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monday, monday…la-la…lalalala….

~ Bon Steele ~ 1 Comment

*yawns*

Gah…got _nothing_ done in the house over the weekend. On the plus side, I feel better as my allergies have subsided somewhat. I am so freaking glad that whatever was sporing is apparently done. As are, I am quite sure, most people that live around here. Just recently, my journal (and that of many of my FL) has been like reading the diaries of people in a plague ward:

“…not too bad today, my eyeballs are still in my head. Praying that I don’t sneeze again, as they are likely to shoot out.”
“How in the hell did I get a plauge boil there?”

Ah, well. It was probably funnier in my head.

I am taking Her Girliness to a local kung fu academy tonight. She’s going to participate/watch a class and see if its something that she is interested in. I know that *I* am interested in the adult beginner classes. A friend of mine has been going there for several years now — and they teach her how to use weapons.
I also would like to learn capoeira but there is only one place that teaches it here that I know of — and that’s situated downtown. *bleah* and *blargle* just on the parking aspect of that.

Mission 101 is still going full steam. Today’s task are:

Create a weekly chore schedule for the Girl with allowance amounts attached to it
Organize clothes into Casual, Business, Workout, Sleepies, Club/Fetish/RP and Don’t Wear.
Bag up the “don’t wear” to take to Safe Place.

Today is a….

the Clusterfuck approaches!

~ Bon Steele ~ 12 Comments

I’m sorry, you said what? We’re testing what?

You cannot be serious. Didn’t we decide that there was no further use in testing this? I mean, seriously. I thought we had come to the conclusion that it was a product that had no future. Its only got :::blah blah blah numbers blah blah::: subscribers right now. Why are we even investing this kind of development and testing time?


*Charlie Brown teacher voice, (waah-waah-waaaah waaah, waaah-waah-waah-waaaaaaaaah)*

Ok, so how long do we have to test this incredibly complicated and yet terribly powerless product line?

Three days? THREE days? It takes longer than that to set the goddamn thing up.

Me, before the news

I am the Lords of Static’s bitch.*

~ Bon Steele ~ 39 Comments

I work in a cool, dry environment**. There is (literally) a metric ass-ton of electronics in here. Resting on metal wire shelves. Cords hang everywhere; overhead, across the tile floor, looped around the shelves to try to keep them out of the footpath (ha ha ha).
I often escape the lab to get a cup of coffee. To do this, I must leave via the electro-magnetically-locked door O’Doom. with the metal handle. Generally speaking , I touch the wooden door itself in a vain attempt to try and ground out the ambient energy. It rarely works.
Today I pulled a goddamn six inch arc off the handle. People across the lab heard it pop. This is over the white noise of said metric ass-ton of electronic equipment running, shrieking, hissing, popping, and ringing. I leaped around for a solid 10 seconds doing “jesus fucking balded headed bleeding christ” dance. You know the one. You see it at mosh pits, occasionally.
I am THIS close to removing the handle from that damn door. I am tired of being lit up like an Xmas tree.


* – No, not a death metal band. But, they SHOULD be.
** – 62F in the lab, at all times. The rest of the building is also dry but is ridiciously overheated.