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Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Ever try running when it's that fucking hot? I feel like I shrunk to half size out there.

I did that once when it was about that hot, and I didn't have any water with me. I went about a mile-and-a-half and started wondering if it was safe. I have no idea how effectively your body can cool itself when the surrounding air is warmer than your body temperature. I know that sweat evaporating actually cools you, but I don't really know anything beyond that.

I felt pretty crappy and just walked back. I may have been worrying about nothing, or I may have been actually over heating. It's hard to tell.

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:However, I have noticed that driving your frustrations into the pavement is more therapeutic than any shrink I've ever been to. And I have mostly conquered my sensitivity to heat (although I still don't like heat...)

I totally understand and relate to this. I love running, and I like the time I can have to myself when I run (assuming it's just me running and I'm not running with my wife while pushing the jogging stroller. That's a different experience).

@CountArioch - When it comes to waste management, what exactly is your job title/do you do?

My cat just died. About 50 minutes ago. Fell in the sink, didn't move or anything, stopped breathing and died. No wounds, bleeding, bumps or obvious breaks. Just dropped down dead.

I really should be feeling something right now, but I don't. Its like I haven't started reacting to it.

Parthenon wrote:My cat just died. About 50 minutes ago. Fell in the sink, didn't move or anything, stopped breathing and died. No wounds, bleeding, bumps or obvious breaks. Just dropped down dead.

I really should be feeling something right now, but I don't. Its like I haven't started reacting to it.

My condolences. I've buried quite a few cats, and it never really got any easier. At least it seems like he went peacefully...how old?

Maj wrote:@CountArioch - When it comes to waste management, what exactly is your job title/do you do?

My highest job title was "Chief Operator". I had less power than the assistant manager but I oversaw the operations and maintenance as well as was in charge of the lab. (Technically the lab was the assistant manager's job, she was in charge of reporting test results to the DEQ, but she couldn't interpret the numbers to save her life). However, I let my license lapse due to the fact that every WWTP interview I had ended with the manager going off on me.

However, I have gained an Associate's Degree in Arts and Sciences in exchange. In Virginia, that will get me an assistant lab tech job, but those jobs are in high demand and I am nothing special. If you know of any lab tech jobs in your area, I am willing to consider relocating to the west coast if the pay is right.

EDIT: Random question. I keep having these reoccurring dreams where a coworker rather aggressively sexes me. It is starting to make work even weirder than normal because I have to work with this person and after the 4th or 5th time I've dreamed this it makes me feel massively uncomfortable. What does that mean, and how do I stop it?

Parthenon wrote:My cat just died. About 50 minutes ago. Fell in the sink, didn't move or anything, stopped breathing and died. No wounds, bleeding, bumps or obvious breaks. Just dropped down dead.

I really should be feeling something right now, but I don't. Its like I haven't started reacting to it.

My sincerest apologies.

My cat just died. About 50 minutes ago. Fell in the sink, didn't move or anything, stopped breathing and died. No wounds, bleeding, bumps or obvious breaks. Just dropped down dead.

sucks but at least it was quick and painless. my old cat had to be put down on christmas eve because he had cancer. that was a great christmas

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:

Parthenon wrote:My cat just died.

My sincerest apologies.

Wait, what? What the hell did you do to my cat that means you need to apologise?

COUNT!!

Unless of course you mean condolences, in which case thanks.

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PoliteNewb wrote:At least it seems like he went peacefully...how old?

I've actually lost track of how old she was. Probably 4-5 years old. We got Awesome and her brother Hardcore from an animal shelter after one of the cats before got run over by a milk float.

They weren't actually called that to start with, something like Cameron and Ellie, but Awesome and Hardcore are much better names.

Okay, first, I really am sorry that you lost your cat. I know what losing a pet is like, and it sucks. A lot.

But I have to ask:

Parthenon wrote:run over by a milk float.

How did this happen?

Ravengm wrote:But I have to ask:

Parthenon wrote:run over by a milk float.

How did this happen?

Well, he was about 11 or 12 years old at the time, we're not entirely sure. He wasn't deaf or blind or anything, just old- he was starting to change his behaviour- slowing down, being a lot more likely to sit on laps or sleep next to me in bed.

The stupid git was used to stretching out in the middle of the road refusing to move for cars until the last second or until someone moved him. From what we can tell by talking to the neighbours and what they heard, early one morning at around 3ish the milk float was noisily travelling slowly down the road when the neighbours heard a thud.

We now have four cats buried in the back garden.

What is a milk float?

Maj wrote:What is a milk float?

This is a milk float

Zherog wrote:

Maj wrote:What is a milk float?

