EmPossibility

I would touch the topic of my new job that requires me to stand almost the entire shift.

I would mention my first day of school, which was truly an exersadist’s dream: class #1 in the basement of the building at the bottom of the hill, class #2 on the third floor of the building [...]

Somerset Bob tagged me with The Nice Award.

Innit shiny?

I don’t usually think of myself as “nice”. Too many conversations with the teen ending in “EVILMOMMA!” or “your mean!” (standard reply: mean AND evil. You can’t forget the evil part.) and entirely too many days where I feel like all I do is yell [...]

Eliza tagged me with a frugality semi-meme. (No linkback to her cuz she’s totally friendslocked though.)

If we have to pay, we don’t play. Parks are free, Chuck E. Cheeze is not. Lightning bugs are free, glowstix are not.
I carry my homeschool registration card with us everywhere and *ask* if they give a [...]

Uneven :: application
Wonder :: Woman
Spider :: man
Emma :: Jane
Swing :: dance
Orbit :: the sun
Flirt :: constantly
Donation :: contribution
Veil :: ripped
Atmosphere :: pleasant

And yourself?

After a week of watching that tooth get more and more wiggly, I managed to talk Daniel into letting me “dry off that tooth so I can look at it” with one of our flannel rags. Well whaddaya know, it came right out with a wiggle and a pop.

And then he freaked. Not [...]

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. TEACH him HOW to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
– Lao Tzu (emphasis mine)

The Winston-Salem Journal reports that the Farm to School program is more expensive this year and schools have either reduced their purchases or threatened to drop [...]

CD Recovery Toolbox – Free

You can bet your sweet beehind that I’ll be downloading this puppy and trying to rescue those CDs that I’ve been obsessively hanging onto. Just as soon as I go buy a spindle of blank CDs.

And? You can also bet that IF they recover and behave themselves, [...]

The word of the day is “scratched”.

as in “I have hundreds of dollars worth of software that is quite possibly inoperable”.

WHY oh WHY did I not image them and stick ‘em on the spare hard drive??!!?? Then I could burn a backup copy whenever I needed one.

We’re going through the stack now. [...]

Darling :: Nikki
Majesty :: crown
Pebble :: toss
Fate :: sealed
Instant :: replay
Screen :: calls
Unplugged :: phone
Dairy :: allergy
Benefactor :: financial
Market :: up or down

Now you

The job is exactly the same as it was when I worked there before.

Which is to say: although the computer systems have been upgraded and the work process been observed and tweaked by an efficiency expert, there is still the timeless rhythm of processing items and documentation.

Which is to say: management still [...]