Good Mornin’/Afternoon y’all! I’m all caffienated here. Last night Nurse Appreciation Week was celebrated and that’s all I’m sayin’ about it.
We’re goin’ to meet for lunch today at that gourmet epicure high class place known as the Three Squares Diner. We’s all high class we is!
Did I tell y’all about my pool liner? It had a rip in it! :eek: I got all panicky like and called pool man. He came out and said it looks like some kind of animal must have fallen in the pool and clawed the liner trying to get out, which it obviously did since there have been no dead biggie size critters in the pool. Anywho, he was able to patch it. He put a clear patch on it and some spacers to keep it from sagging. It looks like hell but it’s holding which is what counts cause I cannot afford the 3K it’ll take to replace the liner right now. I figure it had to be either a cat or [del]tree rat[/del] squirrel cause those are the only critters outside of JoeDawg I’ve seen in my back yard, which is completely privacy fenced. The dang cat climbs over the fence every once in a while. I have no idea where it comes from or where it belongs but I seem to be some kind of shortcut to wherever it comes from and goes to cause it’ll climb the back of the fence, cross the yard, jump up on the fence on the other side and continue on its merry way. Big white cat. I have exactly one tree in my back yard but there’s pine trees in all the neighbors yards, so [del]tree rat[/del] squirrel comes to visit on occasion. Ah, the rural life! :rolleyes:
Good morning! Just popping in for a sec to say hi. I’m off to a meeting at my old location. It’s about the software I use. They’re usually interesting.
So I get to go in late, and leave early, and still get paid for 9 hours! Woo-hoo!
Hugs and smooches for everyone that wants one! Mwah!
A full day at work is in store for today. Given the past few days, I look forward to it.
Friday and Saturday is the county Rodeo, and I have to work selling peanuts for the Rescue Squad as a fund raiser. It ought to be interesting.
After work is my last chance to salvage anything from the ex-Family Truckster. #1 on the list is VWife’s scooter lift, so it can be installed in the TBD Family Truckster Part Deux. I have a feeling she’s going to want to car shop on Saturday…
Not much else for now. I’m caffeinating now, but it hasn’t kicked in yet.
I am generously willing to share sleep with welby and VWife. The rest of you, paws off! I’m glad the operation went well, welby. Enjoy the sleep.
Having a good, if exhausting, time with OQD. She’s very lovely, but (does anyone remember her Wedding Saga, after which I needed sixteen drinks and a chocolate fountain?) it can be a bit like having a toddler. Requiring constant entertainment.
Yesterday Driving Husband came over for dinner and asked for a cake. I hope he does some serious driving soon- he’s gotten a lot of cake recently.
Morning, all. <yawn> I went to bed late after trying to finish this short transcript last night that needs to be done first thing this a.m. and failing since the recording was pure C-R-A-P. Talk about noise in the background – and not from people, no, I think the idiot investigator has just failed to clean his recorder for far too long. Cause it gave me a headache last night, and it’s well on its way to again this morning. Oh well, I don’t have much left.
In the meantime, I am caffeinating and going “Ow!” every once in a while – apparently my new knee is a bit inflamed and a nerve on the outside of the knee is getting caught somewhere, so every once in a while if I move it, it unexpectedly twinges at me. Ow! I sure hope that’s all it is. Our weather is getting grey and kinda ugly, so I’m going to assume it’s caused by my joint disliking the weather until proven otherwise. Or until it goes on for a couple more days. But in the meantime, Ow!
And now back to finish the last bit of this crap recording before this turns into a full-blown headache.
Hump day! And the first day of the year I was able to leave my house without a jacket, 'cos it started out just warm enough to feel comfortable in short sleeves, and promises to get warm enough for beach weather. Not that I’ll be seeing a beach today, but the good weather – up towards 30°C (in the >80°F neighbourhood) is welcome all the same.
I begged and managed to borrow a couple of bills off a friend last night, so today I pick up a real power supply – 700 watts of glowing power, bay-bee! Hopefully this one won’t die before its warranty period. With my technological luck lately, I won’t hold any expectations, though. My current power supply still works, for about 15 minutes before it shorts out due to the excessive heat it generates in that time owing to the lack of air circulation. Then it takes 4 hours(!) to cool down to the point where it could be used for another 15 if I cared to do so. No way I’m putting up with that for another night.
And I can’t believe I forgot that next weekend is a long weekend. I was just reminded by one of my cow-orkers. Woohoo!
Gleena - Yikes. Rabies is a bad thing, and it’s a damn shame they had to put kitty down, but in the end it was more humane than the end that would have awaited him otherwise.
DoggieButler - Ack. I hope it’s benign and nothing a bit of quick surgery won’t fix. Man, it just figures that all this doctorin’ is occurring during Nurse Appreciation Week. This might be one for the Tinfoil Hat Brigade.
Swampy - That is NOT. Purdy. It’s creepy. Creepy and evil.
Mmkay, back to work. A bit quiet this morning, but that just means they’re all going to pile on later. Bleh.
