~~~SANDBOX 77~~~

-got the truck running with the other battery

-traded in the old defective battery for a new one, picked up my meds and my money

-still sick; can't do anything else tonight

"but if its upside down jesus will slide off!!!!"

No He won't. He's nailed on to it.

yaay ZS - have fun in chicago with chicago people!
i want to visit chicago one day soon

having a cold during the holidays should not be allowed, like all colds should be banished. i decree.

went climbing again tonight. am kicking ass tbh. mostly my own. climbing is kind of crazy; i love it.

- cosign on sickness: me & Mr Veg rocking the glazed donut monster look this Christmas :/
- finally watching Breaking bad for the first time
- 2 days off work, fuck yes!
- sneeze

Yay climbing! Pls get enough exercise for both of us, I haven't moved more than 20 ft or so on my own in 5 days.

Prob not going to change that too soon as I appear to be coldy as of this evening. Advil to the rescue!

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everyone get over those colds! now!

i did a lot of climbing tonight and am going next week too, so will think of yr atrophying muscles as i work mine ;) srsly tho climbing is intense. also i think a friend of mine is going to get back into it, so yaay, more people to climb with!
totally going to pass out now

Fuck. First time in years I was going to be all ready to fly home for vacation time plus 2 solid weeks of meetings, and I'm not ready, and I have to go into work tomorrow when I had the day off, and I have to pack tomorrow morning when I was going to pack tonight, and be ready to get in the SuperShuttle by 2.44pm, I am dreading work meetings in January anyway because I messed up at work in a non-fatal but very noticeable way by not spending enough money (arguably not my fault as no-one wanted to spend any with me, but won't be seen that way).

Want to be fappin' in Chicago.

Wait, your job requires you to...spend more money...with other people? I am confuse. :(

I'm trying not to be too specific about my job here, but I have a small budget to spend on getting people together to work on research ideas. I can't spend it unless I can persuade a bunch of people I work with back in the UK that the time is right. They only want to bring people together to work on research ideas if there's going to be a route to funding afterwards, and right now they are being very, very slow about agreeing those routes to funding. I have tons of ideas and many of them will come off next year, but I needed to get the money out of the door by March 31 and that's not going to happen. I should have started spending it on second-class ideas for events earlier in the year rather than holding out for the ones I wanted to come off.

And I allowed other pressing work stuff to get in the way. I am a terrible, terrible organizer/deliverer of deliverables. When it comes to practical detail, I like starting things off and then for someone else to implement. Not possible most of the time in life.

-laid down in bed, felt lungs fill with fluid, had massive coughing fit to the point of seeing stars

-will be sleeping in computer chair tonight

-worried

-sometimes the only reasonable response to ppl is "get your head out of your ass" because the only conceivable way they could believe what they believe is if they had literally been staring at the insides of their rectums their entire lives

but if someone had literally been staring at the insides of their rectums, and only the insides of their rectums, i'd think they'd have a very minimal set of beliefs.

And THEN yesterday after the work lunch, he said we could leave at lunch today, but he hasn't mentioned it again this morning and I don't know if I can just go or if I have to wait for him to bless and release us or what but I finished all the work I had and I'm not about to start a new case because I'll forget it all by the time I come back and and and WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME????

work Xmas lunch, I should say. Also there was booze involved so maybe he was drunk?

-- home from visiting fam in Ohio
-- on my way to visit a Laurel in Michigan!
-- ready to hang with a big family of complete strangers who like to eat, drink, and sing
-- feelin v positive and well rested

hooray wintertime holidays!

ZS was distraught:

http://i.imgur.com/LkrC7.jpg

But then n/a showed up and he was all better:

http://i.imgur.com/tEwO8.jpg

toddlin' town

I want to go climbing with rrrobyn!

FYI I made the executive decision to leave work shortly after my last post.

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I'm bored. Who is in town this weekend? I want to do some shit. I want to see people and I want to see life.

Oops, that was meant for the Chicago thread.

-gonna go to a party tonight
-gonna drive to saginaw michigan tomorrow
-bought dad a pair of 80 dollar sunglasses, dude is like 85 he's going to hate them

Remade bed and cleaned house for company from Chicago!
Wrapping presents and putting cryptic clues on them.
Mom making me add last-min touches to existing decorations that no one will ever notice (except her).

that is the worst picture of me

awww @ sandbox unites pics

Those truly are THE worst 2 pictures of me!

It was a lot of fun! 2 rounds of Malort, which was kinda excessively gross but I'm glad we did it anyway.

-just got back from selling a bunch of aluminum

-sold enough to pay a bill or two and buy some Old Crow Reserve for Christmas

-still sick, but will be resting the rest of the day to make up for this morning's activity

I hope you feel better in time for your Old Crow Christmas.

I feel a little better today--some coughing, but not as bad.

There's a fireplace in the living room. We won't have the strength to clear out all of the things in front of it for Christmas, but we should have a fire lit for New Year's.

En route to the airport. Yay vacation! Yay Christmas!

- pay raise AND generous xmas bonus
- clearly my boss is not in her right mind
- backed up by the fact that she informed me her homeless male friend will now be living in my work space

how long is yr vacation, E?

Those are not the most flattering photos of either of you but they tell a story.

Z_S gets flattered quite often enough as it is.

my grandpa died :(

:( yikes T.

very sorry to hear that

*extends sympathy*

thanks, guys. i am feeling a lot of emotions right now -- relieved, because he'd given up on life months ago and wasn't really living anymore. but i'm also angry because he'd given up on life months ago and wasn't really living anymore when there was no huge health issue that meant he couldn't have some more good years. i guess the last few months have made me think a lot about elderly life and the mental health issues that come with growing old and not being as self-sufficient as you once were. it's really scary.

I'm sorry, tehresa. Much love to you and your family.

tz :(

<3 hugz

Sorry about your grandpa, Tza.

- walked a mile this morning
- first day of a new training regimen
- getting ready for a week in New Orleans next month
- just booked the B&B
- found a nice one one block from the French Quarter for a very reasonable rate
- leaves more $$$ for food, drink and other fun
- all of which I'll enjoy more if my legs and back don't give out on me

aw tza :/

Sorry, T. My dad was 91 when he died and he had given up on life long before - even before he had health problems - that was really hard to deal with.

Wm, that's awesome re NOLA. I want to go again this winter, but I really should put myself on lockdown until I take an international trip (or just justify a visit with the saying about NOLA being the the nearest foreign land you can visit.)

Are you staying in The Marigny? I would love to live in that neighborhood - charm out the ass and really affordable.

Yeah, we're right on the Marigny/FQ border. Excited!

tehersa dearest, i am so sad for you