What significant things have I done today?

[Griffin NoName]

Got my essay into shape - not finished but I can see the end coming along. Have to write intro and conclusion and verging on word count limit already, so may be hard. Also some major stuff missing and no idea how to fit them in given the word count. Why does this always happen?

Have been slave to this essay since I got back from my trip in July so pretty pleased the end is nigh.

[Opsa]

More power to you, Griffin! 

[Griffin NoName]

Hmmm. I'll need a lot of that Opsa. I just lookedd up the assignment details and I've missed a major part of it............ I have no idea why I didn't read it before starting the essay. I think I have several screws loose.

[Aggie]

I'd offer a screwdriver, but so do I... 

Cremated a pot of beans today by leaving the house for two hours with the burner turned to MAX.  I knew it was a risk, and realized while out and about that I hadn't turned 'em down - PANIC, HORROR, VISIONS OF FIRETRUCKS - but luckily came home only to a house full of bean-smoke, which smells nasty.

Makes me wonder about the building fire alarms, unless they are heat-sensors only.

[Griffin NoName]

Next time restrict your arsonic impulses to scented candles.

[Aggie]

You're talking to a man with 5 bbq's/smokers - I know how to smoke the place out, but beans aren't my preferred flavour element.


It still smells terrible in here.

[Opsa]

Well, look at it this way: maybe you smoked out the mealybugs.

[Aggie]

I've tried (without much follow-up observation) fumigating with N. rustica smudges.  Might work for the aphids, but they seem to tolerate (if not thrive on) the rustica.

The worst part is I went to a bank appointment after dealing with the smokehouse, and had to apologize because I smelled distinctly of burnt beans!

[Darlica]

I have a day off, which is very much needed and what do I do? I work... Unpaid overtime... Why? Because I need to prepare for the course I hold tomorrow and yesterday was chaotic and left no time for preparations and I don't do half assed, it's not my style.

What else can I do.

[Aggie]

Sounds somewhat familiar - I took the day off yesterday and got caught up with some important divorce-related paperwork (in between bean emergencies ), but have been subsidizing my productivity with banked overtime a bit lately. 

[Lindorm]

Darlica forgot to mention that later in the evening, she drove down to the depot where I am based and picked up not just me, but my trainee driver and her newly found loot: A Neutral section sign, used when there is a neutral section in the catenary, over a metre on each side and reflective. My trainee is going to hang it on the wall of her flat after a bit of cleaning. It actually does look like something Peter Saville could have made for Factory Records in the early eighties.

Trainee + sign safely delivered to her home, after which Darlica got us home, and I made a nice onglet steak with a marchand du vin sauce for dinner. All in all, not a bad ending to the day.

[Griffin NoName]

Bah! Not very significant at all, but I screwed my essay up today. I need to cut out chunks to get the word count down, without losing stuff they will mark me down on not including it. And rewrite the intro and conclusion. No real progress and the deadline is whizzing towards me.

[Darlica]

and

Griffin


I had several and moments today.

[Griffin NoName]

Hope things calm down, Darl.

Essay back on course. Think I've finished it. Except need to get it through the anti-plagiarizer.

[Opsa]

Got through my first blocking rehearsal last night as a director. Blocking is weird! A director has to figure out the action, and then ask the actors to go through their lines while interrupting them constantly to instruct them as to where to go and what to do. And if it doesn't work in real space, you have to alter the plan... very challenging on everyone's part, but we did scene one, and it looked good by the end of the evening.