How Was Your Day? Part 7

[jeriddian]

Continuing on the thread.

This is the link to the archived thread: http://www.globaljusticealliance.com/archives/thread67/index.htm

[AinoMinako]

I've discovered the "joys" of working retail as a cashier at Target. We had soft opening last week and the grand opening was today. We're supposed to get a 15 minute break for every four hours of work, but I ended up working four hours straight until I got my 15. I then only had another 45 minutes to work. I worked eight hours four days in a row before that though...

[jeriddian]

Yeah, I've heard of that happening to cashiers, although that was mainly with WalMart workers.

[jeriddian]

The main page is becoming filled out. The web pages are slowly being attached to the site over time. Hopefully they will be all on by the end of the week. I guess this was just taking longer than I thought it would or the hosting company thought it would.

[jeriddian]

The main page items are slowly being fitted out. Pretty soon, I think we will be able to start linking the actual ARA archive threads to these threads.

What about the colors, guys? What do you think about them? They can be changed if needed.

[TransWarpDrive]

I like the colors myself. They give the forum a "cool" feeling (as in temperature-wise) that I find appealing. One comment, though: Can we make the username and password boxes for logging in a little bigger, in order to double-check our spelling? I'm not comfortable with the name scrolling by, only partly visible, in a little window like we have here.

[jeriddian]

I like the colors myself. They give the forum a "cool" feeling (as in temperature-wise) that I find appealing. One comment, though: Can we make the username and password boxes for logging in a little bigger, in order to double-check our spelling? I'm not comfortable with the name scrolling by, only partly visible, in a little window like we have here.

I'll check into it and see if that can be done. I'm pretty sure it can be.

[lunchmeat]

Dealing with paperwork, Bleah (as Snoopy used to say).

[TransWarpDrive]

Dealing with paperwork, Bleah (as Snoopy used to say).
Reminds me of a joke I once heard:
Q. How many bureaucrats does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Ten - one to do the job, and the other nine to fill out the paperwork! :p

[campy]

So where was I? August has been eventful here after a quiet few months. We just had a new liner put into our swimming pool, but the weather promptly turned cool so nobody's been in it yet. Looks nice though. The old liner had leaked out about half its water, and what was left was a disgusting green. Somehow on Shego it works, but pool water ... not so much.

Then my 1990 minivan broke down, so rather than repair it we opted for something a little more this century. I now drive a 2004 Toyota Avalon XLS with all the luxury options*. I picked it up Monday and so far I love it. I have a Kim Possible figure dangling from my windshield wiper control.

* Including heated seats, lumbar support and a sunroof!

[kyojikasshu]

Well, we've had three days at work with our new hire, and I'm pretty confident she'll work out quite well. She got her first taste of how hairy it can get today, and she pulled through quite well.

And as tough as it can get at work, I haven't been this optimistic in a long time.

[Darth_Comrade]

Day one since my parents traveled for a four day vacation.

It's just me (the eldest) with my brothers...boy things are already getting messy, but it could've been worse. Very lazy day- still on vacation.

[canuck31003]

A new med. student joined the lab, today. Since he still has to jump through all the administrative hoops he spent most of the day reading papers. I was sympathetic until he spent two hours carrying on a conversation immediately behind my desk.

[Cloud23465]

Computer has some major issues and I just decided to wipe the hard drive clean and re-install all the software. Hopefully this fixed the problem. Having your computer lock up while download ship photos... just isnt right. :laugh:
It looks to be fixed though.

[wallaceb]

Computer has some major issues and I just decided to wipe the hard drive clean and re-install all the software. Hopefully this fixed the problem. Having your computer lock up while download ship photos... just isnt right. :laugh:
It looks to be fixed though.

as my avatar points out, i worked for the Best Buy Geek Squad for 2 years. if you have a computer problem, ask me, and i might just be able to figure out how to fix it

[morefood2001]

Brian and I both are excellent computer IT people :) Just zip us questions :P

And my day was great! Got a job as an IT rep for our college :D

Phil

[GoTeamGirl]

Today is my first day off this week from volleyball camp, and I've been writing fanfiction all morning. I should be reading my school books, but...

[wallaceb]

right now, i am having a normal day, but soon i will be moving back into my college dorm, and that is going to be fun;)

[Cloud23465]

The house hunt continues.. Still looking for one like what we have with a few more things that we'd like to have (like a second full bathroom :laugh:) 4 people fighting over 1 shower, and being family... can get pretty ugly.:blink:

[jeriddian]

The house hunt continues.. Still looking for one like what we have with a few more things that we'd like to have (like a second full bathroom :laugh:) 4 people fighting over 1 shower, and being family... can get pretty ugly.:blink:

Yeah, ANY four people having to use one bathroom and shower will tend to get ugly no matter what.:dubiety:....Good luck on the house hunt.

[campy]

The house hunt continues.. Still looking for one like what we have with a few more things that we'd like to have (like a second full bathroom :laugh:) 4 people fighting over 1 shower, and being family... can get pretty ugly.:blink:

Yeah, ANY four people having to use one bathroom and shower will tend to get ugly no matter what.:dubiety:....Good luck on the house hunt.Ugh, BTDT. Now we have two people and two-and-a-half bathrooms. The cat has her own bathroom, and my wife and I share the other. :P

[Cloud23465]

The house hunt continues.. Still looking for one like what we have with a few more things that we'd like to have (like a second full bathroom :laugh:) 4 people fighting over 1 shower, and being family... can get pretty ugly.:blink:

Yeah, ANY four people having to use one bathroom and shower will tend to get ugly no matter what.:dubiety:....Good luck on the house hunt.

Yeah, we've gotta sign the papers by the end of this month (or the city will take action and start taking money away). After we sign... the 90 day countdown begins...:thumbdown:

[kyojikasshu]

Well, the work day is almost over, and I'm sneaking on... XD And it's a getaway day, too, since I'll be off tomorrow.

Training with the new hire has gone very, very well, and I'm extremely confident that there will be no issues with her tomorrow, when she'll get her first solo experience going through the building to deliver and pick up mail. There are a couple of things I've had to set up with my manager, though, regarding events that will occur tomorrow, and I just finished up with all of that, so we're in great shape. And, like it usually is, I'm in charge for the final hour, as he's gone home...

(This is also a test post, to see if my signature image is showing up... I haven't seen it show up yet, but I can see others' sig images just fine. If it works, a familiar-looking sign should be down there, that fits with my avatar and text sig...)

[GoTeamGirl]

I've just finished two chapters of two different fan fictions! I feel accomplished! Even though I should be doing my summer reading...oh, well...Tomorrow's another day.

[kyojikasshu]

Well, it was an interesting end to the work day, as I ended up staying just a little late.

I was on my way out the door when a customer we had dealt with earlier in the day showed up. We'd printed out some stuff for him earlier, but as he found out, two pages were rather wrong. And it was one minor thing on each, but those "minor" things actually meant millions!

Even though our copycenter was all shut down, and would've taken at least 15 minutes to restart, I decided that it was more important to help him out. I found a faster way to do it, too... instead of firing up our copycenter, I took him upstairs, where he could set up his laptop to access the files he needed to correct, and I set him up with the network printers up there. The one big issue was that one of the pages that needed to be changed was on 11x17 paper (also known as Tabloid or Ledger paper). I was able to get the printer set up for him so that he could reprint that page, and he was ecstatic that I did this for him.

And that's what customer service is all about. Going that extra mile to give the customers what they want, even if it inconveniences me for a little bit (and it really wasn't all that much of an inconvenience - if anything, it let the traffic thin out a little bit!). And he's aware that this was a one-time deal, that it's not something he could normally expect to do - heck, if he'd been one minute later, I'd have been gone, and he probably would've ended up having to go to *shudder* Kinko's. But, since I was there, I took the opportunity. Because I want this customer coming back! I want this customer to tell his co-workers that we're the greatest thing ever! I want that business, dang it!!!

... although I'm glad I'm off tomorrow. XD And it's payday... ^_^

[campy]

I had a normal day: went to the health club, ran a few errands, then came home and surfed the web for a while. Nothing special.

[TransWarpDrive]

So where was I? August has been eventful here after a quiet few months. We just had a new liner put into our swimming pool, but the weather promptly turned cool so nobody's been in it yet. Looks nice though. The old liner had leaked out about half its water, and what was left was a disgusting green. Somehow on Shego it works, but pool water ... not so much.

Then my 1990 minivan broke down, so rather than repair it we opted for something a little more this century. I now drive a 2004 Toyota Avalon XLS with all the luxury options*. I picked it up Monday and so far I love it. I have a Kim Possible figure dangling from my windshield wiper control.

* Including heated seats, lumbar support and a sunroof!

Yes; aren't those features great? :D Got 'em all on my 2005 Passat!
As for my day, well:
Three different people came in late yesterday with mailings that just had to go out today...one mailing went out in its entirety; the other two got two-thirds sent out (I'll finish mailing them tomorrow). We celebrated a co-worker's birthday today, so our boss bought lunch - the birthday girl's choice. She opted for deep-dish pizza - cheese, mushrooms, and spinach (it wasn't bad, either; I had two slices. Boy, was that filling...). This afternoon, after distributing the mail and frantically trying to get one of those "urgent" mailings done, I clocked out early to go to my 4 PM physical therapy session (I broke my left elbow in a fall on the ice March 6 of this year; been doing PT ever since I got the cast off March 28) only to be told not to leave the building due to a tornado warning in our area (Chicago area had a nasty bunch of thunderstorms blow through this afternoon and evening). When I finally left, I ended up taking 50 minutes to drive to therapy - a drive that normally takes about 25 or 30 minutes. Between the traffic lights that were out and the numerous detours I took around trees fallen in the roads, it was a rather interesting drive (in my entire life, I've never seen that many downed trees all at once). Just about every block, I saw at least one (if not more) trees blown over by the wind. Wow...:blink:
Anyway, my therapist and I discussed my follow-up visit to the doctor yesterday regarding my arm, and I'm going to be going in for PT only once a week now instead of three times. We're also going to concentrate more on weight training to build strength back up in the arm, complete with 3-pound dumbbells. We're also making changes in my home exercise routine to go along with the ones at the medical center. After a spaghetti dinner at home (I ate a lot of Italian food today! :P), I took a shower after the second wave of storms passed through, and now here I am on the forum!

[campy]

* Including heated seats, lumbar support and a sunroof!

Yes; aren't those features great? :D Got 'em all on my 2005 Passat! Great features, indeed! Since we're not driving subterranean vehicles, sunroofs are anything but pointless.

I've already used the heated seats twice this week, something I never would have imagined doing in August. Dang that Global Warming! :laugh:

[GoTeamGirl]

Today is most likely going to be terrible. I hate being excited about something and not having anything to do the day before.

[Zephyr]

I'm not too terribly excited about today's events.

1) Go to physical training to help get me ready for boot camp.

2) Come home and resurface the deck.

3) Go to Santa Rosa to meet my dad, and help reorganize my sister's room.

4) Go pick up my sister from the hospital.

[Cloud23465]

Real Estate agents coming to get me and mom to go look at the insides of some houses we wanna see. Hopefully we'll find something nice. We have to have the papers singed and turned in my next thursday... then the 90 day countdown begins. Sadly i'm starting to loose sleep over this whole sitch becuase were not having to good of results finding anything really nice like what were looking for... the search continues though.

[GoTeamGirl]

I hate feeling worried when I'm so excited and happy. Why must people make me worry?

On another note, I've been cleaning all day. I hate vacuuming with a passion. I think the vacuum hates me, too. :P

[canuck31003]

Today I toured the White House. After waiting five months it was fairly anticlimactic. It turned out to be a self-guided tour of two floors, where you could peek into 4-5 rooms (2 others were closed for renovations), and walk through a dining room and a state room.

The worst thing was that cameras or recording equipment were prohibited. At first I took it in stride, but afterwards.... The area for the tours was so small and limited and I don't see the point of the restrictions.

The whole thing reminded me of touring a royal palace in Sweden, except Sweden was more interesting. :)

[campy]

I cleaned some old junk out of my basement. I really wish I'd done this chore a couple of weeks ago, because I had to put the stuff in my new-to-me car and bring it to the town dump. My old minivan would have been much better for the job. If only it had given me notice it was going to croak. :dubiety:

[jeriddian]

I'm exhausted! :confused: Moving stuff into an apartment to work from, and it's on the second floor. Making sure I can get to the office to catch up with GJA. My phone and DSL won't be on for a week.:mad:. hoo boy........:P

[Cloud23465]

I'm exhausted! :confused: Moving stuff into an apartment to work from, and it's on the second floor. Making sure I can get to the office to catch up with GJA. My phone and DSL won't be on for a week.:mad:. hoo boy........:P

So your Not going to have internet for a week? :ohmy: I know i'd probably kill over. :laugh:

[kyojikasshu]

Well, today's been uneventful... no nephews over today, since my sister's taking her family on a trip before the boys start school again.

But yesterday, yesterday was quite the day. I finally got around to registering for Youmacon, and did a little scouting around for some stuff. I also picked up the tapes I'll be using for the marathon (brand-new tapes; I've never had any saved KP episodes, as they've been recorded on used tapes).

I also had a little side adventure, visiting a *ahem* "gentlemen's club*. My curiosity finally got the better of me, and so I went and stared at, err, female exhibitionists for a while. And, now that I've had time to reflect, it really wasn't all that great an experience.

Err... yeah.

[Fireand'chutes77]

Well, today's been uneventful... no nephews over today, since my sister's taking her family on a trip before the boys start school again.

But yesterday, yesterday was quite the day. I finally got around to registering for Youmacon, and did a little scouting around for some stuff. I also picked up the tapes I'll be using for the marathon (brand-new tapes; I've never had any saved KP episodes, as they've been recorded on used tapes).

