Saturday, November 15th, 2008
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9:03 pm - Slice of my life in York
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So Neoparn and I work at York Central Market 3 days a week trying to make some extra cash since we've been unemployed for about 18 months now (shitty economy). Not at all a bad gig but it does start at 7:30 AM Tuesdays, Thursdays, and (HISS EVIL!) Saturday mornings. Now we both TRY to get to bed right on time but Friday nights this is particularly hard and plus the metabolic load of the little one means even the standard 8 hours isn't really cutting it for me anymore so by the time we get to closing at 2pm I'm pretty shagged out.
One of the saving graces of this job is that when I'm not actively serving a customer I get to rest my increasingly worn out ass in a plastic chair just inside the stand.
So there's this lady who I refer to as my "Grouchy Old Lady" or GOL for short who has been coming by at the end of the day and essentially mocking me for not looking like I do any work. Our first conversation went like this:
GOL: Pretty nice job huh?
ME Not half bad considering I was up at 7 this morning. (NOTE: This is the day after Halloween, I wasn't in bed until 3 AM)
GOL: I was HERE at 7AM.
ME (Trying to be personable): Oh wow!
She goes on talk for another few minutes about inane other things, in the end not having one nice thing to say about anything. Over the few market days we have a number of similar interactions, always with her "ribbing" me about how she always sees me sitting down. I at some point mention that I do a fair amount of work on the non-Market days when no one is there restocking the stand, ordering, etc. I try hard to be nice to her because I assume that she's one of the ladies from one of the various butcher's shops, delis, vegi stands, etc. who are there earlier, leave later, and have to pack up their wares at the end of the day (unlike me, I just close the register, turn off the lights and boogie). I respect the hell out of these hardworking old ladies so I'll put up with a fair amount of grumpy from one who sees a young whipper-snapper on her ass day after day.
Until today when I spot her in her own territory.
I'm helping the boss run a big load of stuff out to her car for a special event she's going to today and I pass the GOL in her natural environment.
She's sitting at the market entrance in a folding chair PASSING OUT BIBLE TRACTS!
She doesn't WORK at market at all. In fact, the only work she does there all day is walk by my stand and give me shit.
I just went back to the stand and put my head in the meat Neoparn's shoulder and screamed.
Fucking old people.
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
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9:23 pm - Baby Update
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Well, now that I'm over 3 months of being the sickest I can ever remember I'm beginning to get into the swing of this pregnancy thing.
We had our first Ultrasound this morning and they asked us to bring in a recordable DVD. They took about 3 minutes of video which I posted to YouTube.com this afternoon for everyone to enjoy.
The little one gets in an enormous yawn about 2 minutes and 12 second into the video.
According to the tech it looks like a little boy! Mom was correct, measurements indicate that I'm probably more like 19 weeks pregnant than the original estimate of 16 weeks so that puts the due date in early March. Everything looks just fine and put together correctly.
Seeing as we have no idea as for a name I suppose we are taking suggestions.
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
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1:02 pm - Update
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Back from Pennsic.
Cat refuses to leave my lap.
Oh yeah, and we're pregnant. (Well, I'm pregnant, but Sean deserves mention too since now he's getting morning sickness too.)
Due in March or so.
More as it happens.
<3
-R
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
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12:50 pm - Well I totally messed -that- up
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So I was supposed to have a telephone interview with CSU today for one of the two positions I'm applying for up there. My dream jobs that I've already done for 6 months and my single best bet for the rest of my carer. I got through the introduction and three questions before having a panic attack, pleading illness, and asking for a reschedule.
I'm -usually- really good with interviews. I like and get along well with people. Two of the four people on the committee I was talking to were people I know and have already worked with up there. This interview was almost just a formality, these people already know me and my work and the questions were very basic run-of-the-mill interview questions "What do you think you'd be best at?" type of stuff. So I'm haing trouble parsing out what brought on my panic.
I think the biggest factor was that it was on the phone. I couldn't seem to concentrate, and after my answers there was a sort of awkward silence while they tried to figure out if I was done talking yet. In-person i can use all of my (admittedly learned) social intelligence to figure out if what's I'm saying is making sense, what they want to hear, etc. Over the phone I'm not getting enough feedback to re-enforce my confidence and get into the flow of things.
Thankfully I feel like I was able to bow out with relative grace, and the head of the committee thanked me for stopping them when I wasn't at my best instead of continuing on. I'm gonna call my mentor this afternoon and ask for some pointers and see if there is any way I can ask for an in-person meeting with the committee instead since I'm only 50 miles away and I need to come up to campus some time to return the remainder of my library books anyway.
