He got away with 2, but after a few tries he gave up on them both and she ended up with her grapes.

After the whole grape thing I was ouside, talking on the phone and sweeping a section of the patio when Chicken started making some really odd noises. Poohdog went to investigate. At the same time I was telling him to leave her alone something flew up on the patio. She had gotten ahold of a toad, it was small, but still a toad. I had never seen a toad play possum before. But, then I had never seen a toad fly before either. It landed on its back. I thought it was dead, but after a few minutes it flipped over. I swept it back into the grass.

Between her pecking at my toes and tushy, going after the dangly thingys on my cell phone and her interaction with Poohdog, she is very entertaining.

I can imagine. ;)

But, as this is a public board, I'll keep it to myself. :p

Try a fresh set of batteries

It was on ESPN HD as well. While I think some of the camera work/editing could be better, I do like the effective use of slow-mo AND fast-mo replays to highlight aspects of the routines that might go unnoticed otherwise.

I've officially handed everything over to my replacement.
Now I have nothing to do today.
:D

NA, I thought you'd like this:
http://www.fashion-era.com/1920s/192...alls_aug_1.htm

This is totally awesome too:
http://frazzledfrau.tripod.com/titanic/recamier.htm

I was going to check out the last article from Al over at MiceAge and saw a link for a news article:

Disney banning Heavy Metal acts at the Anaheim DtD House of Blues - 9/6/07

One thing that amused me in the article was
Umm... I am not sure what route one is taking to get from DtD to Pomona, but a more direct route (straight up the 57) is only about 25 miles.

Darkbeer (the author of the article) is not to blame for this gross factual error - he was just quoting the band's web site.

I love the 1920's! However, I wore it so much better as a 34B.

I'm too lazy to click on the link and read the article, but I do wonder why they have banned heavy metal from HoB. What is this, 1967? God Damn Long Hairs!

I can't wait for Saturday night!!! www.bakersfieldbrews.com One of my close friends buys my ticket every year for my birthday. David was always our designated driver. I had figured this year I would just watch what I drank. Nope. She had it all figured out. Her family is going to play Taxi Service for our drunken butts.

And Saturday morning I finally get my hair trimmed. I am going darker with the color. I am really ready for a change.

Saturday late morning/early afternoon I get to go on a mini road trip. My sister is going to watch Nickolas, so I have to take him up to Tehachapi. He is all excited about spending the night at his cousins' house for the first time. Lorene is all excited that she finally gets to keep him over night (at least that is what she told Mom).

I am determined to have a great pre-birthday weekend.

Yes you do. look for a gay cowboy......

:D

Have fun MG!! Be safe!! It sounds great!

You deserve nothing but the best birthday weekend EVER!

I'm finally getting a haircut this weekend (I really need it) - I might even go BLACK.

I got a haircut tonight. I feel so much more aerodynamic.

I had to withdraw from the moot court competition.

The students on the moot court board this year can't be bothered to do the actual work associated with their little resume booster. So, they delayed getting the in-house competition started, delayed getting results to us, and didn't co-ordinate the in-house competition with the regional competition. So, I'm supposed to sign my name to a piece of paper swearing that I'll compete, that won't be turned in until next week, and then - and only then - when the regional competition processes it, they'll assign us a side.

So, I'd have a 50/50 chance of being assigned to the opposite side and having to REWRITE the entire brief in about 10 days to meet the brief submission deadline. And the moot court board's response? Oh well - take it up with the regional competition people. THEY should be doing that. THEY should be getting us coaches.

Meanwhile, other schools that signed up their teams in May had all this time to work on their briefs. But SU wants to send its students into competition with 10 days to work on it.

It's completely ridiculous. I can not re-write the brief, prepare both sides of the oral argument, recruit my own coach -- and continue with my other coursework.

So, they said I had to withdraw. So I did.

Once again - any time I accomplish something, any time it's one step forward it's two steps backwards.

Once you do, you'll never go back. Or so they say...

I have no idea who this is credited to. But I like it and I think that people here will like it too:

The Mayonnaise Jar and 2 CUPS OF COFFEE

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle,
When 24 Hours in a day is not enough,
Remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in
Front of him. When the class began, wordlessly,
He picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar
And proceeded to fill it with golf balls.

He then asked the students if the jar was full.
They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the
Jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open
Areas between the golf balls.

He then asked the students again if the jar was full..
They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar.
Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
He asked once more if the jar was full.
The students responded with an unanimous "yes."

The professor then produced two cups of coffee
From under the table And poured the entire contents
Into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand.
The students laughed.

"Now," said the professor, as the laughter subsided,
"I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.
The golf balls are the important things - God, family, children, health,
Friends, and Favorite passions -- things that if everything else was
Lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, house, and
Car.

The sand is everything else --the small stuff.

"If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued,
"there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.
The same goes for life.

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff,
You will never have room for the things that are
Important to you.

So...

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.
Play With your children. Take time to get medical checkups.
Take your partner out to dinner. Play another 18.

There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal.
"Take care of the golf balls first --the things that really matter.
Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."

One of the students raised her hand and inquired
What the coffee represented.

The professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked".
It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem,
there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend."

I get to interview with the US DOT. I'm not entirely certain that I would want to work in DC, but I can't deny that it would be a good opportunity. And I need the interview practice.

So, after having aged 10 years between yesterday morning until just a few minutes ago. The major disaster is now past and I have many more gray hairs thanks to my roomie's situation. But, it's over, it's done with, I'm safe and I'm going to be at Disneyland in 7 days. Whew......and yay!

I just got home from work. I had some errands to run tonight. 1 problem. There is a Boy passedout on his bed. How can I run errnads if he is OUT. I knew he wasn't feeling quite up to snuff, but for him to be out, and in his bed is just odd. *sigh*

I just ran across this. Some people have wayyyyy too much time on their hands!

Always.

It is 8:36 on a Friday night and I am still at work. And I will be back tomorrow.

Pisser.

I sent Chris off on a date while I stay at home in my PJs. Ahhhh, PJs!

I won't get paid until Monday, so all my 3 day weekend plans have been flushed away.

I'm working both days this weekend so my time off and planned Disneylanding is shot.

Where is the beer?

And why is all the rum gone?

And what was I thinking when I took all my liquor to my friends house?

I tired.

Me too, but, I can't sleep, and nobody else of the insomniac nature on LoT to play with. Bah!

Working Saturday suuuuuuuucks.

Agreed!

Yeah, I should be there now myself, but I am having a hard time getting motivated.

They asked me to work today. I said no.......

:D

I'm working too. Is this payback for a long weekend? Saturday is the new Labor Day?

I'm supposed to be enjoying a long weekend. Hard to do when the Federal Reserve screws up direct deposit for your entire company. :mad:

Aw, the one night I go to bed early!

My hair is definatly darker! It will take me some getting used to, but so far I really like it.

Well, I have been at the office for about an hour and a half and have so far done about 15 minutes worth of work.

I'm writing up an offer :)

I'm home for all of 45 minutes and I'm trying to dye my hair in that time. Good luck.

It would seem that is the way it goes here today on the LoT. I have a bit more time than you but very little motivation. Okay, the fact that I am probably going to see people tomorrow I haven't seen in years or that I am supposed to be going to a party tonight....

But I'm tired.

I just got done getting ready. I even put on makeup!! Boy do I feel different. I have never imagined myself having such dark hair. She even straightened it. I guess my neice liked it straight because she gave me her hair straightener when I dropped off Nickolas.

Straight hair. Wow. I'd love to see what my hair looks like straight. I have poufy wild do as it pleases hair.

Do you think your hair might get lighter after a bit? I know when I first color it is extremely dark.

I hope you have a great time!

As opposed to gay hair?

For the record~

I have no opposition to gay hair.

:p

Not that I know what exactly it would be {could it be the Flock of Seagulls 'do?} but I don't mind at all.

Poufy, fly away, gray...all of that gives me grrrrief.

I know you're all dying to hear the latest in the saga of this stupid moot court competition.

So, finally they brought in the moot court adviser, who this year happens to be the nice coach from my last competition. She knows me, and knows my work ethic, and knows that if I say I can't do something it's because there is no conceivable way I can do something and not just that I'm lazy or recalcitrant.

I think what happened is that usually SU runs this competition. So, in the past they've always just managed to assign their teams the same sides as in the in-house. (The other schools don't use the same problem for their in-house competitions, so that's not an issue for them.) And when they decided to let another school host this year they didn't consider what it would mean once that school had control over side assignments.

