Aug. 10, 2004
evile: hi :)
SkyeDS: how do :)
evile: better today. ate half the fridge and went to bed when I got
home yesterday. Much better today.
SkyeDS: :)
evile: Also did a little retail therapy this a.m.
SkyeDS: :D
SkyeDS: parents dropping off tractor Wed, spending weekend
SkyeDS: will spend weekend mowing, might be fun, different anyway
evile: [aunt L] loves her riding mower. Says it's a real 'zen' thing.
SkyeDS: outside in sunshine = good
evile: They have a well & pump house, electricity on a pole, a picnic
table, and a water trough out there now.
evile: [uncle B] goes out most Fridays to clear brush, feed animals, etc.
evile: [aunt L] goes with him sometimes, to mow.
evile: They want us to get land nearby. heh. No way!
evile: http://www.jimberryranchsales.com/amberoaks.htm
SkyeDS: could camp out there tho, visit
evile: [aunt L] & [uncle B] say we can go camp there any time we want. I am
just not a big fan of camping anymore.
evile: If there was scenery, swimming, hiking trails, maybe...but
just to go sit in the weeds...not hardly worth it to me.
SkyeDS: point
evile: I may go walk at Bull Creek after work today. Need to get out
of the house again.
SkyeDS: last night was nice for August
evile: I slept right thru it.
evile: Oh, I finally got sineater's voicemail msg. yesterday afternoon.
My cell phone is screwy, almost never has signal at home, etc. Ick.
SkyeDS: :-/
evile: I left my cell and wallet at home yesterday. Yesterday was
pretty much a Monday/Mercury retrograde kind of day all day long.
evile: Got home & my cell phone was beeping, about to run out of
battery. I put it in the charger and it suddenly goes "woops! You
have a brand new message!"
SkyeDS: nods
evile: stupid thing.
SkyeDS: I haven't quite got the hang of the cell phone yet in general
evile: [aunt L] always leaves hers off unless she is calling someone. I
don't think she ever checks the VM on it.
SkyeDS: sineater has phone interview at two <fingers crossed>
evile: awesome. He's getting all kinds of stuff lately. I hope
something pans out soon!
evile: 2 hrs 7 minutes.
SkyeDS: till time to go home?
evile: *nods*
evile: pathetic that I watch the clock so closely...
evile: Bus got me here a bit later than usual, but not 'late late'
according to my work sched.
SkyeDS: one of the things about actually "clocking in" is that the
automated time clocks, some of them, will count under 7 minutes late
as on time
evile: I always thought it depended on the office policy, not the
actual time.
evile: At the answering service the policy was '1 minute late is
LATE'.
evile: here it is more like 'give us 8 hours, we don't really care
WHICH 8 hours'
evile: we sign in & out via email, which doesn't match the clocks on
the wall, anyway.
evile: Ours is 15. If we are up to, but not over 15 min late, we
are 'on time'.
evile: anything over that, we have to do stuff to our time sheet &
take vacation leave to cover it.
evile: but official policy & office practice are often not the same
thing. Things that others would be allowed to get away with would be
write-ups for unpopular employees.
evile: One more arbitrary piece of BS to torture people with.
SkyeDS: nods
SkyeDS: did you hear about the pakistani in north carolina with the
plans on his puter to do damage to the capital complex?
evile: whee. No, I didn't.
SkyeDS: capital, gov mansion, biggest financial institutions downtown.
SkyeDS: lovely.
evile: NC guy plotting against DC, Austin, or NC state capitol?
SkyeDS: Austin.
evile: *shrug* As Shrub says: "Bring it on"
evile: Sweetie gets 2x my death benefit if I die at work.
SkyeDS: <nothing but dead and more financial burden if I die at work
or otherwise
evile: *hugs*
SkyeDS: :-/
evile: Hopefully your office is far enough away from the capitol
complex that if something happens you'll be OK
SkyeDS: hope get enough warning to know not to come in to town at all
evile: *nods*
evile: if they want to kill state employees, they'll want to do
wahtever well after start time, before lunchtime, or well before
quitting time. 9 am or 2 pm would be best.
evile: I can't live my life in fear, bottom line. Being helpless and
fearful and angry is a horrible state of mind. I'm just going to do
what I do, and someday I'll die. Maybe tomorrow, maybe 50 years from
now...ya never know.
SkyeDS: during the nuclear scare I wanted to put a bullseye and be
the first to go
SkyeDS: I don't want to live with the results
evile: *nods*
evile: Our floor's evac. plan takes us _closer_ to the capitol. So if
we ever get evacuated, I'm toast. I'll either die in the building or
be blown sky high when the capitol goes up.
evile: See this yet? It rocks!
http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2004/040729_mfe_reagan_1.html
SkyeDS: goes to look
SkyeDS: long
evile: *nods*
evile: the little potshot at Michael Moore amused me. But ...yeah, I
thought it was a pretty good article.
SkyeDS: so far so good
SkyeDS: lot of other things I would have said in a like article
SkyeDS: however, I don't think Kerry's any better
SkyeDS: matter of fact I think he's potentially far worse
evile: true enough.
SkyeDS: btw I completely agree w/ a partial birth abortion ban
SkyeDS: letting a baby come to term to the point where you deliver it
live and then kill it, is murder
evile: I think the procedure is an extreme rarity
evile: Not the commonplace liberal party game the religious reich
would have us all believe
SkyeDS: I hope so.
SkyeDS: but then why is it problematic to ban it altogether.
evile: Because I gather that it's a procedure that is only performed
when the life of the mother is threatened...but I don't really know
100% for sure.
evile: fundie wackjobs would rather have live babies and dead
mommies, apparently.
SkyeDS: very catholic of them.
evile: when the procedure is done in cases where likelihood of
survival for either is not great.
evile: Oh well. Time for me to run for the hills.
evile: give sineater big hugs from me & good luck juju on hearing back
from one of these interviews asap!
SkyeDS: k HUGS :)
evile: *hugs!*
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