Something About Nothing ... #12

[Chuckers]

@buckeev Hope things get better and the water recedes quickly. Glad you and all of yours are okay.

 

[Chuckers]

Happy Monday!!!

LESS THAN 2 WEEKS!!!!

13 Days
16 Hours
52 Minutes
10 Seconds!!!

 

[Lynne G]

Buckeev, hoping all is less soggy today, and the rain stops and water gone. Scary, and glad to hear all are safe.

Woot! Chuckers is less than 2 weeks away! Nice countdown Chuckers.

Happy Monday. Time for tea and the sun is shining. Later.

 

[Charade67]

Ah, another Monday. Nothing major on the agenda today. Just have to remember to write w check to the school so my daughter can register for the PSAT. Gotta get to work. Hope everyone has a great day.

 

[Chuckers]

Buckeev, hoping all is less soggy today, and the rain stops and water gone. Scary, and glad to hear all are safe.

Woot! Chuckers is less than 2 weeks away! Nice countdown Chuckers.

Happy Monday. Time for tea and the sun is shining. Later.

312 Hours
18720 Minutes
1123200 Seconds!

Next miles stone is under 1 million seconds!

 

[macraven]

Usually don't have many exciting wide awake peeps this early on Monday mornings

Chuckers must be drinking coffee
Jk

 

[Chuckers]

Usually don't have many exciting wide awake peeps this early on Monday mornings

Chuckers must be drinking coffee
Jk

My inner "little kid" is kicking in BIG time..

 

[macraven]

 

[Chuckers]

So, I really like my part time job.. My manager is all kinds of awesome. We've had a problem with employees calling out with lame excuses. So, I started sending him a message in the employee chat room before every shift with a reason why I couldn't come in. Some of my excuses have been:

Hey, I can't come in today because:

My hair hurts
My teeth itch
I stepped on a Lego
I am in the hospital after accidentally stepping in the middle of a Girl Scouts Turf War
I was bit by a pony on the way to work
I have a live bat stuck in my beard
The cat is stuck in the ceiling
There's a Golden Girls Marathon on Lifetime and I can't miss an episode

Well, my manager left for a store convention yesterday, so I decided I am going to have fun with him.

Yesterday, I texted him the following:

"Hey Mike, I know you're on your way to Manager's Camp, but I don't think I am going to make it in today. I woke up in an alley in Detroit. I don't know how I got here or how I am going to get home... or why I am wearing a cat suit. I hope to be back for my shift on Thursday. Sorry"

Today I sent him:

"Hey Mike, here's an update. I made it to Pittsburgh, but I'm still stuck in the cat suit. However, I am being chased by a gang of Senior Citizens on scooters because I made them miss the early bird special at Golden Corral. Hopefully, I can ditch them and be back for my shift on Thursday."


He comes back Thursday night at midnight. I have this all mapped out. I'll make it home by Wednesday, in time for my Thursday shift... and then I'll call out for it.

 

[Monykalyn]

Rain.Won't.Stop!
We are OK here on the east side of H-Town, minimum damage but main thing, nobody hurt! 9.7 inches of rain between 2:15 am and 5:00 am this morning...almost two feet since Friday night. Toughest thing is trying to tell the kids-especially Gage-that everything will be fine when you know that only God knows that. No water in the house proper, but my "new" office extension will need a new ceiling, insulation and possibly wiring. One flooded VW and garage...plus our 40 foot Ash tree fell on neighbor's fence. Tree won. That kinda stinks. Haven't lost power but I have a wammer-jammer generator and fuel for several days if it were to come to that.
Daughter #2 and her crew woke up to a foot of water in their home and she is in an area that we can't get to yet, with cats, dog, rabbit...and-oh yeah-grandkids stuck out there. Mom is down on the SW side of Corpus and dodged the big blow, but did get some rain damage too.
Hope y'all are all OK and that those with the worst damage find solace in the fact that they are alive. The material stuff is just that-stuff.

OMG hope everyone comes through OK!!

Chuckers those excuses are hilarious!!

Ugh Monday.

 

[Charade67]

Hey, I can't come in today because:

I am in the hospital after accidentally stepping in the middle of a Girl Scouts Turf War

Hey, those little girls can be brutal.

 

[buckeev]

Thanks for the well wishes guys-n-gals. The hits just keep on coming, but we're so blessed to have a dry place to stay in. Here's a pic of my cousin's home. We've spent countless $ and hours remodeling the inside over the past 18 months, and now it's pretty much ruined. This old house was built by one of city's founding fathers back in 1904, so we'll probably try to save it.

 

[macraven]

buckeev, you stay safe!!

prayers for you and all in this situation.


so sad for your cousin, truly and really sad.


the house can be fixed later, is your cousin and family with others now or in a shelter?


the news we are getting shows so much damage and a lot of people still waiting to be rescued.
keep us posted how you are doing.

 

[buckeev]

Sincere thanks Mac. Andy is spending the night at the Red Cross shelter in Crosby...about 15 miles north of me. The incredibly brave folks that got him out of the house didn't think to ask him to call a family member, but I would've gone and picked him up down the road at a safe place. Andy himself is mentally challenged, but functions at a pretty high level though. He was probably in a state of shock and didn't think to call me until he was already rolling. The shelter is on the other side of a river that is probably flooding tonight. If I can safely get to him tomorrow, we'll put him up here for a while but with my son's condition it'll hafta be a short term fix.

 

[macraven]

you are a very kind caring homie...

 

[macraven]

calling it a night, kind of....

leaving the light on so in case anyone comes here, they won't stumble in the dark.

 

[Metro West]

I hope things drastically improve for everyone in the Houston area. You guys certainly don't need any more rain anytime soon.

Stay safe!

 

[Chuckers]

Hoping for the best for you and your cousin @buckeev

 

[Chuckers]

Today's work excuse saga installment:

Hey Mike... Well, it seems like I am in Miami - where it's hot enough to fry an egg on a car hood. A trucker helped me get away from the seniors, but he said I couldn't ride in his cab because his dog hates cats. (Cat suit, remember?) I had to ride in the container. Which was full of live chickens. Do you know what happens when a 5 & 1/2 foot cat enters a box of chickens? Let's just say, it's not pretty. I cleared some room and passed out from exhaustion. While I was sleeping, the container was loaded on to a train for the Port of Miami. I got off just before the box was to be shipped to Cuba. Unfortunately, it's not looking good to be back for my shift on Thursday. On the plus side, I had fresh scrambled eggs for breakfast.

 

[macraven]

without calendar girl Lynne and others, i had to look at my morning paper for the day of the week.


Lynne, come back with a tan


shout out to all the other homies that are MIA here