I also had a little side adventure, visiting a *ahem* "gentlemen's club*. My curiosity finally got the better of me, and so I went and stared at, err, female exhibitionists for a while. And, now that I've had time to reflect, it really wasn't all that great an experience.

Err... yeah.
Hmm... that's the type of thing I wouldn't choose to cast adrift into the sea of the world-wide 'Net... but then, that's just me. :P

[jeriddian]

Well, today's been uneventful... no nephews over today, since my sister's taking her family on a trip before the boys start school again.

But yesterday, yesterday was quite the day. I finally got around to registering for Youmacon, and did a little scouting around for some stuff. I also picked up the tapes I'll be using for the marathon (brand-new tapes; I've never had any saved KP episodes, as they've been recorded on used tapes).

I also had a little side adventure, visiting a *ahem* "gentlemen's club*. My curiosity finally got the better of me, and so I went and stared at, err, female exhibitionists for a while. And, now that I've had time to reflect, it really wasn't all that great an experience.

Err... yeah.

When I was younger (much younger), and worked as a road musician, I played a few of those "places". That sort of thing gets very old, very quickly. You were curious and you found out what it was like. That's okay. Now you know those places simply are not worth spending your time or money in.:thumbdown:

[kyojikasshu]

Yeah... seeing some of the clientele in there, made me think, "I don't want to be like these guys."

It's kind of like when I got myself falling-down drunk on my last birthday. It's something I wanted to experience once, and in the moment it may have been fun, but it's not something I need to repeat.


Well, Saturday proved to be pretty much of a waste... although, at least I used it for rest. Still, I was looking to be a bit more productive, at least on the computer, but I got sidetracked.

[campy]

*ahem* "gentlemen's club*That's the sort of establishment the guy who rammed his SUV into my house last year was driving home from. :P

I've never been inside one, but in New Orleans once my wife & I walked by several where the ladies could be seen from the street through the open door.

[Cloud23465]

Well, I finally had my belated birthday lunch... It had it's moments. My dad an uncle were supposed to go but there was an arguement before we went and to they didn't. But I must say the crab legs were great! Thuderstorm poped up on the way home so we did get a bit wet... but all and all it was pretty good day.

[GoTeamGirl]

Yesterday was so amazing, I'm still in shock that it actually happened. It was so unlikely in the first place.

And hot days + crowded stage doors= major discomfort.

[campy]

I just love my new-to-me car. I get in after the health club and turn on the radio. And guess what? The local public radio station is fund raising this week. In the old days I would have had to grin and bear it, or go to :ohmy: AM, since there's nothing else worthwhile on the FM band here. Seriously, I'd rip off the tuner buttons and trash them were it not for the Boston and NYC stations I programmed for when I visit family. But today I just said "No, I will not call five four five zero one hundred, see you next week" and I tapped the CD button. Nonstop music from my new (to me) 6 disc changer.

And don't tell me I'm a freeloader. I gave them plenty of money back in the day, and I figure they owe me for putting up with All Things Considered practically every single day for a decade plus. That's more than anyone should have to endure. :laugh:

[jeriddian]

Well.... it's back to work today. I'm exhausted after doing the whole moving thing. Everything is just about in place now. Now I have to learn the new computer system for the medical records......:dubiety:

[GoTeamGirl]

I had volleyball tryouts today, and am exhausted. It was so hot...

[campy]

I had volleyball tryouts today, and am exhausted. It was so hot... think we all know what the proper response to this one is.

All together now, people ...

"How hot was it?"

:biggergrin:

[Zephyr]

My day actually has been pretty good so far, even though I stayed with my diet and had my ten egg white omelet, serving of oatmeal, and 8 oz. glass of OJ, I didn't toss my cookies during PT. Also, I got moved up in weights.. It's starting to get easier, I'm starting to get in shape.

[GoTeamGirl]

Finding discounts for tickets is hard...

I'm doing my summer reading now. I believe I am the only one in my class who hasn't even started until today.

[Cloud23465]

I've been working almost all day on a ship line list. What i do is take and find pictures of ships by ship line, and download the best side profile I can find to see how many decks the ship has, then use excel to put the ships stats in, Knowing all this can help make better judgement calls on how long of a day its going to be by knowing how many containers the ship can hold. So much fun... so little time :biggergrin:

[GoTeamGirl]

I found an awesome discount, only to find out that I'm busy the day it starts, and the rest of the days the people I want to see won't be performing.

I've got volleyball again, and I'm praying that the coach doesn't make us run too much.

[campy]

Today is our 31st wedding anniversary, so mrs. campy and I will be heading out for a nice dinner in a little while. See you all later. :D

[jeriddian]

Many happy returns, good sir!:D...to both you and the mrs. Congrats!

For me, another day at the office. NOw i get to go home and try and tune up my piano and get my desktop set back up again.

[Mike_Industries]

Ahh today has been a fun day.

But tomorrow will be better. I won't be online all day due to myself being down in the Twin Cities. I'm hitting the Mall of America and then Valley Fair. But today has some promise, ECW is on Sci-Fi tonight.

[campy]

Back from the anniversary dinner. The place we had picked out was out of business—I'm sure they were open when I drove by last week—so we went to an Italian place in town. Everything was delicious. We shared an artichoke heart and gorgonzola cheese appetizer and then I had salmon with tomatoes and pesto. For dessert I had cannoli, then we drove home with the moonroof open to the evening air. :)

[Cloud23465]

It was one of those days. We (my parents and I) went to go look at another house and it was In pretty rough shape for what the sellers were asking. We're thinking of going back to a house that we put a contract on but took off because the seller really didnt wanna drop the price down. We heard that after we took the contract off and this guy talked to his father.... well need less to say the guy felt pretty dumb not taking the offer and wanted to let us know that he's gone down on the asking price. What a nightmare this is and ill be glad when we find a place and were done with this... i'm going crazy herel :confused::errr:

[kyojikasshu]

Well, I had a crazy day. FedEx Custom Critical was supposedly to show up at 8 AM to pick up a shipment that had to be in suburban Columbus today, and they didn't show up until about 12:30. Then, around 1:30, we suffered a power failure. Not a total failure, as a few of the always-on lights remained on, and we didn't lose power on our workstations or copiers... but having to do stuff in the near-dark was definitely a bit more challenging.

[AinoMinako]

Today was my second day of school. If I don't get on for stretches of time, don't worry, it's because I'm a junior. We have no lives.

Classes:

AP Physics B
AP US History
Latin III
Pottery 2
AP English Language
Pre-Cal

I'm kind of upset about upset about one part of my schedule. I have to go from pottery to room one... The farthest classroom from the pottery room. According to the Google satellite image it's about 1,000 feet away, assuming you went in a straight line (which may take you through a few walls). Which might not be so bad if 1) I had more than four minutes and 2) all of the classrooms didn't open to the outside, so I wouldn't be walking in the heat/rain/cold. Bah.

[campy]

I'm kind of upset about upset about one part of my schedule. I have to go from pottery to room one... The farthest classroom from the pottery room. According to the Google satellite image it's about 1,000 feet away, I empathize. :( Even after all these years I still remember the semester I had to go from the gym, which was a wing hanging off the high school building, up two flights of stairs and the full length of two corridors in four minutes with a locker stop to get to my next class. I think I made it once a week or so.

[Zephyr]

My day was okay. I finished with my physical training, talked with my grandmother, and now I am eating chicken, eggs, and potato..

[Cloud23465]

Well, we went back to the house that we put a contract on and took off because the seller didn't wanna budge on the price. We've heard that he's had a change of heart (and $$$) so we wen't to look it over really good to pick and see what flaws we could find to set on the table and say either fix X or take X amount out and we'll do it. Ah.... so much fun :confused::dubiety:

[GoTeamGirl]

I got on my school's JV volleyball team!

Then I went for a physical and got two vaccines, which was not fun.

[jeriddian]

Another day at the office and at the dialysis center. Same stuff again. Then back home. Finally got the deskptop fired up and running. Still gotta wait for my internet, whcih won't be here until Saturday.:mad:

[campy]

I went to my health club in the morning, then grocery shopping and other errands, and I mowed my lawn in the afternoon. After that I grilled some hot dogs for dinner. I wanted a simple meal after the rich one yesterday.

[recon228]

Spent the day up in Sacramento today... which was hot... REALLY hot! I noticed the temp was at 105 degrees around three this afternoon when I was out in the Elk Grove area. It also felt very humid, which only made matters worse.

Fortunately my time outside was rather limited; the rest of the day I spent downtown... sitting in an air conditioned building. Then I flew home... this time without my seat breaking! :P

Tomorrow, I'm going to Canada (Don't ask :neutral:)...

[campy]

Today I went to the gym, got my propane tank refilled for more grilling, beta-read a fanfic chapter, did a little cleaning around the house, and fixed a door so it closes & locks properly. :sleeping:

[Not The CrimpMaster]

I had a great day. I got up at six to get to school in time for my zero period (school starts at 7:10 for me, but I get out at about 1:15 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and that more than makes up for it). I like most of my classes so far this year, and it's a huge plus that tons of my friends are in a few of them (we're all nerds, so we wind up in all the Advanced Placement classes together). A recent fad for us is breaking out into song at school. On Tuesday at the end of US History we broke out into Bohemian Rhapsody, and today we did this song. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0) We're planning on keeping it up. :D

[GoTeamGirl]

More volleyball. One of the gym teachers was so rude to me. My Spanish teacher defender her once when another student had the same complaint, but now I can't see why. I pray to God that she is never, ever my gym teacher.

[Cloud23465]

12 hour shift on a nightmare break bulk ship and not to mention the foreman got a really bad additude that just seemed to make the day drag on soooooooo slow.... glad its over.

[jeriddian]

Lousy day, internetwise. My internet and phone did not get turned on as promised, and AT&T does not have any service outside usual office hours So unfortunately, I can't razz then about until it until Monday. Then I tried a Tmobile at Starbuck's, and it was out for some blasted reason. This town is so backwards, it has no idea what an internet cafe is. Now I have to use my Motorola phone tools through my V3 razr phone, slow as molasses, and it'll cost me. Have to make this quick.:angry:

[Cloud23465]

The 90 day countdown has begun and the house we were going to put a contract back on... came to a hault. The house has some things that need to be fixed but the owner will not fork out the money to fix them so the search continues but now with an even more since of urgency...:dubiety:

[kyojikasshu]

My Saturday was nice and relaxing, for the most part. I decided to have a Rocky marathon, and after that, I played mini-golf with my nephews. After that, I played back my recording of "Larry's Birthday".

Then I had an odd dream, where part of it was me watching Kim and Shego beat the living hell out of each other, ala Rocky vs. Apollo, and it was even set to Bill Conti's soundtrack! It was just plain weird.

[GoTeamGirl]

Apparently I'm going to two Broadway shows on October 7th-one with my dad, who doesn't like musicals. Wow.

I have to finish my summer reading today.

[campy]

My younger daughter came by for a visit this afternoon. We hadn't seen her for about a month. (These young city folk are always so busy ...) We had lunch and I showed off my new car.

[canuck31003]

Today was very relaxing. I slept in, went to the lab for a short while and afterwards ran a couple quick errands, all with the sublime knowledge that I don't have to do anything, tomorrow. I am content. :)

[jeriddian]

I am back in the Dallas area temporarily, packing stuff, getting more supplies, getting ready to take more stuff to Midland. I repaired the license plate holder on my trailer. Recorded more KP today. Getting ready for the giant recording session later this week. Just obtained 100 DVD+R Fuji Discs. I anticipate I'll be using just about all of them.:cool:

[Cloud23465]

Went to church... went to the inlaws for a cook out and got lost along the way using a gps (yeah, i'm good like that :P) The weathers been sooooo lovely with highs in the mid to lower 80's and low humidity... Fall is closing in and I love cooler weather so i welcome it.

[TransWarpDrive]

I cleaned and swept off the back porch today. Later in the afternoon, I went to pay my storage cubicle rent, then went to Borders to use a 25%-off coupon I got through my membership in their "Borders Rewards" program. I bought a new DVD (Peter O'Toole in The Lion In Winter), and a book on World War II. With the coupon, I paid less than $20.00 for both of them. After stopping at the local grocery store for some items, I went home and had bratwurst, potato salad, and corn on the cob for dinner. I think I'll stay up late and watch my new DVD. :D

[jeriddian]

I cleaned and swept off the back porch today. Later in the afternoon, I went to pay my storage cubicle rent, then went to Borders to use a 25%-off coupon I got through my membership in their "Borders Rewards" program. I bought a new DVD (Peter O'Toole in The Lion In Winter), and a book on World War II. With the coupon, I paid less than $20.00 for both of them. After stopping at the local grocery store for some items, I went home and had bratwurst, potato salad, and corn on the cob for dinner. I think I'll stay up late and watch my new DVD. :D

The Lion in Winter is a classic! One of the great movies, really. Peter O'Toole, Katherine Hepburn, Timothy Dalton in his first movie screen role. If you haven't seen it, you'll love it.:D

[cpneb]

I am back in the Dallas area temporarily, packing stuff, getting more supplies, getting ready to take more stuff to Midland. I repaired the license plate holder on my trailer. Recorded more KP today. Getting ready for the giant recording session later this week. Just obtained 100 DVD+R Fuji Discs. I anticipate I'll be using just about all of them.:cool:

jeriddian, are you moving to Midland permanently, or is this just more for the job out there? If so, stop by on the way out, and let's have a cuppa before you leave.

If you're moving, make sure you have a good, heavy coat: those 'blue northers' coming down from Canada will chill your bones to the max!

Also, if this is your first fall out there, you'll get to live 'Friday Night Lights' first-hand: the Midland/Odessa area is a 'bit' football crazy, in case you hadn't noticed, and this comes from a San Angelo native....

[campy]

So far today I've done the every-three-months flipping of the mattress on our bed, put some laundry in the washer, and right now I'm on a break from painting. :mad: I hate painting above all other household chores. Especially painting that involves ladders. Did I mention that my stepladder is older than I am? And looks it?

