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[do1you9love?]

swiftdog2.0 - much love and healing vibes to swiftmom and hugs to you for being her support (((Swift family)))

Then the fun part: we went to snuggle puppies! A friend has 8 4-week-old puppies, and we're buying one for Nick. They're not ready to leave their mama yet, but he got first pick. Losing my babydog, Lulu, right before the 4th was horrible, and I wasn't sure I was ready for another dog, but the look on Nick's face when a puppy chose HIM (sidled up, licked his toes, laid her head on his foot, then snuggled in his arms) was worth every heartpang.

I missed your loss of sweet Lulu. Adding my hugs and good wishes. (((skimom)))

P.S. When a puppy chooses the person, then it is always a perfect match.

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Currently at NTB waiting to see if they can plug one of the tires on the Bit**n' Camaro. It had not one, but two nails in it! This has not been a good week

I also have to spring Brody Dog from the kennel! I will be able to dog-sit this weekend. Gotta figure out what to do with him next week..

 

[Spideyman]

Currently at NTB waiting to see if they can plug one of the tires on the Bit**n' Camaro. It had not one, but two nails in it! This has not been a good week

I also have to spring Brody Dog from the kennel! I will be able to dog-sit this weekend. Gotta figure out what to do with him next week..

Is there a dog sitting service in your area? Some are much less expensive that an kennel, and he'll be in his "home". Am sure he feels some of the stress you are experiencing. Companions know. Maybe a friend could watch over him? Sending some inner peace vibes. (((Swiftdog and Brody)))

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Is there a dog sitting service in your area? Some are much less expensive that an kennel, and he'll be in his "home". Am sure he feels some of the stress you are experiencing. Companions know. Maybe a friend could watch over him? Sending some inner peace vibes. (((Swiftdog and Brody)))

I gotta look into doggie day care.

 

[Spideyman]

I gotta look into doggie day care.

sounds like plan.

 

[Grandpa]

I'm not much on baths. If I want to get clean, it seems to me that you either need two baths, wash and then rinse as though you're a laundry load, or a bath and a shower, and generally I'm done with my shower by the time the first bath would've filled up.

I get the idea of just relaxing in a pool of water, but that's not for me either. Although I did give it a try last night.

I'm jet-lagged here on the Western Pacific Rim. I woke up at 2:30 a.m. (but I was tired enough to have crashed out by 9:00), tried to go back to sleep, nope, not happening. Well, middle of the night in this time zone is middle of the day back home, so I get up to check on things. Sure enough, odds and ends. Send out emails, support, enable, encourage, crush, destroy. Got it all done.

Back in bed. Back to sleep.....

Nope. What now?

This is a nice hotel, and part of the niceness of it is that it's got this big soaker tub, which I looked at and thought, "I'll never use that." But I'm often wrong. Can I take a nice hot bath and relax enough to go to sleep? How do I know unless I try? I'm a scientific-minded guy. I have to test the hypothesis.

I fill up the tub and step in. Not so bad. Recline. Nice enough. Shut my eyes. Can I actually doze off in the tub?

Nope. Too bright. I get out, uncaring how much I drip bathwater onto the floor because it's tile and it's also not my bathroom, click off the lights, get back in, shut my eyes. Ah. Not bad at all.

Getting a little cooler, though. I reach up with my foot, turn the hot water on, and feel the heat diffusing out from the foot end of the tub. The water level rises, up and over my ears. It's warm. It's dark. It's fluid. I feel like I'm going back to where it all started. I reach my foot up and turn off the water. Darkness. Silence. Except...

FWUMP. FWUMP. FWUMP.

Wow, that's my heart? Who'd've thought the sound would conduct through the water that well?

Let's see. Is it going about a beat a second? 60 per minute. Not bad. But what if I'm off by two-tenths of a second? That could be 72. That's a difference. What if I'm off by a full half second? I'm not a guy with a stopwatch, just an idiot trying to relax. It couldn't be at 90, could it? See, when you've had a heart attack, you think about these things.

Okay, let's try something. Let's try to slow the heart down. Nice, even breaths...

WHHHUUUHHHHHH..... FFFFFFSSSSSHHHHHH..... WHHHHHUUUUUHHHHH.......FFFFFFSSSHHHHH.....

It's the sound of my BREATHING through my trachea and lungs, carrying through the water. It sounds I'm in a giant wind tunnel that Lockheed built to test some new hypersonic jet. The sound is deafening, distracting, to my submerged eardrums.

Okay, forget the heart and control the breathing for now. But breathing shallowly isn't working. It's just as loud, only slower.

Now I'm getting irritated, and what's that?

FWUMPfwump. FWUMPfwump. FWUMPfwump.

