What Madame Defarge Has Been Up To Lately -- A Yarny MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Muuuunnnuuurrrf. I’m firmly ensconsed in The Chair of Engineering Power in my office, late to work and just now caffeinating. Normally, I’d be on my 3rd barrel of coffee by now.

I got up on time this morning, but there was a nasty wreck involving a semi and a pickem-up truck on the way to work, so I stopped to assist. Amy, the EMT whose son was killed, was there, so she’s back at work. :slight_smile: I told her welcome back, too.

The guy in the pickup had the worst injuries, and he was flown to the same horse pistol that VWife went to.

I didn’t do much; carried and lifted stuff, and got to play perimeter thug when the landing zone was active. No one got by me, but then no one tried to.

I hate the Outer Banks. Too many people, too much traffic, and too many ways to get your wallet siphoned. Nice scenery, though, in both the terrain and bikini-clad senses.

For the past week, the little finger on my right hand has been sore, kind of like a hangnail that became embedded, bit I could not see anything dangling. Last night it was really bugging me, and I noticed the flesh right next to the nail was looking funny and a little swollen. I still couldn’t find any hangnail, so I pulled the skin away from the nail, and I got a big glob of pus to squirt out. :eek: I tried again, and even more showed up. Three more times, with more pus twice, and thin blood on the fifth and last. Disgusting but fascinating, and this morning the finger feels a lot better.

Swampus, congrats on taking our advice to get your hair cut and get a job. Now git yer butt off welfare.

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I just finished the newspaper, so I thought I’s drop in. I’m off today, so Maggie and I are going to make a quick trip to the dog park before it gets too hot.

MamaTigs, glad PapaTigs got some good drugs. Hope he does better soon.

Have fun moving, Ali and meli! Next time I move I am burning everything that doesn’t fit in my car.

Congrats on the staple removing, Kat.

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Oh, so it’s all my fault now? :cnofused:

Wuss! :stuck_out_tongue:
Or will you be nice&bad behind mom’s back when she isn’t looking? Please!?

See, I told you it isn’t always my fault. I wasn’t even here! In fact, I was on the second floor below ground in a concrete building without windows!!! Not that I’m not going to make things worse now that I’m back, of course… :smiley:

**Nava **-- I don’t mind guys thinking other guys are hot. In fact, I prefer that to women finding other guys hot. 'Cos it means they (the women) aren’t looking at me, me, ME!!

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Kat yay on gettin’ the staples out. Sorry I forgot to say so earlier.

BBBobbio you mean if I go to work I can’t keep collectin’ unemployment? What’s the fun in that! :stuck_out_tongue: Oh yeah, I remember now, it means four times as much money.

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I’m jealous - I’m looking at hot dogs and Fritos for dinner (Feeling lazy) unless I can talk the Kid and her ManToy into “letting” me take them somewhere.

A Not Fun day, have to fire two people, bleh.

Then, a meeting this afternoon with the IT and Maintenance gurus. I asked for a simple thing: Every building in our district uses the same FOB access system, networked all together. I asked for a reader to be placed by my dispatcher’s window that we could use as a ‘non-access’ reader. The idea is that when people come in to work, they swipe there, and we have an attendance record.

When I need it, I do a report asking for records at that reader only, during a time frame.

THIS has become a “project”, requiring meetings, cost estimates, justifications, policies, procedures, etc…

I’m taking some duct tape to tie up the IT guru and dip him in the river.

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yawn I’m awake. And at work. And waiting for the caffeine to kick in. And it’s Thursday, which means tomorrow is Friday and the start of a nice long weekend for us Canucks. Fireworks agogo! I’ll have my camera handy and this time I’m damn sure gonna get some good pics. They’re so hard to photograph when doing so over the rooftops of a residential neighbourhood. You never know where the next ones are going to pop up, and then you find one shooting coloured balls and take a long exposure shot only to have some really fancy-schmancy fireworks going off elsewhere, and you can’t take the shot because your camera’s still exposing those damn balls[sup]*[/sup].

