@BaKhan: You too...but mine won't start until I GTFO from work....only another 5 new hires to enter. -.-
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-07T12:00:47-05:00
It's early
... TOO early!
Urgh, do people really wake up at 10 am?! Buh, it feels terrible. Remind me never to get a job or go to work. ;)
Then again, going to sleep before 3 could help. But I seem to be here before any of you, making this way early in the morning.
Mr. Sticky Pants 2017-01-07T17:07:28-05:00
I guess Exploding Kittens still has one cheek on the throne. Most backers.
Thomas 2017-01-07T18:40:22-05:00
The fact that the comment section on here is so active is incredible. Hail Gareth.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-07T21:56:52-05:00
Thomas, you didn't think we'd just up and abandon this little miracle, did you? I don't plan on leaving this place alone for a long time, at least for idle chit-chat with friends.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-09T00:47:06-05:00
Well, I'm back.
*insert saddest train "woo-woo" possible*
I don't know why, but after this break, I feel worse going back to life than most every time before! I'm so reluctant for no reason! Just 5 more minutes/months!
So in other news, I made probably the best pulled pork of my life yesterday! I let it slow cook for 7 hours. Worked out beautifully, you could litteraly just mash it with a fork and it came apart so easy! Made some cornbread to go with it! God I love me some cornbread!
Really wish our new HR director would actually ASK us before changing anything. Apparently all the site admins, managers, who ever has their hands on paperwork, were all told to just send the items to HR and they would be forwarded to the appropriate people. I am so glad(not really) that I have access to the HR email inbox...lets me find missing paperwork that was never forwarded to me.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-09T15:03:51-05:00
I just got word: due to the insanity that will be the celebration of the upcoming dictatorship, our office will be closed. We are literally two blocks away from the parade route and 5 blocks away from the White House so I will be allowed to work from home. I was gonna ask my boss if I could work remotely simply because I don't want to be around all of the Drumpt supporters. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna end up on the news because I ended up in the hospital trying to fight 500 racist sheep.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-09T15:04:39-05:00
re: cornbread
Amen to that. I looooove that stuff. Especially when it's hot from the oven and you slather a think chunk of butter on it.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-09T15:14:10-05:00
BaKhan, dang it, I have food right here and you STILL made me hungry!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-09T15:33:24-05:00
@Zem, I couldn't help it! I'm still thinking about it from last night... I hope my wife understands that there won't be enough leftovers to share... if there's any left when I get home that is... ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-09T15:35:12-05:00
@Geist, thats a good thing! You should stay as far away from those crazies as you can! Thats just trouble waiting to happen. Not to mention all the millenial protesters that are sure to be out and stirring it up too. Yep, best to just stay away from all that crazy!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-09T16:44:43-05:00
On another note: There will be a smoke in protest on that day. All I have to do is go to a certain part of DC that isn't far from the White House and they will be giving away free joints which they will light up and smoke while marching to the WH. Pity I'll be too busy working in a café. Or I might actually see if I can get a spot at the local cat café in DC.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-09T17:23:07-05:00
@Geist, lol, those damn hippies'll use any excuse to get high and march on the WH... ;)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-10T08:46:24-05:00
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-10T10:21:37-05:00
It's currently 21 degrees outside. It will jump up to 65 degrees on Thursday.
Just Mother Nature going through one of her mood swings
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-10T10:47:57-05:00
@Geist, its -6F here but it feels like -17F with the wind chill. Brrrr! Its what I like to call, minus everything out there!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-10T14:40:09-05:00
test comment to see if I can even comment because every time I try it says "NO HTML HURR DURR", like 6 times in a row
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-10T14:44:29-05:00
Screw it, KS, you win. I'm not even going to try, every time I try to send this comment it says "NOBODY EXPECTS THE HTML!!!"
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Here, we're AGAIN in that awkward moody phase where it warms up above freezing during the day, and then in the night goes well below freezing and makes everything icy. Just reminds me of that Key and Peele sketch: (key and peele Black Ice)
GORRAM IT, KICKSTARTER! I can't even include a youtube link because it's that horrible, dreadful HTML!