Good grief, with all the annoyance, my heart rate has PICKED UP. Okay, let's just settle down, relax, get it under control, relax....

WHHHUUUHHHHHH..... FFFFFFSSSSSHHHHHH..... WHHHHHUUUUUHHHHH.......FFFFFFSSSHHHHH.....

That does it. I lift my head out of the water, with my ears back where they're supposed to be, in the air, and the sounds go away. It's just me, the bath, and the darkness now. Now, just put the head against the back of the tub and relax, maybe even doze off....

My feet are getting hot and itchy in the bath. That's not good. Prop up my feet on the sides, and let my thoughts drift....

To work I need to do, things I need to accomplish, house, family, what do I want to do today, am I ever going to get in synch with local time before I get back home and get jet-lagged all over again, and I AM BORED AND THIS WATER IS HOT AND UNCOMFORTABLE.

Okay. Time to get out. I sit up and turn the dial-thing to open up the drain. It does, a little. A thin gurgle. Hm. It's a big bath, and it should be draining faster than that. I turn the drain dial to the right, and it shuts off. I turn it back to the left, and the thin gurgle starts again, turn it more to the left to open it up more, and suddenly there's no resistance to the turning, and the gurgle stops entirely.

What? I turn it to the right. Nothing. Left. Nothing. I reach down and pry the drain open as much as I can, maybe several millimeters. A thinner gurgle. And doggone if I didn't forget to bring plumber's tools, which is guaranteed to happen, because I wield plumbing tools about as well as a plumber could operate my steno machine. I leave the trickle where it is and tell the tub it's got all day to drain.

I get out, dry off, never to return.

And no, I never got back to sleep.

 

[Spideyman]

I'm not much on baths. If I want to get clean, it seems to me that you either need two baths, wash and then rinse as though you're a laundry load, or a bath and a shower, and generally I'm done with my shower by the time the first bath would've filled up.

I get the idea of just relaxing in a pool of water, but that's not for me either. Although I did give it a try last night.

I'm jet-lagged here on the Western Pacific Rim. I woke up at 2:30 a.m. (but I was tired enough to have crashed out by 9:00), tried to go back to sleep, nope, not happening. Well, middle of the night in this time zone is middle of the day back home, so I get up to check on things. Sure enough, odds and ends. Send out emails, support, enable, encourage, crush, destroy. Got it all done.

Back in bed. Back to sleep.....

Nope. What now?

This is a nice hotel, and part of the niceness of it is that it's got this big soaker tub, which I looked at and thought, "I'll never use that." But I'm often wrong. Can I take a nice hot bath and relax enough to go to sleep? How do I know unless I try? I'm a scientific-minded guy. I have to test the hypothesis.

I fill up the tub and step in. Not so bad. Recline. Nice enough. Shut my eyes. Can I actually doze off in the tub?

Nope. Too bright. I get out, uncaring how much I drip bathwater onto the floor because it's tile and it's also not my bathroom, click off the lights, get back in, shut my eyes. Ah. Not bad at all.

Getting a little cooler, though. I reach up with my foot, turn the hot water on, and feel the heat diffusing out from the foot end of the tub. The water level rises, up and over my ears. It's warm. It's dark. It's fluid. I feel like I'm going back to where it all started. I reach my foot up and turn off the water. Darkness. Silence. Except...

FWUMP. FWUMP. FWUMP.

Wow, that's my heart? Who'd've thought the sound would conduct through the water that well?

Let's see. Is it going about a beat a second? 60 per minute. Not bad. But what if I'm off by two-tenths of a second? That could be 72. That's a difference. What if I'm off by a full half second? I'm not a guy with a stopwatch, just an idiot trying to relax. It couldn't be at 90, could it? See, when you've had a heart attack, you think about these things.

Okay, let's try something. Let's try to slow the heart down. Nice, even breaths...

WHHHUUUHHHHHH..... FFFFFFSSSSSHHHHHH..... WHHHHHUUUUUHHHHH.......FFFFFFSSSHHHHH.....

It's the sound of my BREATHING through my trachea and lungs, carrying through the water. It sounds I'm in a giant wind tunnel that Lockheed built to test some new hypersonic jet. The sound is deafening, distracting, to my submerged eardrums.

Okay, forget the heart and control the breathing for now. But breathing shallowly isn't working. It's just as loud, only slower.

Now I'm getting irritated, and what's that?

FWUMPfwump. FWUMPfwump. FWUMPfwump.

Good grief, with all the annoyance, my heart rate has PICKED UP. Okay, let's just settle down, relax, get it under control, relax....

WHHHUUUHHHHHH..... FFFFFFSSSSSHHHHHH..... WHHHHHUUUUUHHHHH.......FFFFFFSSSHHHHH.....

