Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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What's that?
The view from our front porch while it's snowing. The kids got sent home from school before lunch.
Eriol was reporting the same thing (kids getting sent home).
I think I know what the weather here is going to be like tomorrow!
s sn sno what is sno?
I don't understand, Winter is over. We had our one day below freezing, this just doesn't make sense to me.
To avoid lashing out most unkindly, I have imposed a ten minute no talking period. The kids haven't been quiet since they got home from school early. Mom! Mom! Mom! Mom! Mommy!!!!!!! Mom! Mom! Mom!
Mommy gonna flip a table!!!!!
Mommy gonna flip a table!!!!!
GasBandit
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For a new piece of software (well, an old one, but we simply didn't use ut) we're supposed to be using at work, IT needs a list of everyone in my department. O, I send a mail with a list of all of us (note that IT has access to everything they need - just drawing a list of all people in our cost unit would get them the info too, but oh well).
Reply from IT Manager: "we need their ID number and e-mail address too, and it's urgent!"
My reply: "All our e-mail addresses are firstname.lastname@company.be. I'm sure you can manage that. As for ID numbers, I won't be in the office for the next 4 days; please look them up yourself if it's urgent.
Reply from IT manager: "No, you've got plenty more time than I do, i'm way too busy. You do it. But right now! It's URGENT!"
Dear IT manager guy: getting data out of your systems to fix your mistake in not getting us separate accounts back when the software was introduced is your problem. I don't need the software, don't intend to ever use it, and don't mind it taking another couple of weeks. Saying you're "to obusy" to look up 15 numbers in a list is ridiculous - this is a 5 minute job, if that. Claiming I have so much time is BS, given that i'm busy training up a replacement. Go hug some barbed wire.
Reply from IT Manager: "we need their ID number and e-mail address too, and it's urgent!"
My reply: "All our e-mail addresses are firstname.lastname@company.be. I'm sure you can manage that. As for ID numbers, I won't be in the office for the next 4 days; please look them up yourself if it's urgent.
Reply from IT manager: "No, you've got plenty more time than I do, i'm way too busy. You do it. But right now! It's URGENT!"
Dear IT manager guy: getting data out of your systems to fix your mistake in not getting us separate accounts back when the software was introduced is your problem. I don't need the software, don't intend to ever use it, and don't mind it taking another couple of weeks. Saying you're "to obusy" to look up 15 numbers in a list is ridiculous - this is a 5 minute job, if that. Claiming I have so much time is BS, given that i'm busy training up a replacement. Go hug some barbed wire.
Some software I wrote for my company got sold to another company for around 2 million dollars, with about another 2 million of 'future work' built into the contract.
The win: I get a bonus on that.
The whine: I've been working 7am til midnight for about 3 weeks, with only a 5 or 6 hour break to drive home, cook dinner, and spend a couple hours with my family before I'm back to work. I'm exhausted.
The light at the end of the tunnel: We give it to them Monday. I might actually be rested up in time for the week I stay at home for my son's winter break at school.
The win: I get a bonus on that.
The whine: I've been working 7am til midnight for about 3 weeks, with only a 5 or 6 hour break to drive home, cook dinner, and spend a couple hours with my family before I'm back to work. I'm exhausted.
The light at the end of the tunnel: We give it to them Monday. I might actually be rested up in time for the week I stay at home for my son's winter break at school.
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GasBandit
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Sounds like a good way to ruin a fluffy blanket.
Also, meaning no disrespect to her, I think if Dei tries to move a 200 pound box as tall as herself, especially if it involves tipping the box, she's gonna end up a scorpion venom junkie.
We keep an old acrylic blanket for just this sort of thing. Laying on the seat while moving furniture, packing stuff in a cooler, using for picnics, etc.
--Patrick
I had an interview today. Only 3 candidates. One has been in the position for years. So it's really his job to lose. But I think he may have turned the job down.
So I am just a jumble of nerves, waiting on the news.
So I am just a jumble of nerves, waiting on the news.
GasBandit
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What are you, making a necklace?!
It was a huge tool cabinet, which, once my husband got home we managed to tear the box open, get the wheels on it, and get it into the garage.
