Good on you, Chaos Bear!
btw - SCL, I found the link, and What A Cute Kitty! - Submit it to SOMC. I’m sure you’ll get votes from hockey fans everywhere
N o one wants to meeet me either. Let’s be shunned and ignored together! 
scl, definitely do send it. Cricket will be the cutest kitty there.
No one wants to meet me, either. May I join the shunned and ignored party?
anyrose, I was truly going to post the link again, but have been out this afternoon. A nice lady posted a telescope on Freecycle, and since Mr. SCL has wanted one for a long time I nabbed it for him. I enjoyed talking with her - turns out she not only has cats, but she is also a pagan!
Thanks for the votes of confidence on the picture. I have sent it in and am hoping I will make the top 20. If I can do that (I’ll know Monday) I can get all my hockey buddies to go vote for her. I gave a copy of the picture to the coach/general manager of the team yesterday - he cracked up and hung it in his office.
FCM, what do we have to do to earn a boat ride. It’s awful hot…
My head hurts. See, today was presentations. I did mine, and it turned out splendidly. I’ll tell you all about it later. The reason my head hurts is because of what happened just now. See, I had a bunch of texbooks with me down here, and to save on baggage I wanted to mail them home. The post office on the base closes at 2 pm, so I had to rush over there. Then the lady there and I started packing the books into a box until I realized they only take cash or check - I had neither. I had to run over to the ATM at the Navy Exchange, about 1/3 mile, to get cash. Fortunately, she stayed open a few extra minutes for me. Whew! This heat is killing me.
Because my head hurts, so must all of yours:
Oh yeah, the presentation. See, everyone else had these boring engineering presentations. “This is what I worked on. Here are the areas I worked on within that. First there was this one, and I had to do that, and we used such-and-so software.” Et cetera. BORING. I designed my presentation to be a story about Cinderella.
Without giving too much away, my project this summer was to write data calibration algorithms for a sensor. Like zeroing your bathroom scale, only much more complicated. And we needed to be able to find the calibration parameters that fit just right. So I said that those perfect parameters was Cinderella. The glass slipper was the data (that we used to search for the parameters). The ball was going out to the field and taking data. And the handsome and dashing prince? Me, of course. Everyone loved it. Five years from now, the only thing they will remember from those presentations is, “Who was that guy that did Cinderella?”
For the record, I want to meet all of you.
That thread is a big sloppy lovefest now. Gross.
I was browsing yet more job ads today, and got a chuckle. In the online version of the local paper, the job ads are divided into sections and the first line of each ad can only have a certain number of characters in it, I guess, because one said, “Part-Time Flexible Ho…”
I was happy yesterday when I realized that the newish shorts I was wearing, which I had bought about three or four weeks before and been happy that they were two sizes smaller than I had been wearing when I moved here, are nearly big enough now that I need the next size down. Three sizes in four months! I highly recommend it. I call it the “move away from your crazy parents” diet.
I want to meet all of you folks too, but don’t start thinking that means I’m going to be nice or something.
It’s getting crazy at work, but I had to share this site with y’all. Can someone visit this site and explain to me what, exactly, is going on? Here’s her eBay store if you need to see more. Oh, and I think an MMP Dopefest would be a wonderful thing.
I have no idea, but it made me crack up.
Maybe she makes costumes for furries.
All desire for food and/or sex just left me–I think for good…
She looks hot–strictly in the body temperature sense!
Well, there is the cat suit category. :eek:
It’s a Yeti website.
Um, show up some time when we’re sailing. We’re kinda easy. Of course, if you want to earn major points, you can show up this weekend - we’re gonna be cleaning the boat. My first chore is the head (that’s nautical talk for bathroom) where I will dispose of the left-behind toiletries, meds, combs, and who knows what-all is in there. Yesterday, FCD went down to do a little cleaning, and he found 2 full size towels, which are now laundered and awaiting a return to the boat.
Happy Anniversary, Puggalina!!!
Lessee, what else do I have to share today? Not much. It’s lovely and cool - low 70s. It rained most of the day. The sun just came out, so we’ll have a little sunset today. Bobbio, we’re not quite as far in the boonies as you are (as you know) but the moon casts some bright light here also. I love it, especially when the ground is snow-covered!
I’m finally going to run a load of pots in the kiln. It’s going to be a mild weekend, so tomorrow when I get home, I’ll start it up. With luck, it’ll be done early on Saturday. Then I get to play with glazes. Woohoo! Once everything is glazed, I’ll post pics. You’ll see what I’ll be trying to sell at the craft fair next month.