That does it. I lift my head out of the water, with my ears back where they're supposed to be, in the air, and the sounds go away. It's just me, the bath, and the darkness now. Now, just put the head against the back of the tub and relax, maybe even doze off....

My feet are getting hot and itchy in the bath. That's not good. Prop up my feet on the sides, and let my thoughts drift....

To work I need to do, things I need to accomplish, house, family, what do I want to do today, am I ever going to get in synch with local time before I get back home and get jet-lagged all over again, and I AM BORED AND THIS WATER IS HOT AND UNCOMFORTABLE.

Okay. Time to get out. I sit up and turn the dial-thing to open up the drain. It does, a little. A thin gurgle. Hm. It's a big bath, and it should be draining faster than that. I turn the drain dial to the right, and it shuts off. I turn it back to the left, and the thin gurgle starts again, turn it more to the left to open it up more, and suddenly there's no resistance to the turning, and the gurgle stops entirely.

What? I turn it to the right. Nothing. Left. Nothing. I reach down and pry the drain open as much as I can, maybe several millimeters. A thinner gurgle. And doggone if I didn't forget to bring plumber's tools, which is guaranteed to happen, because I wield plumbing tools about as well as a plumber could operate my steno machine. I leave the trickle where it is and tell the tub it's got all day to drain.

I get out, dry off, never to return.

And no, I never got back to sleep.

You are saving/documenting these little occurrence for you next book- How I Survived Jet-Lag!

 

[CoriSCapnSkip]

Touring local cemeteries. The creepier the better.

 

[Sundrop]

I had to put locks on my locker at work. I have a co worker who is using me as her personal emergency supply house, and she's been just helping herself to my color, keratin treatments, etc. I even put a note in my locker saying to "please ask me first instead of just assuming it's okay to take my product because if I need it for my own client, it puts me in a bind if someone else has already used it".....
Yesterday, she even read the note out loud to herself (another co worker heard her reading it), and still just took what she needed without asking me. It was my last straightening treatment.....if one of my clients calls I no longer have what I need to perform the service. The level of disrespect hurt my feelings and pissed me off......so now, I have locks.

Got home from work yesterday, and the basement had taken on a bit of water from a hard rain. I swept out what I could, turned on the dehumidifier and a couple of fans, and went to Lowes to purchase some guttering repair supplies......

Standing at check out counter at Lowes, my debit card declines......three times. I had to write a check. The dude at the register didn't really want to accept the check, and asked for two forms of ID.

I called the bank, and thankfully, my account had not been hacked. There was a glitch in their update which had deactivated a bunch of debit cards.

Today is Friday. After work, there WILL be wine.......

 

[Spideyman]

I had to put locks on my locker at work. I have a co worker who is using me as her personal emergency supply house, and she's been just helping herself to my color, keratin treatments, etc. I even put a note in my locker saying to "please ask me first instead of just assuming it's okay to take my product because if I need it for my own client, it puts me in a bind if someone else has already used it".....
Yesterday, she even read the note out loud to herself (another co worker heard her reading it), and still just took what she needed without asking me. It was my last straightening treatment.....if one of my clients calls I no longer have what I need to perform the service. The level of disrespect hurt my feelings and pissed me off......so now, I have locks.

Got home from work yesterday, and the basement had taken on a bit of water from a hard rain. I swept out what I could, turned on the dehumidifier and a couple of fans, and went to Lowes to purchase some guttering repair supplies......

Standing at check out counter at Lowes, my debit card declines......three times. I had to write a check. The dude at the register didn't really want to accept the check, and asked for two forms of ID.

I called the bank, and thankfully, my account had not been hacked. There was a glitch in their update which had deactivated a bunch of debit cards.

Today is Friday. After work, there WILL be wine.......

(((Sundrop ))) May today bring only positives.

 

[GNTLGNT]

I had to put locks on my locker at work. I have a co worker who is using me as her personal emergency supply house, and she's been just helping herself to my color, keratin treatments, etc. I even put a note in my locker saying to "please ask me first instead of just assuming it's okay to take my product because if I need it for my own client, it puts me in a bind if someone else has already used it".....
Yesterday, she even read the note out loud to herself (another co worker heard her reading it), and still just took what she needed without asking me. It was my last straightening treatment.....if one of my clients calls I no longer have what I need to perform the service. The level of disrespect hurt my feelings and pissed me off......so now, I have locks.

Got home from work yesterday, and the basement had taken on a bit of water from a hard rain. I swept out what I could, turned on the dehumidifier and a couple of fans, and went to Lowes to purchase some guttering repair supplies......

Standing at check out counter at Lowes, my debit card declines......three times. I had to write a check. The dude at the register didn't really want to accept the check, and asked for two forms of ID.

