@GM, I'm totally fine with it being Thursday for you, as long as it can be Friday for me... ;)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-17T12:13:53-05:00
How about saturday for me as well? Is anyone taking our order?
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-17T19:56:24-05:00
@GM: considering what is going to happen on Friday, I wouldn't rush to get to the weekend just yet
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-18T08:17:54-05:00
Morning kittens. Sorry for the radio silence yesterday. I was in the middle of a payment run and those days are chaos.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-18T09:09:12-05:00
Good morning kittens!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-18T09:43:07-05:00
It's one of THOSE days, when you can't wait for a nap even when you just woke up.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-18T09:49:34-05:00
Morning BaKhan. How is the weather up there? We are almost spring like here. There is hardly anyone in the office because most folks are working from home. It's so peaceful and quiet. I wish it could stay like this.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-18T10:14:46-05:00
@Geist, yep the heat wave is up here too! It was 45F here yesterday! The only problem is all the slushy melty snow everywhere, its hard to keep your windshield clear! ;) I'll take it though! I hope all the snow melts! Die snow, die!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-18T10:50:07-05:00
@BaKhan: the spring like weather feels like a tease from Mother Nature. Just as soon as I get use to wearing short sleeved shirts, she switches it up.
Nothing like finding more and more emails that you never received(and need) in the email folders you shouldn't have to look through because someone is supposed to forward them to you.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-18T12:57:31-05:00
@GM, that just sounds like a nightmare! IT better fix it, or down grade to the earlier, more stable version.
There is another theory floating around the office of the person not forwarding them at all, even though they say they are.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-18T14:36:51-05:00
Oh my gosh it's warm today. It's over 50! During the summer, this would feel like a little over 80, but it's not supposed to be warm. A jacket was a bad idea.
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Man, I hope it's just from sleep, but I actually have a headache today, had it all day. I don't get headaches pretty much ever, so even though it's not a serious one, it's still almost as annoying. I wish I could go back to myself last night at 11 pm and kick myself in the butt and tell me to go to bed.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-18T14:38:48-05:00
GM, I don't know why they'd do that, but I really hope they're not. Though technology issues that might cause issues for as long as you use that software isn't a much better alternative either.
Zem, my manager has asked three times for them to forward the original email they had sent to us with the documents in them. They still haven't sent them, though they are saying that they have.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-18T16:22:23-05:00
@BaKhan: I found the name of the website that Misty might like.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-18T17:30:05-05:00
Tell them to send it 3 separate times, once using a different email service if necessary, just to be sure. Then they shouldn't have any excuse.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-19T08:00:44-05:00
Morning kittens.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-19T08:45:56-05:00
I'm like Garfield in many ways. I'm chubby, like lasagna, orange (wait a minute...), and hate Thursdays, the day I have to wake up the earliest.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-19T09:07:14-05:00
Morning kittens!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-19T09:09:17-05:00
@Geist, I'll pass that along to her! She loves that kinda stuff for sure! When we were in Greece, five years ago, we went to a shop there called Remember (lol, how could you forget) and they had a ton of stuff like that. I got a cool pair of shoes, and Misty got a really cool Skulls & Roses pin up dress. Neat store, but creepy owner! Next time you're up, I'll tell the story, too much would be lost in the text otherwise! ;)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-19T12:00:57-05:00
@BaKhan: Thanks for the heads up. I'll stop by that store when I get to visit Greece. I love stores like that. They are always by independent mom and pop stores and you know how much I like to support them.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-19T12:03:20-05:00
Be careful what you wish for. The work load has been light for the last week and I was worried about that. (I don't want to get laid off again)
Silly me. The people were just holding stuff on their desk. We are getting slammed with invoices now.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-19T12:39:36-05:00
Happy weekend, GM! I know how that feels, and I'm really jealous right now. Just one day and a little more left today to go...
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-19T12:40:15-05:00
Haha, Geist. I guess that's what job security feels like?
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-19T14:26:32-05:00
@Geist, lol! Here's a link: http://www.travelpage.gr/companies/11400.htm sadly the actual webpage is down right now, but this gives a good look. It even shows his creepy ass statues that were outside in the alley, what he called, the lovers... ;) Oh, and the rock star book that he has, even has a picture of Misty and myself! ;)
Lord Zombitten 2017-01-19T16:44:52-05:00
TFW the person you just freaking hired quits without notice...