So for the past several weeks, as I make my usual trip through my work-local supermarket, I keep passing this display of baby cookies called “Baby Mum-Mums.” It’s a bit of an absurd name on its own, but every time I pass them I am reminded of a particular pair of scenes in Blake Edwards’ The Party, first where Peter Sellers is trying to feed the parrot and cooing at by repeatedly saying, “Birdie num-nums?” and shortly thereafter where he finds the microphone for the house PA system and, not knowing what it’s for, starts muttering this phrase into it again, much to the confusion of the guests. So now whenever I pass those cookies, I can’t help but mutter, “Birdie num-nums. Birdie num-nums” in a thick Indian accent. Damn them. I can’t get the phrase out of my head, now.

Anyway, to address the first thing:

CONGRATULATIONS, SWAMPBEER!

You are now the MMP’s official brauermeister. Beerverages on Swampy! :slight_smile:

BBBobbiop - It seems to me that your daily road trips must be more interesting these days, what with being able to stop at accident or other trouble sites to offer your well-trained assistance. Is your training valid out of state? Like, could you stop at a scene in another state and be able to lend a hand with your home-state credentials?

LiLi - There, see? Summer’s not so bad. Some nice home brewed iced tea is the reason summer was invented, after all. Well, that, and bikinis.

Ali - Yeah, I agree with the others. You’re an adult, you make your own decisions, and unlike when you lived under their roof, they are not capable calling down the wrath of almighty God himself if they don’t like what you’re doing. If they try, God’s just gonna shrug and say, “Eh … what can ya do? It’s outta my hands. Sorry, man.” Run with that. :slight_smile:

Heff & Roo - Um … were you under the impression that we think you’re all innocent 'n stuff? Because you know, we’re all perfectly aware that your mind is every bit as filthy as the rest of ours. :smiley:

[sub]* I know what you’re thinking, and you’re a pervert. However, if you want to see some of the balls I took pictures of this past Victoria Day…[/sub]

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I found out I have a HR person!

Goooooosh.

Last Monday I had to do one of those automated trainings. This one was about legal compliance and one of the things that came up was overtime. Now, my current contract has a way of dealing with overtime that I find very strange, but the agent (the same dude who insisted that I had to live in Switzerland, which is totally wrong) says it’s fine. The course came with a link to compliance officers and, being in one of those dangerous moods of mine, I emailed mine asking whether he had any references to swiss labor laws, because you see, I’m not familiar with them and all and I’d like to know the laws I’m working under, you know? I’m weird that way.

After some back and forth, I have a meeting with my HR person, which I didn’t even know existed until half an hour ago. Isn’t that nice? I have an HR person! She may be able to explain whether I need a certificate from the doctor to miss work for health reasons!

So either I’ll be back from the meeting knowing the answers to some questions I’ve been asking for months, or saying that these Swiss ain’t good for nothing but chocolate and cheese :stuck_out_tongue: Hopefully the first. I’d worked with swiss before and those were terribly efficient, but I’ve had bad luck with the current batch methinks.
Mork, when I was 10 or 11 I used to think that this chick in a tale who asked for “a dress like the sun, one like the moon and one like the stars” must never have seen fireworks. Can’t speak for the rest but yes I wanna see the pics :slight_smile:

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Morning, everyone.

Hugh Jackman is gorgeous. And he sings, too.

One of my co-workers has her harem all picked out: Clive Owen, Jake Gyllenhal, Colin Firth, Edward Norton, and a bunch I can’t remember.

It’s a nice, human temperature today. I commence my morning lounging in comfort.

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Hee hee hee.

Nava wants to see my balls. [sub]I’m so childish, I know.[/sub]

Okay, first there’s a night survey of the scene I patrolled in search of anything that explodes. This looks north west into Brampton, ON, towards the Georgetown/Milton/Norval area. In pursuit of explody things, I caught a number of shots, but only a few worthy of even displaying. There’s these balls, and these balls, too, and a big assplosion. The best shot I caught that night was this sparkly and ooh, shiny display. And for no particular reason, I also took a picture of the moon.