So, our school is talking to the other school, and if they can get us the same side then my team mate and I can compete. And if they can't get us the same side, my former coach agrees that with the clerkship interview and whatnot that I have other priorities unforeseen at the time I entered the competition, so they will find a way for my team mate to compete with a new partner, so that she won't have to be penalized. And I will be excused without penalty.

So, now I wait to see what happens.

Silence of the Lambs goes together well with macaroni and cheese.

Need some Chianti, Matt?


Hey, Pru- that's good news!:snap:

Just got home!

We had a blast. My friend's son was our taxi service. Her aunt and cousin went with us. It was great. Having her aunt there was like having my mom with me. I could not have asked for a better present.

The other friend (who's b-day is 1 week after mine) decided to ride over with someone else, and just meet us there. To me it was pretty rude, since GiAnna (friend #1) bought our tickets. We finally met up with them right as we were getting ready to leave.

I even got waited on by a quasi-reality show-whore-celebrity. Pumpkin from Flavor of Love and Charm School is from Bakersfield. After Flavor of Love she was fired as a substitute teacher. Whe was manning the Michelobe truck. I thought she looked familiar. When she brought me by beer I asked her if she was who I thought she was. She didn't want to admit it, but later I saw her posing for pictures.

At 8 I called my sister to check on Boy and to say goodnight. They both (him and Lorene) got a laugh out of where I was calling from. I was sitting at the feet of a cop, drinking a beer. There were cops everywhere. After I said goodnight to Nick I looked up at the cop and told him my 10 year old son was pleased that I was safe and amused that I was dirnking next to a cop. He laughed and then had to take off in a hurry. They had spotted a bit of trouble down the way from where we were.

There were BPD officers everywhere. It is fun to sit back and people watch at events like this. You could see people getting drunker and drunker as the night wore on.



As for the hair straghtening thing, for those who haven't seen me, I have thick hair that tends to do some major frizzing and poofiing. I hate messing with it, it just seems like a waist of tiome. My neice knows this and took much joy in passing her iron to me.

Ok, I am off the internets now. Using the backspace is killing my pinky. Friends should not let froends type drunk.

You're going to regret that one in the morning

The Chemical Brothers are playing in Trafalgar Square tonight, but I don't have a ticket. :( I would have been blissfully ignorant, had we not wandered through there today and heard the soundcheck. I peered through the large metal walls and could see the stage through the narrow crack. Pisser.

Show up and see if you can score a ticket

*sigh*

I guess I should get dressed and head to Tehachapi to get The Boy...

Hey, I use to live in Tehachapi when I was a boy. My younger brother was born there. All I can say is I'm glad I live in Garden Grove now....:D

See?? Now THIS has NOTHING to do with the payroll department!!! Whee!!! Thats someone elses issue! (at least in my company)

Only a few more days and I'll be riding Pirates (my first since the Johnnification of it) and once again, I will miss Haunted Mansion because it's closed.

Anyway, I'm starting to get all excited and happy about it. Yay! :D

Whenever I make a sandwich at home and put lettuce on it, I feel like I'm stealing food from the rabbit.

Is that because Munchkin is looking at you disapprovingly?

pff...get a dog. everything you eat...they think is theirs and glare at you for not sharing, even if they wouldnt eat it (a rarity) on their best day

Or my cat, if she thinks I am heading to the kitchen, she's off running in there ahead of me talking the whole way, begging for a shrimp! If I bring out food the eat in the living room, she insists on inspecting it, in case there is something she is interested in.

How does Munchykin feel when you have rabbit stew?

Tender

mmm.....stew. cant wait for winter. love me some homemade beef stew (no...not rabbit) and fresh cornbread

Yum!

Pity Party, table for 1 please.

I just made that last week- couldn't wait for winter.:D

Susan is still kicking herself for how the stew came out on the camping trip. It is normally MUCH better than that.

So, when are we going camping again?

Let's hear it, why is that?

oh man, Im soo ready (except for the out-of-shape thing) to go again. even moreso now cuz I dont have to spend a fortune for equipment


I honestly didnt think it was that bad. I was so hungry by dinner she could have stewed up some of the local fauna and I wouldnt have complained a bit.

Isn't that funny? I just brought up stew the other night with Alex! Although I've learned the hard way that I don't make a very good stew :( Or perhaps I learned that I have a crappy excuse for a crock pot and need to get a real one. Something like that.

But beef stew poured over drop biscuits sounded soooooo good to me the other night!

Trust me: if you ever get it not screwed up, you will know the difference.

Hey, It's always winter somewhere.... ;)

When I spoil my critters, they get... (don't look if you are squeamish)

Can Susan make stew over a grill at at beach? If so, she'll have a rare chance for redemption at the LoT Beach Party on the 22nd.

Her stew is always "twice baked". She makes it initially in her crock pot and then reheats. Oddly, it ALWAYS (excepting for the camping trip) tastes better when cooked the second time.

I'll see if she is interested.

For all the fans of Cristiano Ronaldo:

I have no idea who that is. But HOLY HELL!

Oh nevermind, I see the thread now!

Dopey thieves steal woman's dwarfs

Well, tomorrow is the deadline to determine whether I'm mooting or not. If they don't hear back from the regional folks by tomorrow, they're going to have to proceed without me.

However, I might be able to leverage that into something useful...if I can't moot, I could perhaps help coach. That would be less stress, but still be a contribution. And an entirely new bullet point on my resume.

That's a fantastic idea, Pru!

That's downright crimical.

Note to self: let the dough RISE before putting it in the oven! This isn't freaking Exodus here!

Just got home from dinner with 2 of my favorite people. Actually, dinner was over 2 hours ago, but I spent over an hour wiating for them at Chuy's. My friend GiAnna kidnapped Nickolas. When they finally showed up they had a cake and a baby rat. Like I needed another rat!! but she is uber cute. Her name is Remy. She is a black & white hooded, and so far everyone seems to be getting along well. Nickolas wanted to get her to help ease my pain of having Thud put down on Wednesday, but for the next 72 hours I have 6 rats.

He also tried to talk her into getting a bigger cage...*sigh*

Soooooo, is TODAY your BD, MG? You're BD info isn't listen in your profile. How are we all going to virtually celebrate?

:evil: You can't...

Too late.
:D

dang it! But thank you. :)

Well, now I have music from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in my head. Thanks to you GC, it's before 8 am and Jane Powell is trilling my head. Thanks alot.

So, I'm officially off the moot court team. I'm sad, and relieved, and guilty that I'm relieved, and noting curiously that my left eyelid - the one that has been twitching nearly continuously for about three weeks and was becoming rather painful - hasn't twitched once since I heard the news.

And, I had a pretty good interview today with the representative from the DOT. I think I would like working there.

I was supposed to have a big chuck of time off today. Instead, I just got home from work and have to go back out at 3:30. So, instead of time off, I get a long lunch.

I repeat myself, Yay, Pru!

There's a Beatles cover band called the Fab Faux. Brilliant!

I love it!

I had a spur-of-the-moment appointment tonight to show property :) My favorite reason ever to come home late.

Dammit, no other judges called today. (Today was "call day", for judges following the plan.) I hate having all my eggs in the one West Virginian basket, but maybe I'll get lucky and persuade that judge to hire me. Immediately.

(still eye-twitch free - and another entire team dropped out due to the re-write.)

Today was the Girl's second day at her new school- she goes once a week all day, and we do the rest at home. Last week, we were both nervous wrecks as it had been four years since anyone else had taught her, and since her last classroom environment. (Excepting art and dance). Well, today was much easier; she settled right in and when I left I didn't feel like I was abandoning her. I went home and started cleaning out what we semi-jokingly call her 'second bedroom', which is full of toys and furniture that she's either outgrown or we just stash in there until we can get rid of it. Took most of the morning and early afternoon, but it looks waaaay better. Now I have to paint it.:rolleyes:

When I picked her up, she looked tired but happy. They had a very busy day and she is doing pretty well with the whole thing. We were nervous because we didn't IEP her and she didn't want to use her old FM system, either. (Helps her hear the teach better, but usually they don't know how to use it properly and it ends up being more of a PITA). It's hard work for her to get the same info as the other kids- she has to really pay attention and use all sorts of visual cues to ascertain if she is missing anything, so she was pretty worn out this afternoon. We went shopping for a new Ipod cover for her and some video games, and about the time we were done my MIL calls from Cleveland (she's visiting my SIL) and informs me that Aunt Sally called her to tell her that our neighborhood was on fire. Now, Aunt Sally is beyond old and usually gets her neighborhoods mixed up, but when we drove over the ridge near our house we could see a large plume of smoke wafting over roughly where our house was. Planes were dropping water on the fire, and as we got closer we could see that it was just down the hill from us. Luckily, they got it out, but that was too close for comfort. It was a long, hot summer and we live in a heavily forested area- wouldn't take much for it to go up!

