catching up
You'd think that as much time as I spend sitting in front of my computer, I'd have time to post here...
So it was a very busy weekend and we had snow. Not anywhere near the snow of the northeast, but any snow sucks.
Saturday was the memorial service. Sadly, sitting behind the podium on the stage we couldn't hear much of the speakers--it was all garbled as the mikes projected outwards. It was lovely with about 300 people plus the 40 or so in the choir. Undoubtedly my only time to sing on the stage of the Lied Center (KU's grand performance hall). All the songs came together very well.
I got home, changed into pjs, started making the casserole for dinner and realized I didn't have any brown rice, so I threw back on my clothes and ran to the store, hoping that no one spoiled me for the earlier game--no one did, though KU shirts were everywhere.
I'd taped the KU v. Baylor game and watched it afterwards. We won, overcoming a poor start and still being behind in the second half. It was also nice not reading along with the forum's game post, though I read through it afterwards. Very funny all the doom and gloom and 'i'm turning it off' and 'i'm drinking heavily' and 'we suck' and 'we won't make it out of the first week of the tournie' etc. On page five or so someone posted that 'by page fifteen this game post is going to look stupid' and, yep, around page fifteen we started charging back.
KU basketball makes me happy.
Sunday was the Love Service with roses and chocolate and lots of music. It always runs over so Jill's reflection, right before our quartet, was shortened to 'So, as we're already past noon, let's just say that the reflection is All You Need is Love' and then we sang that--still amused at four women singing a song performed by four men. Although I'm never a fan of applause after musical numbers in a church service, everyone got applause and it was deserved.
I finished editing my Derek/Stiles big bang fic which will post this Saturday, so that's Sunday's happy. Also caught up on some tv but still horribly behind. Made the determination that the teen wolf bb due on the 28th is going to become the Stiles/Peter bb fic due sometime later in the spring, so that was a relief.
The snow which was supposed to start Sunday morning (and be 3-5 inches) finally rolled in around dinnertime and dropped about 1 1/2 inches. Not knowing how the roads would be and needing to shovel, I suggested blowing off the movie on Monday to dad and he agreed, not wanting to drive in from the country. Shoveling took about ten minutes, then I read a lot of fanfic and lazed around until KU played at West Virginia.
We had the lead for most of the second half, despite the enormous amounts of no-calls (lots of shoving on our players) and our inability to rebound, or maybe that was more that they got all their offensive rebounds on their really poor shots that clanged off and bounced ten feet back to them, and then we lost by one.
One call they did make was egregious. Our freshman point guard was called for stepping on the sideline, except that he was a good foot in bounds. Also, on their winning shot Staten took four or five steps (someone on the forum ran it at slow motion and counted).
Someone on the forum put up WV's foul call numbers for their last dozen games and they were almost all in the 40s. I think maybe they had 12 or so in our game. :P
Oh well, I'd actually counted this as a loss. We did, at least, handle their full court press pretty well, something we've struggled with. And at least the team got there and home safely in the blizzard--only people in Morgantown were allowed to go to the game as the highways were all closed. Which is better than the Miami at Boston Collage game that I kept looking for and wondering why Snoop Dog and his son were on, and then finally figured out it was postponed as the Miami team couldn't get there.
Castle was really good. So glad the private eye thing is over. That would be Monday's happy.
It snowed again overnight. It was supposed to be snow showers and I woke up Tuesday to another inch or so of snow which ticked me off as I'd shoveled the day before. A lot of it melted during the day, but the wind picked up, too, and it was cold by the time I left work to run to the grocery. I stupidly didn't put on boots and they didn't do anything to the parking and stairs at work so got snow in my shoes. It also snowed for a couple hours in the afternoon, was still flurrying when I left work, and then the sun came out.
What the fuck ever...
The efiling system went down--all the things I filed on FRIDAY are still 'waiting approval'. I was able to file stuff on Tuesday but it's still waiting, too. I have evictions that need to be taken to the Sheriff today to get served as the appearance date in court is next Friday and by law the defendants have to have three work days between service and appearing. So, really they need to be served by Monday and waiting till Thursday the week before to get the documents to the sheriff is pushing it. Also boss has court hearings this afternoon so I'd just planned to hand the documents to him and not have to brave the cold.
At least I'm wearing boots today, and leggings and socks because it's supposed to be around 19 for a high. Left the water dripping at home. :P So water bill will go up but gas bill I got yesterday was surprisingly low. I know that I had two days with no gas due to the furnace going out, but this bill was about $50-$75 less than normal for this time of year. Maybe new furnace is more gas efficient?
Even with the cold, a lot of the snow melted yesterday so I'm hoping that with the sun today more does so I don't have to shovel--not that there's much on my sidewalks, in fact, I could probably use the push broom, but brrrrrrrrr. Technically I have till around 4:30 Thursday afternoon.
Tuesday's happy was that I read some really good fic.
At least they've taken the snow out for Saturday when dad and I are going to the basketball game.
I have hardly anything to do at work. Am bored.
