No you don’t, but us and Civil Engineers have Diplomas on Pyromania (mine’s a DIN A2, because that’s too big for most printers, thus making my school’s diplomas hard to falsify). They’re more into the BOOM end of fires, although making sodium skippies and slapping perchlorate were two favorite entertainments in my college labs.
Tyger, I like the second one better. I think it’s the yellow hair, it attracts my attention more than the darker colors.
It’s snowing, but it’s not sticking on the roads. Yet. Alas, I must go to work for it is a true North Carolina Snow Day.
Conference calls make me stabby. Especially when they happen early in the morning and involve pointless discussion that goes nowhere.
There isn’t enough coffee in the world this morning. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Argle Blargle Blurf
Og damn all the stoopid visiting heads of state whose cavalcades block up traffic tighter than a toddler with withholding issues! It took me an hour to drive the 10km home from work this afternoon!!!
I came in here to share my joys of the day (so far) and find I cannot continue. I am so distressed that our gentle Dotster should be impugned in such a way. The horror of a gently born female being subjected to such treatment… I shall require my smelling salts in a moment. O! Tis a cruel life that awaits those of womenly virtues in this world.
<weeps into hanky>
Mahna–I’ve never done a conference call meeting, but regular meetings make me stabby, too. Sometimes I just want to say–hey, was this specifically designed to waste our time? I’m outta here. I’ve never done it, but I’ve been tempted…
I’m off to the grocery. In my next life, I will NEVER go to the grocery. I hate it that much. I will try to not turn into a human popsicle (it’s 3 outside. That’s -16 for you Europeans). I think I will have to have a Talk with Old Man Winter. Usually I’m fond of the old coot–he’s so adorable and I do enjoy his company, but we may need to up his meds at this point. He is acting inappropriately.
Madriz (capital of Espain) was blocked by snow several weeks ago. It’s now in alert for snowstorms tonight and tomorrow.
In Scotland, big white fluffy items of indeterminate and highly symmetrical shapes are falling gently from the sky.
One of my coworkers is supposed to fly Edinburgh-Madrid tomorrow at 7am (and he’s picking up his brand-new Master’s diploma on Friday), another one has the same route on Friday. Right now they’re fearing they may be spending the weekend here…
Yays for HRH using the potty! Big, big day.
Rigs, there’s always a learning curve and it doth suck verily having to do so in a sweatbox. Ugh. Sorry about TH’s layoff. I send you both quick turnaround vibes. Save some of those smelling salts for Dot. Gotta make sure she wakes up in time to turn the paper in. 
Pugs, those delivery windows annoy me to no end. I almost peed in my pants when the appliance people told me to expect them between 9 and 11 am. I’d never been given a 2 hour window on any kind of home service before.
swampy, imagination is good because I love all things lemon when it comes to desserts. Recipe duly noted! And alcohol is never optional in my kitchen. 
::snort:: I got an image in my head of the old British chemist in Lorenzo’s Oil, suited up, goggled and packing a 'thrower under his arm.
So…I haven’t been so well the past few days. Anxiety’s up and I’m not sure if this is because I’m now off the meds or if it’s peri-meno hormones. Definitely feeling better today, though! Have I mentioned that I now seem to have tinnitus? :mad: I’ve read that a serotonin deficiency may be the cause I wonder if this why I have this inexplicable on/off low grade anxiety. I’m so confuuuuuuuused and so very relieved to have a doctor’s appointment today. Grasshopper seeks the truth.
Other than that, it’s gonna be Showdown at the Hall Closet today. Housed within it are not just our linens, laundry supplies and bath and cleaning products, but now also board games, paperwork, candles, gift bags, batteries, back massager, computer software and…sigh. This may or may not lead to an Assault of the Storage Closet. There’s an attempted coup going on by Husband’s Tools to oust the Recycling Center.
Then again, all bets could be off if the sun actually shines today. 
Wishing y’all sunshine and warm fronts or clouds and cool breezes, as you need them.
Good morning!
Not too much blurf here. I slept pretty well! I’m sorry y’all are having sucky days at work and meetings and stuff like that. And I can’t imagine a school actually requiring papers to be written. :eek:
Belated congrats for HRH’s first potty success!
Y’all can feel sorry for me having to paint this stoopit funnel. Pro/E does not make it easy to “decorate.” I need orientation stripes and an angular scale with numbers every 5 degrees. Painted on a round surface. I don’t care if you don’t understand, trust me that IT SUCKS!