I think I'll have a drink and hit it.:cheers:

Hugs to you and Tori.

And I can totally empathize with you on the fire. I grew up near scrub brush and vividly recall spending one Halloween on the roof of our house (which was old wood shake) putting out burning embers that were landing on the roof. Scared the bejeebus out of me.

Stupid car. I took it in because the a/c went out. I knew it would be costly. They are also fixing the 2 other issues, both of which I knew about, but thought I could live with. By the end of today I will be out $1500 that I don't have. But the alternative is buying a new car that I can't afford. *sigh*

Oh, and I have come to the conclusion, I do NOT want a PT Cruiser afterall. That is today's rental car. The thing has no power, the seats are not very comfy and there are quite a few blind spots.

Soooo....
 

There's a new Pinkberry opening right down the street on Tampa Ave in the Costco shopping center yay...i'm so waiting to go and experience my first one.

Then i get a phone call from a manager who basically she was hired in around february sometime but got fired in may if i do recall (the second time she had a no call no show you have two and you're fired) i was there the day she did had her second one and the store manager said she was fired cuz of it. Well she was rehired and made manager over those who have been there over a year and working our butts off to advance.

Well she calls me saying i was supposed to be at work today at 11:15am no i wasn't...so i pick up the phone as i was almost out the door to run errands. And i tell her that the work schedule is in the clock in room it says i have today off and i work that time tomorrow. So she says to me well that's what is in the manager's office on the break schedule and there is only 1 cashier right now. Well yesterday i was the only cashier at 6pm no one else was there. So she checks the schedule and says that i'm correct and that it's ok but who is supposed to work? Duh look at the work schedule dumbass..lmao i didn't say this but i was thinking it...so she's like don't worry and ignore the messages i left on your voicemail on your cell phone lmao.. It's like ok you're manager figure it out... and i hung up the phone...

Looks like favoritism or something over promoting someone who deserves it to be manager wondering if coporate would appreciate this information...

It's not exactly what you're looking for, but there's a job opening at UC Irvine, if you think you can remain sufficiently non-controversial that is.

In my efforts to get back on the health bandwagon once more, I went to the gym this afternoon. On the way, I waved hello to Mr. Bacon a few doors down and noticed a HUGE crack in my windshield. No, make that two, and they intersect!

So... I'm annoyed. Time to save up for a new windshield.

Make that bitter, I'm bitter. I didn't even hear it happen.

Check your insurance. Some (including mine) cover windshields with a lower deductible (I think mine was only $100 for the windshield).

I went and we watched/listened from outside. It was very cool.

Kevy, long story short: Since I'm living with my grandma, we're on the same auto insurance policy. I pay for my portion, yada yada. So, when our policy came up again last month, my grandma said she lowered mine by $50 by doing away with coverage for my car, bringing me to the bare minimum to be legal in California - Gee, thanks. I just said okay because I didn't want to deal with it at the time, wrote the check and was done with it.

I'm really happy about that decision.


On the plus side, it really won't cost *that* much. On the downside, *that* much was what I was putting away for the move. I was looking to ease up on my work schedule over the coming months, but I'm not sure I'm going to be able to do that.

Blueerica, that sucks. I'm sorry to hear that about the windshield and the insurance.

I got a promotion at work... next week, I'm a lead.

Better than getting hard at work. ;)



Congratulations!

Have you been a follow all this time?

Congrautlations Matt!!

Erica - that sucks :(

Congratulations or supercalafragilisticexpalidocious! Go Matt!

Finally, some good news! Congrats, Matt!

Personally I prefer being a follow.

Congratulations!

So the week after that, maybe a corner office?

According to my spam folder, courtesy of e-harmony thousands of single girls want to meet me. I could not possibly imagine why, I'm pretty sure I don't want to meet them. ;)

Random thought from Management 425...

UCI projects that California will be about a step or so above "recession" status for the next couple of years. Grain of salt is that is a projection and there's no certainty, but dang... not good.

WOOHOO! Happy day HAPPY HAPPY DAY!

?

Hockey is back ;)

I didn't realize it was gone

Now, are you really sure that you don't want to meet them? I certainly can't speak for the thousands of other solo gals, but this one was dying to meet you & did everything from the e-Harmony email to hiding in your tree (you know, the one right outside of your bedroom?) with my nifty night vision goggles. You looked right at me, Snowflake, but never came outside to greet me. Maybe it was the giant owl costume that I was wearing that fooled you.

:D ;) :p

I'm interviewing with a Yakima firm. I'm not sure if I'm excited or disappointed.

Yakima - that just sound like a punch line

OK, so I found this "interesting" video on TMZ.com

NSFW

Name That Shape

My Great-Grandfather owned a saloon in Yakima. He had a pet bear that he kept chained up out front to attract customers.

He kept you on a chain?

Japanese gangsters? I'd be careful with that one.

Oh, dear. Well, you could always get some time in, then move on to someplace more attractive, like Fresno.

This one was NOT on your list.

Not surprising. Yakima isn't on ANYONE'S list.

No, that's Bill's job....

Their big practice area is agribusiness stuff. Can't you see me doing crop damage litigation? Who knows - maybe I'd love it. At least I'd be close enough to drive back here to have Shaun cut my hair. Because Shaun is amazing, and my hair looks significantly less like I've just electrocuted myself.

I had the strangest dream last night.... there was a massive wind storm coming and everyone was getting prepared or getting out of town, and Cherny sent me to go pick up some potato salad from this gas station deli, and the guys there took forever and then tried to charge me $7 for it, which I perceived to be massively overcharging me, and then... I woke up.

Oh, and the area looked like a cross between San Diego's gaslamp district and the Valley... weird

Well, $7 for potato salad is a bit steep.;)

it'd better be a buttload of 'tater salad

But isn't that weird, to have a dream about potato salad? Even the nice kind with the eggs in it (which is was... no idea why I remember that).

And the wind storm? WTF kind of dream was I having? And why the gas station/deli guys who were wasting my time making me wait while I protested that it just wasn't WORTH waiting for (with the wind storm coming) and they kept urging me to wait, and then the b*stards tried to overcharge me for it after all that.

That's it, no more late night In-N-Out for me....

Home today. Car trouble so I sort of took the day off - but am sort of working from home a bit too. I want to focus - but it's friday and I'm thinking 1. woo-hoo 3 day weekend and 2. boo-hoo stupid car trouble.

Overheating issue. Not only is the fan not working - but the coolant is dirty which, I think, points to a faulty head gasket. Expensive. Bah!!!

Can't I ever just have a car that runs right and then I get to pay it off and have it run right without a car payment. How much is it going to be vs. how much I owe on the damn thing. I shake my fist at you car troubles.

Online stuff points to the model having a known issue with the head gasket failing which really annoys me that they won't do anything about it. Yeah - it's a 1999 - but if you made it wrong to begin with... you get the idea.

Why is it a 3-day weekend?

Now that I think about my job, it applies there also......

I think it's a 3-day weekend when you take Friday off for car troubles, just not a very good 3-day weekend.

eh, you might very well luck out. coolant gets dirty no matter what. if the fan has failed, between replacing that and a good flush n fill it might just fix it.

if its been running decently other than the overheat, you could be ok.

keep a good thought.

Whooo-hoooo! Two 1/4 more hours until I walk out on the job from hell! My boss is in London, so he'll get my letter Monday. My office is being re-painted/carpeted tonight, so I'm using the "boxing-up" excuse to take loads of my personal stuff to my car...

Normally, I'd give notice and stuff, but the stress this week alone made me realize I can't take 2 more weeks of it. I'll just get the reference from my beloved old boss, since I have her home # and email.

Around 4, when the workmen come, I'll go and say "bye" to all my friends...That part will be sad.:( And I'll always miss my old position, which was heavenly...

Here's to a better tomorrow! :cheers:

Wow!

Soooooo
 

Off for the weekend to my Mom's thank god she's retiring party. I many not survive. So far my Mom has decided to take the grand-daughters to a teddy bear tea. They're in 3rd and 6th grade and neither is interested so we made them go thinking it was important to Mom. Who after buying tickets asked who wanted to take them. Um you? So then my BIL decided he would but dressed as Mr. Weasley to make it more fun.

My nicece told my mom she wanted to make ice cream from scratch with hand crank. So mom has decided this must be done for the party which starts at 5:30, and the tea is at 2. So we have to get this done before the tea which means spending the morning hand cranking ice cream.

