Heavens, no. :eek:
The urinal in question is the lightweight, plastic, portable kind.
It has stopped raining here for a bit–another .25 inch, though. I’ve forgotten what it is to be dry.
Hope the Ernesto thingy turns out to be all rain and wind (but not torrential or high).
Baked many loaves of bread. I made a ham and black pepper with cheese loaf that I’d like to make again, maybe tomorrow, to perfect it. I also really like working on soft briochey type bread. I think I made eight loaves today.
I’m doing a leg of lamb pot-roasted in white wine and garlic, but there isn’t anyone around to eat it. I think I’ll cook it, do the gravy, freeze it, and we’ll eat it on Friday. Tonight will probably be bread, maybe an omelette, and wine.
I had to run back to work,something else got unplugged. :smack:
LiLi, that bread sounds good, can you email me a loaf?
[Cheers]Swampy![/Cheers] Welcome back. I’m glad you made it out.
Welcome back, swampy! In your honor, I’ve stocked up on 4-12 packs of toilet paper! It was on sale! I’ll think of you every time I use it! 
Wow…Alistair McCello stopped by! He was already a certified Cool Kid by virtue of having attended the Central Michigan Dopefest. (He was really interesting to talk to…)
Ellen, I think you should go ahead and start your thread. I think it would be helpful to hear from someone who has gained some distance, at least in time, from such a loss.
How’s your Mom’s recovery going, Taters?
Wow…I sure hope we don’t get hit by the amount of rain you’ve had, rigs! And congrats on the new job. How many hours will you be working in the library?
Wow, Jahdra, AC sounds like a real peach. :rolleyes:
Meeks, you can’t be away for days. We’ll get lonely!
There’s more, but I’m in the midst of cleaning up for company on the weekend and early next week.
lightingtool, Rue hasn’t been around much; he stops by most weeks, but usually not for long. 
That working outside the home thing sure does take up our time! Maybe he’ll be able to stop by a bit more often once the kids are back in school. (Shouldn’t they be back in school by now?)
I’ll probably just be driving by until company is gone… (We seem to have a plague of that at the moment - the drive-bys, not the company - don’t we?)
Off to bed so that I can get up early and clean some more.
Hi everyone!!! And especially: hi scout!
Gt
Hi all!!
::jumping up and down waving::
So. The last of my preview/sneak peek/registration nights at schools is done. Pretty much everything that can be done to be done for Thursday morning is done. The Mock School Day went mucho excellente.
I just now finished e-mailing 16 sets of PDF files of student lists, and stop lists and maps to principals, asst. principals and secretaries at schools.
Tomorrow is kind of a cleaning up of loose ends, then we sleep…ok, others sleep, I can’t remember the last “night before start-up” that I’ve slept more than 45 minutes or so - get up and wait for school to start on Thursday. I only detail all of this, because I’m not alone here…all of the principals, administrators and support staff look like we just left a death march. Y’all keep that in mind when you meet your kid’s principal on the first day of school, ok?
Today alone, even with the slowing down I had today, I answered no less than 44 e-mails, was on the phone about all frigging day, and stood in a grade school gym until 8:15 tonight.
After, when I was standing by Sue and Heidi, the principal and AP, we were talking to a group of parents and one said we must be dreading Thursday. Like a chorus, we said no, we want Thursday to come so we can quit getting ready for school to start and just start the damn thing. Truth is, I can’t wait til Tuesday, which will be the first “normal” day of school and we start settling into a routine.
On another note, tomorrow is one year since the Wife and I closed on this house.
About three weeks later, we took in this little guy, remember?
Wife and i decided that since Dr. Heather told us he was 3 weks old at the time, which I think I verified through checking out what 3-week old cats should be, developmentally, that we would declare the anniversary of the day we bought the house, to be his birthday.
Hence, tomorrow is Cuervo’s First Birthday. We celebrate tonight with some Moet, and once I finish this last glass, I open the Harp.
You are all welcome to celebrate his thriving-ness
Hey, tomorrow’s an easy day at work, I’m going in late, and in pain. I deserve it.
I love cooking. I’m making jambalaya tomorrow.
