12 September 2010
Random Silliness
12/09/10 07:15
On Tuesday Marsha was sleeping in a bit. The night before she had said she wanted to get going early to work on her list of goals for the day. About 8:00 that night she was eager to start, but Tuesday morning she was having trouble getting up. I decided what she needed was some rousing, inspirational song. Unfortunately this is what I came up with:
To the tune of the Brahms Lullaby)
Come on there
Must get up
Time to pick those blackberries
You got laundry to do
Things to mop and things to wash
Weed the yard and sweep up too.
Cook some zucchini rice
Fight the crowds at the store
A coat of paint would be nice
Come on there
Time to go
Your list is really quite near
You've got so much to do
Why would you stay wrapped up here
Where it's so warm and calm
When there's cat puke in the hall
What is keeping you in bed
Away from it all.
For some reason that didn't get her going. I even tried to massage her feet to wake her up, all to no avail. She slept another hour while I took care of a couple of the things on her list. Too bad too. I know how she enjoys cleaning the cat litter and loading the dishwasher.
But then this was a week of silly things. I was at the Nanaimo office working on a system. The people were chatting and one of them mentioned that September 28 is Ask a Stupid Question Day. I immediately replied, "So what do they do on that day?" The best part was that she actually answered, "You ask a stupid question of course" not noticing the silly grin on my face. The rest of the office cracked up.
In other news we had one showing this week. They did not make an offer though. What we heard from Dave, our agent, was that they said "We would never buy a house on the left side of the street." Odd because we live on a two way street. The house is on the left or right side depending on if you are going up or down the hill. It's just as well. We we didn't really want to sell the place to a NUTJOB.
My boss has been in Uclulet all week. We have a resort there and he was debugging the new telephone system they installed. The silly part came when he was leaving. Literally he had just put his bags in the company car and was walking around to the drivers door when his phone rang. It was the Financial Controller.
"Are you in Victoria or on the road?"
"I'm still in Uclulet."
"Good. Don't drive anywhere."
"What? Why?
"Well, we forgot to renew the insurance."
It seems that between getting a new Controller, converting to a new payroll system, moving most Accounting functions to Victoria, and getting a bunch of new Accounting staff, paying the car insurance fell through the cracks. Steven cooled his heels for a couple of hours in Uclulet (there are worse places to be stranded), before they got the insurance sorted out and documents faxed to him so he was legal to drive.
But silliness wasn't limited to just here. There was an explosion at a school in Prince George BC. A hazmat team was dispatched and nearly 30 people were quarantined. After looking into the cause they discovered that it was the result of a gallon can of sauerkraut that got left on the shelf for several years. Still up for debate is whether sauerkraut is hazardous material or not.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/09/11/bc-prince-george-sauerkraut-evacuation.html
There was the guy near Castlegar BC who's in the wrong line of work. He's a logger but he should be pitching for the Twins.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/09/08/bc-bear-rock.html
And speaking of bears, (once you've looked at the previous link you'll see what I mean), there was this bear in Whistler BC that really liked tomatoes. I mean REALLY wanted some tomatoes. These are the stories we remember if we're ever tempted to move to the mainland. We have bears here but not nearly as many. (Note to our friend Anita: We didn't want to tell you the BC bear stories before you visited and stayed in the tent in the back yard. Bears are really not a big deal around here. The Cougars chase them away.)
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/09/09/bc-bear-three-storeys-tomatoes.html
Lastly, there was our monthly visit from Nanaimo Public Works. At the end of July our downhill neighbour suddenly had a fountain in their front yard. The water line from the main to their house had split. Nanaimo Public works came out, tore a large hole in their lawn and replaced it. Well, last week the fountain was back. This time it was the line to our house. You see a large line goes from the main in the middle of the street to a Y under the sidewalk. They replaced the side of the Y that went to our neighbour's house but not the side that went to ours. Despite the fact both were laid at the same time and were the same age and wear. Despite the fact they had turned the water off to both houses to fix the one. Despite the fact that when they excavated our neighbours line they excavated about half of ours. Nope they only did what needed to be done right then. Much more efficient to come back a month later and do it all over again.
