sighhhh....it's going to be a long two weeks.....blahhhhh

Man did I have an adventure yesterday……

Last week around Monday or Tuesday I called the vet to get a refill on my cats meds…they call it in to the pet pharmacy who mails it to us since they are so far away….so when Friday nite hit and no meds came in the mail I was a little ticked off…so I called the vet yesterday morning and they said they filled there at the office…no alarms went off in my head and they should have….so I told them I would be there to pick it up after work….i was just happy for once I could get it from them…I just wish they would have called me to tell me it was there….so after work I get there and tell them I am there to pick up the meds and that they should be in the fridge…well she opens up her cabinet below all the files (not a fridge) and pulls out a bag with something in it for me…still no alarms going off yet….i ask her about it not being refrigerated and she says this stuff doesn’t have to be….well this is a new steroid so I was thinking I must have just assumed it should be refrigerated anyway….well she rings me up and it is only 20 dollars…way cheaper than the 70 we pay the pet pharmacy…still no bells ringing…..then she takes the meds out of the bag and hands them to me…it is pills….oh boy hold the phone…I told her I can’t give my cat pills that is why I have to have them call the pet pharmacy so we can get liquid……she said well she has to talk to the vet about it….i am not sure why…but she comes back out with a subscription and tells me I can get it filled at the human pharmacy but the dose isn’t as strong and we have to give her more of it….i told her no I want them to call it into the pet pharmacy…so I must have went around and around with her on that before she finally said she would anyway…then shortly after I got home the pet pharmacy called me to tell me it will be in the mail the next day…which is today so we should get it tomorrow anyway….man I was so ticked off when she handed me the pills…I guess next time I am going to have to be more specific when I call in for a refill I guess…..i wasn’t happy at all….

But I finally slept pretty good last nite and didn’t wake up till my alarm went off this morning so I had a hard time rolling out of bed today…I was still so sleepy….i could have slept till maybe 9 or 10 today…..i was also having a strange dream but I don’t remember anything about it now….just that it was strange anyway.

We got our test up and running to finish the last 600 cycles…we were done with that around 8…I was hoping it would have taken longer so I can miss a meeting coming up that I don’t want to go to…that is in a half an hour anyway….it’s a meeting for interns but all of us not just the real new guys anyway.  It’s going to be about furloughs which I have already had a meeting about so it is going to be a waste of my time totally….blahhhhhh…..

Well that meeting was a waste of time like I knew it would be…some officer talked to us about navair in general and about being in the military…wtf man….i thought they were going to talk about furloughs or something…but I was stuck there almost an hour…and when I got back to check on my test it was shut down so I restarted it anyway…I don’t think I am supposed to do that but I know how so I did it anyway.  Our mechanic that got us up and running this morning is running another test right now so he wasn’t available at all…..

Well the test keeps shutting down for over speed I think….this is the third time now and it is just after lunch anyway… I think we got about 200 cycles left to go so a couple of hours…..i am just going to have to baby sit it the rest of the day I guess….

Man my mechanic was off Friday last week and yesterday and today and I just heard he was going to be gone tomorrow when I was expecting him back anyway…so I guess no work on any of my projects is going to happen tomorrow…just one more day to get behind schedule anyway….that doesn’t make me happy at all….it takes two days to tear this one project up that is almost done running and it takes two days to set my other project up to get it running for a week…..i am getting so fed up with being behind schedule…..

uggggg going to be a long ass 4 day week......

Well I had somewhat of  a nice weekend anyway.  I had a xena marathon on Saturday and watched 7 episodes and then watched three more on Sunday.  I am on season 5 now..just got done with disk 3 out of how many I am not sure…but I forgot that after xena and Gabriel got crucified that when they came back to life calisto put her soul in xena so xena could give birth to her…so xena is hugely pregnant where I am at right now…then when she has the baby she has the ability to kill gods and they all try to kill her baby thinking it is the  baby who will kill them anyway.  I haven’t gotten that far in the story line yet but I am sure it is coming up anyway…xena looks like she could give birth any day now.

Man I was having a nite mare last nite about work.  We were all aircraft accident investigators in my dream and someone was trying to frame me for something…what I don’t know and who I don’t know but I had this vague feeling of getting in trouble anyway…there was some stuff about collecting samples and something about tumblr too….the secretary was showing us her tumblr account anyway….

Well I totally forgot that I wanted to come in about an hour early today to finish off these sketches…I got here right on time instead and so far got two done anyway.  We have our Monday morning meeting soon….which I gotta be in charge of anyway….which I don’t want to be….but all the lead engineers are busy with another project anyway.

I filled up my flavor cartridges for my electronic cigarette yesterday but I guess I did not put enough in there as I can’t get any smoke hardly at all out of them.  I guess I will have to pick up a new one when I go home for lunch today I guess…..

Well we had our meeting and the boss did not come so I don’t even know if he is in today or not.  I tried to smoke afterward but no smoke comes out….now I gotta wait like 2 hours before I can go home and get a new flavor cartridge.  : (  that is going to suck a bit…..i read my blogs for the day and pretty much did as much goofing off as I can think of for now….so now I am not sure what to do anyway…I gotta sketch up this last part though….i think I might have a measurement wrong…..i am going to have to do some math to find out anyway….but I don’t want to do that right now anyway.  I am tired and craving a smoke big time…..i slept like crap last nite…I was up all hours of the nite and having a  nite mare at the very last of it anyway.  I think it is going to be a long day….

We have no mechanics to run tests today….my main mechanic is out till Wednesday…and my back up is in a training for at  least today if not tomorrow too…and out one test didn’t finish running over the weekend so we have no one to get us started back up anyway.  If we have no one tomorrow either then tomorrow will be  a long ass day for me too…..well at least it is almost time for furloughs anyway…we did not get a 30 day notice at all….we just got a notice that we were going to get a notice and that hasn’t happened yet.  Maybe  I will google the news about that today…..

Well it’s now an hour till lunch I am craving a smoke big time….i might leave a bit earlier for lunch maybe so I can smoke sooner than that anyway…maybe leave in a half an hour I am not sure.  I am just so tired and not in the mood to be here right now….my boss is in today I think he just got in late is all…..man it’s going to be a long ass day today for sure……I just don’t know what to do for right now anyway.   I read my blogs already and stuff…..i guess I could check the fish forum I suppose….but I just checked it Friday so I don’t think there will be anything new on there anyway….

Man it is freezing in here again today…but I don’t know what temp it is since whoever took my thermo couple weeks ago still hasn’t brought it back yet…I am really ticked off about that….i think I can get another one though but I am not sure.  I have to ask my instrumentation guy anyway.

Well I went to lunch 20 mins early and just got back right on time anyway….but this new flavor cartridge I got doesn’t work very well…I worked okay when  I smoked it at home but now it takes several sucks to get any smoke out…this is killing me….i hope it lasts for the rest of the day anyway.

Okay I got all these parts for this design sketched up and the dimensions on there…I did mess up one and had to redo some math to figure out the correct one anyway….but it is fixed now….now I have nothing left to do for the day anyway…..but if my boss wants to have a meeting about this design before I give it to the design girl then he is going to have to send out a meeting maker when a time is good for him anyway….as he is usually pretty busy anyway.

Well out in the new area we got all the grass I think we are going to get.  It is getting long but there are many many bare spots out there.  And so far no weeds have moved in…but the ground out there is very compact as they tamped it down with a giant steam roller anyway…so I am not sure if we will get any weeds anytime soon anyway.

