I Called In Sick Today

[Sal Paradise 57]

maybe I am a dick, I don't know.

what do you think, maybe?

Where have you been? (yes, I know who this account belongs to)

I don't think you do.

well, no shit. we would ask him to go out to get food with us and he'd break down the math on why his frozen chicken was better value, then come see us later and ask how we had the money to eat out all the time because it's so expensive. I mean, wtf, don't act like that wouldn't annoy you too.

oh, so thaaat's why I don't have any friends.

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enjoy your success NOW fuck face.

[Nikki_N 17]

I may lack the patience to keep a good friendship going with annoying people, but I don't like having people actively dislike me. it just bothered the hell out of this guy that I was better friends with our roommate than I was with him. well, no shit. we would ask him to go out to get food with us and he'd break down the math on why his frozen chicken was better value, then come see us later and ask how we had the money to eat out all the time because it's so expensive. I mean, wtf, don't act like that wouldn't annoy you too.

Many of my friends are engineers. I know this discussion all too well. The worst offender is a man who's like a brother to me. It makes me crazy. I love to go out to to eat. On my birthday, I have this little tradition to go to this semi-cheap, but fun pasta joint downtown. It's part of a small chain, but I love it. The kids love it, and everyone that wants to go can afford it. Well my friend hates to trek downtown, park, and then pay for restaurant pasta so every year he tries to talk me into having the party at his house where he will cook. We have lots of fun parties at his house, but it's MY BIRTHDAY and I WANT TO GO OUT! So I stick to my guns. He can come or not. EVERY YEAR! Give it up already!As for phasing friends out, I've done that with a couple girls where there was high drama and very little return on my friendship investment. I have a few really great girlfriends that I love and one that I love, but is an utter pain in the ass. I don't need any more. Caller ID is great.In a couple of hours I'm heading out to Vegas.

[El Guapo 8]

Wang - Ouch already used the fourth joke.Do it now, do it good, just like you should....

[Piddle Duck 0]

So I seem to have an issue at school where I feel compelled to think of myself as the superior person in the group and everyone else are retards. Well not all of them, but two out of the 5. Personally I hate group projects because I hate to rely on and trust other people who I usually don't know. This is an important project and determines my fate since it is my last class I need to graduate. My group:Me obvMelanee and Terry (two girls who I have been working with for 3 semesters since we all keep taking the same classes, very nice, they get A's and they get it)Lashanda - don't know since she has missed two classes and our first group get togetherBernadine - 60 year old woman (maybe 50) who just doesn't "get it" ever. 3rd class with her so far and she has struggled in all of them.So we have to run mock trials. We take a case and get a team of 5 people and then he puts two groups together and one side does Plaintiff and the other side does Defendant and then we do it again 3 weeks later and switch sides. We start off as the Plaintiffs and I am the plaintiff attorney and the rest are witness' and the second mock trial I will be a witness and someone else does the defense attorney. We had our first meeting last night and the two people I worried most about confirmed my fears. One just didn't show up and the other just doesn't "get it." We are trying a case that where our client is suing a Department Store for Malicious Prosecution and False Arrest. Defamation was going to be part of it but in the last two classes he said to ignore it as he doesn't think we have the time to argue all three issues when it comes time. He must have said this 8 times. So we sit down after class to discuss our plan of attack and the Bernadine goes on this long story about how she has been researching case law and found this great case but she doesn't want to print it out because it is 65 pages long but she knows it is important. Come to find out it was a libel case. I tried to explain how she shouldn't be looking for cases like that because he has stated not too and she was completely dumbfounded. She will email the prof today and get confirmation. I wish I had the ability like Wang to take over and put some people in their place but I usually just sit there quietly rolling my eyes in the my mind and realizing I will be doing all the work and just deal with it. I worry that we are graded as a group, and if so I am scared. I am fine with doing my part as the attorney, I will be solely responsible for my motion in limine and my opening, direct, cross, redirect,arguing against a directed verdict, and closing but I worry what happens when the roles switch. I might bring my iflip to the second trial just to show how bad it will be when she gets up there to try a case. I gave her the choice on which side, knowing full well that the defense side is going to be tough, but she wanted it and insisted. I hope the group we go against is just as ill prepared or they will eat her up. I have no point. I am just bored sitting in my 88 degree office sweating and wishing it was 8 so I can go home and watch the Cubs/Tigers game.