I just got back from having my hair done and my paranoia is no longer paranoia. My hair is falling out from my infusion treatment. I've been paranoid and checking and asking my hair dresser each time. She was never sure until tonight. I have areas that are thinner and all kinds of re-grown baby hair that's coming back in stages. Like maybe I lost a bunch after each treatment. She did a few super light foils to help camouflage and otherwise, there isn't anything I can do.
At least I liked having a pixie cut.
Sucks
[DOUBLEPOST=1481772538,1481772212][/DOUBLEPOST]It's also coming back in with a different texture. My hair is usually super straight and the new growth is wavy. Sucky and bizarre.
At least I liked having a pixie cut.
Sucks
[DOUBLEPOST=1481772538,1481772212][/DOUBLEPOST]It's also coming back in with a different texture. My hair is usually super straight and the new growth is wavy. Sucky and bizarre.I feel ya Squids... after my chemo my hair grew back full and lush... even more hair than I had before treatment. Then it all fell out kinda fast and my bald spot was crooked. Now I just buzz it down with a #1 clipper.
Sorry you don't have that option.
Sorry you don't have that option.
Physically thinner/finer hair will often come back more curly, because it no longer has the stiffness to resist the curl. Just ask Kati.
--Patrick
Is that a good thing or more of a neutral thing?
This is really upsetting me. My mum and sister are trying to say that it's not a big deal but it is!![DOUBLEPOST=1481778371,1481778199][/DOUBLEPOST]
I'm hoping that the fact that it's growing back is a good sign. I'm really reaching there for a bright side lol...
I can't even drink any more. So I got profiteroles from a bakery on the way home.
This is really upsetting me. My mum and sister are trying to say that it's not a big deal but it is!![DOUBLEPOST=1481778371,1481778199][/DOUBLEPOST]
I had a super short pixie a few years ago, I guess that's always an option.
I'm hoping that the fact that it's growing back is a good sign. I'm really reaching there for a bright side lol...
I can't even drink any more. So I got profiteroles from a bakery on the way home.
Blech. I'm trying to work on and edit my YA novel that I finished earlier this year. And...I just don't like it anymore. It has a lot of problems, especially the second half, and I just dont know what to do in order to salvage it.
@Zero Esc gave some good advice when he recently read the current draft, but I just don't know how to implement some of the ideas/suggestions.
@Zero Esc gave some good advice when he recently read the current draft, but I just don't know how to implement some of the ideas/suggestions.
I did that. I hadn't even opened the document in months.
Or worked on any writing at all. It's a miracle I'm even doing anything creative again.
You might need to rewrite it again from the beginning. White Wolf, four rewrites from scratch, not counting extensive revisions between. Another project, another four versions, the first two wildly different from the latter two, also not counting revisions to each. Same with my current project, this'll be the fourth version of it, and I'm already rewriting it from the start. That was 200 pages ago.I did that. I hadn't even opened the document in months.
It's not like if another version is better you can't go back to it, because you're keeping different copies of different drafts and keeping them organized, right? Date them, number what version they are like it's a game (and do patch notes). In one project I found the best version was combining chapters from two different rewrites and then revising that from start to finish.
The only book I never rewrote was that YA novel I sent you and a couple others to look at the query for. It probably has the weakest writing out of any of my manuscripts and the only reason I didn't touch it is because it was the only first draft I let my wife look at, and she liked it so much that I got it in my head that it only needed revisions. But no, it needs to be rewritten, once I have time after my current project.
Writing is rewriting isn't hyperbole. You never know what's going to come out of your imagination when you let yourself explore a story in a different way, in the open space of a new word file.
I enjoyed the parts of it that I read 
So did a friend of mine who was reading it as I wrote it. She's a big YA reader. In fact, she was so hooked that she kept demanding me to keep writing. I never felt pressured and I don't think it hurt the book, but it did certainly keep me motivated.I enjoyed the parts of it that I read
"And tell him I did, in full detail, and just about word for word, up to the point where I had faded out. He was listening, rapt with attention, and when I stopped, he demanded I continue. I explained that it was all I had so far and he said, 'Can I borrow the book when you've finished reading it?'
I was astonished. I had either neglected to make it clear to him, or he had failed to understand, that I was writing the book. He thought it was another already printed story I was retelling. The implied compliment staggered me, and from that day on, I secretly took myself seriously as a writer."
-Isaac Asimov, It's Been a Good Life
--Patrick
Is there a 4th Asimov autobiography that I'm unaware of?