Wow, Salsa Susage Lasagna!:evil:

I would say yes.

The description of how a hot dog is made starts off with the eloquent:
Special selected trimmings?!?

as serious as a hot dog can really be I suppose.

Im with RStar, the lasagna sounds awesome. highly flatulently reactive, but awesome. :blush:

OK - I have a pulse-quickening oral midterm in about 30 minutes. I'm anxious, nervous, excited, and generally freaking out right now. Not much more studying I can do. A classmate and myself fired questions at each other yesterday, and consoled one another on the phone last night... (over the fact that we were both freaking OUT!)... Nothing more I can do but wait to stand in front of the firing squad.

/sigh

/panic

That sounds dirty. :evil:

(Ok, I obviously have my mind in its usual place this morning......)

Haha! Indeed - so... guess what!

They moved my group to Thursday at 10:50. I can't tell if I'm happy or mad over it... On one hand, I have more time to prepare. On the other hand, there's nothing to really 'prepare'... just 2 more days to fret over it.

This has been entertaining me (no, I don't know why you're a flying green thing with a bladder control problem).

this post represents the dozens of posts i dare not post but really really want to but can't.




yeah, the grammar sux.

hey Lash, a weiner would sure hit the spot right now. thanks for making me a hungrybear.

Why not ? But let's have a Hot Dog first, ok ? :blush:

Why not?

Why not?

dead men tell no tales

Who's up for a séance?

Geeeze, then you can't shut them up!

Alright, let's just get a small posse together, track down the Mickster and then ply him with Kahlua. We'll get his cryptic ass talking, np.

I'm farty today.

You're farty everyday, GC. Are you just especially so today?

"whereabouts of unknown 8th dwarf finally revealed. film at eleven."

Time for MIckey's Halloween at DCA Thursday night. Hope it will be fun, unless I don't wake up tomorrow. But that might be better.

Anyone else going?

if i don't wake up today, i'll be there... in spirit!





oh wait. i'm already here. guess i forgot to go home.

Well, my spirit is always there even though I am physically not there often.

Enjoying watching music videos this morning. Wierd Al, Audioslave, Heart, Cheap Trick...I remember when the Dream Police were all over my dreams.

AND U2's 'Where The Streets Have No Name'. Man, Bono looked damn hot with that hair. This was the video where they filmed on the rooftop in L.A. and the news said 'A band called U2....' Wow, that must have been a long time ago.

Well, me today, I feel antsy. Too many things in my head, can't focus on one.

Worried about that little boy lost up at Crater Lake. So cold.

Got our new cell phones last night. I'm surprised, but happy, that a pre-pay plan was offering free phones. Convenient, given that my old phone suddenly stopped working. So now I have the same phone, just a newer model. One that works.

Working vs. Not Working is always a plus

Yes, these days it seems like working is a bonus!!

Soooo (to coin a phrase) who's your carrier? I have Verizon, and I get great coverage except for one little spot. The lot my house sits on!

Ok, it's the whole neiborhood, but still. At Chapman and Brookhurst they are suppose to have good solid service (that's what they tell me on the phone anyway). But heading north on Brookhurst just when you pass over Chapman, the bars drop from full to about three, then turn left into my housing tract and it drops to one. But at work the only service that gets through is Verizon (in the Huntington Beach Industrial park next to Boeing).

g'nite John-boy
 

walking through the Park yesterday, i passed "the Bootsrappers", the interactive singing pirate quartet now staged in front of Cafe Orleans.

Jon Walmsley (Jason Walton) from The Waltons tv show was playing the guitar and singing duet, with Capt. Jack Sparrow staggering in the background.

iPod update, 'cause I know y'all care.

So, brand new 4GB nano for free is darn nice and all, what with the color screen, more info on the display, photos, games, etc. that my mini doesn't have. But it's still 4GB. So I gots to thinking: The 4GB is $200, the 8GB is $250. I'm selling my mini (Hi Kevy!) for more than the difference between those two...so I'm now the owner of an 8GB nano. :D

I might have considered spending the same amount and going for the 30GB video, but 1) eh, I don't need that much space, 2) I like the tiny tiny nano, and 3) CP's old 20GB just bit the dust, the hard drive making sickening clunking noises so I'm not particularly keen on getting a model with moving parts right now.

Thanks.

I had a pissy day at work. Came home to a couple of pissy kids and was generally in a pissy mood.

So I sat in the dark of my living room for awhile and watched the pretty pretty lights of a Tomorrowland big fig. It's quite striking in the dark.

I feel better.

Goodnight.

For what?:confused:

Sorry you had a bad day. I hope tomorow is better!:)

Hey... I wanna renegotiate :D

So, most of you know I've worked at a Movie Theatre for almost 18 year now and for the most part it's been part time. So when the original company closed the theatre, I figured "it was time to retire." Then, Mann comes along and buys the theatre and I get the call from a friend that no one knows how to run the projection booth. And not to boast or anything but I am probably one of the best around mostly because of time on the job.

So after many, many years of keeping the place nice and the film looking good, things were running very good, I knew I had to go back to part time and get a "real" job, which is what I did.

Sooooo, now I"m just hanging around 1 night a week and the theatre has taking a major nose-dive since I left. Again, no ego there, just the fact that most every film has been scratched, there are missing trailers and THX sound logo's on non-thx theatres, among other things like stuff breaking and general dirtyness.

Trust me when I say I can go on for hours about all that I did for the place. Mostly I was "dedicated" not because of the crappy pay, but for free movies and I really liked doing the job and I did it well. SO tonight I get a call from the Manager who tells me that she doesn't like the fact that I am only available for 1 night and that I need to open up my availabilty. My defence was that I have a full time job and I was just staying on to help out, since odviously they can't hire anyone to do the job I did. SO she says that if I can only work 1 day a week that she would have to move me to the floor, meaning popcorn and selling tickets. As insulting as that sounds and is, I told her no thanks and I quit. WHich was what I"m sure she wanted, for whatever reason. I was just sort of shocked at the "balls" to tell someone with 18 years experiance, and the facts that since I cut my hours the place has gone to $hits-ville that they can't work in the area of "expertness" and to go rip tickets? I don't have to work there, but what kind on nonsence is that? Plus doing it over the phone?

Borneo: Obviously she's not a Managers A$$hole....... Oh wait, she is !!

She should have asked if you could do at least one extra shift a week as a favour, or maybe you could have trained someone on the job for them. But to cut off their hand to spite their face is just total mis-management.

They deserve all they get, but I feel sorry for you having to sit and watch your favourite lil cinema do down the tubes.

major bummer. that really bites. sorry to hear about this, m.

i'll bet she regrets how she handled this. certainly her "plans" backfired.

idiot.

Threats are all some people have. I've never responded very well to that sort either.

Best of luck to you, Bornieo. You know your worth. She can't touch that.

Sheesh, some people just don't get it! Makes you want to knock on their head and say "Hello! McFly! Anyone home??"

:rolleyes:

Borneo - you did the right thing. No need to put yourself in a position where someone manages you through bullying.

I say congratulations Mark! You stood up for yourself and made the right choice. Sure, it can be disappointing to lose a couple of perks, but more importantly, you stood up for what you (rightly) believed was the right thing to do.

Kudos!

Thanks folks, that's sweet of you all to say. I appreciate it! :)

It is sure that she didn't know what the heck she was doing. I am proud of you for taking the stance you did and glad that you could.

I agree, if she were smart she would have asked you to help train someone else and kept you on even that one day since you have the knowledge that they don't.

Overheard from a woman sitting behind me while waiting for my flight:

"I don't go for the heart, I go for the throat - the juggular - it bleeds out faster"

Bornieo, you could always call the THX TAP (Theatrical Alignment Program) on her - they don't take well to theaters claiming THX certification that aren't up to THX standards.

(THX Cinema Survey)

I had a really bad day yesterday. I don't know why I let his actions affect me so much. I know he doesn't care about me anymore, but it is hard to to let go. After finding out that he has plans today with the widow, I decided to take Nickolas to Disneyland. I want to spend time with him today, but I don't feel that I should have to be around her and her kids to do it. I am pretty much ready to go, just waiting for Nick's alarm to go off. My folks are so sick of him and his actions, the holidays ought to be loads of fun (not!). Even yesterday, all I wanted was to go to breakfast with him, but he told me he didn't have time. I came home and went to bed, only to get up and hear from my son that he took her and her kids out to eat. It has been over a year since Jimmy took his life, I know now htat David will never get over it, and that my marrage is over. I am just so tired of crying over what will never be. I have made plans to go to my entire reunion weekend without him.