[Nikki_N 17]

Dear Wang,DooooEEEEET!These are opportunities to see things and do things that you may not be offered again. You are young, single, and childless. Plus, Asian chicks are HOT! Now is the time. Love,Nik

[SAM_Hard8 50]

Many of my friends are engineers. I know this discussion all too well. The worst offender is a man who's like a brother to me. It makes me crazy. I love to go out to to eat. On my birthday, I have this little tradition to go to this semi-cheap, but fun pasta joint downtown. It's part of a small chain, but I love it. The kids love it, and everyone that wants to go can afford it. Well my friend hates to trek downtown, park, and then pay for restaurant pasta so every year he tries to talk me into having the party at his house where he will cook. We have lots of fun parties at his house, but it's MY BIRTHDAY and I WANT TO GO OUT! So I stick to my guns. He can come or not. EVERY YEAR! Give it up already!

I'm not a big fan of Tim's but he's right. To much effort for bad Italian food.

[JubilantLankyLad 1,957]

I don't understand what serge has to do with ignoring TBear, nor do I understand why Sal would have serge on ignore. Does Sal read things we are not aware of? Is he longing for a Vaginaian hockey franchise? Has a Toronto widget firm offered to underpay and overwork him, wooing with Canadian dollars and freezing cold trailer whores? Truly Sal is a mystery of a man.

[JubilantLankyLad 1,957]

Wang - Ouch already used the fourth joke.Do it now, do it good, just like you should....

and yet, it was my third point. i feel like i cheated Derek. should have thought about it some more I suppose.

[Nikki_N 17]

I'm not a big fan of Tim's but he's right. To much effort for bad Italian food.

It may be bad, but I love the spaghetti with browned butter and mizithra cheese. I can make it at home, but I won't let myself. It's to easy to just keep making it and gain forty pounds. Besides, the kids love that place and they give you free ice cream. Besides, that wasn't the point I was trying to make! It was an illustration of Tim being a pain in my rear, kind of the way many engineers are (excepting Dave, who is frugal, but spoils me and is a total badass).

[Napa_Don 688]

So I sent the email to my professor last night, around 2AM, after careful deliberation. I was no longer mad, but I still wanted to send it. It wasn't unnecessarily mean -- for example, there weren't too many ad hominem attacks tossed in -- and I decided that my indignation would be totally pointless if I didn't share my concerns with somebody who could use it.

I almost want to slap Wang for asking us whether he should do this thing. of course, you goddamn retard. why are you not already in china, ching-chonging it up with the slants. what the hell is wrong with you.

This. This opportunity has to be +EV in the long run. I would kill for that.

1) I just checked your contract and you won't be available until 2014.2) I have a friend that works for Rockwell Collins, which is a hi-tech company and makes flight controls for aircraft among other things. Anyway, it's a huge company and everyone usually wears jeans unless they are in management. Well, my friend decided that he would wear jeans everyday, unless he knew he was in a meeting that day. Meetings usually involved people from other departments. He noticed that whenever he said anything in meetings people listened to him closely and treated him differently. He was a manager by the time he was 26, and he thinks it was solely based on wears suits on meeting days.

