Monthly Archives: February 2004

I nearly crushed the Vandycat yesterday.

Not on purpose! Though she has been a vexing kitty lately, what with her new jealousy issues. We’ve recently let the cats come upstairs when we’re up there and she’s been attacking Isaak whenever she runs into him up there. And whenever we’re skritching Isaak behind the ears or anything, she runs up and demands attention too. The “I” is beginning to act kind of wigged out by her sometimes.
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A simple thing to bear in mind: When the guy who shows up to repair your furnace has no eyebrows, it’s probably a bad sign.

I sometimes wonder if there’s an unwritten rule for businesses mandating that you must have at least one incompetent person on staff who must be sent out on service calls at least once a month. As has been related elsewhere, the furnace at the condo has been acting up and it took several visits from several people to get it up and toasting again.
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Songs which are funnier, though less romantic, when, in the title and lyrics, the word “Love” is replaced with the word “Pants”:

A Groovy Kind of Pants
Addicted to Pants
All You Need Is Pants
Bye Bye Pants
Endless Pants
Hang on to Your Pants
I Want to Know What Pants Is
Pants in an Elevator
Pants Shack
Pants Will Find a Way
Sea of Pants
The Power of Pants
To Sir With Pants

Just got back from running Rob & Joanna to the airport to catch their flight out to Egypt. They were supposed to fly out last night, but their flight was delayed for a day due to mechanical problems… For them that just meant a complimentary car ride home and another day to pack last minute stuff, but there were a lot of unamused people for whom Detroit was just a connection. They wound up getting shuffled into hotel rooms for the night. And a happy Valentines day to all of them…
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When you were a kid, and you had a vacation, you spent a lot of time doing nothing. As an adult with vacation time, I’m finding it hard to fall into that old pattern. There’s always stuff to do… For example, I’ve already gotten the week’s shopping done. I’ve got a crock pot going with dinner for tonight. I’ve replaced the ceiling light fixture in the kitchen, and I’m getting ready to put together a set of shelves that just arrived.
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So, I got a nice little e-mail yesterday from the section administrator… I’m over the maximum number of allowable vacation hours. Unfortunately, around these parts vacation is a ‘use it or lose it’ commodity. My wife and I have honeymoon plans for this summer which should clip a couple weeks off my total, but until then I need to start taking at least two vacation days every month, just to keep even with the rate at which I’m accumulating it.
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