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| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Aug 15 2005, 04:02 PM) | ||||
It fucking is waiting for me. Look at it.  |
Would you be a lamb and stay put for another few hours?
Only for you.
Coming back to the office after a week off.
Also, a case that was supposed to be settled is now going to trial . . . in two weeks.
Also, a case that was supposed to be settled is now going to trial . . . in two weeks.
| QUOTE (Abbylovi @ Aug 15 2005, 04:09 PM) |
| Would you be a lamb and stay put for another few hours? |
Now look what you've done...
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Aug 15 2005, 08:12 PM) |
| Only for you. |
wow- you're like every dinner course rolled into one.
| QUOTE (flyfish @ Aug 15 2005, 07:48 PM) | ||
Oooh, nasty bait-and-switch. Did you ask why they, er, didn't just advertise for a barista? Fly |
They did advertise for a barista, actually, it just wasn't the position I interviewed for. Or expected!
I asked what the deal was and the owner says that he's waiting for some "changes" in the kitchen (i.e., waiting for some people to fire themselves) and that he'd like to have me cross-trained anyway.
After seeing how many people apply for work there each day, I get the feeling I should be "grateful" for having a job in such a "hip" place. At least, that's what one applicant told me.
That said, I do enjoy working at the counter, for the most part. I like to interact with the people even when they are hugely annoying. It is good practice for the future. It's an excuse to wear hip and ironic T-shorts to work. And, I love coffee.
But I just can't help but feel that if I had a penis I would be cooking there right now.
| QUOTE (NeroW @ Aug 15 2005, 01:27 PM) | ||||
They did advertise for a barista, actually, it just wasn't the position I interviewed for. Or expected! I asked what the deal was and the owner says that he's waiting for some "changes" in the kitchen (i.e., waiting for some people to fire themselves) and that he'd like to have me cross-trained anyway. After seeing how many people apply for work there each day, I get the feeling I should be "grateful" for having a job in such a "hip" place. At least, that's what one applicant told me. That said, I do enjoy working at the counter, for the most part. I like to interact with the people even when they are hugely annoying. It is good practice for the future. It's an excuse to wear hip and ironic T-shorts to work. And, I love coffee. But I just can't help but feel that if I had a penis I would be cooking there right now. |
Honey, you don't need no stinking penis. That sucks. I'm sure you can cook the pants right off those boys. Wanna come cook in LA? I 've got few places where you can show what your knives are made for...
People who do crappy fake accents. Gah.
| QUOTE (NeroW @ Aug 15 2005, 09:27 PM) |
But I just can't help but feel that if I had a penis I would be cooking there right now. |
| QUOTE (Tamar G @ Aug 16 2005, 02:09 PM) | ||
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This sounds like a job for The Whizzinator!
| QUOTE (hollywood @ Aug 16 2005, 02:18 PM) | ||||
This sounds like a job for The Whizzinator! |
Ya just gotta love marketing!
not only can you pee in the cup, but your dick can change color.
| QUOTE (winesonoma @ Aug 16 2005, 03:20 PM) |
| your dick can change color. |
That never happened to you before?
Tamar G, no, that dream is still horrible.
| QUOTE (monkeymay @ Aug 15 2005, 09:53 PM) |
| It's an excuse to wear hip and ironic T-shorts to work. |
The builder (subdivision of many homes) agreed to do an upgrade to my master bath...then backed out saying it would delay him...but, they are still doing the same upgrade (to all the bathrooms...not just the master) in the house next door (due at the same time)...lawyer types...do you think I could go for discrimination as the buyer next door is male...or should I just threaten to publicly embarass the builder through the consumer tv reporters 
?
saying it would delay him...but, they are still doing the same upgrade (to all the bathrooms...not just the master) in the house next door (due at the same time)...lawyer types...do you think I could go for discrimination as the buyer next door is male...or should I just threaten to publicly embarass the builder through the consumer tv reporters ?
I think you'd be in a better position if they refused to upgrade your MISTRESS bath...
| QUOTE (NeroW @ Aug 15 2005, 05:27 PM) |
| It's an excuse to wear hip and ironic T-shorts to work. |
T-shorts??? Is that another name for a thong?
| QUOTE (Ron Johnson @ Aug 15 2005, 04:16 PM) |
| Coming back to the office after a week off. Also, a case that was supposed to be settled is now going to trial . . . in two weeks. |
Double bummer.
| QUOTE (NeroW @ Aug 15 2005, 11:58 AM) |
Applied for a job as a line cook at a funky little cafe, and was accepted for said line cook job, very excited. Show up for work on the first day and the owner is like: "Dude, do you think you can work as a barista for a couple months?" My finances are such that I walked mutely to the espresso machine. In 15 years of existence this cafe has never had a female line cook. Should have known I'm not to be the fucking mold-breaker. So now I am a barista. I stare mournfully at the guys in the kitchen all day until they take pity on me and talk to me. They're all sweaty and hyper and vulgar and loud and having the good time that we cooks have. The only thing I use a knife for nowadays is halving oranges to squeeze juice and cutting pineapples into chunks to make a smoothie. Bastards. Would you like room for cream? |
AAAAAIIIIEEEE!
