Random randomness

[Skinypupy]

Im *this* close to calling the front desk and getting them to shut up the goddamn college kids running up and down the hall of this hotel banging on random doors, screaming, and generally being annoying as hell. Some of us have 8am meetings tomorrow morning.

I've officially become a grumpy old man.

[dbt1949]

In that case you're allowed to call the police while you hide in anonymity.

[MHS]

Im *this* close to calling the front desk and getting them to shut up the goddamn college kids running up and down the hall of this hotel banging on random doors, screaming, and generally being annoying as hell. Some of us have 8am meetings tomorrow morning.

I've officially become a grumpy old man.

Do it. I've asked to switch rooms before too. Annoying once you've settled in, but in the long run it will save you sleep and resentment.

[Skinypupy]

Im *this* close to calling the front desk and getting them to shut up the goddamn college kids running up and down the hall of this hotel banging on random doors, screaming, and generally being annoying as hell. Some of us have 8am meetings tomorrow morning.

I've officially become a grumpy old man.

Do it. I've asked to switch rooms before too. Annoying once you've settled in, but in the long run it will save you sleep and resentment.

Just got a new room and a free breakfast tomorrow. Being grumpy apparently pays off!

[MHS]

Im *this* close to calling the front desk and getting them to shut up the goddamn college kids running up and down the hall of this hotel banging on random doors, screaming, and generally being annoying as hell. Some of us have 8am meetings tomorrow morning.

I've officially become a grumpy old man.

Do it. I've asked to switch rooms before too. Annoying once you've settled in, but in the long run it will save you sleep and resentment.

Just got a new room and a free breakfast tomorrow. Being grumpy apparently pays off!

Yay! I've called the room above me, knocked on people's doors, and passive-aggressively thrown shoes at my ceiling for 20 minutes straight before getting it through my head that annoying loud people are going to be annoying and loud no matter what, so I just go straight to the front desk and ask to be moved now. Way less stress.

[dbt1949]

ALL RIGHT. PUT THE CREDIT CARD DOWN AND BACK SLOWLY AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER.

[KKBlue]

Is this aimed towards your buying abilities gone wild or are you aiming at another sitting in front of a computer?

I just said to a friend the other day, "it's way too easy to spend money!" I can police myself most of the time with spending. I might be issued a ticket now and then but no crime gets committed. Not eating that coffee cake, sweets hanging around the house... very weak in the knees and totally guilty.

[dbt1949]

Moi

[bb2112]

Friend posted on his facebook early yesterday morning:

Happy Easter everyone! It is 6:30. The baskets are found, and the candy eaten. Man, are the kids are going to pissed.

[Default]

After weeks of sludginess and lethargy, I spent Easter Sunday changing all the filter capacitors in the B+ of an ancient (circa 1958) guitar amp. After getting excited over certain construction details, I was dismayed to realize that I don't know anybody that I can talk to about this shit anymore. So, I started to dig into that Univox U60 and was puzzled to find ten times the filtering capacity these amps require. Honest to God, how stiff do you want a ten watt amp to be???

[LordMortis]

Funeral for a coworker today. Found out at Easter dinner that my little sister joined the National Guard... Oh, and my dad had a heart attack and spent three days in the hospital last month. I'm feeling really life affirmed right now.

This whole only talking on holidays thing has to change and soon.

[coopasonic]

This whole only talking on holidays thing has to change and soon.

Yeah, that's far too often.

[LordMortis]

This whole only talking on holidays thing has to change and soon.

Yeah, that's far too often.

The thing is that we really like each other. I would do anything for family. We just aren't talky people (I talked to my brother on the phone on Sunday for the first time since I visited in Denver a few years ago. We spent twenty minutes in silence. Ask raven or remus how much I talk on the phone when I'm on the phone and how painful it must sound to the other end to listen to me) and of course "The cat in the cradle and the silver spoon..." it's very easy to be wrapped in our individual lives and not think "Have I called my parents and sat there in awkward silence for a half an hour this week?"

I think the fact that we don't interfere in each other lives is precisely what gives us such a large affection for each other. Isn't it ironic. Doncha think?

[Isgrimnur]

I have a standing appointment to speak with my parents every Sunday night that dates back to my college days. Without a set day to do it, I rapidly fell into a pattern of not calling for weeks on end.

