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Originally Posted by Timbuk2
Only person worse is lauren laverne.
Hey! Thats my first post in the happy thread in its current incarnation!
:)
In actual positivity, i have two interviews in london on monday and tuesday. One for a job and the other with a really smart looking recruitment agency
Cut your hair and get a job you smelly bum
Wait
:(
We have a toad! Seems early, but he found our little piddly pond. Mostly it's a tub of water with plants, but still. :D
(or maybe it's a baby frog, I never could tell the difference...)
If it sneers a lot and has a silly accent, it's a frog.Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
Aren't those toadies? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Crowheart
He's small, bumpy, and dry. Also don't hear any froggy ribbit sounds. I think he's a toad.
:noob:
I'm no Zoologist, but in layman's terms, the closer the resemblance to Jabba the Hutt, the higher the likelihood of it being a toad.
If it starts to routinely jump out at you in the dark...it's a toad. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by GGT
Considering where The Friend got hung up today, and the little bumps Easterners call "Mountains", we got to spend a lot of quality phone time today. Of course, we talked about absolutely everything and absolutely nothing at all, but it kept him awake. Then, this evening, Mommymunchkin showed up with a shit-load of groceries. I guess she thinks I'm starving to death! :haha:
The other incredibly awesome thing is that idiot with the 4-wheeler that used to live across the street from me got a ticket today for disturbing the peace, exhibition of acceleration, and generally being an ass-hole!
Off to see Spandau Ballet live tonight.
http://thegreenroombar.files.wordpre...10/spandau.jpg
:D
Cheese-tastic!
Death by stereo is coming to the Netherlands for two shows next month! :D I think we should try to open at least one of those shows for them.
That's Gold! :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
Seriously its True, I'd have thought you'd have to go Through the Barricades back to the 80s to see them.
I'll get my coat.
:mad:
Christ.
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Was a good night. I won 80 squids on the horses.
Should explain. Spandau Ballet were playing at Sandown park, a racecourse, so there were five races on before the gig. I won. And again. And again. :) Couldn't go wrong tonight.
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Gig was ok. But. They were not special. not duran duran. Now them I would pay serious dollarage to go see.
Out of like 12 songs I only recognised 2 - True - and Gold.
Gold is one of my absolute favourite 80's songs, but the only 3 songs I know of their's are the three I named: True, Gold and Through the Barricades
Squids?Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
Got a mental picture of you gambling in some back alley in Shanghai.
Even tho I didn't get to sleep until around 7:30 this morning, and got back up around 10, I have had a seriously productive day. I feel a lot better than I did yesterday. I got my apartment all ready for the inspection tomorrow, got a nice hot shower, went to the meat sale at the grocery store and now have enough meat to last me for a long time, and Mommymunchkin bought me a Subway sandwich for dinner so I won't have a bunch of dishes to do tonight! :)
My girlchild, who, incidentally, has wound up having a regular summer class that is all to herself - she was given a choice between going with another group or having private lessons - she did, of course, choose private. But she also got an invite to a special clinic in a couple of weeks.
It'll be a good summer for her.
Oh dear god .... let me hand the coat to you. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
In eight hours time + a drive home from Ipswich to Northampton, I'll be on holiday for a whole week.
The 11 hours days draw to a brief close, and all that awiats is France, cocktails, and swimming pools. A-woo.
Oh, and hi!
IT LIVES!
Hullo back. :)
France - enjoy.
Gogobongostranger, hello, enjoy the holiday and goodbye.
The cantaloupe I bought at the grocery store yesterday.
It is orgasmic.
I had the apartment inspection today. All went well! :) The maintenance dude will be here Monday afternoon to install my air-conditioner so I don't absolutely melt this summer. On top of that, I actually got about 4.5 hours sleep last night, so feeling a hella bunch better! :D
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I went to my band banquet last night and was awarded "Best Fall" award by my section leader :haha:
Finished Bookworm Adventures 2 just now :heart: Now I want to play the first one!
Fun games (including my first ever game of monopoly), great weather, lots of time with the tiny freckled one... summer break's off to a good start :)
Sun is shining, nice, cool breeze is blowing in my window, and the Harleys are out in force today! :) Plus, great phone time with The Friend! :D We have been talking, almost constantly, since about noon and it's 3:30 now! Sheesh, my phone is getting hot! lol
This is a rather lame and slightly long story.
My office shares a floor with all the patron computers, and a teaching lab. Teaching lab is walled off, with dual HD hanging plasma TVs and ceiling mounted speakers. Shortly after I got my office, but before furniture was ordered for the lab, I went on vacation for a week.
At the same time my library had been going through a renovation process. We are moving the entire collection around, hundreds of thousands of books are being RFID tagged (security), and moved to new locations. During this process we ended up with a bastard collection; Government Documents. We don't want government documents, but we just can't throw them out. There is an insane amount of red tape one must follow before destroying government published information. The process takes several weeks, for each item, before we know if we have to keep it, send it to a new location, or if we can destroy it. Because of this the collection couldn't be moved into a new spot because we didn't know how much room it was going to require.
Not everyone was happy that someone in my position got his own office. This was discovered when I came back from vacation and the librarian who was in charge of the government collection had her volunteers box it all up and stack them in the new computer lab. The perfect storm of "fuck Jason over" allowed this to happen. She is in drop, meaning she was set to retire this year, her transfer out of my branch was approved and she transferred 2 days before I returned, and she had no further performance reviews at my location. Seems the immediate opening of several rows of prime shelving confused a few of the other senior librarians about the progress of the renovation, so they proceeded to order the shelving removed so they could keep pace with the redesign.
So I returned from vacation to a computer lab full of 300+ boxes of government documents that no longer had a librarian in charge of them, and no home shelves anymore. Since they were on my floor, and out of everyone else's way, they became my problem. A crash course in government document processing took place over the next several weeks.
A few pictures of the lab as I worked through it.
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The boxes were numbered, but the items inside were not in order. I had to catalog each box individually, check to make sure the materials were up to date, email the contents out to other libraries in a sort of freecycle type curb alert, wait, then request premission to destroy what wasn't claimed and deemed by the higher ups as a waste of space. What I was instructed to keep I had to shelve. My paygrade doesn't allow me to control or bring in volunteers, so this was mainly my own responsiblity, but a few of the other librarians allowed me to borrow their volunteers when they could spare them.
Finally for the reason this in the happy thread. After several months of unboxing, listing, and waiting...the room is clear!
The librarian who did this to me died late last month. These last few days I've discovered I'm not the only person who didn't shed a tear.
I hope it is the clearing that makes you happy and not a woman's death. At least she had a chance to retire before dying. :(
On the phone with The Friend! He is all happy. He is getting paid damned good wages to just hang out, on call kinda, for the day! When he is in a good mood, he is very funny and makes me laugh!
Is your happiNess or lack thereof completely based on The Friend these days?
Spent the day out on the road - rode to a little town called York for lunch.