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around the sun again

Good morning, internets.  This year I got you some wild flowers.

midsummer flowers

My coworkers, being both lazy and not very good at keeping details straight, decided to recycle the half dozen Mylar birthday balloons gifted to our accounting manager on her birthday at the beginning of the month by taping them to my cubicle walls.  This is pretty annoying, but they got bent out of shape when I took a scissors to the one they had tied to my monitor so I left them up.

Towards the end of the week one of the girls across the way in another department asked when my actual birthday was and how old I was going to be.   “This next Monday,” I said, “and…thirty-two?”  I scratched my head.  I can’t keep track of these things.  “Yeah, that sounds about right.  Thirty-two.”  I shrugged.

“Cool.  I’m turning thirty-one in a few weeks.”

“Oh, sweet!  Stop by my desk later, I’ll give you some pro tips.  I’m pretty good at this thirty-one thing.”  And you know, I guess I am, though this is more by accident than design.  It’s been a pretty good year.

Anyway, here I go around the sun again.  Thirty two, here’s looking at you.

current status: sweaty

As I am fond of telling anybody who will listen, I live in the House That Science Forgot, wherein the laws of thermodynamics seem to be suspended so that this place is like a brick oven all through the summer, retaining the heat even at night when the temperature drops outside — yet in the winter it is chronically colder indoors here than out and I occasionally find myself freezing to death.

Right now, for example, I find that I am dripping in sweat from the normally low aerobic impact task of typing out this blog post.  So much so that this is probably as far as this post goes.  So in case anyone gets to wondering what it is I’m up to this week, the answer is:  sweating, profusively and unattractively.  That, and eating strawberries.  If any of you take pity on me and want to send a frozen margarita bucket my way, I will definitely not object.

still around

sol pops

Just, you know, busy.  The sun has been out and I have been soaking up as much radiation as I can.  But I admittedly have been slacking off here, even for me.  So, here’s checking in.

mornings are stupid

Ugh.  Why do we have to get up so early again?

Despite my love of sunrises I am not at all a morning person.  Fortunately, I am very much a coffee person, which makes up for it.

coffee

In non-grumbling about the morning news, it’s Radioactive Tori’s birthday today.  Happy birthday!

slow news week

Not a lot going on here this week.  Well, other than a chicken going AWOL in my neighborhood.

missing chicken

I plan on at least a few shenanigans in the coming week, though.

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