[jeriddian]

Ah yes, the house chores.....:mad:......washing, ironing, packing the figurines in my mother's curio cabinet. Figuring out to pack the Lladro Don Quixote correctly. Breaking donw the bookcases and packing the books. Trying to find a new mattress for Midland.....


..................joy.................:dubiety:

and then taking a break and coming to see you guys.:)

[cpneb]

Ah yes, the house chores.....:mad:......washing, ironing, packing the figurines in my mother's curio cabinet. Figuring out to pack the Lladro Don Quixote correctly. Breaking donw the bookcases and packing the books. Trying to find a new mattress for Midland.....


..................joy.................:dubiety:

and then taking a break and coming to see you guys.:)

Moving to Midland? remember what I told you about the coat and the football season: both can be quite cold (Friday Night Lights was about Odess Permain, after all....).

[Mike_Industries]

well my day has been the pits so far... except for this morning...

I got a friend who is ticked at our church's youth center (Which I help run) and I have no idea what to do for her... :errr:

[Cloud23465]

Ah yes, the house chores.....:mad:......washing, ironing, packing the figurines in my mother's curio cabinet. Figuring out to pack the Lladro Don Quixote correctly. Breaking donw the bookcases and packing the books. Trying to find a new mattress for Midland.....


..................joy.................:dubiety:

and then taking a break and coming to see you guys.:)

Don't worry jeriddian... I to will soon share in your Joy of having to pack things up to move. Right now we've got 58 days left... the city lied to us about the 90 days after we signed the papers... they spun the lie and said that 60 days is all we get.:dubiety:

[jeriddian]

Ah yes, the house chores.....:mad:......washing, ironing, packing the figurines in my mother's curio cabinet. Figuring out to pack the Lladro Don Quixote correctly. Breaking donw the bookcases and packing the books. Trying to find a new mattress for Midland.....


..................joy.................:dubiety:

and then taking a break and coming to see you guys.:)

Moving to Midland? remember what I told you about the coat and the football season: both can be quite cold (Friday Night Lights was about Odess Permain, after all....).

Well, technically I already moved. I work there now, I just have to go back to Dallas and break down the house and move all the stuff out of it, before I get it ready to sell.:dubiety:

[GoTeamGirl]

Went to an amusement park. Now I have to finish my summer assignments because school starts Wednesday.

[kyojikasshu]

I've relaxed for much of the day, although I did do some cooking earlier. Nothing spectacular, mind you... but I do enjoy cooking for myself.

I've actually spent the better part of the day on Gaia Online, participating in the Summer Festival event. I'm still there now, actually!

[TransWarpDrive]

I did my laundry, ran a few errands, watched some TV; mostly I just stayed at home and did my sloth imitation.
However, when I cleaned my car's windshield today (the inside was rather dirty, and was reflecting sunlight whenever I drove sunward), I discovered that using newspaper instead of rags or paper towels when washing windows really works! It leaves almost no streaks on the glass, and it doesn't matter if there's newsprint ink on the paper - the ink doesn't rub off on the glass. My windshield got so clean, I could actually see the reflection of the top of the dashboard on the inside of the glass whenever I drove toward the sun. This'll come in handy when I clean the windows at home! :D

[lunchmeat]

Ah yes, the house chores.....:mad:......washing, ironing, packing the figurines in my mother's curio cabinet. Figuring out to pack the Lladro Don Quixote correctly. Breaking donw the bookcases and packing the books. Trying to find a new mattress for Midland.....


..................joy.................:dubiety:

and then taking a break and coming to see you guys.:)

Moving to Midland? remember what I told you about the coat and the football season: both can be quite cold (Friday Night Lights was about Odess Permain, after all....).

And a some painting masks, the dust storms out there in the Fall are pretty spectaculoar.

[kyojikasshu]

I did my laundry, ran a few errands, watched some TV; mostly I just stayed at home and did my sloth imitation.
However, when I cleaned my car's windshield today (the inside was rather dirty, and was reflecting sunlight whenever I drove sunward), I discovered that using newspaper instead of rags or paper towels when washing windows really works! It leaves almost no streaks on the glass, and it doesn't matter if there's newsprint ink on the paper - the ink doesn't rub off on the glass. My windshield got so clean, I could actually see the reflection of the top of the dashboard on the inside of the glass whenever I drove toward the sun. This'll come in handy when I clean the windows at home! :D

Newspaper, huh? I'll have to try that!

Pretty much chilling today, after going to bed sometime after 4 AM last night and waking up just before noon today. Got some much-needed sleep....

[campy]

I did my laundry, ran a few errands, watched some TV; mostly I just stayed at home and did my sloth imitation.
However, when I cleaned my car's windshield today (the inside was rather dirty, and was reflecting sunlight whenever I drove sunward), I discovered that using newspaper instead of rags or paper towels when washing windows really works!

Newspaper, huh? I'll have to try that!
Yeah, my parents taught me that one many years ago. I'm sure there was a Great Depression story involved, too. There always was. :laugh:

My wife left on a business trip to Philadelphia this morning. I'm all alone with just the cat and (tomorrow) Kim, Ron & Rufus to keep me company.

[GoTeamGirl]

I'm so tired from volleyball. And school starts tomorrow. It's weird that summer is over.

[kyojikasshu]

Well, I'm worn out from working out for a few hours...

[jeriddian]

A quiet day. Getting ready for the marathon and the massive recording experiment I'm about to attempt. Eighteen hours a day for three days.:confused::unsure::huh::scared::errr::ohmy:

[kyojikasshu]

Just found out I have to go somewhere for a while tomorrow...

But, the good news is that I'll be home well before 6 PM, so I can set the timer on my VCR to start the first volume, and just let it go.

Gotta get some sleep tonight, that's for sure! At least the Gaia water battle's over....

[recon228]

I had a long day... a looong day! I got a phone call at 3:15 this morning telling me to come in to work... since then I quite literally didn't stop moving 'til I got home twenty minutes ago! :dubiety:

I'm going to bed... :sleeping:

[Cloud23465]

Another event filled day. Enjoyed some time at the Ymca with all the screaming kids back in school, I got to enjoy swimming some laps without getting a head ache. Not to bad mouth you guys that went back, its the 5-10 year olds that love to yell with about 30-40 of them is enough to give anyone a head ache... i didn't envy the life guards or teachers.

[TransWarpDrive]

Made progress on my invoices that had to be inserted (and only one machine working); sorted & delivered three days' worth of incoming mail thanks to the hoilday weekend; made phone calls regarding my car insurance and taking my car in for maintenance; and got an unexpected bonus: A lady from Citigroup (Citibank belongs to them) left a message on my voice mail last Thursday asking if I was interested in working for them. I called her back, and set up an appointment to go to a recruiting seminar at their local office on Saturday the fifteenth. I'd posted my updated resume on Monster.com over a year ago; and aside from a job interview last fall, this is the first I'd heard from them in some time. So, I took this opportunity to see about possibly getting a better job. Wish me luck! :thumbup:

[campy]

Made progress on my invoices that had to be inserted (and only one machine working); sorted & delivered three days' worth of incoming mail thanks to the hoilday weekend; made phone calls regarding my car insurance and taking my car in for maintenance; and got an unexpected bonus: A lady from Citigroup (Citibank belongs to them) left a message on my voice mail last Thursday asking if I was interested in working for them. I called her back, and set up an appointment to go to a recruiting seminar at their local office on Saturday the fifteenth. I'd posted my updated resume on Monster.com over a year ago; and aside from a job interview last fall, this is the first I'd heard from them in some time. So, I took this opportunity to see about possibly getting a better job. Wish me luck! :thumbup:Good luck, TWD! I've got a Citi credit card, maybe if you go to work for them you can arrange to shift my charges to someone who can better afford them. ;)

[GoTeamGirl]

Back to school.

[lunchmeat]

Made progress on my invoices that had to be inserted (and only one machine working); sorted & delivered three days' worth of incoming mail thanks to the hoilday weekend; made phone calls regarding my car insurance and taking my car in for maintenance; and got an unexpected bonus: A lady from Citigroup (Citibank belongs to them) left a message on my voice mail last Thursday asking if I was interested in working for them. I called her back, and set up an appointment to go to a recruiting seminar at their local office on Saturday the fifteenth. I'd posted my updated resume on Monster.com over a year ago; and aside from a job interview last fall, this is the first I'd heard from them in some time. So, I took this opportunity to see about possibly getting a better job. Wish me luck! :thumbup:


Good luck with it. Somebody apparently hacked Monster, at least the USAJobs part, and got a bunch of email and home addresses, so if you start getting a bunch of weird email or phishing attempts, that's probably the source.

[GoTeamGirl]

My first day of school was useless. I did see a bunch of my old teachers and they said hi, which was nice.

[recon228]

Today the wife and I are celebrating our son's first birthday! :D

While his official birthday was yesterday, I got stuck at work an wasn't around, so today we're celebrating with a trip to the beach, a shopping trip for Mrs. recon, and an evening cruising the harbor with our neighbors on their sailboat.

We just got back from the beach... so next stop: Fashion Island! :thumbup:

[kyojikasshu]

Today the wife and I are celebrating our son's first birthday! :D

While his official birthday was yesterday, I got stuck at work an wasn't around, so today we're celebrating with a trip to the beach, a shopping trip for Mrs. recon, and an evening cruising the harbor with our neighbors on their sailboat.

We just got back from the beach... so next stop: Fashion Island! :thumbup:

Well, happy birthday to recon jr.!

[GoTeamGirl]

Now I'm upset. Not only was someone talking trash about me, but they brought my love of KP into it!

[jeriddian]

A day spent esconced in my house, tending to the recording of the marathon.

[Cloud23465]

Now I'm upset. Not only was someone talking trash about me, but they brought my love of KP into it!

Snap! oh no they didn't! Bah! I wouldn't waist your time letting them talk trash to you because it only shows the void of lonelyness in there life to lash out and make fun of someone.

[GoTeamGirl]

Now I'm upset. Not only was someone talking trash about me, but they brought my love of KP into it!

Snap! oh no they didn't! Bah I wouldn't waist your time letting them talk trash to you because it only shows the void of lonelyness in there life to lash out and make fun of someone.

It's only the first day of school. I'm just going to ignore it.

[TransWarpDrive]

Made progress on my invoices that had to be inserted (and only one machine working); sorted & delivered three days' worth of incoming mail thanks to the hoilday weekend; made phone calls regarding my car insurance and taking my car in for maintenance; and got an unexpected bonus: A lady from Citigroup (Citibank belongs to them) left a message on my voice mail last Thursday asking if I was interested in working for them. I called her back, and set up an appointment to go to a recruiting seminar at their local office on Saturday the fifteenth. I'd posted my updated resume on Monster.com over a year ago; and aside from a job interview last fall, this is the first I'd heard from them in some time. So, I took this opportunity to see about possibly getting a better job. Wish me luck! :thumbup:


Good luck with it. Somebody apparently hacked Monster, at least the USAJobs part, and got a bunch of email and home addresses, so if you start getting a bunch of weird email or phishing attempts, that's probably the source.

:blink: So that explains all the junk e-mail I've been getting lately...:unsure:
Of course, I haven't opened any; I just check the boxes next to each one then click "Delete." :thumbup:

[Cloud23465]

well, the damage on when my computer froze was pretty minimal, I lost the beginning of coach possible but was able to get it rebooted and caught about 95% of it. hopefully I can sleep and it wont freeze again :dubiety::confused::errr::unsure:

[GoTeamGirl]

I'm home for half the day until volleyball. It's nice. I know tomorrow's not going to be fun at all.

[lunchmeat]

In the imoortal words of Mel Brook's Gov. Leptomaine in Blazing Saddles "work, work, work, work".
It has been pretty the last few days but got cloudy and super humid this morning. I'm mostly waiting for people to get back from leave so I can obtain information I need to press on with my projects.

[Cloud23465]

Well, I started to pull the pieces from last nights recordings. I knocked out at about 1am and seems like that when i all broke loose 2 more episodes that i really needed had some issues with the episode ending earily and what little bit that was left carried on to the next recording. I'd piece them together but there missing an average 2-3 seconds of the show so...:wallbash: I was going to just remove the disney from my listing and just manually record from 12pm-6am but nooooo... I put my faith in my computer to get it right... ha big mistake. But I'm not going to let it do it anymore. I am going to do the manual record for today and tomorrow. Sure, with it being in a huge chunk like that will make editing alot slower but at least i know everything will be there... I hope :dubiety:

[campy]

Well, the KP megathon outlasted me last night, no surprise there. I made it through "Overdue," then went to bed. I managed to wake up early enough to catch half of "Job Unfair" and "Queen Bebe." Seems like most of the episodes I saw yesterday I could watch anytime, since I have them on either DVD or iTunes. I'm looking forward to today's episodes; I haven't seen most of them in a while.

[Cloud23465]

went swimming earlier now Im at home sippin' on a coke slurpee and watching KP and updating the stats on the episodes i've got DV-R'ed ... life is grand :P

[jeriddian]

I'm guzzling coke (bad for me, I know), and staying ferociously on track with recording the episodes on DVD at XP quality recording. I'm a hermit in my own house right now until the whoel thing is finished and I have all the episodes recorded digitally. It's still a problem that I have the commercials across the bottom of the screen which I have to tolerate, unfortunately...:mad:. Other than that, not much else goign on. I'm staying focused.

[GoTeamGirl]

Volleyball practice was disappointing. I don't think I'm playing in tomorrow's game...

[cpneb]

Volleyball practice was disappointing. I don't think I'm playing in tomorrow's game...

Why was it disappointing? Did you not get to practice, you get pulled/replaced in the lineup, or it was it just not a good practice?

[GoTeamGirl]

Volleyball practice was disappointing. I don't think I'm playing in tomorrow's game...

