Thursday Chat

Busy, tired, nothing to say.

 Finally, the new glass for my bay window is due to be installed this afternoon, and wouldn't you know it's raining out!  The best quess anyone has is that a couple birds chasing each other crashed into it, sigh.

JackieG

Regretted it as soon as I drove off.

 

Rue no more, Jackie.

 

THE ELECTRIC POPSICLE

2 OZ. Midori melon liqueur

2 OZ.  Blue Curaco

7-Up

Slice of lemon or lime.

 

Pour both liqueurs into a glass filled with ice.  Top off with 7-Up. Garnish with a slice of lemon or lime (or both).

 

Deb W.

 

I waited til after 5 yesterday to start a project - I know it's something I needed to do when I could concentrate & I just could *not* get it done earlier in the week. One of those things you pick to do when it will "hurt" the least LOL. And dang I hate making mistakes because I'm rushed? So I was here late. such is life

But then that means there is still "X" amount to do at HOME!! Try as I might sometimes I just can't re-arrange the 4th dimension to suit myself. time's funny like that LOL.

Gratifyingly -- when I got home you'd have thot the dogs hadn't seen me in 3 years! At least I felt loved.

Tina -- how's Buddy? Jackie -- now *I* want a popsicle!! A blue one please??

Mmmmm....popsicles.

Today is starting off with a bang. You all helped me swing through my bad day yesterday so thank you!

I am putting off a project that is deadly boring (writing an instruction manual) and making myself busy by doing this... LOL

Have a wonderful day, everyone!

Just typed a post an accidentally deleted it - enjoying a coffee in the sun on my lunch break. Pretty day. Bugsy was ready for his 5:15 jaunt this morning, he is so easy at times.

It is still very disorganized here, if it were a bit more organized I wouldn't be looking at 60 hr weeks starting next week, but its nothing I can control - glad to be being paid hourly :)

Buddy is doing better, even has a little more zip. He had a brief case of the zoomies yesterday morning, and that's saying a lot for a 14 y.o. cat.  Thanks for asking, Callie.

Glad to read that Buddy is doing well enough to have some zoomies :)

Crazy, busy here too and I'm stressing about how things will be handled while I'm out next week. I'm also stressing about the list of stuff I want to get done before my friend arrives tomorrow. I'll be glad when she's here, sees the house clean and then I can relax and not worry anymore. I wouldn't probably be as fussy if it weren't the 1st time for her to see it. DH gave Shane a bath yesterday and I brushed him last night and got a ton of hair out. He looks absolutely gorgeous. He also seems to be over whatever tummy troubles he was having. Glad that happened before my friend arrived :)

Tina -- when you said "He had a brief case of the zoomies yesterday morning" -- I had to giggle, cos it triggered a memory. I read "brief case" as "briefcase" -- and years ago I did rescue with a gal who had a foster who spent ALL his time curled up in her ... briefcase! I used to call him "Briefcase Doggie". She literally had to make him move any time she wanted to pick it up! ... so I got this mental image of Buddy "zooming" around a briefcase ... until ... I learned to READ that is .... *sigh*n But I'm SO glad he's better!

Sarah -- continuing my little trip down memory lane. *grin*

Once upon a time when I was ... er ... MUCH younger, I used to work for the Naval Training Ctr when it was here in Orlando. I worked for a defense sub-contractor doing training manuals for the Trident Trainers. My favorite was the "Get Wet" Trainer (the room they enter in a submarine to equalize pressure, etc.??). Lest you think it was 'exciting' -- these are like 500 - 800 page manuals ... and every time someone painted a green door red, or similar the whole thing had to be pretty well re-done.

And this was back when "floppy disks" were 10 1/2" ???? And "Wang" was a word processor ... not part of the name of a rock group from the 80's?? And a "mouse" was still a little rodent hiding in walls!!

Sarah -- one afternoon I was in the middle of "spell check" on a 648 page manual -- er ... at that time spell check took 3 1/2 hours to do **if you were lucky** on a doc that size. I was on page 450-something ... and someone kicked out the plug as they walked by ... and in those pre-Windows days there was a heartbeat between "saving" a doc and it making its "backup" copy when both files were ... sort of open. Yeah -- that's when the plug got kicked. Backup ... not made. Original document .. ... gone. nada ... *sigh* Not one of my favorite days. Wasn't my fault nor was I 'blamed" ... but I got to go back to the whole prior "revision" and make all the changes all over again. Job security for weeks!!

