OED? If it’s only available to subscribers that would be why I can’t find it. I figured it would have to do with actual garters somehow.
Morning all. Back at work after not coming in yesterday. Not in the mood. Not sick, but suffering from a terminal case of ennui in relation to this job, which feels like it will never frackin’ end! I am so tired of this sh*t! And I still have another 5 weeks left before I finish!
(I missed this earlier.)
Hey Lunch! ~waving~ (even though you can’t see me)
It’s Stealtharoo! 
And you can’t even see the blue cape, can you?
Stealthalump and Hidaroo? ::waves back:: 
**Haze **-- if you do go back “for a year”, how much pressure might be brought to bear on you to stay “just one more year,” and then… you get the idea? If this isn’t a danger, I guess people can survive a lot for one year. But if it is… 
**Cutie **-- I second the idea of checking how much hassle it would be to switch offices. And I hope they get this US scheduled so you can find out what’s wrong!
**Lili **-- yup, spike his milk. Added bonus, he’ll grow up with an already-acquired taste for alcohol!
**Rigs **-- good luck job-hunting! And of course there’s nothing intelligent on TV; smart programming scares off the viewers and gets lousy rating :rolleyes:
:Sigh: A pet peeve of mine – yet another Doper starts a thread asking, essentially, “I’d like to go to Israel but I’m scared of getting blown up.” I finally got irked enough and with some Google and some independent research reached the conclusion that my intuition was correct – Israel is actually nearly twice as safe (post #7 in the thread I linked above) as the US (in terms of one’s chance of dying a violent death or in a traffic accident.) And that’s in 2006 when we actually did have something resembling a (limited) war! Normally it’s more than twice as safe!!
I’m not even blaming Lizard – I know the image of Israel as a war-zone is so ingrained in people – but I am sick and tired enough of that fact that I need to vent here.
“Fighting ignorance” indeed… :rolleyes:
Hey all, not much going on today. A bit of very good news, which I have been fretting over for the last several months. Mom has been approved for a liver transplant, but has been put on the inactive list as her numbers are okay and she seems to be holding steady. Also, my dad, who was operated on for prostate cancer and has been undergoing treatment for quite awhile, has been proclaimed by his doctors to be cancer free. heavy sigh of relief Now if everyone else I am related to either by blood or marriage would have similar outcomes, I would relax and not worry so much.
Keeping with the good news tone, here ae some pictures of Pretty L’il Miss, my grandaughter, who is now six and a half months. I need to take a trip to Anchorage so I can spoil her rotten, very soon!
It’s gonna be an early night here, I am just so sleepy, for no good reason, so bed it is!
You don’t have enough nicknames that you’d like me to start thinking of more?! :dubious:
Great news, kai!
Hey, it’s my own form of stealth – half the time nobody understands who the hell people are talking about! 
nm
btw, your grand daughter is gorgeous!
Haze, you’re making me think of the two years I spent Back Home helping care for Dad. On one hand it was hell (at least in your case nobody’s dying), on the other I did a lot of growing.
Being deported would include a bonus of “not being able to enter the country for several years,” wouldn’t it? Now that would suck big time.
The one-year period after getting your PhD is only for jobs in your field. But any decent employer you find in that period should be happy to help you keep your work permit (all I would have needed from mine was a letter as proof of employment, but the bastiches weren’t decent).
No, I’m not keeping my Lent resolution. I’ve gone traditional instead and am eating less. Uhm? Oh yeah, I have a job again. With the same place where I only lasted 7 work days because the person I was replacing didn’t leave. But this time I’m replacing someone else, only it was supposed to be for a few weeks (and only “data loads” and “final support”, both of which I can do fine), and the end date is being moved back so it looks like it will be for a few months. I hate hotel living 
Lili, some day I’d like a map of your family, only I’ve been afraid to ask.
Gratz to kai and comf to terror zone guy dodge Lunch’s attack
Congrats on the job! Hopefully if it’s really going to be for a longer haul they’ll wise up and figure an apartment will cost them less to rent for you… (or are you paying your own hotel bill? :()
And yay (for us) on your not keeping your Lent resolution! 
Spoken like a true denizen of The Basque Country!! Tackles Nava at the waist
No no no no, it’s daily wage plus expenses.
The daily wage is funny, in theory I’m actually supposed to report exact hours but it’s something like three separate reports:
- one saying “8 hours each day”
- another one with overtime
- the third indicating undertime
Like most folks I just wing 40 h/wk and do only the first report, reserving #2 for “there is no freaking way I’ll work a 50h/wk and not get paid that 25% extra” and #3 for “well, gee, you see, I just went into contractions in the middle of a training session” (not me, but someone who was here two weeks ago isn’t in this one because she did do that last week).
In other projects, hotels would get booked in chunks months in advance. After all, if you know you’re going to have 30-50 people traveling in from outside the area for 8 months, any hotel will be happy to let you make a 40-room 8-month reservation and cancel or ask for extra as needed. In this project, apart of there being one Big Consulting Firm and about 6 different subcontractors involved, most seem to just book each week. This week there is a big trade fair in Bilbao, so the “cheapish” hotels outside town (which have free intraweb) were all booked full. Therefore, my hotel is a ridiculously expensive one in the middle of town where they charge for a skimpy “pastry and coffee” breakfast more than we’re paying for daily-menu N.O.L. Their intraweb prices should be illegal: more for a single hour than Rob-A-Fonica charges for a whole month in their cheapest no-hour-limit package. Yesterday’s weather sucked, for today it was supposed to be worse (we were getting the tails from the same cyclone that led to those spectacular images from Lufthansa’s flight), so I took a cab from the hotel, which the customer is also paying for.
Hate hotel living; love knowing that pretty much everything I make after taxes goes to the piggy bank.
See, that’s why I can poke fun at you, Lunch, we’re in the same boat. tickles Lunch until he lets go
Sounds like something I could get used to, actually. At least for a while!
Yup
I’m not all that ticklish… (tickles back while holding on)
I’m reasonably sure I can find ticklish spots, you know…
Well, if slipping your fingers in under my clothes is fair game, then I’m sure you’re right…
I’m very tired today and I think I have a fever.
Heee, the night crew has the sillies, I see. Nice to see you back, Nava. Gratz on the new gig. That storm looked really messy…
Off to vote, then it’s back to work again. Woo. Hoo. :rolleyes:
GT
… is that serious?
Why would I try to tickle your wrists? I only know one person with ticklish wrists, and he gets tickled just by hearing the word “tickle”! I do know people with ticklish ears and necks but it’s not places where you want to use your fingers to tickle.
Thanks, GT
Pie, sounds like it could be the flu. Do get that thermometer and measure your temperature now, young lady! One of the names of the flu in Spanish is trancazo, meaning something like “hit with a big chunk of wood” because you have this feeling that someone should’a taken that truck’s plates.
You were attacked by a school of candiru?
Of course not. Even **GT **said we have Teh Sillies
… The tickling, I mean… You’re more than seriously welcome to slip your fingers in 
**GT **-- Vote early, vote often!
Cutie – hope this doesn’t develop into a full-fledged sickie situation 