My mom aksed me last night, "Why Disneyland?" I told her that it is the one place that I can forget about the bad stuff and just enjoy my son and myself, if only for a few hours. I also have to fulfill a promice to Nick, one I made in September. I told him if I didn't take him to the fair this year I would take him to DCA to play the games.

I may end up volunteering to work Saturdays for othe rpeople just to limit my time at home, but that isn't fair to Nick. He has to have 1 parent he can rely on. *sigh* I think it is time to go back on the Prozac.

(((((MouseyGirl)))))))

I'm so sorry. Hang in there. I went to Disneyland a lot with my munchkin when everything was falling apart for me. We had a lot of wonderful days just the two of us, and that really helped getting through the rest of it.

(((((Mousey Girl)))))

You hang in there MG and take care of yourself and your kid! You're worth 100 of him. {{{hugs}}}

Borneo, some people don't get it.

I love your take this job and shove it attitude. They will never appreciate what they had in you, they're the one's who will (rightly) suffer.

Good for you!

We had a great day! Nickolass was one of the first kids to be picked for the first Jedi Training session of the morning. He had a ball!

This is our Buzz photo. I guess we would score higher if we weren't shooting each other:

Cool pick! It does look like you are shooting at each other! He He!:D

Of course the important thing is that you beat the pants off the little guy. Way to show him that your still da boss!

So, I kicked some home improvement ass over the weekend. I got to use power tools, do some counter sinking, and made a whole lot of saw dust. Damn did that feel good. 2 more projects crossed off the list.

Congratulations! Full ass or half ass improvement? (Full I'm sure):)

.

Quite full, although I was overcome by the spirit of the half-ass in the planning stages for one of the projects, having purchased only half the necessary number of bolts initially.

What was really amazing was, bolt shortage aside, that project went perfectly. I came up with a plan, I worked out the details, and I got it done without a single mistake or need to revise the plan. I don't know what came over me.

And we even DID make it to Disneyland this weekend, but we missed meeting up with anyone because most of our time was spent standing in line to renew our APs.

Amy Sedaris is on Martha right now. I love Amy.
:)

Staying at Dusty's, watching Martha. Okay, we get it. You're gay. Geez.

And I'm wearing mules.

What does staying at Dusy's have to do with..... Oh. Really?

And I would like to point out that the park opened at 10:00am today. You slacker.





Ps... Oh! The strangers with candy lady. (I had to look her up). She's going to be in the next Shrek movie.

I could be posting from Innoventions...
:D

I just watched a commercial for Dianne Feinstein starring Dianne Feinstein and some kid. It made me ill. Politicians are often bad actors.
:D

Better Diane than Arnold.....welcome back to California politics GC! ;)

My legs are killing me. Too much dancing and closing out the park with Nephy on Sunday. What a time! There were fluids, Pooh, big heads, dead animals and a Jahad deverted. What a night at the park!

My coworker is really hungover (again)...
I'm covering a shift that I shouldn't be covering (again)...
I love this job :D

I'm really really really trying to care about my job. I realize that my failure to secure an internship dramatically lowers my post-gradaution legal opportunities, so I might be doing this for longer than anticipate. So I should develop at least a respect for this job, even if I don't like it. I should at least care about doing my very best, even if I don't like the circumstances. I should make this the best crappy job around and leave things in tip-top shape for my eventual replacement.

I'm trying, but it's not working.

I'm afraid you have the disease my dear. It's a dread affliction that actually seems to be less prevalent with each passing year. You actually care about the job you do and want to be good at it. Fortuneately for you while the short term symptoms include: Migraines, claustrophobia, anger issues, and frayed patience, the long term prognosis is excellent. In just about all cases there is a complete recovery which includes: Happiness, general bliss, and a good bit of smugness relating to those who never had the disease in the first place.

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The previous message was brought to you by Curious George, reaching for an electric fan :D

Humm,

Now that was random. Me thinks someone pulling an extra shift at work is board out of their mind today.

No, Curious George wandered in here, and wanted to be cooled off with my desk fan

You know if I was to go around saying things like that at work they'd have me freaking locked up.

There's some kind of big insect swarm down the street, too - it's such a wonderful afternoon

Is it in the general direction of the Mummy attraction?

I'm trying to figure out why the temperature in the school computer lab just dropped about 10 degrees....

I'm gonna be here all week! WOOHOO! BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS!!!!:cheers:

Dagnabbit - George just knocked my water over and nearly got my keyboard... as long as he stays away from the brochure rack, I'm cool.

Across from the Cartooniversal store :)

Matt must be BOOAARRRDD! :)

dude!

if i had known you were such a STUD i would have agreed* to dance with you saturday night.

There was actually power tools involved in the making of the cake (besides the turbo-charged Kitchen-Aide).

Does anybody watch "Good Eats" with Alton Brown? Susan has the same grey Kitchen-Aide as Alton (the big 'ol honkin' 575 watt job). He has flames painted on his. I want to find somebody who can do that for me on Susan's

Coastermatt's current avatar reminded me that I wanted to try some other flavors of Clif Mojo bars.

mmmmm Mojo!

I LOVE Good Eats! But my Kitchen Aid is from the 1970's and is a puke pea soup green. Damn things never wear out (so I can get a new one!). Maybe I should paint it (with flames on it, of course!)

Dude, just PLEASE be carefull of your back. You don't know what set it off last time. I'd hate to see you not make MA! But it sounds like your pad will be GREAT!

I know what you mean about it feeling good. For the past 6 months I've been looking at some stuff in my back yard that needed to be done, but because of my surgery I couldn't do anything about it. Then two weeks ago I was able to, and got it done. What a mood booster that was! I even said the same thing, Damn that felt good!

Woody Woodpecker is my menace today...

But at least he doesn't mess with the brochure rack

So, would you buy anything for your business from this guy...

I'd buy anything that guy is selling.

Dude, that guy looks stoned!:eek:

Which reminds me, nice shrooms in your sig line, GD!:D

We just had a fire drill here at work. Yay.....

So, I'm trying to figure out why a CD of music composed by Hildegard von Bingen would carry an "explicit lyrics" label.

Because Tipper Gore hates you?

God hates Tipper Gore

Should I know who this guy is? :confused:

No, but look at his eyes!

Just another average day at work, no curious primates wandering in to break up my day, but on the other hand there are no swarms of strange insects either.

Alex the Lion just went running by - chased by a little girl wearing Mouse ears :D

totally!

so in answer to GDs question...would I buy anything.....


uh.....heh....how much for how much?

:evil:

So we've finally figured out what my voice is perfect for. Problem is - it's chant. Which is way harder than it sounds. And generally in Latin. And now I'm obssessed with learning to read chant notation, which is truly bizarre. Because goodness knows what I need most right now is yet another hobby.

So, I sat through two all hands meetings today and one featured item was an update on my company's implementation of SAP. In both sessions, there was someone who brought up biblical prophecies of the end time when discussion got round to getting new Employee ID numbers. I guess Jesus prefers we all use our SSNs?

So you work with a bunch of sap's?

UrSAPs

Learning the violin can be hard on your parents hearing.

Stating that you received none of the 6 copies of an email with new access information does not fly as an excuse to pawn off your work on the IT Goddess. Especialy when she located all 6 copies in your deleted folder.

BZZZZ

Try again

What? You want me to bypass some date controls because you slacked off so you can get your bonus? You're funny. Try again.

My co-workers amuse me.

I have grown to hate Fridays. They truly suck. It is our busiest day of the week. Spit happens on Fridays, on the one day that makes it really hard to do the job. Today our contract printer crashed. I (laughingly) was the most senoir person on the floor at the time,, and I had a work around in place in under 5 minutes, but then the deskside printers ALL jammed. *sigh* In the mentime, people didn't stop coming in to get their stuff and more people were calling to order stuff. I was very relieved when it was all over. If I was feeling better it would have been a good night for a drink. Instead I am nursing an ice cold cup of Sprite and wishing I didn't have to work tomorrow.

On top of it all the guy that wanted me to marry him when I accepted the proposal from David is wanting my email address. Even though I know that David has checked out of his responsibilites, it does not make things right for me to be emailing with some guy I haven't talked to in 13 years. I do not want to be doing anything (even emailing) that could be used against me at a later date.

*sigh*

I hate life complications as much as I hate cotten defoliation season.

I can't believe I haven't updated my Livejournal since before the Japan trip ?!?!?!

Okay, so here's our Harry Potter party going on tonight, where a quarter of it was planned outside.

POURING RAIN RIGHT NOW!!! AUGH!