But really, it's one of the funniest videos I've ever seen, and tied for my favorite newscaster sketch with Cyanide and Happiness' The Weatherman (cyanide and happiness The Weatherman)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-10T14:46:32-05:00
Oh my god, you have no idea how many times I had to redo that comment until it finally sent it. No youtube links because ass. No and sign because ass, even if that's in the name of the comedy group. No brackets (parentheses are perfectly fine though). Oh my god, KS, get your crap together.
*insert Jaws theme*
HTML!!!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-10T17:23:59-05:00
*no "and" sign, or ampersand.
It just looks confusing as "no and sign"
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-11T00:56:12-05:00
2 days. 2 days and I'm already done and can't wait for the nearest break/weekend. Thankfully this'll be a 3-day weekend with MLK day. I lasted a full 2 days before losing my mind and getting out of my depth, and one of those days I only had one class (today)! Transitioning to this semester in particular for whatever reason was like walking straight into jello and trying to keep walking. No idea why now in particular, but I'm already ready for the semester to be over.
Well, I do know why, this might be my most difficult semester ever, but still, it shouldn't feel like a baseball bat to the head. And yes, I do happen to know what that feels like.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-11T09:09:50-05:00
Morning Kittens!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-11T09:11:12-05:00
@Zem, damn, I know that feeling too! The best thing to do, is try to get ahead of it, if you can. I find that the closer you are to something, the harder it is to get there. Don't give up, you can do it! We're here for moral support bro, we got your back!
Lord Zombitten 2017-01-11T10:38:45-05:00
Morning Kittens! My new hire (finally) started this week! It wouldn't have taken so long to find a replacement for the person I fires way back at the beginning of October, but I offered a job to a delicate snowflake first. She turned it down because *sob* I was interviewing other people! How dare I (me?)!
Not this lady, though! She uprooted herself from freaking Beltsville, Maryland to come work for me!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-11T10:48:50-05:00
Morning kittens.
@LZ: Beltsville MD is my neighborhood. Well well. Got any job openings? I'm about sick of this one.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-11T11:31:45-05:00
Good news! I'll be telecommuting from a cat café on the 20th. I was able to secure a spot at Crumbs and Whiskers. 7.5 hours of working around a bunch of felines.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-11T12:47:49-05:00
WIIIND!!! Ah, the wind! It's over 20 mph, and that's not even between buildings! Even I'm almost being blown over! The weather is otherwise nice, but as I said, WIIIIND!
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LZ, haha, I remember both of those previous people. The one who tried too hard to be fired and the monogamous interviewee.
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Geist, that's awesome! Dang, i wish there WAS a cat cafe here, much less to be able to work from there! Though they can often be expensive, so there's that.
Lord Zombitten 2017-01-11T13:08:40-05:00
That's awesome, Geist!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-11T14:14:21-05:00
@LZ: I checked out the site. Sadly, no positions in accounting.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-11T14:50:27-05:00
Aw, your company sucks, LZ. I looked, and there were no positions for Lazy Internet Goof-off!
However, there was one for "Sleep Technician". That sounds right up my alley! You have to work nights, but the work space is comfortable and you regularly get 8 hours! Is there overtime pay? Because I'd be dedicated enough to put in a good, solid 12 hours per day. I just hope they don't mind snoring.
Been a very busy day(with people wanting to change things on the payroll an hour before I have to have it submitted).
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-11T17:17:25-05:00
GM, I'm starting to think someone leaked your schedule to the office and told everyone to troll you by waiting till the last hour for every single thing.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-11T23:51:34-05:00
The only bad thing about my habit of putting work off until the end of the day, which is when I'm more focused and feel like actually working anyways not just purely by laziness (okay, up to 80% laziness sometimes), is those times when you realize you have 2 other things to do on top of the thing you already remembered which itself will take longer than you'd thought. Dangit, I'd better be able to buzz through this stuff in 1 hour now.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-12T00:07:50-05:00
Huh. Who'da thought taking a class and then the successive one like a year later would cause problems, such as looking at the homework and being filled with a serious desire to just take a nice, 9 hour nap and sleep through that class tomorrow. Whoever said you can't run from your problems must not have tried sleep!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-12T06:18:08-05:00
Morning kittens.
Found out yesterday that the chicken who has been acting like an ass to me is training for another position in the company. I truly wish her the best and hope she changes desk.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-12T09:22:56-05:00
Morning kittens!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-12T09:23:26-05:00
@Geist, thats great news! Maybe they could move her desk to a spare broom closet and call it an office? ;)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-12T10:39:33-05:00
And take her red stapler while she's at it, BaKhan?
