It’s Happy Hour!
Tumultuous merriment guaranteed or your money back!
We’re newcomer friendly here ~ try us!
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May the 4’s be with you
and the usual merry staff await you.
How did we go from almost happy hour to happy hour 2?
Did I miss something?
Somewhere in the middle of ‘not quite happy hour’ it turned into happy hour. Smart ass.
Just asking. 😛
What was that thing about the glasses earlier?
With the subject line everything is bold and larger print. I was trying to make a snide remark about you needed glasses, or if you have them you need to put them on.
No one ever said I was funny. Well except when I mispost in Open Thread.
I clearly remember saying you were funny. Or funny looking, one or the other.
You can’t say I’m funny looking because all you’ve ever seen of me in the cafe was my butt. Hah.
Well I meant your butt was funny looking. It was looking at me funny.
that was transcendental…ohhhmmmmm
Peace
Maybe you should repost the pic in this cafe.
Are you talking the rose pic?
Well, did I do something to upset you FM? First you make some comment about me scurrying to bed after the men, and now your snidely commenting about my eyesight? 😉
Yes you did upset me!
You haven’t posted a picture in this cafe yet.
So there.
Barroom brawl and mud wrestling in the backroom between FM and Olivia!
All right, where Olivia. I’m ready. I haven’t seen original Olivia art in this cafe yet.
Think that’ll get her to past a picture?
I’m going to get a photo. I’ll be right back.
We can take him Andi!
Great Googly Moogly, two beautiful women in the mud pit with me. Be still my heart.
You can still your heart. I’m not getting in this fight and if I did I’d have to go help the one who is most likely to get stomped — which wouldn’t be olivia.
You got that feeling too she would stomp my butt.
I’m glad she’s gone to get a picture.
I would never enter a mudpit unprotected. 🙂
Hah I won. 🙂
But I’d only be there to stop the fight before you thumped him too badly.
I won’t say it, I won’t say it……
You’re on a roll! 🙂
The guy has a bad heart ~ and he still smokes! Be gentle with him.
I like SN’s advice. We’ll go to the mud pit and ya’ll can be gentle with me. 😉
My table is clean, Second, but why is my ass sticking to the chair?? 🙂
Bring out the rum!
Um, I don’t know DJ. Do you need Depends?
That would be more like slippin’ or slidin’.
I was meaning this here piece of pinky-purple hubba bubba!
Sorry, that was for George.
Now you’ve made George cry in his beer.
Between you and Mary this poor dog is a wreck.
I thought George liked Hubba Bubba?
Afternoon/Evening friends! i stopped in for a quick hello before I take leave for a real Happy Hour to go watch UCLA BRUINS win the NCAA Championship. Go BRUINS!! I promise not to bother you anymore…teehee.
If they win…we’ll definitely hear from you! tee hee hee!
Ya think? Have a great night all!
Bottom of the sixth, tie game, they load the bases with nobody out . . . and then they don’t score.
Excuse me while I go pound my head against the wall. The walls here are pretty weak, unfortunately. I used to work in a converted warehouse where the bricks were exposed to the interior, but that surface was wasted for head-pounding, since I was there in 2001 when the Mariners were running away with the place.
Don’t pound too hard, Omir. There’s still 160 games left and you’ll have plenty of other chances.
161 in our case, but who’s counting?
Reminds me of an exchange I occasionally have with members of my family:
Q: “Do you suffer from brain damage?”
A: (thickly) “No, as a matter of fact I rather enjoy it.”
Bottom of the 7th, at least we kept the Angels from scoring with a man on 3rd in the top of the inning.
You think you’re going crazy?? Try being a San Jose Sharks fan. I’m lucky I haven’t gone totaly berserko or worse.. bald!
“So, if anyone is interested, you’re welcome to come to the Frog Pond and discuss Medicare D(isaster) with Street Kid, or Friday Night Jazz with Knoxville progressive, or Today’s Undercovered News (Mostly Women’s Issues) with storiesinamerica, or immigration with ManEegee and Xicanopwr, or citizen activism with BostonJoe, or CodePink with DamnitJanet, or delve into the News Bucket with CabinGirl, or Iran and Iraq with Steven D, or Plameology and frogmarching with me. And while your at it, join a few more community blogs and help keep the movement thriving.”
