31 posts tagged “work”
Don (13:04:18): I’ve realized what it is here that I find so curious and irritating.
Don (13:04:45): You’ve heard the stories, I’m sure, about how groups of women, like say students in a dorm, will end up with their menstrual cycles syncing up over a period of months?
B (13:04:53): Yep?
Don (13:05:16): Here at Don’s Work World HQ, that same thing happens, but it’s the stupid cycle. And it’s not gender-specific.
B (13:05:24): ROFL!
Don (13:05:48): I think this month marked the first fully synced cycle. ;x
B (13:05:52): Oy. ;x
Chicken fajita burrito on standard-size paper plate for comparison
Sunlight plays off the walls of the lobby.
I never get to see this on my regular graveyard shifts.
Quest for sugar: Success!
Bike from The Land of WTF under the stairs at the north end of the building.
Former lounge area converted to workspace in our fairly crowded building
I stay up all night at least five times per week. I work a graveyard shift so the night is my daytime.
Answering:
When is the last time you stayed up all night?
I have been home nearly an hour. I have a repeat episode of M*A*S*H (I’m sure I’ve seen it several dozen times by now, it’s the one where B.J.’s buddy plays practical jokes that get B.J. arrested) playing on the TiVo and about three minutes ago I put a batch of sugar cookies in the oven.
I didn’t mix up the dough, of course. It’s one of those packages of dough you crack into little squares and throw on a cookie sheet, quick and dirty.
Oh, and also I just took a couple of store-brand night-time cold meds, because I have the slightest hint of a sore throat and that’s how every cold I’ve had in the last 10 years started. So I’m being preemptive and inhaling meds at a pace approaching absurdity.
I’m hoping the combination of a slight sugar rush from a couple 1-inch cookies, the outpouring of heat from the oven when the baking is finished, and the two liquid gelcaps I just snorked will induce a glorious state of somnolence.
Happy Tuesday. :-)
I installed iTunes on my PC at work so I could listen to a couple gigs of my own music library when I don’t have my iPod with me.
iTunes includes a music-sharing feature that sweeps the local network and shows you the libraries of any other iTunes users who
- have allowed their libraries (or subsets of libraries) to be shared, and
- have left iTunes running.
Right now there are two shared libraries available to me. One is comprised almost entirely of TV shows and video clips, 297 items totaling five days’ playing time and 50GB; the other is all music, 4700 items and change totaling more than 15 days’ playing time and nearly 22GB.
I of course fired up a connection to the second library and in my desire for something interesting to play (I did indeed forget my iPod tonight), I decided to use iTunes’ genre-browsing function.
Some of the genres this person has, spelling and punctuation exactly as they appear in the library:
- 80’s
- Acid
- Acid Jazz/Trip Hop
- Bastard Pop
- Death Metal
- default
- genre
- Gospel
- MSTRKRFT
- Nerdcore Geeksta
- Proto-Punk
- Sermons
- Unclassifiable
- Unknown
- Weddings and funerals
I’m intrigued by Nerdcore Geeksta but the one song classified under that genre doesn’t play, counts out about 3 seconds and then skips. I’m disappointed.
I also like the genre genre. Very direct, obvious, no-holds-barred classification there. There are two songs listed under that genre (in Song - Artist, Album format):
- SONG NAME 1 - ARTIST, ALBMNAME
- SONG NAME 2 - ARTIST, ALBMNAME
The Weddings and funerals genre contains two tracks by Beirut from their 2006 release Gulag Orkestar. They do not, in fact, sound appropriately dirge-y for the genre naming. They sound more like Tiny Tim with better production values, which is annoying because so far I’m liking them, and I hate Tiny Tim’s “music.”
We can see the traffic light that marks the work campus entrance—it’s the little red smudge in the middle of this photo—but we move only one car length about every 2 or 3 minutes.
