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Old 05-14-2010, 08:29 AM   #9601
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Old 05-14-2010, 08:34 AM   #9602
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Old 05-14-2010, 10:04 AM   #9603
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Congrats on the new job; I know from experience how depressing it can be out of work. At least you're always in demand here, but MR doesn't pay as well unless you a dead parrot who gets $300 every time he offers a word of advice!

Just think, though; If I hadn't been unemployed, there wouldn't be any Red stories...
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Old 05-14-2010, 10:27 PM   #9604
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Speaking of licking ants and eating 'oysters'....

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ack! YUCK!!!! my house in Germany had a garden full of the escargot type snails and as the family LOVES escargot, I checked out how to make them from scratch. the recipe starts with starving them for a week. I guess now we know why. anyway I decided to take a pass and rely on the local cafe
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Old 05-15-2010, 07:11 AM   #9605
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For some reason, suddenly this intensive avanced business and technical writing weekend class seems to be *now* the very worst idea I ever had ever.

I wanna go back to bed!
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Old 05-15-2010, 07:18 AM   #9606
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For some reason, suddenly this intensive avanced business and technical writing weekend class seems to be *now* the very worst idea I ever had ever.

I wanna go back to bed!
Come on. Get that sock puppet hoppin'!!!!
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Old 05-15-2010, 07:53 AM   #9607
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For some reason, suddenly this intensive avanced business and technical writing weekend class seems to be *now* the very worst idea I ever had ever.

I wanna go back to bed!

you'll be fine - piece of cake ..... (make that chocolate)
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Old 05-17-2010, 11:51 AM   #9608
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I got out to start my truck for the first time since I was hurt on march 12th. Battery's dead...
Plugged the thing and got back in.

My wife comes back from work for lunch and give me S*** for attempting to drive...
I think she still loves me!
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Old 05-17-2010, 11:54 AM   #9609
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I got out to start my truck for the first time since I was hurt on march 12th. Battery's dead...
Plugged the thing and got back in.

My wife comes back from work for lunch and give me S*** for attempting to drive...
I think she still loves me!
AHHHhhhh! how sweet! when I went to start my vvan the first time after my surgery, there was mildew on the steering wheel and the battery was dead. now the van is just junk
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Old 05-17-2010, 06:51 PM   #9610
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I got out to start my truck for the first time since I was hurt on march 12th. Battery's dead...
Plugged the thing and got back in.

My wife comes back from work for lunch and give me S*** for attempting to drive...
I think she still loves me!
But were you able to drive at all?
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Old 05-17-2010, 06:53 PM   #9611
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Sssshhhhh... his wife may be reading!!
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Old 05-18-2010, 07:53 AM   #9612
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AIIIIEEE!

I was woken up at 1 A.M. last night to "check on computers"

it sucks being on call!
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Old 05-18-2010, 08:11 AM   #9613
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Yvan, so glad that you are feeling well enough finally to endure a butt chewing. I love you and wife and daughter!

I am bruised, sliced, diced, bandaged, and happily stoned on oxycodone, but I SURVIVED THE LUMPECTOMY yesterday. The pain is pretty bad at about 3 1/2 hrs into a dose of my lovely lovely oxycodone, but I try not to take it early. I'm OK as long as I don't move or breathe deeply. Speaking of which, I had a hard time keeping my O2 up after surgery, even though they are scared to do general anesthesia on me and only did waking sedation. I have trouble waking up after anesthesia, so they don't put me fully under, but this time they had tgrouble with me aftr only light sedaton.
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Old 05-18-2010, 08:26 AM   #9614
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Old 05-18-2010, 09:03 AM   #9615
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AIIIIEEE!

I was woken up at 1 A.M. last night to "check on computers"

it sucks being on call!
At a former employer, I had just sat down to dinnaer at around 8pm when the phone rang. It was a niught supervisor complaining they couldn't log in to the Unix server. I could get in fine from home over ssh, so I figured I had better go see what was up. (I lived about 10 minutes walk from the facility.)

I arrived to find everyone sitting on their hands. The Unix server was down and powered off. So was the Novell server. One or the other I could understand, but both? So I powered them back on, and my irony meter pegged off scale as the gig mutha UPS they were plugged into glitched and put both down again.

I disconnected them, took the UPS out of service, found other places to plug them in, brought them back up, did the needed cleanup, and got people up and working again. I got home, popped dinner into the microwave, ate around 10pm, and went to bed around midnight.

At 2am my phone rang. It was the night lead supervisor. She was having problems accessing the NT server where the templates for the nightly reports lived. I blinked sleep out of my eyes, suggested a couple of things she could try, said "If they don't work, leave a note on my desk. I'll send your reports for you in the morning." and went back to sleep.

At 2:30am the phone rang and woke me again. It was the might supervisor. She just wanted to tell me she was able to get to the files and I didn't have to worry about it...

Me employer was in the process of being acquired, and I was at an integration meeting the next day to discuss how we would merge the systems. The SVP of Operations who hired me originally was present. He asked how I was, and I said "Tired" and explained why. When I got the the phone calls at 2 and 2:30, his eyes got big and he said "Why is she calling you at that time on the morning over something so trivial?" "Larry, it's because she doesn't know it's trivial. She's trying to do her job, and dot all the Is and cross all the Ts. I respect that, which is why she's still alive now..." (I already had a conversation with her direct boss about making sure she understood the sky would not fall and the world would not end if the nightly reports didn't get sent because of a technical glitch, and I could deal with it in the morning.)

She was let go somewhat later, and I suspect the underlying reason was "Too stupid to do the job."
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