Random Thoughts IV
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Sitting on my deck and observing the rabbit across the street that would soon be dead if not for laws on discharging firearms in GV. Well, that and the close packed houses and neighbors.
Reminds me...so the other "me" at work was telling me last night how he discovered some baby raccoons in a property he kinda manages..no momma around to be found. His wife and daughter are super, over the top animal lovers, so of course they 'rescue' these poor wild animals and decide they're gonna save them. They pick them up, take them into their houses, find a person who will 'adopt' one and decide to hold onto the other until they can find a suitable home for it. Last night he tells me how the daughter is at home giving this baby raccoon a bath in her bathtub, and how much he's loving it, and how he's cuddling with her, etc. At that point, I'm kind of rolling my eyes, but whatever.
I'm on my way home last night and schmeared somewhere between 0 and 3 raccoons that are crossing the road when I top a hill, can't stop. I text him and say that I've negated the 2 he saved with my car onna way home.
Tonight, I asked if he got it, he says yes, then goes into details of their night...so I guess the daughter's husband flipped his **** that she's got this raccoon in the house (understandable, in my mind), so she brings it down to his house and they're playing with it, and he's telling me how it's purring like a kitten when he's petting it, but it's not really active, and the daughter was explaining how it couldn't open it's eyes because they were all crusted over, and that's why she gave it a bath...in her bathtub, and using her bath towels. And then in the morning, it dies.
I'm like, really, dude...this is why you don't 'rescue' wild animals...who knows what the heck she just brought into her house, your house, all of you that were playing with it as it was getting sicker and sicker.
I hate musicals. The only one I've watched and enjoyed was The Devil's Carnival and I'm not even sure why.
(yes, just catching up on CF while in mid-air back from Seattle)
The stove? Don't self clean it...
http://www.thekitchn.com/why-you-sh...he-self-cleaning-function-of-your-oven-175110
I need to find the addresses for each place I have lived in the last 10 years. I suddenly wish I had lived in the same place all four years of college.
Well technically, if/when I can get a promotion to the next level, they work from a home office instead of going in to an office. The only times they're not home is when traveling to one of their states they're in charge of. So.......maybe?
Yeah...I thought I was safe...until the four boys (and two girls) produced 15 princesses. Best of both worlds, I guess?
I know, man...the craziest part is that both the wife and daughter are NURSES who should know better. Plus, they're both in the 'sitting with someone who needs 24 hour care' section of nursing, so, obviously, people who probably don't have real good immune systems.
Ok.
I don't feel like a person can have all too many life defining things. They can also change over time. What is important to one at one point in his life isn't the same at other points. Knowing how I am as a person, if I were to meet the girl of my dreams and marry her, that would likely be the defining thing. As of now, where I'm still a single dude, I can make that focus my job, whereas I can be the best now, so if/when the other event happens, I shouldn't be in a place where I'm living from pay check to pay check to support her.
Don't confuse wanting to be the best with being ultra competitive. I'm very far from that guy that feels like he has to win at everything, even games of horse or putt putt golf or something. I'm the opposite.
maybe we'll let it cool and spray it down with the oven cleaner DH used in college instead then. The check-out thing says to run the self-cleaner. I've never done it. I've also not cleaned this oven in five years.
Don't worry, I plan to clean the new one slightly more often. The new one also has a hidden element so that pretty much solves 75% of the reason I don't want to clean an oven.
Ahh, then eff it, let 'er burn...just maybe don't do it while you're sleeping. After all, if it burns up following the checkout thing, "hey, I followed the directions perfectly, it was working until we ran the self cleaning cycle...you problem"
I think I get you. I like being "the best" at what I do. Not like checking rankings or being ultra competitive, but if I'm in my workout class and someone who has been using the same weights as me ups hers, I'll try that next time too. Not to beat her, but to better myself. Stuff like that. I don't like to half-*** many things.
yeah the oven cleaner stuff would have to sit overnight, so at this point since we're not having it run while we sleep, I'm thinking we try the cleaner, wipe it out in the morning, if it's still got caked on crap, run it tomorrow if we need it to. I joke about not cleaning it in five years - which is true - but to my knowledge, we've really never done anything like had a lasagna overtop a dish and spill everywhere. Every now and then a sausage will fall off a pizza, but we usually grab those and toss out. So it really shouldn't be too much of a disaster zone.
Yeah, kind of. But, to use work as an example, in the business world, your ability to move up often is tied to your results, so ranking is pretty important. The nice guy that is really good at HR and responds to his emails always in a timely fashion isn't getting the promotion if his numbers are in the middle of the pack.
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