Man my boss nit picks my weekly minutes from our Monday morning meeting…he gave me some stuff he wants me to fix but he didn’t say if it was for this time or for next time anyway…..he is always nit picking my meeting minutes….i am tired of running the meeting I wish the lead engineers would go back to doing it……maybe next month I guess we’ll see I suppose.

Oh this flavor cartridge does work fine….it was just my battery getting ready to die is why it wasn’t working….it died the last time I was out just a few mins ago and I changed the battery and now it works just fine anyway….

We are getting a mechanic tomorrow to start our test back up to finish it so I am happy about that anyway….i am supposed to go to a stupid meeting in the morning but if we are getting our test up and running I am not going to go at all….i don’t really care…it is just going to be something about furloughs anyway which we already had a branch meeting for so I don’t need to go to another one for the interns I don’t see why anyway…..so I just won’t go I guess…..

Man my neck is starting to hurt and it is starting to give me a head ache as well…..i was going to leave a tad early today but the inspection guy told me I can come pick my article up at three thirty today so I will have to be here till at least almost 4 anyway….which blows for me…..i am not sure what on earth to do with my day today anyway….still three hours before then anyway….

so glad it is friday at last.....

Oh man yesterday about a half an hour before time to go home we had a tornado and all of us had to sit in the hallway for half an hour waiting it out….but there was no damage to the building or to our house or anything….

Then we went to dinner at chipotle last nite and I ate way too much and now I don’t feel so good this morning. I couldn’t even drink a whole cup of coffee….but at least I slept better last nite but I am still so friggin tired…

We got a letter in the mail last nite saying we have to have a conference with the school before my son can go back to school but yesterday was the last day of school…I called and left a message with the assistant principal but I am worried I won’t get a call back….if not I will call the principal Monday I guess…..i wish I would have known that before the end of school….i called the assistant principal the first day he got suspended and she didn’t mention it to me at all…..i am hoping that that phone call can count as a conference but I am not sure.

Well I am just about done with this design project I think…but every time I think I am done something else comes up anyway. So we’ll see I guess….

It’s a bit after 9 now and no word from the school at all….i have a sinking feeling they aren’t going to call me back at all….which makes me mad anyway….

Man it’s 10 now and no word from the school….that just ticks me off….

Anyway I am about done with this design project finally….at least I think so…my boss wants to have a meeting about it when I am done and I might have to make some changes maybe…..we’ll see though.

Now my husband is home he has a bunch of work to catch up on so he isn’t coming home for lunch today so I am going to mcdonalds then.  I can go in about 40 mins or so anyway.

Well I ate my chicken sandwich and now feel all bloated again…my husband says I eat to fast and I don’t know when I am full…he may have a point but I don’t like spending time prepping or eating food…I feel like it is a waste of time.  If it has more than a handful of ingredients or takes longer than 30 mins to make I don’t make it…and I usually eat it all up within 5 mins anyway.  So most of the time I only want something that takes 5 mins or less to make….like a bowl of cereal…or fast food…or something microwaved anyway.  I guess I am just not a foodie……if I could go  without eating at all I would…a lot of the time I skip lunch anyway….and I don’t eat breakfast at all….so sometimes all I eat in a day is dinner.  It’s no wonder I can’t gain any weight.

Oh I am almost to the end of season four of xena….i am at the parts where Gabriel got rid of her staff and used that stupid smoke blower for a weapon….that is so lame…I hated that thing…she has to get like a foot away from the bad guy and they don’t try to stop her at all….i think pretty soon she gets rid of it for her two little sword thingys…I think they are called sai ….. but I was so disappointed when she got rid of her staff…that was my favorite weapon that she had on the show anyway…and I can’t tell you how many times it got broken in battle and yet the very next time they showed it it was the exact same staff…..but that chalk dust weapon was more stupid than them dying a million times and coming back to life all the time….i also hated that about the show too…

The day is almost over with…I haven’t done a whole lot today…I got the balance ring for this arbor design worked out and that is about it anyway…..i gotta clean up the details for the rest of it but don’t really feel like it right now anyway….my electronic smoke battery has lasted me all day so far but I am out of flavor cartridges though… I have three of them but they have all either been used up or dried up in the past couple of days….i still got at least an hour left to go with no more smoking…..i smoked last about a half an hour ago…..

one more day to go.....

Well I just spent 3 hours on the phone to the help desk to find out I had a bad key board…every time I typed the word three everything in front of the word three deleted…..it was strange anyway.

Well I was gone from work yesterday… I haven’t been sleeping too well these past  three days….i think in the past three days I have gotten 6 hours of sleep…I can’t nap and I lay in bed for hours and hours….i guess since my husband is out of  town and my son got suspended from school I am a bit stressed I guess. But my husband should be back sometime this afternoon anyway.

Well I am not sure if I am still having issues with my computer or what in the upper right hand corner of this document the little circle with the windows icon is blinking on and off and I don’t remember it doing that before…..

Man I was so preoccupied this morning I didn’t notice how cold it was in here…now that I am settled down for the day I am freezing to death….and I still don’t have my thermo couple back yet.  That just makes me mad….

Man my ear is driving me nuts-o today…it is clogging in and out and won’t stop…I have been chewing gum all morning but it is not helping … I think I need some pseudo fed…but I can’t get any till after work  today anyway.  It is raining now at lunch so I am not going to lunch….

Well I ate a cheese Danish out of the snack machine and a pepsi and now I don’t feel so good….too much sugar I guess.  Lunch is about over with now too….i guess I am going to have to get busy on this design project today…..my boss sent me an email the other day telling me I shouldn’t be using auto cad…that we have people for that…but if I have to give her a design it would look better and be more readable if it was in auto cad as opposed to a sketch on paper…which I am not very good at anyway…so now I have to take my messy drawing and sketch it up by hand and give it to the drawing lady….i am not too happy about that anyway.

Man I am so tired right now…..i almost called in sick again today too but didn’t.  I only got a day and a half to go anyway…it should go by quickly…I just hope I can start getting some sleep here soon.  Man I really should get busy but I really don’t feel up to it right now at all…..and I am not feeling well at the moment either….my husband should be on his way back home here soon…they were going to lunch after the last conference talk then heading back…so I guess it depends on how long they are at lunch for….or if they have even gotten to lunch yet.

It’s almost 2 my husband is just now on his way home he said he would probly be there around 430 I guess.  We are going out to dinner tonite though…I don’t know where yet…maybe wild wings I guess….

Well I haven’t gotten any work done today…this afternoon we have been babysitting our test cuz it keeps shutting down….so I guess I will have to get busy tomorrow I suppose…my sinuses and my ear are clearing up though which makes me happy….

one lousy day again....

Oh shoot I had to leave work right away around 130 yesterday to go pick up my son…he got in a fight at school…so he is suspended the last few days of school which is no big deal I guess.  I am not mad or anything just pissed off that the school never does anything  about it and he is getting in trouble for taking care of it himself…I am hoping though he didn’t make things worse this time…I am going to have to talk to him about later I guess so he doesn’t get suspended again.  he got his biology test done and his last book turned it so that is good.  The vice principal said she would mail the report card but I don’t know if she will or not …so I am going to have to go down to the school about the week after to find out what is going on with it.  anyway the boy he got in a fight with was the same one who pushed him in the pool over the weekend and has been harassing my son all school year at lunch time.  he took kyle’s glasses and wouldn’t give them back so kyle hit him then the kid hit kyle upside the head and that is when the vice principal walked in and took them to  her office I guess…but I think lunch is over by noon and she didn’t call me till after 1…so she must have been interrogating them I suppose…I don’t know but even with taking all my pills and ODing on the sleeping pills I still didn’t get much if any sleep last nite at all…I almost called in sick today but I hoping we can run today but we’ll see.

