I have precisely the same response to such nonsense!Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lily
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I have precisely the same response to such nonsense!Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lily
Chipmunk under car's hood today, driving our 4 dogs into a frenzy. A couple of weeks ago one dog caught and ate a skunk and his breath was real skunky for the first couple of nights, as he slept in his place under my side of the bed and breathed.
Caught and ate a skunk????? What kind of dog is this? The Hound of New Mexico?
Great question, Jilly. I hadn't thought about his heritage in relation to this skunk-eating. Judging from his looks and geniality, I think he's part Bernese Mountain Dog. Judging from his actions as a puppy, however, I assume he's also part Catahoula Hog Dog. They're the only breed originating in the US, Louisiana to be exact, where they're used (in groups of three often) to corner kill the wild hogs that can be prevalent in LA, getting into people's yards and homes. Wild hogs are not animals to play with, so maybe this is where he got his fearlessness with the skunk . . . and the squirrel and two chipmunks that he's participated in killing in the past month. His little buddy, part coyote, flushes them out (with the squirrel he also climbed most of a pretty bushy tree to get it to come down) and then Tony grabs them and parades around with them in his mouth--eating only the skunk, I don't know why.
There are quite a few breeds created here in the United States, including Black & Tan Virginia Foxhounds, Bluetick Coonhounds, the Plott Hound, Treeing Walker Coonhounds, Redbone Coonhounds, the Majestic Tree Hound, the American Blue Gascon Hound (Big N Blue Hound), a variety of other inferior non-hound dogs, and of course, the best of them all, the Black and Tan Coonhound.Quote:
Originally Posted by larknm
Let me introduce you to mine. "Cromwell", or "Crom" for short. (Because we call to him, but he does not listen... :-) )
You can probably hear him from where you live :-)
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Ugh, think these new curtains need to go back, they smell horrible. Major outgassing. The smell almost like: you know the distinctive odor of grass fed dairy and beef, yea but stronger than that, more like the smell of cooking a gamey animal like lamb and the smell of the gamey grass fed lamb fat. Only an artificial version.
I eat all those things sometimes, but I don't want my curtains smelling like that, especially as they are entirely petroleum, saying to me: "we are poisoning you!!!" I'm not much of a shopper so I don't buy a *lot* of new stuff but I've never been *paranoid* about what I bring in my place, worrying about toxic outgassing or anything, but these curtains are making me so! (making vows like: from now on only organic cotton stuff) They just stink so much. I had good green intentions, they are thermal curtains, so I thought I'd use less power. Yea but they are made of poison I guess. Also lighter color than the previous curtains so they wouldn't attract so much heat. So I really want them to work but ...
bae, thanks for educating me, and the pic is great. ApatheticNoMore, I too don't want to live with petroleum, however if you want to keep the curtains, I've heard hanging chemically stinky stuff outdoors for three months will get rid of the stink. In my experience it works on some things and not others. Right now I have a thrift-store smelling shirt hanging on the line. I got it at a yard sale for $1,but I guess they got it from the thrift store because I've heard they're required to clean their clothes with a certain product that I've often smelled on their things.
city planning and zoning paperwork. enough said >:(
Back to having weird sleep problems...been mainly on the 6am shift and I am having a real hard time adjusting everything. Going back to coffee has caused more problems than it is worth but I am addicted again...sigh.
Yesterday I finally crashed after work from 3:30 to 6:30pm, after which I stumbled around the house like a discombobulated zombie for a few hours. I went to bed around 11:30pm, then woke up at 2:30 am and have been up ever since. I can't go back to bed because I am taking my mom in for her eye surgery at 6am.
Vacation cannot come soon enough! I really need to step back and assess my situation regarding my physical abilities to do my job and the toll all this is taking on me. My left knee is still crapping out and my back hurts again. I am starting to wonder how long I will be able to work such a physically demanding job...