Of course, after a while, I had to yell at my father. His part of the discussion had devolved to:

1) How are you doing?
2) How's the car?
3) Do you need any money?

After 16 years of doing this, I still have that standing appointment. If other things come up, it can be rescheduled, and is occasionally missed, but the basic pattern still stands.

[coopasonic]

1) How are you doing?
2) How's the car?
3) Do you need any money?

I *hate* when my parents (mom) ask me for money. It's often related to the answer to #2.

[KKBlue]

The thing is that we really like each other. I would do anything for family. We just aren't talky people (I talked to my brother on the phone on Sunday for the first time since I visited in Denver a few years ago. We spent twenty minutes in silence. Ask raven or remus how much I talk on the phone when I'm on the phone and how painful it must sound to the other end to listen to me) and of course "The cat in the cradle and the silver spoon..." it's very easy to be wrapped in our individual lives and not think "Have I called my parents and sat there in awkward silence for a half an hour this week?"

Crazy silly bazillion post man, do you Email family? I talk to my family all sorts of ways. I even write letters and mail regardless of living 10 minutes from the majority of them. The different types of communicating helps with conveying things we didn't get around to saying face to face. Along with a host of other reasons for contacting X this way instead of that way too

[LordMortis]

do you Email family?

Nope.

At coworker's eulogy today "This may be the last time, I don't know" hit way too hard. Also I've never been to a stereotypically black funeral before. I've never attended a high energy funeral. Absolutely foreign to me and more than a little intimidating.

[dbt1949]

One of the great things about being anti social is never having to say.................anything!

[miltonite]

I am not so close to my parents and sister but I talk to my cousin at least once a week through gmail chat.

I see my father's side of the family for all major holidays. It amazes me that some people don't see their family this much. I really like getting together with my extended family. This past weekend I did not go to sleep before 3AM and was awake by 8AM the latest. We play cards they (everyone except me and my grandmother) drink, we eat and laugh. Friday night and Saturday night I was laughing so hard I was crying multiple times during the night/early morning. I always look forward to the next gathering because they are just so much fun. It is hard to imaging not having this.

I often forget how lucky I am to have such a close family with very little drama. If there is a problem between people it is quickly worked out and they are back joking and drinking together in a matter of hours at the most. (the only reason it would take hours is for tempers to cool)

[Hipolito]

I live near a convenience store that caters to the Eastern European community here, so I get to try some weird imported junkfoods occasionally. They sell a Slovenian beverage called Cockta. As the name implies, it's quite tasty! It's like Coke with a strong raspberry flavor, and it's not as cloyingly sweet and bubbly. I'm a fan.



Cockta! You will try?

[Skinypupy]

I had to be up at 3:00 am to do a "same-day confirm" with Delta and change to the 6:00 am flight. Which, of course, meant I couldn't manage to fall asleep until a little after midnight.

Going to be a long day.

[Jag]

I had to be up at 3:00 am to do a "same-day confirm" with Delta and change to the 6:00 am flight. Which, of course, meant I couldn't manage to fall asleep until a little after midnight.

Going to be a long day.

If you were up at midnight, you should have made the change then!

[Skinypupy]

I had to be up at 3:00 am to do a "same-day confirm" with Delta and change to the 6:00 am flight. Which, of course, meant I couldn't manage to fall asleep until a little after midnight.

Going to be a long day.

If you were up at midnight, you should have made the change then!

You can't do same-day confirms until 3 hours prior to the flight. Hence 3:00am for a 6:00am flight.

[dbt1949]

So I'm at the dentist getting my teeth cleaned to (a quite painful process) when I yelled out in pain and started yelling "Help! Help! Some of the assistants came over to see if I was alright, much to the chagrin of the dental assistant (the dentist's wife) cleaning my teeth.
She was quite embarrassed. Especially when I told her she should be wearing a dominatrix outfit while doing this.
They are so glad when I come to visit them.

[dbt1949]

Found out the wife drank a half a bottle of wine while I was gone.

My evening is free now!

[Jaymon]

Did she drink the top half or the bottom half?

[dbt1949]

Sitting there it was the bottom half. Drinking it became the top half.

[Chaosraven]

So far I am loving my 4 on 4 off schedule, and even the swing. 7am to 7pm, then 7pm to 7am. I have seen my kids more the last five weeks than I did all last year.

[LordMortis]

I don't get social conventions at all.

