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| 10:14am 09/08/2009 |
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mood:  quixotic
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Not dead, busy as shit, but not dead.
I just haven't been posting on here alot. Emma's 2 and a half... she's huge. And now she won't go to sleep in her bed, and wants to sleep with me and Kat, and she's been doing this for 2 weeks now, and I've been pretty short on sleep lately.
Work-wise things are doing good. I just started a new department, I'm gonna be inspecting tugboats, but it's complicated because these are the boats the coast guard never bothered to inspect before.
I miss gaming. bunch a folks at a table getting crazy ideas and making em work together.
I think I'm gonna break down and get a face book account. Start keeping this journal on there and have it called a blog. Seems that's where everyone else has ended up. |
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| night watch |
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| 08:43pm 17/11/2008 |
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deet dee dee,
night watches, answering phones again, and barely doing crap, again, just like last time. And I am again bored off my ass. It's funny I can get on here and post, but I can't read my friends page. Funny ain't it? |
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| Logging on to WoW |
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| 09:11pm 13/11/2008 |
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mood:  excited
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I've been trying to log onto Wow for almost an hour now, but when I started there were over 700 people in que ahead of me. |
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| 07:36pm 04/11/2008 |
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So, someone in my office had the idea to get us involved in the Mardi Gras Marathon for charity down here, and a bunch of us (including me) have decided to try and train for the 1/2 marathon.
I will die. This could kill me, but I'm sick of getting uptight every 6 months when weigh ins come around about making weight, and I figure a 1/2 marathon every year will help that alot, all the more if I train up to a full marathon by next year, or find another 1/2 marathon in about August so I do 2 a year. |
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| Fan fic |
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| 09:18pm 19/10/2008 |
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mood:  creative
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So, I haven't written anything in a Very Long Time, and I've gotten the idea in my head to write a fanfic for this series of novels that I've been reading since A school, and have told several people about, it's from a series called the Emberverse. It's really funny because I think I remember someone telling me a little bit about it years ago, when the first book had just come out, but I wasn't really interested then.
So, I had this thought for a fan fic, I saw on the author's site ( Here ) a link to a site with fan fic, and ( Here ) a map with area's that probably would have been wiped out, I saw that Philmont would still possibly be there, so that got some juices flowing, and now I'm working on a story. But this time instead of jumping straight into the naritive, with no idea where I'm going, I'm working on the overall history of the area, what happens after the change, I'm trying to develop characters, and I'm just having a little trouble getting started. |
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| New Home sweet home |
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| 02:46pm 05/10/2008 |
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We've moved into a place on the north shore of Lake P, in Slidell still unpacking boxes, we might be doing that for a while sadly. Over all things are going well, but I'm not having any luck finding a car pool yet. I am going to start looking on line, and trying to find one with people outside of the office. |
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| Evacuation plans |
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| 03:41pm 29/08/2008 |
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mood:  busy
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We will be evacuating tomorrow. We're going to leave early and hope to beat some of the traffic. Folk back in Texas we might call, others feel free to call in the afternoon. I will try and post soon after we arrive in TX, assuming we have internet where we are. |
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| The Wyrm will turn |
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| 09:28pm 27/08/2008 |
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mood:  aggravated
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Gustav, I hate thee so.
All the models are sending it right here, and I in my newbishness don't know how soon we can evacuate. I know I can evacuate, as I'm not essential personnel, but it makes me nervous no knowing when. |
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| we have kitties |
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| 09:10pm 16/08/2008 |
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mood:  chipper
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So Laura had been saying since before she came down here that when she moved out of her parent's place. So now that she's here she wanted to go a head and get one. Her and Kat were looking online for people giving away small kittens. We found someone today, went out to get them. They're six weeks old, and when we got there Kat picked out an orange tabby, and Laura picked out a calico. While they were doing that I was looking at some of the other kittens, and there was one, he is a black tabby, that was born with only one eye. I called him Odin, and I had to take him. There was no way I could not, I mean who else would take a one-eyed kitten? |
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| Nights and Days, Days or Nights |
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| 09:23pm 02/08/2008 |
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So, I think I'm going to be working my normal hours again. Finally. Now I can actually sleep, Kat will actually sleep, and things will be better, because things have kinda sucked around here with everybody's schedules being messed up. |
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| freaking night watches |
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| 10:07am 01/08/2008 |
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mood: annoyed
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I think I'm done with the command center crap, when this oil spill happens. Not only do I not get to do clean up related stuff, but now I'm on night watches, I don't get to see Emma for days at a time, and it just sucks, I'm not even doing anything useful, I'm babysitting phones all night long that barely ring. |
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| It ain't so easy in the Big Easy |
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| 08:00pm 25/07/2008 |
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mood: pissed off
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There was an oil spill here in New Orleans on Wednesday morning at 2am. A tank barge was run over by a tanker ship, splitting the barge in half, and dumping 10,000 barrels of #6 oil, which is a heavy industrial fuel that is so thick it has to be heated up before it can be used as fuel. The clean up is on going, and will take an unknown amount of time. The river has been closed to all traffic since then, and we have only now began to allow a very small number of ships to go up and down the river.
