Well, as long as it was just sweat . . .
Phooey to you with nice weather.
High today?
62F. And cloudy. Not Augusty a’tall. Gusty, yes. Augusty, no so much.
BUT, I finished my review with my boss. FOUR AND A HALF HOURS of quantifying my very existance in that maze of cubicle hell. Got a raise, even. 10%.
Dinner tonight is Pizza Slut. Screw cooking. I’m tired.
TD 3 is now Tropical Storm Charlie.
Bonnie is currently projected to hit is overland on Friday, and Charlie gets us Monday. I’m threatening to divorce my hurricane magnet just so I can continue bicycle commuting.
Swampy, the projected path of Charlie is supposed to visit your corner of Jawjah, too. Share the wealth…
Ack! I just got back into work. Mrs. Shibb went and got herself a temp job so I had to snatch the Shibblets from school at 2:45. This is, of course, in the middle of my work day. Not that you’d know it from my posting habits, but I’m at work a lot. Right now I’m avoiding cleaning a bunch of aluminimum vents for a pesky client. But I digress. So instead of work I had to be Daddy. Which meant lots of homework. My daughter’s homework was a reading survey. Her favorite author is apparently either Robert Munsch or Lemony Snickett. Lemony Snickett frightens me. Then we all met at my folks to swap kids so’s I could come back into the shop and get things done. Tomorrow morning I have to take a team down to Passe Grille (near the semi-famous Don Cesar hotel) at 8 am. Then it’s over to downtown St. Pete and back up to Countryside/Palm Harbor.
Oh, I had Cuban food for lunch today, but no mojitos. Just masitas with red beans, sausage and rice and fried plantains. It was topped with onions and lime. Not bad, but I like another place better. Passe Grille is near the Hurricane restaurant but it will be too early for grouper samiches or hurricanes or margaritas. Maybe this weekend.
Oh, Mrs. Shibb’s temp job is as a receptionist for the University of Phoenix’s local campus. Who knew they had local campuses? It’s not much of a challenge for her but it pays $10/hour, and we can use the cashflow right now.
…runs in…here I am. Whew! Didn’t think I was gonna make it!
Well, it is 88 flippin’ HOT, HOT, HOT degree here in Puyallup. I too want to know where our comin’ up on fall weather went. Give it back you east coasters! Being a true Northwesterner and all, I don’t have A.C. Oh, the house is “wired” for it, but I am too, too cheap to pay for it. I think my furnace/blower thingy is too small anway and I’d have to get a bigger one which would just add to the cost. Besides that, A.C just gives me sneezing fits. It doesn’t matter where I am. If there’s A.C, I immediately start sneezing.
I was sick with a huge migraine headache all day yesterday and didn’t get to post. The heat didn’t help matters any. I tossed and turned all day and night.
Dogmom, your dog is beautiful! I have a black lab who just seems to “explode” his hair all over, so I can relate to shedding issue. Cap’n doesn’t like to have his picture taken either. He always turns his head away. He is a good feller though, and is our one and only dog. He wouldn’t take too kindly to sharing his humans with another dog. He’s just a big love and can’t stand it when he isn’t getting any lovies from us because we’re giving lovies to the cat or each other.
I was all proud of myself at work today because I figured something out on a spreadsheet I am attempting to build. I showed it to my new boss who said he wanted some other data in there. My self-pleased factor went “pffffft” and totally deflated. So, “Self”, I says, “you can do this too”. So, I go to do what the boss wanted, but realized in doing an additional sort on the worksheets I had created to pull down data for the summary sheet I messed up the formulas for the summary page based on the first sort. Arrgghh! Now I have to start all over. I’m no expert in Excel, but I just know I’m doing this the hard way. I even went out and bought myself some books on Excel so I can edjamacate myself.
Well, gotta figure out the dinner thing…I don’t want to eat…but hubby and kids do.
Hey, Taters, you paid for your membership. Use it. There’s got to be a ton of folks here who can help you with this Excel problem and tell you how to do it the easy way. Try a thread in GQ explaining what you want to do. If you’re too shy to do it send me an email. If I can’t figure it out I’ll start a thread for you.
And sorry about the heat. It’s 9 pm here right now and it’s… let me check… 86 F and 63% humidity, which feels like 92. Hotter than that if you keep running over to the un-ACed laundromat like I am right now. That’s only 3 degrees less than the full heat of the day, but at least the sun’s not scorching us right now.
Doggy for what it’s worth, I’ve never had a desire to hump random stuff. Just specific stuff. 
vunderbob Bonnie intends to drop a whole bunch of rain on us today and tomorrow. Friday is supposed to be sunny but then Charlie appears to be ready to visit over the weekend. I will be in Iowa by then though. I’m just hoping neither one of em decides to hang around for a few days dumping rain. That’s how the last major flood here happened and I don’t ever want to go through that again. It’s cloudy and damp and just plain ick here.
I drove to and from Kay-row in very heavy rain yesterday. A 125 mile roundtrip. Ick! Ick! Ick!
Kalley cool about the real lawyerin’ stuff!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I was being PC, Kalley!
Labs do that? I didn’t know that. We call it PowerShedding. So I’ve got three PowerShed dogs in one. Kai’s starting to do his Late Summer / Early Fall Molt, so he’s got GOBS of fur coming out right now. He looks ridiculous and he LOVES it when we brush him (I think the falling-out fur itches or something.)
Heh. Wonder if that’s a Lab thing, too, then. Kai goes bonkers when we’re giving lovies to each other and not to him. He’ll pounce on us and everything, unless we’ve taken the precaution of Giving Him Treats first.
