frissonic
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Cancer giving someone 6-8 months when you're planning a wedding that is 6 months away. The whole thing just plain sucks.
Oh dear God in heaven, please tell us that this isn't your fiancee. That would be horrible. I mean ... it's horrible for whomever, but finding out just after getting engaged?
Thoughts, prayers, and every goodness imagineable for you, man.
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Licensed to Drive, starring Corey and Corey? Nope! Licensed to Marry, starring my fiancé and I!
NICE! congratulations man!! that's some seriously F'N Fantastic news!!
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Driving 5 mph in a near blizzard this morning only to have my low tire pressure warning go off.
no near blizzard out here, but sweet merciful crap ... freezing rain. and it's bad. took me 2 hours to make my normal half-hour commute. lots of 5mph, lots of sitting... and a ridiculous amount of ice.
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My insurance will probably cover some nice drugs, I just don't have the time to go see a doctor. I don't have a primary care physician so I'll have to go to the ER. Which is not how I want to spend my evening. My back hurts but I'm managing. Limiting myself to lighter duty at work. I just wish it would get better faster.
Urgent Care. Faster and cheaper.
THIS. PCP is nice, but it's not mandatory. any clinic can diagnose you.
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Kids these days. Always wantin' sumtin' fo nuttin'.
if only he were a kid. at least then he'd have an excuse. this guy is like 64 or 65. grumpy-gus-co-worker. erg.
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Workers comp, right :rolleyes:
what ...? IT'S THE LAW, MAN!
well, if they won't cover it, do you at least have health insurance that'll cover a doctor's visit? i pulled my back trying to drag a washing machine up from the basement a couple of weeks ago. seriously wrenched my lower lumbar area. went to the doc, they said that i really should be lying down for like 2 weeks, alternating ice packs and heat. they also prescribed some pretty heavy-hitting pain killers. thankfully, i have a severely low-key job (tech writer. i sit at a desk pretty much all day.), so i don't strain my back much at all, but still ... it's not lying down and resting.
That sucks, I feel your pain. There is a guy here who makes his rounds every day like clockwork, stopping by desks to just shoot the ###### with people and wasting their time. Luckily this guy is not my manager so he doesn't stop to talk to me that much, but every day its the same thing with the people who report to him that sit near me. What makes it worse is that out of the maybe five or so times that I've needed to go to his office for something, he's been napping at his desk twice. Of course this guy is a shining star around here and the sky is the limit for him on the corporate ladder, yet he does absolutely nothing to contribute to our project other than to be a loyal lapdog to his superiors. Disgusting.
yah, that's kind of like this guy. contributets nothing of real value, doesn't learn from any kind of peer reviews, swears that his way is absolute and everyone else's is wrong ... yet his manuals are constantly being used as the "less effective" method of writing. and it's from a simple lack of paying attention. i've sat in meetings with him where HIS OWN DOCS are being reviewed, and he took maybe 3 lines of notes. when mine are being reviewed, i burn through pens--not paper. i have notes spanning notebooks from my reviews. this guy ... ugh. he thinks that he's going to get some kind of severence package when the request for voluntary retirement comes up later this year. he's in full DGAS mode ("don't give a ..."), which basically sums up his entire "professional" career. no pride in his product. just "gimme a paycheck" mentality.
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This one has been festering for about 5 months, but this last week, it's come to a head. There's this guy I work with--we'll call him "Grumpy Co-Worker"--who feels that it's okay to stop by my desk several times a day and regale me with stories of how he was the ONLY guy who hasn't had a document rejected by one of our main clients. He also likes to gripe that the project he and I are working on has the most nit-picky program engineer that he's ever had to work with. Regardless of how many times I've told him that it's GOOD that this guy is being so nit-picky because ultimately it will make every document we produce going forward a better product, he just doesn't get it. Or listen. Or care. "I'm 3 months away from retirement. This place means less and less to me every day."
This week, he's decided that coming over on my lunch hour and chirping at me the entire hour is acceptable. I've tried being subtle by getting up, going to the bathroom, refilling my 100 oz water mug, going to the cafeteria ... every time I come back from wherever, he stops by when he hears me at my cube. I'm to the point where I'm going to have to be brutally blunt and just tell him that my lunch hour is MY time--leave me the hell alone.
But that probably won't sink in either.
Strained my back at work last week and it just will not heal. I'm well beyond the recommended doses of Bayer everyday now. Thinking it might be time to pay the acupuncturist a visit.
Since it occurred at work, doesn't that qualify for work comp? I'd tell someone about it. They're legally obligated to get you the treatment you need!
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Yeah. I did watch Goon. I nearly threw up when his ankle cracked. SVU too for like 4 hours straight.
