The Prof has started his sabbatical and is beginning to take classes at Big-Self-Important-Ivy-League University. Heâll also be taking some classes at Smaller-Less-Important-But-Still-Snooty Big City University in another week, when their semester begins. Between his preparations to re-enter the world of higher education from the other side of the mirror and his recent travelling, it…
I have a living room that I never use. Its design is fairly formal. You step down about six inches into it, and while it is completely open to the dining room, it is divided from the dining room by two pillars and a railing to either side of the pillars. The picture shows the…
OK, first off I need to vent about Word 2007. Why in the world did Microsoft feel the need to reinvent the wheel? And if the wheel really did need reinventing, why, oh why did they decide to make it trapezoidal? My PC crashed a very final, fatal crash about six weeks ago. While I…
I was doing well before I was hospitalized, but I seem to have lost my drive since my discharge from Big City Hospital. I’ve only spent a handful of hours looking for a job. I have come to the point that I don’t know what I want to do anymore. I know what I don’t…
I mentioned a few episodes ago that the Little Grey Shit has been diagnosed with feline triad syndrome (pancreatitis, cholehepatitis, colitis). We caught it early, and it’s been pretty responsive to steroids, Flagyl and Ursodiol (which thins the bile, helping the bile empty from the liver and gallbladder to prevent inflammation). Steroids tend to give…
Yahoo!*Hot*jobs. JuJu . SimplyHired. Monster.com. USA Jobs. I know âem all, and a few score others. You can spend hours bouncing like a ping-pong ball from site to site, looking for that elusive will o’ the wisp job. The closest thing Iâve come to finding that fits my desires and skill sets is located in…
Just got home from the hospital last night. Diagnosis: Severe gastroenteritis of unknown bacterial cause, responsive to Amoxicillin; Cellulitis of unknown origin (probably related to gastroenteritis), also responsive to Amoxicillin. As The Prof says, the things I do to get attention. I was with Dr. Roo at our favorite meeting spot Saturday, getting ready to…
It’s been exactly two weeks today. Ex-work screwed up last week and neglected to direct deposit my final week’s worth of earned pay into my savings account. Apparently the 71+ hours of accrued PTO I had was also supposed to be direct deposited but that too didn’t make it. Both should go in today. My…
Right you are, WA. To be honest, I didn’t recognize the comment as a troll’s till you put me onto it. I just thought it was some stupid kid who was used to soaking off of Mom and Dad and didn’t have a clue as to the realities of adult life and the honor in…
Things are like that because I choose to be self-sufficient. If I can’t do it on my own, then I have no business doing it. By mutual agreement we have our own bank accounts, pay our own bills, split mutual costs like mortgage and utilities down the middle, and otherwise maintain what is the individual’s…