Why was it disappointing? Did you not get to practice, you get pulled/replaced in the lineup, or it was it just not a good practice?

We were going over the lineup and rotation for tomorrow's game. I wasn't put in (and there were plenty of substitutions), which is annoying. Especially when team mates have told me that I'm good.

[cpneb]

Volleyball practice was disappointing. I don't think I'm playing in tomorrow's game...

Why was it disappointing? Did you not get to practice, you get pulled/replaced in the lineup, or it was it just not a good practice?

We were going over the lineup and rotation for tomorrow's game. I wasn't put in (and there were plenty of substitutions), which is annoying. Especially when team mates have told me that I'm good.

Stinks, but please don't let it get you down: if you know you're good, and others agree, it's only a matter of time before you get the chance to prove that you should have been in there earlier! Bide your time, and stay sharp: you'll have real fun when you get in and kick tail!

[GoTeamGirl]

Volleyball practice was disappointing. I don't think I'm playing in tomorrow's game...

Why was it disappointing? Did you not get to practice, you get pulled/replaced in the lineup, or it was it just not a good practice?

We were going over the lineup and rotation for tomorrow's game. I wasn't put in (and there were plenty of substitutions), which is annoying. Especially when team mates have told me that I'm good.

Stinks, but please don't let it get you down: if you know you're good, and others agree, it's only a matter of time before you get the chance to prove that you should have been in there earlier! Bide your time, and stay sharp: you'll have real fun when you get in and kick tail!

Thanks! It's good advice.

It's going to be a long day today. School soon, then a volleyball game 45 minutes away at 6:30 (but we have to watch Varsity play an earlier game). Then home to watch my recording of the KP finale.

[Cloud23465]

We've finally got a price agreement on a very nice house. Though thats over with... we've still got the home inspection to get done to make sure everything under the house is in good shape and a few other things to be checked... then hopefully we'll be done with this... finally :errr::dubiety:

[kyojikasshu]

I'm getting to test out my sister's brand new laptop at the Panera near her work!

I have to say, the only thing I've found to be annoying about Windows Vista is all the permission screens that pop up when you try to change anything. I was asked to uninstall one of the programs (Kodak EasyShare) by my sister, which I was able to do.

Other than that, it seems to go pretty well... although I couldn't get it on my current PC at home, because I don't have the juice. (It is a 7-year-old PC, after all...)

[Cloud23465]

I'm getting to test out my sister's brand new laptop at the Panera near her work!

I have to say, the only thing I've found to be annoying about Windows Vista is all the permission screens that pop up when you try to change anything. I was asked to uninstall one of the programs (Kodak EasyShare) by my sister, which I was able to do.

Other than that, it seems to go pretty well... although I couldn't get it on my current PC at home, because I don't have the juice. (It is a 7-year-old PC, after all...)

Wow! I didn't know computers could last that long. :laugh: I normally make it 2-3 years 4 max before mine stop preforming to the level that i need it to. But i use my computer/keep it running/working on things on it's on nearly all day every day so i can't say why they get worn out...:biggergrin:

[jeriddian]

My laptop is 4 years old. Of course, I maxed it out when I bought it.:)

[Cloud23465]

My laptop is 4 years old. Of course, I maxed it out when I bought it.:)

Yea. I need a new laptop... mine is about 3 years old and runs pitiful. I even put a new hard 100gb 7200Rpm hard drive in it and it still runs slow. Its a P4 2.66ghz with 512gbs ram... its not old old but its just worn out i guess. I like hp's new 17" laptops with core duo and 320 gigs of hard drive pardon me if i dont :dribble: over it. :laugh:

[kyojikasshu]

Well, my hard drive was totally fragged in mid-2001, necessitating a replacement. At that time, I "upgraded" to WinME, and somehow, my PC managed to survive the experience. By 2004, I had upgraded to WinXP.

I currently have 512Mb of SD-RAM, about 40Gb total HD capacity (one 30Gb and one 10Gb), and a 600MHz processor. So, yeah, it's pretty old. (When I first got it, it only had 128Mb RAM and the hard drive that fragged itself was 15Gb.)

By the end of the year, I will definitely be upgrading... I do currently have a shell that can be made operational, that has a much better processor. It was a computer we used at work, but the original power supply died on us. Since we needed a computer right away, my boss simply went out and bought a replacement, and the DDR-RAM DIMMs in this one were taken out and placed in the new machine to increase its capacity. The HD was also taken out so that we could recover our data. We ultimately did get a replacement power supply, donated by a friend, and the machine still works; however, I still need DDR-RAM DIMMs.

And, right now, money's just a bit tight, and my spare money this pay period is going to gifts for my sister and my younger nephew (Sam's 7th birthday is on the 11th, and my sister's 36th is on the 13th). I got my sister the 3rd season of The Office - the special paper-box edition. ^_^

[Cloud23465]

With Vista being the new standard Os and the problems i've had with software issus... im going to wait till they get a service pack out to fix the compatability issues... then ill get a new laptop.

[jeriddian]

I'm waiting for Vista to clear its problems up before I use it. XP is doing just fine as it is.

[Cloud23465]

I'm waiting for Vista to clear its problems up before I use it. XP is doing just fine as it is.

If you hear something first let me know, and if i hear something first i'll let you know. I've got a buddy I play Socom with that works for microsofts tech center up in DC and he told me he'd let me know when SP1 for vista comes out. Vista was nice like I said before as an OS but programs not working wasnt working for me.

[TransWarpDrive]

I'm waiting for Vista to clear its problems up before I use it. XP is doing just fine as it is.
Yeah, me too... XP will do me just fine for a while yet.

[Cloud23465]

Watching the weather... We have a topical storm hanging of the eastern coast and there saying that it may hit here. I know after the last hurrican that we had hit damaged alot of trees... even though they didnt fall. At this point i think there at more risk to fall should strong winds kick up.:errr:

[jeriddian]

Verrrrrry tired..........recording the entire marathon took a lot out of me.:P. I still got to get the oil change done on my truck and then get ready to drive back out to Midland.:errr:

[Cloud23465]

Verrrrrry tired..........recording the entire marathon took a lot out of me.:P. I still got to get the oil change done on my truck and then get ready to drive back out to Midland.:errr:

Oil change... that reminds me of a nightmare-ish experience I had changeing mine. It ws my first time changing the oil in my new-used car, My brother owns a shop and some lifts, Yet here i am out back under the with nothing more then a jack stand holding it up on one side. After draining the oil I took the old oil filter of and put the new one on... after getting everything straight... or so i though... I took my car around front an was getting ready to leave when i heard a wierd sound.... sounded like i was draging a piece of chain link fence... a good friend of mine looked under the car and noticed i was spewing out oil.... turned out I didn't get the seal off the old oil filter off because someone didnt wipe the filters seal down with oil to keep it from sticking. I nearly lost all the oil... Synthetic at that. not to mention that would of been the end of my motor. So now i check every time to be sure I get the old seal before i put the filter on. It was almost a very costly error.:errr:

[campy]

Verrrrrry tired..........recording the entire marathon took a lot out of me.:P. I still got to get the oil change done on my truck and then get ready to drive back out to Midland.:errr:

Oil change... that reminds me of a nightmare-ish experience I had changeing mine. It ws my first time changing the oil in my new-used car, My brother owns a shop and some lifts, Yet here i am out back under the with nothing more then a jack stand holding it up on one side. After draining the oil I took the old oil filter of and put the new one on... after getting everything straight... or so i though... I took my car around front an was getting ready to leave when i heard a wierd sound.... sounded like i was draging a piece of chain link fence... a good friend of mine looked under the car and noticed i was spewing out oil.... turned out I didn't get the seal off the old oil filter off because someone didnt wipe the filters seal down with oil to keep it from sticking. I nearly lost all the oil... Synthetic at that. not to mention that would of been the end of my motor. So now i check every time to be sure I get the old seal before i put the filter on. It was almost a very costly error.:errr:I used to change my own oil and filter in my '79 VW Dasher, without using any stands at all. It was tricky to get the filters on and off from above, but doable. I still have the ratcheting 19-mm wrench I bought to remove & replace the drain plug. I don't think I've used it since 1985 ...

[jeriddian]

Yeah, I used to do that too. '75 Ford Granada (loved that car), '81 Sedan de ville that my mother gave me (hated that car, but it was free), '88 Suburban (loved that truck).....after that, I could afford someone else doing it.;).....plus I'm getting too old to get under cars.:ohwell:

BTW, campy, love your new avatar. Jessica all dressed up. Nice job on the pic.:)

[Cloud23465]

Verrrrrry tired..........recording the entire marathon took a lot out of me.:P. I still got to get the oil change done on my truck and then get ready to drive back out to Midland.:errr:

Oil change... that reminds me of a nightmare-ish experience I had changeing mine. It ws my first time changing the oil in my new-used car, My brother owns a shop and some lifts, Yet here i am out back under the with nothing more then a jack stand holding it up on one side. After draining the oil I took the old oil filter of and put the new one on... after getting everything straight... or so i though... I took my car around front an was getting ready to leave when i heard a wierd sound.... sounded like i was draging a piece of chain link fence... a good friend of mine looked under the car and noticed i was spewing out oil.... turned out I didn't get the seal off the old oil filter off because someone didnt wipe the filters seal down with oil to keep it from sticking. I nearly lost all the oil... Synthetic at that. not to mention that would of been the end of my motor. So now i check every time to be sure I get the old seal before i put the filter on. It was almost a very costly error.:errr:I used to change my own oil and filter in my '79 VW Dasher, without using any stands at all. It was tricky to get the filters on and off from above, but doable. I still have the ratcheting 19-mm wrench I bought to remove & replace the drain plug. I don't think I've used it since 1985 ...

I dont know about your motor... but mine sits sideway and the cars very low to the ground so there's no way I could get under this car with out it being jacked off the ground a little bit. As it was back when I did it... i had to feel around to find the spot where the filter went cause i couldn't get under the car far enough to see it.:errr:

[campy]

BTW, campy, love your new avatar. Jessica all dressed up. Nice job on the pic.:)Thanks, I just manipulated a screencap a little to erase the guy next to her, and round out her hair where it was cut off on the left edge. The pic looks okay as an avatar, but not so good full size. I wish I had talent to do my own drawings, but I don't. :dubiety:

@Cloud23465 :

I dont know about your motor... but mine sits sideway and the cars very low to the ground so there's no way I could get under this car with out it being jacked off the ground a little bit.

Yeah, this was a pretty wide-open engine bay without a lot of stuff cluttering it up, nothing like today's cars. I look under the hood of my new Avalon, and just shake my head. I'll check the oil and top off coolant or windshield washer fluid on that one, and that's all

[jeriddian]

BTW, campy, love your new avatar. Jessica all dressed up. Nice job on the pic.:)Thanks, I just manipulated a screencap a little to erase the guy next to her, and round out her hair where it was cut off on the left edge. The pic looks okay as an avatar, but not so good full size. I wish I had talent to do my own drawings, but I don't. :dubiety:

Yeah, me too. I can't draw the proverbial straight line either.:(

[Cloud23465]

BTW, campy, love your new avatar. Jessica all dressed up. Nice job on the pic.:)Thanks, I just manipulated a screencap a little to erase the guy next to her, and round out her hair where it was cut off on the left edge. The pic looks okay as an avatar, but not so good full size. I wish I had talent to do my own drawings, but I don't. :dubiety:

Yeah, me too. I can't draw the proverbial straight line either.:(

I'll take a stab at it if you want me to? I kinda need to work on a new technique for my color drawing anyways...:errr: the pics from Homecoming upset right?

[campy]

I'll take a stab at it if you want me to? I kinda need to work on a new technique for my color drawing anyways...:errr: the pics from Homecoming upset right?Yes, she was one of the Queen finalists, way on the left of the screen. (I bet she would have won if Bonnie hadn't cheated! :laugh:)

[Cloud23465]

Well... I've got my drawing mojo back. I've been working on coloring pieces all day, then took a break from that to draw jessica for Campy here...
Jessica (http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/Cloud23465-2/JessicaforCampy.jpg)
Thats about it.:errr:

[TransWarpDrive]

Verrrrrry tired..........recording the entire marathon took a lot out of me.:P. I still got to get the oil change done on my truck and then get ready to drive back out to Midland.:errr:

Oil change... that reminds me of a nightmare-ish experience I had changeing mine. It ws my first time changing the oil in my new-used car, My brother owns a shop and some lifts, Yet here i am out back under the with nothing more then a jack stand holding it up on one side. After draining the oil I took the old oil filter of and put the new one on... after getting everything straight... or so i though... I took my car around front an was getting ready to leave when i heard a wierd sound.... sounded like i was draging a piece of chain link fence... a good friend of mine looked under the car and noticed i was spewing out oil.... turned out I didn't get the seal off the old oil filter off because someone didnt wipe the filters seal down with oil to keep it from sticking. I nearly lost all the oil... Synthetic at that. not to mention that would of been the end of my motor. So now i check every time to be sure I get the old seal before i put the filter on. It was almost a very costly error.:errr:

You know, that happened to me once when I changed the oil on my 1973 Buick Century. I didn't hear any noise when I drove it right after the oil change, but I noticed I was leaving a dark streak on the pavement when I looked in the rear view mirror. Fortunately, I discovered this problem right near my home, so I was able to get back OK before I lost too much oil.
Just like you, I discovered I'd left the old gasket on when I installed the new filter. After I fixed the problem, I had to borrow my dad's car to go and get more oil to replace what I'd left on the pavement... :laugh:
And yes, after that, I checked to be sure the old gasket came off with the filter every time I changed my own oil, so don't feel bad, Cloud.
EDIT: BTW, nice sketch of Jessica, Cloud! You've definitely got a feel for the KP artistic style. Keep up the good work! :)
EDIT II: @campy:
Yeah, this was a pretty wide-open engine bay without a lot of stuff cluttering it up, nothing like today's cars. I look under the hood of my new Avalon, and just shake my head. I'll check the oil and top off coolant or windshield washer fluid on that one, and that's all
Same here with my Passat. There's so much "plumbing" under the hood, I even had trouble locating the turbocharger my car has. I finally asked one of the service guys when I had my oil changed (I let them do it this time... ;)), and he told me it's located on the passenger side of the engine. Sure enough, I found it, connected to the exhaust manifold. It was covered by a cylindrical shroud of some sort.

