I’m disappointed you didn’t state the obvious ------ pics or it didn’t happen. 
And on that note --------- FIRST!!!
It’s a holi-holiday. On Monday I asked the miniboss whether I should work on Friday and she said “ah non, nobody works this Fry Day!” so I took it off. I’m driving down with a bunch of my stuff and will be seeing future rentals tomorrow. The next job is in Basque Lands, so while the clients may still be a bunch of assholes, at least when I cuss at them they’ll know perfectly well why. Plus, we can cuss at each other in shorthand. One of the things Outsiders find scary about jobs in the Basque Lands is that us Basque can have meetings in shorthand; well, not all of us, but normally when someone can’t and you ask, turns out they’re an import who’s been living in the area long enough to get the accent but not enough to get the shorthand.
When I said “I’m sorry, I see the agency hasn’t notified you: I’m leaving, the 5th is my last day”, the miniboss’s reactions were, in order:
You can’t!
Well, I’m not paying you!
I’m certainly not paying you for this week, specially after you took Fry Day off!
I’m never going to accuse her of being too good at logic.
But I shall see apartments tomorrow, with a lovely rental agent who’s very intrigued by this concept of “self-employed, move for jobs, make a very nice amount of money, be able and willing* to show tax records as proof of very-nice income”. Right now the Spanish version of the IRS is trying to start a campaign of auditing all the self-employed people who claim they make 1K€/month or less, because they say that’s “impossible”. Impossible my ass: I can see both a lot of self-employed jobs which would make those amounts (many cleaning ladies, beauty-jobs people, supermarket people are part-time; several hair saloon chains and two of the country’s largest supermarket chains are coops, thus making their workers self-employed) and how someone who’s only had one job in their life and that as a civil servant may lack the imagination or the logic ability to think “gee, wonder if all these people have something in common which makes them different from those other self-employed reporting larger incomes!” So at this point the country’s image of “self-employed” is a cheat who makes very little money and reports even less :smack:
Note that auditing all the part-time hairdressers and deli workers is such a huge waste of resources that I’d love seeing it come out of the hide of whomever had that bright idea in the first place.
- At this rate I’ll never make POTUS. Ah well, I wasn’t eligible anyway!
I didn’t say appropriately for what 
Started doing all the washing and general catching up with things. All the utility companies apparently waited, giggling, for me to go away, then sent every bill they could think of at once. Dealing with that much adulting when half my brain is still in a field of hippies at the other side of the country is tough…
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 77 Amurrkin out and partly cloudy (partly moony?) with a predicted high of 92 with scattered rain and tstorms predicted for this afternoon, with perhaps a smatterin’ of apocalypse. ‘Twas rainy last night but no big tboomers out my way. However, I’m told there was quite the storm in town. Nuttin’ big on the agenda today which is fine by me. No real reason to even leave da cave, so yay! Sup shall be assorted leftovers as stuff needs to be et up and neither of us minds leftovers.
Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy demands sustenance. Then, onward into the day. Rah.
Happy Thursday Y’all!
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to work.
I had a pretty good sleep and it feels like the a/c is working in the building, so I should have a pretty good day. Huzzah!! 
Last night, I watched a show on Netflix about Woodstock- it was lots of footage of the planning and execution of the festival with voice-overs by the organizers, participants, and assorted other people. It was really interesting - I’m probably late to the party on this, but it really was quite an event. If you’ve got a couple of hours to kill, I recommend the show.
And now, to finish Josh’s drawing from Hades. Happy Thursday!!
Up and getting ready for the antique show this weekend. And work. Mustn’t forget about work.
Morning all. Garbage and recyclables are out. They gave us a big (60 gal) blue container for the recycle stuff and now collect on once a month (this is the 3rd Thursday of the month, I think). We’ll see how it goes.
74F heading to 91F today and the rain has fled the area. Probably mow the lawn on Sunday and then water it if no precipitation is in the forecast.
Outside of that, tidying the house (or not) is in the plans, including running the dishwasher.
All y’all have a good day.
I answered the phone to a bomb threat many years ago at the library. I called the boss and the police, and asked our customers and whatever staff wanted to leave. The police parked a block away until the time given by the caller was up. They asked us to look through the stacks for the bomb. Sheesh.
flytrap :eek:
Once when I was at work, the mailroom opened a letter with white powder inside. We all went on lockdown, with the ventilations system shutdown, until the chemical tests came back. :mad:
First day of school went ok for the sunbeams. Now we just have to do it again, for another 8-9 months. Sigh.
