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Da6s

#720
February 22, 2014, 11:13:19 PM
Busy shit show of life for the past few months.

Boss quits abruptly. Responsibility with minimal guidance falls on me. Raised accompanied it, so OK. New boss is CEO, not so ok.

Transfer application for school is my current major headache. Awesome reference from a professor I really liked, so that's cool. Busy fucking week ahead to finish getting everything together for it.

Work and school and life are fucking with one another. Not to mention my impending move in 4 months which I'm not fucking prepared for at all. Oh, and it won't fucking stop snowing and my car's been stuck in my fucking parking spot for over a week now. Seriously. We're pushing 13 feet since jan 1st here. And it's fucking windy blustery snowy now and I have a fucking 15 minute walk home into the goddamned snowy wind in 40 minutes.

Fuck.
We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millenia. If anything our problem solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology & our ubiquitous modern conveniences. & yet despite our predisposition towards fear-driven hostility; towards what we anachronistically term primitive behavior another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our make-up. We are capable as our ancestors were of incredible breathtaking acts of kindness. Every hour of every day a man risks his life at a moments notice to save another. Forget for a moment the belligerent benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of costfree cake. I speak of pure acts of selflessness. A Mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle. A person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on the upper story. Such actions,such moments,such unconscious selfless decisions,define what it is to be human

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#721
February 23, 2014, 04:03:14 AM
Quote from: Da6s on February 22, 2014, 11:13:19 PM
Busy shit show of life for the past few months.

Boss quits abruptly. Responsibility with minimal guidance falls on me. Raised accompanied it, so OK. New boss is CEO, not so ok.

Transfer application for school is my current major headache. Awesome reference from a professor I really liked, so that's cool. Busy fucking week ahead to finish getting everything together for it.

Work and school and life are fucking with one another. Not to mention my impending move in 4 months which I'm not fucking prepared for at all. Oh, and it won't fucking stop snowing and my car's been stuck in my fucking parking spot for over a week now. Seriously. We're pushing 13 feet since jan 1st here. And it's fucking windy blustery snowy now and I have a fucking 15 minute walk home into the goddamned snowy wind in 40 minutes.

Fuck.

What is the horrible snowpocalypse hell that you live in?
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Da6s

#722
February 23, 2014, 06:17:14 AM Last Edit: February 23, 2014, 06:29:35 AM by Da6s
Quote from: Nigel on February 23, 2014, 04:03:14 AM
Quote from: Da6s on February 22, 2014, 11:13:19 PM
Busy shit show of life for the past few months.

What is the horrible snowpocalypse hell that you live in?

It's apparently the snowiest year colorado has had in almost 30 years. January is typically our least snowy months and we got over 10 feet in it alone.

March and April, the snowiest months, are on the way...
We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millenia. If anything our problem solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology & our ubiquitous modern conveniences. & yet despite our predisposition towards fear-driven hostility; towards what we anachronistically term primitive behavior another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our make-up. We are capable as our ancestors were of incredible breathtaking acts of kindness. Every hour of every day a man risks his life at a moments notice to save another. Forget for a moment the belligerent benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of costfree cake. I speak of pure acts of selflessness. A Mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle. A person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on the upper story. Such actions,such moments,such unconscious selfless decisions,define what it is to be human

Cain

#723
February 23, 2014, 02:11:35 PM
The slog continues.  First article done, probably published tomorrow.  Second one is about 1/3rd done...I really need to find people who are willing to pay more for this kind of thing.  I mean, I spent 5 hours yesterday on the article, which works out to around...£5/hour.  Even minimum wage is higher than that.

Then again, prestige counts for something, I suppose.  Working for a "private intelligence agency" means I can put "freelance spy" on my CV.  And it's better than simply being published for free on some blog or something.

Salty

#724
February 23, 2014, 07:32:50 PM
Quote from: Cain on February 23, 2014, 02:11:35 PM
The slog continues.  First article done, probably published tomorrow.  Second one is about 1/3rd done...I really need to find people who are willing to pay more for this kind of thing.  I mean, I spent 5 hours yesterday on the article, which works out to around...£5/hour.  Even minimum wage is higher than that.

Then again, prestige counts for something, I suppose.  Working for a "private intelligence agency" means I can put "freelance spy" on my CV.  And it's better than simply being published for free on some blog or something.

