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I’m at this very moment working on upgrading this site to a newer version of Wordpress. So things will look rather odd for the next little while.

~The Management~

I would like to introduce my new tenant…

Pointless Drivel

He has a wonderful post about his April Fools Day joke that he couldn’t pull off on his wife. Definately a great blog to read!

Tags: Rent a blog

Todays post is going to be short, as I worked tonight and I am really tired. I want to dedicate all the wonderful people that walked through the framing department at the store in which I work. Why is it when you are trying to look for a frame, it is neccesary to take a dozen frames from the shelves, and instead of leaving them where I can find it and put it away, you have to put the frames back in all sorts of places that they do NOT belong? I really dont mind returning the frames that you do not want, back where they do belong. I DO mind the scavenger hunt that is the last hour of my working day…every day.

I also want to thank the Mom, who could not control her children. As I was trying to help her this afternoon, her children were running amuck…in the framing department…with lots of glass…and then they took their shoes off…and started throwing them…and then there was a tube, I have no clue where they found it, but they started hitting the shoes like a ball…Did I mention that this was all in the frame department, with lots and lots of glass?

It has been a really really long week. Fortunately, I do not have to work as many days as I have this week, on a regulare schedule (I hope). I will do my blogging, and post more tomorrow, I am just way to sleepy to do any more today.

It seems we will all be hanging onto 2005 for a second longer than we thought…

“For those of you counting the seconds until 2006, add one.

The world’s top timekeepers will insert an extra second—or leap second—just before midnight in coordinated universal time (UTC) on New Year’s Eve. (That’s the same as 6:59:59 p.m. eastern time on December 31.) UTC is determined by atomic clocks and is five hours ahead of eastern time.

Earth’s rotation is ever so slightly slowing down, but atomic clocks remain unwaveringly consistent. The extra second will allow Earth to stay in sync with the ultraprecise clocks, which mark time based on the vibration of atoms.

The planet’s slowing is mostly due to the friction of tides raised by the gravitational pull of the sun and the moon. In fact, a day is now about two-thousandths of a second longer than it was a couple centuries ago, scientists say.

To keep today’s atomic clocks synchronized with time as measured by Earth’s rotation, timekeepers insert a leap second whenever the difference between the two clocks exceeds nine-tenths of a second. ”

National Geographic

So for those of us, who would really like to get this year over with…we will have to wait another second.

Tags: new year, one second, 2005

A friend of mine posted this yesterday. It is a little late, but still funny.

http://wwwa.accuweather.com/promotion.asp?dir=aw&page=turkey

Turkeys will finish thawing Thanksgiving morning, then warm in the oven to a high near 190 in the afternoon. The kitchen will turn hot and humid, and if you bother the cook, be ready for a severe squall or a cold shoulder. During the late afternoon and early evening hours, the cold front of a knife will slice through the turkey and cause it to accumulate 1-2 inches on plates. Mashed potatoes will drift across one side while cranberry sauce creates slippery spots on the other. Please pass the gravy. A weight watch has been issued for the entire area. We forecast intervals of indigestion, with increasing stuffiness around the beltways. During the evening the turkey will diminish and taper off to leftovers and drop to a low of 34 in the refrigerator. Looking ahead to Friday and Saturday: high pressure to eat sandwiches; flurries of leftovers can be expected both days with a 50% chance of scattered soup during the midday hours. We expect a warming trend baste on where soup develops. For AccuTurkey, this is gobble-ologist Elliot Abrams

Tags: Thanksgiving, Turkey, Humor

well, maybe not, but…

that doesnt look too bad.

I was able to take a few more pictures, and I have created an album for the pictures. Enjoy!

Time to call in the bloodhounds, the sneaky Socks, managed to actually get away this afternoon. I don’t expect to see him for a few hours. He is off smelling all the wonderful fall smells. This is probably for the best, though he really shouldn’t be outside. But the last few nights he has decided that he really wants to go out at about 3am, and he is going to let all of us know it, whether we want to listen or not. This lasts about 2 hours and wakes all of us. Last night I was able to get about 3 hours of sleep, and I am only awake due to the high dosages of caffine administered regularily.

I am hopefull that his little adventure outside tonight, wears him out enough that he sleeps through tonight… I know, that is a little to much to pray for, but I really need to sleep.

Socks came home a little after 10 tonight, after about 5 hours out. He appears to be in one piece and without injury. Now I just hope that his being out ‘on the town’, makes him tired enough that he will sleep through the night and not waking us all up at 3 am.

I don’t think my sleep schedule could be any more messed up. I couldn’t sleep all last night, so when 7 am came, I decided to just wake up and go to sleep once I had dropped my son off at school. I came home and slept from about 9am to 2pm. I am tired now, but I can’t seem to fall asleep.

7 days of no sun and lots of rain has definately made sure that we are no longer in a daught…but now we are worried about flooding.

“GREENWICH, Conn. — Flooding concerns have prompted Gov. Jodi Rell to order inspections of rivers, dams and streams.

Rell says the Connecticut River was below flood stage Thursday morning after several soggy days. But rain is continuing to fall.

Rell says inspectors will check dams and other structures to make sure they are not compromised or at risk of overflow.

Most flooding in Connecticut has been minor to moderate, but state officials are monitoring several rivers in Fairfield County.

Greenwich First Selectman James Lash says officials declared a local state of emergency Wednesday night as dams on the Byram River filled to high levels.

Officials also issued an evacuation warning telling residents to prepare to leave and brought in rescue boats, but evacuations were not necessary as the water receded.

Lash says the evacuation warning was lifted Thursday. But the local state of emergency will probably remain in place until Friday as officials monitor how the dams handle additional rain.”

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There is more rain on the way too…

…good news though, is that we will hopefully see sunshine by late Saturday.

(nope, nothing but the rain)