Oh well, we'll just have to move to plan B...the inclement weather clause.

And, when I get back, I'll let you know how it turned out!

Could you send some of that rain our way? Here in SoCal we are having warm (hot by your standards) dry weather, and we have a big fire going on nearby that killed 4 firemen, and one is in the hospital.

Good luck on your party, sounds fun!!

No rain till Wednesday, PLEASE!!

Don't worry, no rain in the forcast for quite some time...........

I wish I could send you some rain. You guys definitely need it a lot more than we do now.

And, I think I'll give a full report of the party tomorrow night. It went incredibly well, and we had a really big turnout.

Woo hoo! I want to hear all the details.

I wanna see the pics from Union Station - that's one of my favorite places in L.A. - no matter how much time I spend there

Pretend you're first-years and you all fell into the lake. :p

What was going on at Unin Station? Did I miss something?

Well, my sister does have a pool...but it was closed off...we have this thing called late autumn which actually feels like early winter.

By November, we'll all be building igloos! :D

Despite the wet weather, we still had a really good time. And, what a massive turnout!!!

Okay, get this...my sister invited the classmates of her two children to come down, and she invited their cousins, and a couple of neighbours, because we were planning to have a lot of people come by.

We ended up getting FIFTY-TWO CHILDREN!

Okay...just picture 52 children inside my sister's garage, and you have pure bedlam! Oh my god, it was loud! Thankfully, we had a lot of adults there to calm the kids down. And, once we got the kids sorted into their houses and divided into groups, it calmed down considerably.

But, because we never got a chance to sort out the kids at the beginning, I had to play the sorting hat to 52 kids! Boy, that was an adventure. (and boy was my back stiff from bending down on the floor to get down to their level!) It was fun though.

Eventually, I ended up with a group of seven kids, and we made our way through the five classes (there was supposed to be 8, but three were planned outside, and we had to shrink it down), and my group learned about Charms, Divination, Potions, Defense Against The Dark Arts, and History in that order. (My other sister was very convincing as Professor Trelawney, BTW!)

After that, we had a feast, and let me tell you, there was so much food, I couldn't believe it! Black cauldron cupcakes, homemade punch, and lots and lots of candy! We all ate a lot! And, then the house cup was awarded, but I won't spoil which house ended up winning yet.

And, to top it all off, as each kid left, we gave them loot bags, and each bad contained a pencil, an eraser, a couple of candies, and of course, a little bag of Bertie Bott's flavour beans. To make it interesting, we bought a large box of regular Jelly Belly jellybeans, so that there were packages that contained good flavours like strawberry, watermelon and fruit punch, and the B.Bott's flavour beans that had flavours like bacon, earthworm, and boogers! Mmmmmmm.

I am just so amazed that the whole party went off without any major problems. It worked out well, and I'm happy to announce that with the success we had this year, we're going to make it an annual tradition!

And, I managed to snap about 6 dozen photos. If I can find someone with a scanner, I will scan the best pics and post them here!

Wow - sounds amazing. Glad it all turned out.

Soooo...it's 5:30 PM and pitch dark outside. (Sigh). Going to be a long winter.

I just got home from having a booth at the HOWL'wen dog costume contest and parade. OMG! If you thought the bulldog beauty contest was either cute or dispicable, this event was 10 time more. Funny FUNNY costumes. One of the best was a bunch of chihuahuas all dressed as farm animals and parading around in a wagon decorated as a barn. There also was a very large Captain Hook dog (complete with curley wig) and a Peter Pan. The owner was dressed as Tinkerbelle.

I'm exhausted, but boy was it fun - and VERY successful for our company.

No kidding! We had giant hail today. Well, giant for around here. Larger that pea-sized.

That sounds really cool! I have to admit...some of the doggie costumes I've seen in my travels are quite elaborate...even more so than some human costumes.

Yeah...we were all just thankful that the only setback we had was the weather. I think we adapted well though!

Never Grow Up said that the pictures would be up online in a week or two-- as soon as I have the link, I'll post it here!

Tom and I had our engagement pictures taken there yesterday.

Wow! That sounds like SUCH a rockin' party. What lucky children (all 52 of them, especially the 2 related to you) to have such a fun a creative bash to attend. Were that I were little (or, hell, exactly as I am) and able to attend! Definitely upload those pictures, I want to see!

Actually, LS, I was related to four of them! I have two older sisters, and they each have two kids. (One has a girl and a boy, the other has two boys). I probably should've mentioned it up above, but I only happened to mention the sister whose house it took place at.

As it so happens, the group I was in had two of my nephews!

Well, it survived the trip over the Cascades- we got it as well. Rain, hail, fog, sunshine, then early nightfall. This day feels like it's been going on forever.

Wow, I hope everything is ok there! Hail can cause a lot of damage.

We haven't had rain or hail but last weeks Santa Anas had the tree up front blowing its' nuts/seeds all over. I could hear them 'attacking' my and my daughters cars!!! Pelting them mercilessly!!! Ugh!! And I couldn't put mine in the garage as I needed to use it.

Driving around WA on a pretty little quiet lane, we heard a big 'thump' on our roof. Scared the carp outta us. Went back later and it was just acorns.

NA, your doggie costume show sounds amazing! Is there a place on line to see pics?

The Harry Potter party sounds like a huge success. :snap: :snap:

I am bummed. I was intending on heading up next Sunday but have to work. Although today/tomorrow I might get fired. Who knows.

Today I was supposed to take my Escape in for a check up. Some strange issues {anyone else have an Escape with strange issues?} But my Boy is very sick and I am keeping my car for any emergencies.

Ah....since he is sleeping the first 'emergency' is going to meet my friend for coffee....

My dad's a funny guy.

For the most part, he's very conservative. Not politically, personality-wise. Avoids loud music, violent movies, foul language, etc. He's got a sense of humor, and a good one, but it consists mainly of clever puns and cornball one-liners. He's not much for crudity and insult.

But every once in a while, he just comes up with a freaking gem that has me laughing for days, espeically coming from his mouth.

On Saturday we went to dinner with my parents at Johnny Reb's, a marvelous southern bbq place by our home in Orange. My dad ordered the southern fried chicken.

"Dad, how's the chicken."

"Oh, it's really good. Mmm. And it tastes so southern, I think I'm starting to hate people."

Oh, that's funny!!!:D

I'm going to go get some napkins now to dry my monitor.:rolleyes:

Lopsided BS comment, if you ask me. Has anyone looked to see if Northerners are just as hateful?

NOOOOOOOOOO

He only decided to call out the Southerners here.- one sided cmment anyone?

Incredibly insulting to anyone's intelligence and designed to to send conspiracy theorists into high gear. Apalling!

*snicker*

uh huh. ;)



my dad was the same but from an older...less...uh....PC period in our nations history.

his version would have read

"Oh, it's really good. Mmm. And it tastes so southern, I think I'm starting to hate (black people)."


:rolleyes:
luv ya anyway pop.

For those unsure...............


;)

I have an announcement to make:


Watching hockey requires attention. Paying attention to hockey = not paying attention to homework.

Therefore, hockey is not condusive to completing homework.

Nor does it taste like chicken.

Yes, but does it cause you to hate people? Never mind, stupid question. :p ;)

It's nearly midnite and I am cleaning floors.:rolleyes:

Everyone else is nestled snug in their beds, which is precisely why I am doing floors now- so they can't track their dirt and crap all over the damp floors. No wonder they all think we have a house-elf; they seldom actually see this kind of stuff getting done.

We're having a Halloween bash for the kiddo and her friends tomorrow- should be fun. They're at that weird age where they aren't sure if they want or should be trick-or-treating, so I solved the dilemma with a party and maybe the door-to-door extortion of candy from the neighbors. Of course, they'll all want to, but first they have to pretend they might be too cool.

I love going to a fight and watching a hockey game break out :p



So.....

I'm an idiot and locked myself out of my bedroom last night :(. After 2 hours of trying to pick it I had to sleep on the couch. Who puts a regular key lock on a bedroom door?

Waiting for a co-worker to get here to pick the lock for me.

Regular lock on bed room door
You don't have the key
Co-worker who picks locks.

You know I'm really working hard to try and curb my habit of replying with cheap sarcastic comments, but you're not making it easy for me.

But I do hope it all works out and your co-worker can get you in the bedroom. Doh!

I mean your co-worker can get your door open.

Heh. Glad I can amuse you.

How can I give you dad mojo?

I had the fried chocolate pie there, and started to hate myself.

It was delicious.