Tomorrow: Employee physical for the new hospital librarian job I'm taking in the interim while CSU drags it's feet. Should be 45 minutes of weirdness. Will report.
current mood:  stressed
current music: Great Big Sea- Wave Over Wave
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
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7:33 pm - Vacation report: Short Overview
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Hey kids, just back from my 3 week vacation home to Pennsylvania and to the Pennsic war. This will just be the short vital update.
-the drive started Saturday July 21st at noon and took 27 hour all told
-it is possible to surprise my mother into tears of joy
-PA was nice but humid
-our friends love us and had several impromptu parties for us
-Pennsic completely and utterly rocked
-I helped throw a tiny post-midnight underwear party
-Harry Potter 7 was -very good-
-I learned to make lace by tatting
-I had a really good time and made several very good friends at War this year
-I am the proud owner of a new Bernina Artista Embroidery machine
-we drove back via Olathe Kansas where we met our friend Sean's family which was awesome
All in all, the best vacation ever
Some sad news, our puppy Random passed away while we were at my mom's place. It's too sad of a story to put in detail but he did not appear to have suffered and he was loved very much.
Will tell more of this vacations great stories in detail later!
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Thursday, July 19th, 2007
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8:08 am - Spot the world's I'd like to get off...
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Right then. The world has officially lost it's mind. Today, in the National Post, a Canadian newspaper, there appears nothing less than a work of out-and-out Harry Potter Fanfiction!
Lady Granger's fall
No do not mistake me, I enjoy fan fiction, I have even written, posted and reviewed fanfiction. But to see it in a national newspaper makes me want to run the other direction.
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
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9:38 pm - Lined Basket
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4:34 pm - Something everyone can appreciate!
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Friday, July 13th, 2007
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12:19 pm - Irony of the Week
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In this screen cap from the new video from the Indiana Jones set:
http://www.indianajones.com/community/news/mov/indyarrives.mov
We can see George Lucas wearing this shirt:
(This is by far the worst of the HSF shirts I have encountered. Ugly and dumb compared to this simple statement.)
Now I understand that this shirt was made and sold by an arm of Lucasfilm. But does anyone else see this problem with a man wearing a shirt protesting a decision HE HIMSELF made/could have counteracted?
For the record the man did eventually come round to the right way of thinking and the most recient round of DVD releases has the scene the way it "actually happened" (Of course, these are the non-special editions and missing the hysterical "Han and Jabba in the shuttleport" bit.) But wearing the HSF shirt to shooting with Harrison Ford seems... needless.
And funny.
Also, seeing Harrison all buddy-buddy with Spielberg just makes me smile. I'm really looking forward to this movie.
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Sunday, July 8th, 2007
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12:27 pm - Movie Review: Transformers
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So yeah, I went to see Transformers last night on the recommendation of a few friends. I have a couple of thoughts, none actual spoilers but I'll hide them behind a cut anyway.
( Clicky, clicky )
I could rant more but I won't. You"ll like it if you like camp, special effects, and/or crazy 80's remakes. If you were hoping to get ANY backstory or explanation on what the hell the Transformers are about, get someone else to explain it to you before you go.
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Friday, June 29th, 2007
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2:52 pm - Normally I don't post twice in day...
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I'm not even buying a damn iPhone but I can't stop reading about weired things tangentially related to it.)
Michael Moore is an idiot, or was -really- drunk when he did this.
Sad, and angry Michael Moore
(bonus pic of him looking like a pouty 4 year old included)
Normally I sorta like and respect Michael Moore. He's not afraid to say things that lots of people don't want to hear.
But now he's totally lost it. He's accusing Steve Jobs, Apple, AT&T AND AL GORE (who sits of Apples BOD) of being jerks and fake-liberals because...
They set the release date of the iPhone the same day as the release of his new movie Sicko about the USA's health care crisis. He suggests that this move was designed to "silence" his film. NOw I understand that he was undergovenment scrutiny about this film becaseu he took people to Cuba and that he's received a whole bunch of flack about it but this is either
1) Jumping the iPhone bandwaggon to get his name in the news again (in whihc case I fell for it, bad me)
OR
2) the man's a stark raving paranoid loony (which would be a sad end for a guy who started out so well)
So in either case, RIP sane, reasonable, hard-hitting reporter More, I'm sorry to see you go.
