What Stpid Thing Have You Done Today?

[Ghoulish Delight]

OMG I just realized a detail that makes me even stpider (so of course I'm posting it).

When I got to the intersection, the light was green. There was a car in the left turn lane in front of me. That car, being an OC driver who doesn't understand the "left turn yield on green" rules did not pull into the intersection to wait for the turn, meaning when the light did change to red, I was stuck at the light because I was not in the intersection. I sat there and grumbled to myself about what an idiot that guy was for not knowing how to deal with an intersection w/out a left turn light.

Sigh.

Originally Posted by Betty

Do you trim your beard after getting dressed or something?

No, but bits of trimmed hair inevitably remain trapped in the beard and fall out during the day.

[BarTopDancer]

At least it's Friday!


The traffic lights by my office have this weird flashing yellow left turn signal to signify left turn yield that starts after the green left turn signal. The green left turn signal lasts less than 15 seconds, barely enough time for cars to get through. If you're behind a couple big-rigs you'll get through faster if you go straight and turn around.

[Alex]

I often end up waiting weeks longer than preferred to trim my beard until I'm actually aware enough in the morning to remember to trim it before I shower. And then during the shower I well scrub the area in question.

But even then my chin apparently stores some spare clippings behind my ears or something because I'm sure to end up with a shirt that looks like I'm shedding by the end of the day.

[Ghoulish Delight]

When will I learn not to use diet soda as a mixer? When?

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Were you mixing it with Mentos?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Today I responded yes to an invitation to an after-work event at a local "billiards and sports club", attended primarily by marketing, sales, customer support, and field service engineer types.

Flying Spagetti Monster help me.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Today I responded yes to an invitation to an after-work event at a local "billiards and sports club", attended primarily by marketing, sales, customer support, and field service engineer types.

Flying Spagetti Monster help me.

Hey, wrong thread! Going to this is a GOOD idea.

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Today I responded yes to an invitation to an after-work event at a local "billiards and sports club", attended primarily by marketing, sales, customer support, and field service engineer types.

Flying Spagetti Monster help me.

Cool yer jets there, Dilbert. You'll survive

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

Cool yer jets there, Dilbert. You'll survive

Oh, I totally didn't go.

I did my penance, spent the work day and lunch schmoozing. There was no good reason for me to go to the after work thing. Plus, turned out to be far more of the developers and tech sales guys than I realized. Which made for a far more palatable experience during the day, but no way in hell that would have translated well to a pool hall. No, the only thing that made the thought of going to a pool hall after work with coworkers was when I thought they weren't tech guys.

I did stick around later in the week for an on-premise after work BBQ. Made for a decent end to Thursday I guess.

[Kevy Baby]

Last night, our IT people needed to perform some maintenance on our computers (remotely - they did not come in). When I came in this morning, my monitor was saying that it wasn't getting a signal.

Trying to wake the computer did nothing. I pushed the power button on the computer to reboot that way and got nothing. Cycled the monitor off and on - nothing. Pulled the power cord on the computer and powered back up. Still nothing.

As I was sitting there contemplating my next step, I happened to notice that the monitor cable was unplugged from the back of the monitor.

DOH!

Yeah, I feel kind of stpid.

(And how exactly did that happen? I really want to know.)