How do you feel today? v. 3.0

[sgt.null]

so i guess thyat's a no for the library trip???

jenn reminds i have not had anything cool arrive in the mail (othe rthan Christmas cards) since she sent the Roswell lapel pin.

is no one getting rid of anything lately???

oh! I forgo SD sent me some Moxie. I have one bottle aI am still saving.

[aliantha]

Sorry, Sarge. By the time I'd get to your house, the library would be closed.

Can we all just agree that I've reviewed the last 125 pages of this bill, and move on? I've looked at half of it -- isn't that sufficient?

[Sorus]

I brought the gloves that Aliantha made for Sorus as well as the pair from the dollar store and another pair from the dollar store for Caitlin.

And they are awesome, awesome, awesome. SO warm. Thank you so much, Ali, I love them.

[Shaun das Schaf]

Can we all just agree that I've reviewed the last 125 pages of this bill, and move on? I've looked at half of it -- isn't that sufficient?

Well... I've been known to write promo scripts for films I haven't seen (insert horrified emoticon), so it sounds to me like you've gone above and beyond the call of professional duty!

On the topic of late nights, I get periodic switches of my body clock. I've been in a night-owl cycle for a bit now, but there's no way I could survive on the 5-odd hours of sleep some of you guys get. I need between 8-10, so if I go to bed at 3, I don't get up til midday. (Which is pretty much the #1 reason I avoid 9-5 work environs.) There is actually a fair bit of research on the innately different rhythms each of us have and how we are naturally productive at different times of the day; surely more evidence against the lunacy of squashing everybody into inflexible work systems. I understand the need for some of us to be in 9-5 (available for customers/clients/and also family commitments etc), but it still surprises me that with combination of horrendous peak-hour traffic congestion and the available technology for remote-access work, more peeps are not encouraged to work from home and more organizations are not encouraged to stagger staff work hours, where it suits both parties. There should be tax credits for this stuff. But no, we just keep building more roads, complaining about traffic and refusing to invest in public transport (at least in Australia).

Oops, ranted.

[Sorus]

Neeeat... =) So my dare is this: I dare you to make a thread (or find an old one of yours, w/e) in the Hall of Gifts, and occasionally post excerpts from stuff you're writing.

(But then, for awhile I've been meaning to dare myself to start working on a short story, posting outlines, character descrips, sections of it, etc. in the Hall as I go... )

I've considered doing something like that. Might help me get my satellites aligned. What I have are fragments of a framework for what is probably an over-ambitious project. Also doesn't help that there's a certain rhythm that needs to be maintained for the story to flow properly - it's more of an epic poem and tends to stagger a bit when confined to straight prose.

[Cameraman Jenn]

That sounds amazingly cool, Sorus.

I worked and finished up my toasted coconut ice cream making endeavor. Now I am just chilling. I feel pretty boring today.

[aliantha]

I brought the gloves that Aliantha made for Sorus as well as the pair from the dollar store and another pair from the dollar store for Caitlin.

And they are awesome, awesome, awesome. SO warm. Thank you so much, Ali, I love them.

Yay! You're very welcome. And I agree with Jenn that your story/poem/thingum sounds cool.

Shaun: Believe me, it's not just in Australia that people complain about the traffic and build more roads instead of encouraging workers to telecommute. I'd love to have a job where I could telecommute and work any odd hours I chose. Alas, it's never going to happen with my current job. The attorneys I work for expect me to run too many errands for them.

[Shaun das Schaf]

Shaun: Believe me, it's not just in Australia that people complain about the traffic and build more roads instead of encouraging workers to telecommute. I'd love to have a job where I could telecommute and work any odd hours I chose. Alas, it's never going to happen with my current job. The attorneys I work for expect me to run too many errands for them.

Well I guess there's only one thing left to do then: in between working on our Bette Midler duets, we need to build Aliantha clones. I've ascertained (through superior detective skills) that you are a kick-arse knitter. And, even if I do say so myself, I'm a pretty good swimmer. So... would a woolen homosapian-shaped form clad in goggles and a swimming cap be capable of performing your work tasks? And would the sharp-eyed lawyers notice the difference in appearance? My garage stands ready with clone-making equipment. (Just gotta move the time machine and the robot kettle out of the way.)

Jenn, I wish you'd stop talking about ice-cream. I'm off the sugar (again) and ice-cream is a particular weakness. That said, you sound like an ice-cream-making whiz.

[lucimay]

lol! shaun, have i told you lately what a wonderful sense of humor you have and what a great addition to our watch fambly you've made?
i totally love reading your posts!


um...i'm feeling a bit jealous of sorus and jenn right now.
i'monna have to stroll down to the OD and see the nifty knitted glubs.

i have a pair of fingerless glubs that one of the women at berenshoes
knitted for me but...honestly, i don't like her. and the stitches on the
glubs are like...too big so tho the yarn she used is a nice varigated
blue, the air comes thru them. it was the first pair she'd made.
i mean the glubs are okay but they just remind me of her and
i just couldn't stand her.

i'm a horrible person i know.

[Shaun das Schaf]

lol! shaun, have i told you lately what a wonderful sense of humor you have and what a great addition to our watch fambly you've made?
i totally love reading your posts!

