Mountain goats like to climb Buffalo Bill Dam in Park County, too. Of course, that makes me happy, so I should mention it on the cheerier page.
What made me unhappy today ?
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Al Jonson's Swedish restaurant in Sister Bay (Door County) Wisconsin keeps goats on its roof all summer long.
Duuude!!!!!! I was just telling my wife about that place the other day. I remember seeing it as a kid when my family would drive up from suburban Chicago to Door County. Couldn't remember the name, just the goats and the grass roof. Thanks!
Or the farm workers who aren't provided a proper place to go to the bathroom? I think that's what happened with the Chipotle onion outbreak.
Glad I could be there for you.
I don't remember exactly. Farm workers pooping on onions would be a general outbreak that would have gone to multiple places, not just Chipotle. The norovirus outbreak was spread by a sick employee IIRC. The E coli was due to poor sanitization practices inside the store. Pretty sure that one was in the lettuce, but cant remember. Onions in general are loaded with antimicrobials and are relatively resistant to bacteria on their own, but if you poop on them, they're not bulletproof.
I'm totally going to get health inspected somewhere today, just talking about this.
Ten years ago, my brother worked for customs on the southern border, inspecting trucks coming across the bridge. He said one salmonella outbreak was traced to a truck that picked up a load of chicken parts in the US, took them south, then on the return run loaded up with spinach (I think) in Mexico without sanitizing the truck.
My personal unhappiness du jour was waking up with a headache that wasn't really bad enough to justify medication but still bad enough to dent my day. I finally gave up and took half a pill about twenty minutes ago. Feel much better. Should've done it earlier instead of dinking around telling myself it wasn't so bad. This was not the first time I've done this, but I do hate giving in...
My personal unhappiness du jour was waking up with a headache that wasn't really bad enough to justify medication but still bad enough to dent my day. I finally gave up and took half a pill about twenty minutes ago. Feel much better. Should've done it earlier instead of dinking around telling myself it wasn't so bad. This was not the first time I've done this, but I do hate giving in...
I woke up with back-ache that was affecting my shoulders. Ouch. But after breakfast, a pill, and a walk around the block, I'm feeling better.
Not so much unhappy, just mildly frustrated and very exhausted. Since we lost two team members, and the end of the year is slamming into the banking world, I've been working longer hours. I don't mind the overtime, but for two days in a row now, I've gotten home and immediately got into bed. That's a rare thing for me, so it tells me just how tired I am. Good news, I'm only working five hours today and then I'm off until Friday.
Be sure to get plenty of rest, Dogberry. *hands Dogberry the coffee pot*
I don't usually work overtime, but then I don't need to (and wouldn't get paid more if I did). On the other hand, being a part of the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir (and having rehearsals once a week) is quite enough. What it means is that right after work, I go into the City, eat a hasty dinner, and go to rehearsal (which finishes about 9:30 pm) ... so by the time I get home, it's usually around 10:30 pm. (What a day. 6 am to 10:30 pm on your feet. That'd be enough to knock anybody out).
It's good fun, but it can certainly be exhausting, no doubt!
I don't usually work overtime, but then I don't need to (and wouldn't get paid more if I did). On the other hand, being a part of the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir (and having rehearsals once a week) is quite enough. What it means is that right after work, I go into the City, eat a hasty dinner, and go to rehearsal (which finishes about 9:30 pm) ... so by the time I get home, it's usually around 10:30 pm. (What a day. 6 am to 10:30 pm on your feet. That'd be enough to knock anybody out).
It's good fun, but it can certainly be exhausting, no doubt!
Interesting to learn that you are in a choir. Which part do you sing - 1st or 2nd Tenor, Baritone, Bass? I never sang in a choir however, my uncle sang 2nd Tenor in a well known choir in the south west of England.
My husband has been singing in choirs since he was a child. He sang in Mexico City a couple of times, and Poland and Russia in the late seventies right after Russian opened up to tourism. He mostly retired from performance, both instrumental and vocal, in 2020, but at 76, he still sings with the local barbershop chorus, his voice as clear as ever. He's a tenor, but currently sings baritone because that's the voice part the chorus needs.
I've been performing for 20 years. I'm a first and second bass (i.e. both Baritone and Bass). I can't quite reach some of the lower notes (my lowest is a D♭2), but I can do anything a Baritone can do, and I can also sing 2nd Tenor if the choirmaster asks me to.
Sometimes I listen to Oktavists (i.e. rare male singers with an exceptionally deep voice who can sing notes an octave below the standard bass range, reaching notes as low as F1 or even C1) and get jealous. But they're typically found in Russian Orthodox choral music, and I don't usually do that (although I've definitely performed Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky, among others).
I believe that particular farm had an arrangement where all its onions went to Chipotle. It wasn't so much that people were pooping on the onions, but they were pooping in the irrigation ditches.
Can't really say this lowers to unhappiness, but here I am, still dealing with the respiratory crap/bronchitis/whatever that hit me on the 10th. Funny thing, I'm fine for fetching and carrying and running around and doing anything physical I have to do. But my chest hurts and I feel very, very stupid.
With all this, despite all my planning, I'm still running late on my Christmas prep. I can never get a tree until my store puts them on sale along about the 19th of the month. I got my two (one for the front room, one for the dining room) on the 20th, and I was doing really well getting them up and getting the lights on . . . until work, errands, and this stupid illness got in the way. Still, I had the lights on both trees (it takes the longest) by Christmas Eve morning. That took an all-nighter on the 23rd and I was decorating till like 4:00 AM Christmas morning. Went to bed and didn't get up till 3:30. Just as well I wasn't due anywhere for Christmas dinner and wasn't having anyone over.
Being late getting my trees up is no big deal for me, as I usually leave them up till Candlemas (aka Groundhog Day). Some years, I keep them up till the start of Lent. The really worrisome, unhappy thing is that somehow I screwed up keeping the trees fresh. The big one in the front room, especially. It was nice and soft when I got it; it was drinking lots of water and I was keeping it watered. But there's an heating vent right next to it. I thought I had it closed, but I was mistaken. Between the 23rd and the 24th the tree started drying out, needles were falling, and now I'm putting ornaments on a tree that looks like mine generally do the third week in January. I'm feeling actual grief over it, because this is one of the nicest, fullest, most symmetrical Christmas trees I've scored in years, maybe the nicest one I've ever managed to get. And here I've killed it.
With all this, despite all my planning, I'm still running late on my Christmas prep. I can never get a tree until my store puts them on sale along about the 19th of the month. I got my two (one for the front room, one for the dining room) on the 20th, and I was doing really well getting them up and getting the lights on . . . until work, errands, and this stupid illness got in the way. Still, I had the lights on both trees (it takes the longest) by Christmas Eve morning. That took an all-nighter on the 23rd and I was decorating till like 4:00 AM Christmas morning. Went to bed and didn't get up till 3:30. Just as well I wasn't due anywhere for Christmas dinner and wasn't having anyone over.
Being late getting my trees up is no big deal for me, as I usually leave them up till Candlemas (aka Groundhog Day). Some years, I keep them up till the start of Lent. The really worrisome, unhappy thing is that somehow I screwed up keeping the trees fresh. The big one in the front room, especially. It was nice and soft when I got it; it was drinking lots of water and I was keeping it watered. But there's an heating vent right next to it. I thought I had it closed, but I was mistaken. Between the 23rd and the 24th the tree started drying out, needles were falling, and now I'm putting ornaments on a tree that looks like mine generally do the third week in January. I'm feeling actual grief over it, because this is one of the nicest, fullest, most symmetrical Christmas trees I've scored in years, maybe the nicest one I've ever managed to get. And here I've killed it.
Really, really didn’t feel like Christmas at all, in no small part because it’s been in the 70s most of this week. We actually set new record highs on Christmas Eve & Christmas Day: 80 for both!
The only silver lining is we’ve also had clear skies, so this weather made for far more comfortable winter stargazing than usual.
The only silver lining is we’ve also had clear skies, so this weather made for far more comfortable winter stargazing than usual.
Southern Hemisphere? Or just farther south in the Northern?
Not very far south. Just Oklahoma. While snow on Christmas isn’t at all common for us, we’d normally be at least a little chilly if not cold. This almost felt like summer!
Of course, a cold front is supposed to roll through over the weekend, so it’ll be right back to winter once the warmth is done ruining the vibe for Christmas
That sucks, JT. 
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