Jamie! My hero!

How are you, my friend?

Holy smokes! (No pun intended...just inadvertently awesome) I’m glad everyone is all right!

Mini Me is working at my school, these days...and it’s AWESOME! She’s amazing with the kiddos, she’s a HARD worker, and the best part of the day is when our shifts overlap! She’s a pretty damn good kid if I do say so myself. Right now, she’s in OK with her sperm donor, so I’m missing her, but she’s doing all right so far...one day down and 8 to go.

Me? I’m having trouble adjusting to the change of pace this summer, but I figure I’ll either find my groove or lose my mind lol! I’ve done a year’s worth of recess coverage zone planning, a year’s worth of Bible curriculum planning AND indexed all of my Bible story books and children’s devotional books to align with our curriculum, and the principal is setting up next fall’s lesson plans so that I can get a jump on those. Other than that....loads and loads of Pinterest, lots of ideas for the classroom next year, and one massive holycraphowdoibookroomswhenidontknowtheareasorSpeakthelanguageatallHELPMEGOOGLETRANSLATEANDEXPEDIA headache! Also I need to lose 30 lbs before August. The class that earned me a break this summer is also the one that had me stress-eating ALL THE CARBS. Now I’m looking at hotel rooms for 3 people and they contain...two twin beds. Ummm...the Japanese do seem to be very lovely people, and I’m sure it’s a cultural thing, like eschewing modern electronic banking technology in favor of physical cash in the tech capital of the planet, but these folks seem to 1) have no concept of personal space and 2) have no concept of the size of my fat American azz.

LMAO, you planning a trip to visit boyo?

You got two good one. The other 8 I can’t vouch for 🤣

Was thinking bout you yesterday and almost texted.....time question. It can wait....and I think I’m an overly needy friend with you sometimes. Good to see you posting

I’m drinking beer, there’s my carbs 🤣

Thanks for being you!

Z, I imagine all of your friends know exactly what you are. A very good friend.

As are you my friend.

We’ve had a driver off for three month, he’s supposed to be back Monday but I think he’s going to no show. So I’ve had to go back on the road while still trying to do my job that I was transitioning to and training a temp. Also on call every other week this whole time.....

Bright side, we’re getting rid of offshore call centers and going back to local routing which plays to my experience. Also gives me more leverage in negotiating new wages.

Holy schnidt!!!

I feel like I just walked into a parallel universe. This is so damn strange...
Everyone's so nice to each other in here. I don't understand.

Is this real? Are you people for real???
Where's the fighting? The insults? The hostility? The degradation?

Who's responsible for this? Who gave me authorization?

Evidently something went wrong. I feel like I should not have access to this thread.
Kinda like walking in on your parents having sex. This is not right at all.

I'm leaving...

^What Frank said "We like it here!"

Good evening, folks!
It’s too late for coffee, so...
Be a peach and hook a gal up with an espresso martini? I’ll take it on the patio...don’t mind the extension cord; I need to charge the iPad.

Glad to see this place back open

Everyone’s done now - all NCAA eligibility is up. The one who could have had a chance to continue can’t seem to get his hamstrings healthy. He just took a job with a local real estate company this week. I love me boys, but ready for them to move on, particularly now that both have graduated and have secured employment. I think they are, as well. That said, they need to get some good savings under them before they fly the nest. Maybe in the next year....

I don’t know about coffee, but there’s definitely scotch

Maybe I’ll crack open a bottle tomorrow night for Father’s Day, Spey. Doubt I have anything aging that would blow you away, perhaps with the exception of some 2015 Stag’s Leap Petite Sirah. But it’s a few years away from its best.

Good afternoon, all.
Sipping merlot and picking away at an itinerary, because I’m an OCD planner. Not that I’m uptight about following the plan once I have it; I just have to have it. Then once I’m in the thick of my vacation, I can decide whether to follow said plan, or detour from it when something cool comes up...but the plan is always there if I need it.

So, now knowing way more than you wanted to know about the current process, does anyone happen to know anything that should not be missed in Tokyo? Specifically anything cheap, if there is such a thing in Tokyo lol. So far, mama needs to sip a wildly overpriced hot beverage at a 3D latte art cafe, see the “Good Boy” statue (Hachiko...very good boy,) walk through a bamboo forest (gotta find one close by first,) sit quietly in a Japanese garden while Boyo is quietly bored and princess is not so quietly bored, see some beautiful architecture, attend a legit tea ceremony, buy something odd from a vending machine, and enjoy my Boyo for 8 days. Princess wants to eat in a Pokémon cafe, spend too much of my money in the Tokyo LUSH bath bomb museum/store, and go to Kyoto. One of these things is not in our budget lol. Okay, she wants to do a lot of other expensive things, too, and a lot of things that cross over with my lists so that’s good. So, does anyone know anything that simply should NOT be missed if you only have 8 days to see and do all the things that simply should not be missed?

Que pasa DaQueenBeez

Wow, this place was rockin mid June, then got shut down.
Nice to meet you. Headin on the porch for a drink and smoke...
Cheers

Haaaa!!!

If there was any health inspector, this whole place would be shut down.

Hey frank! Not yet - first week of August! In fact, yesterday princess was lying in the dentist chair, eyes glazed, sedative in her system, face full of Novocain, happy gas mask on her nose, loopy juice IV in her arm. When the dental assistant asked me if we had plans for the summer, my girl raised one fist in the air and announced loudly to the world: “IB GODDA KIMB MOUN FUUUZZEEEEE!!!!” 😂

I’ll take six shots of espresso with a splash of cream, please. Pain meds and steroids are every six hours, and the ibuprofen booster when the pain meds don’t last 6 hours have my “medicate the princess” alarms going off every three hours. Sigh...literally (the correct use of the word, not the ironic use) a day ago, I was lamenting with a school parent about how fast our kids have grown up, how it seems like just a couple years ago we were walking them to first grade, and we wish we could have them little just a little while longer.
Now I’m up every three hours and it’s just like having a baby again and I have changed my mind LMAO. At least she stayed potty trained, right?

Well, the wind kicked up, the black clouds rolled in, and I got cold in the back yard, so we came in to watch Stranger Things while we were waiting for the big show to start a couple blocks over. Now princess is medicated and passed out across my legs, so I’m listening to the show and thinking...well, the wind stopped, but it’s still cold and drizzly and cloudy, so I think I won’t bother dislodging the princess. I’ll take a cosmo, a blue Hawaiian and a White Russian, please. It’ll be my red white and blue, in lieu of fireworks.

Hi, Frank!

no one writes like you.
promise you'll never leave me again.

the beach is open

Can’t we call it the beach bar for the summer? We needs our drinks!



Great news. And sure, I’ll take a frosty one

Hi Queenie! I wish the weather was cool here, the humidity has been stifling here for awhile. Got a slight reprieve for a couple days, but it'll be back soon I'm afraid.


I'm buying the next round. Drink up!

Is this the new 500 ?

Gak! She can blend her own burgers - I bought a case of vanilla protein shakes!