Oh and my Aunt informed me she's wearing her "sexy shoes" :rolleyes:

oops

I had a nice talk with Asshat last night. "They" finally found a counselor for Nick. I have arranged it so that I can be the one to take him, at least to the first appointment. He is also going to get his bike out of my way and fix Nick's back tire. I respoke my request that he spends some quality alone time with his son. I was also able to voice my concerns about the teenager living in his house, watching the kids, while having 5 different MySpace accounts where she talked about drinking and referring to herself as "kind of slutty." I brought up that I felt Nickolas is trying to play us against each other, so be warned. I don't think Nick is doing it conciously, but more out of trying not to be there. He also wants me to be happy, so I wonder if part of what he is saying is because he thinks it is what I want to hear.

Tonight I get to attack Laundry Mountain and firgure out what movie to watch when I begin my ascent.

I'll drink to that. :cheers:

I left my cell phone at my friends house.

I feel so naked.

Oops.

Found a nice simple chicken recipe that looks good. Heh, sometimes those brand-promoting recipes are really good (actually, my favorite cookbook is one that's all brand recipes)

Simple chicken and potato bake.
http://www.kraftfoods.com/main.aspx?...ecipe_id=52564

LOLCats make Friday afternoons more entertaining.

Yup, that's only because you don't have yer phone, doncha know!

In N Out Burger makes pain go away...

Never leave your naked pics on your cell phone

Wow. Valid concerns, I'd say.

Definitely- to a better tomorrow!

Reasonable request but so many cars suck, especially when they get a few miles on them. I hope it's something easy instead of the head gasket. I had to have one replaced on the car I had in high school. Kind of scary driving it across the street to the repair place with coolant shooting out the side of my engine block.

Dreams are fascinating.

Good luck!

Congrats!!! :)

Good for going back to the gym. Boo for damaged windshield. Sorry- that stinks.

Lashbear finally got an "Out Burger" (how appropriate) in San Francisco. I think this is the general forum, so I don't have to talk about bacon, and I'm allowed to say "Hi" to Mad Monkey Girl.

Susie-Anne would also have said "Hi", but she is having braces fitted to the majority of her teeth, and the sedation required has put her on a different level of "Hi".

Hehehehe... In & out, wasn't it ?? :evil:


PS: Big hugs to MMG and CM too !

PS: LS and I have finally made it to the "Not Afraid and €uroMeinke conversation across the same room via the LoT" status.

Yay !! :snap: :cheers:

Jack must have gone to break-dancing class last night. He's practicing his routine today.

LOL.

I keep calling relatives in Nebraska asking them what the score is in the USC/Nebraska game...

They've started letting the calls go to their answering machine :evil:

Haw-ha!

I am bored, and yet again no one is posting things to entertain me. What a bunch of slackers!

The dryer is not an amusement machine for kitties, puppies, or action figures.

A cloud isn't safe for work ?? Your boss would have to be pretty uptight, I think.

See... it IS hereditary.

:p Beat me to it.

And thus a sexual identity is born...

I ain't wearin no diapers again, neither. :p


....although there is the talc.... :evil:

PS: you're up late, aren't you ?

Meh, it's only 1.

Soooo,

Just got home from a gig to find that my rear license plate is missing. Isn't that dandy. Now, I have to file a police report in the morning and then have one of my bandmates pick me up tomorrow and then drive me home after my gig, since I can't get to DMV until Monday morning, obviously.

Just another of life's wonderfully unexpected surprises. :rolleyes:

In Paul Pressler fashion, I drove my timing belt to the point of failure. Unfortunately it happened at 80 miles an hour on the 10.

Oy vey, DPR!

In other news, $260.61 later, I have a new windshield. At least it's shiny!!!

That's bad timing.

Visible GD mojo

So, three times to DL and I've still not crossed the border to DCA!

Borneo, where were you so I could not longer be a screamin virgin? I kept looking for a tall dark and handsome fellow in some mouse ears, didn't find you obviously!

wow. you were lucky. any time Ive seen that happen the result is, to put it mildly, catastrophic

Aww, I was there Friday and Sunday. I guess we didn't cross paths because you were looking for someone tall, dark and handsome in mouse ears and I guess there were alot of tall & dark people there.

Dammit! I saw lots of people there, but I would have recognized you! I was also pretty busy fighting strollers (even though the park was not horribly crowded) we walked on every ride, pretty much, except the subs. We even rode Peter Pan with a fairly short wait of about 15 minutes.

Well, next time then. I'm hoping there will be a swanking LoT meet for my next trip. I missed Lindyhop too, cause my cell phone was off and I'd forgotten to turn it back on. At least I saw her last night!

Where the heck did the day go? It's 4pm already!
:)

And, can I just say, that there are 3, count 'em 3 cute boys here at my new office building. Not too shabby...
:D

Pity, had you stopped by the meet, we could've had lunch together.

Anybody interested in the possible commercial opening up of the Northwest Passage?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage

I'll spend the rest of my life looking for the real robbers.

I've been reading with interest the reports that the passage is now open again and that the NorthEast passage may be fully navigatable again very soon.

I just got home from work at about 1:00 a.m. ish. Back at it in the morning (though I may go in late - around 9:00 ish). I'm too restless to go to bed, but I can't keep my eyes open.

I'll be glad when open enrollment season is over.

What Kevy said reads much better without the first and last sentences, don't you agree?
:snap: :evil: :cheers:

...or is it just me and my dirty mind?

Id give you 100 mojos for that one iffin I could.

:snap: :snap: :snap: :snap: :snap:

Apparently I'm getting a promotion. With a raise. Not huge, but more money is more money.

Congratulations!

That's it??? That's all you tell us?!?!?!?

If she told us more, she would have to kill us.

You do have a dirty mind! I have no idea how you could interpret something as innocent as a giant faux conch shell used as the entrance to the ladies room as something dirty. :eek:

Go Pru!! :D :snap:

uh.....hmm.....just a quick question.


are those....erm. I mean...is that you?
:evil:

No comment... ;)

Yay! About time they gave you some recognition :)

No. Hers are much larger.

I just got home. I had tried calling Boy several times from work, but no answer. He is sound alseep in my chair, curled up around his backpack. I am tempted to set Holly and Sweetness&Light loose on him...:evil:

There are 2 men that work in my building.
One I call Steve Face.
The other I call Matt Voice.

One looks like innerSpaceman, the other sounds like CoasterMatt. lol! :D

Oh, well, it's not super exciting news - I'm not changing jobs or anything. I just bitched to the right people about how it was kind of sh!tty that I was setting up these new policies and procedures and reports and taking on training and supervision of a minion AND finding room in the budget to pay my successor more than I currently make. And that gee, if that's what this new version of my job is worth, it kind of sucks that I have to set it all up but I don't get the salary to go with it.

So, I had a suspicion that I might be getting a raise, but not the reclass (promotion.) It doesn't come with a fancy new title, since titles here are pretty meaningless and we can make up "functional" titles to actually use. But, it's just a bit of personal satisfaction to have made it out of the 07 salary class and into the 08 class before leaving the University.

Remy seems to have a broken/damaged back foot. She must have gotten it caught in the cage. I feel bad for her, but it doesn't seem to hurt her, and there isn't really anything that can be done for it.

On a happy note, Smash Mouth is going to be at the opening night of the KC Fair...TONIGHT! It is opening night and the concert is free, so our chances of getting a decent seat are pretty low. I am beyond excited. They were supposed to be here last year, but had to cancel at the last minute. I enjoyed Pablo Cruise, but I wanted SM.

Ugh, I'm trying to give what I have now away!

I volunteer!
I'll take some for even-ing out purposes!


And Pru; Good. I'm glad they listened to you.
You had a valid point, and I feel it was their duty to honor it.
And hey, a reclass to boot? Even better.

What's up with this criminals shooting kids? Or using kids?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070919/...X4.4FFRAms0NUE

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...=la-home-local
{say a accident but the crime is still horrendous and the reason behind it...}


And, I couldn't find the link, but what about the guys who went to a house {sounds like drug dealings...} and started a rucous and then shot a guy who had come to that house and as they ran away, they stopped and shot the 9 month old sitting in the car in the head?

My mind is blown. And, these are only the things that are sticking out in my mind.

What kills me even more so is how we are across the world fighting crime while in our own back yard, criminals are taking hold of the street and terrorizing us. I don't know but I think a lot of that 2nd link, there are a lot of gangs that are run from Mexico. I've heard this a lot in the news, as I live even closer to the border.

Just last weekend {that I know of} there was a gang turf shooting.

Arrrrr, I needs me another cup 'o that thar black stuff that calms me nerves.

Stout?

