Do you babble from the cortisone or from the sedation? I’m having this done next week… inquiring minds need to know!
The scary thing is that the spine doc gave me the option of two locations to have it done, and cautioned me that one of the locations was infamous for talking people out of getting the sedation. :eek:
The case was continued to Jan 28th per our motion. Yes, there are financial incentives to going on the show and being humilated on syndicated TV. W get an apearance fee plus whatever the judgement is for. She gets some financial help with the judgement, possible free rehab, and a trip to California before going to The Graybar Hotel for about 5 years.
The magistrate actually liked the idea of taking the case to TV. The open question is is Sharon’s ability to travel while out on bail.
The odd part is she was shocked that we were civil to her.
Argh! Waiting sucks. No news from KT yet at all. Blurgh.
Hugs to **gotti **and **Mama Tigs **for the back pain/issues. Back pain sucks.
I think the grades call for a wet trout to the head, rigs. I think we have one around here somewhere you could use.
I really need distraction right now, and although there’s a bunch I need to get done today, it’s all in waiting mode. Argh!
I don’t know which one it is, although it only happened the time they did injections on both sides of my back simultaneously (at the nerve root). So I’m hoping if I just stick to one injection at a time, it won’t happen. Barring that, Papa Tiger will be armed with a stout sock. :dubious: 
On the good news/bad news front, Papa Tigs is in this stupid “how to be a supervisor the Army way” class all week, and the bad news is that he was originally informed he couldn’t miss any of it for any reason or he’d fail to get the certification. The good news is that he talked them into letting him take off for a couple hours tomorrow to attend the funeral of his employee who died last week. Gee, thanks, folks. :rolleyes: Today’s class was so exciting – the instructor announced they were behind, so rather than actually discuss anything, she proceeded to just read her PowerPoint slides. Slide after slide after slide. Papa Tigs fortunately didn’t fall asleep and start snoring, but the guy two desks behind him did. Hee!
And I think I figured out why Rusty the Idiot golden retriever felt bad all weekend – he apparently ate something again that disagreed with him. I learned this on picking up the dog poop in the back yard (fortunately, my back feels better if I’m bending over than if I’m standing up), and finding some of his that was distinctly odd. At least this time we didn’t spend $450 on his tummyache the way we did the last time he did this (when he ate the mole last year). Stoopid dog!
And I have decided definitely I will not go to the presidential inauguration in person, much as I want to – even without tickets, they’re setting up big screens around the Mall so people can see what’s going on – since I learned on the news yesterday that they’re expecting so many people to attend, they’ve issued a long list of prohibited items to bring, including chairs! Although snowbunny, bless her devious little heart, suggested a wheelchair, and I’d like to see them prevent me attending in that. I simply can’t stand that long, though, so I will watch at home. And then go to the inaugural ball in the evening that we’ve almost definitely got tickets for (we’ve send in our $$ money but haven’t heard back yet, but Papa Tigs is pretty sure we’re good). We shall see.
Can you tell I’m babbling here to avoid getting to work? I’m pretty transparent sometimes, aren’t I? 
I am exceedingly impressed with thinkgeek.com - I placed an order Monday night, and my package arrived today - regular UPS ground. And free shipping to boot - that was the Cyber Monday special.
I’ll be going to DC (actually Boling AFB) on Tuesday for a training meeting. I’ll connect with my coworker in the WalMart parking lot and we’ll carpool in together - I hope he wants to drive. I hate driving in the DC area during the morning rush.
**FCD **may be in Houston next week for stress analysis training. Which means we’ll be apart on our 25th anniv. Ah well… it’s not like we were going to do anything - we’d have put off going to dinner till the weekend anyway.
Scruffy is barking - it’s feeding time. Back laterz…
Well, another day gone and no layoff announcement from KT’s company. So… the rumors were completely wrong. And now we’ll just face more days of waiting and worrying. And by “we” I mean mostly me because KT’s not a worrier so he’s just taking it all in stride.
