Good Tuesday Morning, Everyone!

[Clintmax]

:donut::hi:
How are you today? I hope all you Nighthawks have had a great night! We're on the countdown now to New Years Day and the year 2006, can you believe it!? 5 days remain in 2005 so if there are things you wanted to accomplish this year, you'd better "get on the ball"!

I was supposed to be off work today, but my boss changed my day off this week to Saturday instead. :grr: I am tired of not having a day off. There are things I need to get done (like laundry) that I can only do when I'm off. I need a break from the store and all the customers. Now, I have to wait some more, and I don't understand why she did it. I'm beginning to think I need to change jobs where the schedules don't change once they are made and posted. I mean, I was looking forward to being off today, Dammit! OK...:rant:

[KitchenWitch]

1. good morning Clintmax

Sorry to hear about your boss' stupidity.

I am currently having computer problems...hopefully I will be able to repair them, and be up and running.

[billyskank]

2. Hey KitchenWitch!

:hug: :loveya:

[KitchenWitch]

7. Hi billyskank!

:loveya:

[Clintmax]

4. Morning, Miss Kitchen!

:hi::hug:
Computer problems are just as bad as anything. What's it doing?

[KitchenWitch]

5. Malware attack

seems to have corrupted my Windows installation.

[Clintmax]

10. Oh, shit!

:scared:
THAT'S not good! If so, you MAY have to reinstall windows...I hope you have backups of all your programs and files. I'm SO sorry, Miss Kitchen! I wish I could help you with it.

[KitchenWitch]

11. I have backups of most of my stuff.

Some of it "disappeared" during the spyware sweep and remove...:grr: but I believe I have the installers for everything I need to put back on.

[Clintmax]

14. That's good...

the only bad thing is now you have to re-do everything which can take FOREVER. I don't envy you THAT job, my dear. Have you had an expert check it out to see if it can be repaired, or are you just going to go ahead and re-install windows?

[KitchenWitch]

20. I am pretty computer handy

I will likely go it alone.

I think I can still run Ghost so I can back most everything up to my portable hard drive!

[Clintmax]

23. Oh, good.

I'm pretty computer savvy too, so I'd probably do the same thing. Good luck with it, Miss Kitchen! I hope it all turns out all right. :hug:

[billyskank]

34. You go way beyond handy

You are far beyond the average computer user. For one thing, you have backups! Wow. :wow:

:thumbsup:

[Clintmax]

37. LOL! That's what I was thinking, Billy.

I don't have backups either. :shrug: The thing is....I know better.

[Jamastiene]

16. Noooooooooooo. I wish that had not happened.

I've missed you tonight. :hug:

Is there anything I can do to help you get rid of the malware?

[KitchenWitch]

21. Wish you could

I would like to do "very special things" to the programmers who make this stuff.

:nuke:

Think coarse grit sand paper in the nether regions.

[Jamastiene]

27. You are not alone there.

I once had some spyware infect my computer. I would delete the files that kept propogating themselves on my computer and slowing it down. I was using Adaware to get rid of the offending files named optimizer.exe and some other oddly named file in my c drive that ended in exe as well. It kept popping up saying the same one was back there when I hadn't even been online. Finally, I went online and read about that certain type of spyware and the instructions for getting rid of it manually. I ended up having to reboot into DOS and manually maneuver my way around and delete the SVC folder in Program files and the funky exe file in my c drive to get rid of that thing. Even after doing that I had to run adaware again to get rid of the files those files created. Once I did all that, I was clean again until Ezula got me. That was last year sometime. Thankfully, I haven't had on of those since I got the new computer. I haven't a clue how to boot to DOS using WindowsXP. :shrug:

[Clintmax]

30. I think you have to restart your computer...

and when it begins the restart process, you start clicking F8 (or whichever "F" key your owners manual says to press) and then select the option that comes up that says "start with command prompt" or something like that. I've not had to do it, so I'm only telling you what I've seen when I had to get into safe mode for one reason or another.

[Jamastiene]

38. Thanks, I have heard so much about the move away from

DOS in upcoming years. That is what they say anyhow. I was afraid there would be no way to get to DOS if I need to. I am okay if I can get to DOS after a major malfunction with the ol' Windows (insert latest model here).

