The Great Indoors. I mean Outdoors.
I didn't think I would have time to post vacation pictures this week, but today I had a conversation with a coworker that went like this:
Me: Um, yes, this project that I am bending over backwards to rush through for you? It's going to be very very hard, maybe impossible, for me to do it without the Required Form of Extreme Requiredness that is required on this project, just as it has been on every other project you have ever submitted. So maybe you could get that form for me?
Coworker: Yeah, no. That's gonna be a hassle for me. Why don't you just go ahead and try to do it without, that'd be great.
After setting his project on fire and throwing the smoldering remains out the window, I find myself with a little free time in my schedule, so: pictures!
I don't like camping. I'm perfectly happy to tramp around in nature all day long, but there needs to be a good shower and a comfortable bed available at the end of it. This is how you "rough it" in my world. (The kitchen is fully stocked, but you do have to supply your own cat.)
Mo sat quietly on the porch with me for about twenty minutes. Tiny sat for about twenty seconds, and then they both made a break for it.
So we relocated to the dog kennel. I cannot believe that I spent my vacation sitting in a dog kennel with my cats, but I guess a crazy cat lady's gotta do what a crazy cat lady's gotta do.
I did actually leave the kennel long enough to go hiking (if by hiking you mean, sitting at the edge of the creek with my feet in the water).
The second hike had some amazing views. The top of this mountain used to be a grazing area; the forest service maintains it as a "bald" grassland now, so you have this incredible unobstructed 360 degree view from the summit.
This hike was also the scene of the tensest picnic ever. Signs at the trailhead warned about "problem bears" near some traveler's shelters. After careful examination of the facts (e.g., I was hungry, I wanted to sit in the shade) I concluded that this was not the area in question. Still, I ate fast.
In conclusion, view from hot tub.
Postscript: My first purchase of $4.00+ gas.
Amusingly, this pump was not even capable of registering gas prices that high. (That is amusing, right? In a kind of "oh, look how the world is ending" kind of way?)
Me: Um, yes, this project that I am bending over backwards to rush through for you? It's going to be very very hard, maybe impossible, for me to do it without the Required Form of Extreme Requiredness that is required on this project, just as it has been on every other project you have ever submitted. So maybe you could get that form for me?
Coworker: Yeah, no. That's gonna be a hassle for me. Why don't you just go ahead and try to do it without, that'd be great.
After setting his project on fire and throwing the smoldering remains out the window, I find myself with a little free time in my schedule, so: pictures!
I don't like camping. I'm perfectly happy to tramp around in nature all day long, but there needs to be a good shower and a comfortable bed available at the end of it. This is how you "rough it" in my world. (The kitchen is fully stocked, but you do have to supply your own cat.)
Mo sat quietly on the porch with me for about twenty minutes. Tiny sat for about twenty seconds, and then they both made a break for it.
So we relocated to the dog kennel. I cannot believe that I spent my vacation sitting in a dog kennel with my cats, but I guess a crazy cat lady's gotta do what a crazy cat lady's gotta do.
I did actually leave the kennel long enough to go hiking (if by hiking you mean, sitting at the edge of the creek with my feet in the water).
The second hike had some amazing views. The top of this mountain used to be a grazing area; the forest service maintains it as a "bald" grassland now, so you have this incredible unobstructed 360 degree view from the summit.
This hike was also the scene of the tensest picnic ever. Signs at the trailhead warned about "problem bears" near some traveler's shelters. After careful examination of the facts (e.g., I was hungry, I wanted to sit in the shade) I concluded that this was not the area in question. Still, I ate fast.
In conclusion, view from hot tub.
Postscript: My first purchase of $4.00+ gas.
Amusingly, this pump was not even capable of registering gas prices that high. (That is amusing, right? In a kind of "oh, look how the world is ending" kind of way?)