Wow, that's a really nice thing to say to me, thank-you. I love hanging with you guys too and am very happy to have stumbled upon this place.

um...i'm feeling a bit jealous of sorus and jenn right now.
i'monna have to stroll down to the OD and see the nifty knitted glubs.

i have a pair of fingerless glubs that one of the women at berenshoes
knitted for me but...honestly, i don't like her. and the stitches on the
glubs are like...too big so tho the yarn she used is a nice varigated
blue, the air comes thru them. it was the first pair she'd made.
i mean the glubs are okay but they just remind me of her and
i just couldn't stand her.

i'm a horrible person i know.

and I'm probably horrible for laughing at the above!

[lucimay]

don't you hate that, when somebody you just can't stand does something nice for you like knitting you a pair of fingerless glubs that don't work?
i hate when that happens.

[aliantha]

Y'know, luci, the feeling may have been mutual. She may have finished the gloves, tried 'em on, and said, "These things are crap. I'm not gonna keep 'em. Who can I inflict them on?" But the good news is that, since you don't work there any more, you can toss 'em!

Shaun, I'm not sure the world is ready for aliantha clones. OTOH -- ooh, world domination!

[Cagliostro]

lol! shaun, have i told you lately what a wonderful sense of humor you have and what a great addition to our watch fambly you've made?
i totally love reading your posts!

I agree wholeheartedly.

[sgt.null]

Sorry, Sarge. By the time I'd get to your house, the library would be closed.

found a ride - 20 graphic novels.

[aliantha]

Oh good! Glad you weren't depending on me.

So I forgot to tell you guys yesterday about the Continuing Saga of Ali's Exploding Outlook Mailbox. I think I probably mentioned earlier that for the past month or so, Outlook has been crashing on me at work. Sometimes I'd get the pleasant message, "Outlook has encountered a problem and needs to close." Sometimes I wouldn't.

Our IT department has been, y'know, trying to figure out a fix for the past several weeks. This all started not long after IT migrated our electronic filing system into Outlook, so I was (quite naturally) blaming FileSite -- but nobody in IT seemed willing to just take the bloody thing out for me.

In the meantime, the crashes became more frequent, to the point where I started working through our intraweb portal every day.

So yesterday I was signing into the portal, and turned away to do something (probably went to get coffee), and when I turned back to my computer screen, there was a dialog box open that said, "Catastrophic failure". That's all it said. There was a little OK button, which I clicked, and the portal session started and everything seemed to be okay. But I tell you what, there's nothing like starting your day at work with a little message box that says, "Catastrophic failure -- OK".

Anyway, last night, IT swapped out my computer. So far, so good!

[lucimay]

Y'know, luci, the feeling may have been mutual. She may have finished the gloves, tried 'em on, and said, "These things are crap. I'm not gonna keep 'em. Who can I inflict them on?"

nope. she made em for me specifically because i worked in the warehouse at the time and it was freezing in there. and no, i wouldn't throw them away.
there's something that bugs me about trashing a gift that someone made especially for me, even if i don't like them. that would just be really shitty karma, i think.
i praised the glubs to her and thanked her and that made her happy.
it's a good thing to make someone you don't even like much happy.
throwing them away would be like spitting in the eye of happiness.

[aliantha]

Y'know, luci, the feeling may have been mutual. She may have finished the gloves, tried 'em on, and said, "These things are crap. I'm not gonna keep 'em. Who can I inflict them on?"

nope. she made em for me specifically because i worked in the warehouse at the time and it was freezing in there. and no, i wouldn't throw them away.
there's something that bugs me about trashing a gift that someone made especially for me, even if i don't like them. that would just be really shitty karma, i think.
i praised the glubs to her and thanked her and that made her happy.
it's a good thing to make someone you don't even like much happy.
throwing them away would be like spitting in the eye of happiness.

True enough. And it *was* very nice of her to make them for you.

But that doesn't mean you have to keep 'em forever, either. Just sayin'.

[Rigel]

"Catastrophic failure -- OK".

I feel like this is my life.

Lately I've been really grumpy at work. Parky it's because I haven't been sleeping well since New Year (though this is getting better since I joined a gym last weekend and I've been working out), and partly it's the old complaint about working for a bank, feeling like my job is pointless and meaningless. Worse, I've been taking it out on my co workers, when they don't deserve that.

[Cameraman Jenn]

There is a solution, Lucimay. Take the time to sew in or give them to a friend to sew in a stretchy insulated lining if you aren't much for sewing yourself. That way the usability problem is solved and you can either find them useful or consider it putting your own personal touch on them and regifting them. An example of this would be to choose the cloth and buy it, if you don't want to sew then give them over to me to line them since I am pretty handy with the sewing part and if in the end you still don't want them, then give them to a friend who could really use them like Sorus.

Shaun, I agree with what Luci said and Cag seconded. I also vow that in order to help with your sugar free lifestyle I will no longer post in here about ice cream. I'll stick to my blog or the ice cream thread in the galley.

I'll post more details in my blog thread since I seem to have a lot to say tonight.

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Shaun, I agree with what Luci said and Cag seconded.

Uh, fourthed. And if we're talking about noteworthy new members, I think Zorm deserves a mention too.

--A