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Geist, see, I knew you'd get along eventually! Now you're genuinely wishing her the best of luck in all her aspirations that would take her away from your corner of the office!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-12T11:24:11-05:00
@Zem, funnily enough, theres a guy in our office who has a red stapler, and I always want to steal it so bad!!! ;)
Apparently, if outlook gets over worked, instead of moving emails to the right folder that you dragged them to...it just decides to delete them. I recovered 178 emails that were in the deleted items folder. There are still TONS missing, with important documents, and files.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-12T17:54:13-05:00
Wow, that's... super helpful. Way to go Microsoft, that's the feature every email platform is missing!
Found emails from Sept(manager approvals mostly) in the deleted items...some of them are still missing, and hopefully IT hears back from Office 365 Support about it.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-12T18:38:04-05:00
So people did get back to you about some stuff, but you never saw it or knew about it?
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-13T09:12:09-05:00
Morning kittens!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-13T09:14:57-05:00
@GM, yikes! Just what you needed, something to make your job harder/impossible! Did I ever mention that I hate pc's and microsoft more specifically? I remember when I had my first pc, it was a 286 and it ran just fine. Loaded on windows 3.0, and everything just s l o w e d d o w n . . . . we used to call it the worst virus you could ever get, and did our best to work around it. Now, if you're using a pc, there is almost no way around it.... gd microsoft
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-13T10:58:53-05:00
Morning kittens!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-13T11:10:24-05:00
@Geist, good morning! Did you get those pics from Misty? She had mentioned that she had sent you some!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-13T11:21:49-05:00
@BaKhan: Yep. Sure did. I will saw a few on my phone and will go through them on my laptop tomorrow. She didn't send me the picture with Pumpkin wearing the hat I sent. :-(
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-13T12:34:56-05:00
You know that giant winter storm coming through? Yay, snow!!! Wait, what's that? No snow? Only freezing f****** rain? Oh goodie. And a TON of it! And then after having no snow but being below 20 for a week, we get ice and 40s for the next week? That's exactly what I want! Too warm, with it melting the ice every day and refreezing it overnight! Oh boy!
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Christ, I'm glad I wasn't planning on going anywhere this weekend. Why can't we just for ONCE have snow and cold enough to keep it, rather than insta-ice? I like snow. Nature is officially ******* with me now.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-13T12:37:28-05:00
Hey, Canada, can you send some snow our way? If you do, I'll send you that video of me face-planting in a snow pile I promised when you missed out on the facewash! At best, we had like a quarter inch of snow, so I couldn't do it then.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-13T12:38:38-05:00
@Geist, what? Wasn't that the whole point? lol! Oh well, I'll have her send some, many were taken, trust me! ;)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-13T16:12:55-05:00
@BaKhan:
Look at what I found. Think Misty would like this?
@Geist, no, not at all. She would totally hate those, trust me. I wouldn't even bother telling her about them if I was you.... does a bear crap in the woods? ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-13T16:33:48-05:00
@Geist, in fact, she probably doesn't need to know about that site at all... you've seen the crazy we've got going on!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-13T18:19:23-05:00
@BaKhan: LOL! I believe I told her some of the sites that I like to visit each week. She also might like:
There is another site but the company is located in Australia. I still get emails from them to my old account. I'll search it and post the link here.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-13T23:33:08-05:00
I get the feeling BaKhan just told his bank his identity was stolen and they should put a hold on his account preemptively because of what he saw might happen if she found out about all that stuff.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-15T01:22:42-05:00
Mmm, I now have a way to make bacon in my dorm! Best gift ever! Though I imagine if it's found out, I'd be in trouble, so don't tell my RAs. Please. I'll give you some bacon! No, don't!!! You tricksy jerks, extorting me for bacon. Dang it, I should have thought this through.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-15T07:26:14-05:00
Best part of a 3 day weekend? Proving that 2 36 hour days are the same as 3 24 hour ones without messing up your sleep schedule too much because of the extra day buffer to get back to earth time.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-15T08:32:25-05:00
Morning kittens. Looks like I got comment 109,109. :-)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-15T19:26:55-05:00
Then why does it say there're currently 109,110 including your comment?
