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The goal for today is to not die.
And also to dig a big damn hole.
Which we'll eventually fill up with a whole bunch of rock and then a King Arthur Fireplace.
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Is a King Arthur fireplace a fireplace with a sword sticking out of a stone in the middle of it, and surrounded by a round table?
Apparently it's just an obnoxiously large fireplace.
Well, that's disappointing. You should tell your boss that you can do better.Is a King Arthur fireplace a fireplace with a sword sticking out of a stone in the middle of it, and surrounded by a round table?Apparently it's just an obnoxiously large fireplace.
He knows, I've shown him the pictures of the faerie court we had to recreate in Seattle.
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Shouldn't it be Chaos & Vindictive Whimsy: Faery Edition?
Just got called in to go to work on Thursday for supervision and to plan for reopening.
We talking royal court, or legal court. Because I kinda want to see Law & Order: Faerie edition.He knows, I've shown him the pictures of the faerie court we had to recreate in Seattle.Well, that's disappointing. You should tell your boss that you can do better.Is a King Arthur fireplace a fireplace with a sword sticking out of a stone in the middle of it, and surrounded by a round table?Apparently it's just an obnoxiously large fireplace.
Royal court, unfortunately.
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Thanks to Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, my new favorite phrase is "I'm going to need you to calm the calamity...that is your mammaries!" Such a great way to say "calm your t&%~"
In public I tell my daughter "calm the calamity!"
Tala and I love that we're publicly telling her to calm her t~+@ and nobody else knows.
Thanks to Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, my new favorite phrase is "I'm going to need you to calm the calamity...that is your mammaries!" Such a great way to say "calm your t%++"
In public I tell my daughter "calm the calamity!"
Tala and I love that we're publicly telling her to calm her t@#$ and nobody else knows.
*sigh* dubbing...
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This is me not posting a massive political tirade on FaWtL.
But today it is hard.
Pelosi needs to resign and go away.
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*sigh* dubbing...Thanks to Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, my new favorite phrase is "I'm going to need you to calm the calamity...that is your mammaries!" Such a great way to say "calm your t%++"
In public I tell my daughter "calm the calamity!"
Tala and I love that we're publicly telling her to calm her t@#$ and nobody else knows.
It's an abridged series, dude. Replacing the dialogue with stupid funny dubbing is the point.
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This is me not posting a massive political tirade on FaWtL.
But today it is hard.
** spoiler omitted **
I think you've been living on the west coast too long.
Expecting a politician to not skim taxpayer money is like putting a barrel of alcohol in front of an elephant and expecting it'll not get drunk.
My mom spent her entire career exposing corrupt politicians, she didn't have to try very hard.
Personally, I always likes sending them to get the sod stretcher myself! :)How to freak out the high schoolers working with you EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Wait until you're about half way through demolition, look around, shut off your mini bobcat and say "Uh, I hope this is the right place.." as you walk to the truck.
You'd think they'd learn after two years. :-D
That is a good one! Co-worker and the older guys like to try to send someone back for a Hammer 4, the idea being they'll ask "what's a Hammer 4?" "Hammering!"
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Damn, now I gotta get back to work.
F%&+, it's hot outside!
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My favorite one was I had a couple of high schoolers putting in plastic edging and they were getting near the end where they'd have to cut it to fit so I throw a knife between them and one asks "What's the knife for?" "The first one that figures it out gets a ride back to the shop!"
The younger one thinks about it says "Dude, that's dark!" The other one who I used to work with his dad just cracks up and says "See, that's why I love working with Yesterday!"
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This is me not posting a massive political tirade on FaWtL.
But today it is hard.
** spoiler omitted **
I think you've been living on the west coast too long.
Expecting a politician to not skim taxpayer money is like putting a barrel of alcohol in front of an elephant and expecting it'll not get drunk.
My mom spent her entire career exposing corrupt politicians, she didn't have to try very hard.
I dunno; I always expect "intelligent self-interest" to win in lifelong career politicians. Destroying a chance to increase your own personal power by an order of magnitude in exchange for a tiny increase in your own personal wealth just seems too stupid for most high-level politicians.
That's a heck of a lot of power to give up in exchange for less than 1% of your net worth.
Just seems unbelievably stupid to me. I expect such behavior out of amateurs; I expect the pros to be better at the game.
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I expect the pros to be better at the game.
Sometimes you have to wonder about grifters. Every once in a while there's an arrest for small-time embezzlement in our county. Often the dollar amount is paltry, and the length of time it's been going on is astounding.
You wonder why they didn't take more.
It's been almost a year but they still haven't put a caltrop launcher on our truck (despite specifically saying it needs one on every maintenance check since they got it.
But I figured out how to fashion a dust screen, in that when it's really dusty outside I make sure to put a couple of buckets of dust in the back of the truck.
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Things That Feel Good...