There, Nero.
Did that help?
Poor dear.
It is very annoying when someone calls you and don’t ask you how you are, just wants to be sure he called and told you he is OK and don’t have time to talk. Don’t have time, don’t call.
Black as night out there. Do I have an umbrella? No.
| QUOTE (jinmyo @ Aug 17 2005, 12:25 AM) | ||
AAAAAIIIIEEEE! There, Nero. Did that help? Poor dear. |
Another annoyance is that last night while I was barista-ing, I burned THE PISS out of the palm of my left hand on the espresso machine's steam valve. I keep a dry towel to wipe the valve after I foam milk and then I bleed the valve into the towel to cut down on milk spray. Normally not a problem because the towel is dry.
However, last night we were very busy, there were a lot of people at my station, and someone used my designated dry towel to wipe up a spill. Hence, slightly damp towel, which I did not notice, and after making a soy-vanilla latte
I bled the valve right into the palm of my hand. Superheated steam, pressed right into the flesh.So I was up all night.
That sounds painful. I would like to share the steam-bleeding experience with several people I have dealt with today, from the standard issue officious immigration officer, who contended that there was a significant risk of me abandoning my family on a seven day trip to Spain, leaving them a burden on the European Union, and was initially oblivious to my argument that I could save myself the cost of the tickets, hotel, insurance and fucking visa by simply abandoning them here...
...to the staff of the Munchkin's new school who have changed their minds about which grade she will be entering after she has already had an induction session with the wrong grade's teachers.
Is that espresso machines portable, Nero? Sounds ideal for the job.
...to the staff of the Munchkin's new school who have changed their minds about which grade she will be entering after she has already had an induction session with the wrong grade's teachers.
Is that espresso machines portable, Nero? Sounds ideal for the job.
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Aug 19 2005, 10:06 AM) |
| from the standard issue officious immigration officer, who contended that there was a significant risk of me abandoning my family on a seven day trip to Spain, |
Bureaucracy, there's no stopping it.
I am, once again, sitting huddled at my desk with my hands around a mug of hot tea because I am so BLOODY COLD! (Can I use 'bloody' even though I am not English?)
The thing that really gets me, is that it's not like I don't have enough spare calories to produce sufficiet body heat. I might understand if I weighed 100 pounds and my body needed to conserve every last bit of energy for the really important functions. My internal heat generator just seems to be perpetually on strike.
The thing that really gets me, is that it's not like I don't have enough spare calories to produce sufficiet body heat. I might understand if I weighed 100 pounds and my body needed to conserve every last bit of energy for the really important functions. My internal heat generator just seems to be perpetually on strike.
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Aug 19 2005, 05:06 PM) |
| Is that espresso machines portable, Nero? Sounds ideal for the job. |
Sure. Take it.
| QUOTE (Tamar G @ Aug 19 2005, 01:48 PM) |
| My internal heat generator just seems to be perpetually on strike. |
Check your iron levels lately?
Pesky explosions a block away.
Oh, and I'm fine, thanks, everyone. I know you were all worried to death.
Oh, and I'm fine, thanks, everyone. I know you were all worried to death.
| QUOTE (omnivorette @ Aug 19 2005, 08:38 PM) | ||
Check your iron levels lately? |
no- does that make a difference? Maybe I should start eating lots and lots of liver. Do you think I can get my health insurance to cover foie gras?
| QUOTE (Tamar G @ Aug 19 2005, 06:31 PM) | ||||
no- does that make a difference? Maybe I should start eating lots and lots of liver. Do you think I can get my health insurance to cover foie gras? |
Tamar, have your thyroid checked. Feeling cold all the time is a symptom of hypothyroidism.
| QUOTE (g.johnson @ Aug 19 2005, 07:52 PM) |
| Incompetent science journalism. |
You're too kind.
I would've called it tabloid journalism.
Big trial Monday. Way to ruin a perfectly nice week-end.
| QUOTE (mcj @ Aug 19 2005, 05:56 PM) | ||
You're too kind. I would've called it tabloid journalism. |
I saw "impotent journalism" at first glance.
| QUOTE (tanabutler @ Aug 20 2005, 01:09 AM) | ||||
I saw "impotent journalism" at first glance. |
I thought it was about incontinent science at first.
| QUOTE (Miguel Gierbolini @ Aug 19 2005, 06:02 PM) |
| Big trial Monday. Way to ruin a perfectly nice week-end. |
It'll probably settle.... After you spend the whole weekend prepping.
| QUOTE (joiei @ Aug 19 2005, 09:39 PM) | ||||||
I thought it was about incontinent science at first. |
It's all the same thing, really (useless/crappy).
