Froggy Bottom Cafe – Monday Slacking Edition
Real live host on duty today!
Newcomers and slacker dogs welcome!
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PJs and bunny slippers are the order of the day.
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May the 4’s be with you
Good morning all you little slackers! How is your 3-day weekend going?
Good Morning!!! Mine is going great after enjoying wonderful banter with the cafe regulars all weekend. It has been too dang cold for me to do much else. I just recovered from the flu and then bronchitus and sinusitus and thought the cold and damp weather and I would not agree. LOL I have been cuddled up with the Diva Fogs, books, tv and the computer all weeekend. LOL
We’re cold here too, and there are some mysterious white flakes in the air. Mr. Nature has a cold, poor baby, and of course it’s the worst cold in recorded history.
Tell him not to breathe on me either!
Ack! Don’t breathe on me! Don’t breathe on me!
Ok, I’ve put on my Michael Jackson surgical mask…can we talk now?
as long as you don’t look like him or act like a freak. LOL
Well, I still have my own nose and my voice is deeper than his.
and I bet you didn’t bleach your skin either. LOL
I actually have a box of surgical masks. I wear them during flu season or if I have to go to the hospital or something. So you don’t have to wear one, but you’re a peach to have been willing to do so. 🙂
Do you paint cool things on them, like fangs or a Gene Simmons tongue hanging out? The latter might make you even more popular with the ladies.
Heh, never thought of doing that, but now I will. (Although it is sadly true that I am not very popular with the ladies in the first place; because irony rules the universe, I am only very popular with the gentlemen.)
If only your skills were more widely known…
I use to do it when my lover was alive to keep from bringing things home to him. Noone with a cold was allowed within 15 feet of my desk.
You sound like you were a stellar caregiver. I am so very sorry for your loss.
It’s a really weird experience for me, being queer in my mid-30s and having an autoimmune disease that’s not HIV related, after spending my late teens and 20s deeply involved with caring and advocating for HIV+ friends. I knew a lot of the issues involved in longterm chronic illness before I got one myself, but it’s still a very strange experience on my perspective to have gone from being the support-person who got on the phone with social services and ripped them a new asshole for cutting my friend’s benefits off due to a clerical error, to now being the person who needs that kind of support. Very strange.
It was from my own work in the field as a volunteer that I knew to do all these things. I have been involved with AIDS & HIV awareness since the early to mid 80’s. I knew don was HIV+ when we met. He was the love of my life and I was lucky to have him for 5.5 years as my Lover and best friend.
I also meant to say thank you.
ROTFLMAO!!!! I am not contagious any more.
Actually I have no complaints. My workplace lumps some of the “lesser” holidays into the space between Christmas and New Year, so we get a nice long vacation then. I usually visit my family once a year at that time so it works.
However I got a call from my housemate that FedEx had delivered my new iPod, around 10:00 am. So I am a little bit sad I was at work and not at home then. But I will live.
to post my greetings at the coffee cart, but as usual it ran out just as I got to the front of the line…typical…
No three-day weekends here; transit is on regular schedule, so I’m on my regular schedule of keeping an eye on the spouse to make sure he leaves on time for work, then I will try to get some work done. Trying to decide if I have the energy to make myself a breakfast sandwich (scrambled egg substitute & 2% cheese on an English muffin), or if I’m going to just be a lazy spud and have a bowl of cereal. And tea sounds good today, Kelly; think I’ll go see what’s in the cabinet (I think I’ve got some nice decaf Earl Grey from Trader Joe’s)…
When in doubt, go for the protein. Bowl of cereal is gone too quick.
for the cereal, I usually add protein by microwaving a couple of sausage; Brown ‘N Serve has a light sausage that is absolutely delicious and really low in fat/calories/other bad stuff. 2 sausage only take about a minute 10 seconds to nuke (on medium power).
Think I will go for the sandwich though — not only do I get the protein, I’ve got high-fiber English muffins so I’ll be nice and healthy. 🙂 Now just need to decide what fruit to have…
If you’re looking for Decaf, there’s this from the tea source:
Decaffeinated Lemon Solstice
This is the most enjoyable decaf tea I have ever had, period. It is made with a nice strong and smooth CO2 decaf Assam tea, blended with almond brittle, lemon grass, flavor, licorice roots, real strawberry pieces, and real blackberry pieces. The flavor is rich and deep from the Assam tea, with the other ingredients adding fruity and sparkling notes to the overall flavor.
