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Started today off on a grumpy note, telling New Boss that he'd screwed up, and basicly that I wasn't going to fix it for him. Because, well, I'm tired and a little cranky and sick of cleaning up after his mistakes, and it was time to share that with him. I'm supposed to be "thinking of alternative solutions" while I'm in the water truck this morning. Yeah, right.

By got lots done on around the house on his day off, including mowing part of the yard, and delivering our old, small bookcases to their new home. Thanks, sweetie. He also mixed the soil and wood shavings to top up the potatoes in their barrels, and helped me scoop that into the barrels after I got home from work, and kept me company while I planted the stuff Donna sent home with me. And today, he gets to go to his "day" job, and rest a bit :)

Am making progress on the afghan--it's a triangle 23" on the short sides as of last night. It'll slow down from here on, since the knitting is along the long side, and that's longer every row. But it's progress, and it looks good.

Brought By's kilt hose and some cotton thread for water truck knitting today. Figured I'd get both socks caught up to the same point, then switch to knitting those string shopping bags I've been promising myself.

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Two tanks of water down (that's 1000 gall, for those keeping track), a bunch of trees watered, not as many as I might have, because I've been giving a few of my babies twice as much water, to help them adjust to the sudden heat and drought. (Yes, I said drought...there are cracks in the ground, on the tree trail, that I can put my fingers into.)

There is major equipment drama in the shop. Shop Steward has been trying to figure out how we got water in the holding tank for gas. The guy who came out to look at it pumped the water out, and we found that something that looks like the lining of the tank is coming out in the gas pump. That's all kinds of not good. Right now, we don't know what the construction of the tank, which determines where the potential leak could be coming from, and there's a gas order supposed to be coming tomorrow, 800 gallons, and Shop Steward doesn't know enough about the problem to know whether he should cancel the order or not. And our HazMat Guy has been no help, so far. And the document services scooter is back...the one that sat in the shop for 3 months while the company we bought it from tried to find parts, and now the guy who did find the parts is being a problem, because the started went out on the durn thing again....It'd be funny, were it happening in another shop.

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Finished my third tank of water, and am just too sweaty and tired to even consider trying to squeeze another round out of the day. OT might be nice, but so would a nap. In air conditioning.

Despite the heat and humidity and sweaty fingers that stuck to my yarn, I managed to get both of By's kilt hose up to a point where I can try them on him for the next increase placement this evening, and have just finished the first two skeins of yarn. **crosses fingers** Here's hoping that last skein is enough to finish, because I can't get any more of that yarn or color.