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Daily things 5️⃣ Five Things Tuesday

  1. Dealing with my fair city is like traveling through the 7 circles of hell. Nobody knows anything.
  2. I feel like I am drinking from a fire hose. It does not appear that this will let up any time soon.
  3. I am hungry.
  4. I wish there were a Starbucks nearby, alas all we have is DnD.
  5. Just found out that Wells Fargo is putting us up in the Roosevelt Hotel for a few days in June while we assist in their CityLIFT program launch. Nice digs.
 
1. This is a slow week for me (other than the inquisition)
2. Only one "citizen" at the public forum today
3. Can we have "citizens" compete in a gladitorial event - winner gets to actually be heard
4. Waitng on a call for a job that just closed - might be a move up
5. Did I mention this is a slow week?
 
1. - 1 post from 16K
2. - Working on CRS - want to earn a Class 7.
3. - Had my usual lunch.
4. - got complimented on my :blueshirt:
5 - Did I tell you, we have a new Executive Director - another Civil Engineer with little planning background.
 
1. Got my vacation plans finalized
2. Just have to book the flights $$$$$8-!:-c
3. Sorry Maister, no side trips to Michigan this year
4. This year, it's Illinois
5. Coordinating everything with my family is a major pain.:-{
 
1. I worked late so I can drive to a volleyball game from here instead of backtracking.
2. I decided not to go, but my son isn't answering messages.
3. I might treat myself to a quick meal out before I get home.
4. My daughter is having an official "meet the parents" night.
5. I advised her not to wear Tammy Fay Bakker makeup or kill their cat.
 
1. I just signed up for a shared car program. I am pretty excited.
2. A guy at the bar the other night approached me and said "You look like a mouse. I want to give you a brick of cheese. Marble or Cheddar, mouse-girl?" I thought that was a weird pickup line.
3. I'm eating a yogurt-peanut flavoured protein bar and it is terrible.
4. I cried in Batman, the Dark Knight Rises.
5. I replied "I don't want your cheese, man" I hope he got the double-meaning.
 
1. Today I spent about an hour and a half pressure-washing the patio walls, ceiling, floors. That was day 2. Should be done tomorrow.
2. Walgreen's has a much better greeting card selection than our local grocery store.
3. Taco salad was delish for dinner tonight.
4. The kid had a cavity filled today and said he was numb up to his left eyeball. Ewwww.
5. I woke up at 4:30 a.m. and am dead on my feet.
 
1. The work week before going on vacation is always crazy busy
2. I tend to get along with most people...except my sister-in-law
3. Trying to figure out twitter...so far just using it to follow other people
4. Got a promotion at work...hoping I can live up to expectations
5. I just ate my lunch, now I'll have to go buy something else to eat when lunchtime actually arrives.
 
1. Wow it is Tuesday but feels like Monday
2. For some reason today feels like the calm before the storm
3. Got sunburned yesterday at the pool, some places are tender
4. I know, use sunscreen. I guess I needed a 'base' to start the season
5. For a weekend with nothing really planned, it turned out pretty good.
 
1. Congrats, Trannyplanner! :p
2. I am the palest I have ever been.
3. I'm also the hairiest. :-c:-|+o(
4. Operation Kitty Kisses is a tentative go for this evening.
5. Today marks 3 weeks of hospital bed rest and a total of 4 weeks of bed rest.
 
1. I wonder what dandy finds most enjoyable/entertaining in the FAC while on bedrest - we'll do more of whatever that is
2. It doesn't feel like Tuesday, but I expect people all over the country are saying that today
3. The Memorial Day parade in the rain yesterday was...memorable
4. When I was 5 I got my tonsils out and I got a Mighty Mouse sticker book to entertain me during recovery
5. I recall the mint-flavored adhesive on the backs of the stickers was kind of sickening
 
Maister said:
1. I wonder what dandy finds most enjoyable/entertaining in the FAC while on bedrest - we'll do more of whatever that is
2. It doesn't feel like Tuesday, but I expect people all over the country are saying that today
3. The Memorial Day parade in the rain yesterday was...memorable
4. When I was 5 I got my tonsils out and I got a Mighty Mouse sticker book to entertain me during recovery
5. I recall the mint-flavored adhesive on the backs of the stickers was kind of sickening
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1. Any posts are entertaining. FAC was so slow this weekend. I kept checking every few hours and there were so few posts. I had nothing to think about. :)

5. You're dating yourself. I barely remember stickers that you had to lick. I was a child of the self-adhesive sticker age. Man, I loved collecting stickers!
 