I agree with their assessment. It can be found here.
Good morning everyone.
how do you feel?
Much better, just a little hazy now.
Glad you are feeling better!!!
Thanks. I’m definitely no fun to be around when I get a migraine.
Howdy,
Posted this as response on the coffee cart just as this cafe was coming up, so I thought I’d move it over here.
Thanks! My website’s currently several months out of date (non-literary life interfering with literary). I’ve got most of the updates written, just not proofed and uploaded.
Right at the moment I’ve only got short stories available to the general public. Those are in a variety of venues including the story The Uncola in this currently free pdf magazine, Cosmic SF. This story is pretty close in tone to my forthcoming novel, though it’s not at all the same world.
There’s a serial novel in print for middle school science teachers as part of a National Science Foundation funded curriculum. But that only came out in January and I haven’t yet been able to explain to them the idea of non-academic sales in such a fashion as to get them to make it available to non-academics. I’m working on it.
My first mainstream press novel is WebMage (cyberpunk/high fantasy crossbreed) and will be available pretty much anywhere they sell F&SF starting on July 25th, with a sequel following in 07 (that’s the one I’m currently working on). There are five more out at various publishers right now, several of which will probably see publication some time on 07.
I willo be look for WebMage next time I am book shopping and check it out. That should be in a couple of weeks as I am a book freak. LOL
dang my typing is bad this am. I will lokk for Webmage. LOL
LOL wanna try that again?
LOLit was suppose to be look
It’s Monday – nuff said.
Thanks. Unfortunately, all you’ll be able to do for the next couple of months is preorder-which I certainly wouldn’t want to dissuade you from doing-but for actual paper, it’s the end of July.
Sounds like you’ve been busy. My theory is that it has alot to do with the magical brew du jour your wife leaves for you in the morning.
Well, she has said on more than one occasion that my Muse’s name is caffeine.
Here’s your Presidents’ Day Rorschach Test
Vat izsit that you see…eh?
Later
Peace
The first micro second of the beginning of a nuclear blast.
Quick, let’s all get under our desks.
You mean you don’t have a fully stocked nuclear fall out shelter?
Duck & Cover! Our pencil boxes will save us! All hail the TrapperKeeper!
clik for larger image
Peace
The Washington Monument and the reflecting pool at night? Born literalist here, so maybe I’m not the ideal candidate for a Rorschach.
Is that an iconic symbol of phallocentric Caucasian imperialism in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
LOL. Always glad to see you Wench…:{)
Be well
Peace
Always glad to see you too, dada!
Monterey Coast.
No three day weekend for Myth Mother! No weekend at all…. but I’m going in late this morning since I have to stay until 10:00 PM. (So there!)
beautiful picture.
Thanks, refinish69!
Beautiful picture mythmother. Just say to heck with it and go in tomorrow. Tell them you have too many important things to do in the cafe.
Thanks, Family Man!
Well… here I am at work but fooling around in the cafe instead of paying attention to what I’m supposed to be doing. A compromise, of sorts!
Well I think you (and your camera) are going to need at least one or two breaks to go stretch your legs and our eyeballs. In fact, I’m sure that you’ll need a health break some time right around sunset.
I agree! In fact, I was planning to take a longish lunch at Point Lobos with my camera around 2:30, which is high tide and sure to be spectacular!
Thank you so much for these absolutely amazing images, mythmother. Such a totally different world than the one I inhabit. These pix have a terrific energy & motion to them!
They remind me that I’m a ‘child of the moon & sea’, astrologically. I love their elemental vitality. Such an incredible force — of the type that will eventually wear those rocks to sand.
You must be a Cancer, wilderness wench! I have Venus in Cancer and to me the oceans are totally mysteriously beautiful and awe-inspiring. This was a perfect day when the sun came out for a while in the middle of a storm.
Oh, Venus in Cancer! No wonder you respond to the sea’s beauty so strongly — & take such magnificent photos there!
Yep, I’m Cancer sun, Pisces moon, Virgo rising.
What a sensitive combination! Good thing you have that Virgo rising to help you stay grounded.
I’m Taurus Sun, Virgo Moon, Gemini rising.
Note to self: never argue with mythmother. 😉
I’m a Cancer sun, Taurus moon, Pisces rising.
Because I can’t stand not knowing what people are talking about, even (especially) when it has nothing to do with me — why shouldn’t you argue with mythmother?
