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Daily things 5️⃣ Five Things Tuesday

1. Gonna start looking for jobs outside of planning that require a bachelor's degree.
2. It's way too hot in Phoenix.
3. I want to relocate to another state as I've lived here my entire life.
4. I had Bamboo Cafe for lunch.
5. Watching HLN, which is a fantastic network.
 
1. I am slowing down on my postings, maybe I am taking work to seriously ?
2. Attended an all day state delivered FEMA advanvced floodplain managers course.
3. The man is rearranging the office.
4. learned a new flood acronym - FRED - floodproof, relocate, elevate, demolition
5. That all day class I am going to claim 4 self reporting AICP hours - wonder if APA will accept it ?
 
1. Tracking down a BOC Chairman for a signature is sometimes an adventure
2. Getting the railroad to return a phone call only takes 4 months now
3. Is all the paperwork worth the grant? I guess in the long run it is
4. Weird dreams coming again -this time with Dad in them (he passed away in 1994)
5. Brother coming into town tomorrow night for golf, drinks, drinks, baseball, drinks, golf, drinks & drinks
 
1. Baby was up 12:30 to 2 am with a fever and barking cough.
2. Baby then slept till 6:30. That's actually a great night!
3. Going home at noon to relieve husband. We're splitting a sick day to keep kiddo home from daycare, even though he seems better now.
4. Some days I feel like I'm missing something really important at work and it's going to come crashing in on me.
5. I wonder if everyone feels like that.
 
1. Today is my Friday
2. I'm taking a 10 day weekend
3. Is it 5 yet?
4. List pad
5. List pad
 
1. Tired today.
2. Excited and scared though.
3. I get excited about things that haven't happened.
4. Then get worried when those things actually happen.
5. Then I want something else. Because nothing pleases me.
 
1. Back from a long weekend.:(
2. Village idiot thinks county documents are below floodplain:D
3. New village idiot wants county to approve medical marijuana:lmao:
4. I think I need to do some code enforcement this week:not:
5. That's all for the emoticon 5 things Tuesday:a: (not sure what this one is)
 
1. Buying a new house :)
2. Offer accepted but want the closing quickly :r:
3. Ran credit and found id has been stolen :-@
4. Not bad but have to deal with it quickly :-{
5. One company very helpful :-x the other one not at all and person was bitchy :not:
 
1. Something doesn't feel right at home.
2. Cancer scare dodged last week
3. my favorite fruit is cold watermelon
4. grilled chicken for dinner last night but it was not up to par
5. I have probably grilled at least once a week since the snow melted in April. That's a record for me.
 
1. I need to just suck it up and finish this memo.
2. I keep finding other things to do instead.
3. Like make this list.
4. I got almost 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep last night. First time since... I can't remember.
5. I was told by A Source that one of the major law firms in town might be interested in someone with my creds. I... don't know if I want that now.
 
1. Just inspected a bunch of fireworks tents - yeah
2. Also posted an order to abate while the village idiot was talking to commissioners
3. I'm expecting an angry village idiot by the end of the day or sometime this week
4. Just missed my daughter in her first tennis tourney - damn fireworks tents:(
5. She did okay, didn't win, but had a lot of fun
 
1. Some people are oblivious concerning their dress/appearances, while others simply don't give a damn; it's not always obvious which is which.
2. Junior's tennis class got rained out.... again
3. I think we are going to have a bumper crop of tomatoes this season
4. considering how best to approach a two-week long inquisition with seana (it's an ADA requirement)
5. in theory living on a lake sounds cool, but I wonder what the downside is (apart from costly real estate)?
 
1. Evidently you can't open a topless car wash in a certain jurisdiction in this part of the world
2. The 'House of Bacon' has closed for the holiday week - oh the horrors
3. Today's task - going to clean out an old building we're about to start on renovations
4. Going to dinner tonight at a Mexican restaurant with an English couple and Jamaican guy. Cultural melting pot!
5. Looking forward to sitting in the Lake & drinking beer over the 4th.
 
