The sun is shining, the temps are up, the garden is growing, the chickens are happy and life is good… outside. Unfortunately I’m stuck inside at my deck wishing I was home and outside. Damn! Who came up the idea of work anyway?
Of course on wet and miserable days I don’t mind working inside, or on those hot and humid day. We have so few really exceptional days that I feel staying inside for them is just plain offensive. I’m in search of a car at this very moment so can do some site visits on some of my projects. I won’t even have to carry along my wet gear, just my sunglasses.
I’m in the market for a new warm weather drink. Yesterday I went to lunch with a coworker and she ordered an Arnold Palmer. I was a little taken aback thinking she was drinking during work hours, and she is so not the type to do that. Apparently an Arnold Palmer is half ice tea and half lemonade. Doesn’t that sound lovely? I’m going to mix up a batch this weekend with some good tea, and maybe even splash in a bit of something more potent. I’ll be on the patio if anyone wants to come try it out with me.
Just got back from vacation recently and I thought I should let you all know that my trips through the Kansas City Airport were a great improvement over my previous trip. I made it through without a single meltdown.
Time with the grandkids was awesome!! They’re brilliant, and amazing, and totally wonderful!! I wish I could have packed them all up and brought them home with me.
My daughter is so brave. I don’t think I could what she is doing. Starting college again, with two very small children while here husband is deployed and having no one close by that she knows well. She just makes me so proud! I wish she was closer, or that I could be there more often to help out.
I was driving down the road the other day when I saw one of those things that just make you scratch your head and say, what were they thinking? There is a road side business with a sign out front, and erected next to the business is a big billboard. Now these two signs were stacked on in front of the other, so the first is for the business and says, “XXX Adult Videos”, the billboard is for the Boys and Girls Club and giant letters is says, “Be passionate!” I nearly wreck the car for laughing.
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Friday, May 14, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Winter rant and finger prints
This will be my winter rant, hopefully not to be repeated again until next year, in hopefully a different and even more entertaining form.
The Pacific Northwest has a particularly dreary form of winter. The world is encased in a thousand shades of damp grey. At times it’s like your looking out the window at the ghost of the world, not quite the real thing. When the fog settles with an icy bite, it will feel like the world is collapsing in on you.
As if the grey and wet aren’t enough, let’s add a little light deprivation into the mix. Our days are short, really short. I get to work in the dark and go home in the dark. It’s like living on a vampire’s schedule, and we’re not talking a sexy hip vampire lifestyle! This is more the old grandma vampire lifestyle. We’re all cranky and likely to bite!
We’re more than a little desperate for some sun. Of course when it comes we will all be blinded by the light, just like mole people. It’s a wonder any of us can see at all moving between two extremes: sun all summer and no sun all winter. In the summer we have sunglasses, and this part of the country buys more of them than anywhere else. But, I’m thinking what we need are glasses that block out the gloom in the winter. Where are the really useful scientific breakthroughs when you need them?
Another thing that needs developing are finger print readers for computers. How lame is it that we are all trying to remember so damn many logins and passwords? What we need to be using are finger prints. We all have them, and it’s not like we’re going to forget them anywhere. You either have the right finger print or you don’t.
Question: I you your finger across the pad, will a finger print reader still read your fingerprint? Do you have to wait for it to heal? Will a new scar foil the system? Just asking!
The Pacific Northwest has a particularly dreary form of winter. The world is encased in a thousand shades of damp grey. At times it’s like your looking out the window at the ghost of the world, not quite the real thing. When the fog settles with an icy bite, it will feel like the world is collapsing in on you.
As if the grey and wet aren’t enough, let’s add a little light deprivation into the mix. Our days are short, really short. I get to work in the dark and go home in the dark. It’s like living on a vampire’s schedule, and we’re not talking a sexy hip vampire lifestyle! This is more the old grandma vampire lifestyle. We’re all cranky and likely to bite!