For right now I can’t find my good mechanic and they got two totally newbies who don’t know what they are doing working on my project right now I am going to have to go back there and supervise I guess since my good mechanic is not…I am not sure where he is or what he is doing.

Well I found my good mechanic…he was at his desk a few mins ago…but before that I don’t know.  He is going down to the shop to give the new guys more directions but I am not sure if he is supervising or not….they gotta balance an article.  Which takes some finesse and can be tricky so I really hope he stays down there to tell them what to do…

I got an email from my uncle that lives in new York…he wants us to come up to his cabin sometime this summer…I told him that would be nice since I am getting a bunch of three day weekends in a row anyway….we should have plenty of time to get there and back in three days.  He has been extending us this invitation ever since we moved down here but we never go as there is always something that comes up and we can’t go.  I hope we can for sure this time.  it’s like an 8 hour drive though…which will suck ….but I can read or something in the car while we go I guess….

Well it’s nearly lunch time…all work on my test projects has gone out the window while they clean out pit one….that is the pit that has all the FOD cannon stuff in it….that was a fun test anyway….but I am mad it is butting into my testing progress…they should have other people working on that rather than my guys…I mean after all it doesn’t take much brains to haul out a bunch of tubing and a canister anyway.  they just have to block up the holes in the side of the lid though….

I am so tired and just pissed off right now…I was going to call in sick today cuz I didn’t get much sleep last nite but I thought for sure we would be testing today and we are not anyway…they are still having troubles balancing the test article too I think.  so I don’t know if we  will be testing tomorrow or not….i guess I could ask what the plan is anyway….i hate being out of the loop on my own projects that makes me so mad.

I guess there is a sick and injured baby cat hanging around the building the last couple of days…one of the ladies in the chem. Lab is trying to catch it I guess and take it to the vet anyway.  I think they said I looks like it has a broken leg and may be blind….one guy said he put food down and the cat had to sniff all around before he found the food so I think he is blind.  That is terrible.  but there is always stray cats running around on base anyway…but this one is a kitten.  I am not sure how a blind cat would survive in the wild as it can’t see to stalk and catch prey… maybe that is why he looks so sickly….i haven’t seen him yet but everybody is talking about it anyway.

Well my boss is out of his office right now the door is open but the light is off…this has been happening very frequently lately so I don’t think he is gone for good for the day but if he is gone around 330  I might just take off work and go home early maybe…we’ll see I guess.

Anyway it’s after lunch now for me anyway…everybody else is still at lunch for another half an hour…so I will head back to the shop around then and see if they are working on my test project or still cleaning up I guess. if not then I guess there is no point in being here at all really….i still gotta make all these dimensions neatly on a drawing….that will take a while too…I can work on that later this week anyway since it is a full week this week anyway.

Okay I made all my zillion phone calls to make a zillion appts for this month.  the only thing is I am waiting for the nephrologist to call me back about mailing me some lab work that we have to get done before we got there in aug.  I am surprised I didn’t have it written down on my calendar maybe last years I would have to dig through my pile of crap and look anyway.  oh I just looked I guess we don’t need to go back till February…my bad…I can still get the lab work though I think….oh I just looked on my calendar we went in feb so don’t need to go back till feb I guess…I better write all that on my calendar anyway….

Man nothing is going on today at all….i knew I should have called in today…I want to get out of here already…..

Man the longer this day wears on the madder I get…I have two total newbs standing outside the shop waiting for direction and my main mechanic is nowhere to be found.  So I am not sure what their plan for the day is…do they need to finish cleaning or start balancing…if they gotta balance they don’t know what they are doing and need the help of my main mechanic…it’s almost 2 now and I can’t find him anywhere….i am just getting really pissed off right now.

Man I think I am calling I sick tomorrow for sure…I am just going to tell my boss I didn’t get any sleep the past two nites and I am exhausted.  I am not sure what I will do at home all day but we’ll see I guess…I could watch xenas I am on season four now and so far it isn’t very good anyway….i can play my daughters new DS game she got this weekend..animal crossing…I was going to wait till the weekend to play it but I guess if I am home all day tomorrow I can play it anyway….we’ll see.

Well my main mechanic finally showed up around 2 oclock he is trying to balance the test article but it is being finicky so I am not sure it will be ready to test tomorrow either…I am seriously debating taking tomorrow off…we’ll see though…

Anyway I just heard a rumor they are going to try and cram 60 people in the new addition…there is no way..it is a quarter the size of our cube land and we have 50 some odd people in here….so there is no way 60 people are going to fit in there…that is just asinine.  

Damn I am in total ass pain today from standing up most of the day today… I need to go home and lay down right now but I gotta clean the litter box and maybe cook dinner tonite though I am thinking whatevers sounds good enough for me….we’ll see how I feel around 530 anyway.

sorry about yesterday

I had to leave work right away around 130 yesterday to go pick up my son from school ...he got in a fight and got suspended for the rest of the school year... i will blog more on it later today anyway.

yesterday's (monday) post

Well it was a nice enough weekend…I stayed in my pajamas all day Friday and watch xena on tv and I think I took a nap.  Saturday we got the kidz new swim suits and my son a new pair of sandals as he has gone up two shoe sizes since last summer.  Then he went to a graduation part at the pool on base from 6pm to 9pm.  I told him to stay out of the deep end and I think he did anyway…though he said some jerk of a kid pushed him the water and it made him panic a bit.  But he could sorta touch the bottom there anyway.  I was having anxiety all nite that he was going to drown….then Sunday we watch the French open finals and did launder and went grocery shopping and I cleaned my betta bowl….

My husband left the house around 530 or so Sunday nite to go out of town for the week to a convention.  He took his car since my daughter still can’t drive because of her toe.  I think it has been 7 weeks since she broke it so it should be getting better by now but it is still hurting her. I told her when I broke my leg I had crutches for a while and then had to do physical therapy to relearn how to walk and it was painful to walk…so maybe she just needs to start walking on it I guess…I could take her for more exrays I suppose.

Well we had our Monday morning meeting which usually doesn’t last long but today it was over 45 mins….there is a hot oil project we gotta get done and nobody knows what we are supposed to be doing to get  ready for that I guess.  but I don’t really care much as I have too much on my plate right now as it is anyway.

Man I am tired today …I went to bed early but didn’t fall asleep till after midnite…but since my husband is out of town I got to sleep in till 7 to give my son a ride to school…today is his last day of school…really he has three more days after today but they are all half days and I told him he didn’t have to go  if he didn’t want to.  the only thing though will be we won’t get his report card….i am going to have to call the school to see if they can mail us a copy I guess….or contact his councilor and ask her over the phone what his grades are anyway.  though last time she told me his grades were all passing except French which he is retaking next year…but I think he is going to get like 3 Ds anyway….he can take summer school if he wants to up those grades but he doesn’t want to anyway.

Oh….we were on the edge of a tropical storm this weekend so it rained a lot….out basement leaked a bit…it does when it rains a ton.  But now here at work everywhere where there is straw there is grass now…but there is a lot of bare spots where the wind blew the straw and the grass seed away…so either that stuff will fill up with weeds or they may replant maybe I don’t know.  But I saw a guy out mowing just a little bit ago anyway.

Well another weather alert…thunderstorm warnings from 2pm till midnite with possible tornados…so I guess I will be keeping an eye on the basement for flooding tonite…I can maybe have my daughter keep an eye on it since she stays up late anyway but I am not sure yet anyway.  we’ll see I guess.