That is pretty baddass.

My back amd kneck have been fucking killing me for weeks because my hammock was not at a 30 degree angle on each side. Fixed it last night. It's a lovely feeling, not hating every human being on the planet.
The world is a car and you're the crash test dummy.

Cain

#725
February 23, 2014, 09:06:52 PM
I can sympathise with that.  My desk set-up is such that I have to lean forward in this chair to get any work done...and since I've done about 10,000 words worth of articles in the past two weeks, my back is killing me.

I'm mildly depressed because I've remembered the chances of ever meeting a woman as amazing as Caterina Sforza are very low.  She tried to assassinate the Pope with a peace treaty.  I don't know any women who are capable of that.

Suu

#726
February 23, 2014, 11:54:15 PM Last Edit: February 24, 2014, 12:02:38 AM by The Suu
I'm painting 6 panels of the Heidelberg Totentanz for a fundraiser. Because the free market needs to see a medieval Death twirking.

I'm particularly fond of this sassy fucker with the horn on the left.

Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

Salty

#727
February 24, 2014, 02:13:33 AM
OK, I GOT IT!

Potatoes = high heat, lots of oil.
Chicken = lower heat, less oil.
The world is a car and you're the crash test dummy.

The Good Reverend Roger

#728
February 24, 2014, 04:27:46 AM
South tube broke in the rotary kiln.  I won't be on a whole lot tomorrow.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#729
February 24, 2014, 05:12:25 AM
Quote from: Cain on February 21, 2014, 03:39:53 PM
I'm pretty sure "Ass Polyp" used to be a set user title on this forum, determined by your postcount.

I remember my days as an ass polyp well.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#730
February 24, 2014, 05:13:11 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on February 24, 2014, 04:27:46 AM
South tube broke in the rotary kiln.  I won't be on a whole lot tomorrow.

Jesus fuck, that place.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.

#731
February 24, 2014, 10:30:48 AM
Quote from: Nigel on February 24, 2014, 05:13:11 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on February 24, 2014, 04:27:46 AM
South tube broke in the rotary kiln.  I won't be on a whole lot tomorrow.

Jesus fuck, that place.

It reminds me of that movie with the airplane and the gremlins, only no airplane.
Weevil-Infested Badfun Wrongsex Referee From The 9th Earth
Slick and Deranged Wombat of Manhood Questioning
Hulking Dormouse of Lust and DESPAIR™
Gatling Geyser of Rainbow AIDS

"The only way we can ever change anything is to look in the mirror and find no enemy." - Akala  'Find No Enemy'.

The Good Reverend Roger

#732
February 24, 2014, 02:24:35 PM
Quote from: Nigel on February 24, 2014, 05:13:11 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on February 24, 2014, 04:27:46 AM
South tube broke in the rotary kiln.  I won't be on a whole lot tomorrow.

Jesus fuck, that place.

Other stuff broke, disregard.

Today:  BOTH jetmills repaired
Tomorrow:  Rotary kiln rebuild.
Wed/Thursday:  Gigantic confined space entry on blown out reactor.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Faust

#733
February 24, 2014, 02:42:01 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on February 24, 2014, 02:24:35 PM
Quote from: Nigel on February 24, 2014, 05:13:11 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on February 24, 2014, 04:27:46 AM
South tube broke in the rotary kiln.  I won't be on a whole lot tomorrow.

Jesus fuck, that place.

Wed/Thursday:  Gigantic confined space entry on blown out reactor.

That sounds like fun, can you bring fumes or are they already provided for by the reactor?
Sleepless nights at the chateau

The Good Reverend Roger

#734
February 24, 2014, 03:04:15 PM
Quote from: Faust on February 24, 2014, 02:42:01 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on February 24, 2014, 02:24:35 PM
Quote from: Nigel on February 24, 2014, 05:13:11 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on February 24, 2014, 04:27:46 AM
South tube broke in the rotary kiln.  I won't be on a whole lot tomorrow.

Jesus fuck, that place.

Wed/Thursday:  Gigantic confined space entry on blown out reactor.

That sounds like fun, can you bring fumes or are they already provided for by the reactor?

I had the existing fumes evacuated through the scrubber, then the reactor was blinded & vented. 

So if we want fumes, well, we'll just have to hit The Horrible Curry Wagon before the job.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.
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