Randomness: the 18th sequel

[Pegazus]

Holy heck! Just had an adventure.

 

So, Sunday. Rather than wait around watching glue dry again, engineering support was waived off. I went shopping for new pants because I managed to bring my house painting pants, which expose things that shouldn’t be exposed. And while looking at the maps, saw a Buc-e-e’s. Oh, hey! Daughter is a fanatic, so I’ll just pop over and get her a Christmas gift from there.

 

MISTAKE.

 

It looks like the place has been open maybe a week. The car wash isn’t built yet. Had to circle the lot just to find parking. But gifts acquired!

MERGED: Looked it up. Nov 21. Less than two weeks open. Yeah, busy. 

[SparrowMarie]

Stayed up way too late last night. Had a panic attack as I was falling asleep. I slept until noon. I feel better for now just very tired.

 

Hoping to get some painting in today but not expecting it'll happen for a couple hours at least. I've been organizing the hobby room to make things easier on me when I start working back up there again. Haven't spent much time up there since April when our cat passed away. I think I'm ready though since I can go up there and not instantly burst into tears when I'm in there. The organizing time has also given me time to re-acclimate some without sitting in there for hours at a time since my body only lets me do so much lifting and bending at time now.

[Green Eyed Monsty]

What @Pegazus can expect when he returns to his regular office:

 

 

GEM

 

 

[Pezler the Polychromatic]

35 minutes ago, Green Eyed Monsty said:

What @Pegazus can expect when he returns to his regular office:

 

 

GEM

 

 

True story: we actually did this to one of our operations managers. He got a few days of vacation when everyone else had to work, and bragged about it a little too much. When he was gone, the rest of us (including other ops managers, supervisors and reps) filled his cubicle office with balloons. When he got back he got a little laugh and cleared them out,  but then he managed to get several more days of vacation the next week while he let the rest of us languish at work. Seeing that he was still bragging about it and didn't learn his lesson, we couldn't rally let that stand. A group of us went back to his office and used aluminum foil to wrap everything there, and I mean EVERYTHING, right down to the last pen and thumbtack. When we walked into work a few of us that weren't on calls rushed to see his reaction, and it was priceless; he was absolutely speechless when he saw it, and the way his jaw dropped meant all the work was worth it. Fortunately he had a very good sense of humour about the whole thing; in fact, he gathered up every piece of foil and made a giant ball of it. The whole thing was at least 18 inches in diameter, and he displayed it proudly on his cabinet after that. One of my best memories of that place.

[Pegazus]

Not worried about getting foiled. Later this evening, we should have five engineers here to watch glue dry. And my manager is flying in tomorrow. That’s half the entire team.  

But there are three of us who have put in 3 or more days of 12+ hours. One day off won’t trigger the aluminum fairy. 

[Mad Jack]

 

   Jack spent a couple hours up on a roof today with a bucket of tar, in 40-degree weather. While it was nice to be outside getting stuff done, I will definitely be feeling it in the morning.  

 

 

 

25 minutes ago, Pezler the Polychromatic said:

True story: we actually did this to one of our operations managers. He got a few days of vacation when everyone else had to work, and bragged about it a little too much. When he was gone, the rest of us (including other ops managers, supervisors and reps) filled his cubicle office with balloons. When he got back he got a little laugh and cleared them out,  but then he managed to get several more days of vacation the next week while he let the rest of us languish at work. Seeing that he was still bragging about it and didn't learn his lesson, we couldn't rally let that stand. A group of us went back to his office and used aluminum foil to wrap everything there, and I mean EVERYTHING, right down to the last pen and thumbtack. When we walked into work a few of us that weren't on calls rushed to see his reaction, and it was priceless; he was absolutely speechless when he saw it, and the way his jaw dropped meant all the work was worth it. Fortunately he had a very good sense of humour about the whole thing; in fact, he gathered up every piece of foil and made a giant ball of it. The whole thing was at least 18 inches in diameter, and he displayed it proudly on his cabinet after that. One of my best memories of that place.

 

   When I worked for the toothpaste company, we used to prank each other every so often.

We had individual lockers, but they were the half-height ones.

My coworker Steve came in one day and opened his locker, which was on the top row, only to have over 150 little individual cortisone packets fall out all over the place... 

 

 

 For the life of him, Steve couldn't figure out how the hell they'd gotten in there - he had a padlock on his locker. He was absolutely mystified,lol - he just stood there saying, "WTF?" over and over again.... It was awesome.

 

Spoiler

 I'd spent almost ten minutes sliding the individual packets through the vent slots in his locker... It was totally worth it. 

 

 

Edited December 4, 2022 by Mad Jack

[Pegazus]

When one is scrolling through restaurants to eat at and are having trouble deciding, by the time the recommendations start listing Shell gas stations, you’ve gone far enough and should simply close the app and try again in 15-30 minutes.

[Green Eyed Monsty]

12 minutes ago, Pegazus said:

When one is scrolling through restaurants to eat at and are having trouble deciding, by the time the recommendations start listing Shell gas stations, you’ve gone far enough and should simply close the app and try again in 15-30 minutes.

Ummm . . . . . you mean pork rinds and beef jerkey or slim jims aren't your idea of a proper entree?

GEM

 

[Chaoswolf]

1 hour ago, Pegazus said:

When one is scrolling through restaurants to eat at and are having trouble deciding, by the time the recommendations start listing Shell gas stations, you’ve gone far enough and should simply close the app and try again in 15-30 minutes.

I think the app is suggesting buying something from the gas station to use as bait. Then, kill, cook, and eat whatever you caught.

Just be careful about that if you're someplace that has bears.

[ejala]

1 hour ago, Chaoswolf said:

Just be careful about that if you're someplace that has bears.

Or toddlers. I hear they'll try to eat anything except food specifically served to them.

[Green Eyed Monsty]

Attention @Pegazus.  Dinner for One:

 

 

 

 

GEM

 

[sumbloke]

2 hours ago, Green Eyed Monsty said:

Attention @Pegazus.  Dinner for One:

 

 

 

 

GEM

 

One, sure. But with the Bud Light, is it a "one" you'd be willing to be?

[Pegazus]

Went with tacos. Weren’t bad, but the sides, chips, and salsa were “off” on flavor. Think that’s a problem being from Colorado/New Mexico. Florida had worse Mexican food. 
 

But now can’t sleep. Have to get up in 6. Have an ear worm. Remembered I was going to look up that specifically for upon waking with one. AskAPysch said OCD mixed with depression. Uh, that’s not helping. But now the eyes are tired again so having another go at sleeping. 

[ShadowRaven]

good luck. Not having much luck sleeping myself tonight. I wish it was just ear-worm related.

[Green Eyed Monsty]

5 hours ago, sumbloke said:

One, sure. But with the Bud Light, is it a "one" you'd be willing to be?

Me?

No.

I prefer something a little more substantial for a beverage. 

With my preference being a stout or porter at the top of the list.

Bud Light is so far down the list a lot of tap water is ahead of it.

GEM