1. I had a pulled pork burrito for lunch.
2. A tassel fell off of one of my Bass Weejuns. Hello yard shoes.
3. I still need a road trip.
4. Maister, talking about having your tonsils removed dates you, too.
5. I had a pretty good weekend, thanks to the surprise visit from my daughter. :)
 
1. Tuesday is tueslow.
2. Still feels like Monday
3. Wife's birthday is this weekend, got to find a card
4. I'm hungry
5. I gotta get out of this place
 
1. Ugh. Today is an odd one.
2. I don't see why I can't drink beer and eat a pizza at work. I am not getting drunk. It is my lunch time.
3. Touch choices ahead.
4. I don't want to make a bad choice.
5. It is nice to have options though.
 
1. As a local land development professional, I judge you when you call the wrong jurisdiction to set up a pre-app :-o
2. Bad news: the vending machine at work has Rolos now
3. Contemplating applying for a new position, it would be a lateral move so I'm not sure.
4. We are moving in a couple of weeks, while I'm not looking forward to packing and unpacking i'm looking forward to the opportunity to clean out some of my BF's [STRIKEOUT]junk [/STRIKEOUT]stuff!
5. Is it too much to ask people RSVP to a meeting to ensure the room is big enough?
 
1. I haven't posted much here lately... but I don't think anyone has noticed. :r:
2. My husband makes the best guacamole.
3. I've decided I really like prosecco.
4. I'm looking forward to our town's annual fireworks display this weekend.
5. Hang in there, dandy... sending good thoughts your way.
 
Mud Princess said:
1. I haven't posted much here lately... but I don't think anyone has noticed. :r:
2. My husband makes the best guacamole.
3. I've decided I really like prosecco.
4. I'm looking forward to our town's annual fireworks display this weekend.
5. Hang in there, dandy... sending good thoughts your way.
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I noticed. :) I figured you've been busy with work and travel.


Mmmm, I could go for some guac and chips. *drool*
 
1. Wells Fargo....we think of it as a bank these days, but I wonder about that name's pedigree and if it has its origin in the 19th century wagon transport company
2. I am smartest moron in the world (and at 5'11" possibly the tallest dwarf too)
3. Seems like I used to have popsicles all the time throughout the summer as a kid, but seldom have them in the freezer these days - am I depriving Junior of golden childhood memories?
4. I remember when I heard that Robin Williams was going to be on an episode of that old improv comedy show "Whose Line is it Anyway" thinking he was going to be awesome. Turns out he was merely adequate. How disappointing that was.
5. I am very hungry but will refrain from going to the convenience store across the street for a bag of pretzels.
 
1. Hey, Midori, it is actually Tuesday. Post! :)
2. I am having technical difficulties... with life...
3. What does it say when your Board members say that they feel sorry for you.
4. I like peanut M&Ms.
5. I am 14 calls behind... I should really call people back.
 
1. The Girl had an orthodontist appointment this morning. Braces come off next month.
2. Phase 2 will start in a couple years for her
3. Need to get several things out the door this morning
4. Due to a 4-hour safety meeting this afternoon.
5. That's right I typed 4-hour - that just stupid!
 
Hink said:
1. Hey, Midori, it is actually Tuesday. Post! :)
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This is for Hink (Aww, I'm flattered that you thought of me. Such little confidence, tsk, tsk.):

1. Every time I start thinking I see a light at the end of the sleep deprivation tunnel, another night like last night happens. Max minutes of consecutive sleep reached: 45.
2. Baby Midori failed his hearing test this morning because of congestion. Again. Darnit.
3. My mother is in town, and I'm trying to follow her diet while she's here. Except that I have chocolate hidden in my desk at work.
4. Mr. Midori is out of town this week. I miss him, but sometimes it's a little nice to run a little looser on the home schedule while he's gone.
5. I think I have finally approached the resignation stage over losing one of my communities this week. It was a political storm that was brewing long before I arrived, probably before I was born. What will be, will be.
 
1. I like to read Post apocalyptic fiction, specifically those with modern shtf senarios like emp attacks, germ warfare, and demise of the modern government structure and stability.
2. Despite #1, I am not a prepper. Well beyond tornado's, wayward hurricanes, and Ice storms.
3. I guess I have too much confidence in government.
4. I am okay with that as it helps me sleep at night.
5. I am going to subway for lunch instead of shoping for insane amounts of ramein noodles, toilet paper, and ammo; and I am okay with that.
 
1. Tonight I will perform stand up comedy for the first time at an open mic night
2. I am terrified
3. Oh well, it's a bucket list item and a 3rd date with a girl, what's the worst that can happen?
4. Did I mention I am terrified?
5. I honestly don't know how I put myself into these situations :p
 
HomerJ said:
1. Tonight I will perform stand up comedy for the first time at an open mic night
2. I am terrified
3. Oh well, it's a bucket list item and a 3rd date with a girl, what's the worst that can happen?
4. Did I mention I am terrified?
5. I honestly don't know how I put myself into these situations :p
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would you like to try some of your material out here first? I'd happily do a thread split to accommodate....
 
1. My oldest daughter turned 10 yesterday.
2. She's becoming more responsible and more mouthy all at the same time.
3. My 7 year old daughter has a hard time when other people are showered with attention, such as when it's her sister's birthday.
4. Our neighbors are selling their house. It's been fun watching the different people coming to see it.
5. A bunny has decided our backyard is a good place to hang out in. Not a good idea with a fenced yard and my 75 pound dog looking for a "playmate".
 
Midori said:
I fully expect a report tomorrow morning. Including video.
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yes!

  1. I wish I had better faith in my relationships
  2. I wish I could concentrate on my work
  3. I wish I made more money
  4. I wish I didn't feel pathetic
  5. I think that's enough narcissistic thoughts for today
 
1. Another Wal-Mart wants to come to town and it may be the key to revitalizing an entire commercial corridor. Seriously.
2. After job losses the last several years and a serious reduction in income, I think/worry about money all the time now. I hate that.
3. The beer exchange was a lot of fun. I hope to do it again.
4. I don't think I'm as awesome as my five dogs think I am when I walk through the door.
5. I'm still scratching my head that sequestration means that my fair city is getting MORE CDBG money this year.
 
1. What is wrong with me that listening to the local moron's weekly public rant at the commission meeting is fun
2. This weeks rant was about the cost of records requests ($0.50 per page)
3. Still waiting on the response for that job.
4. I need to write thank you notes for the interview
5. They should have been done already, but I expected a faster answer
 
1. I'm in an odd mood musically
2. I'm really in the mood to see the Blues Brother's movie-the first one
3. Vacation in 2 months
4. I like my job, but am still looking forward to it
5. Summer is here-with a vengence.:not:
 
Maister said:
would you like to try some of your material out here first? I'd happily do a thread split to accommodate....
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Honestly I've been very busy so I haven't been able to come up with too much material, so I am sticking to the basics, five things style:

1) Open by complimenting audience
2) Turn opening compliment into incredibly awkward and innapropriate advance toward audience
3) Apologize, and segue into one particularly crazy story about my home town (I'm from Chicago after all, some of you may have heard a while ago about an incident involving a "poop sock")
4) Insult cubs fans at large and all the damage they have caused me on a personal level
5) Close with similarly awkward and innapropriate advance toward audience

I think it's a little late in the game to change it up now. Go big or go home!
 
