woke up this morning to my alarm radio clock playing 'Mockingbird' by James Taylor and Carly Simon. uggg, its going to be one of those days.
Mine was playing 'Can't Touch This'. I don't even know what kind of day that implies.
The kind of day where you change the station your alarm clock is set to.
It's actually kind of wonderfully surreal to be awoken to completely random Top 40 music. For instance, I never would have guessed that Pitbull at six in the morning was a good way to test the tensile strength of both the alarm clock and the wall opposite the bed.
Not sure how it happened but my alarm got set to this weird station and I awoke to strange calliope/clown music. That lasted about 1 eleventieth/second.
That got a laugh out of me.
I woke up to "I Got You Babe." I feel like I've been waking up to that one day after day after day.
dang... beat me to it.
I woke up to some new age crap. The song was nothing but a series of beeps. Hit the snooze button and 10 minutes later the same damned song was still on.
That deserves a point.
On it. (Or did you take care of it already??
I leave the actual scorekeeping to you.
Definitely one of those British new wave bands.
One of the reasons that we switched to a radio alarm was that I always manage to incorporate the standard alarm squack into whatever dream I might be having. I'll be dreaming of an alarm clock, find one and unplug it, only for the noise to continue. At least dance hits of 2010 forces me to trudge across the room and turn it off.
I've developed the ability to sleep through any alarm of any type. Crying babies and/or 2-year-old shoving their toes into my mouth seem to work pretty well though.
J started tuning into the Winnipeg Top 40 zoo crew for her alarm. It's very effective, but good lord, it doesn't put me in a good mood to start the day. When the first thing I hear is Katy Perry, well, it's not a great start to the day.
Did you get a name? Sounds like something I could dig.
For anyone so inclined, Rochester is taking on Syracuse at 11am on MLBNetwork.
There appears to be at least a couple dozen in attendance. Revere in center, Danny V at third.
The Wings are working hard at playing the Twins' way. 3 GIDPs in six innings, plus they have three hits with RISP and only one run.
I came here to say this, but it shouldn't be surprising. Half this Rochester team was the Twins only a week or two ago.
And the rally is scuttled by a pick off of Tosoni at 1st. It looked like a balk, but it wasn't called.
So the misadventures at my employer continue. After demoting someone who had no business being demoted (30 years of experience and good at the job, but angered the boss's wife by standing up for himself when she was cussing him out for no reason), they've promoted the least qualified person to the position (guess who the boss's wife can push around?). I'm going to start looking hard for a new job.
Sounds like a good plan (yours, not the employer's).
This throat/nausea/leaking from the face thing is really wearing me out, but I can't miss more work. I'll probably end up getting sent home, but there's a weird "Show up no matter how terrible you feel" thing in our store. One of my supervisors got written up because he had to leave to pick up his sick daughter, in fact, and even a single sickness absence without a note somehow merits a writeup. It's pretty ridiculous.
But then everyone gets to eventually share the misery. That has to improve employee bonding, right?
"Burning hatred" is certainly a employee bonding emotion, albeit it not one most companies would try to foster.
It's working wonders at my employer!
It worked for my office for a short while and then our little piece got sold and man did it ever bind us to the buyer. Thank you for taking us off their hands and appreciating us!
It is hilarious how the strange policy constantly puts us in short-staffed situations. Instead of one person missing a day or two, we end up with certain days where it spreads through the place like wildfire and the half of us who make it aren't able to serve nearly all of the customers.
This happens a lot, but nothing is done. Oh well. Maybe it'll strengthen my immune system.
The idea of showing up no matter how sick you are is one of the things I absolutely loathe the most in our society. It's terrible. And I catch myself falling prey to it all the time. I was pretty miserable all last week with a sinus cold, and I was in every day since I had "too much work to do." I really should've been at home, but I wouldn't let myself.
The result was that I am still sick today, instead of getting over it sooner. Blah.
Max Weber anyone?
Levels of "sickness" are largely a personal experience. And that makes it hard to stomach the person who has sniffles that doesn't show up for work every time they blow their nose. That societal pressure isn't homogeneous throughout the country and has been one of the hardest things for us to get used to on the east coast. I'm not going to go too deep, but the expectations depend from where you come.
The double standard is always in play. Boo.
Sounds like the Twins Way.
+1 sore pitching shoulder.
I was amused this morning by the downtown skies full of "spider parachutes", and when I pointed them out to some co-workers here in the HQ, I was met with either disbelief or all-out freaking out. Has no one heard of airborne spider migration before?
I talked to some people, and they said there's no such thing as spiders.
woke up this morning to my alarm radio clock playing 'Mockingbird' by James Taylor and Carly Simon. uggg, its going to be one of those days.
Mine was playing 'Can't Touch This'. I don't even know what kind of day that implies.
The kind of day where you change the station your alarm clock is set to.
It's actually kind of wonderfully surreal to be awoken to completely random Top 40 music. For instance, I never would have guessed that Pitbull at six in the morning was a good way to test the tensile strength of both the alarm clock and the wall opposite the bed.
