The calm before the storm...

[reyd reid reed]

I've got all this work to do tonight and none of it's here yet. And deadline, which is already early enough on Saturdays, has been pushed up another hour because of the nasty weather.

:scared:

[SPKrazy]

1. Well Lisa, I Suspect That You Are Tough Enough For The Job!

Just the little bit I know about you, I have no doubt that you will rise to the occasion and get what needs to be done on deadline, done.

Weather getting bad huh?

Great, that means it will be coming my way in a few days probably!

Steve

:hug:

[reyd reid reed]

2. That's half the problem...

it's not a question of whether I can get it done...I'm in 'wait' mode. Ain't nothing I can do until people start sending me their 'stuff'...and they ain't sending it.

I'm starting to really get nervous, here. I can't stand sitting around, twiddling my thumbs and waiting for other people. Drives me crazy.

It was just starting to snow when I left work last night...and it snowed most of today. Not a lot of accumulation, just enough to make the pages have to go early and generally muck things up.

:eyes:

[SPKrazy]

3. I Hate Waiting On Other People

especially when they aren't keeping up with what they are supposed to be doing

hang in there

magazine? what kind of deadline?

:hi:

[reyd reid reed]

4. I'm sorry...

no. Not a magazine. I do the agate for the daily here. Mostly preps, hence tonight's problem. I think everyone's waiting on...I don't know what. Dinner? Bedtime stories? In the end, what counts is that I've got a 50 inch hole to fill (conservative estimate) in the next three hours, and nothing to put in it.

Yet.

[SPKrazy]

10. Well Can You Call Them And Give Them Some Of Your Grief?

it sounds like they are screwing up and putting you in a bind :grr:

that sucks Lisa

I'm sorry

Local daily is cool, I just didn't know -I was reading your sig line about "shots" didn't know if you were talking photos, drinks, or shots with a gun, or something else??

:hug:

[reyd reid reed]

20. My sig line is more philosophical than anything...

And I wish I could call 'em up. I've tried to call a couple of the coaches but haven't had any luck.

Since I started to bitch, I've gotten one wrestling tournament and one basketball summary, though.

Things are starting to look up, maybe?

[SPKrazy]

32. Yeaaaaaaaah!

philosophical, oh, there is that :crazy:

come on coaches!!!!

[reyd reid reed]

34. Two more wrestling...

one of 'em a pretty big duals meet.

:D

Things are starting to look up.

[SPKrazy]

38. You Go Girl!

It's gonna get done!


:popcorn: :applause:

[lizziegrace]

5. I'm sorry

:(

[reyd reid reed]

7. It's driving me crazy.

I can't do anything at all...I know it's coming, I've just gotta hope it comes in time, otherwise I'm gonna be running the final national volleyball rankings. And that ain't gonna be long enough.

x(

[lizziegrace]

9. You could test your readers

Throw in the brazillion joke and see if anyone notices. :evilgrin:


It's just a thought. :shrug:




:hug:

[reyd reid reed]

14. LMAOOOOO

Now that'd be funny.

:evilgrin:

[lizziegrace]

19. I don't dare you

'cause I think you'd actually do it tonight.


;)

[reyd reid reed]

22. LOLOL

There are times when I'm sorely tempted.

Muahahahahahahahahahaha

[lizziegrace]

25. Lelapin's home and she's been cleaning

and I've been hooked to a machine all evening. Breathing is getting to be too much work. :(

Tomorrow when the tree and ornaments come out of the basement, it'll be worse. I try to dust everything before it's put away but it doesn't help much.

On a high note, Gracie purred for the first time since her surgery on Thursday. :)

[reyd reid reed]

27. Did they get it, do you think?

Poor Gracie.

Poor YOU. Tell Heather to go down into the basement and open the boxes tonight so that they can air out before they come upstairs if you insist on putting it up tomorrow.

Does the neb make you sleepy? It always knocks girly-poo out.

Take care of yourself, Sweetie. Tell Heather to fix you something warm. Put your feet up and give Gracie a skritch for me.

:hug:

[lizziegrace]

29. The procedure definitely took care of Gracie's problem

The infection was very bad in her middle ear. He punctured her eardrum and was able to suction most of it out. My biggest fear is that it will come back once her eardrum heals over, but I really need to stop borrowing trouble.

The nebulizer makes me sleepy, but only because I'm not struggling so hard to breathe. The albuteral makes my heart race.

We had a huge weather change with 50 mph winds yesterday. I have one limb in the yard that's a good 10 inches across. I'm glad it wasn't a tree near the house. The yard looks like a tornado went through. I'm sure the weather triggered this, that and the dust...

:hug:



Oh and a :hug: for girly-poo. :evilgrin:

[reyd reid reed]

39. That could be it with girly-poo, too.

I know that when she was little and I'd neb her, I'd make sure she was settled into her bed before I turned it on.

She hasn't been too bad this year, though (*knocking wood...HARD*). She scared me a week or so ago...started to come down with a cold which often precedes something nasty. I bullied her into taking care of herself, though. And she felt rotten enough to let me.

I'm telling you, I'm evil.

[Oeditpus Rex]

28. Dude I used to know

went from the Monterey County Herald to... I think the Long Beach P-T. On his last night at the Herald, he snuck his "trade" into Transactions.

[reyd reid reed]

35. LMAOOOOO

Oh, I like that.

