Well, This is an interesting little hole in government regulations. Let’s hope they figure that one out in a hurry.
Category Archives: Ideas (blog)
A long day of hurry up and wait
Doctor’s appointment A was supposed to start at 10:30, but started at 11:45. We drank bottles of Arizona and Sobe tea and played video games.
Appointment B was supposed to be at 1:30, but so was appointment C. We showed up for B at 12:45 and waited for the doctor to get back from lunch. Half the Tastycakes were eaten while we waited. This one was quick and uneventful; we were out by 1:20.
Appointment C was supposed to be at 1:30 but probably didn’t really start until an hour later. Armed with sodas, we waited that one out with more video games, met various new supporting staff members, completed half a dozen tasks and left there at around 3:55.
Appointment D was blood draws and there was no wait, but thanks to some confusion about a requested test we left there at 4:30.
We finally ate our first fully functional meal of the day at the hospital cafeteria at 4:45 or so, sat in horrific traffic from the city to King of Prussia mall, picked up our Final Fantasy III preorder and dragged our sorry tails in the door around 7pm.
It’s now almost 11:30 and I’ve accomplished almost nothing, except walking JessieDog and taking a brand new holy-hell-this-tastes-like-shit sinus medication. Soon I will sleep, then the work week starts back up tomorrow.
Two Lumps
Not quite the cloud we expected in Two Lumps on Monday.
(I’m catching up on my comic reading.)
How I Spent My Weekend by kirabug
Ack. So tired.
Friday night:
I don’t remember Friday night except to remember that it involved pizza. I think I spent most of it working on Saturday’s comic.
Saturday:
Got up, got some stuff done on the computer to check my web stats and such (we’re currently at an all-time readership high, btw. We’re getting close to 4000 unique sites per month. Hi!) and messed with some email, etc.
Did all that shower/eat morning stuff, then went on a walk with Nighthawk. Came back and tore all the dead flowers out of the garden, cleaned up the porch for winter and stuff like that. Took a shower to get all the muck off, ate some leftover pizza for dinner, then went food shopping.
After food shopping, and putting it all away, settled in to about a half hour of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, then off to bed.
Sunday: Slept until 11:00. Got up, did all that shower/eat morning stuff, then started the pumpkin pie baking process. I think the pumpkin I bought this year was too big. I got fifteen cups of pumpkin out of the cheese pumpkin I bought a few weeks ago. That’s just over seven pies worth of pumpkin.
Made up the mix for six of the seven pies (froze the extra pumpkin for next week), and baked four of the pies. Took a dinner break over at Texas Roadhouse, came back, took two of the pies to neighbors’ houses. (Patty traded me candy for pie!!) Baked the last two pies.
Baked the pumpkin pie seeds, cleaned up the kitchen, helped Nighthawk with the laundry, and sat down to write this.
I took pictures of the entire pie process today, including the seeds, and I’m seriously considering turning them into my own cookbook. I’m weird that way.
Now, sleep.
Things You Should Never Do, Part I – Joel on Software
A great article on coding — and something I need to keep in mind a little more often when campaigning for massive change in the more code-related areas of my life: Things You Should Never Do, Part I
Like the cows?!?
Well, they got me.
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: Philadelphia
Â
Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you’re not from Philadelphia, then you’re from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you’ve ever journeyed to some far off place where people don’t know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn’t have a clue what accent it was they heard. |
|
The Midland |
Â
|
The Northeast |
Â
|
The South |
Â
|
Boston |
Â
|
The Inland North |
Â
|
The West |
Â
|
North Central |
Â
|
What American accent do you have? |
Kudos to ideaphile peri-renna for posting this interesting item on his LJ.