Since it looks like the uncle who offered to teach me to drive might not be able to do it after all, or at least not very often each week, I am looking again into trying to go to driving school. The nearest one that will actually give lessons on the road, as opposed to just the pre-licensing short course, is nearly forty miles away. Wonder of wonders, my mother has decided that she’ll take me there if she really has to do it.
I know I’m a horribly ungrateful daughter, but it would have been kind of nice if she’d done this four or so months ago. But I’m used to being said horribly ungrateful daughter.
Aww, it’s Cuervo’s birthday already? And isn’t he a handsome boy!
We got rain, too, FCM. Unfortunately, since it was looking like it was going to rain and I realized I’d left a chair out in the yard from playing with the dogs, I decided to pop out quickly and put it in the shed…and just as I reached it the rain started pouring down. The chair, being fabric, was soaked before I could lay a finger on it. So I turned back and dashed back to the house. And then had to change, since I was soaked, too. But I put on PJs warm right out of the dryer. I love clothes right out of the dryer, so soft and fresh and warm! Mmmm…
Good evening everybody, and welcome back dear Swampy. Today has been a very long day.
I worked my ass off at work (you’d think it would shrink some, hmm?), came home made Dirty Rice for din-din, dashed to the mall with daughter, bought a couple of outfits for school, got her hair cut, washed and styled, dashed home, filled out paperwork to take to daughter’s school tomorrow, and have finally just got to relax. It’s ten friggin’ o’clock.
Tomorrow, I go into work, leave at 11:00, dash home, pick up the daughter, drive to her school and go through the hell that is registration for classes, buying ASB card, yearbook, etc. Then I get to dash home, make dinner, take son to the mall, come home fill out HIS registration paperwork.
Thursday, I take son to school for the hell that is registration for classes, buying ASB card, yearbook, etc. After that, I go to work and work my ass off some more. Then I come home, cook dinner, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Friday, after work, I’ll take both of the kids to the mall to hopefully, finish up school clothes and supplies shopping.
I feel I’ve really been spinning my wheels at work these last couple of weeks. I just can’t seem to make any progress, yet more stuff is being asked of me everyday. I’m there to work and to be an asset to the organization and command, but I’m feeling just slightly overwhelmed and FRUSTRATED beyond belief.
I spent most of the day (between all my other regular duties and additional new taskers) trying to figure out how to do something in MS Access. I finally got the damn syntax down for what I want, but I’m not getting the end product I need. It’s killin’ me because I had do this once before, and succeeded, but I can’t get it to work this time. I did a left outer join (common field is name) between two tables in a query and I want the end product to give me a list of the names that don’t match. Column 1 in query would be names from table 1, column 2 would be names from table 2, and column three would be names that didn’t have a match between tables. Table 1 has the bigger list of names. I’ve beaten my head on the desk in frustration. I’m going to go to the MS Access site and do the ask the professional user thingie. I feel like a big useless git about now because I haven’t figured it out.
**gt, ** thanks for asking about my mother. I called yesterday to check on her, but she was sleeping. She will see the doctor again on Thursday where treatment options will be discussed.
FCM, having met you, I had a real funny mental image of you and your dog when you related your doggie vs cat adventure. Thanks for the smile and give ol’ Bernie a cookie from me.
**rigsy, ** I forgot to do this upthread, but many congrats on your new job.
I’m going to go veg in front of the TV for a bit before I turn in.
welcome home, swampy
hey, mbg, that’s an awfully big kitty for just over a year old (figuring he was actually 2 or 3 months when you got him)
Aaahh, yes, sounds familiar…
Who decided Zebra printers should be used, by the way? The only appropiate use I can find for those monsters is dropping them from a great height as a method to poke holes into the ground.
Ellen Cherry, I think the idea is good, but you may want to call the thread something else. The “ask the…” makes it sound to me like it would be about your personal process, which I know is not the idea.
Gratz eleanorigby on the new job where you actually get to sit down occasionally! I’ve had a few instances where my boss decided to dump on me some task he hated and he’d apologize profusely for it… and it was something I like and am good at and it gave me an excuse to get off my feet. A lot of Production guys think that if the lab girl isn’t standing up when they get there she’s being lazy - they can sit on their ass while watching the control computer, but we can’t sit on ours while waiting for samples to come in unless we have a Good Excuse. Not a lab girl anymore, but I used to be one.