Arrrr!! Nay! Be it me black pearl....coffee!! May be I a pirate this day, but, them rugrats still be runnin' 'round the deck, gotta keep me wits about me!!

wait, was that a question of my physical state?

this is the song that never ends...
yes, it goes on and on my friend...

Just a question of the black stuff you be drinkin'. I just want a milkshake! mmmmm

Thanks! LOL.... Now I have to put some music on to get that out of my head. :p

And speaking of putting something on: anyone else here blissed-out by the fact that we've got sweater-weather goin' on???

Totally... except I'm a little warm, and this is one of my thinner short-sleeved sweaters.

But yeah, I was totally smiling this morning when it was drizzling!

It's a little windy today in NorCal. Yay!! Sweater weather!

YESSSS! I get to go to the Ducks game tonight, woohoo!

Ooo, milkshake! LOL Now I am laughing thinking of that 'Milkshake' song and your avatar, librayvixen!!!

Oh but YEAH!!! I love sweater weather!!! But, I checked the forecast for next week, when we are to be in L.A. and it says it to be up close to 80 degrees. Crap.

The only thing that worries me is that I will turn to eating yummy warm foods....the sweaters can only cover so much.....:rolleyes:

Hey, sweater weather is ALSO soup weather :)

True, Morri. It doesn't have to be warm pastries, cakes, brownies....

Man, am I hungry!!

My daughter has gone back to eating more raw foods. Last week she lost 5 pounds!! Sheeeeeet....I need to get back on track. But, this sinus infection has me down...

I know, excuses excuses. :blush:

My milkshakes bring everyone to my avatar! lol

Soup weather... you guys are making me hungry!

Me too! ;)

ROFLMAO!!

:snap:

librayvixen, your avatar damn sure brought people to post!! ;)

That'f fome funny fhyte, Prv

Goonie and Pru... hilarious!

I have been waiting since I last changed my avatar to post that and wondered what an appropriate time would be. So, thank you for providing that opportunity.


In other news, while the Spokane firm decided I wasn't good enough for them, I did score an interview with everyone's least favorite federal agency. My co-worker says this is a bad idea, given that I'm already quite the hardass at work, and combining my natural tendencies with that job could just be too much evil for one planet. Still, I think it would be amusing when it came time for introductions. "And what do you do?" "I'm an attorney with the IRS." "Um....I think I need to refill the bean dip. Please excuse me."

Good job Pru!!

Heh, I used to know a guy who was once an enforcement agent for the IRS. Eeep. Nice enough guy though. He decided to get out after putting some member of the Mexican mafia in jail and his dad (same name as him) had to spend a year in the witness protection program for his own safety.

Who said the IRS was boring?

Hey Pru, if you got the skills, you gotta use 'em!!!

The only thing I've run into is people being surprised Mexican/Americans work for the Border Patrol.

One guys' family would ask how he could do it {but he was the only really successful one....} and I asked this guy if it were his brother I saw on the news as being a higher-up in the Border Patrol. He {I have to say, looked quite, um, Mexican, no offense...} actually laughed/scoffed and said 'No way!'. It was bad timing to argue with him but what is wrong with implenting the law?? :mad:

I have two seats availible for tonight's game, anybody? Bueller?

Apparently the IRS is all about its 40-hour work week. If you count school as work (and you damn well better), I can not remember the last time I had a 40-hour week. Going home at 5 every.single.night? Sitting around on the weekend wondering what to do? Having hobbies again? The mind boggles.

The only time I have a forty hour work week is Thanksgiving week.

Somehow, my manager loves me. He must. He knows what days I want off, yet have left them unasked for. Then he gives them to me. Or at least he did for the next schedule. I am amazed. Truly.

<3

No concert for me. We have some majorly chilly winds, that with the crowds of the fair make for major dust issues. I left Nick with his dad, he wanted to ride some rides. Let his dad pay.

My request to transfer to the Garden Grove office has been approved. A 15 to 20 minute drive now instead of a 45 minutes to an hour drive! Woohoo!

Woot! Post-work Disneylandings here we come!

Congrats JW!! A shorter commute is always a reason to celebrate!! :D

Yay for shorter commutes JW Bear! :snap:

Sooo..

What's in your past that won't stay dead?

I thought I was long past going to high school football games but no such luck. Tonight I'm heading off to "The Game" :rolleyes:

Oh well, perhaps I can talk my wife into making out with me under the bleachers... That was always the best part of the game.

drag racing. used to do it a lot as a kid (18 year old kid that is), took it up as a hobby again in the past couple of years. love it more now than even then...probably because I can actually afford it now.

I knew I shoudn't have made that trip to the Pet Cemetery, but that's another story......:evil:

Puberty

Apparently Larry Flynt is downstairs right now. Me, I'm going to class.

Life sucks, but the most recent Two Lumps makes me giggle irrationally.





As opposed to the rational giggling I usually do.

My 63 year old Brother just bought a Harley.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Has he been spending time with NM?
If he starts requiring flashing for a spin on it better get the whereabouts of Kevy ;)

I'm not a fan of my brother riding a motorcycle. But, I'm not a fan of motorcycles in general (ex BF was killed on one.)

Will he let you borrow it?

HA!

My joke is that I'm going to get him a side car so his 120 German Shepherd can ride with him. Helmet and Sunglasses are a must.

BRRRRR!!!!

Ok, Mother Nature, this is ridiculous! Going from the mid/upper 90's to the lower 60's in less than a week is not cool, it is downright COLD!

I did enjoy watching nature's fireworks, but next time please send more!

A LOLCat reference!

TGIF!
 

Been a tough week at work (I'm paying for the two days I took off)

I'll be slaving over the scanner this weekend, so far 65 photos are picked for the book. I think it is safe to say there will be 250 easy.
:D

this is the brother you said I remind you of?

For the German Shepherd? Absolutement!

It IS cold! I know other people who would love our "cold" weather but I was west coast born and raised.

I'm actually lovin' the cold, but, it really isn't cold, yet. We slept with the fan on, it is sunny outside, I'm still wearing a t-shirt. So far so good.

I have a question. I was talking with the Hubster and I told him that on our trip up next week that I thought we shouldn't go into L.A. 'proper' as he had suggested.

"L.A. 'proper?" he asked. And I said, 'Yes, we say we are going to L.A. but we really aren't, we're going to Anaheim.'

I know I've heard this many times before, or at least, it is in my head/vocabulary this way. He said I am making up words again.

I haven't looked it up to verify my thinking, I thought, since there are many smarty pants intelligent people here, colorfully worded, writers, etc., someone may be able to comment?

Thanks!

It's certainly common proper usage.
Whether it's proper proper usage, I don't know.

And now I get a letter that I'm being considered for a promotion. The position is in Santa Ana; so if I get it, there goes my shorter commute..... :rolleyes:

At least it's a fat Harley and not a Kawasaki or something. My father traded his touring bike for a crotch rocket in recent years. Makes me nervous to think about it.

According to Messers Merriam and Webster, it is.

Hee hee, thank you. Eh, I am not always quite so proper with anything.

So, your explaination is exactly what I thought but could not put into words.

Aw, JW, well if it is a promotion, it means more money so that would help in the longer commute issue? Or would you rather live in Santa Ana? {edit: JW, ah, you found the definition!! Thank you!}

All I know, gas is expensive. We have 3 tanks to fill, at least once a week.

So, how many ways to prepare frejoles?

Oh well. Life is good, life is bad. You take the good, you take the bad, and there you have, the facts of life. ;)

Goddess forbid!

You're welcome.

Not only will you not be in LA proper, you won't even be in the same county!

Congrats, JW, but I don't envy that choice. Commuting is so draining.

Or the same world!

Ha ha, exactly!! I tried to use San Diego County as an example. What is funny, growing up, we lived in 'San Diego'. When you'd tell people that {and still, I hear it on the radio} people laugh like 'No kidding!'. But, our address was San Diego. There are other areas, like National City, Chula Vista, Kearny Mesa, La Mesa...well, you know what I mean. Although...I do know you can put San Diego for Paradise Hills and they'll still get it. Must be the zip code...

Oh, well, now I know: No livie in Santa Ana...gotcha!

Hey, I like that 'goddess' thing...:coffee:

Hey there's a pocket or two of Santa Ana I'd be willing to live in. Heck, go down a couple blocks and over an overpass from where I live right now and you're in Santa Ana.

Who am I kidding, I'd never live in Santa Ana, no matter how cool some of the houses look.

Well, there's always South Coast Metro. But even that, as nice as it is, is only blocks from being "in the ghettooooo......."

South Coast Metro = an area of Santa Ana that changed the name to have higher rent.

