Just got back into the office after being out on the shop floor for a while. Man, it is hot. I’m all sweaty and trying not to feel gross in the office. I’m so thankful that I have this sweet office job and don’t have to be out of the shop floor all the time in this heat!
Still have another hour and a half to go. I’m working 4 10s this week so I can have Friday off to spend time with my husband’s brother and sister-in-law while they’re in town (and to get some errands done). I’m just beat.
I was hoping to see some delicious dinner ideas brewing… I’m getting hungry, but have no idea what I want for dinner tonight! (The nanny is feeding the kiddos since I’m getting home late.)
**Juliet **- my spousal unit’s first engineering job was plant engineer at a wire mill. His main project was the galvanizing line - you know - with molten zinc and lead… in Florida… in the summer… When he had to leave his office and go out on the factory floor, he was not a happy camper.
Supper was my version of chickie nuggets, with corn muffies and sliced Amish 'maters. **FCD **is back at his computer and I’m thinking about doing the dishes. I don’t think I can will them into the dishwasher, tho.
I just found out my Uncle Bob died on Friday. My sister sent me an email, but it was to an account I rarely use. He was 81 and he had a stroke last week. He didn’t want a service or anything. So that leaves my mom as the last of that generation apart from a couple of cousins. That brings my generation up to bat. Sobering thought.
I toured a Siemens Arkansas plant organized by the EEE when I was in school. They smelted aluminum to make motor frames on the factory floor and poured them. I watched a guy winding a motor, guiding wire that fed to a spindle and wrapped around the motor frame. It was 90[sup]o[/sup] and he did that all day long.
Got a good ‘soaking’ rain all morning, the kind that’s like watering the grass with a sprinkler rather than a flash flood. Managed to stay awake all this afternoon, reviewing the proposal from the remodeling contractor and trying to narrow down the color choices for the paint jobs.
Juliet, FCM, flytrap, I never had to work in a metal plant, but I remember having to store boxes in a loft and load trucks of wood finish in 90F heat in the summers…glad I was young then.
Moooomm, sorry for your loss; I think all my family on both sides that were a generation ahead are gone now, so yeah, something we can look forward too…
swampy, I think I get to choose the colors and the contractor gets the paint, so…
wet one, on the Sherwin-Williams site I am looking at SW6900 (Optomistic Yellow), SW6579 (Full Moon), SW 6911 (Confident Yellow) and SW6910 (Daisy) for the kitchen. Just think, someone has to sit around and come up with names for all these colors…
Now need to forage in my refrigerator for sustenance.
Flytrap, Metal Mouse, Moooommmm… industrial work sure sucks in the summer. I’ve worked jobs where I was out on an industrial floor all summer in the heat and it sucked. I’m so glad I have an office job now that only involves sometimes going out there. Doesn’t make going out there not suck, though. Hours later, and I still feel generally gross. Not super sweaty like I was, but still gross. I may ask the nanny to stick around for an extra 15 minutes while I take a quick shower. I feel so funky.
I love the names that people come up with for paint. Our living room is “Woodrow Wilson Putty” and we had a brown car once that was “Antelope”!
There’s an 80% chance of rain tomorrow - I hope we get a good shower. Much of our new grass has died. I think in the fall, I’m going to plant clover. I like clover. And it’s pretty hearty.
metal mouse, I’ve always thought yellow kitchens were cheery.
wet one, is your house mid century modern?
Juliet, may desk is on the production side of security, but it really doesn’t matter as far as heat goes. Our plant is climate controlled because we work with mobile devices.
I’m sorry about your uncle, Moooooom. Even when it’s expected, it’s still sad.
I usually sleep pretty well for around 6-7 hours and restlessly for another. Even if I’m still sleepy, it’s time to get up when I start getting squirmy or Nelson does.
I was asked to take on three dogs and a cat for two weeks for a friend while his family is between homes. They have to be out of their current home by the end of the week but their new one isn’t ready for occupancy until two weeks later. Once I stopped laughing (remember, I live in 560 square feet with no fenced in yard), I did volunteer to bring the small beagle here for a playdate to see if Nelson would have issues with her on his turf. They’ve met and played together at the dog park, but you never know if there will be a turf war.
