This is the thread for senselessly frittering away the last hour of a Friday afternoon

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This is great...I thought today was Thursday until I read this thread. I was out sick yesterday and spent the entire day thinking it was Wednesday, so I must have lost a day somewhere at the start of the week. I guess I need a calendar.

Yay Friday...

― mmmmsalt (Graeme), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link

i'm going to see oneida tonight, bbq fap tomorrow as well as a birthday dance party, then hopefully to see "you got served" on sunday. these are the fun things.
unfun things: i need to figure out where i hid my passport when i came back to nyc in october. i also need to do a major clean before i leave as i hate returning from a trip to a disgusting house.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link

God, so many BOXES!!! Here is the answer. I ended up putting more stuff into storage at my mum's house than I ended getting out, and now I have hundreds of boxes which I have to stack on top of each other. :-(

― The River Kate (kate), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago) link

Bah, my day has just started. Adaml and I mock your aimless angst.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

http://leech.dk/penguin.swf

http://zone.msn.com/en/rocketmania/default.htm

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

I need to get off the internet and start packing. Or maybe even take the dog for one last walk. Ach, I'm nearly packed and I don't want to move boxes, so one last dogwalk it is. You will probably be down the pub by the time I get back!

― The River Kate (kate), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

Today I have been given some cloutie dumpling and some marmalade. Everyone in the office is stuffing envelopes for a big mailing, which is the perfect, mindless Friday afternoon job. Tonight is National Pop League and hopefully no slipping on ice and whacking my arse off the pavement. Tomorrow I'm going to sow my sweet peas.

Here's something for the bored: http://www.yook.de/tetris/

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:26 (twenty years ago) link

SomethingAwful has Photoshops up for you to peruse.

including this one on deranged movie posters

― Kingfish Funyun (Kingfish), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago) link

Have a great time in NY K!

Hooray I've only got 30 mins to go before I am outta here! I should have got paid today (woo hoo) but someone messed up & we arent getting paid til monday, which kind of messes up my plans to spend, spend, spend this w/e! Ah well. Still am planning to get drunk tonight though! yay!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago) link

This is the message board for senselessy frittering away the long hours of a life less ordinary.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

well, i just put on some nice hand creme and lip balm, that took up 45 seconds. and writing about it took at least another 30...

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:32 (twenty years ago) link

45 minutes to go before running the gauntlet of Paddington and taking the first train out to the countryside. I can hardly wait to hear the barrage of monotone PA apologies, excuses and the old favourite "this train has been cancelled due toafault on this train which cannot be rectified."

― a shotgun, Friday, 30 January 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago) link

The Daily Mail headline thingy has made me spit coffee with laughter.

― robster (robster), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago) link

i wish i had this option for senselessly frittering the other day. instead i passed the time by ordering some perfume, overpriced hand cream, and a toaster oven online. wtf? at least i didn't order an ab-wheel.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago) link

My god play this one if you are safe from epileptic fits...

http://www.mausland.de/dolphin.swf

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago) link

Me too, Rob. "Will Gays Hurt The Church?" Hahah... Oh.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago) link

DOES CHRIS MORRIS INFECT FARMERS WITH AIDS?

That's beautiful on so many levels.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link

ow, sarah, my eyes!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 30 January 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link

I hope they don't make me stick around any longer here and waste my time. It's Friday goddammit. I can't even check my email thanks to MyDoom.B and there is nothing else for us to do. I want to leave! I need to get on a train to NYC! Aaaargh.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 30 January 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago) link

I imagine this to be "PLUR"!

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 30 January 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago) link

Doom.B sounds a bit like....