Wow! I feel a Partridge song coming on… “I think I love you!!
What…no fucking Froggy Bottom Lounge!? We was robbed!
Yea what SN said, but I still love you Janet.
He did mention the FBC
We have the Froggy Bottom Cafe & Lounge where nothing is off topic and you can get refreshments 24 hours a day.
Complete with a linky dinky.
Well, okay then. I guess I shoulda read the whole thing before giving him all that love over there.
Not quite happy hour here…but I thought I’d show what the real meetup looked like!
With apologies to Manee and Diane…who have cat allergies!
Drink up….drinks are on Booman since we’ll probably get a new influx of froglets!
hmm… reminds me of the Cat Orgy episode of South Park. Catnip everywhere.
Those mini laser pens make a great cat toy. They go nuts trying to catch the red light.
That is if you’ve got a cat that’s not overly lazy.
I spent the weekend babysitting a friend’s 7-month-old kitten. The laser pen was a lifesaver.
I wish my cat would like something like that, but she so old now that sleep is her main job.
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tee hee hee
Here, kitty kitty…
Allow me an evil chuckle. Bwahahaha.
Welcome to the Froggy Bottom Cafe (FBC for short). What the heck is this, you might ask? Basically, just talk about whatever you want.
Got a sweet new pair of underwear? A favorite new recipe? Want to pimp your favorite baseball team (whew, my Braves just barely eked one out today!) or talk smack about the NCAA finals? This is your place!
Oh, and you’ll collect mojo here. Lots of it. So if you want to become a TU quickly, start talkin’!
As always, the first beer is on me!
I’d like a six pack of those please.
I have serious doubts about appointing you to be the mentor for new members …
I have no idea what you’re talking about Mary.
How about them Braves. BUT, how about them Cards! No eking for them.
This usually means they will lose the next 4 games.
I’m not particularly excited about the Braves performance, but a win is a win. Any team that wins a game after committing 3 errors isn’t deserving to win. But, at the same time any team that gives up 11 runs doesn’t really deserve it either.
The Cardinals looked strong, huh? I didn’t see the game, but the box score is impressive, and the recap on ESPN.com includes the word ‘spank’ in the title.
you4 anti-kitty artillery post because that was hysterically funny.
Thanks. I was hoping nobody would take umbrage (especially with all the cute kitty pics downthread) but at least it appears to have played out well with the curmudgeon demographic 🙂
Welcome newbies! And, uh, not to slam at ejmw or anything, but if anyone wants any good beer, see me or the guy we call Ask.
Now YOU might make a good mentor for newbies … except you’ll be unavailable for mentoring during the move.
No mentoring for me — my job is usually to be the bad example.
what was I thinking? Of course that’s your job.
Carry on.
Indylib – don’t let her lull you into a false sense of security.
She’s angling for your job.
There, I said it.
are you referring to moi?
Indy and I don’t compete. We complement.
Honey, I’ve been around the block a few times, I know better than to turn my back on a woman like Maryb.
I KID! There’s always room for one more bad example. Wasn’t it Mae West who laid down that piece of wisdom about good girls going to Heaven and bad girls going everywhere else? 😉
for a REALLY appropriate response.
{{{{{{{{INDY}}}}}}}}
heh
and if you consider me a role model, just how bad of an example do I have to be? Oh hell, no matter how bad, I know I’m up to it.
Oh hell, no matter how bad, I know I’m up to it.
And that’s why you’re my role model.
Can I be a role model, please, please, please.
I’m a lurking newbie. Let me get this straight. You’re all either bad examples or you want to be bad examples. Sounds good to me.
The real test comes late at night … if you’re up for it 🙂
He’s starting to understand the cafe.
They corrupted me in next to no time.
Well, I’m actually drinking one of these right now:
But I figured any new members were going to need much more than a 12er, a pint, or even a british pint to start with if they were going to be able to put up with us.
Oh I’m just being a beer snob, ignore me. 🙂
Did anyone call? Sorry it took so long. May I offer something from the northern-most brewery in the world; Mack Breweries in Tromsø.
Can someone tell me why we are having an influx of new members today – damned work has interfered with my lurking all day!
Booman took off his frog boxers and was a man whore on the Kos today.