HomerJ said:
Honestly I've been very busy so I haven't been able to come up with too much material, so I am sticking to the basics, five things style:

1) Open by complimenting audience
2) Turn opening compliment into incredibly awkward and innapropriate advance toward audience
3) Apologize, and segue into one particularly crazy story about my home town (I'm from Chicago after all, some of you may have heard a while ago about an incident involving a "poop sock")
4) Insult cubs fans at large and all the damage they have caused me on a personal level
5) Close with similarly awkward and innapropriate advance toward audience

I think it's a little late in the game to change it up now. Go big or go home!
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OK I think I like it. Poop sock. Even the words are funny.
 
HomerJ said:
Honestly I've been very busy so I haven't been able to come up with too much material, so I am sticking to the basics, five things style:

1) Open by complimenting audience

5) Close with similarly awkward and innapropriate advance toward audience

I think it's a little late in the game to change it up now. Go big or go home!
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There's some room here for a lot of variations on this general theme. Openings that are awkward and inappropriate have a lot of potential. How successful you are depends on whether you succeed in making the audience feel uncomfortable or willingly subjecting yourself to discomfort/ridicule (the latter is often a better option if they don't know you at all because it sets you up as a 'humble' guy and therefore undeserving of heckling).

Hi I'm HomerJ and I love animals. I mean, I don't love animals, but I love animals, if you know what I mean....
 
1. I convinced the local Walmarts to sell me a $229 Schwinn for $75.
2. I could write a decent guide book of good places to have lunch in Allegheny County.
3. I worked around too many people today.
4. I walked on the treadmill slowly tonight, listened to soft slow music and kept my eyes closed. Very relaxing.
5. My sister thinks I'm strange.
 
1. We signed all the paperwork to refinance the house at a much lower interest rate.
2. Weirdly, the title company person came here instead of us going to an office.
3. Her shoe broke as she was leaving.
4. A biting fly (deer fly, horse fly) got in the house when she arrived.
5. RJ tried to smack it with a magazine and I tried to zap it with spray, which fizzled, so it's probably going to suck blood from one of us or the cats overnight.
 
1. Applied to CH2M Hill and the City of Oklahoma City
2. Received a call approving my store transfer
3. Went grocery shopping
4. I hope I hear something from any of these jobs soon
5. I'm gonna have pound cake and ice cream tonight :)
 
1. Damn, I gotta ton of work piling up
2. When an earthquake hits the reason 12 people die here and 12,000 die somewhere like Pakistan is because of our building codes
3. The idea of cowboys is kinda cool but I'll bet in person I would probably not get along well with most of them
4. Sometimes I wish I could be put under sedation
5. Looks like we're doing yet another staycation with maybe a few day trips this year:(
 
1. I am finally catching up with the piles...
2. I am not sure that it matters though. We are understaffed by 4 people.
3. I doubt that it is going to change until after November.
4. The worst part of working for government is election season.
5. Especially when you have two elected officials going after each other.
 
1. Getting caught up from last week's absence
2. Need to submit 4 things on CDBG stuff this week
3. I am still sleep deprived from last week
4. Need to get ready for RFP opening
5. Damn I'm sleepy right now
 
1. Life is so much less hopeless when I've had almost four hours of sleep in a row.
2. I have a bar association meeting this afternoon. Sometimes those are fun.
3. It would not be cool to learn that your entire residential lot is in a floodplain.
4. I went on a mad cleaning frenzy yesterday afternoon and stirred up a lot of old dust on my desk. :gagged:
5. There needs to be a sneezy emoticon. Or, if you will, a sneezemoticon.
 
1. I'm having lunch at a Chinese restaurant.
2. A woman put salt on her toddler grandaughter's egg roll.
3. Chinese food is plenty salty, and I doubt the salt stuck to the egg roll.
4. 6 women sat at the table next to mine - time to go.
5. Fortune - "technology is the art of arranging the world so we do not notice it."
 
kms said:
5. Fortune - "technology is the art of arranging the world so we do not notice it."
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...in bed



Wait that doesn't work so well. I thought all Chinese restaurant fortune cookies fortunes were supposed to add "in bed" to make it real.
 
1. Had a giant sugar cookie with coffee for breakfast... way to start the day off right.
2. Am waiting on the bad news from the mechanic that there is a dead mouse in my air conditioner... I hope he has a HAZMAT suit to wear while cleaning it out.
3. In high school I thought it would be really cool to wear a HAZMAT suit and clean up spills, or to work for the CDC and wear a biocontamination suit. In reality it's probably pretty constraining and hot.
3. I've been looking for a replacement babysitter because ours is graduating and moving away, I don't really like looking for new babysitters.
4. I have asked six people (four college students and two high school students) to babysit this Saturday and they're all either graduating, out of town, or already sitting for someone else... what the heck? Am I on some kind of babysitting blacklist?
 
Ares said:
1. Applied to CH2M Hill and the City of Oklahoma City
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OKC has been trying to hire people for quite some time, I keep seeing the job postings online. I hope it works out for you, but then you would have to live in Oklahoma.

Maister said:
3. The idea of cowboys is kinda cool but I'll bet in person I would probably not get along well with most of them
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I agree, cowboys are a cool idea, but most of them that I've met in Arizona and Kansas hate planners and are now "patriots". It leads to very one sided discussions.

kms said:
2. A woman put salt on her toddler grandaughter's egg roll.
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My 7yo will salt the crap out of anything, more to lick the salt of the plate than for flavor.

5 things for today!
1. It's slow today
2. Village idiot had to comment on the appraiser's retirement - he's been doing a bad job and should've retired earlier
3. Village idiot does not pay taxes on time
4. Waiting for this week to be over for me 9 hour roadtrip to beautiful Davenport
5. I need ear plugs for the roadtrip, kids are coming along.
 
dvdneal said:
I agree, cowboys are a cool idea, but most of them that I've met in Arizona and Kansas hate planners and are now "patriots". It leads to very one sided discussions.
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Reminds me of the time I met with a guy who came into the office wearing a "Don't tread on me" hat. He wanted to rezone his property to allow multifamily. I don't know if he was trying to intimidate me or what, but I told him pretty much to get lost with his condo proposal while wearing one of those furry Russian hats with a hammer and sickle on it. Ok, I made that last part up but everything else is true.

Ok, 5 things:
1. Big changes in the works for me. That's all I'll say at this point.
2. I'm sick of all the rain.
3. I wore black wingtip shoes today and I have no idea why I bought them since they are pretty unfashionable.
4. Now that I think of it, I got them because they are size 15 and I take what I can get with this size foot..
5. My sister always gets her money's worth with family get-togethers. This weekend she is doing a father's day bbq with our dad, my BIL's dad and his stepdad (who he's probably just as close to as his "real" dad).
 
hilldweller said:
3. I wore black wingtip shoes today and I have no idea why I bought them since they are pretty unfashionable.
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I have a pair of Cognac wingtip shoes I wear alot. Wingtips are cool; squaretoe shoes are not.

1. A big project is finally wrapping up.. (well, technically it isn't, but the hardest part is done)
2. Just in time for another one to start.
3. I have noticed that I'm in my first 'grownup' relationship with my current gf.
4. I've dated before, and was with my previous gf for 3 years (college and almost a year post graduation) but the dynamics of my current relationship seem completely different. It's pretty cool, actually...
5. I can't wait for the weekend. My dad and I are going off roading in the jeep with some family friends. It'll be a sort of father and son trip for all of us to celebrate father's day, complete with beer, BBQ, and jeeps.
 
1. A/C went out on me the other day
2. It's still not fixed because I'm having difficulty with the home warranty people not honoring my warranty
3. I live in Phoenix
4. It's been almost 110 degrees every day for the past week
5. FML
 
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