Bummer. The guy that was going to help me move has training tonight, so we have to do it tomorrow. And I moved a bunch of stuff this morning in preparation!
**(((((spaz)))))) **That sucks. Really truly sucks… I hope you can find peace, and that **Culinary Boy **gets the help he needs.
Howdy Y’all! Home from irk and tahrd. However dindin is cookin’ away. Poke roast in the convection oven, sweet N.O.T. in the other oven and rolls waitin’ to be baked. Plus green beans for vegetative matter. Should be good.
{{{Spaz}}} stay strong. This is hard but maybe he’ll get the help he needs and you an move on with your life.
Bummer about the movin’ help ShinyCat.
I just packed up the clothes of his I had and put them in the back of my car. I wasn’t able to get Computer Boy on the phone, so I’ll probably just swing by the shop tomorrow and see if he’ll take them from there. If not, I’ll drop them off at his house after six or so.
Speaking of, I need to find a place of my own. I’m having mild panic attacks. I know once I start calling the places it won’t take me long, but I hate moving. Hate it. I’ll probably do this starting Saturday afternoon into Sunday and Monday. I’ll also talk to Detailed AGM about his place since he’s moving out pretty soon as well. His landlady’s driving him crazy but she’s gone half the year anyway.
Bleedin’ eck, does no-one just have a normal family? 
I’m developing a severe plant habit- over the last few days, I have bought somewhere along the lines of 60 plants, after ‘just having a look round’ at garden centres. Admittedly, most of them were very, very cheap, and also they were largely vegetables, but still… I have no money, and I think I might need rehab.
Silly day yesterday- I’m trying to get a job, probably doing something like reception work. Problem is, though I’m reasonably well at home on a computer (just in case you thought this was written by a highly trained assistance monkey), I have no evidence of that to stick on me CV (not being posh, we all call them that here). As I’m unemployed though, I’m eligible for a few free IT courses, and thought I’d sign up for one.
So, I went down the local centre what deals with that sort of thing, and asked to sign up. They tell me that I need to do an online assessment to work out what level I’m at, and after much faffing around, stick me on a computer program, which asks questions about ‘how to send an email’ and such. After I did that, without my brain melting quite enough to start getting it wrong, they set me up on another program. I do the best I can on the second program, and the guy comes over after about half an hour and says ‘Oh. Um…’ I asked what’s up, and he tells me that that’s the highest level they can sign me up for, and I scored too high to be allowed on the course (they don’t get funding unless you get under 75%).
So after faffing around for well over an hour, I have to go and re-do the test, and deliberately get everything wrong. :rolleyes:
Finally get signed up, and he officially puts me on the course- a course I’ve checked I’m OK to do online from home, because I really don’t want to have to go all the way across town every day to do something that boring. As I’m on the way out, he turns and asks me ‘Oh, what version of Word are you running? Just if your version’s too old, you might not be able to run this.’
Up til this point, no-one has mentioned any specific programs.
I don’t have Word. :smack:
We have a new well - huzzah!! And we saw the pipes from the old well come out - boy, were they corroded! No wonder our water was funky! But it’s now clear and flowing wonderfully and by tomorrow, we should have the majority of the chlorine flushed out, so yay! Plus the nice man knocked over a pine tree that was threatening to fall in the yard. Happy happy!! Except for the part where I forgot to take pictures, dammit. Oh well, we have water. Screw the photos!
Be cool, **Spaz **- one thing at a time. Don’t make yourself crazy. Yeah, I know, easy for me to say. But you can handle this all fine. Break it down into manageable tasks and deal with them one at a time. Come here and scream, take lots of deep cleansing breaths, and have a muffin - everything’s better with muffins!
Daughter will be here shortly and I think we’re going out to eat, since I haven’t cooked anything. Chinese perhaps?? hmmmmmmm
Tomorrow at work I’m using my down time to figure out a schedule for things to do and a budget.
Meanwhile the water’s been turned off and no one has turned it back on yet. I’m staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarving but I need water to make anything for dinner. I don’t want to go grab some fast food because I need to save the moneys but it might come to that. I also need a shower and I need to wash my hands. And I have a headache from not eating anything today.
I set up my own Steam account last night and bought my own version of Skyrim. I probably should have saved the $60, but I needed a present, dammit.
Yay for new water [b ]MOOOOOOM**!
Dindin was teh nummy! I done good.
That is all.
Define ‘normal.’
(((Spaz))). I’d offer to give you my boxes, but I don’t think that’d work out very well. (That and I already offered them to some friends that are moving this summer, but if the girl thinks I’m storing them until they move, she’s nuts).
What is the free compatible MS Office called?
Ah, Open Office.
I still hate you.
**Spaz, **hang in there and be strong.
Skeletons, we have a few, but they’re all back in the mists of time.
