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[10 Jul 2009|08:56pm] |
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Want know a guy @ work better but society tells me not to invite him in w/o knowing him better
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[07 Jul 2009|08:36pm] |
I'm home sick with something manifesting as a cough. Sent me home from work today (after keeping me home from work yesterday) and I won't be going in tomorrow.
It's sleep sleep sleep around here. Wheeee. The massively huge mountain of laundry from the back to back houseguests is only going to grow. Thank god I did the normal laundry the first weekend.
What's so depressing is I don't have any TV waiting to be watched :-( Oh, except the hours and hours on my PVR... hmmmm...
Er, had visitors in town (thank GOD), now back to normal once I win at Dr. Mario.
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[30 Jun 2009|10:42pm] |
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So excuse me forgetting but these things I do; you see I've forgotten if they're green or they're blue...
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[28 Jun 2009|04:13pm] |
Country girl at stanley park: ''hey, i hear a river... Oh wait, that's a highway...''
#cell
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[25 Jun 2009|06:04pm] |
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I thought this might happen. I came home to a blaringly loud Michael Jackson marathon.
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[23 Jun 2009|08:11pm] |
After yesterday i don't know if i feel more or less safe on an automated train system.
#cell
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[22 Jun 2009|08:19pm] |
Urp... If dinner doesn't sit right don't take the leftovers in for lunch, genius...
#cell
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[20 Jun 2009|08:08pm] |
I am shocked by how much significance I put in the following fact:
I worked some overtime today.
I feel like a real grown up. On co-op terms, there was no opportunity for overtime. In fact most aspects of my current position don't have an overtime possibility either. But when users are moved from one location to another, someone on our team has to stay late to unhook the computers late on Friday and come in over the weekend to hook them up again (we have burley movers who do the actual lifting and moving part).
So I picked up 4 hours total, which is 6 hours of pay, this weekend. Sweet. I will be trying to pick some up every weekend I'm not out of town or have guests (which is some small number like 4 weekends between the beginning of June and mid-September.)
I also worked out that each paycheck I make 75% of my wage. I can therefor much more accurately value the opportunity cost associated with not going to work. This is important because my boss takes no issue with me taking time without pay (and vacation is earned with every week worked not paid in bulk so I rarely have enough), and it's important I don't go overboard with that privilege and wreck our finances with the lost wages.
Of course my deductions cover my transit pass and health benefits, not to mention the grande tax refund. But it's a better reflection of how a paycheck will look without a day on it.
A bit too busy living life to blog it. Lino's parents came to town and we ran errands out the wazoo and tired ourselves out really well.
A week before that there was a Fark party in Vancouver and we met Fark.com's founder Drew Curtis. He was a really really nice guy and very not inflated due to "fame". We learned a lot about the business side of running a very popular website, like the realities of keeping your advertising dollars, and keeping usability good (they've done a lot to try to make the front page decipherable by new visitors - go to fark.com and try to figure out what it is and how to use it. It's still difficult - they'd have to totally reinvent the front page to change that and the paying members would freak out)
I also have an autographed shirt. An original "title" for the site was "It's not news, it's FARK.com". My shirt says "It's not a shirt, it's FARK.com's founder's autograph." This is why I stock a blank tshirt at all times. Inspiration can hit 20 minutes before you're supposed to leave for downtown.
I'm starting to realize how little I see of the city. Lino and I still have some envelopes from Dee with activities in them to get us out and about (we didn't use them over the winter) but we're booked straight through the next month.
Maybe we'll get out a bit with our guests over the next couple of weeks...
But there's lots to do around the house, with 3 cross stitches on the go, Bones to watch like crazy, 2 immediate sewing projects, and countless such things waiting in the wings.
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[16 Jun 2009|01:31pm] |
Looking for installers made me think: 'Goin on a software hunt... Gonna catch a BIG one'
#cell
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[15 Jun 2009|10:18pm] |
Good: Getting bitten by the "get stuff done" bug.
Bad: Getting bitten after 8pm on a work night.
Curtains hung, built-in curtains fixed, closets reorganized, whiteboard accessories hung next to newly hung whiteboard, ThinkGeek packaging put away... etc.
My closets have at least doubled in usable size thanks to strategic widening of existing shelves and addition of extra shelfs on top. Sweet!! All thanks to Lino's parents being in town.
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[07 Jun 2009|04:04am] |
overheard on bus: ''isn't obama's middle name bin laden? Or something weird like that?''
#cell
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[07 Jun 2009|03:24am] |
The founder of fark.com is a sweet guy. Wow! I haz autograph and 2 deg sep 2 jon stewart
#cell
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[06 Jun 2009|09:36am] |
Work continues. I'm only 11 days from the 7 month mark. Sometimes it doesn't feel any longer than co-op (maybe because total I did 12 months doing the same thing for Arts Computing).
