'Cause I'm old and feeble.
The old part I don't mind so much, but the feeble is driving me crazy.
[SUMMARY: Short trip, easy on the gas.†]
For instance, I have spent the last several days finalising the distillation and reporting of data from several regional offices, various warring factions and possibly outer space.
When I had done all I thought I could do, I sent it to the regional offices and warring factions for proofing and remodeling.‡
Which, of course, generated a variety of confusing and/or ill-conceived responses like, "Where's the Bunnyfart 2-12 well? I thought we were selling ALL the Bunnyfart wells as long as they were in east Texas,"§ and, "Did anyone check to see if the Kwisatz Haderach still wanted to play a quick game of craps with the potential buyers to see who gets the royalty interests?"¶
This morning, I came in to find emails with time stamps like "11:43 pm" and "4:37 am" talking about things that were fixed weeks ago.
Finally, I got a set of corrections back from one department.
And it was all done on old data sheets. Sheets I couldn't even suss out when they were done because there were wells from the LAST sale on them.
I sent a mildly snarky email saying, "I don't know where you got these. These are the wrong data sheets. Please look at the data sheets I sent you yesterday afternoon and confirm the numbers."
To which I got the reply, "I got the data sheets from you yesterday morning when I told you I was leaving on vacation and you agreed to send me what you had."
*ahem*
There are still wells from the last sale in that batch that I didn't send her yesterday.#
[SUMMARY: Let the finger-pointing begin!]
But I had to apologise and eat a little crow.
Anyway, more important to most of you, I finished an object last week.
Only... in keeping with the O&F theme,†† I completely forgot to take pictures.
It was this‡‡:
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Made from this§§:
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It even had a clever name¶¶: Do Two Deca Ten Hedron Three-Dimensional Geometric Shape, because the first group of people who asked what it was, I said, "It's a dodecahedron" and they said, "A who-deck to what?"
So I said, "Do - two. Deca - ten. Hedron - three-dimensional geometric shape. A ball with twelve points."
[SUMMARY: Clever.]
But no photos. Use your imagination. Keep in mind, it was fabulous.
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I did not best 35 push ups in my last set. I bested 20 push ups, which was the minimum, but I did not best 35 push ups.
Question: Why do you suppose I can do 20-15-15-13-21 in sets, but I can't do, say, 40 at a time when I'm doing the assessment portion?
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Isfarkand - Ormonde Jayne (edp)
Marin says: My first impression is pepper and lime leaves. The pepper fades and the lime is all but gone, leaving something like cedar and a powdery floral -- which may be iris. I keep going back to it -- I'm loving the cedar thing, and the floral is nearly gone, allowing a tiny bit of lime to peek through again. Cedar and lime... mmmmm.
OJ says: Super cool## in style, vibrant and sensual, Ormonde Jayne introduces her latest fragrance for men, Isfarkand. Beautifully balanced notes of lime,$ mandarin and bergamot all wrapped up in pink pepper,$ cedar,$ vetiver and moss. It's uncomplicated, yet dynamic and very addictive. Beware gentlemen, it could be habit forming. - Top: Lime, mandarin and bergamot - Heart: Pink Pepper - Base: Cedar, vetiver and moss
Hans says: That's different. I like it. It smells like... I want to say some sort of food. But maybe not. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I like it.
†FOOTNOTE (crossed): In fact, I don't even know why we're driving. Let's walk!
‡FOOTNOTE (double-crossed): Total demo: replace the cabinets, paint the walls, add a dumbwaiter, parquetry on the floor...
§FOOTNOTE (swerved): Hint: before this moment, there were no east Texas properties. There were no Texas properties of any kind.
¶FOOTNOTE (paragraphed): Nothing I put in here quite illustrated the bizarre twists some people came up with for how we were going to sell this stuff. I only hope I came close enough that you can feel the WTF waves coming off your computer screen.
#FOOTNOTE (pounded): So there.
††FOOTNOTE (ddouble-ccrossed): I have a vision of starting a line of t-shirts that say O&F and look like A&F. Wouldn't that be funny? I crack me up.
‡‡FOOTNOTE (doubble-crossssed): Berroco's Celestine Sox (free pattern), which also comes in a crochet version, in case you're Mary Kay.
§§FOOTNOTE (not two skeins, but one!): One skein of KPPPPPPPM in either the third colour from the right or the third colour from the left.
Why? What part of "feeble" did you not understand?
¶¶FOOTNOTE (and then there were giraffes): By my own definition.
##FOOTNOTE (pounding like the heart of a teenager in love): No wonder I like it! Super cool is my middle name.
$FOOTNOTE (on the money): Ha! Got one!
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