Friday AspirationsFollow

I'm trying to convince the wifecritter to go out to get Turkish food this weekend at the brilliantly named Turkish Cuisine. Medium chance of rain Saturday, but if we luck out I'll probably drag the clan to the park and set the beardog loose on the unsuspecting public.

Just hard a pretty harsh meeting with my manager - not over work performance, but over how uncomfortable I apparently make some of my colleagues with off-color humor. I sometimes forget the real world is not the same as the Internet - and forget I work with a bunch of mundanes who don't think in memes like I do. The truth hurts, man. I'm glad I have my own office so I was able to sit here and cry for a bit.

So now I don't feel like doing anything this weekend, but I've already committed to watching my husband in a 5K race and helping someone build a computer.

Yeah, these were things that other people mentioned. Apparently saying "I'll beat any of you at Scrabble!" is not going to help me win friends or influence people.

Context: We were at a manager's party, and there was a pile of board games, among them Scrabble. No one but me wanted to play that.

We went for Mexican Train dominoes and I beat them at that instead.

Also, cracking jokes about airplanes disappearing just before boarding a plane is apparently bad juju.

Edited, Apr 25th 2014 11:51am by Catwho

Whichever one it is, CNN will figure it out.

Probably not a very difficult task. There isn't all that much sea in between the Netherlands and Scotland.

You get herbs and veggies from a flea market? That doesn't sound like a flea market to me - that's a farmer's market.

Anyways, the job I had for today turned out to be a job for the other tech upstate, so after I got ******* out by an IT manager (because I had the audacity to call her for a work order, assigned to me with her as the contact) I got the inflatable into a lake I've been scouting out. Nice, calm, surprisingly shallow (half of it was no more than a foot or two, with my skeg dragging) with some big fat fish that I assume are carp. Ran some errands, blah blah, next is my son's first tee-ball game.

Over the weekend, I don't think there's anything planned so I'm just lookin' for opportunities to get on the water.

It's all the same ocean really, just don't tell anyone.

I need to restock on food and do the other general house stuff, typical weekend affair. Don't think there's anything too crazy yet, I'll have a bit of free time at least with the kids when the Mrs works. Whether or not we do anything exciting is probably up to the weather as much as anything else. It's that time of year when everyday is partly cloudy with scattered showers, so it's all about how partly and how scattered the things are.

If nothing else I'll need to decide between playing Sims3 and Rift. Sims3 is much more relaxing, but there's always something fun about jumping into someone face and slashing them with swords. We'll see how my energy level holds out.

I'm house sitting for some friends of mine (ok, really cat sitting). They're heading to Boston area for the weekend to attend some on campus thing at some supposedly prominent women's college that their daughter won some book award for. Judging from the alumni list, I'm thinking that she might want to keep her aspiration to become "Just like Meagan Kelly" to herself though (she's leaning towards journalism). In all seriousness, it is probably a great opportunity for her if she chooses to go. Kid's way way way more motivated than I (or her father) were at her age though. Honor roll, Lacrosse, video club (just won an award for that this week, in fact), tutoring, student mentor, etc. Kids today. Total slackers!

Other than that, have some chores to do around the house. Seriously need to do some work on the office/guest-room and clear out some clutter and my tiny little yard area is a total mess. I'll try to get online and play some games this weekend, and will be playing my table top RPG as well. No other major things that I have to do though, so it'll be pretty relaxed.

Philly cheesesteaks and probably watching something Cato.

Ones children do age their parents even when they are adults. Well at least mine did this weekend, for Sunday I needed to sleep most of the day away and the rest of the time I played CivV.

Was great seeing my youngest daughter and spending time with her sisters too. We ended up going to see the tulips at Sherwood Gardens in the city. When they were kids, we would go there every year for the tulip display and let them climb the trees, as we lived near by. We made sure to get family photos while we were there and then took one last selfie at the airport.

Back in the day (of motherhood) I would have happily given a pint of blood for an hour nap.

In fact I think I did. Blood donations were relaxation time.