Hey, just because I like the back bench on the bus doesn’t make me “colored people”! 
(No offense to anyone, please, but IRL I’m really a see-through red-head, so the line just wrote itself :))
Ding! Ding! Ding! The Understatement of the Year Competition is closed! We have a WINNAH!!
Haze – OK, you’re drunk. Now STOP PLYING YOUR SPELLCHECKER WITH DRINKS! 
With that hair of yours, you’d be considered brighty-colored by most Spaniards 
We tend to be brown-on-brown-on-brown, with occasional splashes of lighter brown.
Off to Amazon to look for a book on this programming language. Worst case scenario I add a few novels to it and get me some novels
Which one? If it’s not some proprietary 4GL maybe I’ll have some pointers for you.
And getting yourself some extra books since “I’m already paying for the shipping” is always a good excuse 
Of course it’s propietary (ABAP, used only by and for SAP). C’mon, SAP wouldn’t be able to charge $6000 for a week’s worth of propaganda if everything wasn’t propietary. They call it a course, but 10% is telling you how to do stuff and the other 90% telling you other stuff that can be done but if you want to know how, it’s $10000 because it’s an advanced course. Courses for programmers are cashed even higher.
I don’t know how many of the people here will be familiar with the Asterix books. It’s about a gaul village that resists the romans thanks to the wit of the main character Asterix, the wisdom of the local druid Panoramix and a magic potion that gives drinkers exceptional strength for a short period (Obelix fell into a cauldron when he was a kid, so in him the effect is permanent). Something they repeat throughout the series is that certain secrets must only go “from the mouth of a druid to the ear of another.” That’s an attitude you see a lot outside the comic strips, I call it druidism.
Right, should have known…
I love them! I even made a point of reading a few of them in French at one point (my French was, and probably is, still good enough to get the gist if not all the nuances of relatively simple texts)
And yes, “Druidism” as you call it is soooooo common. In Industry in general, but especially in the Large Dinosaurs still left roaming the Earth.
Hurrah! It’s Wednesday at last and that means I’m off to the pub with friends for beerverages tonight. Can’t come too soon, that’s what I say.
So far today my boss has only been to visit us once and is pleased to see that my “to-do” list is getting ever longer. She lives in fear of the day I’m bored, apparently. This morning I decided to track the two DHL packages I sent out yesterday. One has happily made it’s way as far as Germany on it’s way to China, and the other one going to Malaysia has no tracking record. Perhaps they decided it was suspicious and blew it up before it left the post room.
I think tea is in order now. Before I tackle the heap of donkey poo on my desk that I need to get through today.
Heeee, your daughter’s a bright one, isn’t she, SO? It scares me that she’s only 2 years older than my niece (who is also capable of…incisive remarks).
Oooh, I like the druidism label. Fits several people I know to a T, unfortunately.
Took me a second to translate L.O.L. correctly, doggio. Sorry about the back.
We love you too, Hank.
Hi rigs! Sorry about the invasion. How long will they be around? I completely missed our invasion a couple years back (thank heavens!).
Off to get ready for work.
GT
Kat, young lady, are those dishes done yet? Well, they are not goin’ to wash themselves you know. Now march right back in there and get busy! I mean it! Don’t give me that look! I said get busy! I saw that! It won’t do you any good. Now get those dishes done! NOW!
Hey, if it’ll get a thesis written it’ll get dishes washed.
Mornin’ Y’all! I’m up and caffienatin’. It never really rained here, just sorta sprinkled off and on. GRRRRRR… Anywho, today I go mow friends’ yards. Plus I’m mowin’ ol’ y’all know who’s yard. He gets that done for free. Well, he “pays” me in a different way actually. 
doggio I do know that employees at Miller get sump’n like three or four cases of beer free each month. I don’t know if that applies to temps but one can dream.
BooFae your desk is full of donkey poo? What a strange job you have!
ETA: Cicadas is strange critters. We don’t get many of 'em around heah and I’m glad.
Morning, everyone. It’s too early. Why am I awake?
I don’t think I’m going to throw up, but I feel a little less certain about it than yesterday.
db, one of your cashiers didn’t show because he’s in jail. Yeesh. My work is unexciting. We only skip for illness or death of relatives.
Today I’ve got to organize the freezer, wash the dishes, and possibly go downtown to buy decent bagels. Also book the first ultrasound. This sounds like a lot of work. I’ll have to slot in several naps. It’s my first of two whole days off in a row. I’m so happy.
Brjjkhuiohaserffgummmpph. I’m late caffeinating today, and it shows.
