There is always the random rhyme thread.
ILoveJimmy good news: she gets to telecommute/work in her present job after we move. SO, here's all we have left to do to move:
1) Survive two more days of contingency (and some silly home fix requests);
2) Survive through closing;
3) Find a home;
4) Move.
Billybreen: Think I may have an opportunity to convince her to go iPhone?
Cheers,
Lavabe
For sho'. Love the PPB folks and I enjoy being educated about the stock market, oil futures, etc. but the general tone is always kind of depressing, you know? Like, Oh no, there's no more oil and we'll never build another infrastructure. Here's an intractable political problem that will never be solved in our lifetime. We hate George Bush. More genocide going on in the Middle East/Sudan/Africa. The economy sucks and will never get any better.
Talking about frivolities instead helps me get through the day without wanting to kill myself.
Not that this has anything to do with anything, but I had an epiphany the other day. They seem to be coming fast and furious to this board lately.
Anyway, I have basically realized that fellow posters of DBR, you have all become my "work friends." How utterly sad is that? That I spend more time with random people whom I've never actually met on the internet (cool though they may be) than I do with the people who occupy my office space. I blame my job for being so mind-numbingly, destructively boring that I'm forced to seek refuge on the internet for some mental stimulation.
Walking the dogs this morning, there's was nothing too exciting on the animal front. A few squirrels, chipmunks, geese, and a snapping turtle coming up for air.
But on the news last night they did a story about this strange beast. Could this be the rare and elusive pig-hawk?
EGADS!! My sincerest apologies.
He has the Mac. I'll assume he has the iPhone as well!
I blame the mishap on my opening semester at Duke. I took physics for physics majors ... and failed. Not that I hold a grudge or anything.
To this day, I have a physics phobia.
But I think the world of BostonDevil!
Cheers,
Lavabe
Your tone sounds vaguely familiar.
My wife has genuinely come to appreciate the DBR community in that it has helped keep my sanity during an extremely stressful time in my life. She also recognizes the value of Atlanta friends like EarlJam and Wilson (if she met Shammrog, she'd appreciate him as well), and other DBR friends like throaty and, of course, brother-in-law devildeac.
So no, I don't think it's sad. Especially if you partake in ATL DBR Mafia events (assuming EarlJam doesn't run off to Alaska).
Cheers,
Lavabe
Aw, shucks.
My husband and an iPhone? Surely you jest. While we're not exactly luddites when I posted about my cell phone taking pictures? It's because I was amazed to find out it could do such a thing. Way back when I actually double majored in math and computer science but I haven't learned anything substantial about computers since 1993.
There's a very good reason I don't have an avatar. I don't know how to give myself one. I am proud that I know what one is though.
I always said I never took physics but recently I remembered that my 9th grade science class, call QPS, actually stood for quantitative physical science so, I took some in 9th grade. (We used slide rules!) I know that force = mass X acceleration but that's about it. So, whenever I'm having dinner with Nobel prize winners (kind of a common occurence) I ask them what they know about Shakespeare.
Unfortunately, no. We leave Aug. 16. I've done the last 8 freshmen orientation fairs, the last 8 freshmen advising years, and the last 6 years of graduate student training for teaching (I guess I missed Wilson by one year). I'll miss it, but I've got plenty to do where we're moving to.
Hope all moves smoothly for you with your daughter. It's a whirlwind, but the freshmen advising system works VERY nicely. I wish they had something like that when I went to Duke. IIRC, during orientation, the Emory psych folks have a wonderful talk for the parents. NOT to be missed!
Cheers,
Lavabe
Brilliant! Do they come back with good answers?
I was going to ask, what's it like having a physicist as a husband -- does it creep into his daily persona, or can he leave the 'geek factor' at work? (I assume, tho, since he's married to you, he's a very very good guy.)
I ask in part b/c Mr. DA is a software test engineer, and 'tests' nearly everything. (See: question about the all-powerful duck.) I sometimes have to remind him he doesn't need to 'test' things like the failure point of bike tire (yup, looked like it popped around 100psi); the battery life of a cell phone (go charge it, or I won't be able to call you later); the definition of the word "okay" when I use it to describe a bad day.
Why hasn’t anyone built a live-action version of Chutes and Ladders? I’d be first in line to play.
I’ve always thought that shopping carts are just mobile jails for food and all the prisoners are sentenced to death by ingestion. Kind of makes you shop differently, huh?