The Delaware Primer MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Doggio - DOGGIO!!! I mean, uh, hi! Also, my sphincter is puckering at the very idea of rectal damage caused by food. Here’s a tip: You’re only supposed to eat the meat inside the lobster’s shell.

Smartie - Physical damage (ala Doggio) or “ring of fire?” I get the latter with certain foods. There was a spicy genoa salami I only had a few pieces of a few weeks ago that made me feel like I was expelling pure, concentrated capsaicin.

Heff - You don’t, strictly speaking, require an iPod (specifically, an iPod Touch or iPhone) – you could always stay for the witty prose, occasional rant, and embarrassing typos – but given that the blog’s mission is all about the free apps (and occasionally pay ones worth mentioning) the content will probably be uniquely uninteresting to anyone who doesn’t, save for those who want one. :slight_smile: Thanks though. It ain’t all Shakespeare, but I try not to torture sentence structures too much.

GT - Thanks! Nice to be back. Been gone too long, missed my bastion of sanity, which probably means that my time away may have made me go a bit … off, like dairy or meat or klaxons do eventually.

Swampus - I plan to stick around a spell. If there’s one thing my time away has taught me it’s that time away is a bad, bad thing. The DTs are murder and appear to involve repeatedly getting the “Mahna Mahna” song stuck in your head at inappropriate times.

Puggie - You know, looked at sideways and cockeyed, the phrase “come out of the veggies” sounds rather dirty, though I can’t for the life of me put my finger on how exactly. It’s probably best for all concerned not to dwell on it though.

Hank - HI!!!

No one in particular - So here’s a rundown of what I’ve done on my hiatus:

  • Learned how to make cheesecake, and have so far made 2 of them, both quite nummy. For Christmas I’m planning on making two more, one of which will be a triple-layer B-52 cheesecake, each layer being made with Grand Marnier, Kahlua, and Bailey’s Irish Cream respectively, all atop a crumbled Oreo cookie crust. I’m not sure if I should top it with something, and if I did, what would top a B-52 cheesecake? The other will be plain, or maybe topped with a berry coulis of some sort. Maybe drizzled with a nice chocolate sauce using real home-made chocolate sauce instead of that icky bottled stuff. I wonder what Lindt truffles melted with a bit of cream would come out like?

  • Wrote nearly 400 game and app reviews for the iPhone/iPod Touch. (CTS, here I come!)

  • Wrote two new songs for the game I’m working on with a friend, and am working on a third and fourth as we speak.

  • Incurred a sleep deficit that has me wondering if I could pull a Rip Van Winkle and get away with it.

  • Discovered that Japanese steamed pork buns are the sort of things you only think you like until you’ve had one too many of them – which is usually after about half a dozen.

  • Discovered the secret to cold fusion in a fever dream, hastily wrote it down before I lost it, and when I recovered, realized that I had instead hastily written the Schrödinger equation, and for some reason I drew Donnie Osmond busting a move beside it. Weird.

I think that about covers it.

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You’ll see a lot of her here too. :stuck_out_tongue:

Stop talking just to him! He gets too much attention as it is. :wink:

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Insomnia. Yay.

I hate UTIs.

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Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ here. It’s cold! Just above freezin’… brrrrrr… is it summer yet?

Yawn That’s about all I got for this mornin’. Time for more caffiene and brekkies.

Later Y’all!

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Another vote for Firday. Maybe if we all vote, the day will magically change over?

Sounds like you’ve had a very eventful hiatus, Mork.

I woke up in the middle of the night, too, Spaz. And when my alarm went off, I dreamt I couldn’t figure out how to turn it off before I woke up and figured out it was my real-life alarm. :smack::dubious:

Happy Firday!!! (That’ll work, right?)

GT

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Last night was the rescue Squad Christmas party. I was given an award for being #5 on the list of most calls taken the previous year, clocking in at 80. VWife, surprisingly, didn’t have a problem with it, so long as I was not one of the top 3.

