Smarmy

Posted on October 21, 2005 by Frog

I know this is not shocking news, but isn’t Donald Trump one smarmy MF? I don’t watch his show and I don’t watch Martha’s riff on his show. In fact, I don’t watch reality TV…I know the world is filled with morons, I don’t need to watch them on TV.

What I can’t stand is the fact that Donald was all hype and good will back in the summer when Martha’s riff on his show was announced. Now that those ratings are in the toilet he’s slamming her to anyone who will listen. I bet he has lots of really close friends. Or Not. I have a brilliant idea Donald, why don’t you go back to 1983 and stay there? The hair, the young wife, the so-called empire–whatever, dude.

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I Put You in my Shopping Cart Right Next to a Box of Oatmeal

Posted on October 20, 2005 by Frog

I’ve been assigned two courses where I’m the primary developer and both courses are officially On Hold. I hope I don’t get a reputation as The Course Killer. I’m currently reading eight courses to decide if any parts can be moved to an electronic format. All of them are currently viable classroom classes so they won’t get the automatic kiss of death from me. I did make a note yesterday that one “seems like a weak course”. I wonder what the appropriate dress is for a course funeral?

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The Continuing Saga of the Alarm

Posted on October 20, 2005 by Frog

I unlocked the office door this morning and the alarm started chirping. Thankfully I didn’t curse which would be my normal reaction since I thought someone was already here and the alarm should be disabled already. My co-worker was standing right there at the alarm. The alarm had been going off for about 20 minutes. She’d been stuck at the panel trying to turn it off and had already talked to the alarm company several times. Of course, when I came in, I tripped the alarm again. Good Morning Neighbors! Hope you weren’t trying to sleep late. No wonder your rent is so cheap you’re next door to the people who have problems with their alarm.

Campus police showed up and the officer walked around with me while I opened and re-locked all the back doors–we have 3 of them. We concluded there is a ghost in the wiring and the officer left. Although when I mentioned I didn’t want to walk down in the basement (no door down there anyway), the officer didn’t say he’d go down there with me. He wished us a good day and left. So far, no boogeymen.

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Licking Envelopes

Posted on October 17, 2005 by Frog

I just finished paying a couple of bills and licked the envelopes shut.* I’m getting over a cold and I just licked the envelopes. Those envelopes are now slathered in germs. I know germs only live so long in the world, but it made me think about what other people may use to seal envelopes and I was a little grossed out.

*Yes, we still pay some bills the old fashioned way.

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E Equals MC Squared

Posted on October 16, 2005 by Frog

The better-half and I watched this last night (I know, we’re wild and crazy on the weekends) and it was better than good. If you can catch it on a repeat showing, I highly recommend it.

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Nothin’ but blue skies do I see

Posted on October 15, 2005 by Frog

The sun is out and the sky is blue. That’s major news around here. We went from no rain to rain and then drizzle for a week. The grass which had turned crackly and brown has rebounded and is once again leggy and brilliant green. If the trees could just start losing their leaves, it would start looking a bit more like Fall. At least the temperatures have moderated.

Yesterday I left work early because Typhoid Mary did, in fact, pass her cold on to me. When I told her I was leaving yesterday she looked surprised that I said she had successfully passed her cold on and that she should feel better by the end of the day. She wondered if I was experiencing problems with sinus pressure. She’s one of those Boomers who likes to take the credit for a job well done but passes the buck when the job involves gobs of snot.

Last night I watched The Haunting. I’ve seen it before and it creeped me out again. It is one of the best horror movies ever. Psychological and loud bumps in the night. It was on Turner Classic Movies On Demand so the movie was framed by Robert Osbourne. He has a magnificent voice.

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Could It Just Be The Weekend Already?

Posted on October 13, 2005 by Frog

This has been one long week. Remember back in school Thursday nights brought in some of the best parties? I could use that about now. Instead we’re going to run a couple of errands and then have dinner at a place that has turned their October menu over to Oktoberfest. The better-half went there last week and has just stopped talking about the sauerbraten. I wonder what will be his fancy tonight.

Tomorrow night the better-half is going out with some friends so it will be me, the couch, the remote and a bowl of popcorn. I’m hoping for a spooky movie. Something from the era when movies were shot in black & white, sound and music effects were what’s creepy and gore shots were non-existent.

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Typhoid Mary

Posted on October 12, 2005 by Frog

I sit next to Typhoid Mary. I’ve worked here since March and this person is sick at the drop of a hat–seriously she’s been sick at least three times since March. And, she’s one of those people who apparently doesn’t take anything OTC because she sniffles and sighs all day long. Oh the sighing. The sighing is about to kill me.

As a bit of self-disclosure, I have allergies that are with me all year long. I’m a little more allergic at different times but for the most part I can count on having to blow my nose frequently. The crazy and wacky thing I do though is I take something for the runny nose and the whole breathing thing. I don’t sniffle and sigh all day. Did I mention the sighing?

Go home already.

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Better Than Silk

Posted on October 10, 2005 by Frog

Today Leon’s fur feels especially luxuriant. I don’t really know why the texture of his hair changes but it does. He mostly eats the same darn food over and over again so I doubt the change is dietary. Perhaps he’s been really good about cleaning today or it is the cool crisp air. Anyway, he’s so soft and he knows it. He won’t stop coming back for the lovin’ and I won’t stop petting him.

We didn’t do any of the cool things we thought about doing over the weekend, but we did get the room the better-half uses as a home office cleaned up and looking a little less like a sh*tstorm. Some day we’ll (we meaning me) paint in there and then it really will be done. I watched nearly all of Fried Green Tomatoes on Saturday even though the length of and the sheer number of commercials was staggering. As embarrassing as it is to admit that movie always gets to me.

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Numbers Game

Posted on October 8, 2005 by Frog

There’s a house for sale in our neighborhood that is very much like ours. The other house is siding, ours is brick, they have a full bath downstairs and we have a half. They have a paved driveway and we have gravel. Otherwise pretty close to the same house. The other house is 2 years older than ours. Because I need to know things, I looked up the house on the internet and lo! They are asking about 79K more than we paid for our house in December of 2004. If they get that price, I’ll be amazed but pleased.

We just looked at our 10 day forecast and what is up with the high 70s, low 80s? Dude, it is the middle of freaking October. Enough with the heat already.

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