Miscellany

[Shelli]

I've gained 20 pounds in the last 5 months since I quit smoking and I'm ecstatic. Now I just need to level out so I can buy jeans that might fit in a month.

[Ymir's blood]

Care for a ?

[Shelli]

mmm... sounds good.

That was a pretty cool find on waffles, btw, Ymir.

[Javaman]

I found a cool thing for those that have Gmail accounts. If you sign up for anything at a web site and you need to put an e-mail address, just put +{the site} after your username and you can see the the details of who's spamming you:

Find out who is spamming you: Be sure to use plus-addressing for every form you fill out online and give each site a different plus address.

Example: You could use
pinkyrocks+nytimes@gmail.com for nytimes.com
pinkyrocks+freestuff@gmail.com for freestuff.com
Then you can tell which site has given your e-mail address to spammers, and automatically send them to the trash.

It can also be used to generate unlimited addresses.

More info on 'plus addressing': GMail - Unlimited Email Addresses

[inland wave]

Miscellany and overwhelmed for the better lack of words. Okay, something is getting ready to break here, but maybe it is because I am under the weather that I am feeling vunerable. I spent the first half of the week in Denver--sick....made it to the meetings, took shit loads of notes so I could remember what took place when I am feeling better. Back home but have been up most of the night. Found out that my classmate that I trusted to turn in my homework for me on Tuesday night only turned in half of it. I sent him everything, but not all of it got turned in. I have a standing rule of not missing class on tuesday nights, but this business trip had to be an exception. So, I sent everything to the teacher and hope things are now square. Spent most of the day yesterday in DOT meetings and working with a pipeline regulatory consultant. My job for the next three months will be to get my divisions regulatory procedures in some kind of order. Wait did I say some kind of order? I mean CREATE some regulatory procedures for the whole division. Not to mention I am in charge of getting their end of the computer S dirve in some kind of logical order. The structure system they have now sucks. I waste a lot of time trying to find things and so does everyone else apparently, plus they must think I don't have much to do. My field engineers are going to love me, but that's okay, it's my job. I want a BIGGER office and more fucking pay. Review time is coming and I don't have enough room to spread things out to look them over much less breathe. I need some place where I can concentrate and be able to talk to people of all titles in private. Don't have that.....need it... I have decided if I am offered a job in Denver, I will not take it. Great place to visit, but don't want to live there. I have several regulatory training sessions I must attend between now and March and with the possiblity of my boss being promoted in the next couple of months. I am considering taking a leave of absence at school and concentrate on work for about 3 months. I hate to do it, it will put me behind, but I am feeling the pressure as I work with different departments that are trying to get on their feet and I need to devote more time to getting a better grasp of my responsiblities. It is four thirty in the morning here. Dingfod and Roxanne are in bed and I am up and down because I am stuffed up, coughing, not able to sleep and worrying about shit at work. I think I will get a shower, dressed and head for the office, leave about two this afternoon. I have things I need to get done and have to be in Texas on monday. Don't want the railroad comission on my ass.
I will be traveling to Texas more often as well and sounds like I will be in Austin every couple of months for TRRC meetings and hob knobbing with some industry specialist.

[pescifish]

Wow, that is a quite a few and varied issues you've got in the air right now, inland wave! I imagine being physically sick doesn't help stop the mind from racing from topic to topic, either. Sounds like things are hoppin' though, maybe a lot of it will propel you forward into areas that are good. It all sounds pretty exciting to me, yet understandably overwhelming.

[lisarea]

My back hurts, my head hurts, I am tired and itchy, and I am coming up on my 24-hour anniversary of getting the song Winchester Cathedral stuck in my head.

I just thought everyone should know.

[pescifish]

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[Ensign Steve]

Originally Posted by lisarea

ETA: Or the sweatpants with arm attachments?

The hell? I can understand the utility of everything on the site except for that.

This is the fucking shit.

[quiet bear]

I was wondering when this thread would pop up again.

I am taking a big step with a female friend of mine. We've been meeting for coffee every Wednesday, and I had her over last Friday night. Now, I invited her to go hiking with me.

* quiet bear is a bit apprehensive about this whole situation.

[Kyuss Apollo]

Grading really crappy timelines of the Paleolithic/Neolithic is not a task best left to the wee hours.

[Novowels]

Good: Room is clean!
Bad: Now, the rest of the house...
Ugly: ...where I threw all the crap that no longer fits in my room.

[Watser?]

Telemarketers have taken to the streets now. Someone just rang my doorbell trying to sell me funeral insurance

[lisarea]

I hope you had the presence of mind to go all Cornholio and accuse them of threatening you.

[livius drusus]

Hey! The sweatpants with armbands site is down. Now how the hell am I going to get lisarea's Secret Santa present out on time.

[LadyShea]

Me and lisarea are officially the "dangerous dog breed" designated discussers. Anytime you see any talk about pit bull bans, y'all best alert us.

[lisarea]

Originally Posted by LadyShea

Me and lisarea are officially the "dangerous dog breed" designated discussers. Anytime you see any talk about pit bull bans, y'all best alert us.

You know what we need? One of those beacon thingies, like Batman.

[LadyShea]

Originally Posted by lisarea

You know what we need? One of those beacon thingies, like Batman.

Oh fuck yeah we do.

[Novowels]

Originally Posted by LadyShea

Oh fuck yeah we do.

[livius drusus]

Why is that mean man headbutting the doggie?

[LadyShea]

Originally Posted by livius drusus

Why is that mean man headbutting the doggie?

This literally made me snort. Since I have a cold, that means I shot snot.

Good job.

[Novowels]

Maybe they're being intimate, did you ever think of that?!

The only danger that dog causes is the danger of love.

It's the first image I found of a dangerous dog, bite me! Er...

[Ensign Steve]

Originally Posted by lisarea

You know what we need? One of those beacon thingies, like Batman.

They have a plugin like that. I read an article about it at work, but now I can't find it. Basically it's a network of people and whenever anybody comes across a poll or article about their pet topic, they push a button or something that alerts all their other people and they can go and like fuck with poll results and flame people all internet megaphone style. I really wish I could find that article.

[LadyShea]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

They have a plugin like that. I read an article about it at work, but now I can't find it. Basically it's a network of people and whenever anybody comes across a poll or article about their pet topic, they push a button or something that alerts all their other people and they can go and like fuck with poll results and flame people all internet megaphone style. I really wish I could find that article.

Oh how cool. You better not be shitting us, because we could like, fuck up the whole Internet with that.

[lisarea]

Oh MAN, that would rock!