Friday

My deal with work is that I did everything I could on the RFP yesterday. I'm missing 4 medium sized pieces. When they come in, I'll go in. Until then, I'm home enjoying a day kind-of off.

LJ seems to be back from the slugdom that hit it yesterday and I was glad to read that at least some of my blacked out friends now have juice and are ok. When my folks lived in Manhattan we lived on the 9th floor and we had a terrace. Doable. But, later, Daddy had company apartments - one on the 23rd floor and then later one on the 24th. No terrace and I'm not even sure the windows opened at all. Ugh.

Who am I kidding. A few times our elevators have been out for one reason or another and climbing up here to the 4th floor was not fun. Of course there is probably no one you know who is more out of shape than I am.

Oh wait, if you are reading this, you know my Mom. As long as she's around, I'm still not the sluggiest slug. Yesterday she had an emergency trip to the doctor. No breath and hugely swollen legs and ankels. He increased one of her pills and told her NO MORE SALT at all. She goes back on Monday.

Today she's in good spirits. The Mariner-Boston game is on ESPN but not until 10 p.m. her time. So she's planning to take naps today so she can stay up. Our track record on national television is not that good. We won the other night but that was on Fox. Boston scares me. They are just mean and they are hungry.

Friday

My deal with work is that I did everything I could on the RFP yesterday. I'm missing 4 medium sized pieces. When they come in, I'll go in. Until then, I'm home enjoying a day kind-of off.

LJ seems to be back from the slugdom that hit it yesterday and I was glad to read that at least some of my blacked out friends now have juice and are ok. When my folks lived in Manhattan we lived on the 9th floor and we had a terrace. Doable. But, later, Daddy had company apartments - one on the 23rd floor and then later one on the 24th. No terrace and I'm not even sure the windows opened at all. Ugh.

Who am I kidding. A few times our elevators have been out for one reason or another and climbing up here to the 4th floor was not fun. Of course there is probably no one you know who is more out of shape than I am.

Oh wait, if you are reading this, you know my Mom. As long as she's around, I'm still not the sluggiest slug. Yesterday she had an emergency trip to the doctor. No breath and hugely swollen legs and ankels. He increased one of her pills and told her NO MORE SALT at all. She goes back on Monday.

Today she's in good spirits. The Mariner-Boston game is on ESPN but not until 10 p.m. her time. So she's planning to take naps today so she can stay up. Our track record on national television is not that good. We won the other night but that was on Fox. Boston scares me. They are just mean and they are hungry.

Musings while I'm waiting

I have been into the office twice today and will go in at least once more. All because of one fuckchop who is, I sincerely believe, enjoying the heck out of jerking me around today. But, you know what? When you step back and look at it, it's not so bad. I have done what I want with the rest of my day. It's only a half a block to the office. He sure can't complain about my responsiveness so it's fun to jerk him back.

My timing is often strange. I didn't see the movie ET until it had been out about 10 years. I had no interest and once I saw it, I enjoyed it and wasn't sorry I waited. I saw Sex in the City when it first came on and could not work up the least bit of interest so I quit watching. Something - no idea what - made me order the DVD of the first year from Netflix and I watched a couple of episodes this morning and enjoyed it thoroughly and look forward to the rest. Go figure.

They are setting up my parking lot for basketball. They did this last year. It's fun. They set up about 50 portable nets and hold tournaments all day Saturday and Sunday. You shall have pics, I promise.

I ordered groceries to be delivered again. I gave Albertson's another go about a month ago and they were very nearly perfect. I'm hoping for that again but I'm not betting the ranch. We'll see. Delivery is tomorrow afternoon.

I got an email today from a Half.Com customer asking about the IPAQ that I listed many weeks ago and deleted from inventory shortly thereafter. It is not listed in my inventory but if I do a search it does, indeed, show one listed by me. I sent them a note asking them to fix their listing. I've never had much luck with their customer service. We'll see.

Musings while I'm waiting

I have been into the office twice today and will go in at least once more. All because of one fuckchop who is, I sincerely believe, enjoying the heck out of jerking me around today. But, you know what? When you step back and look at it, it's not so bad. I have done what I want with the rest of my day. It's only a half a block to the office. He sure can't complain about my responsiveness so it's fun to jerk him back.

My timing is often strange. I didn't see the movie ET until it had been out about 10 years. I had no interest and once I saw it, I enjoyed it and wasn't sorry I waited. I saw Sex in the City when it first came on and could not work up the least bit of interest so I quit watching. Something - no idea what - made me order the DVD of the first year from Netflix and I watched a couple of episodes this morning and enjoyed it thoroughly and look forward to the rest. Go figure.

They are setting up my parking lot for basketball. They did this last year. It's fun. They set up about 50 portable nets and hold tournaments all day Saturday and Sunday. You shall have pics, I promise.

I ordered groceries to be delivered again. I gave Albertson's another go about a month ago and they were very nearly perfect. I'm hoping for that again but I'm not betting the ranch. We'll see. Delivery is tomorrow afternoon.

I got an email today from a Half.Com customer asking about the IPAQ that I listed many weeks ago and deleted from inventory shortly thereafter. It is not listed in my inventory but if I do a search it does, indeed, show one listed by me. I sent them a note asking them to fix their listing. I've never had much luck with their customer service. We'll see.