Surely you can live on your abilities, not your disabilities? You've just served in an almost-war zone, you must be able to do heaps of stuff.

I don't want to sound patronising but you will make a new life for yourself somehow.

Sarge.... you ever consider recruiting?

I'm too old to switch to recruiting/AGR. You have to be able to complete 20 years prior to age 60. I can't go back to law enforcement due to my physical limitations. I'm worried about finding work in today's economy that will be even half of what I make now.

Another major issue is the ex & our continuing court battles.

Damn... that sucks. Good luck with it. I know you'll come up with something.

dammit. Have to go in to class today - they've only cancelled till noon.

Power flickering just crashed my computer. Maybe I should switch to the laptop.

The humidity here at the moment....

My hands are so dry I'm getting cracked fingertips. It looks like there are some cuts on my palm too. Not sure it's due from dry skin or I accidently cut it somewhere. In any case, ouch...:(

It's a little bit late to tell you this, but they canceled all day. ;)

Hope you checked e-mail one more time before you went in!

ducksnuts - what's the temp/humidity levels like there? It my mind I picture it like south Mississippi.

Moisturize moisturize moisturize. Put an Aveeno dispenser by each sink in your house and at work, and one in your car. Every time you wash your hands, moisturize. Whenever you have a long wait at the traffic light, moisturize.

I totally feel your pain. Well, at least I used to until I adopted this strategy.

Horrible commute this morning on Metro. The radio traffic reports made it sound like everything was back to normal for the below ground stations, but I'd estimate they are running at about 20% of their normal carrying capacity by running the trains every 25 minutes instead of every 5 minutes. Not that big of a deal, except I'd estimate they have roughly 60% of their normal passengers. You can't fit 60 into 20.

Long-winded way of saying it took a long time and was extremely crowded.

yeah...took me nearly 2 hours to get here today. was going good until i got to the bridge. traffic lights were out, and no one thought to send a cop out to direct traffic.



edit: so...i showed up at 9:20......and I leave at 1pm. i assume it will be another long ride home.....say 3.5 hours in the car to work 3 hours and 40 minutes. I'm protesting this injustice by being completely unproductive today.

Man, I got an e-mail alert a short while ago saying a metro train derailed in a tunnel downtown. Minor derailment, and nobody is hurt. Fortunately, the problem is on another line, so it's won't impact me. But the red line folks are fucked.

I'm going to leave 1.5 hours early to beat the worst of the rush home.

Our temps have been around 90 - 100 f since the end of December, usually we have a week at a time like that, then a break. No break at the moment.

Last week it was still in the 90's, then we got 4 inches of rain in 24hrs. Yesterday it was 32c and raining...blah.

Is this even a sentence?!

yes, I think it would probably vertigious on the

Win 7 install hangs on my system.

jellyfish stingers

Ouch. Did you pee on it? :blush:

Were you doing a clean install?

Yah, it hangs anywhere between the opening screen and the first file transfer.

Uh. No.

The stings themselves are only painful for a moment. But the next day, I get crazy itchy welts that take a week or two to disappear.

We did five reefs, on five separate outings. Probably around 10 hours in the water, so a couple dozen stings is nominal for me. What I really need to do is invest in the proper clothing.

Blech! Have you verified the memory and hard drive yet?

The ammonia in the urine is supposed to help, but that's just hearsay on my part.

I hope to run memtest86 on the system tonight.

here ya go, not sure how fast she can run, though


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After researching it, it turns out that it's stingers from the nymphs of the thimble jelly, very common around the island. And vinegar is supposed to be the ticket, not ammonia. :headshake

What's the verdict?

Couldn't get the memtest image to burn to CD. Don't know why.

Man, there is just nothing like holding your child and having her unexpectedly projectile vomit all over you. Had to take a shower to get the smell out of my hair. Good times.

ugghhh. nope nothing quite like it.

Well, there is something almost quite like it; having them vomit in your open mouth as you are talking to them (Don't recommend it, FYI) and having them projectile shit all over you and anything in a three foot radius. (yes, I am using the term radius correctly)

Indeed, good times... someday we'll look back on this and...

reminds me of why I stuck to cats.

I'll bet she shags like a minx...

meh... I bet she just lays there and lets you do all the work.

memtest ran overnight, all tests passed.

What's next? Can one of the Linux live cds run a drive test?

Hmm. Have you tried reinstalling XP? That'd be interesting. If it installs ok, then it's probably not faulty hardware but a hardware incompatibility with Win7.