Returned stinky curtains for a full refund, a pain, but felt amazingly happy to be rid of them! Can't see how anyone can stand them. Might get an alternate lighter summer set of curtains in addition to my old dark slightly faded curtains, but they will be a natural material this time (yea maybe even organic if I could find it). Fabric breathability is probably better than insulation for hot weather anyway (not for cold) - natural is better see :~)
yea life is usually more managable without caffeine, but I couldn't do it with a crazy schedule.Quote:
Originally Posted by SiouzQ.
This isn't so much a peeve as a sigh...I was looking at some budget numbers last night and realized I have not come nearly as far as I would like on my project of saving for a down payment. I know why this is...spring is an expensive time of year anyway due to annual expenses like the car inspection and taxes, and then several of the unusual expenses came together (television on its last legs, three houseguests with special occasions to celebrate, etc)
>:( I never think hubby hears or listens to what I talk about. I have been thrilled to have Wrens nesting in the back yard. Mentioning to everyone and asking everyone to give them space. Today hubby power washes the shed, where they are nesting. What Bird Nest, he says.
For how long am I even going to be able to keep doing work which is DESTROYING my body in the process? That's apparently what sitting in a cubical typing does! Nah don't mean the stress, I mean hand and wrist pain is getting worse and worse! I probably should also not use a computer much in my free time .... Sigh ...
ANM, I learned to mouse left-handed because I knew my (otherwise-dominant) right hand was getting a lot of use. I know where I was working, the company was required to accommodate ergonomic issues (seating needs, workstation height, adaptive computer equipment). Could that be the case where you work?
I'm blaming it on an incompetent gaggle of city managers. They've been touting an upcoming renewal project for years, complete with community park, mixed retail and high-density housing--especially mid-range condominiums with a nine-year tax abatement deal, all approved and signed off. It languished and languished while development went on all around us. Now they've announced that there will be apartments instead of condos, so no permanent housing, no abatements. I would like to pummel someone.
When you finish there, Jane, please consider coming here, as my gripe is similar.
A large building, nearly the entire block, has been empty since the company closed. There was a lot of interest in providing affordable housing in the downtown area. Funds were allocated, grants provided, tax cuts given. Two years later, the building is still empty, and the latest information that was shared in the newspaper is that the rental fees for the now luxury apartments are going to be more expensive than just about anyone in this town can afford, much less the people for whom it was intended to help.
Apparently the tax breaks will still help the renters for the commercial retail portions a great deal. Not that that aspect is bad or anything, but the focus of this recovered space was to help support the lower, affordable rents.
Today's peeve is companies whose telephone systems collect all kinds of information ("Please enter your 20-digit customer ID number now, followed by the pound key.") and then fail to pass that along to the poor humans who eventually answer the phone -- and who immediately ask for your 20-digit customer ID number before they can do anything for you. It's a PITA to use a telephone dial for the first one; doubly so when you know the effort is going for naught.
And a special place in he!! for companies which haven't yet figured out that the smartphones that so many of us have exclusively now do not contain the old letter/number pad that dates back to rotary dials. "Type the first thee letters of your destination" only works when I can type 6-7-5, not O-R-L (ando). It's the 21st century, people...
Never go shopping 1/2 before the place closes. Ok I went shoppnig and with a list but they announce over the loudspeaker, in 20 minutes we're closing, then in 15 minutes we're closing etc. (I think I was leaving the store before they gave the 10 minute announcement and by then half the stuff was put away).
So before then I'm running around like a madwoman just throwing any old thing in the basket ... because time running out, time running out ... time is running out!!!! So I ended up spending much more money than I would have otherwise, I was going by a list but not one with prices and frankly the price of some things would have had me scratch them off my list if I was thinking straight (but no instead I was just thinking: time is running out! time is running out! get it now, before time runs out!).
It was an attempt to get my weekly grocery shopping done without it eating up too much weekend time but I have to say the experiment was a giant FAIL. Whatever I'll eat food, I don't think I bought vastly more than I'll eat, though less planning than usual, and I spent more, didn't have time to think, and maybe the worst part: I stressed myself out racing against the bell.