I went to the doctor 2 weeks ago with a really bad pain in my neck. Turned out it was a pinched nerve... the nerve is being pinched by my tense shoulder muscles. Anyone who has tried to rub my shoulders has been told No! because they were just solid knots. Well massage therapy is helping with those and having the effect of fewer pinches.
But while I was there I pointed out my very uneven shoulders (the right one is 1.5 inches or more lower) and so the doctor had me try to touch my toes and then sent me for xrays the same day.
Turns out I have a mild case of scoliosis. So mild she doesn't know what to do next. But I am convex left then convex right, plus the little wings that come off my C7 vertebra are larger than average, plus, if you look from the side, the curve in my back above my butt is very pronounced (helping my bustle look).
It could be that my neck and shoulders are compensating for the S-curve and the C7 and that's why they get so tense. Could just be that I have a curve and I also have tense shoulders.
But I'm sitting up properly at work, and using my armrests (to take some strain off my shoulders).
I am loving, LOVING our new apartment. It is just "home" so much more than the first place out here was. I do find myself looking forward to a place where I can't hear the neighbours, like EVER (grew up on a 3/4 acre lot....)
Trying yet another workout routine. This time I'm walking home from the Skytrain. It's 100m elevation and 1.7km. I have to change into "exercise" clothes at work first, but it's only about 15-20 minutes extra each day. We'll see how this one goes.
I'm blogging this:
Lino: You totally need to wear your "I'm blogging this" t-shirt to bed one night... heh heh heh...
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[04 Jun 2009|10:59pm] |
OMG please please tell me Craig T Nelson is a closeted satirist. This is the biggest example of Poe's law (or is the inverse effect since I think a talking point is satire instead of satire being a talking point) in effect that I have ever seen.
(Warning before clicking the above link for definition: TV Tropes Will Eat Your Time; compare TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life)
I transcribed this perfectly so that noone could claim bias in my choice of words summarizing this.
We live in a capitalistic society, OK? I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on food stamps and welfare; anybody help me out? No.
http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/full-episodes/june-3-2009/#clip178515
It's in the Moment of Zen, after the shout out to Colbert.
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a) Flood the genepool with our [probabilistically] smart offspring; b) give up on humanity. Decisions, decisions.
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[02 Jun 2009|07:48pm] |
August just got crazier. Ben! I got the time off work, will change tix after we talk.
#cell
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[30 May 2009|11:29am] |
I'm making a sign for our door and I don't know how to correctly possessify our combined names.
"Kaitlyn and Lino's House" is what sounds best; however, it could be argued to be as ambiguous as the lack of the Oxford comma.
I use the Oxford comma for my personal, professional, and academic writings. And that "extra" comma before the and was the Oxford comma. The best argument I ever heard for it comes in the form of this example:
I would like to thank my parents, Mary and God.
I would like to thank my parents, Mary, and God.
Who am I thanking? Pretty obvious now, isn't it?
So, shouldn't we have the extra possessifying 's? Kaitlyn's and Lino's House? Lino's example was "I went to Paris and Lino's house." Where did he go? He better not be living with some woman named Paris.
I need opinions please!
(I could totally solve this with brackets. But not all languages are as awesome as math.)
(also, new userpic)
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[28 May 2009|04:46pm] |
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Fun fact of the day: there is a Chinese expression for a home after all the children move out that translates directly as "empty nest."
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[25 May 2009|06:46pm] |
I did know that acetaminophen is not completely safe, but it's preferred in many cases since it is completely independent of aspirin (and therefore a better choice to groups as risk from acetylsalicylic acid)
Things I didn't know about ordinary Tylenol that Wikipedia is claiming:
1) Tylenol 1 has Codeine in it (T1 8mg; T3s 30mg)
2) Proper dosage + small amount of alcohol = very dangerous.
But:
1) I misread that... regular strength Tylenol isn't the same as T1s and T1s have Codeine. So I thought I wouldn't feel my muscle relaxant I bought today since it's only the same amount as a T. Well, I still probably won't, but I fail at reading comprehension
2) I couldn't find that in the sources. The sources just linked heavy drinkers + occasional pills, or heavy pills + occasional drinks, as bad.
(But I didn't search all the sources because it's Bones time!)
(this might parse funny. it was heavily rewritten from the original drafting which was wrought with errors.)
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[25 May 2009|12:44am] |
'Andrew, see? This toy makes music! ... I should say 'hear' since you're not on acid...'
#cell
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