The next big thing around here will be the redesign of this Web site. I know. I’ve been talking about that for years, but you didn’t think I’d ever get around to the T shirts, either, did you? Actually, some work already has begun on a new site, but it’s very preliminary at this point. I don’t know how it will look or even what it will contain exactly, but we’ll keep doing what we do now. There’ll simply be more. Anyway, it’s something for the new year.
126 responses to “Dirty Santa”
Jackie, I have named my phone. But since it speaks to me in a female voice with a slightly supercilious tone, you don’t want to know what I call “her”.
In my entire management career, I’ve terminated a grand total of three employees. One was due to “downsizing”, which I was forced to do by administration, against my judgement and advice. (In less than six months, I had to refill the position, but by then, I’d already found her another job.)
The other two were for theft…really dumb theft, so it was more like I fired them for being dumb.
Several people were terminated on my recommendation, but I’m glad to say that some good people were retained too. I’ve arrested people and recommended that some go to prison, so I’m used to doing the hard thing. I think that some people got a second chance, sometimes a third, on my recommendation. As Ghost said, most people are guilty of felony dumbness. Occasionally you meet a highly intelligent crook that just wants to get your money now instead of working for it.
To paraphrase what the pizza guy says (“To make a better pizza, you have to use better ingredients.”), to have a better office, you have to hire better employees. I’ve always been fortunate in that regard.
AccuGuesser says it will dip slightly into the 30s here tomorrow night. I hope they are correct, as andouille sausage is even now being thawed in preparation for a starring role in “A Dish Named Jambalaya”. Opening tomorrow night.
Just to make all of you snow-belters know just how bad you have it, It’s 59 here in Camarillo, with a projected low of 39 tonight.
Our local weather guy said that his dad was excited to tell him that it hit 52 in upstate New York today. When he told him that it was 85 here, his dad hung up on him. I’m ready for it to get back to our normal low/mid 70s.
I guess my smart phone read my previous post. I was making a shopping list and dictated “potatoes”. She transcribed it as “Butt Titus”.
Either that, or @#$%& has been secretly talking to Hal.
Ghost, does your phones name sound like Mitch? Or possibly Moe? Buh-tae-tis isn’t a standard pronunciation for the starchy tuber originally from the Andes…
Sounds like “Mitch”, David. Her slightly snippy reply when so addressed is usually, “I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that.”
Well, la-de-dah. I’d prefer a real female to respond with a bit more spirit. Like, perhaps, “$&*! it, @$$#*!%.”
Ghost et al since Hal doesn’t speak Latin or legalese, don’t try to hire floral drivers or housekeepers, bad run of luck there. Especially in Oklahoma, although now that I think of it, road reps hard to find and not fire.
I went and had a manicure, pedicure, facial, massage. Missed pharmacy and hair dresser, along with notary. Oh well, as Scarlett said, “There’s always tomorrow” unless that was Annie?
Surgery at sometime around noon, I will have someone post on Facebook and try for here on Hal or tablet.
Sorting mail and throwing away. I didn’t sleep last night so why bother?
Prayers for great outcome of your surgery tomorrow, Jackie.
Ghost, I’m not sure what says about me that I understood exactly what your female’s response would be. Could be that the strategic placement of dollar-signs gave exactly the right clues.
Jackie– Scarlett O’Hara’s line at the end of Gone with the Wind, “After all, tomorrow is another day.” Like you, I read pretty much everything in the school libraries growing up. Even most of the old Encyclopedia Britannica that were in the high school library. The advent of E-books made my library expansion physically much less space intensive. I especially like Project Gutenberg, where all the classics are available for free!
https://www.gutenberg.org/
Good night all.
Jackie, the one and only time I ever had surgery, I was told to check in at 5:00 AM…at a facility 100+ miles away. Plus, before leaving, I had to collect my sister and a friend who insisted on being there. So I didn’t bother sleeping that night. Then, of course, they kept bumping my start time. (Not my doc’s fault…emergency cases kept the OR tied up, and they had a shortage of gas passers.) And of course I was NPO since midnight, and they had to keep me that way, not knowing when my surgery would start. They finally took me to pre-op at 3:30 that afternoon.
I did, however, wake up to find myself in a VIP suite. When I went back to see the surgeon for my two week follow-up, I told him how much I appreciated the suite, because it had made my sister’s stay much easier for her. “Did you have anything to do with that?” I asked him.