1. Hafta check out some "complaints" that will all be imaginary
2. I think the complaints are just a way to distract me from actually going after your problem - it's not working
3. I'm jealous of my neighbors garden, she has huge tracts of vegetables
4. My poor plants need to hit a growth spurt
5. Counting the days to moving into a new house at the end of the month
 
1. As the 4th approaches, I am reminded how much I am over fireworks.
2. That said, I've always wanted to go to Boston for the 4th and see the Boston Pops in person. Some day.
3. It is election season in my fair city and it is beginning to get downright ugly.
4. I stopped and got a turtle out of the road this morning. Hey, somebody's gotta do it!
5. I love doing busy work and completing stupid reports for our COG. What a waste of time.
 
1. ...zzzzzzzzzzzz :z: ... oh, it's Tuesday |-)
2. Two-and-a-half cups of coffee this morning and I am having trouble waking up
3. I almost fell asleep compiling Census data yesterday
4. Most of the projects I have left in the queue are not very interesting or challenging :( - but I'll get paid
5. I haven't had any melon yet this summer.
 
1. Leaving tomorrow for California.
2. Must stay motivated today and get things wrapped up.
3. I too enjoy when my neighbors have large tracts.
4. Can't wait to spend 10 days with my wife and no kids.
5. I'm wondering if I may decided to just stay in southern California.
 
1. On days when I've had a respectable amount of sleep, I get all ambitious and start plotting career moves.
2. Then I plunge back into my sleep-deprived fog and go back to trudging through workdays to get to the end.
3. That sounds a lot more depressed than I meant it to.
4. Baby Midori is crawling now, and it's adorable. He makes these little motor-boat sounds as he scoots.
5. I am wearing a new shirt I found on the clearance rack for $5. Husband told me I look nice this morning. :-$:)
 
1. I really, really wanted to be in Gettysburg this week for the 150th anniversary of the battle.
2. A City Council meeting last night, and ZBA meeting tonight, made that impossible.
3. I bet the ranger-guided tour "The Last March of the Iron Brigade" would have been fantastic.
4. Took my son out for his first trip behind the wheel. When I asked him how he felt, he replied "terrified". Me too, I wanted to say, but didn't.
5. Seems some villages around here are missing idiots - I have an over-abundance.:-o
 
1. Tuesday is Wednesday
2. Wednesday is Friday
3. Thursday starts a 4 day weekend
4. Heading for the country house
5. Life is good!
 
1. I swear Pandora is like a needy girlfriend at times
2. My daughter is in town for a month
3. Time to dust off the dad skills
4. Longmire is turning out to be a reaaly good series
5. Hey Maister, Elementary is starting the new season in London
 
1. Crappy morning, my son started his first summer camp yesterday and did not want to go this morning.
2. It never gets easier leaving a crying kid behind to go to work. :(
3. Going to get some kid-friendly food for dinner, hopefully that make the day better.
4. Have to pack for our trip to Crater Lake tonight, leaving right after work tomorrow!
5. Time for lunch...
 
1. Tomorrow is Virtual Friday.
2. We have 1 coworker who doesn't remember things, and constantly asks for reminders.
3. A few of us have stopped reminding him of things.
4. I had mediocre Mexican food for lunch.
4. The OT that I'm working is looking good in my savings account.
 
Zoning Goddess said:
I do all the pet care
I do all the pet care
I do all the pet care
I do all the pet care
I do all the pet care
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Off Topic:

See, this is what I don't get. My wife wants another dog, but complains all the time about the one we have. I won't let her get another dog, because I don't want to listen to any more complaining, and I'm ready for a dog-free house after 10 years. I'm not saying this is you ZG, it just made me think of my situation.
 
1. The Girl learned how to waterski this past weekend
2. Being around many of my cousins last weekend was really good
3. Also looks like I'll always be known as 'Crazy Uncle Planit'
4. Looks like July might be the calm before the storm
5. Did you know Helen Keller had a dog? Neither did she.*





*Compliments of my niece (and I'll spare you the rest of them which are much worse)
 
1. I have to question a director's managerial skills who calls you into their office or sends an email each and every time they find a typo you committed.
2. I am sick of listening to my coworker in the adjacent cubicle yack endlessly about baseball. I don't care to hear about it.
3. birds of a feather flock together
4. I feel another bout of depression coming on
5. My son has gotten off his usual sleep schedule owing to staying up late on the 4th of July and a sleep-over on his birthday
 
1. I had a splitting, migraine-ish headache starting as I left work yesterday till I went to bed. Still feel the edges of it this morning.
2. There are a lot of irons in the fire at work. Hard to stay focused on one long enough to finish it.
3. Local APA chapter has asked me to serve on awards committee. Sounds like one of those "get the newbie to do it" initiation rites.
4. I'm probably going to accept. Got to pay the dues, yo.
5. Maybe it will be a good networking opportunity. That's what I'm going to tell myself anyway.
 
Midori said:
Local APA chapter has asked me to serve on awards committee. Sounds like one of those "get the newbie to do it" initiation rites.
I'm probably going to accept. Got to pay the dues, yo.
Maybe it will be a good networking opportunity. That's what I'm going to tell myself anyway.
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I know many will disagree, but working with your local or state APA chapter is a great way to network, us planners don't network enough outside of our departments and regular development contacts and scattered regional meetings. I have been working with one of my state chapter committees and really enjoy the interactions and networking with folks who are mostly higher pay grades than me.
 
beach_bum said:
I know many will disagree, but working with your local or state APA chapter is a great way to network, us planners don't network enough outside of our departments and regular development contacts and scattered regional meetings. I have been working with one of my state chapter committees and really enjoy the interactions and networking with folks who are mostly higher pay grades than me.
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Indeed. I am mindful that my predecessor at this desk jumped jobs within the local chapter network (thus increasing pay grade significantly and decreasing evening responsibilities). I love my job now, but there are also nice opportunities within that circle should my feet ever get itchy.

And also I do enjoy hobnobbing with that crowd. They're pretty fun, the few times I've hung out with them, and it's refreshing to trade work stories with kindred spirits.
 
It's good to be involved. I was involved with the Arizona APA, but then I moved to Kansas where they all hang out by KC. I'll have to go to the conference next year and get plugged in.

1. Waiting for the commissioners to get yelled at by the public in an hour.
2. Then I get to give my quick update and go away
3. Squirrel! His name is Twitchy
4. You are all making me miss networking with planners
5. Is it time to go home yet?
 
1. Today is my Monday.
2. No news is... bad news. :not:
3. I need a new project to raise my spirits.
4. Or I need my existing projects to move along a lot faster.
5. Where does the time go?
 
1. I want to buy land.
2. And plant 1 acre of grapes.
3. I would like to quit my job and just farm my grapes.
4. And spend money without making any.
5. Without stress.
 
Hink said:
1. I want to buy land.
2. And plant 1 acre of grapes.
3. I would like to quit my job and just farm my grapes.
4. And spend money without making any.
5. Without stress.
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One acre of grapes...I wonder how many bottles of wine that would produce?

On a related note, I frequently have retirement fantasies where I get out of planning and spend my days tending cabbages in the back yard. After a few months They will beg me to come back and like Emperor Diocletian I would reply "If you could show the cabbage I planted with my own hands to [city council], they definitely wouldn't dare suggest I replace the peace and happiness of this place with the storms of a never-satisfied greed."
 
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1. My work week clock is still set to last week's 3 day work week.
2. Tomorrow is NOT virtual Friday.
3. I worked with a dam inspector today.
4. My daughter comes home on Friday.
5. I think that she's bringing THE ONE home to meet us. (but not Cyburbia's THE ONE)
 
1. Been struggling with the pointlessness of life more than usual lately.
2. He who would thrive must ask his wive (B. Franklin)
3. Bugs ate all but one of my bush bean plants
4. Junior caught a fly in his hand last night. Good reflexes
5. I like the Pixies but I've had the song "Where is my Mind" running through my head now going on six days and it's getting really old
 
1. today is another circus day at work, glad I'm not involved
2. I hate the week before moving, it's just a waiting game now
3. For you English lovers I just got a request for a copy of a permite, maybe the guy just can't spell
4. kids are ready to move! they already have their rooms picked out in the new house
5. now I just have to get them to figure out that I'm not doing a fancy paintjob in their rooms. Two colors at most.
 