1) I think I'm pretty much done with the COGS stuff, although, I'm not sure how much value it will actually add because essentially all I've done is combine all of the pricings from the four major suppliers and then have excel highlight the lowest costing good for that. So, I guess I'm not really sure what to do at work now, except for the daily book stuff, but I don't know if you want to keep paying me to do just that. I was thinking today that I might try and create an all-inclusive access database for you instead of using 3,000 different excel sheets and to automate as much of the record keeping as possible. I see that being more of a side project that when I finish an amount that you think would be fair because it will definitely take me a long time to do because I am an access novice. Its more of an excuse for me to really learn how to use access. Also, I ended up getting my mouse/keyboard that uses the old input and then reinstalled all of the usb drivers and so the old mouse/keyboard work again. Of course I figured this out after I had already purchased a new wireless set from Sams ($31.90), so I'll be taking that back tomorrow. 2) My cousin works at Rockwell Collins and is now upper management I believe. He started out as a mechanical engineer and once in high school I job shadowed a computer engineer and they all wore jeans, but my cousin said that the mechanical engineers had to wear business casual. Maybe he just choose to and thats why he, too, went up the chain fairly quickly. He's also wicked smart and got his MBA, but I'm sure it was the clothes. Had to be.

conducting work communications through the sick thread, where we pride ourselves on not working, is just wrong.

I've decided that this is the only way to communicate because brv works less than I do now and I don't like talking on the phone. Also, I don't actually use the internet at work, so this is all done when I'm not getting paid...I should change that.Edit: Emails to slow

[JubilantLankyLad 1,957]

It may be bad, but I love the spaghetti with browned butter and mizithra cheese. I can make it at home, but I won't let myself. It's to easy to just keep making it and gain forty pounds. Besides, the kids love that place and they give you free ice cream. Besides, that wasn't the point I was trying to make! It was an illustration of Tim being a pain in my rear, kind of the way many engineers are (excepting Dave, who is frugal, but spoils me and is a total badass).

spaghetti factory? god i hate that place, but kids do love it.

[brvheart 1,759]

I think I've slept more than 2 hours without an over-the-counter sleeping pill maybe 5 times in the last 4 years.

I just don't see how this is not incredibly bad.

Beans neighbor story

Loved it.

oh I know, I was just funnin' with the ole wanginator. I like his long posts as much if not more than anybody here (except for the math ones. COMPLETELY UNREADABLE.)

yes.

If someone was going to date rape me, they shouldn't bother with the roofies

noted. (Please still facebook me, *wink*)

Not me...I can deal with someone that's a bit religious and thinks that there's a god in a "but I'd probably admit that it's a bit outlandish if forced to" kind of way, but I just couldn't be with someone for the long haul if she was hardcore about anything having to do with god or religion. I don't really respect* the "I know 100% for sure that there's a god and he's all about my religion" point of view, so it'd be hard to keep that to myself, and there's no way in hell I'd be ok with my kids being brainwashed the second they shoot out of my wife's newly torn bajingo.*I can respect people with that point of view, but not the point of view itself...so it really only becomes an issue in a relationship situation where it's a constant presence. Yes, brvheart, this is my weak apology for not respecting your whole jesus thing.

I totally agree about having a spouse that doesn't think like you do. Terrible.2 Corinthians 6:14 actually mentions to not marry people that don't believe, because it will cause problems.

3/6 game, with three players to the river.First player leads out, second player calls. Third player raises. First player thinks, and shows his cards to the second player. Third player has not seen them.First and second player still have to call player three's raise. What do you do if you're the floor?

I'm sure it's been discussed completely, but I would flip the 1st players hand face up and kill it.

I'm with you 100% on the religion thing. I've even stopped saying that I respect their point of view. I just don't. and no more qualifiers for Brvy. He knows we dig him and disagree with the religion thing and he's fine with it because he's going to heaven and we're not, so he's all square.

I agree with everything but the bolded.

I broke up with a girl just more than a year ago who was waaaaaay too hot for me mainly because she was born again and I'm a rotten atheist heathen.

Praising god for all good things in her life. on her facebook, was always sending out faith and religious stuff. No problem with the sexing, but not what anyone would call wild in the sack.

does. not. compute.

my buddy was going to post a status update with something like "With God, all things are possible. He makes my life complete"and anyone who responded positively would immediately be deleted.

hilarious.

