Posted on 09/23/2007 7:46:56 AM PDT by paulat
Not sure I like the idea of folks poulating the UT.
Ye typo guds demand sacrifice.
And thy sacrifice shall be...
... no desert tonight.
(And that's not a typo. *\;-)
How are things?
I know. Me too.
And FR is slow loading lately.
Too strange.
(Me being busy, I mean, Vey strange. I’m usually too lazy to be so busy.)
Fairly good.
Have a couple appointments with the dentist, and the warehouse I work at has been dropping employees like flies.
(We get to walk them out... *sigh*)
Heck, I have a scrip for flouride toothpaste... since July.
I haven’t filled it yet.
Draaatt!
You need a prescription for toothpaste with flouride?
Ugh. That can't be any fun at all.
I'm suddenly a little worried, looking at the economic news. My new job comes with certain vulnerabilities in that I'm far from a direct contributor to the corporate bottom line (unlike, say, back when I wrote software), and I could be fairly easily cut in bad times. The only good side to it is that my name is extremely well known in this industry and the competition (the biggest of which are not American companies) would probably snatch me up in a hurry.
It seems to be okay this evening...
Anything that is above 1% flouride needs a prescrip.
Or is it 5%?
Anyway, above a certain percentage they require a scrip.
Bob’s typical day on the Flying Castle:
(Morning); waking is easy after the good sleep one gets at one third gee. The tricky part is remembering where I am.
You see, it isn’t because of amorous adventures that I don’t always spend the night in the same place, (more’s the pity), but because my responsibilities take me all over the station. It just seems convenient to crash (excuse the expression) wherever I happen to end up.
Today I woke up in my little cottage on the hill behind the Castle; My little getaway place where I occasionally try to write. I had a bit of fruit juice and then took the tube to the AM-PM in Habitat B. They specialize in the kind of no-frills coffee I like. They also know what I like as a nightcap before retiring.
Anyway, after the coffee and breakfast, I did a little “Management by walking around”, surveying the mood of the people and catching bits of conversation here and there. As you might expect, Hab B was quiet at the time and everything seemed to be going well.
I zipped over to Hab A, which was a little more lively, it being the shank of the evening there. There’s a great little jazz bistro on the fourth level Northaft where I usually stop for lunch, but I was just moving through. Research and hobbies seemed to be the gist of the conversation there, as everyone who isn’t doing mechanical mainteneance of some sort is involved in a food-growing enterprise. — By the way, the cheese shop on that level has a great variety.
My next area to check out was the Thrust Ring. As you know, most of our physics laboratories are on the Thrust Ring, since it offers the best variety of raw materials and energy to study them with. The Astronomy workshops are there as well. We’re getting some really stupendous images these days from the Thrust Ring Telescope Project.
Finally I drifted back to the Castle as activities there were getting into full swing. Besides the obvious farming and livestock centered work in the Castle Habitat, most of our entertainment activity occurs there as well. In the Castle, we have studios and film backdrops just aching to be photographed, along with all the aspiring actors and actresses, and of course “extras” can be obtained by simply tugging on someone’s sleeve.
The Castle is pretty much a social center too. Most of the people who recognize me on sight do so there.
I did eventually end up in my office. There’s not a lot of activity going on there, because my weather projects are currently on hiatus. We’ll need to put a lot of effort and expense into bringing those capabilities on line, and frankly we’ve lost much of our ambition in that regard.
Eventually, someone will invite us to begin our weather modification activity, if they ever get serious about the supposed calamity they swear is just around the corner. Meanwhile we continue to redesign the satellite system and other bits of our plan. And we take it easy a lot. It’s a pretty relaxed lifestyle, as I’m sure you’re aware.
After dinner, if nothing much is happening, I may end up back at my cottage. But if something strikes my interest, such as a new show, or a scientific experiment, or something popping up in the Astronomy lab, then I would probably nod off to sleep somewhere in the Castle, or even on my cot at the office, or perhaps some accommodation in the Thrust Ring.
I never know, and that’s what gets me a little confused sometimes in the morning. Until I have my coffee, that is.
No, not fun at all.
But when one certain manager got caught in flagrant dilecto on camera with someone not his wife, it kinda is an unavoidable side effect.
Then you'll be fine.
I'm pretty well known in my industry too, but I have no idea what they think of me.
;-)
Yeah, but then you might have to relocate to a fjord, with pines, and all kinds of soggy weather and ...
Never mind.
Right.
Do you have weak teeth?
My Dad had that, and I do too, but not as seriously.
Why can’t you remember where you fell asleep?
Yeah, from mom’s side of the family.
However, it’s good news that the ‘new’ style fillings (epoxy and bondo!) work rather well with my teeth.
Because it's more dramatic and interesting that way.
Actually, I'm like Harry Potter. When I wake up, the first thing I reach for is my glasses.
I always seem to know where they are.
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