Now that's silly.
Doug & Marsha
To the tune of the Brahms Lullaby)
Come on there
Must get up
Time to pick those blackberries
You got laundry to do
Things to mop and things to wash
Weed the yard and sweep up too.
Cook some zucchini rice
Fight the crowds at the store
A coat of paint would be nice
Come on there
Time to go
Your list is really quite near
You've got so much to do
Why would you stay wrapped up here
Where it's so warm and calm
When there's cat puke in the hall
What is keeping you in bed
Away from it all.
For some reason that didn't get her going. I even tried to massage her feet to wake her up, all to no avail. She slept another hour while I took care of a couple of the things on her list. Too bad too. I know how she enjoys cleaning the cat litter and loading the dishwasher.
But then this was a week of silly things. I was at the Nanaimo office working on a system. The people were chatting and one of them mentioned that September 28 is Ask a Stupid Question Day. I immediately replied, "So what do they do on that day?" The best part was that she actually answered, "You ask a stupid question of course" not noticing the silly grin on my face. The rest of the office cracked up.
In other news we had one showing this week. They did not make an offer though. What we heard from Dave, our agent, was that they said "We would never buy a house on the left side of the street." Odd because we live on a two way street. The house is on the left or right side depending on if you are going up or down the hill. It's just as well. We we didn't really want to sell the place to a NUTJOB.
My boss has been in Uclulet all week. We have a resort there and he was debugging the new telephone system they installed. The silly part came when he was leaving. Literally he had just put his bags in the company car and was walking around to the drivers door when his phone rang. It was the Financial Controller.
"Are you in Victoria or on the road?"
"I'm still in Uclulet."
"Good. Don't drive anywhere."
"What? Why?
"Well, we forgot to renew the insurance."
It seems that between getting a new Controller, converting to a new payroll system, moving most Accounting functions to Victoria, and getting a bunch of new Accounting staff, paying the car insurance fell through the cracks. Steven cooled his heels for a couple of hours in Uclulet (there are worse places to be stranded), before they got the insurance sorted out and documents faxed to him so he was legal to drive.
But silliness wasn't limited to just here. There was an explosion at a school in Prince George BC. A hazmat team was dispatched and nearly 30 people were quarantined. After looking into the cause they discovered that it was the result of a gallon can of sauerkraut that got left on the shelf for several years. Still up for debate is whether sauerkraut is hazardous material or not.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/09/11/bc-prince-george-sauerkraut-evacuation.html
There was the guy near Castlegar BC who's in the wrong line of work. He's a logger but he should be pitching for the Twins.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/09/08/bc-bear-rock.html
And speaking of bears, (once you've looked at the previous link you'll see what I mean), there was this bear in Whistler BC that really liked tomatoes. I mean REALLY wanted some tomatoes. These are the stories we remember if we're ever tempted to move to the mainland. We have bears here but not nearly as many. (Note to our friend Anita: We didn't want to tell you the BC bear stories before you visited and stayed in the tent in the back yard. Bears are really not a big deal around here. The Cougars chase them away.)
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/09/09/bc-bear-three-storeys-tomatoes.html
Lastly, there was our monthly visit from Nanaimo Public Works. At the end of July our downhill neighbour suddenly had a fountain in their front yard. The water line from the main to their house had split. Nanaimo Public works came out, tore a large hole in their lawn and replaced it. Well, last week the fountain was back. This time it was the line to our house. You see a large line goes from the main in the middle of the street to a Y under the sidewalk. They replaced the side of the Y that went to our neighbour's house but not the side that went to ours. Despite the fact both were laid at the same time and were the same age and wear. Despite the fact they had turned the water off to both houses to fix the one. Despite the fact that when they excavated our neighbours line they excavated about half of ours. Nope they only did what needed to be done right then. Much more efficient to come back a month later and do it all over again.
Now that's silly.
Doug & Marsha