As a matter of fact, I am wearing white denim shorts to work today. We’re “lowed” shorts on casual Friday between Memorial Day and Labor Day. However, the newly popular knee-length Bermudas are acceptable on any day so I’ve been wearing them a lot as well.
I luuuurves my shorts in the summer time.
The Northway is this road that’s just horrible. One car pulled off the road well off the side will bring three lanes of traffic to a grinding halt. I only have a commute of 7 miles…I can do it in 12 minutes on a good day. Usually it takes me 15-20 minutes. Some horrible days it’s taken me close to 45 minutes, but that is rare. And there is no other good way to get home.
I work in a heavily commercial area. I don’t mind it too much usually. But everybody busts out of the door at 5 PM precisely. If I can get out at 4:57 even I can get up Wolf Rd fast and out of Albany. By the time 5:30 rolls around, it is just brutal.
The other thing about my summer schedule is this. (It gets weirder). 8:30 to 5:30 Mon-Thu and then 9 to noon on Fridays. Except…someone has to cover Fridays until 4, for whatever reason. Which is stupid, because no one calls a nfp in the summer on Friday afternoon. The phone doesn’t ring. Anyway, that person gets the next Friday off. Sounds great, except - there’s only three of us in the office, ,and we all have to take turns doing this. Retarded.
Good morning everybody!
I do not wear shorts to work. It would not be considered appropriate. In fact, they are soon going to publish a dress code. It’s kind of sad that they need to even do that. I always dress appropriately for work. I do like my sleeveless tops though. For work, I make sure the shoulders are covered, or if it’s a strappy top, I wear a light jacket. Bare shoulders are a no-no here. :rolleyes:
On Fridays, I do dress down to jeans (unless I have meetings), but the jeans are always dark and not worn looking.
Nice pictures, dogbutler.
I am leaving work early today. Yay! I’m feeling seriously under-motivated here at work today. It’s probably a good thing I’m leaving early.
It’s actually sort of well…not cool, but not extremely warm today. It’s nice.
I’m not going to laugh at you. Really, I’m not. The people who live in places like Clifton Park have it much, much worse.
This is how I roll. (Zoom in to the “3” level.) See where the US Rte. 20 sign is on Madison Avenue? Look across the river at the spot where it says “Defreestville”. I go from one place to the other.
Total commute time: five to seven minutes.
My commute went from 25 minutes to 60…
Oh of course they do. I didn’t mean to imply mine was that bad! I just meant that no matter where you live on the Northway, you’re going to suffer because of the road. My ex boss lives in Waterford, after all.
I am filling out the application for the warranty for our new safe. It’s for the office. And it asks for marital status and DOB, etc. No way am I filling that stuff out. Why do you need to know if I’m married??? 
They need to know if you’re old enough to accept the responsibility, and if so, if you’re trustworthy enough for somebody to marry you. Maybe. I don’t know, I just made that shit up.
Find a new apartment yet?
My commute has increased in time from 15 to 20 minutes to 30 to 50 minutes. I’ve lived in the same general area for 16 years. The increase is due to the huge building boom out here.
In the morning I take the state hwy to the interstate because it’s faster. In the evening, I take the back roads home because it’s faster, and very, very slightly less congested.
Damn, I forgot to take meat out the freezer for tonight’s dinner. I can’t get the kids to answer the phone to tell them to take the meat out. Grrrr
This would be where I mention that my 1.4 mile commute to work takes me 3 minutes on a heavy traffic day. 
::ducks mika’s stapler and runs away::
I live six blocks from work. An eight minute walk. Mr. Lissar, however, works more than an hour from home. Oh, everyone think good thoughts towards him tomorrow- he’s going for his mudansha grading prior to real grading, sort of like a mid-term) for kobudo (ancient weapons). Sensei is fast-tracking him through all his first degree black belts. Black belt kobudo grading is in September. He’ll probably go for karate in February.
Done the laundry. It’s time to loaf around. I might do some sewing.
This is the stupid flash game I’ve been playing for a few days. It about my level of intensity. I suck at computer games. Anything more complicated than Pong is right out.
I have BARBECUE, bitches!
Pork smoked for twelve hours, potato salad, cole slaw, and big hunks of nutrient-free white-as-my-ass bread. God, this stuff is good.
I win, you lose, game over.
MBG, a short commute is nice…and not nice. Not nice because everyone expects you to always be there, wind, snow, rain - after all you only live three minutes away. And if your car breaks down it’s easy for them to offer “I’ll come pick you up”. So you are obligated to go in.
gee, thanks. now I’ll never get any work done! 
Little race cars make big vrooms! They are warming the cars up on the track this morning and it is pretty noisy in the office. Between the race cars and the ginormous backhoes and ground pounding thingys next door, it’s a paradise for machine lovers.
Sean, all I’ll say about my job is that we’re a service company. Nudity isn’t encouraged, it just…happens. Stripping is ok, as long as you keep your underwear on (and everyone’s had a few). Yeah, we have a branch where you are, we’re everywhere. However, our office is legendary nationwide for our [del]orgies[/del] parties. You should have seen the parties we had back when the Valley was booming, those were even wilder. In fact, they have been banned from every golf course in the vicinity for destruction of property (interns using golf cars to do donuts on the course: $200,000 worth of damage. Destruction of company’s good name for refusing to pay and permanent bannination from the course: Priceless) and only allowed on the patios, not inside, of certain restaurants and bars. For some reason, they don’t like it when the ambulance and the cops come and they have to hose the blood off the floor, not to mention all the vomit in the bathrooms.
