Ramblin' Man

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I had to stay a bit extra at work today to finish up a restraint summary report for one of our piping models. I’d have been done sooner, but the models produced by our remaining designers tend to have fits in ways the models by the old guys (the ones management got rid of) did not.

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A few minutes ago, my wife was talking about a news story where a monkey got spooked in a Spirit Halloween store. She wondered what the monkey was doing in the store in the first place, and commented on how weird the whole thing was.

So I read her a selection of the headlines of articles I’ve linked in the Weird News Thread.

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Happy Thursday?!?

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Normally, that'd be a no-brainer. It's Thursday. Which means tomorrow is Friday. Even a typical Friday is work-from-home day, which makes it happy. Tomorrow has the added bonus of being Halloween. My favorite holiday.

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It is not, however, a no-brainer. We're going to be extremely busy in the office today. We've got at least one package, maybe more, to get out today. This is partly due to past screw ups by management, so they decided to try and fix the issue by saying no issuance on Fridays.

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AND....

That weird dude I wrote about yesterday morning? The one who tried to get me to let him in the building. I sent an email to the safety boss, and he tried teams calling me yesterday. That didn't work for technical reasons, but he said he'd connect with me today.

How much do you want to bet he's going to b*$%& at me for coming into the office so early? And he'll "suggest" I don't do it. Which, of course, means if I kept to my routine I'd probably get in trouble. All for some "safety" reasons. Which would be corporate speak for "we're covering our ass and forcing you to conform or give us a reason to get rid of you".

If that happens, it'll definitely mean I'd think twice before ever reporting anything safety related ever again.

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Incidentally, the reason I get here so early is mostly one of simple convenience and routine. For years I'd been getting up early, getting ready, then waiting around to get the kids up. These days, I only have to wake the boy up, and he conveniently needs to get up at 5:30, which is around when I'm typically done getting ready for the day. So, then I just leave, instead of sitting around on my ass twiddling my thumbs.

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As a bonus, leaving earlier means less traffic. Less traffic means less stress. Less stress means happier and healthier zombie.

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And getting here early means I get to spend more time sharing the joy of my existence with the people on these message boards.

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Anyway....

So busy day ahead. And a busy day yesterday.

Wednesday, we had pipe stress analysis and a review of some hot tap fittings. Hot taps are when they cut into a line that's operating, in order to install new pipe. It can be challenging. And dangerous.

Today, I've got more pipe stress analysis and drawing package review. Hopefully, the pipe stress won't take me nearly as long as the one yesterday.

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Somewhere in all that, I'll attend at least two meetings.

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And I've got to remember to put in my timecard for yesterday. The system was down most of Wednesday, so I couldn't do it then. Had an email late last night that it was accessible.

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Last night I watched the awesomely creepy Ghost Story. It's from 1981, with Fred Astaire, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Melvin Douglas, John Houseman, and a very often naked Alice Krige.

I've heard it deviates heavily from the source material, which would bother me more if I'd ever read the book. Taking it on its own, however, the movie is very entertaining.

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According to Amazon, it looks like the three movies I had on preorder will actually be delivered today. The release date for all three was 28 October, and initially they were scheduled for delivery tomorrow.

Huzzah for early delivery!!!!

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If that holds true, I’ll watch one of the horror movies tonight. The second horror movie will be saved for tomorrow. Then on Saturday I’ll watch Shin Godzilla.