Zathras' Great Machine

LEAVE DAMNIT!

TAKE YER VACATION!

LOL... Nope, he stayed till 5:30pm again. We can take consolation from the fact that he dared go on Instant Messenger to chat in between bits of paperwork, and that he's at home studying instead of doing double-extra-unpaid-overtime. *grin*

BTW, I agree with you, the corporate world is a big horrifying mess. I'm going to hide in the educational/writing field if at all possible... I'd get run over in the business world in about ten seconds.

Another side point: I'd doubt the sanity or taste of someone that could have had you or Parrish and then looked elsewhere. Intelligent, pretty women are a dime a dozen (here at least) but intelligent/nice/funny guys are fairly rare. Ding ding ding, someone's got bats in 'er belfry and it isn't me for a change...lol

Yes - the corporate world is terrible/scary. The problem is the bosses don't look at you like a person. The look at you as a "great machine" (sorry, Parrish). They forget that yer human, and that you have feelings.

"Another side point: I'd doubt the sanity or taste of someone that could have had you or Parrish and then looked elsewhere."

Well, me and Parrish have doubted the sanity of this person quite a lot. However, not just for that though.

"But intelligent/nice/funny guys are fairly rare."

One of the problems with these kind of men is that we tend to give people chances. Over and over again, chances.

"Ding ding ding, someone's got bats in 'er belfry and it isn't me for a change . . . "

A lot more than that. Amazin' what a lil' bit of acid can do to a mind . . .

Of course, I'm glad she's not too net savvy. She'd prob. kick my butt if she was readin' this stuff (esp. considerin' I told her I wasn't offended in my last e-mail to her - hoo, am I a bad liar...) Doesn't even know what a blog is . . .

Anyway, it's friggin' miserable and cold outside. One of the worst Memorial Day weekends I have even seen - hope it's better wherever y'all are at.

"Anyway, it's friggin' miserable and cold outside. One of the worst Memorial Day weekends I have even seen - hope it's better wherever y'all are at."

It's been in the 80s every day. We went shooting on Thursday (I think it was Thursday) and it's been sunny and in the 80s during the day and the 40s during the night every day since then and will continue to be pretty much the same until Fall when the rain returns.

I'm jealous....

It's too friggin' wet and cold here for a May - 60 degrees and grey skies past 2 days.

One of my friends said it was a good thing - just that rain clenses away all the bad shit. Well, maybe it is . . .

!$!#!#

weather.com says it's gonna rain here all week

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whotta week..

"One of my friends said it was a good thing - just that rain clenses away all the bad shit."

That is one of the downsides of this climate - you really have to keep on top of watering your garden. But overall, I'm pleased to have finally found a place that's got a constant warm temperature half the year but not humid or overly hot and mild winters with only an inch or two of snow at most. (And isn't overpriced or overpopulated!)

It's the combination of being in the high desert, being ringed by mountains (storms blow out at the high altitude and rarely hit the lowlands) and the geothermal heating (we're sitting on a volcano field that was active as recently as a couple thousand years ago and the area is literally riddled with natural not springs (I'm only a few hours away from Yellowstone Park.)) The weather here is really mild and temperate and I do appreciate that after Louisville's fierce tornadoes and humid summers with temperatures regularly above 100 fahrenheit, Chicago's equally miserable summers and even worse winters with feet of snow, Vermont where I helped someone who caught frostbite on the Fourth of July, Minneapolis where the winters are so bad the downtown buildings are all connected with Habitrail tubes so no one has to go outside, Orlando's heat and humidity that sends people to the hospital daily and deadly lightning storms nearly daily...and so on. I've lived in all sorts of weather hell and I'm not about to move!

Sorry to hear you're having rain, Shaw. Hopefully it will clear up today and you'll get to enjoy some of the holiday weekend.

I'm happy I live in a non-overcrowded nice climate too. (Expensive, but worth it imho.) It was a bit overcast, but otherwise very nice today:
http://www.sonic.net/mustang/moggy/photos/home/summer-petalumavalley1.jpg

It sure looks beautiful!!

Expensive just isn't worth it to me. I'd rather not have to bust my ass just to keep my head above water. After living through crushing poverty, I can't praise too highly a place where my rent, utilities, cable, phone, DSL and groceries are less than $500/month total. I live really well out here on an amount of money that wouldn't keep a parking spot back in Chicago.

It hasn't cleared. It's actually rained 5 times as much today (the last day of the supposed "holiday").

-BummedShaw

I used to love to go out and play in the rain. I started doing it when I was a small child (mom would get pretty peeved with my brother and me for running outside everytime it rained) and kept doing it all the way up until my mid-twenties. Then I got struck by lightning while playing in the rain in the park behind my house. Now I'm not so interested in playing in the rain as I used to be.

Seriously? You got struck by lightning? What happened after that?

After that? Well, I couldn't see or hear anything for a while. Then I went home.

Okay, I could see and hear something but it had no bearing on what was actually visually and auditorily surrounding me. I saw lots of flashy things and heard a steadily oscillating noise that sounded sort of like wuAAAWuwuAASuwuAAWuwuAAWuwuAAW