Anyway it’s almost lunch time….i think I will get some mcdonalds today for sure…then I am not sure what to do for lunch the rest of the week anyway….i guess I should go home and check up on my son to make sure he is eating lunch too…cuz he gets on the computer and forgets to eat and stuff anyway.

Man all morning I have just been running around trying to find out what is going to go on today but so far I am coming up with not much.  There is a lot to do this week and it is a full 5 day week this week and I am not looking forward to it anyway.  my boss wants to have a sit down with me and my lead engineer about this arbor design sometime today but I am not sure if that is going to happen or not unless he sends out a meeting maker anyway…if it doesn’t happen today then I guess I can send out a meeting maker for it tomorrow I guess.  I am about done with it other than trying to figure out the balance points anyway.  which I am not sure about and need to talk to my lead engineer about it anyway.

It is freezing cold in here again today…and I still don’t have my thermo couple still…somebody ran off with it a couple of weeks back…I am tempted to send out an email to the whole building telling them to bring it back to me…I am so pissed off about it anyway….if they want a thermo couple they can just get one from instrumentation …so I don’t know what is up with that.  But I am thinking it’s only about 68 in here right now…and according to our saving money plan the AC is supposed to be like 75 or so and it is not…so I am not sure how we are getting away with that….i am sure it may come back to bite us in the ass eventually but we’ll see I guess.  but it is nice and warm outside right now though a bit cloudy anyway.

Well I see the landscapers are on base today cutting more grass around base.  A couple of weeks ago they mowed around mcdonalds….today they doing areas where there isn’t really any buildings at all.  but I can still see some spots where the grass is like 1.5 to 2 feet high anyway.  but they might pick that all up today maybe. Then who knows when they will mow again….

Well our AC system was just explained to me…I guess the water comes out of the cooling tower around 50 degrees or so then goes through a reheater to heat it up to the temp you need ….so for in order for us to save money on electricity we had to turn off the reheaters and therefore it is freezing ass  cold in here…and then in the winter we have to be at 65….this pisses me off to no end….i almost want to quit my job just to get out of this cold as stinking air….i am so ticked off right now…I am going to be an icicle all year long….

at least it is my friday at last

Well I went to the eye dr again yesterday because my eye ball was sore and felt like there was some pressure there.  She told me to cut back my antibiotics to just twice a day and gave me some moisturizing drops….now I am not thinking this is going to do very good…why…my eye ball still hurts and my vision is getting a bit blurry…in both eyes now.  I can see well enough it’s just a tad blurry really. I was hoping to get some steroid drops or a different antibiotic or something but whatever…I will just wait and see what happens till Friday and go in Saturday if I have to .

But my day at home was rather nice I slept most of the day away anyway…I went to the eye dr and ran a couple of errands but other than that I was sleeping.  I was dreaming about a black torty calico cat that had gray eyes and silver on her nose and a hot pink strip near her ear….i wanted the cat and was bugging the heck out of my husband to let me get it but he would not let me get it….it was a luvly cat though.

Oh man I was just in the bathroom and spotted a gray hair…it was at the top of my head and was a bit wavy…..so I pulled it out…I just hope I don’t start getting them like crazy anytime soon.  when I was 35 I found 3 gray hairs and pulled them out and didn’t get any more till just now….i hope there aren’t any more that I can’t see….

Well I am working on dimensioning this drawing and it is way more complicated than I thought….it is going to take me all day to do this….and I am just getting more and more confused as I do it…I had to find out about thermal expansion so I can make sure these fits will go together….as I am not so sure anyway….i only have on part that I know is right and all the rest is messing me up…I gotta reprint my drawing and try it again I gues……

Well the baby bunnies finally left the nest…I saw them yesterday.  There are two of them and they are about half the size of the adults and darker in color…almost gray…while the adults are mottled brown and white.  And the nest is finally uncovered now too so I don’t think they are going back in it at all…besides that it is way too small for them to fit in to it now anyway.  I got a pic on my cell phone but not on the camera and that is when I found out my cell phone does not have zoom…you have to go in and edit it to make it zoom in on an area you specify.  I don’t like that at all…my other phone camera had zoom.

Well lunch is over with and I have officially lost my motivation…I still have a ton of stuff to get drawn up on this project and I have two print outs with so much writing on them you can’t make heads or tails out of it….i am going to have to print it again later I guess…I have to break out all the individual parts separately and dimension those rather than this whole thing put together into one piece…..my back is hurting and I am ready to go home for the day….and my eyes have been bothering me all day today……it is going to rain and usually when it rains my eyes bug me which I don’t understand as you would think all that water would wash the pollen right out of the air…..

Well it’s almost two I am totally done for the day my brain is jello right now….all I have left to do now is figure out how big the balance ring needs to be and how many and what sort of weights to put on it I guess…I will need to talk to my lead engineer about that anyway….i am thinking 1inch ¼-28 bolts as that is the only nuts we have that are lock nuts…so I have to either order lock nuts which I can’t never find or bolts…which are easier to get a hold of anyway.  man I am worn out ready to get out of here for the day…my test is still running last time I checked it had like 500 cycles to go which will take a few more hours anyway…it might be done before we walk out the door today…but then it has to cool over nite before we can tear it down Monday anyway.

Man I have a terrible head ache right now….i am guessing from all this math and shit I have been doing all day…and I feel totally wiped out right now. I have to pieces of paper filled with dimensions and calculations and stuff…it is a mess…I am going to have to fix it up next week I guess….oh next week is a 5 day week anyway the first one since the past three weeks in a row anyway.  that is going to suck the big one…three more weeks till 8 hour 4 day weeks…I can’t wait for that….

didn't want to be here today at all.....

Sighhhh….i got up late today as opposed to the last couple of times I got here on time for my test anyway.  but now that it is up and running well I just couldn’t get out of bed this morning even though I was worried it was shut down anyway. but it did not shut down.

Man I have to send weekly summaries to my boss every week and for this arbor design I just wrote in there working on arbor design…he was not happy about that and wanted more details so I had to send him an email telling exactly what I was doing anyway. I wasn’t happy about that….i have been doing these summaries for over a year now since he became our boss and I am tired of doing them…I keep my own monthly summary so when we have to do midyear and end of year write ups I know what to say anyway.  I don’t keep my weekly ones as that is just too much to keep up with.

Well I was just getting more coffee and heard that we did not get approved for working 9 hour days during furlough…I am happy about that but nobody else seems to be…I mean sure a 4 day weekend would be great but there is no way I can do a ten hour day and 9 hours are tough enough to get through…I will be nice to go to 8 hour days with three day weekends…it will give me some much needed time away from here anyway.

Well I had to fold up strip chart paper this morning …it took me an hour and a half…there was over 1000 pages I am pretty sure….but I lucked out and within the messy pile there was large sections already folded up so that help a lot.

Man I did not want to come in today at all….i stayed in bed till about 635 this morning….and it took all I had to get out of bed and get ready to come here today.  I am done with work for the morning anyway and I will work on my arbor design after lunch I guess….i need to add one more part to my drawing as per my discussion with my boss last week anyway.

I just don’t want to be here right now at all….

Oh my smoke juice I ordered came in the mail last week….i put some mocha in my flavor cartridge last nite…it is very mild and really doesn’t taste like anything really…and there is a guy here at work that wants to buy my cream coffee flavor off of me tomorrow…that is one I really wanted to try but I guess I can order more later…

I watched Hercules this weekend all the episodes xena was supposed to be in…there were four episodes she was not in at all that they said she was supposed to be and one episode was in the alternate universe and she was in it for one short scene.  And the ones with hope weren’t like I thought…she doesn’t get grown in the cocoon till later in season three of xena anyway…I thought that was on Hercules but it wasn’t.

