Hounding After Hours

I took a short nap already tonight and I'm still tired. I might be going to bed early. I gotta work tomorrow anyways.

I work tomorrow til noon, then have three pies and two? three? batches of cookies to make.

I have a *ton* of gnocchi and ravioli to make. I'm hoping the Amish store is open in the morning so I can get more semolina flour because everybody else is out.

Mmmm... Ravioli....

You make your own? I bought both gnocchi and tortellini the other day - in cute little vaccum-sealed packages. I'm saving them for nights I'm pressed for time to come up with something interesting for dinner.

Omg - my alarm will be chasing me out of bed in less than six hours!

Night Ted.

I've been working. It's a shame that my job has made me hate this time of year, I used to love the holidays so much. Now I can't stand it. I'll be working until midnight tomorrow so won't see you guys tomorrow either. I hope everyone has a great Christmas!

Try and take some time for yourself.

And I'm not the best person to ask for Christmas cheer...

night-flyer said:

I've been working. It's a shame that my job has made me hate this time of year, I used to love the holidays so much. Now I can't stand it. I'll be working until midnight tomorrow so won't see you guys tomorrow either. I hope everyone has a great Christmas!

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This is why we can't have nice things. Working retail until midnight on Christmas Eve? What kind of heartless bastards make you do something like that? And furthermore, who goes shopping at that time of night on a holiday?

night-flyer said:

I've been working. It's a shame that my job has made me hate this time of year, I used to love the holidays so much. Now I can't stand it. I'll be working until midnight tomorrow so won't see you guys tomorrow either. I hope everyone has a great Christmas!

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That blows, Nite.

Come to my house. We're a few hours away and under winter weather advisory - you could call in, stuck in another state and too far for your boss to come pick you up.

slcboston said:

I can get behind that.

We can hoist it up the mainsail, too,




We do have a mainsail, right?

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A mains'l, a poopdeck, a mast'd, wheel, Cap'n's gig, a bilge, and even a few cannon around here someplace.

I'm pretty sure we can raid the Western and Erotica forums for wenches. We are talkin' pirate ship, right?

I even got a jolly roger somewhere down below.

Even Walmart closes at around 8:30pm on Christmas Eve. Last year I was there I drove home in a surprise blizzard.

Shopping around the last couple days I've also been browsing for a new laptop. I saw a tough screen laptop yesterday by Samsung at Staples and another one today at Walmart (with detachable screen so it also functions as a tablet). About $750 for either one.

I might just dispense with the whole desktop thing if I can pick one of those babies up in a month or three. 4GB RAM, 500GB hard drives, running Win8 (but I can probably get that rolled back to WinXP by some local experts). I already have over a TB in external hard drives, but a TB at Walmart only runs around $120 and you can daisy-chain those together for all the space I'd ever need (for around $800 these days you can have enough storage to hold the entire contents of the Library of Congress if you want it).

Next year's new car year too.

slcboston said:

Where would we put a logo, btw? Or are we taking group gang-style tattoos?

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I vote for branding. Tattoos are so passe'.



And less painful.

If'n y'll see anyone from the Western forum in awhile, just nab 'em and play pirate. I just invited all the wenches and dance hall girls up for a pirate-themed party.

Boston, start warming' up the barbecue, eh?

Arrrr!

<stands by to receive boarders>

FOTSGreg said:

A mains'l, a poopdeck, a mast'd, wheel, Cap'n's gig, a bilge, and even a few cannon around here someplace.

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Isn't it rather dangerous to mention the poopdeck to the Hounds - someone might take that literally...

Well, it did get Haggis' attention over in the Western forum. I had to reinforce the statement that that's not what it's for.

Too late, I'm back.

<steps in mess on floor>

HAGGIS!!!

Ewww!

Happy Holidays, Hounds! May the food be bountiful, the liquor flow, and the paper cuts not bleed all over the wrapping paper!

Merry Christmas, hounds!

Now, let me treat you to a version of Let It Snow that I bet you've never heard before. As sung by my littlest one this morning.:

Oh, the weather outside is brightful.

But popcorn is delightful.

There's essentially no place to go.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

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The part about there being "essentially no place to go" sounds a little like a veiled threat to me. But, you know, he is the spawn of a hound.

This is the first year everyone in my house knows who Santa is. Everyone was cool with going to see The Hobbit instead of going to see the man in the red suit.
Until 2:30 this morning, when my Dude woke me up, my laptop clutched tightly to his chest, desperate to know where Santa was on his delivery route and if he still had time to write a letter.
Six hours later, I'm working at my desk when I heard Dude's feet hit the floor. "Mom? About Santa - where is he and do I have time for that letter?"

LaurieD said:

Six hours later, I'm working at my desk when I heard Dude's feet hit the floor. "Mom? About Santa - where is he and do I have time for that letter?"

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Cute.





Wait--COOKIES!



Son of a bitch...*sigh*

BigWords said:

Isn't it rather dangerous to mention the poopdeck to the Hounds - someone might take that literally...

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That reminds me of several stories from my time in the Army.

BigWords said:

Isn't it rather dangerous to mention the poopdeck to the Hounds - someone might take that literally...

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Ummm....too late?

sorry....

ASC McLaren said:

That reminds me of several stories from my time in the Army.

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What is it with the Army and mad shitters? It seems to attract them more than college dorms.

It has just occurred to me that there really isn't a forum for people to share their various mad shitter stories. This needs to be fixed, as there are some damned crazy ones.