I lack the oomph to compose a winning OP.
Let the games begin. Go Monday!! (Or, almost Monday as the case may be.)
First!!!
Stories to come: a Darwin Award nomination right here in Cottonfield County Firday night, and I wrecked a fire truck today. Tales tomorrow.
Second! I worked. I’m listening to the Packers/Bears game instead of doing the Booster Club minutes.
Taters, buy the suit, post the pics!
I suppose that procedure manual won’t write itself. I donwanna…
Third! I promise to play this week. It’s been a bumpy September. Hope everyone is well.
ETA: fourth…
#6
I’m tired and stuffed and don’t have much to say…
(We had ham boiled in Coke and Dr Pepper, then baked and glazed with honey and pineapple juice and mustard. Yee-um!)
Definitely tired, after the party last night.
I ducked out early, I suppose I could have stayed but I went all responsible adult on myself…
7th?
::waves at Soapy::
Still awake. I blame hulu.
Really don’t wanna go to work tomorrow, but I must.
Guess I should get some sleep.
GT
I don’t wanna go to work either.
Still kinda kicking myself that I didn’t stay out longer and go to humpty’s after the bar closed with the rest of the crew but ah well. I have to be a responsible adult (or fake it at least). At least I got out and had fun and drinks and met some cute guys for the first time in a couple years. Been too much a homebody otherwise.
Tall glass of water right now and bed though, if I stay up too much later I won’t wake up to do hair and makeup (and since this week I kinda have to, well… I guess I’d better go. :p)
I read out to my brother an example of the paragraphs from the Redundant Redundancy Repetitive Department of Departmental Repetitions with Extreme Amounts of Repetitive Redundant Subordinate Clauses and Extra Emphasis on Subordinating the Subordinates in Order to Achieve Further Redundancy document I’m translating. He laughed and told me that he’s started preparing some procedures for their company and his boss, who thought it a great idea, decided to perform a second pass on them before they submit them further up. Bro’s thoughts seeing some of the stuff his boss had written were “you know, that may indeed be the best way to say what you mean, but it eventually needs to be understood by people in Chile, Poland, Romania, India… for some reason, six-line paragraphs without a single coma, colon, semicolon or period don’t seem like a Good Idea.”
Why do so many people think that “serious writing” has to be more complex than the Marquis de Sade’s idea of breakfast?
Good morning everybody. Happy Monday! (Kind of funny writing this well into the second day of work, but hey, gotta play by East Coast time! :p)
Definitely Monday here when you posted. You’re in the clear 
Yeah, I say that every week, too. Generally lasts through Wednesday :o
Sorry to hear that 
{{{Ivory}}}
We need examples of what you look like all spiffied up, so that we can make [del]cat-calls[/del] intelligent comments for the rest of your week 
Ooh, I know this one!! Because if the “Serious Writing” looks simple, then the person commissioning it might say to themselves “I could have written that!”
And then the person commissioning the “serious writing” will think so next time.
And try to write it themselves.
The results are before you… :rolleyes:
Blurf.
So much work to do this week! Ack!
At least yesterday I gave the house a cleaning it will never forget. Irish Boyfriend came home drunk and the first words he slurred were: “Uhhhhh… where’d everything go?”
Busy, busy, busy! I have to get all the student registers printed and laminated (they have to be in colour 'cos they’ve got photos on) and get the first session’s teaching packs prepared and sent out…and all before Wednesday 'cos that’s when I’m finishing for the great trek to New York.
I haven’t finished trip planning yet and I don’t have much time to do anything apart from tonight 'cos i was busy all weekend doing errands and helping my friend clear her garage out and rearrange all the stuff in there.
I have come to work for a breather! Since I was in a good mood and feeling quite generous, I have baked banoffee cupcakes for the girls in the office. I had to bring the cupcakes in, and bring the toffee sauce and cream in separately, then chop some banana slices and assemble the finished products here 'cos they’d be too difficult to transport without ruining the overall effect. Oh, the things I do for these folks!
See, the reason I started writing SAP manuals long ago was sort of the opposite (the stuff we got from “the professionals” was unreadable). When I run into things like
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I want to strangle the “writer” on account of:
redundant redundancy
circular lack of reasoning
bad grammar
lack of clarity
and general barfiness.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ cause I said I’d go in for four hours this mornin’. I am stoopid! I don’t wanna! However, I must cause I said I would.
Nava and Special1 I snark at a lot of ATT “Policy and Procedure” because it’s so badly written. The grammar is bad and most of the time it contains spelling errors. I have sent in copious amounts of feedback forms on various and sundry articles explaining that if they made grammatical sense and did not contain atrocious spelling errors they would be easier to follow. No changes as of yet. However, they encourage those feedback forms so that improvements can be made. Don’t get me started on the overwhelming amounts of misinformation and descriptions of how we are supposed to do certain things that are just the opposite of how to do them.
Wow! That was grouchy. 
Time for more caffiene and some brekkies.
Later Y’all!
Up. Reluctantly. Off to locate breakfast and make lunch. Woo.
GT
Yeah, well… maybe we can inspire each other!
gt (waves back!!!) If you find breakfast, send him my way.
Trying not to be grouchy about the fact that I have work today. However, this person who ordered lunch at about half an hour ago always orders my lost leader item and always gives me no notice whatsoever. Fortunately this month’s special is pasta so a trip to the grocery store will not leave me broke.
My ambition to catch the 0648 are blighted–it’s now 0646 and I’m eating breakfast (oatmeal, if you must know).
Happy Monday, all. Another fine day here in Chicago: blue skies, temperate and mild.