OOOOOOOOHHHH!!!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-15T22:54:44-05:00
Hmm, I'm actually a bit disappointed with the new Sherlock episode. It was well done, but shat on the source material and was (at least to me) pretty predictable. Although it did make me want to get my 2-volume collection of every Sherlock Holmes story and novel and burn through it again. If I remember right, I only ever even mostly predicted one of those.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-16T09:12:25-05:00
Good Morning Kittens!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-16T09:14:59-05:00
@Geist, I think I may have been saved, most of those heels are too tall for her. I guess that style hurts her feet. Whooo, dodged a bullet there! ;) I'll pass along those other sites though, so I don't think I'm out of the woods yet! ;)
Nothing like a night where you can't fall asleep for the longest time, so you sit there reading for a bit only to realize it's 1:30am. Then you finally do sleep, but in such a weird(I don't even know HOW I got into that position!) way that parts of your body ache.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-16T11:35:36-05:00
@GM, sorry to hear that, hopefully some streches can help that out! Ever since I had to start wearing a breathing mask, I haven't had that issue, I can really only sleep in three positions now.
@BaKhan: I'm kind of sitting here "dancing" as I stretch my arm while working...pretty sure people think I'm crazy(even though they can hear my music if they come into my office...which is Blood by Sonata Arctica right now), but it's helping my shoulder, so I don't care.
Lord Zombitten 2017-01-16T11:48:40-05:00
And we're back at work!
Nearly caught up, too!
...until something goes wrong
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-16T11:58:50-05:00
@LZ, nothing ever goes wrong, come on man! Challanges present themselves... ;) Mmmmyeah, right! ;)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-16T13:03:06-05:00
Afternoon kittens. I completely forgot that not everyone has this holiday off.
What a busy weekend I had. I have spent the last 3 days at a sewing boot camp. 10 to 6 hours each day. I am exhausted. But I did manage to make some pajamas pants. Guess what pattern I got?
Sugar skulls, of course.
Lord Zombitten 2017-01-16T13:34:09-05:00
There it is.
I have to do a financial analysis on the projected profitability of bringing FIT testing in-house using extrapolated sample volumes. It has to be done before 8:00 tomorrow morning.
Lord Zombitten 2017-01-16T13:38:08-05:00
Geist, that's cool. I took a class in jr high that taught business, shop, sewing, and cooking. I found the sewing to be the most difficult thing. I probably made around 1,000 mistakes on the bag and shorts that I sewed. The only things I've sewn since then have been neck ties. I have mad respect for people who can do a good job of sewing.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-16T13:57:46-05:00
@LZ: I took a sewing class back in 2009 but they didn't teach a person why we did the techniques to make the project were so important. That is why I never went back and took another class.
This class was being taught by a master seamstress so she has been wonderful in helping with our sewing technique. Plus she will let us contact her to ask for sewing advice.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-16T14:24:02-05:00
@Geist, that sounds like it was fun! I'm actually pretty good at sewing. My biggest claim to fame was being able to make adjustments on one of my wife reversable dresses and getting the seams to line up properly! I also have altered a few of her dresses to have lace backs instead of zippers. I also made her a spider costume with stuffed legs, sewing that fake fur stuff is not easy! ;)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-16T16:27:43-05:00
Whoops, haven't checked in here yet somehow! No classes today because of some guy from the 50s or 60s or something, and none tomorrow because of major, major, TERRIBLE ice everywhere!
Seriously, even I slipped and fell once last night when I went out. Of course, I was being stupid and knew I'd fall, but other than that, even I was sliding all over! It's so bad out here!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-16T21:44:03-05:00
Wow, I decided randomly I was bored of Spore for now and went to Cnes, and got there 4 minutes before it closed due to the ice! That was lucky!
Unfortunately... dang it, I didn't win something from the cup lottery promotional thing! 6/7 times in a row, and I suddenly lose my streak. Oh well, it's like they say: 6/8 ain't bad.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-17T06:08:19-05:00
Morning kittens.
