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[QUOTE=taxi78cab]
It’s not that the speed limit is 55; it’s that people are DRIVING 55 despite the 65 mph speed limit. So there is barely any traffic, but one idiot is going 55 in the middle lane, make the guy who’s doing 60 go around him in the left lane, slowing the whole road. ARGH! It happens ALL. THE. TIME. My coworkers, who are native Minnesotans, say the same thing. So it’s not just me. But it seems to happen no matter which highway I’m on, what time of day, which direction I’m going, or anything. It’s ridiculous. It’s not a volume issue, because I see it happen most often when the roads aren’t that busy. I just don’t get it. People, you have an accelerator. Use it!!
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Taxi, you make perfect sense now. That i get. It annoys the crap out of me. I don’t know what it is. Your not the only one, and it doesn’t matter what part of the state you are in either.

All of you **knitters/crocheters ** out there, if I have questions when I finally sit down to attempt either one of those crafty things will you pretty please help me? Years ago my mom attempted to teach me to crochet, all I managed to do was the chain stitch. It just did not compute in my head. I’m determined to learn how, and I bought a book geared for kids on handsewing and such. One of the projects in there was either about crocheting or kitting. It escapes me right now, but if I have questions can I bribe you with chocolate for help? Pretty please. :smiley:
Edit: Yay!!! First on page 3. :smiley:

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[QUOTE=Most Creative User Name Ever]
Taxi, you make perfect sense now. That i get. It annoys the crap out of me. I don’t know what it is. Your not the only one, and it doesn’t matter what part of the state you are in either.
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Great. :rolleyes:

Speaking of knitting, Mama Tigs or Jah, can either of you tell me how to make an easy edge for a blanket/throw? I’ve made a couple baby blankets just by doing knit one row, perl one row. It’s simple but it’s a nice enough baby blanket. The only problem is that the edges are curling. So I’d like to do something different around the edges. But I don’t know what. Plus, I think a different edge would make it a little fancier without having to do anything more complicated at this point. Eventually I’ll get to different patterns, but for now I’m having fun just doing the basics and would like to keep doing that, but just with some sort of edge on it. Any thoughts?

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**Rosie **-- wow. All I can say is :eek:

Everybody else – appropriate emotions…

Tomorrow morning (well, technically later this morning, it’s just after midnight) we’re taking Special Teen to Jerusalem. For Orientation. She’ll stay there until Friday, come home for the weekend, then come Sunday she’ll be gone save vacations and every other weekend.

:eek: :eek: :eek:

I haven’t mentioned that this is High School, not college, have I…?

Not a baby anymore…

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Bribing with chocolate, McUne? Of course! :smiley:

Taxi, do you know how to crochet? Because an easy edging would be to just crochet a couple of rows around the edge of the blanket.

My cell phone decided to get stuck. As in totally stuck, to where it doesn’t respond to anything. It thinks I’m still talking to Papa Tigs, but it’s not responding to any input. Grr. I guess tomorrow I’ll have to run by the store and see what they make of it. The stupid thing has only been ringing occasionally when it feels like it lately anyway, so I have no idea what gives. It rang this afternoon just fine when snowbunny called, but when Papa Tigs called? It just gave a single little short beep. Grr.

ETA: Rosie, sounds like a truly awful time all right! :eek:

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Dang y’all are a chatty bunch today! :stuck_out_tongue:

Wiles I’m so sorry about the bf’s mom. She, him, the family and you will be in my thoughts and prayers. Sounds like DragonCon might be just the diversion he needs. Sometimes that helps.

BooFae and BioRosie hope y’all are feelin’ better. Nuttin’ worse than a horsepital stay in my book. I hate, hate, hate bein’ in the horsepital. No offense rigs. Anywho, glad to know there’s nuttin’ serious wrong.

Dotty here’s hopin’ the power cutback won’t last long. Y’all stay cool.

Whoever else I missed, just know I’m thinkin’ about ya, and offer boos, yays, hugs, etc as appropriate.

Now for other news…

I sorta got fought over today at work. See, I was goin’ to Tap-O again today (hee Lunch on the samplin’ idea. The beer comin’ into the kegs is ice cold!) but another team leader had heard about my experience on can lines and wanted to steal me away because he was short handed. So, two team leaders had a kinda heated exchange with each other with me standin’ there. :eek: Needless to say that was awkward for me. Anywho, the two Unit Managers (for Tap-O and the can line) intervened and it was decided I’d go to the can line. That was jake with me cause I liked the stuff I’d been doin’ on a can line before. BTW, this is a different can line (ok, actually two can lines). I got to play around at a filler (from whence beer gets dispensed into little cans) for a couple of hours which was new for me so I liked that. Afterwards I went to do stuff I already knew about cause of the shorthandedness mentioned above.

