O's teacher saw my face when I dropped him off and told me to leave Olivia, too. After making sure she wasn't joking, I burst into tears,hugged her and fled.

Wow. She may literally be a saint.

The only problem with that is, I'm usually home. So, we can't usually save money by turning the heat down during the day.

That's my situation as well. I have the thermostat programmed to turn off the hat after we go to bed and before get up, though, and that does seem to make a difference to the bills.

I love O's teacher.

You can save even if you just have the themostat go down 10 degrees in the after your usual bedtime and bring the temperature back up in the morning.

That's my situation as well. I have the thermostat programmed to turn off the hat after we go to bed and before get up, though, and that does seem to make a difference to the bills.

You're right. We should definitely do that. I thought TCG was turning down the heat at night because he said he would, only to find out after a couple of weeks that he hadn't been.

O's teacher rocks.

To add to the crappy day DH's gram broke her hip and is having surgery tonight at 6pm. She is 97. She is his uncle's MIL, so not his gram, but Little Grandma to all the kids and grandkids in his family. She is a wee thing about 4'9" or something. She spends her days watching crap tv and reading tabloids. She's very funny and we all love her. Logic tells me at her age this isn't going to end well. She has lived with our aunt, her daughter, for decades and she will be devastated.

wee thing

Laura, you misspelled p-e-r-f-e-c-t

healing ~ma to her.

Wee is good. She reminds my oversized DH that she held him when he was smaller than her. We've always called her Little Grandma. Our family pictures show a real variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.

My work wireless has been mostly down for the last 2 days. Every few hours, it blips back on for a few minutes and I can grab a load of my main work email. And then it goes down again and I submit another ticket. And then nothing happens, and I submit another nagging email to demand a response to the last ticket, and then it comes back on for a few minutes and I throw out some responses to the last batch of email. And then it goes down again and I submit another ticket.

In between, I can access various things (including the intranet, y'all, the help ticket system) on a machine with a wired connection, but my web access for the email I *actually* need doesn't work. I can do my actual work on my laptop, and then sneakernet it to the wired machine if I need to actually send it to someone. I can, oh, I dunno, bang my head against things in frustration.

I cannot go to another location with wireless, because it's the time of year when there are hours on end of gaps in the student schedule, and I can't leave the place unstaffed.

I cannot plug my laptop into a wired connection, which you'd think would be an obvious solution, as those are all tied to specific machines.

My head hurts. I am seriously ready kill things, starting with the goons who made the wireless routers and moving down the list from there.

She reminds my oversized DH that she held him when he was smaller than her.

That's wonderful. Much healing~ma to her.

How frustrating, amych! Things you need to be able to work should work when you are at work.