This morning I got a glimpse of what probably makes retirement so great.

The nightly routine is that I have to get up every 3-4 hours to pee.  At 3AM I got up, and then could not fall asleep again.  I don't think I can blame the baby outright, but she did start up what I like to call the "I must be pregnant with baby snakes" routine.  Unidentified ( Read more... )

I have to say that the contest was a big time disappointment, and not just because my pie didn't place.  We got no feedback of any kind about our pies, nor any indication of what the criteria was.   I'm not sure they were evaluated for appearance either.  The pies were kept covered up and the judges did not do the slicing.

The only thing I could ( Read more... )

Today at work we were having a lively discussion about pie preparation, and the subject of our venting patterns came up.

I decided that Trogdor the Burninator would probably make for a good venting design:


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I'm entering an apple pie in a pie baking contest this weekend at a fair down the road from my house.   I would describe my cooking as average at best, but I feel pretty good about the pies I bake ( Read more... )

I had the very best of intentions when I got myself to bed with lights out at 9PM.  The plan was to get up sometime before 7AM (which has been the norm whether I like it or not) and go to work a little bit earlier today, while still getting the sleep I need ( Read more... )

These are happy gestational times for me:

The baby's moving around alot, but not kicking the crap out of me in a painful way.

I'm obviously pregnant enough that people know that's what's going on, as opposed to wondering if I've gone back to college full time and am washing down 3 Big Macs with a 12 pack of beer every night.

Sure it's already kind ( Read more... )

There's no better way to impress prospective employers than by filing a frivolous lawsuit that egregiously flaunts your impatience, ill-gotten sense of entitlement, mediocre credentials, and poor grammar.

Atta girl!

1st ultrasound this morning!  I'll start chugging the requisite water in an hour or so.

I have to continually laugh at myself at the genuine surprise I experience when I notice changes taking place in my body.  It's not that I didn't know these things were going to happen - it's that I can't help but feel something along the lines of but I didn't ( Read more... )

I was just commenting to Tim yesterday about hey, isn't it great that we live in such an innocuous part of the country, and that if the shit ever hit the fan globally, there are so many remote places to flee to, but who would really bother to target Western New York anyway?

Well.  It turns out we're sitting on half of the world's radium supply.  And ( Read more... )

Why oh why do I read the 'news'?  OK well I suppose we're not very busy at the Day Job right now, and it helps pass some of the time.  It's probably time to start learning another programming language or something ( Read more... )