[Clintmax]

42. That's good.

Like I said, I've never had to get into it with WinXP, so I surely wish you luck.

[billyskank]

3. Hi Clint

:hi:

Your boss sucks. :grr:

[Clintmax]

6. Hello, Billy!

:hi:
Yeah, sometimes she does. I see you're getting some snow...is it still coming down?

[billyskank]

9. No, it stopped

The sky is clearing now. :)

[Clintmax]

12. OK, that's good.

When I lived in Missouri, it would snow like 26 inches, the schools would close, and we'd be outside playing in it all day! You can make some killer snow forts when you have that much snow on the ground. :rofl:

[NMMNG]

8. Good morning Clint!

That's one thing I definitely don't miss about retail (among other things) is that revolving schedule! :puke: What I have now is set in stone, pretty much.


As for my night it was one big party, at least in my brain, until I stepped into GD and read some of the depressing stuff there. That will teach me! :scared:

[Clintmax]

13. Morning, Miss Buffy!

:hi::hug:
Yes, it can get to you in there. I lurk around quite a bit too in GD, and they really go at it sometimes don't they? What are they going on about today?

[NMMNG]

15. The posters are not the problem this time

There's just a list of horrid quotes by right wingers. Stuff that literally made my stomach turn--vile, hateful quotes from so-called "compassionate conservatives" that makes me want to hide away from the world.

[Clintmax]

17. Yes, I can understand.

Every time I see stuff like that, I just get madder and madder at the conservatives. How someone can hold so much hate in their hearts is beyond me. :shrug:

[NMMNG]

25. I don't get it either

But it's obvious that their hearts can't hold it all in, because they do all they can to spread it around.

[Clintmax]

28. Yeah, no doubt.

They like to spread it around. But I for one, am NOT taking any from them.

[NMMNG]

31. Same here

While I get hurt and ill at their hatred, ultimately it makes me want to give them this .

[Clintmax]

33. LOL! That or worse!

A good swift kick in the jimmy might help too! :rofl: On second thought, probably not. :rofl:

[NMMNG]

36. You assume they have balls?

You are far kinder than I am. ;-)

[Clintmax]

39. LOL!

Well you know...:rofl:

[Jamastiene]

18. Good morning. n/t

[Clintmax]

19. Hello, Jama!

:hi:
Are you doing OK today?

[Jamastiene]

35. Dreading today in a way. (long rant)

I have been wanting to get my little shed/outbuilding built, but after being off from school for two weeks, I am on a nightowl schedule. It's a long story, but the building wasn't my idea. I would want a bigger one if I had my sayso. I don't have my sayso though.

My stepdad called me out of the blue last winter talking about bringing a bunch of untreated wood and piling it up in my yard to build a "shed." It's only 6 x 8 or something like that. Anyhow, my stepdad was all gung-ho this past spring to build it when my gallbladder was bothering me so bad. He stopped working on it completely after about 2 days and left the untreated wood on the ground to attract termites and rot all this time.

All of a sudden this past Sunday, he mentions "his investment" and wanting to finish it. I seem to remember paying for more wood to build the thing too. I dunno. He's sort of pretentious that way, "his" this and "his" that when this is my place, not his. My stepdad said he would be over today at 9:00 am. Neither of us likes cold weather. We both get incredibly grumpy during this time of the year when it's cold outside. It's going to be cold today. I don't know why all of a sudden now he cares about it. It was his idea to build it then he left me with all this rotting wood all over the yard for this long. I fumed for the longest time. Now, he's doing that "his" thing again with my place. He hasn't paid the bills here. It's not "his."

I guess I shouldn't rant too much, if and I mean a big "if" we finish this thing and get the rotting termite infested wood away from the place. That would be nice, but I wish he would have given me a little longer heads up about it and maybe quit deciding things for me instead of letting me decide. It irritates me.

Otherwise, I'm fine and dandy. DU seems a bit slow but I did get here late tonight, so I can't complain really. I got to read a bunch of great stuff on here tonight.

Sorry about the long rant, but I had to get it off my chest. It's good to see your morning thread too. I always know people are starting to wake up when I see your morning thread. I hear less echoes around here when I say "Hello, is anybody out there?"