Then a really, really, :cool: thing happened. Towards the end of the shift the team leader (have I mentioned that team leader is Miller’s cute lil’ euphemism for supervisor?) came over and told me he had a present for me and to stop by the team room after work. So I did. He presented me with a chilled six pack of Lite (which the filler I played around with was runnin’) and said it was six cans from the batch of cans I helped fill while I was at the filler. :cool: :cool: :cool: I’ve had three of 'em already. :smiley: I shall consume the other three before beddy bye time.

Hey, ol’ y’all know who is workin’ late and won’t be around tonight :frowning: so I gotta have sump’n to console me.

Free Beer! HEE!

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LemmeOut, I crochet sometimes. I’m a lefty, so I have to reverse most patterns to get them to come out right. I don’t have that problem with knitting.

taxi, seed stitch works nicely. Seed stitch is row one: k1, p1, row two: p1,k1, repeat rows 1 & 2. Plain garter stitch doesn’t roll, either.

{{{rosie}}} and everyone else sick/having a hard time, etc.

I spoke with my recruiter, and she’s lining up interviews for me next week. Yay! It sounds like I haven’t been blacklisted from the agency. She also told me (again) that the client would hire me in a heartbeat. That’s always nice to hear.

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[QUOTE=Noone Special]
And suggest we start calling **LOUNE **“Seymour” (Feeeeeeed meeeee!). Wait – :smack: what was the plant’s name…?
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The plant is Audrey II, whose line is “Feed me, Seymour!” You’re welcome. :smiley:

Another late day at work - 2 hours over this time. All because Greg was slooooooooow getting his part of the project done. So I took a piece of paper, wrote “The List” at the top, and put Greg’s name on it. But we did manage to get 4 of 9 web pages posted and two more were in review when I left. The last 3 are for nights.

Tomorrow is the last day of this training evolution, so Thurs I go back to my regular desk, and Friday, I’m staying home. Thus goes my week.

The credit card/debit card mystery was solved (did I mention that yesterday?) Anyway, it turns out that the site we were trying to use to send flowers is on our Credit Union’s watch list. So they locked down both cards we tried to use. Which meant **FCD ** had to use his debit card to buy gas this morning. But anyway, it’s settled and fixed and I know not to buy from that site (1-800 flowers, for those who are curious.)

I think we’ll be having breakfast for supper - scramblied eggses and stuff. **FCD ** is stopping to get a dessert-like substance on his way home. Wonder what he’ll bring??

Scruffy’s barking to go out, so I guess I need to post now.

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Okay, people, any good thoughts or prayers or anything else ya got, send 'em to the firefighters. The fire is doing Not Good things this afternoon. I’m fine, but it’s going to be a bad night for a lot of people. I got sent home from work early; they want people to get home and stay put so the emergency folks can use the roads.

Otherwise, I’m fine; I’m trying to look on the bright side of getting sent home early. For one thing, I had a horrible night last night and I don’t mind a lazy evening. I just wish I wasn’t so nervous! I did get to hug Oliver the Newfie before I left, after we finished brushing him out. He’s very reassuring. Aside from the drool, what a wonderful dog! And he comes in every couple of weeks or so. Yay!

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{{{rosie}}}

I don’t know how to crochet, Mama Tigs. I think I’ll have to try Jah’s idea. I’ll report back when I’ve had a chance to try it. Thanks!

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Just a quick drive-by - I’m back in Chicago after a lovely weekend up in Canada at my friend’s family cottage by Lake Huron. Thursday is moving day so a bit stressed out - plus I must’ve gotten at least four seperate phone calls from schools asking me if I could take classes that START THIS WEEK. Damnit, I really need a second job, but of course I couldn’t take any of the classes since I wasn’t going to be back until today. Oh well.

Missed you all! Hugs for everyone, specially rosie and rigs.

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I scrambled eggs with some leftover Polish sausage - it was very yum! We had toast with it. And my wonderful, thoughful sweetie brought me some Turkey Hill Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl. Yummerrific!!

Life is good!

