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May 12, 2015 07:31AM
Take your broken brain to bed, and you'll feel better in the morning! Glad you have a nice office. :)
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Replying to us is the last thing you need to worry about Rusalka. Go and get some sleep and hopefully you will feel refreshed and ready to take on the world again tomorrow :)
Take it easy, Rusalka. We all aren't going anywhere. Settle down nicely and we will tell you all about the goings on in our lives. :D
I hope you feel better tomorrow, Rusalka! I am taking an early lunch to catch up on GR posts. Other than that, working from home full time is hard for me. I miss seeing all of the people.
I second the sleep commands and I'll throw in a wine command Rusalka. Take it easy and don't be too hard on yourself. the first few days are all about finding your feet. Having a nice office makes a big difference.
The wine command sounds like a good one. ;)
So this is palindrome week. At least to US people who properly write dates as month/day/year. Same forward and backwards5/10/15
5/11/15
5/12/15. Etc. Take out the slashes and all week is same forward and back
Travis of NNY wrote: "So this is palindrome week. At least to US people who properly write dates as month/day/year. Same forward and backwards
5/10/15
5/11/15
5/12/15. Etc. Take out the slashes and all week is same ..."
That is super cool, Travis! Thank you for sharing!
5/10/15
5/11/15
5/12/15. Etc. Take out the slashes and all week is same ..."
That is super cool, Travis! Thank you for sharing!
Boy, you go away for a few days and miss so much in this thread. I just got back from visiting family in Austin Texas ( my grandson's third birthday). Had a great time. About twenty minutes into the return flight the woman in front of my husband jumped out of her seat and ran half way down the aisle. She claimed she saw a scorpion. No one else did. So the steward spent another twenty minutes down on his hands and knees looking. No luck. I'm glad all the sickies and pets are doing well.
Janice, your vacation sounds great. I've never been to Banff or anywhere in western Canada. Most of our Canadian vacations were in the Maritimes, or Ontario where I still have family.
Congratulations on the new position, Rusalka. Starting a new job is always stressful and exciting at the same time.
Facebook: I joined in order to find relatives I'd lost track of since leaving Canada almost 40 years ago. Found quite a few. But I don't really spend much time on it. I really don't feel the need to know what someone is doing (with pictures) every minute of a person's day. Do I need to see a picture of someone cutting veggies for dinner? And the rants (what went on at the gym, drivers, the low quality of the bread at the local bakery) drove me nuts.
Tractors that auto steer, Travis? Do you have to be on it or can you just program it do what you want in the field and go have a beer while it does the job? That would be great!
Getting lost is the worst. We recently went to Washington DC and got lost going to a family affair. It was awful. Then a cousin suggested the Waze GPS program. It's free and tied to your phone. I love it.
That's it. I'm done. Goodnight.
Yes this is a busy thread Roz. Glad you had a great time in Austin. I couldn't help but laugh about the scorpion but I can imagine it was probably a little scary for those who don't like them (and the woman in that seat) and frustrating for those around her that new there probably couldn't be one. It's my last week at my therapy rooms after being there for 9 years. I'm moving to a clinic closer to the train station to reduce my commute time. I am both excited about the new month and a little sad. I've also decided to stop providing massage etc., just focusing on my hypnotherapy clients now. The new clinic overlooks Bristol Harbour so basically my life is all about boats now :-)
At this point Roz a peraon needs be on board to lift implement at end of field and turn around. Also watch for mud holes and such. 10 years down the road who knows. My cousin has auto steer as well as a vsriable rate planter. Planter will change both fertilizer rate and seed rate based on soil tests and yield data. Every year as more data gets collected the better these rates will match up to field. Also has auto shut off so planter won't cross plant an already planted section especially useful since most fields end up having a triangle section at the end. If there is only room for 3 rows of corn the olanter will shut his other 13 rows off. Don't ask hiw it all works because he has the crop consuktant program the gps and enter all this data in it
I don't know why this country makes such a fuss over immigrant labor. I am at about 20% of people I hire actually show up for even a day. All I look for is part time helo so I can't speak for full time workers the latest one has no job currently. Was too busy last week. Facebook posts show he was riding dirt bike. Couldn't be here mon. Or tues. But would be here today. Today is here amd facebook shows me he is turkey hunting since he's obviously not here. There is a difference between wanting to work and actually working, but if youre not going to go to work pkeasr don't complain you have no money. A good guatemalan wants to work 6 12 hour days a week. They are leaving friends and family to come here to work and only have a certain amount of time here based on their Visa. They don't come here to steal American jobs we bring them here because they actually show up and work
Travis of NNY wrote: "I don't know why this country makes such a fuss over immigrant labor. I am at about 20% of people I hire actually show up for even a day. All I look for is part time helo so I can't speak for ful..."Totally agree. We have the same arguments over here about refugees and immigrant workers. They are stealing our jobs, etc. Nope. They are doing jobs Australians don't want to do, they work harder and longer than us, and they want to earn/work as much as they can to get money for their families/before visas expire/as thanks to a place they are safe.