Fried chocolate pie? What is it with all this fried deesert stuff? It's because of the FryDaddy, isn't it? Potatoes just weren't enough- they had to start shoving pies and Tweenkies and Oreos into them....

Don't forget turkey, weeniebreath.

Turkey? Psshaw. Today I read an article about fried Turducken!

I bet John Madden keeps that article in his bathroom next to the hand lotion.














Oh god, I just made myself ill.










At least I didn't say cooking oil.

You must spread some Mojo around before giving it to Ghoulish Delight again.


(And ewwww!)

There's a regular lock on our bedroom door. It scares me. I know someday we'll lock ourselves out. Hmm, can't remember if the bathroom door has a lock or not. If not then that's another way in...

We have a 2 year old, our solution was to put duct tape on the inside door knob. Not elegant, but it works, for now.

Also, check the doorknob and most of them have tiny holes in it, which with the proper tool or a small thin screwdriver, you can unlock the door from the outside. That's how my Dad used to get into the bathroom if I took a shower over 5 min. long!! :rolleyes:

My cat locked himself in the bathroom once. One of those push button locks. Fortunately, those are pretty easy to open from the other side.

Won't work for the bedroom door as it's a standard key lock. But the bathroom (which connects the hall to the bathroom) is your usual bathroom lock with the emergency hole, so not an issue.

Is there any reason why you need a key lock on the bedroom door? Why not swap it out for a generic door knob?

*Shrug* Why spend the money? If we ever locked our door, I suppose we would, but we never do so it's a non-issue.

It's never a good sign when you're told the boss has to meet with you this week, ASAP, and oh, they can't tell you what the meeting's about.

But you know that this agreement surfaced from 2003 that's a huge problem for us. And you weren't here then and the boss wasn't here then, and the head budget dude wasn't here then and no one knew this existed until the prior head budget dude left and then going through files it surfaced.

There was no possible way I could have known about this weird arrangment. It's not recorded anywhere I have access to. It's totally out of the ordinary.

Nevertheless, because it's a huge million dollar problem someone has to pay the price. And I think it's my head on the block.

Um, 'cause it's not that expensive, and might save you some grief in the long run? It's always the day you're running late to some urgent meeting when the door accidentally gets locked.

Um... what she said. I was about to say the same thing.

Nickolas picked our bedroom lock once. He was around 2-3 at the time. He used part of a toy to do it. He never did it again.

Like I said, the bathroom's an alternate, unlockable route with a door literally adjacent to the main door. So it's not a big deal.

From personal experience - the $10-$15 lock is cheaper than $150 for a locksmith or a busted up door jam. If anything, make sure there is a key stashed somewhere other than on your keys or in the bedroom. That would have saved me a ton of grief last night.

I did not see this before I posted. I still say stash that key.

At least as far as you know, mom.........

:D ;)

calling SacTown...urgent
 

from Al's update
hurry down babycakes~

Noooooooo!

I just checked and according to Al the current refurb isn't going to do anything. The planned changes are for the future. Thank GOD we get to ride it again in it's current configuration.

It's sad that I'm watching House and all I can think is why is Phil of the Future dressed like Curtis the Caveman? There's way too much Disney Channel watching at my house.

In that case, larger passengers take it in the rear. Or something.

Hmm. I didn't read back but the issue with the bathroom....

I am not sure what the lock is called but we can open it with a tiny headed philips' screwdriver.

My sons' bedroom door also has this type of lock and I am always having to unlock it. I keep the 'key' in the cupboard inbetween the two doors.

The other bedrooms have keys and I have a copy stashed.

BTD~ I am sorry to hear you had problems. Nothing worse than trying to get into a locked door....frustrating.

Why are people so concerned about our bedroom door?

Is it green?

Eh, I only used your post as it was smaller and pertained to the subject.

And I thought you said 'bathroom' door?

Never in my life have we had a key for a bathroom door. Always a screwdriver. Always.

If there was more about your bedroom door, I've missed it. I missed a whole day of posts because I was in bed with the flu.

The inside is.

The bedroom door's got a normal key lock, for which we don't have a key. People suggested changing it to a non-key lock, but I pointed out that our bathroom adjoins to the hall and has the kind of lock you can pop open from the outside. So if we ever end up in the situation BTD was in (bedroom door locked, no key), it's not a big deal because we can just as easily go through the bathroom.

Oh I see. Well. See, I missed all of that.

And, if for some reason the bathroom door is locked you can use a freakin' screwdriver to open it!

*sorry, lingering flu effects*

Oh, but now I get why you may be getting tired about talking about your door.

Geez, have you had a housewarming I haven't heard about?? How does everyone know about this keyless lock???

It seemed like such an innocent post at the time.

lol! You never know what will become the ticking timebomb.

At least you didn't say something about the military and education.

LOL

I swear, I really should have read back before posting but mine seemed like 'such an innocent post at the time' and my eyes hurt as well as my back.

How do people stay in bed for so long?

You mean like when my wife was a TA in the High School she was told to take the tests for the kids that they knew would fail, just so they would pass and be able to graduate?

But I didn't say that.........:rolleyes:

Hello, everybody.
What we all talking about then?
I've been watching BBC America all day while playing RCT2 and working on my resume.
:)

Whatca watching on BBC America (my favorite chanel)?

I'm pretending to work - shhhhhh

We're talking needlesly (and endlessly) about John Kerry. I think we should talk about Paris Hilton. It would probably be a more intellectually stimuating conversation.

Let's talk about Captain Jack Swallows!

:blush:

I sooo dont like the sound of that;)

Who's Paris Hilton?

A hotel in the capital of France.

oooh, I thought that was called the ****-eyed-no-talent-should-just-go-away-bimbo Motel in France? Thanks for the tip!

I have just seen Lindsay Lohan's hoo-ha.

I don't think I'm ever going to be the same.

*shudder*

I'm glad there is no link in your post.

Egads even thinking about it - bleh. I'm sorry.

I did that on purpose. Because NOBODY needs to see that.

You have my sincerest thank you!

Yes, mine as well.

I miss my Frodo.
:(

Have a lot people been in the Paris Hilton? Does the rear entry get used a lot?

I could go on, but Jimmy Falon already went down that road.

Was it on fire?

SOmeone needs to pm or email a jpg or link... I THINK!!!!! :cool:

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeaasssssee!! Pretty please!??!!:evil:

OMG..."Lindsay Lohan's hoo-ha" in google actually turned up the correct result.

Yikes.

You just made Bornieo's day there, GC.

Damn it!!

I just copied off of GC"s post and it went right to it. You want a link?

OMG! I just found it. OMG! OMG! OMG!

;)

The girl's been to Brazil.

My thoughts exactly...

<< sound of ML fainting>>

That thang has been pounded into submission.

See, I always thought that "firecrotch" meant that a redhead's curtains match the rug. But there's no way to tell in this case.

Perhaps, though, it just implied some inflammation. Which I would understand, because you can't just wear short skirts and expose your girl parts to taxi seats. Nobody knows who's been there.

Well, Lohan has. So wear panties in taxis, y'all.

Aw! It's no consolation, go visit NA's gaggle of kitties, I'm sure they need additional spoiling!

I'm pretending to work, reading LoT and working on the book proposal

It wasn't my post, for the love of Benji, but I saw the pic! Ewwww!

I need icepicks for my eyes.

:D

Whooops- sorry, GC! I meant GD, of course.:blush:

I'll send you some eyeball disenfectant.

You might want to run a virus scan on your computer too...

Lindsay's minge shaved as clean as a drag queen's back.
:D


It's so weird looking down at someone's toolbelt and not seeing a hammer...

Wow, what a dream I had last night!!! :evil:

So I just found a handful of halloween candy that apparantly spilled onto my desk and under my keyboard on Tuesday! Hooray! Candy!

Are they chocolate? Are they wrapped? Are they unwrapped and dusty? Ewwww...
:D

Ugh. I just ate 5 Tootsie Rolls.

Some Doggie HOWL'oween pics for you to smile (or barf) at.

http://www.magicalarts.org/061030/dogdays/dogdays.html

http://julbie.blogspot.com/2006/10/dogoween.html

THis link has Capt, Hook: http://lang.presstelegram.com/socal/...ws/103006_dogs

German press as well: http://de.news.yahoo.com/galerie/tiere.html?i=0

Ohhh. Those poor dogs!

For those who are unable to successfully locate said images, here is the link:

NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!!!

http://metadish.com/news/lindsay-loh...-her-hooha.php

Ow! That really hurt! I should never have looked, to think, I could have lived my entire life and missed this. Ew! LSPE you are right, best advice of the day, always wear undies in cabs!

