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It's such a good thing I enjoy the teenagers at work, otherwise all this rain would really make me want to just curl up with the hound and watch animal planet all day and knit. This "going to work on Friday" stuff is nonsense.
From the classes of teenagers I've polled, they would all take longer days in exchange for a three day weekend. I concur. But if we were to do that, they would be mostly useless by the end of Thursday.
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I like seeing people bring their luggage into work on Friday morning.
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whynot_31 said:
I like seeing people bring their luggage into work on Friday morning.Yup.
In unrelated news, I went to the Empire (NY) Brewing night at Pony Bar last night.
We are blessed with great breweries in this state.
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I'm going to a wedding outside of Poughkeepsie, NY tomorrow. It is a themed wedding, so I have to dress as something very Pirate-like. I'm sort of aghast.
If you're happy, you're not paying attention.
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You and your wife would make excellent pirates!If they are out of eye patches, consider dressing as a corporate exec. Correctly or not, people are viewing them as being similar lately.
Please let us know if you get to do the Electric Slide while dressed as a pirate
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Well, its not Pirate-specific, so I don't think I need an eyepatch. Its more of a Rennaissance Faire theme, which means I had to special order a silly puffy, Seinfelidian shirt and and a leather jerkin thing that was cut to my measurements. And I'll be wearing a sword, apaprently.
The whole thing is pretty surreal. I mean, it could be worse... I could be going to a Star Trek themed wedding or something. I sometimes wonder why it seems all my friends are weird.
If you're happy, you're not paying attention.
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All this rain is pretty surreal. Where is it all coming from?! The forecast for the week is dreary, although on a positive note, I don't mind staying at work facing a computer when it's wet out.
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Went to a Hallowe'en wedding few years back. Bride and groom came dressed as Shrek and Princess Fiona. I won't say which one was which.
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tjaded said:
All this rain is pretty surreal. Where is it all coming from?! The forecast for the week is dreary, although on a positive note, I don't mind staying at work facing a computer when it's wet out.I should plan ahead and look at the next day's weather.
By eating at the place closest to where I work yesterday, I was forced by the rain to eat lunch there twice in a row today.
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whynot_31 said:
I should plan ahead and look at the next day's weather.By eating at the place closest to where I work yesterday, I was forced by the rain to eat lunch there twice in a row today.
Why don't you just get delivery? Seamless is the best invention since sliced bread. Rather depressing to eat lunch at your desk, but who has the time to actually go outside.
I don't usually trust weather reports, since I view meteorologists as in the same category as psychics, but if there're rain clouds for the whole upcoming week, I bring an umbrella.
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Not every man is usually lacking an umbrella.
However, everyone who is lacking an umbrella is usually a man.
Perhaps I just refuse to change any part of my routine due to the weather.
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I stopped eating lunch 25 years ago. I don't miss it.
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I never look at the weather and am constantly caught outside without an umbrella.
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ntfool said:
I sometimes wonder why it seems all my friends are weird.It's God's way of making you feel better about yourself...
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The rain made my math lesson go to hell. It was POURING - I haven't seen it rain that hard it a really long time ...and all the kids kept yelling about all the rain and dancing around doing "Rain dances" apparently ... I had 3 kids break into "Rain rain go away" .... I got through 1/2 the lesson because of the rain. I get the excitement when you are a kid who was born in 2004 (yikes!) but man...it drove me crazy this afternoon!
Thank goodness it's Friday.
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I had a hard time getting through any work today, but I've had just enough to drink tonight that I won't remember until Monday.
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The Rain. A post on Friday at nearly 11 pm, after a 12 hour work day.... what to write. OH!.......
How I wish the rain would provide an incentive for my neighbors and their loitering visitors to GO INTO THEIR APARTMENTS INSTEAD OF STANDING OUTSIDE MY WINDOW AND IN THE HALLWAY RIGHT NEXT TO MY FRONT DOOR CACKLING UNTIL 3 am.
Alas it's wishful thinking, and I guess that is why my miserable ass is sleeping on an air mattress and cot on the other side of my apartment and spending Friday night at home, so I can afford the moving expenses I need to go and live amongst the civilized and socialized.
oooops. I think I need anger management,or klonopin
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i kind of love rain but it needs to be 60 degrees, not 70-80 degrees. As a sidenote, picard hates to sweat.
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Happy Friday!
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Hooray! No costume weddings this weekend!
Just lots of packing.
If you're happy, you're not paying attention.
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I hope you got to dance the Electric Slide last weekend.
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No Work today, so it's not a real Friday. I got some very good news though, and now I can take that happiness with me when I skip down to the IRS office to clear up a little crinkle.
Not a typical Friday from start to finish.
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Some co-workers are off for the new year, Rosh Hashanah, but most of us are here.
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That would make sense. Working at a school I get all holidays off, which was really nice when I had a full time salary, but in my part time status just seems cruel and unappreciated.
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Wednesday was my Friday because of Rosh Hashanah, which is great since I've used yesterday and today to simply be super productive - and then I'll still get my real weekend to relax!
I am currently in the process of re-caulking the shower. I have scrubbed/removed caulk from 10:45 until 1:00 and now am taking a break to let everything dry before re-caulking. I didn't realize how head-spinny I was getting being in that tiny bathroom with strong mildew-killers until I left said bathroom. whew.
After re-caulking it's off to Target with a hope that it won't be as crowded as it gets on the real weekends...
It's a thrill-a-minute here at the xlizellx apartment!