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-19T16:53:45-05:00
@LZ, damn, I know it was hard to get that person in the first place... sorry bro!
Lord Zombitten 2017-01-19T17:20:59-05:00
Yeah, I kinda want to put a hole in a wall right now.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-19T17:40:38-05:00
@LZ, don't hit inanimate objects, the only one who gets hurt is you! ;) You don't need stiches or broken bones do you? ;)
Lord Zombitten 2017-01-19T18:18:42-05:00
I know. I wasn't actually planning on doing it. If I did, I would use a crowbar, though.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-19T22:52:21-05:00
I dunno, I punched through a drywall wall that was going to be taken down and it didn't cause much damage except for the time I didn't mentally prepare and so didn't punch properly. Just so long as it's a dividing wall and not an external one with something behind it. And you don't hit a stud...
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But really? Why'd they leave? That's so dumb. And yeah, it took so much for you just to fill it just for that to happen?
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-20T09:35:40-05:00
Morning kittens!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-20T09:35:56-05:00
@LZ, good call with the crow bar! ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-20T09:37:52-05:00
@Zem, I had a friend who punched through some dry wall.... hit a hidden electrical junction box and sliced his hand all to hell, 15 stiches I believe. You never know who has hidden what behind it. I find screaming/yelling is much preferable to stiches, imo. ;)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-20T09:46:13-05:00
Good point. Though I had a person who knew all about the walls coming down, so all I had to go through was just an inch or a little more of drywall. So LZ, if you need to punch a wall, find someone who knows where a good place is to punch it!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-20T11:40:00-05:00
Morning kittens. Happy Doomsday.
Did you know that there was a demonstration in front of the building where I work? 300 strong and more kept showing up. They were burning Trump hats and chanting slogans. I took some pictures and left. Good thing I did. The cops ended up tear gassing the street to force the demonstrators to leave.
Lord Zombitten 2017-01-20T12:31:32-05:00
It's a good thing they did, too. After all, we can't have people exercising their rights to freedom of speech and assembly when Herr Trump is being sworn in!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-20T13:39:28-05:00
@LZ: lol
I'm working at the cat café now. So peaceful here. I'm going to see if I can work here at least once a month. Any Corp members coming to D.C., I will take you to this place. I think you will love it.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-20T14:33:51-05:00
@Geist, yikes! ;) that cafe sounds awesome!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-20T14:37:49-05:00
I've never been to a cat cafe, I'd love one. It combines cats and coffee, two of the best things on earth! I haven't been to DC in several years, though.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-21T20:47:17-05:00
I'm having a real hard time believing this Raising Cane's peel-lottery thing promotion is really 1/3 odds to win a free chicken strip or toast, etc. I've won 8/10 times. I should have lost 16 times to balance that out, but I'm 80% now, not 30%. I feel really sorry for whoever has to balance out my wins.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-23T09:20:20-05:00
Morning kittens!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-23T09:43:40-05:00
This weekend was too short. Meaning not 4 days like last weekend. And in the past week, there's only been one day where I got more than 5 hours of sleep, and that's only because of a 5 hour nap the day before which kind of counted some as sleep.
Did you hear about the BC fish and chip shop that is being refused a lease in a building in Vancouver? All because of their name has an "offensive" word in it(they are called Moby Dick).
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-23T10:47:32-05:00
Morning kittens. What a rainy, dreary day. I was thisclose to calling out and staying in bed.
Did you hear about the BC fish and chip shop that is being refused a lease in a building in Vancouver? All because of their name has an "offensive" word in it(they are called Moby Dick).
Wow...major case of Deja-vu just now. Word for word email that I swear I sent in June last year.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-23T12:56:23-05:00
@GM: or you accidentally activated your time machine
Lord Zombitten 2017-01-23T13:44:04-05:00
I think I know how Dick became short for Richard. It has to do with poor penmanship and old English calligraphy. The capital R looks a lot like a capital B or D, and a lower-case H could easily be mistaken for a lower-case K. So, someone with poor handwriting writes a document for a guy named Richard, but the guy goes by Rich, and wants that name to appear on the document. Someone notices that the name looks like Dick and starts calling him that as a joke and it sticks.