Yesterday our house loan funded and today we get the keys! Yay!
Happy Thorsday!
Gonna be a rainy day, with high of 82.
Came home the park and on the way into the house I heard thundering hooves behind me, turned around to look and it was Adam running up behind us.
How can a cat make so much noise???
Even the big dogs at the park don’t thunder when they run.
Today is bill paying day, maybe a load of laundry.
GAHHHHH! Ant invasion! Spent the last hour wiping them out and spraying Lysol along trails and possible ingress points. Now I feel itchy. At least they’re sugar ants, not the big’uns. Walked around the outside of the house, but can’t see any trails or obvious nests, so I’m guessing they’re coming into the walls from underground.
I’ve seen their entrances and plugged them up. Worked for a day or two.
I used cinnamon to stop ants. Still working
I put the vacuum cleaner up last night and checked the suction before I did. Either the bag is full, or it’s a bad vacuum. I got it from Wal-mart, wanna bet which it is?
We had a cool front come in yesterday that dropped the predicted highs down into the upper 90s. This is Texas, that’s pretty cool for August.
I do not know how I survived when I was younger. 1980 was the hottest summer on record in this area - we got up to 113° - and I worked at 6 Flags that summer.
Seanette - it was Doppelgangster by Laura Resnick - 2nd in the Esther Diamond series. I’m now reading Unsympathetic Magic.
I go the basic small plastic ant traps; tried other things and they worked best for me.
Other than that getting together for another day of adventure at irk.
Do you use it to keep them away, or melt it and pour it into their tunnel?
Home - end of work week. **FCD **et al will be here late tomorrow. In the morning, I’ll make a grocery run and over the course of the day, I need to clean. ugh.
Then next Firday, I’ll drive with **FCD **to take his folks back to Ocala. Not looking forward to that at all, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
Meanwhile, supper will be whatever. I’ve got a can of clam chowder in the pantry - I think that’s what I’ll eat.
Well, I didn’t know THIS was a thing! On Tuesday, a Russian surveillance plane flew just about directly over my neighborhood. I did not know that.
“CHICAGO — Just as Chicagoans were settling into dinner, and the White Sox were in the middle of a doubleheader on the South Side Tuesday, a Russian Air Force jet flew over Chicago at high altitude, likely collecting reconnaissance along the way. The flights are allowed under the Treaty on Open Skies, which permits member nations to conduct pre-arranged aerial surveillance over each other’s territory. The flights are meant to give member nations the opportunity to confirm each other are abiding by the rules of military treaties. Rules require the planes to be unarmed but they do contain high tech surveillance and monitoring equipment.”
A line of cinnamon where they entered the house, which was the back door, so it was easy.
Also, at the time, they were getting into the cat food, so we put the bowls on a pad made of cinnamon sticks*. And cinnamon on the tray where the cat food was, but I understand now that might not be good for kitties.
I don’t bother ants outside, just try to keep them from getting inside.
*I’m way too crafty
Annoyance of the Day!
I have a rather large hospital bill that I am paying on. Payment arrangements were made years ago and I have been paying regularly with no problems. However, there is a stipulation that if I am late on a payment the payment arrangement ends.
There have been several times in the past where I didn’t get the bill until past the due date, however since I know when the bill is due and I always had a copy of the previous bill with the information I needed on it, I would just go ahead and call in the payment whether or not I had received the bill.
The bill has always been due on the 15th or 16th, so tonight I call in the bill and find out that the entire balance is due!!! It seems that not only was my due date moved to the 6th, but I only got the bill a few days ago, well past the due date.
So I selected to option to talk to an operator, got some asshole who heard my account number just fine, but all of a sudden he couldn’t hear me anymore to verify my name and birthdate. I switched from blue tooth to speaker and the fucker, who I could hear just fine, said I sounded muffled and hung up on me.
So I had to call back, go through the fucking menu all over again, reenter my information, and fortunately found an option when I could set up a payment arrangement over through the system without having to talk to another asshole.
On a good note, we got the new recycle bin today. The trash was starting to build up in here. I told my son to run out and get it before somebody steals this one.
Tomorrow I’ll paint our house number on it, even though we aren’t supposed to do that.