As for Steve's previous reply to a previous comment of mine: I use some serious ergonomic peripherals, though I could get more I guess. I paid for them myself because well I wasn't going to wait for them to get around to it knowing how they are, and whether they care or not I still have *my* body to look after. It significantly reduces but doesn't eliminate the pain, I think desks at work are just set up all wrong. The whole setup is wrong. :\
Dear registrants for our free event,
If you are going to cancel the night before the event, that's functionally the same as a no show. We cannot find anyone to take your place in that case, so don't waste my time emailing me about it. And I don't care why you can't come.
Thank you.
I so love when a potential client comes to me and says, "I need a new web site to replace the one I made myself online on one of those do-it-yourself sites. It looks like crap." Asks for guidance and a project plan/estimate. Ponders it, then comes back and says, "Hey, I just found this OTHER site where I can make my own web site. Thanks anyway!"
No hard feelings, but I hope people have more respect for HER time than she had for mine.
I save leftovers for making soup. This morning I pulled duck wings, chicken wings from the freezer, and the turkey wings that were in the refrigerator. I like wings. A lot. All were roasted and looking pretty darn wonderful. I used chicken stock for the liquid and had fresh onions, and some barely limp carrots and celery that I never got around to using.
Six hours later and it is the worst pot-o-crud I have ever tasted, and, trust me, I have made some really heinous meals trying to use up leftovers over the eons (an accurate calculation when translated into bad-marriage-years). Such a waste, and I cannot figure out what the problem is with that mess.
That was supposed to be lunch and dinner for the rest of the week. Rambutans are back in season, so I spent my extra grocery money on them, some lychees and a jar of seaweed when I was out yesterday. I guess those are my dinner, along with the leftover liver, until I can thaw some more bits from the freezer.
When people who offer expensive services (most recently dentist) want to do extra services for you tell you that they will "work with you" to let you pay it out. I do not consider suggesting someone go into debt so you can make more a kindness, but rather a cruelty. I tell them that's how I stay afloat, by now adding on debt. They tend to go blank on hearing this, and I'm not trying to educate them, just stand up for myself.
Rain, dammit! For the last two months weather forecasts have mostly predicted rain, and for the last two months we've had clouds, sun, clouds...and one day of real, healthy rain. It was supposed to rain today. But no. Maybe tomorrow, the forecast says. Yeah, sure. I'll believe it when I see it.
People who post things on craigslist or freecycle (using their email) and then say "Call and leave your number I won't answer emails." WTF?
This cough just won't go away, even after 6 weeks. What the F? Tired of waking myself up hacking......I normally get sick...er, almost never.
Pug.....have you see the doctor?
I developed a cough for a very long time, with no other symptoms. Didn't see the doc for it. Its not as bad now, but still around. I use a cpap at night, so I'm thinking its that. I did get a chest xray when it started up, and it was clear. Do you clean your ears too much? There's a nerve in your ear canal that, when irritated, can cause a cough.
I'm getting really tired of seeing people walking like zombies, while glued to their smart phones. I saw 2 people yesterday, where there was traffic, just staring at their phones and not paying any attention to the cars. Saw several younger kids walking with their mom's at the store, staring at their phones.
Zombies!!
If today was described in a book 50 years ago, it would have likely been some dystopian scifi novel.Quote:
Originally Posted by CathyA
Make sure you're hydrated. I've found, for me, coughing and reflux (and then each of those trigger the other) are often just because I'm not hydrating enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by puglogic
My garage door locked itself from the inside. OK, I thought, I'll just go around to the gate and let myself in. The gate hadn't been opened in so long that it was blocked by dirt and debris. I managed to get it open a crack. Not good enough. I went to the other side of the garage. I managed to get that side open about three feet, so crawled in and released the door. I was going to do yard work, but wore myself out with the effort. Now I'm waiting for the Ibuprofen to kick in...
I started using an electric kettle a few months ago, and love it, so fast and easy.
Well, I was drowsy this morning and filled the electric kettle, then set it on the gas stove and turned it on. Luckily dd smelled the fumes before it completely destroyed the stove.
Aaaargh! Bottom of kettle melted and destroyed, house full of plastic fumes!
