Yeah, soapy, I agree with mmmmmms: what the…?
{{rosie}} Sounds like you need the hugs. At least you should have a fun weekend to distract you.
I have a “bike maintenance for women” class at the community center. Seems like a good idea since I bike alone so much of the time. I hope it’s interesting 'cause it’s 3 hours long!
It frightens me to think that this might have come from an academic who ought to have a functioning brain.
Whoa, rosie, that does not sound like fun. At least it sounds like you’ll be able to participate in the competition.
Yay for the new bed, Spaz!
Sounds like a useful class, taxi.
Long long long day. Am eating crackers for dinner. Pronouns disappearing.
Hugs.
GT
Sorry about the day, everyone.
I may have put my back out. It hurts like hell. This hasn’t been a good week, really. I’m sending in my receipt and I expect a refund.
Soapy I agree with MOOOOOM. Is there a TPTB you could mention this to. I think the screeder needs to be taken down a notch or two.
{{{Rosie}}} I figure you could use one of those.
Dindin was teh nummy! I done good! 
Now I shalt goeth forth and surfeth for a whileth.
Nitey Nite Y’all!
Oh, not to worry. I spent most of the morning with my President, my Dean, his Dean and his direct supervisor.
I know this one Rabbi pretty well and lost some relatives there myself. A road trip sounds tempting but this idiot seems like the kind who have kept us here since 1973.
Worked, toes hurt, now cleaning out apartment.
{{{{{{rosie}}}}}}}}}
Soapy, :eek:[sup]10[/sup]
LiLi, hope the back is better this morning.
Wait, weren’t you jewish? I know there are such things as male-chauvinistic women and rich folk who haven’t worked a day in their lives yet think they’re “very much with the workers of the world” (who must, by the way, unite) - but that’s people who have less braincells than one of the lactobacillus in your gut. Like that moron you’re talking about, you know.
taxi, given that I almost got flunked out of college because
my programming exercise for algebra II was much, much faster than any the teacher had seen before (including his own, which is where it stung), and this was, afaict, because
I used a way of making loops which was not the one he liked best, and which I chose because
it was the way which made sense to me,
what you said about using other people’s code seems perfectly logical.
(Why do I understand “for next” better than “do until”? No idea; for the same reason noses have two holes, I guess)
I tend to feel similarly about other people’s functional designs. That’s only “tend”, though, sometimes I have worked with someone-else’s-designs which made sense to me. After many experiences inheriting stuff designed by extrauniversal aliens, seeing one that makes sense makes me want to call up whomever created it to verify we’re not long-lost siblings.
The not sure if it’s good or not news: my crystal ball was right when it figured the “interface” between the system we have to replace for one of my client’s divisions and this other system they’re keeping is manual and juuuuust sort of digital. That is, it isn’t quite at the point of someone printing out the data from Program A and digitating it into Program B - but almost. So I don’t have to do anything for that particular division. Which means I’m now officially “redundant” for an undefined while. Which may or may not suck.
The :smack: news: I got an ad for a project back home which sounds neat but, given the location, there was a high risk it would be for the place where I had “I don’t pay you to think, I pay you to solve problems” boss. It is. Damnit. Good company except for that detail (plus I’ve eventually realized that I simply hate “maintenance” type jobs and this one is implementation, which I do like), buuuuut I don’t think they’ll be eager to take me back, given the skidmarks my wheels left on the parking lot the last time…
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 51 Amurrkin out right now with a predicted high of 84. I know how y’all look forward to my mornin’ weather report.
Nava better skidmarks in the parkin’ lot than skidmarks in your underwear. Is that helpful?
Doggio hope the toes are better and that [del]lardbutt[/del] Nelly does not decide they’re a good place to sit again.
It’s Firday! Not that that matters much to me bein’ as I have to go make nice for irk all day tomorrow. Still, it should be kinda fun, so there’s that. Tonight is Stations of The Cross followed by fish 'n chips at the church house. I get to make the chips, aka fries. Lucky me.
I must seek out more caffiene and feed rumbly tummy. Then, alas, irk purtification must commence.
Happy Firday Y’all!