[Clintmax]

41. It's OK...you rant whenever you need to!

I don't usually rant at all, but I needed to get my frustration out about the freakin schedule. I'm sorry for all the trouble you've had with that little "project". I've worked for a pest control company in the past I can tell you that you need to call a termite company to come out and treat the entire area (including the house), or the termites WILL make their way TO your house and then you'll be in a world of shit. If they get in, you're going to have to have costly repairs done.

[Jamastiene]

49. I did do some industrial strength spraying around the place,

but something tells me they'll be around anyhow. I don't have the money to jump into these costly projects without planning and saving first. That's part of the reason I am miffed. I would have liked to have been able to save up some money and do things the right way and to decide when to start the project. It sure wouldn't be during the winter months.

Yeah, I hated the schedules I got when I was at the evil Wallyworld years ago. Such a supposedly Christian place making people work on Sundays. Blasphemers that they are, :evilgrin: I don't like working on Sundays or Saturdays if I can help it. I'm in school now, so that's pretty cool as far as schedules go, except getting up so early. I am one of those people who usually goes to bed about the time I have to get up for school.

[Clintmax]

52. Termites slow down in the winter...

but they do NOT stop. Spraying won't do anything to them. All they have to do is go deeper and then they'll make their way to the house. Sorry to be such a downer about this whole thing. Planning and saving IS the correct way to do things...I wish more people would be that way.

I've NEVER had a job where I have every weekend off. I would like to know what that's like though.

[Jamastiene]

54. I haven't either, but I have heard of them.

And I want one of those one day. The only one I know of for sure is teaching. I don't have the patience for that though. Who knows? Maybe, we'll both find out what that's like one day. Let's hope.

[Clintmax]

56. Yeah, let's hope.

But I'm not holding my breath. Especially working in retail. We need to go into business for ourselves, you know it? Maybe have a little shop somewhere and we can be open whenever the hells we want to be open.

[Jamastiene]

63. I'm learning about computers and electronics.

Maybe I could fix small toys and computers. That'd be a great job for me: just tinkering around with toys and computers. I can dream.

[Clintmax]

65. Yes, you can dream!

I want to have a pen/stationary shop. I'd sell and repair fountain pens, top quality papers and inks. THAT would be SO awesome!

[Jamastiene]

90. OMG, I got this paper at Food Lion for school.

It's so smooth to write on that it makes me actually feel like I am wrapped up in a nice comfy blanket. I fell in love with that paper. The only thing I know about it is that it is made in Charlotte, NC and the logo has an apple with a dot carved out in it's side. Good paper. I used to love the uniball micro but can't find any good ones since they changed them. I hated that.

We could open up shops next to each other and I could come over to buy parchment paper one sheet at the time to make a grimoire. I've always wanted to make a journal/grimoire using parchment paper and a leather-like homemade spine. I'm weird. I know, but I can dream.

[NMMNG]

26. Hey GF

[Jamastiene]

40. Hey, how are ya?

I've been seeing what you experienced in GD so I went there to read some of that baloney. Compassionate conservatives my ass. They are more like total asshole conservatives from those quotes.

Good to see you too. :hug:

[NMMNG]

43. Pit vipers is what they are

They don't have an ounce of compassion, and probably have to look the word up in the dictionary when they use it in that catch-phrase.

As for me, I'm trying to wind down before I go home and go to bed. Looks like my relief is going to be a bit late though. :mad:

[wildhorses]

22. good morning Clintmax

:hi:sorry about your schedule:hug:

[Clintmax]

24. Morning, WildH!

:hi:
It's OK...I'll make it through...but I'm not happy about it. How are YOU doing today? Anything exciting planned?

[wildhorses]

29. right now I am still at work...pretty busy earlier on but things

have slowed down and now I am just waiting to go home and sleep...which is all the excitement I want on a Tuesday morning. How is Tony?

[Clintmax]

32. Tony is cute as he can be!

He's asleep on my feet right now. He does that all the time. He'll lay down across my feet and go to sleep. It's the cutest damned thing you've ever seen! I LOVE that dog!

[AirmensMom]

44. Good morning, Clintmax!

:donut: :hi: :hug:

I'm sorry you have to work today. That sucks! :cry: Now you'll have to have an extra special day on Saturday. :hug:

[Clintmax]

46. Hello, hello, Miss Airmens!

:hi::hug:
It's damned good to see you this morning! :bounce: It just means that my day off will be nothing but errands, laundry and work work work. :grr:

How have YOU been? I haven't talked to you for a couple days.