| QUOTE (Rose @ Aug 19 2005, 11:56 PM) | ||||||
Tamar, have your thyroid checked. Feeling cold all the time is a symptom of hypothyroidism. |
oh great. Being the slight hypochondriac I am, I am now convinced that I am anemic with hypothyroidism and probably have west nile virus. The problem with looking up a disease on the internet is that they list so many possible symptoms that you are bound to have some of them and be utterly convined that you are deathly ill.
symptoms of hypothyroidism:
Fatigue
Weakness
Weight gain or increased difficulty losing weight
Coarse, dry hair
Dry, rough pale skin
Hair loss
Cold intolerance (can't tolerate the cold like those around you)
Muscle cramps and frequent muscle aches
Constipation
Depression
Irritability
Memory loss
Abnormal menstrual cycles
Decreased libido
Just go to your doctor and get your bloodwork done. Could just be a little anemia, could also be nothing - some people are just cold.
| QUOTE (omnivorette @ Aug 20 2005, 10:17 AM) |
| Just go to your doctor and get your bloodwork done. Could just be a little anemia, could also be nothing - some people are just cold. |
Exactly. Best to spend the effort going to get tested rather than on speculation.
Yes- thanks all for your concern. I'm not actually that worried as, all things considered, I am a pretty healthy mid-20 year old. I will get blood work done though, because its time I get various benchmarks made, like cholestorol and the like. I haven't been to a GP in years.
| QUOTE (Tamar G @ Aug 20 2005, 09:20 PM) |
| I haven't been to a GP in years. |
That right there is a reason to get labs done and a general checkup.
It is true that some people just run cold. Bob (who runs so hot that he can press sheets) is always telling me to do something to get my circulation going. Excuse me, even when I walked ten miles a day on a long shift in a restaurant, I had cold feet.
I hope you're okay, and that it's an easy fix, Tamar.
I hope you're okay, and that it's an easy fix, Tamar.
Plants in front of the house needed watering, so I unearthed the hose from under 20 years' worth of husband's junk and hooked it to the faucet in the hallway. Plants duly soaked, I turned off the faucet. Water still gushing. Fiddled with the faucet, to no avail. Inveigled a passing big strong man (who happens to be a friend's brother) to try, in case it was a brute force issue. Water still gushing.
Took a flashlight and went to the basement to find a cutoff valve. Treaded through 30 years' worth of household junk, but only found one possible pipe, and the valve there had no impact on the gush.
Did I mention that I hate the basement? Dark, damp, creepy crawlies, probably a dead body or two.
Finally found some lockjaw pliers and managed to shut off the water.
May leave piled-up junk in front hallway for husband to trip over when he gets home.
Took a flashlight and went to the basement to find a cutoff valve. Treaded through 30 years' worth of household junk, but only found one possible pipe, and the valve there had no impact on the gush.
Did I mention that I hate the basement? Dark, damp, creepy crawlies, probably a dead body or two.
Finally found some lockjaw pliers and managed to shut off the water.
May leave piled-up junk in front hallway for husband to trip over when he gets home.
that reminds me of one of my early plumbing forays in which I took the shower handle off without remembering to cut off the water at the curb - there was this huge force of water hitting the back of the tub while I frantically simultaneously bailed water and called the city, since I couldn't turn the frozen homeowner's cutoff valve after the fact - they had to use the city's main cutoff....
| QUOTE (memesuze @ Aug 21 2005, 10:38 PM) |
| that reminds me of one of my early plumbing forays in which I took the shower handle off without remembering to cut off the water at the curb - there was this huge force of water hitting the back of the tub while I frantically simultaneously bailed water and called the city, since I couldn't turn the frozen homeowner's cutoff valve after the fact - they had to use the city's main cutoff.... |
Plumbing fixtures are notorious for "freezing" in place and ceasing to work after a few years. In some cases, a high acid content in water will erode the rubber washers on the fxtures, too.
It's usually a good idea to replace the washers on shut offs / faucets / toilets every few years as a matter of routine. It's not a hard process for an amateur plumber.
| QUOTE (Rail Paul @ Aug 22 2005, 08:27 AM) | ||
Plumbing fixtures are notorious for "freezing" in place and ceasing to work after a few years. In some cases, a high acid content in water will erode the rubber washers on the fxtures, too. |
A few months ago, I called in a plumber to help fix the leaks on my shower taps. (I actually have 4--2 for the shower and 2 for the tub). These are the originals from 1938. He could not budge one of the taps and since it wasn't leaking, decided to let it be rather than risk major damage.
He also told me "you know, they just don't make them like these anymore."
Carl's Philly Cheesesteak (I had one today) sucks so badly that I am not putting on a food thread. And this is because it is not food.
| QUOTE (omnivorette @ Aug 25 2005, 03:14 PM) |
| Carl's Philly Cheesesteak (I had one today) sucks so badly that I am not putting on a food thread. And this is because it is not food. |
It's been a bad few weeks for cheesesteaks in NY. The Tony Luke's on 9th @ 42nd closed a few weeks ago.
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