Damn, what is WRONG with me today? I even used preview! I can’t type a post without error to save my life!
That would be “My SON looked at me…”
Hi everyone…I’m on my way to the library, but I just had to share (guess I could have shared with the political party volunteer who just called me, but that would have violated my strict “please take me off your calling list” policy).
Anyhoo…I got home and checked the weather and found that it was supposed to rain tomorrow, which is when I was supposed to meet a friend to finish spreading mulch at church. (There were more than 50 bags left to spread, so it was a big deal.) 
So, I decided to go over there to lay out the bags and start to get it spread out so that there would at least be a little progress in case we couldn’t do it tomorrow.
I got there and: 1) there are no bags left where they were last seen and, 2) my friend and another friend are calmly raking the last of the mulch.
They happened to be there for something else, friend 2 was going to start in on mulching anyway, and friend 1 decided she could help out too. So everything for our church and the church next door is DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE!!
Whoopeeeeeeeeee!!!
It meant that I could trim the last 3 little things that needed trimming and now I can go to the library, come home and do laundry, and get about an hour’s extra stuff done than I would have otherwise.
Oh, did I mention:
Yeehawwwwwwwwwww!!!
Back in a bit. Still contemplating what to eat for dinner.
GT (Grinning ear to ear.)
I get the feeling gt’s maybe a little bit excited. It’s those little things that mean so much isn’t it?
Ok, I’m gettin’ offen the puter now. It’s near time for “Gilmore Girls” and I have to get my drink and snacks all in place. I cannot move a minute while “Gilmore Girls” is on. I might miss something. :eek:
So, in reality, they gave you a good rate. Most copy shops charge $1 (or more!) for the first page of *each * fax, so you’d be looking at a minimum of $36.
You might want to just get a cheapie fax for home. If a rebate hadn’t ended last week, you could have gone to Office Depot and picked up a very basic fax machine for $30 after rebate.
(about noises in hotels)
That’s *exactly * the sort of thing you go to a hotel for, so your neighbors at home don’t hear!
Rain, rain, go the hell away! The Bay Area is dissolving with all of this rain. Roads are breaking up, homes are slipping off hills, hills are coming apart, and people are going nutters with all of the rain and icky weather we’ve had for the past month.
We’ve had to push back yardwork again and again. If we tried to mow the grass, the lawnmower would sink up to the carburetor in mud. Some interior decoratin’s been postponed as it’s so humid that paint behaves badly.
**Lissla Lissar, ** not your ankle, too!
Yes, I was Harimad-sol and became weary of being confused for several other people.
I am venturing over to the grocery store to wander around. I love wandering around in the grocery store.
We’ve got a printer/copier/fax that FCD got from a previous job when he did work from home. When he left the job, they didn’t ask for it back and since it had been around the house so long, we’d gotten used to it being there, and didn’t think about it. So we didn’t exactly steal it - we just, truly, forgot about giving it back. The company no longer exists, but the fax does. I don’t think it went out of business over a $200 office machine.
Anyway, it lives in the basement, plugged in only when needed. We don’t need it all that often, but when we do, it’s so handy.
I dunno, MBG --she may have things on her mind other than P/T.
I was taught in school (nursing that is) to never share meds with anyone. That would include drugs.
I fell off the productivity cart anyway. I am now doing nothing.
squirrel and 'tater (NOT) casserole?
jeez - you play hookey, lie on a heating all day long, and you miss EVERYTHING.
I ended up not going to work today, I think I’ll actually get to sleep early tonight (read before 11pm)
Rebo - glad you’re connected again.
I’m going to be incommunicado most of next week. Cousin and I are going to visit the new baby (and I get to see an old college chum who lives a few towns over) YAY. There will be pictures, but not til Thursday. This is all next week. I’ll be around this week, tho, I just wanted to let you know.
What’s worse is that her son asked to have that for dinner.
(Emphasis mine.) So, uh, Taters, maybe you should sit your son down and have a little chat with him about his suicide-by-cannibalism impulses.
<Snoopy dance>
I started a 2 page thread in Cafe Society! I am SOMEBODY now!
<tries to dance like Navin Johnson>
Woot!
And now back to your regularly scheduled MMP…
Everyone stop torturing Mika’s turtle!!! Now!!!
Spats, I really like your Passover word series. Educational and punny. Can’t beat that! And congrats on Dartmouth! I’m sure the others aren’t far behind. And…since you can only go to one of them, why worry? You’ve got one here and one in Europe, seems like that’s plenty! (I’m still pulling for Amsterdam! I have a friend who spent a year doing a post-doc in Leyden - which Wikipedia tells me is now spelled Leiden - a long time ago; she loved it.)
Awwww, our little Cuervo is growing up. Sounds precocious. The idea of him balancing on the headboard makes me laugh. A lot. Sorry. Does that make me a bad person? So, when do we get to see new pictures? (Isn’t it about time for a kitty-pics thread?)
loune, please stop goofing off (screwing the pooch indeed!!!) and get back to that retirement plan development. Thank you.
velvetjones, dear, I’m sure someone can arrange for a make-up bridal shower, complete with light-up veil. Some people renew their vows, we’ll just let you renew the stuff that leads up to the vows.
