it’s just a funny little page I found, and I don’t know how to post links here.
Anyway, I sent Mahir’s page to a friend of mine who amazingly enough, has never heard of our Turkish friend. He just wrote back to me and said he “didn’t get it.”
::sigh:: some people…
Links: With IE 4.7 to 5.0, go to the addressline, highlight it.Say on Mahir’s page. Click Edit,copy. Go to your post.Click paste. No UBB code is needed.Leave a space around the address, both sides. Fancier people substitute a name for the address.
There was a rainbow with the sunrise this morning. Incredibly beautiful. Wish I had a camera.
“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good
things.” --Edgar Degas
I’m enjoying Day 2 of a glorious 4 day weekend! Yummm… I need more of these 
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy
Completed six-and-a-half week deployment to prepare for my six-monther coming up early next year.
Vacationed in Woodstock, Va.
Vacationed in Williamsburg, Va.
Had my son for four days.
Spent $74.80 on Pokemon cards.
Got all sixty members of my repair party through shipboard firefighting school.
Finally got a decent set of cooking knives.
Bought the turkey for T-giving.
Spent tons o’ time w/GBS!!
Okay, I am on page 5 (almost 6) of my paper. It’s supposed to be 20 pages, and the first draft is due on Wednesday. I guess I have plenty of time, but I’m still pretty worried. I also have a test on Monday, but it shouldn’t be that hard, and I really need to work on my African Politics paper. And look what I’m doing! I’m online!
Oh, and I found out that the myterious line I’ve been plugging my computer into is actually a neighbor’s crossed with mine. So I need to get my own line (I knew I was going to have to sooner or later), and the stupid ass business office over at PacBell isn’t open til Monday.
~Kyla
Mr. Rilch got me a book of restaurant recipes. Tonight I made Ruth’s Chris au gratin potatoes. Mr. Rilch said mine were better than the last RC batch he’d had. I am so proud. There are few feelings as good as succeeding at a new endeavor on the first try.
Remember, I’m pulling for you; we’re all in this together.
—Red Green
Accomplishments saturday:
Oil change in 2 cars, one haircut. Bought Germs Guns and Steel at bookstore.30% discount!
Chief: I’ve only spent $70 in three months. Get some kind of album too, for that money.
A post like this really belongs in the Pit, but I don’t feel like making that big of a deal out of it. I’m just angry enough to want to say, that there is a lovely certain someone who really just needs to go screw himself.
Went out last night and played pool with “the cowboy.” It feels so much better to be alive rather than dying the slow death!
Been on-line for hours, I think I’m having too much fun! Can a person have “too much fun?”
Went to pick up my son from his friend’s house without any pants on…oh, it wasn’t here…never mind
I won in fantasy football for the first time in a MONTH! And I beat the top-ranked player in my league!
(Sorry…but I’ve lost by one point for the past four weeks. This is cause for celebration here…)
“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.” - George Carlin
Some more people moved into my apartment complex, the Celebrity Purgatory, on Hollywood Boulevard. I can’t tell you who they are, they are moving to a half way house after plastic surgery. Then they will be released to the real world under new names.
I finally got a new tire for my Tercel. The mini spare wore out.
Celebrities, huh?
I only read about real people, like in the Onion. And every tuesday I print out stories that I xerox for 2 people that are too cheap to buy a computer at home. At work, www.theonion.com is blocked as “unacceptable” according to the company Internet Policy. Which also says you can only post in your real name.
Leaving Thanksgiving night for London. I have just started packing. It is much easier to pack when you are pregnant. Less decisions to make clothing wise and there is no sense in buying new clothes during this phase in life when in 12 weeks, it won’t be needed anymore.
I did buy one pair of maternity khaki’s and a non preggo top in red button down cotton to wear for dress up over in Merry old england. Total damage? $25
Preggo dressing hint: If you are short, like me and hate the way the pregnancy tops are so huge and practically hit the knees, and the patterns are just awful (tho better from years past), go to the Women’s section of the store and try a size in there. Start with a 1x and work your way down. Your self esteem will thank you.
Bought rose colored mohair-like yarn today to attempt a baby blanket for Baby X. I shall take a ball of yarn and crochet hook on the plane. It relaxes me. ( So much so that I never finished the baby blanket for our son that I started two years before he was conceived.) Consistancy in failure is important in my life.
Swam 55 laps today. Not bad for my 3rd time out in years. That’s over a half a mile (32 is a half mile.) It is so rejuvenating and relaxing.
It’s raining and it was 65 degrees today in Michigan. Holy Moley!
Tomorrow, time to exchange mula at the bank for pounds.
Lanna Good luck with the retainers and congrats on getting out of braces. I still remember how slippery my teeth felt after the hardware was yanked off. I think I wore my retainer about six months, mostly at night, and then, well it disappeared. I found it again, years later during a move, under the bed. I wish I had washed it off and saved it. I would love to see how the old alignment is doing in my mouth.
Just this week I’ve realized there’s a distinct possibilty my company and my career may not survive the current low in the oil & gas exploration business. In 19 years I’ve been through four distinct lows, each more devastating than the last. It’s ironic that oil prices are relatively high right now (NYMEX light sweet closed @ $27.07/bbl yesterday - it was ~$10.60 or so a year ago), but there’s still no exploration money and the lights are going out all over the oil patch. The mood is bloodbath.
The ten years I’ve had my own company with my partner have seen two of these lows, and I think we survived them so far by working very hard and being able to run extremely lean, with a significant assist from the psychological ramifications of it being our company. But the changes we made a few years ago, while they allowed us to prosper with the last up (1995-mid '98), are now commonplace amongst the as yet survivors.
It’s not like we’re making buggy-whips or anything; y’all and I use more and more of the stuff. I could write a (yet another) paper on what’s gone on and is going on. The whole industry is changing and I’ve some doubt that the shakeout of niches will leave one we can fill. One alternative is attempting a large capitalization and jumpin’ on somebody’s game. Tough to do, right now.
This is the first time in ten years that I’ve really felt the decision to pull the plug may be only weeks away. And once we make that decision we start floating resumes and inquiries, but I really kind of feel like (great writing eh? - screw it) if I have to make a change, I might not like to do a Please! Anything in O & G! I’ll take it! change. It will, I think, if the time comes, be time for a REAL change (what do I really want to be when I grow up?).
We’re not there yet. I’ve cooked up some marketing plans in the last couple of days and I’m revising the business plan (an annual event, anyway). Oh, and the office is as neat as it’s ever been and the books are up-to-date in real time. We may (and probably will) light some fires anew; but if we don’t I’m sure I’ll be consulting y’all on the (yet to happen) changes thread.
Cheery post, no? I wouldn’t blame you if you skipped a lot. But this is one of the things we use the crew around here for. Skinny season though it may be, I am going to have an enjoyable Holiday Season.
Y’all do the same. And thanks.
Hey beatle, good luck. Keep us posted – and just for you I’ll drive a little extra this weekend.
-Melin
Oh, and the good news of the day is that Middle Son does NOT have mono (see post several spaces up and several days ago). He went back to school Monday (thank God!) and seems to be doing fine.
Oh, and Eldest Son will be getting HIS braces off next Tuesday. He’s already planning the menu for dinner that evening – everything he hasn’t been allowed to eat for the last two and a half years.
-Melin