Friday was kind of a busy day. That night was the holiday party for David’s office, and we had hotel reservations for the night, so the point was to get down there as early as possible and relax a little before going to the party. The relaxing part didn’t happen, owing to the typically “lousy” Friday commute traffic (“lousy” is the current term of choice used by the local traffic reporters on WBEZ). Work was work, but I’d arranged to go in early so I could leave “early.” This was theoretical – I ended up leaving about 20 minutes later…
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I had volunteered to do a laundry run Thursday for one of the local PADS shelters; their regular person couldn’t make it and I got a call the night before. I didn’t have all the details on the pickup point, but I managed. Basically, I picked up bags of dirty laundry at lunch – easy, given where it was – and then dropped it off and picked up clean laundry sets at a nearby hospital after work. It was a long day, with lots of stuff going on at work, but the laundry thing was oddly relaxing. Since I can’t…
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Lot of things to get done next week. At least one major deadline got moved up on what I’m calling “the ‘Our World Is Changing’ project.” We recently went through a tech upgrade that, frankly, doesn’t benefit line agents much. In the interests of security, we’re now unable to download files or make changes to certain directories. Which is good. Unfortunately, our workhorse “programmable” key files now reside in the directory we can’t touch, meaning that whatever we had for programmables on the day tech services upgraded us is what we’re stuck with for keys, forever. Can’t update them permanently,…
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Yes, Santa can simultaneously ride his snowmobile AND motor around in his Yuletide power boat. He’s the ultimate multi-tasking guy, you know. Actually, this is pretty tame for the BHOI: I’ve blogged before about the many, many inflatable lawn blimps they’ve displayed over the years. One thing that I notice every time the inflatables come out in this area is how disturbing they look during the daytime. Most people around here don’t keep them inflated and illuminated in the daytime, so that leaves puddles of holiday-color fabric on the suburban lawns – they look oddly festive and corpse-like at the…
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We’re going to blog along from home again, and then add some amusing links. I’ll start off by saying, once again, that my dislike for the Weavers burns with the heat of a million little Sternos. Not suns, because suns are grand and big and all-encompassing, and Sternos are little and dinky and they burn with a kind of “meh” flame. Anyway, we start out in this order: Linzerfarts Eeyore and the Bransens Christine Gabbleski and the Gadzookski Sisters Evil Weavers, Weevils, Florida, Team Help Me Jebus, Yield Us, etc. Before we get started, I’ll predice ANOTHER non-elimination, because there’s…
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My world is getting ready to change. I’m sitting in “mute” as a web-based conference is beginning to learn a completely new way of pricing records. The conference is designed as a fairly standard looking chat window with private message capability, and it’s got an integrated Power Point presentation window. The usual fol-de-rol at the beginning, along with lots of people unsure as to why they’re there, and later someone will put the entire conference on hold and we’ll have to listen to their hold music. Happens every time. And there we are, someone has put us on hold and…
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Recently I felt the need to spill my guts about my complete lack of the “decoration gene.” I will, eventually, get around to putting up a Christmas tree and a few ornaments and seasonal oddments of seasonal decor that I’ve been given or collected over the years. I love how a really Christmassy shop or home looks, I just can’t be bothered to buy all the crap, store all the crap, put all the crap up, and take all the crap down. I define “really Christmassy” as “plenty of lights, pretty old ornaments in great abundance, beautifully arranged and tastefully…
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Garlic is one of my favorite things. However, I need to remember what happens when I eat a lot of whole roast garlic. No, not emanations of evil like the ones I had after we ate at Stinking Rose, but close. It’s been a very, very, very productive day, let’s just say.
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I’m currently listening to Harry Shearer’s Le Show. David doesn’t care for this show, but like it when I happen to hear it. I was in the mood for a little political commentary, satire, and humor after just seeing “Good Night, and Good Luck.” As we left the theater tonight, I remarked that cigarette smoke was like another character in the movie. After checking the official website for the movie, I see that cigarette smoke is about the only thing moving on the splash screen after the intro. And now ::yawn:: good night. Good luck too, I suppose.
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