I got a rescue knife for my trouble. It resembles the regular hogsticker I carry, but it has a hard point for breaking car windows, and has a slot in the handle that exposes the blade so I can cut seatbelts. :cool:

In sadder news, our cat, Audry The Pile Of Hair, appears to be headed for the Big Needle today. She’s been sick for a year, ever since VWife had her knee job, and lost her coat. She’s progressed to where she appears to have a slow GI bleed and has not been interested in eating or drinking. Right now she’s being treated on the assumption of an infection, but I’m almost certain she has cancer, with FIV as a close second. Unless she happened to eat significantly last night at the vets with a medically coated upper GI tract, she’s going to be put down today.

Send your hugs to VWife if you must. I don’t want them.

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{{{VWife}}}

Pretty nippy here, too, Swampus. Around 37°. It’s supposed to warm up to 72°, though. Weird weather we have here. :slight_smile:

Mooom, you looked great in that picture! You met Cliff Robertson? Way cool!

I’m sorry about **PapaTigs ** co-worker.

Not much going on here except for work. Whoop-de-doo.

See y’all later!

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fcm, you still ARE teh kee-ute! :slight_smile: On a related note, I agree with gt that the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.

Speaking of traffic tickets, I think my son, Lil Lestat[sup]TM[/sup] may have some sort of record. He got a $100 ticket for doing 25 in a 15 mph zone (at the beach). Hell, I don’t think I can keep my car down to 15 with my foot off the accelerator.

Well, a Ficus is a type of Fig…which could be construed as a veggie…and nekkit statues have fig leaves over their generals…so, yeah, a tad on the naughty side. :wink:

It’s cold here, too, swamps. Not one bit to my liking. Warm weather is why I moved to Florida, afterall. A related tidbit: I heard this morning that Orlando is one of the top metro areas in the U.S. for singles who relocate, according to an industry survey of 100 cities. Fascinating. :rolleyes:

That’s all I got for now.

Tupug

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Well, Audrey is still hanging on.

Tomorrow is the small claims case against Sharon the Felonious Housekeeper. I have VWife rounding up documentation of cash withdrawals to show where we paid her, and to document the cost of the Percocets stolen. It ought to go quickly.

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I vote for Friday too!! Where is Hero Nakumara when he’s needed? (The guy from Heroes that has the ability to manipulate time. He could make it Friday!)

Work is crazy busy. I’m working on an invoice that should have been sent to accounts payable two weeks ago. oops.

(((vwife))) and congrats to Bobbio on the award and what sounds like a cool knife.

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We could use some good thoughts at Casa Taxi. They’re announcing layoffs at KT’s company either today or tomorrow. That’s really all we know right now, and we have no way of knowing yet whether he’ll be cut or not. It’s a little stressful (for me… he’s the unflappable sort.). :frowning:

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:: good thoughts for taxi and KT ::

I’m getting a bit frustrated with Irish Co-worker. He never seems to have the balls to do anything unless we’re drinking. Or chatting online. He flirts with me shamelessly online but seems to be too shy when we’re actually face to face and sober. I suppose it could be he only finds me attractive when he’s drunk. :dubious:

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First, I’ve never been to Delaware. When I hear the word Delaware, my first thought is that scene in Wayne’s World where they are playing with the different backgrounds and it goes from fun rocking stuff to Delaware and all they can say is “uh, hi. We in, uh, Delaware.” I know it’s chock full of credit card companies, but that’s about it. Perhaps one day when I gather the courage to return to the northeast I will check it out. Right now the 3 day trip I took a couple years ago has been enough to last me for the first 33 years…

Ugh - sorry to hear that taxi. Sending good, job-holding thoughts your way.

<smakcks HNC with a newspaper on the nose> **Hazel **- cut him loose now. It’s not worth it if you have to get him drunk. He’s not ready for you yet.

{VWife} - sucks about your cat. Sorry.

