I’m in! I’m in! YAY!!!
also, blurf.
What she said.
I’ve been up for 4 hours. I’m now showered and dressed, fed, caffeinated, and I’ve cleaned the icky rotisserie bits, loaded the dishwasher, and run a rinse cycle. I think I merit a break. 
Howdy Mumpers and Happy Humping Day
Well, irk is just insane. I shall put in more than sixty hours this week, hence my lack of communication this week. I might take tomorrow off.
Up, Caffinating and about to head to the shop.
Cheers all
Jim
Jim, just be honest - you hate us and don’t want to associate with us any longer… 
Good morning everyone.
I saw a lot of Go Pens stuff on FB yesterday. Today, not a peep from my (N.O.) Yinzers friends and family. Like it’s always been said, Pittsburgh is a drinking town with a sports problem.
Swampy now that the red spots are gone, you should be able to get the shingles vaccine. My wife has still got some bumps, so she still has to wait to do that. I’m debating on whether or not to get a shot for myself.
And now, I’m out hunting camels. Talking camels.
Jim
Miss DrumBum is doing a summer semester in the UK so we will meet up with her in a couple of weeks in London and try not to embarrass her in front of her friends ( I’ve been specifically warned about wearing my Hawaiian print shirts in their presence. :mad: ) After that we head across the channel to meet some friends in Normandy to see the area, then it is off to California to visit relatives and attend to other matters.
We’ve gotten at least 2 calls about ads we’ve got on line, saying “Call me back, please” and not leaving a name or number. My answering machine even asks that the caller leave a name and number. It’s not that hard, people! Sheesh!
**Bum **- that sounds like a fun summer. I know if my daughter asked her dad not to wear a certain garment, he’d most definitely wear it, which is probably why she never mentions his wardrobe.
The guys are on their way to Duke. I just finished running my errands. I need to head to the basement, but I don’t want to. I want to nap. Oh well, I’ll head down in a little bit and see how much I can get done today.
Haven’t made it to the basement yet, but there’s a chocolate cake in the oven, so I haven’t been idle. And it’s time for lunch anyway.
FCOffspring needs to utilize a little reverse psychology: Dad, please don’t wear your nice, new suit.
I liked the ATMB thread about all of the problems yesterday. Lots of “I got warnings I’ve never gotten before, but I clicked <Ignore> & came into the site.” :smack:
Blurf. I don’t think it’s too late for a blurf, even though it is half an hour until hometime here. It’s been that kind of a day. However, there has been gossip and scandal in the office to keep us all amused.
Last Friday afternoon, I was told that TPTB had appointed an absolutely stellar candidate to take over this job, someone who stood out far above the rest of us mere mortals. He was due to start on Monday and I had a five-day handover with him. So Monday morning comes, he arrives at 10am having seen the line manager first…goes off at 11am for a meeting with HR and does not return.
It turns out that he lied on his application form, the specification for the job was for someone who had GCSE/O Level qualifications in English and Maths at a minimum of Grade C. He accepted the job, then on Monday admitted that he only had a Grade D in maths! So he has disappeared, never to be seen again or so it would seem. This has obviously thrown line management into a complete tizz, we are waiting for them to realise that they interviewed three other candidates and should be able to pick one from that list to give the job to. However, we surmise that they are biased against hiring temporary staff and that they only had temps as the rest of the candidates.
So it’s an interesting week here, I was due to finish on Friday but the agency has just asked me if I can stay until the following week which I’ve agreed to do. That takes me up to my holiday, but it also means the dept will not have anyone doing this job while I’m off unless they get yet another temp to take it over. Of course, if they don’t hurry up and do that, they will get a temp who has no idea what’s happening, what has been done so far, or where to find anything…and I will be out of the country for two weeks deliberately not checking my work emails.
In other news, it’s pub night!
Happy Hump Day!
It looks icky outside.
I skipped the ER visit and went house hunting. It was hard though, I am very very tired. I feel like a clock that is running down. I found a house I like. Not the house so much as the lot. It has cows across the street and a river in the back. I like cows, the smell won’t bother me and the river is far enough back not to have to worry about flooding. The house is meh but doable, and it’s a short sale, which sucks.
My realtor has to check into a few things and get back to me. There’s another house she wants me to see. We couldn’t get in yesterday because the house has a tenant but I like the other one so why bother?
This is the one I lost 
http://www.redfin.com/MD/Hagerstown/20333-Jefferson-Blvd-21742/home/15371452
I really liked it.
I am debating and I know what y’all are going to say so I probably shouldn’t even bring it up. I skipped going to the ER yesterday. My friends tell me I look like hell and need to go. However I have an appointment with the doctor tomorrow. I could go to ER today and if they keep me the doc can just come to my room. The nice coordinator told me if I do go to the ER to go to UofM and not the one by me because they will just have to transport me anyway so may as well just go to where I need to be. I have friends who will come get me and drive me there, and nobody around here has to know except for Sah-son. My mother’s bf starts his chemo today so she doesn’t need to know anything. I’m not dying and I’d rather she not have to worry about me.
So I am debating, go today or wait until tomorrow.
I’ve read much but retained little.
Sorry
Since he doesn’t own a suit, that wouldn’t work anyway.
I am no longer a shut in and an invalid. YAY!!! Doc says everything looks good and I should get the vaccine. Just wish it was not so pricey! I wonder if I can shop around for costs at different places. Also, I have been to the sto’ and purchased commestibles so we shall continue to eat.
Bum your daughter said no Hawai’ian shirts. She didn’t say a thing about tube tops. Just sayin’.
Nuts appropriate/inappropriate appendages crossed re the interview.
ETA: Sari if you’re feelin’ bad, GO NOW!!!
Sari, do you live in Hagerstown now? Because I’m up the road from you a piece.
It’s freezing here. I wore shorts and a T-shirt to the sprog’s school’s field day today and froze my ya-yas off. I’m now in sweats and feeling cozy. The Weather Channel says it’s 60 but they’re lying.
I’ve been a busy girl. I took four civil service exams over the past two days. When the nice proctor says that she doesn’t need to see my ID because she recognizes me, I’ve been there too often. :D. I did learn how to calculate prison terms, as follows:
I’m not making that up. That’s not an actual test item but there were some just like it.
Today, though, I’m home so I can do useful work. Which I really should be doing.
Sounds like the prison system might benefit from some software to do their sentence calculations - people do make mistakes after all…
Good luck with your various and sundry civil service efforts!
That’s an easy one since you don’t need to do the ‘time off for good behavior’ component of the calculation.
Mooom, I’ve always envied those who were good at 3D work, as my strengths lie in mostly 2 or 2.5 dimensional.
Glad your shingles were short and mild, swampy. It sounds like the vaccine would be worthwhile for you.
Bum, anything you say, wear or do are potential embarrassments to drumkid at this point. Roll with it.
Rockin’, keeping things crossed for you. May the employment gods smile upon thee.
Bummer. I like the second story deck. One could invite a certain shingle ridden person over (I name no names) and with some other friends, drop water balloons on him.