Friday Hug - Part 2

The sun is shining, it's clear, cool...and I don't want to go to work. Guess I got spoiled by having last weekend off.

Oh, well, one more day at work (((hugs))

etu

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It's now 06.21 and I've been up for several hours I really need to find a Life on E_ Bay and buy it. :(

Col

The partner has discovered a sweet tooth lately in a big way. This is good because he has lost so much weight and, being winter here, can't really get good walks in. It takes until the third day of a cycle for him to start hating food but then it is another week easy before he really WANTS to eat anything. Once he's interested in eating again, I feed him everything I can get him to take in- and snacks.

Thank heavens that there is only one more for awhile. I am hoping to have a few good months to fatten him up for the next go-round.

I have two or so more days this week to feed him as much as I can. Grocery shopping included his favorite ice cream (Ben and Jerrys, not the fat free crap I buy for me) and spaghetti sauce stuff. And cookies and candy and anything else I could justify.

What I NEED to do is get the stuff to make peanut butter balls. He LIKES those.

Chocolate No-bake Cookies

Mix together in saucepan:

2/3 stick butter or 1/2 cup oil
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 cup milk

Boil for 1 minute. Remove from heat and add:

1/2 cup peanut butter
2 cups uncooked oats
1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix thoroughly, then drop by the teaspoonful onto wax paper. The cookies will set as they cool.

Notes:

Use smooth or creamy peanut butter, not chunky. For some reason, chunky just doesn't work in these cookies. At least not for me.

For the oats, good old-fashioned Quaker oatmeal works best.

They disappear very quickly around here...

Got a store with major problems, but the way the service agreement is written, the only way for them to get priority service is to accept billable time. They didn't want to (and I don't blame them.)

Yesterday the time was billable; today is a new week, so it isn't. Don't you just love the way that works? :D

etu

M$ Coffee after all not many people know what it is or that it even exists. :^0

Col ;)

Ever since I learned about what you do, I approach the checkout line with abject awe.

I cross myself.

Thanks! Cookbooks and recipe cards have all gone into a black hole somewhere. No retrieval address either.

I recall these as "Refrigerator Cookies". They are deadly to the waistline.

Notified.

But not before I took note for my own purposes.

keeps life interesting :D

LOL @ Dublin Underground.. what kinda music they play?

Cloudy, soon to be totally overcast, with a chance of rain.

Plus, it's Monday again. It don't get much more dreary than that.

Stopped by the import grocery on the way home and picked up a few things.

So, having had supper, I'm now munching on a couple of McVities Chocolate Digestives.

So...cozy parlor and plonk hugs! :D

etu

Got a Card I will call it a Christmas card from TR this evening.

Thanks TR, Merry Christmas and Warm Hugs.

i'll make them the offer :)

We a M$ house..not gonna happen..
They all usually fine..today was just weird...
Access..why on earth would i care about that?? If i had my way all instances of Access around the world would be deleted all at once one night...the world would be a better place :D

(((((hugs))))

Here it comes again! The office Christmas party. The political event of the year. Lots of gossip and fodder for the rumor mill.

This year, they have a DJ and dancing. I honestly never saw any of my co-workers dance and I don't know if I really want to. :-&

AV

(((((hugs))))

Hi Shellbot,
hope you are not too busy.
I posted a question and have not had any help for 3 days.
This is my problem

I have difficulty finding specific records from MsAccess database. I used a Vb.net windows front end to connect to Msaccess. Data entry is successful but just cannot find specific record. this is the code am trying to use.

Dim staffrecord As DataRow
dt = DsStaffInfo.Tables("StaffInfo")
Dim theId As String
theId = txtFind.Text
staffrecord = dt.Rows.Find(theId)

What am I not getting?. Looking forward to hear from you soon, am not too experience here.

This is my email incase. kellygidiglo@yahoo.com

laughing at me and then pointing out that your systems are running fine.. :D

The christmas tree..its..ok..smallish and not near enough decorations for my liking..it will do..

Maybe if I am lucky I will get mine put up at home tonight..now, thats a tree that will be loaded with pretty things..

((((((((shiny hugs))))))))

I've been a VB/VB.NET programmer (until the current job) for...over a decade?? Programmed Windows apps since...1994?

I learned MS too...right after the Unix curriculum where I got my BS in Comp. Sci. degree :^0

I've had the two worse days ever..could use some help..

Send your resume and a 65$ processing fee to me and we'll get this rolling.. :D

Wow..what a week.. :(
Things seem to be a bit quieter today, I'v got my fingers crossed.

Loveley and sunny here..

((((((sunshine hugs))))))

which is just north of Atlanta.

Had a day. Wound up not leaving Atlanta until after 3pm and not getting home until almost 7. But at least I beat the rush hour traffic out! :D

Looks like a break from here and other sites I visit will be warranted.

Hope everyone has a great holiday!

Just got back from the hospital. Alone. Blood clots in the lung is about all I know for now. It's roughly 4a and I have been home about an hour.

I suppose eating something today would be good plan. Oh wait. Eating something yesterday would have been a good plan too.

Trying to get my brain to slow down so that I can get a couple of hours of sleep and get my tail back to the hospital.

I want to wake up in the morning and find that this has all been a terrible dream. I want that really bad.

Got called to Myrtle Beach yesterday morning for a NAT server crash. Called the store to tell them I was on my way and was asked to rush. However, when I got to the store, I was not greeted with "About time!" and "What took you so long!" Instead, I discovered the server had been back up for almost two hours. Seems the server outage was caused by a fault in a network switch and the help desk had talked one of the managers through the reset, probably before I was thirty miles down the road.

Oh, well. Did some cable clean-up, some preventive maintenance and was at the hotel before 4.

Today, on the other hand, put 10 hours on the clock. Started in Myrtle Beach and finished in Augusta, closed 7 or 8 calls, and still have more calls in the queue tonight than I did when I started this morning. {sigh...}

Merry flippin' Christmas!

4 insicions.. I was in the hospital for 4 days, and even then I had to turn on the tears to get out of there..mind you, I was so out of it the first 2 days I didn't even really care..
i had reaction to anasthetic, could have been part of the problem...

There should be no scarring at all. If you look really closely you will see a little slit but you have to know where to look and what to look for. ;)

But then again you could be like me and get a surgeon who wasn't quite so skillful and find that not only do you have the band aids but a bloody great cut between two of the band aids and 20 or so staples holding your guts in. When that happens it's a real pain in the rear.

The reason that had to do that to me was because the Vascular Clamp that was required to clamp a Blood Vessel can not be inserted Laproscopally. :(

I just love the fact that I spent years working in Medicine to reduce the problems associated with scar tissue and the very first operation I have to have gives me massive problems with scar tissue. :(

Of course being an Emergency Op didn't help and getting any surgeon on Easter Saturday is fairly hard so I suppose I had to pay for ruining his Easter. :D

Col

Jesus, I'm working too hard.

Someone get me a $60,000 a year job as a Wal-Mart Greeter. :^0

(((((((((((((((((((((( wishing I lived elsewhere hugs )))))))))))))))))))))))

Big ((((hugs)))) to all.

Only about seven hours of sleep, but in the words of my wife's purely southern aunt, I'm "bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and ready to hunt possum." (Don't ask. I don't know what it means, either.)

And I haven't even had any coffee yet... Weird.

etu