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 30 January 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago) link

FBI agent recommends Macs for the security conscious, says FBI can't afford them though, also recommends mac for criminal types since they have to send them to the mounties to see what's hidden on them

― Ed (dali), Friday, 30 January 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago) link

I should instead be spending my time trying to catch the author of the MyDoom virus as Microsoft and SCO are each offering a quarter million to whomever nabs him. It's like the old west, except it's snowing and I'm stuck at work and have no idea where to start.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 30 January 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

Haha yes Ed I saw that article. It made me hate my job a lot.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 30 January 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

Try the Ukraine.

x-post

― Ed (dali), Friday, 30 January 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! this is when I feel very smug and superior and know that I made the right choice in getting a Powerbook. I was a sys admin when the ILOVEYOU bug struck. I never used Outlook again.

I am still herding cats, but it looks like most of the cats are in corrals now, and I am so excited about the weekend, I get to meet all kinds of ILXors, I get to see my bestest friend in NYC, and I get to see the hott ex-boyfriend (who made a point of telling me about his pageboy haircut! woo!). I just have to remember that I am old and married and boring now (and I think he's married, too, now, or pretty close) and Stevem's hair will get jealous.

― The River Kate (kate), Friday, 30 January 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago) link

I've been waiting 2 hours for my boss who is 'en route,' just so he can come tell us to go home. I hate everything.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 30 January 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago) link

We got finished with our training at 11:15 and cleaned out the classroom by 11:30. It's now 2pm and nobody can figure out what to do with us. So we wait.

I want to see a human being on fire running around screaming. I mean in person. Not on a screen.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 30 January 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago) link

my perfume just arrived courtesy of ups. it smells like an extremely wealthy middle-aged woman. boo.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 30 January 2004 18:57 (twenty years ago) link

We just got a Fedex shipment of LL Bean goodies. Which my mum tried to give to me. I'M SORRY BUT I REALLY DON'T NEED ANY! MORE! SHOES!!! It was my New Years Resolution to stay out of shoe shops.

― The River Kate (kate), Friday, 30 January 2004 18:59 (twenty years ago) link

Well bosso finally showed up, determined that there was no good reason for those of us remaining to actually be at work any longer, and I took off for home.

All the trains are sold out until the Express at 5pm, which costs twice as much but what am I complaining for.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 30 January 2004 20:13 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, but express trains make up for being EXPENSIVE by being FAST!!! Rock on.

I just went out for one more souvenier run, picked up Monterey Jack for Suzy and some maple type products for HSA's mum.

― The River Kate (kate), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago) link

101 Dumbest Moments in Business, 2003

― TOMBOT, Friday, 30 January 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago) link

Fuck fast, I could arrive earlier on a much less expensive train if I had been able to leave work when we got finished instead of waiting around for 2 1/2 hours.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 30 January 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago) link

Grrr, that is frustrating. Hey, at least you have your choice of trains. Did I mention the fact that there is ONE Greyhound from Bennington to NYC a day?

― The River Kate (kate), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:40 (twenty years ago) link

No, you didn't. Haha I have so many reasons for hating buses, I'm sorry.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 30 January 2004 20:42 (twenty years ago) link

Traffic? This is Vermont. Oh whoops, sorry, we have to stop the bus, there are some cows in the road.

― The River Kate (kate), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago) link

::suddenly realises that a bus from New England has to go through the bottleneck of hell that is Connecticut::

::slits wrists::

― The River Kate (kate), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:47 (twenty years ago) link

Weekend, we're working for ya.

Sincerely,

Everybody

― Loverboy (nickalicious), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:02 (twenty years ago) link

time passes slowly. so slowly. oh, god.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago) link

I have to work until 8pm! This is madness.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago) link

That is bastardy beyond recall.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago) link

I have to work until 8pm! This is madness.

this is my life, m-f.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:46 (twenty years ago) link

well i had the best Friday ever - suckersssss, ha ha

― bad stevem (blueski), Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:30 (twenty years ago) link

RIV3RUN PAST EV3 AND ADMS FROM SWERV3 OF SHOR3 2 BND OF BAY BRNGS US BY A COMODIUS VICUS OF RECIRCULATION BAK 2 HOWTH CASTLE AND ENVIRONS11!!!1!1 WTF

I'm hongry!

