well… called out of work again tonight. It's the first time in years I've done so this many times, but at least my boss knows that whenever I do it's very serious. In this case…
My car's left inner tie rod is about to give. If I drive it now I won't be visiting my nieces for Christmas. And I've got no options for rides right now and I won't walk/bike on the roads at night. I would've gone earlier had the person who was helping me out called me earlier, but it's late now. I guess I'll enjoy this night off at the cost of another $58 or so dollars I get from 8 hours of graveyard shift work…
Maybe I should get a pet. Living alone can really get to you sometimes. And I know just the pet to get. No maintanence at all. No feeding, cleaning up after it, no worries about it attacking visitors or misbehaving in general… the perfect pet.
Yep. I'm gonna go and get a pet rock. :)
Oh… and out of curiosity for you tech people in here. Is it a very bad thing when your dual core CPU temperature goes up to 70 degrees celsius?
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Cute pup NickyP!
Reminds me of that famous old sleazy Novelty song- "When your little Pomeranian met my Pekingese"
The universe does indeed work in very mysterious ways! I was very young, on holiday with my family in the tropical north of this great country, when that charming old song came on the radio. My sister and I loved it straight away.
Then a few days later we were staying at a caravan park and an elderly couple just happened to have some very cute and very unusual little tiny doggies: a snuffley little hairy one with a very squished-in flat face and a yappy little thing with a prominent forehead and a nose like a little cork.
We asked what they were- the squished face was a peak and the outward face was a pomm…
That was a big "Ahhhh" moment. That song wasn't so innocent afterall. No wonder the woman sang about her peak and the man about his pomm.
I love how they were so dirty in absolute plain sight in the old days and most people didn't even realise.
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OK, speaking of pets- I just got home, carrying a whole HEAP of shopping, mainly catfood, so I was absolutely buggered, only to find a flower pot smashed to smithereens with black, wet dirt and broken plant all over the place, and a hungry cat waiting for food… Hmm.
So I was watching something on ebay and the auction was going to go off around 2300 EST. It was at $9.99 and noone had bid. I went to bed and around the time it was ending I had a dream it ended at $12.50.
I got up and checked the item. It ended at $12.50. I saw the exact screen shot in my dream. Does this mean I can access my wireless Interent network with my subconscious while asleep?
bravo1102 wrote:Dreaming is indeed a mysterious thing. Sometimes I dream of something that happens later in the future…
So I was watching something on ebay and the auction was going to go off around 2300 EST. It was at $9.99 and noone had bid. I went to bed and around the time it was ending I had a dream it ended at $12.50.
I got up and checked the item. It ended at $12.50. I saw the exact screen shot in my dream. Does this mean I can access my wireless Interent network with my subconscious while asleep?
bravo1102 wrote:YES.
So I was watching something on ebay and the auction was going to go off around 2300 EST. It was at $9.99 and noone had bid. I went to bed and around the time it was ending I had a dream it ended at $12.50.
I got up and checked the item. It ended at $12.50. I saw the exact screen shot in my dream. Does this mean I can access my wireless Interent network with my subconscious while asleep?
Product Placement wrote:I thought so too… but it sure does not look like it…
….maybe if I start spamming the refresh button faster, my grades will pop up sooner.
A'right. Finally got away everything I needed to submit to the school of management at my university. And got a comformation recepit. So, now the hard work begins. Going to take a week weighing options and deciding whether or not I want to fight for my OT degree. I figure that that the worst that can happen is I graduate with two Masters degrees within the next year. Really can't see how that is a bad thing. Or I can wait until my credits expire and re-enroll in OT school. Or I loose out and just get an MBA. Who knows. Just need to sit down and think about what I want and what the battle will be like. Put on Braveheart war paint.
