Sure! I don’t think the hoards of coworkers have eaten them all yet. :: shoves one through the drive ::
Just had lunch out with friends, including the one who’s leaving at the end of the week. It’s really nice out and I sooooooooo didn’t want to come back to work. Why can’t I just be fabulously wealthy so I don’t have to work??
Meltdown has occurred and Daughter feels much better. She is canceling her participation in a half marathon (3 days before we fly out) and IMO, she feels much better after crying about saying goodbye to all her friends. I feel better, too. I didn’t cry, but one less thing is on her plate and 2 of her boxes are en route to MA.
Called the village again to report the sewage in the front yard. They claim they didn’t get the message. :rolleyes: It’s not a big place: if somehow I leave the VM in the right place, wouldn’t someone in the village hall, oh, I don’t know, call that person and say, Chuck–you’ve got a message here about raw sewage?
Apparently not.
Have left elbow now wrapped as I keep bumping it and it hurts like a mother. Really can’t type well, so buh-bye for now.
Fay is over Key West and there are no birds chirping outside. Are they hunkering down??? Spooky! :eek:
MMmmph. I’m in full mid-afternoon slump. I’m also working on what I’ve officially deemed The Most Boring Task Ever (which should have been assigned to a trained monkey, except we don’t have one on staff). It’s getting really hard not to fall asleep at my desk right now.
I’ve resorted to blasting jungle music through my earphones, but it’s not working very well. Apparently, my brain is now interpreting loud repetitive bass as a lullaby.
So, if anyone needs me, I’m gonna be under my desk taking a nap. ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Inspired by Nooner… I finally uploaded some Bar Mitzvah pictures onto my Flikr page:
Tupug- creepy and we’re keeping our fingers crossed.
Stay safe Puggy and anybody else down Flahrdy way!
BBBobbio gt is keeper of the schedule.
I’ve had enough of work type stuff for the day.
That is all.
The public works guy called back. They came to look at the problem and it’s NOT the buffalo box OR the clean out! It’s a water main break.
I know that’s a weird thing to be happy about, but I am soooo glad to NOT have an expensive plumber’s bill right now.
Carry on.
Had a nice time with Friend From Work, who caught me up on all the recent gossip. We went out for gelato and walked along the beach a bit. I’ve been all productive today and I think I’ll take a short nap until Mr. Lissar gets home.
:crawls under Muppet’s desk:
Zzzzzzzzzz
You folks in Fay’s way, hunker down and stay dry, please! I’m sure she won’t be bad enough to cause major problems, but it’s still no fun getting a big storm like that. There’s a difference between “We need 6” of rain" and “We need 6” of rain in the next two hours," too, which apparently Mother Nature hasn’t fully grasped yet. 
Great bar mitzvah photos, Soapy! It looks like the kids were having a lot of fun. What were they doing with all those clothespins, anyway? They haven’t played that game at the bar mitzvahs I’ve been to.
Argh. What happens when I complain that I have a case of the Mondays and I don’t want to do anything? I get socked with a super-rush job that’s not only due half an hour ago, but is possibly the most dense scientific stuff I’ve had to deal with in many, many years. A joint DOJ/FBI roundtable with members from the scientific press about the science involved in the anthrax investigation, to be precise. Frankly, if I don’t see the word “polymorphisms” again for 25 years, it still will be too soon. :rolleyes: So I am now not only not motivated and Mondaying, but I am seriously cranky to boot. Is it bedtime yet?
That would be gt.
I survived Monday. That’s all I’ve got to share. I need a good night’s sleep - still.
<sigh>
Yay on no plumber bill.
Nice pics.
Boo on anthrax-related transcription.
I think I’m caught up. I wanna go home. But I’m waiting for some stuff to finish. Why does it always slow down when it’s time to go?
Well, that was weird. After sketty supper, I went downstairs to sand the mud in the closet. I was almost done, when suddenly my head felt like it weighed a ton and I had a terrible pain at the top of my spine into my skull, plus a screaming headache at the temples. I have no idea what I did, but I had to sit down, and I knew I couldn’t do anything else today. I tried standing under a hot shower, but I hate just standing under running water. So they’re still working and I’m sitting. I took a handful of ibuprofen, so we’ll see how that goes.
Grrrrrr. I wanted to get the closet done today. That ain’t gonna happen.
Daughter went to her school today and scoped out her classroom. She’s already got an email address and she’s on the website. She hasn’t even signed a contract yet!
SIL went to the college and was able to get in and take the placement tests. He need pre-algebra. Lucky for him, he’s living with 3 algebra whizzes!
My head hurts. I don’t think even medicinal ice cream will help. 
Actually, there was one fun thing that happened in the anthrax job. The reporter is a terrific guy – he makes great recordings, takes a really good record, does everything right except for one thing: He can’t spell. Which is not a difficulty since I learned many, many years ago to never trust reporters’ spelling anyway. Especially when they’re sitting in a room somewhere, while I’m here with Google at my beck and call. 
Anyway, he made a list of spellings of various technical terms and proper names that were used during the hearing. He came up with one that is possibly my second favorite ever in the 22 years I’ve been doing this.
The name of the anthrax strain? Bacillus anthracis.
What he put on his spelling list? Bacillisan Racist.
Hey, it was phonetic! It reminded me of my permanent, all-time favorite that happened many years ago at the first firm I worked for in Texas, where one of the transcribers ran into a word she’d never heard before: entrepreneurial. So she came up with her phonetic version: intrepid oriole.
Sometimes the laughs are just handed to me on a silver platter.
One day down, and in an odd way! I’ve had this virus, probably similar to what MaMa and PaPa Tigs have been suffering from for almost the same length of time as well, and today around noon I just all of a sudden felt really ill - like I was going to throw up. I didn’t want to get sick at work, so I called home and asked if someone could come and pick me up, which they did. chuckle It took about an hour for them to get there though! That’s okay, I just packed up my desk, powered down my computer and turned out my lights, and then went downstairs to wait. I did experience several queasy moments, but never did throw up (fortunately!). Once home, I had a bowl of Progresso chicken soup and then napped. I’m getting ready to take some more ibuprofin and head back to bed. Whatever this virus is, it’s not only tenacious but very nasty too.
Rigs, I fell from my bike onto a gravel pit way back; I still have gravel in my left knee. I hope you’re not as sore today.
I wanna go on Dotty’s vacation too! LOL I’m sure that her hubby and HRH wouldn’t appreciate me being there, though.
And finally, FCM, please take it easy! Hugs and get well thoughts being sent your way.
I am full of GRRR juice.
Last wednesday
Power goes out at around 4:45pm. I get home and have to wait 'til about 7:15 before it’s restored before I can make dinner.
Yesterday
Owing to various events of the day conspiring to deprive us of food, we don’t get to eat 'til late. I had started a nice pot roast around noonish – a very nice cut of Angus cow flesh. Cut up potatoes, carrots and celery dump it into the crock pot, fill to the top of the meat with water, add some nice spices, and let stew for the next 10 hours. Around the time it was ready, I boiled and whipped some N.O.T., poured off most of the juice from the roast and make a nice robust gravy. (I couldn’t for the life of me find a store that had any Veloutine, so I had to use corn starch to thicken.)
I carved the roast and dished out the veggies from the roast and the whipped N.O.T.. It was just around 10:45pm by this point. (A very late dinner.) Just as I was about to ladle out the gravy, the frickin’ power goes out!
We lit some candles and had a very dim candlelight dinner – which was kind of nice in its own way, even if we couldn’t properly see what we were eating, much less what to do with the remains when we were done.
And then when we were done we found there wasn’t much left to do in the dark. (We’d already done the one enjoyable thing that doesn’t require lighting before dinner…) We surved a bit on our iPhones, but didn’t want to drain the batteries completely. Eventually we decided to just turn in.
The power came back on about 1:45am. At first it was rather bizarre, because the power was only kind of half back. Lights were on, but very dim, maybe at 1/3 power. One of our clock radios was flickering spastically. Because it was hot I turned on a fan. It was turning just enough to feel a gentle breeze, provided I was standing with my face in the grille. It came back full strength five minutes later.
Tonight
Power goes out at around 4:45pm. Fortunatly we’d already planned on a dinner of cold sandwiches with a bit of marinated eggplant and jumbo stuffed olives on the side, so we didn’t need to cook anything. The power came back around 7:45pm.
And off at 7:47 for about one second before returning again.