What an exhausting weekend. 3 days of sewing class, a burlesque show and then off to the movies to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie. I was so busy that I had to cancel some stuff because I couldn't make it. Now all I have to do is prepare for the ruling dictator.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-17T06:09:00-05:00
@BaKhan: You mean to tell me you could have helped me trim my costume? I am embarrassed about how ragged it looked.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-17T06:22:06-05:00
Wait, new Sherlock Holmes movie? I didn't know there was a new movie.
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Also, morning? Oh shoot, I guess that's what I get for having a day off due to ice here. 5:20. I really should go to bed then.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-17T09:16:01-05:00
@Geist, well, you kept mentioning that you wanted Misty's help with it, so, I just thought that was the way you wanted it. A lot of times, I can come across like a know it all, or a person who sticks their nose into everything, and I didn't want to look like that to you! Also, I thought your costume looked great, I mean, you were a ghost right? ;)
That's awesome, LZ! Looks like everything's starting to come back around for you!
@LZ, thats good to hear! I'm glad you're finally able to start returning to "normal"! ;)
@Geist, oh I know what you were meaning, I just wanted to take an opportunity to turn it around and pay you a complitment! ;)
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
@BaKhan: You too...but mine won't start until I GTFO from work....only another 5 new hires to enter. -.-
It's early
... TOO early!
Urgh, do people really wake up at 10 am?! Buh, it feels terrible. Remind me never to get a job or go to work. ;)
Then again, going to sleep before 3 could help. But I seem to be here before any of you, making this way early in the morning.
I guess Exploding Kittens still has one cheek on the throne. Most backers.
The fact that the comment section on here is so active is incredible. Hail Gareth.
Thomas, you didn't think we'd just up and abandon this little miracle, did you? I don't plan on leaving this place alone for a long time, at least for idle chit-chat with friends.
Well, I'm back.
*insert saddest train "woo-woo" possible*
I don't know why, but after this break, I feel worse going back to life than most every time before! I'm so reluctant for no reason! Just 5 more minutes/months!
Morning kittens!
@Zem, Good luck bro! You can do it!
Morning kittens
Morning GM!
Today is ramping up to be a long, long day. Start with a headache, and missing paperwork...definitely going to be not so fun.
Bdepjfjf...blah.
@Geist: My sentiments exact.
So in other news, I made probably the best pulled pork of my life yesterday! I let it slow cook for 7 hours. Worked out beautifully, you could litteraly just mash it with a fork and it came apart so easy! Made some cornbread to go with it! God I love me some cornbread!
That does sound good. I had left over pork loin and some Caesar salad for dinner last night.
Really wish our new HR director would actually ASK us before changing anything. Apparently all the site admins, managers, who ever has their hands on paperwork, were all told to just send the items to HR and they would be forwarded to the appropriate people. I am so glad(not really) that I have access to the HR email inbox...lets me find missing paperwork that was never forwarded to me.
I just got word: due to the insanity that will be the celebration of the upcoming dictatorship, our office will be closed. We are literally two blocks away from the parade route and 5 blocks away from the White House so I will be allowed to work from home. I was gonna ask my boss if I could work remotely simply because I don't want to be around all of the Drumpt supporters. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna end up on the news because I ended up in the hospital trying to fight 500 racist sheep.
re: cornbread
Amen to that. I looooove that stuff. Especially when it's hot from the oven and you slather a think chunk of butter on it.
BaKhan, dang it, I have food right here and you STILL made me hungry!
@Zem, I couldn't help it! I'm still thinking about it from last night... I hope my wife understands that there won't be enough leftovers to share... if there's any left when I get home that is... ;)
@Geist, thats a good thing! You should stay as far away from those crazies as you can! Thats just trouble waiting to happen. Not to mention all the millenial protesters that are sure to be out and stirring it up too. Yep, best to just stay away from all that crazy!
On another note: There will be a smoke in protest on that day. All I have to do is go to a certain part of DC that isn't far from the White House and they will be giving away free joints which they will light up and smoke while marching to the WH. Pity I'll be too busy working in a café. Or I might actually see if I can get a spot at the local cat café in DC.
@Geist, lol, those damn hippies'll use any excuse to get high and march on the WH... ;)
Morning kittens.
Morning kittens!
Morning kittens.
It's currently 21 degrees outside. It will jump up to 65 degrees on Thursday.