I haven't had HBO or those others for a while. is there a good series to start with?
If the Borgias is on there go for it... Homeland too.,,,
If you haven't already watched it, I'd *highly* recommend Breaking Bad. I started it Christmas day and finished season 4 on Tuesday. It's very much worth the time.
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for the nerdist in all of us:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/31/comet-coming-in-2013-ison_n_2388685.html
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Just got laid off. Would've been nice if one of those other jobs I applied to had gotten back to me before this happened, but I'll roll with the punches. I've got an hour to pack my stuff up. F'N Fantastic Friday. :death:
WTF man!? At least they waited until AFTER Christmas. I'll give them points for that, but it's still crappy. Hope one of the other jobs pans out soon.
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Yes had a great song on their 1994 CD about Ankor Wat. Then again, that whole CD was really good.
Are you going to go over the bridge ...? :unsure:
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This is a lame one, but I'm still tired after hardly getting any sleep on Christmas Eve. We went to bed around 2am knowing we were getting up around 8:30am to start the turkey, which was already insufficient. Made worse, however, by the fact that around 4:15am the cat became very insistent on more attention. Tried petting her but she'd start nibbling on my fingers whenever I stopped. Pulled my arms under the covers, so she decides to lick my hair. Shoo her to the foot of the bed, and she's attacking my feet. After a few rounds of that I finally kicked her out of the room, but sheesh I'm tired. The last time I stayed there she just slept quietly on the bed all night, so I don't know what her deal was.
Wow. That was kinda hot...
going with SDS here. i ... yah.
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Getting the flu on Christmas Eve. Barely having the strength to get up Christmas morning to watch my girls tear through their presents. Crawling back to bed at 9:30 am, waking up at 5:30 pm to find the house silent, empty, messy, and dark. Wife took the kids to her parents' place. My Christmas meal consisted of soda crackers and ibuprofen.
There *is* a bright spot: yah, they left, but ... not sad; kinda glad. iPad. Breaking Bad. Show's rad just a tad.
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New baby boys!
8lbs 2oz, 20.5", healthy and happy (both mom and baby pommer fan #3)
Congrats LPF! babies are F'N Fantastic! (I know, I know ... wrong thread. So what?)
Honeymoon: Booked
Destination: Thailand
NIIIIIIICE! Are you staying just in Thailand? or using it as a hub? Either way, GREAT honeymoon!
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Somerville. I grew up in Boston, NY so it's definitely city to me. Judging by the trick or treat crowd this year, this isn't the ideal area to just leave something like that on the front step.
have they sunk this low yet?
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Sadly, I found out the day after that a whole bunch of Sabres tweeters were coming down for the show. Would have liked to have met up with them! As it was, met some amazing Canadian Hip fans. I swear, there is no friendlier bunch in the world.
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Fark all of you. ;)
did ... she just proposition the entire group?
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The lockout.
<snip>
*weep*
moving, man. very moving.
in other awesomeness, four-guy road trip from SLC to Las Vegas for a Tragically Hip show at the House of Blues on Saturday. Leaving early in the morning, rolling in to town around noon-ish, checking out the mafia museum, taking in the Hip, and staying at Mandalay Bay (luckily where the HoB is situated). Getting up Sunday, poking around Vegas (metaphorically speaking ...), then heading home.
Sweet.
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there are no words to express my level of jealousy to you, I just want you to be aware. ;)
there is no number to express how many times i've heard this in the past week. ;)
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Won free tix to a private screening of The Hobbit last night. IMAX, 3D, 48 FPS, and holy shizac, it was amazing. And FREE. F'N Fantastic!
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headache. as in, neck, shoulder, and back muscles are all pulling and so tense that i would rather slice off the back of my skull than deal with this at work. and now i can't drive cuz i just took 4 advil and a lortab. it's *that* bad.
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I was wondering which huge Rush fan on board would take the bate.
dammit. caught by a troll. i *hate* that feeling!
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yeah, they were probably thinking about the fans when they sold out and let their music be used in a recent VW ad on tv as well
really? that's your only response? "sell outs"? rush?
yah ... they totally sold out letting VW use FBN as a song for a driver who's steering-wheel-drumming. totally.
"sold out." wow.
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Rush gets inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
http://www.rush.com/...l-hall-of-fame/
**flips bird**
notice how alex says that it's important "for our fans." love it.
"For our fans, it's very, very important, and we feel great for them," he said. "We're at the next stage and we'll see if we're actually inducted. If so, we'll support it in every way we can for our fans."
The Music Thread
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They're coming to SLC this summer. That can only mean one venue: Usana Amphitheater.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5iVvfLHOFo
Taking my 9 year old daughter to this one. Cannot wait. This is going to be the best daddy/daughter date ever.