1. I'm reading legal cases about strip clubs today; what are you doing?
2. Strippers actually make very good money per hour.
3. I have an itch to go clothes shopping for some reason.
4. Green tea is pretty good.
5. Officemate and boss are not getting along. Usually the conflict would bother me, but I'm curiously indifferent.
 
1. I need a project that I can get excited for.
2. I feel bored when I don't have something to dream of.
3. I would like a raise.
4. Not going to happen until after the election.
5. Next month I find out who is running for the election. Fun.
 
1. I had 3 night meetings this week
2. 2 were cancelled, now there's 1
3. I feel you pain hinky, thank goodness I have one exciting project
4. I really have 2, but the 2nd flows like molasses and I'm mostly LG just support
5. Waiting for the home inspection items to be addressed
 
1. Lunch meeting today
2. I like lunch
3. I tolerate meetings
4. Life is just a dream
5. Lewis & Clark or Northern Exposure?
 
1. A robin built a nest on my porch and is sitting on eggs.
2. I imagine it will turn into a poopy mess.
3. An acquaintance's son is "goin to Pitt at Greensburgh."
4. We hold little hope for his academic success.
5. I still could use a road trip.
 
1. I have a bug bite on a joint on one of the fingers of my dominant hand
2. The joys of living in the buggy South:r:
3. I hate the smell of hand sanitizer
4. But it's bett than the alternative
5. I wonder how JNA is doing?
 
1. I mopped the damn white tile kitchen floor today.
2. The new dog didn't try to walk on the wet floor. Good doggie! :)
3. I spend a lot of time nowadays throwing frisbies in the back yard.
4. RJ keeps calling the dog Jaxspra.
5. Jack likes having his belly rubbed more than RJ does.
 
Midori said:
1. I'm reading legal cases about strip clubs today; what are you doing?
2. Strippers actually make very good money per hour.
5. Officemate and boss are not getting along. Usually the conflict would bother me, but I'm curiously indifferent.
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2. So do sign twirlers
5. Reading about stripperss will do that to you.

Hink said:
1. I need a project that I can get excited for.
2. I feel bored when I don't have something to dream of.
3. I would like a raise.
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Join Midori in reading about strippers, that'll help the excited, dreaming and getting a raise.
 
kms said:
1. A robin built a nest on my porch and is sitting on eggs.
2. I imagine it will turn into a poopy mess.
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Probably not. We had one this year too and they are pretty good about keeping 'em relatively clean, if stinky. They fledge really fast and then they are gone. I didn't know this previously, but they do not reuse old nests. :h:
 
dvdneal said:
2. So do sign twirlers
5. Reading about stripperss will do that to you.



Join Midori in reading about strippers, that'll help the excited, dreaming and getting a raise.
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That reminds me of the adult entertainment study/ordinance I had to write. As part of it, I had to do the required reseach about the topic. Only thing I'm going to say is that there are some pretty sick people out there.8-!:-c I felt like a needed to go home and take a bath every night after work while doing it. It was pretty disgusting.
 
Whose Yur Planner said:
That reminds me of the adult entertainment study/ordinance I had to write. As part of it, I had to do the required reseach about the topic. Only thing I'm going to say is that there are some pretty sick people out there.8-!:-c I felt like a needed to go home and take a bath every night after work while doing it. It was pretty disgusting.
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Eek. Yes, sad side effect of that whole "void for vagueness" rule is that you have to get very, very, embarrassingly specific about what "lewd dancing" is in the ordinance. 8-! At some point it just stops being sexy and starts being medical.
 
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