The ceilings are painted. I’m sweaty and stinky. Tomorrow we’ll check to make sure the ceilings are uniformly white, then we’ll install lights and fans. Saturday and Sunday, color goes on the walls.
Progress is being made. Yay.
I need ice cream. We don’t have any ice cream. Damn.
::shakes fist at FCM::
I’m sleepy and thirsty. So, Ima get a drink of water and go beddybye.
Nitey Nite Y’all!
I have ice cream, FCM. You should know by now that no ice cream takes precedence over a silly thing like painting! Sheesh, woman, where are your priorities? 
Papa Tigs faked me out – tomorrow’s his RDO, but he has to go to several meetings so decided to come home at noon today. So instead of getting piles of work done this afternoon, I got practically nothing done because he was complaining about this, complaining about that, interrupting me over nothing, and generally getting in my way. Which is why I like it when he goes to work on weekdays and stays there all day – I can’t get anything done when he’s home! Aargh!
Anyway, I haven’t got my camera software installed on my new 'puter yet or even checked to see if, perchance, some may already be installed – so even if I took a picture of the tiny hats, it wouldn’t do much good until I solve that problem. I really need to, though; I’ve got a zillion pow-wow photos and videos that I never downloaded. So we shall see. But I promise that I’ll take photos of my tiny hats when I’m ready to send my collection in! Did I mention the little yellow guy with purple hair? I’ve now been making a few black hats that I will embroider I’m not sure what on yet. What I really need is some white yarn (other than my expensive alpaca, which I’m not wasting on this!) that I can use to make little penguins. Maybe tomorrow I’ll run to Michael’s, and then I can knit a whole army of tiny penguins.
Back to work. On the panel on prison rape. Ewww. The only good news is that it’s talking with people at an institution that does NOT have a lot of sexual assault about what they’re doing right, so it’s far less gruesome than it might otherwise be. At least so far. Although the lengthy discussion of strip searches is ewww’ing me out again. Ewww.
Did 7 classes in 41 minutes due to not following the schedule and doing one building then the other. Also found place to park, which is key to whole operation. All teachers love #1 son. All say he is very bright (duh). All say he is charming. Very nice to hear about your child, I must say. All that had her asked about Daughter (and 5 of the 7 had her, so that was also fun).
No idea what will happen when #2 son gets there–some of the teachers are quite young, so hopefully, they will remember. (it can be a curse or a blessing. Luckily, #1 son is as good a student, albeit much lazier, as Daughter).
Ok, enough about all that. Sorry, didn’t read the rest–merely skimmed. Just looked into #2 son’s backpack and see that tomorrow is a half day. :mad: Now must make arrangements for him for tomorrow PM. Why this wasn’t mentioned at his Parent Night last week is beyond me. Stoopit skool.
Achoo. Sniffle. Sneeze.
I have a cold brewing.
Will someone tuck me into bed and make soup?
I think I will make a chicken soup tomorrow…
stupid cold.
Tigs, do you have a memory card in your camera? Because if you do there’s no reason to install any software, just pop out the chip, stick it in a media reader (most 'puters have them these days) and drag them into your picture file. Easy peasy!
Since tomorrow is Talk Like a Pirate Day, Grandboy’s school is giving extra credit to those who dress as pirates–he’s supposed to be coming over so I can scrounge some appropriately piratical outfit for him. Lucky for us he’s shooting up like a weed so a lot of our garb will fit him in a reasonable manner.
*passes **Soapy *some pho Seriously, go get some and load it up with basil and lime and chili oil, it will fix your cold–Himself swears by it.
Himself is making me a burger, nom nom, and the kitchen smells fabulous. I love it when he cooks for me! I would like ice cream for dessert but I don’t keep it around on account of it makes me rotund.
OMG! New version of Peggle! I’ll be back in errr… 2 weeks… once I get the new game out of my system. 
Soapy, I’ma try that recipe now that apples are in season. Maybe next week, I’m thinking.
Back later. Must play more Peggle.
I do on my laptop, but I keep my pictures on my desktop, which doesn’t have the media reader (that I know of; if it does, it’s nowhere easily accessible, i.e. on the front). But I’m a lousy photographer so need to do a lot of editing to my photos. I do have some good editing software on my old 'puter and I’d like to have something similar on the new 'puter. Like I said, there might already be something there, for all I know – I know I can edit and write video files to DVD, so who knows. I guess I really should do something about it one of these days.
My biggest problem, to be honest, is just pure laziness.
Wasn’t me!!! It was Smartie!
Pho is yummy, but I’m a Jewish girl- I respond to chicken soup. It’s genetic!
Haven’t read yet because I just got home. Went to see the Lion King, which is spectacular. Very sleep…
MT, you can purchase a media stick/card reader that you can plug right into any USB port. My daughter has one she used to use on one of our desktop PCs. Also, beware the software that may have come with your camera. I found out the hard way that it doesn’t support Vista.
