What are we doing this weekend?
 

I'm stag this weekend, while Pete and the youts are heading North. It'll be mountain biking with the guys this afternoon followed by beer/bbq campfire overnight. Sunday it'll be road ride wtg then home for cracking of books until family return. Wha Doin?

saturday night, fireworks display in downingtown as seen from my friend's roof

Saturday night at midnight, tuning in to radio sycamore ( pm him for an invite, and make sure you already have a real install of yahoo im

canoeing on the brandywine sunday

power drinking and trying to out-obnoxious blue sunday night

recuperating monday as we are actually closed like real businesses.

going to forksbob's housewarming this afternoon, other than that, I dunno.

I suspect that there will be videogames and remaining in airconditioning involved ...

So you just leave the door open at the nuthouse and wrangle them Monday and Tuesday?

You guys both have potentially ugly work schedules, don't you?

i suck, i'll be out trolling for business.

I am very, very lucky.

I have off Monday, too. :) which is a very rare thing, indeed. The hospital knows, though, that I'll pretty much offer to work the religious holidays to have the patriotic ones off.

I got my packs ready because in about 6 hours I'm leaving Belgium for 2 2-weeks-training-camps abroad. Wish me luck, it's gonna be hard and have some good parties this week-end

--Radio Sycamore
--May buy a mixer to make Radio Sycamore easier to do
--Go out to eat tonight and probably Monday
--Cleaning
--Drinking
--Rebuilding Sycamoreland

Friday night - researched Internet broadcasting because I was inspired by Sycamore; discussed Sycamore's need for a mixer to make Radio Sycamore easier to do, watched a couple of movies.

Saturday - ran errands with my kid (I bought a new pocketknife!), now doing some general tidying, birdfeeding and downloading from site recommended by Jinx, later taking a nap, tonight going to see Spiderman at a late show, then listening to Radio Sycamore when I return home (how long is the show, Syc? I won't be home until about 2:00AM CDT).

Sunday - general fucking off, playing video games, screwing around online, working a bit more on my computer audio plans, then BBQ and ritual w/coven, then more movie watching and maybe getting shitfaced.

Monday - sleeping very late, then probably trying to perform useful tasks of some sort, then major fucking off in preparation for having to work the remaining four days of the week with half my normal office staff (one in the nuthouse, one on vacation).

2AM CT? Dude, you're probably gonna miss it. Last time, I ran from midnight-3:30AM ET.

Ah, shit...well, I think I'll try to record it, then. I just registered a version of Total Recorder, and it lets me schedule record times, and then captures *any audio* that runs through my soundcard and writes to a file in a format, bitrate and sample rate of my choosing. Bitchin'!

Please accept my compliments in advance for the outstanding music which I know you are going to be playing!

I'm going out to look for aliens in kneecaps.

Nobody believes me, but this is a serious threat!!!

Hmm...Hung a budweiser flag today with my ex and my relacement. I was proud of myself.Stood atop a tall van on an eight ft. stepladder. Despite my fear of heights.We used a plumbing/fishing (?) tool to feed a line through a long unused flagpole. Not very patriotic, but I guess it represents their values well enough.
I'm also hanging with the lesbos tomorrow for a barbecue party and then Fleetwood Mac monday.

Wow. I suck.
Sunday, the wife is dragging me to some July 4 party hosted by people I don't know.
Monday, I'm marching in a parade. After the usual BBQ, I'm gonna de-frag my hard drive.
Man, I really suck.

Happy thought: 62 days till Auburn and Alabama kick off.

Happy July 4th to all you amurricans out there!:band:

No, thank YOU and we sincerely hope there's no hard feelings about the revolution. We know how you Brits hold grudges. :)

America thanks you for your good will - its nice to know that if or when the entire rest of the planet thinks we suck, Britain will always be at our side - even if we are the emarassing little brother sometimes :-). The feeling is mutual.

that's ok, I don't like tea all that much ... :D

I like tea...

Happy 4th July from me aswell.

Plans change and reform on the fly ...

I'm heading for New Jersey to celebrate a friend's Fourth of July birthday.

Happy Independence Day, all!

It's great to celebrate Independance Day at the American Air Force bases in Britain!!

