May10

Exploding Head Day!

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Exploding Head Day!

Yes, it’s an ear infection.  Both ears.  And a sore throat.  Got a doctor’s appointment, got Cipro (I joked that I’d be prepared for anthrax, too!) and ear drops.  Owowow.

We were all ready for the plumber to come and fix the water main today.  Hubby filled the tub with water so we’d have something while the water was shut off.  I got the dishes cleaned up.  Plumber came, said he’d have to wait until Friday or Saturday to do it.  Sheesh.  At least he told us, instead of leaving us guessing, like the disappearing roofer.

I applied online to take the last test I need – an oral exam in Spanish.  I could go back to the Superintendent’s office and get the name, a half dozen phone numbers, date of birth, mother’s maiden name, first born child of a Proctor, or I could just drive up to Yonkers and speak Spanish for 30 minutes.  Yes, I’m going to Yonkers.  However, I’ll swing into Manhattan and do a little shopping and then have dinner with a friend on the same trip, so it’s all good.

So I decide, finally, that I have my prescription and I feel like crap, I’m going to lie down.  Pond guy calls, says he’ll be over in 30 minutes.  No nap for me.  But we know how to maintain the pond now.

Dinner is over, I’m just trying to stay awake long enough to sleep until it’s really, really time to get up instead of 4AM. 

Oh, and LaundryCam is back up, but I’ll change the refresh rate if I’m doing stuff, just to warn you. . .

May8

Various Stuff

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Various Stuff

I had all kinds of things I wanted to rant about, but I just don’t have it in me anymore. I was getting pissy about the Model School Nutrition Policy here in NJ, because the papers kept talking about “sugary snacks” not being allowed, which would do nothing to the vending machine selections, since sugar has all but been replaced by high fructose corn syrup. However, when I looked up the actual policy, it included hfcs. Burst my big self-righteous bubble. Sheesh.

I also wanted to rant about the federal funding being taken away from arms and armor for ground troops and re-routed (by some legislators whose home districts would benefit financially) to an unproven aircraft that wouldn’t be delivered until 2007 at the earliest. However, to rant properly, I’d have to look up the links to the legislation, the history of the aircraft, the Senators’ home pages, and the fields where hundreds of thousands of aircraft and ground craft sit, unused, paid for by you and me. And I just didn’t feel like searching for all that, so you’ll have to take my word, for now, that I have something valid to be pissy about.

There was something else, too, but it must not have made me that pissy, since I forget what it was. Oh, it was the “Buy American” thing again, but I’ll put that up by itself. No, it wasn’t that, it was something else. Darn it.