On a related note, I went to school with David Head. His older brother's name was Richard. David's younger sister told me that Richard never went by Dick. My older sister, who went to school with Richard, told me that he absolutely did go by Dick. He thought it was hilarious that his parents hadn't thought his name through very well.
A lot of parents should need to pass an IQ test before naming their kids(North, Apple, Blanket, whatever else celebrities are naming their poor children these days - those are just a few examples).
Lord Zombitten 2017-01-23T15:10:28-05:00
No joke. I also get tired of all the "creative" name spellings. My attitude is spell it the way it's supposed to be spelled to help your kid avoid a lifetime of saying, "My name is Emily, but it's spelled E
I'm not saying this is a bad thing...just annoying for payroll when you get half assed information, but the families that have 7 generations of the exact same name(usually I find it's the Hispanic community that tends to do that the most, but there are cases of others that do it).
Lord Zombitten 2017-01-23T15:13:06-05:00
What the hell, KS?! I don't know why pushing the hyphen key made you think I was ready to post the comment.
Anyway, spare the kid saying, "My name is Emily, but it's spelled E-M-M-A-L-E-I-G-H, and the L is capitalised, but it's all one word."
Lord Zombitten 2017-01-23T15:17:11-05:00
In other news, I get tomorrow off for two reasons: 1) It's my birthday. 2) It's my first follow-up appointment with the oncologist. I get to have an MRI and get the results tomorrow.
Then, the Mrs. and I are going to get all-you-can-eat sushi.
@LZ: Well, happy early birthday(incase I forget, and with the way this day is going, I probably will forget). And condolences on the sushi(I'm allergic to most seafood, so that is something I always avoid no matter what).
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-23T15:41:31-05:00
Did you ever have a boss that could talk for hours about everything and nothing?
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-23T15:42:10-05:00
Happy Birthday LZ! May you get no squash or zucchini in your plate. (For that day at least)
Lord Zombitten 2017-01-23T16:29:03-05:00
Thanks, guys!
I'm hoping for fantastic news from the oncologist. That would be the best birthday present ever!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-23T16:30:48-05:00
Happy B-day LZ! Hope everything goes well tomorrow!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-23T17:58:28-05:00
Birthday at the Oncologist's? Sounds like a sequel to What About Bob or something.
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Also, happy birthday! Which just so happens to be the exact same as my dad's birthday, whom I'll be going to celebrate tomorrow as well.
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Furthermore, on the subject of dicks, you were close, LZ, but not quite, as to why Richard became synonymous with Dick. This video explains it much more nicely and succinctly than I could hope to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-23T17:59:55-05:00
Sorry I didn't check in all day, I guess that's what you get when in your only free hour in the morning you have to go register your car with parking and after a full week of 5 hours max of sleep every night (consecutive hours at least, not counting 5 hour naps and then 5 hour sleep) you decide you really need to catch at least an hour to focus on anything.
Lord Zombitten 2017-01-23T18:53:28-05:00
Interesting video, Zem
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-23T19:03:58-05:00
Yeah, that channel usually finds some pretty interesting topics to come up with.
Funnily enough, I actually knew them long before they had a youtube channel, then one of my favorite channels teamed up with it out of the blue!
@GM, you need to pull out your best grandpa from The Lost Boys impression: "Rules! We've got, Rules here!"
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-24T12:59:37-05:00
Ah, delightful tuesdays, when I get to wake up whenever the heck I darn well please (unless that happens to be after 12:00)! The one day of the week when I can be fairly certain I'm getting enough sleep and can finally break a full week streak of maxing out at 5 hours of sleep! And then only have 1 class!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-24T15:42:35-05:00
Afternoon kittens.
Note to self: rot gut liquor should only be consumed on the weekends.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-24T16:43:59-05:00
@Geist, ouch, that sounds painful! Did the wild turkey getcha?