I’m tooling down one of the back roads this morning on my way to work, come around a bend, and day-uuuummm, there’s an overturned vehicle on the side of the road. A couple of Norfolk (VA) cops are there directing traffic, and I’m still in Nawth Carliner 
(they live in the county). Well, all of the EMT training kicks in, and I go looking for victims. It was a lone driver in her mid-20s, and she was out of her car and sitting in the front seat of her pseudo-stepdad’s truck.
No equipment with me, so I did a quick trauma check, and found some abdominal tenderness. She had originally refused a rescue call, but I talked her into letting me call for a full crew to check her out. Then the wait began. My county has 1 full-time ambulance crew during the business week, and they were out on another run for a heart attack. After about 30 minutes, one of the other volunteers showed up, followed by a private ambulance. All of us advised her to take the ride, or at least let her PSD take her to the hospital to be looked over. She refused it all.
:mad: but more towards :rolleyes:
I really need to assemble a trauma bag and take my radio with me when I go to work. Cell phone coverage sucks in East Jeebus NC. :smack:
In other matters, today is 2 years to the day that I had my sveltification surgery. I have an appointment to see the surgeon for a follow-up.
I slept in. Late night. Ball game, then sat up with my friend, finishing all the beer at home.
In fact, ALL of the beer.
You guys have been busy while I’m gone.
Why oh why is Photobucket blocked from me at work? I’ll check the pottery later.
Where’s my coffee…?
Morning all. We had some thunderstorms last night. I am taking Maggie to the dog park this morning, and I need a hair cut.
MBG, you finished all your beer? Good boy, you can have dessert!
swampy, if it was a Guinness brewery, I’d be applying.
If it was Guinness brewery, based upon last night, I would understand the reason to put more temp workers on.
Oy.
fcm, 
about the doggie dishes. I can’t wait to see the kitty jars assembled.
haze, ya know I kinda figured that was THAT guy when I looked at the pic the first time. He has a proprietary air about him. Kick him in the dangly bits and tell him to piss off.
bobbio, wow, time flies, no? We’ve been calling you that for two whole years!
swampy, if you meet Laverne and Shirley, would you get us autographs? Or even Lenny and Squiggy’s.
I need to do some more caffenating myself this morning. Back later.
Tupug
Heh. I’ll try to do this next time I run into him.
I am desperately drinking coffee in an attempt to recover from last night. Argh. Stupid friends who don’t have work to wake up to in the morning. I would have left before things got hairy, but both Scottish Darling and Mr. Blue Tie are leaving for England next week, so I wanted to spend as much time with them as I could. Mr. Blue Tie and I managed to extract ourselves a bit early (half past midnight) and help each other stumble home. All I wanna do is go home and sleep after classes, but I have to meet my parents for family stuff. Gah. Need rest!
I took Lucy to the vet last night, and sure enough, she’s running a fever. They don’t know why though. After running a blood test, the only thing that came up was low clotting factor. Her breathing is good, so no heartworm-dying problems. We should call if she starts coughing, especially coughing up blood! :eek:
So they gave us some antibiotics in case there is an infection causing the fever. :dubious: We’ll see.
I got home after the vet and cooked dinner, then did the dishes. Played with Ernie a bit, and passed out in my chair about 8:30. I hauled my ass to bed at 9:30. But I kept waking up. I’ve been doing that a lot lately, and I’m pooped!
Yays and boos to whoever needs them.
I’m so glad the weather is nice today. When my terrorist gets here, we’re going down the stairs, and outside to my car. And maybe even for a short drive. Yay!
Hm, I have to admit That Guy looks somewhat tasty. :dubious: I am probably not helping matters.
Well, anyway – yesterday we had a monster hail storm here! Monster! And we were in traffic when it happened. We had to hid under a tree to keep from getting pummeled to death. It was still loud. I have photographic evidence of the carnage.
Giant hail stone
One of my poor hostas that got beat to death
The van, after hiding under the pine tree
Tell me these aren’t cute knees
And just so you think he’s not cock-eyed all the time:
Indeed, you are not helpin’ matters at all Ellen.
Bobbio happy anniversary. Like Puggy said it just does not seem like we’ve been callin’ you Bobbio for two years now. Oh and you did what you were supposed to this mornin’. You can’t help it if somebody doesn’t take up the offer of help.
Ok, I’m home and yards are all mowed. Whew! Ima tahrd bear. I’ve had a shower. Soon I shall have me a sammich and then perhaps a nap.
So, MBG and Haze…
HOW Y’ALL FEELIN’ THIS MORNIN’???
I am out of here in 20mins, then home for a quick splish-splosh in the bath before we sort out dinner and head to the pub for beerverages. Even better, I get a lie-in tomorrow because I have to drop the car off for it’s annual service and the garage doesn’t open until 8.30am…and it’s only five mins drive from home.
That is all.