[AirmensMom]

50. Hello, hello yourself!

:hug:

It's good to see you, too! But I'm sorry you'll have to spend your day off doing errands and such. Not fun! :(

I'm fine, thanks. The screen is getting fixed today. But the roof cleaning guy went up yesterday to give us an estimate and told us we had a lot of loose/broken tiles ... and this was AFTER we paid someone to fix them! Might as well have tossed the money directly onto the street. harleydad still had to go up and glue down new tiles, which is what we were trying to avoid. Too late to get the money back -- the greedy little bugger cashed our check on Friday. We'll definitely tell the guy who recommended him. Most people won't know how bad it is until the next wind comes up. Just another crooked contractor story from S. FL. :banghead:

[Clintmax]

53. Oh, gods.

THAT sucks! I'd be calling him and telling him he needs to come fix it right! Don't let him get away with shoddy work, Miss Airmens. He owes THAT to you.

[AirmensMom]

59. Well, we did call him.

He won't come back, won't refund, doesn't care who we tell. We've been through that before and taken it to every state agency -- complete waste of time and energy because there's really no mechanism in place to go after these guys. I've had my fill of bad contractors. I wonder what kind of nightmares we'll encounter building the new house.
:scared:

Well, at least it won't be in S. FL., the haven for such crooks.

[Clintmax]

60. Hells bells!

I'm sorry then, my dear. If you've been through it all before then you know. I didn't.:hug: Hopefully you'll have a good general contractor when your house gets underway. I wish you the best in THAT endeaver!

[AirmensMom]

62. Thanks.

:hug:

Hey, I hope your day goes well, in spite of the schedule change. I'm going to get myself dressed so I'm not in my jammies when the screen guys show up. Thanks for listening to my rants.

:hug: :hi:

[Clintmax]

66. No, thank YOU for listening to MINE.

But see that's what friends do for each other. Good times and not so good times, don't you know. :hug:

[newyawker99]

45. Good morning everyone!

:donut: :hi:

[Clintmax]

47. Morning, Miss NewYawker!

:hi::hug:
I hope you're having a fantastic day!

[newyawker99]

69. Hey Mr C!!

The day is good so far. I hope your day
is great!


:hi: :hug:

[Clintmax]

71. I hope so too!

We were busy as hells yesterday, so I expect we will be again. x(

[billyskank]

48. Hey newyawker!

:hi: :bounce:

[newyawker99]

70. Hey Billy!

:hi: :-)

[In_The_Wind]

51. But ~

You'll be off on New years Eve!

I can understand you being upset about your plans for today being canceled!

Fooie on your boss ...

[Clintmax]

55. Hello, Miss Joan!

:hi::hug:
How the hells have you been? Having New Years Eve off is all well and good...but I have to work on Sunday morning, so I can't really DO anything. :grr: She, of course, has the day off.

[In_The_Wind]

61. OMG ~ That Is Terrible!

I was in Block Buster early in the day on Christmas Eve complaining about the store being open the next day.
I complemented Dunkin Donut's for being closed (as I bought an extra flavored latte for the frig).

I'm sorry the store is open.
Businesses did just fine when they were closed for banking holidays!
Of course She Is Off!

[Clintmax]

64. LOL!

There are VERY few days where the store is closed. We CAN'T miss those sales you know. :rofl:

[B Calm]

57. Good morning Clintmax

[Clintmax]

58. Hello, BC!

:hi:
How's every little thing?

[Callalily]

67. Good morning Clint! Good morning all!

Sorry to hear Clint that you have to work today. It's frustrating when plans are thwarted.
I had a great time off, but airports on the 26th suck. Delays, delays, delays, and it seems that everyone has lost that "holiday spirit". Tempers flaring everywhere. I'm glad I'm home. Have to go into work tomorrow and Thursday and then I'm off until next Wednesday. Guess I'm kinda lucky.

Wishing everyone a great Tuesday!

[Clintmax]

68. Heya, SimplyF!

:hi:
I can imagine the airports on the 26th! I'm glad I didn't have to travel on THAT day. You've got a lot of time off forthcoming you lucky devil! I'm all jealous.