We’re more than a little desperate for some sun. Of course when it comes we will all be blinded by the light, just like mole people. It’s a wonder any of us can see at all moving between two extremes: sun all summer and no sun all winter. In the summer we have sunglasses, and this part of the country buys more of them than anywhere else. But, I’m thinking what we need are glasses that block out the gloom in the winter. Where are the really useful scientific breakthroughs when you need them?
Another thing that needs developing are finger print readers for computers. How lame is it that we are all trying to remember so damn many logins and passwords? What we need to be using are finger prints. We all have them, and it’s not like we’re going to forget them anywhere. You either have the right finger print or you don’t.
Question: I you your finger across the pad, will a finger print reader still read your fingerprint? Do you have to wait for it to heal? Will a new scar foil the system? Just asking!
Friday, November 13, 2009
Leafing along in the Northwest
I haven’t written in awhile, and that was brought home to me at a gathering on Wednesday evening where a few people mentioned my lapse. So I’ve decided to take keyboard in hand and log an entry in the ole blog.
Trees have been my life lately, at work and off work. At work I talk to citizens about which tree they want planted in the stormwater facility on their street, whether they want a tree in the facility, how and why we are trimming the trees in their neighborhood, why we are cutting trees, and how lateral sewer connections affect their tree roots. I should be a frick’in arborist! Yesterday afternoon we had our quarterly get together offsite, to do brainstorming. Guess what one of the topics was…that’s right, TREES. To be specific, how to get more people to plant street trees.
At home my interaction with trees is less stressful, it involves watching leaves change color, and observing how they tumble and dance around in the wind. I love fall in the northwest! The color is inspiring, and uplifting to the spirits. There are a few downsides to them though. For one, there is the raking, and two, the slipping and falling when they get wet and begin to decompose. With the amount of rain we get this time of year leaves can be problematic, but I love them anyway.
Speaking of weather, we have officially entered the rainy season, which means we will experience precipitation in one form or another pretty much every day from now until June. This situation is the main reason more sunglasses are sold in the northwest than in any other part of the country. We are all so light deprived that the smallest amount of sun will blind us.
This weather is also the reason that almost everyone keeps multiple pairs of shoes under their desk at work. I personally have a pair of closed clogs, a pair of open clogs, a pair of lace-up leather shoes, and two pairs of boots. You never know what you will need to get through a day. In fact, I need to go shoe shopping for some new commuter shoes that will keep me from tripping on all the leaves. So I’ll leaf you now to embark on other duties. (I know, it’s a real groaner!)
Trees have been my life lately, at work and off work. At work I talk to citizens about which tree they want planted in the stormwater facility on their street, whether they want a tree in the facility, how and why we are trimming the trees in their neighborhood, why we are cutting trees, and how lateral sewer connections affect their tree roots. I should be a frick’in arborist! Yesterday afternoon we had our quarterly get together offsite, to do brainstorming. Guess what one of the topics was…that’s right, TREES. To be specific, how to get more people to plant street trees.
At home my interaction with trees is less stressful, it involves watching leaves change color, and observing how they tumble and dance around in the wind. I love fall in the northwest! The color is inspiring, and uplifting to the spirits. There are a few downsides to them though. For one, there is the raking, and two, the slipping and falling when they get wet and begin to decompose. With the amount of rain we get this time of year leaves can be problematic, but I love them anyway.
Speaking of weather, we have officially entered the rainy season, which means we will experience precipitation in one form or another pretty much every day from now until June. This situation is the main reason more sunglasses are sold in the northwest than in any other part of the country. We are all so light deprived that the smallest amount of sun will blind us.
This weather is also the reason that almost everyone keeps multiple pairs of shoes under their desk at work. I personally have a pair of closed clogs, a pair of open clogs, a pair of lace-up leather shoes, and two pairs of boots. You never know what you will need to get through a day. In fact, I need to go shoe shopping for some new commuter shoes that will keep me from tripping on all the leaves. So I’ll leaf you now to embark on other duties. (I know, it’s a real groaner!)
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