:smiley:

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Bwahahaha! New Girl has a temper. I am sooo glad I don’t have to work with her much longer. I’d forgotten what primadonnas we EA’s can be. I hope I get a nice cube to myself again on my next assignment. :smiley:

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Being an Account of the Mischief of Sinister Spirits
Or: Why I’d Like to Kick That Bastard Loki in the Balls

Last weekend a friend dropped his desktop computer off to be repaired. It was exhibiting extreme stability and was unable to boot. Its BIOS was all wonky and it crashed at inopportune times – assuming it was able to get anywhere at all. So, I had a look at it. The CMOS was indeed flaky, and probably needed a new battery, but more problematic were the random host of other problems that turned up. I couldn’t install Windows because it would crash randomly, have trouble finding files on the CD that were, in fact, right there – right there you stupid pile of circuits! – on the CD. Sometimes it couldn’t find the hard drive. It kept thinking it had more RAM than it really did, and kept adjusting memory to compensate. All in all, it was a mess. A right bloody mess. I figured it was pooched, the whole damn thing. Still, I’ll pick up a CR2032 battery and see what happens. I didn’t plan on doing that for a few days, though.

From that point, my tale of woe surrounding my computer equipment has been chronicled here well enough that I needn’t repeat it, but suffice it to say my computer began to exhibit all sorts of random, bizarre behaviours, like not finding the hard drives, not being able to access BIOS, not being able to remember its BIOS settings when it could, and so on. I’m thinking, well, the CMOS seems like it’s pooched, so maybe – just maybe the CMOS battery on my board is dead, too. It seems unlikely – as I mentioned, those things should last 4-5 years or more. The computer I’m repairing for a friend is at least that old, so his dead battery is perfectly understandable, but mine? The board is exactly 1 year and 8 months old. It shouldn’t be dead.

Still, on my way home from work tonight I picked up a 3-pack of CR2032 batteries. Got home, popped my old battery out and put the new one in, booted up, plugged in all the proper CMOS settings, and rebooted. And I’m back. System boots up just fine, no problems at all! All because of a stupid freakin’ little battery! I mean, once upon a time computers would self-diagnose problems like that, warning you of low battery voltage, allowing you time to go and buy a new battery to replace the failing one. Seems like that doesn’t happen anymore. They just go freakin’ psycho as their way of telling you to replace the battery.

So now I’m having another go at repairing my friend’s computer. Unfortunately, as I typed this, it bluescreened while installing Windows, so his problems seem to run deeper. (But at least I fixed his BIOS errors…)

Still, it was like his computer, in a fit of Munchausen by Proxy, decided it would give my computer its problems. Or Loki just thought it would be really, really funny.

Hey. Loki. Come here.

I have something for you.

No, down there.

Further down.

Look closely.

Closer.

Clooooooser.

::PUNT::

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Well, I just spent a good long time creating a post and despite pretty constant copying to my clipboard in case of computer glitches, one of them got me and the whole thing disappeared.

Mork and rigs, I now sympathize with your computer troubles. But Mork, you’re speaking that foreign language again.

I’ll just re-create the highlights (lowlights?).

Lunch, you can out-ewww me every time. It’s a gift.

Hey, wait just a minute there!!! You wouldn’t even flirt with me or even :smooch: me on the cheek, but now you’re playing with Lunch’s hair?! :eek: This is just discrimination, pure and simple. What can Lunch do that I can’t . . .(or at least simulate online)? It’s just not fair. : pout: (worked for Lunch, didn’t it?)

Welcome back, BooFae!

Hugs to rosie, I hope the next 30 hours goes better.

Lili, I now know more about puking that I could even have imagined wanting to know.

Mork, I suspect the pink discs were kamaboko. (fish cake) Did it look like the pink thing freeze dried and rehydrated? Sounds so yummy. :stuck_out_tongue:
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Lunch**, I’m using my divining power to guess that Special Teen is daddy’s little girl. Good luck in letting her go. I’m sure she’ll do great.

~waving~ to Haze as she drives by.

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Heee, Mork. I’m sorry, but that was funny. Also, why aren’t you around the corner so that I can have convenient help when I have computer issues? (Which, admittedly, seldom happens, but you never know.)

Sounds like assignment things are going well, Jah.

rigs - are you using Open Office itself or NeoOffice J? I have Open Office on my PC, but NeoOfficeJ (a flavor of Open Office) is supposed to work better with Macs. Don’t know if it has all the features you need, but it creates documents with all the same extensions as Open Office and seems to be completely compatible (with the PC version, at least).

Lots of good thoughts headed toward Idaho. And toward WileE, BF and his mother.

Sorry to hear about your horsepickle stays, BioRosie and BooFae. Glad you’re home again. I second the suggestion of a cute personal assistant on a moped, BooFae. Surely the uni will understand.