I loved that kettle. Dang.
Very peeved this morning:
Responded to a LifeAlert-like alarm from a home nearby. Elderly gent not having a good day at all. His alert company properly contacted our dispatch, we arrived on-scene, helped him out a bit, then tried to use his phone to communicate to medical supervision...
We had to use his house phone because we were in one of our quite-common cell-phone and radio dead spots here.
The line was busy. Because the LifeAlert-like company's product hadn't hung up on the house end - when I talked to them later today they told me they design it so their central office has to release the phone. Manually..... Which they didn't do....
So there we were, no way to communicate, because some twit on the other side of the country forgot to press a button.
A prybar to the Telco junction box, and shorting a pair took care of that. Lucky at least one of us on the call also knows how telephone systems work...
Anyways, their clever "design" could have killed this guy. I'm following up this week, I want heads on pikes on walls.
So there's that.
Our property is like a jungle, and we love it. So many wildlife and birds, flowers, trees. DH has mowed wonderful trails through it all and we take rides in my electric (very quiet) golf cart and enjoy nature.
Well, our neighbor whose woods borders ours started mowing down trails on his side, right next to our property for his motocross motorcycle. I have such evil thoughts towards him. Those things are so danged loud. It will totally ruin our wonderful, quiet appreciation of nature whenever he's out there. He lives in a McMansion that he put up in the property behind us when his grandmother died and he inherited the land. He put up 3 bigs home in a cornfield. Said he wanted very much to not disturb the area's rural nature. Right. Build 3 big houses and then run your damned motorcycles through the beautiful woods. I'm having evil, evil thoughts.
That really sucks, CathyA. I feel for ya...
I am starting to suffer from the inevitable post-vacation let-down...really, another full year before I can take off again (provided I have the funds to do it)?
Co-workers who take every. single.comment. I make as an exercise in making an example of how pitiful I am and how awesome the are. I could give a lot of examples, but I'm on the leading edge of a 12 hr shift with them and I'm trying to let it go.
Tomorrow I have my first radiation treatment, and I am scared. Such a two-edged sword. The data is solid: 30% chance of recurrence without it, 5-7% with. And, both the potential physical & emotional impacts of the procedure are simply very upsetting to me. All in my thinking, of course... which I am moving in & out of working with. If you are so moved, please hold me in the Light tomorrow, between 2:30-4:30 Pacific time. Thanks.
Will do Redfox.
I have worked in situations like this before, too.....In my case, I think my being such an introvert feeds it. This really happened to me a lot in the late 90's during that incredible period of time in which it was an employee's job market. I bounced around a bit from job to job to job and realized that the pattern was following me. What I have done is to go against my grain and make some attempts to get to know others and socialize a bit in the workplace - to a point. I still needs lots of time alone and still work much better alone. I'm not saying this is the case with you, shadowmoss, I'm just passing my experience along. RobQuote:
Originally Posted by shadowmoss
The doctor's office. I arrive shortly before 8 am for some lab work. I stand at the HIPAA-regulated privacy spot for a good couple of minutes before the sole receptionist even looks up from what she's doing to acknowledge me -- and that's only to tell me "I'll be right with you". Not "hello", no nod of recognition. It's not like she's on the phone. Or typing away in a chat or transcribing.
It's to be expected here. The entire front-of-house staff just always seems burned out and demoralized. I almost want to get a receptionist's job here so I can write a book about the war zone that this place must be. >8) I've worked as a doctor's receptionist before. I know the job is challenging. But if you don't like dealing with people, find. another. job. Don't be passive-aggressive to customers every d**n day.
Then I get to the lab and find out that, in addition to my fasting blood test, they want a urine sample. Sure wish they'd communicated that tidbit of information when I scheduled the appointment. If I knew, I might not have visited the rest room before the lab appointment. I spent an extra half-hour at the office waiting so I could fulfill that request.
Good thing the back of the house is compassionate and knowledgeable or I'd chuck the place in a minute.
Headaches. So over them. Also peeved by my reaction to chronic pain. At this point I should be able to deal better.