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April Fools Carnival

The Carnival of theVanities is up at Eric Berlin's place. It has an April Fool's theme with some false entries thrown in.

Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for keeping track of the Carnival for me.

For Billy

which groupmember are you?

I'll take being the brains over being the leader any day. Of course since the leader is my best friend, that means I'm really the brains behind the scenes. You'll never prove my evil plots belong to me and not the leader!

Found via Billy

Tidbits

Finally got all the poop-scooping done yesterday. Just in time too since it is raining today and is supposed to be wet for the next 3-4 days.

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Tory's limp has completely disappeared.

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What the heck do people do with an hour lunch? The job I interviewed for yesterday requires that an hour lunch be taken. Maybe I can blog during that time if I am hired. The job I interviewed for wouldn't really use any of the experience that I have built up and would seem a little tame compared to what I am used to, but it probably wouldn't be the worst job I have ever had so I could deal with it for a while.

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I have added KristiKristi (KG's Hideaway) to my More Blogging Goodness links list. If you haven't met her yet, go say "Hi" and commiserate with her on her back/neck/shoulder pain that she is currently experiencing.

Kissed Off

I got a kiss-off letter from the company that I had interviewed with that is 60+ miles away. I gotta love this part:

"Our review of your resume indicates a commendabel level of education, skills and experience. However, we have determined that your skills and abilities do not match the position requirements closely enough to consider you a candidate for this position."

Ah, I get it, you wasted 2 hours of your people's time (the length of the interview) because my skills and abilities don't match the position requirements. Everyone's enthusiasm when I showed I knew what I was talking about (yes there are about 17 steps needed in document control - no it doesn't just require the changing of the rev. level) was all a big sham.

Look people, if you have decided I won't fit in the team that is currently in place, tell me that. If you want to pay someone a lot less than where my abilities indicate I should be paid, tell me that. But don't tell me such a patently false piece of BS!

I have another interview today in which I will either have too much experience or not the right skills.

Fanned Out

I was going to take care of a client's cat this morning and saw something really weird at the side of the road. Since it was early morning and cloudy I had a hard time telling what it was. At first I thought that someone had lost a couple of black trashbags out of their vehicle. Then I thought maybe it was a pine tree that had been stripped of all its needles except a couple of big bunches at the very end of a limb.

When I was almost beside it I finally figured out it was a tom turkey fully fanned out, proudly showing off its feathers to the passing cars.

Maybe spring really is here!

Evilness

How evil are you?

Hmm, I figured I would get a mid-range score. How can it be that I am more evil than Drumwaster? I can believe that I am more evil than Ellen at AMCGLTD (she's just completely insane).

Horses and Llamas

I can do Greg one better - I helped round up an errant llama a couple of years ago that was running down the road. But Greg tells a much more exciting story than I do, so mine isn't really any better!

Continuation

For anyone that has been following Wichi Dude's Bright Lights story, he has part 8 up. If you don't remember reading it, since he hasn't put up an installment for a couple of months, or you haven't started reading it, he has linkes to parts 1 - 7. He says it is a long one (I haven't read it yet - will when I am done posting this), so make sure to leave yourself plenty of time to read!

Weekend Doings

It was so nice on Saturday that I gave into the urge to start some flats of vegetable seeds. I started 30 onions, 12 leeks, 6 melons, 6 watermelons, 6 green peppers and 12 Jalapeno peppers in one flat. In the other flat I started 72 tomatoes (3 different varieties). At first glance, one would think that I don't have enough pepper plants to make salsa if my tomatoes do half decent. With a glance in my freezer, you would understand why I didn't plant more peppers; there are a couple of gallon bags full of different peppers that were grown 2 years ago. The only reason I am growing Jalapenos is that I didn't grow any of them the season I froze all the peppers; all the frozen peppers are hotter than Jalapenos and I wanted something just a bit milder in my larder.

I also started a 36" long planter box with some lettuce, spinach and chard. The planter will stay on the deck where it is easy to get to the leafy greens (and the Wonderful Spouce won't mistake them for weeds). Since these are cool weather crops, I didn't put them in the greenhouse with the rest of the starts.

I rounded out Saturday's planting by starting other planters with mixes of phlox (the tall annual variety), bachelor's buttons, tithonia and marigolds.

While the sun was still out, I took a walk around the yard (the part that wasn't under snow anyway) and found that the bulbs I planted last fall are starting to poke out little green shoots. Some of the forsythia have swollen buds, meaning they should start blooming relatively soon. The other forsythia are in constant shade, and still covered by snow so they will lag behind a bit.

Most of the ground cover that I planted between stepping stones (by the planter boxes below the fence) did extremely well and continued to spread even after the snow covered them up. I am really pleased as this is in an area that drains a lot of water from the upper yard, and the ground cover is mainly there for erosion control.

That is it for the tour of the yard for now, there is more I could write about, but suffice it to say that I think most of the work that we did in the yard last summer seems to be holding up pretty well except the honeysuckle bush that the dogs ate - maybe it will send up more shoots from the roots. If that's the worst that happened, I can live with it!

Not Friday Five

Buffy found that there were no questions this week for the Friday Five, so she listed some questions of her own.

1. How much sleep do you get a night? 6 or 7 hours on a good night

2. Do you floss every day? once or twice a week (or when I have food stuck in between my teeth)

3. Do you make your bed every day? We already discussed this - in short NO.

4. Do you iron your clothes? No - well, maybe once a year

5. Do you exercise every day? 3-4 times a week

A. If you could have any job, what would it be? I don't really care as long as I can do a variety of stuff in that job.

B. If you could vacation anywhere in the world, where would it be? The Dakotas, Montana - that area of the country

C. If you could live anywhere, where would you choose to live? I'm there - New Hampshire

D. If you could have a degree from ANY university, which university would
you choose? Not really picky

E. If you could only read one book, what would it be? The Stand by Stephen King

I. What's your favorite soup? Cambell's Cream of Mushroom soup (I use it in all kinds of recipes)

II. What's your favorite home cooked meal? Beef Stroganoff (with Cream of Mushroom Soup in it)

III. What's your favorite restaurant? Caron's - they make a great breakfast

IV. What's your favorite beverage? Water

V. Do you ever diet? No