I do not even begin to understand the system as well as mythmother and wilderness wench, but my personal experience with folks who have both the sun in Taurus and a Gemini rising has suggested to me that it tends to be…unrewarding to argue with them, since they are so often so very much wiser than me. 🙂
I’ll leave it to someone else to explain what “moon sign” is, since my understanding is too vague. I have some lovely and knowledgeable friends who explain this stuff to me over and over, but it never seems to stick very well. I suspect the math, I suck at math.
Math ugh.
One reason I was in a bad mood all last week was because I was forced to do a lot of math. The situation reached rock bottom the day I spent three hours in a room in which an accountant was present but I had to do all the math.
Life would be so much easier if I could add in my head.
I used to work for a tax attorney, lol.
This will never do — that’s not nearly enough information to allow me to horn in your conversation. 😉
Yeah, what Andi said.
And what’s moon sign.
Yeah, what maryb said. All I know is I’m a capricorn…and I have no idea where my moon is or what the hell is rising.
This? A very unusual gargoyle, IMA.
Peace
oh you’re bad
I wish more people would subscibe to this enlightened point of view! Such my stoopid bully-boss, for example, who can’t understand why I want to have a meeting with the rest of the staff and leadership in order to help me conceptualizing fundraising proposals! God, it just makes me want to quit and walk out the door.
How did he fare in the argument? He lost, but left me feeling like it was hardly worth trying to convince him. Fine, let’s not have the meeting. I’ll write crappy proposals and you won’t get any money. Deal?
I think I’ll go home sick.
I am heading out to get ready for my lunch with a fellow blogger. Always fun to meet other liberals face to face. I will give a report when I get back.
Enjoy.
Well I’ve taken the dogs for a walk, cleaned out the woodstove, brought more wood up to the house, refilled the bird feeders, cleaned up the dogs outside water bucket and given them clean water (which they will resent since they seem to prefer their water tinted with brown sludge).
I’m sorry maryb, I don’t know what came over me.
Slacker dogs impatiently wait for me to figure out that it’s time for them to go home and nap.
and look who is right up in the front saying, come ON! I call dibs on the couch.
What a woman! I’m still doing Mr. Nature’s laundry from his trip and cleaning up the remnants of what used to be my potted peace lily in the living room. Damn kitten gets into everything. Still haven’t named her.
Can I take him home? What do you call that kind of dog? I remember seeing a lot of them in South Dakota.
We call her a malamutt 🙂 since she’s a mix of malamute and we have no idea what.
Man, that looks like fun! You know how much I love these photos, Andi. I can just hear the pups moving through the leaves, the smell of the earth & winter breeze, only slightly different than it is here.
I love your dogs! Love ’em.
No ice on the ground either, I see 😉
Hope everyone’s doing well today. It’s warmed up slightly here (though last night was yet another ‘frozen water bowl’ night), there’s sunshine & clear blue skies & I’m once again mobile/less dependent on my wonderful neighbors. All’s well in our small, sane haven — just4today (or, at this moment).
The chores call as always, of course .. but Java comes first.
I’m pretty found of those dogs myself 😉
The picture wasn’t taken today but the snow we got earlier is pretty much gone and it’s supposed to be in the 40s tomorrow so that will take care of the rest of it.
We seem to be looking at similar weather for later this week. Even so, most of the snow from that terrific Nor’easter (the whole inch!) is gone this morning — due to sunshine, mainly. We’re still below freezing temperature-wise.
If it weren’t for a bad stretch of ice on a few shaded yards of driveway I’d be able to drive all the way to my home today! This is late February, not late April. Bee zarr o.
Asked the gentleman who repaired my car if this winter seemed as strange to him as it does to me (he’s a lifelong Catskills resident). He agreed without hesitation.
I understand that VT & NH residents are still cleaning up after the storm, though — many are still without power in this nasty cold. There have been a number of deaths due to the storm, also.
I’m sure the NYC snow’s become the usual filthy mess.
The hand-down, no contest, ugliest after-it-snows place I have ever been was Syracuse where they would put down a mixture of cinder and ash on everything. I haven’t been back there in quite a few years but the vision of a city of black grunge snow has never faded.
We judge all our winter by the amount of firewood that we burn and if this one keeps going as it has, it will be our least-wood burned in the entire we’ve lived here (1979).
Yep, lots of folks go by their winter wood usage in making that judgement.
I’m guessing yours is supplemental?
