yaaaaawn
So tired. Need coffee. And I went to bed at 11:30 last night, which is relatively early for me. I guess my body still needs more catch-up sleep to make up for what was lost over this past weekend. Bleh. Off to work.
Mandy is missing that internal self-editing feature that we humans lack. I guess she skipped that day when they covered that in her training sessions to observe this world.
If you were living in England, this would mean something completely different.
Sean, would you mind beating Mandy over the head with a club for me? I still can’t believe she did that to that poor dog.
Morning, everyone. It’s grocery shopping and Healthy-Lunch-Out-With-Mum day, wherein she tells me all of our family horror stories about childbirth and pregnancy.
I think maybe I’ve stolen all the sleep in the MMP. Sorry about that. I’ve been sleeping lots.
So, what do we want to eat for the next two weeks? I’m thinking stew, pasta, and maybe chicken pot pie. I might do black bean soup. We’re just about out of my last make-and-freeze binge.
Ahh. That’s better. Sweet, sweet caffeine. And they had proper cream this morning too, so apart from the lingering desire to go find a secluded spot and sleep for several more hours, all is as it should be.
Okay, except for my cell phone. I’m really beginning to regret buying this Treo 680. I mean, I like it – better functionality than the 650, nice form factor, feels good in the hand, and they ditched that chubby antenna, which appeals to my sense of aesthetics. To get that form factor they reduced the battery to a skimpy (but pleasingly svelte) 1100mAh model, which, for a smartphone, isn’t very much juice at all. However, to make matters worse, there appears to be some kind of hardware or OS bug that occasionally (actually more than half the time) drains the living bajeezus out of the battery. Left out of the cradle overnight – say, from midnight to about 7am, it’ll lose about half its charge. And it isn’t the battery – loads of people with 680s have reported the same thing, and I don’t know if anyone has come up with a viable solution. Lately though it seems to have gotten worse. Fully charged at 11:00pm last night, I took it off the cradle and put it on the night stand. On waking up this morning, it was down to 44%(!). Once over the weekend, it drained to 20%(!!) after about 10 hours off the cradle.
Christ on a biscuit, Palm – get your shit right and fix it! My wife’s 650 (which was mine before I got the 680) has never had a problem. Not one. But that’s because it was still the real PalmOS. Now that Palm have had to license their own OS back off of Access, whom they sold it to, it’s been buggy. Grrr…
You know, either technology is getting crappier, or I’m experiencing a period of bad juju.
LiLi - You are overdrawn at the sleep bank. Please remit the outstanding balance by Friday, if you would. Present sleep-deprived company appreciates your prompt attention to this matter.
Alright, I KIND OF skimmed through all this since yesterday morning, but no way am I in position to comment or anything meaningful, so I’ll just wave for now.
::waves::
I have a ton of just writing to do today, so I’m going to get cracking and get this all nailed.
I’m up, caffeinated, and my back hurts.
::waves at MBG::
FCM, maybe Miss Brandy set the clock ahead to play mind games with you. And if swampy ever end up nekkid in your bed, I’m sure your virtue is safe.
Mork: technology sure doesn’t seem to like you lately. It’s actually kind of frightening at how many tech. issues that have popped up.
Sean: Mandy does seem to be a bit off in the brains and common sense dept, eh?
FCM: That was quite an odd coincidence. Are you sure your cats haven’t figured out how to program the tv?
BooFae, I’m going to have that fun bit of soreness in a couple of weeks when I start exercising regularly again; having a dog to walk is going to help, but man, I already know I’m in for some sore muscles once I start working on that.
I went to the doctor yesterday to get paper 'scripts written, and when I got there, the air conditioning had been off for several hours. It was 87 degrees in the waiting room with the doors open and lights off, and I felt really bad for the nurses and doctors having to deal with that, as I was feeling a bit stifled after five minutes. Luckily enough, about five minutes before I leave, the a/c is fixed and working on cooling down the office. At least they had two and a half hours of cooling down the office before they left for the day. Of course, the heat was made worse by there being a semi-nearby bit of brush fire that was increasing the temperature and adding smoke and ash to the air. I’m going to have to wash my car after I move in two weeks 'cause it’s already being confetti’d by lawn clippings, dirt, dust, and now ashes; I’ll add “random bugs” to the list before I’m settled in my new home. Sheesh. Why is it that when we’re in a drought period, everything conspires to make my car look old, junky, and dirty?
Now I know who swiped my sleep -** LiLi**, give it back! I went to bed at 3, woke up at 5, again at 6 and was up at 8:30. I see a nap in my future…
Latest entry in the Mother of the Year sweepstakes: there have been a bunch of home invasion robberies targeting Hispanics here lately. Mostly the guys were just beaten and robbed, but during the latest one two guys were killed. Three young black men, ages 15,17 and 20, have been arrested and charged with murder in the latest and are being investigated with regards to some of the others. Sunday the 38-year-old mother of two of the suspects was arrested for driving the getaway car in some of the prior robberies (not the one when the murder occured). Kinda gives a whole new meaning to “spending time with the kids”, doesn’t it? I don’t want the illegals here (and there are a lot of them here) but I don’t want them robbed and murdered either.
Well, now that LiLi is going to be otherwise occupied looking after herself, we’ll need someone to take on the bellydancing classes and report back to us on how it goes. You up for that?