Another long, fruitless day at work. I’m glad tomorrow is Friday. When I came home, I changed clothes and went to the Y to work out. I upped the weight on all the machines I use. Unfortunately, I may have overdone it on one of the machines. I was on my last set of reps and felt something in my shoulder sort of pop and then I felt pain. It wasn’t awful, but it was enough to let me know it was time to quit on that machine. After that, I went and did cardio.
Nothing much else exciting to report. My daughter is out on a date with her boyfriend. They were going to eat at a Vietnamese restaurant, but I don’t know what their after dinner plans were.
Sorry, Soapy, that was just a brain fart – I knew it was Smartie!
No problem with Vista – Papa Tigs won’t have it in the house. All the family computers run on XP. Yes, you can still get computers with XP – in my case by going through Dell Small Business, where up until July it was free. I think they’re charging an extra $75 now. But even so, it’s worth it.
But I don’t use the software that came with my camera, either. I actually paid $$ for some editing software. Which for some reason doesn’t want to transfer to my new computer. Yet. I’ll get it figured out.
Okay, it’s another week almost over and I am lagging behind as usual. I am skimming and am just now on to page three, but I have hope that I will be able to catch up tonight, and perhaps then I will be able to share some of my tales. It’s being a wild season here already, friends.
Michigan, my dad is from there, my stepdad actually, and from there he went to San Bernadino, and eventually to the Puget Sound area, where he met my mom and became dad. He says he will never voluntarily be that cold again, and in fact he won’t venture up to Kodiak in the more temperate season as Alaska=cold=Michigan. :rolleyes: I rolled through a corner of Michigan in January 1981 on my way home from Ohio. Very long story. What I remember of Michigan is a perfect winter scene in a very nice neighborhood with pretty, big houses all lit against a darkening sky. Nice OP, herbs, I wonder if your parents knew a man I knew who taught at Interlocken during that time period. Hmm? Odder things have happened in here.
In local news, we take possession of what I have decided to call the east wing on the 28th. We need to get some tar on a seam on the roof, I also really want to get a wood stove in there, as it has a forced air furnace, and I hate that. We need to get some flooring laid in the hall and bedrooms, some Sheetrock and the rest of that sort of thing in the same areas, and it’ll be good to go.
I made Death Chicken earlier this week, and I was smart and doubled the recipe and made two pans. The first pan was fabulous and near finished at the first sitting, with enough for skiffman to have two helpings for lunch the next day. The other pan was reheated tonight, and it was inhaled. Truly a good dish rigs, I followed the recipe (two pinches of nutmeg) and it has been pronounced ::grunting through mouthfuls:: “mmm…good…” by Bering Sea king crabbers skiffman and Brother Brad.
A wee bit on the canine drama. #1 daughter wanted a puppy for her 18th birthday, and she wanted the antithesis of a pomeranian. After several suggestions were rejected by myself, I told her that in the case that I might have to dog sit her pet, it had to be a toy breed. So, she got a black and rust min pin, Zoey. I love the little beast, but she is a terrier aka terror. Her list of crimes over the years aside, she crossed the line last week when she bit, and broke the skin, of a friend. At the moment she is crated when most company comes over, and I am having a muzzle shipped. It breaks my heart to muzzle her, as she is so bonded to my daughter and her family and is missing them, but I can’t have a biter loose. She also likes to rile the pomeranians up, and I am going to be so very glad when she gets to move back in with her family.
I don’t know how I came to be this old without having encountered Christy Moore, but he is my new must listen to. Especially when he is playing with Declan Sinnott. And Planxty. And Moving Hearts. He and Declan are performing a series of concerts this May/June, d’ya think I can convince skiffman to let me go? Did I mention that they’re playing in Dublin? Hmm, probably not.
Well, by now this probably counts as a drunken post, Brother Brad broke out the peach mead, and it has mellowed me out right nicely. Hi to everyone, and to all the unfamiliar-to-me people who I have noticed. Happy Firday to you all!
**Tigs, ** if you want editing software you might try GIMP, it’s open source and free and it’s great! I use it all the time. If you just wanna do very basic stuff like redeye correction, Picasa is also free and easy to use. Nicest thing about both of them is that not only does open source tend to support Vista, it supports 64 bit OS’, both XP and Vista as well. This is a good thing for me because I’m not going back to a 32 bit OS, ever! Seriously, very compatible and easy to use, both.
Silly Soapy, pho is chicken broth based but has meat in it that might not be chicken. It’s got lovely spices and ginger and garlic and suchlike in it and if slays cold viruses D-E-D dead! It’s sooooo yummy and has lovely noodles in and you can put all kinds of neat stuff in it like fresh basil and lime wedges and bean sprouts and suchlike. Try it, you’ll be a convert!
I got one of those USB media readers for about ten bucks that also reads SIM cards, which is the shit! Unfortunately the software doesn’t have 64 bit support so I have to install it on the media box to back up my SIM… Grrr. It could be worse, Himself just discovered in the middle of a rebuild that Oblivion stopped support for 64 bit in mid extension so he has to redo a shitload of work. He is full of grump about this…
Recap of my attempts at sleeping tonight.