Oh well. At least things are ok for now!
Nava hope you’re feelin’ better and it’s not MS. BioTigs and gotti hope the back/spine problems get better soon.
Sorry about Audrey BBBobbio but cool on the Judge Joe Brown gig. He’s the best and funniest imo of all those judge shows.
Taxi appropriate/inappropriate appendages stayin’ crossed for KeithT.
Howdy Y’all! Dindin was teh num again. I lurve ham and N.O.T. soup! Tomorrow’s red beans and rice (ok, plus sausages) will also be teh num. Ima do a green sallit and some good crusty garlicky bread to go along with it.
Work was sort of a hoot today. I did some QC stuff and answered some calls. One call was from a guy with his wife listenin’ in. He was actin’ all poed about some charges (about 200 bucks worth of medianet charges) on his bill he was swearin’ he didn’t make. Ummm… pay per use medianet is .01/kb and one cannot “accidentally” download tons of data from three sites. The names of the sites are listed on the bill. I pointed out that there was no way the downloads could be “accidental” and that a good way to find out what those sites are would be to search on the internet because, duh, they are websites. Well, I heard wifey say in the background that she was gonna do that and suddenly the line went dead. So, either hubby figured out the jig was up and hung up or wifey killed him right then and there on the spot. I have a feelin’ those sites were those kinds of sites if’n y’all know what I mean. Pr0n on the cell phone! Whodda thunk it!
Plus I taught somebody how to change a ringtone. Following a set of simple instructions on their device is too much for some people. Instead they have to queue up and wait for somebody to tell ‘em how. I mean we’re talkin’ all of maybe forty-five seconds to tell her how and she could have been waiting upwards to fifteen-twenty minutes or more until she got me. 
So, how was everybody else’s day?
not only Is it Firday yet? but also Is it Spring yet?
It’s not Firday, but I have tomorrow off, so it almost counts, right? (I’m working on Friday, so it’s not a super-long weekend, but having an extra day off feels great.)
Hope you’re feeling better, Nava. I remember you talking about your maybe/maybe-not MS from earlier accounts. Wish they could figure it out just so you’d know. At least you know what to expect.
I think I’d stick to whatever ringtone was the default if my only option was to call in to get help and be stuck on the phone for ages. Funny suspected pr0n story.
Glad KT still has a job, taxi. Good thoughts for his continued employment headed your way.
Judge Joe Brown, eh? At least someone will get some amusement out of it. And maybe it will actually help Sharon in the long run.
Gentle hugs to those of you who are achey.
Here’s another wet trout for #1 son,** rigs**. Hope he shapes up quickly. Also, I love the Norman Rockwell image of the stuffing-with-straws family.
Had curried turkey salad for din-din. And some gingersnaps.
Off to plan for tomorrow.
GT
Is anyone up for Monday? I’ll take it if it’s available…
I had a Come to Jesus talk with #1 son tonight. Thank god TH agreed that I should do it. (he thinks that #1 is just an immature blow off–which may be part of it, but not all of it).
He is going to talk to his physics teacher because he just got an A on a test in there. Turns out, he was worried about his French grade and was doing his French homework in pre-calc. (can you all see what’s wrong with this method of problem solving?). Anyway, I called the school and got signed up for ParentConnection. Now I can see from the website what assignments he’s missing. He says it’s all busy work and “stupid”. Huh. As if. Life most of life isn’t stupid busy work. :rolleyes:
Sorry about your son’s grades, Rigs, and hope that the “come to Jesus” talk gets through to him.
Fingers crossed for KeithT, Taxi!
And yay on the Judge Joe Brown, BBBBobbio - he’s one of my favorites of the judges. She may have agreed to go on the show because they’ll pay some or all of the judgement for her, I’ll bet. She will get actual prison time from all this in the end, though, right?! Again, hugs to VWife for Audrey’s demise.
