Friday Wrap-Up

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Whew! What a week! Can I say that it is absolutely great to get back to work so that I could recover from vacation? It was nice to be on the 4-day work week this week because I had Monday to myself - well, not entirely to myself but that's a whole different post!

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Speaking of my 4-day work week, I had a revelation this morning. One of the reasons I appreciate the new work schedule so much is that the 3 people in my department that I have the most difficult time working with - including Mr. "How are you on this lovely spring day?" - are off on Fridays. This means that I only have to spend 3 days with the 3 most difficult co-workers.

There also seems to be some "unrest" amongst the troops, well, really one of the" leaders", regarding the compressed work week. She mentioned in our department meeting yesterday that if the primary reason for this trial was to save gas, and we are still out driving on the day we don't come to work, we should go back to a 5-day work week. What?? Does she not realize that we would STILL be doing the driving we do on our non-office day, along with the trip into work, if we went back to a 5-day work week? Sometimes you just have to shake your head at the stupidity. And for the record, this "leader" is the only employee who has been working a 4-day week (32 hour week, but paid for 40) for the past 5 years! I guess she just isn't feeling special enough now ...

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I was a bad blogger/friend and completely blew off forgot to post the pity first loser award I won over at Tali's "What the hell is it?" SEM game. She reminded me Wednesday of what a thoughtless forgetful friend I was. Although I tried to blame it on age, she wouldn't bite (although she promises to bite the next time I see her *wink*), so here it is! It's also on the side bar never to be forgotten again!!

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After this week's TMI questions, I've decided it's time to buy some lingerie. Not only will it make me feel special and frivilous, but it should make for a great HNT prop. I'm thinking either of these (not the women, the teddies - Oh hell, I'll take the women too!) would be a great start to my collection - what do you think??

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Shameless Blog Plug

Anyone who has been reading my blog this week knows that a dear friend of mine, Tali (a.k.a. Talisman, ChemGeek serious pain in my ass) was instrumental in my acquisition of Rhonda for a steal fair market price. As a proclamation of my undying love appreciation of her efforts, I've been forced to decided to plug her blog. For some silly reason she likes to have readers. Well, actually, she likes to have commenters - seems she has readers.

Tali used to blog quite a bit, but got sidetracked with PsyPets, Homeschooling and her continued work on her PhD in Chemistry. She's a raging bit of a geek, but that doesn't make her eclectic blog any less interesting.

You might read about the day's home school lesson, see what table salt looks like highly magnified






or even hear her opinion on a television documentary. On special occasions, you might even get a glimpse of chemistry humor with Carcin.


She has given me her word that she will continue with regular blog updates if I put my tarnished shining reputation on the line and plug her blog, so here it goes.

Please stop in and read Misadventures Of a Modern Day Alchemist . Tali will get really giddy (Tali? Giddy?? Well maybe more like STOKED!) if you leave a comment (she's a self-proclaimed comment whore) and you might just find yourself laughing and learning at the same time!