There have been a couple of "Oh, yes, I've been there!" cartoons in the last few days. I must comment on them!
Saturday's Dilbert (one must scroll down to 12/12/2009) has this conversation:
ASOK: There is a huge disconnect between my enormous technical knowledge and the trivial tasks you assign to me.
Pointy-Haired-Boss: That's a temporary situation, ASOK.
ASOK: Okay, good.
P-H-B: Eventually your technical skills will become outdated.
This sort of thing is, undoubtedly, true in fields other than engineering. It also explains, somewhat, my changing jobs every few years. I always thought that, once I knew my job, it was time to try something else - either within the same company or at another.
Today's Pickles has this conversation:
Opal: I guess it's going to be just you and me for Christmas this year.
Opal: It's going to seem weird. I don't even feel like decorating.
Earl: Don't then.
Opal: I don't feel like shopping or playing Christmas carols either...
Earl: Fine with me.
Opal: or baking Christmas goodies.
Earl: Hey! Now you're talking crazy talk!
That's how it's been for years at the CC & HH house - except that we have usually had (and hope to have) at least our local family with us for dinner. As long as HH gets his pecan mushkatzoni, his walnut mushkatzoni, his almond horseshoes, his meringue cookies, his nut rolls, his fudge and his Rolla rolls (click on "Cop Car's Chow" in the right-hand sidebar for recipes), I can rest, relax, and enjoy the holidays. So far, I've made a double batch of pecan and a double batch of walnut mushkatzoni, four batches of almond horseshoes, six pans of fudge, and a partridge in a pear tree.
P.S. HH has finished 2.5 pans of the fudge, 1/3 of the pecan and 1/3 of the walnut mushkatzoni and 1 batch of almond horseshoes. Bogie & her WS and Elder Brother & his wife should soon be the recipients of 1 dozen each of the three kinds of cookies and 1 pan (1/2 walnut and 1/2 Heath chip) of fudge. They were mailed, yesterday.
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