The toilet had a siezure as the building’s water pumps shoved massive amounts of water around the apartment complex, building up pressure – which meant that any open egress the water could find was treated to a highly pressurized blast. Like my toilet, which had already been flushed but, until that point, didn’t have any water pressure with which to refill itself, and was now doing so double time. It would have been fine had the clip that held the refill spout to the fill tube not been blown off with the sudden arrival of pressurized water, so now it was spraying that water all over the tank lid and out any cracks in said lid where water could leak. This resulted in a minor leak on the bathroom floor. Fortunately, we had a large towel to soak it up.
I don’t know what the hell is going on with this area, but clearly there are some transformers or something that tried to organize a group strike. The four buildings in my immediate complex, plus a bunch of stores on the other side of the ball I live behind, plus two sets of street lights were taken out while the hydro company … did … whatever it is they do when whatever the hell happened happens.
I couldn’t go for coffee when I came home because Tim Hortons is one of the stores effected by the outage. (The mall itself appears to be on another grid.) Now that the power is back on, it’s raining.
I’m going to go hide under the bed for a while.
Would a Bacillisan Racist be a very bad person who lives in The Vatican?
Men’s night was very enjoyable. Hmmmm… that could be taken any number of ways… Anywho, we had steaks, garlic smashed N.O.T., biscuits and sallit. NUM!!! Oh and beerverages.
MOOOOOOM you take it easy! That sounds scary! :eek:
Rigs I understand. Yeah, it’s a gross thing, but it’s a gross thing you don’t have to pay for.
Mindude all I can say is just daaaaaaaaaay-ummmmmmmmm!!! Hope the problem is figured out soon.
I finally took full advantage of DVD technology. I set my copy of Clue to pick a random ending for me for the first time ever. Mrs. Peacock killed everyone.
I’ve just about memorized that movie, I’ve seen it so many times. I love it.
Thanks for the help, Bus Guy! Though you didn’t have to be so thorough, jeeeze.
I made a giant pot of homemade delicious soup. It’s just “delicious” soup. It started off as maybe being chicken noodle, but I was out of noodles and had already started cooking up the pieces of chicken in olive oil. So I added a clove of pressed garlic, half an onion, chopped up some eggplant, cut baby carrots in half, then poured a whole box of low sodium chicken broth over the whole thing. Feeling inspired, I threw in some cut up yam and threw it in, added frozen corn, and soybeans. Some of my fresh spices were looking not so fresh anymore due to my fridge being on the fritz, so I added a packet of Knorr vegetable soup mix. Now we’re cooking! Then I added half a can of petite diced tomatoes. Simmered the whole she-bang for half an hour and now I’m eating it.
And it’s pretty good!
Bobbio has successfully PM’d me and been added to the official schedule. We’re full up all the way through September!
That sounds like no fun at all, Mork.
The rescue stories are impressive as usual, Bobbio. I really admire your willingness and ability to serve.
Both of those transcriptions are PRICELESS, MT.
Don’t think I didn’t see that, doggio. :dubious: 
Oh, goody, it’s the Olympics and they’re showing - everyone act surprised, now - beach volleyball. I hear it’s going to be named our national sport next week. :rolleyes: It’s actually quite fun to watch in person, but I don’t like how it translates to TV. They keep focusing on Misty May, and make it look like she’s coughing up a lung. If she and her partner (whose name I can never remember) lose, we’ll all know why. Very pleasant, I have to say. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: I’m watching it with the sound off because I can’t bear to hear the announcers and the commercials mostly make me crazy.
I’ve never seen Clue. Guess I should consider it.
Went to see The Mummy 3 after work today. My friend and I had been meaning to see it since it came out. We went to the downtown theater and were the only ones in the theater. (They have it in one of their smallest auditoriums; it only seats about 50.) Really thought it was fun - better than the latest Indiana Jones, I think.
Now I’m lounging, not watching beach volleyball and surfing a bit. And eating some of the cherries I bought yesterday. I think this is the last batch I’ll buy. They’re just past their peak, I think. There are a few bruised/cut cherries in this bag. I even found one that was trying to get moldy.
Guess I’ll go see what else is happening on the Web.
Hope all the sickies are feeling better…
GT
I like that movie, too, although it’s been awhile since I’ve seen it.
Today has been a very long day. I’m glad that it’s almost bedtime. I started working on reconciling my business checking account, but gave up when I was done and it said it was off by $4000!
I hope you’re feeling ok, FCM!