The sequential side of me...

That side is freaking out about moving and buying a house...I can't put it on a nice neat list!

So, as therapy, here's how it should go:

• Busy Finds house tomorrow
• I see house Friday, we make an offer
• We have an anxious weekend
• Offer is accepted Tuesday
• We close May 1st ish...
• We can leisurely move out of our apartment with time to spare...

Ah, but what a comfort to know we are taken care of no matter what, we won't be homeless, and it'll all work out in ways we don't imagine yet.

Still, that list...

Addendum to yesterday's rant...

The scene as I walked in the door:

Coffee. Everywhere. With a few absorbent spill pads thrown into it.

The coffee pot (those pump style pots) was innocently sitting closed on the counter.

So, someone not only can't line up a drip of coffee with a pot, the didn't realize the pot was empty.

This might, might mind you , have been because of the large brown puddle covering most of the floor.

To the ... less intellegent in the workplace

List of things you should not do at work:

• Mess with the settings on someones chair for no good reason



• Flush, or attempt to flush, entire rolls of unused toilet paper



• Not call facilities when the ice machine is broken, but complain it hasn't worked in a week



• Touch the backroom TV, including:

1. Unscrewing the coaxial cable (which requires using a chair as it is up high) presumably to improve reception... not sure



2. Touch the volume/channel buttons (which are covered with a sticker that says do not touch)
   


3. Remove the 'do not touch sticker' so you can touch what it says not to

• Burn your popcorn to a cinder, then be too embarrassed to admit it and leave it in the microwave



• Delete an entire month from a team calendar, and not tell anyone



• Order a case (24) cartridges for a printer (last October) that will be junked (last December) The junk date was known... just discovered the ink in a locked drawer



• Leave open packages of coffee, cookies, sugar, whatever, under the sign in the break room that warns against such practice as it attracts ants.



• Call facilities 27 times in one week to report ants. (really not exaggerating here...)

Want to know the really sad part? Besides all being true, they all happened TODAY.

Words I'm tired of hearing

I have the remote for the breakroom TV in my desk, perk of being the Admin. Now- I am so tired of the list below, if I hear them again the TV goes to cartoon network!

Bailout
Toxic Assets
Sub prime mess
Bailout
Stock market
Recession
Fed
Did I mention bailout?
Executive compensation
I didn't forget Bailout, right?

I just loathe the way the media picks up phrases that have zero meaning and runs with them.
Anyone remember the famed 'Shock and Awe' from the Gulf war?
Or, enemy combatant? Obama has done away with that phrase for PC reasons I hear...
Near the top of the list though is that any scandal is now ____-gate. Er- Watergate was the name of the hotel, never did understand how that caught on.

Which will lead to the future scandals of:
Bailoutgate
Fedgate
AIGgate (any day now...)
bonusgate (sounds like a video game event...)

On the totally random side, letting my nerd shine through, remember Kenneth Starr and his debacle of a trial with the Clintons?

Should name that one Starrgate (aka- McGyver in Space!)

Spell check is going to love this post...

Behold the power of Mayonaise

More specifically, Kraft brand with olive oil. For some unknown reason M decided he didn't like chicken at dinner.
You know... that look kids get like 'if I chew one more chew, you'll regret it!'
I suggested he dip it in something which he did, and wanted seconds. Who knew?

Busy says I better...

Tell ya'll she's pregnant, so she is more prone to grumpy outbursts.

Her grumpy, though, is most peoples cheerful. Seriously.

(Note, Busy develops a southern drawl when she's tired...thus the ya'll)

PS- she's hot too.

75% of last year's total...woohoo!

Reasons I only had 4 blog posts in 2008...

With this post, I've now posted half as many times as last year!

1: Read the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (11 books, average 800+ pages each) Pesky author died before finishing book 12... so the new guy better be good!

2: Been in school... 18 months, straight A record!

3: Laziness. I've mentioned my talent in this area before...

4: Acceleration of time. Thinking Nobel Prize if I can prove this one...

5: Winged Monkey Attack. (or M & Z... )

I can make up more... but it's late, and I should go to bed before Busy gets grumpy that the light is on still...

Didn't realize...

I still had a blog! Hmm... has it really, really been nearly a year?

That's kind scary. You might think Blogger would delete these things after awhile, huh? I mean.... 20 years after we leave this silly little world, our thoughts and ramblings will still be in cyberspace for somone to read? Scary.

Well... no promises, but as you well know if you read Busy's blog... I've been in trouble more often than not anyway. :)