Friday, April 27, 2007
Monday, April 23, 2007
Turtles don't move slow, people do.
So I had my quarterly meeting for the Turtle & Tortoise club this past Saturday. We constantly are being informed of all the dangers and threats to the natural habitat for the Desert Tortoise. We are constantly faced with keeping up to date info on the care, feeding and husbandry of the DT. Unfortuntatly, when you get a room full of people who "know it all" you can become deadlocked very quickly. You've heard that phrase, "what works for one, doesn't necessarily work for another." Well if you have, then you are ahead of everyone else in this room. I have come to the conclusion that these people do not realize that each Chapter represented is from a different climate. So we, as humans, have to adapt to different climates, so do the DT's. You can not mandate husbandry guidelines that work for Orange County and expecting those to work in San Luis Obispo. It's kinda funny that people get in yelling matches over this stuff. It takes us months and months to get motions carried sometimes. Even though we had a somewhat productive meeting, it still took 4.5 hours. If we took after our hard shelled friends, we would notice that moving forward slowly is much more productive than running backwards.
So I had my quarterly meeting for the Turtle & Tortoise club this past Saturday. We constantly are being informed of all the dangers and threats to the natural habitat for the Desert Tortoise. We are constantly faced with keeping up to date info on the care, feeding and husbandry of the DT. Unfortuntatly, when you get a room full of people who "know it all" you can become deadlocked very quickly. You've heard that phrase, "what works for one, doesn't necessarily work for another." Well if you have, then you are ahead of everyone else in this room. I have come to the conclusion that these people do not realize that each Chapter represented is from a different climate. So we, as humans, have to adapt to different climates, so do the DT's. You can not mandate husbandry guidelines that work for Orange County and expecting those to work in San Luis Obispo. It's kinda funny that people get in yelling matches over this stuff. It takes us months and months to get motions carried sometimes. Even though we had a somewhat productive meeting, it still took 4.5 hours. If we took after our hard shelled friends, we would notice that moving forward slowly is much more productive than running backwards.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Get My Breakfast Wench!
As I am now feeding 7 cats every morning at work they (well 2 of them) are becoming a little more demanding of their food. This morning, in fact, when I opened the big doors, they came running up to me and did a very looonnng meeeooooooowwwww. I have figured the translation of this to mean: Give me my food Wench!
This morning, being the morning it was (read blog below) added something new to the long meow. Today, the little one took her paw and swiped at my foot twice. I looked down just in time to see her do it. Nothing with nails, just 2 little pats on top of my tennis shoe. I think this translates to: Put my food down, that is your warning, next I'll have to shank you with my nails.
"When Kittens Attack," tonight at 11:00pm.
As I am now feeding 7 cats every morning at work they (well 2 of them) are becoming a little more demanding of their food. This morning, in fact, when I opened the big doors, they came running up to me and did a very looonnng meeeooooooowwwww. I have figured the translation of this to mean: Give me my food Wench!
This morning, being the morning it was (read blog below) added something new to the long meow. Today, the little one took her paw and swiped at my foot twice. I looked down just in time to see her do it. Nothing with nails, just 2 little pats on top of my tennis shoe. I think this translates to: Put my food down, that is your warning, next I'll have to shank you with my nails.
"When Kittens Attack," tonight at 11:00pm.
Pancakes with diced ham. Who?
So it's one of THOSE days. Let me let you enter here. <-- Since my day is that weird, good luck with that sentence. Let us venture back to a time on the clock that shows 3:45am. This is a time on the clock that I might see going to bed or sitting at my computer I think, "okay, it's almost 4:00am, I should probably get something to drink and head to bed soon." This is NOT, let me repeat, NOT, a time I like/enjoy/need/want to be woke up by the neighbors barking dog. This would be morning 2 now. She's done it on occasion but that's it. This is nuts. I will be speaking with said owner this evening.
So with lack of sleep on my side, heed my warning, stay the f*@# out of my way today people. I'm trying to put myself in mellow mode. This would be a switch from angry bitchy girl who'll throw a punch because you're shirt is ugly and in my line of sight. Brings us up to speed to breakfast.
I make my way to the local Shell station, I'm like Norm from Cheers in there. Everyone's nice and they always have what I need. Till Today. I go in to make a withdrawl from the ATM and order some food, then grab some bottled starbucks and corn nuts. Corn nuts for whatever reason, keep me awake and I like them. However, this is not an Ode to Corn Nuts so I will move on.
ATM is Temporarily Out of Service. I have to smile at this, really I do. So I walk up to cashier girl and ask if they do cash back on ATM buys, she says "No, sorry, we're not there yet." So no money, no food, no bottled Starbucks. I now am sure this is a test of wills and I have to figure out how to out-smart the day.
So I drag my sad little self out and decide to go to John's. Not as wonderful but a great backup. I pull in and order an omelette and some pancakes. Pancakes sounded really good. I think it was more about the syrup but ordering sides of syrup is truly strange. Anyway, I get back to the office and open up my pancakes and start pouring syrup all over them and dig in. Bite one, kinda cold and not very tasty at all. Bite 2, really not much better. Why am I still eating these? Bite 3, okay what the hell is in my mouth. *Graphic Scene* I spit out Bite 3 because some foreign texture was in mouth. Low and behold: a diced piece of ham. Alright, closed said container and threw those away. Now I'm left with a want for pancakes. This blows.
So this is my morning by 10:00am.
How's your day going?