10:30 Went to bed.
12:00 After much tossing and turning realize that I forgot to take Mirapex. Instead of taking Mirapex and going back to bed decided that I’d rather clean my bathroom counter:confused: and eat a chocolate chip cookie.
12:10 Took Mirapex and went back to bed.
1:00 Decided that sleep still wasn’t happening, perhaps I need a klonopin too.
1:10 Took a klonopin and here I am.
Did I mention that I have to get up at 6?
Sorry you aren’t sleeping well pie, I am no stranger to insomnia, and it bites.
Some to do just now across the way, troopers at both ends of the drive and an ambulance in front of the neighbor’s house. Skiffman went to see what was up, but was only told it was a medical emergency. Now I will worry until I see my neighbor tomorrow, she has three young children and a sometimes very abusive husband.
And #3 daughter just walked in from babysitting. The curfew for school nights is 10:00, so this lady just lost a school night babysitter.
Meh, I have a headache now, I ought to get to bed, I suppose.
Hey!
I actually finished working before 1 AM last night (this morning?) Yay me! :rolleyes:
It’s now the weekend, but I’m probably going to have to put in a few hours of work over it, too.
I’m really, really hoping that sometime early next week I can get out of crisis mode and downshift into merely-crazy-busy mode… :eek:
In other news, my vote actually mattered for a change – I’m a member of the Kadima party that had it’s primaries this week (to replace Olmert who’s stepping down.) The candidate I voted for – Livni – won.
By 431 votes. :eek:
I’m glad I took my ass and got it out of the house to vote!
Wife is flying out early tomorrow morning to Prague for a conference, so I’m going to be a Single Parent (again) for three days next week. I swear sometimes it seems easier that way. I’ll probably have more “private” time, to read and post, anyway.
Yays, boos, hugs, gropes and smooches – distribute as needed!
Lunch - you need to stop working such silly hours, my mailbox is empty!
As pretty much the token Brit, I’m keeping out of the chip butty discussion except to say that nothing beats a good chip butty. It’s got to be made with real chips though, not those stringy fries you 'murricans insist on cooking.
I’ve never tried deep-fried mars bars, the very idea puts me off. Same with deep fried pizza although 'im indoors tells me they’re very useful when you’re an impoverished student as they’ll fill you up for days. I think he means “block you up” but who am I to argue?
Vegetable pakora and garlic dip. That’s the way to go.
In other news, we got compensation from Eurostar for a delay in Lille on the way back from our Antwerp trip. They said we could have a free single journey or a half-price return trip but the booking is a faff. You can’t do it over the phone, you either have to go to the booking office in London or do it by post as you have to send them your tickets. So I researched times and fares, sent them a nice letter with my findings and the tickets, and asked them to call me to confirm the details and arrange payment as I wasn’t prepared to send them my credit card details.
So yesterday afternoon a jolly nice chap called Malcolm rang me, seemed very pleased that I’d worked all the details out for myself, and sold me a return trip to Antwerp for the two of us in early December for the princely sum of £159 instead of £318. I call that a bargain - for that kind of discount, I’d be willing to spend an hour and a half loitering on French soil. The real bonus is that the trip was my gift to 'im indoors for his birthday so I’d booked the Eurostar equivalent of First Class tickets, and now we get to do it all over again at a bargain price. Even the hotel’s reasonably cheap too (€255 for three nights). I am now officially excited.
uh? aren’t beets remolachas?
google images
yup, remolachas
I hate beets (that means I leave more for you beetlovers), as I find them too sweet, but Mom likes 'em a lot. I’ll ask for her recipe, as I don’t think it involves roasting.
HEEEEEEEEEEEEY! I had seen the tiny-hatted bottles in the store but didn’t know what it was about. I got several trees planted this summer, in India, it’s part of a sustainable foresting development setup (if you entered in their webpage a code from a carton of smoothie, innocent gave money for a tree).
You vote with your ass?
They’re crazy, these Israelis!
I, too, hope you get less unacceptably busy soon.
Irfanview is also free and works well for cropping, red eye and turn’n’crop (my mother’s idea of verticality leaves much to be desired), which are the things I do most with photos. It also works well with merging together two partial scans so long as they end at the actual border, and with sharpening scans so the OCR can read them better, and with color tweaking.
Wo(S)W is celebratin’ pirate day, yarr. Appropriately enough, I discovered it while I was using my character Ombras, who introduces herself as a toxicologist. She is one, reallyyyyyyy! So now she’s a pirate, ponytailed, dwarven toxicologist.
Rogue (they can poison their weapons), specialty Assasination, with Alchemy as a secondary profession. That’s a toxicologist, innit?
This week, Wo(S)W finally announced the expected date for their next release, which I preordered in February. November 13. When am I supposed to start spending a month in hotels with lousy, freakingly expensive 'net connections? November freaking 17! If I kill Supermegaboss who makes these kind of decisions without consulting anybody and just drops them on people’s heads, I want to be judged by a judge and jury of my peers: Wo(S)W players!