Heh, heh, heh…
Well…um…I suppose that I could mention that Kai has a favorite body pillow that he…erm…nevermind.
Just to let you know, it’s supposed to be warm with no rain this weekend! 
Are you kidding? My Lab sheds like crazy. I could make another dog with what I brush off of her. Just so you know, I am stealing the phrase, “PowerShedding.”
That describes Molly to a “T.”
Hey, Shibb, our weather forecasters are sayin’ Charlie is looking good for takin’ a trip up I-4 this Friday. I told Mr. Anachi he better go stock up on some sandbags. Our house was custom-built for a wheelchair resident and the slab is barely off the ground. If Charlie brings flooding to O-Town, we are in deep dookie. Being the optimist that he is, Mr. Anachi is already picking out new carpeting. :rolleyes:
Swampy, if you’re gonna get a double whammy, you might want to drain some water outta your ceement pond.
We have this theory that Bailey the Wonderkitty never actually grew. What he did was get fluffier in a larger-cat-looking way. So when you brush him, you can keep on brushing for a very long time and still get lots of fur. Some day I’m going to try brushing him for a couple of hours and see if he gets kitten-sized. I have brushed him for half an hour straight, got eight brushfulls of fur, and then cuddled him and got cat fur all over.
It’s like he’s snowing or something.
Feeling better today. Enormous chore list. Anyone want to help?
You only have fur to deal with. I’m certain that Booger, who is an unremarkable in every way, 6 lb. neutered gray tabby tomcat, is part accordian. How else could the little b*stard expand in size enough to crowd me off a king sized bed?
misstee as long as Iowa promises not to have a tornado outbreak, I’m good. I don’t want to spend half a night hiding in a hallway like I did this one time in Iowa. We going to do some eats I guess? See if you can find us a good place to do that.
Doggy it ain’t body pillows I hump. Just so ya know.
Puggy I’m way ahead on the ceement pond thing. I drained about 9 inches out of it yesterday. It was already a little over full from earlier rain and I’m told we could get 6-8 inches of rain easily tomorrow. :eek:
swampy, I rather gathered that, but…uhm…let’s just say Kai doesn’t seem to be interested in other dogs.
BiblioCat, please feel free to use it. I’m trying to get more invented words spread around - that should oughta get it going! You may also be interested in another phenomenon we’ve observed: REMOTE PowerShedding. This is where you can buy something outside your house - and apple at work, for example - and then when you go to use it, you notice that it’s got your dog’s hair all over it. Even though it’s never been home.
And I swear that we can get a whole new dog off the fur we brush off Kai. He seems to be determined to PowerShed all the time, and MOLT (Blow coat) four times a year instead of the usual two.
I had someone compliment me once on my kitchen carpeting. I’d just swept it that morning. I have TILE in my kitchen - no carpet.
(OK, it’s a bit of an exaggeration - they KNEW it was dog fur, but still.)
Dogs, tropical storms and Iowa. Nope, nary a thought.
Not to turn this into a Cafe Sociaety thread, but I watched a rather bizarre show last night. It’s called What I Hate About You and they get spouses/partners to film each other for two weeks to catch their most annoying habits, then a panel scores each habit to come up with the most annoying partner. Last night was Tom and Ed. Ed snored like a prehistoric water buffalo (much louder than modern water buffalo) and could sleep through anything–Tom vacuumed him and Ed slept on! Ed is also rather cavalier about money–Tom set him up to get ripped off at their favorite places, and he was overcharged 40 bucks for a dinner and paid without comment! Tom, on the other hand, was somewhat of a control freak. He cut coupons, and then would only buy things that he had a coupon for–he wouldn’t let Ed buy e-z squeeze katsup because it wasn’t the one he had a coupon for. Tom also followed the cleaning woman around the house and put back all the knick-knack just-so–he wouldn’t let her do it and he fussed about getting everything all lined up or positioned correctly. And he sabotaged Ed’s attempts to diet (although he wasn’t that heavy, Ed obviously cared about it). Tom was deemed to be more annoying and had to wear a fat suit in front of the gym. Ed won a month of catered, gourmet diet food.
Now, these guys obviously loved each other a lot–they’d been together 10 or 12 years, and what was fun was how well each of their annoying habits matched the other person’s. They seemed to take everything in good spirits and admitted to their foibles. But it strikes me that a couple not quite so secure could really get a lot of ammo out of a show like this–these people video each other burping and scratching, talking baby-talk to the dog, in the midst of road rage, etc., etc., and then show it to the entire world!
I, of course, have no annoying habits (perhaps because I have to one to annoy besides myself) but those of you with partners, how do you think you’d do on this show?
Kalley it sounds like one of those shows that would make me want to practice remote control hurling at the tv after watching for 10 minutes. Probably a good thing then that I chose to watch a rerun of “Gilmore Girls” then turn the tv off.
I have to ask this:
Why in the name of hedoublehockeysticks would anybody want to subjest themselves to being on a show like this? Was Springer all booked up for the next year?
The sun’s trying to come out here. I’m thinking about taking off a little early so I can go home and mow. See how exciting my life is? A tv show based on my life would be called “Who Wants Their Insomnia Cured?”
I’ve seen this quote from swampy a few times now (whenever I check the thread):
And I gotta say that I keep misreading it as “…has yet to result in getting my hand dipped in chocolate,” which is entirely a different image than that which I believe he was going for.
And I can relate to the “Conquer Your Insomnia” show - the highlight of my week so far has been that my freezer still works, and that my washer hasn’t QUITE bit the big one yet.
I keep telling you, these guys ship nationwide.
You just slipped up and failed to give me your address.