And the efiling system is still not working.
So it was a very busy weekend and we had snow. Not anywhere near the snow of the northeast, but any snow sucks.
Saturday was the memorial service. Sadly, sitting behind the podium on the stage we couldn't hear much of the speakers--it was all garbled as the mikes projected outwards. It was lovely with about 300 people plus the 40 or so in the choir. Undoubtedly my only time to sing on the stage of the Lied Center (KU's grand performance hall). All the songs came together very well.
I got home, changed into pjs, started making the casserole for dinner and realized I didn't have any brown rice, so I threw back on my clothes and ran to the store, hoping that no one spoiled me for the earlier game--no one did, though KU shirts were everywhere.
I'd taped the KU v. Baylor game and watched it afterwards. We won, overcoming a poor start and still being behind in the second half. It was also nice not reading along with the forum's game post, though I read through it afterwards. Very funny all the doom and gloom and 'i'm turning it off' and 'i'm drinking heavily' and 'we suck' and 'we won't make it out of the first week of the tournie' etc. On page five or so someone posted that 'by page fifteen this game post is going to look stupid' and, yep, around page fifteen we started charging back.
KU basketball makes me happy.
Sunday was the Love Service with roses and chocolate and lots of music. It always runs over so Jill's reflection, right before our quartet, was shortened to 'So, as we're already past noon, let's just say that the reflection is All You Need is Love' and then we sang that--still amused at four women singing a song performed by four men. Although I'm never a fan of applause after musical numbers in a church service, everyone got applause and it was deserved.
I finished editing my Derek/Stiles big bang fic which will post this Saturday, so that's Sunday's happy. Also caught up on some tv but still horribly behind. Made the determination that the teen wolf bb due on the 28th is going to become the Stiles/Peter bb fic due sometime later in the spring, so that was a relief.
The snow which was supposed to start Sunday morning (and be 3-5 inches) finally rolled in around dinnertime and dropped about 1 1/2 inches. Not knowing how the roads would be and needing to shovel, I suggested blowing off the movie on Monday to dad and he agreed, not wanting to drive in from the country. Shoveling took about ten minutes, then I read a lot of fanfic and lazed around until KU played at West Virginia.
We had the lead for most of the second half, despite the enormous amounts of no-calls (lots of shoving on our players) and our inability to rebound, or maybe that was more that they got all their offensive rebounds on their really poor shots that clanged off and bounced ten feet back to them, and then we lost by one.
One call they did make was egregious. Our freshman point guard was called for stepping on the sideline, except that he was a good foot in bounds. Also, on their winning shot Staten took four or five steps (someone on the forum ran it at slow motion and counted).
Someone on the forum put up WV's foul call numbers for their last dozen games and they were almost all in the 40s. I think maybe they had 12 or so in our game. :P
Oh well, I'd actually counted this as a loss. We did, at least, handle their full court press pretty well, something we've struggled with. And at least the team got there and home safely in the blizzard--only people in Morgantown were allowed to go to the game as the highways were all closed. Which is better than the Miami at Boston Collage game that I kept looking for and wondering why Snoop Dog and his son were on, and then finally figured out it was postponed as the Miami team couldn't get there.
Castle was really good. So glad the private eye thing is over. That would be Monday's happy.
It snowed again overnight. It was supposed to be snow showers and I woke up Tuesday to another inch or so of snow which ticked me off as I'd shoveled the day before. A lot of it melted during the day, but the wind picked up, too, and it was cold by the time I left work to run to the grocery. I stupidly didn't put on boots and they didn't do anything to the parking and stairs at work so got snow in my shoes. It also snowed for a couple hours in the afternoon, was still flurrying when I left work, and then the sun came out.
What the fuck ever...
The efiling system went down--all the things I filed on FRIDAY are still 'waiting approval'. I was able to file stuff on Tuesday but it's still waiting, too. I have evictions that need to be taken to the Sheriff today to get served as the appearance date in court is next Friday and by law the defendants have to have three work days between service and appearing. So, really they need to be served by Monday and waiting till Thursday the week before to get the documents to the sheriff is pushing it. Also boss has court hearings this afternoon so I'd just planned to hand the documents to him and not have to brave the cold.
At least I'm wearing boots today, and leggings and socks because it's supposed to be around 19 for a high. Left the water dripping at home. :P So water bill will go up but gas bill I got yesterday was surprisingly low. I know that I had two days with no gas due to the furnace going out, but this bill was about $50-$75 less than normal for this time of year. Maybe new furnace is more gas efficient?
Even with the cold, a lot of the snow melted yesterday so I'm hoping that with the sun today more does so I don't have to shovel--not that there's much on my sidewalks, in fact, I could probably use the push broom, but brrrrrrrrr. Technically I have till around 4:30 Thursday afternoon.
Tuesday's happy was that I read some really good fic.
At least they've taken the snow out for Saturday when dad and I are going to the basketball game.
I have hardly anything to do at work. Am bored.
And the efiling system is still not working.