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-24T18:10:52-05:00
@BaKhan: Actually it was a premixed drink called a hurricane. It had LOTS of rum in it. Made me a happy tipsy drunk last night. I just wish I was about to sleep it off today. No headache though so that was a plus.
Lord Zombitten 2017-01-24T18:59:19-05:00
Everything is awesome!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-24T23:00:00-05:00
Congrats LZ!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-24T23:41:31-05:00
Hooray! I'd put the "everything is awesome" song here if I didn't hate it so much!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-25T09:09:30-05:00
Morning kittens!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-25T09:10:01-05:00
@LZ, couldn't be happier for you! HUZZAH!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-25T09:11:22-05:00
@Geist, sounds delicious! And no headache (which is normal with rum, lots of sugar) to boot! Awesome!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-25T09:46:04-05:00
It's amazing how much today feels like a monday because yesterday felt so much like a sunday to me. Isn't that just what everyone wants? A week with two mondays! I'm the envy of every working/schooling person ever!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-25T09:59:24-05:00
Morning kittens. Today might be a good day. The thorn in my side is working from home today. Plus it's fixing to be 60 degrees so that is a bonus too.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-25T10:55:37-05:00
@Geist, that sounds like a great work day! Congrats! They are tearing our office appart right now, some major renovations going on. Which will be cool when its done, but is annoying as all get out right now. Its very hard to concentrate, and I don't need any help in distracting myself... doh!
Is there some way to make people learn to have patience? I get an email at 7am(I'm not even out of the house at that time!) then less than an hour later, the person emails the controller because I haven't responded yet. It takes me about an hour to get to work on a normal day.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-25T11:07:53-05:00
@GM, its always the way. People leave me voicemails over night, and then I get calls at 7:01 asking why I haven't responded yet... I start at 7, I haven't even logged into the computer yet, let alone taken off voicemails. Worst part, is my voicemail message specifically says, don't leave me a voicemail... sigh.
I also get requests for employee numbers when I haven't even received new hire paperwork. Sometimes, they ask before the guys have even finished filling out the paperwork in the divisions office. People really have no patience, and think we have everything magically done by reading minds that are thousands of miles away.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2017-01-25T11:30:47-05:00
@GM: You should tell that person in gentle terms what your office hours are and in future they should only send questions/inquires during those times.
Then tell them to shove it. ;-)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-25T13:13:42-05:00
Geist, it's 60 there? Finally, you get the sun and we get the snow! Nature got it the right way round this time!
Although, that usually means you'll have snow in a few days, so...
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-26T01:39:05-05:00
That moment when you leave off on homework because it's really difficult and it's getting very late and you need to go to bed.
... so you bring up a 43 minute piano concerto by Rachmaninoff and are up an hour later.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2017-01-26T08:41:55-05:00
That's normal, though, right? I'm sure most people can relate.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-26T09:20:41-05:00
Good morning kittens!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2017-01-26T09:22:23-05:00
@Zem, thats normal to me, but I'm far from normal... ;) When I was single, one of my favorite things to do when I got home what throw on my headphones and sit in a darkened room just listening for an hour or so, it was a great way to relax, and beat back the bs of the day!
Morning kittens.
Can it be Thursday already?
@GM, I'm totally fine with it being Thursday for you, as long as it can be Friday for me... ;)
How about saturday for me as well? Is anyone taking our order?
@GM: considering what is going to happen on Friday, I wouldn't rush to get to the weekend just yet
Morning kittens. Sorry for the radio silence yesterday. I was in the middle of a payment run and those days are chaos.
Good morning kittens!
It's one of THOSE days, when you can't wait for a nap even when you just woke up.
Morning BaKhan. How is the weather up there? We are almost spring like here. There is hardly anyone in the office because most folks are working from home. It's so peaceful and quiet. I wish it could stay like this.
@Geist, yep the heat wave is up here too! It was 45F here yesterday! The only problem is all the slushy melty snow everywhere, its hard to keep your windshield clear! ;) I'll take it though! I hope all the snow melts! Die snow, die!
@BaKhan: the spring like weather feels like a tease from Mother Nature. Just as soon as I get use to wearing short sleeved shirts, she switches it up.
@Geist, yes, mother nature is a cruel mistriss!
Morning kittens.
