the team in, but kick me if I understand what for).
One of the problems with having six people giving instructions on how to do one single task is that, since they haven’t bothered talk to each other, the collective Them does not like whatever we do to fix the thing that one of them made us do to fix what another one had required us to do to fix… bleagh!
Lunchtime is here. That’s good, because I’m about starving (under the first world definition thereof).
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. ‘Tis chilly out but not too bad. At least it’s above freezin’.
Plans for today include, well, not much. At some point I shall pack for the trip up to ye olde home towne but that ain’t an ordeal. I’m takin’ twuck due to the better gas mileage so I should maybe just go ahead and gas up. Other than that it’s pretty much a day of sloth.
LiLi if’n I didn’t know better, I’d say your post sounded (read) just like somebody who’s a parent of a just out of toddler stage little boy.
Blurf. Awoke at 0330, when my alarm was set for 0459.
Gotta go pay the surgeon the $175 copay for VWife’s shoulder job Monday, or the surgery is off. Of course, payday is tomorrow, the office is closed tomorrow for the legal holiday. I’m down to writing a check on funds that don’t exist until midnight tonight. :grrrr:
Brought in a box so I have it available to clean out my desk. I haven’t figured out if I’m overjoyed or depressed by this.
I have a bottle od champagne in the fridge that’s been there 2 years. I think I’ll drain it NYE, and get good and snockered.
Whaddya know? It worked! Thanks! There is a documented issue/bug/feature that I read about, though.
Good morning, Mumpers. Today there shall be housecleaning and a little more shopping. It seems we are invited to a White Elephant Happy Hour Party at our neighborhood bar. Mr Rebo has his present picked out already. A gift our dear Swampy would truly appreciate. Two 9-packs of Charmin! I’m thinking of a fruitcake, or Spam, maybe a calendar. Any ideas for under $10?
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Actually, I’ve already gotten him a present; a desk-top trebuchet, it’s #3 on the list. Now if only I could find a bag of Halloween pumpkin candies for ammo…
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Guess you got the last one as they’re showing as not available. I’ve got the same one, oddly enough.
About the LG stove - we ordered one from Sears and with some sort of black magic, it went from being in-store and ready for pickup (even had an assigned pickup bin location) to out of stock, back-ordered from the manufacturer and presumed to be on a slow raft from Korea as the expected date was in January, even though we were in September. The department manager made us a deal on the floor model - we came out with a 3-year service plan essentially for free and have been enjoying a stove that we can actually control.
Meanwhile, I’m back among the living! My computer died on Tuesday - the hard drive was just going “tick tick tick tick urrr… tick tick tick tick tick urrr… tick tick tick tick urrr…” Oh crap. Being a good geek, I had a spare drive laying around. (What? You don’t have any extra 1TB drives?) After performing rocket surgery on the iMac, it has a new drive. The best thing is Time Machine. I boot the thing up with an OS X disc, tell it to restore with Time Machine, and it tells me to come back in about six hours. I do just that, and it’s like nothing ever happened.