Calming down with a nice venti chai latte from Starbucks, mmmmmmm.

Nice light rain outside, cool mid-60s weather and a good weekend coming up.

And yet in the back of your mind you know. Never again will you be able to hear a mom say Coochi-coochi-coo to their little baby without that image popping back into your head.

Why oh why do we click....

I blame Kevy! :D

Ew! Maybe a marathon of The Avengers will drive the image from my mind? At least I will be vastly entertained, Mrs. Peel and John Steed, almost nothing better!

Better hope they don't show the very early ones with Honor Blackman.

EEEEEEKKK!

Well, at least she is clean shaven.....

Another wardrobe malfunction. :rolleyes:

People, wear undies out there, please! If I wore a dress, I'd wear underwear. Of course I think my boxers would show below that short little thing she was wearing.

BTW, how can we tell that was Lohan anyway?

She was drunk, silly!

The real question is...how can we tell if she's a real redhead?

She's called Firecrotch ;) Though, it may mean something else..... lol

*Bump*

I hope things did not go as badly as you feared. How did this all work out?

ISnt' this at the premiere of Herbie Fully Loaded? I recognize the interior ;)

Poor, poor Herbie...
:rolleyes:

:eek: Ahhh! I hadn't thought of that! Poor Herbie is right!:eek: Ewww!!!

No wonder he's always squirting that gunky oil out his pipes...

So. Here's how my working Saturday started.

Early on, I'm helping a man with his account when one of his twin sons starts to cry for no reason. He instinctively picks up the 5 year old boy, and next thing you know, the kid is vomiting all over him. I saw it in all it's awful detail, undigested chunks of early lunch and all. I saw all this and ran away, presumably to get some paper towels, but more just because GOD DAMN that is nasty.

The man went outside with a roll of paper towels while we cleaned the carpet with Formula 409. He came back in to return the roll, then left...but was back in a few minutes later. He explained that he had clothes in the car and changed.

Well, yeah, dude, but YOU STILL SMELL LIKE VOMIT. GET OUT. I thought this very hard as I checked out his items as fast as humanly possible. I almost gagged.

Lessons learned?

1) Do not pick up a child just because he starts crying.

2) Take a goddamned shower before purposely encountering another human being after you've been drenched in the contents of someone's stomach.

and

3) Working Saturday sucks, but it could always be worse.

You have stronger stomach than I. Let's just say that I seem to have a very sympathetic reaction to seeing someone vomit. It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to keep myself from joining in the fun. Had I had the same view of this incident as you did, I probably would not have been able to handle it as well.

Sorry that you had a crappy day. It'll get better. :)

My Sims2 crashed just as 2 sims, who I'm trying to get together, were about to woo-hoo. Damn! Now I have to wait 45 minutes for the game to load, and then start over on their date. :mad:

Avocado + Bacon + Cheese + 2 burger patties + BBQ = best lunch of the week.

GD, how can you post that burger after what CP said?

One time, the Hubster and I both fell hard with pukes after eating a Carls' Jr. Western Bacon Cheeseburger. We couldn't eat them for years. And certainly couldn't say 'cheeseburger' without the upchuck sound.

If the kid was sickly, he should have known or yeah not just picked him up {five years old???}. I bet he knew. Should've stayed home.

I stayed home all freakin' week. :(

sounds like bootlegged cheeseburger...

I thought you worked in a library. Doesn't a sizable portion of the clientele smell of vomit, urine, alcohol, etc.?

Ouch. That stung a bit. You may want to turn your phaser down a tad.

To answer the question anyway - actually, no. Even at the currently closed Main branch, the homeless drunks are few and far between and known by name.

There is one guy who likes to show up at my branch whilst toasted. He rides a bicycle and is always smelling of booze. Some days he's slurring words and walking sideways. Always full of good cheer though and harmless, though we did have to kick him out once for not wearing a shirt. He was a bit annoyed but left promptly. He seems to be homeless as well.

Didn't say you had to like it. At the old San Francisco Main, the majority of chairs were taken up by homeless people. As I recall, they tried to solve the problem by removing chairs. That didn't work.

I've had a most uplifting weekend and thought I would share this story.

I had lost contact with an old and dear friend of mine in 1998. We had attended the same music school in 1983 and had become close friends. In the years that followed, we both developed some serious problems with narcotics. The last time I saw him was 1998 and while I was pretty messed up at the time, it paled in comparison to him. He had begun shooting heroin. It was the last time that I saw him and he looked horrible. After that, he seemingly disappeared from the face of the earth.

As the years passed and I cleaned myself up, I never stopped thinking about him, wondering if he were dead or alive. I would do a google search every so often and it always came up empty.

On friday night, I did another search, not expecting to have any success, and was surprised when I found mention of him at a drug rehabilitation clinic on the east coast. I was able to get an email address and wrote him a letter. I didn't know if he would write back or if he would even want to talk to me. We were both pretty messed up the last time we saw each other and I expected that it might be something he didn't want to be reminded of.

Well, it turns out, he has been clean and sober for 3 years now, is running today in the NYC Marathon for Team Fox, Michael J Fox's team for Parkinson's research, and has just completed his first CD. He is now a counselor for teen addicts and looks about a million times better than the last time I saw him. He was really happy to hear from me and we are going to talk tomorrow for the first time in eight years.

I can't even put into words how happy all of this makes me. I've thought about this guy for years, wondered if he was even alive, and missed him terribly. To find out that he survived and pulled himself together is just about the best news I have heard in a long time. It really made my weekend and I just had to share. I'm even doing something that I didn't imagine I would be doing this weekend; tracking his progress online in the marathon. :)

It's been a good weekend.

that's an amazing story of both survival and miracles.

i am happy for you that you and he have been able to reconnect.

and i am very proud of you and your accomplishments. you have incredible talent and are a truly valued friend. he is lucky to have you back in his life!

Thanks for the kind words. :)

Well, he completed the marathon. I know he is probably a little disappointed. He wanted to beat a time of 3:30, which would have qualified him for the Boston Marathon, and missed it by about 10 minutes. He was also trying to beat the best time of the Judge that sentenced him to rehab, instead of sending him to prison. :) He came close.

Still, what an amazing accomplishment from a guy that probably couldn't have run a mile without collapsing, the last time I saw him. It really warms the heart. :)

Wow, that is a great story! Thanks for sharing, makes my day!

Have you ever seen "Stand By Me"? If not... Don't.

The 'Mr. Creosote' part of 'MP and the Meaning Of Life' might be problematic as well......

("Just a little wafer?")

And Veronica Cartwright's cherry spewing scene from "The Witches of Eastwick."

Is that the one where the kids put a wad of chewing tobacco in their mouths just before getting on the spinning ride, then vomit all over the place?

Or was it the one with the pie eating contest where one player ralphs causing another to follow by heaving on the next person, and a chain reaction vomitorium insues until the vomit fest includes every last person at the fair?
:p :p :p

Surprisingly enough, movie vomit doesn't have the same effect. I've seen the pie eating contest and the wafer scene with no ill effects.

I think the smell is what does it.

Yeah, that would do it for me as well.

Don't worry - Knotts will have a way of incorporating that smell into their halloween mazes I'm sure (I've read some reports about some pretty nasty smells in there already...)

Knott's doesn't use smells - it's Universal that's done wonders with disgusting odors in Halloween mazes (especially in Orlando).

Yup, that's why I couldn't believe when the guy came back in. I was so worried I wouldn't be able to keep it together.

I think all references to actual vomiting should go into spoiler tags. ;) Although, movie vomiting doesn't have the same effect for some reason.

MBC, thank you so much for sharing that story! There nothing I love hearing more about than someone's success and complete transformation from a life of drugs.

Sorry, I knew I shouldn't have had Mexican food before going to Knott's!:rolleyes:

On the box of my Target brand Dayquil the first warning is "Failure to follow these warnings could result in serious consequences"

But will it go down on your permanent record?

Oooh! thanks for asking. I didn't get fired...yet...but things are not "optimal". A thousand curses upon my predecessor and her aversion to record keeping! The boss lady kept alternating between "and how *could* you possibly have known that" and "it's a problem for us that you don't know this so you should do better research." Of course, since I have no idea these weirdo problems exists that seems impossible. Maybe I should just call everyone on campus and see if the prior Vice Provost made any funny deals with them. Sure.

A record that will follow you for the rest of your life...

I just ate at Wendy's. I had the 1/2 lb. Jalapeno Cheddar Bacon Melt...