So it's one of THOSE days. Let me let you enter here. <-- Since my day is that weird, good luck with that sentence. Let us venture back to a time on the clock that shows 3:45am. This is a time on the clock that I might see going to bed or sitting at my computer I think, "okay, it's almost 4:00am, I should probably get something to drink and head to bed soon." This is NOT, let me repeat, NOT, a time I like/enjoy/need/want to be woke up by the neighbors barking dog. This would be morning 2 now. She's done it on occasion but that's it. This is nuts. I will be speaking with said owner this evening.
So with lack of sleep on my side, heed my warning, stay the f*@# out of my way today people. I'm trying to put myself in mellow mode. This would be a switch from angry bitchy girl who'll throw a punch because you're shirt is ugly and in my line of sight. Brings us up to speed to breakfast.
I make my way to the local Shell station, I'm like Norm from Cheers in there. Everyone's nice and they always have what I need. Till Today. I go in to make a withdrawl from the ATM and order some food, then grab some bottled starbucks and corn nuts. Corn nuts for whatever reason, keep me awake and I like them. However, this is not an Ode to Corn Nuts so I will move on.
ATM is Temporarily Out of Service. I have to smile at this, really I do. So I walk up to cashier girl and ask if they do cash back on ATM buys, she says "No, sorry, we're not there yet." So no money, no food, no bottled Starbucks. I now am sure this is a test of wills and I have to figure out how to out-smart the day.
So I drag my sad little self out and decide to go to John's. Not as wonderful but a great backup. I pull in and order an omelette and some pancakes. Pancakes sounded really good. I think it was more about the syrup but ordering sides of syrup is truly strange. Anyway, I get back to the office and open up my pancakes and start pouring syrup all over them and dig in. Bite one, kinda cold and not very tasty at all. Bite 2, really not much better. Why am I still eating these? Bite 3, okay what the hell is in my mouth. *Graphic Scene* I spit out Bite 3 because some foreign texture was in mouth. Low and behold: a diced piece of ham. Alright, closed said container and threw those away. Now I'm left with a want for pancakes. This blows.
So this is my morning by 10:00am.
How's your day going?
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Lappy
So I got a laptop. It was inevitable. All the of the groups/meetings/committee type thingies I do work in Windows and creating/transferring documents just doesn't work very easily. I know it's not impossible but it's a pain in my ass and that's the only opinion that matters. Anyway, we were browsing and around and it just so happened that one in particular I was looking at was on a 2 day sale and was $400.00 off! Okay, check please, we'll take it! The excitement dies here. So far setting up computers is never my favorite. I've been installing, uninstalling, setting to my likes, looking for old cd's, trying to figure out this and that but the end all of end alls began yesterday. Or what I like to call: Day 4 of Hell.
Went down to Verizon to get a PC Wireless card. Can't. Why you ask? Because I'm not the lead on the account. REALLY? Cause it was my account to start and I added Erin on, so how'd that happen... Next. Come back 3 hours later with said laptop. Pick out card, get all checked out (an hour later). Told, "oh it's so easy, you just pop in the CD, install the software and plug in the PC card and that's it." Liar Liar I want to start your ass on fire. Go back AGAIN at 8:30pm last night to be told I have to call a Data Line Tech Number and that before we left, the sales Chickie should have helped us install and sync the damn thing before we left! Bitch. Then I get home to call the tech number... that number doesn't work. Are you F'N KIDDING ME PEOPLE!?!?
So right now, there is a worthless PC Card sitting at home. Customer Service... I remember hearing about it when I was a kid, it's definitely not around anymore. This is pure crap.
So I got a laptop. It was inevitable. All the of the groups/meetings/committee type thingies I do work in Windows and creating/transferring documents just doesn't work very easily. I know it's not impossible but it's a pain in my ass and that's the only opinion that matters. Anyway, we were browsing and around and it just so happened that one in particular I was looking at was on a 2 day sale and was $400.00 off! Okay, check please, we'll take it! The excitement dies here. So far setting up computers is never my favorite. I've been installing, uninstalling, setting to my likes, looking for old cd's, trying to figure out this and that but the end all of end alls began yesterday. Or what I like to call: Day 4 of Hell.
Went down to Verizon to get a PC Wireless card. Can't. Why you ask? Because I'm not the lead on the account. REALLY? Cause it was my account to start and I added Erin on, so how'd that happen... Next. Come back 3 hours later with said laptop. Pick out card, get all checked out (an hour later). Told, "oh it's so easy, you just pop in the CD, install the software and plug in the PC card and that's it." Liar Liar I want to start your ass on fire. Go back AGAIN at 8:30pm last night to be told I have to call a Data Line Tech Number and that before we left, the sales Chickie should have helped us install and sync the damn thing before we left! Bitch. Then I get home to call the tech number... that number doesn't work. Are you F'N KIDDING ME PEOPLE!?!?
So right now, there is a worthless PC Card sitting at home. Customer Service... I remember hearing about it when I was a kid, it's definitely not around anymore. This is pure crap.
Spring Baseball err... Break
So Erin is on break right now. I do not know what that means. However, it just so happens the community college has a softball game today at 5:00pm. We're going down to L.A. to watch the Angels play on Thursday night. Friday we are going to watch U.C.L.A. softball and Saturday there is a double header at Cal State Bakersfield. YAY for all of the competitive softball. And geocaching, can't forget all of the geocaching. Site to be updated soon. :)
So Erin is on break right now. I do not know what that means. However, it just so happens the community college has a softball game today at 5:00pm. We're going down to L.A. to watch the Angels play on Thursday night. Friday we are going to watch U.C.L.A. softball and Saturday there is a double header at Cal State Bakersfield. YAY for all of the competitive softball. And geocaching, can't forget all of the geocaching. Site to be updated soon. :)
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