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'tis the season
As the weather cools we get our annual infestation of box elder bugs. They don't feed or reproduce once inside, just are a damned nuisance ( Read more... ) -
you know you're old when...
...you get your first prescription for bifocals.
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stretch-pop-yawn
I plan to take it easy today after yesterday- apparently, iced coffee is the Magic Productivity Juice for me, while Ethan was at work I got a metric fuckton of stuff done. I kept the hugeass mug-o-iced coffee on the kitchen counter and drank a third of it every time I walked past. Went to the bank, got the laundry done, broke down and degunked the ( Read more... ) -
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Your result for Reincarnation Placement Exam...
Starfleet Crewperson
54% Intrigue, 54% Civilization, 70% Humanity, 52% Urbanization.
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lazy Saturday
Howdy. As usual, life is insane. Vacation was good and peaceful and relaxing, but made the return to work this week all the more gruesome. The highlights of the work week include the rollout of the new org charts (I'm on the Transoma side, as expected, but Amy-the-manager came with me in a surprise twist) and the financial year-end bonus and raise ( Read more... ) -
I can haz vacation!
I'm off of work this week, thanks be to $DEITY. So instead of being at work plowing through all the stuff dumped on me over the weekend by my more industrious engineers, I'm at home drinking coffee, petting the cat, and playing on Teh Intarwebs ( Read more... ) -
weddings, lunchboxes, and kidney stones, oh my
Sorry for the long silence; life has been getting the upper hand recently, and it's been taking all my mental RAM to just deal with crap- so blogging fell to the bottom of the priority list. It probably does not help that everything I've *had* the energy to post about is depressing. :) Dan pointed this out to me when we met up at the Muddy Pig ( Read more... ) -
it just keeps coming.
I had to put down Gollum, of one our Oscars, last night. He'd been acting like he had a swim bladder infection for some time, and the meds were not helping. When I got home from work the others had pulled half his scales off and he was swimming at a 30-degree angle.
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peace
Grandma Marie's funeral was yesterday. There was a short visitation beforehand- Nancy asked me to pull together a swing music mix for background music, and it did take a while to pull in all of Marie's favorite artists without picking songs that were too maudlin for a funeral. I did get a bit impish with a few choices, like Bing Crosby singing " ( Read more... ) -
mental health day
I took today off from work in an effort to get my brain to stop slipping gears. The weekend was going to be crazy by design, and I knew I'd need a little more time to get my act together as a result. Saturday was my coworker Heather's wedding; it was in Fulda, MN, which is a small town very close to the Iowa/South Dakota borders. Sunday I was ( Read more... )