Nothing like finding more and more emails that you never received(and need) in the email folders you shouldn't have to look through because someone is supposed to forward them to you.
@GM, that just sounds like a nightmare! IT better fix it, or down grade to the earlier, more stable version.
There is another theory floating around the office of the person not forwarding them at all, even though they say they are.
Oh my gosh it's warm today. It's over 50! During the summer, this would feel like a little over 80, but it's not supposed to be warm. A jacket was a bad idea.
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Man, I hope it's just from sleep, but I actually have a headache today, had it all day. I don't get headaches pretty much ever, so even though it's not a serious one, it's still almost as annoying. I wish I could go back to myself last night at 11 pm and kick myself in the butt and tell me to go to bed.
GM, I don't know why they'd do that, but I really hope they're not. Though technology issues that might cause issues for as long as you use that software isn't a much better alternative either.
Zem, my manager has asked three times for them to forward the original email they had sent to us with the documents in them. They still haven't sent them, though they are saying that they have.
@BaKhan: I found the name of the website that Misty might like.
http://www.tragicbeautiful.com/
Tell them to send it 3 separate times, once using a different email service if necessary, just to be sure. Then they shouldn't have any excuse.
Morning kittens.
I'm like Garfield in many ways. I'm chubby, like lasagna, orange (wait a minute...), and hate Thursdays, the day I have to wake up the earliest.
Morning kittens!
@Geist, I'll pass that along to her! She loves that kinda stuff for sure! When we were in Greece, five years ago, we went to a shop there called Remember (lol, how could you forget) and they had a ton of stuff like that. I got a cool pair of shoes, and Misty got a really cool Skulls & Roses pin up dress. Neat store, but creepy owner! Next time you're up, I'll tell the story, too much would be lost in the text otherwise! ;)
Morning kittens.
It's Friday(for one of us at least)!!!!
@GM, congrats bro! I wish!
@BaKhan: Thanks for the heads up. I'll stop by that store when I get to visit Greece. I love stores like that. They are always by independent mom and pop stores and you know how much I like to support them.
Be careful what you wish for. The work load has been light for the last week and I was worried about that. (I don't want to get laid off again)
Silly me. The people were just holding stuff on their desk. We are getting slammed with invoices now.
Happy weekend, GM! I know how that feels, and I'm really jealous right now. Just one day and a little more left today to go...
Haha, Geist. I guess that's what job security feels like?
@Geist, lol! Here's a link: http://www.travelpage.gr/companies/11400.htm sadly the actual webpage is down right now, but this gives a good look. It even shows his creepy ass statues that were outside in the alley, what he called, the lovers... ;) Oh, and the rock star book that he has, even has a picture of Misty and myself! ;)
TFW the person you just freaking hired quits without notice...
@LZ, damn, I know it was hard to get that person in the first place... sorry bro!
Yeah, I kinda want to put a hole in a wall right now.
@LZ, don't hit inanimate objects, the only one who gets hurt is you! ;) You don't need stiches or broken bones do you? ;)
I know. I wasn't actually planning on doing it. If I did, I would use a crowbar, though.
I dunno, I punched through a drywall wall that was going to be taken down and it didn't cause much damage except for the time I didn't mentally prepare and so didn't punch properly. Just so long as it's a dividing wall and not an external one with something behind it. And you don't hit a stud...
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But really? Why'd they leave? That's so dumb. And yeah, it took so much for you just to fill it just for that to happen?
Morning kittens!
@LZ, good call with the crow bar! ;)
@Zem, I had a friend who punched through some dry wall.... hit a hidden electrical junction box and sliced his hand all to hell, 15 stiches I believe. You never know who has hidden what behind it. I find screaming/yelling is much preferable to stiches, imo. ;)
Good point. Though I had a person who knew all about the walls coming down, so all I had to go through was just an inch or a little more of drywall. So LZ, if you need to punch a wall, find someone who knows where a good place is to punch it!
Morning kittens. Happy Doomsday.
Did you know that there was a demonstration in front of the building where I work? 300 strong and more kept showing up. They were burning Trump hats and chanting slogans. I took some pictures and left. Good thing I did. The cops ended up tear gassing the street to force the demonstrators to leave.