[JubilantLankyLad 1,957]

attention! www.stuffonmycat.com is for saleedit: nevermind, it wasn't about what i thought it was about. dawson, you can ignore my pm.

[Sal Paradise 57]

I don't understand what serge has to do with ignoring TBear, nor do I understand why Sal would have serge on ignore. Does Sal read things we are not aware of? Is he longing for a Vaginaian hockey franchise? Has a Toronto widget firm offered to underpay and overwork him, wooing with Canadian dollars and freezing cold trailer whores? Truly Sal is a mystery of a man.

oh god damn it. I've had a lot to do today and had to rush. shit, you have no idea how much this disappoints me.

[Nikki_N 17]

spaghetti factory? god i hate that place, but kids do love it.

Yep.

noted. (Please still facebook me, *wink*)

Done.Airport time. I'll be back on the 30th.

[strategy's_touch 0]

THAT SERGE SURE IS ANNOYING HUH SHAKE?WHAT DO YOU THINK, MAYBE?

[strategy's_touch 0]

oh so speedz mentioned this but erik's assertion that we are all mildly uncomfortable with the army people is pretty inaccurate. I like reading stuff from Nikki and Renae and Jeff and Voldy and I forget the others. basically anyone but Erik.

[Ron_Mexico 4,219]

You can hide different applications (Mafia Wars) and quizzes ect... You can also hide the person from your home page without deleting them.

please please teach. I'm about to delete a bitch

Also, commenting on a different post of yours, you would be amazed how many attractive, independent, successful girls I know in their 20s and 30s who have "rape fantasies".

please please show me, with pics. I'm about to rape a bitch

I don't think you do.

Oh, I'm positive I do, assface

oh so speedz mentioned this but erik's assertion that we are all mildly uncomfortable with the army people is pretty inaccurate. I like reading stuff from Nikki and Renae and Jeff and Voldy and I forget the others. basically anyone but Erik.

agreed with not feeling uncomfortable with Nikki and crew posting. Ren is/was a sickie as well.

[jeff_536 3]

1) True. When I think of Beans -- and I do think of him, of all of you*, way more often than is normal -- there a ton of competing images in my head. ShadowChipmunk. DanielNegreanu on the toilet. Lord John Marbury from The West Wing. CIA operative, undercover as Lord John Marbury from The West Wing undercover as a small-town hick-about-town that everybody knows is really 60% The Godfather +25% Robin Hood + 15% Don-Rickles-pretending-to-be-Ron-White.That person could put a note on your pillow. But he'd only do it if he liked you, and if he liked you he wouldn't be arrogant/mean.2) I am going to stop being self-deprecating. Call me out when I do it, Ron, if you don't mind. Everyone else, too. I'm going to get defensive and post lists about how I'm NOT being self-deprecating, etc., but I'll know the truth.*- For example, I had a weird daydream while driving home from campus yesterday. It was about Braveheart. I was doing Napa's job, except I was living in his house, and I met his wife. We had a long discussion about religion, during which I assured his wife that, yes, I am a heathen, but I will follow the rules of the house, and always treat their beliefs with respect. There was other stuff, too. I think I imagined myself telling Mrs. Braveheart the story about Maggie and the Catholic Cross tattoo, but instead of her bending over my seat to give me head, she was leaning over my seat to push my chair back. I didn't know if Mrs. Braveheart would appreciate talk of premarital car blowjobs in her house, especially since she just met me.

Nice posterisk.

I almost want to slap Wang for asking us whether he should do this thing. of course, you goddamn retard. why are you not already in china, ching-chonging it up with the slants. what the hell is wrong with you.

Truth. Derek, you only regret the things you don't do.

oh so speedz mentioned this but erik's assertion that we are all mildly uncomfortable with the army people is pretty inaccurate. I like reading stuff from Nikki and Renae and Jeff and Voldy and I forget the others. basically anyone but Erik.

