I was out shopping with my mum yesterday and we ran into one of her friends who knew that she had her granddaughter in town. She thought I was mum's granddaughter 
My Dad hated taking me to the store when I was little. Anytime I asked for something in the checkout line, the clerk would say "Go ahead and get it for your grandson."I was out shopping with my mum yesterday and we ran into one of her friends who knew that she had her granddaughter in town. She thought I was mum's granddaughter
He was only 40 when I was born, but he looked much older. Then he quit aging. Now if you don't look too long, he looks 60 even though he's 88.
I'm going to believe the clerks knew him and were constantly teasing him about his apparent age, it's funnier that way.
My eldest stepson made staff sergeant (e-5) today in the USAF.
That's the first NCO rank, and you only have a limited number of tries at the promotion before they separate you from the air force--I think it's two. And it's a competitive promotion--meaning you gotta do better than most of the other people going for it. He's tried once before and didn't make it, so making it this time was critical.
http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDispl...ts-16506-for-promotion-to-staff-sergeant.aspx
Out of the 39K applicants, only 16K got promoted. My stepson's been in 6 years, and e-4 has an 8 year enlistment duration limitation (known as High Year of Tenure), so he was busting his balls to get promoted this time around.
It's a pretty good win. E5 has a HYT of 15 years, so even if he doesn't promote to e6, he'll be able to stay in long enough to rack up a decent pension.
That's the first NCO rank, and you only have a limited number of tries at the promotion before they separate you from the air force--I think it's two. And it's a competitive promotion--meaning you gotta do better than most of the other people going for it. He's tried once before and didn't make it, so making it this time was critical.
http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDispl...ts-16506-for-promotion-to-staff-sergeant.aspx
Out of the 39K applicants, only 16K got promoted. My stepson's been in 6 years, and e-4 has an 8 year enlistment duration limitation (known as High Year of Tenure), so he was busting his balls to get promoted this time around.
It's a pretty good win. E5 has a HYT of 15 years, so even if he doesn't promote to e6, he'll be able to stay in long enough to rack up a decent pension.
Are my words coming at you in a faster and snazzier way?
That's because I'm typing from my new computer! Faster! Stronger! Doesn't have smoke pouring out of it!
That's because I'm typing from my new computer! Faster! Stronger! Doesn't have smoke pouring out of it!
At first I couldn't read your post---because I was blinded by its brilliance
Well talk to your manager 'cause if we get hit with an inspection and you don't have your certificate there's gonna be hell to pay.
I's takes me chances, I's takes me lickin's.
Zappit
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I'm on a roll lately. I got my first real teaching job. I attended a three-day PD and then found out I was being paid VERY well to be there. I also got twenty bucks for volunteering for a bit during that PD. Today, at the teacher's convocation, I won the 50/50 raffle, and got over two hundred dollars.
I have no idea why my luck has turned around like this. It feels like it's not even real. I got so used to bad news and devastating disappointment that I honestly had no hope left. None.
Today just feels good.
I have no idea why my luck has turned around like this. It feels like it's not even real. I got so used to bad news and devastating disappointment that I honestly had no hope left. None.
Today just feels good.
Zappit
Staff member
For the first time in years, I think I am.
That was the worst limerick I've ever read.
Any chance you get out of Walkerstan for a bit?
So, iTunes tells me I have 8 days worth of music. Thousands of mp3s. (yeah, iTunes..i got myself an iPhone recently, as some may recall).
I've been collecting some of them from the dawn of time--well, at least as far as mp3s are concerned. Since before id3 tags. And back when variable bit rate was a thing because hard drive space was a premium. You know, back when you had to run 3 separate DOS programs at the command line to rip a CD, and it took 6-8 hours.
Over the years, I've done my best to try to organize the files--first by using the file structure to lay out genre/artist/track information, and then later by manually editing id3 tags (OMG such a pain). I've never followed completely through with it, because I never used a music player where having all of the pristine data made enough sense for me to go through the nightmare.
But iTunes and the iPhone music player, it makes a difference. And since I use the phone to play tunes while I'm driving, all of the "Untitled Tracks" and stuff was driving me bonkers. Not to mention all of the non-standard variable bitrate conversions saying that certain songs were 18-20 minutes long when they weren't.
Finally, today, I downloaded MusicBrainz Picard and managed to properly (and mostly automagically) tag all but a small handful of obscure music files. So now they all finally show up properly in iTunes and on my phone. I even used Audacity to bulk re-convert all of the variable bitrate mp3s into 128kb bitrate files, so even the time calculations should be correct. Joy!
I've been collecting some of them from the dawn of time--well, at least as far as mp3s are concerned. Since before id3 tags. And back when variable bit rate was a thing because hard drive space was a premium. You know, back when you had to run 3 separate DOS programs at the command line to rip a CD, and it took 6-8 hours.
Over the years, I've done my best to try to organize the files--first by using the file structure to lay out genre/artist/track information, and then later by manually editing id3 tags (OMG such a pain). I've never followed completely through with it, because I never used a music player where having all of the pristine data made enough sense for me to go through the nightmare.
But iTunes and the iPhone music player, it makes a difference. And since I use the phone to play tunes while I'm driving, all of the "Untitled Tracks" and stuff was driving me bonkers. Not to mention all of the non-standard variable bitrate conversions saying that certain songs were 18-20 minutes long when they weren't.
Finally, today, I downloaded MusicBrainz Picard and managed to properly (and mostly automagically) tag all but a small handful of obscure music files. So now they all finally show up properly in iTunes and on my phone. I even used Audacity to bulk re-convert all of the variable bitrate mp3s into 128kb bitrate files, so even the time calculations should be correct. Joy!
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i tried it a while back too..maybe a couple years.
I think the acoustic fingerprinting is a lot better than the "try to figure out the album by file name"...I'm not sure when that was added, but I don't recall using it last time.
I'm going to guess you were using it wrong, then.
I mostly use it to correct existing tags to better get iTunes Match to recognize the file so I can replace it with their (usually higher resolution) copy.
So, guess where I am...
GasBandit
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Albuquerque?
You sonofabitch
Got it in one
Where the sun is always shining and the air smells like warm root beer
And the towels are oh so fluffy
Where the shriners and the lepers play their ukuleles all day long
And anyone on the street will glady shave your back for a nickel
Almost sorry I'm not there. Not just because our anniversary is coming up, but also because my aunt lives in Rio Rancho.
--Patrick