It is brrr cold here too! I made an apple crumb pie last night. I’ve been having terrible problems with apple pie - they just don’t turn out right for me, it seems. Although the last double crust apple I made turned out fine, my bad luck with the crumb topping continues. The crumb topping totally flopped - literally! It melted all into the apples, which themselves cooked a bit dry. The only good thing was while it looked sad, it still tasted good. In fact, I had a small piece for breakfast. 
At any rate, I think I’ll be making some beef barley soup this weekend in the crock pot. Please send good thoughts to the barley though … this is another things that I have problems cooking! Strange as it may sound, barley always seems to come out -under- seasoned for me. Hopefully, this weekend will be different!
Normally, yes, but in this case I seriously believe it’s just a matter of Sheboss making plans for us taking days off exactly “never” and taking it personally when we want to. See her remarks to MathGirl about not being paid for taking 2 hours to go get her boobs checked, and her famous line “but how can you do this to me?” which belongs more on the vocabulary of a spurned lover than that of a manager. I mean, seriously, which kind of boss asks “but how can you do this to me?” whenever someone announces a doctor’s appointment or requests a day off?
We’re having training in the morning and meetings in the afternoon, with at least two people from our team in every single meeting. There was no need for anybody to fill in. But she claimed that “she didn’t believe (the teacher) would provide any written materials and (the teammates) would be able to inform me properly of anything that was relevant for my work.” The teacher has been providing written materials and, since we politely chorused at him “in Spanish and b/w it’s worth shit, and please send it beforehand by email so people can read it in advance if they want to,” he’s been sending the stuff beforehand, in color and in something closely-enough resembling English. That’s where I had to cave in, because my BP was starting to go through the roof and smacking idiots at work is illegal.
Aaaaaanyway. As expected, I’m fine today. Thanks Og, Ogette, Hygiene and other folks in care of health the “episodes” normally last one day, tops. If I see one coming at mid-afternoon and I don’t have any meetings, I just leave work early without making any fuss: next day I’m fine.
gt, the neurologist says that although we could go pitbull and run through the whole list of “tests that may or may not detect MS,” it seems less painful to just go with a diagnosis of “Parasympatic System overloads under stress.” He said that, same as other people get colds or the runs when they’re stressed, I happened to hit the jackpot and what goes haywire is the part of the nervous system that regulates all the automatic stuff.
swampy, I’ve got customers and relatives like that ringtone lady. Sometimes it’s because the instructions aren’t as clear for them as for the writer; sometimes the writing is just too small. Sometimes, like my mother, they just don’t follow written instructions well. My mother took a course on how to use the computer, the book is really, completely, totally, written with grandmothers in mind, several of her classmates actually use the book - Mom uses it only as “the place where I jot down the notes.” Trying to get her to actually read the typed parts, fugedaboudit.
You know, rigs, in my first year of college I saw that 3 of the 6 subjects were “pass with my eyes closed,” for 1 I had a language problem, for another I had to work, and the 6th (Calculus) was going to be a bitch. I’d spend Chemistry, Physics and Numeric Calculus multitasking: taking notes for the class (or checking what the prof said against my notes from HS, why kill trees if you already have the material), doodling and doing Calculus exercises. It didn’t save my Calculus grade and could have gotten me in trouble with the other three teachers. Hopefully Son#1 will figure out better ways of pulling up the subjects in which he’s weak.
{{{{{{}}}}}} to diverse people. You can all take a bunch as needed
Who wants FCM on Monday? Aye if you do!
Aye!
Against?
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The ayes have it.
(In Spanish “ay”, plural “ayes,” is a complaint. Talk about a false friend!)
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ here. Another brrrr day outside though not as brrrr as yesterday mornin’.
Nava when I was in trainin’ for current gig, we had a trainer who is from Puerto Rico. She said “AY! AY! AY!” a lot. As a result, there’s a group of AT&T employees that now go “AY! AY! AY!” when stuff goes wrong. It’s my trainin’ class’s little in joke.
