That place looks adorbs, sarameg, especially the window detail.

I drove to lunch, ate, drove back, and the fifth set of the Wimbledon's men's semi is still going on.

I suspect there are a lot of journalists flashing back to the 70-68 match.

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Oh, ha. Just got an email from the new assistant to our recently promoted VP of Operations saying "I don't know what happened but we don't have your 'fun stuff' on file" - favorite color, candy, blah blah blah. What happened was I got transferred to another department and y'all tossed the answers I spent months compiling last time you asked because I find these questions very difficult. Why pretend you don't know why when you are sending the same email to me and the one other person who was laid off and hired back?

I took the puppy back to the shelter. Too much for me right now and mac will not help at all, so no fosters for a while.

mac's car has not started twice in 3 days, needed a jump both times and the ran fine and started again. It is at the shop now seeing if the can find out why.

I'm working from home and getting things done during breaks. 2nd load of laundry is in and I picked up meds after I dropped off the pup.

Last night I vacuumed the whole house and ran the dishwasher, so if I can clean the bathroom and mop the pergo floor, the house will be base level clean.

I really feel like after noon or so on Friday, my coworker should not be allowed to call me.

Sounds reasonable, Dana.

Whole house base level clean is very impressive, msbelle!

I have a deadline on one of my monthly reports today but I just do not care about it at all. Sigh.

Hoping to get started on a project with the kids this weekend. We're going to make an arcade machine that will play a variety of games.

I managed to get a design created and laid out the cut diagrams for all the pieces.

Should end up like this minus the translucent wood that's there to show the storage inside the cabinet.

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Looks like I got past my problem with the encrypted UDP connection. The problem was with the encryption library setting the socket as closed. That was weird, I mean, a closed UDP socket? If you don't get why that's weird, that's okay, it's UDP.

Ambitious, Gud. I hope everybody has fun with it.

I cleared out and cleaned the fridge and freezer yesterday, emptied all the wastebaskets and took everything to the garbage dumpster at the end of the street. Then I picked up prescriptions and damp-rids and did a massive grocery shop. I lost my expensive-to-replace clip-on magnetic sunglasses. I'd had them when I pulled into the checkout line, so I doubled back and stood in line to ask the cashier--"Someone found them, and they never even got run over!" so that was nice. I un-carred and got everything inside, did the freezer and fridge stuff. Put the staples by the pantry and the coffee and sugar by their cannisters, and flopped for a bit.

I had a chocolate dipped frozen sorbet bar and crackers and cheese for dinner so I could take meds because I absolutely didn't want to eat, much less cook.

Today I put the coffee and sugar in their cannisters and the staples on the pantry shelves. I will probably sort the recyling and take it all to the bins at the end of the street this afternoon, and I need to ransack the car and find H's zip case of CDs. The car we inherited from his mom, which he'll be driving cross country, has no streaming capability, so dvds it will be.

At some point I need to box up the case and time-sensitive mail, take it to UPS and ship it to him. He's clearing out closets and donating bed linens, towels, and usable clothing to shelters and thrift stores. I've called dibs on the glass-doored bookcase, the lighthouse print we had matted with lighthouse stamps for Fathers Day for his dad years ago, the aqua and white "chickens" pyrex baking dishes, the wood and iron coffee mill, and the mid-century modern armchair. Those are coming to us, along with family photos, the pysanky collection H made for his parents over the years, and the Ukranian marquetry boxes.

The Les Paul guitar is going to BiL's SO of 23 years, as it was how he courted her, back in the day.

Basically I just want to hide in the dark, cooler rooms in back of the house and nap until October or so. But nooo, I've got a challenge fic to turn in Wednesday, already on a hardship extension. Up and at 'em. Attagirl.

I will probably sort the recyling and take it all to the bins at the end of the street this afternoon, and I need to ransack the car and find H's zip case of CDs. The car we inherited from his mom, which he'll be driving cross country, has no streaming capability, so dvds it will be.

You can get a Bluetooth to FM radio adapter for pretty cheap. I used one for a bit and it worked pretty well.