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kiltboy 's fault for posting the link to that Storm Large video [NSFW!] -- which I watched. Then I watched it again. Then I watched the 3 "making of the video" videos. Then I watched the video again a few more times. And now I've been stuck singing '8 miles wide' over and over -- i simply can't get it out of my head. Thank goodness I work remotely -- I'm just certain that the corporate drones at work would keel over dead if someone walked through the cube-farm singing the chorus:
♫ ♫
My vagina is 8 miles wide.
Absolutely everyone can come inside.
if you're ever frightened just run and hide.
My vagina is 8 miles wide.
♫ ♫
My vagina is 8 miles wide.
Absolutely everyone can come inside.
if you're ever frightened just run and hide.
My vagina is 8 miles wide.
♫ ♫
- my location is:San Antonio
- my mood is:
loopy - I'm listening to :Storm Large - 8 Miles Wide
Happy Anniversary Oscar!!!!
- my location is:Herndon, VA
Every time I take a page and whittle 50+ lines of old school JavaScript down to 3-10 lines of jQuery-based JavaScript, I can't help but be be amazed.
I've been looking through the old school code and remember when I wote code just like it (testing to see if the browser could support document.all document.getElementById, or document.layers... sometimes checking to see if the DOM even existed -- eek!). It was all so time consuming, messy, and tedious (although I suppose it made for some level of job security).
Thanks to jQuery it's sooooo much simpler now. And even though I work for a company that wants to support all modern browsers as well as the incredibly antiquated IE6 (which still causes me CSS nightmares), at least I no longer have to fight and fuss with all the old school javascript. Little by little, I'm cleaning house. Hopefully, I'll ditch most of the old school code on our external domains by year's end. (our intranet is a different beast, and one I don't want to tackle, since it has had hundreds of authors over the years.)
- my location is:San Antonio
- my mood is:
sleepy
- my location is:San Antonio
- my mood is:
cheerful
For those who are interested -- I posted an update to my (on-going) collection of lyrics to Roll Your Leg Over.
Much thanks to those who send me new funny verses. (not all new verses wind up being funny.)
For those that like to get straight to the bawdy bits, here's a link straight to the lyric file [PDF] itself.
And, just in time for my ol' singing buddy
faithellen 's birthday... (who I sooo miss singing with). Here's some new limericks...
( behind the cut for those with delicate sensibilities... )
- my location is:San Antonio
- my mood is:
busy - I'm listening to :Shiner Song, Chris Rybak
musicbyoscar took lots of photos. Once I'm over the bronchitis, I'll try to post selected photos and some reviews. For now, I'm just too sick to sort through them.- my location is:San Antonio, TX
- my mood is:
sick
We're finally enjoying our MUCH NEEDED vacation. Our flights were blissfully uneventful and relatively on time. Our two days of R&R in Monte Carlo have done us well. Today we board our cruise ship and float around the Mediterranean for a week.
Takaway on Monte Carlo:
Monte Carlo is absolutely lovely. The sun, the water... it's a little slice of paradise. However paradise comes with a price. The cheeseburger is 19.5 Euros, and a coke adds 4 additional Euros. It was more expensive than the seafood lunch with appetizer and a glass of wine.
As Jimmie Buffet sang "warm summer breezes, the French wine and cheeses... put his ambition at bay. Because he liked the quiet and clean country living, and twenty more years slipped away."
Bon Voyage!
- my location is:Monte Carlo
- my mood is:
relaxed
Ahhh.... there's nothing like that extra-personal touch from my old High School Alumni group.
And for friends who think I've fallen off the face of the earth -- I've only fallen into a hole of a project that hasn't allowed me time for lunch, much less time for posting on LJ. Once this project is done, I'll hopefully get back to regular posts.
- my location is:San Antonio
- my mood is: swamped
Favorite? My current home. Being in the right place with the right person makes this the best place I've ever lived.
Least Favorite? A place I rented after college (at 210 Feazell Street, Nacogdoches, TX). I lovingly refer to that period of my life as "when I lived in the hellhole with the Earth Girl." The landlord was so cheap, he refused to repair ancient appliances, broken windows, a broken heater and a leaky heater, and a non-working stove. (At least the broken window was close enough to the leaky heater that we thought we could safely use it and the gas that leaked out would safely get blown out the window in the winter time.) My roommate was a "naturalist" who believed that bathing and shaving were activities we should avoid. (but apparently chain smoking and burning holes in her roommate's sofa were perfectly acceptable activities.)