Finally arrived in Denver after several delays and much sitting around in airports. I discovered a new rule for flying though, I should never bring novels in verse with me on flights, from now on I will stick strictly to prose. Whenever I read novels in verse I always need to underline things and make margin notes, it turns out it can be difficult to do this on an airplane. We had a bit of turbulance and I found myself spending a fair amount of the flight carefully timing my pen strokes as to not scribble all over my copy of Eugene Onegin.
It is after 1 AM here and I have less than 5 and a half hours to sleep before I have to make the hour and a half drive to Fort Collins and yet the first thing I do when I get to my hotel room is whip out my laptop and check the MMP.
(Hello again gt, glad to here I actually came off as interesting!)
Awww! MBG, Cuervo is so cute! And boy, has he filled out! LOL (Yes, I remember how small he was!) Good luck tomorrow with the start up of school, btw. 
FCM, I hope Bernie is out of the dog house with you by now. It is kinda nice to know the old gal still has some get up and go though, isn’t it? Just not when you have to chase her, and experience all that other stuff too! So I hope you’re not too sore this morning!
Good mornin’ y’all!
I was goin’ to post again last night but we had some thunderboomers, so I didn’t. Plus I went to bed at eight o’clock cause I was a tired bear!
Welcome to all the new folks! I’ve read back through the thread but I can’t remember all your names. Just glad you’re here. I also see we’ve had a few Dopers who occasionally drop in post this week. Howdy to y’all too!
Great op taxi. State fairs are a wondrous thing in my opinion. I haven’t gone to the Georgia National Fair (really, that’s what it’s called) in a couple of years but am thinkin’ I will this year. It’s held in October and it’s only about 70 miles north, so it can be a good day trip.
rigs congrats on the liberry job! Sounds like you’re starting to live your dream. YAY!
fcm Bernie is not bad, she’s just high spirited. Give her a cookie and a butt skritch from her Unca swampy, ok?
MBG Cuervo has gotten to be a big fella. Happy Birthday Cuervo!
Everybody else, I’m sorry, YAY!, that’s great, that sucks… whatever fits cause, I can’t remember it all. I mean, we’re already up to page four.
EC I haven’t checked out any other threads yet, so I don’t know if you started the grief thread or not. If you haven’t, I say go for it. I’m thinkin’ it’d get a lot of response.
You know what works well on airplanes, Alistair? Memorising poetry. That way you’re concentrating hard on something, which takes up time nicely, and you get to worry your seatmate by muttering under your breath a lot.
Cuervo is adorable.
Taters, I think you need a drink. Actually, many people here need drinks. Drinks all round!
I sleep when I fly. Well, not when I fly, rather when I’m on an airplane that’s flying. Cause, you know, I can’t fly and if I could fly, it’d probably be a bad idea to fall asleep while flying cause I’d probably crash cause I was asleep and forgot to flap. Oh… when I’m flying in an airplane I sleep. Sunday I had a looooooong 55 minute flight to Miami and I slept. I missed the beverage and little snackies. Sad isn’t it?
Well, it’s 4:33 here (as I begin this post), I have been awake for a little over an hour trying to get back to sleep, but nooooooo…between picking raspberries day before yesterday and the rain which began during the night, I have got a case of the olds going. I just swallowed some ibuprophen and a muscle relaxer so that by the time I get the kids off to school I will be able to nap.
Cuervo is a pretty kitty, I have said that before, and will prolly say it again. His baby pic is sooo cute, does he really have green eyes? I love green eyed cats. Happy birthday to the flame tabby kitty! Our new kitties are in the, um, doghouse with me. They broke off a leaf from my split leaf philodendron, and then knocked over my begonia and broke it in half, spilling half of the dirt onto the carpet. In addition to the kitty olympics, which begin approximately at midnight and end around 4:00 am. However, since I am up, they have decided to extend this night’s version. They are cute and sweet, but it will be nice when they are a little older and calmer.
Oh, and one of my pommies is in heat, so she is gated in the kitchen. The boys are mostly being good about it, except for one. Cash (named for Johnny) will go to the gate and “talk”, so I tell him to go to bed, which he does. For about 30 minutes. Then he is back at the gate “talking” again. I know that he knows that Fawn can climb the gate if she wants to, and I think he is trying to talk her into a tryst. No puppies right now!
