I can commiserate. In the late 90s, I managed to get a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. I went to a few small time tournaments. I sucked at it, but it was fun, and I got into some awesome physical shape. The bottom dropped out of my world, I gained a whole lot of weight, and I quit working out.
After my surgery, TKD was in the cards once again, so I thought. I was serious with the idea of taking it again, at least for the exercise. However, I developed (mostly) asymptomatic arthritis since I last trained. I have no problem with everyday motions in my joints, such as the back and forth motion in my hips for walking, bike riding, swimming, or even weight lifting, but I can not perform any radial motions like a basic roundhouse kick without momentary excruciating pain. My shoulders and knees are afflicted, too.
Whew! What have I been doing the past two days, you ask? Working. Yes. Working. Me. Go figure.
The new job in IT is going pretty well, and now I have stuff to keep me busy all day. Thankfully, none of it is of the deadline variety, so I can go at my own pace. It’s somewhat mind-numbing (updating pictures and descriptions of products on our website), and I’m not yet quite sure if I’m doing it correctly, but it keeps me busy all day, and I actually much prefer that to having nothing to do.
It’s a little weird at my new desk, though, because it’s very quiet. I’m in the Marketing Department, just outside the IT Room (which can only fit three people, and the IT Department now contains five), and it’s very quiet. Completely different feel from the noisy Customer Service department. And most of the people in the room, I don’t know very well, simply because Marketing and Customer Service really don’t have much to talk about together. So I’m kinda plunked down in a roomful of strangers. I’ll get by, I’m a friendly sort.
The google ads I saw just now were all about poop and pee. It’s as if they know us!
Tigs (That’s what Ive decided on for your nick. It’s quite an honor, really. See I have these two friends who have a cat named Tigger who just lurves me. Ok, actually I am his chosen piece of furniture whenever I’m over there, but in cat reasoning I think that’s lurve. His nickname is Mr. Tigs, hence, Tigs is an honor.) I got quite a giggle out of your post about your dogs lust for whiterabbit. I’m picturing this big dog sittin’ there lookin’ at her with big eyes, tongue hangin’ out, panting and a doggy stiffy. BWAAAHAAAHAAAHAAA
LiLi you know any places that have those crane thingy machines you put a quarter in and try to lift out a prize with the crane thingy? Cause that’d be a good place to buy a ring. They look almost like the real thing!
Good luck at the dentist Jah! I think I have an appointment next month. ICK!
I’ve been working on rewriting job descriptions, one of which is my own. I’m hoping for some changes in duties over the next couple months which will make me very happy. Hint: It won’t involve boxes or mops or mop handles or tote bags or any of that stuff. YAY!!! It will involve more travel around the country and throughout Jawja, which I don’t mind so much. Most important of all, it will involve a nice chunk o’ change raise for da bear. DOUBLE YAY!!! Keep all appropriate (heck, I’ll even take inappropriate) appendages crossed for me, 'k?
I forgot that part!!! All billing will be transfered to the finance department!!! All that the person I will hire to manage a big ol’ whack of stuff that I’m gettin’ rid of will have to do as far as billing is turn in required delivery and programmatic info to finance so that billing will ensue!!! YAY!!! NO MORE BILLING FOR DA BEAR!!!
Bobbio I like Grand Poobah as a job title but I think I’m required to call it sump’n more mundane. I was leaning toward, “YAY! I’M GETTIN’ TO DO STUFF I WANNA DO AND GETTIN’ PAID MORE FOR IT!” but I suppose it’ll have to be a bit more professional.
I just bought a pair of really pretty earrings for only $2.10. I had a $10 gift card from Macy’s, the earrings cost $16.00 and there was a sale. Woohoo!
Answering now, without reading rest of thread. It’s from The Mikado, a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta (and one of my favs)…
BusGuy --with my keen intelligence, I detect perhaps a reluctance on your part to have your mother visit. No worries! Just post here about it. Think of it as therapy.
I don’t have a Palm. I have some knockoff that I got for subscribing to TIME, and it’s still in its box. Nuf said.
Heck, yeah
In Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, a character named Poobah was Chief Council, Chief Constabulary, Chief Financier, Chief Judiciary, etc etc etc - The biggest muckity muck in Titty-Poo, short of the Mikado himself
I didn’t see page 6 - sorry!
and the really truly correct spelling if the town is Titipu
In the script, Pooh-Bah is listed as “The Lord High Everything Else”
Here is an exchange in which he lists his various responsibilities:
It’s so slow here at work I think I might reach the end of the internet! Heh. It’s either feast or famine, I swear.
I just finished getting updated on the MMP, and I can’t remember anything I read. Old-timer’s disease hits again.
I’m thinking about what to cook for dinner. I’ve about decided it’s fried catfish, leftover cole slaw, sliced maters, green onions, and corn dodgers. Any of y’all heard of corn dodgers? Kind of like hush puppies, but no leavening. Fried seasoned cornmeal balls. Yum!
DH has a Sony Clie that I got him for Xmas a couple of years ago. It was crotchety on a Windows PC, and it’s flat-out unsupported on Mac. I believe Sony’s abandoned the PDA market entirely.
I’ve got an even older Palm Zire. I’ve not bothered to set it up on my Mac, and it’s been relegated to being a repository of games in the bathroom. My cell phone handles all the name and number memory tasks now.
I saw a fellow in a city park this morning raking leaves while having a stethoscope hanging around his neck. I can only guess that he was a tree surgeon.
Faire begins this Saturday. We’re heading down there tomorrow morning bright and early as there’s a cubic metric assload of stuff that still needs to be completed. I’m at least caught up on entering membership applications. I haven’t got a clue what the underlying mechanism is, as we’re using Quickbooks to run it all. It makes an amusing little cuckoo noise each time a member is added and their payment is recorded. That’s the extent of my understanding. I don’t even keep a checkbook, so all of the financial concepts that are being warped to make a business accounting package handle non-profit group memberships only make for a confused bear.
We had a challenging time with it last weekend - I’ve never touched Quickbooks before, and my predecessor wasn’t the one that set it up, so there was much head-scratching while me, she, and two other people that professed to know QB stared at it. (“Oh, this is 2004. I’ve only used 2000!”) Eventually, we figured out how to tell it “Everything you know about is history, and we want to start fresh without losing all the names and addresses.”
They promise me that taking credit card payments will be much easier once I get the card reader plugged in. I just have to go through great lengths to hide all of this technology as we need to look “period” - visible computers aren’t allowed.