**Doggio **- there’s an old joke about a monkey and an 8 ball you might be interested in…

**Nava **- terrible run of sickness in your group. Hope everyone feels better soon!

**SpazCat **- Cranberry juice and Azo until you can get to a doc.

For me, here’s an update of my life for anyone that needs to kill a couple minutes:
Had Thanksgiving at the grandparents’ house. After lunch I walked outside to find various and multiple uncles and cousins with at least 4 rifles and enough handguns to outfit everyone there twice over all laid out on one of the picnic tables. I got to shoot the .22 Ruger, the Ruger 9mm, the S&W. 38 revolver and some really old S&W that I think my uncle said used .32 shorts - but I don’t know if I am remembering that right.

Last week was my animal and dairy filled week so even though I enjoyed the gluttony aspect of it and ate really more than one person should I did suffer the “normally vegetarian/vegan eats some rich fatty crap” gastrointestinal effects.

I also had my armpits waxed. I’m a little addicted to waxing.

I bought my son the Nintendo DS Lite for Christmas. He is going to be so excited.

My team won the Iron Bowl and plays Florida for the SEC Championship next weekend and I am pumped!

My oldest son came home from seeing his (deadbeat, MIA half the time) dad for the first time in months with the instructions that if his 4 year old brother hits him to just hit him back even if I am going to punish him for it. Lovely.

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Doggio, Mork, let me just say “nuclear squitters” and we’ll all just shake hands, manfully (and womanfully) refrain from any inappropriate “kiss it and make it better” jokes and move on, shall we? :stuck_out_tongue:

Spaz, Trader Joe’s sells concentrated cranberry tablets, I highly recommend these because just drinking straight cranberry juice makes my stomach unhappy.

Haze, that seems to be a common thread in certain Irish males–something about Catholic guilt I expect. A friend of mine had one of those, lots of talk and suggestive chat and webcam nekkid requests but whenever they’d actually get together all he’d want is a blowjob before hitting a pub. Tell Irish Boy that he oughta put up or shut up, then when he runs off with his tail between his legs you can laugh at him.

Good luck on the job front, taxi, my daughter texted me this morning that the budget shortfalls and cutbacks at OHSU made NPR this morning–the hospital is the single biggest employer in Oregon and they’ve instituted a hiring freeze and are looking at ways to cut back short of layoffs but it’sn inevitable they’re gonna happen. Her office is actually considering moving people to telecommuting to save on office overhead, which is now feasible due to them finally moving from a DOS based intranet billing system to an internet based GUI system that’s more amenable to remote workstation. She’d be okay with a layoff, frankly, she’d make a pretty good amount on unemployment, her fiance is pretty much set for life and since OHSU is union they’d have to hire her back before going outside once the hiring freeze is over with. She’s in Patient Billing Services so they’re all hoping to be made redundant by a single payer system… :stuck_out_tongue:

Good going on the #5 spot, Bobbio, sorry the cat is still circling the drain… Here’s hoping Felonious Sharon gets it in the kishkas.

Well, finally got my settlement check in for my garbage truck damage so I’m trying to figure out how to get my vehicles shuttled around to get upper ball joints and upper control arm bushings done on the van and get the door fixed on the Cavalier. Good times. Perhaps I can bribe a friend to follow me up there with promises of coooookies…

Oh, and my partner is over the moon–his soon to be ex-wife FINALLY moved out of his house so after eight months living in his brother’s garage he has his place back, yay! I’m so happy for him. Then, to make it even better, his son is back in the states from Iraq and will be here in town on the 12th, w00t! The kid managed to stay in one piece during his deployment, then in the last two weeks of missions he got jumped by an irate Iraqi homeowner with a knife, carved up his hand and arm pretty good. Not a good move for the Iraqi, guess they don’t teach “never bring a knife to a gunfight” in Samarra. He ended up decorating his own walls. I’m just glad he’s back home–he did sign up for another tour but he’ll be stationed out of Fort Lewis up near Seattle rather than out of Tennessee, where he’s been the past couple years. I’m so stoked, he’s like one of my own kids–heck, if things had turned out just a bit differently seven/eight years ago he’d BE one of my kids!

I think I’m gonna take Bear and Widget for a trip to Petsmart today–cats need food and I want to get Bear on the scales and I wanna blow a couple bucks getting them some new toys to destroy… I wuv my boys, yes I do!