― Leee Majors (Leee), Saturday, 31 January 2004 01:28 (twenty years ago) link

eight months pass...

SAMURAI!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link

So...bored...

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Should I go see this theatrical production tonight?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I am going to home and sleep and play PS2...in 4.5 hours.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

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a-gin?

― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 26 March 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I made some preserved lemons (with salt) and they're pretty nice in some cold gin with Squirt.

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 9 April 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link

Wise idea, that.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 April 2021 23:07 (three years ago) link

Not positive how I spent the last hour but I spent it! Time to make pizzas.

― Canon in Deez (silby), Saturday, 10 April 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

hello?

Drinking a fino sherry while doing my lame friday work.. no plans for the evening

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 August 2022 22:32 (one year ago) link

wfh, internet down. on the phone with isp. why.

― brimstead, Friday, 5 August 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link

but somehow you're posting here

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 August 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link

I have a 5G tower in a sinus cavity

― brimstead, Friday, 5 August 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link

I read a story about a kid with a Lego up there for years, so I guess that's possible

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 August 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link

four months pass...

35 minutes to go and I'm off until January 3rd. Time has slowed to a crawl -- and I'm at home, even!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:25 (one year ago) link

I have to work next week, but then we're off between Xmas & NYE.. I think the 2nd is a fed holiday

― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 17 December 2022 00:41 (one year ago) link

Having some fino sherry and running out the clock

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 23 December 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link

love when you can just close a browser window to 'leave' work

― ꙮ (map), Friday, 23 December 2022 23:39 (one year ago) link

three weeks pass...

three day weekend…kinda checked out as it is for Reasons…kinda just want to lie down

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 13 January 2023 22:20 (one year ago) link

This is only our second year getting MLK as a holiday, so I scheduled a meeting for Monday cos I forgot. Whoops!

― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 January 2023 22:23 (one year ago) link

Uh oh makes you look racist

This will be our second year getting Juneteenth as a holiday you’re an entire holiday behind the curve

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 13 January 2023 22:25 (one year ago) link

We get Cesar Chavez in California as well.. well, some of us do. I think kids still have to go to school.

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 13 January 2023 23:05 (one year ago) link

I'm about ready to crack open a beer. Dry January was not quite what I planned

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 13 January 2023 23:06 (one year ago) link

Would it were truly dry (well, drier) January out here. Two hours to go, zoning...

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 January 2023 23:11 (one year ago) link

HI DERE

― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 January 2023 23:20 (one year ago) link

i worked from a dr's office while my dad got a thorough checkup, then we had to drive home, and then mom wanted to go to early dinner and complained about everything dad did the entire time, wound up lifting him and setting him down 5 times.

I am tiiiired and about to watch 70s exploitation horror flix.

― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 January 2023 23:26 (one year ago) link

we got Juneteenth in 2020, then my company was like "lol use one of your floating holidays, we did our bare minimum" after that

― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 January 2023 23:27 (one year ago) link

wow - entitlements given cannot be taketh away

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 13 January 2023 23:31 (one year ago) link

three months pass...

Is anyone already drinking yet?

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 14 April 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link

spilled coffee everywhere about an hour ago

― brimstead, Friday, 14 April 2023 21:46 (one year ago) link

I just ate a gummy and am just waiting for it to kick in.

― Bruce Hornsby–Big Stick 3:15 (Eliza D.), Friday, 14 April 2023 21:48 (one year ago) link

reading my book, keeping a weather eye for email notifications (of which there are none) … hours to go before we get there

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 April 2023 21:59 (one year ago) link

okay I'm going to drink some stout

it's five o'clock somewhere in the world, as they say

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 14 April 2023 22:01 (one year ago) link

About to head to Sanford for a brief night at the breweries by myself (by choice, I don't wanna people today)

― Will.I.Am's fetid urine (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 April 2023 22:11 (one year ago) link

five months pass...

Now I'm drinking dry vermouth on ice, with a splash of lemonade & bitters

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 22 September 2023 21:26 (six months ago) link

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