The largest fireworks shows are generally at RAF Lakenheath, which about 30 minutes from Cambridge. All the surrounding base personnel (6 bases within 90 minutes drive) go to the Heath for hot dogs, hamburgers (Imported American beef), and loads of patriotic stuff like that there.

The fireworks go off about 11pm (since it stays light pretty late) and it's shake the kids awake time, they watch the show and then back to sleep as parents take an hour to get out and then an hour to drive home.

A little slice of America in the Home Country.


Happy Day, ya'll.

I know it's not the weekend, but I took mon, tues, and today off. Last night, Jinx and I went to the Dave Matthews concert(Jinx got drunk and danced a lot), and we're leaving right now to go canoeing. yay!

got some home repairs started/done....havin fun hangin with the wife and kids!

I'll be slaving over hot psychotics all week, and unless some emergency presents itself ... I'll be going to the movies on saturday, probably to see I, Robot, and to a picnic on Sunday.

crusing lac leman on a handmade wooden yacht and praying I don't forget to duck when we tack.

I'm gonna go camp near Glenwood Springs on Saturday, stopping along the way at any place I goddamned well feel like stopping. :) It's been a tough couple weeks and I need some time in my Fortress of Solitude.

Going apt. hunting, right Syc? Probably our usual going out to eat and then relaxing drive thing. Other than that, laundry. :D

--Apartment hunting
--Packing
--Eating
--Smoking crack

Mowing grass. Driving an insane amount of time to mow grass. I hate mowing grass.

Well I left Philly on Thursday to visit Pigeon Forge, TN, with my parents, and then on to their house in NC (where I am now, refusing to read all 6 pages of back Cellar posts). Back to Philly on Saturday.

I'm rumaging through the underwear drawer of Mrs Dallas. :blush:

I see that now you conquered tobacco, you're starting on your weight loss regimen.

Ehh you won't find much she packed it all along :D

- Packing
- Working
- Packing
- Packing
- Working
- Perhaps seeing Farenheit 9/11
And counting the days until Labor Day weekend when I finally move. (oh, and in my spare time...packing)

Damn! :mad:

Admit it. You went to Dollywood didn't you?

Finishing digital artwork, reorganizing/reprogramming a database, Mechwarrior 4 battle, maybe I-Robot...and homework.
NEXT weekend, is Otakon in Baltimore. Woo! :D

Tomorrow is a work day. I will arrive at work at about 8:30 am and leave when our job is done, probably around 7:30 if there are no problems.

I do not get paid extra for this, it is considered part of the job. I do get free food. These weekend system conversions only occur about every 3 months on average.

As lead technician I am considered indispensible on this project so if I do get sick I go in anyway (hasn't happened yet).

My department is pretty good in that if you have a vacation scheduled before you start working on a project and it happens to conflict, and you are not the project or tech lead, your presence is not required.

The good news is that adrenaline means time moves pretty fast and most of our conversions are done out of the home office.

My longest conversion was an onsite install in California. Jet lag topped off with a 23 hour conversion. Four week long trips out and I had maybe 10 total hours outside of work or my hotel room. We did eat at some nice restaurants, if you don't mind having dinner at 9pm.

Anybody who might be available ... some forks people are intending to go to the Saturday (7-24-2004) 1610 hrs showing of I, Robot at United Artists King of Prussia, with intention to gather at Michael's Deli in Valley Forge Shopping Center following ...

No, we went last time we were there ;) so we didn't go back this time. We ended up going to Ober Gatlinburg, and Ripley's Aquarium, and hung out at the swimming pool a lot.

I thought I'd resurrect this old thread rather than starting a new one.

My wife is out of town this weekend (in Bangkok) so I'm planning to do a little hiking, backpacking in to the Mount Evans Wilderness Area (4 or 5 miles, starting at the Cub Creek trail head) Saturday afternoon and hiking back out Sunday morning. I've done plenty of backpacking trips over the years, but never alone.

I wonder if the bears are sleeping yet?