Soon, my bowels will be like Krakatoa on that fateful day, and perhaps just as deadly :eek:

Gruyere is a great cheese - Cave Aged Gruyere, even better

I'm thinking any meet with CM, GC and Tori could be toxic.

It's a Smell WOrld After All!!

That picture of you is a classic.:D

AH memories.... :)

Teach you to sit downwind of a nine-year old all hopped up on churros.

It took me 1 hour and 20 min to go 19 miles on the f-ing 91 this morning!

East or west?

GAH! Our calendars are a messy place. I'm busier than usual in November and Chris is going to Chicago mid-month. My overnights and his Chicago dates overlap. Do I need to get a pet sitter for my cats so I can pet sit? Crazy stuff.

Cats are self sufficient.
But maybe Leo is available to pet sit for you.

East.

No, no, no! Leo doesn't pet sit. He sits on pets. A common misunderstanding.

D'OH! That's going the wrong way for normal traffic. My friend is/was going to palm springs this morning.. but I just heard traffic wasn't too bad.

Sorry you got stuck in that JW!

Oh ya! Silly me!

I wasn't that far east... Lakewood to Anaheim. I drive id every day, and today was not normal traffic.

I think I'll blame it on the Republicans. They don't want us to vote today. ;)

Traffic was bad on my commute as well. Between Halloween, the time change, and election day, I'm getting very sick of traffic.

I voted, did laundry, lurked on the interweb, and now going to work.
life is good

I am sick of the wet. I want to move to socal. :(

I'm just glad that I survived the night...

Who hid my iPod charger?

What's an iPod charger?

Are you really that clueless?


It's a '70s car that can play audio and videos files. Duh.

Oh, I didn't know they came with that option? I missed that!

That's what I was hoping somebody would say!! :D

Listen here, babe. Your random hot weather comment cursed MA again and we've been feeling the effects of Heat Wave Prudence ever since. I would HATE to fell the heat if you actually moved here.

It was 92 in Cerritos today. It is NOVEMBER!

Isn't the Dodge Charger one muscle car they redid this year?

Speaking of ipods, we got one of the tiny ones for working out.

Okay, does anyone know if you can only charge it on the computer? It seems the 'dock' hooks up to the USB on it and that is how you charge it. Well how the heck do you do it on vacation???

Bought a lot of movies at Best Buy today, too. Some older Disney movies are 6 for $30. and Cars for $14.99. Free poster that is cool.

Music wise, picked up the Foo Fighters live 'Skin and Bones' as well as a Nirvana dvd 'Live! Tonight! Sold out!!' with 3 free pins. Coolness.

You can buy chargers that work in a regular plug or we have one that works in the car lighter. Doesn't come with one though, at least not the shuffle my daughter has.

Normally, yeah, the Shuffle only charges hooked up to a computer (they do sell aftermarket chargers, though)

I have a small, portable iPod speaker system that I take on vacation or when I do overnights. I charges the iPod while it is docked and playing, plus I have music - MY music - when I'm traveling.

I am IPod-less.

I am NoPod.

I am a Zen fan... it plays my music, plus has a nice voice recorder, fm radio and I can encode mp3s without a computer

I think I'm going to print up business cards that say "Heat Wave Prudence".

Thanks you guys. :snap:

I will have to check if there is an aftermarket one for this one. It is the new tiny one.

NA, I also have one of those little boom boxes. Not an iPod brand, Memorex. We bought it specifically for our two week trip. No freakin' way was I going to go out for that long without 'my' music filtering throught the hotel rooms.

We also bought a charger for the car that plays the music and keeps the iPod charged as well. I was worried that it would die because we were on the road for hours some days. It worked well.

I have another question that you brilliant people here will probably have an answer for.

We have a Linksys for the house. It has worked great for all of us; our computers, XBox and on line handhelds.

Recently, I've lost connection or had horrible connection and it coincides with a little pop up that says something about an ip address causing conflict.

Does this mean A} A neighbor has a Linksys as well and it is causing interference or B} my new neighbors are thieves, stealing my precious internet???

All iPods can be charged via a wall plug. Almost all iPods (except for the Shuffle) use the same connector, unless you have a shuffle, any charger from any other iPod will work. They stopped packaging wall chargers with the smaller models (it started with the mini and has continued with the nano) to keep package size down as well as to lower the initial cost. As was mentioned, you can purchase a wall charger, or a car charger, readily available at apple stores (or for cheaper on ebay if you don't care if it's apple branded).

Probably neither A, or B. The linksys is also a DHCP server (that means it passes out IP addresses to all the computers on your network). It sounds like an ip address got passed out twice. The ip addresses on a network need to be unique. You could power down all the computers, power down the linksys, wait a minute, power up the linksys, then power up the computers. That would force each computer to get a new ip.

Hmm, hard to know for sure. Is your wireless connection secured? Does it use static or dhcp addresses? It's possible that the router is just confues, have you tried resetting it?

Thanks, GD!

I will have to go and search. Well, maybe I'll go check out the iPod store at the new fabulous upscale mall out at Eastlake.

I know there are a few locals from San Diego...anyone been?

Wireless connection-not secured.

Okay, I think your lingo is to turn off all of the computers {or do you mean unhook everyones connection power?} and then rehook everything.

I do this here at the main computer now and again, unhooking the power to the modem and the linksys. I replug the modem in after a few minutes, let the lights blink then become solid. Then, after a few minutes plug back in the linksys. Yes. I've talked to Cox Cable and took notes. :D

Thanks for the help you guys. I don't like just letting the kids take care of all of this because then I don't know what they've done.

Another route to try is, when you see the pop up, do the following:

1) Open a command prompt (should be an option in the Start menu. If not, select "Run..." and type "cmd")

2) At the prompt, enter "ipconfig /release". You should see some info scroll by, a few lines that end with "0.0.0.0"

3) Once you have the prompt again, enter "ipconfig /renew" You'll see the same info scroll again, this time with actual number (e.g. '192.168.2.56" and "255.255.255.0") instead of 0's.

Close the command prompt by typing "exit"

That might do some good.


ETA: and shame on you for having unsecured wirless access. Go find manuals for setting up access to secure networks for all the devices you connect (it all should be available online if you don't have them at your fingertips) and secure your network!

Thanks GD, I will have to remember that trick. :snap:

I know, 30 lashings with a wet noodle.

The kids were going to secure it recently but there was a problem with
getting the PSP to get on? I can't remember if they only allow so many addresses?

Before his systems, we have 3 computers and 1 XBox. I will have to ask the kids. They know so much more than I do. :rolleyes:

I haven't yet, I'm in North County. But it looks worth the drive to check it out.

I still can't find my iPod charger which means my USB cable is missing as well and I can't update my iPod.

Who hid it!

I secured my network - but for some reason after that it would bump me off the wireless about every two hours and I'd have to re-boot the modem. Took the security off and it never happens. Dunno what I did wrong.

It was me! Weather hexing, cable hiding -- I do it all!

I cut myself bad at work...

Got a big ole bandage wrapped around my leg, and a tetanus shot - good times :)

Ouch!
Got too close to Jaws, did we?

:D

I am embarrassed to admit I live thisclose to the place. I've only seen it on the news.

{okay, abou this close}

Ouchie!! I hope you are alright CoasterMatt!! That you had to get a tetanus shot? Any stitches??

I'm alright - but a piece of sharp metal gleefully slid across the front of my leg, and scratched/tore into the skin a bit. No stitches this time, but a fun moment when it came time for the tetanus shot - the nurse asked if I had an aversion to needles and I pulled up my sleeve to reveal

The tattoo was much more annoying the tetanus shot.

Oh my gosh! I love your tatt!!!

Glad your cut wasn't worse. My sons' friend was cut with a piece of sheet metal and he wasn't so lucky. I was surprised he didn't lose his arm.

CoooooL!. YOu need flames shooting out of the mouth!!! Very very cool!

I'm planning on getting a pair of coaster riding skeletons (my dear Rose and I) surrounded in flames on my right arm... I'll make the initial inking sessions into a swanking (the shop Rose and I frequent is just down the street from El Capitan).

still can't find my iPod charger

*yawn* I am tired. I think I am more tired than normal knowing I am off tomorrow. My check will be 3 hours short, but I don't think I care too much. I want to go shopping (with money I don't have) and get a nice blouse (insert young and semi-sexy) to wear to the first night of reunion activities. I may wait until next week, when I can better justify the cost.

I spent over 30 mins in line to vote tonight. I forgot and didn't go until shortly after 6. I didn't get home until after 7. The only problem I had was trying to get my voting card out of the machine when I was done. Long nails and a tight fitting card reader were not very efficient. I did manage to do it without having to ask for help.

