How do you feel today?

[lucimay]

the one tide!! the wounded laundry!!

CHEER AND CLOROX: THE GAP INTO LAUNDRY!!!!!

[Cameraman Jenn]

Ok, we have a goal now. Cheer and Chlorox, the Gap into Laundryfest 2011. MM and Sea put it on your schedule. Everyone who wants to come bring their dirty laundry to SF is welcome to join in. We will meet in SF and go to the infamous laundromat that Luci and I haunt and hang out at the infamous cafe that we also haunt. We will talk about everything from the politics of Mordant to the Gap vs. the Gap clothing megachain. We will even bring SCRABBLE boards. I say lets shoot for September when the weather is spectacular. Tell your bosses now, "I need time in September to go do my laundry in San Francisco!"

[lucimay]

speaking of which, i just put mine in the dryer!! YES! i'm at the laundry RIGHT NOW!!

fennniffffer! i thought you was workin today!! or i would've woken you up at 9 and made you come with!!

(i r broughten my laptop with me)

[stonemaybe]

(i r broughten my laptop with me)

The laundromats of your world have wi-fi?

[lucimay]

well yes, my laundromat has wifi. but i was not in the laundromat when i posted that. i was in the cafe next door, What A Grind.

[Seareach]

Laundryfest. I like it!

But, well: what ever you guys plan you have to give me plenty of notice so I can
a) coerce Mr Seareach into letting me go
b) save up the funds
c) organize someone to look after SoS
d) ...and all that jazz.

I'm f**ked if I'm going to sit back here and *read* about the next bloomin' fest! And I want MM to come...otherwise I might just come and get ya!

oh, and...

Hope your house is all right, Sea!

Yep, we were fine MM. The main street is a couple of meters below us (altitude wise) and so we didn't get flooded, although our backyard had a good inch or two of water in it, and we at one stage had a lovely stream running from the front of the house to the back.

[Cameraman Jenn]

Sorry Lucimay, I had lasagna experimentation plans with Bloodguard Bob. We even made the pasta with a spinach recipe. We had been planning it for quite some time. We had discussed some experimentational changes to the regular recipe including a pesto layer. The sauce is simmering down and we are getting close to assembly time. Otherwise it would have been laundry with you all the way. I'll bring you home a tupperware lunch serving for you to take to lunch tomorrow. I loves you Lucimay.

[Cheval]

Painted my bedroom today.
Changed the oil in my truck and did a tune-up.
Bought new tires.
Ordered a new bedroom suite and furniture.
Gave our cat to my daughter for now. (He like to bite my wife all the time.)
And then smoked some Grouper for dinner. (And some other things)
I'm tired, and a bit drink/comfortably numb, and watching a Pink Floyd video.
I'm enjoying life right now.

[Cameraman Jenn]

LUCIMAY!!!! You should have answered your phone. The lasagna experiment went incredibly well. I had a big hot tupperware with your name on it. I want to come knock but I don't want to piss off Ger. I'm working until six thirty (theoretically) tomorrow. I want you to try it, seriously. I'll call you when I am on my way home so I can pass some of this succulent amazing taste bud orgasm treasure to you. I'm going to go post a description in the galley.

[danlo]

Tam has finished the tough parts of her surgery and is feeling great. We went on a 40 minute family walk today with our awesome, spiritual adviser, neighbor Dale (yes the one who let Menolly create her fabulous key lime pies in her kitchen during the last Elohimfest) and then we went off to CostCo where we bought a 32 inch Vizio HDTV: my god! A new world! Such clarity! Amazing Grace! (sure beats going blind on a tiny 12 inch for the past 4 months).

Cheval: I'm with you bud watched 40 minutes of The Wall on VH1 Classics on Friday and Iron Maiden and Radiohead concerts on 101 today. I wish I had some "Grouper" but my bud Mike has been in Vegas all weekend at a high-stakes fantasy baseball draft...

We are destroying all debts thanks to our massive tax refund--and buying a new washer that will take 10 days delivery. In the meantime we sincerely wish we could be flying ourselves and laundry out to SF, but something secret is coming your way in the mail , in anycase...

[Cameraman Jenn]

Danlo? Was the prezzies in the mail directed at me or another SF kid? If it's me, then Yay Yay Yay! I love prezzies. If it's not then you have to send me something really stupid so I won't be disappointed while getting my mail. I'm easy to please, even a 25 cent crap toy from a grocery store dispenser will do. I'm so about the thought that counts that its kinda pathetic. I mean seriously, if you sent me a plastic ring I would be all like, I got prezzies I got prezzies and dancing around anyway. And you and LT know from experience that the serious prezzies make me cry with joy. I cried like a baby when LT sent the homemade pillow cases and told me how Grace picked the fabric. Magic. One of those moments in life when you feel so special and so loved it is overwhelming.

