How do you feel today?

Post by **CovenantJr** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:34 am

jwaneeta wrote:"Facebook to me
show details 12:46 AM (55 minutes ago) Reply

Michelle added you as a friend on Facebook. We need to confirm that you know Michelle in order for you to be friends on Facebook.

Michelle says, "Hi! I'm Auleliel from Kevin's Watch. Facebook won't let me see your Seafest pictures unless we're friends. Will you be my friend? ".

To confirm this friend request, follow the link below:
www.facebook.com/n/?reqs.php"

I'm SO trying. The link won't go.

Here's a direct link to my profile and all my Seafest SF pics:

www.facebook.com/album.php?page=3&aid=146&id=1377451222

www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=146&id=1377451222

I'm really trying but FB kinda suxX0rz.

Can't see the photos without adding you as a friend on Facebook. I don't object to doing that, but you may find yourself getting loads of friend requests. Plus, people who don't use Facebook won't be able to see them at all...

Post by **lurch** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:40 am

Sorus wrote:Thanks!

I feel a bit better now that I have committed myself to taking action, and have taken a few steps though I have not really accomplished anything yet.

It's kind of sick, but in a way I am glad that it came to this. I did not intend to spend eight years in my last job, but if you're secure and somewhat comfortable it is surprisingly difficult to leave.

If you're working for someone who berates you constantly and takes all their personal problems out on you and tears apart everything you do to the point where it is literally impossible to please them or do anything 'right', it's probably time to move on.

May I ask,,,what line of work are you into?

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:45 am

I'm a little melancholy. It was hard to say toodles to everyone. I cried a little at the airport when I had to say catch ya later to Danlo. I miss all the festers fiercely although I still have that British one here to torment mercilessly....

Post by **Sorus** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:51 am

lurch wrote:

May I ask,,,what line of work are you into?

Retail. Trying to get out of retail. Have enough other skills and experience to do so, but finding it difficult since I work 80-hour weeks.

Post by **lurch** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:08 am

Retail. Trying to get out of retail. Have enough other skills and experience to do so, but finding it difficult since I work 80-hour weeks.[/quote]

AAh! I see said the blind man. Hooking up with a Temp agency will give you " choice" ,,the ability to move around until you find something you wouldn't mind making a career of.,,all the while receiving some sort of paycheck. Just an idea Sorus, alot of worthwhile companys are using Temp agency's to like be their HR hiring group. If you work out they offer a permanent position. If not, both parties are better off.

Post by **lurch** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:16 am

Cameraman Jenn wrote:I'm a little melancholy. It was hard to say toodles to everyone. I cried a little at the airport when I had to say catch ya later to Danlo. I miss all the festers fiercely although I still have that British one here to torment mercilessly....

....seriously....except for that British one..

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:18 pm

It's good to be back in San Francisco. I am at work but looks like it's going to be really slow so I will probably be able to take off early. I've got the Covster for another week so I am going to try to spend as much time torturing him as possible before he flees back home to England.

Post by **Xar** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:25 pm

I finally got rid of the huge seminar I was supposed to give - and got praises for that

Plus, it turned out to be a powerful catalyst and my boss now agrees with me that I should defend my thesis by the end of the year / beginning of 2009. So, I finally have a deadline, I started writing the doctoral thesis, and I'm happy

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:43 pm

Xar wrote:I finally got rid of the huge seminar I was supposed to give - and got praises for that Plus, it turned out to be a powerful catalyst and my boss now agrees with me that I should defend my thesis by the end of the year / beginning of 2009. So, I finally have a deadline, I started writing the doctoral thesis, and I'm happy

Yay!

What a great message to come across as I'm killing time at Denver airport.

Post by **Cagliostro** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:19 pm

Cameraman Jenn wrote: I've got the Covster for another week so I am going to try to spend as much time torturing him as possible before he flees back home to England.

Will there be more of this?

If so, give him one for me.

Post by **Wyldewode** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:17 pm

Wow. . . looks like everyone had a great time at Denver Seafest. Wish I could have been there.

Otherwise, I have mixed emotions. I went to visit my parents yesterday, and picked 2 one-gallon buckets of sour cherries from their orchard. I need to pit them and prepare them. I'm making one batch of cherry jam, and the rest are going into the freezer to be made into cherry pie filling.