Anyway - time to go check on the Feud. Maybe it will be done and I can score it, and not paint my funnel.
Oh wait! Dinner last night!
Cajun Chicken Alfredo
1 tbs olive oil
1 lb chickie breasts or tenders, cut into bite size pieces
Cajun seasoning, to taste
Blackening seasoning, to taste
Salt and pepper, to taste
8 oz mushrooms, sliced
2 cloves garlic, minced
2-3 sun-dried tomatoes in oil, chopped
1/4 cup white wine or chicken stock
2 cups heavy cream or half-and-half
1 tbs parsley, chopped
1/2 cup grated parmesan
2 scallions, sliced
Cooked pasta
Season chicken pieces. Over medium high heat, brown chicken in oil. Remove chicken and set aside. Saute mushrooms and garlic until mushrooms are golden. Add sun-dried tomatoes. Deglaze pan with wine or stock. Return chicken to the pan. Add cream, and simmer on low until reduced by about half. Toss in parsley and parmesan, stirring to combine. Serve over pasta, or dump the pasta in the pan. Garnish with sliced scallions. Serve with green salad and crusty bread.
I’m with swampy. Color me hot summer! Psssst!!
And we aren’t even at the coldest yet. The goggies don’t like it either. They go out and there is no meandering or lingering over the piddle.
Speaking of goggies, doggio, we’re waiting!
Pffft! In my day we wrote our reports on stone tablets. And we liked it!
It’s hump day, innit?
Tupug
ETA: rebo, that looks Teh Yum!
No snow today! Wheee! I just might get my day off tomorrow after all! I can’t find my camera, I guess I have to buy another one for puppy pics.
Muppet, the highlight of conference calls at my last job were senior managers using phrases like “drive by”, “gang bang” and “shit”.
It’s raining Stay-Puf Marshmallow men?:eek:
Poor, poor, Dot. But then, life itself is cruel.
Dotty, next election, I’m voting for the candidate that visits Raleigh the least.
Pie, you should have asked me to move your slatwall.
Hope you doc helps, grasshopper.
The dog just horked up cat food.
Criminey, I did battle with all of the kitchen cupboards yesterday and reorganized them and now I have two empty shelves and 2 others that are only half full. Now I can go to Costco and load up on staples and have somewhere to keep them. It’s supposed to rain tomorrow so I’m going to attack the clothes and linen closets. I think that I’m so impatient for spring that I’m doing spring cleaning in February. I’m annoyingly neat and organized but my partner puts things away in the first empty spot that he sees no matter where he took it from in the first place.
OK time to work out. Actually it was time 15 minutes ago but I’m still stuck to the chair.
This NC Snow Day sucks down east. Barely a dusting and it melted away in an hour. Mountains…I need elevation…
I’m gonna join the incredibly pissed train today as well. Former Roommate has fucked us over in a bad way by not paying her two months rent (in addition to other costs incurred, but since those don’t involve me I’m not bringing that up). Power bill is horrendously expensive, the mortgage has been taken care of using skin-of-teeth tactics, and I’m seriously gonna cut a bitch if she doesn’t pony up at least $200 this afternoon. You do not mess with my financial equilibrium and have a happy life.
Fortunately, Complicated Roommate is going to lay down the law in an angry way, so I can just go to the teashop and work on the shameful section of my thesis this afternoon. Hopefully I can get away without spilling tea on it this time.
The Cajun chicken alfredo sounds wonderful, rebo! I made broccoli mac & cheese for dinner last night with a smokey gouda, and it was good. I think we’ll have to get more smokey gouda.
I’ve been really busy both with work and after work, fun-type activities last week and this week. It’s good, but I’m getting a little bit tired. And it’s leaving me a little frazzled and stressed which is leading to shoulder pain. Yippee. I wanna go home.
Preach it sister! Teachers (and bosses!) clearly have NO idea how incredibly HARD our lives are! I mean, there’s so much we have to do and they expect us to make time for them. Teachers, ah man, I mean who REALLY expects to go to school and then have to do WORK at HOME? It’s not fair.
I’d join your religion. Just look at how you’ve persevered in the face of oppression! Look at the sacrifice! Why, they should build you a monument!
Thanks. That seems to be the one everybody likes. Which is great, cuz I totally couldn’t make a decision. So what do you want me to draw for you?
