[Gust Hubb]

A Demon Llama!, on 04 October 2014 - 11:21 PM, said:

Can you deflate the tires to get through? Might be a pain to do it all the time though. Probably not good for the tires too specially when cold. Solution is to destroy your concrete obviously.

Gust Hubb, on 04 October 2014 - 10:56 PM, said:

No you don't. Larger it is, more stuff that fills it.

I wish I had as much stuff.

Not if it was all thrift store buys that were all for sale...

[Traveller]

I'm currently sitting in the kids ward at the hospital with my boy.

He was sick last night, and threw up what looked like a few
small berries. Which look remarkably like those found on a plant in the garden, which it turns out is Virginia Creeper.

Which, from what I have googled, is highly toxic.

I brought him in as he couldn't keep anything down all day.. he kind of improved, got hungry, had lots to drink, and went to sleep. He woke up a short time ago and managed to throw up on my only t-shirt before falling back to sleep.

And apart from checking to see he's getting enough fluids,
the Dr's haven't really done anything.

I really hope he's ok by the morning. (I'm not going to get any rest, because being a kids ward, it is of course like a goddamn bus station in rush hour. And the nurses obviously haven't worked out where the volume control on their monitor is - I would go and show them but I'm now wearing a giant peach hospital issue pyjama top which just might take the edge of anything I say. Fucking excellent.)

[Slow Ben]

Sorry Trav, nothing worse than when your kids sick. Hope the little guys OK!

[Gust Hubb]

Kids are tough little bastards. Hope it all goes well.

[Tsundoku]

My team (Canterbury Bulldogs) in the NRL grand final went down 30-6. Considering the winners (Souths Rabbitohs) are my 2nd team, it wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't such a belting. Sigh.

[Andorion]

Day 2 of my girlfriend's five-day trip to her relatives and things are very very bleak. It does not help that the area she is visiting has scrappy cell phone coverage and so all I get are like 2 texts and 5 minutes of conversation a day.

[Traveller]

Home now at last, two days and a night on the kids ward.

At least he seems better so far, weird not having him in the same room after sleeping right next to him last night.

And tomorrow - back to work, in the same hospital. So much for the weekend! Hope he's on the mend.

[Gothos]

Had the workday out of the darkest, deepest pits of hell yesterday. I wonder if today will be similar.

Also, we (the sales dept) moved our office into the new building... the toilets on 1st floor are still not done, as well as the entirety of the 2nd floor, ground floor and basement. There's construction still going on in the building and we're breathing dust.
Now, how does an office end up having to cook up their own transportation for all the furniture they have to move from office to office with no support from the company? Gods.

[Obdigore]

This goes in both threads, because Stewart ridicules these idiots, but then I remember that these people are on the House Science Committee.

[Tiste Simeon]

Obdigore, on 07 October 2014 - 10:10 AM, said:

This goes in both threads, because Stewart ridicules these idiots, but then I remember that these people are on the House Science Committee.

How do they get on a science committee?? That guy from Indiana was unbelievable!! Was it a case of "what are you doing next week? Fancy being on the sceince committee?"
"Meh, why not?"

[Obdigore]

Tiste Simeon, on 07 October 2014 - 11:06 AM, said:

Obdigore, on 07 October 2014 - 10:10 AM, said:

This goes in both threads, because Stewart ridicules these idiots, but then I remember that these people are on the House Science Committee.

How do they get on a science committee?? That guy from Indiana was unbelievable!! Was it a case of "what are you doing next week? Fancy being on the sceince committee?"
"Meh, why not?"

The House, through excessive Gerrymandering, is controlled by the Republicans, so they can essentially stock the committees they want with their candidates.

There are clips of another (now retired, I believe) House Rep (Republican) from this very same committee calling evolution a 'lie straight from the pit of hell'.

The hilarity is in what they say and how they got there, and the sadness is the fact that they actually control where a lot of government money goes.

[Gredfallan Ale]

Well, to link this thread to its happier brother:

Gredfallan Ale, on 01 October 2014 - 03:43 PM, said:

Love.

worry, on 01 October 2014 - 08:33 PM, said:

That's a good attitude. Love should make you paranoid.

Love, it's certainly messing with my groove right now.

[Mezla PigDog]

Something happened in my professional life that I can't talk about and it's killing me! Well, I could but if anyone found out it would be instant dismissal. I'm terrible at keeping anything secret.

And I didn't get enough food in for dinner so I'm hungry but my holiday made me fat so I shouldn't snack.

Need to exercise restraint all round. I hate restraint :-(

[Messremb]

Mezla PigDog, on 07 October 2014 - 06:13 PM, said:

Something happened in my professional life that I can't talk about and it's killing me! Well, I could but if anyone found out it would be instant dismissal. I'm terrible at keeping anything secret.

You've dropped the vial of T-Virus just by the hatch to the air circulation systems?

[Gnaw]

Mezla PigDog, on 07 October 2014 - 06:13 PM, said:

Something happened in my professional life that I can't talk about and it's killing me! Well, I could but if anyone found out it would be instant dismissal. I'm terrible at keeping anything secret.

Sounds like you know something that could be worth something. Just remember that an honest person can't be blackmailed, so make sure it's something the other person can't afford to get out. And don't get greedy; only ask for what they can afford with just a little sweating. too much and they might try to eliminate the problem rather than paying up.

[HiddenOne]

Gnaw, your dossier is hanging out

[Tiste Simeon]

Mezla PigDog, on 07 October 2014 - 06:13 PM, said:

Something happened in my professional life that I can't talk about and it's killing me! Well, I could but if anyone found out it would be instant dismissal. I'm terrible at keeping anything secret.

It's okay, it's the Internet no one knows who you are. It's not like you've been for drinks with a bunch of us on a number of occasions in the past and there's photographs and everything...

[Gnaw]

HiddenOne, on 07 October 2014 - 08:29 PM, said:

Gnaw, your dossier is hanging out

Lets just say that I prefer my attorney be more Denny Crane or Alan Shore than Perry Mason.

My favorite rl CPA put it this way: Sometimes you have to be a pauper, sometimes you have to be a prince. It's my job to know when and how.

[Messremb]

Bah, had been lined up to have a nice easy day watching BT engineers install internet for our Christmas site and then hang around with a book for 4 or so hours waiting on a lorry to arrive with kit on it. Now we find the job has been raised against the wrong exchange and too top that the landlord is being an arse. So it's all coming back to my normal site which means I have to work today!

[Andorion]

My grandmother's now in hospital with a really low white blood cell count. Because of her compromise dimmune system a throat infection blew out of all proportion and the doctor is administering iv antibiotics.