except I’m so full of ow, that my reflexes are slow
It is 61 degrees and cloudy today. The weather forecasters finally said that the pesky jet stream may be moving back to where it’s supposed to be and we might get some summer. That means my garden might dry out enough to allow some grass cutting without it becoming a mudfest.
I am at irk, not very irked today so that’s a good thing. I’m due to be finishing this assignment on 31st July but I may be staying on now until 10th August as the newbie is rearranging her holiday plans to suit this dept instead of the one she is moving from.
Talking of newibes, welcome noobz!
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waitaminute - water has an expiration date???
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A couple of years ago, I was [del]rummaging through[/del] inventorying the office emergency supplies, and found a “brick” pack of water in juice box type containers. Several of them had shrunk as if someone stuck a straw into them and sucked all the water out, but they were still sealed. 
So yes, water can go bad and it apparently can contract in size with prolonged storage.
IIRC, about all that hadn’t gone bad in that cabinet was the toe tags.
I’m gonna say up front that I don’t know a lot about microbiology, but I’m pretty sure that a sealed container of water that doesn’t leak or allow air in will not got “bad” in the sense that you’ll get sick if you drink it. It may taste stale, but I don’t believe water can spoil. Now, if it had impurities in it, anaerobic nasties might proliferate, but H[sub]2[/sub]O is inert.
Beer, on the other hand, can get nasty fast. So can Diet Coke. When we bought this house in '04, the fridge in the garage held some Coors from 1997. I can’t imagine how nasty it must have tasted. It went to the dump. My sister hosted a party and I grabbed a can of Diet Coke that tasted a bit odd - turns out it was 4 years old. She doesn’t drink diet and apparently few of her guests did either. She did toss the last few cans when I told her it was nasty.
Wait - toe tags are part of emergency office supplies? We couldn’t even get bandaids!!! :eek:
First of all, I think that peanut butter and peach jam together just sounds** wrong**.
Second, my grandma still does the laundry on a rudimentary level (take all the clothes and put them all in the washer at once and start it) and I don’t like the stairs because of my knee so this morning I put the dirty clothes in the basket and just slid them down the stairs. Voila! 
I’ve seriously got to get some homework done this morning as this afternoon we ABSOLUTELY WILL be going to the hearing aid place and running other errands for them and tomorrow is class and then straight into vacation.
Yay, vacation!!!
Water is an incompressible fluid.
Made it to work.
Haven’t killed anyone today.
The day ain’t over yet.
Good, more for me. 
I figured out why the grass hasn’t grown in one part of the yard - damned guinea fowl use it as their personal buffet! I think they’ve eaten all the grass seed out there!! Stoopit birds!
Watering continues - another hour anna half I’m thinking.
It’s supposed to be ONLY in the low 90s today. Get our yer earmuffs! I’m so excited because I get to go home after work. No errands, no barn, no nuffin. I’m going to go home and veg for the evening. I DVRed 5 episodes of The Mentalist so perhaps I will park my butt in front of the tv with a bag o’ chips.
RE: hearing aids.
Dad has a hearing aid that does a passable job for talking to real people, but the TV sounds all garbled. Don’t any of you have closed captioning turned on for your elders? Doesn’t work great for live TV, but it is a life saver for movies and such. Plus, we set up some headphones for Dad so he can hear the TV without the sound being up to full volume. Win-win!
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Water is an incompressible fluid.
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Tell it to the shriveled-up water containers.
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Wait - toe tags are part of emergency office supplies? We couldn’t even get bandaids!!! :eek:
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Yeah, well, earthquakes can be a bit shall we say, dramatic, and have a way of trapping people under piles of rubble.
EEK! The caterpillars are back! The caterpillars are back! Walk for your lives!
There’s something about the courtyard area here that caterpillars seem to love. Unfortunately for the caterpillars, they don’t know better than to start ambling across a concrete sidewalk on a 92 degree day. About six inches in, they’re cooked. The ones that don’t burn up get stepped on. Pretty sure they weren’t destined to become bright green splots, but that’s life in the middling-sized city.
The Caterpillars are coming, and they’re bringing a freeway. Ironically, the traffic near my home seems to have been helped by closing a road that will be ultimately replaced by a new interchange.
Proton decay?
Blurf…
Didn’t get to sleep till 4:30 AM and I can’t get back to sleep. today is the day of teh grumps.
Blurf.
Our old people aren’t deaf, ergo they refuse to use CC. :rolleyes:
Sweetie and I, on the other hand, ALWAYS use CC because he works in TV and got used to seeing it when he was in Master Control at PBS and I hate it when someone on TV mumbles and I don’t catch what they said.
It’s hot and muggy and both weather.com and acuweather.com insist we should be having severe thunderstorms right this second!! What we have is blue sky with few clouds.
I need the mighty power of the MMP…
I’ve received an offer (in fact, a contract with several glaring mistakes :rolleyes:) for a job in locations A+B, 3 months, former client of mine (not the best, not the worst).
Tomorrow I expect to have an interview for a job in locations C+B, different company, one year contract, sounds technically very interesting, better pay.
I usually operate on the basis of “whomever says ‘come’ first wins”, but damnit, I want the second job soooo much more than the first…
{{{{{{{sending Nava vibes to the second job}}}}}}}}
How soon do you have to answer on the contract offer? If you can string them along for a couple of days until you find out about #2, that’s a no-brainer.
That’s the plan, but I’m not used to stringing people along (other than my mother). I’z nierrrrvoussss… need shaky smiley
You have an out. Demand that the glaring errors in the contract be fixed before you sign.
it’s raining!!! It’s raining!!!