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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
That sounds like a great wedding! I saw the picture of you and your family on facebook and you looked adorable!
I need some motivation STAT!!! I have so much to do at work,m but none of it has a really urgent deadline, and I cannot figure out what to do first. It has been like this all summer, so I really need to get a move on.
First day of first grade for Matilda!
She wanted her hair in a bundle and had picked out her outfit well in advance.
And, because it's August in San Francisco she had to wear her heaviest, warmest coat to school.
But we ran into her best friend, Sena, on the way. We're super excited that Sena is in her class this year, as well as her friends Norah, Isabella, Sophie and Alizon.
And the teacher is really warm and nice, which is a good fit for Matilda.
Sophia, I have so been there. I've found it helpful to outsource my decision-making.
Yay for First-Grade!Matilda.
eta: Anybody have a good deviled egg recipe? I have to make a side dish today to take to the class picnic tomorrow.
Sophia, just pick on task and plow through. Then at least on is done.
Me? I am feeling scattered, so I am sharing my to do list with y'all in the hopes that it clarifies things for me:
- double check that reports for today's staff mtg were emailed to group, if not, do it
- print out 2 reports each for mtg
- check that action matrix was done and emailed, if not do it
- print out 6 copies of action matrix
- agenda for meeting
- agendas for trips this week
- check travel for 6 bosses, lookig 2 weeks out, clean up anything missing
- make travel packets.
Read the increasingly desperate tweets of Martian rock N165 as it is zapped by Curiosity
Poor little N165. It never really had a chance. As soon as the Curiosity rover warmed up its rock-vaporizing laser, it was certain to be used as target practice. But thanks to the miracle of social media, that Martian rock has a voice, and it's not happy.
Curiosity's Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) can deliver more than a million watts of power to a Martian rock, vaporizing the rock's surface. The ChemCam can then analyze the vaporized bits of rock. In order to calibrate the laser, NASA selected a perfectly ordinary rock, N165, as Curiosity's first victim...I mean, test sample.
How does N165 feel about this? Well, the rock now has its own Twitter account, and yesterday it started tweeting:
More at the link.
Poor little rock.
First day of first grade for Matilda!
Woo hoo!
Anybody have a good deviled egg recipe? I have to make a side dish today to take to the class picnic tomorrow.
I mostly like the classic (mayo, mustard, relish w/ paprika on top), but made some really good ones recently with a lot of lemon juice and capers and a little mayo.
Deviled egg: mayo, Dijon mustard, Worcestershire sauce.
Top it with paprika.
That sounds like a great wedding!
It really was. The bride also sang a totally silly song that she'd written about her husband, because, when he gave her a guitar for her birthday last year, she told him that she'd write a song for him if she learned how to play it by their wedding day. And they wrote their own ketubah, using some of the traditional text and some that they rewrote, and a friend who's an artist made it all pretty. They did the traditional Jewish wedding blessings, and the groom's sister read something asking for the blessings of earth, fire, air, and water. The ceremony part was on a platform surrounded by statues of the Muses. The a capella group that the groom founded sang as they entered and left.
Go to grocery. Buy deviled eggs. Place deviled eggs on pretty plate. Serve deviled eggs. Receive praise warmly.
I got dinged half an hour ago by my boss, saying "I should not have to follow up on this."
He didn't. He's had the info since Thursday. He just never read it.
Now he's dinging me for not having followed up on him not having read the email.
I have a lot to accomplish today, but I am not going to take the penalty for that.
I just told the actual trufax project manager that they need to track down what's taking this step so long. Yeah, I know the answer, but I'm not getting any further involved.