Nooner! How the hell are you?
Y’all in Tel Aviv feel a bit closer to Armageddon now?
Not really. It’s already been 4-lane almost-super-highway all the way for years now! 
Google Maps sez 1 hour and 10 minutes. I’m pretty sure I used to be able to do it in an hour. So, no, not closer! 
Happy Buttercup Day! - I am, of course, hoping it is still the appropriate day, I have been travelling the wrong way in time and now I am not sure what day of the week it is.
Anyroadup, I am home at last! Turbulence and a fair wind on the way back meant we landed 40mins earlier than expected. However, I had arranged to stay in the London area for the night, in the mistaken belief that I might get a bit of sleep and catch up with myself before finishing the trip home. Naturally that meant I was in bed around 10pm yawning my head off, and wide awake at 1am. My train home wasn’t until midday so I lazed around for a while and then headed off to get a train into London, then the tube across town and then another train up here, and then a cab to the house.
Since then, I have vacuumed the floors, sorted the mail, unpacked, done one load of laundry, collected the fuzzbutts from their feline holiday camp and I am contemplating either doing the grocery run or the ironing I couldn’t be bothered doing before I left in the first place. I think the ironing will win and the groceries can wait until tomorrow. There is sufficient cat food for the mogs today and I think they might appreciate a bit of attention.
So I shall celebrate my homecoming with a proper decent cup of tea.
That’s good - I dig it! It may seem like inside baseball stuff but I understand how good it feels when somebody who usually does an ass backwards job and makes you job harder gets spanked for it.
Doesn’t happen often enough.
Is it quit o’clock yet?
I’m going to Trader Joe’s for carrots for Bob teh Wonder Pony. He likes TJ’s carrots the best. I’m sure I will also pick up a bag of their movie thee-ayter popcorm to nom while watching Project Runway tonight.
**BBBbob **- Replace “ICD” with “security plan,” “ruggedized router” with “dataset” and “airframe” with “mainframe” and our jobs just became nearly identical.
Amazingly, I don’t think either of us has much clue to what the other one does. :eek:
Home, with lasagna built and in the oven, and I’ve got a little time to chill.
As for the next FairyChatBoat - we might build a mini tug. Altho before we do that, we’d have to build a small building, or move the cars out of the garage. :eek: We shall see…
That’s all. Just waiting for the kid to get here and for supper to be done. I figure we’ll be eating around 6-ish. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm yummy! 
Oh, Thank you all for the Birthday wishes especially Swampy’s singing. Makes an old girl feel good it does. I had a great day today. One of my employees made yummy chocolate mocha cupcakes, they bought pizza for lunch and hubby is cooking a nice steak dinner. Plus, I left irk a couple hours early. 
Car is washed; I use the hose, a squeegee mop and windex. The goal isn’t so much to make it look GOOD as to make it look less BAD, lol. Now’s when it rains, right?
Laundry’s going, and I’m working on posole, yum. I’m adding leeks this time; I’m the only one who ever eats it, so I can do whatever I want! 
Leftover last night’s dindin tonight because I made enough to ensure that would happen. I’s smart.
Other than that it’s nice and quet in swampland.
You gotta paint a face on it.
We’re depending upon you.
I wonder if I could build one to look like the conning tower of a U-boat.
That would be really cool to frighten the “power squadron” on the Arkansas River.
I’m pretty sure **FCD **would not be amused if I suggested a face on the boat.
It’s smelling mega-yummy in here. I’s hongree, too!! Still half an hour to go… I’m feeling weak! Woe is me!!!
Or is that too dramatic??
Cowboy up, Julia Child.
MOOOOOM that is why there should always be cake and/or ice cream around, for those moments when one feels weak and must refresh oneself.
Arrived at work, fooled around for awhile then was informed I had to shoot Nationals post game and go live at 11. So here I sit at the park, watching a ball game.
Life could be worse.
Irked, came home, curried chicken and rice cooking.
Happy Birthday Buttercup!!!
Tao, goride cleans my roomate’s cat’s littebox. Luckily, he’s a hugger, not a licker.
Lunch!
Ruble! I need to win the lottery so I can do Santarchy.
Anyrose, you are the cute one, but lotteries are a tax on people who are bad at math.
The above is a sage saying from a SDMB member.
I shamelessly stole it.
Hi Noonie!
I’ve been on edge with anxiety all week and I thought it was because of this meeting that I had this morning. The meeting went better than expected except this anxiety stuck around all day after. So much so that I haven’t wanted to talk to anyone all day and I even considered staying home from class tonight. (I was a good girl and went anyways.)
Ok, I’m exhausted so I think I’ll go to bed.
You know, I might be cute too, I just haven’t advertised as such. ;)