That was life pre-Windows LOL -- so Sarah -- have fun with your manual!!

Glad to hear Buddy is feeling better.  I chuckled at the image of him doing a zoomie.  I've never had a cat, so I can't say I've ever seen one doing a zoomie.  Is it the butt-tucked, head down, zoomie -- like a dog does?  It must look so funny!  My friend's cat will jump straight up from the floor to get onto your chest/shoulder (if you're not prepared to "catch" her, claws are involved).  Her high-speed moves are vertical, not horizontal!

Cathy, having just done the "housework zoomie" yesterday before guests arrived, I know just what you mean.  I want things to look ***-and-span when they walk in the door, even if an hour later, things are all over the counters, stuff hanging over chairs, etc.  It's that first impression thing! 

Glad you're feeling more yourself today, Sarah. 

Funny you should mention popsicles, Jackie.  When I went to Trader Joe's to get the frozen lasagna yesterday, I picked up something called "Fruit Floes" -- it's basically a popsicle -- they came in lime, strawberry and one other flavor.  They sounded so good, I couldn't resist.  Haven't tried one yet.  We had cookies for dessert last night.  Maybe tonight I'll try a popsicle!

Wow - the forum blocked out my word before "span."  Gee, it used to be a common household cleaning product, wasn't it?  I guess I should've typed "spotless" instead.

Sigh.

I finished the manual and sent it out to be fact checked by my experts (that can't write) over lunch. One of those experts sent it to someone else who had a brilliant idea to solve a customer's problem. Starting tomorrow morning 50 on-board truck computers will land in my tiny cubicle so that I can load the correct code (software) on each one.

By this time next week I will be the expert on this!!!!!!

Ugh Sarah! My head hurts just thinking about that task :(

Speaking of stuff like that. Many moons ago I worked for the Air Force Reserves. They would go and inspect medical reserve units at west coast bases and then each person would write a report. Most were handwritten and I would then type them up into one big report. A few people typed their own though and then would give me the disk to add to my report. One time, it was the end of the day and I was almost done with the huge report and the last person gave me their disk to add. I was in a hurry and instead of adding the report, it overrode everything I'd typed. In my panic, I saved it (ugh!) and then did a few more things that made it impossible to salvage. I've done other stupid things like that in my career but nothing quite so bad.

There's nothing like computers to give us the opportunity for stressful and/or panicky situations at work.  I think I mentioned we've got a new software at work -- I got 3 or 4 hours of training on it before I went on vacation.  I'm so overwhelmed by it, and every step takes me so much longer than my old methods.  I'm afraid to enter or click on the wrong thing, for fear of making things blow up or disappear or something terrible!  We don't have an IT department, so I can only get help from a rep in another state via phone or email.  It's trial by fire, as far as my learning curve goes, and I don't like it one bit.

Random topic:  our neighbor spotted a rat in his garden recently, so he put out some kill traps.  When he was gone earlier this week, DH was checking the traps.  He would find the bait gone, but no rat.  Last night when he let Ruby out for her last potty break, he saw something running along the top of our fence (luckily, she didn't notice it before he got her inside).  That may explain why Ruby has been obsessed with trying to stand on her hind legs and get to something in one of our trees along the fenceline for a few days. 

DH just called me to say the traps caught an adult rat and a young one.  Now we're wondering how many others there are.  I expect to see squirrels, moles or gophers in our yards, but not rats.  I'm not afraid of them per se, but I don't want them in our house or Ruby encountering one.  Back when the skunk got Ruby (that was in the same neighbor's yard), he moved his bird feeders to another spot, but he told DH now he's going to take them all down entirely.  I feel bad the rats have to die, especially when they were just enjoying our neighbor's fabulous garden (they were eating cherry tomatoes, among other things), but they need to live somewhere else!

uhg..... shivers!

Rats totally squig me out. I don't know why, other than a bad NYC Subway experience and too many Stephen King short stories as a teen.