Harry Tarklar and the Thrifty Hallows

[TBoneTX 45,244]

No no you all have to catch up!

Oj nie nie. You must continue to set the example and show all of us neophytes how it's done, D ma'am.

So, the CT-scan came back normal. The kid is fine, but just has a really bad case of the stomach bug. Even after the IV fluids, she still looks like #######.

It hurts like the dickens when a child is sick, sigh ma'am...

[TBoneTX 45,244]

Thursday report, see man:

Groggily sold Many pre-owned toilet seats, $i man.

Forgot approximately Many things that should have been brought to the office, ADD man.

One was lunch, which Mrs. T-B. forgot to tell me she made, ADD she man.

T-B.-jalopied to casa in worst clear-weather gridlock since yesterday, grrr man.

Why does car in front hang back to enable others to cut in ahead, huh and grrr man?

No sooner arrived when Mrs. T-B. jumped into Mrs.-T-B.-mobile, race away she man.

She was eager to attend kick-boxing class, practicing to give me a chicharron she man.

Ate rather tasty dinner, ingest man.

Mini-B. mooched Many pieces of meat, ingest wee man.

Mini-B. then coerced Daddy into playing trains, persistent wee man.

Replaced batteries in Mail-Car Percy, speed-increase man.

Built entire second track, civil engineering man.

Analyzed comparative speeds of Mail-Car Percy, Talking Percy, and Gordon, trains man.

Dug cat from under sofa-cover, hide miu man.

Made consecutive pipis, commenting glowingly on strength & volume, male-bonding man.

Mrs. T-B. returned in an hour, looking like she'd been hit by a truck, too much she man.

Got much-needed hour's nap with cat, me zzz and miu zzz man.

Mini-B. snoring, wee zzz man.

Mrs. T-B. called for caucus about prospective new T-B.-mobile, she man.

Busted our chops about getting ripped off, now a complete gringa she man.

Insists on coming along to sale-closing tomorrow, look out man.

We can predict a real scene with embarrassed salesmen & angry sales manager, uh-oh man.

Might end up being stuck with existing T-B.-jalopy for longer, back to square one sigh man.

I already negotiated $Many down on price and $Many up on trade-in, acceptable man.

Sometimes, blood squeezed from turnips is of finite volume, realistically man.

It should all make for good theater and maybe YouTube material, embarrassment man.

Mrs. T-B. now snoring like Mini-B., shared DNA she and wee man.

Truncated day selling POTS on Friday, leave early man.

Must return to casa and out-clean T-B.-jalopy, don't leave anything man.

Then must ferry Mini-B. to Mama T-B. and ferry Mrs. T-B. to site of the scene, she man.

Cat has just dropped wrapper at feet and is sucking up to Cat-Daddy, miu man.

Shall play Wrappers and ruminate about situation, think man.

[TBoneTX 45,244]

Just finished (yeah, right man) vigorous Wrappers with cat, good workout man.

Cat very appreciative, miu man.

Must play with older child too, si man.

Must not regret lack of play now when her Time Comes later, no man.

(Regular) cat then prep and zzz man.

Mornin', Commie-babe with lavish +1 inventory!

[SAT 9,609]

Baby....bad.....

Feelin' kinda.....like Stretch......

[NikLR 13,227]

Ah the sleepless nights of a parent with a newborn. I do not miss those.

[Caryh 5,206]

How dare you guys be so chatty when I'm at a training class all day. And trying to ditch me by creating a new thread is pure evil.

I got a headache and took some Tarklynol yesterday. Didn't help the headache, although now my back hurts, but I'm too cheap to buy some real painkillers, and I have a sudden desire to head south of the border. How long does it take that stuff to wear off?

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

So of course this morning I don't need to be up early to drop the little one off at school and....

I've been wide awake for a while. How come I can't be this wide awake on days I need to be?

Ugggghhh.

[Caryh 5,206]

So of course this morning I don't need to be up early to drop the little one off at school and....

I've been wide awake for a while. How come I can't be this wide awake on days I need to be?

Ugggghhh.

Why would you want to get up early when you've got to be somewhere? If you don't want to be there, there's certainly no reason to be wide awake for it.

[Ontarkie 14,214]

Baby....bad.....

Feelin' kinda.....like Stretch......

Poor baby!

It won't last long

So of course this morning I don't need to be up early to drop the little one off at school and....

I've been wide awake for a while. How come I can't be this wide awake on days I need to be?

Ugggghhh.

It's a conspiracy those dang sleep ninja's!

[SAT 9,609]

How dare you guys be so chatty when I'm at a training class all day. And trying to ditch me by creating a new thread is pure evil.

I got a headache and took some Tarklynol yesterday. Didn't help the headache, although now my back hurts, but I'm too cheap to buy some real painkillers, and I have a sudden desire to head south of the border. How long does it take that stuff to wear off?

You might have Tarklaria.....

So of course this morning I don't need to be up early to drop the little one off at school and....

I've been wide awake for a while. How come I can't be this wide awake on days I need to be?

Ugggghhh.

Tark apnea

[Caryh 5,206]

You might have Tarklaria.....

Damn so that means its terminal? I so hate buses you know.

[SAT 9,609]

And trying to ditch me by creating a new thread is pure evil.

We were actually conspiring to ditch Tark. Who told you to not be up that night.....

Damn so that means its terminal? I so hate buses you know.

Check your temp, it could be Tarklett fever

[SAT 9,609]

Ah the sleepless nights of a parent with a newborn. I do not miss those.

Yes you do, so go have another one.....Get yourself unfixed......

[SAT 9,609]

The little baby makes a shrieking sound like a baby alien......

[Caryh 5,206]

So I'm in a training class yesterday. Six people in the class. Four of us are programmers and need to learns to the ins and out of programming this hardware. The other two that came together are end users. They have machines that use the hardware and want to be aware of the programming that went into them, and how to adjust things. One of those two likes to hear himself talk. He keeps interrupting the instructor with stupid questions that are nothing more than talking about the machines they have and how he doesn't understand what they've programmed into them. Killing valuable instruction time I certainly wanted to get. I kept thinking I wanted to throw something at the back of his shiny bald head. I almost did when I asked a question on calibration from the vision system to real word units, something very very important to what I'll be doing, and he interrupts the instructor giving an answer to go into one of his stupid in our machine stories again. Then when he finishes with another wasted 10 minute diarrhea of the mouth, says what he was asking (me) and rephrases my question to the instructor to a question I was not asking. When the instructor finished answering the question I did not ask, I spoke up to say what I had really asked and again asked my original question. Which as least kind of shut him up for the last two hours of the class, to a degree. I think he noticed people were irritated with him. As the class ended, I noticed his partner from the same company as he was from, couldn't get away from him fast enough. So I guess he doesn't make many friends around his office either.