My department has had to contact all of our facilities (all 270) with less than half of our department (5 of 13), and we've had to contact these people 5 times in 2 days getting the same info or new minuscule details, and these folks are already pissed at the river being closed, without us taking a huge chunk of their time. And we are getting so pissed with our boss, it's almost ridiculous. |
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| Emma's first big boo-boo |
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| 08:43pm 09/06/2008 |
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mood: grumpy
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Kat and I had to go out to a meeting thing today, and Mom is here to watch Emma. When we get back Mom, Emma, and the dog are outside the dog is loose and mom is carrying Emma, and she's got this big pink mark on her forehead.
Mom was letting Emma run outside on the sidewalk, when she tripped, scrapped her forehead, nose, and lip. It's the biggest boo-boo she's ever had, and I'm trying to not sure be really pissed at mom. |
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| Irony |
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| 10:21pm 06/06/2008 |
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So, the other day at work, we were going out to do an inspection, and one of the guys jokes 'hey lets call the guys and tell them we got a flat.' So, they call, tell the guy in charge of keeping up the cars, 'hey we got a flat, and there's no spare in here.' They keep him going for a few minutes, and he's getting directions to come pick us up, and they're like, 'we're just kidding, we don't have a flat, it's all cool.' We're driving along the levy looking for this place, and we stop to get the file, with the address in it, because for some reason they keep it in the back of the SUV, and we hear this hissing sound, and guess what, we had a flat tire. Then we wondered... we do have a spare right?
We did. Thankfully, but we got on a real road, found a parking lot changed the tire, and decided, we'd done our work for the day, and we didn't want to try driving around on the levy without a spare. |
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| 01:00pm 18/05/2008 |
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Happy late birthday runeenigma!!!
Yesterday was a good day, my party went well, and a good time was had by all. Tomorrow I start my new job, I'm really looking forward to that. |
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| Today sucked |
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| 07:21pm 02/05/2008 |
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mood: grumpy
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Today on watch, Sucked.
I started by offending one of my few friends I have down here. Then aside from some mild ribbing all day long by said friend, which really started to piss me off. After that it was just another day at the desk.
Then 2pm comes around, and all hell breaks loose. We get multiple casualties, in a very short period of time. Multiple for our sub-unit, and one from us. The first one for Baton Rouge, my supervisor got the call on, and skipping our normal procedures, he skips straight to calling Baton Rouge, and getting the guy on duty up there on it. Right after that we get call about an urgent casualty, a grounding at a narrow turn on the river of a tanker loaded with hazardous chemicals. So we shut down the river. For about an hour no traffic was allowed in a 4 mile stretch of the Lower Mississippi River. The tanker got refloated safely and quickly (it took less than an hour) and we reopened the river. Unfortunetly, during that time, we got three more casualties in Baton Rouge's area, so instead of doing the right thing, I did what my supvisor did, and skipped the proper steps, and just called the guy on duty up in B/R. I dumped a whole bunch on the on-coming watch, and I feel guilty about doing a crappy job my last couple hours at work, but I was at the 'fuck-it' point. I take it as a matter of pride that I haven't reached that point often while at this job I'm normally diligent, and everything, but I think I'm done. I've got 2 weeks left, 5 watches, and I'm just having a really hard time caring today. |
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| 03:45pm 28/04/2008 |
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mood: irritated
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So, the Coast Guard decided to tell me today that I am Too Fat. The weight limit for a guy my height is 190, and I weighed in at 194. So now I have to go to medical so they can examine me and decide if I am healthy enough to loose this weight, and then loose said weight. But when I start in facilities, in two weeks I plan on biking to and from work, and that's gonna be three and a half miles each way, and I won't be at a desk all day every day so I'll loose the weight. It'll be really funny if I manage to loose the weight before I go in to medical, which as backed up as they are is possible. |
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