Wednesday, March 30, 2005moving
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posted @ 03:45 PM EST [link] [1 Comment]
i guess i didn't knock on wood...
I never should have contemplated how lucky I was to have not caught my typical ‘early spring cold’ because within 4 days of that contemplation, I woke up with a sore throat, a stuffy head and the whole enchilada of a cold. How damn lucky is that?
This of course on a day I was supposed to go to an evening meeting, which doesn’t look like it’s going to happen unless by some miracle, this cold only lasts about 4 hours. Somehow, that just doesn’t seem likely.
I admit it, I’m a terrible sick person – I’m whiny and bitchy and I just want to be left alone. However this earns me pity points in the office because ‘look, Jeff is working hard even though he’s sick,’ and in my quest to make Annoying Coworker look as bad as possible, that’s a plus.
Ugh…that about sums up my feelings for the rest of the day…
I’m considering upgrading the software running the blog, so things may be changing from time to time as I try stuff out.
posted @ 09:19 AM EST [link] Tuesday, March 29, 2005what pavement...
Moe and I were on a roll last night. We had gone out to go grocery shopping after we both got home from work and on the way we were like “we should eat out…” Neither of us were really in the mood to cook after we went shopping. We ended up at Subway and as we were walking to the Subway, we walked by a new discount hair place and it was empty so I was like “we should get our hair cut, it couldn’t be worse than the place we usually get our hair cut.” We ate our sandwiches at Subway and headed over to the hairdresser where the two women that were working literally jumped up and ran over to us because I guess there had been so few customers.
A plus for these hairdressers, neither was so fat that I could feel their fat leaning on me while they were cutting my hair (a hazard of the old place).
Not that my haircut is ever fancy or anything, it’s shaving the sides and trimming the top for all intents and purposes, but she did a good job and I think I just might have found a new place to get my hair cut.
The trip to the grocery store paled in comparison to the new haircuts.
After driving the southern half of 495 yesterday I have to wonder if MassHighway even realizes it’s supposed to take care of the highway. The southbound side looks as if it’s been abandoned for 15 years. The pavement (well a good part of it is concrete) is cracked, broken, and in some places missing. Driving the highway isn’t just cruising along, it’s like being in a video game trying to avoid all the dangers that the roadway is throwing at you. Man, it was just a mess. Don’t even start on the local roads, I was out last night and there’s literally sections of road that have just disintegrated.
posted @ 08:59 AM EST [link] Monday, March 28, 2005back...
Made it back from Easter in NY. The only bump in the road was a huge traffic jam on 84 just before it hit the Pike. The traffic was backed up from the CT/MA line at least to the Pike. I got off in Sturbridge and tootled my way across the bottom of MA - somehow we made it home, after swinging down and through the very northeastern corner of CT.
My folks decided to celebrate my birthday early since I'm not sure I'll be down before then, so I came back with a new photo printer and a new fleece vest (yes, another jacket).
It was a monsoon today when I went out to the Cape for work...terrible driving weather.
posted @ 05:01 PM EST [link] Friday, March 25, 2005holiday disaster mode approaching...
There wasn’t a plan this year to go to my parents’ house for Easter, especially after I told them I wasn’t going to be coming down. But Moe pipes up a week or two ago, “so are we going to NY for Easter?” So now my Mom I imagine is in full holiday mode, cleaning the house, yelling at my Father and Brother, and making enough food to feed the entire Russian army, even though only Moe and I are visiting for Easter.
The weekend is complicated by the fact that Moe has to work Saturday morning, so we won’t be leaving until 3 at the earliest, which puts us in NY sometime between 5:30 and 6 depending on traffic. We then are going out to dinner at a ‘fine restaurant,’ (their words, not mine) to celebrate my birthday, which is still almost a month off. I told them to make sure the reservations are somewhat late in case we get a late start or there’s a lot of traffic.
Somehow, the reservation will be too early and chaos will ensue.
I can already see Sunday too – my friend John and his fiancée are up, from NYC so Moe and I are planning on visiting them and probably getting breakfast or something with them. This will turn into a huge fiasco when it comes to my family planning Easter dinner because “we won’t know when we should eat.”
After much arguing Moe and I will go have breakfast and we will come home to my family stressing out over the meal, even though we’re not going to eat for several hours.
Moe and I will then end up cooking.
We will eat ham and everything else until we can’t get up from the table (well, I don’t like ham that much) and we will then help clean up and pack to leave.
I’ve already told my Mom I have a meeting on the Cape on Monday, so I won’t have to get up quite so early, so I’m not that worried about leaving early on Sunday night. However, she will still feel that we should be on the road no later than 6, because otherwise it will be “too late” when we get home.
Yes, wish me luck.
posted @ 08:00 AM EST [link] Thursday, March 24, 2005you didn't just ask that, did you?
The messy mix of snow and rain here in Boston wasn’t unfortunately enough to keep me at home. I woke up to all snow this morning, but beyond about 4 inches on the ground and a bit of slush on the roads and other paved surfaces, it wasn’t bad enough to rise to the level of me not bothering to come into work. Though on the drive in, it was snowing quite hard – hard enough for me to have my wipers on. I guess that it was above freezing though, since it wasn’t accumulating on the roads.
I had kind of look forward to the possibility of a snow induced day-off, though I hadn’t really planned on it. After making a big turkey breast last night, I did make myself a turkey sandwich for lunch today – so I guess I expected to be here.
By the time we sat down to dinner last night, we got sucked into the almost ever-present Law & Order saga that seems to be on every other channel most evenings. I didn’t know that the blond assistant DA that was on Law & Order SVU had to fake her death and enter into the witness protection program so that she wouldn’t be killed by the Columbian drug cartel. See what you learn when there’s six hours a day of Law & Order on.
Annoying Coworker has already pissed me off today. I come in and about 15 minutes later she starts asking me what CEQ stands for. I stand up and walk over and I’m like “what are you asking,” and she points out where she saw CEQ and I was like “you little (well, literally it would be big) bitch.” She reading environmental regulation handbooks and was seeing references to the CEQ regulations, which really are just the implementing regulations. So my response was “well, those are just regulatory references, but you shouldn’t even be bothering yourself with that since I’ll be handling all the environmental issues, in any project.” That flustered her a bit because she didn’t know what to say to me.
She’s trying to position herself to look better when she puts in her resume for our boss’ old position. Not that I don’t mind some good natured competition, but the bitch is going to go down and it won’t even take me competing against her – everyone here hates her and the thought that she’s going to apply for the job is making everyone laugh their ass off.
I can feel that competitive drive to destroy the opponent building and I don’t want to get like that, even though I hate her. It’s just I see her doing something like this and I want to go all out. The thing though is that I don’t have to. No one is giving her even a first thought and while I’ve never said I am going to apply or want the job, everyone in the office and everyone we work with just seem to assume that I’ll get it. But I don’t want to jinx myself either by resting on that, I want to make sure I look as good as possible and I want to make sure she has no chance in hell of even coming close to anything.
It’s that Aries’ competitive spirit I guess…
posted @ 08:36 AM EST [link]Wednesday, March 23, 2005early who?
At dinner last night we were early enough to indulge in the early bird specials, I wasn’t sure if I should feel happy that I was saving money, or if I should feel really, really old. Though I think it’s all a scam since after enjoying the discounted special, we got desert, which we normally don’t, so the costs of each meal were back to what they would have been if we had been ordering off the regular menu.
It appears that the morning show on Kiss 108 here in Boston is wilder than I thought. The host was reading an email criticizing him and I guess it got him worked up because he starts going “I can’t stand this, I can’t believe these fucking people...” and as soon as the ‘fucking’ came out of his mouth, you could tell he was about to fall out of his chair since it went right out across the air. The rest of the crew on the show were like “oh, um” and tried to laugh it off.
Made me laugh in the car because I know I could never be on radio or television because I’d never be able to not swear that long. The few times I did radio shows in college, I spent the majority of the time making sure I wasn't going to use 'those words' - there was actually a list posted of words you couldn't say over the air.
Annoying Coworker is apparently harping everyone in the office for information on my boss’ old position. I think it’s funny because she’s so convinced that she’s perfect for the job and everyone’s like “she doesn’t stand a snow ball’s chance in hell of getting it.” I don’t know what my prospects are – but they have to better than hers. It’s even funnier because she’s trying to act all “professional” except that it comes across and stupid when she tries to do it.
I wonder how she would react if I became her boss…
posted @ 09:08 AM EST [link]Tuesday, March 22, 2005it really should fold my laundry too...
The experience that is a Friendly’s restaurant is often nowhere near the initial “hey, Friendly’s sounds good” idea that runs through your head when you are considering places to eat dinner.
Moe and I were off to go grocery shopping last night but figured we should eat something and as we were going through a possible list of places, Friendly’s came up and I thought to myself, well I could go for the chicken parmesan supermelt that they have. I know artery blocking cholesterol and grease central, but it tastes good and considering I go maybe once or twice a year, I’ll survive.
So it was that we went to Friendly’s and the illusion was quickly shattered, even before we were seated. I’m not sure if it was the wait staff looking like they came from Appalachia or what seemed like screaming children at every table, but by the time we had sat for a few minutes, we just looked at one another and laughed.
My supermelt by the way, was good – but I don’t think I can eat today to make up for it.
We never did make it to the grocery store…
I tried out the roomba last night – it does really well on tile/wood floors and does okay on carpeted floors, though it seems to have trouble with heavy carpets. Plus it’s pretty cool to stand there and watch it work its way across the room. I just let it run around the kitchen – so it was a mix of tile flooring and the area rugs we’ve got in a few places.
Yes, I need a robot to clean my floors. I can’t wait until the have one that does the laundry too, especially folding it and putting it away.
posted @ 09:36 AM EST [link]
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