It's a good thing they did, too. After all, we can't have people exercising their rights to freedom of speech and assembly when Herr Trump is being sworn in!
@LZ: lol
I'm working at the cat café now. So peaceful here. I'm going to see if I can work here at least once a month. Any Corp members coming to D.C., I will take you to this place. I think you will love it.
@Geist, yikes! ;) that cafe sounds awesome!
I've never been to a cat cafe, I'd love one. It combines cats and coffee, two of the best things on earth! I haven't been to DC in several years, though.
I'm having a real hard time believing this Raising Cane's peel-lottery thing promotion is really 1/3 odds to win a free chicken strip or toast, etc. I've won 8/10 times. I should have lost 16 times to balance that out, but I'm 80% now, not 30%. I feel really sorry for whoever has to balance out my wins.
Morning kittens!
This weekend was too short. Meaning not 4 days like last weekend. And in the past week, there's only been one day where I got more than 5 hours of sleep, and that's only because of a 5 hour nap the day before which kind of counted some as sleep.
Morning kittens.
Did you hear about the BC fish and chip shop that is being refused a lease in a building in Vancouver? All because of their name has an "offensive" word in it(they are called Moby Dick).
Morning kittens. What a rainy, dreary day. I was thisclose to calling out and staying in bed.
Did you hear about the BC fish and chip shop that is being refused a lease in a building in Vancouver? All because of their name has an "offensive" word in it(they are called Moby Dick).
...Apparently KS wanted to eat that comment.
@GM: So you are saying that in certain parts of Canada, you can't use the nickname William in a sign or billboard?
@Geist: Or Richard, typically people named Richard go by Dick(not sure how that started, could be based on their personality originally...)
I knew a guy named Richard, last name Hare (pronounced hair). We just called him Richard... ;)
@GM, nothing that happens in BC surprises me... ;) Damn hippies! (to be read in a Cartman voice) ;)
Note to self: Cat cafes are a great place to lounge, not so great to work. The kitties kept distracting me.
Wow...major case of Deja-vu just now. Word for word email that I swear I sent in June last year.
@GM: or you accidentally activated your time machine
I think I know how Dick became short for Richard. It has to do with poor penmanship and old English calligraphy. The capital R looks a lot like a capital B or D, and a lower-case H could easily be mistaken for a lower-case K. So, someone with poor handwriting writes a document for a guy named Richard, but the guy goes by Rich, and wants that name to appear on the document. Someone notices that the name looks like Dick and starts calling him that as a joke and it sticks.
On a related note, I went to school with David Head. His older brother's name was Richard. David's younger sister told me that Richard never went by Dick. My older sister, who went to school with Richard, told me that he absolutely did go by Dick. He thought it was hilarious that his parents hadn't thought his name through very well.
A lot of parents should need to pass an IQ test before naming their kids(North, Apple, Blanket, whatever else celebrities are naming their poor children these days - those are just a few examples).
No joke. I also get tired of all the "creative" name spellings. My attitude is spell it the way it's supposed to be spelled to help your kid avoid a lifetime of saying, "My name is Emily, but it's spelled E
I'm not saying this is a bad thing...just annoying for payroll when you get half assed information, but the families that have 7 generations of the exact same name(usually I find it's the Hispanic community that tends to do that the most, but there are cases of others that do it).
What the hell, KS?! I don't know why pushing the hyphen key made you think I was ready to post the comment.
Anyway, spare the kid saying, "My name is Emily, but it's spelled E-M-M-A-L-E-I-G-H, and the L is capitalised, but it's all one word."
In other news, I get tomorrow off for two reasons: 1) It's my birthday. 2) It's my first follow-up appointment with the oncologist. I get to have an MRI and get the results tomorrow.
Then, the Mrs. and I are going to get all-you-can-eat sushi.
@LZ: Well, happy early birthday(incase I forget, and with the way this day is going, I probably will forget). And condolences on the sushi(I'm allergic to most seafood, so that is something I always avoid no matter what).
Did you ever have a boss that could talk for hours about everything and nothing?
Happy Birthday LZ! May you get no squash or zucchini in your plate. (For that day at least)
Thanks, guys!
