Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN 'Tis 57 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 58 and rain, rain, rain, plus tstorms and flood watches and flash flood watches and possible flood warnings in low lying (lieing? laying?) areas. Gloom and doom all around today and tomorrow!
Tonight is the Shrove Tuesday pancake supper/fundraiser for our Deacon’s ministry over to the church house. I am the designated bacon/sausage fryer and in charge of makin’ sure the steam table is workin’ right. Apparently I am one of three people who can get the steam table goin’. Pour water in, makin’ sure the drain is closed. Turn on warmer. That’s it. But only three of us know how to do it. :dubious: Oh and apparently I am also one of a very precious few who actually know how to set the convection oven to warm. Turn oven on. Set temp control to warm. :dubious:
Now I must purtify as I am meetin’ OYKW for brekkies before irk. He has to irk a little later today and may or may not get over to the church house this evenin’ poor thing, so we’re havin’ brekkie together in case we don’t get to see each other again today. One of them days!
Good morning and Happy Mardi Gras!! I don’t want any beads and I ain’t gonna flash, so let’s just nip that thought in the bud.
CEO sent out an email last night about the impending sequester. IF it happens, gummint workers will get an unpaid day off once a week for 22 weeks - till the end of the fiscal year, I believe. For the non-math inclined, that’s a 20% pay cut (and 20% work cut, but no one minds taking a day off as much as they mind losing $$$$) He said contractors will be asked to abide by the same rules, and he didn’t say, but I am assuming, that I’ll get even fewer hours than that. They could tell me to take a month off without penalty. So we shall see. On the up side, it’ll be spring before it happens (mid-April, he’s saying) making it good yard-working weather, so there’s that.
Of course, all this sequester news being put out may be a ploy to get everyone to contact their elected representatives and tell them to get their asses to work and pass a budget, seein’s as we haven’t had one for 3 years. I’m guessing if any of us couldn’t be bothered to do our jobs for 3 years, we’d be out of a job. Funny how the politicians keep getting reelected…
Swampy, you know I got my first (2 year) degree just for this very reason.
Would you like to know how naive I was? When I was in my early to mid twenties I still had no idea about beads and flashing. All I knew was that they were pretty, sparkly, and purple. Somehow a good male friend of mine convinced me to wear some beads* at work* for the day. Dumbass could have told me, of course. :dubious::smack:
Ah well, life goes on.
Today I have a lunch and then school this afternoon. Then maybe the Y although my knee has been particularly cranky lately.
Brekkie at Pearly’s is always a good thing. Since it is Mardi Gras/Shrove Tuesday I celebrated with pancakes. Don’t know why I did that bein’ as I am havin’ pancakes for dindin as well. Of course this did not occur to me until after I had eaten two plate sized pancakes. :smack: Pearly’s pancakes are hyuuuuuuge and thick. I have some soup for N.O.L. but don’t know if’n I’ll want it so that might be a good thing.
One major program crash this morning - lost about half an hour’s worth of work. But the sun is shining, so there’s that. It doesn’t shine in my window, but I can tell it’s sunny, and that makes me happy.
So is it save to assume you are not even using a coaster? :eek:
I has breakfast blurf & I’m sick of the inaction of our stoopit guv’mint! I mean they’re hard(ly) at work on important issues like deficit reduction & gun control & passing laws on things like gravity & physics (what did we do before those laws were passed?) but they’re ignoring THE important one: Standardizing the color coding on caps of milk between stores/brands. I got 1% - blech, BLECH, BLECH!!! :mad:
**Emily **-- echoing Rosie: give it your best and honest shot. If this person doesn’t appreciate your effort and honesty, you’re probably better off outside their circle of “friends.”
Dunno about surprises – just haven’t been involved in any recently (and not in the further past much, either, really.)
KNOEBELS!!! They even have a camp ground where the worst spot is maybe a 5 minute walk from the carousel and coasters. And Cook Forest the weekend before Fathers Day. Me and a pack of wild indians will be running amok behind the Sawmill Center.
Later today is the traditional Fat Tuesday Lutheran Pancake Supper where tradition also dictates that Pastor does the cooking. This serves two purposes. It brings everyone together in fellowship for a really good time before the stress that sometimes joins any holiday. And, Pastor not always being a good cook, it assures a good supply of ashes for Wednesday services. :smack:
If I remember the scale right, using Welch’s which mixes 3 cans of water to one can frozen concentrate
Substitute one can of grain alcohol for one can of water = Barney Blood
Substitute two cans of grain alcohol for two cans of water = Frat Juice
Substitute three cans of grain alcohol for all three cans of water = Purple Jesus
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