“Oh, ah, well, I don’t know…” he replied kind of vaguely while looking over my right shoulder.
“Doctor,” I told him with a laugh, “you’re one hell of a surgeon, but you’d make a crappy poker player.”
So I hope you have better luck with the scheduling of yours than I did mine, but that the outcome is just as good. Good luck, babe, and we’ll be waiting to hear from you.
Debbe: I’m going to do a “Twelve Days of Christmas” tunes list for you this year. Yeah, I know, that actually begins on Christmas Day, but who wants to still be listening to Christmas music on January 5th? So mine will run from December 14th to Christmas Day. Enjoy.
Debbe 😉 So who says Christmas can’t be down & dirty?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDV0Y6UK0zs
To: All Villagers Affected
From: Ghost Rider 6
Subj: 15 Dec 2015
Above referenced date is officially designated as “Cat Herders’ Day”.
Hugs Jackie
Tomorrow is cat herders? I thought every day was! Lately my role has been kitty doorman because with eight of them with run of house and yard there is huge milling effecct. We feed them outdoors but they know Dickens is fed In here so they try to scarf up his too.
THANKS for good wishes. I think prayer is circling the world for me. France, England, Scotland, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Phillippines, Japan, China, India, Germany, South Africa, Russia, Italy, those are just countries off top of my head without checking. Think there were some in Caribbean. Prayers of many faiths and nationalities. I think one of my Welsh friends practices some pre-Christian religion and some of my Native American friends do.
This gives me so much peace, to know in times like the past few months that people of many cultural and ethnic backgrounds cares for one solitary woman in a little hick town in the middle of America. Gives me renewed faith in mankind if we could get them interested in building wooden boats. Love, Jackie
Jackie, your last comment made me think that, living as a desert state as I do, perhaps I’d need to grow a beard before emulating Noah… but I’m of very pale English stock mixed with some Choctaw or Cherokee and my beard would be too patchy to be good for anything but derision from the local juveniles. If I were bald perhaps I could set some bears upon them but I don’t qualify for that either. (2 Kings 2:23-24)
Good morning Villagers…
Jackie, sending hugs and prayers your way for a successful surgery, and also prayers for your surgeon’s skilled hands……Amen
Gal, are you going to keep us posted?
Packing at the other hen house is different, a one conveyor packer, the skid is on the side for placing trays of six….not use to the settings…..so I tripped and fell, with a stack of six trays of eggs, landed on my knee, rolled in the eggs, and just laid there hoping I had not cracked me knee bone. Got up, had egg all over my back, brushed it off, cleaned up the mess and went back to packing…..dang it’s hard to keep a good woman down. But this morning, my knee is quite tender. So, when I pack again today, the skid is behind me…like I’m use to.
Temps are falling, and when the hen house is vacant, there is no heat….I feel sorry for them, but I’m glad I’m not part of the cleaning crew.
I forgot to mention that we watched an American bald eagle in the field feeding on a carcass of a dead deer. He was beautiful, his wing span was probably 5 feet, Andrew said. Awesome sight to see it fly. Probably came from the Glendale reservoir nearby…
Jerry, the plot thickens at BCN……
ya’lll have a blessed day…..
will check in later to see if there is any news on Jackie…..
GR 😉 love the BB King, so here’s my opening…saw them in Indy a few years back, one awesome light show and performance…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3GaDMYDw6A
don’t know what is with the black strip across the video, but the music makes up for it.
for you Jerry, ’cause I remember you making a couple of comments about your ex 🙂
http://cheezburger.com/8593327104
Will update as soon as possible. Will be at work, so may not be “instant” news!
I’d like to offer my prayers for Jackie’s recovery but especially for her surgeon’s skill. I usually pray for the airline pilot when I fly and not directly for myself. God bless us every one.
An early Merry Christmas to one and all.
Debbe, she has excellent insight into a cat’s mind (and they do have very active minds). Your story reminded me of my recent stay in the hospital. I fell and had a large egg on the back of my head. I had three nurses there to pick me up. You are required to leave all dignity outside when you check into a hospital. Ghost, good song. I obviously don’t have a feline mind this morning so Elvis and I will return to bed.
Ordered the morning they were available, two shirts arrived in yesterday’s (12/14) mail. The New England shirts have landed!
Highly energetic blog, I enjoyed that bit.
Will there be a part 2?