Just Mother Nature going through one of her mood swings
@Geist, its -6F here but it feels like -17F with the wind chill. Brrrr! Its what I like to call, minus everything out there!
test comment to see if I can even comment because every time I try it says "NO HTML HURR DURR", like 6 times in a row
Screw it, KS, you win. I'm not even going to try, every time I try to send this comment it says "NOBODY EXPECTS THE HTML!!!"
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Here, we're AGAIN in that awkward moody phase where it warms up above freezing during the day, and then in the night goes well below freezing and makes everything icy. Just reminds me of that Key and Peele sketch: (key and peele Black Ice)
GORRAM IT, KICKSTARTER! I can't even include a youtube link because it's that horrible, dreadful HTML!
But really, it's one of the funniest videos I've ever seen, and tied for my favorite newscaster sketch with Cyanide and Happiness' The Weatherman (cyanide and happiness The Weatherman)
Oh my god, you have no idea how many times I had to redo that comment until it finally sent it. No youtube links because ass. No and sign because ass, even if that's in the name of the comedy group. No brackets (parentheses are perfectly fine though). Oh my god, KS, get your crap together.
*insert Jaws theme*
HTML!!!
*no "and" sign, or ampersand.
It just looks confusing as "no and sign"
2 days. 2 days and I'm already done and can't wait for the nearest break/weekend. Thankfully this'll be a 3-day weekend with MLK day. I lasted a full 2 days before losing my mind and getting out of my depth, and one of those days I only had one class (today)! Transitioning to this semester in particular for whatever reason was like walking straight into jello and trying to keep walking. No idea why now in particular, but I'm already ready for the semester to be over.
Well, I do know why, this might be my most difficult semester ever, but still, it shouldn't feel like a baseball bat to the head. And yes, I do happen to know what that feels like.
Morning Kittens!
@Zem, damn, I know that feeling too! The best thing to do, is try to get ahead of it, if you can. I find that the closer you are to something, the harder it is to get there. Don't give up, you can do it! We're here for moral support bro, we got your back!
Morning Kittens! My new hire (finally) started this week! It wouldn't have taken so long to find a replacement for the person I fires way back at the beginning of October, but I offered a job to a delicate snowflake first. She turned it down because *sob* I was interviewing other people! How dare I (me?)!
Not this lady, though! She uprooted herself from freaking Beltsville, Maryland to come work for me!
Morning kittens.
@LZ: Beltsville MD is my neighborhood. Well well. Got any job openings? I'm about sick of this one.
Sorry, I only had the one opening
My company, on the other hand, has much openings.
www.grangermedical.com/job/
Good news! I'll be telecommuting from a cat café on the 20th. I was able to secure a spot at Crumbs and Whiskers. 7.5 hours of working around a bunch of felines.
WIIIND!!! Ah, the wind! It's over 20 mph, and that's not even between buildings! Even I'm almost being blown over! The weather is otherwise nice, but as I said, WIIIIND!
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LZ, haha, I remember both of those previous people. The one who tried too hard to be fired and the monogamous interviewee.
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Geist, that's awesome! Dang, i wish there WAS a cat cafe here, much less to be able to work from there! Though they can often be expensive, so there's that.
That's awesome, Geist!
@LZ: I checked out the site. Sadly, no positions in accounting.
Aw, your company sucks, LZ. I looked, and there were no positions for Lazy Internet Goof-off!
However, there was one for "Sleep Technician". That sounds right up my alley! You have to work nights, but the work space is comfortable and you regularly get 8 hours! Is there overtime pay? Because I'd be dedicated enough to put in a good, solid 12 hours per day. I just hope they don't mind snoring.
Afternoon kittens.
Been a very busy day(with people wanting to change things on the payroll an hour before I have to have it submitted).
GM, I'm starting to think someone leaked your schedule to the office and told everyone to troll you by waiting till the last hour for every single thing.
The only bad thing about my habit of putting work off until the end of the day, which is when I'm more focused and feel like actually working anyways not just purely by laziness (okay, up to 80% laziness sometimes), is those times when you realize you have 2 other things to do on top of the thing you already remembered which itself will take longer than you'd thought. Dangit, I'd better be able to buzz through this stuff in 1 hour now.
Huh. Who'da thought taking a class and then the successive one like a year later would cause problems, such as looking at the homework and being filled with a serious desire to just take a nice, 9 hour nap and sleep through that class tomorrow. Whoever said you can't run from your problems must not have tried sleep!
