My lease is up next month and I'd planned on moving out of my current apartment, but it looks like I'll be staying there for another six months. Mainly it's due to cash issues, I still have my Mustang up for sale and my savings account is still pretty well drained from the down payment on my new car. Plus, I think I may end up paying on my taxes ( Read more... )

I just spent 15 minutes trying to convince my boss that not only did she not give me a piece of information to look up for a client, said information does not exist for said client because she's got him mixed up with another one, for which I did the research over a week ago. Pfft. Which is not the point of the post, the point is far more, IMO, ( Read more... )

So, Sunday broke the 27-day streak of rain here. Not much of a break though, as it's raining like crazy again today. At least the major leak in the roof here at work seems to be fixed, though there's water leaking in on the floor and there's another spot in the ceiling that's leaking. Joy. It really needs to be completely redone, but since the ( Read more... )

At best, bumper stickers occasionally cause me to smile, this morning, though, I saw one that still has me giggling.

"Frodo failed! Bush got the ring."

Unfortunately, I don't dare share it at work with my Bush supporting bosses who didn't like LOTR.

I'm always torn during Christmas shopping season. I hate the crowds at the stores and everyone that I have to buy presents for (save my mom who has several fall back present possibilites) is impossible. None of them have hobbies, none of them can ever give me a list of things they want, none of them collect anything, and none of them have the same ( Read more... )

I'm taking absurd delight in having my own Christmas tree this year. For the first time I got to pick what decorations I wanted, not what my parents wanted. My parents like traditional arts & crafty stuff where I prefer more elegant, simple ones, so I got what I wanted. Did the beaded garland and the basic glass ornaments in silver, gold and dark ( Read more... )

Geotechnical pavement coring...I'm not entirely certain what it is, something to do with the runways here at the airport and checking the state of the pavement I think, but I think it's the coolest phrase I've read in a long time. It's just such a lovely piece of real world technobabble.

Thank goodness I decided back in August that I was flying to Spokane rather than driving. I just checked out the webpage for Snoqualmie Pass (the main pass between here and Spokane) and thanks to the fact that there's a stretch of mountainside that's become unstable and is dropping refrigerator size rocks down into the highway, they're expecting 4- ( Read more... )

I am good...I came in this morning to a stack of stuff and enough post-it notes to cover my monitor and had that sinking 'Oh, crap' sort of feeling. Fortunately, none of it was headache inducing, just a ton of moderately important stuff. Still, there's a distinct feeling of accomplishment to come in to a full desk and leave knowing it's all ( Read more... )

The airport I work at is the smaller of the two in Seattle, which means its the one that the President and political people fly into, many of the sports teams, and other famous people fly into. Tonight, Marie and I were standing in the back of the building chatting while I made tea, and making fun of the motorcycle cops sitting outside in the way ( Read more... )