I really like the fact that Sara marked this optimistic. GR8's drinking 'til the sun comes up.
Random Thoughts XII - This Thread Delivers
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Made ham and bean soup Saturday. My youngest was POed that I didn't wait until she got home next week for the holidays, so I stashed a couple bowls worth in the freezer for her.
Texted my oldest daughter to see if she wanted me to bring her some for lunch today at work. I told her she could dutch oven her soup-hating husband tonight. She said "Yes, please!"
Texted my oldest daughter to see if she wanted me to bring her some for lunch today at work. I told her she could dutch oven her soup-hating husband tonight. She said "Yes, please!"
Did a double dose of Viagra?
He didn't say it was a work all-nighter!
GR8 discovered the fountain of youth after remembering that woman that broke up with him because he was too good looking.
Our friends that make the chili also made oyster stew for the first 15 or so years that I have been going there. For her mom. When her mom stopped coming and couldn't eat oyster stew any more (health reasons), they stopped making it. I think there were only a couple of people that ate it besides her mom.Late to the party, but last year the vixen talked 4 of the 5 daughters to come out at Christmas. Said it wouldn't be too long, and Gramma and Grampa won't be around to share with anymore. So - we had them all at our house, grandkids too. (Alana had to work over Christmas at the hospital, so couldn't come.)
It was a noisy mess.....and an absolute blessing. Lots of food, laughing, broken ornaments, and yours truly even sang a solo at church on Christmas Eve. At the end of the night we all listened to "Silent Night" by Mannheim Steamroller, and there weren't many dry eyes in the room.
Christmas Eve supper, BTW, is always the old traditional chili and oyster stew. That's what the vixen's Mom makes, and that's we get. (My Dad would approve, were he still around!)
He probably did - but not for fun. Out of frustration, most likely!
Our friends that make the chili also made oyster stew for the first 15 or so years that I have been going there. For her mom. When her mom stopped coming and couldn't eat oyster stew any more (health reasons), they stopped making it. I think there were only a couple of people that ate it besides her mom.
Wife's folks do this every Christmas. Every Christmas her mom always asks me if I don't like oysters and that I should at least have some of the liquid. I have given up on mentioning that the lactose intolerance would render me in misery for two days because of the liquid and just say I am fine with the Chili. She also keeps trying to give me milk, gets frustrated when I say water is fine.
Same lady that said I would never be part of the family unless I ate lutefisk. Didn't ask again when I said I was fine with that then. Because my mom had one of the most common Scandinavian last names she assumed I had a lot of that growing up. I stopped mentioning that both my grandmas were German and I always got sauerkraut, cooked cabbage, some ham or sauage type meat when I ate at their place. She obviously doesn't listen to what I tell her.
yep.
Figured I didn't need to cover much up since you can't really make much out from the photo.
Get like 25 meeting invites for a training. I pick the one that works for me and decline the rest.
Couple weeks later they're like oh yeah this project isn't ready yet, cancelling and rescheduling. Get 25 new invites. Sigh. Pick the one that works for me.
Now they're going back and removing all those original 25. Why am I getting a notification email for every one?!?!?!?!? I already declined them all!
They are killing all the virtual trees with this amount of email.
Couple weeks later they're like oh yeah this project isn't ready yet, cancelling and rescheduling. Get 25 new invites. Sigh. Pick the one that works for me.
Now they're going back and removing all those original 25. Why am I getting a notification email for every one?!?!?!?!? I already declined them all!
They are killing all the virtual trees with this amount of email.
CycloneErik
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Huh. Just got a phone call from a university in Odessa, TX.
Didn't recognize the #, so I didn't answer, but looked them up online.
No voicemail. Secretary was confused a little when I called back. The prof that called may be calling again shortly.
It's weird. I don't remember applying to anything there, and I keep track of this stuff.
Didn't recognize the #, so I didn't answer, but looked them up online.
No voicemail. Secretary was confused a little when I called back. The prof that called may be calling again shortly.
It's weird. I don't remember applying to anything there, and I keep track of this stuff.
I have no interest in seeing what a brain being eaten by amoebas looks like.
https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/T...blamed-for-brain-eating-amoeba-502353792.html
https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/T...blamed-for-brain-eating-amoeba-502353792.html
Can't even tell much except it looks like his midriff is wrapped (or maybe that's just the pattern on the singlet) and that his headgear is "overstuffed". What's going on there? Is he okay?
CycloneErik
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Mystery solved. They dialed a wrong # for a student with an advising appointment.
Oh, well. It was nice to be wanted for a moment, even though it wasn't real.
EDIT: That said, schools in Texas are really prompt and combine being professional with friendliness in a way that's pretty stunning. Every encounter I have with a Texas university makes me wish I was at one.
Oh, well. It was nice to be wanted for a moment, even though it wasn't real.
EDIT: That said, schools in Texas are really prompt and combine being professional with friendliness in a way that's pretty stunning. Every encounter I have with a Texas university makes me wish I was at one.
you got pretty far with another one in a little Texas town, didn't you? Chance the faculty know each other? Or maybe I'm mixing it up with the MS one.
We used to have newbie grad students every year that would "reply all" to general dept emails...then forty or so "kind souls" would use "reply all" to tell them not to use "reply all". Ahhhhhhh, the memories of the early days of fall semesters...
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