Wow… after watching some shows on the Discovery Channel about elephant conflicts in Asia, I got this thought… what if vertical farming was implemented? Whole forests would be allowed to grow back which the elephants would love, and people would still be able to grow their crops. It would probably work except…
According to the show, there's a reason why elephants go for human farms for food. Apparently the stuff we grow is much better for them than the stuff they eat in the wild. I can see the vertical farms being toppled over by hungry elephants because it's easier for them to do so than to search the forest for food… kinda the same thing as why the bears of Yellowstone park raid campsites and steal tourist food instead of find berries and fishing for salmon…
Lonnehart wrote:
I can see the vertical farms being toppled over by hungry elephants because it's easier for them to do so than to search the forest for food…
The hole idea behind vertical farms is to build them inside cities. Giant skyscraper greenhouses that supply the city with local produce to lower transport needs and such (would probably need allot of electricity to power sun lamps, though). I'd like to see an elephant try to get through a city, in order to take down a 20 story building.
Product Placement wrote:
The hole idea behind vertical farms is to build them inside cities. Giant skyscraper greenhouses that supply the city with local produce to lower transport needs and such (would probably need allot of electricity to power sun lamps, though). I'd like to see an elephant try to get through a city, in order to take down a 20 story building.
Well, if they're willing to start eating people (well… this was a rogue female elephant but still…) a city won't deter them. Not saying that they won't be stopped, only that nothing will stop them from trying.
So back in September, when my co-op placement fell through, backup co-op placement hired someone else, and last resort co-op placement had the government shut it down due to lack of funding (it was a museum) I had decided on switching my courses from Aviation Business Management to just plain Business Management. I figured it would be an easy switch as it was within the same school, the same section of the school, and because after reading through the sylabus I figured I'd only need to do 4 more courses to graduate.
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So. After spending a few weeks trying to catch the people hired to organize these kinds of changes, they tell me that A) half my business courses I've taken in aviation business management aren't "real quality" business courses so I'll have to take a semester and a half more school (kind of feel scammed but hey) and that I can't start until the January semester.
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Now that I finally get the chance to sign up for my courses I realize that their "master plan" for getting me the courses I need is letting me sign up for a preorganized semester, then waiting a few weeks for everyone to get their courses and then drop all but two of the courses they gave me to sign up for and try and squeeze into 6 other courses that are most likely full…
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Oye… I'm not really one to argue for my rights and all but when a person who was hired to help students transfer their courses' way of helping students is this… something is wrong with the system :/ …that being said the entire school system in general has been driving me nuts lately…
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I actually gave a rant post! Yay!!
Hooray Macattack!
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I just realised something today:
The only thing worse than people not thinking for themselves is not thinking what I tell them to think! ^_^
It's really quite terrible.
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I realised something else today- Looking in the mirror this morning;
Dark pinstripe trousers, black shiny leather shoes, black pinstripe, tight stretch cotton long cleave shirt with the sleeves rolled up… 1970s aviator sunglasses (dark lenses, gold rims), long curly blonde hair.
I don't look good at all. I look exactly like a snapshot of a burned out rocker from the 70s, dressing up for a night at the disco in about 1979/1980… Like someone from 10cc or something.
The self realisation is quite embarrassing and also quite hilarious.
ozoneocean wrote:
I just realised something today:
The only thing worse than people not thinking for themselves is not thinking what I tell them to think! ^_^
It's really quite terrible.
The mind control hats aren't working!
Running around all day with the wife to her doctors and physical therapists. And today she gets a skin graft of some really cool brand new medical technology: synthetic skin to seal up the wound.
But that means taking her to the day-stay surgery and waiting around the hospital.
Chat up some hot nurses! ^^
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The other day I woke with a blocked ear, tried to clear it, there was a vacuum, finger got stuck, then excruciating pain, finger came out covered in blood. More blood coming from the ear and so on…
The hearing returned and pain went away, so once it was clear of dried blood I was considerably less worried about it.
Now however I am getting extremely annoying high pitched ringing from the ear… Looks like I may have to see a fricken doctor afterall. Dammit! This close to bloody damn Christmas too.
Crap on a monkey!
Since we are talking about "what the heck is wrong with me now?!" I canceled the EMG I set up a long time ago becuase my fingers went numb seemingly at random. I haven't had that trouble in a long time. Ironically, since I stopped using a computer desk. So I'm going to chock up all those problems under positioning and fatigue…
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Also, only 11 days until this thread gets replaced (New Years). Woo-hoo…ish.
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