I'm hoping for fantastic news from the oncologist. That would be the best birthday present ever!
Happy B-day LZ! Hope everything goes well tomorrow!
Birthday at the Oncologist's? Sounds like a sequel to What About Bob or something.
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Also, happy birthday! Which just so happens to be the exact same as my dad's birthday, whom I'll be going to celebrate tomorrow as well.
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Furthermore, on the subject of dicks, you were close, LZ, but not quite, as to why Richard became synonymous with Dick. This video explains it much more nicely and succinctly than I could hope to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Sorry I didn't check in all day, I guess that's what you get when in your only free hour in the morning you have to go register your car with parking and after a full week of 5 hours max of sleep every night (consecutive hours at least, not counting 5 hour naps and then 5 hour sleep) you decide you really need to catch at least an hour to focus on anything.
Interesting video, Zem
Yeah, that channel usually finds some pretty interesting topics to come up with.
Funnily enough, I actually knew them long before they had a youtube channel, then one of my favorite channels teamed up with it out of the blue!
Morning kittens.
Morning kittens.
Instructions are hard to follow apparently. -.-
@GM, you need to pull out your best grandpa from The Lost Boys impression: "Rules! We've got, Rules here!"
Ah, delightful tuesdays, when I get to wake up whenever the heck I darn well please (unless that happens to be after 12:00)! The one day of the week when I can be fairly certain I'm getting enough sleep and can finally break a full week streak of maxing out at 5 hours of sleep! And then only have 1 class!
Afternoon kittens.
Note to self: rot gut liquor should only be consumed on the weekends.
@Geist, ouch, that sounds painful! Did the wild turkey getcha?
@BaKhan: Actually it was a premixed drink called a hurricane. It had LOTS of rum in it. Made me a happy tipsy drunk last night. I just wish I was about to sleep it off today. No headache though so that was a plus.
Everything is awesome!
Congrats LZ!
Hooray! I'd put the "everything is awesome" song here if I didn't hate it so much!
Morning kittens!
@LZ, couldn't be happier for you! HUZZAH!
@Geist, sounds delicious! And no headache (which is normal with rum, lots of sugar) to boot! Awesome!
It's amazing how much today feels like a monday because yesterday felt so much like a sunday to me. Isn't that just what everyone wants? A week with two mondays! I'm the envy of every working/schooling person ever!
Morning kittens. Today might be a good day. The thorn in my side is working from home today. Plus it's fixing to be 60 degrees so that is a bonus too.
@Geist, that sounds like a great work day! Congrats! They are tearing our office appart right now, some major renovations going on. Which will be cool when its done, but is annoying as all get out right now. Its very hard to concentrate, and I don't need any help in distracting myself... doh!
Is there some way to make people learn to have patience? I get an email at 7am(I'm not even out of the house at that time!) then less than an hour later, the person emails the controller because I haven't responded yet. It takes me about an hour to get to work on a normal day.
@GM, its always the way. People leave me voicemails over night, and then I get calls at 7:01 asking why I haven't responded yet... I start at 7, I haven't even logged into the computer yet, let alone taken off voicemails. Worst part, is my voicemail message specifically says, don't leave me a voicemail... sigh.
I also get requests for employee numbers when I haven't even received new hire paperwork. Sometimes, they ask before the guys have even finished filling out the paperwork in the divisions office. People really have no patience, and think we have everything magically done by reading minds that are thousands of miles away.
@GM: You should tell that person in gentle terms what your office hours are and in future they should only send questions/inquires during those times.
Then tell them to shove it. ;-)
Geist, it's 60 there? Finally, you get the sun and we get the snow! Nature got it the right way round this time!
Although, that usually means you'll have snow in a few days, so...
That moment when you leave off on homework because it's really difficult and it's getting very late and you need to go to bed.
... so you bring up a 43 minute piano concerto by Rachmaninoff and are up an hour later.
That's normal, though, right? I'm sure most people can relate.
Good morning kittens!
@Zem, thats normal to me, but I'm far from normal... ;) When I was single, one of my favorite things to do when I got home what throw on my headphones and sit in a darkened room just listening for an hour or so, it was a great way to relax, and beat back the bs of the day!