[danlo]

You get what's coming to you-maybe people don't think karma exists (if so they're crazy)...in any case it does on the Watch and between us.

[Sunbaneglasses]

Ever since reading the paper this paper this morning I have been thinking "I need to get my family the f**k out of here". The meth epidemic has been bothering me for some time. Now I read that these two winners have been arrested and charged with killing a man at a FLEA MARKET, robbing him, dismembering him and hiding his body parts all over the county.

[Kaydene]

Today, I felt like I didn't fall in the cracks. I've been battling the Financial Aid office for a little while now. I served two terms in the Americorps program (it's like the domestic Peace Corps) and the money I received from it is categorized as a Living Allowance and not a paycheck, and so the money, while taxed, doesn't count when they're looking at my income for that year, allowing me to receive more Financial Aid. Anyway....they didn't believe me. It's been an uphill battle, but I ran into someone I knew in the building. He didn't work in the Financial Aid department, but he said he knew people around the building and "if I needed anything.." etc. I left him a long note explaining the situation and he talked with an FA Officer he knew who contacted me today personally. I finally got a chance to plead my case and after I explained everything, and she understood, she agreed to look again at my file with a letter of proof from my supervisor at Americorps. I became more than a social security number to her and while it may have been nothing more than a passing word in the Staff Room for the friend that I left that note for, this is the fork in the road for me....this is a huge deal.

Made me feel at peace with the universe for the first time in a long, long time.

[Rigel]

Choosing a school is often less about what you learn (most teach the same facts), and more about their customer service, ie, counselors, aid officers, placement facilities, etc.

Hopefully, Kaydene, that'll straighten things out for you.

Oh, and Sunbaneglasses... is that Peter Jackson on the right?!?!?

[matrixman]

Egad, SBG. Proof that Jehannum-Raver and Herem-Raver are here in our world.

Oh, and danlo, congrats on your big tax refund! Must feel like winning the lottery, only it's your own money.

[aliantha]

i wish i was on the big island with wadds and ali having mai tais in coconut shells.

It's ok, you were with us in spirit! <3! Also, you get pina coladas in coconut shells! Mai tais go in pineapples

Loved spending time with Ali the last few days!! We've already have the next E-fest entirely planned out. Just ask Ali, she's got all the details.

Uhhh, sure I do. Right. Yeah.

Going home tonight. Bleah. This really has been a good vacation. And yes, Jenn and Luci and all of youse guys, you were with us in spirit, and I wish you'd'a been here in person because I have had a great time.

Gods, there's still snow on the ground at home. I guess I'd better change out of these shorts pretty soon. Bleah.

[Waddley]

How do I feel? Oh, that's so nice of you to ask! I feel great because I'm about to call aliantha and see her one last time before she heads back home.

[Cameraman Jenn]

I'm jealous, I wish I was hanging with Wadds and Ali. I had an interesting day. Had two conversations neither of which I initiated which gave me some serious insight into two of my coworkers. The best part is, it wasn't just the wording or the person, it was also context and motivation and sincerety that gave me the insights. It was like getting the same tarot reading day after day and then suddenly two really unexpected tarot cards show up and taking out two of the base tarot cards from that same reading out and that skewed the whole thing about. Not in a bad way. How to explain it. It's like having the upper hand in some ways then you are given a second hand with a lot more risk but a much more subtle way to play with much richer rewards....Not to go back to tarot but it's two different games, one is major arcana and one is minor but they will both effect the end result with serious impact.

[Savor Dam]

I am feeling both unappreciated and appreciated...

Un: Having just hit the three month mark in the new job I landed in December, I am sick, sick, sick of being micromanaged and treated like I have no clue what I am doing. While this company's culture and expectations are very different than any I have worked for before, I am basically doing the same work I have been doing for over 25 years. If it had not taken me three quarters of a year to get this job after being downsized from the last, I would walk in a heartbeat...

Appreciated: On top of the Watchy last month and the anniversary wishes last week (thanks, all who noticed!) I got a nice note from a fellow Watcher wondering why I have been so scarce here and encouraging me to make an appearance. While I think I posted a comment on one of Jenn's pasta heaven creations a day or so ago, I figure that it can't hurt to increment my post count a little.

(Jenn, I heard a rumor that there is buffalo in your legendary pasta sauce. Don't tell my avatar, but is this true?)