[tjwmason]

72. Good afternoon Clint.

:hi:

I know what you mean about shifting your time off, come here for a :hug: you poor dear.

How did work go yesterday? I noticed that shops were open as I went over to my sister's, and thought of you getting pestered by a million folk wanting sale items, making returns &c.

[Clintmax]

73. Hello, TJ!

:hi::hug:
Thank you for the hugs, Man. I was wondering where you were. We were rather busy yesterday, but it was people buying rather than returning thank goodness. We did have a few exchanges, but that's it. I expect the next few days will be equally as busy.

[tjwmason]

74. I was being a lazy git

Yesterday I was up early to start playing with my new toy :D but today the bed won the contest for my attentions (especially as I was up late).

There's a definite 'good busy' and 'bad busy' I hope that you get the former.

We're supposed to be getting very bad snow here (see billy's thread - though note also that as a nation we're hopeless with snow and just about any snow counts as very bad), but it hasn't arrived here yet :( I want to build a snowman damnit.

[Clintmax]

75. The bed competes for my attention sometimes too...

and wins only rarely. I want to be up and around early whenever I can. Snow, I my opinion, is NEVER a good thing. I've seen my fair share of it and don't care to see any more, thank you very much anyway.

If you want to build a snowman...well then, just hope it DOES arrive. If it does and you get to build one, take a picture of it so we can see your handiwork.

[tjwmason]

76. I think that snow as per south east England

and snow as per Missouri are somewhat different.......an inch counts as severe, and results in everwhere grinding to a halt.

I hope I can build a snowman - I'm seeing my little sister later today, and so if it's snowed by then we could build together (along with a tad of snow-ball fighting, but that just has to be done).

[Clintmax]

77. In Missouri

26 inches at a time isn't unheard of. Boy can you make some killer snowmen then!

[tjwmason]

78. I'll bet....

but I have to say that I'm rather glad of England's weather, despite our bitching and moaning, the combination of being on an island with the gulf-stream means that we get perfectly pleasant weather all year round, with nothing too severe except in very rare cases.

[Clintmax]

79. But you get lots of rain don't you?

I seem to remember seeing something about England being a very rainy country. Maybe I'm wrong. :shrug:

[billyskank]

81. It drizzles a lot

But when I went to India last march - boy did they show me what real rain meant! :wow:

[Clintmax]

83. LOL!

Yes, I can imagine. :rofl:

[tjwmason]

85. I think that it's really one of those American myths

Alongside all our cooking's bad, all our teeth are bad, and we all stop for afternoon tea with crumpets and cake at half past four.

I wouldn't say "lots of rain", it does rain fairly frequently - but that's why this is (to quote Blake) 'England's green and pleasant land'. I think that the point is that our rainfall is pretty consistent throughout the year with no major dry patch in summer.

I've just had a quick look on the B.B.C. weather page, in a typical year London gets 593mm of precipitation - Altanta (Ga.) gets 1234mm (I chose Altanta because it was at the beginning of the list due to beginning with A).

[Clintmax]

87. Sounds like an American urban legend.

Thank you for clearing that up, TJ. no telling how much Seattle gets. It NEVER stops raining there. :rofl:

[billyskank]

80. Speaking about that

Do you remember that day in 2004 when it like snowed for TWO WHOLE HOURS and the whole country went mental! It took me three hours to drive home, and I was one of the lucky ones! :crazy:

[Clintmax]

82. Wow.

Two whole hours. You poor people! :rofl:

[billyskank]

84. I know

I mean, whoda thought that when the temperature goes below zero AND it tries to rain, that you get lots of white shit falling from the sky that makes the ground slippy if no fucker has bothered to grit the roads recently! :crazy:

[Clintmax]

88. LOL!

No doubt! :rofl:

[tjwmason]

86. I'm afraid to say that I enjoyed that.

I was on foot, and engaged in much schadenfreude. I know that I'm going to hell for such beastliness....but some people's reactions were classic.

[billyskank]

89. It was fun watching all the BMWs

sliding all over the place with their rear-wheel drive, while I in my cheap-ass Skoda have traction control. :) Unfortunately I still wasn't going anywhere. x(