P.S. Kyle, I'm totally channeling you today.
P.P.S. I can't believe I was so stupid. There's a glaring error in my above post. Find it and win a cookie.
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1:29 pm - Doesn't he have people to do this -for- him?
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Apparently the Mayor of Philadelphia has so little to do that he himself is at this moment sitting in a lawn chair in line to buy an iPhone.
Would any Philadelphians like to comment on this state of affairs or suggest how the mayor may have freed up his schedule? (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) desh, I'm totally looking at you. :) )
Read the full story here.
I was always under the impression that Mayor Street was more of a Blackberry man.
(For those who don't get the reference, during the 2003 FBI corruption investigation the biggest news item for a while was that Mayor Street had has his Blackberry Personal E-mail device confiscated into evidence.)
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
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2:05 pm - President Evil?
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Monday, June 11th, 2007
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3:50 pm - Music Meme (stolen shamelessly from Desh)
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Here are lyrics from 12 songs that I got quasi-pseudo-randomly from my music collection, though The quoted lyrics are always the first line(s) of the song that don't give away the title. Guess the artist and the song. Comments screened; Google is cheating. Any artist that did the song counts as full credit.
No duplicate artists here. Punctuation may or may not have been changed.
1) Holiday quiet on these streets, except for some stubborn leaves that didn't fall with the fall, and now they clatter in vain
2) Turn it up, I never wanna go home. I only wanna be part of your breakdown.
3) Well, I used to be a farmer and I made a living fine
4) Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write.
5) And let the sun wrap its arms around me and bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing
6) My diamond's clouded over where it used to shine like light.
7) To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea.
8) Cold as the northern winds in December mornings. Cold is the cry that rings from this far distant shore.
9) Sometimes I'll have you know, it's all insane. Maybe it's time for me to pack it in...
10) Oh there was once a man who had lost his own smile, and he wandered the country mile after mile.
11) It's a thin line that leads us and keeps a man from shame
12) I mean, he was a dragon-man.
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Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
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3:08 pm - Oh god, the data!
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So after some negotiations with our web-host Neoparn and I now have 1500GB (no, that's not a miss-type, that's a terabyte and a half) of storage space on our new web server with 5200GB/month of bandwidth.
So what should we do with it?
It was damn near dirt-cheap and we probably only have 150GB of data in MP3s, photos and documents between us soaking wet.
We have unlimited e-mail addresses, can have up to 100 domain names linked to it (for a nominal fee) have bulletin boards, a chat sever, etc, etc.
So does anyone have any brilliant ideas as to what we should do with out new found wealth?
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Thursday, May 24th, 2007
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11:56 am - Book Review: The Sharing Knife: Beguilement
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The Sharing Knife Vol. 1: Beguilement By Lois McMaster Bujold
This -not- your average Bujold Book. In comparison to her other works this is mush more like Spirit Ring than anything else. It is certainly less complex and much lighter than others of her work.
*removal of 3 paragraphs of complaining about how it's a little plot-shallow*
However,the important thing to keep in mind is that this book is the set-up. and will hopefully be eventually dual-bound with it's sequel Vol. 2: Legacy (coming out in July) to make the complete story like Shard of Honor and Barrayar were.
And that's what all of my complaints about this book come down to. It's the set up and I'm just dying to see what she's gonna do with it!
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Monday, May 14th, 2007
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10:52 am - Old friends are sometimes best
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
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2:57 pm - I coulda sworn...
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I need someone to back me up on this, or tell me I'm crazy....
So I'm reading though this charming piece entitled The Top 15 Han Solo Quotes You Need to Use in Regular Conversation when one of the quotes catches my eye...
“Had a slight weapons malfunction, but everything's perfectly alright now. We're fine, we're all fine, here, now, thank you. How are you?”
Now while I can remember this line perfectly well from Star Wars my brain has also comfortably placed it (or a line very much like it) coming from either Mal or Wash in Firefly. Is this so or have I hallucinated it? It is very much like something one of them would say. (In fact the parallels between Mal and Han are striking... but I digress)
Can anyone else confirm or deny my memory?
Thanks
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
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3:13 pm - Just in case you thought people were getting smarter...
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There seems to be some debate as to if this person was serious or just making fun of people. But if you're going to make fun of people, do you send it as a letter to the editor? As I pointed out to complexated "This is Arkansas..." Either ways it's a frightening example of how stupid can be!
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
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3:29 pm - It's ~pronounced~ "Revolution"!
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