The one and only!


There are parts of Santa Ana I really like - Floral park, Wilshire Square, French Park - the historic districts of course.

And, Anaheim is NOT LA.

Thank God!

Going up to Disneyland or Knotts, is no big deal. But, heading into L.A. proper it has a faster pace, tons of traffic, how many freeways?, where the hell am I, sort of feeling to me.

But, great concerts and eating to be had. And, the kids love cruising down Hollywood/Sunset and seeing things they ain't ever seen before. :eek: ;)

LA has the Hollywood Bowl. It's good for something :)

Pain in the patookis to get to though.

And a pain in the patookis to get out of! ;)

how lucky for me that I remind you of a 63 year old man.
pardon me while I go hang myself

(;) )

I can't remember if I mentioned this already or not, but I've decided my newest suit is a winner. When I showed up Wednesday for my interview, the receptionist in the career center had to ask whether I was the interviewer or the interviewee. I got a teensy bit of pleasure out of that. Apparently when I try I look sufficiently put together to pass as an actual professional.

I was there again this morning (but in jeans) for a clerkship interview strategy session and watched the other students coming in for interviews. Most of them looked obviously like students. For the men, it was that they looked so young. For the women, it was their suits. Apparently most women haven't heard of tailors and just wear theirs off the rack when they shouldn't -- their suits were saggy, drooping, awkward, and just generally ill-fitting. And most of them looked pretty cheap, to be honest. I've decided that you really can tell sometimes whether a suit is cheap or expensive. More expensive suits just hang better. The fabric drapes better, the construction is better, and with a little tailoring even someone like me can look fairly damn presentable.

Plus, I was wearing the Red Shoes of Doom. They rock.

Just heard that BluePeople got the job she was going for :)

Who? ;)

hehe - Congrats!

I know! I keep telling her she should post here more!

For once the DL package arrived on a day I was actually home to sign for it. Yay tickets! Three weeks until we fly down!

Today's strip is another lolcat reference, plus potential Lashstoat avatar material.

Someone remind me, because I'm starting to wonder... high school ended how many years ago?

depends.

Im moving rapidly towards 30 years ago
funny thing...I still dont miss it

Hahah... just read the LOLcat stuff... I think yesterday's was the best (Sealing Cat)

Two Lumps is the best web comic out there right now. In my opinion. Which is, of course, the correct opinion.

I officially love my freaking avatar. I mean, I loved it before, but with the raincloud is so perfect!

So the registrar scheduled both of my final exams for the same date and time - 6:30pm, 12/13. You can't take them earlier than their scheduled date. I'm hoping I can reschedule for Friday afternoon or Saturday (no exams Friday evenings) so that I can be all done before my birthday.

High school has ended - everyone's been placed back in Jr. High. ;)

Oh good, because there's this boy I like... he's like TOTALLY cute and some junk, and like, I know I like him, but I'm not sure if I Like-like him, like, you know, like holding hands and stuff, but like, I think I do, and I totally want to ask him if he likes me because I heard from my friend who's friends with one of his friends that overheard that girl that he was totally going out with that they like broke up or something, but like, there is NO WAY I'm going to ask him myself, so you you go talk to his friend and like, find out if he's said anything about me?

with a spoon?

like, totally

Capt Jack, the Val

the concept alone terrifies me

Come on, man, it's totally tubular!

I'm watching Camelot.

I used to hate it when I said I lived in the Central Valley and people assumed I meant the "other Valley."

hence my fear :eek:

My back is killing me, but my recliner is snoring...I just don't have the heart to wake It up.

On the Rodent front, Remy is doing well in spite of a broken leg. All of the swelling is down and it does not seem to be slowing her. I went looking in the cage tonight, she was up on top, in the hammock (for the first time) curled up with the moody Baby Smurf (aka Bitey Smurf). I know Squiggles has been taking extra care of her, babying her, every chance she gets. Yesterday morning she was dragging her around by the scruff of her neck (this was after pulling her tail). Last night I couldn't find Remy anywhere. Squiggles was alseep in Remy's usual spot. When I called for her I saw her nose pop out, she was asleep UNDER Squiggs.

The key to Yom Kipur (at least the key when you're staying home instead of going to services) is staying up as late as you can stand when you're only a little hungry and hope that you sleep through the bulk of the hunger.

You know what sounds like a good idea at midnight, slightly hungry and very tired? Going out onto the patio, in the rain, in my underwear to attempt a fix for a problem that probably won't work.

Did I mention that the rain gutter is jacked up and creates a lovely waterfall right outside the patio door?

I should probably sleep.

Wow, so it is raining there now, eh? I can visualize your little waterfall...were you wearing socks?

I think, we'll be asleep for the rain. Phooey.

How long do you have to fast? Good luck.

We just packed up the new much smaller lighting kit after testing it. 250W bulbs are bright. Ouch! :eek: I've got a commercial to shoot on Sunday, so that should be fun. Although, it could be interesting if I decide to bring the absinthe tomorrow night, because I heard it takes a long time to wear off. I can see my thoughts now... "Pan left.... slowly... zoom... slowly... oooooh, fairy!" Hopefully I'll get enough decent shots to at least fix it in post. ;)

And, speaking of shoots, a member of my business network wants to hire me for a show that he's pitched to a national cable network (I can't disclose which or what the show involves), and it looks like they're interested in picking it up! He sent me the pitch tape, and it's totally something that I can do. We're getting together on Monday to discuss it, and then we'll be meeting with execs from the network in the next couple weeks. In the meantime, I found some local subjects that are related to the show, so I'm going to go shoot and edit those next week and use that as a little demo reel to show that I can handle it. If I'm awarded the gig, it will be a 22-episode deal, with international release! :D

Way cool!!!!

Very wonderful! Keeping fingers crossed for you here!

Too cool, DP! A local freelancer just one an Emmy for his work with 'The Amazing Race'- when I read his story, I thought about you.:)

T's got it going on!

Sigh. Then we can all say "we knew her when"

Good luck sweetie!

Nope, no socks. I was outside for all of 30 seconds, it wasn't that bad. I don't think it was raining all that hard, but the water pouring off the roof made it a thousand times worse. Of course, we knew about this problem from last winter, but completely forgot to contact the HOA about it over the summer. I suppose we should do that now.

1 day, starting at sundown yesterday through sundown tonight. So far it's been an easy one.

So the bacon fest begins at sundown then? Excellent :)

In other news, I'm very pissed right now. Got up early on my Saturday, and my client is incommunique... He was supposed to email me yesterday, never did, didn't answer his phone, and isn't answering his phone now. Dude, if you got busy just cancel the damn appointment. I had other clients who wanted to see stuff today that I pushed of till Sunday (so now I have to get up early on Sunday too).

Oh, and I think I need a new printer because mine is racist.

Yeah, right. If/when I ever go up for an Emmy, I will totally be planning a before and after swank party. :cool:

Goonie, I'm sorry about your client. :( And, do you need black ink for your printer? If you bring your cartridge over on your way to DtD today, we can refill it for you. :)

And, oh crap. It just started raining here. :(

Hell, rain started again. We're supposed to have some vine maintenance done today (a vine has grown up our patio wall behind a drain pipe and the HOA wants us to remove it), but doubt they'll come out with the rain. Damn damn damn.

Bad mojo for that inconsiderate client, Morri!!

DP~well, that is surely exciting!!! Ooo, and the mystery is exciting, too!

GD~ I can't believe you guys are having so much rain! We had a bit of it. It started up hard and fast....for about maybe 10 minutes? Then it was sunny. The Hubster left for a bike ride so I hope it is alright. Also, my son is out driving in rain for the first time so hopefully he is alright, too.

as well as Street Scene down at the Coors....outdoors...mmmm...wonder if Dirty Sweet ended up playing....

*sigh* sorry if I am babbling...to get away from here means to go and clean the house...oh well...doody calls....

We were making a huge effort to clean our place up last weekend, but now that we might be moving, we've been rather lazy about it.

We aren't moving. {hey, I missed it, did you decide to buy? is it a possibility?} We haven't moved in about 11 years. So. We have a lot of crap. My house looks like one big giant teenagers room.

My son cleared out his room. I am now going through his things, I can't just throw anything away. I am not sure what to do with what we have. Ghost Buster toys, Mighty Max, Micro Machines, G.I. Joes, Hot Wheels.....no packaging. But tons of stuff. I think we should keep some things, I tell them they'll find themselves scouring swapmeets for these things when they are older.

And, the older kids have things out here for when they move. A desk, some sort of guitar amps {huge and I'm glad they have them but....}.

