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Posted on 03/05/2005 11:51:13 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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Well in my current "real job", they don't really want people doing weekend lab work. When I come in on a weekend, it's usually for an hour or so - just long enough to get the samples loaded on the instrument.
I have had a "real job' where they expected everyone to work every weekend. Acutally it was a "loser job" with sucky management and a guvimnt job was better than that one. :)
Well, and like I say...they are good to let him work on that thesis during the workday...a kind of "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" deal. And I probably wouldn't even be feeling grumpy if it wasn't two weekends in a row and if I saw him during the week!
I just really like the guy! LOL
Yesterday, he came in around 6pm and I had felt kinda down all day, not too bad...just a little down...and in he walked and the next thing I knew, we're out in the shop, I'm waxing the Bug and he's putting together a new metal shelf unit a guy at work gave him! Matthew made us hotdogs for supper and was so proud of himself. Life was just a delight for about four hours! I completely forgot I was blue! LOL
Oh! And probably the real reason I hate it that he had to work this weekend is because I got a real cheap car rental! I was gonna rent a car for a day and drive us down to this Beetle salvage yard that is open on Saturday. Acres and acres of nothing but salvage Beetles! It's about an hour away and our car isn't safe enough to drive that far.
So I reserved the cheap rental and then he told me he had to do this creek thing.
ARGHH!!!
Hang in there, hon. He's almost done. You do realize it's only about 4 months?
Heh heh!! I know! I know!
The cheap car rental is at carrentals.com They have these cheap rentals that just pop up once an hour and you gotta just happen to catch it in your area, which is what I did last week...just happened to catch one for Tulsa. It was like $9 a day!
I got my car rental to Shoot Moot for $12 and some change a day.
I imagine I'll be able to get it again. I'm watching it. Current cheapies are
DEN
$9.79/Day
Apr 17-Apr 19
BWI
$9.99/Day
Apr 23-Apr 26
MCI
$10.99/Day
Apr 30-May 03
MSP
$11.35/Day
Apr 16-Apr 19
SNA
$11.93/Day
Apr 17-Apr 21
LAX
$11.95/Day
Apr 28-Apr 30
IAH
$11.99/Day
Apr 29-May 01
BMI
$11.99/Day
Apr 16-Apr 17
STL
$12.02/Day
Apr 16-Apr 17
JAX
$12.30/Day
Apr 22-Apr 24
TUL
$12.55/Day
Apr 16-Apr 17
DFW
$12.69/Day
Apr 23-Apr 25
OGG
$12.99/Day
Apr 23-Apr 26
AUS
$13.25/Day
Apr 16-Apr 18
BHM
$13.69/Day
Apr 17-Apr 18
Joshua just came in here, snacking on some dry cereal. Sat down beside me and read the label on the box...
"Made with real peanut butter."
He read that.
Think he knows how to read? LOL!! Tickles me to death.
This is the "barn", a storage area off my thrid floor balcony.
This is a view of the barn door from the balcony...
The door is open, and there's my carp-- camping carp, mostly-- on the shelves I assembled this morning....
I have another set, but I don't wanna. I'll offer them to my cousin/roommate; if he wants to assemble and use them, there's room in the barn. If not, they'll go back to the store.
Here we had a false alarm...no sighting of the Plaid-Crested Duffer. A closely related species, the Lesser Ball Whacker, is barely visible here....
She's been having a lot of issues with the English language, although she does write well, and learns to correct her spelling quickly, I really think she could benefit from also learning Latin, which Seton offers but not until later.
Hope all is well your way!
Oh, lots of prayers for you, smaagee!!! God bless you!
So it's nasty weather there? Shame... Rosie's brother's wedding is today. I'm sure they're having it indoors, though!
It is indoors, but you're right... it makes it dreary to try to get there all dressed up without getting wet. There's a few sunbreaks here or there, hopefully one of them will be over the wedding. :~D
And Rosie's wearing the magic underwear and the hated dress right now, most likely... heh...
Fine for me, it didn't load slowly. Can't say it loaded notably faster than most pictures but it wasn't slow.
Well, what's important is that the pics hold up and don't start to bog down, the way some can on threads.
The benefit to this new server is that we can very the size of pictures beyond the standard dimension Snapfish sets them all to.
Steenkin' squirrels!
Can't you just use the height or width attributes in the HTML tags to do that? That's what I do.
I really hate wasting a gorgeous Saturday on studying.
So...
I think I'll spam
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