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Howdy, everybody. Not much going on here. Apparently our efforts to bring snow to snowbunny have not yet borne fruit, at least not at her altitude; it may be snowing higher up, but that doesn’t help them a whole lot. So next best thing to work on is at least keeping her temp cold enough that the man-made snow doesn’t melt as fast as they make it.

I hit the Zone working last night, so ended up staying up far, far too late finishing the latest big job, but it was great seeing the pages just fly off my fingers. There’s something almost magical about the Zone; it’s like making music, feels very creative. Which I know is not something most people feel at a keyboard, but it happens to me occasionally. I did more work last night than I had in the previous 3 days, if that tells you anything.

Now it’s a cool but fairly sunny day, and I’ve got a massive case of the Don’t Wannas. So I’m gonna Not Do It (whatever It is), except for goofing off online, reading, and knitting. Sounds like a good program to me. :smiley:

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taxi, all appropriate appendages are crossed.

haze, he wants you to be his dominatrix. :wink:

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Pugs, you must share pics of the goggies again. :slight_smile: And I don’t know what made me think of them just now either. Love the comment about Haze’s Irish lad, btw, made me LOL.

{{{{VWife}}}}}; sorry about the kitty. :frowning:

It’s good to see some old faces again, like Mork; please keep on dropping by to visit from time to time! We don’t bite … much. :smiley:

Not much going on in my world. Ima rest up a bit, then later tonight I’m going to make an apple streusel pie, wheee!

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But doesn’t the snow just roll downhill?

taxi–fingers, toes crossed here.

SmartAssTrebek don’t know from cookies, since my mind boggled at the BJ before the clubs sentence.

Haze–have you tried making the first move? Perhaps he suffers from permanent fear of rejection. Just tell him (when face to face): come here. Kiss me. If he doesn’t “get” it then, forget it. He’s permanently clueless and doesn’t deserve you.

Vunder–been meaning to ask you, how is the IV starting coming along?

I didn’t even know that armpits could be waxed. I don’t get out enough.
I am back from a long nap (which was heavenly) and my colonoscopy earlier in the day. It was fine. I have no CA, no polyps, no diverticuli, no hemorrhoids, no nothing. Now I have to go for my pelvic ultrasound and mammo, then I’m free for a bit (5 years). The Purge was remarkably painless EXCEPT for trying to chug the damned Gatorade mixed with Miralax. The Miralax doesn’t change the taste of the Gatorade, more’s the pity.

I’m still a bit wonky–that’s the nice cocktail they gave me: Versed, Fentanyl and Propofol. Nummy. And the anethestist was cute! Young, from NYC and asked me where I worked and if they’re hiring CRNAs there.

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It is not supposed to rain here in December!!!

Ooh, I wish I could afford to get more than my eyebrows (and last time she threw in my lip for free) waxed here. But it’s expeeeeeeeensive to get waxed up here. And I won’t even discuss what it’d cost for my legs. Besides, I’m not wearing shorts or skirts and it’s winter and nobody’s seeing my legs so I’m letting them go until spring. I can live with shaving my armpits; at least it’s a quick job.

Tomorrow is the company Christmas party, which starts right about when I get off work. Apparently there will be food (no alcohol, not that I really care, but I think the owner of the company that owns is is Mormon which would explain that), so I’ll go check it out briefly at least. I’m told they give presents as well; one person said chocolate, another person told me they’d gotten a ham. I wonder if they change it up from year to year? I’ll take whatever they give, though, I think I’ve earned it!

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Thanks for the good thoughts. We’re still waiting. (Well, I am at least… I haven’t heard from KT at all today.) Hopefully no news is good news!

At least my job seems secure right now. One of my coworkers is leaving at the end of the week and Manager and Boss have both taken me aside and said more or less “If you’re at all unhappy, please let us know. We’d rather change your job description a bit or even move you to a different department in the company than lose an employee. We really wish [coworker who’s leaving] had come to talk to us about wanting a change rather than leaving.” So I feel like they’re not about to let me go when they’re so strongly encouraging me to stay.