Now I’m really curious. Spill it!
I just wanted to share the love and time-wasting!
Ex, I hate you. I haven’t had barbeque in almost a year.
Whew! Just spent the morning not taking data. Oh sure, we went out to the area, and it was taking data, but I wasn’t a part of the process, except for lugging cables and hooking things up - because we were just taking static data. Letting it sit there. And sit there. And sit there. Joy.
Fortunately, I’m leaving work in FIFTEEN MINUTES because that’s when my ride is leaving because her brother is in town. Whooo!
Here’s a pun for you.
Pun of the Day:
Skiff \skihff\ noun
Definition: The term skiff is applied to various river craft, but a skiff is
typically a small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern.
Although originally used mainly by fishermen, they are today primarily leisure
craft. They usually hold either one person or, more commonly, three.
Example sentence: I thought I was getting a good deal when the day laborers at
the dock offered to clean my flat-bottomed boat, but they totally skiffed me on
a second coat of wax.
I haven’t had barbeque in TEN YEARS, and I don’t miss it either. 
Ok, ok, I work for one of the big accounting firms. It doesn’t matter which one, they’re pretty much all alike. I have pictures from one party and in the background, you can see the DJ progress from fascinated to disgusted to horrified. This involved the eating of live crickets and a striptease by one of the (male) partners, with the male managers in drag doing backup. With the advent of digital cameras and camera phones, they are enforcing the code of conduct more and more, which precludes public drunkeness, group groping, stripping and behavior that generally reflects poorly on the firm’s image. But a lot of people still look the other way or think it’s funny. It’s one of the biggest turnoffs of working here, and progressively, fewer and fewer employees turn out for these events and the organizers just can’t understand why. :rolleyes:
If you’ve ever seen Boiler Room, the bus scene could have been filmed on our buses.
I’m back from the store!
bobbio, they were out of childhood innocence, so I got you childhood ignorance instead. Here is your giant shorts and sideways ball cap.
MBG, she might be. I used to send her QtM’s threads when she worked in a prison. Also I sent her Weebl and Bob.
Ex, I love me some 'cue.
LiLi, I remember that game. I get eaten fast, my cat likes to stand in front of the screen.
Speaking of fish, I’m having [del]Carl[/del] tuna salad sanwiches for lunch
Hi all. I’m back from my trip. Didya miss me??
Lessee… love my new 5 minute non-highway commute. I remember the days of driving up the Northway very well, mika. Although fortunately I could use 787 as an alternate route when the Northway was bad.
I’m kinda jealous that you went to opening day at the track. I’m disappointed that you didn’t wear a funky hat… and send us all a picture! I think I’m going to miss going this year. I love that you can get in for like $3 and take coolers of food and stuff with you so it can be a really cheap day out if you don’t gamble. My kind of fun!
Anyway, good luck again with the apartment hunt.
I don’t wear shorts to work but not because of the dress code. I’m so frickin’ freezing all the time that I ALWAYS wear a long-sleeved shirt and/or sweater, pants, and socks to work. I cannot wear sandals because my toes will turn purple. It sucks a lot when everyone else is wearing cute summer skirts and sandals and I’m in pants and socks and shoes. But I’m just so cold in here!! (Actually, lots of people are cold. Some of them have heaters under their desks so they can still wear their sandals and cute skirts and not freeze. I think that’s a complete waste of energy. But then again so is cooling the building so much that people have to turn on heaters in the summer. Sheesh.)
The work off-site meeting was good. My boss’s boss has a “cabin” up on a lake somewhere in the Middle of Nowhere, MN. It was gorgeous. Not as big as some on the lake, but still 8 bedrooms, plus 2 out buildings with a total of another 5 bedrooms. Plus 3 at her in-laws next door and another 3 in an outbuilding on their property. They like to party apparently. The meeting was pretty good although I couldn’t always follow what they were talking about. (Hey, I’ve only been here 2 months!) And then we went out on the lake in one of boss’s boss’s boats. And then had a moderately fancy dinner. As fancy as it gets in the Middle of Nowhere, MN.
Boss’ boss said I could take their kayak out the next morning before the meetings so I did that, which was really cool. I got pretty close to 2 loons and just enjoyed the tranquility. While we were sitting on her deck for the meeting later yesterday morning, an eagle flew by. Plus she has blue birds that dart around her backyard. Just beautiful.
We got kind of lost on the way back, which freaked my boss out a little. (He was driving.) He’s a city kid through and through, and the lack of highways and the presence of corn fields were a little much for him. I was amused.
There’s going to be a lot of work coming up for me. Hopefully we’ll hire another person for our department soon. But the company’s growing fast and there’s also the potential to do really well. So I guess it sorta balances out. As long as I’m not stuck here too late too many nights!
Gotta go finish up another report. Gah!