I just saw that on the news, **Bobbio **and had to rush in here to make all of you from that area were checking in.
Having gone through a few earthquakes myself, it’s kind of a disorienting feeling if you’re right in the middle of one.
I hope the damage isn’t severe. I read that parts of DC were evacuated.
Yikes about the earthquake and hurricane! Hold on East Coast folks!
That sucks about all of the trees in the Houston area. And the buckling roads.
Alternating groups of yarnovers and k2togs. It pulls the sections of k2tog tight and makes the YO sections loose, which causes the waves. It’s called feather and fan and you should be able to find instructions if you google it.
I’m skipping the all-employee picnic today. I wish more people understood that not everyone shares the same definition of “fun.” I hate crowds. Not quite agoraphobia, but it’s not something I like. So now we have an annual holiday party, an annual all-employee picnic, an annual Marketing “fun” event and multiple team “fun” events. All except for the holiday party during times when we should be getting work done. Which sometimes means needing to come back and do work after the “fun” which sometimes means having to stay late. I really really resent my personal fun time being infringed upon because I have to have work “fun.” So today I have too much to do, including a file that has to get to the vendor before the end of the day or we get charged a late fee. So that’s my excuse. But really I just don’t want to go. I think I’ve said this about 15 times here before but I really really hate being forced to go have someone else’s idea of fun. It is not in my job description that I must attend fun events. It’s not even in HR’s Core Competencies. I’m getting really close to just refusing to go to these things or just taking time off every time they come up. If the point is to have fun, then they should let those of us for whom it isn’t fun skip out! Argh!
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taxi, you just reminded me of something else that makes me glad I retired… 
Still feeling a bit odd after the quake, and that’s really bizarre. I can sail all day in rough water and it doesn’t really affect me, but boy, shake my house a little and lose it! Dang…
Wow! I’m glad y’all are ok up there!
I’ve heard claims that people in Hippy Hollow felt it. I didn’t, but Katy Cat started yelling for no reason about that time. Then again, she’s been mad for the last two days–first because we left her by herself for a day and then because she got a bath yesterday.
Well, daughter is pissed. She went over to work in her classroom, and the county has thrown them all out. AND the Nice Bridge is closed for inspection until further notice, so she has to drive ALL THE WAY to DC to cross the Potomac so she can get home. Three hours at least in rush hour traffic. Good times…
{{{Spaz}}} Sorry to hear about your Grandmother.
I heard some of the buildings in DC were being evacuated. Dah-um. Glad everybody’s ok.
RE: The Doctor; I am not pregnant, and I have a UTI . Beyond that I don’t know anything. They took blood and I have another appointment in a week.
Stoopid mumble mumble
**Loo **Mentioned the cake first!! ( and yeah, honey, I’ll be glad to cook for you!)
Didn’t feel it here, but my manager is a bit further north of here and was asking if we felt it it. After living in California for 20 years, I may well have felt it, but ignored it. The furry Strange Things Detector made no sign of distress, so I’m guessing it just didn’t get this far south.
Doctor says my neck is a mess. Really? You mean I wasn’t imagining problems when I looked at the MRI?
I gently reminded him that this was after 13 years of conservative do-nothing therapy. Plan A is to do an epidural injection in a couple of weeks. If it works - cool. If not, well, the epidural done on my low back three years ago also did nothing, but made it easier to get surgery approved. The good news is that the epi procedure didn’t really exist 13 years ago for the c-spine, and if push comes to shove, the surgical procedures that truly didn’t exist 13 years ago were developed by a doctor still at this practice.
There was a smallish one here in Upstate NY, too, near Albany. But the one that we here in the center felt was tremors from the Virginia one. The hanging lamp swayed back and forth about an inch, but that was it, and a good thing as there’s a nuclear power plant a few miles north.
This is what I missed this Sunday while I was catching fish in a pond near Metrolina.
So glad I wasn’t here for that. The Boys would probably have a different opinion.
I thought it was just me falling over due to not getting enough sleep, but it turned out to be an earthquake! Not very exciting in my office, but it turns out they evacuated the corporate command bunker out in Harrisburg.
Whew! I’m glad everyone’s ok after the rumblin’. Especially you, Mooooooooom!
I’m sorry to hear about your granma, Spaz. Please accept my condolences.
Chance, take it from an old auto-parts guy, the dealer is snookerin’ you ten ways to Sunday. Like swampy, I rarely drive an hour at one time and I’ve never heard a similar line of balderdash. You might want to check out some local independent shops. Many of them will be reviewed online too. Once your car is past warranty, there’s not much reason to go to the dealer (they’ll always soak you on parts 'n labor).
donkey I’m in envy of your shrinking waist size. It seems mine keep getting larger. Must be middle-age. It sure can’t be eating my own cooking.
Speaking of which: tonight I made a sammich out of the last of the Dietz & Watson Southern Fried Chicken lunchmeat and had some yummy Nip-Chee cheese crackers for a side-dish. Dessert will be a Hosetess lemon pie (when come back, bring pie!) which will be complimented nicely by my mug of lemonade.
Lemony nom…nom…nom…nom…
Bri2k
When and if **FCD **gets his butt home, we’re having steak, mushrooms-n-onions, instant fake smashed N.O.T., and something green. He must be really busy - I haven’t heard from him since before lunch, and he’s usually home by now.
Unless his building collapsed on him… um, yeah, if you knew his bldg, you’d know what a silly comment that is. There he is! Off to cook!
We’re having lamb burgers with baba ganouj and goat cheese.
I’m going to **Taxi’**s for Dinner, I’ll see ya’ll!
**Spaz, **I’m very sorry about your grandmother.
I don’t know what I’m cooking tonight. I forgot to take anything out of the freezer, and I don’t have much of an appetite anyway.
Son texted and then called me last night. Guess what, he needs money. The cost of the books and other crap he needed for his classes exceeded the money in his account. $660.00 bucks so far, and that’s buying used and renting books. Plus, he had get some clicker thingy because that’s how the professor takes roll call and checks on class participation. Plus, some electronic/on-line crap he needed. My poor son was in sticker shock and told me he really wants to get all the hours he can get at his job when he gets home for winter break.
I am going to broach the subject of him getting a job on campus so he has some spending money. Maybe now he’ll see what I’m talking about…one can hope, anyway.
My husband dropped a couple hundred in his account today.
I missed the earthquake(Gordie and the Jack Russell upstairs shake the building a lot). I organized, cleaned, and decorated. Time for martinis and sushi.
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Bummer about your daughter, FCM.
{{{Spaz}}}
Glad all you shook up folks are ok. I’ve been seein’ some reports of buildin’ damage around DC. Yikes.
Dindin was pepper steak, rice, steamed cabbage and corn bread. YUM!
Taters I had no idea how expensive this college stuff has gotten. :eek:
Everyone in the North East hold on!
taters a clicker thing for attendance - good lord!
I’s tahred. Another busy day of conf call hell and the same for tomorrow. I love it especially when the people in the room where the conf call is all have 27 side conversations which do not match the LiveMeeting slides and you have no idea who is talking etc. Fun
Anyway…supper will be chicken boobs and something. Just don’t know what the something is.
We wound up going out to eat, so the steak will marinate overnight and we’ll eat it tomorrow. Daughter got home about 15 minutes ago - heck of a detour, but the bridge is open now, so she can go to work tomorrow and work on her classroom.
I’m going to assume the knit position and start on my bro’s afghan. Another cool night on tap - yay!
Mooooooom, VWife and I won the trivia contest at Rustic River tonight. Just braggin’…