MBG, you have my sympathy re: school board meetings. I was a reporter for, hm, about 10 years and covered countless school board meeting, P&Z meetings, city council meeting, fiscal court meetings, tourism commission meetings, library board meetings … zzzzzzzzzzz. Today I go to a marketing meeting, which requires my participation rather than reportage. Where are the eye toothpicks.
It’s plenty warm here, and today I’ve got on my new wedge heel sexy sandals! Yay, spring! May in Kentucky is one of the most beautiful phenomenons on this earth. The sky is way bluer than you could ever imagine; iris, azeleas and other flowers are a-bloom, the air is fresh and humidity free. Tra la, it’s May the lusty month of May!
Swampy, I’m guessing you’ve got one of them [del]oversized bathtubs[/del] above ground pools, eh? The biggie size critters just can’t resist those. Then again, 'round these parts, the frogs can’t resist laying their eggs in the in-ground equivalent. Vacuum pump pool cleaners are all the rage, because otherwise you’d wake up to a pool whose floor would be covered in chlorinated frog eggs. :eek: LiLi, this is why I can’t have high maintenance friends. If I wanted to entertain a toddler for an afternoon, I’d be a babysitter.
The zit farm on my chin came to a head this morning, and one of them popped in the shower. However, it now looks like an army of ants brutalized my hilly chin. Blech. It hurts. Stoopid hormones.
I’m a little worried that I might not get a job right away after I’m settled in from my move. Acid Lamp keeps assuring me that a lot of people are hiring in Whorelando right now, but I’m just afraid that I may not get a place to hire me right away. Ideally, I want a library job (gonna have to do some footwork), but will settle for office work over retail. At least I’ll have a house and we’ll have our bills covered for the next month. I worry too much.
biotigs, that extraneous noise just kills ya, doesn’t it? I once had to transcribe responses from a telephone research survey where the tester breathed like the mother of all obscene phone callers. I wanted to throw my dictaphone through my boss’s office window!
li-li, don’t be giving away your sleepy time. You are gonna need every bit of it in about eight months.
Hope everybody who’s ailin feels better soon.
Can I tell you? It STINKS around here! There are so many fahrs in Flawduh and that biggun up there in swampyville that even inside air now smells like Bubbalou’s Barbacue restaurant. Where’s that big rain storm when we need it.
Thank heaven I finished that noise transcript. You’re right, Puggy, it’s just a killer. These guys sounded like they were at the bottom of a well, a very, very noisy well, with remnants of 57,000 other conversations drowning them out. Aargh. If I hadn’t already worked on a bunch of transcripts in this matter, I’d have been at a total loss. But now I’m on to deadly dull, boring – and people who speak clearly and slowly right into a microphone, very audibly, with no background noise. I’ll take boring and audible over interesting and almost inaudible any day!
And that first spider picture is GORGEOUS!!
May I say that our weather is just getting purtier and purtier every day? If only it were like this 24/7/365. Although, having lived close enough to the ocean in Southern California for a few years where it really was like this 24/7/365, or more like 24/7/363 – we had a couple days a year when it was too hot – it did get disconcerting after a while. That’s the one good thing about the change of seasons – at least you realize how much time is passing. I’m still hoping we retire to endless summer somewhere, however. Both Papa Tigs and I prefer warm to cold, so the chances are excellent we will. We just gotta find the $$ to retire first. We need to hit the lottery or something!
Back to work. Even if it is a purty day. At least, working at home, I can open all the windows and enjoy the fresh air.
Puggy the ragin’ swamp fahr is now spreadin’ into northern Flardy. Some evacuations goin’ on around Baker County right now. This thing just will not die! The Weather Channel says we have good chances of rain from Friday until Tuesday of next week. We need appropriate and inappropriate appendage crossin’ for rain! The wind here is blowin’ from the north right now which is keepin’ the smoke from that peat bog fire from driftin’ so much over here, so there is that.
Oh, and so what you’re first on page four. I was first on two and three. So There!
Nashii I have an inground pool, so the alleged critter just fell in whilst wanderin’ around my yard. Whatever fell in must have done it at night cause I’m in and out all during the day so surely I would have noticed a critter splashin’ around in the pool. :eek: I would have been freakin’ and tryin’ to fish it out at the same time, which would be high entertainment for the neighbors if’n they could see into my back yard, which they can’t cause of the privacy fence. Course they would have heard the ahem “colorful” language ahem so they woulda had that.
Right about now is also a good time to try hitting them with Roundup. Specifically, in “late flowering to the green berry stage”
It’s ironic that blackberries are more often than not considered an invasive plant that needs to be eradicated, and how Blackberry devices are also considered a pest.
Oh, Greetings from Pollen City! :mad: We’ve been having “offshore” winds lately, rather than the winds coming in from the ocean, so our air that’s usually fairly clean has been replaced by air thick with pollen and spores and whatever else that’s making me miserable.
Yeah, from a freakin’ scary science fiction movie starring Doogie Howser.
weather.com front page is calling it the first named storm of the 2007 Hurricane season. You told me earlier this week that Hurricane season doesn’t start until June 1st.
I’m so confused. Both a facts are on the Internet (so they must be true), but both of these cannot be true. I knew I should have taken a logic class in college.
I’m glad the operation went well, welby. Enjoy the sleep.