How fun would it be to write that on his 1040 where they ask what you do? Occupation: Man Whore/Blogger. I bet the IRS agent who opened the return would be scrambling to the Schedule C looking for what the hell he was trying to deduct as a business expense, lol.
Thanks, DJ.
I better go over and look for it. And I just read your entry; good going with the activism, keep us posted. I am so impressed, you have such a busy schedule like all of us – yet you find the time for blogging and action!
I knew you’d have something good.
Re: the new members, I just showed up myself, but I think BooMan was showing a little leg over at Big Orange today.
Glad I could deliver 😉
And that beer – and others from that brewery – are truly good.
I’ll make you one of my own drinkiepoos.
Fill a 16 oz plastic – reused cup – with ice
1.5 – 2 oz of Spiced or flavored Rum
about a shot or two of Peach Schnapps
a capful of grenadine
take a fat wedgie of lime and squeeze it in there
and drop it in…
fill to top with really good Orange Juice
Basically it’s a Calypso Cooler I named after a friend
Hey there, all — I’m back from gathering firewood & now have a nice, toasty fire going. It’s been a wonderful evening, despite the grey murk: I saw four wild ducks on the froggy pond below, swimming about happily; then, two Canadian geese flew directly overhead to circle above, sending out their lovely cries.
It’s springtime indeed, my friends — & its protracted nature only makes it more delicious to me.
Not only that, but The Woodland Queen managed to sneak out the front door not once, but three times in an effort to escape her evening captivity — while naked! No cats allowed out at Coyote hour — I’ve experienced too much sadness in this regard.
Here she is yesterday, fully dressed & looking pretty:
And here’s her son, now five months old. He’s fetching as well:
(Yes, he fetches — a matter of lineage.)
These are my allies in stressful times & also in times of hilarity (which they regularly supply). They add to my life’s enjoyment & are all the more precious for it. As I shared with a friend yesterday:
Hi WW. How are you today?
Thank you for asking, FM. Frankly, I’m in a terrific mood. There’s nothing like springtime in the chilly NE woods to lighten the load a bit!
How are you? Doing ok?
I’m fine WW. I glad to hear you’re in a terrific mood and spring time is finally getting to your neck of the woods.
Hey WW. Stopping by for a real visit tonight so we canb bask in full splendor of your good mood or is this just a look-in?
Howdy, Andi! Glad I ‘caught’ you.
🙂
I’m here for a bit, as I’m finally indulging in my first real meal of the day — which is breakfast.
I agree with Andi, your drive-by postings are just cruel. You get our hopes up and then vanish.
Apologies, SN — I’ve never been that type of girl.
Fact is, though, that once spring hits the mountains everyone gets busy outdoors. I’m looking at possible relocation this season, too, so I’m occupied with prep.
I’ll be sure to warn you before I vanish altogether!
You’d better not just up and vanish! ACK!!!!
Depending on the good graces of Verizon’s billing dept. (boo, hiss!), I certainly hope I won’t!
I’m hoping you’ll stick around long enough to sing a few stanzas of Pirate Jenny. 😉
I’d love to — but I’m afraid you really don’t want to hear me do Brecht/Weill. I have a singing voice like Daisy Duck after three cigars.
Outside???
But there’s no Happy Jalapeño or hockey outside!
See all that papershit to her right?? that used to be on the desk. She has to walk past her box (still there from moving because she likes it so much) and she has to make sure to trample over my stuff to get to her box when she can easily jump up to it but NOooooooooooo she has to walk on my papers thus shoving them off.
Of course she does. We must always make our presence known.
She’s truly a beautiful critter.
As for inside/outside, we may not have hockey & peppers outside, but we have all sorts of flying, drifting, chirping & fluttering things that make it heaven on earth — & not just for pooties!
(Note to newlies: you have now entered the realm of the Black Pootie Club. Beware of random prettiness & overwhelming charm.)
Woodland Queen definitely looks queenly — look at the eyes! Ah yes, spring … that time of year when you look out the window and see birds mating in your yard! LOL. It was an exciting view for me this morning.
Till they take hit off of my personal supply of organic catnip.
I’m definitely going to plant some at our new digs, DJ. We can all use it — stimulant for them, sedative for me.
🙂
That first picture looks kinda like Jiji, Kiki’s cat in Miyazaki’s film Kiki’s Delivery Service.