- my location is:San Antonio
- my mood is:
awake
- my location is:San Antonio
- my mood is:
amused
Bridge may be ice in cold weather. (which would be an interesting transformation to behold)
A billboard blitz alongside I-10 (I think they were just inside Mississippi), promoting a dozen or so upcoming performers at the Beau Rivage:
Somewhere in the middle these three were in a row: Johnny Mathis, Engelbert Humperdinck, Michael Bolton. Each billboard had a giant face shot, and the photo of Michael Bolton was so unflattering, it made him look older than Johnny and Englebert (even though they are 20 years older).
Made me sad to think that I crushed on him for a while back in college. Mind you... he's holding up better than some of my earlier crushes (Exhibit A: Leif).
- my location is:San Antonio
- my mood is:
good
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thebigo built me a 4'x8' bed and helped me fill it. Thank goodness he's sturdy -- it took a thousand pounds of soil and compost to fill the bed. I started some of the seeds off in my aerogarden and then moved them to the planting bed. Add lots of water and sunshine... And this week we harvested the first of our summer squash. We picked and ate a few baby squash before going out of town for the weekend, and picked several more (including an 18" giant zucchini) when we returned on Monday. I looked today, and we have plenty more coming in. I'm so excited.
Here are photos and details for those of you who actually find this sort of thing interesting.
- my location is:San Antonio
- my mood is:
proud
And I'm quickly realizing how fast I can go through an entire day's per diem when my flights get delayed. **sigh**
Should be home in a couple hours. Hopefully this time I can stay there for a while.
- my location is:Chicago O'Hare
Ok, this is a follow up to my post about my refusal to sign my performance review...
This morning my director announced that HR had made some change that would allow him to correct the incorrect gender references in my review. Of course, so far he hasn't been able to get their directions to work --- but supposedly it'll be corrected soon.
- my location is:Vienna, VA
I urge you to volunteer your time or donate food and/or money to a food bank near you. If you don't know where the nearest one is, the Feeding America website has a handy lookup tool located here: http://feedingamerica.org/foodbank-resul
- my location is:San Antonio
- my mood is:
hopeful
The situation:
I'm apparently the only person in my division who hasn't signed their annual employee review from last year, and I'm getting pressured to sign it. Our evaluations are all done electronically, and they are all waiting for me to click a button in the performance review tool.
The problem:
When my director added in his review of my performance, he copied and pasted from one of my peer's reviews, so in several places in my evaluation, there are phrases like "his work" and "his function." Since I'm the only female that reports to my director, he didn't think to modify the "his" to "hers". I have explained several times that I will sign as soon as those sections are updated. He phoned one more time today asking if I could *please* just go ahead and sign it, and I once again replied that I prefer to have my gender correct in my evaluation. He sighs loudly, which I interpret as "why do women have to be so difficult?" and states that he'll try to get assistance from someone in HR.
The kicker is that whoever programmed the system didn't build the review tool in such a way that allows directors to go back into the tool and correct their "typos" once the review moves up the chain. So, once my director signed it, and then his boss signed it (without apparently noticing the gender errors), neither of them can make any edits (so they say).
I'm normally quite willing to be "one of the guys" when it comes to most issues at work. But I've been with the company for 12 years, working my way up the chain, and have been in the same management position for several years. I feel as though I'm due this level of respect.
So, give me your honest opinion:
- Am I being unreasonable? Should I do as my boss asks, and just sign the evaluation?
- Men, if you were in a similar situation, would you sign an evaluation that referred to you as a woman?
- my location is:San Antonio
- my mood is:
frustrated
Perhaps the artist was making sure the hotel was tall enough to survive if the Riverwalk flooded? I dunno.
- my location is:san antonio
The food was alright -- but the cask-conditioned IPA made the trip to the brewery worthwhile. If you're a hop head or a fan of cask conditioned ales, I highly recommend it.
Today I'm off to hit a couple wineries, before heading into the city to see Tower of Power at Jazz Alley. So far Seattle hsa been confusingly sunny. I thought it always rained here. Oh well, I'm sure I'll see rain before I heade back home.
- my location is:Seattle
- my mood is:
thirsty
The next couple days should be a blast!!
- my location is:San Antonio
- my mood is:
excited
(Special thanks to Angie from Copa Wine Bar for sending me the bacony-goodness link! She understands my addition.)
- my location is:San Antonio
- my mood is: giddy
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