Antsy

Nothin to Do

So I pretty much have nothing to do at work today. I cleaned up all of my pending tasks yesterday, and obviously nobody’s giving me any new long-term projects to work on. I yapped with the office gals for a while this morning about the trip, but that only takes so much time. I turned in my timesheet for the week already, and The Retiree looked at me with a li’l surprise and asked if I was actually gonna be here all day. I may decide not to, depending on how thoroughly bored I get. Bus Snob promised to be online to keep me company, but it seems she’s busy every time I’m bored, and vice versa… lol.

Mom n Pop Time

Mom and Pop and I will be goin out to lunch today… our last before I leave tomorrow. I’ll be seeing them tonight too, though, cuz mom needs some more pics taken with my dig cam for her Interior Design homework, plus I need to pick up a special lock they’re loaning me. One of those that you can put on your luggage, and all the airports have a special universal key for it so they can open up your bags for an inspection without destroying your lock.

Confirmation

I just talked to the student I share my office with, and he confirmed that the noises I’ve been hearing from upstairs could be a game. I wasn’t sure, cuz upon further thought, I realized I heard no other part of a game… just machine gun fire. But he explained that that is frequently the loudest part of the game… background noises could be much lower, so only the sharp staccato sounds penetrate through the ceiling.

Plane Crashes

So there have been 2 plane crashes in Misery just within the last few weeks. One in Jeff City last week… the pilot evidently managed to crash between a couple of houses. I think that one was just him and a copilot in a small plane. I only caught bits and pieces of the news on the local radio. But another crash yesterday in northeastern Misery near Kirksville just made national news… read it on CNN this morning. Another small plane… twin engine turboprop commuter carrying 13 passengers. This one crashed in the woods about 3 miles out from the airport it was aiming for.

They’re not sure what caused the crash, but it was storming out. Evidently 2 of the passengers survived and are in the hospital. THAT is amazing. I’m not really the superstitious type. But I have to admit that 2 crashes within my own flight is slightly unnerving. Cuz the plane I’ll be taking from Columbia/Jeff City airport to St. Louis is another small plane. And we're supposed to have rainy/stormy weather all week. Oh well… the last time I was on a plane at all was one month after 9/11… I didn’t cancel THAT flight, and I was a helluva lot more nervous… lol

New IHOP Family Member

Oh, I forgot to mention in yesterday’s blog that I learned from IHOP Buddy that they have a new 6-week old kitten. White with “blurry” orange stripes. They got him from a friend who’s cat spawned. He’s evidently quite friendly and seems to be acclimating to his new home very well. Their youngest child is a li’l older than the last time they had a kitten, so hopefully she’ll be able to handle this one better. She was a bit rough with the last one, poor li’l thing, with the jerky awkwardness of a li’l kid. Amway, I’ll have to go see them when I get back to meet the li’l dood.

Welp, that’s about all I have for now. I’ll be back on tonight to post this week’s Photo of the Week. I took a comprehensive sweep of pics around the entire apartment yesterday, so I could show my friends when I get to San Diego. I really have no other pics to share for this week, so I’ll probly post one of those. :)

Until tonight…