2441 icq w/ skye

[evile]

• 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!*