Morning kittens.
Found out yesterday that the chicken who has been acting like an ass to me is training for another position in the company. I truly wish her the best and hope she changes desk.
Morning kittens!
@Geist, thats great news! Maybe they could move her desk to a spare broom closet and call it an office? ;)
Morning kittens.
Happy Friday(well, it is for me at least!)
And take her red stapler while she's at it, BaKhan?
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Geist, see, I knew you'd get along eventually! Now you're genuinely wishing her the best of luck in all her aspirations that would take her away from your corner of the office!
@Zem, funnily enough, theres a guy in our office who has a red stapler, and I always want to steal it so bad!!! ;)
@GM, congrats! I wish! T_T
@BaKhan: After this week of BS, and next week of BS(re-training on the Canadian payroll), I'm glad I have both the Fridays off.
Apparently, if outlook gets over worked, instead of moving emails to the right folder that you dragged them to...it just decides to delete them. I recovered 178 emails that were in the deleted items folder. There are still TONS missing, with important documents, and files.
Wow, that's... super helpful. Way to go Microsoft, that's the feature every email platform is missing!
Found emails from Sept(manager approvals mostly) in the deleted items...some of them are still missing, and hopefully IT hears back from Office 365 Support about it.
So people did get back to you about some stuff, but you never saw it or knew about it?
Morning kittens!
@GM, yikes! Just what you needed, something to make your job harder/impossible! Did I ever mention that I hate pc's and microsoft more specifically? I remember when I had my first pc, it was a 286 and it ran just fine. Loaded on windows 3.0, and everything just s l o w e d d o w n . . . . we used to call it the worst virus you could ever get, and did our best to work around it. Now, if you're using a pc, there is almost no way around it.... gd microsoft
Morning kittens!
@Geist, good morning! Did you get those pics from Misty? She had mentioned that she had sent you some!
@BaKhan: Yep. Sure did. I will saw a few on my phone and will go through them on my laptop tomorrow. She didn't send me the picture with Pumpkin wearing the hat I sent. :-(
You know that giant winter storm coming through? Yay, snow!!! Wait, what's that? No snow? Only freezing f****** rain? Oh goodie. And a TON of it! And then after having no snow but being below 20 for a week, we get ice and 40s for the next week? That's exactly what I want! Too warm, with it melting the ice every day and refreezing it overnight! Oh boy!
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Christ, I'm glad I wasn't planning on going anywhere this weekend. Why can't we just for ONCE have snow and cold enough to keep it, rather than insta-ice? I like snow. Nature is officially ******* with me now.
Hey, Canada, can you send some snow our way? If you do, I'll send you that video of me face-planting in a snow pile I promised when you missed out on the facewash! At best, we had like a quarter inch of snow, so I couldn't do it then.
@Geist, what? Wasn't that the whole point? lol! Oh well, I'll have her send some, many were taken, trust me! ;)
@BaKhan:
Look at what I found. Think Misty would like this?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/jiou/
@Geist, no, not at all. She would totally hate those, trust me. I wouldn't even bother telling her about them if I was you.... does a bear crap in the woods? ;)
@Geist, in fact, she probably doesn't need to know about that site at all... you've seen the crazy we've got going on!
@BaKhan: LOL! I believe I told her some of the sites that I like to visit each week. She also might like:
http://www.perpetualkid.com/
http://www.shopplasticland.com/
There is another site but the company is located in Australia. I still get emails from them to my old account. I'll search it and post the link here.
I get the feeling BaKhan just told his bank his identity was stolen and they should put a hold on his account preemptively because of what he saw might happen if she found out about all that stuff.
Mmm, I now have a way to make bacon in my dorm! Best gift ever! Though I imagine if it's found out, I'd be in trouble, so don't tell my RAs. Please. I'll give you some bacon! No, don't!!! You tricksy jerks, extorting me for bacon. Dang it, I should have thought this through.
Best part of a 3 day weekend? Proving that 2 36 hour days are the same as 3 24 hour ones without messing up your sleep schedule too much because of the extra day buffer to get back to earth time.
Morning kittens. Looks like I got comment 109,109. :-)
Then why does it say there're currently 109,110 including your comment?