[Cloud23465]

From the artist stand point... Jessica facial features are pretty close to Kims. Not to mention Kims had a hair style like that before if i remember right.

[TransWarpDrive]

From the artist stand point... Jessica facial features are pretty close to Kims. Not to mention Kims had a hair style like that before if i remember right.
You're right - Kim's worn that hairstyle in several episodes. A ponytail like that looks good on Kim - and on Jessica too.

[kyojikasshu]

Very nice drawing, Cloud! I still have a ways to go before I get the style down, myself... it doesn't help that I don't practice drawing by hand nearly enough. (I'm mostly about the pixels these days, although I do still enjoy drawing.)


I had a decent afternoon with my nephew John. Sadly, the anime store in Ann Arbor, Wizzywig, had closed down their location on Liberty Street. It wasn't until I had the chance to get online much later that we found out that they'd actually moved - to State Road, south of I-94! That's quite a bit aways from downtown near the heart of the U-M campus.

Speaking of Michigan... err, actually, I'd rather not. At least the Oregon Ducks wore their least hideous uniform combination (white shirt, white pants) while drubbing the Wolverines...

John and I ended up spending a bit of time at Pinball Pete's. They've made some changes there since our last visit as well; the stairway to the Galleria has been removed, and in fact all access to the Galleria proper has been cut off. It's a bit cumbersome having to walk around everything, when you're used to being able to get to where you're going by going through the back door, but we got over it pretty quickly. Sadly, though, they did remove one of my favorite all-time arcade machines... Tron. But I got over that as well.

After we had dinner at Cici's Pizza, I took him home, and hung out there so that Bob and Jen could go out after Jen got off from work. I ended up putting John and Sam to bed. They also got a new dog this past week, a mutt named Socket; he's a pretty good dog, one year old and fairly well-trained already.

I got to play around a little bit more on my sister's new computer, but pretty much all I could do was play card games. I'm not quite used to the upgraded graphics and sounds - I'm used to the WinXP versions.

[GoTeamGirl]

Just got back from spending the weekend with my younger cousins. It was very tiring....

[campy]

I did very little today, aside from tidying up my basement some. Other than that it was just reading and browsing the internet.

And yet I'm tired. :confused:

[kyojikasshu]

I dropped by the annual Plymouth Fall Festival earlier today. It was boh-ring! I actually fantasized about one of the booths being set up as a Bueno Nacho, that's how bad it was!

But, at least it seems they got a slightly better class of carnies to work the rides and stuff than in previous years... at the very least, they were all uniformed and looked somewhat respectable!

[Ultimate Naco Topping]

Well, I watched a ton of football. All my fantasy teams are either leading their games or are within ten points with good matchups for me tonight.

More importantly, I've finally broken through with four and a half pages on the latest installment of Through the Cracks...

[Monstrorrendinformingens]

Well well well, I'll have to get used to the reversed order of posts showing.:laugh:

Yesterday (more like the day before yesterday, it's pretty late now) we had a little cocktail party at our house - well, the fraternity thing, only that we got manners.:alumnus: Nice evening, mostly because some guys I didn't happen to see lately came, too. ...and I finally learned how to get mp3 copies of my CDs.;)

But today(/yesterday) was even better since this was the first day of my first dancing class. Finally, I can learn all these funny steps and figures and stunts. It's just total fun, something I really should have done in my school days.

Okay, dancing blues is boring, but first days aren't about the excitement and it really helped concerning the whole leading/silent communication thing.

[Cloud23465]

Went shopping for some color pencils... and I've been working on coloring all day... dont really feal like i've got anywhere though... oh well back to the grind.

[kyojikasshu]

Well, I watched a ton of football. All my fantasy teams are either leading their games or are within ten points with good matchups for me tonight.


I've never been into the whole "fantasy sports" bit... but that's just me. As far as the NFL goes, I've sworn off watching the Lions, and I'll only tune them back in if they're over .500 at Thanksgiving. Sure, they won today, but it was against Oakland, which is like saying they beat the Lowerton Lemurs.

Just made myself a nice chicken dinner... kinda late, but I'll take a little walk before going to bed tonight.

[TransWarpDrive]

Went to visit some friends up in the northern 'burbs today; then came home & helped unload Mom's minivan from the last art fair of the season (Yay! :D). We ordered chinese food for dinner, and the stupid restaurant screwed up my order - I asked for sweet & sour shrimp, and they gave me sweet & sour chicken instead... :angry: I ate the chicken anyway, but the next time we go to that restaurant, we will complain about the order mix-up, let me tell you...
After a nice hot shower, I'm now on my computer, chatting with you guys while I do my "Moderator duty." Time to walk the beat again...
(Puts on policeman's hat and badge; picks up a billy club and swings it with one hand as he strolls down the street, whistling a cheery tune... :P )

[Fireand'chutes77]

I'm now on my computer, chatting with you guys while I do my "Moderator duty." Time to walk the beat again...
(Puts on policeman's hat and badge; picks up a billy club and swings it with one hand as he strolls down the street, whistling a cheery tune... :P )
*Chicka-Chicka-Chicka*

*Wissshhhhhh*

"T...W...D... IS... A... N00BAZ-"

*Turns around*

OH NOS! :ohmy:

*TWD flings his billyclub and plants it between the eyes*

:sleeping:

:P :laugh:

[TransWarpDrive]

I'm now on my computer, chatting with you guys while I do my "Moderator duty." Time to walk the beat again...
(Puts on policeman's hat and badge; picks up a billy club and swings it with one hand as he strolls down the street, whistling a cheery tune... :P )
*Chicka-Chicka-Chicka*

*Wissshhhhhh*

"T...W...D... IS... A... N00BAZ-"

*Turns around*

OH NOS! :ohmy: :P :laugh:

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
Now, now; no spray-painting graffiti on my beat, me bucko...yer goin' down to th' station with me!
(Grabs 'chutes by the scruff of the neck and hauls him to the police station):P

[Cloud23465]

Big day planned... Going to the YMCA. Then come back home and work on my computer (its having problems and I think i've got it figured out) And after i'm finished with that... it's back to working on my art work. So much fun... so little time :laugh:

[campy]

I'm now on my computer, chatting with you guys while I do my "Moderator duty." Time to walk the beat again...
(Puts on policeman's hat and badge; picks up a billy club and swings it with one hand as he strolls down the street, whistling a cheery tune... :P )
*Chicka-Chicka-Chicka*

*Wissshhhhhh*

"T...W...D... IS... A... N00BAZ-"

*Turns around*

OH NOS! :ohmy: :P :laugh:

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
Now, now; no spray-painting graffiti on my beat, me bucko...yer goin' down to th' station with me!
(Grabs 'chutes by the scruff of the neck and hauls him to the police station):POfficer TWD, you're being too hard on the boy. It's not his fault. Juvenile delinquency is purely a social disease.

'chutes: "Hey, I got a social disease!"


[1000 points to whoever gets that reference.] :biggergrin:

[TransWarpDrive]

I'm now on my computer, chatting with you guys while I do my "Moderator duty." Time to walk the beat again...
(Puts on policeman's hat and badge; picks up a billy club and swings it with one hand as he strolls down the street, whistling a cheery tune... :P )
*Chicka-Chicka-Chicka*

*Wissshhhhhh*

"T...W...D... IS... A... N00BAZ-"

*Turns around*

OH NOS! :ohmy: :P :laugh:

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
Now, now; no spray-painting graffiti on my beat, me bucko...yer goin' down to th' station with me!
(Grabs 'chutes by the scruff of the neck and hauls him to the police station):POfficer TWD, you're being too hard on the boy. It's not his fault. Juvenile delinquency is purely a social disease.

'chutes: "Hey, I got a social disease!"


[1000 points to whoever gets that reference.] :biggergrin:

How'd you know I took over Officer Krupke's beat??
(Yes, I've seen that musical, too...:biggergrin:;))

[Cloud23465]

:wallbash::wallbash::wallbash::wallbash::wallbash:
I'm ready to smash my head into a wall... I backed up some files off my computer and I'm starting to restore the files and I though I did restore all my file under my document folder and I didn't... Meaning I lost all kinds of important information including pictures and such... I dont know the damage and im trying to figure it out:cry::cry:

[jeriddian]

:wallbash::wallbash::wallbash::wallbash::wallbash:
I'm ready to smash my head into a wall... I backed up some files off my computer and I'm starting to restore the files and I though I did restore all my file under my document folder and I didn't... Meaning I lost all kinds of important information including pictures and such... I dont know the damage and im trying to figure it out:cry::cry:

So sorry to hear that, Cloud. BTDT myself. I'm paranoid myself that everything I really want to save I back up about three or four times in different places on different media. Also, I have stacked hard drives in a RAID format at mirror state one. Basically they are two identical hard drives, each written with the same exact information simlutaneously. If one goes bad, the other stays intact, and I can copy that one back over to a new one, and then recreate the RAID setup for them to mirror each other again. Then I also back up to thumb drives and my laptop as well.

I hope you are able to recreate those pics of yours, and get therest of your stuff. You might try a data recovery program if you can get your hands on one.:ohwell:

[Cloud23465]

:wallbash::wallbash::wallbash::wallbash::wallbash:
I'm ready to smash my head into a wall... I backed up some files off my computer and I'm starting to restore the files and I though I did restore all my file under my document folder and I didn't... Meaning I lost all kinds of important information including pictures and such... I dont know the damage and im trying to figure it out:cry::cry:

So sorry to hear that, Cloud. BTDT myself. I'm paranoid myself that everything I really want to save I back up about three or four times in different places on different media. Also, I have stacked hard drives in a RAID format at mirror state one. Basically they are two identical hard drives, each written with the same exact information simlutaneously. If one goes bad, the other stays intact, and I can copy that one back over to a new one, and then recreate the RAID setup for them to mirror each other again. Then I also back up to thumb drives and my laptop as well.

I hope you are able to recreate those pics of yours, and get therest of your stuff. You might try a data recovery program if you can get your hands on one.:ohwell:

Yeah, I felt like a total idiot when I realise the stuff wasn't there and i deleted it... I am going to try to find a program here to see if it isn't totally gone... I had most of the older files on my laptop but its been over 7 months since I put them on there and I know alot more file where there and alot of things were updated... Whats sad is all of it was on my external hard drive... then i transfered it to my back up drive in the computer and i end of deleting both before i put it back in it's proper place...

[Cloud23465]

Well... thanks to your idea jeriddian I was able to get a program that worked pretty well and recover the vast majority of were talking about hundreds of hours of work and organised information. I know whats missing and can have it typed back up in a matter of hours... thanks for the idea because it the frame of mind i was in.... I would of never thought of something like that. :thumbup::biggergrin:

[jeriddian]

Well... thanks to your idea jeriddian I was able to get a program that worked pretty well and recover the vast majority of were talking about hundreds of hours of work and organised information. I know whats missing and can have it typed back up in a matter of hours... thanks for the idea because it the frame of mind i was in.... I would of never thought of something like that. :thumbup::biggergrin:

Glad I could help, big guy!;)

[GoTeamGirl]

I hate my Chem Lab because my partner dislikes me. And I've never even met him! Some of the kids in the class above me are real idiots.

[Monstrorrendinformingens]

Sorry for you, GoTeamGirl. No improvement in sight?

To my day: Great. Two Warhammer Fantasy Battles games, both won. First by capitulation (killer heavy cavalry had outflanked the entire Ork army, good chance of evening the field in one more turn). Second went badly for my opponent. Dice can be cruel, even more for a Skaven player.
Well my High Elves finally showed why everyone who doesn't play them thinks they are so tough.

May the dice be with you!:thumbup:

[Cloud23465]

Another day, another few drawings completed.... yet I still feel like I got nothing done. Its wierd going from maybe 20-30 minutes shading with grey scale to spending 2-3 hours per pic putting the fine color detail in... I feel like this smile looks :confused:

[GoTeamGirl]

Sorry for you, GoTeamGirl. No improvement in sight?

To my day: Great. Two Warhammer Fantasy Battles games, both won. First by capitulation (killer heavy cavalry had outflanked the entire Ork army, good chance of evening the field in one more turn). Second went badly for my opponent. Dice can be cruel, even more for a Skaven player.
Well my High Elves finally showed why everyone who doesn't play them thinks they are so tough.

May the dice be with you!:thumbup:

No, not unless we get into a fight or something. Which might be dangerous around Chemicals (:P).

Today should be an okay day, though. I hope my classes are interesting.

[jeriddian]

Sorry for you, GoTeamGirl. No improvement in sight?

To my day: Great. Two Warhammer Fantasy Battles games, both won. First by capitulation (killer heavy cavalry had outflanked the entire Ork army, good chance of evening the field in one more turn). Second went badly for my opponent. Dice can be cruel, even more for a Skaven player.
Well my High Elves finally showed why everyone who doesn't play them thinks they are so tough.

May the dice be with you!:thumbup:

No, not unless we get into a fight or something. Which might be dangerous around Chemicals (:P).

Today should be an okay day, though. I hope my classes are interesting.

I'm assuming then, you can do better in chemistry class than Kimmie does.:laugh::P

[Monstrorrendinformingens]

The way Kimmie handles chemistry you could probably bet it's going to be interesting.
:unsure:"Well, who will have to change clothes after this lesson?":rolleyes:

[GoTeamGirl]

Hopefully I'll not have to witness, cause, or be the one to go through any clothing changes. Although our teacher did mention that a need to change clothes might occur in case of a chemical spill. I don't trust the other kids around me. Maybe I should've waited a year...