Oh, fcm I feel you pain. And indignity. And whatever else! Getting out of my house without at least one of the dogs getting out is nigh unto impossible. On berry picking day it was Satine and Jewel who flashed past my feet, but at least they listen, and came back to the house. Usually it’s Mischa, my first and oldest pom, and once he’s out he’s gone. One cannot catch a pom, they are just too fast. Mischa tends to do laps around the house, so two people are required to cut him off and grab him. He always has a stupid doggy grin on his face by the time he’s caught, too.
Having the kids in school is great, and for all their nervousness at starting new schools they are having a good time. #3 had homework last night, and she got it done without the grumbling and procrastinating I have come to expect. We are off to a good start.
#1 and I have been on the outs for a couple of months, but I finally sent her a note telling her it was stupid and I want to move on, and she sent me back a note telling me that she was ready to be over it too, so all is well. She just went through her first month of fertility treatment, but it looks like she didn’t catch this month. I told her that she and her husband just need more practice!
Well, it’s going on 5:00, so I am going to read for a bit before I have to roust the kidlets. I am so looking forward to my nap! I hope that all of you in the real world are having a good day, and I’ll check back in later. TTFN!
Flying from Costa Rica back to Spain last Easter, the flight was already delayed by the time we left CR. Then we had the stopover in Panama, where I ate a burger and bought one of those MnM dolls/dispensers (it’s a blue MnM with a basket ball, but it’s kind of too big for plain MnMs, you have to use the kind with peanuts). We finally left Panama about 1am instead of 11pm and I fell asleep on my way from the door to the seat - ok, not quite, but almost.
The stewardess woke me up. I mumbled “nznks” and turned over as much as the seat allowed. She shook me again and tried to pull down the tray. Still not fully awake, I pushed her hand away from the tray and covered the little rotating thingee that keeps it in place with my hand.
My hand was still there when I woke up, three hours later. I hopped over by the kitchen to ask what kind of feed they had and decide whether I wanted to try and get mine. One of the stewardesses, pretty pissy so I imagine it’s the one who’d woken me, informed me that I didn’t want it before. I said “yes yawn I know… hm… listen, if you can’t get any now 'at’s ok, but I know we’re not getting any food until 6 hours from now, so if you got peanuts or anything? And yeah I know you charge yawn uh, sorry” She glared at me until one of the other female crews started giggling. They told me what they had, it didn’t sound like anything I wanted to try, so I got a bag of peanuts.
If any of you is a flight steward: please don’t wake me… zzzzzz… specially for that kind of food.
Wow, MBG, Cuervo sure has grown! Told you that you were going to end up with a fine crop of cat! Wonder if he’s related to Yogi? Please give him birthday ear scritches from Aunt SCL.
Welcome back, Swampy! We missed you!
Kai, pommie puppies are so cute! Widdle waddling fuzzballs, they are!
Rigs, I love working in a library. I’ve done it two or three times and may do it again. People who like books are usually decent people, although of course there are exceptions.
I went to the dentist this morning to get my crown, and he numbed me. After saying he wouldn’t have to. So I am numb and grumpy. I am meeting a lady today to turn over a bag of old clothes to be used for quilt material. She has a group of Daisy Scouts (whatever they are) who are making quilts for service members and put a request for material on FreeCycle. When I volunteered the old clothes, she said the girls will enjoy cutting up clothes as much as the quilting! So I will have done a good deed.
This afternoon I’m going to the Welcome Home clelbration for the World Champion Little League team.
Think I am going to have a short nap.
Only 4??? That’ll be gone before you know it. You need at least a case at a time. You’re going to run out of toilet paper!!! :eek:
Oh, umm… gotti. Yeah, c’mere. Lean closer. THWACK That was me smackin’ you upside the head. Honey on grits!!!??? Sacrilege*!!! There are only four ways one may properly enhance one’s grits. They are: salt, pepper, butter and cheese. Everything else is a nono. Ok, maybe a little garlic or some jalapenos if you’re serving cheese grits at a fish fry, but as a breakfast food, only salt, pepper, butter and cheese are allowed. Now, learn from your mistake, go forth and never sweeten up grits again.