Feeling the love.Off to vegas in the morning. And yes, I'm bringing Rounders to watch on the plane. I'm such a cliche.

[jeff_536 3]

Brave: To you, does born again automatically mean no sexing without the marriage.I'm using as she accepted jesus christ as her personal saviour, blah, blah, blah, but she wasn't in your face about it. Nice religious girl. And was willing to be with a dirty heathen like me.

[GrinderMJ 0]

oh so speedz mentioned this but erik's assertion that we are all mildly uncomfortable with the army people is pretty inaccurate. I like reading stuff from Nikki and Renae and Jeff and Voldy and I forget the others. basically anyone but Erik.

Ya, I just like to lurk, but this ex stripper is enjoyable.

[Randy Reed 0]

I forget

3 - email him, no subject, email body simply "fourth"

I forget again

I almost want to slap Wang for asking us whether he should do this thing. of course, you goddamn retard. why are you not already in china, ching-chonging it up with the slants. what the hell is wrong with you.

Yeah what the hell?!

I have no point. I am just bored sitting in my 88 degree office sweating and wishing it was 8 so I can go home and watch the Cubs/Tigers game.

Could have just wrote this but we wouldn't have it any other way. Oh yeah, we should hook up on my way to Traverse City so I can have an excuse to drink on my vacation.

I'm not a big fan of Tim's but he's right. To much effort for bad Italian food.

Would it be wrong to mention I saw Marley and Me about now?

[Randy Reed 0]

I never mentioned Wang's card game problem but you can be damn sure if I was player three there'd bea fight, well, unless someone got me two beers in a hurry.

[brvheart 1,759]

I think the equilibrium I've settled on is something like: I vehemently disagree with the religious man's point of view, and I don't respect the logic of it at all. I don't respect the actual position itself, that an earnest and honest examination of one's surroundings could lead a person to conclude "Yeah, there's a God, like they say on TV." But I do respect a person's right to have (what I would view as) flaws, irrational viewpoints, imperfect processes, chinks in the armor. I respect his right to be wrong about stuff, even if I think it's a sign of incredible close-mindedness or myopia. Even more than that, I can still respect the person. I can still respect somebody with a belief I believe is ridiculous. If the person wants to engage me -- and we have an otherwise-good relationship -- I'll be honest but respectful. I'll try to be nice, basically, and make sure the situation doesn't get out of control. Nobody likes having his (HER HER HER) core beliefs attacked. I try to be especially careful, because I am very good at arguing, and I almost instinctively force people into corners, forcing them to contradict themselves, making them lose and lose badly. Basically, I don't care enough. I think it's stupid and dumb and irrational and ridiculous, but if it makes you happy, if it makes you content and better able to deal with life, then go ahead. ****, I drank myself retarded for a number of years because of the curves life threw me, so if God is something that makes you happy, who am I to judge? Do I think I'm right? Yeah, I'm pretty sure I am. But I don't really care if YOU think I'm right. And I don't care if you believe.You know, unless you're a dick or a stupid bitch, in which case I'll try to make you hurt just because I can.And I think Bravey knows that. He probably feels the same way. Maybe he doesn't respect my decision to remain willfully ignorant of the beauty of God, or my irrational insistence that God's existence be proven, or my close-mindedness. But hopefully he respects me, and accepts my flaws like his stupid fable-book tells him to do.

you dirty sonofabitch.

Here's what I did:I turned Player 1's hand face up. I then instructed the dealer to return Player 3's raise. At this point, Players 2 and 3 are on reasonably level footing. They both have one bet into the pot, and have the same knowledge about Player 1's hand. I then gave Player 3 the option to check, closing the action and taking the hand to showdown, or raise at her own risk, reopening the action. I did not want to give Player 2 the advantage of acting with more information than Player 3, and I also did not want to destroy Player 3's ability to get value from her hand because of a mistake that wasn't her fault. I think that's the best way to handle the situation, but I'm open to other ideas.

