Dirty stopout

Shhhh, shhh, shhhh. Be nice now, Bazzy.

I was being nice,

sarcastic


but still nice

Tsk, tsk, tsk.

Drove to Wales, hitting every bit of traffic I could find. Managed to borrow a desk in the only air conditioned office on the site.

Just killing time now till 6, then its off home for some food, i'm starving

Woke up to find my brother-in-law mowing the lawn again, so I played with my nephew for a while since he was here, too.

Now killing time until I can leave for my contract negotiation meeting, which is gonna be UGLY.

Same here exactly

and today is a momentious day


i have reached 2000 posts

Congratulations to you Baz. Good show, sir.

So...2000 posts and that's it?? Wahey!! But *smacksmack* "Dirty stopout" my *ss!!

I went to the gym this morning. And I am still recovering from the weekend. Man, are my legs sore.

Hey no smack smack at Baz! Me green with envy!

Harry Potter would get *smacksmacks* from me, too

But hey which one? Careful dear!

Went to my negotiation, which actually went a LOT better than anticipated. We basically got all the easy stuff out of the way and didn't even deal with the hard issues. Management is supposed to get us a proposal by lunch tomorrow, and then we have another meeting Wednesday morning.

My car still starts...but reluctantly. Oh yeah...that was the part I accidentally deleted last night... My car started on Sunday out of nowhere, no more clicking. But every time I start it, it grinds a little more before finally giving in. I have an appointment in the morning for diagnostics, which hopefully will reveal something stupid like a loose bolt and not something expensive.

And here I thought all the rumours about cars right after you pay them off were just old wives' tales...

A clicking sound would suggest the start motor, well it was in my case.

sweated,


a lot..

Trying to attempt at creating a draft of documents for the Open University Assignment and failed!

So retire for the night.....

negative.

Clicking and occasional cranking would suggest the starter SOLENOID.

Which, yeah, on a GM product, you might as well replace the whole damn starter, since it's bolted to it. But if you want to live dangerously you can replace just the solenoid.. then pray the motor doesn't go bad too...

Ugh. I feel ill. And stressed.

I'd better head off to watch the Calgary-Tampa game. Bring the Stanley Cup back to Canada!

Contemplated... The Larch.

realized it will probably be many years before I am able to take a shower or bath by myself again...

<my son started insisting he has to take a bath with me over the weekend>

determined that my new ISP's <roadrunner> newsgroup feed sucks SEVERE amounts of ass.

groups that I KNOW get several thousand posts a day, are showing only 200 posts, and no action in several days.

How's a guy supposed to get his pr0n on???

Woke up, noticed the poison ivy is spreading and severely irritated (must be scratching in my sleep) - decided NOT to go to the doctor!

Go to the doctor you stubborn fule.

fule = fool mule?

Close enough. Irish spelling and pronunciation.

Got up at dark-thirty only to realize I never made arrangements for a ride AWAY from the repair shop where I have to drop off the car this morning. Guess I'll have to swing by an ATM so I can spend $20 on a cab ride home.

Actually had breakfast, since I woke up hungry for some odd reason.

Confirmed for myself that the pollen levels are HIGH today, although I knew that when I felt like my face was stuffed with wet cotton. *sigh*

Had a great chat with a mod from this site. Very illuminating.

Now, I'm reserving judgment until I find out what's wrong with my car and how much it'll cost me to deal with it. BUT...they already get triple bonus points for driving me home, and offering to pick me up later, all at no cost. My house is nothing like anywhere near their shop.

(I'm trying a new place on the recommendation of the guy that did my body work in January, and who is doing my mom's body work even as I type.)

Spent 4 hours in a cool AC'd office in a meeting about photocopiers


then stepped outside for lunch into 32'C heat

so its a little warm today

Went and checked the mail. Network World. Whoppee. (slight sarcasm.)

Oh boy I can't wait to go home to tha cat of mine....

-continued fighting my laptop. Seems I got a copy of Sasser somehow, and am going roundybout with it. Of course, it's NOT being easy...

- remembered I have a Jeep club meeting tonight. Wonder if I'll forget between now and 7pm like I usually do?

- now listening to the rain and thunder, and wondering how fast the grass grows at teh new house, since I just cut it Sunday

-found out that even though Friday is a national day of mourning and federal employees and most contractors have the day off, my PE considers us "vital to the mission". So I get to come in Friday and sit in the lab and do nothing. :eyeroll: Getting tired of their being nothing to do in the lab every day. I've asked everyone upstream of me if there's anything to be done, and they all tell me to train. Shit, I can do that at home!

Woke up, did laundry, ate a doughnut, went to the gym.

Today's workout:

1a. Pushups with ball under legs
b. Backward-forward lunges
c. 45' single leg kick back
2. Run for 5 minutes
3a. Squat and torso rotation
b. Squats (12 lb)
c. Pull-ups (110 lb)
4. Run for 5 minutes
5. Crunches on ball
6. 3-level hamstrings

Its 90C outside and the aircon has packed up but only in helpdesk, everyone else has nice cool air

Got tired looking at Amanda's workout, considering a nap. Kidding.

Roger that Burner doesn't it half hard work looking at the list.....that Instructor must be from the Navy then?

No She's very good, though

Hmm lucky you!

Had a refreshing shower! Need it to cool down a bit!

Log on with clothes on!

Got a call for a job interview at Home Depot tomorrow.

Good luck Varth.

Holy crap!!!! 90C???????????????????????

Are your brains boiling inside your head?

(90 degrees Celsius equals 194 degrees Fahrenheit)



I've just found out it's my battery, and not anything else like the starter, or solenoid, or anything else. BUT...because the engine compartment of my car is so freaken STUPID and hard to deal with (the battery is under the windshield washer fluid reservoir, which is held in place by a strip of steel bolted to the frame), it's gonna cost me a whole pile of money.

Ok 90F it appears there are no brains in my head

I just got started on cleaning my keyboard.

What I need is some antiseptic and canned air. I guess I got most of the crumbs and hair out, but the keys are still kind of sticky

ROFL!! I figured, but I couldn't resist taking the easy one.

Watered, watered and more watering.

Planted about a dozen tomatoes, some peppers and some Dahalias.

Still sweating like a loon, just in shorts now, hoping it will cool down, its 22:20 and 22'C and humid still, we are supposed to get thunder storms, looks like we might get them during the night, just wehn i am trying to get to sleep. hopefully they will clear the air a bit....

Heh! That's nothing Baz me boy am at 24C and it 's half warm.....harvey is trying to find some cool place now bless him!

I feel sorry for our cat, poor things got a fur coat on,...