Merry Month of Meh-mas days 4,5,6
6Well this has been an eventful week. 2 kids with the flu and @kidsandliz is giving me a failing grade already. With that in mind if I owe you a response you will most likely have one this weekend. Fun times sick ankle biters. They are so needy, if I am half as needy, heck if I am 1/16 as needy my wife will kill me in 11 days.
/giphy vasectomy
In any case we are 19 days from Christmas and all through the house what are you doing?
In my world it is sick kids, finals, grading, making salt water, and dealing with Amazon.
I like amazon, there is a convince of having things show up on my door step and not having to deal with humanity. Here is the issue though, when there is a problem amazon the most customer centric company is less than customer centric. So here is the story. I order a bag of aquarium salt and then the next day I ordered some sharpies, a couple board games for my wife’s class, a new refractometor. Well Amazon sends everything including the salt into one box. No packaging just a paper bag with sharp edges crushed into it. You guessed it my box arrives leaking salt. I point it out to the driver and open it before he leaves. The box looks like a bag of cocaine exploded. The driver says he can take it back. I take a picture and he leaves with the box but unknown to me he picked up another box as well because we was supposed to drop off two and he must have thought he did. Instead of marking the boxes damaged he marks them delivered and takes them and thus begins my amazon saga. First I am told to wait, then to wait some more, then send my security camera video because they didn’t believe what I was saying and finally just minutes ago Amazon issued a refund.
Should be a good weekend the tank is cycling and the kids are feeling better after doses of Tamiflu. So what’s in the works this weekend?
/giphy yellow tang
As a side note if you ever need phytoplankton or copepods check out algae barn.
/giphy algae barn
Now to start reading the blames.
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You have a choice for your grades - a late penalty (10% a day) or do extra credit later. (smirk). All joking aside don’t go bald pulling out your hair grading and I hope you don’t get sick from the kids while trying to finish up the term.
@Kidsandliz man you are tough! 10% a day is steep
@tinamarie1974 This is only a bit more than a 4 week class. If the late penalty isn’t fairly steep the student will be more likely to finish their work later rather than earlier and then in the class week of class the workload becomes huge and there aren’t enough hours in the day.
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 what I want to know is why Wonder Woman didn’t kick his butt for being late. Did last month wear her out?
@Kidsandliz @ybmuG yeah, WW has been slammed at work. Happens when she takes a week, goes back for two then will be off for another three. So playing catch up and jump ahead. Phuf…
Also I am now obsessed with Baby Yoda…soooo cute!!
Meant to say last week of class…
I have been too tired. The last couple of days the young cats have decided play time is 3am. Woke up this morning with 4, yes count them 4, cat toys on the bed. Although that is better than the time, years ago, when in the middle of the night I finally turned on the light to find out why one cat was jumping up on the bed playing, jumping off and then jumping back on again.
Turns out she was playing with a cockroach. When it would escape the bed she’d gently gather it in her mouth and deposit it back on my bed. I grabbed that thing and threw it out the window. That cat was not happy with me for getting rid of her live toy and wrecking her fun.
@Kidsandliz We used to live in Wisconsin and since the weather is so pleasant at night in the summer we would leave the screen door open so the cats could go in and out at will.
Woke one night to hear this ungodly CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH noise at the foot of our bed. Turned on the light and it was one of the cats finishing up a meal of ‘mice-a-roni’ on the quilt. Punted both off the bed from under the sheets then had to try to retrieve the mouse corpse from the feline… We kept the doors closed after that.
@Kidsandliz
Those damn Palmetto bugs are a huge (literally) PITA. It’s amazing how they can get into a house and YES they make great cat toys… for a little while.
@chienfou I’ve never had a mouse eaten (and that may well take the cake of things you never want consumed on your bed)…BUT with my last batch of cats I did have a mouse problem in that house and I watched my one cat, with his face in his food dish, lift his head and watch a mouse run between his food dish and the wall (about a 3" space) and then carry on under the fridge. He finished his lunch and then ambled over to the fridge, settled his well fed little self down and stared at the fridge for ages. I guess he was waiting for play time to start.
That being said, cricket corpses with their heads missing, lizard rear legs left behind and once only a tail left behind, and dead roaches with puncture wounds (they learned they are not good to eat as each ate one, threw it up and didn’t try that again) have been found around the place fairly regularly. I believe a frog may have been consumed as well. And of course with the flour moth infestation they had a blast but weren’t all that effective in eliminating them.
Then there was the time a crow (up close they are way bigger than I thought) came down the chimney (same cats as one of the let’s watch the mouse cat) and I opened the door to one cat holding on to that big bird’s wing being pulled across the floor as the bird was flying and the other cat was watching. I managed to liberate the bird who appeared not to be damaged. Those 2 sat and watched the fireplace for weeks.
Our adventure in fish involved one cat putting his one eye ball against the 6 sided small aquarium, wrapping his front legs around it and trying to bat at the fish he could see from the opposite side as his face. He gave that up and would sit and watch them, interact with them and they’d interact with him. The other cat did windmill legs when I picked her up to get a closer look. She was not nearly as adventurous although was the culprit involved in the roach toy on my bed.
I am, apparently, a live cat toy spoilsport.
@Kidsandliz
yeah. It kinda flipped my wife out…
Unblame. A new episode from Erskin on his HDD Recovery channel is out.
Welcome back! Sorry to hear about the ill ankle-biters. Did they put you and SWMBO on prophylactic doses of Tamiflu?
Weekend plans are a mixed bag. Off yesterday, work today (Sat 1500-2300) then off tomorrow. I swapped out some time to help out a co-worker so she can be gone a couple of days at the end of her next work week to leave for a week long trip with her family.
Meanwhile, I’m holed up in my study/office as persona non grata in the rest of the house while my wife teaches an ACT prep class in our dining room. Thankfully there are other, discrete passageways to get around where they are working, and I brought the Keurig. a bunch of K-cups and a gallon of water into the space I am exiled in.
I also have a visitation/funeral this afternoon for the husband of our CEO. (Unexpected and way too young… I mean WTF… the guy is about MY age, and I plan to live forever…)
You can take the blame for any or all the above, but I know the real culprit is the holiday season!
Best of luck with the viral load and the saltwater tank.
I went to a workshop in Ponca City, Oklahoma today. It was a cool, crisp, sun-shiny day. Beautiful drive and good company with a good friend. When I got back to Tulsa, I went to a “Meet the Author” event at a local independent bookstore and of course bought his book and got it autographed.
No blames really except I’ve been doing more laundry than usual in my nice, new extra big W&D. I think I might be getting tired of smelling Tide and Gain softener. There’s a little blame.
I need to find something more manly smelling like cedar or leather or something for my laundry.
@therealjrn you could always duct tape one of those air freshener thingies for the car inside your dryer (or in a pinch gorilla glue would work also)
@chienfou Will that void my warranty? ha ha
@therealjrn …nah… they are only a buck at the dollar tree!
/giphy misunderstood
@therealjrn BTW who did you get to meet…?
@chienfou A guy I never had heard of, Jeremy Kuzmarov. But he had an interesting talk. The group that was sponsoring his event is having a book discussion in January, so now I have homework too!