...working on the garage all day to the point that when you finally take a break at 2:40 pm, all your muscles pretty much lock up and say, "Yeah, we're done," but then:
(1) The kids spend 2 hours playing ping pong on the table you just set up in the back yard for them
(2) The glass desk you wanted to get rid of gets hauled away by someone in under an hour
I'm not progressing as quickly as I'd like to on the garage, but holy carp is it a MASSIVE job. Doing things right is hard.
You get some weird stuff when you google caltrop launcher.
As I told co-worker "I just request it, I assume someone else will want to make it happen enough for it to happen".
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Things That Feel Good...
...working on the garage all day to the point that when you finally take a break at 2:40 pm, all your muscles pretty much lock up and say, "Yeah, we're done," but then:
(1) The kids spend 2 hours playing ping pong on the table you just set up in the back yard for them
(2) The glass desk you wanted to get rid of gets hauled away by someone in under an hourI'm not progressing as quickly as I'd like to on the garage, but holy carp is it a MASSIVE job. Doing things right is hard.
I pretty much just get home, eat something and then collapse for two hours while everyone tries talking to me.
I pretty much just get home, eat something and then collapse for two hours while everyone tries talking to me.Things That Feel Good...
...working on the garage all day to the point that when you finally take a break at 2:40 pm, all your muscles pretty much lock up and say, "Yeah, we're done," but then:
(1) The kids spend 2 hours playing ping pong on the table you just set up in the back yard for them
(2) The glass desk you wanted to get rid of gets hauled away by someone in under an hourI'm not progressing as quickly as I'd like to on the garage, but holy carp is it a MASSIVE job. Doing things right is hard.
Yeah, but:
(a) You do it for a living, and(b) I think you're what? 18 years younger than me. And that's an important 18 years!
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I'll be 43 this summer (I don't like my birthday to know I know when it is so I like to keep it vague) so ten years or less I think.
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I'll be 43 this summer (I don't like my birthday to know I know when it is so I like to keep it vague) so ten years or less I think.
Yeah, almost exactly 10, then. But the difference between 43 and 53 finally becomes noticeable.
- Everything before 30 is, "I'm immortal!"- From 30 to 40 is, "Aw, geez! Now I have to work out occasionally!"
- From 40 to 50 is, "Aw, geez! Now I have to work out every day!"
- 50+ is, "Hey! I work out every single day! How can I possibly be weaker this year?"
You really need to start in on daily strength exercises just to not lose strength. And yes, it's annoying.
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Daily strength exercises, that won't be a problem.
Every day they add something heavier I'm supposed to carry.
I should note getting home and collapsing for two hours is what I've been doing this week as it's been above 90 degrees every day. Normally I don't have that luxury.
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My general side goal for most days is "not to die"
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For the last few days, my work has been trying to entice someone to go to Iowa to "help out" at a hotel there for two weeks. No one is interested. They're getting kind of desperate, to where they are offering to pay mileage to drive there and back, give a free room at the hotel, a per diem for food, and pay time-and-a-half while you work. Sound like a good deal? Not really. Turns out, that hotel "needs help" because about half the staff got COVID. So, who's willing to risk their life for a little extra money?
I like one of my coworkers' reply to the group chat about it:
"I would be more likely to survive being mauled by an angry grizzly bear after it watched me wipe my ass with the still-warm pelt of its slaughtered cubs than to survive two weeks at that plague-infested dump." A bit excessive, perhaps, but an apt description of pretty much all of our feelings.
They keep trying to get one of us to go to another hotel as well. I remember posting on here about a year ago complaining about that manager that is currently in charge of that hotel. So ha not a chance. In fact I've warned all my co workers too.
If I had 50 cents for every math test I've failed, I'd have $6.30.
I see you have already calculated taxes. well done.
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I've never been asked to work at another hotel.
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Well if they offer I suggest saying no.
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My general side goal for most days is "not to die"
Yes, but when you work outside it becomes exponentially harder to do the hotter it gets.
On the plus side, IF I make it through the next two weeks I should have a marvel main character type of physique.
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I hope it's black widow. Hubba hubba.
I hope it's black widow. Hubba hubba.
Sigh... no..
I hope it's black widow. Hubba hubba.Sigh... no..
Then what's the point of getting ripped?
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Does this please the general?My general side goal for most days is "not to die"Yes, but when you work outside it becomes exponentially harder to do the hotter it gets.
On the plus side, IF I make it through the next two weeks I should have a marvel main character type of physique.
I assume so, it pleases me at least.
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I assume so, it pleases me at least.Does this please the general?My general side goal for most days is "not to die"Yes, but when you work outside it becomes exponentially harder to do the hotter it gets.
On the plus side, IF I make it through the next two weeks I should have a marvel main character type of physique.
I approve that is who we should get all muscley for. ourselves.
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I just wanna get "not fat".
I'm progressing. Lost five pounds since ditching the car.
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That's a pretty light car...