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25298. Ulgine Barrows - 5/8/2009 4:07:08 AM It could be going better. Actually I am working at the IRS, lowest of the lows in my career. The Clinton's return crossed the desk of the gal next to me, but I am unable to tell you what transpired. Since I am a sworn federal agent.
This building must have the largest population of overweight folks I have ever seen. People waddle along, or use canes. I guess I never really understood the jokes about government workers until I worked here.
I am actually quite pissed off that my tax money goes to paying some of these people. Forget wincing at these folks while they waddle along the halls on legs too thin to support their weight. The trickier ones get jet-ski things.
It's horrible. I hear their talk and if I would only become overweight and crippled, I could join them forever in their union. 25299. Ulgine Barrows - 5/8/2009 4:19:40 AM They also have a blind guy follow another guy, and repeat every coke he fills into the drink machine.
Which costs 1.50.
Most places I've worked, cokes cost no more than $1 25300. Ulgine Barrows - 5/8/2009 7:18:54 AM She came in through the bathroom window
Protected by a silver spoon
But now she sucks her thumb and wanders
By the banks of her own lagoon
Didn’t anybody tell her?
Didn’t anybody see?
Sunday’s on the phone to monday
Tuesday’s on the phone to me
She said she’d always been a dancer
She worked at 15 clubs a day
And though she thought I knew the answer
Well I knew what I could not say
And so I quit the police department
And got myself a steady job
And though she tried her best to help me
She could steal but she could not rob
Didn’t anybody tell her?
Didn’t anybody see?
Sunday’s on the phone to monday
Tuesday’s on the phone to me
Oh yeah 25301. Ulgine Barrows - 5/8/2009 7:20:27 AM good bye 25302. arkymalarky - 5/8/2009 1:46:40 PM Hey Mags, how's it going?
25303. judithathome - 5/9/2009 1:12:57 PM OK spill the beans Jud: what was the wine? For that price, I want a full review!
This is the humilating part: it was a California wine! A 2004 Lucas & Lewellen Petit Sirah...it was from a 400 case lot. That's all they made and we only paid $30 for the bottle but took it to a restaurant that had a $15 corkage fee. So I count THAT as spending $45 on it. (I'm cheating by including some tip money in the $55 cite...ha!)
I guess I've had more expensive wines before but we're just used to buying cheaper stuff...and certainly not paying some yahoo to OPEN it for us. The restaurant wine list was dreadful, though, so I'm glad we took our own.
The night I broke my leg a few years ago, I'd had half a glass of this $85 bottle the host had saved just for me but I only had a sip or two before the "fall" and the medics wouldn't let me finish it...plus I am used to $60 Perrier-Jouet champagne. But this stuff was the first pricey California wine I'd had. ;-)
25304. judithathome - 5/9/2009 1:19:36 PM Ulgine, I know what you're talking about re: overweight people. Here in Texas, I see them daily...and if you want to really be depressed, drive by a place that serves buffet-style food any day at noon and you see people lined up to shovel in more food...all they can eat. I feel so sorry forthose who are ruining their knees, hips...even if they magically lost all that weight, the damage is already done.
I know people have a hard time losing weight because it took me a year or more to lose 45 pounds. But it CAN be done...and one way is to cut out half the bread and pasta they eat. Just that one thing can lead to a gradual reduction in weight and relieve the stress on those bones.
Not a starvation diet...just a small adjustment: one piece of toast instead of 2...half a bagel instead of one. And so on.
25305. judithathome - 5/10/2009 7:05:38 PM Happy Mother's Day to all the Motie moms and grandmoms.
I had a special treat today: the rose bush my son gave me for Mother's Day last year bloomed today...one perfect bloom. It was like he was saying "Hi, Mom!" 25306. arkymalarky - 5/10/2009 7:11:20 PM Oh, how wonderful! Happy Mother's Day to you and all the other Mote Moms!
Mose's gift to me was getting her master's Friday. 25307. judithathome - 5/11/2009 3:38:12 PM Oh. My. God! That is fantastic!!
Send her our congratulations! 25308. wabbit - 5/11/2009 4:04:57 PM Congratulations to Mose! And a belated Happy Mother's Day to all moms! 25309. arkymalarky - 5/11/2009 10:27:02 PM Thanks! I'll pass the word and suggest she come in and read for herself! 25310. iiibbb - 5/23/2009 1:56:08 AM yes, i'm still alive 25311. arkymalarky - 5/23/2009 3:29:13 AM Hey! Give us an update when you can! 25312. judithathome - 5/25/2009 2:33:38 PM Arky, did you get torrential rains late yesterday afternoon? We got some for about half an hour...the rain fell straight down and was so heavy, I couldn't see the house across the street. 25313. wabbit - 5/25/2009 2:47:29 PM Not in your neck of the woods, JaH, but we had some serious rain and hail here yesterday afternoon. It's beautiful today. 25314. judithathome - 5/25/2009 5:15:21 PM Same here...gorgeous.
I figured Keoni would hit the golf course at dawn but instead, he's immersed in yard work. He's just discovered the joys of "hard wood mulch". 25315. arkymalarky - 5/25/2009 5:47:06 PM Hey Judith!
We didn't get that kind of rain, but a soaking day-long one. The ground is already saturated from the past rains and mosquitoes are awful. We're hoping the girls may get to see an alligator because we heard on the news that all the rains have them in more places. Oh, and they caught a bear in a tree on Henderson's campus the other day! 25316. judithathome - 5/25/2009 7:16:08 PM Oh wow...that's amazing! I wonder if he used the bridge! ha! 25317. alistairconnor - 5/26/2009 5:09:41 PM Hot as hell over here, I decided we would go big on tomatoes. Haven't had a serious vegetable garden in a couple of years, for psychological reasons, and we're going for broke... clearing the weeds, planting and watering. Also capsicums, aubergines and melons. Nothing may come of it, for example if I'm not home often enough to water everything...
I'm thinking we'll have a heatwave something like 2003.
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