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/What's a nice kid like you...doing in a place like this?/I gotta tell you now, you won't like it here/the potato chips are soggy/they won't allow beer....
2002-03-13 19:53:55
And if someone gets THAT, I'll take you out to dinner. No, I really will. We'll go to Cookand, read manga and giggle insanely.
Hint-Scatman Crothers.
NO BIFOCALS. *Mashed Potato Boogies all over the place*
I have two "pigmented spots" on the retina of my right eye - likely the result of a retina burns I got working in Da Business with kleig lights all those years ago. More scars, I guess. *giggles* But nothing worse than some minor tweaks in the prescription - which means new glasses! Oh, throw me in the briar patch, I've only had these frames for ten years.
No beer, no sake...but the biggest non-fat latte from Starbucks and a sake cup of kirsch seems to be doing the job. That, and having something go right for a change --
Love being a hospital brat on these days - I worked for one of the doctors in this practice once upon a time, that's how I ended up their patient - and found out the guy retired. Got to call him a little stinker and made my doctor laugh. Said he'd pass the compliment along. Jim McCaffrey is not twenty years my senior...and he spends his free time doing eye surgeries in Mexico gratis. If he's retired, I'll eat my brand new pair of CDBL 2250's. *thinks* I'm sure of it. If Dr. Axt is going to see him soon, it *is* getting to be that time of year again...and Dr. McCaffrey is in Sante Fe, NM.
Big fat stinker. Retired, my ass. It's just getting to be too long a drive for him.
*big sigh of relief* -
This day is sucking AAAAASSSSSS!!!!
2002-03-13 14:51:29
You know, I have to be places when I say I'm going to be there. I draw a paycheck based on being timely, on the job and prompt....
There is a hole in my downstairs bathroom ceiling. It was made by water leaking from the upstairs bathroom above it. There is a huuuge puddle of water on the floor...and I can't find where it's coming from.
Sounds like a job for plumber man! But wait! Since there is structural damage, I have to call the homeowners association because that's what you have to do when you are buying a condominium instead of renting one. So I did, yesterday. Waited on hold for 30 minutes. Found out I have to use their plumber...I'm a good lil' girl, I can jump a hoop or two. They call the plumber. He calls me. We set up a time for today, cos' if I can't be here, he can't come see my hole in the ceiling for a week.
And he'll be here at 10:00 - 10:30, tops.
He got here at 1:30 - and left at 2:30. With my two hour drive, that would put me at my desk at 4:30 - and I still have an eye doctor to see today (that's another good reason to be peeved, but that's another story).
What did they guy say when I called him? "Didn't you take the whole day off?" *FUME*
The good news is that there were two leaks - one up, one down and not related to each other. No plumbing leaks between floors...but now I have to have someone fix the hole in the ceiling. The association says...they'll put a work order in, but they don't know about when they'll be able to come out.
Maybe they'll come Friday. Jim will be off Friday.
What have I done today? Reshelved the DVDs. Wrote the thank you notes (so lame, but now done), made a killer dinner soup from some leftovers in the crock pot...Dora Domestic incarnate. Dubbing the KOR box set for a bud.
EK - rattled the cages over at Earthlink...but Hotmail is also saying your domain is suspect (I've complained about the spam Earthlink lets through...this is my thanks...they block my friends!~). Will talk to the boss tomorrow and see if his filters turn up something - is he.net serving mail too?
Beer with a sake chaser sounds good. Oh, very, very good.... -
*blink*
2002-03-12 15:42:49
EK - WTF? Okay...what did you, Ray....
So Andrea Yates was found guilty. Surprise.
All I want to know is where are the accessory charges for her husband?
Two years of drugs, a suicide attempt and four hospitalizations. Oh yeah, she's good to go for child care.
A little close for my taste, y'know? -
Two trips to Starbucks later....
2002-03-12 10:10:52
*ahhhh*
Here's a thought-provoker for the day:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/12/national/12EVOL.html?todaysheadlines
You have to sign up to see it, but it's free - the discussion is not evolution vs. creationism (which to my mind is stupid to begin with), but Darwinism vs. Intelligent-Designism. Intelligent-design? Well, it boils down to acknowledging that God didn't make the world in six days (and kicked it on the seventh), but that evolution alone probably didn't do the job either.
Opponents are fighting it because they say it's God vs. science. *ponders*
Set the stage first with my ideas on Divinity...
1. God doesn't have a gender. Not a person, either. When you hear "created in His image," that means what's between your ears (and I don't mean gray matter), not what you look like.
2. Kinda like duct tape - a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together.
3. I have the same access whether I'm in a Catholic cathedral or a Buddhist temple. When we all pray, it all goes the same place. ^_^
a. Why? Because every doctrine has a clause in it to ensure its survival, not foster faith or any of the other positive rewards. Therefore, since this is largely a man-made invention, I disregard it. This does not make me a satanist by default. >_<
b. The only thing I can *truly* be certain of is that I can be wrong - being very human and fallible. God didn't give me the authority to judge others. So I don't. Not even to decide who the true believers are. And since working with a number of Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists...I can say God knows them as well as my happy ass Prodestant self.
The thing that really bugs me about the news story is that people are upset with "filling in the blanks with God" -
I could kick Pat Robertson (and his ilk) to hell for making the whole concept so unappetitzing.
Frankly, I'm certain I don't know it all. What's wrong with thinking the force who made it all might?
*giggles*
They're doing demo work on the second floor of the building...and tossing some odd pieces of fiberglass out the window at times. The sparrows are latching onto this stuff for nest building like it's no tomorrow...I'm laughing because one of the "big boys" just trotted off with a hunk 6 times his size and managed to get it across the parking lot. Ballsy little guy.
<Brand X> may make me go to Dallas again soon. Will keep you posted.
EK - I was good. I was VERY good. I waited until I got home to check out the diabolism site (I do pay attention to warnings) - *poof* Send me the link to that one thing - wouldya?
<Brand Y> is now making my life interesting as well. They also live in Dallas.
Fortune Cookies from yesterday:
"Your keen sense of humor will make you many good friends."
"Listen to friends with an ear to the future."
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So the song remembers when?
2002-03-10 22:38:21
Bowler - agreed, couldhavebeens suck the loudest. You can almost see the potential circling the drain.
However, I've seen your website. You don't fall into any of those categories. You're good, you're still working, and well...you're in it for the count. You ain't leaving anytime soon.
Go check the history of the founding of United Artists...you could honestly relate to why it was done -- it's one of the few examples where the artists came out on top (at least initially). Dreamworks is one the latest ones. (A cheap aside - I hope Shrek stomps Monsters Inc. butt at the Oscars...)
Sheesh. Cheap noodle house? WTF did they want after the mural, a menu design or two? Maybe design the napkins. Layout some display ads. T-shirts. Business cards?
After you probably gave each of those characters their Souls...*tch*
Could have been...had not the entire decision been in other hands...rather greasy ones at that.
Fuck 'em. You had it in one.
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