Ok, off in search of more and more caffiene. I needs it today. Plus tummy is rumbly and wants brekkie.
Later Y’all!
Blurf. Must forage; 1st cup of WTHU down.
If/when JJB is over, I think I’ll do an “Ask the…” thread about it. Sharon did a lot of sucking up yesterday while we waited. It reminded me of a 5 year old trying to bargain their way out of the ass-whuppin’ they know they deserve. It also says she hasn’t hit rock bottom yet, and that needs to happen before she can change for the better.
VWife thanks everyone who sent her {{{}}}. The vet told her flat out that she was not short-changing Audrey, because she would not have lasted the week on her own. VWife found that harsh but comforting.
Off to find me some brekkies.
Hi everybody!
Back online after close to 48 hours of: sleep, work on customer’s site (so no fooling around on the internet), straight to airport for two-leg flight to Tel-Aviv, get home at 4:30 AM and get a few hours sleep, and get to the office to work around noon… just finished working out from under the immediate stuff… Good to be back.
Did not retain everything but…
Nava, hope you’re feeling better (and She-Boss is a raging idiot :rolleyes: )
**Taxi **-- hope the rumors stay just that (and KT’s job stays just that!)
**Rigs **-- Teenagers… Can’t live with them, can’t kick 'em out of the house yet!
**VBob **-- {{{}}} for Audrey; interesting to see how JJB plays out, keep us posted!
{{{Gotti}}} – pain sucks
**Haze **-- you don’t think maybe a pilgrimage to the Holy Land could cause your personal wish to be fulfilled…? 
Everybody else – hi!, yay, boo, {{{}}} take whichever you need from the pile
Firday tomorrow – which means my (official…) work week is over in about 3 hours!
G’morning all…caffeinating here (2nd cup, at work). SpecialOne, you are very bad, tempting Haze, or trying to at least.
Thank Og tomorrow is Firday!
The actual confrontation never happened. We tried to film her taking the drugs from VWife’s prescription container, but she never actually took the bait, plus the computer didn’t do the video capture properly.
The end came when she demanded her up-front fee for the month’s cleaning, then absconded to a rehab facilty without actually delivering. We know of a minimum 10 felony counts on her for theft of prescription narcotics and/or money, including the complaint we filed, so a small claims action against her is off in the legal noise.
Argle Blargle Blurf.
That is all.
Mpfh. Caffeinated. Went to bed early last night because I’ve been completely whipped the last few days. The extra sleep helped. The cat waking me up at 5am did not, but that’s why I keep a spray bottle full of water close to hand.
psst MROW! zoooom
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Vbob - Wow, that’s one weird lady, and a pretty blatant thief. I mean, I can’t speak for anyone else, but besides whatever degree the financial motivation is to appear on that show, there’s no way I’d ever go on it unless I knew I had a slam dunk case (if I was in your position) or a foolproof defense with verifiable alibi (if I was in hers). Is her only motivation the trip and appearance fee? That can’t be worth more than her dignity, so I can only assume she has none, 'cos she’s gotta know she’s going to lose. And yet she’s still trying to bargain. Nope, I just don’t get some people.
Nava - Ahh, so SheBoss is a control freak then, but the kind who uses guilt instead of threats. In order to get what you want then, you have to out-guilt her. MathGirl could have said something to the effect of, “Well, I didn’t want to do this to you, but I promise, next time I’ll make sure any diseases clear it with you before they strike, OK?”
Puggy - Oh, and here I thought it was an amusing typo. I’m still going to make a point of working “generals” into a conversation though.
mmmmmmouse - I can recommend tons – both to download and to avoid. I’ve got a blog full of 'em. (I specialize in the free stuff) Shoot me a PM and I can point you to some links on reviews so you can see what some of the better stuff is like before bothering to waste time downloading. (Don’t wanna clutter this place up wth links, 'specially when they’re to a non-personal blog.)
Okay, back to work/blog.