Posted on 10/23/2010 5:17:52 PM PDT by Lrod
Happy Thanksgiving!
Has anyone even noticed that no matter how incompetent I am at my job, we still get weather every day?
— “The Imperial Weatherman”
Morning, all. 47 and occasional drizzle here. Frank got up at 5, went back to bed at 7, got up again at 9:45. Fortunately, I couldn’t get dressed and go to Mass (because he sleeps in my closet) because Elen broke the heat lamp on Santana’s cage into the cage, requiring a complete cleanout of the cage and a whole new batch of sand.
Being as she’s never allowed to open the lizard cages in the first place, she’s now the household skivvy for the entire day - into tomorrow, if tasks aren’t completed successfully and expeditiously.
If it were up to me, all the lizards and their accoutrements would be listed on eBay tomorrow, and DP could go on a private sailing vacation with the proceeds.
Bob. It’s called “job security.”
:o])
From a feminine perspective, inasmuch as I am able to pull off such a thing, that has the sound of a "win/win".
29 when I got up. We may have a high of 47, but no rain in the forecast. It was gloomy and cold yesterday, but today it will be sunny and cold.
Nothing quite so dramatic as lizard doings, but then, I don’t have a lot of extra bodies here. OK. No extra bodies. Just mine.
I’m going to take a shower in a bit and then make some pies. I’ll see my sister tomorrow, but I won’t stay for dinner, I think. I have a ham and some sweet potatoes, but don’t know if I’ll warm it up or not. Right now it sounds like too much work. *yawn*
Well, we're here. Or at least I am. The rain didn't come -- it's snowing again, so we might be going nowhere.
There are worse things to do besides stay home. You could go outside and get very cold.
I can do that in here! I’m waiting for the bathroom to warm up a little. Heat lamp, and all that.
This whole day is sounding like too much work for me. But oh well ...
I’ve got the roaster out of the garage and cleaned up, so that DP can get the turkey started. We’ve almost got the dragon cage disaster cleaned up. Then I’ll make the sweet potato pies, so I can see if I have enough potato ready.
If you weren’t stuck with a substitute confuser, I could FAX you a mouse for company!
Quite often, there are no better things to do.
I'm home today. Anybody who wants to visit, come on over.
If the drive is still working it's not hard, though it takes a little technical knowledge. If it's a PC drive one can install it as a second drive in the case; if it's a laptop drive there are "sleeves" one can install it in to make it a USB drive.
I bought one of those a few years ago when an earlier work laptop died -- I not only got the data off it, the drive and sleeve became one of my backup devices. I forgot to bring it home yesterday and was going to get it after Mass this morning, but with it snowing I'm not sure we're going anywhere.
I'll say. It's not even Advent yet!
The New Year starts Sunday.
Neither are we. I have a friend younger than me who is already a great-grandparent, but we come from long-lived stock. No hurry.
Considering the alternative, that's a good thing.
Or maybe not. Snow always brings the treat of loss of electricity. As does wind. (Which is why we started doing our turkeys on the Weber. Yum!)
I do appreciate that philosophy.
I suspect I would know the mouse was coming...
Yah. LoM says "No mas" (or was that "no Mass"?) and hasn't touched her coffee yet. But I have to go outside and get very cold to prepare the Weber. Which is parked on the wrong end of the deck so I have to shovel snow to get to it. Which means going downstairs to the garage to get the shovel, with a new CFL in hand to replace the one that finally died after 10+ years' service 24/7.
It’s a PC drive. It still works but keeps defaulting to the “Safe Mode” screen, no matter what I select. I’m hoping I can keep the data when I find someone to take it all apart.
Beyond my ken, for sure!
In the meantime, I’m using a laptop and trying to get used to it. One good thing: I can watch Netflix movies on it!
My friend in Utah (two months younger) has six great-grandkids, the oldest I believe is about 12.
I don’t even look for great-grandkids. Nice idea, but out of my hands.
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