:thumbsup:

:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

11. Y o u C o u l d U s e W i d e S p a c i n g

and large font!

:rofl:

or lots of lots of free ads?

sorry

[reyd reid reed]

15. Heh...

it's come down to that before. I've been known to stretch things to the limit. But...14 inches of results stretched to fit a 50 inch hole is beyond even my talents.

And I'm good.

Heh...house ads are a possibility. And the photo on that page might have to get bigger...

We'll see.

[SPKrazy]

16. You Could Make An Ad

for Democratic Underground!!!

;-)

[reyd reid reed]

21. Heeeee...there ya go.

:P

[SPKrazy]

31. Or You Could Take Out An Ad

for the candidate of your choice for 08

of course, these are not the suggestions of a rational person Lisa

I know this is really frustrating for you, sorry, just making light of it since I can't do anything about them.

chocolate lace cookies would make me rational


:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[reyd reid reed]

36. Chocolate hath charms...

or is that music?

Well...works with chocolate, too.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear reyd reid reed........

Well, you're doing what you can, which isn't much, I grant you...

In the meantime, you can talk to us!

And you are......

Sorry this is such a miserable situation, sweetie........:hug:

[reyd reid reed]

8. Yup...there is that.

:hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Don't you just love their priorities?

1. Advertising

2. Circulation















29. Editorial



:grr:

[reyd reid reed]

17. Tonight it's the circulation that's giving me grief.

Since the weather's bad, the pages have to go earlier so that the outlying areas can get their papers on time.

:eyes:

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. It doesn't occur to the suits

that the outlying people might just rather get their paper an hour later but with complete sports coverage.

[reyd reid reed]

33. Especially when it's the outlying areas who usually have to travel the farthest for away games....

and take longer to get us their results in the first place.

It. makes. no. sense.

:crazy:

[Redstone]

13. Enjoy your deluge. Hey, this ought to cheer you up:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5904112&mesg_id=5904112

Redstone

[reyd reid reed]

18. Awwwwwwwwww....

They're both adorable.

:hug:

:loveya:

[some guy]

24. you don't *seem* very calm...

this just in:
Colorado 5A & 4A state championships for football were a total fiasco when all four teams came on to the field at the same time, none of them willing to back down and leave until it was actually time for their game to start...

eh...

I'm sorry I can't help you at all... the stupid Denver Post Online doesn't even have results up from the semi-finals, though it does say finals are today at Invesco field. Since they don't have semi-final rsults, I can't make up a good story about who was in the finals or how the game went...

You could have run my story, and later blamed it on someone hacking into your fax machine (or whatever media you use to get results from the field) and how were you supposed to know it was wrong? :P

:hug:

[reyd reid reed]

26. Muahahahahahaha

Now that'd be funny.

Turns out that Wheat Ridge won class 4A and Mullen finally lost their first game of the season when Columbine took the 5A championship. Alamosa is the only team in the state to finish their season undeafeated, winning the 3A title. None of those are teams from our coverage area, so we're going with AP stuff.

Football's officially over. Now we're into basketball and wrestling tournament season.

Happy happy, joy joy.

[some guy]

30. and girl's swimming...

and girl's basketball...

I found a different page at the Post website, and did see
Columbine at Mullen for 5A
Loveland at Wheatridge for 4A

I also see the girls of my alma mater got their heinies kicked at basketball 55 to 25 by Standley Lake. :(

and I'm posting this swimming result mostly for the (presumed on my part, error)

Girls swimming

REGIS 22, DOUGLAS COUNTY 74

200-yard medley relay - Regis 1:54.39 (SQT); Regis 1:59.22 (SQT); 200 freestyle - Markel, R, 2:07.19; 200 IM - Yslas, R, 2:23.01; 50 free - Zamprelli, DC, 26.06; Diving - Branda, DC, 113.70 pts.; 100 butterfly - Boudar, R, 1:08.04; 100 free - Templin, R, 57.09; 500 free - Urban, R, 5:47.71; 200 free relay - Regis 1:44.81 (SQT); 100 backstroke - Templin, R, 1:04.80; 100 breaststroke - Yslas, R, 1:12.20 (SQT); 400 free relay - Regis 3:49.66 (SQT).

I don't see how Regis could have lost that meet...
if they have enough girls to field 2 medley relay teams, and win 10 of 12 events, there's no way they should not have had enough depth to not pick up some of the 2nd & 3rd place finishes as well as the 10 wins.

(on edit) - heck, with 10 wins, they must have got more than 22 points regardless of 2nd & 3rd place finishes... (end edit)


Happy winter sports season reporting... I hope your field reporters are more timely in getting their results and stories to you...

:hi:

[reyd reid reed]

37. Yeah...but the big swim meets don't happen until later in the season

and most of the girls basketball tournaments are next weekend. This weekend it's boys basketball and wrestling. Non-conference girls basketball and the swimming's trickling in. No teams in our coverage area swimming tonight, though.

Hockey's started too, but I've already gotten all those summaries. Well, except for Lewis-Palmer's and that one's just getting started. No way in hell I'm gonna get that in time.

[reyd reid reed]

40. Post preps isn't where you want to check for scores, anyway...

you want Rockypreps. We ran an AP story, though. AP art, too.

And my hole got filled and the page went and it went on time.

Damn, I'm good.

:P

[CaliforniaPeggy]

41. You ARE good, yes INDEED!

(Props to Skittles)

:yourock: