Well, crap.

[etumukutenyak]

Get to work, only to find out that my trusty thermos of hot tea has b0rked; to wit, the glass inner is now separated from the plastic outer, and is accompanied by a sort of grinding glassy noise.

The discovery was attended by several leaks. Luckily for me, this is just hot tea (without any milk), so the clothing, desktop and papers are just slightly stained. Also luckily for me, I have a hot water carafe into which I gave the hot tea for today's keeping. I'll have to go by the grocery store to get a new thermos tonight.

The milk, which I store in my little refrigerator, is solid. It froze. This happens, so it is not a disaster, merely helpful storage of perishable produce. I park the container on the floor next to the computer, and let it gradually melt.

In the meantime, hot tea without milk and no cereal for breakfast.

Comments

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

These are the minor screw-ups of life, as opposed to the major ones.

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Yes, and the fact that my tea was still drinkable/preservable meant that I could easily deal with the issue. Had my tea been lost, however, then Things would have been Different. (She muttered darkly)

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

You'd have had to get coffee, you mean?

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

(Shudder) Worse: cafeteria tea bag "tea". Awful stuff, and only one cup at a time, too!

I prepare my coffee with enough sugar and milk to qualify as a coffee-flavored milkshake, so I can't complain about it. It's hot milk with a jolt of caffeine, really.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. Cafeteria tea is no substitute for the real thing.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Welcome back, stranger!

Yeah, when you hear that tinkling sound, that's pretty much all she wrote for the thermos. Get yourself a nice new one after work tonight. Your tea will thank you for it.

At least you can have a little fridge in your bidness place. They banned mini-fridges in the classrooms at my school several years ago, to save money on electricity. And now they're cutting paper (no pun intended), so that electricity thing worked pretty well, huh? ;-)

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Saving money on electricity, eh? I'll bet dollars to donuts that they never once thought to cut all electricity at the main switch once all occupants left for the day. I mean, if you're going to be serious about saving on electricity, then you'd better cut off the power in an unused building, right? The fastest way to do that is the main switch.

Who cares about all the frozen stuff in the cafeteria food locker? Probably won't make it less edible.

As for paper, why don't they just buy one type of paper for all paper needs in the school? Make it simple: buy only toilet paper. You can write on it, blow your nose with it, use it in the bathroom as it was originally intended, and so on. Buying it in bulk quantities through the warehouse groceries will save $$$. Please, feel free to take credit for this idea.

You can tell I've had a few years of budget cuts myself, eh?

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Ack. Bad start.

I use a non-soap non-fragrance bodywash and had ordered more without thinking. It arrived today while Lucila was here and I just left the box unopened until I actually got up at 5:30pm. As you might imagine, it was still mostly frozen because of the packing insulation, which was cornstarch peanuts that were sticking to the outside of the bottles because of the condensation. That was very weird. I'll have to try to order when it's not winter.