Oh man I checked my yahoo blu does not give your money you can just replace your parts within a year…and they said the battery is only supposed to last 30 mins but I get a lot longer than that anyway…so now I am not sure what I am going to do…either just live with this one or buy new batteries and a charger from PEC smoke shop I am not sure…..but I am not too happy about it though….

Well I went to mcdonalds for lunch today and I had to pull up to wait for my food…just now I am opening the bag and they got my sandwich right but I have two apple pies in here as well….i swear this mcdonalds is on crack….

Man I got so much to do this month…I see the chiropractor and my psychiatrist at the end of the month and then I have to take my one cat for her check up and both cats in for shots and if I want a two for one deal on glasses I have to get me and my son in before the month is over too….that is just too much to do for me…I am dragging my feet on making the phone calls… I guess I will do it this Friday I suppose since I have the day off anyway.  which would be a good day for appts I guess but whatever….i hate being so busy…it makes me feel overwhelmed and like I am forgetting to do stuff….

Well supposedly this week we are supposed to get our final furlough letters and they gotta give us 30 day notices….and the week is over on Thursday…and so far no word on them yet.  but the first furlough day is the first Friday in july…not that I want to lose the pay but I am looking forward to getting some time off from this stinking place anyway.  8 hour days with every Friday off are going to be really nice.  It can’t come soon enough…..

There used to be  a girl who worked here maybe around two years ago..well she called me this weekend… I guess she is remarried now and having a baby in dec…and she is teaching math I think she said….i wouldn’t mind teaching math…I like math…but I haven’t done any in a while and I am sure I don’t remember half the stuff I learned but all through college I got strait  As in math except for my advanced engineering math 2…I got a C in that class only because the teacher curved the grades….it was not engineering math really it was theoretical math for the physics students so I was mad they labeled it engineering math….that was a terrible class with a terrible teacher…that was my last math class too….

Man it’s one oclock and I don’t  feel like doing anything today….lately every time I think to go home early I get trapped at my desk around 330 every time and end up being here all day….so I might try to go home early today we’ll see.  I am waiting to hear from a bunch of people on a bunch of different things and no one is getting back to me…no one ever gets back to me it makes me so mad….i swear would it hurt just to drop me a few sentences saying they will get it to later or something ……uggggg…..

Well my husband is going out after work to the seafood place tonite.  It’s like the only seafood place around and is only open during the summer. I told him if they have lobster that we can go there this weekend…I have been wanting lobster since early this year.  So my thought is to get out of here early and go home and take a nap….it’s 230 now I think I can get out of here in maybe 45 to 60 mins I hope.

Well I only have two ecig batteries and I started smoking at 730 this morning and just now my second battery ran out…so that is like 7 hours of use anyway. I have a third battery coming in maybe a week or two…so then I can at least smoke all day at work and not have to switch to regular smokes anyway…though I am reading a bit on line and I heard some bad things about this PEC smoke shop place and I have to say I have sent them two emails in the past two weeks and have not heard back from them at all…so that doesn’t bode well I guess…maybe I won’t order batteries from them…I just don’t know yet.  I don’t think they have any kind of replacement guarantee like blu does anyway.

I am starting to not feel so good to my stomach right now….i guess maybe lunch didn’t sit well or something…I don’t know…I did eat one of those apple pies maybe that was just a tad too many calories for me or something.  I have the other one sitting on my desk and was thinking about eating it this afternoon but now I am not feeling too good I don’t think I will.

oh boy another monday.....

Well I went to the eye dr and it turns out I have an infection.  I got some eye drops for that and I gotta put them in 3 times a day.  So I will have to go home every day for lunch this week I guess.  the pain has gone away anyway but there is still a slight be of swelling…she said that would take a while to go away…she was going to give me some antibiotics with steroids in them but I told her I  don’t like to take ones I have never taken before because I am allergic to so many so she just gave my plain antibiotic ones anyway.  We’ll see how I am doing Friday I guess.

Also this morning I went to turn on the radio in my car and none of my saved stations were saved….it was like my battery went dead or something….i am not sure what happened… I managed to reprogram one in the on my way to work but will have to put the rest in later I suppose.  It was crazy….

Well I had my weekly meeting and got out all my emails…I am not hearing from anybody on anything though and it is making me mad.  Our test shut down this weekend we are at temp now to start but our technician is busy on another project so we can’t start till he is done with that which will be another hour or so I guess.  my one inspection guy has had my test article for like three weeks now and hasn’t worked on it yet.  last week he took it to the air force base but he still has to do his eddy current work on it…hopefully I will get it back today.  but no meeting with rolls today though….so I can go to lunch early if I want to… I have to put eye drops in when I get home anyway…oh man I am getting hungry already and it’s only 930 I guess I should eat a snack….

Well the new blu battery I just bought that came in the mail the other day only works for like an hour….and I am still waiting on the one I sent that didn’t charge at all to be exchanged….i think I am going to return this whole hunk of junk and try and get my money back and order a different brand anyway.  it’s hasn’t been thirty days since I have had it but I can’t find a 30 day money back guarantee on their site only a one year warrant for exchanges.  I emailed them I hope to hear back by tomorrow and if I can get my money back I will put it in the mail this week for sure….what good is to have an electronic cigarette when I am constantly have to supplement with regular ones????

Well our test is up and running and the replica guy is coming around 230 today….but he wants to show me how to do it so I can do it instead of him…but I don’t want to…I took over 300 replicas on my last job and don’t want to do it again….but I can’t look at these ones under my microscope because they are solid black and won’t show up.  I still have to get the replica I take to the guy for him to look at and measure…so I still don’t see the point of me having to do it….i am just not too happy about that at all….

I am trying to find out how long these PEC smoke shop batteries last for and I can’t really find anything….i found one thing that said they last for 10 cigarettes worth…if that is true then one should last me most of the day at least while I am at work anyway….but we’ll see I guess…I got my smoke juice I ordered in the mail this weekend…I think I will try to fill up one of my empty flavor cartridges and see what they taste like anyway…..

Oh man some guy who doesn’t work here but is overseeing  a test he has going on here found my wallet in the parking lot and brought it to me….that was nice of him…luckily I don’t keep anything in my wallet other than my debit card and my insurance cards…though if nobody touched it I would have seen it when I went to go get in my car as he said it was right next to my car anyway…..so I am happy he brought it to me…

Well my replica guy should be here in about 15 mins or so….then I think I might leave for the day after he is gone as my boss isn’t here this afternoon….he came to my meeting this morning but his door has been open but the light has been off all day today so I am not sure if he coming back or not anyway.  we’ll see I guess….

Well my replica guy showed up very late so we didn’t get done till after three…and then my boss came back so I couldn’t leave early…..so about 20 mins to go anyway…I am trying to post this but waiting for the page to load anyway.

ugggg....my ecig is going to be the death of me....

Well yesterday right before I left work I got an itch on my eye lid and when I scratched it it hurt a little bit…now this morning my eye lid is all swollen and it is very painful and my vision in that eye is  a bit blurry….i don’t know what could be the issue…I was thinking maybe a bug bite but I don’t remember getting bit by a bug yesterday….

Then last nite I had dreams about this design project all nite long…it kept waking me up and I tried to think about something else before I went back to sleep but that didn’t work…I guess because yesterday at the end of the day my boss sent me a meeting maker to meet him about this design project anyway….i think I am worried about it…but I am pretty much done with it at this point I just gotta put in the dimensions and I talked to my lead engineer a lot about it yesterday so I pretty much know what to write anyway.