Today's classes were okay, Chemistry included. For the school newspaper, my previous Religion teacher suggested (last year) that I convert one of my essays to an article, so I took him up on that offer today. Hopefully he finds the changes good enough to put in the paper.

Volleyball practice was...boring, and a bit terrible. Everyone was distracted, ut I think that should be better by tomorrow.

[AinoMinako]

I had chemistry last year. I only had one incident. We were heating hydrochloric acid in a test tube and mine exploded. Luckily, none of the glass hit me, the HCL was weak, and I was wearing gloves where most of it landed.

A different class had the cabinets catch on fire. And the building was a month old. Though to be fair, it probably wasn't the best idea to put wood cabinets over the lab tables. :rolleyes:

[jeriddian]

I always had fun in chemistry class. when the teacher wsn't looking, I liked to slip pennies into the nitric acid and watch all the red nitric oxide smoke billow up.:laugh:

Today was a long day at work. Lots of travel to different units. Then I came home and worked onthe computer. I had to trade out my secondary mirrored hard drives, which were Maxtor's, one of which had gone kaput on me, for a new pair of SeaGate Barracudas. That re-established my two hard drives in my unit (four individual drives, both mirrored in RAID1 setups). My coolant system is leaking just a little, so I had to order another hard drive cooler plate for my primary mirrored hard drives. It ought to be here on Monday. The leak is very slow though, and the coolant will last untl Monday. I also have more coolant coming in then.

I finally junked my McAfee Anti-virus. I don't know what it was doing, but it messed up my primary OS platform somehow ina coflict with SBC Yahoo DSL software. It's taken me forever to correct most of the problems, and it still isn't quite right. I loaded a copy of Zone Alarm, currently ranked by PCMag as the #2 recommended firewall/antovirus.

Once that's done I'm going to put a fresh copy of XP Pro on the secondary hard drives (both RAID1 systems are 300Gb capacity), and then use that OS platform to run my Pinnacle Software (video editing), Protools (music recording), and Finale (Music Writing), all done separately from my primary OS copy where I will do everything else. The extra capacity will allow me to download all of the KP episodes onto the secondary hard drives.

[kyojikasshu]

I can certainly feel for what Cloud went through with his HDD... back in '01, my drive went kablooey, taking out all my custom NHL 2001 stuff that I had made, as well as my picture collection, and a bunch of other stuff. Ever since then, I've made periodic backups of what I consider to be critical data, namely my various sprite sheets for my webcomic.

Silly me, though, that I didn't have backups of my completed strips; I had deleted a lot of the older ones off my drive to clear some room, without backing them up, and when the host company pulled the plug on our site altogether back in April, I was left without more than half of my series. Thankfully, one person had gone to the trouble to save all the older strips, so I was able to get them back online on my own webspace for the time being.


Back to the present, though... today was particularly rough at work. After finding out Monday that our new hire had quit last Tuesday while I was on vacation, things were stressful enough. But, today, another team member was out on vacation, and I had to fulfill the responsibilities of three job positions, which left me running around the building all freakin' day. I was too tired this evening to actually enjoy my time with my nephews (Wednesday being my older nephew's karate night, although today my brother-in-law was working on the outside of the house, so I kept an eye on both kids). And, I was too tired to get any work done on the computer, which means that I made no progress on my strips, nor on a request from a friend to make a bunch of Ron avatars for her.

[Cloud23465]

It's amazing what a new pencil sharpener will do for me... I've been able to get alot more work done on the art... though i'm not even half way done... its good to know if i have the tips start breaking again like they were... its time for a new shapener.

[GoTeamGirl]

I had chemistry last year. I only had one incident. We were heating hydrochloric acid in a test tube and mine exploded. Luckily, none of the glass hit me, the HCL was weak, and I was wearing gloves where most of it landed.

A different class had the cabinets catch on fire. And the building was a month old. Though to be fair, it probably wasn't the best idea to put wood cabinets over the lab tables. :rolleyes:

My lab teacher had us fill out a sheet saying why each lab rule was important. Those two fell under a few rules.

[Cloud23465]

2 words... Home Inspection. That's how I spent most of the morning... at they house were looking to seriously get... And it got good marks over all but a few minor problems including a crack in the heater box... Not sure what it means or how much of a problem its going to be... the whole furnace is like 14years old. Now we know the problems it's time to see what the seller will be willing to or have to fix... im not sure.

[GoTeamGirl]

I can't wait until Chemistry tomorrow. The teacher will, blindfolded, throw small balls at someone. Funny.


Today was okay. A lot of discussion instead of notes was going on (discussion related to the subject, that is). It was nice. I like the kinds of classes fueled by discussion (my Religion class last year was largely composed of asking questions and discussion).

[kyojikasshu]

Today was a bit more normal, as we only had two print jobs all day, so it gave me a chance to catch up on the other things I needed to get done.

And, it looks like we may have a new hire again, after all.

[campy]

I mowed the lawn this afternoon after going to my health club in the morning. A few minutes ago I got a call from my wife, who's in Wisconsin on business. Otherwise I've mostly been reading Patrick O'Brian or the Internet all day.

[kyojikasshu]

Grr... my newest pair of headphones, just a few months old, and they've already incurred damage to the cord! Any time a certain portion of the cord moves, I get static. I hate that...

Thing is, this usually takes a couple of years on most of my headsets... >_<

[TransWarpDrive]

Grr... my newest pair of headphones, just a few months old, and they've already incurred damage to the cord! Any time a certain portion of the cord moves, I get static. I hate that...

Thing is, this usually takes a couple of years on most of my headsets... >_<
I've had that happen - that usually means there's a broken connection in the cord itself (replacement time!:(); or either the plug on the headphone cord, or the headphone jack on your stereo, needs cleaning. (You can get a spray can of contact cleaner at Radio Shack that'll do the job.)
As to my day:
More of my usual: Metered outgoing mail, distributed the incoming stuff, etc., etc. I was only able to insert a small batch of my remaining outgoing invoices today because I had to leave work early for physical therapy. We also order out for Chinese food on Thursdays at work, but today I only got a pair of egg rolls - we had Chinese on Sunday after closing out the last art fair of the season for Mom (Yea! :) )
Also, my 23-year-old niece (my sister's youngest daughter) came over for dinner. She's living with her other grandmother in a nearby suburb while working full-time.

[Monstrorrendinformingens]

Yesterday (to tired to write directly afterwards) the big construction area, formerly known as the second floor of our house made a lot of progress, meaning that we can't heat the house before this afternoon, I'm afraid.
But it's warm and hopefully I'm going to spend the day at the local Games Workshop to get my high elves a little less colorless.
The fun part of yesterday was loading the junk (wood, other parts of walls, one door we won't need anymore) into a truck. I was the lucky idiot to collect the stuff off the ground and stuff them into the vehicle. Idiot because the guy who threw the parts down didn't shout "attention" before but while throwing. Luckily I only got hit by light debris before I realised that I had to stay away from the immediate impact area as long as he was up there.
Worked fine nevertheless.

Edit: Now I can write something about today, too: We don't have warm water at the time. I took my shower nevertheless. I feel warmer now.

[Cloud23465]

On the other side of the road... there starting to tear houses down and it got me upset and mad all at the same time. It is just a sin to waist such money and things like they are... all for some stupid road. :angry::mad:

[campy]

I went to my health club in the morning, then later I went out and got my hair cut. I came home to find that someone had read all 6 of my stories on fanfiction.net and left a review for each one. Good reviews, too. :D Tonight my wife comes home from her business trip, but she leaves for another one on Sunday.

[GoTeamGirl]

I may be an editor for the school newspaper. The teacher in charge apparently likes my writing, and also wants to have the Religion class I was in back, because his apparently doesn't like discussion this year. I can imagine that...it would be an awkward class, the way he teaches.

[Cloud23465]

Went to the Ymca and lifted weights then went swimming. Came home and got back to work on finishing the coloring on the drawings. Hopefully in less than a week ill be finished with all 40 some pieces... Kp and Dbz. My hand hasn't hurt this bad since high school...:laugh:

[jeriddian]

Went to the Ymca and lifted weights then went swimming. Came home and got back to work on finishing the coloring on the drawings. Hopefully in less than a week ill be finished with all 40 some pieces... Kp and Dbz. My hand hasn't hurt this bad since high school...:laugh:

Looking forward to it, Cloud. I'll see if I can do a little more coloring for you.;)

[Cloud23465]

Went to the Ymca and lifted weights then went swimming. Came home and got back to work on finishing the coloring on the drawings. Hopefully in less than a week ill be finished with all 40 some pieces... Kp and Dbz. My hand hasn't hurt this bad since high school...:laugh:

Looking forward to it, Cloud. I'll see if I can do a little more coloring for you.;)

I'm thinking of CG coloring that one animation that I did, Until I get the time and stuff i'd need to do it with color pencils.

[GoTeamGirl]

The volleyball game I had today was a disappointment. We lost. I'm angry because I never got put in, and I've worked so hard. Oh, well. This kind of makes me wish there was a ski team in school. I'd be great at that!

The rest of the day was awesome, however. I hung out with friends, and we tried to make cookies (but failed miserably) and then went outside.

[canuck31003]

I washed my car in the morning, bought clothes, groceries, and came home. Now I'm waiting for for my current anime staples to start at midnight.

[cpneb]

The volleyball game I had today was a disappointment. We lost. I'm angry because I never got put in, and I've worked so hard. Oh, well. This kind of makes me wish there was a ski team in school. I'd be great at that!

Don't worry, GTG, and center your anger: I feel your change coming, possibly soon. Keep the faith and calm, and all will be revealed.

The rest of the day was awesome, however. I hung out with friends, and we tried to make cookies (but failed miserably) and then went outside.

Oh, no, you didn't! You didn't try to jump in the mixer, did you? Were they lemon squares (please say no!). And, was one of your friends named Kimberly or Ann?

Just need to know how far to get away from the window in the study....
:biggergrin:

[Cloud23465]

It was an absolutely beautiful day... weather wise. Highs in the mid 70's with low dew point and humidity and a good wind blowing. We've Got some bald eagles near a lake thats by our house, they have made a nest somewhere because there are juvenile eagles flying around too. It's pretty cool to see our nations bird up close like this.

[GoTeamGirl]

The volleyball game I had today was a disappointment. We lost. I'm angry because I never got put in, and I've worked so hard. Oh, well. This kind of makes me wish there was a ski team in school. I'd be great at that!

Don't worry, GTG, and center your anger: I feel your change coming, possibly soon. Keep the faith and calm, and all will be revealed.

The rest of the day was awesome, however. I hung out with friends, and we tried to make cookies (but failed miserably) and then went outside.

Oh, no, you didn't! You didn't try to jump in the mixer, did you? Were they lemon squares (please say no!). And, was one of your friends named Kimberly or Ann?

Just need to know how far to get away from the window in the study....
:biggergrin:

:biggergrin: No mixer jumping, just too much butter use, and a messed up oven. Somehow, the cookies we were making (M&M) didn't rise, but spread into a thin sheet of I-don't-know-what. And...none of them was Kimberly or Ann, but I do have a friend named Ann (she wasn't there, though).

As for volleyball, I'll just deal with that. I really want no practice on Friday, though, for what some would call a dorky reason. There's an editor's meeting for our school newspaper, and the teacher adviser wants me to be an editor. He said it doesn't matter whether I can make it or not, since he knows I have volleyball, but I'd rather be there.

[Cloud23465]

Highs in the lower 70's and sunny skies... Another beautiful day. Wen't to church, came home and talking on i'm and worked on the coloring of the artwork some more.

[TransWarpDrive]

The end of a busy weekend for me. Yesterday I helped my brother fix a couple of downspouts on our rain gutters, then I did my laundry (well, most of it anyway). I watched the Cubs lose the second game of their double-header against the Cardinals, then went up to my local tavern for a few drinks.
Got up this morning at 8:30 AM (after going to bed at 4:30 - not good!), and helped my brother with another work project. While he stripped and painted our garage door, I was putting chemical paint solvent on a bunch of metal letters from an old movie theater's marquee which we use to spell out "Merry Christmas - Happy New Year" on the front of our house each year during the holiday season. After soaking for about 30 minutes in this goop, the old red paint came right off. After they dry, my brother will sand the letters down and repaint them green for this coming season.
I finished my laundry, did some minor clean-up around the house, and watched the Cubs win today's ball game against the Cards. All in all, a productive week-end. :)

[GoTeamGirl]

Homework today, and some talking on the phone. I should go to bed soon; there's a volleyball game tomorrow and I don't want to be tired...

[jeriddian]

Fnished up an AD&D game which was planned some time ago. Took my car in for repair. Then drove a truck back to Midland. Have to go back to work tomorrow. Worked with my friend from the hosting compnay on teh website and we did upgrades over the weekend

(See the new link in the upper righthand side of the main forum page. It takes you back to the GJA Main Page. Then click on Screencaps and see the new stuff there.):D

[Monstrorrendinformingens]

Congratulations and thank you, jeriddian!
I did a little role playing this weekend, too. A German pen&paper game, quite qell made and our master didn't go all villain on us. So it was quite enjoyable although a group consisting of a priest of law, truth and power and a military career nobleman aren't much of a flexible band.

[Cloud23465]

Well... The good news is that there is no crack in the furnace in that house were looking it.... It was actually a weld area... so it was understood how it was thought to be a crack. But they still recommended to replace it though because of the age... Dunno how this is going to go.:dubiety:

[lunchmeat]

The end of a busy weekend for me. Yesterday I helped my brother fix a couple of downspouts on our rain gutters, then I did my laundry (well, most of it anyway). I watched the Cubs lose the second game of their double-header against the Cardinals, then went up to my local tavern for a few drinks.
Got up this morning at 8:30 AM (after going to bed at 4:30 - not good!), and helped my brother with another work project. While he stripped and painted our garage door, I was putting chemical paint solvent on a bunch of metal letters from an old movie theater's marquee which we use to spell out "Merry Christmas - Happy New Year" on the front of our house each year during the holiday season. After soaking for about 30 minutes in this goop, the old red paint came right off. After they dry, my brother will sand the letters down and repaint them green for this coming season.
I finished my laundry, did some minor clean-up around the house, and watched the Cubs win today's ball game against the Cards. All in all, a productive week-end. :)

Careful with those solvents, the really good ones usually have rather unpleasant side effects (we used to use stuff like methyl ethel keytone and acetone to degrease things, it's a wonder we have livers).

[jeriddian]

The end of a busy weekend for me. Yesterday I helped my brother fix a couple of downspouts on our rain gutters, then I did my laundry (well, most of it anyway). I watched the Cubs lose the second game of their double-header against the Cardinals, then went up to my local tavern for a few drinks.
Got up this morning at 8:30 AM (after going to bed at 4:30 - not good!), and helped my brother with another work project. While he stripped and painted our garage door, I was putting chemical paint solvent on a bunch of metal letters from an old movie theater's marquee which we use to spell out "Merry Christmas - Happy New Year" on the front of our house each year during the holiday season. After soaking for about 30 minutes in this goop, the old red paint came right off. After they dry, my brother will sand the letters down and repaint them green for this coming season.
I finished my laundry, did some minor clean-up around the house, and watched the Cubs win today's ball game against the Cards. All in all, a productive week-end. :)

Careful with those solvents, the really good ones usually have rather unpleasant side effects (we used to use stuff like methyl ethel keytone and acetone to degrease things, it's a wonder we have livers).

Unpleasant side effects include cancers, kidney failure and liver damage to be sure.......:errr::confused:

[AinoMinako]

I got my braces off today. :D

It's actually a really unpleasant process... They basically took pliers and broke each of the brackets off of the glue individually, then pulled it all off. Then they scraped the glue off, sanded my teeth, and took impressions of my mouth with some paste/rubber thing. But now I can move my tongue without it getting cut!

[Monstrorrendinformingens]

Congrats, Aino! I never got corrected because my dentist got tired of me spitting while they tried to make those impressions. Got them (impressions) made years later, just for fun. That dentist knew how to deal with certain reflexes that occur when you put things in other people's throats.:unsure:

Hope it looks and (more important) feels satisfying.

My day had been totally about the common cold. Didn't wake up well, aching throat (well, probably wrong term), nose running at a speed my body will never catch up with - and I'm sneezing all day like something you'd expect to throw molten stone around instead of liquid Monstro.:ohwell:
Now I got the headache, aching eyes and some strange achy feeling in my jaw bones (left side), too. Well, time for bed, and tomorrow I'll start the day with those health teas I finished this one with.
At least there's no university work to do now - no work impossible to procrastinate that is.:laugh:

[GoTeamGirl]

My day had been totally about the common cold. Didn't wake up well, aching throat (well, probably wrong term), nose running at a speed my body will never catch up with - and I'm sneezing all day like something you'd expect to throw molten stone around instead of liquid Monstro.:ohwell:
Now I got the headache, aching eyes and some strange achy feeling in my jaw bones (left side), too. Well, time for bed, and tomorrow I'll start the day with those health teas I finished this one with.
At least there's no university work to do now - no work impossible to procrastinate that is.:laugh:

Feel better!

Today's volleyball game was so close! I worked the Varsity game with my friend and it took forever. We didn't get to play until 7, and the other team won (both for us and Varsity) but both times the games were so close! I got to play this time, which was great.

My Global teacher makes up History poems but he had an incomplete one, so he improvised this:
There once was a ruler named Lou.
He told people what they should do.
He was very rich.
The queen was a-

Yeah, he cut himself off. :biggergrin:

[TransWarpDrive]

Careful with those solvents, the really good ones usually have rather unpleasant side effects (we used to use stuff like methyl ethel keytone and acetone to degrease things, it's a wonder we have livers).

Unpleasant side effects include cancers, kidney failure and liver damage to be sure.......:errr::confused:
Well, this solvent was apparently eco-friendly in that it cleaned up with soap and water. So maybe it was different from the ones lunchmeat mentioned. It had a strong odor, however, and I was only exposed to the fumes for about an hour or two. After about half an hour of working in the garage, my brother and I moved the table I was working on out into the driveway because of said fumes, so it wasn't too bad - the breeze pushed them away from me. I also wore thick rubber gloves and an old, long-sleeved flannel shirt while I handled the stuff.
@AinoMinako:
I got my braces off today.

It's actually a really unpleasant process... They basically took pliers and broke each of the brackets off of the glue individually, then pulled it all off. Then they scraped the glue off, sanded my teeth, and took impressions of my mouth with some paste/rubber thing. But now I can move my tongue without it getting cut!
Congratulations! I had braces when I was in high school, so I know exactly what you're talking about. And yes, the sharp edges of all those wires can cut your tongue (or jab the inside of your mouth) if you're not careful. Boy, did I hate my braces...
@Monstro:
I never got corrected because my dentist got tired of me spitting while they tried to make those impressions. Got them (impressions) made years later, just for fun. That dentist knew how to deal with certain reflexes that occur when you put things in other people's throats.
You mean the "gag reflex" made you throw up when he stuck the mold in your mouth? Yeah, that can happen if they're not careful. IIRC, it almost happened to me when they took my first impression all those years ago. Fortunately, I was able to resist the urge to "hurl" until the feeling passed.
(My apologies if I'm grossing anyone out with this commentary. I'll just drop the subject now, for decorum's sake...:o)
Oh, and I hope you feel better soon, Monstro!

[Cloud23465]

The house is still a toss up. there was not crack in the heater like once thought.... or so say the boiler company that came out to inspect it. Not knowing where your going to live tanks...SERIOUSLY!:dubiety:

[Monstrorrendinformingens]

Sorry to hear that, Cloud.


The positive side effect of the whole dentist sitch is that I'm looking like some kind of hamster (just less hyperactive). Wait, that's the funny side effect. Positive is that my teeth, looking as they do, have proven to be quite indestructible. Not "bite through steel" indestructible but not one single case of caries, tartar or anything. Even my wisdom teeth don't appear on X-ray.
All part of the monstro motto: Live slow, live weird, live without much harm!


About my day:
Funny thing I decided to try and make brownies just when my nose wanted to go for a marathon run. But it worked, yay, er yum!
After ours of lying awake in pain (don't know where this ache in my left face half came from) I finally got a good portion of sleep (until 13:45, approximately) now I feel better and right up for another day full of tea and handkerchiefs.

Good day, as it seems.:D

[GoTeamGirl]

There really is no time. I have a lot of homework, there's school, volleyball...Why are there only 24 hours of the day?

Anyway, my Religion class bored me to death. I realized at that point how much I miss my Religion class from last year. It was the only class I truly looked forward to.

[campy]

Another quiet day with my wife away on business again. I went to my health club, came home and proofread a fanfic chapter for an author, then went out on a few errands.

[GoTeamGirl]

A friend of mine (former friend?) was pretty rude to me on IM and I can't understand why, though I may have a few ideas. It's sad, though. Last time we talked we had a great conversation and this time...eh...And i tend to overthink things, so this'll go over in my mind forever.

[Cloud23465]

I helped a neighbor up the road thats a good friend of my mom move some of the stuff to there new house. They also lost there house to the same project i'm loosing mine to.

[TransWarpDrive]

My day at work today went much better than yesterday. I managed to finish inserting all the invoices I had to mail out, and had very little incoming mail to distribute (probably because we got our next-door neighbor's mail by mistake...:P). I also mailed out my check and reservation form for my high school reunion next month, as well as a renewal card for my subscription to the Smithsonian's "Air & Space" magazine. On the way home from work, I bought Barry Manilow's newest CD, "The Greatest Songs of the Seventies." The special edition I got at Target featured a bonus dual disc that had audio music on one side, and a DVD on the making of this album on the other (in addition to the regular music CD). All that for just $13.99! :D (I love a bargain...) My brother gave me advice on how to download and install the "EnditAll" systems management software on my computer, which I just did before logging on. All in all, a busy yet productive day for your old pal TWD. :thumbup:

[GoTeamGirl]

I don't want to go to school today...My school's schedule goes by "letter" days on a six-day cycle, and today is C Day, which sucks. F day is amazing, but that's Monday.

There's a volleyball game later against a really good team. Hopefully our team can pull it together to beat them. As my friend said, "We need some bragging rights." :P

[lunchmeat]

I never truly understood the thinking behind the letter system. #1 kid had it when she was in high school and they tried to convince me during one of those parent-teacher evenings that it was to get the students used to the way college is structured (this in a high school whose approach to college prep was minimal, to be generous). I was teaching college at the time and pointed out that we typically had 50 minute sessions MWF and 90 minute sessions TTh and that classes were either in on block or another with the exception of laboratories. I got that "cow standing in the field" look that administrative types typically assume when somebody isn't buying their program. This was about the same time that the school year was getting longer but had fewer contact hours and adjunct programs, such as field trips (they always seemed to have enough money for football and stadium renovations, if you've seen the movie Varsity Blues, it was filmed there) but higher pay for the administsators.

[kyojikasshu]

My phone line at home has been down for the last couple of days, and I just checked in with an update; it looks like it'll be the end of the week before we can get it back up and running.

My only complaint is that without the phone line, I have no Internet access at home at present; however, it does allow me to get some work done offline. In the meantime, I just have to satisfy myself with sneaking online at work, like right now (toward the end of the day, when it's typically slow).

[GoTeamGirl]

I have 42 minute classes with 3 minutes in between and a 20 minute lunch. Our periods go like this:
Period 1
P. 2
P. 3
P.4-6 (42 minutes for all three, with 4-5 being lunch)
P.6-8 (same, with 7-8 as a lunch)
P.9-11 (same, with 10-11 lunch)
P.12
P.13
P.14
Yeah, it's odd.

We lost the volleyball game (both Varsity and JV) but the referes were not doing there jobs right-they miss called so much! And the last point of Varsity was a miss call-the other team served it and it landed out (I was right there), but the lines person (who was from the other team) called it in, so the Varsity team lost. :angry:

Then I got back to school for parent-teacher night and talked to a few teachers. My former Spanish teacher wanted to know about the game. My math teacher said hi. We saw our old Religion teacher and asked if we could ditch a Math class for Religion (at which point the math teacher arrived). He also wants to make me an editor of the school newspaper. Then my old English teacher told me that she saw a girl I knew in a pizza shop. It was all so random.

[Cloud23465]

I've been reading up on the TGS (Tokyo Game Show) line-up... a buddy of mine said my wish may come true, but i'm not getting my hopes up. A title of Endless Crisis: Final Fantasy VII maybe the Remake of the orginal Final fantasy 7 I've been hoping for. Back in 2005 they used this particular game to an demo for the playstation 3... they denied any thing of this being the preview of a game though. I know people were hoping that it wasn't just a demo. Long story short I hoping this Endless Crisis is what I heard it maybe... it would make my... day? no...month? No... Year... yeah... i'd make my year!:biggergrin:

[Cloud23465]

It's going to be one of those days... I went to bed not feeling a that well and woke up with what feels like a chest cold. Our AC in the house we live in now has crapped out and wont turn on and the humidity is just aweful... I didn't sleep to well and I just have a feeling its going to be a long day.:sick:

[GoTeamGirl]

It's going to be one of those days... I went to bed not feeling a that well and woke up with what feels like a chest cold. Our AC in the house we live in now has crapped out and wont turn on and the humidity is just aweful... I didn't sleep to well and I just have a feeling its going to be a long day.:sick:

I hope you feel better. :)

My volleyball team won our first game today! It was great, and we have no practice tomorrow, meaning I can go to the school newspaper meeting.

The rest of the day-terrible. I almost had a good question in Religion, but then the teacher said no questions. I guess I'll ask my old Religion teacher.

English is so dead boring. You can only interpret a story so much until it becomes un-enjoyable.

[jeriddian]

Yeah, English was that way to me also when I was in High School. But it also kind of depended on the teacher. My senior year English teacher was really good and made the subject more interesting to me than the teachers I had the previous two years.

[GoTeamGirl]

Yeah, English was that way to me also when I was in High School. But it also kind of depended on the teacher. My senior year English teacher was really good and made the subject more interesting to me than the teachers I had the previous two years.

My English teacher...ugh, nobody has ever liked her. But I need to do well in that class. I want to get into AP English, so...

[jeriddian]

Yeah, English was that way to me also when I was in High School. But it also kind of depended on the teacher. My senior year English teacher was really good and made the subject more interesting to me than the teachers I had the previous two years.

My English teacher...ugh, nobody has ever liked her. But I need to do well in that class. I want to get into AP English, so...

Funny, though, Religion was not a course that was offered in the late '60's early '70's in public schools. Very anathema to do that at the time.

[GoTeamGirl]

Yeah, English was that way to me also when I was in High School. But it also kind of depended on the teacher. My senior year English teacher was really good and made the subject more interesting to me than the teachers I had the previous two years.

My English teacher...ugh, nobody has ever liked her. But I need to do well in that class. I want to get into AP English, so...

Funny, though, Religion was not a course that was offered in the late '60's early '70's in public schools. Very anathema to do that at the time.

I go to a Catholic school, so Religion is mandatory. And, this year, boring as well.

Somehow I managed in the last few minutes to come up with a frame for a short story. Now...what to do with that...

[jeriddian]

Yeah, English was that way to me also when I was in High School. But it also kind of depended on the teacher. My senior year English teacher was really good and made the subject more interesting to me than the teachers I had the previous two years.

My English teacher...ugh, nobody has ever liked her. But I need to do well in that class. I want to get into AP English, so...

Funny, though, Religion was not a course that was offered in the late '60's early '70's in public schools. Very anathema to do that at the time.