I was talking to my family down on the vineyard in March, and they were saying they have stopped using friends and family to help pick. They had to provide accommodation and food, and then only half the crop got picked, if that. Some people treating them as only a B&B not a job. They pay pickers now, some on visas, some Aussie immigrants, and they get everything picked in less than half the time and half the cost.
Sarah wrote: "It's my last week at my therapy rooms after being there for 9 years. I'm moving to a clinic closer to the train station to reduce my commute time. "Oh this is sad. Enjoy and hope the move goes well, along with the new set up. Sure it will all go fine. And nothing like MOAR BOATS!
Thanks all. Not really having a whinge, more explaining why I am a bit absent. Wine and sleep is being actioned.In fact, went to bed at 10pm last night, with a book. Lexx came in an hour later with me with my book half open and soundly asleep. Apparently he pried the book out of my hands and put the bookmark in, and I did not stir at all. Dead to the world.
Travis, I agree completely with your comments on the immigrant work force. They are wonderful and work so hard. I appreciate them so much. My yard wouldn't be half as nice without their hard work. We had a friend of my husband (this guy had a landscape business) doing work one year and it was total halfass job.
Rusalka, at least you are getting some good sleep!
I totally did not realize this week was palindrome week! That is two things I love, numbers and palindromes! LOL. My husband called a little while ago and said that the water heater in his mother's house busted and flooded the entire house! We have no idea why. He called the insurance company and they told him not to clean anything up and they would call him back. After they finally called back they told him he could mop up the water after taking lots and lots of pictures, but not to touch anything else.
Thankfully her house is on a concrete foundation and she does not have wood flooring or carpet. The main concern will be how much water got into the walls. I have no doubt mold will be a problem unless they can get it dried out. An insurance adjuster is supposed to contact us tomorrow to asses the damage.
ouch, Kimey! That's so bad! You'll have some cleaning to do there.
My friend bought a house and was having a party when his water heater exploded flooding the party room. Luckiky no one was burned and being in the basement damage was very minimal
That's horrible about your mother-in-law's house!
I hope everything gets fixed very soon!!!
I hope everything gets fixed very soon!!!
Nasty! I hope it gets resolved quickly Kimey.
I was woken up this morning by my partner as he was getting ready to go to work so that I could look out the window. On the opposite bank of the canal, sat a duck with all her ducklings nestled under her. It was so cute even through bleary eyes. I'm up and awake now and they are still sat that sheltering from the rain. It's raining a lot here. I'm going to get drenched on the way to work.Sorry to hear about the leak KimeyDiann. Hope things are rectified quickly.
Lovers of palindromes?Check out Weird Al Yankovic's palindrome Bob song. Amazing!
Creative parody and tribute to Bob Dylan's "Tombstone Blues."
YouTube link - https://www.google.com/#q=youtube+wei...
I'm seeing ducks swimming thru hot water towards geese who see God.That's a reference to my maybe favorite palindrome from the Weird Al song above - do geese see god ?
A Toyota's a Toyota.
Never odd or even.
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
Many more palindromes in this song... http://www.metrolyrics.com/bob-lyrics...
On Monday we went to the town where we will look at a house for sale next week, just to have a look around, see what the town is like. It has a small river running through it, and a bit of nature in the town centre, and we went for a stroll there and the first thing we saw was a mom duck with her ducklings, crossing the path in front of us. I was sold!
A dog, a panic in a pagoda. Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog.
Oozy rats in a sanitary zoo.
@KimeyDiann hope the leak gets fixed soon and the insurance company is easy to work with :)@Sarah hope your commute to work isn't too bad and the rain clears up for you! Too cute about the ducklings :)
In hockey news: The Capitals lost in overtime in game 7 last night :( I'm super bummed right now :( mostly because I really dislike the Rangers, which beat the Caps :(
Walking Blake this morning and we have geese and baby geese at the lake :) the photo is a little grainy but they are so cute!
