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    1) Sold my first funeral contract today

    2) Sold my fourth gravestone yesterday

    3) Installed a "Cow-fe" bistro in a lovely, unused space in the funeral home. Busily moving bistro sets and choosing amusing cow pictures.
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    The perfect storm, per USPS Tracking:

    New Montblanc arriving tomorrow.

    New Carolina Pen arriving tomorrow.

    Black Rifle Coffee order arriving tomorrow.
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    Post a review...of the coffee!

    1. Beans pour forth from the garden, and no end in sight.

    2. It's raining. We don't have to water.

    3. New Sailor Sapporo (ground to a stub!) arrived and is loaded for a test-drive with Papier Plume Caramel.
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    Blackberries fresh from the backyard arbor.

    A robin broods her second clutch of eggs on a ledge by our front door. Her name is Maudie. She stays put while we go in and out.

    Arranging tunes for recorder and harp.
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    I'm so pessimistic I need this thread about once (or twice) every hour of the day...terrible, I know.
    EDIT: See, I even forgot to say 3 good things....
    1) My alternator is coming today for my Acadia.
    2) I'm at work (counting my blessings here...).
    3) It's not raining like it has been the past week.
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    1) After 4 months in a 200 sq ft camper, we finally have the keys to our house!

    2) Was able to track down a tombstone that had gone missing for 13 years and restore it to its rightful owner.

    3) Wrangler burgers at Parson's Steak House.
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    1. Sweet checkout clerk gave me the Cute Award for shopping with my own wicker basket.

    2. Garden beans.

    3. New donut shop in town. (Or maybe that's a BAAAAD thing)....
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    One bad thing: The Hospital and Health Centre where I've worked for the last 28 years burned down on Tuesday night - news here and here

    The Good Things:
    1) The Hospice on the ground floor had moved to its new site 3 months ago, so no one was hurt or killed
    2) Our staff have been astonishing and have just been working their socks off to reorganise; I'm really proud of them- they didn't need to be asked and barely needed to be told what to do.
    3) The CCG ( our local NHS body) have pulled all the stops out- we have emergency premises , IT, desks to sit at and a temporary phone set up within 48 hours, and seeing patients today. It's all a bit jury rigged but it'll do for a few weeks till the next stage.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oldstoat View Post
    One bad thing: The Hospital and Health Centre where I've worked for the last 28 years burned down on Tuesday night - news here and here

    The Good Things:
    1) The Hospice on the ground floor had moved to its new site 3 months ago, so no one was hurt or killed
    2) Our staff have been astonishing and have just been working their socks off to reorganise; I'm really proud of them- they didn't need to be asked and barely needed to be told what to do.
    3) The CCG ( our local NHS body) have pulled all the stops out- we have emergency premises , IT, desks to sit at and a temporary phone set up within 48 hours, and seeing patients today. It's all a bit jury rigged but it'll do for a few weeks till the next stage.
    Eeeek! I saw that on the BBC but completely failed to make the connection with your place of work! It's a horrible thing to have happened but at least no-one was injured - or worse.

    It's amazing how people respond to such an event. I'm not at all surprised your work colleagues have risen to the challenge and got things up and running. We had a serious fire at work some years ago and the services were operating, albeit at a reduced level, almost the next day. The teams also saw an opportunity to review all the old systems and ways of working. As they set up in the new premises they ditch the obsolescent and inefficient systems and became much better organised.

    Good luck with it all, Emile.

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    1) A whole afternoon of letter writing.

    2) It wasn't a Diamondback on the patio after all.

    3) Blue shade option on the new Kindle seems to help.
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    Quote Originally Posted by migo984 View Post

    Eeeek! I saw that on the BBC but completely failed to make the connection with your place of work! It's a horrible thing to have happened but at least no-one was injured - or worse.

    It's amazing how people respond to such an event. I'm not at all surprised your work colleagues have risen to the challenge and got things up and running. We had a serious fire at work some years ago and the services were operating, albeit at a reduced level, almost the next day. The teams also saw an opportunity to review all the old systems and ways of working. As they set up in the new premises they ditch the obsolescent and inefficient systems and became much better organised.

    Good luck with it all, Emile.
    Thanks Marie
    We're in a reopened ward of another community hospital and it's pretty ad hoc. Our local MP has visited twice; as he's the Chancellor, his views might carry some weight....for now.
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    1) Driving my 14-year old daughter to sailing classes (where she serves as a junior instructor) and having one of those amazing "car talks"
    2) Eating the first new potatoes of the year for lunch and, connected to that
    3) Having lunch with my wife <3

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    1. Began freezing our year's supply of broccoli.

    2. Busked for three hours in a restaurant.

    3. Learned a new tune.
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    1. I woke up.

    Sorry, that's all there is.

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    Even better, my family woke up, too.

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    1. Under 90 degrees this evening.

    2. Meatballs and a Movie night featuring King Kong.

    3. My son is now old enough to watch giant rampaging primates without bad dreams.
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    1. Spider legs in the bath tub this morning. Looks like the cats surprised a member of the Pholcidae last night. I wonder why they never eat the legs. Bug eaters!

    2. Collard greens after a hard frost; sweet and tender. Yum.

    3. Dropped a bagful of coin into the Salvation Army potjie this morning. The ringer tingled his bell.
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    1. I rocked a black mini-dress at the Country Club Christmas party tonight.

    2. Our son's Grampa came all the way from Michigan to visit.

    3. A Real Bed is being delivered to our house after 9 months of sleeping on a Wal-Mart air mattress on the floor. Yay!
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    1. Good chat with my daughter this morning on the way to school. Topic: Popularity contest at school, and how stupid it is.

    2. Went to an Estate Sale with my wife. Found a plastic bullet container that is perfect to sort my pile of vintage FP feeds.

    3. That's it so far...
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    1. My dissertation chair and methodologist approved my research proposal.
    2. My content expert thinks she'll be able to grit through 80+ pages of dense literature review and provide detailed feedback on Ch 2 of my developing dissertation soon enough that Academic Quality Review will be able to look at the entire 230+ proposal before we go on Christmas break for a fortnight.
    3. Got to run errands with my princess.

    3+1. Got a nifty, no-name lever-fill in the mail today (plain black, of course). This is the first pen I've bought in about a year.
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