I go to a Catholic school, so Religion is mandatory. And, this year, boring as well.

Somehow I managed in the last few minutes to come up with a frame for a short story. Now...what to do with that...

Gotta love those plot bunnies!:P

[Cloud23465]

It's going to be one of those days... I went to bed not feeling a that well and woke up with what feels like a chest cold. Our AC in the house we live in now has crapped out and wont turn on and the humidity is just aweful... I didn't sleep to well and I just have a feeling its going to be a long day.:sick:

I hope you feel better. :)


Hey, thanks. I've been resting all day and drinking plenty of fluids and chicken soup.... might as well watch Kp episode of Sick day.

[Cloud23465]

To say the least.... i've had alot of bad luck things happen lately... But today things may change. I called the local union hall and they said they have started hiring shoreman. But right now these are people that worked for a ford plant that closed down. they haven't started hiring the priority people for the union (I'm one of them) that is family members of people that work for the terminal or the union. So things are finally looking up. But this is not over till the call me so i have to make myself a squeaky wheel and keep my name out there.:innocent:

[GoTeamGirl]

I went to the school newspaper meeting and got an editing job (yes!) as well as heard a lot of (funny) stories from my former teacher. He is...a goofball.

[TheGreenMagic]

About all I've really done today was sporadically clean the house, pick up the comic subscriptions I've been missing out on lately (Buffy Season Eight #7- awesome... gotta have Faith, ya know; Amazing Spider-Girl #12- also awesome; sad ending though; Birds of Prey #110- again, awesome). Oh, and there was a bought of playing through Final Fantasy X for the first time. Didn't really expect to hear John DiMaggio in two roles in the game. Heh, one of 'em he's blue, the other one he's technically partnered up with a woman who's rather scathing in regards to that character. Yeah, yeah, I know... coincidence, yes, but funny nonetheless.

Oh, and the developing relationship between Tidus and Yuna in the game is just too cute.

Other than that.. I finally just got around to rewriting Crossroads Over Time (soon to have a name change) to work with Graduations' ending instead of So the Drama's. Just took awhile to figure out how to make it work.

[Ultimate Naco Topping]

Editing part of a feature length film at my school this morning. Worked the afternoon in Guthrie, OK doing grip work for the same company that did the infamous Tornado commercial that was featured on the Daily Show a few months ago. Pretty solid day of filmmaking except I don't feel like writing anything on my latest story...

[jeriddian]

Loaded Pinnacle Plus into my compujter on a brand new boot install of XP Pro. Now I'm working with Bueno Nacho and editing out the commercials. Soon I'll be able to render the screencaps and upload them to the main page. But I still have to learn how to work with this thing. It may take a few days......

[Fireand'chutes77]

Other than that.. I finally just got around to rewriting Crossroads Over Time (soon to have a name change) to work with Graduations' ending instead of So the Drama's. Just took awhile to figure out how to make it work.
I'll bet you're still pretty darn happy about it, though. :P :rolleyes: :laugh:

UNT: Tornado commercial? :huh:

[Cloud23465]

You dont appricate AC until it doesnt work. Its so hot in my room I had to turn off my PC. Im using my PSP to surf the fourms.

[Fireand'chutes77]

You dont appricate AC until it doesnt work. Its so hot in my room I had to turn off my PC. Im using my PSP to surf the fourms.
I hear ya. Our upstairs A/C unit blew out for a few weeks back in August... About halfway up the stairs, you just hit this... wall of heat. :ohwell:

The nice weather we've been having for the past week seemed to go poof this afternoon. Walking out of school this afternoon, myself and everyone was commenting, "Wow, it really got humid all of a sudden." :thumbdown:

[Ultimate Naco Topping]

UNT: Tornado commercial? :huh:

The original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6cKPtcKcqs

The Daily Show treatment:

http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/index.jhtml?ml_video=88458

(If the link doesn't work, go to Comedy Central's website, launch their player and search for "Partly Pouty")

Can you say Mega-Weather Generator? Bo-yahahaha!

The commercial I worked on today was the follow up to the first one where everything is just fine and people are enjoying their day....

[Cloud23465]

You dont appricate AC until it doesnt work. Its so hot in my room I had to turn off my PC. Im using my PSP to surf the fourms.
I hear ya. Our upstairs A/C unit blew out for a few weeks back in August... About halfway up the stairs, you just hit this... wall of heat. :ohwell:

The nice weather we've been having for the past week seemed to go poof this afternoon. Walking out of school this afternoon, myself and everyone was commenting, "Wow, it really got humid all of a sudden." :thumbdown:

Oh man... the humidity can kill any nice day in a instant. We were having some really nice days to... Mid to lower 70's as highs and the humidy was 30%-40%... but now with temps reaching the lower 80's and 80%-90% humidy and 70* dew points... makes for bad night. I'm trying to make this cold i've got as short as possible but things just dont seem to be working in my favor. A co-worker of my brother in law that works for an HVAC company came by to check out what was wrong... he said a transformer for the AC blew but thank God he can get the part tomorrow. I need to get a good night sleep tomorrow night cause i've got work and need to be on my toes sunday.

[TransWarpDrive]

My day went well, although I alternated from trying to look busy to being busy, then back again. (They kept giving me stacks of mailings to send out that I could finish quickly, even with just one inserter working). I spent quite a bit of time at my office computer playing Solitaire and hoping my boss wouldn't catch me goofing off.
At least things are going better for me today than they were the last two days - Wednesday night, a Firefox update I downloaded wiped out my entire list of bookmarked websites, forcing me to spend most of that evening finding them again and building a new list. I was lucky; by opening my home page (which is a Google search page) and typing each letter of the alphabet in the search box, I got a drop-down list for that letter containing websites and search topics I'd entered recently. I was thus able to recover most (but not all) of my lost bookmarks. Last night, I took the precaution of copying all those websites to a list on a Word document in case this ever happens again.

[TheGreenMagic]

Other than that.. I finally just got around to rewriting Crossroads Over Time (soon to have a name change) to work with Graduations' ending instead of So the Drama's. Just took awhile to figure out how to make it work.
I'll bet you're still pretty darn happy about it, though. :P :rolleyes: :laugh:

Oh yes. One little story being rendered a total AU until further notice is a small price to pay for KP to go out with a rocking last season and one heckuva awesome last episode.

... Now I'm just left lost on making Crossroads Over Time fit in anymore. The main crux of the story was that Drakken, having beeing so utterly defeated in StD, fires Shego and retires (moving in with his mother no less). Ticked off over that and a certain incident at the end of StD, Shego goes after Kim for one last showdown... that doesn't end well for either of them (one physically, one mentally). Skip ahead twenty or so years to find Shego has done nothing with her life with Drakken gone... and then the good doctor calls her for one last shot at taking over the world.

Now I've just to account for Drakken needed an entirely different motivation for fading away, Shego for going after Kim like she does (STG and Graduation really don't leave her and Kim in a place where they absolutely abhore each other) and then there's Drakken's plant powers... Not to mention the ramifactions Ron's newfound MMP would have on the story (and his son).

... You know, I think it's all better left as an AU (or just delete it entirely; wouldn't be the first time I've gone and purged a story for no longer fitting in). Heck, the whole point of the fic I'm blabbing on and on about was to give Drakken and Shego a happy ending following So the Drama. Thanks to Graduation already giving them a happy ending, my story no longer serves a purpose. Besides... I'm sure I can have some fun whipping up an entirely new story post Graduation. Considering some of the people who were present at Drakken's little award ceremony... oh, the possibilities. :cool:

You dont appricate AC until it doesnt work. Its so hot in my room I had to turn off my PC. Im using my PSP to surf the fourms.
I hear ya. Our upstairs A/C unit blew out for a few weeks back in August... About halfway up the stairs, you just hit this... wall of heat. :ohwell:

The nice weather we've been having for the past week seemed to go poof this afternoon. Walking out of school this afternoon, myself and everyone was commenting, "Wow, it really got humid all of a sudden." :thumbdown:

One thing I've learned is that it's always best to test an air conditioner before lugging it up from the basement. Nothing worse than bringing it, struggling to get the supports and then the AC itself into the window... only to find yourself uttering "It's dead, Jim."

If ever there was a time in life where I was seriously considering pulling a Kirk and screaming "Khan!" ... that was it.

[campy]

I'm very disappointed this morning. I don't get to watch my Eagles against Army on TV today since I don't get ESPN Classic. :angry:

Oh well, it's probably just as well. They're 3 and 0, have beaten 2 of the 3 teams that beat them last season and both finalists for the ACC title; they're a 4 TD favorite and probably already have their minds on the Notre Dame game in a few weeks. Given all that, they are so headed for a fall this afternoon.

[lunchmeat]

The good news on your story is that just because they start liking each other at the end of graduation doesn't mean that Drakken can't foul it up later, he has something of a gift in that department. He could still trip over homself to such a degree that Shego feels she has to go correct it somehow.

[Cloud23465]

I'm very disappointed this morning. I don't get to watch my Eagles against Army on TV today since I don't get ESPN Classic. :angry:

Another stupid move my ABC... Which makes about as much since as nothing. Stop me if I'm wrong... but wouldn't Classic be something that happend some time ago?

Anyways... The AC is fixed.... Thank God! I've got work tomorrow. Unload A ship... then it goes to dry dock for some repair. I wonder what broke this time :rolleyes:

[GoTeamGirl]

I spent a day clothes shopping for something I really don't want to go to. And I got three books, and edited the article I was supposed to be editing. I think I actually like editing.

[AinoMinako]

Yeah, English was that way to me also when I was in High School. But it also kind of depended on the teacher. My senior year English teacher was really good and made the subject more interesting to me than the teachers I had the previous two years.

Even though I'm really left-brained, I like English. I think it's interesting to figure out why authors write what/how they write. That, and most of our English classes are discussion-based. My school has some of the strangest people you'll meet. About 25-30 people showed up to the first DnD club meeting. And there are only 300 total students. So we have rather interesting discussions. I'm really not a fan of writing, though.

[GoTeamGirl]

Yeah, English was that way to me also when I was in High School. But it also kind of depended on the teacher. My senior year English teacher was really good and made the subject more interesting to me than the teachers I had the previous two years.

Even though I'm really left-brained, I like English. I think it's interesting to figure out why authors write what/how they write. That, and most of our English classes are discussion-based. My school has some of the strangest people you'll meet. About 25-30 people showed up to the first DnD club meeting. And there are only 300 total students. So we have rather interesting discussions. I'm really not a fan of writing, though.

It depends on the English teacher, though I like figuring that stuff out for myself rather than having someone else sort of find it. I really enjoy writing, though. I find that I can't really say what I mean unless I'm writing it, and I express myself better that way.

[AinoMinako]

Yeah, English was that way to me also when I was in High School. But it also kind of depended on the teacher. My senior year English teacher was really good and made the subject more interesting to me than the teachers I had the previous two years.

Even though I'm really left-brained, I like English. I think it's interesting to figure out why authors write what/how they write. That, and most of our English classes are discussion-based. My school has some of the strangest people you'll meet. About 25-30 people showed up to the first DnD club meeting. And there are only 300 total students. So we have rather interesting discussions. I'm really not a fan of writing, though.

It depends on the English teacher, though I like figuring that stuff out for myself rather than having someone else sort of find it. I really enjoy writing, though. I find that I can't really say what I mean unless I'm writing it, and I express myself better that way.

Probably. In my experience, English teachers tend to be rather odd people. In a good way.

Writing isn't my worst subject, Latin is. But it's after that.

[GoTeamGirl]

Yeah, English was that way to me also when I was in High School. But it also kind of depended on the teacher. My senior year English teacher was really good and made the subject more interesting to me than the teachers I had the previous two years.

Even though I'm really left-brained, I like English. I think it's interesting to figure out why authors write what/how they write. That, and most of our English classes are discussion-based. My school has some of the strangest people you'll meet. About 25-30 people showed up to the first DnD club meeting. And there are only 300 total students. So we have rather interesting discussions. I'm really not a fan of writing, though.

It depends on the English teacher, though I like figuring that stuff out for myself rather than having someone else sort of find it. I really enjoy writing, though. I find that I can't really say what I mean unless I'm writing it, and I express myself better that way.

Probably. In my experience, English teachers tend to be rather odd people. In a good way.

Writing isn't my worst subject, Latin is. But it's after that.


Heh, my old Religion teacher is an English teacher (officially) and he's an oddball. But probably not because of English.

My current English teacher is not nearly as nice as the one mentioned above, and very annoying.

[TransWarpDrive]

Since Mom's out of town (she's either visiting my sister and brother-in-law in Cleveland, or my brother and sister-in-law in Omaha...I don't remember which), my brother and I are home by ourselves. Which means: no big weekend work projects! (Booyah! :D) All I did today was basically goof off. I did, however, go to the store to buy the Sunday papers, a can of shoestring potatoes (I love those), and some chicken breasts which my brother cooked on our gas grill for dinner tonight. I also made hotel reservations for two upcoming SF conventions I'll be attending in November. After dinner, I watched a DVD on my computer ("National Lampoon's Animal House"); and "Kim Possible" on DC.
All in all, a restful day, really...:)

[kyojikasshu]

Aside from work (which has been brutal of late), things have been pretty quiet for the most part.

Yesterday, we had a birthday party for Sam (he turned 7 on the 11th, but there hadn't been a good time to schedule a party up until yesterday). My sister decided to hold it at Pump It Up (http://pumpitupparty.com/StoreHome.aspx?StoreID=143&PageName=StoreHome.aspx), which I'd never heard of until yesterday. A bit of a step up from the usual type of place, and with imported, quality pizza rather than made-in-house burnt pizza!

[campy]

A very good thing happened yesterday and again this morning. I saw something I'd been wanting to see for a long time: an '8' in the tens digit of my bathroom scale. The last time I dipped below 190 lbs was back in 2005. :D