Various forums suggest: pulling all but one RAM stick, updating the BIOS firmware, moving the install disk to a bootable thumb drive. I'm thinking that #2 is the best suggestion, but it's also the highest degree of difficulty.

I was able to copy the install DVD to a thumb drive just to prove that the DVD was OK. Maybe I will try making it bootable just to see what happens.

I went ahead and updated the BIOS. It worked!

The MB is the Asus M2N SLI. Asus makes it pretty easy to update your BIOS.

what's that, boy? Timmy is down the well?

Groovy. And the win7 install?

Yeah that's what I meant by It worked - should have been more specific. After updating the BIOS, the Win7 install worked. I am in the process of trying to get the old apps running on the new installation.

Excellent. Let us know how you like it.

And how it performs on older hardware.

I've got win7 working on my 5-year-old desktop. It's been far more stable than xp ever was.

Sick day today. Almost lost my voice yesterday, couldn't hear anything, sinus pain kept me from sleeping, was supposed to show the program to some folks today, and CPS came by... again. People treat kids decently kbythx.

Let me axe you something (gum crack gum crack gum slurp).

That is all.

HA HA HA A HAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Had that Tues & Wed, feel much better this morning. Try Tussin CF, it helped me.

Thanks bro.

Heeheheheee...tussin!

Got a broken leg? Throw some tussin on it! :)

Earlier this week on the elevator up to work, there was a yuppie type making loud juicy noises with his gum. I nearly hurled on his wingtips.

Isn't it awful?

I see women chewing gum like it's cud, polished lovely professional looking women, I think "oh don't do that it's so unsightly." :lol:

This is why I don't often chew gum. I'm probably obnoxious too.

my counterpart chews with his damn mouth open. MACK MACK MACK.

Guy two cubies down eats potato chips so loudly I think he's chewing bricks.

I guess I'm sensitive to these things: we kid my dad 'cause he hates food noises too and just try to eat celery quietly at the dinner table. The look on his face! I would go into the living room with my celery. Hahahaha.

ANY kind of mouth noises really disgust me. I am hyper sensitive to them. Not only eating (although this can shred my nerves to the point of crazy woman) but also coughing, sneezing, even noisy yawning. Disgusting.

My gripe today. I got charged £50 fees for a direct debit that bounced in January. I cancelled it in December and agreed to pay via my prepay card because they can collect that fortnightly (my money comes through fortnightly) whereas a DD collects on the same date every month - when I cannot guarantee money will be in there. What I forgot to do was cancel it with my bank. Now it should be enough to cancel it with the company I am paying to, but of course they don't have any real reason to shake a leg and cancel it - the worst that can happen from their point of view is that they get an extra payment for something I owe them anyway.

So all my own fault.

Just it comes straight out of my Amsterdam fund :(

The silver lining is that I called my bank, checked the DD is NOW cancelled, checked I was not going to get charged again and that's all sorted.

I've told myself I'll hit the big supermarket behind the 'Dam when I get there anyway. I won't have a fridge in my room, but I'm sure I can save some money by buying food like a local rather than a tourist. Even prepacked sandwiches will be cheaper than ordering broodjes in an eetcafe, and I can get Vlaamse Frieten on the street.

Silly to be disappointed - it's more than I have at home!

Oh SG, I keep finding myself doing things like that...then scrambling to fix it. I might never learn. :(

Today I'm irritated because I have to drive my dumbass to Cleveland. I don't want to drive my dumbass to Cleveland. Don't know what time they'll let me hit the road, then I spend the night and go to a seminar tomorrow then drive my dumbass back home.

I'm just not in the mood. It's rainy and gloomy and it may turn into snow somewhere along my route.

But, I might actually learn something and the seminar is in a really nice hotel so I suppose my room will be very nice...so there's that.

OK, done with bitching. We now resume regular programming.

I have a fucking budget council to attend tonight. I hate budget council, it goes on for fucking evah!

Starts at 6pm, could well still be there at midnight.

Today's the first anniversary of Dad's death. Not that I'm particularly glum or even particularly thinking about most of te time. But I'd have liked to have a quiet night in tonight.

Tomorrow is my Birthday. I'll be spending tomorrow afternoon and evening sitting on the Planning Committee. Afternoon sitting 3pm-5.15pm. Then a meal then back in for the evening sitting 6pm- however long it takes, probably 9.30pm.

This is in the mildly irritating thread, because it is mildly irritaing to me the way these dates have fallen. I shouldn't complain. It's not as if i don't get paid. But i do feel a little like stamping my feet and shouting 'Not Fair!'

:P

Shawnee, get a book on tape or CD - you wont mind the drive half as much.

Ah shoot Dana....that sux.