It was reunion weekend, definitely. Especially interesting for me, since every other year I get two reunions in one weekend and the timing can get way too interesting. My family's was in Hannibal, himself's in northern Illinois, and getting between the two in a timely fashion is always fun and interesting ( Read more... )

So, himself banged into the house, shouting for me to come outside. And I'm thinking that he blew up the car, or something along those lines, right? So I go outside and the car isn't on fire (always a plus) and he spins me back to face the house. And... behind the house was a full rainbow. Complete half circle (with one of the bases going into ( Read more... )

Is to have the realization of how much some people left undone before they left work for a week. That's due "like now" on top of everything else. And it's all stuff that wouldn't have taken too long to do... Of course, all of it at once takes much longer.*sigh ( Read more... )

...I hurt...

Having talked to the doc, I have charming news. He thinks that I've permanently lost stretch in my right hand. I have assigned exercises to try and stretch it, with no guarantees on if they'll work. And piano is definitely out, since I can't even stretch an octave at the moment ( Read more... )

I've realized that running a big game, the internet, music, Word and Excel is just a little too much for my computer... It made this interesting flicker between the desktop and the blue screen of death, and then hung most wonderfully. I guess I should have shut the game instead of just pausing it when the work came in? That probably would ahve been ( Read more... )

Work schedules that are completely unpredictable are not fun. At all. And play havoc with trying to get anything done or plan things. I can't wait until this set turn is over ( Read more... )

Don't really know what's wrong with me - I've been to the doctor, and he's tested anything I've been known to have in the past, plus what feels like a bazillion more syndromes (at least, he drew enough blood for a bazillion) and he's clueless. No idea. Not that this is surprising - I havent' had a really good doctor since I left my original behind ( Read more... )

So... having returned from an extensively long weekend, I've learned a couple of things. Like - I'm an urban peep. I can live in small towns - the middle of nowhere, even - but there has to be a city somewhere within a reasonable distance. And "city" is defined as a area (city+burbs) in excess of 80K people. And a reasonable distance is not much ( Read more... )

We have this safety bingo at work, right? It's supposed to increase our awareness, and it's held during our weekly meeting (thereby ensuring that people actually show up) and someone wins about once a month. And I routinely give our poor safety guy smack for giving me a crummy card - at best, I might get four numbers that are completely randomly ( Read more... )