Home from dinner, stuffed. Watching the Packers play the Bears.
Dallas had turnover for dessert tonight.
W00T! First on 5!
Getting off the subject of dinner for now, I had a rather odd feeling this morning.
I attended church for the Thanksgiving service. Now, I’m Episcopalian, and worship in the cathedral church for my diocese. Today the sermon was not given by our two regular clergy, or either of the two deacons, but by a guest priest. He’s an assistant to the bishop, and his title in that role is Canon to the Ordinary, but don’t ask how that originates.
I don’t know the guy’s age, but he seems fairly young. He was a splendid preacher too, and not too far into the service the odd feeling crossed my mind “This guy is going to be a bishop someday, maybe even the Presiding Bishop”
I have never ever had any touch of what might be called “foresight”, so where in the heck did this come from?
I wonder if I’ll ever get the chance to know if this “premonition” will occur?
On a completely unrelated note he has a great sense of humor. Before the service I spoke with him and another regular member briefly. I was near the church entry where the opening procession was to start, as I was serving as chalist during the service. I mentioned to him and the other person I participate in the Death Pool, because the Phelps clan were outside our church just then, and Fred Phelps used to be a pick for DP players. I wasn’t sure what the priest would think of the macabre nature of the game, but he said “Oh sure! I know Death Pools! I’ve played them before!”
baker, it doesn’t seem like five years since you adopted Nathan. He sounds like a happy camper. Perhaps your guest priest is a doper? 
I just got back from my niece’s and I’m stuffed. Turkey, dressing, ham, mashed N.O.T.s, gravy, GBC, roasted autumn veggies, cheddar bay biscuits, salad, corn pudding, pumpkin cheesecake, pumpkin and apple pies. Good thing there was a crowd. Afterwards, the kids and I made mutant candy cane reindeer. 
The Pie Hole Holiday Report:
I cooked a used roast with the usual accouterments.
Mrs. Plant (v.3.0) posted a picture of Perseus trying to swipe my dinner.
Christ, I look old.
No fair! He has an in with the deciding vote! 
I never thought of that.
I suppose it’s possible he’s a Doper, but finding time to hang out here is hard at the best of times, in a job like his he’d be so busy.
Conclusion: Today was great! I think maybe they agreed on ‘No Politics at the Table’, because no one said anything offensive! The food was delicious, and I got to see a lot of family I don’t get to see often. All in all, a great family get-together.
Something I feel really silly about: I thought that scalloped potatoes was potatoes mixed with scallops. So I never tried it before this year. I’m such a goof! Also, I’d never tried candied yams. Both are delicious!
In the office - go me!! The commute in was super easy, but the kid at the WaWa who made my bagel had no idea how much cream cheese one should use. I’m guessing he’s never had a bagel with cream cheese because he gave me maybe a quarter of what he should have! Plus it was a toasted bagel, so some of it melted anyway. Not a great way to start the day.
I didn’t see nearly as many crazies headed to the stores as I expected, altho, as a coworker pointed out, the crazies were probably already there. **FCD **said yesterday he was going to go to WalMart today. If you know him, you know how insane a statement that is. He abhors WalMart, even under the best conditions. I offered to drop him off there this morning since I drove right past. Because I’m nice, dammit!
I’ve got work to do today - it may even be enough to keep me busy for 8 hours. Yes, today is an 8-hour day rather than the usual 9, so yay! It’s gonna seem longer, tho - I forgot to bring in a box of tissues and my nose is running already. I think I’ll steal a roll of TP…
Anyway, Happy Firday!!!
Happy Firday!
I’m up tfe, thank you dog, thank you bladder.
Bad enough to be up so damn early but I already got 4 text messages from a ‘friend’ because she is all upset over some bullshit in her life again. She needs help and I told her to go see a professional because her anxiety is out of control. She’s the kind of woman that if her bf comes over and wants to have sex she thinks he is using her for sex, but if he doesn’t want to have sex then obviously he is cheating on her, or he thinks she is too fat, or he isn’t attracted to her anymore.
Why doesn’t he want to have sex with her!!!
