yesterday at work we had our annual picnic and i got the joy of being in the dunk tank .. i guess you really find out who your friends are when you see the joy on their faces as you slide down into the freezing cold water.. it is amazing the fun you can have when you work for state corrections ..lol.. don't tell the taxpayers we were having too much fun .. i am sure a couple of you will get that joke ..

1.4 miles walkin fairly fast

day 2, week 2 of the 100 pushups challenge.

11/9/7/7/11 today, with 60 second pauses between sets.

then we went for a walk down moody street, so that's good for a tiny bit more.

I have amazingly wonderful and incredible people in my life. On top of Serin looking for ice cream for me, and on top of posicat offering some hugs (He gives wonderful hugs!) and on top of rileybear67 making me feel so much better by IMing with me during the latter part of my work day (Thank you sweetie! I love you!), my wonderful, magical mate found dark chocolate ice cream for me.

Not just any dark chocolate. She found something called Talenti Gelato, in double dark chocolate flavor. Here's a link: http://www.chow.com/stories/10900

( Yes, this review may actually be mild TMI, because it was that good. )

And my mate, my dear one, who continues to put up with my misunderstandings and massive screw-ups for reasons that I can only guess at, really knows how to fix me too. Thank you moiracoon. I am so very grateful to you for still being with me, and for still being mine. I love you.

And speaking of more wonderful people in my life, I am very deeply grateful to mocha_mephooki for the conversation we had tonight, and his understanding and perseverence. Thank you Mocha; I know I've been really hard to deal with sometimes, and I'm not only grateful, but sometimes amazed, that you still seem to want my company too. Thank you.

I finished New Moon today!

( ...F-FEMINIST RAGE? )


More to come later? I guess? I just needed to get that out. I am so angry.

Stop putting sparkles in my vampires, David Blaine.

Well, I am finally getting around to posting some pics from the night, however seeing as how no cameras were allowed in the theatre I only have a couple of shots of me being a doofus!

( Clicks for pics.... )

• 15:29 Morning. Missed breakfast - no time before meeting. About to present. Can't wait till lunch. Still craving ice cream. #
• 16:51 Free lunch today. Trying to force myself not to eat it all, on account of tummy still recovering from that bug. Hate to waste food though. #
• 16:58 Priest, minister, tech writer walk into bar. Priest: "Glass of wine" Minister:"Glass of wine" Writer:"Glass of water &empty wine glass" #
• 17:02 (too obscure? too offensive? I never claimed to be a comedy writer!) #
• 18:36 d'oh, that weird symbol was supposed to be an ampersand. #
• 18:37 @biggerhamster, @desktopdiva73: the idea is that the tech writer is going to perform a miracle, transform the water to wine. too obscure eh? #
• 19:43 At long last, ice cream! <3 #

I GOT A C+


oh yeah~~~



she's saying poopies! lol!! i suck.

I GOT A C+ I passed!!! WOOOOOOOO!!!! WOO!!!!!! WOOO!!!!!!!! YEAHH!!!!!!!!!

The Final saved my ass! :D I got all points on it!! :D WOO!!!!!!!!

LOVE ME! :D

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Root is enamored with the TV!

( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

I cannot wait for this goddamned winter to be over.

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This is another Coca-Cola product; this time, I'm trying a pineapple and grapefruit soda sold in Britain, Ireland, and Gibraltar. With 5% real juice, even! Classy.

The first sip:
( cut for dorkiness )

:D·JAY:

First off...



You come... you dance... It can BE dance tiem nao PLEES?


Friday I went to OKC and took teh Mendiz to see NIN.



Twas good.

Work still crazy. The Head Hoop-a-joo from the UK is coming for a visit in September.
Stuff and stuff and stuff. Blarg.

+~+ Random YTMND +~+
A Fistful of Medals

My computer died --  at least parts of it did....

The video card is a lost cause.  

The remaining hulk has contracted a bad case of Zombieism -- it's staggering around screaming for more brains (working memory)

Finally the OS is somewhat corrupted and keeps whinging about missing .dll files, I think it's going to demand a total drive wipe and reload.  :(

My favorite Geek has the patient hospitalized in intensive care -- or maybe it's somewhat lax care, since I haven't heard from him in a couple of weeks.  I think he's holding it for ransom.

The problem now is the cost of the 'treatment' aka ransom.   Anyone know of any legal way to get money quickly?

I am dying here.  Withdrawal is not a pretty sight.

You know, I really do find it quite interesting and somewhat disappointing that every time people complain about council workers going on strike, it always focusses on the highly-paid staff rather than the vast majority of workers (like my care staff) that do a hell of a lot of work, burn themselves out and go way beyond their actual job roles, when they would earn more cash working in a supermarket.
And yet when things actually go wrong in social services, there's always outrage. And yes, quite rightly so. But getting a quality service day to day should be rewarded with a decent wage.

Yes, I bloody well do take it personally when people talk negatively about council staff, because I see every day what the good staff do and I also see the sometimes crap people that we have to put up with because so many people that are actually great at the job move on to stuff that lets them pay the bills and, oh, I dunno, even consider the possibility of one day owning their own house.

It's easy to look at the people who get paid more than they should for relatively easy jobs.
Work in a home full of people with dementia, try to provide a good service, day in day out, take the abuse from everyone that chooses to throw it at you, keep doing that for months and then tell me that my staff don't deserve a wage that lets them actually survive.

Yes, many people do it because they love it, I know I did. That doesn't mean they should be struggling to survive.

http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Leviticus_12

anyone ever used a remote backup service? something where you shuttle your data off to some other company to store?

if so, any recommendations (for or against)

I hung out with Irene rotting_orange, and Little Jason last night.

We hung out, and talked about funnies, mentioned my situation briefly. We laughed at it.

Needed some chill time.

I'm working out when I get home from work tonight. yay

Um, that's it.

I'm welcoming new students tonight, so I'm nervous.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Happy Birthday toneedmorecaffine


make way! THe Birthday is here!!!!!


OH yeah!! BAYBEE!!!!!!!!!!! Happy Birthday to you!!!!!!!

Have fun tonight!!! :D

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope you have a great Birthday!!! :D

So here's one of the sites that got highlighted by the frogpond app we have at bzzagent. It's a recipe search type tool focused on what to do with the leftovers in your fridge. Kind of a neat idea...

Leftover Chef