They could easily be related, considering how cats ‘proliferate’.
🙂
That’s our first and favorite Miyazaki 🙂 Close second is Spirited Away.
My young cat fetches too! I’ve never seen a cat do that but she’s a champ. She brings a toy or a milk carton ring to whoever is sitting on the couch and they are expected to toss it. She retrieves it, hops right back onto the couch and drops it in the thrower’s lap.
Amazing, isn’t it? If your kitten’s like mine, it can go on for hours, barring a timely distraction.
I consider it a sign of superior feline intelligence. Their may be some Manx in your kitty — they’re the ones who are known to fetch, as well as for their general smarts.
Just snapped a few while there was still some waning light after I got home, and thought I’d pop a few on here to brighten up the tables! Then I gotta run so I can watch Keith!
IVG that’s a beautiful picture.
Great contrast between the soft white petals and sharp green leaves!
Just snapped a few while there was still some waning light after I got home, and thought I’d pop a few on here to brighten up the tables! Then I gotta run so I can watch Keith!
Sorry about the double post… my trigger finger went off too soon!
we needed to see them twice!
A few of the many purple crocus blooming now… I’ll pop back in for a bit after Keith and have a brew and post a couple more.
Don’t bust up the place too bad while I’m gone … hehe.
Beautiful! Thanks for posting these. What a joy to see them!
Can’t wait ’til they appear here. As of now, we’re expecting a little snow ..
Oh wow! I am so proud of my son! Olbermann just came on and he comes running over to me saying “Key” which is absolutely supposed to be Keith! I am sure of it!
</wiping tears of joy>
Good job, Cake! There’s nothing more beautiful than a young liberal.
That’s wonderful Cake.
Well, I made it through the first day of the beginning of the end, but one wierd thing happened. Late in the afternoon I noticed that two things I had given to the office were thrown in the trash. They had obviously just been thrown in there, since they were on top of the yogurt container I threw in at lunch.
The items were:
There were no other items in the trash to indicate that someone had been merely “cleaning out the cupboard.”
The boss took the day off to work in his garden, so he had nothing to do with it.
A fellow staff member, call him Mr. X, is actually the only one who could have done this. When we took the stuff out and showed it to him, he acted totally innocent, but said “the boss has been complaining about decaf.” I had to look closely to notice that the mini-package of Columbian coffee was decaf, and the boss was not in the office, so I think this is a clear indication that Mr. X threw those two items in the trash, probably as an expression of hostility towards yours truly.
Also, could be coincidental, but Mr. X has basically refused to speak to me at all since the day I found the contaminated water in my cubicle.
So my question is this. When I reported the contaminated water to the police, I was told to report anything else that was odd, no matter how small, that might occur. Should I report this and the other seemingly hostile behavior?
I think it is especially strange since it has been announced that I am leaving, which is what Mr. X wants, so why would he still be harassing me? Should I be concerned for my safety?
I’m not wise, just totally creeped out! And wanted to give you a hug.
But damn are those people totally fucked in the head. So glad you’re getting out of there. And we thought Mr. Damnit’s old job was full of jerk offs.
I hope that your next job, the people are so thrilled to have someone like you that they give YOU gifts and feel so utterly blessed to have your talents shared with them. I really really do!
Thanks Damnit Janet! Hugs much needed!!!! {{{DJ}}}
I do have a quesiton:
What about the other women who work there? Is there any history of this crap happening with them? No one can be safe and secure in that workplace. Any way to learn of others who may have quit/left?
I had a problem with a guy from an autism e-list. We were able to use his email address to find his name and turns out the guy was a legitimate whacko with a history and police file.
Any one you know of who can look up this guys history??
Funny you should ask because it came to me that I should make an effort to contact the other three women who have left and I think may have been driven out of this position. That is the obvious thing to do, and I plan to make that effort!
MM I don’t know what to tell you except be careful.
{{{{{{{MM}}}}}}}
Thanks, Family Man! I will! {{{FM}}}
Heck yeah, report it. It’s odd behavior and totally creepy. Is he jealous of you or what?
Yes, Mr. X took me outside on the day I first interviewed and told me that there had been several people in the position before me and that they didn’t fit in and he didn’t like them. Now I am leaving because I don’t fit in and he has been given free range to express his dislike for me.