Well I been googling about swollen eye lids and it says it could be a myriad of things but mainly either an infection or allergies….i somehow doubt it is allergies as I take benedryl every nite at bed time and I would think then both of my eyes would be bothered by it too…and I don’t think it is an infection because I don’t have a  scratch on my eye at all…and usually infections come from an open wound….so I am not sure what is going on anyway….i might try to get to the eye dr today perhaps as it says if it doesn’t get better or if it gets worse go to the eye dr….but I gotta meet with my boss in half an hour so I can’t do anything about it till after then anyway.

15 mins till my meeting with my boss…I think I am calling the eye dr after I am done so I can get in today sometime I think….it hurts to blink…I am really tired today too from waking up a ton of times in the nite last nite…..

Oh I went to refill all my meds last nite as I got two days worth left now….and it wouldn’t let me refill one it said it was too soon to fill….which I didn’t understand as usually I can refill them all like at least a week in advance…so I had to call the pharmacy to get them to submit my refill…I am picking them up today after work.  So I might take a nap today after work since I am a bit tired today anyway…..man my eye hurts like crazy….

Well my meeting with my boss wasn’t that bad….i don’t think he likes what I got for a plan for this design project….he wants to meet with my lead engineer and the cad lady and me on Monday about it I guess…so I am not sure if I want to waste my time putting dimensions in the drawing today or not but I probly will anyway…

I tried calling the eye dr but the phone just rang and rang and rang…no answer no machine or nothing…they are supposed to be open at 930 today and I think I called a couple of mins before that…so I will try back here a little later I guess…I hope I can get in fairly late in the afternoon so I don’t have to miss too much work anyway……..ok I got a 2 oclock appt so I will leave around 130 or so for that….and just not come back afterward as it is a 3 oclock day at work anyway….

Well it’s almost lunch time…my husband isn’t coming home for lunch today and he didn’t yesterday either …so I am thinking about going to get Chinese food for lunch today I think…..i was thinking about skipping lunch all together but I don’t want to sit at my desk all day today…I fiddled with my drawing a bit I guess I will have about another hour to do it after lunch before I have to leave anyway.

Well after giving it some thought over lunch I think I am allergic to my ecig….i have been  smoking it for exactly two weeks now I think….and one time I was on an antibiotic for like 2 weeks and didn’t get a reaction till like 10 days of taking it…but I broke out with hives all over the place and this time I just have a swollen eye lid….anyway I bought a regular pack of smokes with me from lunch and I will just smoke those today anyway…but if it  is an allergic reaction to my ecig it’s going to take many days for the swelling to go away and I might have to get some steroid drops….as when I got allergic to that antibiotic the dr gave me steroids to treat it.

Man it is hot right now…I wish I knew how warm it was in here but someone took my thermo couple so I don’t know….but I am very very warm right now…a bit sweaty ….

Well after doing some more research I found that certain types of citric acid have sulfites in them and I am allergic to sulfites and citric acid is on ingredient in the blu’s flavor cartridges…I emailed them to ask them about  it anyway….i don’t know if they know or if they will get back to me but we’ll see…I also emailed the new place I just bought smoke juice from and asked them about it as well….but they do not have anywhere I can find that lists the ingredients in their product…but I am sure citric acid may be one.

Anyway it’s just about time for me to leave for my appt anyway…so I will see what the dr thinks about it anyway….

one more day to get through.....

Well the next couple of days aren’t going to be so great anyway…I really gotta finish this arbor design and get my test started up this morning…we are doing that here soon..then we have a meeting about furloughs today….to get a letter that we are going to get a letter…which seems silly to me anyway….and there is a terrible rumor going around about furloughs as well….which I am hoping doesn’t come true…instead of doing 8 8 hour days with every Friday off…the big boss…my boss’s boss wants to do 4 9 hour days with Friday off then 2 9 hour days and 1 10 hour day with Thursday and Friday off….there is no way I am doing a 10 hour day around here I can barely stand a 9 hour day….that is ridiculous my only saving thought on it is that it has to be approved by some very higher up people and I think they will deny that as they want to keep everybody on the same schedule I am hoping anyway.  anyway we’ll see what my boss says about it during the meeting this morning anyway….

Anyway I am on the part of xena season three where hope killed xena’s son solin….and then after that they had the lame musical where they were in illusia…that is a terrible episode…but I watched it anyway….now I have to switch back to hercules and watch the ones where calisto grows hope in some sort of cocoon and she hatches out as an adult….i guess I will watch those this weekend I suppose and have a marathon I guess….also a new season of arrested development is on Netflix and I gotta watch those too… so I guess I will be doing a lot of tv watching this weekend….that is okay by me I must say.  I luved arrested development…my daughter watch the whole new season already and said that they were just alright…not as funny as the original series…so we’ll see I guess when I watch them anyway.

Okay we got up and running anyway…about 10 mins till the meeting anyway….i don’t really want to be here today at all…I had to get up at 6 today to get to work on time so we could start up the test…so I didn’t get to sleep as much as  I usually do anyway…it was really hard to get out of bed today…so I am a bit tired this morning anyway…

Well that meeting was a waste of time..we did not get our furlough letters at all…I guess my boss’s boss is handing them out between today and tomorrow I guess….but there was mention of  the 9 hour weeks but my boss didn’t say anything about the one 10 hour day….but I guess our branch has some flexibility to make up their own schedules so we might go the 9 10 route….which doesn’t make me happy at all…I did the math and I would only use about 6 hours of leave to take one hour off every other Wednesday…so I might just do that….but I would have to slip it by my boss first though….which I don’t think he would allow it but we’ll see…people who van pool are going to miss their rides because the rest of the base will be on 8 hour days with every Friday off….so they are going to have to drive themselves to work during the furlough period….

Well I have just been running around getting measurements and asking questions and trying to get this design fleshed out…I got a drawing but it is a bit incomplete and I don’t have any dimensions in it yet….i am working on it anyway…it’s almost lunch time though so I think I will just goof off till lunch time anyway…..

Man it is warm in here today but I don’t know what the temp is as some jackass took my thermo couple again…man that makes me so mad…the least they could do is ask me first before they walk off with it….last time someone took it was gone for about a week or longer…I wonder how long it is going to be gone this time….sighhhh…..

Well lunch is about over with….i tracked my new blu batter and it should be here around 4 or 5 or so tonite I guess….i tried to track the smoke juice I ordered from PEC smoke shop…all they gave me was a tracking number but didn’t say who they ship through…so I tried usps ups and fedex and didn’t come up with anything at all….so I am not sure if there is anyone else you can ship through or what but this tracking number I got didn’t work on any of those sites….

Man yesterday I was on my feet all day and by the end of the day I was in total pain…I had to go home and take some pain pills and lay down for a couple of hours before I started feeling better…though my feet hurt all the way up till almost bed time…and now my feet hurt again today and I really haven’t been on them much today really..maybe  a couple of hours anyway….

Oh man we have another meeting this afternoon at 2 to get our furlough letters I guess…what a waste of my time….why couldn’t they have given them out this morning first thing when we were all back there already…stupid….i guess we have to sign them and give a copy back I heard….what happens if I refuse to sign it?????????

Well I got these extra parts that the design lady doesn’t have in her drawing sketched up to give to her to add them to the drawing….i am not really good at design drawing so I hope she can make heads and tails out of them anyway…we’ll see I guess.  I spent most of the morning measuring it all and discussing it with my lead engineer….now all I have left to do is dimension my arbor parts…which I am still not too sure about yet so I have to talk to my lead engineer about that as well…..but I have a drawing of the parts more than mostly done anyway….it is in autocad for now which I will keep it in autocad but I am going to have to add some things to it and change some things about it anyway.