It just started to rain again. I hope the Hubster and the Boy are alright. He convinced him to join him for a ride out to Coronado....Better than my idea of taking him to Borders for an iced coffee and a book, I guess. Wait, that is what I want. :D

hee hee yes again blabbering and avoiding work. Hey, it's raining and I can't take any loads of crap out to my car.....

Oh, I actually have a question:

Does anyone know if the Grand Ca has a business center for its' guests? The Hubster says he has to answer some emails Monday and we don't have a laptop.....my son has a Psp with internet. Hey, and an internet thingie for his DS. Hmm. I guess we're going to have to figure something out. But,any ideas would be great!! Thanks!

I believe I have seen a business center for the hotel guests at the Grand Cal....I think that if you are coming from DCA, it's just inside the entrance to the lobby hallway on the right side, if that makes sense. Again, not 100% sure, but I believe that's what I've seen.

Thank you, CP! :snap: At least I know to look for one instead of just thinking there isn't one.

It's a rental condo that we're trying to qualify for. But, they're having issues with my being self-employed with no tax return on file yet, since it's been less than a year. So, they still haven't made a decision, even though I gave them 6 months of bank statements to show there's been income. :rolleyes: The owners are being very anal retentive.

We won't be buying a house for a couple years yet, once the market is better.

The place is great though - seriously much better than I imagined, and just one section of the patio is 10'x50', there's also a 10'x10' area and a 20'x20' porch area, all connected. It's also very secluded. I don't really want to post the pics, because the place looked like swiss cheese when I saw it, since they just finished up replacing the pipes and hadn't put the ceiling and walls back together, and there was scrap crap everywhere. It was quite the obstacle course, but thankfully, I could get the gist of how it's going to look. And, it couldn't be more perfect.

It's just annoying playing this waiting game.

That sounds huge!! Good luck!

We went to the local Greek festival today. I am stuffed. The guy manning the Greek Fries station looked for all the world like he just stepped off a piece of pottery - curly hair and everything. Some how a bunch of pastries and cheese and olives jumped in our car on the way home.

Of course. :)

Now I am so in the mood for a gyro. *drool*

We've been adopted!

Her name is Pumpkin, she's a mostly white cat with orange spots. She tried to join us about a week or two ago, and we were hesitant to let her in at the time, in case she belonged to someone else, but we felt horrible keeping her out. She seemed very intelligent and friendly, but had no collar and was out very late (and seemed desperately interested in coming inside)

Well, anyway, she DOES belong to someone, kinda. After asking around and talking to several people who also thought she was homeless, one of the little girls said her family owns her. I was surprised to find out that not only was she was not an adolescent (due to her size and skinniness, we thought she was), but she had had kittens who were now almost her size!

Anyway, ever since the kittens, she won't stay home at their house, and she won't eat there. Which, I guess, explains her skinniness. The little girl basically said we could let her in, though I plan on approaching the mother if Pumpkin decides to stick around. Tonight is sort of the first experiment, because it's the first time since that Pumpkin came around our front door, and decided (since I allowed her) to walk in. If Barnum doesn't scare her off, that is. He's VERY excited to have someone else in the house.

has anyone read their Fall edition of Backstage Pass from cover to cover?

remember, it's not the size that counts.

I have to find mine, I hear there's a picture of someone we know in it.

I just got mine out - there is indeed a lovely photo.

mine is somewhere in my house. Maybe I''ll find it by Christmas;)

I am looking through mine now......

Oooh!! Found it!!

Aw, how nice that you were able to do that. :snap: So very cool. :cool:

As usual, I have no idea what people are talking about.

That reminds me. I need to change the mailing information for my AP.

I don't have one..... :-(

I little bird told me someone even I would know would be in it. Uber Kewl!

I bought two female fish today. They're already getting it on with the male fish in my tank. Quite the harlots, it seems. Slut fish.
;) :D

let NirvanaMan know if the two chick fish share a weiner on the beach.

What, no pictures?!

NirvanaMan did miss two chicks sharing a nut with their mouths on the beach.

No, but I did think to myself, as I reached for my fries and my hand brushed his, that I knew a LoT of people who would have loved to be in my shoes at that moment. Next time you're up here, I can at least point you in the direction of his church. ;)

I can't sleep, so I came into the office to get on the computer, and accidentally sat on a cat. I'm not sure which one of us was more surprised.

After having been gone since Memorial Day, the Old People will be home by this weekend. I'm not quite sure if I am ready to see them face-to-face.

Damn, I thought I had thoroughly scanned the Backstage Pass before tossing it. :( Could someone scan or photograph the photo and post it?

I believe you can view the document as a pdf on the AP website. I don't have access to it anymore, or I'd link.

Here's the Link You may have to log in to view though.

so, I seem to have contracted some vile form of the plague or ebola. well, ok. perhaps just a case of the flu or some such.

might I enlist one of you to kill me now? I hate being this annoyed at my own uncooperative biological systems.

Just stay the heck away from me.

So FWIW, I haven't seen Pumpkin since she took off Sunday morning. Bought kitty food just in case. Alex was joking she might be a house whore, dropping in different places or something. I know my neighbor put food and water out on her front porch again, so she's probably around.

Why do cable companies think you have all day to sit around for them to fix something they fvcked up?

When did this start? Instead of saying goodbye to someone on the phone people sometimes just say, "Late." Instead of "later" it's "late". I guess I'm a fuddy duddy but I noticed it a lot lately...
:D

I'll use 'lates' sometimes.

before long the entire language will be shorthanded to little more than single phonetics

Okay, I've got two weeks to learn how to use my new toy before we leave for our trip.

OK, you JUST started talking about this yesterday.

Fan-tastic!

I think I might have to hate you for the day. WE'll have to chat. I want to know if my old lenses will work on that body.

Oh, I've been looking for a while now. There's been talk.

They'd likely work, but one limitation is that the body doesn't have an autofocus motor, so you have to have a lens with its own autofocus motor (AF-S or AF-I) for autofocus to work. Otherwise it's a standard Nikon F mount, so any lens that fits an F mount should work.

blah blah blah, snowflake....

With my point and shoot it was remarkable how many crappy photos I took at DL, forget the fireworks at the Hollywood Bowl. I seriously need a tripod, bllllluuurrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyy

I've finally gotten fed up with the slow response of point-and-shoots. In many ways I love our little Pentax, but it absolutely sucks and anything low-light and it takes for ever to start up and take a photo. It'll be nice to be able to just take a photo within a second of wanting to.

That's one cool new toy. :)

Your new toy is my best friend's camera! (edited: I take it back, it's a Canon, though it does have lenses and it looks just like yours!!) It's paparazzi style when it takes pics.. and the pics are gorgeous. I think yours may have the same settings for pics if it's anything like her camera!

My BF took mine and B's Christmas pics a couple years back (if you got one, it's with the snowman) and the pictures turned out great. She also used it for last year's pics with the me and B w/ the white background.

She took pics in Hawaii with them and they were beautiful! Have a good time with your new toy!

Why am I always befuddled by dwindling account balances? Even when I pull up account activity with balances and can see it go down, I find it hard to believe it goes down as fast as it does when I didn't think I spent that much.

I hate being horrible at numbers.

I also hate banks for their outrageous overlimit fees, and for charging it for every $4 coffee you bought at Starbucks rather than once per day that you get overlimit (because, like I knew, right? You think I'd have put a latte on my card if I knew I was overdrawn?)

I'd have to look... I have SLR lenses, but thats the extent of what I know. When I bought my Nikon it was the cool one... alas... not anymore.

Green with envy mojo!

I think I am just a crappy photographer, can't really blame it on the digital, it's brand new.

Ugh. I called on the rental this morning, and they said they were still deciding and will get back to me this afternoon, one way or the other.

I hate this stupid waiting game. :(

Nice camera, GD. I'm eager to see the "beauty and passion" you capture in Chicagoland.

Just heard back. We got it. However, the owners want 50 days deposit + pet deposit.

Now to call my father, who's going to be "thrilled" with that amount... :rolleyes:

WOAH! Hold off. There are laws on the max amount of deposit that can be required. You may want to see what they are. I know you love this place but something seems a bit off.

I believe the max is 2 months' rent, so if 50 days plus pet deposit adds up to that, they're within the limits.

They ended up discounting the pet deposit so the total is quite a bit less than two months' rent. :)

Congrats!!!

YAY!!!!!

woohoo congratulations!!

Congratulations!!

All at once - Congratulations!!! :)

The file is huge, but here is one of my first photos.

It's so clear that I feel like I can reach out and pet the bunny! Great pic!

