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oh dude i bet it was awesome! i think i may have already mentioned this, but you are like the spiritual twin of the moderator for the other board me and jordan post to - he's 47 and cynical and grumpy and hilarious and awesome nice dude, but tough as fuck and doesn't put up with ANY shit and is pretty intimidating (even now, a year later, know him better, and am publishing one of his short stories - STILL a little scared of him).

ANYWAY. he got fucked one night - was sick with the flu, took some flu drugs, drank some whisky and got all sentimental - it was AWESOME. he left this super nice comment on jordan's book collecting blog about what a couple of cool ppl we are, and how he was 'honoured' to be referred to as a 'friend' in one of jordan's entries... i got such a shock when i read it! dude is not normally the sentimental type. but always knew it was there... which was the cool thing. so it's nice to see it out of the blue sometimes, altho i understand why you'd want to delete it.

STOICISM DEMANDS CONSISTENCY

funny though how stoicism seems to tolerate a great deal of indignation and/or rage in the service of some imagined principle

anyway I haven't worked this hard in years, it's great, my back and shoulders feel like oak dowels tonight

Tom, I am glad you are enjoying what you are doing! Although "my backa nd shoulders feel like oak dowels" kind of screams GET A MASSAGE NOW to me.

Dan, I hope to hell you have gone home. RR - it must at least be a reasonable time to be at work in NZ?!

(also - HI DELL!)

i've been here five hours (it's 4pm) and soon i go to the restaurant, probably till around 9.30-10pm

pops just went to bed while I cracked open another beer

dad: "Time for bed"
me: "I'm not going to church tomorrow, I'm not old enough"

ZING

i actually think a day of physical labor would be very invigorating right now, after 9 months of classes and offices and 3 hours on the train every day.

it totally is!!!

the flourescence is killing me!

today not as much fun as yesterday (pix soon hopefully) but I probably couldn't have done two straight days of lumberjacking at my age. seven years ago when they first built this house and demanded I clear them a vista from the back deck, different story. Now, oof.

urban living is all about the fast twitch and endurance musculature, not so much the sheer newtons

Dan, I hope to hell you have gone home.

...

argh

i raise my beer to you, sir.

i think some of you should move to a lazier country.

Okay I am actually going home now because I found and fixed the horrifying bug. Don't you love it when someone tries to be overly complex in an attempt to make themselves look smarter and they end up writing themselves into a cul-de-sac of doom, then they quit and leave you to fix their shit?

GOOD TIMES.

GO GET A DRINK AND GO TO BED DAN

(I love "cul-de-sac of doom," though... it reminds me of LOUIS LANE. It always seemed so significant that we lived on a dead end...)

Good night all. I have to get up and go to school all day tomorrow.

But we're learning WOUND CARE, so it should at least be fun. Or, if not fun, at least it will involve graphic/gross slides.

GOOD NIGHT!

awesome. sleep well, sara!

ahahahaha dan well that would be another reason I maintain my refusal to learn to write code from scratch

cheers to all!

(I am only called on as mr. 'hey smart guy give me another pair of eyes on this' - which is bad enough depending on the problem, but at least I can depend on "let me run it from my account" hack)

90% of all unix script issues boil down to chmod absent-mindedness, folks

and as for WIN32/PHP/JAVA issues, well, that's why I live where I do and am't allowed to smoke the weed

(also - HI DELL!)

you've apparently retired for the evening but, "hi"!

guys, i am supposedly going to begin doing manual labor next wk. on the application that i filled out, (in the why do you want to work here? space) i wrote something to the effect of "i am determined to work at a place that does not involve sitting in front of computers all day". flourescent lights, computer eyehurt, and bad postural habits resultant from that kind of thing can all go fuck off. plus i would be getting paid under da table and stuff

You get a different kind of bad posture!
One of my college pals told me the reason he finally left the trades and decided to go into debt to go to school (for computer science haw) was because he realized he only had so much structural integrity to give in his life and was not getting paid enough to afford the shoulder surgery he would need in another year or so. He remains one of the thickest and stockiest people I've ever met, after many years of meeting lots of people, such as bodybuilders and special forces types.

Every kind of work wears on you. It's what you can justify to yourself that counts.

dell did you come back recently from a long ILX hiatus? (do they call it "pulling a felicity" these days?)

Oh, okay tombot, I guess that makes sense...wow. Yeah, just from experience, I know that jobs which involve being on my feet all day and which involve moving around drive me less crazy than the sitting at a desk stuff.

Curt1s, nah, I've just been on something of a posting binge lately in part b/c the weather is turning spring and I'm feeling happy and social, but am trying (unsuccessfully) not to go out all the time and spend dough in the pubs and such. Hence my recourse to wasting away in computerville.

Had $20 left for the next week, spent $9 of it on a bag of rice, bag of beans, and toothpaste, $4 on a SIXER OF PBR TALL BOYS WOO LIVIN' IT UP I'M GOING DOWN BUMP.

I'm actually sipping gingerly on my second while keeping an ear out for the beans cooking, but CAPS FUNTIME seems appropriate.

I know that jobs which involve being on my feet all day and which involve moving around drive me less crazy than the sitting at a desk stuff.

There's a woman in my cohort who has a good job as a cytotechnologist, but she can't stand the lack of interaction anymore (apparently most cytotechs are introverts... she is NOT). It really is about figuring out which are the downsides you can actually live with.

Also AAAARGH MORNING SO NOT READY FOR A FULL DAY OF LECTURES NOOOOOO

i think some of you should move to a lazier country.

You'd all be welcome in the UK. We do fuck all, get loads of holidays, it's great.

but your weather licks it

It's Goldilocks weather.

Seeing as the main reason why I'm BACK AT WORK TODAY is because of the British company that bought my company, I am not inclined to believe you, Mark.

hey what is the rule for expired yogurt? is 1 week ok? my mom always said the dates were wonky and bc of the cultures it was ok to eat after but maybe she was just cheap.

I think it's safe to eat, it just goes sour after a long time.

(1 wk = it's probably still edible)

it was that 'greek style' anyway so already a little sourish?

yogurt lasts long long time

i think it's been in the fridge since early march. date was 13 april.

if it does not look or smell weird, i say go for it.

although i admit that i have thrown out stuff that's probably fine, because i'd rather not worry about it.

i threw away the last jar of my grandfather's pickled beets, a few months after he died, because i couldn't tell whether or not the lid had popped.

aw

i know. the stupid thing is that i had delayed opening them because, well, i wanted them for later.

(i know some of you might wonder that i didn't throw out a jar of pickled beets to begin with. if you're not from the south, you probably don't get it. and that's okay.)

it's like how i wish i still had jars of my grandmother's strawberry jam or pickles.

yes.

I got my grandmother's ragu recipe - the best, most evocative food I've ever eaten - and put it in my palm pilot for safety (it was 2000 or something, they were okay then). A few months later I broke the palm pilot. And I never got the recipe again before she died.

On the plus side, I make a pretty good ragu of my own. It's just not like nonna's :(

a theme.

tehresa, did you eat the yogurt?