This is a milk float

OH!

I was imagining a parade down the street.

Blame my cultural insensitivity/ignorance.

I was too.

That's three of us.

It's funny, after all the Mardi Gras I've been to, you'd think I would have read it that way first, I was thinking it was some variation of a root beer float.

English is a tough language, as my Chinese friends always demonstrate. A good friend of mine made my American friends jump recently when he said "I'd like a boy."

He mean, of course, that he wanted a son.

I found out today that not only am I not going to get a bonus this quarter (they had the cut-off date for eligibility literally months ago), but my hours were cut last week basically to pay for everyone else to get theirs.

I know that by now I should be able to at least deal with people benefiting from my sacrifice and I should be 100% okay with the idea that I don't own my own efforts and never will, but I am very angry and/or depressed today.

EDIT: Wish me luck, I put in some apps for slightly better shitty jobs that I can kill time at until I can do something that my education would benefit. Still not the best jobs, but for way more money!

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I found out today that not only am I not going to get a bonus this quarter (they had the cut-off date for eligibility literally months ago), but my hours were cut last week basically to pay for everyone else to get theirs!

You have to get out of the minimum wage job tier. Once you get above that and into an office job, things get a lot better. I just left my old job with a terrible company and have moved onto working in an office environment with a slightly less terrible company. The pay is far better, they offer decent benefits, and my feet aren't killing me after a day's work. It's not the best job in the world, but I can definitely see myself moving up within the company to make a career out of it.

I know how shitty and terrible it is, and my old job was unionized, which is supposedly better. In reality, I would describe it as being caught in between the union and the company, both of which were greedily sucking us dry so that the boys at the top could benefit. (We live in a state that isn't right-to-work, so the union is free to do dick-all while forcibly extracting pay from us, which is precisely what it did.)

I'm working on it. Maybe one day it'll happen. Don't mistake my lack of optimism with a proportional lack of effort (easy mistake to make if you just know me on the internet and not in real life).

I don't know if I would cut it at an "office" job, but I have both education and years of experience doing lab work. That's what I'd like to do. I've been scouring the east coast for job openings lately from New Jersey to South Carolina, and may open up my search even more if I don't see results. I'd rather be living in Scandinavia right next to the Arctic Circle, but I'll accept living in a slightly more civilized part of Virginia at this point . (I wonder if there's any place in Svalbarad that needs a lab tech?)

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I'm working on it. Maybe one day it'll happen. Don't mistake my lack of optimism with a proportional lack of effort (easy mistake to make if you just know me on the internet and not in real life).

I don't know if I would cut it at an "office" job, but I have both education and years of experience doing lab work. That's what I'd like to do. I've been scouring the east coast for job openings lately from New Jersey to South Carolina, and may open up my search even more if I don't see results. I'd rather be living in Scandinavia right next to the Arctic Circle, but I'll accept living in a slightly more civilized part of Virginia at this point . (I wonder if there's any place in Svalbarad that needs a lab tech?)

If you want to send me your resume, I can circulate it at the Duke biology labs.

CatharzGodfoot wrote:

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I'm working on it. Maybe one day it'll happen. Don't mistake my lack of optimism with a proportional lack of effort (easy mistake to make if you just know me on the internet and not in real life).

I don't know if I would cut it at an "office" job, but I have both education and years of experience doing lab work. That's what I'd like to do. I've been scouring the east coast for job openings lately from New Jersey to South Carolina, and may open up my search even more if I don't see results. I'd rather be living in Scandinavia right next to the Arctic Circle, but I'll accept living in a slightly more civilized part of Virginia at this point . (I wonder if there's any place in Svalbarad that needs a lab tech?)

If you want to send me your resume, I can circulate it at the Duke biology labs.

Sure thing. Give me some time to polish it up and update it.

Keeping something that's considered TMI spoilered, don't read if you don't want to know...

According to the South Park episode TMI, my revised TMI is 34.3"...

I'm not even going to ask how you got the mass measurement. And according to Wikipedia the units should be cm/(g * degrees).

My theory is that they just threw together a formula without too much thought. And I made an error, that should be cm. Still, fairly ridiculous.

EDIT: On a less disgusting note, I seem to be slamming through two lit courses at once fairly handily. The whole thing is based on forum posts! I have been doing that for years. Hard part is reducing the swearing and the internet memes.

EDIT: On a less disgusting note, I seem to be slamming through two lit courses at once fairly handily. The whole thing is based on forum posts! I have been doing that for years. Hard part is reducing the swearing and the internet memes.

sign me up for that shit I will troll the entire class