Was attacked by a savage maltese puppy adopted by the woman who nominally owns pepper the world's friendliest cat. The puppy tried to follow me and woman lamented, wanting to know why all her animals do that. I mollified her by saying most animals do that with me (and they do ( Read more... )

I had to get up extra early and drag myself to the lab again. But they were busy, so I still wound up calling Supe to warn her I'd be late on medical grounds. No problem there, just a hassle. The RN who took me back warned me, very seriously, that lab fees had gone up by two cents. I answered, regretfully, that I should have used the forever lab. ( Read more... )

Yesterday was full of dogs. That's really the best way to put it. The weather was nice, people were working on their yards, everyone had company and all the dogs were out. Fortunately, they were all the friendly ones, in the sense that the barky ones all backed down when I warned them to leave me alone and that no, being louder wouldn't work. There ( Read more... )

The rainy season can end any time now, kthnx. There wasn't anything in the forecast about violent thunderstorms, but we had one. It tried to rain on me, but I foiled the storm's plans by zipping off to deliver an hour of driving off another route instead. I came back when it got sunny ( Read more... )

[sotto voce] Guys, Pirates has a sequel, and I'm not talking about the Disney movies. [/sotto ( Read more... )

Meh. It rained all day. Our newly elected shop steward quit after two weeks. Since he's well known as a slacker, I'm baffled why anyone even voted for him, because he probably only ran to see if everyone was so desperate they'd overlook the inevitable result. No one wants the job because in our office the union is basically a one man effort. Then ( Read more... )

Hm. Worked sixty hours last week. Work was mostly work, in the snow, then in the wind, then in the sun for a little bit ( Read more... )

Some brief and possibly unpopular opinions:

• Walking into a library always reminds me how neurotically paternalistic hand-holding fic headers are. I walk in and I see reference, media, adult, young adult and youth. They're organized by the over-all intent of the story more than content - I know from having read plenty of young adult fiction that ( Read more... )

I went in to work at 7am this morning, double-cased on route 13 (poorly, I imagine *waves to Curly*), and got back to the office at 6:30pm. I had to walk around in the dark with my stupid ass headlamp. I scared quite a few dogs. Even Buttercup the Pit Bull Terrier was momentarily taken aback, her eyes glowing green in the gloom, the jangle of her ( Read more... )

It took two weeks, the long way around, but 4000+ miles later, we're back. We drove 15 hours from Mississippi, straight back, through the rain the entire way. We were reminded that people who barely know how to drive forget how to drive at all when water falls from the sky and lands on the ground, when it took 1.5 hours to travel 40 miles due to ( Read more... )