TWO - sorry about your lost kitty. Sounds like a sweetie. (And where are the pics; you promised pics!)
Lissla, do you think you could come over and do my laundry too? I only have five loads or so. And the washer is in the basement, so there’s no inconvenient trucking over to the laundromat.
Ummmmm…guys…? I think there’s some confusion. Dorothy has Toto; Rigs doesn’t.
Wow, Rebo, I’m impressed. So what you’re saying is, to be productive, I have to disconnect from the boards? I understand the individual words, but togehter…they make no sense.
Sorry about all the rain, gotti. The weather here has been very nice. Just enough rain so far. I’m hoping I’ll be able to get lots done in the garden over the next few days.
This whole Tater Tot Casserole thing has me in such a dither that I was forced to have a vegetarian dinner. Spaghetti with a dab of sour cream, a bit of grated cheese, chives (fresh from the garden - YAY!), peas (frozen - nuked for about a minute) and a garnish of yellow and red grape tomatoes, quartered. Yum!
I’m sure there’s some I missed, but I’m falling asleep, so I’d best quit.
But I think I’ll do a happy dance with you first, rigsy. Yes, I’m still all cheered up!
GT
HOW COULD I FORGET?
Rifty --baby! Congrats on Dartmouth! I am so proud. I feel a lil verklempt*
Off to watch TDS and sleep…
*as a Jewish woman, I make a very good generic lapsed christian.
Thank you all for the congrats. rigs, we all get verklempt now and then, so I’ll forgive you. Now, when you’re shvitzing straight through your schmata and you’re so verklempt you could plotz, then you let me know, mmmmkay? Especially if you’ve been shtupping. For the record, Dartmouth is offering me truckloads of money, as is customary for American graduate physics programs. It’s tempting, I must admit, since I haven’t heard a word from Amsterdam since the initial acceptance.
Glad everyone’s enjoying the puns this week. Not sure yet what next week will be. Maybe greek letters, which, I’m sure, will be all greek to a lot of you. Har!
Uh, what else is there to report? Oh yes. Remember how I was raised Jewish? Yeah, not so much anymore. Nevertheless, my family is still Jewish, and so because I can’t attend my family’s Seders this year, my grandparents sent me a Passover gift box, full of goodies that are completely lacking yeast of any form. The matzah I gave away (like any self respecting Jew, I can’t stand the stuff), but I have cappucino chip macaroons (surprisingly good), and cashew caramel clusters (which should be delicious), and bissli (these are highly, HIGHLY addictive), and a bag of Hebrew-texted Bazooka Joe Bubblegum ( 
), among other things (other parenthetical comment).
I called my grandparents to thank them for this act of generosity, and my grandmother told me I had the wrong number and eventually hung up on me despite my insistences that I was, in fact, her grandson. -.- Fortunately, my grandfather answered when I called back, and we all found the whole thing hilarious.
I hate to make my debut in MMP with TMI, but here I go anyway. It doesn’t seem appropriate to start a thread about this, but it has me flummoxed.
Why is it that I’ve been normal all my life until this week, when suddenly and for no particular reason, every time I blow my nose now, the stuff sprays out of my left eye! It’s terribly unattractive. I’m not even blowing hard. And when I eat something hot and my nose gets runny, stuff pours out my eye.
I was afraid that might be a thread-killer. Inappropriate is my middle name.
Wow. That really was TMI. Good for you!
Is it normal for brioche to take 10 hours of combined rising time?
Good debut!!
Good debut!!!
Wow…snot…shoots out your eye. That’s amazing. I wish I could summon such…whateverinthefuck it is you have on demand.
Can you do it on command, or is it only when you sneeze/blow really hard?
TMI-y-er posts than yours have tried and failed to kill the MMP. It’s the unkillable thread. Although, your particular story … it’s snot anything to sneeze at. You should see a doctor.
I must have just leveled or something - I just suddenly had this new Ability. It pretty much happens every time I blow my nose now, or my nose runs. I suppose I could entertain my son’s friends pretty well.
Not a bad effort for a newbie. It does take a lot worse to gross out this bunch.
IIRC, I’d said something a while back that seemed to be in the Top Ten all-time TMI rankings. Something about a quantity of pus so large that I feared I’d have to list it on my income taxes as a dependant…
Funny timing - no sooner do I say something about the price of faxing, I find it can be worse. I have to file five documents containing 80 or so pages with a court two counties away. I can use a fax & file service, or I can take them in myself. The F&F is nice - just fax the document to them, and they messenger it to the courthouse, file it, then fax back the endorsed title pages with the clerk’s FILED stamp. Problem is that they charge $1.50 per page for this. No matter if they’re dealing with 40 2-page documents, or 2 40-page documents, even though the time-eating factor at the clerk’s window is the number of documents, rather than the number of pages. So, it looks like I’ll be making a court run soon. Bah! Besides… what are my chances of getting 80 pages through a fax machine without any jams, or two pages sticking together so Page 5 disappears?