Ah, back to normal.

Well, what passes for normal in this neck of the woods.

Tomorrow. Such a blessing tomorrow will be. Friday, Payday, the opening to the weekend, and best of all, good gab opportunites.

Client gave us incredibly dumb things to do with their program, resulting in 3 hours of useless programming time. Someday we’ll get a nice go-between for programmer / client relations, but as it stands, it’ll be a while before that kicks in. Upside of Dale’s vacation, a lot of process streamlining has been implemented by lazy me, saving him probably about an hour a day in processing. Dale’s a great guy, but his lack of complaint is a double edged sword… he’s been doing some IT stuff for about a year that was comfortably automated in about 15 minutes of thought. Something like this happens every time he comes back.

calling all the offices, and redoing the reports for all the goofed up data ate a big part of my day today…I’m so glad our Island Boy will be returning on Monday.

silly joke heard today –

Two penguins are sitting in the bathtub.
One penguin turns to the other and says, “Hey, hand me that soap.”
The other penguin says, “Holy Crap! A talking penguin!”

Oh! also on my walk today, I saw about 5 people walking the beach with metal detectors…the first I’ve seen in a a very long time. Are they getting trendy again? I know tourist season is back, maybe the odds of finding valuables in the sand has just gone up. I wonder what the more exotic sort of things they’ve found… a gold tooth? a brass monkey?

Flesh eating robots…. Really.

remunerate (rih-MYOO-nuh-rate), transitive verb:
1. To pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, or expense; to recompense.
2. To compensate for; to make payment for.

Remunerate comes from Latin remunerari, “to reward,” from re-, “back, again” + munerari, “to give, to present,” from munus, “a gift.”

capitonym (KAP-i-toh-NIM) noun

A word that changes pronunciation and meaning when it is capitalized.

As in the following poems:

Job’s Job
In August, an august patriarch
Was reading an ad in Reading, Mass.
Long-suffering Job secured a job
To polish piles of polish brass.

Herb’s Herbs
An herb store owner, name of Herb,
Moved to a rainier Mount Rainier.
It would have been so nice in Nice,
And even tangier in Tangier.

remunerate (rih-MYOO-nuh-rate), transitive verb:
1. To pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, or expense; to recompense.
2. To compensate for; to make payment for.

Remunerate comes from Latin remunerari, “to reward,” from re-, “back, again” + munerari, “to give, to present,” from munus, “a gift.”

capitonym (KAP-i-toh-NIM) noun

A word that changes pronunciation and meaning when it is capitalized.

As in the following poems:

Job’s Job
In August, an august patriarch
Was reading an ad in Reading, Mass.
Long-suffering Job secured a job
To polish piles of polish brass.

Herb’s Herbs
An herb store owner, name of Herb,
Moved to a rainier Mount Rainier.
It would have been so nice in Nice,
And even tangier in Tangier.