Yeah, I hate to scare **Draelin **by saying this, but it’s really not that easy. See, back when he first visited, **KeithT **convinced me that I should have one of those modern low-flow jobbies (that does sound dirty!) because I was always running out of hot water - and I take like a <10 min shower so that’s not good. So we bought one. And then he attempted to install it. But the old shower head was completely rusted into place. And while I have a little tool box, it does not contain fancy tools like plumbing wrenches. So the new shower head sat in my bathroom for like a month and a half until he came back again and I borrowed a wrench from my father.
Boy, I wish I had a man around more often for things like that. Yes, I know I *could *do it all myself. Women’s lib, feminism and all that. But really, there’re things that I’d just rather have someone else do. My tires need more air, but I always have trouble with those air thingies at the gas station. Won’t someone come fix my tires for me? Pretty please?
So *someone *at my office is all bent out of shape. Why yes, yes it is the same person who I’ve had problems with in the past. How’d you guess?? Anyway, we need to interview an intern for this fall today. Usually it’s the director of marketing’s job. But she’s got sick kids and a house inspection today. So she asked me if I could do it. I can’t because I’ve got another meeting at that time. So now *someone *thinks he should have been asked. But there’s a reason we don’t let him interact with people outside our office. Related to the same reason that I have trouble getting along with him. Me - I get along with everyone! So she told him he couldn’t do it. And now he’s bent out of shape. Mainly the interviewee is a girl and he wants to get to talk to the Pretty Girl. :rolleyes:
The reason nobody has souvenirs is because all the corn in Illinois is dried up. I can’t help that. Plus, the exotic locales I stayed in (a Best Western and a Super 8) aren’t exactly loaded with gift shops. Geez, I stayed a week in Seattle and nobody complained about a lack of souvenirs. I go to places where corn and soy are king and everybody wants something. I did bring ACBG a shot glass from Peoria. It was in the little gift shop at the airport. He likes shot glasses and I was about a gajillion percent sure he didn’t have one from Peoria. I was right. I gotta admit he has quite the impressive collection of shot glasses. He displays them in an antique china cabinet in his dining room. That’s right folks, I’m all enamored with a man who keeps shot glasses in a china cabinet. The china is in a built in cabinet in this weird little room between his dining room and kitchen. We think it was supposed to be a little breakfast room originally but it’s really small. He uses it as a pantry which is about all it’s good for. Makes a nice pantry. Breakfast room, not so much.
I am almost through redoing job descriptions. YAY! Next I start on performance evaluations. BOO! I intend to have em all finished up by the end of next week. I like the idea of having everything done before Labor Day weekend. Oh, good news… no more WHINE! WHINE! WHINE! I see job descriptions getting redone. I see performance evaluations going on. Just think, I only had to do THE LOOK[SUP]TM[/SUP] a couple of times and stuff happened! AH! The power of THE LOOK[SUP]TM[/SUP]!
Rue did you get the grocery shopping done yet? I pity you. I HATE! HATE! HATE! grocery shopping.
You probably don’t want to read this post, so it would likely be best for people enamored of hybrids to just skip on down.
In my professional opinion, currently available hybrids aren’t the best purchase to make. I don’t believe the technology is mature, and I don’t think they’re as safe as conventional economy cars.
From a purely financial perspective you are going to take a big loss compared to a new conventional economy vehicle unless you’re going to be doing a lot of driving. Even with the price of gas being as high as it is the difference in purchase price adds up to a lot of fuel. Resale value isn’t going to be there either, because you’ll need to replace all those batteries.
From a safety standpoint, automakers have compensated for an abnormally low power to weight ratio by using stiffer tires to reduce rolling resistance. Unfortunately, that results in a smaller contact patch, which raises handling issues, especially in emergency situations.
I also feel that the manufacturers’ claims of environmental benefits are questionable to the point of dishonesty. It all comes back to those batteries. The energy cost to produce a hybrid is much higher than that to produce a conventional car, the overall thermal efficiency of the vehicle is low, and there’s that pesky battery disposal issue.
