02.29.08

Quantum Leap.

Posted in Telling Stories at 9:55 PM by Myles

I got my car back today. One of those Scotty Miracles as it’s ~1.5wks early. I paid the deductible despite advertisement, but I re-read the letter and the date is 8May08 for if getting it back is possible by same date.

Was able to get paid for doing taxes at the job that gets paid by tax money. Love the irony. Finished taxes at home and hope to mail them soon.

Watching ‘Crimson Tide’ and often saying “Hey, I’ve been there!”. And I have.

I need rubber bands.

Have a few files to consolidate, information to research and data to continue to collect. Despite working this weekend, I hope for some progress on these — among other things.

Be Seeing You.

Leap Year.

Posted in Telling Stories at 8:00 AM by Myles

29Feb08. Must mean I can get everything done since I have an extra day :P

Because my work schedule is now screwy [and you thought it was before], I’m able — today — to go into work at noon. That’s about when I went into work yesterday, but it turns out that they didn’t need me for another 6 hours. Why did I go in then? It was 6 hours of “almost there, really!”. I could’ve gotten paid to do my taxes — at a job that gets paid through taxes; wait a minute.

Not that I’ll have the same opportunity today, but I’m bringing in my taxes and two partially-read books just in case.

Now, disc burning!

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02.27.08

So, Yeah.

Posted in Telling Stories at 9:00 AM by Myles

Hearing the LM lab “in charge” guy singing to music, amusing. Sustained 0.5mb download speed, Sweet Jesus is this guy next door. Work schedule steaming into a sustained Studio 54 Love-Fest Of AIDS, yup thanks guys.

Typical work story. Every week, there’s a meeting for people at field sites. My fake boss has never attended, but my real boss does. Now, my fake boss — after three [3] years — has decided to hold her own monthly meeting for people at field sites. Due to some astronomical luck, the two meetings aren’t even on the same day. The time has changed about 6 times, but not the day. So when do I do my real job? Oh, right, the buttons are over here.

I did get a free breakfast today for last week being Engineer’s Week [engineers get a full week, 'cause we're cool].

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02.26.08

Hump? What Hump?

Posted in Official Dispatches at 8:52 PM by Myles

I’m not and haven’t been in Iraq. I have all my limbs. I’m not getting divorced. I don’t want to get divorced and can’t just yet. I don’t have a wife dying of a brain cancer that no one survives. I haven’t escaped a public massacre and ordered an orbital counter-strike a la Star Wars courtesy of the USAF. I haven’t gotten into a fight with an itchy enemy Marine over a red-ink pen.

Is November early or late this time around? I’d settle for October.

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New Teck Proves Me An ‘Oops’.

Posted in Telling Stories at 8:34 AM by Myles

About 10, 13 years ago, I was in a group of talking people. This particular guy opens his mouth and says something along the lines of “So yea, I’ve seen an electron through a microscope.” It took a few minutes of myself and several others in the group to say “Um, no you haven’t and here’s why” for the guy to pear down his statement. A lot.

So now there’s this science article about taking photographs of electrons. With the photographs. So yea, I’ve seen an electron through a microscope.

Be Seeing You.

Wave Of The Future.

Posted in Memo at 8:27 AM by Myles

Talking ads freak me out when I’m not expecting them. I open up a news article and this guy right next to me — who wasn’t there a moment ago — starts shouting “BIO-DIESEL IS A GREAT ALTERNATIVE TO—!!!”. I thought some asshole soap-box pundit had broken into my home. I was reaching for a knifely gun to Bruce Lee him back to normalcy when I realized I was taking my hand away from the real weapon — my computer mouse.

Granted, the technology that makes the Orwellian governmental ability for ads to scan your eye, remotely take your pulse and say “[your name], wouldn’t you love a dose of crack right now?” is cool, but I don’t need the State to tell me what I want. The television [and service television service] I don’t have can do that just fine whenever the news — entertainment — news fails.

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02.25.08

Monday.

Posted in Penny Circular at 5:17 PM by Myles

It’s going to be a long day at work, but I agreed to it [the one DVD I have at home I'm saving to watch by request, and I can always burn two discs and work on prepping the other discs later] and there’s going to be free pizza for dinner. I’ve already gone through the reading material I brought [and posted something for sale], bid on a pair of shoes on eBay after shoe-research on eBay and Amazon, mailed a book sold via Amazon, got bored with the news and so on and so forth. I have other stuff I can do, but it’s the getting access to the stuff that’s the tricky part when there’s other people in the room at the moment of access.

One of the main folks in the lab asked if he could borrow my lazer pointer two times for a meeting presentation of his; I am glad to provide [as long as I quietly remove part of it as to not get into trouble]. Not a dealer, I swear.

Getting hungary; a la Amici’s Pizza-Pies! [poof].

More random time-passers until then.

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