Month: September 2005

Hi to all.  Fun was had at the event.  I’m going through some existential angst due to mediocrity problems.  Nothing I can’t handle.  Visit my sister at her journal and distribute some luv.  She needs it right now.

We figured out how to set up our new/used period style tent last night. It’s tres cool with mucho modularity. It’s a pretty standard square top supported by one center pole and four corner poles, then you have the option of 1 putting in additional side poles to create a sideless pavillion, 2 putting in the walls, to create a square tent or 3 some combination of the two, one wall and some poles for a pavillion with a windbreak or use the second wall across the center for a half sized tent with a big “porch” area. The walls can also be rolled back to create a breeze.
I’m looking forward to using it and now we have to get/make appropriate tent gear to go with it.
Yay!

I’ve got this tickly cough. It’s scratchy and irritating. I hope it will calm down in time for Celtic Cattle Raids this weekend. I’m going to throw some cough syrup in the car just in case. We are hard at work at home packing and preparing. Should be fun! If we can only leave on time.

We had a busy weekend, with a big demo in Raeford on Saturday. One of my employees called me on Saturday morning to ask if I could get someone to work for her as she had fallen and hurt herself and was scheduled to work that day. I told her that she could contact someone to come in for her, but that I was unable to do so at that time. As it turns out she went in to work and the other person working that day said she looked like she had been beaten up (she hadn’t been beaten up, she fell, but apparently she looked very rough). I went in for her on Sunday. She finally went to the hospital on Monday morning.
I don’t know how much responsibility I have for covering peoples’ schedules when they are sick. During the week it’s not a problem, if someone is out sick, there are several other staff members to cover for them, but on the weekends with three or two people scheduled to work, when one person calls off, it creates a real problem. I thought about having a person on call for the weekends, but I think it will create the idea that people can call off on short notice and the on-call person will step in. I know some of my staff will abuse that.
I guess I’m just going to have to talk about it with the civilian personnel folks.

EDIT: As it turns out I am responsible for contacting a replacement in case of emergency, so the phone list is coming home to find a permanent spot.

I have a new favorite appliance. I went out and got a Bissel bagless vacuum cleaner with the Turbo-brush attachment. It’s not amusing like a Roomba, but boy is it efficient, it picked up two cupfulls of dust and cat hair in one room. It’s my new front line weapon in the war against the fleas.

Here’s my flea strategy:

I’m going to bug bomb the house and then go over it with the vacuum and get the fleas while they are stunned.

While the bug bombs are going off, we’ll have the cats on the porch and hit them with the flea killer.

Before the cats are allowed back in the house, I’ve got flea collars for them. They’ll be collared and the collars will be changed once a month.

God I hate fleas. Little bloodsuckers.

We’re shipping out 720 boxes of books from our library stockpile to various places around the South and East in support of the folks who are staying in shelters after Hurricane Katrina. The FedEx people are here today to pick up the boxes. Then I have to go out and do some errands for work.

Tonight is the SCA meeting, this weekend we have a demo at the Hoke County Turkey festival.

Just trying to keep up.

Hope all the friends and family are well!

Is there anybody out there?

I’m listening to a Recorded Books lecture on tape about the Epic in literature and the professor throws out this great new term, “sneer quotes”. Those are the quote marks smarmy types put around information they deem to be specious. Some people make sneer quotes in the air with their fingers, too. I’m so going to be using sneer quotes in all of my “writing” in the future.

Bwah-ha-ha!

If you haven’t seen or read Louis Sachar’s “Holes” yet, you’re missing a great experience. The film is a great adaptaion of the book, they had Louis Scahar write the script, so he preserved the important parts of the story. Tom and I watched it last night and enjoyed it tremendously. Go see it!

So here’s my weird symptom of the week. I woke up yesterday with itchy eyes. Therefore I rubbed my right eye a bit because it made the itching stop. Then I thought to go and take some Benadryl as the itching was probably allergy related. As I was sitting watching my movie (Chicago, in case you were wondering), I had this persistent feeling like there was something in my eye, not painful, just kind of scratchy and my vision was a little blurry. So I went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror and noticed that my eyeball was red and swollen. the iris was in a little dip of eyeball flesh and the ball was overlapping the rim of my lower eyelid a bit. Eeeww! I figured it was from the rubbing, so I got a wet washcloth and some ice and I iced down my eye while I chilled out on the couch. Tom brought home some Visine, so I rinsed out my eye. When I did so, I noticed some cloudy stuff, like mucous, come off of the eye. At this point the blurryness cleared up. It felt a lot better too.

This morning when I woke up, my eye is back to the right size and color, and there was a lot of sandy sleep on my eyelashes. I’ll continue to monitor it, but I wonder what caused it. I hope I just have a little allergy related conjunctivitis and not something contagious like pink eye.