Open Bar: Funnier Than White People Practicing Voodoo

[Cain]

Cain, What you need is a box of type 5/6 coveralls.

Seriously, disposable, about £1-1.50/coverall. You won't look sexy but binning it at the end of a shift is better than your current alternative. Non-permeable as well so it'll take whatever you've got to deal with no problem.

I can get one's with logo's printed on for fairly little, it's tempting to send you one with "Because (Employer) can't get their shit together" for your last shift.


Several tons of the birdshit did eventually end up at various farms, but there's no real story there.

We have plastic aprons and gloves at work...it's just they're semi-permeable.  Really helpful, that.

Surprisingly, I've yet to go home due to sickness, though I did have a horrible migraine last night that got me sent back 2 hours earlier than normal.  I've never even had a migraine before, but the combination of lack of sleep, smell of shit and vomit and never-ending glare of the corridor lights did me in.

Besides, I'm only on again this Friday and Saturday.  After that, they can fuck right off.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So the anti-viral medicine common side effect are water retention, and weight gain, and the anti-inflammatory medicine are spiking my blood sugar a lot, and increased urination/thrist.

So far I've gained 6lbs, and have drunk 3 bottles of water in the last hour.

Only two more days til all my medicine is gone then I play the waiting game. At least I'm not bleeding out my ass, or have developed a addiction to sweets. Yet........


Redoing my Engineering portfolio, and updating store inventory since new Forbidden & Limited List begins 07/14/2014 which means I have to answer neckbeard emails ZOMG DO YOU HAVE THIS CARD ZOMG I NEED NOW!

Don't die, Bear.

[Eater of Clowns]

Put a few hundred more words down for Necronomicoin, to get the flow back going again after close to a month lapse. It feels good. When I have something substantial I will post it. 

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I have come to the realization that soccer would be more enjoyable to watch if it didn't involve as much over-acting as a Spanish soap opera.

It needs what I needed to like baseball (which is, to date, the only sport I take interest in). A team to identify with (in baseball's case, the Boston Red Sox), a clear rival for said team (the New York Yankees)(it helps if it's a city you actually dislike anyway, so New York Yankees), an intense playoffs game between those teams, maybe with a few altercations (2003), you being a captive audience (worked nights as a stock boy in a liquor store in Boston during 2003).

I could get into New England Revolution, but why would I? None of those criteria, as far as I can tell, are met. Unless New England's rivals are somewhere in California or something, and I could. California has a more nuanced hatred from me than New York City. NYC is just a larger, dirtier, smellier Boston.

[Suu]

I found out that my insurance covers IUDs, fully. I'm thinking of going for it. I just got 6 months of birth control pills and have my annual tomorrow, but I'll bring it up and see what they suggest. It would be nice to get off of the pill for 10 years.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Stayed home today because I wanna.

Not doing shit.  Next chapter is tomorrow.

[Suu]

[Suu]

So I got offered a sweet gig for a weekend doing some easy volunteer work up on the Appalachian Trail in the Whites cooking meals for hikers in the trail huts. I'm guaranteed a bed and food and some of the best views in the entire state. The only caveat is that I gotta get up to them above the treeline in the Presidentials, the most difficult mountains to hike in the Northeast. They aren't Everest or the Rockies by any stretch, they just are known for killing people sometimes.

What could possibly go wrong?

Edit: She said she's taking me to the lowest one first (a scant 2700') to make sure we don't die.

[Trivial]

Which way?  The common one I've heard is the father being color blind and the female child getting something that detects between yellow and green better.

The other way is something the uv hues, but I thought that involved something done with the cornea.

Most likely deuteranomaly, with an inherited defective "green" cone in addition to a normal green cone. There are many types of colorblindness, and it's also common to have a defective "red" cone, though. In my case, if I do have it, it would have come from my mother, who would have inherited it from her father. I'm trying to see if I can find someone who's studying it and would be willing to do a genetic test.

We can't see uv, it's outside of our visible spectrum, so I'm not sure what you mean by that. UV exposure does over time cause damage to the cornea, though.

I read up on the UV thing, it's not really tetrachromat, everyone's retina can detect it, but the lens filters it out.  People that had cataract surgery can see it if they get an artificial lens. Apparently it's a whitish blue since it activates all cones, but mostly the blue one.  I can't imagine it's all that healthy for the retina, or all that fun on a sunny day.

I bet it'd be fun to leave secret messages in two shades of green that only you and other tetrachromats can differentiate.  Sneak it in an art installation or something else public.

[Ben Shapiro]

Stayed home today because I wanna.

Not doing shit.  Next chapter is tomorrow.

I figured this could some how add some inspiration.

[Ben Shapiro]

So the anti-viral medicine common side effect are water retention, and weight gain, and the anti-inflammatory medicine are spiking my blood sugar a lot, and increased urination/thrist.

So far I've gained 6lbs, and have drunk 3 bottles of water in the last hour.

Only two more days til all my medicine is gone then I play the waiting game. At least I'm not bleeding out my ass, or have developed a addiction to sweets. Yet........


Redoing my Engineering portfolio, and updating store inventory since new Forbidden & Limited List begins 07/14/2014 which means I have to answer neckbeard emails ZOMG DO YOU HAVE THIS CARD ZOMG I NEED NOW!

Don't die, Bear.

I'm going to live forever.

[Junkenstein]

Jehovah's Witnessess at work this morning.

Credit where it's due, it takes balls to rock up here and try and preach the good word. The only good word allowed round here is "NO" and I've so proud of my new ops for learning that as quickly as they have.

[Suu]

I have no idea wtf is going on, but a man who I did work for, who I've also met in person, is telling me that the two gorgeous surcoats I made him a couple months ago did not survive the wash, and he's pissed at what $400 got him. I have no explanation for what happened, he told me he washed it cold in a front loader, because I did ask, and I haven't had an issue with my new machine at all. I'm freaking out, my shit doesn't fall apart like that. Richter still wears stuff I made 8 years ago.

Seams will pull over time in a top loader with an agitator, obviously, but I've never had an issue with cold and front load, which is what I always recommend. He doesn't want me to fix them, he hasn't asked for any kind of refund, I'm just dumbstruck and at a loss here. I have no idea how to make this right. 

(and shit like this is why I'm glad I quit.)

[Junkenstein]

Have you considered that he may be lying to you?

Ask him what he thinks is fair compensation, if it's $400 or a new thing, he's almost certainly lying. Personal rule of thumb - If someone's bitching to you about a problem but not telling you what will make them happy, there's no real problem and they're fishing for some kind of freebie.

[Suu]

Have you considered that he may be lying to you?

Ask him what he thinks is fair compensation, if it's $400 or a new thing, he's almost certainly lying. Personal rule of thumb - If someone's bitching to you about a problem but not telling you what will make them happy, there's no real problem and they're fishing for some kind of freebie.

Under normal circumstances I would think so too, but he said he didn't want me to repair them, and that he didn't want a refund. I asked him what he felt was fair compensation, and he said he just wanted to let me know, and that it will be taken care of by someone else. 

It could be a fabric defect, I've gotten defective linen before in which the weave just dissolves, but it sounds like the seams blew.