I wish I’d gotten mo’ betta shots, but the rest were too blurry to share, owing to my use of the landscape focus mode, which doesn’t really work all that well at night when it can’t see enough to really focus on.

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I’ll stop whenever I see something, regardless of the state, but it’s a little bit of a gray area regarding certification. NC has it’s own certification test, but most states, Virginia included, participate in something called NREMT, the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians. I could take the NREMT exam, but I’d have to go somewhere out of NC to do it and pay $$$ to register.

The curriculum is standardized by Uncle Sam, and with other laws, I’m protected as far as liability. About the only thing the 2 different exams mean is that if I try to get a job in an NREMT state, I have to take the NREMT exam, and depending on when I was certified/renewed, I’d have to take a refresher course first.

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BBBobbio, the infected hangnail story was almost a zit story, and who doesn’t love a good pus-filled zit story. :stuck_out_tongue:

**Ali **and meli… been there, done that, as have a couple of my friends with parents who are more conservative than mine. Somehow when it’s their own kids, parents manage to find a way to rationalize the whole thing. Even my friend whose mother is a reallyreallyreally conservative Catholic was ok with him living with is girlfriend/fiancee (They had a two-bedroom apt and I think she convinced herself that they were using both bedrooms.) and she has even come to terms with his brother who’s living with his girlfriend and their two kids with no intentions of getting married. :eek: Parents do get over it eventually.

No one’s mentioned Sean Connery as an older Brit that they drool over? He seems like such an obvious choice! Or at least he was ~10 years ago, say when The Rock came out. He was pretty hot in Entrapment too. Mmmmmm, an aging James Bond. Although new James Bond… well, I’m at work so I’m not going to say what I’d do to him! :wink:

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Well, there’s that whole guarding the Pope gig, too…

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Hmmmmm, a harem, not a bad idea at all. :smiley:

We are supposed to be getting load o rain today which is a good thing because Mr. Anachi has been messing around in the yard knocking out sprinkler pipes in anticipation of his new “water feature” (read pool). Anyhoo, he managed to crack an elbow joint in one and now there’s a gusher in the back yard and just a piddle in the section it feeds in the front yard. :rolleyes: Well, it keeps him out of the bars.

Can I tell you something? It’s very hard to maintain a strick diet when your office is having a “bring in your favorite dish” day and there’s also a new caterer coming with samples. :smack:

mork said balls. <smerk>

Tupug

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Taxi, you can keep the James Bonds, I’m waiting to see how Richard Armitage ages…not that I wouldn’t object now, of course. But how would I explain it to 'im indoors?

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…in the most UNfabulous sets of tights known to man, too… which is a pity because those guys tend to the yummy.
I’m a happy camper at least for a few minutes :smiley: Switzerland treats sick days like Spain, which means that when I take days off to see the doctor, it doesn’t count toward vacation. I don’t get paid because my pay is by the hour (if it was per month I wouldn’t lose pay) but them’s the breaks with this kind of contract.
mork has shiny balls!

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Hold it, I’m confused… isn’t 'im indoors packed in a crate, aboard a slow ship bound for Upper New York State!? With fudge? Or was it with Tablet??? :confused:

Somebody said “balls” here? What is the MMP coming too. Pretty soon the guys will be flirting with the gals, the gals with the guys, and maybe even guys with guys!
Oh, wait…

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I’ve always loved popping a good zit. Seein’ how I’m quickly approaching geezerdom, they are quite rare these days. I’ll take what I can get… :stuck_out_tongue:

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Especially since a vast majority of the drivers in this area don’t understand the consequences of mass X velocity and that two solid objects can’t occupy the same space at the same time.

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He’s not been packed yet, I had to leave him on the loose today because he’s just bought a new DVD recorder and he has to get it working. Then he’ll be going in the crate with fudge and tablet - double bribery, I want to make sure he doesn’t come back. Of course, the lack of return address might help, and in the time it takes to ship him to meeks, I will have moved house!

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North of the 13-58 junction on the west side of Suffolk, I drive a half hour to work in white knuckled terror; south of the junction is a relaxing half hour drive to the VunderLair.