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I’m an idiot at least 8 seconds every day.

I’m an idiot

If I ever needed proof that I am occasionally a complete idiot, I have my job to remind me. At my office, the copy machine is also a scanner, which you can use to email yourself (or someone else) pdf files of scanned pages. As part of my job, I scan forms and then rename them and format them, and send them off to other people. So I get up from my desk, walk 10 feet to
the copy room, scan the forms and then go back to my desk. Then there is the idiot moment. The moment when I look at my computer and think, “I have email? I was only away from my desk for a few seconds.” That thought is followed by, “Of course you have email, you idiot. It’s the stuff you just sent to yourself from the the copy machine.”

This happens every time. Thus, we have proof that I am an idiot.

Links for Everyone!

I’m too lazy to come up with anything original today. I’m sick and my head is packed full of so much mucus that no original thoughts can squeeze out. So I will share a few links to awesome stuff instead.

Where Bristlebots Came From, and the latest updates from Evil Mad Scientist Labs.

My favorite writer/former MST3K host Mike Nelson has been eating nothing but bacon for the month of February. Why? Cause he’s awesome.

I wish I lived near this store.

My friend Shawna is a completely awesome artist and she sells stuff on Etsy.

And here is the cutest commercial ever!

Bad blogger! No cookie!

I haven’t been posting here nearly as much as I should because I’ve been busy/distracted/slightly grumpy. So here’s an update about stuff and things.

I got my new spinning wheel, and got it all put together and I picked up some bobbins from a nice little local online shop (since it only came with one bobbin). I got a couple bobbins full of singles spun, and then started plying them together. It was all going well until it started making a “chunk chunk chunk” noise, and I noticed that the nut holding the wheel on fell off. It seems to only have a problem when I’m plying (spinning counter-clockwise), but it is fine when spinning (clockwise). Weird. So I guess I’ll just have to keep an eye on that.

There’s nothing for me to do at work lately, because that’s just the way the workload has fallen at the moment. It’s very frustrating because I’ve also been sick again. So I have to show up for work, with my head pounding and nose dripping, because I’ve already been told off for taking too much
sick leave, and when I get there, there is nothing for me to do and no real reason for me to be there.

In guinea pig news, everything is good. Since Homer died, Spike has been a little bit off. He’s been kind of touchy and not as affectionate as he used to be. But for the first time since last summer, this week Spike has seemed more like his old self. He’s been pretty much the old happy snuggly Spike. And he and Elvis are still fighting, but not any more than any pair of guinea pigs stuck in a cage together. But Fudge is the really amusing one at the moment. We gave him a little wire ball that hangs from the ceiling and holds hay. He’s nuts about that thing. He won’t touch the hay in his hay rack, but he’ll clear that thing out in an hour, and then hop around like it’s his birthday when we refill it. Last week he was trying to yank the sheet off the bottom of his cage because he likes to crawl
under it, making a mess in his cage and making him stinky and gross. So just to distract him, I threw a small towel in his cage. Now the towel is his new best friend. He snuggles with it and burrows under it and drags it around the cage. It’s very cute.

Outside of work, crafting and rodent wrangling, I’ve also been working on the beginnings of a few more projects. They are not ready for the public yet, but I dream that someday they’ll be successful enough that I can quit my job and spend my days at home doing stuff instead of in a cubicle, doing
nothing.

Random thoughts

I just won a spinning wheel on eBay. It was another of those things where I threw a low bid in early, and didn’t get much competition. But it’s cool cause it only cost about £115, when the retail on one of those new is about £300. And the seller is a hospice in England, so it’s going to charity.

My husband has tomorrow off work because he’s staying up all night to watch the Superbowl. It starts at 11:00pm here. And it doesn’t even have the proper superbowl commercials. Which is why I’ll be sleeping.

Just before posting this, I was having a poop and reading the Argos catalog. I can’t believe that today, in the year 2009, they still have their toy section divided into “boy’s toys” and “girl’s toys”. All of the science toys are in the boys section, and all of the dolls and toy cash registers are in the girls section. Cause in this country, all girls are expected to accomplish is plopping out kids and working at a grocery store. It’s a little sick.

I’ve uploaded a few more rodent videos to my You Tube account. In case you care, here they are: