Nute Gunray Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Today I learned that a squirrel can carry, but not run with, an apple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 11, 2006 Author Share Posted January 11, 2006 This thread has taken a surprisingly squirrel-centric turn as of late. Hmmm... methinks I smell a government conspiracy at work here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 This spring and summer when I go fishing, i'll be feasting on Eel. XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 11, 2006 Author Share Posted January 11, 2006 Good luck with that. Were the hell did I leave off? Didn't take me long to lose track this time... 1/9/06 - 1/10/06 Maintenance at work. Exciting stuff. I won't overwhelm you all with the terribly amazing details. Nice thing is that we have a large group of students that decided to hang around town this year that we can have do most of the work so we don't have to do it all ourselves. That bad part (well, for me personally, anyways...) is going to work at "normal" hours (9-5.) Not a morning person. Never have been. Never will be. Oh well... Time to get going. <*Sigh*> Note to self: Still gotta re-do mix technique post for Keyan. Maybe tonight if I'm not too busy... or tired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Not a morning person. Never have been. Never will be. I hear that. I hate mornings. And aside from hating mornings, I don't sleep like normal humans. If get up at a normal time, there's no way I'm going to able to go to sleep at a normal time. I will simply not be tired. I will go to bed and lay there for hours before I can finally fall asleep. And then I will not get enough sleep and be tired the next morning. So I always start out fresh on Monday, and get progressively more tired throughout the week, until I can regroup on the weekend. I really need at least 30 hours days. 22 hours awake and 8 hours asleep would be ideal for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 not a morning person either...well, as far as work goes. I HATE being forced to work before 2pm, I regularly wake up between 5 and 8 am though, but if i have to wake up around that time to get ready to work....hell with that, i sleep til i have 15 minutes to get ready, at least when i work at 2pm-whenever, i'm fully awake, and can either stay up late when i get done with work or i can go to bed early. 2nd shift rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Sleep? ugh, I thought I would get sleep on break from school. Nope. Overnights. 11PM or 9PM to the wonderful hours of 7AM or 5AM.... great. I mean, I can't complain, it's a reletivly easy 7-8 hours shift, but damned...... my sleep scheduel get's sooo thrown off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander 598 Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 This spring and summer when I go fishing, i'll be feasting on Eel. XD Eels aren't poisonous nor are they difficult/dangerous to capture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 12, 2006 Author Share Posted January 12, 2006 I hear that. I hate mornings. And aside from hating mornings, I don't sleep like normal humans. If get up at a normal time, there's no way I'm going to able to go to sleep at a normal time. I will simply not be tired. I will go to bed and lay there for hours before I can finally fall asleep. And then I will not get enough sleep and be tired the next morning. So I always start out fresh on Monday, and get progressively more tired throughout the week, until I can regroup on the weekend. I really need at least 30 hours days. 22 hours awake and 8 hours asleep would be ideal for me. Sounds just like me. No matter how tired I am in the mid afternoon, right around 7 - 7:30 in the evening I usually get a second wind... ever see Pulp Fiction, that scene where they shoot the adrenaline right into Uma Thurman's heart?... well, it's something a little like that. From that point on I am WIDE AWAKE! I always stay that way until about 12:30, 1 am. Sometimes later... Back when I was in high school I would be total waste product by the end of the week, and go into hibernation on Friday night, and not see daylight until late Saturday afternoon. The best job I ever had was stocking shelves overnight in a grocery store, from midnight to 8 am. Never got tired. It was the perfect job for me. The one I have is pretty close, a lot of night work, usually not too many early mornings. Except for weeks like this, with no shows going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 well today was a day full of good surprises that made me happy. First i go in for my check....and OMG i didn't realise we get holiday pay for new years...i went and put the digital camera on layaway, then went to sporting goods and bought alot of clearance items... got a nice treestand, camo bottoms and a camo shirt that matched as well as some gloves and a waterproof camo jacket...canteen, water hydration pouch for my backpack, burlap camo, and it all costed me less than $80. So i drove from there to my mcdonalds and got breakfast for me and my mom, then i drove over to the post office and picked up my mail and payed for another 6 months of post office box using. then i drove to my parents' house and ate and talked about work and wondering why my sister hasn't gotten a raise since she's been working at the same place for 6 months...and i started saying how i wish i was making that much (she's making $8 an hour) like i was making at the temp agency...then the time for work came and i dropped my goods off at the apt and headed to work. So i'm working i think i was prepping film or something, and my manager comes by and says 'hey do you want a pay raise?' and i was like 'sure!' thinking nothing of it, then she brings me over to this computer and says i'll be getting a 50 cent raise cause she thinks i'm ready to start on my photo lab specialist packet, so i say ok, and now i am making $7.80 an hour. It's sortof funny, cause i never would think that i could make that much at walmart-within 6 months. I managed to sell 2 cameras today. The Sony DVD92 and a Kodak C330. uhm...before i left walmart, i got some more ammo. I'm off work tomorrow, so I'm going to try to hunt for something bigger than a squirrel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 13, 2006 Author Share Posted January 13, 2006 More work maintenance. At least I feel we made some progress this week, and really fixed a few things that have been bugging for a long time. Here's a partial and selective list of what we managed to get done this week. Re-EQ'ed the P.A. system, to take out a few frequencies that were too thick, and making it hard to get a good clean mix. We also fixed the delay times to some of the speakers, to clean up some of the slop. We also replaced all the worn out connectors on the monitor cabinets and speaker cables with newer ones that should lock better and last longer. Fixed a pile of bad mic and instrument cable as well. We went in and did a lot of file clean-up on the mixing board. There were 5 months of saved shows and all the resulting libraries associated with them that we went through and backed-up, then deleted, except for the couple of presets we use as our starting points. Then, when the whole