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Tuesday Morning Herd Check-in

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The morning check-in is an open thread posted to give you a place to visit with the meeses. Feel free to chat about your weather, share a bit of your life, grump (if you must), rave (if you can). The diarist du jour sometimes posts and runs, other times sticks around for a bit, often returns throughout the day and always cares that meeses are happy … or at least contented.

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19 comments

  2. DeniseVelez

    getting ready to go to school.

    Finished grading papers(sigh). Have to hand over half of them back in one class – for re-writes.  I’m being nice – I could have just handed out F’s. These are freshmen, and unfortunately essay writing, grammar, and proper citation doesn’t seem to be a skill many of my students have learned yet.

    Okay, end of my morning whine 🙂

    Hope you all have a good day.

  3. anotherdemocrat

    One more capris & sandals day. It’s just supposed to rain tomorrow, the cooldown doesn’t start till Friday. Saturday morning’s low will be in the 50s, which means I need 2 layers for that ungodly hour workout. (ok, y’all who live wher it’s actually cold – stop laughing, going from 70s for lows to 50s in just a day or so feels really cold)

    Eating breakfast & drinking tea. I have exercised restraint & only started the orange & black thing today. And because of the sandals, no Halloween socks. I have my storage tub of Halloween stuff out, though – I will be Hermeione Granger on Thursday. Should have brought in toys, maybe tomorrow.

    If they mailed the prescription yesterday, maybe it’ll be in today’s mail. I hope so, the sooner started, the sooner over.

    Today: work, class at church. Earworm: In the End by Snow Patrol

    http://youtu.be/llUMU1jy_4g

  4. Diana in NoVa

    and we’re going for a high of 59 F.  I’m so excited–the Metro section of the Washington Post has an article on our candidate this morning!  It discusses the Democrats’ possibility of picking up a few seats in the Virginia legislature.  I certainly hope Jennifer picks up one of them!

    Dinner (chicken pot pie) will have to be early tonight, as I want to attend a rally for Jennifer in downtown Herndon.

    I just can’t wait to go to the polls next Tuesday!

    Glad the weather in Austin is going to be nice for another day, anotherdemocrat!  My daughter and her family live there.  Grandson celebrated his 16th birthday on Sunday, so it may be that he’s now able to drive himself to school.

    One very pleasant chore to do–making Pentacle Cakes for Samhain and buying a bottle of sparkling cider with which to toast the Witches’ New Year. We’re planning a ritual to remember our ancestors. I plan to talk about the gifts my parents gave me, such as the love of music, literature, and other things they passed on to me.

    Hope everyone will have a good day!

  6. slksfca

    It’s gotten cooler here but there has still been a lot of sunshine. Easy to tell the season is changing, though. We’ll be getting the rains any time now.

    Meanwhile I’ve been trying to spend more time outdoors while I can without getting wet!

  7. jlms qkw

    which is comforting – snow to 6k or 7k’ overnight.  strangely warmish at 46f.  which is why there is rain not snow.  

    forecast is chilly and damp.  

  8. emeraldmaiden

    Woke up exhausted, stiff, and sore today, but got a lot to do on a deadline. Guess this means I won’t wallow in bed. 🙂 Got two cups of coffee and my meds on board, hoping for them all to kick in soon soon soon!

    Last night was spinning night at the mill, so I got to take my little wheel over and spin a little, gab a lot. 🙂

    Going to be about 60 again today.

  9. bfitzinAR

    I’ve got Budget Committee tonight.  Could be quick, could run for hours.  Just depends on how many games the obstructionists want to add to the honest, earnest, debate about how (not whether) is the best way to raise salaries for County employees.  The choices under consideration are: 1) a 3% COLA plus another 1/2% per year longevity from 2 full years through 5+ full years or 2) a 50-cent per hour COLA plus the same longevity increase.  The department heads and elected officials (DH/EOs) all prefer the 1st – and according to them, so do the mid-level folks (whom the DH/EO’s are concerned about losing to another county if we don’t get their salaries up).  My concern is with the bottom group.  That 3% COLA doesn’t translate to 50-cents/hour ($1K/year) until you hit $17/hour current pay.  Our starting pay is just under $11/hour – and most of those haven’t been here long enough to make up the difference with the longevity pay.  Now you see why I think we’ll be at this for hours, even if the anti-government group keeps out of it.  sigh.  {{{HUGS}}}

  10. princesspat

     After yesterdays windstorm it seems very calm and quiet today.

    The snafu with the 1920’s tiles and the new bath tub faucet is finally resolved. When Sergay (the very skilled tile guy) was removing the old tile on Saturday several cracked, so 20 tiles had to be replaced, not the 9 we had planned on. I only had 17 burgundy tiles, so it was a scramble to find 4 trim tiles to make it all work….and last evening he was successful, yay! The plumber comes back tomorrow to finally install the  fancy new fixture with a hand held shower.

    Replacing all of the tile would have been a very expensive mess so I’m incredibly relieved that the fix works and looks like it’s what we intended to do.

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