It’s entirely possible that these words were used, but I couldn’t say for sure because the phone connection between us and the presenter was atrocious.
You know what’s worse than trying to follow along with a presenter who has a really thick incomprehensible accent? When that presenter with the thick accent is halfway around the world, sitting ten feet away from the speakerphone, and the phone connection sounds like it’s dropping more packets than a courier with epilepsy.
So, in theory, it’s entirely possible that one of their explanations was that “the data will be uploaded to the system via a batch gang bang function or as a one-off drive-by update, depending on what kind of shit the user is attempting to do”. Unlikely, but still possible. 
Hope your coworkers manage to make it onto their flights, Nava. It’s kind of funny to see how other parts of the world manage to cope with snow (or not cope, as the case may be)… we once had to call in the army to help us dig out from a particularly bad snowfall, and even ten years later the rest of the country won’t let us live it down. :rolleyes:
I can see my former boss including all those phrases in a conference call. And it worries me.
Tired. Nat was up every forty minutes to hour and a half last night, got up at six-thirty, and hasn’t napped yet. Eyes are sort of crossed, and I have someone coming over at 1:30. Everyone pray to various deities that he sleeps at 12:30 or so.
Oh mah goodness, a PAY-PUH? has vapors, swoons, gives self smelling salts, recovers Whah, that is positively inhumane, bless your little heart…
No, I’m not from the south although my mama at one time had the thickest Tennessee accent you’d ever want to hear–or not! I think I osmosed it…
The tooth is much better today–I did hear yah, Mahna[sup]2[/sup] & Doggio, but it’s a root canal gone bad and the last time I went in to an emergency type place with a similar issue they just yanked the fucking thing, leaving me almost no chewing surface on one side of my mouth with zero concern for what that was going to do to my life. I refuse to have that happen again! I’m going to find a dentist, we’re going to sit down and plan how to address my multiple tooth issues in such a way that doesn’t end up with me eating pudding and mashed potatoes for six months. I’m doing just what they’d do–500mg Amoxicillin 3 times a day x 10 days and Aleve for pain. Well, they’d probably give me Vicodin or something but since I can get as good or better drugs whenever I feel like it I’m in no big hurry to put myself into someone else’s hands until I’m sure they’re going to be responsible and sensible. My problems with my teeth date back to childhood and a sadistic shithead dentist that my parents foolishly took us to–he literally ruined my teeth with unnecessary drilling and I was advised later that I had an excellent malpractice case against the guy. Unfortunately by then he was no longer practicing so I never followed up on it, but it’s left me extremely jaundiced regarding the dental profession…
On a happier note, my mini-elliptical machine came in yesterday and I put it all together–it’s neat! My only quibble is that the range of motion is short and being a longetty leggety beastie I stride rather than step but I’ll get used to it and it definitely does work! Now I can get my exercise regardless of what the weather’s doing–although today I have nothing to complain of since it’s bright and sunny and gorgeous out–supposed to go to the mid '50s today! :eek:
I’m a little discouraged that my weight isn’t dropping–I don’t cheat at ALL on my diet and I’ve been making my exercise plan (well, barring the last couple of days since it’s painful to get the heart rate up with a toothache) but the scale ain’t budging. I’m doing all the right stuff, cycling my calorie intake a bit to fool my body that it ain’t starving, planning an occasional splurgy day, but it’s not coming off. My pants are definitely getting looser, though, so it might be that I’m exchanging fat for muscle. This isn’t all that unusual for me, I’m a definite mesomorph with competitive body building in my history so if I exercise I bulk up quickly. For the purposes of a Biggest Loser competition, however, this is not helpful! Oh well, the ultimate purpose is to get in better shape, and weight is just a number!
I’m off to play with my new exercise toy!
Where is everybody???
Smarty, you killed it!!! :eek:
Wow, no shit I did! Let’s have a party then, they’ll be sorry they bailed out!
Woo HOO! HOT TUB!! splash
I did thirty minutes on my new trainer and it was FUN! Here’s my music set for it:
Rumble – Link Wray
Israelites – Desmond Dekkar
Safety Dance – Men Without Hats
Walk Like An Egyptian – Bangles
Look At That Cadillac – Stray Cats
Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer – Morphine
Can’t Stop The Rock – Apollo 440
I Against I – Mos Def/Massive Attack
Does that make me weird?