And that’s all I got. TGIAlmostF
I’ve already met you. And mika! And a few Montreal Dopers. And, of course, KeithT. I feel pretty special! 
I’m sooooo overwhelmed at work this week. It’s because we’re a growing company and are shortstaffed right now. And they really really need to hire about 6 people for our group. But I just saw two of the candidates that came in for interviews today… :eek: Do college grads *really * not know to show up for an interview in a suit?? One came in in a short-sleeved shirt! C’mon people. Maybe this place doesn’t require a three-piece suit, but it’s an interview. At least put on nice pants and a tie (for a guy, which both of these were and neither of them had on a tie). The second one had on a long-sleeved shirt, but it was in very loud colors. Yikes! I’m starting to wonder if I got my job because I was qualified or because I actually put on a suit and heels!
Hi everyone. Haven’t read the popular Doper thread, so I have no idea if anyone wants to get to know me, but I can tell you that I’d love to meet all the MMPers. (When I win the lottery, I’ll be sponsoring an MMPFest…)
Tonight’s surfing location is Panera. Hopefully I’ll get to post from home tomorrow night.
Meeks, I did a double-take too. It looks completely different, doesn’t it?
Ellen, we had a storm. I’m not positive, but I think the dark spots are burn marks and some lightning bounced through there (to put it technically). I can see my neighborhood from work and there was definitely lightning in the area. So sorry to hear about your friend’s wife. I was really grateful noone and nothing was hurt when the branches fell.
Happy Anniversary to the Anachis!
Looking forward to the new pics, FCM.
I’m overwhelmed at work too, taxi. I’ve been trying to delegate everything I can, but we all have so much to do that there’s always something going undone. Gotta get up early tomorrow and make sure I’ve got my ducks in a row for a project status meeting. We need to hire a consultant pronto if we’re going to meet our deadline (it’s a really narrow field of expertise and we don’t have anyone in-house yet). The areas that need to get this together for us are hemming and hawing, so I figure I’ll give my bosses ammunition by just telling them that we can’t meet our implementation deadline if we don’t get this person here now.
It rained today! Yay! Not a lot, but every little bit helps.
Well, gotta get home and clean house a bit and make sure the cable guys can make it to the right parts of the basement if they need to come in tomorrow.
Hi everyone!!!
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<ahem> Clearing Throat <ahem>
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Let me be truthful. I didn’t just do a double-take, I squinted at the pic and reloaded it and then went back to the first and then to the last and looked at where the fence was and then back to the first and then called my SO over and both of us squinted at it…and then I believed it. How’d you get all that done, anyway? Forgive me if you’ve said, I’ve been a bit spacey lately. See how I missed that it was Pugs’ birthday?
Happy birthday, Pugs!
Thanks, everyone for the congratulations. No, the new place doesn’t have crawlies, anyway, not any evidence that I can find. Regardless, tomorrow is the day when I set off bug foggers (because they’re really neat) and spray the perimeter with perimeter-spray. Also, the apartments have a contract with an exterminator that comes every two months to spray and things.
I took two Benadryls to help me take a nap before work. When someone asks you how many to take, always reply with one. Two Benadryls make you reeeally groggy when you wake up from your nap.
Also, I got a haircut today, since I haven’t gotten one in a couple of months, and I feel much better. Since I hadn’t gotten my hair cut in a long time, I hadn’t gotten my eyebrows waxed in an equally long time, and so my hairdresser made fun of me a bit, during and after. She said something along the lines of “Looks like you can see better now” due to the fact that my eyebrows were… well, discrete, and not one blobby eyebrow. I thought I was going to die laughing, but I guess you would have had to have been there. Also, it apparently hurts worse when you haven’t had it done in a while.
At least she’s better than the first guy I went to awhile back. I go to this guy that I recognize from me working at W-M. I get home, and AG notices my new eyebrows, and says “they’re uneven!” Sure enough, he was right. I went the next day to (then AG’s, now both of ours) hairdresser, and she fixed them right up. Except for the fact that when the first guy did it, my eyebrows were atomic pink for two days. The flesh, not the brows. So, when I went the next day to meet AG’s mom for the first time with what looks like clown makeup. I was a sad bear.
This whole thing has the tone of a 4th grader to me… I need to sleep more.