On the other hand, my stupid dryer isn't working (it tumbles, but does not get hot). I'm just about completely broke (once I pay bills I'll have $50 for the next two weeks, and I have to put gas in my car twice--which will leave me $30 in the hole--hello credit card). Also I will have to skip eating, or put food on my credit card too. At any rate, I can't afford to have it fixed right now, so I will have to drag my clothes to the laundomat and use up the rest of my Seafest fun money so I can have clothes to wear to work and such.

I hate my life at times. . . I just can't see what the point is some days.

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:38 pm

That sucks Lyr but things will get better.

Cag, there might be some of that in one form or another....

Post by **Cagliostro** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:49 pm

Well, in whatever form, give him one for me.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:44 am

Keep your pants on this time.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:23 am

CovenantJr wrote:
jwaneeta wrote:"Facebook to me
show details 12:46 AM (55 minutes ago) Reply

Michelle added you as a friend on Facebook. We need to confirm that you know Michelle in order for you to be friends on Facebook.

Michelle says, "Hi! I'm Auleliel from Kevin's Watch. Facebook won't let me see your Seafest pictures unless we're friends. Will you be my friend? ".

To confirm this friend request, follow the link below:
www.facebook.com/n/?reqs.php"

I'm SO trying. The link won't go.

Here's a direct link to my profile and all my Seafest SF pics:

www.facebook.com/album.php?page=3&aid=146&id=1377451222

www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=146&id=1377451222

I'm really trying but FB kinda suxX0rz.
Can't see the photos without adding you as a friend on Facebook. I don't object to doing that, but you may find yourself getting loads of friend requests. Plus, people who don't use Facebook won't be able to see them at all...

Now we're friended, I can see them. Heh. I feel special.

Post by **Loredoctor** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:25 am

Almost 10 hours of

One of the best nights and days ever.

Post by **Nav** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:15 am

I'm still pissed about the latest occurrence of the family's holiday curse. When we were younger there was a tradition in our family, that the week before any family holiday somebody would die, get cancer or suffer a grisly accident. It didn't happen every single year, but certainly every two times out of three.

Now we've grown up and stopped holidaying with our parents, the curse appeared to have gone away. Possibly because we're running out of relatives, but it's stopped nontheless. I haven't had a holiday in four years so this year me and a friend decided to have a proper sun and booze holiday in Lanzarote.

It was all going fine until last Saturday night, Mel is a health and safety compliance manager (oh the irony!), she'd just been switched to nights and was on her sixth shift in a row. It was about one in the morning and she was helping the night team open tons of boxes and her box cutter wore out, so she went to the shop floor, grabbed a stanley knife, tagged it as waste and carried on opening boxes. When the duty manager's phone went off, she put it between her shoulder and ear and carried on talking, thus making the critical error at the end of a whole string of lesser errors. The stanley knife went straight across the front of the box, slipped off the end and buried itself about two inches into her wrist, severing an artery.

Much blood was lost, Kill Bill style, but the ambulance got there quickly (there's always plenty for them to do in that part of Leicester on Saturday night) and although they couldn't stop the bleeding they got her to hospital quickly. Once in A&E they put a tourniquet on the arm and stitched the artery, but it just burst open as soon as the tourniquet was removed. In the end a consultant plastic surgeon was called who decided it needed to be operated on, but there was no slot in theatre (life threatening cases go to the head of the queue, naturally) so all he could do was close the wound but leave the artery open inside. So, poor Mel sat there for two days with her hand all bruised and bloated like some kind of scary sausage plant until she had the operation. The surgeon who did it said she'd come less than a millimetre from an important tendon ("couldn't have gotten any closer if you'd tried") but had missed all the important stuff bar the radial artery.

A week on and it's all looking surprisingly healthy, the swelling's gone down, the bruising's not too bad and it's not as painful as the doctors had thought it would be. But the curse lives on and the holiday couldn't be saved as Direct Line Holidays decided to literally add insult to injury by hitting us with a 100% cancellation fee. Bastards!

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:20 am

Damn that sucks man. Best wishes and all that.

--A

Post by **balon!** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:23 am

Damn dude. A helluva story, but sucky. Sorry, mate.

Post by **Cagliostro** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:39 pm

Exhausted. I'm now used to going to bed around 8pm each night, so staying up extra late this weekend got me back into the habit. So with that and drinking and hosting and such, my body has chosen today (or rather yesterday and today) to desire all the sleep it hasn't gotten.

Now is time to get my sleeping, eating and exercise back on track. Ahhh, vacation mode....how I love ye.