Not sure how it happened but my alarm got set to this weird station and I awoke to strange calliope/clown music. That lasted about 1 eleventieth/second.
That got a laugh out of me.
I woke up to "I Got You Babe." I feel like I've been waking up to that one day after day after day.
dang... beat me to it.
I woke up to some new age crap. The song was nothing but a series of beeps. Hit the snooze button and 10 minutes later the same damned song was still on.
That deserves a point.
On it. (Or did you take care of it already??
I leave the actual scorekeeping to you.
Definitely one of those British new wave bands.
One of the reasons that we switched to a radio alarm was that I always manage to incorporate the standard alarm squack into whatever dream I might be having. I'll be dreaming of an alarm clock, find one and unplug it, only for the noise to continue. At least dance hits of 2010 forces me to trudge across the room and turn it off.
I've developed the ability to sleep through any alarm of any type. Crying babies and/or 2-year-old shoving their toes into my mouth seem to work pretty well though.
J started tuning into the Winnipeg Top 40 zoo crew for her alarm. It's very effective, but good lord, it doesn't put me in a good mood to start the day. When the first thing I hear is Katy Perry, well, it's not a great start to the day.
Did you get a name? Sounds like something I could dig.
For anyone so inclined, Rochester is taking on Syracuse at 11am on MLBNetwork.
There appears to be at least a couple dozen in attendance. Revere in center, Danny V at third.
The Wings are working hard at playing the Twins' way. 3 GIDPs in six innings, plus they have three hits with RISP and only one run.
I came here to say this, but it shouldn't be surprising. Half this Rochester team was the Twins only a week or two ago.
And the rally is scuttled by a pick off of Tosoni at 1st. It looked like a balk, but it wasn't called.
So the misadventures at my employer continue. After demoting someone who had no business being demoted (30 years of experience and good at the job, but angered the boss's wife by standing up for himself when she was cussing him out for no reason), they've promoted the least qualified person to the position (guess who the boss's wife can push around?). I'm going to start looking hard for a new job.
Sounds like a good plan (yours, not the employer's).
This throat/nausea/leaking from the face thing is really wearing me out, but I can't miss more work. I'll probably end up getting sent home, but there's a weird "Show up no matter how terrible you feel" thing in our store. One of my supervisors got written up because he had to leave to pick up his sick daughter, in fact, and even a single sickness absence without a note somehow merits a writeup. It's pretty ridiculous.
But then everyone gets to eventually share the misery. That has to improve employee bonding, right?
"Burning hatred" is certainly a employee bonding emotion, albeit it not one most companies would try to foster.
It's working wonders at my employer!
It worked for my office for a short while and then our little piece got sold and man did it ever bind us to the buyer. Thank you for taking us off their hands and appreciating us!
It is hilarious how the strange policy constantly puts us in short-staffed situations. Instead of one person missing a day or two, we end up with certain days where it spreads through the place like wildfire and the half of us who make it aren't able to serve nearly all of the customers.
This happens a lot, but nothing is done. Oh well. Maybe it'll strengthen my immune system.
The idea of showing up no matter how sick you are is one of the things I absolutely loathe the most in our society. It's terrible. And I catch myself falling prey to it all the time. I was pretty miserable all last week with a sinus cold, and I was in every day since I had "too much work to do." I really should've been at home, but I wouldn't let myself.
The result was that I am still sick today, instead of getting over it sooner. Blah.
Max Weber anyone?
Levels of "sickness" are largely a personal experience. And that makes it hard to stomach the person who has sniffles that doesn't show up for work every time they blow their nose. That societal pressure isn't homogeneous throughout the country and has been one of the hardest things for us to get used to on the east coast. I'm not going to go too deep, but the expectations depend from where you come.
The double standard is always in play. Boo.
Sounds like the Twins Way.
+1 sore pitching shoulder.
I was amused this morning by the downtown skies full of "spider parachutes", and when I pointed them out to some co-workers here in the HQ, I was met with either disbelief or all-out freaking out. Has no one heard of airborne spider migration before?
I talked to some people, and they said there's no such thing as spiders.
Spiders are from Mars.
What, has no one watched or read Charlotte's Web?
That was my thought.
exactly.
I don't like spiders. Or snakes.
Thank you, Jim Stafford.
Link
Morneau taking BP today.
ii's son arrested on sexual assault charge.
They finally called a moving screen on KG. Wow.
I'm really excited about OKC/Lakers, you guys.
uh, wow.
httpv://youtu.be/EL_g0tyaIeE
So, who made a backup of my PC so they could blackmail me from home?
OKC running LA out of the gym. Love it!
I was just coming over to post some variation on those words. Even Matt Capps couldn't blow this lead.
And now I'm thinking of Capps huffing and puffing as he runs down the court, and it makes me smile.
And I'll post this here (rather than the gamelog) so Capps doesn't try to eat it.
That. Is. Awesome.
If I wake up to a Lakers win I am going to be ticked.