Good morning and Happy Firday! The windows are open and the weekend promises to be a tad cooler than normal. Today is laundry day - woohoo!
We had a nice dinner with our kid at the not-too-horrible Chinese place. She’s getting all set up for the new school year and this year, she’s excited -they got a 4th fifth grade teacher, so class size will drop from near 30 per teacher to a more manageable 20 per teacher. Plus she only has to teach science again - no more doubling up with a math class.
Apart from laundry, I hope to play with some clay today. I also need to scrape out some old caulk in our shower so we can recaulk the seams. And who knows what other adventures await!!
I’m up and working on tomorrow’s big breakfast. Tonight I’m helping SockLady cater a rehearsal dinner. This should be interesting as she is off the charts nervous about this since she hasn’t catered anything other than family events in years.
I’m thinking that I might like to do Monday’s MMP if no one minds and if I happen to get up early enough before anyone’s too impatient and opens a new thread on their own.
We might be in for a Tropical Depression Sunday. Given our need for rain, it’s anything but a Depression. Instead, we’ll call this one a Tropical Yippee.
30% chance of rain here today, which I really like. Even if it’s just cloud cover, it doesn’t get nearly as hot. Humidity is pretty high, though. Can’t win 'em all.
Last night, the bro took me to see Rifftrack do Manos: Hands of Fate, which was a hoot. I’ve never seen MHoF before, though I’ve heard tons about it. I thought it was because the story was bad, but man, everything was bad. I’m not a camera buff by any means, but even I was thinking “is it supposed to be out of focus like this?”
The riffs, of course, were hysterical. It was a lot of fun.
This morning right about the time that my grandparents were taking the dogs out my dad showed up with a new flatscreen tv for me. My current tv in my work room is a small tv/dvd player combo that is somewhat cranky. For instance I can only watch dvds that start playing on their own. If a navigation menu is involved I can’t get it to work. So now with this tv and my regular dvd player and my Roku I should be set. It really does pass the time to have something to watch while I’m working.
Speaking of working, I need to head to the little market down the street as when I got home last night I somehow left my ham slices sitting out on the counter. :rolleyes:
'Tis pay Firday. Did my bills before brekkies. The landlady has a HVAC tech here looking at the heat pump for preventive maintenance.
On The List[sup]tm[/sup] for today are mowing the yahd and getting groceries, and for the weekend edition VWife has decreed that I’m shampooing carpet. Yee and ha.
Now about the above matter, the tapes. I think you all might be able to guess where my loyalties lie and given my rank, I believe that I can make the ultimate judgement
Star Wars shall be and only be
Episodes IV, V and VI Original versions only(Han shoots first, no CG)
Star Trek shall be and only be
TOS, TNG, Voyager and Space out 9(TV)
The Movies are all ok, but Jar Jar goes to Khan and drives him nuts no Wrath
I feel odd - I think it’s anxiety twinges that are happening for no good reason. It’s very annoying. The only reason I can think of is that I left my backpack at home (I use it instead of a purse, and shove whatever writing, drawing, etc, I’m doing at the time in it) because I felt like looking nice. So it’s kind of the same sensation as not wearing the watch you normally wear, except all over. I keep thinking ‘oh, I’ll grab that… wait, no, it’s at home.’ Very odd.
And I’m pooped! The VP in charge of finding new work for the company was screwing around with my resume and he wanted some clarification. He had made changes that were flat out wrong, plus a bunch of the dates were screwed up. I just finished fixing it and I sent it back. I especially loved his imaginary verbiage about my last job - talk about guessing totally wrong!! I just told him my last job was classified and had absolutely nothing to do with anything the company does and that the phrase I used was approved by the security office for unclassified resumes. He’s not going to be happy about it, but tough cookies.
Now THAT would be a nice tale: Flip Star Wars around so that Leia was the fighter and Luke was the diplomat. “I can do more with one hand than you can with your entire diplomatic service! Now buzz off; I’ve got a planet to save.”
Up but not caffeinated, as is obvious from above blurbage.
I’m going to correct that right now, even if I do have to weave my way through cats on the floor playing rug.