Today is my Friday and I’m ever so glad. I’ve got errands to run tomorrow, and then on Saturday we’ll drive across the state to pick up my son and drive back home. We’ll probably get my daughter down here to watch the doggies while were gone. With construction on the pass, we just never know how long it’s going to take.
Hang in there, Spaz. I agree, with FCM as well.
I was going to suggest Open Office as well, Nut.
Going way back to where FCM was sharing pics: 1) Nice garden, and 2) I have a couple of hostas that are getting quite large. I think one of them may be Blue Angel, too.
Yay on the new well!
Gotta get some more stuff done for the electricians. Woo hoo!
Hugs all.
GT
A doperism out of context is kinda subversive. "If you need me, I’ll be.
in my bunk."
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN 'Tis 70 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 88. We did not get rain last night as promised. :dubious: However we are now promised rain Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. We shall see.
That would be N.O.N. I presume. 
BBBobbio I frequently <snerk> at irk and other places when I hear an inadvertant doperism. People look at me like I’m N.O.N..
Today I get to do (actually possibly redo) a bunch of paperirk but it’s for a good thing. Certain counties are designated as areas of severely limited employment prospects or as we call ‘em SLEP areas cause it sounds funny. Anywho, Dougherty County (that’s Albeeeeeeeny) has been so designated as of yestiddy based on 2010 census data. So, there are 26 people that are effected by this. Thus, we must show that as one of their most in need factors. I’m hopin’ I can just update what’s already there but knowin’ TPTB I’ll have an email that says otherwise and end up redoin’ the whole dang thing. Oh well. That’s why I make the big bucks.
Now I need more caffiene and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then, alas, irk purtification must commence.
Happy Firday Y’all!
Problem being, the course is likely to be something like “MSWord for the Unemployed” (which is identical to “MSWord for people with jobs” but a bit faster than “MSWord for the ancient”). It won’t be about “how to write documents”, or require reports written in whichever word processor Bert has.
It’s like when my clients require me to get their safety training. I’ve only been getting those for upwards of 20 years, and I actually have the degree which qualifies one to give the training. Last time I had to do it, I was in a particularly feisty mood, so I remarked back on some of the trainer’s remarks. The second time he looked at me like this :dubious: after accepting that yes, I was right, and I said “I’ve got the Safety Tech Diploma”. “Oh God :rolleyes:. And of course the company won’t accept it as proof that you know you have to sit straight, change position occasionally and make sure you don’t have glare.” “Of course.” “Well, we still need to do it, but at least I know for sure that you understand it! :D” The procedure says you need A, and by Jove they shall not accept B!
Don’t forget that you’ll print everything out and fax it all to everyone who owns a fax machine. 
**Nava **- In 1981-ish when the Dept of Defense declared that Sexual Harassment was a Major Concern and Training was Necessary, I was sent to the class, since I was the least senior person in the office. Annually from then till I retired last year, I was required to undergo that training in various and sundry forms. Thankfully, the last 3 or 4 years, it became computer-based training so I could run it in the background while I did real work, then at the end, I’d print out the certificate and give it to my boss as proof that I’d been “trained.” Because, you know, I was notorious for sexually harassing everyone. :rolleyes: What did I learn? Quid pro quo involving sexual favors is wrong. There ya go - 30 years of classes…
My day has started fun. I loaded the washer and turned it on, and… nothing… 
:smack: I unhooked the cold water supply line and found a big glop of mud at the intake screen. It has been flushed and my washer is happily washing. Laundry is the main order of the day.
My front yard is a disaster area and it’s going to take more than a little grass seed to fix it up. We’ve got a guy coming tomorrow to abandon the old hand-dug well, and we’ll talk to him about getting a load of dirt delivered and spread to fill in the dips. Then I can seed.
I’m also going to plant a hedge of forsythia encompassing the new well head so this big white hunk of PVC isn’t sitting in the middle of the yard. And it’ll help hide the downed trees between the “lawn” and the neighbor’s yard. And I’ve got a place by the house to put a big azalea that needs a new home, plus a couple of spots at the end of the driveway where stumps have been removed, so I can plant something else there. More hostas, I’m thinking.
My back aches just thinking about it all…
But today is mostly for laundry. Oh yeah, and we have GREAT water pressure!
Happy Firday!
That last post was a very sleepified me, posting from my phone. The exact context was me at the rescue station, just back from a half-assed suicide attempt call, and wanting desperately to rack out. The night was quiet, BTW, with just a single midnight call for the other station.
VWife wants to go to Fred’burg today. Oh joy.
Up, caffeinated, off to irk.
Dang - Fredburg is a long drive, not to mention th $4 toll across the river - what the heck is there that she can’t live withoug??