We're cross training and have been for a while and spending a lot of time on it every week. Why? In case somebody gets hit by a beer truck. That's what we've said not only for the 15 years I've been here and for years before when I worked at other companies as well. So someone actually dies and I now I can't say it any more? WTF? Who writes these rules? Something happens which represents the exact reason for why we cross train and now we can't discuss why we cross train. And now I'm the jackass.

[Zarathud]

If your former co-worker actually was hit by the beer bus, you are an insensitive bastard. Otherwise, not so much.

I joke with a colleague who was actually hit by a bus about project management issues "in case it's my turn to be hit by the bus and can't make it to the office." But it was a year before we started joking again.

[coopasonic]

You need to switch a co-worker winning the lottery.

[Jag]

Fus Ro Dah™

[dbt1949]

My wife's nurse's aide came over today with a flat tire. Guess who got to go fix it?
My stepson had hidden my jack in his car so it took me 20 minutes of walking around looking for it before asking him.
Then the lugs nuts were put on tighter than any I've ever encountered, and I've changed hundreds of tires in my life.
While I'm working on her tire my stepson comes out of his trailer and passes me by to go in the house and talk to her, never offering to help or apologizing for hiding my car jack.

I think I'll keep him.

[AWS260]

Roger Ebert's latest blog post, on death and memory, if excellent. Highly recommended.

[Jag]

Roger Ebert's latest blog post, on death and memory, if excellent. Highly recommended.

and very depressing...

[LordMortis]

As part of the sales team you want to announce that I need to do a month and week's worth of work that may also require two weeks worth of testing to the exclusion of all of my other responsibilities for a customer by COB tomorrow? I guess you are going to be disappointed and so are they. I don't know who didn't give me at least two month's lead time for that kind of requirement but if I find out who that person is they will have my impudent yet powerless annoyance to deal with for as long we have to work with each other in the future.

[bb2112]

As part of the sales team you want to announce that I need to do a month and week's worth of work that may also require two weeks worth of testing to the exclusion of all of my other responsibilities for a customer by COB tomorrow? I guess you are going to be disappointed and so are they. I don't know who didn't give me at least two month's lead time for that kind of requirement but if I find out who that person is they will have my impudent yet powerless annoyance to deal with for as long we have to work with each other in the future.

Your post made me laugh. You go ahead and give that guy all the mean stares and empty gestures behind his back that he can stand. That will teach him to mess with you. Until next time.

For the most part, people don't mess with me at work. When they need my help (and I am more than happy to give it) we sit down and go through things as long as it takes until we can get to an answer. Today I had a 2 1/2 hour long meeting with our warehouse guy on the putting together of a financial plan for his warehouse improvements he wants desperately. His goal was to have it done by the end of the week. Not going to happen. He walked away with about 20 questions he needs to answer before we can finish. Then I went to his boss and told him his guy came to see me, what we did, and how we left it. This was to not only let him know we were in the process of working on the project, but also to manage his expectations. Quite often people set deadlines and don't understand what is involved to achieve them.

[dbt1949]

Dead plankton. Are they buried in individual graves or mass graves or in mausoleums?

[LordMortis]

For the most part, people don't mess with me at work. When they need my help (and I am more than happy to give it) we sit down and go through things as long as it takes until we can get to an answer. Today I had a 2 1/2 hour long meeting with our warehouse guy on the putting together of a financial plan for his warehouse improvements he wants desperately. His goal was to have it done by the end of the week. Not going to happen. He walked away with about 20 questions he needs to answer before we can finish. Then I went to his boss and told him his guy came to see me, what we did, and how we left it. This was to not only let him know we were in the process of working on the project, but also to manage his expectations. Quite often people set deadlines and don't understand what is involved to achieve them.

The customer set the deadline. They may have done it yesterday. They may have done it last July. I have no idea.

I just had it dumped in my lap because logistics informed sales that it needs to be done before they can ship and the directive from the customer, when I read it said it is all supposed be done by COB tomorrow. So, I have until COB tomorrow to establish comcodes and interconnects between Value Added Networks, design templates from the ground up for POs, ship notices, ship schedules, and releases based on customer specifications, test them with the customer's systems, make them work with our MRP, and then train internal staff on how to use them.

In the mean time logistics haven't even responded to my initial request of "Who is data supposed to come from and go to?"

[Isgrimnur]

Dead plankton. Are they buried in individual graves or mass graves or in mausoleums?

Mass graves.