Nava- not only am I Jewish, but I am the child of Aushwitz survivors.
It’s why he chose that particular analogy.
Well, they didn’t get to see my underwear, you know.
Is there a commandment against wishing hemorroids on someone? Does it count as Cruelty Against Hemorroids? It certainly seems to be Cruelty Against Buttholes, but well, it’s not our fault if that butthole belongs to an asshole.
Where is a theologian when you need one?
OK…that makes it infinitely worse than I’d already thought it was, Soapy (both that your parents are survivors and that he wrote it knowingly). Glad you spent the morning with that particular set of company.
When you find the refund window, please tell us its location, LiLi. Hope you feel better fast.
Off to work…
Hugs.
GT
So far, today is better. Hopefully, this earlier travel time will make for a better trip. The car is packed. I just have to empty the SD card and I’m good to go.
Think of me tomorrow around 2:45 pm EDST
kthxbai
Good FIRDAY morning all! And yay, the weekend is -almost- here!!
Hugs and good thoughts for LiLi, Soapy, and Rosie (who I will be thinking of tomorrow at 2:45 EDT btw :)). Oh, and Doggio too, sorry about the smooshed toes; that’s a hurtin’ thing!
I’m partially caffeinated (LOL) but I did at least have oatmeal with banana before I left home, along with a few sips of coffee, hence the partial caffeination. 
Tomorrow is the birthday of the third of my four brothers - he turns 50! He was born on a Palm Sunday but won’t even be close to it this year, since Easter is so late. Snow is actually in the forecast for Sunday :eek: up to an inch in the DC metro area. Not as unusual as you might think; we last had snow in late March back in the early 90s, I think.
Have a great day everyone, and a great weekend to those who are already on it. 
Unfortunately from a different religion. For us it would be “Jesus loves you but everyone else thinks you’re a prick” -------- Dalmations: Chapter 2, verse 27 ----- it’s part of the scripture where God has kept his promise to remove all the aliens and informs the people they can remove the probes now.
So, essentially there’s been some drama involving someone hacking into someone’s e-mail at the district I used to work for. They hacked, took a series of e-mails from a friend’s account, pasted them together so they’d look incriminating, then sent them to the wife of another friend, who also used to work there. Nasty stuff, and many people are extremely pissed at the thing, goes without saying, right? Illegally hacking, maliciously trying to break up a family…
But, I was only tangentially pissed until I heard from the friend who received the e-mails that during one of her conversations with the district’s IT director, who is actually for several reasons, the main suspect, that said director told her “You know, we’re really wondering if MBG is involved”
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WTF!!!???**
I can’t sign in to my own, currently canceled e-mail account, let alone figure how to hack into someone else’s, nevermind try to figure out why in the world I would do something like that to two of my best friends. The couple affected of course, know I’m their friend and wouldn’t have done that even if I could.
Now, they’ve pissed me off too.
I think we need BooFae’s pointy stick for Soapy and BusDude to use. Then again, it looks like both problematic persons will soon get pointy sticked at the workplace which will be good. Of course, we shall require details when it happens.
Good Luck Rosie.
State TPTB have come and gone. Woohoo!
Later Y’all!
What an ass! So sorry you had to deal with that.
I managed to survive the work week. Soon, I’ll shower and then we need to go rent a utility trailer so we can make a dump run. I sure do miss the pick-up truck when we have to do stuff like this. Of course, the gas mileage sucked (biiiig F250 superduty, with a V10).
Tomorrow, we’re supposed to go on a day hike with my daughter and her sweetie. The weather doesn’t look great, though and we plan to hike a trail in the Olympics, where there is always more rain. We’ll see what it looks like tomorrow.
There isn’t much else going; just busy, busy, busy. Seems everyone wants a piece of me and there isn’t much left to hand out.
Up, caffeinated, off to irk.
swampy, I’ve been wearing my steel toed boots to bed, just in case.
Ruble, LOL
MBG, Guess it’s good you aren’t there anymore. Nobody needs that kind of drama.
Time to stack the newly delivered firewood, then off to the gym to sweat with the soccer moms!