Stephanie I thought of you when I saw that hockey score :-(
Lots of duckling and gosling sightings taking place this week, it must be spring! :) We are waiting to hear from the insurance company today. I just hope everything goes smoothly.
TJ, you make me smile!
Palindrome Tshirt I really want: http://shirt.woot.com/offers/palindro...
A Man, A Plan, A canal: Panama!
Rats live on no evil star
Berit wrote: "Stephanie I thought of you when I saw that hockey score :-("It was such a hard loss since they were up 3 games to 1. I guess they just have a hard time getting passed the second round :( hopefully they will go all the way next season..but for now I am cheering for any team against the Rangers :-)
This is book related, but amusing. I read A Game of Thrones just in time to borrow my friend's set of series one of the tv series. Actually, she lent it to me voluntarily even though she hadn't watched it herself.She bought me season two for Valentine's Day. I haven't read A Clash of Kings yet and I wanted to wait until I'd read the book before I watched the dvd's. In the meantime, I gave my friend the first season back and she's watched it.
Yesterday, she phoned and asked if she could borrow season two, to which I replied that she could. When she found out I hadn't watched it yet, she didn't want to borrow it. I told her that was silly and she was welcome to borrow it.
"Well, at least take the wrapping off before you give it to me," was her response. LOL!
The photo of the geese is so cute. My dad has a pond on his land and every spring he has a pair of geese who make a nest and have their babies. It is fun for the kids to go see the female on the nest and then later to see her swimming with the goslings. There is an island where she nests so we can watch her without disturbing them.I love the Game of Thrones books and series. I read all the books before the show started and now watch it every week. Although, now the show is getting into some things I don't remember so I may have to reread the last two books. I am glad that you are enjoying them. I will just warn you not to get attached to anyone. The author likes to kill people, even main characters.
Amanda wrote: "The photo of the geese is so cute. My dad has a pond on his land and every spring he has a pair of geese who make a nest and have their babies. It is fun for the kids to go see the female on the ..."That's so cool, Amanda! How fun it is to see them every year :) it is so cute watching the babies swim with their parents :)
Nice pic of the ducks, Stephanie and thanks for the Wierd Al - Bob song, TJ. I'm done with work for the day and now I am going to go over to Amy's and watch Terminator 3 with her and the boys.
Cherie I'm greatly disappointed you didn't take the opportunity to end that post with. "I'll be back"
Oh Travis, I miss all the great opportunities like that! LOL. #4 next week. I am not sure I ever watched that one. Amy and Evan have been watching the Terminator movies to get ready for the new one coming out soon. Next, will be the Mad Max movies. Evan has never seen them. Did you know that there is going to be a new one?
I'm looking forward to the new Mad Max. I thought it might be crap but it has Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron in it so I reckon it might be alright. Could just stare at them if not ;-) Over the last few months we've missed some circumstances Emma film releases what with everything going on. I need to make a list of films we need to watch and acquire.
Oh I am aware. They closed down Sydney CBD for a "promo". Even though they didn't even film it here.I dunno, Sarah. I had to sit through the trailer the other day before Avengers. It looks pretty horrible.
Sarah wrote: "I'm looking forward to the new Mad Max. "We'll go and see it tomorrow, I'll let you know what I think. I'm also looking forward to Jurassic World and San Andreas.
Did anyone watch Wayward Pines on Fox last night? I loved the books, but I think knowing everything that happens sort of took the suspense out of the show for me. I need to watch it with someone who hasn't read the books. Nurse Pam is much older than I imagined her in the books, but the actress definitely pulled off her creepiness. I don't think I like Matt Dillon as Ethan Burke (main character)... he sort of looked like a zombie in the show last night.
Did anyone else watch? Opinions?
My boyfriend watched, I saw parts of it when I happened to glance at the tv. Neither of us has read the books. I have to admit that I'm curious about what is going on, although I don't think it's the kind of series I would like. Too confusing and probably too scary ;-)
Camilla wrote: "Sarah wrote: "I'm looking forward to the new Mad Max. "We'll go and see it tomorrow, I'll let you know what I think. I'm also looking forward to Jurassic World and San Andreas."
I am looking forward to Jurassic World too.
Not sure what to make of Mad Max. I like Tom Hardy and some of the early reviews have rated it quite highly but the trailer put me off. I will probably just wait until it comes on to Netflix.
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