Leopard kitten : A one-week-old Leopard cat (Felis bengalensis) (L) sits beside her mother (R) at the Assam State Zoo in Guwahati. Leopard cats, which were once found abundantly in the hills of northeastern India, are now heading for extinction due to hunting and deforestation, while the zoo is attempting to preseve the species through captive breeding. (AFP)
Only ate half their breakfast today, leaving me wondering all day long what is wrong with them…
Happy Hour, Sleep, Party, Sleep, Mini Golf, Putz about the house, Sleep.
That’s the short version. We have a great time celebrating
Found a quilt show that I will be trying to get to the first week in October - it’s just down in Woodbridge and runs the whole weekend. I need to get off my backside and do some more blocks. I’ve got more time now and I should be putting it to better use.
I also need to find my damn ammo can of beads. How on earth do you misplace a 50 caliber ammo canister??
Congratulations to Kaiti for getting her pilots license!! Had a good time at Murphy’s last night celebrating, and I’ve got the effed up voice to prove it today. :)
a tad early, but these made me howl…
http://fridayfive.org/index.php?id=P40
1. What housekeeping chore(s) do you hate doing the most?
Pretty much all of them.
2. Are there any that you like or don’t mind doing?
Laundry doesn’t bother me much.
3. Do you have a routine throughout the week or just clean as it’s needed?
No routines. Need them, haven’t found them yet.
4. Do you have any odd cleaning/housekeeping quirks or rules?
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
5. What was the last thing you cleaned?
Me.
Global Rich List - Link courtesy of
So, I’m pretty much just chilling out tonight, and frankly wondering if there is any beer down in the fridge. For some reason, I am thinking no. Tomorrow’s lunch has been assembled and tonight’s dinner is heating up. I’ve decided to take the night off from laundry.
So, tomorrow is payday - YAY. Couple small bills and the rest to savings. Until the next payday when all the other bills are due, LOL.
Well, I’m obviously a slow typist this evening, since dinner has already been heated up, eaten, and the leftovers put away…
Queuing software/server it was on went down for 3 hours today. So, we’re routing calls via email and yellow stickies. Fortunately, things were relatively slow.
Dealt with a couple of clients that I never want to deal with again. Not heinously awful people, I just don’t want to deal with them again. :-D
First is always mucking about with exceptionally complicated stuff, doesn’t know what she’s doing and then gets pissed at us when she breaks it. I should have known better than to call her, cause her stuff is NEVER simple or straightforward, but it was in the midst of the server being down and it just didn’t register in my brain. (Usually it’s something along the lines of “Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!” when I see her name, LOL!)
Second started by saying she knew “absolutely nothing” about the module we were discussing, and the proceeded to tell me she was SURE it wasn’t a setup issue. I finally convinced her to print out the setups and start reviewing them. I doubt she actually did it, though. I actually talked to one of her underlings this morning on the same issue, with the same advice. “Sit down and go through the setup with a fine toothed comb.” Which he obviously didn’t do either.
Then I have another client who is passing around my direct number to other people in the company. (I’m flattered, but they’re smack in the middle of a conversion and 9 times out of 10 I have to tell her to call her consultant, this is out of scope for us.)
I think I am going to have to change my voicemail. “Hi, this is
One of our other groups has a client that gave out our support number to their employees as part of their new employee package. When you have a problem w/ the software, you call your SysAdmin first. Only after that do you call us. You can’t call us and say, “I use the software through the web and my internet connection seems to not be working” We can’t really help you there…
If you were to read our IM’s in the office, you’d think we were some of the meanest people on the planet with the absolute WORST attitudes anywhere. But really, we’re not. We manage to find humor in pretty much every single situation and that’s how we keep from yelling at clients. I still like it.
Looks to be a semi-quiet weekend. A HH for
Eight-week-old Snow Leopard cub Binu gets a wash from her mother, Yasmin, in her enclosure at Marwell Zoo in Hampshire, England, Tuesday, Sept 2, 2003. The Snow Leopards are part of the European Endangered Species Breeding Programme because the natural habitat of big cats in the mountains of central Asia, and Nepal are being destroyed. (AP Photo/PA, Chris Ison)
I had to lock the little buggers out in the hall again this morning. They’re good cats, but when they want breakfast, look out…
Unfortunately, I also feel like I slept on rocks last night…
this afternoon was my office as our internet broke.
Apparently, something went wrong w/ the firewall - they told us the vendor has a 4 hour window in which he has to fix it/get us a new firewall/whatever. Which is very cool - but then I couldn’t help but wonder…
How many times have you been able to get what you needed at the emergency room in less than 4 hours?
Just one of those random thoughts that hit me.
…are great when they keep you from oversleeping. However, when they decide to go off early and don’t have a snooze button, they can be a major PITA whilst trashing your last hour of sleep.
Back to school hasn’t meant anything to me personally since 1993 except increased traffic. So, I have no idea why I still get all bummed out when the summer is over. Maybe it’s just cause I haven’t actually gone anywhere over the summer in a few years, and I feel like I didn’t do enough, or something. Who knows.
Got my first out of the blue weird comment in my LJ today, informing me that zoos are bad. Alrighty, then…
I’m still going to post nifty Yahoo pics when I stumble on ‘em, so deal…
I’m really glad it’s a short week - ran about too much this weekend and just still not quite up to the whole “work” thing just yet.
A two week-old cheetah cub ventures out of its cage at the Nairobi Animal Orphanage at the Kenya Wildlife Service headquarters, September 1, 2003. This cub, one of three cubs that were found wandering around without their parents at Kenya’s Tsavo East national park, is being cared for at the center. REUTERS/Patrick Olum
Two week-old cheetah cubs are presented to the media during a briefing at the Nairobi Animal Orphanage at the Kenya Wildlife Service headquarters, September 1, 2003. The cubs that were found wandering around without their parents at Kenya’s Tsavo East national park are being cared for at the center. REUTERS/Patrick Olum
and Goodbye to summer. Have to say, this summer has completely sucked rocks in the weather department.
Got the low down on little bro’s trip to San Francisco last night - they had an awesome time, and now it’s on my very long list of places to go and things to do.
We topped off the summer with a trip over to Roosevelt Island and lunch at the Four Seasons, followed by an excellent nap. The island is a great place to go for a walk and dog friendly to boot. The weather held off until about 2 minutes after I got home this evening.
Despite the less than ideal weather, it’s been a good summer. Hit some fairs, got out to the hinterlands on a few occasions, and generally had a good time. Do wish that I could have really gotten away for a bit, but there is Charleston in November and there will be something next summer.
No fate but the fate you make for yourself.
