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  4. The cranky thread

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    There was a jerk kid on the rush hour bus this afternoon who thought he deserved four seats for himself and his stuff. Spread out across two seats with his backpack so no one could sit next to him' date=' and furthermore laid a roll of poster paper across the two seats in front of him. Did I mention that this was during rush hour? Thoughtless little twit.[/quote']

     

    He's damned lucky no one just sat on, or simply tossed, the poster paper so they could sit.

  7. Quote of the Week From My Life.

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    Getting into bed last night, the wife has the headgear and tube for her CPAP machine...

     

    Wife: I feel like an elephant.

    Me: Moo.

    Wife: ::laughs:: That's a cow, silly.

    Me: I know, but I can't make an elephant noise.

    Wife: ::tries to make some elephant noises:: Darn. Me neither.

    Me: Then "moo" it is.

  9. Quote of the Week From My Life.

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    In the apartment complex we live in, there's a place in the parking lot for car washing, complete with a hose and vacuum. So one day, as we're driving past, we see a lady with a pair of dogs walking straight towards that spot.

     

    Wife: Oh my God! She's going to vacuum her dogs!

    Me: Um, I'm pretty sure she has something else in mind...

     

    Sure enough, moments later, we see her pulling bags from the near-by doggy-poo bag dispenser.

  10. Musings on Random Musings

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    A friend of mine (Theoretical math grad student... crazy smart geek girl) just had eye surgery to correct a congential defect that messed with her eyes ability to aim together.

    So, in her mid twenties, at the full height of her rational adulthood, she is suddenly getting to experience the third dimension visually for the first time.

     

    Reading her blogs arises echos of authors like Lovecraft struggling to describe the sudden wonder at perceiving a previously unperceived dimension.

    They just wrote it, and she's living it.

    Blows my mind, it does. I keep thinking of artists she should revisit with her new perspective.

     

     

    That is cool on so many levels.

  11. Answers & Questions

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    A: Actually' date=' given the political system we have now, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords would be a substantial improvement.[/quote']

     

    Q: In theory, a candidate can win the Electoral College with only 22% of the popular vote. Some Democracy, huh?

     

    A: Cleaning the dog.

  16. List Your CO Heroes!

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    I'm getting back into the game. Right now I've got a Grimoire (Ms. Beyond) and a Blade (Katana X). The funny thing is that when I was creating Ms. Beyond' date=' my wife looked over my shoulder and went, "Oh, that looks interesting," so now she's thinking about setting up an account.[/quote']

     

    That's sort of how my lady got into it: she watched over my shoulder one night just over a year ago and decided to give it a try. She now has (among others) a Level 31 Free Form force-projector named Atomic Pink.

  19. Answers & Questions

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    A: The look on your face will be priceless when they find that watermelon in your colon.

     

    Q: That bit about not swallowing watermelon seeds or else they'll grow inside of you is just an Urban Legend. Right...?

     

    A: Pizza and vanilla, but not geese.

  20. The cranky thread

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    So there's this lady at work with an old desktop PC (as in, over 5 years old) and is getting a new laptop (as in, out-of-the-box brand-new) to replace it. Thing is, we've been going back-and-fourth for a month now on making this happen. Why? Because she is asking... nay... demanding... that she doesn't have even one minute of downtime for the exchange. Thing is, she has years worth of data on her desktop that needs to be moved to the laptop, and that takes time. I even offered to get the process started for her and running in the background so she can continue working. Unacceptable. Why? It would make her computer run slower than it already does, and a slow machine is part of why she's getting the upgrade. The only avenue is to have me come in outside of normal business hours to do this, but she balked at that when I said I would need a charge code so I could bill her division for that, as this is beyond our normal scope of work.

     

    So, not only is she making unreasonable demands, she is being unreasonable even with my efforts to accommodate those demands.

     

    Today, I decided I had enough. I sent her an e-mail, and CC'ed my boss and her boss on it, explaining that with my own schedule constraints, I simply cannot accommodate her on this: I need some flexibility on this, or else there isn't much I can do to help her.

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