OOOOOOOOHHHH!!!
Hmm, I'm actually a bit disappointed with the new Sherlock episode. It was well done, but shat on the source material and was (at least to me) pretty predictable. Although it did make me want to get my 2-volume collection of every Sherlock Holmes story and novel and burn through it again. If I remember right, I only ever even mostly predicted one of those.
Good Morning Kittens!
@Geist, I think I may have been saved, most of those heels are too tall for her. I guess that style hurts her feet. Whooo, dodged a bullet there! ;) I'll pass along those other sites though, so I don't think I'm out of the woods yet! ;)
Morning kittens.
Nothing like a night where you can't fall asleep for the longest time, so you sit there reading for a bit only to realize it's 1:30am. Then you finally do sleep, but in such a weird(I don't even know HOW I got into that position!) way that parts of your body ache.
@GM, sorry to hear that, hopefully some streches can help that out! Ever since I had to start wearing a breathing mask, I haven't had that issue, I can really only sleep in three positions now.
@BaKhan: I'm kind of sitting here "dancing" as I stretch my arm while working...pretty sure people think I'm crazy(even though they can hear my music if they come into my office...which is Blood by Sonata Arctica right now), but it's helping my shoulder, so I don't care.
And we're back at work!
Nearly caught up, too!
...until something goes wrong
@LZ, nothing ever goes wrong, come on man! Challanges present themselves... ;) Mmmmyeah, right! ;)
Afternoon kittens. I completely forgot that not everyone has this holiday off.
What a busy weekend I had. I have spent the last 3 days at a sewing boot camp. 10 to 6 hours each day. I am exhausted. But I did manage to make some pajamas pants. Guess what pattern I got?
Sugar skulls, of course.
There it is.
I have to do a financial analysis on the projected profitability of bringing FIT testing in-house using extrapolated sample volumes. It has to be done before 8:00 tomorrow morning.
Geist, that's cool. I took a class in jr high that taught business, shop, sewing, and cooking. I found the sewing to be the most difficult thing. I probably made around 1,000 mistakes on the bag and shorts that I sewed. The only things I've sewn since then have been neck ties. I have mad respect for people who can do a good job of sewing.
@LZ: I took a sewing class back in 2009 but they didn't teach a person why we did the techniques to make the project were so important. That is why I never went back and took another class.
This class was being taught by a master seamstress so she has been wonderful in helping with our sewing technique. Plus she will let us contact her to ask for sewing advice.
@Geist, that sounds like it was fun! I'm actually pretty good at sewing. My biggest claim to fame was being able to make adjustments on one of my wife reversable dresses and getting the seams to line up properly! I also have altered a few of her dresses to have lace backs instead of zippers. I also made her a spider costume with stuffed legs, sewing that fake fur stuff is not easy! ;)
Whoops, haven't checked in here yet somehow! No classes today because of some guy from the 50s or 60s or something, and none tomorrow because of major, major, TERRIBLE ice everywhere!
Seriously, even I slipped and fell once last night when I went out. Of course, I was being stupid and knew I'd fall, but other than that, even I was sliding all over! It's so bad out here!
Wow, I decided randomly I was bored of Spore for now and went to Cnes, and got there 4 minutes before it closed due to the ice! That was lucky!
Unfortunately... dang it, I didn't win something from the cup lottery promotional thing! 6/7 times in a row, and I suddenly lose my streak. Oh well, it's like they say: 6/8 ain't bad.
Morning kittens.
What an exhausting weekend. 3 days of sewing class, a burlesque show and then off to the movies to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie. I was so busy that I had to cancel some stuff because I couldn't make it. Now all I have to do is prepare for the ruling dictator.
@BaKhan: You mean to tell me you could have helped me trim my costume? I am embarrassed about how ragged it looked.
Wait, new Sherlock Holmes movie? I didn't know there was a new movie.
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Also, morning? Oh shoot, I guess that's what I get for having a day off due to ice here. 5:20. I really should go to bed then.
@Geist, well, you kept mentioning that you wanted Misty's help with it, so, I just thought that was the way you wanted it. A lot of times, I can come across like a know it all, or a person who sticks their nose into everything, and I didn't want to look like that to you! Also, I thought your costume looked great, I mean, you were a ghost right? ;)
Good Morning Kittens!