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I am so impressed with your great re-caulking scheme. My past attempts have always been screwed up by the fact that you're not supposed to shower or bath in a freshly caulked area and by the end that's all I want to do.
Today should be an excellent day to go to Target early. I've heard that they re-stock starting Wednesday, so by Friday afternoon there should still be some stuff on the shelves. Those who celebrate the holidays should be celebrating, not perusing Target, and those not celebrating will probably be at work.
They should call today Teacher Day in Target.
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I continue to advise people the Target at the end of the 2 Train is the one to go to.
It is much better than Atlantic Center.
...teachers are probably smart enough to know that without me telling them.
Hey, this weekend is the Atlantic Antic! One of Brooklyn's best street fairs.
http://www.atlanticave.org/antic2011/
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xlizellx,
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tateinbk said:
xlizellx,
You are clearly a very influential person. By the time I got to Target the rest of Brooklyn had too.Ha! I am truly a leader.
And yes! There was stuff in stock! And room to walk.
Whynot, I only went to Atlantic because I could walk there and the weather is SO nice. But when I just wanna shop, you are correct....I take the 2 all the way down. -
And now, for those who went to high school between 1980 and 1995, a word from The Cure.
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If there were only something a bit more recent.
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Me thinks Rebecca Black reaches a younger audience.
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For the first time since early summer, I don't have to go anywhere this weekend! Nothing is planned! WOO HOO!
Oh, wait... that just means I'll be packing all weekend. Oh well.
If you're happy, you're not paying attention.
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Mrs. Whynot apparently thinks we should act our age, because she is planning on us going to a Cranberry Harvest Festival in NJ this weekend.
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Going to Comic-Con baby!!!
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I was getting ready for work and heard an awful thumping. Low and behold, my super is on the fire escape taking a hammer to the window, trying to get to the window lock. He had broken through the first layer of the double-paned glass when I tapped on the window to suggest the question of why. He peered through, saw me, and let out a massive flurry of curses in Spanish saying he thought it was the apartment next to me and that he would call the window repair people right away.
Interesting way to start one's friday, n'est-ce pas? To start off with, the very nice, very old lady in the apartment next to me was locked into her apartment. I now know that it takes an awful racket to try and break a locked window. I also know that a certain 4 legged creature highly values his mornings in bed. He values them over anything else as far as I can see.
I'm still left with a question though, When is breaking a window a cheaper option than calling a locksmith?
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I have to say, I'm not super enthusiastic about leaving my apartment for work today now that my window is so compromised.
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I suspect my dog would have done the same thing
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homeowner said:
It's God's way of making you feel better about yourself...Nah that's what Maury is for
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Happy Friday,
October 21, 2011!
I think this guy is going to be disappointed again. He predicted the world would end in May 2011, and then (when the world did not end), he revised the end date to today:
The World Will End On October 21The doomsayer who swore that the world was going to end on May 21, Harold Camping, is doubling down.
Last spring, you'll recall, Camping predicted that "The Rapture" would arrive as a series of rolling earthquakes beginning at precisely 6PM on May 21.
God was well aware of time zones, Camping said, and therefore understood that 6PM was a rolling event around the world. This allowed us to establish links to live web-cams, so our readers could watch the world end in real-time, starting in Auckland, New Zealand.
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The day's not over yet.
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whynot_31 said:
Happy Friday,October 21, 2011!
I think this guy is going to be disappointed again. He predicted the world would end in May 2011, and then (when the world did not end), he revised the end date to today:
The World Will End On October 21The doomsayer who swore that the world was going to end on May 21, Harold Camping, is doubling down.
Last spring, you'll recall, Camping predicted that "The Rapture" would arrive as a series of rolling earthquakes beginning at precisely 6PM on May 21.
God was well aware of time zones, Camping said, and therefore understood that 6PM was a rolling event around the world. This allowed us to establish links to live web-cams, so our readers could watch the world end in real-time, starting in Auckland, New Zealand.
you're going to feel mighty dumb if you're wrong.
wait....
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Guessing that one was posted by his dog.
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Yes, I suppose Mr Camping could blame his dog for the earlier prediction.
The good news, such as it is, is that Camping doesn't think the world will end in a sudden flash of hell-fire and brimstone. He thinks The End will come quietly. He also thinks that God won't take special vengeance on those who are skeptical, they just won't be saved.
I refuse to believe that I will not be saved for not believing in the quack known as Mr Camping.
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And, on a related note:
Break glass and use in case of holy apocalypse.
(courtesy nsfw warning: contains naughty language bits)
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Work's done, no rapture yet, time to git down.
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Still no rapture, and the weather has turned cool and crisp.
Sweatshirt weather.
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Microsoft's latest vision for a connected mobile future:
Say what you will about Microsoft but they have a great track record with these.
This is a similar video from 1995.
* before the Internet became mainstream (but Yahoo, Amazon, Wired etc. were already around), aside from email and bbs (bulletin board services) via America Online, CompuServe etc.
* just 2 years after the Web (World Wide Web!) was launched
* a mere 1 year after Netscape was founded, coming out of U of Illinios / NCSA Mosaic browser project
* 5 years before the first dotcom peak and crash
* 1 year before Google was founded
* 10 years before YouTube was founded and revolutionized online video
* 3 years before Paypal was founded
* about 15 years before mobile payments started to appear in retail
* just before eBay was founded later the same yearJust wish some of their their future products designers were in charge of the cluttered, overwrought mess that's actually released.
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I am proud of myself for buying Halloween candy. My apt gets about 75 kids every year.
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