I called the bank, and thankfully, my account had not been hacked. There was a glitch in their update which had deactivated a bunch of debit cards.

Today is Friday. After work, there WILL be wine.......

...yep, sounds like an average kinda week, mine included-Supervisor seems to be on a vendetta against me, so now I have to drag the Union into it.....sigh....

 

[Dana Jean]

I gotta look into doggie day care.

If you are willing to pay, do you have someone you know and trust who needs some extra cash? Just to be with BrodyDog while you can't be?

I have been hired to watch pets just to be with them while the parents were away. It's a good gig.

 

[skimom2]

I had to put locks on my locker at work. I have a co worker who is using me as her personal emergency supply house, and she's been just helping herself to my color, keratin treatments, etc. I even put a note in my locker saying to "please ask me first instead of just assuming it's okay to take my product because if I need it for my own client, it puts me in a bind if someone else has already used it".....
Yesterday, she even read the note out loud to herself (another co worker heard her reading it), and still just took what she needed without asking me. It was my last straightening treatment.....if one of my clients calls I no longer have what I need to perform the service. The level of disrespect hurt my feelings and pissed me off......so now, I have locks.

Got home from work yesterday, and the basement had taken on a bit of water from a hard rain. I swept out what I could, turned on the dehumidifier and a couple of fans, and went to Lowes to purchase some guttering repair supplies......

Standing at check out counter at Lowes, my debit card declines......three times. I had to write a check. The dude at the register didn't really want to accept the check, and asked for two forms of ID.

I called the bank, and thankfully, my account had not been hacked. There was a glitch in their update which had deactivated a bunch of debit cards.

Today is Friday. After work, there WILL be wine.......

You deserve the big bottle!

 

[Neesy]

Seven days here, five days of work. One of the two days was at the start, for acclimation. The other one, I'll probably spend trying to keep up on the work. They're counting Saturday and Sunday as workdays for this gig.

Again, First World problem.

You have a very interesting job
So lucky that you get to travel all over the world!

 

[Neesy]

Slept late today since I don't have to work until 4:30;

Trying to decide if I want to iron some work pants soon or wear the other more casual ones.

This old movie from 1963 is a little weird - looks like Glenn Ford gets to choose between a blonde (Shirley Jones) a redhead (Stella Stevens) or a brunette (Dina Merrill)

 

[ghost19]

I had to put locks on my locker at work. I have a co worker who is using me as her personal emergency supply house, and she's been just helping herself to my color, keratin treatments, etc. I even put a note in my locker saying to "please ask me first instead of just assuming it's okay to take my product because if I need it for my own client, it puts me in a bind if someone else has already used it".....
Yesterday, she even read the note out loud to herself (another co worker heard her reading it), and still just took what she needed without asking me. It was my last straightening treatment.....if one of my clients calls I no longer have what I need to perform the service. The level of disrespect hurt my feelings and pissed me off......so now, I have locks.

Got home from work yesterday, and the basement had taken on a bit of water from a hard rain. I swept out what I could, turned on the dehumidifier and a couple of fans, and went to Lowes to purchase some guttering repair supplies......

Standing at check out counter at Lowes, my debit card declines......three times. I had to write a check. The dude at the register didn't really want to accept the check, and asked for two forms of ID.

I called the bank, and thankfully, my account had not been hacked. There was a glitch in their update which had deactivated a bunch of debit cards.

Today is Friday. After work, there WILL be wine.......

Damn Sunny. I might have some wine just reading about your day...lol. Here's to improvement of your day...

 

[Grandpa]

You have a very interesting job
So lucky that you get to travel all over the world!

It's not very many in my line of work who do. I've had colleagues and local clients say, "How do you get these gigs?" I say, "Well, you hang around long enough and give off the illusion of competence, and sometimes people buy in to that."

No, it really had to do with nice things I'd done for another colleague years ago. When the call went out for an overseas thing and she couldn't do it, she recommended me. I did tolerably well, and the people who arrange this stuff call me now and then. In past years, it was about one assignment per year. In 2017, this is my fifth gig overseas for this year. So I still got 'em fooled.

 

[danie]

still just took what she needed without asking me.

I just don't get this. Has she ever said anything to you when she takes your stuff? If you had a client who needed the straightener, would she give you hers if you asked? That is disrespectful to you and your business. Will you say anything to her?

 

[Hill lover35]

I just don't get this. Has she ever said anything to you when she takes your stuff? If you had a client who needed the straightener, would she give you hers if you asked? That is disrespectful to you and your business. Will you say anything to her?

Especially if you have to pay for the stuff

 

[danie]

Especially if you have to pay for the stuff

Yes, it's really just stealing.