Howdy Y’all! We’re home from men’s night over to the church house. We had a bigger than expected group tonight so had to go get more plates, flatware, bowls etc. A good problem to have, all in all. An eighty percent chance or rain/tstorms/apocalypse tomorrow accordin’ to TWPTB. We shall see.
MetalMouse you can tell the contractor you want the emerald paint. It’ll cost more, but seriously, worth it in the long run. Lovin’ the way it looks here at da cave!
Do you have a dog in the collection that would-be shoppers were treated to? It started to feel more like a humane society’s site than an attempt to actually sell anything. I may try later tonight to see if anything strikes my fancy.
Who selects the deals anyway? So far, not a single thing in my cart or “save for later” has popped up with any discount.
Fun times at PWAISN’s house yesterday. His housemate is not exactly adept at household issues like leaky toilets, so he says the bathroom floor is wet. PWAISN and I take a look, diagnose a leaking water supply line and grab tools so we can take the old one and get the right size. Scoot over to the big orange home center to hear the PA announcement that they’re closing in ten minutes so please get your butts to the cash registers and scram! Head back to his house and in a few minutes, an appropriate dryness is returned to the one-bathroom house.
heh fcm they should be glad that they went to the east coast Lancaster and not the west coast one because here its a humid 100+ we were supposed to get rain all last week but all it did was get grey hot and sticky ……….so now its bright hot and still sticky …… yuck
Paint jobs are a sore subject around here as our landlord hired an uncle grandpa type relative and he didn’t evenly paint the walls so now our house looks like its got dust on it but its not dust its where you could see the old “desert sands” paint seep through the faded new paint …. …………
I remember one time, a friend told me he was painting his room with a colour called “Moons of Jupiter,” and we were saying to each other, that’s not a descriptive colour name, because the moons come in different colours.
Second part first: its actually some strange computer program based on what it saw as trends during the holidays plus some crap we got major-deep-discount-deals on and probably bought too much of. Rarely is a human involved.
First part ------ TPTB claim its such a huge success that all the shoppers overwhelmed the system. I have my doubts. I believe its more using the same basic software we had 5 or more years back and the darn stuff not being supported anymore.
There are rumors that if the outage areas get bigger and stay basically out the “36 hour day” could be extended. :smack:
Then I’d say they did a good job. They didn’t discount stuff you were already interested in, so anything you buy will be an impulse purchase. Ruble, saw your shouting over the weekend about a longrun.
Ugh. Got back to the apartment and it’s even hotter than it has been. 32 degrees Celsius, almost 90 degrees Fahrenheit, and the window is open. If I turn the fan on, it might help.
No matter how many pills I take, pills aren’t too effective anymore for sleeping.
I found a good reason for straightening up the house.
See, I’ve been letting my housekeeping slide and it’s got kind of…messy. And I don’t know when but probably around a year ago I misplaced an envelope from the vet’s office, that held a lock of hair from my previous dog Nathan. With the cleaning and straightening in progress I found the envelope. I shed a tear or two, but this time I won’t lose it. I dearly and truly love my dog Mauser, that I got a year ago, but I still really miss Nathan, particularly when I look at his pictures.
How I’m handling the cleanup is room by room, and I do two hours a day. Eventually I’ll have everything done at once. It’s a lot better already, if I closed one door I wouldn’t be too embarassed to have someone over.
Well, heck, it’s mighty early here in the shadow of Potato Knob and Putnam Mountain, and the shadow ain’t even here yet on account of sunrise isn’t due for another 75 minutes or so, but it’s early, and Weather Underground shows current temp at 22 degC with a 50% chance of water falling today. Quiet in the 'hood just now; it won’t last.
So on to breakfast of scrambled eggs and cheese, country sausage chopped up with garden fresh cayenne pepper and some Libby’s brand canned sausage gravy over an English muffin while I marvel at the ugliness on TV (probably “Married with Children” reruns, but maybe otherwise).
Then maybe another long nap. I have nowhere to go, but I hope you have a good and safe day!