Ok, I am headed for bed. Good night all!!

I have an iPod charger, but no iPod. Perhaps we should get together and make some music!;)

My son's iPod was stolen, and I still have the USB charger. If you don't find your charger, PM me.

So sory to hear that some scuzz stole your son's iPod but I may take you up on that.

I had it at work for awhile, I still have to go tear apart my data center to see if I left it in there for some reason. I swore I brought it home though but I can't find it here. Maybe it's in the trunk of my car.

Bah! Long Live the AnarchyNet!

Do it when I'm there !!!! Oh please please please please.....

I have tatoos too ! :D

My Bear Tatt..... (Well, one of them, anyway...)

i hate it when i lose stuff in the trunk.

BTW, Andy at the shop I go to, did several of Kiefer Sutherland's tattoos.

Frank: Do you have any tattoos?
Brad: Certainly not!

Surprising from someone who spends a lot of time reading acceptable use policies. Anything going on on your wire is your responsibility.

But beyond that, it's more about preventing someone from the outside gaining access to your devices.

Grrr. Somehow I managed to lose my wallet last night. I loved that wallet. Sure, replacing the cards is a hassle, but I'm most bummed about losing the wallet. I loved it. A lot. And they no longer make that style. I don't know how I managed to lose it, but I think it was at school. And of course people are essentially dishonest, so no one turned it in. (sigh.)

I found my iPod charger.

Whoever put it in the center console of my car... not funny. I have a car charger thank you very much.


:p

I've mentioned before that I can access several networks from our house (I can't believe these people don't make their networks secure!).

I can access a couple of printers. I've been so tempted to start printing things on them. Something like "This is your computer. I'm bored. Let's go look at free porn on the internet."

I was tempted to start messing with the owners with "I know who you are and I'm coming to get you" but I was worried I would get in trouble with the law.

HA!

In cases like this, the accepted thing to print is "REDRUM" over and over and over.....

Or better yet, setup a script to print a blank page every 13 min. That'll drive them nuts...

On the other hand, you can always just screw with the freeloaders.

Here is how a guy took all his freeloader traffic and redirected it to www.kittenwar.com :snap:

I don't know how I used to like Diet Rockstar... It's gross now.

I want a new Prius, with lightning bolts instead of a flame paintjob.

and a severed clown head antenna ball

In my old complex there were always at least 4 open networks. I was having trouble with my network one day, logged into the admin console of the network I was sitting on, changed settings and the password. Then I realized it wasn't my network. Oops.

You guys are so evil... I love it! :snap:

Our network is open because it doesn't go much further than our backyard and front porch.

Hmm...

I wonder if we could get access parked out on the street right next to the abode

You can try it.

Yeah, but then you would be expecting it and it takes all the fun out of it.

You guys are scaring me. I also felt pretty safe because we aren't too close to too many people. Our backyard is canyon and only have two real neighbors. Our main Linksys is closer to one house than the other and up until recently I don't think the person who lived in their 'apartment' had a computer.

Something weird did happen yesterday, for the second time. I was on iTunes and {last time I was doing a project on my picture program} and then the cursor became an hourglass and continued to spin around.

The first time I was able to quit what I was doing and restart the computer. It said something about download being unable to complete because the computer shut down.

The second time, I couldn't shut down/restart because I was burning a cd at the time. When I finally did it it didn't say anything about it not being able to finish the download.

So. Today I get on line and am trying to send an e-mail and the computer just restarts itself, when it came back on it said there was a crash or something. I sent an error report to whomever it is I send them to but WTF???

What happened????

And, I haven't had a chance to have everyone power up at the same time...can't get everyone here at the same exact time with the time to do it. :rolleyes:

I wouldn't mind sharing too much if it didn't mess up my time on line. Or in case they are evil. :eek:

Off the top of my head that sounds more like a heat problem. A clogged or dead fan or too much dust can cause random lockups like that. Of course so can a hard drive that's going bad or a program running amok. I would not worry about wireless intruders in this case.

Doh! Thanks for reminding me!! We've had this computer for a few months and I know it gets pretty darn dusty. Am I supposed to use one of those cans and just give it, for lack of a better thought, a blow job? :blush:

{also time to clean the back of the fridge, change the water filter, change the battery in the smoke detector...all of that stuff...}

I prefer sucking to blowing but that's just me. A standard vacuum with a horse hair attachment typically does a fairly good job (and is non conducting). If you do use the can be sure to let the PC cool off first and only use short bursts. That air comes out very cold. Be sure the check the fan inside the case on the CPU if you have one.

Thank you so much. I love my computer and all it does and I would hate to screw it up.

We hadn't bought one for years and so we invested a lot, especially considering we are not computer literate.

My daughters boyfriend said he was offered a job on the Geek Squad. I told him to go for it and let them train him and then he can take care of all our schtuff. :D

I wouldn't let the Geek Squad within 50 feet of my HOUSE, much less my beloved computers... but I'm just weird that way

Then who can I call?

If you say Ghostbusters....:evil:

I'm a technomasochist, I do all my own computer repairs/rebuilds/resurrections.

I go to the forums at rage3d.com (for ATI related stuff), nvnews.net (for NVidia related stuff) and all sorts of assorted technomagery at HardOCP.

I don't want to go to school anymore. I just can't seem to catch up and stay caught up. :(

Someone actually turned in my wallet! Totally intact - cash, everything. I'm totally floored.

Yay! That's very cool that you got that wallet back - I kept hearing "I miss my wallet"

Yes, I was very pathetic all day. I love that wallet!

I am so tired of school right now, it's not even funny. :(

I wake up contemplating whether or not I can skip a class, only to remind myself that if I need to go to a later class, parking will be FUBAR, and I should just go early anyway. I just want to stay in bed.

Oh well, that's what the weekends are for.

Aw, just be lucky you get to further your education! Think of the future, I guess. :cool:

That's why I only 3 semesters in college......:rolleyes:

I heard online today on KNX about how online schooling has grown. I tried it this past year but my computer sucks so bad I couldn't do it but seems to be real popular now. I see it taking a much bigger role in the future of education.

Skool sux! It should be aboloshied!!!!!!!!!!

DOWN WITH SCHOOL!!!!!!!!

Right now I am Reading LOT :)

So, Fej.....
Since you've not visited since:

If this LoT swanker may be so nosy, just what have you been doing since September 28, 2006? ;)

I'm bored and my ass hurts.

Ah, the return to reality.......

I'm making a deliberately lumpy papier-mache trophy for our boss. (don't ask...)

Oh, but I MUST! Please! :evil:

Soooo..

When's the last time you dropped something in the toilet that you had to fish out again?

Moonliner reads this post.... Goes into nervous shakes and carefully backs away being VERY careful about what keys he hits....

Not me, but a co-worker when zipping up, the office keycard hit the loo in the midst of the flush and down it went. It was seriously funny!

Nickolas is going to The Old People's tomorrow. She laready has plans on stuff to eat...her entire day seems to be revolving on what to feed my son. I luck out since she is making spagetti for dinner tomorrow night. After dinner Boy and I are going to go see Flushed Away. David is busy playing "dad" to another family tomorrow night, so Boy and I are going to have a special night out. After the movie we will probably get Cold Stone, since it is 10 steps from the theater's front doors.

:P

I am sooo burned out. Right now the only thing going is how much money I'll lose for having to repeat the classes if I fail them.

These days, my signature seems to be changing daily.

I was gonna say something about that when I saw it, but I thought my vision was acting up.... :evil:

LOL Sounds like a totally innocent question to me....:eek:

stuff....actual reality, etc...

been bored of the internet. :P

And not to be nosey myself but

'No recent tracks to display'.

Now that scares me....:eek:

Imagine what this church must be like

OK - Awards night tomorrow night, and because he's never recognised, we're going to present HIM with a tacky trophy... that will actually have an I-pod Nano inside it. :D

This morning. Roll-on Deodorant. New & Full. :(

Well that's totaly fun and I can only imagine the tacky gift for HIM that will contain a nano :eek:

I was wondering if you were going to see "Flushed Away". :)

Cold Stone has the bestest brownies, imho. Chewy, no fudge chunks or nuts. Nice.
:)

Warining... there may be pictures coming....:evil:

At the moment, I'm trying to figure out how to get a SuperTram to roll over a coworker...:mad:

Flushed Away was too cute!!! I am so glad we got to see it in the theater.

No Cold Stone though. When we got to the first theater, it is in a large, nice outdoor mall type shopping center. On Friday nights the teenagers take it over. The line was at least 20 mins long and we only had 3 mins until the movie started. We went to another theater, closer to the house, but no ice cream options.