HTF am I supposed to know? Then I’ll point out that he worked 80 hours last week and maybe he’s tired.* MEN! are never too tired for sex! If they aren’t having sex with you then they are getting it somewhere else!* Okay, fine, then he is cheating on you, what are you going to do about it? If you think he is a cheater then you need to break up with him,please, please, please, do the poor guy a favor and break up with him Do you really think he is cheating on me? I don’t think he is cheating on me. He’s not the cheating type. Do you think he’s the cheating type? No, I think he is the dumb ass type who still hasn’t figured out that you never dip your wick in the crazy I don’t know if he is cheating on you or not, you are the one who thinks he is cheating. I think he is maybe tired, or not in the mood, or wth ever - why don’t you ask him? Why are you over analyzing this? You know you have a tendency to do that, just stop, you are making yourself crazy. and annoying the fuck out of me
So we will change the topic and everything is fine and then… *Do you think he is cheating on me? Do you think he thinks I’m fat. His ex-gf is fatter than I am and he got engaged to her. She is so ugly and he asked her to marry him, why won’t he ask me to get married? Why would he get engaged to her and not get engaged to me? Do you think he loves me? Do you think he loved her more than he loves me? Maybe he is still in love with her? *
Ain’t enough solder in the world to rewire those circuits.
Thus starts my day…
Blurf.
Now, it’s the Christmas season. Now it’s acceptable to put up decorations and play seasonal music. Now, is when stores should be putting out their holiday displays, not four months ago.
I know you’re right but I still think it’s too early.
Then again I am a bah-humbug kind of person.
I usually have my Christmas shopping done by now and I’ve barely started. I think it will be all gift cards this year and there’s no fun in that.
Blurf. Busy day at the irkplace today, despite it being Friday. On the plus side, it’s payday so my bank account is happy and my debts are paid. Time to start racking up some more now!
Did you all survive Turkey Day? I had a lovley evening at the Thinema watching a live screening of The Winter’s Tale from the Garrick Theatre in Lahn-dahn. It was very busy at our local arty place, but we managed to find seats and enjoyed the performance. I don’t think there’s anything else we want to see until next year now.
What’s all this seasonal business? Hexmas doesn’t start until December at the very earliest, and there should be no talk of putting decorations up until at least 15th December! Bah! Humbug!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up, caffeinated, and brekkied, so no YAWN. ‘Tis 54 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 77 for the day. 77? Dang! No big plans for the day. Definitely NOT goin’ to shop.
Sunday is the start of Advent, the four Sundays before Christmas. Thus it is not yet Christmas season. Advent is also the start of the Liturgical church year. You may use that fact the next time you are in need of trivial chatter at a cocktail party.
I suppose I should make myself presentable. It’s always good to be presentable.
Happy Firday Y’all!
Up and caffeinated. closing tonight. it’s only 26 days till Festivus.
Happy Friday!
The only things I have to do for the rest of the weekend are grocery shopping and laundry. Yay! Lazy weekend.
Greetings all. Turkey and Apple pie have been consumed to excess and a good night’s sleep completed. Raining out and looks to be sticking around for awhile, so I’m probably going to spend the day letting the 170 lb. Mastiff currently lying on my feet keep me warm (he belongs to my niece, and Archimedes is a gentle, if slobbering, soul).
Tried to monitor work from distance, but my VPN connection isn’t working, so I can’t check my e-mail. They have the pnone number here, so if there is any issues (there won’t be), they can reach me. I’m just so dedicated…
Got up earlier than I thought I would; yesterday was the most awesomest, but exhausting. Gotta run to the food sto’ & then fire up the smoker.
This been a <headdesk> morning so far. On one drawing I was trying to complete, I couldn’t hide an assembly that was not supposed to be seen, even with the boss giving me dumb suggestions.
Then when I went to make corrections on another drawing, a big chunk of the work I had done was gone! It was on the copy I’d printed for the engineer, but it wasn’t in the electronic file. Several reference planes I’d created were gone - either the engineer deleted them (BAD ENGINEER!!!) or the server ate them (BAD SERVER!!!) Regardless of what happened, I had to recreate all of the planes and re-do much of 3 sheets of work. I’m taking my lunch break just to keep from killing someone! Hence, <headdesk>.
On the other hand, just over 3 hours to go, so there’s that. And tomorrow’s the weekend, so there’s that, too.
And spousal unit was talking to me about coming to work where he is. Apparently they need drafters pretty badly, and his boss was asking if I’d be interested in doing some design work also. If they want me in engineer mode, they’ll have to pay me more, that’s for sure. So we shall see if it comes to an offer.
Meanwhile, I’m ready to go home…
So, now that everyone is in gift shopping mode, maybe drop a buck or two my way? Thanks in advance.
Howdy Y’all! We have been productive today. We cleaned out a storage buildin’, took two loads of good, usable stuff to Goodwill, and hauled off two loads of junk. Plus while we were at it, all the Crimmus stuff (there’s not a lot of that) got moved to easy reach for when I decide to do sump’n with it all. Now we’re all showered and in chillax mode.