I have learned that Mr. X resents and is jealous of anyone who comes into the organization at a higher salary than what he is getting. Of course, as a new hire I could not ask (and did not think to ask) are there staff in the organization who are getting paid less than I would be, though they have been in the organization and proved their loyalty over a period of years, etc?
Not to say that he is right or wrong as a labor issue, but how degraded to punish other staff members for your issues with management?
If the police told you to report anything else, then yes, definitely report it. As horrible as it is to think about, it might be best to assume the worst–that X might still be harassing you. Better safe than sorry.
I don’t know you (new here at BT), but glad to hear you’re leaving that job.
Thanks, James 438! I am thinking yes report, just to be on the safe side. I also took a cell phone photo of the stuff that had been thrown in the trash. Paranoid? Yes, I am a little paranoid.
I was going to suggest the same mm — if they told you to report everything, then I would. A small thing may b/c something larger, and it is good to have objective documentation. {{{mm}}}
I’ve never been one for long good byes, especially at jobs/positions that have become untenable. With the continuing harassment, subtle though it may be, it would appear to be time to pack up and move on.
As it would appear, from past posts, that a mutually agreeable separation agreement has been reached, with the de facto understanding that you would complete certain tasks; and subsequently, the comfort level required to properly perform those tasks has been compromised; that you would be well within the bounds of said agreement to immediately vacate the position.
Send your boss a registered letter, copied to the authorities (police, DA), name names, dates etc…notify whomever you are dealing with outside the organization that your boss, or other designated person is taking over effective immediately…pack up and go to LA.
Buh-Bye…life’s too short.
My 2¢
Best wishes.
Peace
There is alot of wisdom to this, as I do not think it was a coincident that the bully-boss was absent today. However, it is one thing to thrown stuff in the trash, which may have been done for personal satisfaction, and another to assume that I would notice it. You can’t assume that people will look in the trash to see what you have thrown in there. It was just a coincidence that I happened to be standing there because my son had called on my cellphone.
That is good advice/opinion.
In true Mariner fashion, the bullpen coughed up two runs in the top of the ninth to break up a tie. We had another home run in the bottom of the frame, but even though it was from an unexpected corner and very nice to see, it wasn’t enough.
Well, there’s always tomorrow . . .
But at least it was an exciting game. And … it’s a long season…
Well, there were a couple of bright points. Our new catcher Kenji Jojima, brought over from Japan, looks like a keeper. He had a home run and was solid behind the plate. Roberto Petagine, a guy I didn’t even know we had, put one out in the ninth. Jamie Moyer pitches pretty good for an old guy (an old guy who is almost ten years younger than I am) and Carl Everett didn’t manage to cheese anybody off today. In fact he had an RBI.
Ya takes ’em where you can find ’em sometimes.
I’m trying to give titles to my comments so that Olivia will be happy! Here is another photo from yesterday’s backyard Camelia Bush Study.
Is Camelia one of George’s nieces?
No, I think she married Prince Charles. LOL.
LOL
From the archives:
White rose and dew, taken 2005-08-07 (view larger)
Calla lily, taken 2006-02-13 (view large)
Ooooh, I must’ve missed the first run on that Calla lily. That’s now my new favorite Liv-original.
This is the other calla lily I took at the same time that you might have missed:
Calla lily, taken 2006-02-13 (view large)
I just downloaded both. You’ll be wallpapering my Windows for a while, if you don’t mind. 🙂
Don’t mind a bit — I think it’s great that people enjoy them as much as I do! {{{Indy}}}
I accept.
Just don’t look up thread. Turn your eyes away from up thread Olivia.
’cause that doesn’t sound like accepting a peace offering — more like a challenge! 😉
I accept,I accept,I accept,I accept,I accept,I accept,I accept,I accept,I accept,I accept,I accept,I accept,I accept.
These are exquisite, Olivia. I expect nothing less from you!
We’ll bring out those newlie lurkers for sure with these ..
Did I spell that right?
Why is that when Olivia starts posting her incredible photographs…. I start thinking about sensual stuff?? 😀
you start thinking about sensual stuff?
DJ — some flowers seen to lend themselves to a sensual theme, don’t ya think? 🙂
New lounge open!