Again, this is just my opinion, but I think someone concerned with economy and the enviornment would be better off choosing a small standard compact.
By all means, do your own research and make your own decisions, but I don’t think much of the things and I think the public has been sold a bill of goods here.
Have I ever told y’all of the wonders of board meeting day at work? No? Well, then, let me fix that.
See, our board of directors meets the fourth Wednesday each month, at noon. We entice board members here with food. Homemade food. No brought in deli sammiches here. Nosiree. We go all out. The reason board meeting day is so wondrous is because a ton of food is prepared. After the board is through with their meeting and all, staff descends upon the food. Today it was some fantastic chicken salad, little garlic toasts, honeydew melon, cucumbers and tomatoes, topped off with lemonade pie. I be a full bear. I be a happy, happy bear.
What we do is come up with a menu each month. Then, various of us cooking types will make certain items. F’rinstance, this month I didn’t do anything but in July I made a big seven layer salad cause I make a good one. Also, when we do something that calls for dressing (stuffing to some of you) I do it cause my cornbread dressing cannot be made better by anybody, anytime, anywhere anyhow. Everybody knows that. The great part about all this is we figured out it costs around $70.00 per month. That feeds a minimum of 20 board members plus anywhere from 15 to 20 staff members. Pretty good, huh?
-swampbear (if anybody needs me I’ll be under my desk napping)
Okay, I went to Target at lunch and got generic Drain Opener and a new (massaging) shower head that claims to shoot out 2.5 gallons per minute (though I don’t know what a “normal” shower head uses–the box insists it’s a water-conserver). Now I just need to figure out how to change it. I’m a smart gal, though.
Tomorrow, I’m sure you’ll be treated to the highlights of how I tore my bathroom apart by accident.
I also bought a hair clip (because the one I keep on my desk mysteriously disappeared–probably to the same place my highlighters did), and a $5 t-shirt. 'Cause I can’t go to Target without buying a t-shirt, for some reason. (But it has skulls and crossbones arranged in an XOXO pattern and says “Hugs and Kisses.” How cute is that?)
Exgineer: :mad: for bringing reality into the MMP! I really loved the prius - we rented one to go to a trip one day, and I loved the drive. Sweet, sweet car. I. Want. It.
Why sure you can. Biting is not strictly forbidden, but we do restrict it to the break room and only when somebody gets in your way while you’re eating.
ACBG is slightly POed, I think. He called and asked if I wanted to go get some dinner tonight and I said I’m really full from lunch and will probably want just a sammich for supper. I think he’s really hungry and wants to go chow down at one of the local [del]hog troughs[/del] all you can eat buffets. It’d be wasted on me tonight.
I have a new thrill! We went to TJs on Sunday and just out of curiousity I bought a bag of Sugarpea Crisps (at least that’s what I think they were called) and we ate almost the whole bag before we got home. Those suckers are goo-ood!
Are they low carb? I dunno. Low fat? I dunno. Good fer ya? I dunno. I just know I loves 'em. I gotta go back soon and get a case of 'em.
I hate low-flow shower heads. When I turn the water on, I don’t want to stand there and wait to get wet all over, I want to get plenty wet right now! I figger it takes a certain amount of water to get me washed, and the faster I can get it on me, the sooner I’ll be done. I had a Shower-Pic massaging shower head that I loved that I carried around with me from house to house for 20 years, until it physically wore out and I had to replace it. I’ve got 2 or 3 low-flow heads in the garage somewheres that I tried until I got one that I could stand.
And another thing I usta have was a little valve thingie that you put on above your shower head that allowed you to turn the water off at the shower head. So I could turn the water on and get it adjusted, and get all wet, and turn the water off and soap up, then turn the water back on and get rinsed off, easy-peasy, and it cut down on the amount of water substantially. But I left the thingie once when I moved and found out that the ones they make now are flow restricted, AND they don’t turn the water off all the way any more. You put one of those new-fangled thingies inline with a low flow shower head and you’ll be in there all day getting washed!