So, in the continuing spirit of everything falling apart -- we have brown water. Not the slightly brown water that happens from time to time, but REALLY brown water. It's not stinky, so I'm hoping I'm not sewage water. But what the heck? It's all water - cold, hot, sink, toilet, everything - so I don't think it's the water heater. It is doing that raining flooding thing again. Our water is handled through the HoA, which is of course closed for the weekend, so I have no idea who to call for info. Any thoughts? Should I flee for the hills? Is our condo falling down about our ears?

Do you know what Water District you're in? Have there been any boil-water advisories announced on the news?

Well, we have clear water this morning, so I guess all is well. I have no idea what water district I'm in. :(

The results of my grade grievance finally showed up. The grade stands, the teacher can do whatever he wants and the fact that he didn't notice I was in class doesn't mean anything. I should have participated more so he noticed me. :confused: :confused: Uh the whole issue was he was retailiating against my complaint that he wasn't teaching the course material. He knew who I was.

I'm fighting back and will go as far as I have to. :mad:

And while I'm in this mode, anyone know how long a landlord has to return a deposit? I've been out for a month and a half and still no word on that.

Never mind. I found this

Good luck getting your deposit back! Some Landlords will itemize your deposit away, with new carpet, new drapes, paint, even if that is usual wear and illegal to charge you for, or even if they didn't replace that stuff! :mad:

Hopefully you'll get it all back, and without having to sue!

I know. But he isn't building a strong case against not returning it to me. He has to provide receipts for the things that he is going to charge me for. His non-responsiveness will be his downfall.

Bacon and scones and a big glass of milk. Good recovery food.

Oh, and whoever messed with my avatar can suck it.

Uh, my sides still hurt. I haven't laughed so much in a very,v ery long time.

Transformer, more than meets the eye?

Winning might be easy. He might not even show up to Small Claims Court. Collecting a judgment from a flesh and blood human being is another matter.

I'm wearing a pair of pants that had been too small for quite a time. At the moment they're slightly loose. I suppose I should be thankful for small victories.

YAY for loose pants!!!!!!!

And loose women!

:D

Watching The Wizard of Oz on tbs.

What about loose women in loose pants?

I've been attached at the eyes to "The Time Traveller's Wife". I can barely take time out to read about porn. :cool:

So we stopped at IHOP for dinner last night. This one is being remodeled and looks rather closed, so it was farily empty (all of 3 tables taken when we arrived). As we walked in, we spotted a young child (3?) standing on a booth seat, squealing loud enough to be heard through the plate glass, banging on said glass.

Now, I ocasionally reprimand myself for thinking bad thoughts about the parents/guardians of children that display such behavior. I don't know what it's like to be in their shoes, what challenges they have, etc.

But last night, it appears I was fully justified in my assumptions. We were lucky enough to be seated next to that table. A mother, the 3-year old and a 9 or 10 year old. As we sat down, mom was on her cell phone, stuffing her face, and speaking inappropriately loudly into the phone. I might have asked to move, but honestly, she was speaking so loudly in a near-empty restaurant that it wouldn't have mattered much, so whatever.

After 5 minutes, she was done letting us all in on her half of the conversation. Within a minute of that lovely display of class and manners, the 10 year old informed the waiter, "I need butter," for which he was admonished, "Say please. Mind your manners!" It was all I could do to resist laughing out loud and yelling "Irony!" at her.

This was all followed by her asking the 10 year old, "What's wrong with you?" several times over. Hmmm, what could be wrong? Where could he have learned his complete lack of manners? Hmmmmmmmmm.

As for the 3 year old, he spent most of the meal climbing on the seat, making noise, without more than a glance from mom. The one time she actually paid attention to him, it was to say, "Get out from under the table," which, of course, he didn't do and she never actually stopped him from doing so.

Sometimes, things just work exactly how you expect them to work.

I'd add that after the phone call and odd reprimands she pulled out something and started reading it, telling the older son that it was something very important that she had to read. Then she read and ignored her children some more while they ate.

For God's sake lady...if you don't have time to cook a dinner for your child (which is fine, really) then at least show them some attention while you eat said meal.

The best, though, was when she was on the phone and pushing a large slice of french toast into her face.

Preparing an expense report for one of my bosses. This firm does them in the most archaic fashion, I feel like I've gone back in time. It's also a royal headache to get the check to pay it back out of accounting.....UGH. These are the times I really hate the accounting folk.

Shrek is lifting Fiona off the ground and she's making a weird screaming noise...

The Happy Haunts' condo thread reminded me that we haven't posted any of our fun new swank lately. So:

Comfiest chair ever. Ours is dark red.


The wall sconce that we decided not to register for-- purchased it instead (what if it went out of stock?!)


Swanky bedding!

That sconce is wicked cool! And yes, the rug would have fit in perfectly (as would several other Momeni designs).

Your view at work is much better than mine.

Swanky sconce!

I am wanting to hide from the world right now. Helpz!

Green Goblin almost ran over Curious George...

To the tune of "Sunny Side of the Street"

This neighborhood rocks :D

I had a piper cub fly by, but it's just not the same....

WOW! I didn't know Mucinex could make me feel so, um, drunk. There are NO warnings about feeling dizzy or lightheaded on the box. This has better go away before I have to get in a car at 5:00.

I guess I need to pick up some Mucinex before I head home tonight

Are you Lupe?

Phil Moore Payne, D.D.S.

Yes, I'm Lupe, and she's not fun.

Is there some sort of rule about posting while Lupe? Can you post whatever you want and then blame Lupe?

BLAME LUPE!

I need to make Lupe apologize to your wife, DPR. She was at the party on Saturday. What a ditz!

Lupe is FUN!!!!

At least you didn't start disucssing the paramedic rumor mill.

or the perfect trajectory to get the General Lee right up in your cornhole...

Lupe, did you just call my wife a ditz? :p

No, I called Lupe a ditz. Your wife was wonderful!

:) I think so too. We sure enjoyed your stories. We never did get to hear all the episodes, maybe next time.

Laughing Yogi
This is kind of what the party on Saturday was like - just add in conversation about the paramedic rumour mill, Transformers up the ass, and a can of Redi-Wipp :D

I want what Matt is on.... :D

Correction... I want some of what you all are on!

Sooo..

Today I realized that I am an avid diary keeper. I never really knew it but it's true. I have daily written statements on all aspects of my life going back for years. Perhaps it's time I cleaned out my inbox.

No, don't! I use my message board postings as a reference point. Just recently we had to figure out which side of the famiy gets us for Thanksgiving this year. I dug around and found a post at MousePad from 2003 saying who we visited that year. Thank God, I wouldn't have remembered otherwise.

I used to do the same with emails, but my posts are far more comprehensive now.

If you do that, wouldn't the information be sprinkled around, and hard to find? If you put it all in one place (i.e live journal), it's easier for people to follow (which may be good or bad, depending on your viewpoint)

I have a dedicated gmail account setup for the sole purpose of archiving all the "reply to posts" email I get from Lot. It's the next best thing to being able to archive actual threads. The only real problem is that my own posts do not show up, just the replies (and not even all of those). However the gmail search function is much better than what Vbulletin offers.


OMG! Cranberry sauce from a can!!! :blush: You poor thing.

We're making two kinds of homemade cranberry sauce, one fresh and chopped, one stewed. Mmmmmmmm.

I'm really excited about cooking Thanksgiving dinner. It's my second year.

<b>Warning: don't read if you don't have a strong stomach! </b>


OMG. THis is the perfect place to post this. I'm home from work today with food poisoning. I feel like putting a SPlash Mountain sign on my bathroom door.

THis is proof I'm am such a retard. I have had such a craving for PIzza this last month, I think I'm pregnant. And it's not the General Lee's either. So, its no secret I"m the stereotypical single guy in the single guy's house. Cans, dirty dishes, etc. It's just how it goes. So, last night I order a pizza and I wolf down abou t1/3 of it and stick the rest in the frige. NOw you see where I"m going with this. There are things in my frig that can be carbon dated to the Crestatious period. I"ve got Penut Butter from last century. Typical. But what I also have is a pizza box from 3 weeks ago and all I wanted was 1 more slice. :(

Thus begins my water ride to ultimate doom about 3:30 am this morning. I vomited more than the top 100 models of the 20th century. I was in a marithon every 1/2 hour.

So what's the lesson children?

Clean out your damn frig you idiot!! ;)

I hope everything comes out ok ;) :D ............