Anyway like 3 hours to go….i really want to go home right now ….i don’t know if I am going to do anything else today or not but we’ll see I guess…I got another meeting at two which is in about an hour and won’t last long anyway.  it’s almost too hot to go outside to smoke…I get a bit over heated while I am out there….so the cool air feels nice inside anyway…until I get un over heated…then I feel a bit chilly…can’t win for loosing…

Well all the grass they planted out there is growing back very patchy….there is more dirt than grass out there right now and I am pretty sure we aren’t going to get any more grass than what we got now…so now it will be a waiting game for the weeds to come in I guess…maybe by the end of summer perhaps…we’ll see.  The weeds already took over my flower bed that I made last year and I think that only took about a month or so for the weeds to take over….but the ground outside of here is very packed and very dry so I don’t know when the weeds will show up if at all I guess…if they don’t then next year they are going to have to plant more grass or something ……

We got our furlough notices that we are going to get a furlough letter next week…silly…we had to sign the back and give it back though…whatever I guess…..

Okay about an hour left to go but I might leave early today a bit anyway as I got here on time today which I don’t remember the last time I have been to work on time ….maybe 6 months or longer….

oh half over for the week : )

Well it’s after lunch and I have been busy since I got here.  we are trying to get one of my tests up and running the heated test but it is taking us all day to prep…we had to balance then build up with the heaters and the oven and stuff….then we leaked checked…no oil leaks but a water leak…that was right at lunch…so my mechanic made a new line and took a late lunch but we are still have a water leak….so it looks like we won’t be starting the test up today because it takes 3-4 hours to heat up before we can press the go button…so maybe tomorrow we’ll see.

I got my faulty ecig battery in the mail at lunch today and just sent it regular post instead of over nite….so it will take a few days to get there 1-2 weeks to process then a few days to get back to me so maybe 3 and half to 4 weeks from now I will get my new battery…it’s a good thing I ordered and extra one that shipped out yesterday and should be here hopefully tomorrow or Friday anyway…..

I was so busy this morning I almost missed a phone con we were having at 9…at 904 I was at my desk and saw the reminder on my screen so called in right away anyway. at least it was short and to the point anyway…..

But my feet are killing me from standing up all morning this morning….i need to go home and lay down for an hour or so to feel better anyway…and I will most likely be standing up all the rest of today as well…..

Well we are heating anyway…it will be done heating around 4 or so tonite…but I am going to be here possibly that late anyway as I am waiting on my inspection guy to get back from the air force base and he just left and it is 20 after 2 and it is like a two hour drive depending on traffic…so I guess I can hope traffic isn’t bad anyway….

So a short blog today anyway I am just too busy to have any time to write anything…..oh man I am trying to post but the page is not loading…this happens to me almost every day….i am getting a little tired of it…the internet at work sucks the big one….

a monday tuesday...bleck....

Well it was a busy weekend ….Thursday I didn’t do a whole lot and Friday I had an appt with the chiropractor and then had a xena marathon while my husband and daughter were at the movies watching start treck… I have no desire to see it…I don’t like the new time line or the new kirk…. But Saturday and Sunday we cleaned house and ran a few errands and I cleaned the fish tanks …which usually takes me less than an hour but I had to scrap algae this time around so it took me almost an hour and half to do that.  Then Monday we didn’t do much either….

Sunday nite I recorded a show about the possibility that mermaids exist. I watched that Monday.  But all the footage they had of mermaids looked like cgi so I am not so impressed by it anyway….though they had some compelling pictures.  From back in the 1800s when barnum had a museum…he had what he called the real mermaid and the photos were black and white but very real looking anyway.  but the mermaid burned in a fire and all they had left was those few photos.  I tried googling them today but all I could find was the fiji mermaid which is a monkey torso attached to the bottom half of a fish…those do not look real at all….i can’t believe people would be duped by that sorta thing anyway.  anyway if you can I would suggest watching the show it was pretty good really but like I said nothing to compelling anyway.

Oh the grass they planted out there in the new area is finally sprouting up…it is very sparse and patchy and thin and spindly but it is growing anyway.  I guess anywhere the grass does not grow weeds will take over.  But maybe it will all grow in another week or  so maybe….. also the construction crew is totally gone now.  even the shed the boss was sitting in got hauled away.  And they did not build a fence around the entire new section…they just put up and small bit around the back is all….so now all it needs is office stuff and then people can start coming over here I guess….

Man I am having all sorts of issues with my ecig…one of my batteries is dead and won’t charge.  I am hoping to get it in the mail sometime this week to exchange it for a new one…but that takes 1-2 weeks to process so I bought a spare that should ship out today and be here before the week is over with anyway.  and the one battery I have left doesn’t even last for 8 hours and some people told me the batteries last a couple of days…but I am finding that is not true…we’ll see how my new battery does I guess and if it lasts longer than this one I have now maybe I will send it back to for another new one maybe…but in the mean time I had to get regular cigarettes to smoke and after a few days of smoking these ecigs regular ones tasted like shit….but I got used to them again anyway….so I will be bouncing back and forth between my ecig and regular smokes until my new battery gets in anyway.

Well all I got to do this week is the arbor design…which I don’t feel like working on at all…I need to come up with a sketch and show it to my lead engineers to see what they think of it I guess.  then I gotta figure out what the dimensions are supposed to be.  I got 4 whole days to figure it out and today both of my lead engineers are running tests so they won’t be available today at all….but I don’t think this is going to take me all week to do so I am not sure what to do to fill the rest of my week anyway….

My knee is achy today like a low pressure front is coming through or something.  It is going to be in the mid to high 80s all this week and chance of rain all this week as well…..

I have just been googling about mermaids there are a bunch of youtube stuff but I can’t access youtube from work anyway….but they talk about that show that was on tv the other nite as well….i think you can watch some of the videos from the discovery web site I think that is what channel I watched it on anyway.  but there isn’t much I can find that shows pictures of real mermaids or any articles or much about them anyway…most all I can find is mythology about them anyway.

Well still googling about mermaids and found out this show I watched was 100 percent fictional….so that explains why the mermaids looked like they were cgi because they were cgi….so I am wondering also about those barnum pictures as I can’t find anything on the internet about them at all…so I suspect they were also faked as you can still take black and white photos even now a days …… so that was lame….i wonder why they did a 100 percent fictional show on their channel…that makes no sense to me at all…and then there was the spears….there is no way they could be made of metal and wood as you need a foundry and some wood working tools which I am sure the mermaids can’t have access to…so they would have to made of bone and maybe shark’s teeth…but that isn’t what the pictures showed anyway…they looked like they were made of metal….so I guess the only thing I have to look at is youtube videos which I can’t watch from work so maybe sometime this week I guess…we’ll see…..

Well a couple of weeks ago they mowed the grass around my building today they were mowing grass around mcdonalds but nowhere else around the base that I can tell anyway.  so I am not sure if they are going to do the whole base or not but we’ll see I guess…

Anyway my ecig battery died already and it’s only 1130 so it only lasted 5 hours today instead of the 7 hours on the weekend…so I think it only lasts for 7 uses which is about as many times as I have smoked this morning anyway. I hope my new batteries work a lot better…from what other people tell me they are supposed to last a couple of days…but that is not the case with mine….