Mmm, I think I may be going for, or at least starting, something of an image shift this weekend. I've decided to (gasp!) get a haircut (but only because mother has said she'd buy me an iPod Touch if i get it cut), possibly to
http://tods2tods.canalblog.com/image...t_1.sized1.jpg or http://www.oneangryfilm.com/djigger%...ark%20west.JPG, or even http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0...1.LZZZZZZZ.jpg if i can pull any of them off, not really sure yet, and this weekend i plan to go shopping for some solid-colour, bright shirts with, i think, a kind of v-neck cut, with some good matching t-shirt undershirts.

Last night (friday night) we had a family dinner at a local restaraunt. That went down well. Today I've been doing some gardening and a few other chores. Tonight we're going to my cousins 40th birthday party. That should be fun. Tomorrow some friends are coming over and we're going to close in a storage room under the house and fit the last couple of doors for the extension. After that BBQ lunch followed by a 10 pin bowling party for a different cousins child. Sunday night I'll prepare myself to go to work on monday while watching Australian Idol (most likely).

I managed to have off of work ALL WEEKEND!

Sooo I'll be here on the cellar. My life is so interesting.

Ibby! be sure to post some photos if you get it cut! :D

Why don't you get your girls together and hit the town or something?

I don't have any girls left, that's why.

What happened to them?

Friday nights are always dead on forums, I've found.

Guh, ah, well...that's a rather long story.

*settles down to listen* A long story eh?


Tell, tell.

On Monday I went back to the docs and got a change in treatment and this one worked, so the eczema flare which kept almost clearing then suddenly getting bad again (up and down for like five weeks or so) has pretty much cleared: which meant this week has ended up as a really productive week, I got loads done (I find it hard to get stuff done when I am flared) and yesterday I had an awesome day...

So, I am rewarding myself today with a total day off *smiles* I lay in til 11am, soaked in a bath, walked my dog in the valley and generally chilled out. No work, no writing leaflets, no emails for officers to find when they get into work on Monday, no visits to any constituents. Nada. Nothing. Glorious.

Made even more delightful by England teams winning in Cricket, Rugby and Football (I watched the football match against Israel, good fun).

Tomorrow morning I'll be out the house at 9:45 to go deliver leaflets in Sowerby Bridge, which will take about an hour, then off to Southowram to deliver some there which will take about an hour and a half.

So, you're a professional litterbug, eh.

Yup:P

The leaflets are newsletters, letting people know what we're up to in their area and inviting them to raise issues with us. They have contact details for their local Councillors and a form to send back to us if they want to discuss anything wth their Councillor. They have local stories (such as the current status of our campaign to tackle fly-tipping). It's one of the standard ways of getting a political message out there. All parties do it.

The funny thing is you can't actually win with people I've found. Sometimes I'll pop a leafletthrough someone's door and they'll come flying out and practically throw it in my face telling me to stop putting shit through their door. By the same token, I lost count of the amount of people who complained, last campaign, that they've never received any leaflets. "We only ever hear from you when you want our vote" they say, "nobody ever leaflets our street".

Most people will just chuck it in the bin with the rest of the junk mail, but enough people read them to make it worthwhile and we get lots of slips sent back with requests to discuss an issue. Quite often people will have a minor problem they're dealing with, or are worried about and it hasn't even occurred to them to talk to their local Councillor: they then get the leaflet and it sort of reminds them we're here and they get in touch. Happens quite a lot. And, as I said, we get complaints if we don;t:P In fact I get more complaints from people who feel they've been left out at vaious times, than from people who don't want a leaflet.

update:
I amazon-ed three shirts
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/...xL._AA280_.jpg), one red, one dark green, and one light pink, and ordered a light blue, gold, and navy undershirt for each respectively, plus a plain white tee that works with any of them, so i think the haircut's gonna wait till i get the shirts.

Last night I went to a small hip hop concert which was very good and then walked around and finally watching Knocked Up with a bunch of friends.

I attended training on Canine Assisted Crisis Intervention, picked up the lease and addenda for the new apt, and went to the supermarket.

The thing with the dogs was fun.

Hopefully I will be able to convince the boss of the value of having a CrisisDog.

CrisisDog

[Scottish] would this be a Great Snarling Beeasty to sick on the Loonies !!! [/Scottish]

Please explain for us mere aussies wolf?

DanaC, is that anything like cow tipping?

It's when you put a fly in the soup to get out of tipping the waiter.