Bazza

Re: The cranky thread Damn, my weekend is looking to be shot. I gotta go to my cousin and next door neighbour's wedding. It is being held 200km out bush and I'm leaving with my brother-in-law tomorrow morning, very close to first light of dawn. Staying the night at our duplex house and then coming back home on Sunday. What I'm upset most is that it is a huge inconvience to travel for 3hrs there and back and ruin my weekend for a 1 hr wedding and a 2hr post wedding celebration. So for three hours out of my time, I got to sacrifice 1 weekend? Just doesn't seem right, and a bit arrogant I must say. Am I overreacting, does this seem normal to you? (also about 60 people are likely to be there, I'm guessing 1/2 will be family on both sides). Please comment.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Been trying to watch Starship Troopers again. Hate it but weirdly drawn to watch it also. (The gore puts me off.) Hermit was right when he said this (popcorn movies thread), especially the "dude" phrase:

Re: The cranky thread No, it isn't L I V E.

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Re: The cranky thread Recently I almost never encounter the "30 second rule", must be my "read & post" style.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER My friends and I have had great fun teasing/feeding/amusing ourselves with ant lions. They dig a hole, sort of like a funnel, and when the prey falls down, snack time. Fun times.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Happy happy joy joy.

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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Add me to another who is anime clueless.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Maybe marginally, but to me not that noticebly. Perhaps, we need to give it a bit more time or perhaps we need more...more.

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Re: A Thread for Random Musings Today I have to vote in the local government elections

Re: The cranky thread I did tell them that. Also the fact that I had a three week intensive training period followed by a 6 week "mentor" free period when my supervisor (who is s'possed to mentor me) went on leave. They took that into consideration as well.

mid probation continued :mad: :mad: :mad: Well I'd make a lousy meteorologist. I'm cranky about that. Thursday and Friday was black cloud free, my blue funk is over (until Monday :-( ). I'm no longer feeling blue, I'm feeling blond and redhead. Bazza flashes his perky ones, leaves gracefully and with decorum.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Who are you seducing now?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Google also has the meaning of life. Type that into the Google calculator

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Congrats on 500

Re: The cranky thread The kind of work is administration with a bit of finance/accounting. Also of note, the level of the position is a "4" my previous work experience has been at the "1" level. The qualifications I have (unused BTW) put me at that "4" level. The previous jobs at the "1" level have been below what I should be able to do and to a degree found them less challanging that his one. So I reckon it shouldn't be a surprise that I'm underperforming, as I've got a steep curve to get up to and then maintain.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Congrats Old Man.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Don't look now, the redhead's on top of the blond.

Re: The cranky thread q: what happens when you have a blue funk and so many things to do at once and your confidence level went from 85% to 15% to do them? a: my mid-probation performance meeting went for me badly. These last two days have been black cloud days. Tomorrow the weather don't look like to improve. I was thinking of answering the points raised at the meeting, but feel so down I can't seem to care enough to bother to write it. I did think about what I would write, but I'm having a "5:15" moment: "Why should I care, why should I care?" The more I think about it, the more I see their point, however much I disagree with it. And I can anticipate their response, which doesn't do me any good. Feel like I'm been ambushed, in a sense betrayed and taken things out of proportion, well to a degree. Things did seem to slightly improve in the afternoon, but two blasted travel arrangements, are holding me back. No matter what I ssem to do to finish them, they are like a bad super-villian always returning at the wrong moment. And that one of them is the boss and he leaves first day next month isn't doing my confidence any good. Given a choice, I'd rather not go to work tomorrow and take a sickie, but that can't happen unfortunately. Sure my blue funk may lead to sickness (ie the common cold) due to my emotional funk, but that is only a possibility. It's been a little theaputic writing this, hope your day is better. Bazza out. Thanks Pete. Felt like that today. But there is a positive to this story, how horrible it is. At lunch to my surprise I found a book of about a guy who wrote about horror -- HPL. I saw about bought Lovecraft at Last, a book about the cooresspondence between HPL and a young fan. The ironic thing is that the person who introduced me to HPL, well it was his birthday yesterday. Dann late birthday presents, another thing to be cranky about.

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