thing was as clean as it was ever going to get, we backed that up too, and made a kind of 'restore image' just in case everything ever goes to hell someday. Got all of our lighting gel files in order. Re-did the touring production office/ storage area to try to make that area somewhat livable again. Changed burnt-out stage and house lights. Re-organized the under the stage area we use to store instrument amps to put the stuff we use all the time right up front near the door, and bury the stuff we haven't touched in years way in the back. There were a few more things, that escape me at the moment... I woke up way too early this morning for some unknown reason, and couldn't get back to sleep. I hate that. Now I'm even more exhausted than if I had got up at the insanely early time that I had my alarm set for. Oh well... have nothing going on this weekend, and Monday's a holiday for me. Sleep-in time!!! I truly need to get a haircut this weekend,.. but that's about it for plans on my time. Groovy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 Not a morning person. Never have been. Never will be. I think you know what I'd most probably going to say right now, but hey, I won't this time. Because .. you know .. ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted January 13, 2006 Share Posted January 13, 2006 It's 6:20AM... WHY THE HELL AM I STILL AWAKE!!!?!?!?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 15, 2006 Author Share Posted January 15, 2006 Just watched the Pats throw away a playoff game. Damn, that was some really sloppy playing. The Broncos played great, though. Oh well... can't win them all, I guess... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander 598 Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 It's 1:20 AM CST. I should probably go to bed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nute Gunray Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Patriots lost a playoff game; second best day of 2006 to date. #1 Best Day: #1 USC "The best college football team EVER in the history of football" loses to "overrated" #2 Texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 yea that game was embarrassing to watch. -_- i'm off work today, and it's freezing outside and windy so i'm kinda stuck indoors. -_- watched some of brothers grimm last night, it reminded me of van helsing. gotta finish it today so i can get some more movies... tomorrow i work 10am-5pm...that's going to feel strange. -_- i can finally bench 100 pounds...all the weights that came w/the weight bench i got for christmas 3 years ago...i'm thinking of asking my landlords if i can set up some pullup bars out back. that would be kinda fun. I got my fishing license on friday night so i can test out some fishing lures. i've been bad with sleep...oversleeping...i only need 6 hours and i end up getting like 8-9...not good. I got far in Chronicles of Narnia on Xbox. I'm at the battle of beruna, it's pretty hard. My cousin went back to Tikrit, Iraq last sunday. She's there til august then she's out of the Army. She said it wasn't really for her. I got that Z740 on layaway...i owe about $160 on it, once i get it i'll have to take some pics of where i go hunting, the intersection where my accident was, etc. There are a few movies i'm looking foreward to...Ice Age 2, Pirates of the Carribean 2, and Shrek 3... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Just watched the Pats throw away a playoff game. Damn, that was some really sloppy playing. The Broncos played great, though. Oh well... can't win them all, I guess... Brady was overdue for a playoff loss anyway... But man, did the Broncos ever manhandle them. Biggest hit of the game, though, was Ben Watson just destroying Champ Bailey at the 1-yard-line after that 100 yard interception return. From the angle the live play was shown from, he just came out of nowhere, and I believe my exact words were, "Holy f*ck!" With my grandmother in the next room talking to mom... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 15, 2006 Author Share Posted January 15, 2006 Yeah,.. that looked like an "Ouchie." The weather's been pretty nasty here for the last couple of days, too. I was going to head out to pick up a few supplies today, but my car is encased in a slab of ice at the moment, so I think I'll do laundry today, and head out tomorrow. Fortunately, tomorrow is a holiday where I work, so I have an extra day this weekend to get everything done. Still need to get a haircut... now it looks like I need kitty litter too. That means a trip to the wholesale club, which is always dangerous... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Hmm...football...that's the one where they ride horses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 16, 2006 Author Share Posted January 16, 2006 No... it's the one where they cross-country ski, with a rifle. Fascinating stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 I got some tickets to see Billy Joel when he comes to Washington DC in March. He's always been my favorite, and I'm really looking forward to it. He's supposed to be playing some less-famous songs this time out, to promote his new rarities box set. And he sounded like he was in pretty good voice when I saw him on some talk shows recently. So this should be pretty good. Queen and Paul Rogers are coming the week before that, and I was thinking about hunting down some tickets for that one, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 16, 2006 Author Share Posted January 16, 2006 Very cool! Those are both acts that I've never seen live. I've been getting into a lot of Billy Joel's early stuff a bit more as of late. I hear he puts on a great show. Good luck in getting the Queen tickets! That should be an event!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 As a matter of fact, the only concerts I've ever been to have been Billy Joel (not counting classical). I'm not a big concert guy, and I basically hate going out, but for Billy Joel, it's worth it. I've seen him four times. Two of them were with Elton John, who I also really like. One of them was not a concert, but rather Billy Joel at a college giving a talk, answering some questions, and playing some music. The last time was a regular Billy Joel concert; for my 16th birthday, my parents got me two 5th row seats. I went with my girlfriend, and it was amazing. I wasn't able to get floor seats this time (well, I could have if I was willing to pay hundreds of dollars on eBay, I guess, but whatever). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 16, 2006 Author Share Posted January 16, 2006 Well, my problem these days is that I work so many concerts that it would take a mile-long mule-team to drag me to a concert that I wasn't getting paid to be at. Nothing like spending your day off at work, if you know what I mean. The last concert that I went to see that I wasn't working was Randy Newman, or perhaps it was Ian Anderson... both of which I got in to see for free since they were both playing at the hall where I work. I cant remember the last time I actually purchased tickets for an event... it had to be 199-something... early 199-something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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