Niiiiice

Y'ever have one of those interviews where it's pretty clear that a committee selected the interview candidates and that your interviewer was not in concurrence with the committee? I love having 20 minutes of wondering why the heck they're taking up my time if they're not interested. And by "love" I mean "hate."

I think I need a bigger screen

I am tired.

>>YAWN<<

I have finally reassured myself that Chicken is indeed a hen, not a rooster. I just looked it up and she is an Australorp. I was worried because she has a bright red comb and red jowl-thingys under her chin. The only thing keeping me thinking she was a hen was that she never crows, she does make a noise that sounds like she is trying to bark. If she ever does lay eggs they will be brown, not the white we had been looking for.

Weird bird.

Did anybody feel that just now? It was just a little one, but enough that we all noticed it and commented on it.

(earthquake)

I did. Was wondering if anyone else did. No one else in my office seemed to notice.

Another one on that same fault line, 9 mi off Lake Elsinore, 3.7 in size. That's been a rather busy fault line lately. This could most likely be another after-shock.

Better a bunch of little ones though... you know?

Against my better judgment I had a polish sausage from Costco for lunch. I'm paying for it.

maybe that was what everyone felt a bit ago?

Some, um, movie websites that are cool. That I'm, like, posting for no particular reason.

http://www.beemovie.com/

http://veggiepirates.com/

And for good measure, a movie site that is not a movie site...
http://www.tastymead.com/

Well um thanks for the Pirates link - I'll never get Maddy of my computer now. We made that song the ringtone for each other on our phones. She loves Veggietales. Nice looking site ;) I'm sure we'll be spending lots of time there.

yes, in a big yellow building.

Mwah. ;)

Wow!

My TiVo has been downloading for the last 90 minutes.

Our Earthlink service has been out for a couple of weeks now. Since I am able to steal wireless from my neighbor and have been super busy lately, I haven't been trying real hard to get the problem fixed (the issue is a busted router, but the idiots in India CS keep insisting that somehow the NIC cards on two computers plus the router all went out at once - it can't be their DSL modem :rolleyes:).

But then I realized that out TiVo is set up to download updates via our wireless broadband network. So, we have had no programming updates for a while and TiVo is out of info. Our primary watching is via our HD DVR through TW, so I hadn't really noticed.

If I can figure out how to get an Earthlink "bring your own service" email service for a couple bucks a month (I want to keep my Earthlink email account for a while), I am switching to DSL Extreme for service.

Well...so I thought Remy was doing ok...up until tonight. She was playing with my hand and I went to do the tummy rub on her. That was when I saw it. She has a compound fracture and her leg is wide open with a little tiny bone sticking out. She never bled and the wound isn't gross or anything. There is nothing that can be done for her. For the 2nd time in 2 weeks I will be heading for the vet to have another rat put down. I lost it when talking to my mom. I really don't think this was caused by the cage, I really think it does have something to do with the breeder she came from. My mom feels that based on all of the problems I have had with rats from Petco, they are inbreeding and their animals are paying the price with respatory problems and weak bones. She thinks this had to have been a previous injury and only became aparent once she was able to be active.

I am just sick right now. How much more can one person deal with?

I'm sorry MG. ((((hugs))))

I certainly hope you paid for it. Otherwise it would be stealing.... :D

These are damn good brownies...

I hope the bacon candy bars are this good.

Sorry, MG. :(

My Petco rats used to have a lot of health issues, especially respiratory. I even lost one within the first week - he was just a little baby, and so cute too.

With the last few rats, I would try to "rescue" one from a reptile shop. The ones I've gotten from there were usually very healthy.

And, apparently, I'm a moderator again elsewhere. Not sure how that happened. I signed on to check a news article, and yeah... hopefully, I'll be removed again soon, because I don't have time nor desire to deal with any of it.

I see a trip to Tulare in my future...

Poor Nickolas is blaming himself. We have had a running joke, that is not so funny right now. In the past I have told him that every rat he has picked out has had issues. This dates all the way back to Twitch and her stealing to Daisy being preggers, most recently Smurf being psycho. All I could do was reassure him that this was in no way his fault.

I am now trying to figure out when we can hit the road. He is at his dad's for the next 2 weekends and the weekend after that is our DLR trip.

If I can get him to do his homework in the car, we may go tomorrow after school.

The only problem with going to Tulare is that we will end up with 2 girls...they are just too darn cute to get only one.

{{{{{{MG}}}}}}}}

Tonight I have two utterly unrelated thoughts.

First: I want the WV clerkship so much I can't even stand to think about it any more. I want to wish it into existence, but if I think about it too much I'll get my hopes up and then possibly face a big disappointment. And maybe there are others out there without other options who need it just as much - or more - than I do. So, I instead spend my energy hoping that they all get offers they like better, leaving the WV clerkship to me. And since I'm hoping those others get something they wanted better, that's a good deed, right? That's not being selfish, right? *sigh*

Second, I have been plagued this week with XTC earworms. Yesterday, I kept counting every step as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...senses working overtime...and then I'd start counting again. Today I kept making plans for Nigel. Why is this? Why do they haunt me so? As a counter-measure, I downloaded a bluegrass version of Round and Round, which is decidedly not an XTC song. Although if I start humming that people will think I'm listening to RATT and not the Meat Purveyors.

I need sleep.

I can't sleep.

I keep thinking about stuff, in general, but my mind is focusing on the situation at hand.

My track record with PetCo is 1 1/2 out of 5 (or 6). Sweetness&Light came from PetCo, but not from their breeders. The 1/2 was Sniff, who had some sort of strange brain thing that caused her to have seizures and a short life.

My Tulare pet store is 6 (+7 if you count Daisy's babies that I gave away) out of 6 (or 13). Daisy and Peach lived out their full life span, as did (and are) Daisy's daughters. Out of Daisy's 10 babies, I know of 2 that are still alive. At least 4 lived past 2.



Oh, and as I was closing up for the night I saw what I thought was a piece of plastic stuck under the leaf thingy under the front door. Nope, not plastic or a leaf. It was a dead toad. Great, just great.

Don't acknowledge it. You never saw it. It's a frelling internet message board. What are they going to do if you don't moderate. Fire you? ;)

I am sending you many good thoughts on the clerkship... you do deserve it.

But this other thing.... yeah... ummm... what are you talking about?

What she said.....

Grrrrr...

Teen boys.

We have a number of them in the neighbourhood and apparently they are hitting the trouble causing phase. So far it's minor issues like trash in our mail boxes, small fires (like setting a paper airplane on fire...), etc...

I know who's doing it, I don't want it to escalate, I just want them to knock it off. I also don't want to make a federal case out of it (ie call the coppers) or turn them against my own kids. Of course the parents of the kids involved are useless (what a surprise). Any suggestions for dealing with these hormone cases?

Perhaps show a great deal of interest in what they are doing?

If an adult likes it, it can't be cool.

Teen girls

Start undressing in front of an open window?

Hire them to mow your yard or some such, pay them fairly. Make it worth their while not to lose a source of income.

I concur. How embarrassing would it be to be shaking your fist and yelling, "Get off my lawn, you damn kids!" across an unkempt expanse of weeds?

There ya go! Nothing like a little wage slavery to bring those kids under heel :)

Regarding the yard issue:

We had a problem for a while with the gaggle of teens that seemed to be across the street, to the point that they were partying and trash was everywhere. Essentially we did nothing, but eventually things took their own course with the kids, and someone did call the cops on them.

As teens are wont to do, they've grown up since and are relatively quiet and reasonable people, but it was awful for a while. Hearing the sounds of puke in the dark hours of the morning isn't good either... :)

Mecca lecca hi mecca hiney ho...
Mecca lecca hi mecca chonny ho...

I predict there will be a mix-in on Wednesday, October 10th.

Here's a question for you... if weather conditions cooperate, would people be up for a Frasier Park (eg: snow day) swanking this winter?

Snowball fights, sledding, and cocoa from a Thermos, that sort of thing.

You don't want to know some of the crud I pulled off in those years.

Have I ever told you about the napalm fire we set that blocked the entire width of the street? For a half hour?

Ah, good times!

It's all fun and games until somebody glues the pastor's kid to the church door...

I really don't like PetCo, but I might be a bit biased.

I don't either because of the way they don't know how to deal with and manage reptiles.

From what little I've seen, my wife's pet store doesn't know how to deal with reptiles either.

Most general pet stores are the same

Me!! That is too close for me not to miss!




After 2 hours in the car we arrived home with Rocky (solid beige) and Tinker (sort of albino). So far, so good. Rocky is on the top perch cleaning herself, Tinker is on the bottom of the cage sleeping. Both girls let me pick them up, without too much fuss. The other girls are rather disinterested.