I understand what you're saying. Player 1 might be stupid enough to call the raise, and you don't want to punish 3. I can live with that.

Actually, no. Not to me, at least. If a guy slammed his cards down, whipped his dick out and pissed all over them while calling my dealer a slant-eye jap faggot, I'd award him the pot before booting him from the room. There are plenty of rules in our room that can lead to suspension/banning that I would never consider killing a player's hand for. For example, we have language provisions, since some of the old bitties are racist and don't like black people. So if I repeatedly warn a guy to watch his mouth and he refuses, he's gone. But I wouldn't kill his hand.I think of it like this: if you charge the mound after getting drilled in a baseball game, you'll get run 100% of the time. But you're damn sure awarded first base.

This is another good point.

i believe he was talking to renae?

...then it would have been some extra LB's, amirite?

CLIFFS NOTES: I went camping, got pissed at a logging company and overly sentimental, made a big fire, melted glass and did not have sex.

thank you.

facebook status updates in general annoy me, but ones like this drive me crazy. what is the point of saying this? "xxxxxxxxxxxx had a very difficult conversation today. A little anger and lots of tears, but it ended well. Phew."

I'm fairly certain that girls like to be encouraged... even if they are forcing the encouragement. I don't really understand girls.

Hi everyone. Off to catch up...

I know I already mentioned it in our long friendly PM exchange... but welcome back, bff.

[brvheart 1,759]

China post

You should definitely go.

*- For example, I had a weird daydream while driving home from campus yesterday. It was about Braveheart. I was doing Napa's job, except I was living in his house, and I met his wife. We had a long discussion about religion, during which I assured his wife that, yes, I am a heathen, but I will follow the rules of the house, and always treat their beliefs with respect. There was other stuff, too. I think I imagined myself telling Mrs. Braveheart the story about Maggie and the Catholic Cross tattoo, but instead of her bending over my seat to give me head, she was leaning over my seat to push my chair back. I didn't know if Mrs. Braveheart would appreciate talk of premarital car blowjobs in her house, especially since she just met me.

Mrs. Braveheart thought that the Maggie/ Lillard story was hilarious. I think she even called her sister.

1) I think I'm pretty much done with the COGS stuff, although, I'm not sure how much value it will actually add because essentially all I've done is combine all of the pricings from the four major suppliers and then have excel highlight the lowest costing good for that. So, I guess I'm not really sure what to do at work now, except for the daily book stuff, but I don't know if you want to keep paying me to do just that. I was thinking today that I might try and create an all-inclusive access database for you instead of using 3,000 different excel sheets and to automate as much of the record keeping as possible. I see that being more of a side project that when I finish an amount that you think would be fair because it will definitely take me a long time to do because I am an access novice. Its more of an excuse for me to really learn how to use access. Also, I ended up getting my mouse/keyboard that uses the old input and then reinstalled all of the usb drivers and so the old mouse/keyboard work again. Of course I figured this out after I had already purchased a new wireless set from Sams ($31.90), so I'll be taking that back tomorrow. 2) My cousin works at Rockwell Collins and is now upper management I believe. He started out as a mechanical engineer and once in high school I job shadowed a computer engineer and they all wore jeans, but my cousin said that the mechanical engineers had to wear business casual. Maybe he just choose to and thats why he, too, went up the chain fairly quickly. He's also wicked smart and got his MBA, but I'm sure it was the clothes. Had to be.

Let me see what you have and I'll talk with you about access next week. Also, keep doing the books this week, due to my SICKNESS... unless you need the day off, then just call me or whatever.

please please teach. I'm about to delete a bitch

On your newsfeed or 'home' page... not your profile... go to annoying message and move the mouse to the upper far right in the white area next to the post. A thing will appear and it will allow you to block that type of post from all of your friends... or to hide all posts from that particular friend.