Draelin, if you hate unsolicited advice, just skip this next part, okay?
Do you have some vise-grip pliers? Everybody needs some vise -grip pliers. Anyway, wrap a washcloth once around the pipe the shower head screws on to and clamp your vise grips to that pipe. The vise-grips are so that you can hold onto the pipe and keep it from turning, and the washcloth is so you don’t chew up the chrome pipe with the jaws of the vise-grips. You don’t want to unscrew that piece of pipe from the other piece of pipe inside the wall. Trust me on this.
Then get aholt (that is too a word!) of the shower head with your channel-lock pliers, or whatever, and unscrew it. Hopefully there will be a metal part to the shower head where it screws on that you can get aholt of. Twist the showerhead counter-clockwise. Once it’s off, clean the threads on the pipe with a rag and an old toothbrush if necessary, and put a couple of wraps of teflon plumber’s tape on the threads, (you’ve got teflon plumber’s tape, right?) and screw the new showerhead on. It shouldn’t be necessary to really crank on the showerhead. Just get it snug. Try it out. If it leaks at the pipe, snug it up a little more. The mistake that a lot of guys make is they figure if a little tight is good, a whole lotta tight is better. Tain’t necessarily so. Don’t ask me how I learned this. But you’re a girl, so you won’t have that problem.
Bumba, I only hate unsolicited advice about my hair, clothes, or love life. I’ve got needle-nosed pliers, a socket wrench, and some duct tape. I have no idea what channel-lock pliers are. I think I might be out of my league here. I’m going to have to entice one of my boy friends over with cookies or something and get him to fix it. Curse my father for retiring to a warmer climate!
What? I can change my own tires, and I have an SUV. I should be allowed to girl-out on the plumbing stuff!
We got a lot of MMPlumbin’ advice goin’ on this week. It’s almost like watching DIY! 'Cept for the pointing and laughing at stuff they do on DIY sometimes. I wonder how many of us will feel the urge to go out and buy new shower heads this week. Actually, I have a new shower head that I haven’t installed yet cause, well, I forgot about it til today. Maybe I’ll remember about it this weekend and install it. Or maybe not. Heck, I’ve had it for, oh, three or four months now and ain’t done anything with it yet.
GRRRRR… some #%#@##&*^@#!!! out in Tucson has apparently lost some stuff I emailed em about work last week. No biggie cause I got it all at home and can just email it right back but still… how do you lose an email with an attachment!!!
Oh, trust me, I’ve got that, too. I’m convinced that my friend’s ghost follows me around pointing and laughing and calling all her ghost friends over to watch.
Failing that, my cats are pointing and laughing, I just can’t catch them doing it.
Ex, I don’t know much about environmentalism and such, but I do know money. And I’m not buying the car because it will save money (sort of). It’ll save me money on my fill-ups, but there is no net savings.
Why, yes, I did do a spreadsheet to make sure. Of course I did, I’m an accounting nerd!
Every time I see this, I go WTF? Because ABCD is “American-Born Confused Desi” which is a semi-insulting term we use for, well, American-Born E. Indians, and I’m always like, “Why does he know an ABCD?” And then realize it’s ABCG. :smack:
Exgineer: Kicking puppies, while cruel and terrible, is not the ultimate sin in my book. Kicking birds, maybe. I’m a bird person!
I’ve got needle-nosed pliers, a socket wrench, and some duct tape. I have no idea what channel-lock pliers are. I think I might be out of my league here. I’m going to have to entice one of my boy friends over with cookies or something and get him to fix it. Curse my father for retiring to a warmer climate!
Kicking puppies, while cruel and terrible, is not the ultimate sin in my book. Kicking birds, maybe. I’m a bird person!