Do bellydance exercise videos in my living room count?
Who says you can’t bellydance when you’re preggers? I can’t see it doing a lot of harm, but then again, I’ve never been pregnant.
I don’t know whether you could do it whilst pregnant or not, just maybe some of those moves she describes might be a bit uncomfortable…unless she’s planning that as something Mr Lissar’s going to do for her. Now that would be fun!
In the local news this past weekend, a composite of a kid was released following an armed robbery in Newport News. His mom saw it, knocked him around a bit, and then she drove him to the police station herself and handed him over.
I say she gets MOTY for all of the right reasons.
Howdy Y’all! Just checkin’ in. I’ve been kinda busy this morning. Whilst I was purtyfyin’, I decided the bathroom was yuck and needed a good cleanin’, so I scrubbed away. It’s now all bright, shiny and clean!
Off to take care of some job stuff.
Later.
Hi, everybody. <yawn> I woke up at a reasonable hour this morning, but it was so lovely and cool in my bedroom, with the windows open and the fan going and a lovely light breeze blowing in, I figured I’d doze for a few minutes more before getting up since I don’t have anything pressing to do today. Then I woke up two hours later. :smack:
However, in my defense, I think I’m finally catching up on undrugged and actually restful sleep – for the first month after my surgery I was drugged enough that I don’t think I ever slept deeply, and since then my knee has often been so achy that I’ve tossed and turned a lot. So the last few of nights I’ve really been sleeping soundly and restfully. So I’m afraid I’ve stolen a bit of your sleep, too, Mork, sorry!
Off to do something constructive. Or caffeinate some more first. Or something.
*
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood,
A beautiful day for a neighbor,
Would you be mine,
Could you be mine,
Won’t you be my neighbor?*
I have a terrible case of spring fever. It’s finally warm enough for my tastes (high 80s) and sunny. I want a vacation. I wanna go to the beach. I don’t want to work anymore. WAAAAAHHHH! There. I’m done.
Somebody fill me in why everyone calls mindi Mork. I musta missed that one.
li-li, hmmmm, you think pregnancy might be curing your insomnia? Make the most of it while you can.
gt, thanks. I know you mean that in the nicest way. 
Poor Scruffy. I’m glad she’s gonna be okay, fcm.
Off to do some work.
Tupug
Puggy - As I recall, it was generally agreed that “Mindy” sounded rather feminine, which is a little discomfiting to the male ego, so it was felt that the only proper male counterpart to one named “Mindy” is “Mork.” Nanu-nanu.
Tigs - You’re okay. You need the rest, now that what you’re getting isn’t drug-induced and actually performs its proper function. I expect LiLi will need it soon too, once the wee zygote starts renovating and making additions to its living quarters, but for now her loan is still past due. 
Swampy - See, now that’s an activity you can do nekkid.
Just sayin’.
Bobbio - Y’know, it strikes me as depressingly rare that a mother will actually turn her own kid in for the punishment he/she earned. That whole mother hen, I’ll-deal-with-this-myself urge seems to kick in far more often, and that usually turns out not to be any justice at all. Good on the mother for doing the right thing right from the get go.
Tashii - Being that I refuse to accept that technology is snickering up its sleeve at me, I am going to chalk it up to an unusually active season of solar CMEs and leave it at that.
Mindude/Mork the way I see it, the use of certain cleaning agents warrant the coverin’ up of ummm… essential body parts whilst bathroom cleaning. Thus, I cleaned in my drawers. The ones with the snap in front 
Puggy according to what I read in the Albeeeny Herald (Motto: We don’t need no stinkin’ proofreaders!) this morning, the fire in and around the swamp is now mostly contained though some fires have broken out on the other side of the swamp but don’t seem to be as serious. If’n we don’t get some rain soon, all of south Jawja’s goin’ up in smoke I fear. :eek:
Ok, job stuff done. I think this deserves some pool time as a reward.
Okay. I’m sure it could be anything that’s making your technology go wonky, as I barely understand a good bit of what goes into making these things work efficiently. At least your last tech-wonky post was not written in Aramaic and I could grok what’s going on. :smack: I swear that I must be smart enough to get it, but I just haven’t worked on it.
By the way, I’ve always wanted goofy rainbow suspenders because of Mork and Mindy.
I completely forgot to mention that things are getting crazier in my family at the moment. My older brother has been trying to sell his house since January, and he thinks he might have it sold soon. If this goes through, he’s gotta have all the stuff out of there by the end of the month when the papers get signed. This would mean that my SIL, her mom, my brother, and a friend who’d be helping them move would descend upon the house with the aim to get everything moved within less than a week of my moving three hours away. It’s going to be a crazy month for my mom, between me moving, her meeting my future in-laws, and helping her younger son get packed up and out of the state. :eek:
Off to work. I found this article on Fark. swampy, you got some 'splaining to do.
I’m sorry about your fall, but I’m glad to hear that someone else uses the phrase “ass over tea kettle.” **KeithT **heard me use it on the weekend and thought I was crazy!
I’ve always been afraid of acorns hitting me in the head. They’re much smaller than walnuts. I can’t imagine having walnuts falling towards your head! :eek:
Hope surgery/chemo goes well for your mom, gotti.
Back to work!