Me, I always seem to go through everything I’ve got & then some. Then again, it’s my primary heat source & I live in a tea-bowl 😉
No, wood heat is our primary heat source too. The house is post-and-beam and was designed to be very energy-efficient and to be heated with wood.
I was wondering if ya’ll have a fireplace insert?
Nope, we have a vermont castings woodstove.
OK. The reson I asked is we have two fireplaces. We put inserts in both. Just one like to have burned us up with the heat. Never mind :).
That’s wonderful. Your place must be exceptionally well-built — it’s a good-sized home.
You’re terrifically fortunate, Andi! (‘Course, we’ve already established that.)
Btw, I’ve got a Vermont castings stove too (reconditioned). They’re absolutely the best.
I wonder if they’re still using cinder/ash in Syracuse? That doesn’t sound at all pretty.
Might be able to go over to NYCO’s blog & find out. I believe she’s based there.
OK now you’re making me feel bad. I’ve got two days of house cleaning to catch up on, and poor George is feeling neglected. I think I’ll pull a maryb and slack for another day :).
slack! slack! slack!
Although in the interest of full and fair disclosure . . . I am logged into my office and have been doing a few small things. <duck and run>
I retract my slack comment. Just for now though :).
Life always seems to balance itself. I logged on this morning and found out my assistant’s sister just died. (She had stage 4 breast cancer so it wasn’t a complete surprise, but still sad.)
On the other hand I just found out that one of my partners who I absolutely can’t stand has quit!
I’m so sorry to hear about your assistant’s sister. That can be so hard on a family. But for life balancing itself, I’m glad for you that partner quit. I’ve worked in offices before where one person seems to ruin the whole atmosphere.
Thanks. My assistant has had a lot of sad things happen in her family the last few years. This is the second sibling to die in a year and a half.
My partner — good riddance. I seldom dislike people — I’m impatient with people, I’m easily annoyed with people, but I seldom bother to get to the level of disliking them. This guy — I intensely disliked him from the first day I met him. And the feeling has never subsided.
I’ve only worked for one guy like that before. No matter how much I went out of my way to be nice, he was going out of his way to be mean. I later found out he was having an affair with one of the women that worked for me. I guess the straw that broke the camel’s back was when I brought my seven year old daughter to work one day and ever other word he said was profanity. I took my daughter home, came back and let loose on him. Luckily there was nothing he could do because his boss was in the next room and heard everything. I was so happy when he finally left though.
YUK!
That sounds terrible.
I didn’t have to work with this guy thank god. He just existed in my space.
How’s your day of playing hookey going? Getting anything done around the house?
I’m organizing all of the paper stuff for taxes etc. that I should have kept filed all year but instead dumped in a box. I keep telling myself that this year will be different and I’ll file as a go. Ha! I know myself too well.
Yeah, it’s that time again. I organized all of our (mostly my husbands) papers into a filing system last year because it took him months to dig out all of the stuff he needed to do taxes. Problem is he doesn’t keep up with it and there are stacks of mail everywhere. He’s one of those people that will never throw anything away and it drives me crazy.
I’m gonna quit for a while. It’s making me sneeze. Must be the dust!
As much as I hate to, I have to get up and do some things around the house. All you slackers, slack some for me.
I’m back from running errands, which included my almost daily trip to the fabulous salad bar at the grocery store. However, today there were a couple dozen men in suits hovering near the salad bar taking notes…on what I’m not sure. After internalizing my social and performance anxiety I proceeded to build my salad while they stood in rapt attention. I could almost hear them whispering “she’s heading for the marinated mozzarella balls…now she’s bypassing the sliced raw mushrooms that look like they were grown in cow dung and never washed…”
There were undoubtedly placing little microchips in the three bean salad which people will eat and then the NSA will able to track international farts.
What a dastardly plot. Unfortunately for them almost no one eats the 3-bean salad.
They are probably, like me, life-long denizens of the urban north and assume that everyone in The South™ eats three-bean salad.
False notions of cultural superiority save the day.
If the three beans happen to be butter beans, field peas, and black-eyed peas, and said peas/beans are drenched in mayonnaise, they would no doubt be scooped up in no time down here.
local health department. You should have asked them which of today’s selections they would recommend, and gotten name and badge numbers for potential litigation purposes in case they happened to steer you to the e-coli infested smoked chicken.
come to the beach party~and if I was nice i’d provide a link, but you can find it!
here