Well I have been doing some research on my ecigs…I got the blu brand…apparently there is a lot of people who have issues with the batteries  I guess…I got the premium 100s and the batteries are supposed to last 250-300 puffs….let’s say I take 6 puffs a min (which I don’t think I do) for 5 mins….then it should last 8 to 10 times I guess..which isn’t much and the flavor cartridges are supposed to last 320 puffs which is like 11 times almost…but so far I have been using them for at least 2 if not almost three days in a row…so technically the battery should last that long as well but it does not…I guess I can get some 510 batteries from PEC smoke shop that should last longer but I can’t charge them in my blue charger I have to get a charger from them…I guess it is  a polarity issue…so depending on how my new batteries last me I might get some new ones from PEC smoke shop I guess…..the batteries cost like 12 bucks a piece and the charger is 10 bucks….so that is kind of spendy but it might be worth it to have a longer lasting battery anyway.  if I do the math then the amount of puffs I smoke at one time is only like 8 to to 13 puffs…but I am sure I puff more than that when I  am smoking … a regular cigarette takes me like 3 mins to smoke and when I smoke my ecig I have to smoke for like 5 mins to feel like I got enough nicotine anyway.  maybe next time I will count my puffs I guess….

Well I counted my puffs on my regular cigarette and it was 15 in about 3 mins…so technically the battery should last me about 10 times and I am not getting that many times at all…I will see how my new batteries work then maybe order these 510 from PEC..they also have hundreds of flavor juices to chose from and a lot of them are propylene glycol free…which is supposed to be an irritant and some people are allergic too and if that is the case then I am sure I would be allergic to it also…but my blus are propylene glycol free also…..so I am happy about that anyway.  so now I found some instructions for refilling my blu flavor cartridges and I think I might order some juice from PEC….though I really like the tobacco flavor of the blu it’s sweet almost coffee tasting…so maybe I can get mocha or coffee and vanilla and mix them for a close comparison anyway.  that sounds like a plan anyway.

oh goody today is my friday : )

Something else my mom told me about yesterday after I got home from work was some gel food for fish I think she called od gel food….but I couldn’t find anything about that on line anywhere….all I could find was recipes for making your own gel fish food…which I am not doing as it sounds like a pain in the ass…you gotta liquefy all the veggies and meats you put in there then mix it with gelatin and freeze it all and it makes like 2 pounds of food which is way way too much than I want to have around….and you gotta use all kinds of veggies and make sure you have some fish meal or shrimp meal or something in there for protein. 

But she told me what kind of koi clay she is ordering….it is called thrive.  So I went to their site to check them out and it says on their site that this stuff combats algae so maybe I will buy some koi clay to try out anyway.  though I am slightly worried it is going to clog my filters up though….we’ll see I guess.

Well they haven’t gotten to finish the fence yet but everyone else thinks they were just doing that back part and that is it…so I guess they are all done around here then.  The building they were using outside to sit in has the electricity disconnected from it so I guess they will come and pick up that building soon…it was like a little shed with windows and a locked door and stuff.  But so far the only grass that sprouted is the grass in the back the front hasn’t at all and it has been raining pretty much every day but not much more than scattered sprinkles here and there.

Well this morning I have been reading statements of work and contracts for a job we have coming up here soon….that we gotta prep for and nobody is sure what our side is responsible for and what the other party is responsible for…there is an issue with a drain line I guess….but from what I am reading it is sounding like we are responsible for the making the drain line….but I really didn’t see anything specific about that in the paper work I have been reading so I am not sure …

My boss said I could get tomorrow off so I am happy about that…..so today is my last day here.  I gotta do some more work on this design project again today.   I have some issues I need to discuss with my lead engineers though….maybe I can do that later…I don’t feel like it at the moment anyway…..i would luv not to be here today either….but I am here anyway…..

Well my ecig refills came yesterday so I am smoking that today. I got the tobacco flavor this time as the peach was nasty as hell….the tobacco flavor almost tastes like the coffee I drink in the morning heavy with cream and sugar…so it’s not bad.  At least I don’t have to worry about lighting it in the wind…which it is really windy today…or catching my hair on fire like I always seem to do anyway.

It’s 930 now and I am pretty much done for the morning anyway….i still gotta talk to my lead engineer but I might do that after lunch however he might be running a test this afternoon so I might have to wait and talk to him tomorrow anyway…so I am not sure what to do for now still like an hour and a half till lunch  though…but my husband can’t make it home for lunch today so I guess I will get something out then…I haven’t decided what though at the moment anyway.

Man I can’t wait till the end of the day I am so happy I get a 5 day weekend it’s going to be awesome except for the fact we are going to try to clean up the house though…that will take a whole day or maybe a day and half to get done….my husband said my daughter’s bathroom is really moldy as hers is in the basement and doesn’t have a vent at all….but she hasn’t been using hers since she broke her toe she has been using ours….we have a couple of little ledges in our shower you can sit down on so she can sit down in the shower and not hurt her toe anyway.

There are two things that bug me most about the weather that is the wind chill and the heat index…if it says it is one temp but feels like another temp then really the temp should be how it feels and not what the dry thermometer says….but I am just reading about heat index on Wikipedia and this is what they have to say about it……

Like the wind chill index, the heat index contains assumptions about the human body mass and height, clothing, amount of physical activity, thickness of blood, sunlight and ultraviolet radiation exposure, and the wind speed. Significant deviations from these will result in heat index values which do not accurately reflect the perceived temperature

So I don’t but the whole heat index wind chill crap anyway…if it says it is one temp then that is what temp it is….who is to say that what it should feel like is the same from person to person given the assumptions they make…..stupid….

Oh man no wonder I hate the AC I was just googling it and it say the air coming out should be 20 degrees colder than the set temp so like 60 at home and 50 at work no wonder I am freezing to death all the friggin time….it is cold today only 69 in my cube and the AC is blowing right on me…I am so friggin cold right now…they are supposed to have the AC set on like 74 or 75 or something like that but there is no way it is that high because it’s only 69 in here right now and fairly warm outside…and yesterday it was hot outside and only like 73 in here so I know they don’t have it set to where it is supposed to be…..

Well we got another email about furloughs…we are getting our 30 day notices here in the next couple of weeks then the first week of july will be 8 hour days with every Friday off. Till the end of sept.  so only about three months of it anyway which shouldn’t be too bad I would think…we got a bit of money in savings so we should be alright….

Oh that reminds me yesterday (4 days till payday) my husband says we only have 600 dollars in checking so we have to watch what we spend….like I can spend 600 dollars in four days…I don’t think so….he is crazy…that is a good cushion in my opinion anyway.

Well it is windy and feels about 70-75 out there…I just checked and it is 75 with 10 mile an hour winds…wind chill calculator says it is 77 out there with the wind….which it does not feel like that at all…and heat index says 76…maybe it could be 76 but if feels closer to between 70 and 75 and old wind chill says it’s 71 out there…which I can buy that maybe…but I wonder what made them change the way they calculate wind chill?????

Oh man I just spent about an hour trying to clean out my work email so I don’t get a full inbox while I am gone for 5 days….i only got about half way through my inbox and there is still my sent items to go through but I don’t feel like it at all….i am done looking at my emails for sure….i made it from current going backwards to sept 2012 though….so maybe I have all the way up to some 2011s in my email…..i am not sure.  it’s only one oclock though and already I am ready to get out of here….going through my email felt like two hours cuz I thought it was 2 oclock a min ago till I went out to smoke and looked at my watch…I was bummed for sure….

Well the sun came out and it is about 80 degrees out there now it feels good but it is still windy….it is only 70 in my cube and I am freezing to death… I hope now that the sun is out it might warm up a degree or two in here before the day is over but who knows….

Man since I did my email this afternoon right now I am burnt out and don’t feel like doing anything else…but I gotta make a spread sheet I guess…it wouldn’t be so bad if I wasn’t totally freezing and just wanna stand outside in the sun right now.  about 2 and a half hours till the day is over with…..