Sorry about all the throwuppiness, LiLi. How much longer? (Or shouldn’t I ask?)

Welcome back, Hank!

I just had yummy spaghetti with steamed plantains on the side. Double yum. I’d forgotten how much I like plantains in just about any form, but had them at Local Best Friend’s just after baby was born (her mom made them). I’m gonna freeze the leftovers to see how they work out (mom defrosted them and they were really good).

I know I’ve missed people, but I’m tired (and it feels kinda like I’m coming down with teh sick), so hugs (but no germs) all around. Back later.

GT

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Hey. I cannot wait for tomorrow. First day of school and all, and even if there’s something I don’t see now that can or will go south on me, at least we’re done waiting and Preparing and all that.

14 hour days most of the last week or so, forcing myself to have a life on the weekend.

Bleh.

Wave, yay, boo, aww, and whatever else to whomever those apply to.

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Hey everybody! I’m home form work, and slowly eating dinner(corn on the cob, rice, blackened chicken) and drinking beer.

Rosie, I’ve had the weird heart glitch thing, too. I didn’t mind the hospital last time I was there, they just wouldn’t let me go.

BooFae, hope you feel better soon. Your fan club send it’s best wishes.

Haze, glad you had a good time. We missed you.

swampy, I thought you liked men fighting over you. :smiley: Yay free beer! Boo malt liquor.

{{{rigs}}}

Mork, that Ramen description sounded like every school cafeteria meal I ever had.

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taxi, I thought you were asking about a border to put on blankets you’ve already made. If that’s the case and you don’t know how to add a crocheted border, you can either block the blanket out, or to make life even easier, you could just fold the edge under and then use a basic hemstitch with the yarn to hem the blanket. Then for future projects, use a garter stitch border – just knit the first five or so stitches of every row – or seed stitch, as Jahdra suggested, and voilà, you have a nice non-curling border. I’m quite sure you’re not ready to start picking up stitches around the edge to knit on a border now, which is the other alternative if you haven’t knitted the border in to begin with.

Yummy, plantains. I adore plantains, fried especially. I’ll have to do something about that one of these days. I haven’t had them in far too long.

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I don’t consider myself out of the woods yet. When I “fixed” it yesterday, it was fine 'til I went to bed and woke up to it frozen. If it’s still working when I get up tomorrow morning, then I’ll call the operation a success.

I’m still going to pick up the other motherboard on Friday, just so I have a spare. This motherboard is still partly dead (the network controllers are buggered) and considering that, it’s not a stretch to feel that the rest of it will probably flake out eventually too. I’d like to be prepared for that. I still plan on upgrading to AMD’s new Socket AM2 standard with a new CPU and RAM at some point, just to be able to remain somewhat current, but I still need some considerable time before I can make that happen – which probably won’t be 'til sometime in 2008.

Besides. The new iPod comes out next month (so the mounting rumours go, which is backed up by Apple’s consistent release calendar) so I have to be prepared to buy it if it’s as droolworthy as I am hoping. :slight_smile:

GT - Well, being that the problem is (hopefully) behind me, I can see the humour in it, which is why I couched my update in such terms. But hey, if you have any problems you think you might be able to describe textually, feel free to E-Mail me. Address is in my profile, and that E-Mail goes to my PDA, so I’ll get it wherever I am, provided there’s an Internet connection. For more serious issues – well, Ohio’s a bit outside of my house call radius. :smiley:

Heff&Roo - Sorry. Geek is my first language, and I find myself slipping back into it every so often. :slight_smile: Those red-rimmed white discs were probably indeed fish cake of some sort, though their fishy flavour was pretty tame compared to the not-corn cornfish. Which was supposed to be freeze-dried corn. Which I can only assume they freeze dried under a pile of sardines. However, the term “fish cake” has a very different meaning to me. I’m used to fish cakes being minced fish of apparently no specific (or consistent) species, breaded and then deep fried. They’re kind of like the hot dogs of the piscene world. Not that the ramen wasn’t good – it was more or less as good as packaged ramen gets, which is to say that it’s the sort of thing you eat when there is either nothing else to eat or for whatever reason you feel like generic Asian noodly stuff. (It was the latter for me. Sometimes my body craves crap.)

Doggie - Cafeteria meat? Hell, it’s like pretty much every school cafeteria ingredient: Heavily processed, artificially flavoured, and probably not made of what it purports to be.

3 more days to vacation! Woo!

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Doggie - Uh, “meal.” I meant to say “meal.” Not “meat.” “Meal.” (Shut up, Loki.)

I need to catch up on my sleep. These computer problems have drained me.