Work has been plagued by rumors for the last few days-- it seems that our board of directors has been shopping us around for merger possibilities.

The last one I heard said an announcement is expected tomorrow. I'm not worried for myself at this point, but we live in interesting times.

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I find it highly amusing that entering "World's Greatest Authority" into Google supplies me with links to the comedy routines of Professor Irwin Corey. I'm wondering if anyone know why...

No cheating :)

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I'm more than a little bit freaked by the flooding I've seen today-- Oak Park got eight inches of rain last night. There's been no direct problems for us-- the nearest major street is named Ridgeland for a reason. But the nearby expressway was closed for most of the day, and there has been massive flooding and street closures in the nearby ( Read more... )

First if all, I am not a foodie.

HGTV does very little for me. I've never got into the celebrity chefs. When I was courting Fuzzyscribble, the height of my culinary achievements was a rather tasty grilled cheese sandwich, made with Velveeta, white bread, raw onions and bread and butter pickles.

Then I finished college, and got a job working at the Old Country ( Read more... )

This ljapp keeps eating my text. So we'll see how it goes...

Two weeks ago, I spent most of the weekend helping ordinary move from Round Lake to Brookfield. I did not paticipate in the full 3 day extravaganza, which included a trip to Iowa and a double rainbow, because I had Sunday night tickets to see Public Image Limited at the house of blues.

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It's been a busy several weeks at work. One of the things I do is write the detailed instructions of what we do when we install or retire any gas main in our system. This involves checking to make sure that the designed work orders don't have any nasty unforeseen consequences, and making sure that we maintain the integrity of the existing system ( Read more... )

Fuzzy and I are having a good time up at camp dogwood with rerun. It's been the first time for both of us camping in subfreezing temps, and that's been an adventure, although it's been going well. We picked up a small tent heater that does 7 hours off of one bottle of propane, and that's been just enough to take the edge off.

Rerun has been a ( Read more... )