Quel Excitement!
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bunchofgrapesThis is another one of those shotgun posts. Work has been fairly stressful lately so I haven't had the energy to be very sociable.
Tiger Woods is dead to me for this comment. He really wasn't all that alive to me but he blew whatever chance he had. Ass.
And FWIW, I have never watched golf. I might though if Tiger plays full contact golf and takes a golf ball to the face, then plays 54 holes and then another 54 holes after that with a hastily stitched cut and a broken nose. You know, sort of like how the Pens' Ryan Malone took a puck to the face, went in for stitches and came back out to play all of the game, including the 3 OT's. Btw, congrats to the Red Wings! It was a great cup final.
Work has been stressful for many reasons but namely because my VP just "retired" (the quotes mean his retirement was encouraged) and instead of naming a new VP, we are reporting to another VP until a bigger announcement regarding a major reorg can be made. I've been through all this before. We reorg at least once every 18 months. But this time it's a little more uncertain because we have a new sector president and no one has any idea how she wants to reorg us.
The worst part is that because I'm in management, I have to tow the company line and that means sometimes I have to tell people something I don't actually believe.
My boss and I took a co-worker, Jim, to lunch at PF Chang's today. Like VP Jim, this Jim is also retiring. When we got there around noon, it was cloudy but not yet raining. Around 3pm (yes, it was a long lunch--a benny of going out with the boss) boss went to the restroom and I happened to notice that the tree out in the mall parking lot was practically horizontal. Jim noticed that you couldn't see the buildings across the street. It was a major monsoon. A couple of minutes later, boss lady came back from the restroom talking on her cell. Her daughter had been trying to call and boss lady didn't hear the phone until she got to the restroom. PF Chang's is very, very loud. Anyway, boss lady's daughter was home from school and freaking out because there was a tornado watch. I grew up in Oklahoma and have seen more than a few tornadoes so I was explaining a "watch" to boss lady and boss lady was relaying message to her daughter. Daughter was still freaking out so boss lady headed home and Jim and I headed back to the office. When we got to the parking garage, it was immediately obvious that the power was out. We headed for the main building and sure enough, it was dark. Then we headed over to our building (it's two buildings in an L-shape but the main building has a nice enclosed walkway while our building does not) and by the time we got to the stairs, the power had come back on. So we went up to our floor and what do we see? Everyone milling around the interior hallway. Apparently, there was a "rotation" sighted nearby and security had announced that everyone needed to move away from the windows and to the interior part of the building. About a half hour later, they gave the all clear. Wow, pretty exciting stuff for Tyson's Corner.
And yeah, the drive home was an adventure. Just about every other intersection had a light out and of course that means people adhere to kamikaze driving. The Toll road was moving pretty well until I got to Reston and the monsoon hit. Then it was a crawl as visibility went to almost zero. Holy shit! I just saw on the news that there was a funnel cloud less than a mile from my house. On my drive home I saw a wall cloud and that was scary enough, even if it was in the opposite direction of my house. Knowing there was a funnel cloud so close to home? Frak!
I was supposed to get a new roof Friday but because of all this rain, they postponed it until next Tuesday. It's going to tear up my yard and my willow tree, and freak out the cats so I really wish they were doing it Friday because I want to just get the damn thing over with. It's actually stressing me out more than all the work shit.
For the second year in a row, PG participated in the Cpl William A. Paolini Sr. Memorial Motorcycle Ride & Blessing in Mashpee, MA. Dude plays hockey and rides motorcycles and looks fine in jeans. Could he possibly be any hotter?
Brass really needs to ride a Harley. Maybe that'll be how he exits Vegas: on a Harley with Annie holding on tight.
This one is for my best friend,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
givengo, who thinks he has a really cute butt. She's right of course.
Tiger Woods is dead to me for this comment. He really wasn't all that alive to me but he blew whatever chance he had. Ass.
And FWIW, I have never watched golf. I might though if Tiger plays full contact golf and takes a golf ball to the face, then plays 54 holes and then another 54 holes after that with a hastily stitched cut and a broken nose. You know, sort of like how the Pens' Ryan Malone took a puck to the face, went in for stitches and came back out to play all of the game, including the 3 OT's. Btw, congrats to the Red Wings! It was a great cup final.
Work has been stressful for many reasons but namely because my VP just "retired" (the quotes mean his retirement was encouraged) and instead of naming a new VP, we are reporting to another VP until a bigger announcement regarding a major reorg can be made. I've been through all this before. We reorg at least once every 18 months. But this time it's a little more uncertain because we have a new sector president and no one has any idea how she wants to reorg us.
The worst part is that because I'm in management, I have to tow the company line and that means sometimes I have to tell people something I don't actually believe.
My boss and I took a co-worker, Jim, to lunch at PF Chang's today. Like VP Jim, this Jim is also retiring. When we got there around noon, it was cloudy but not yet raining. Around 3pm (yes, it was a long lunch--a benny of going out with the boss) boss went to the restroom and I happened to notice that the tree out in the mall parking lot was practically horizontal. Jim noticed that you couldn't see the buildings across the street. It was a major monsoon. A couple of minutes later, boss lady came back from the restroom talking on her cell. Her daughter had been trying to call and boss lady didn't hear the phone until she got to the restroom. PF Chang's is very, very loud. Anyway, boss lady's daughter was home from school and freaking out because there was a tornado watch. I grew up in Oklahoma and have seen more than a few tornadoes so I was explaining a "watch" to boss lady and boss lady was relaying message to her daughter. Daughter was still freaking out so boss lady headed home and Jim and I headed back to the office. When we got to the parking garage, it was immediately obvious that the power was out. We headed for the main building and sure enough, it was dark. Then we headed over to our building (it's two buildings in an L-shape but the main building has a nice enclosed walkway while our building does not) and by the time we got to the stairs, the power had come back on. So we went up to our floor and what do we see? Everyone milling around the interior hallway. Apparently, there was a "rotation" sighted nearby and security had announced that everyone needed to move away from the windows and to the interior part of the building. About a half hour later, they gave the all clear. Wow, pretty exciting stuff for Tyson's Corner.
And yeah, the drive home was an adventure. Just about every other intersection had a light out and of course that means people adhere to kamikaze driving. The Toll road was moving pretty well until I got to Reston and the monsoon hit. Then it was a crawl as visibility went to almost zero. Holy shit! I just saw on the news that there was a funnel cloud less than a mile from my house. On my drive home I saw a wall cloud and that was scary enough, even if it was in the opposite direction of my house. Knowing there was a funnel cloud so close to home? Frak!
I was supposed to get a new roof Friday but because of all this rain, they postponed it until next Tuesday. It's going to tear up my yard and my willow tree, and freak out the cats so I really wish they were doing it Friday because I want to just get the damn thing over with. It's actually stressing me out more than all the work shit.
For the second year in a row, PG participated in the Cpl William A. Paolini Sr. Memorial Motorcycle Ride & Blessing in Mashpee, MA. Dude plays hockey and rides motorcycles and looks fine in jeans. Could he possibly be any hotter?
Brass really needs to ride a Harley. Maybe that'll be how he exits Vegas: on a Harley with Annie holding on tight.
This one is for my best friend,
givengo, who thinks he has a really cute butt. She's right of course.
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Date: 2008-06-07 10:34 pm (UTC)And PF Changs....yummmmmm.
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Date: 2008-06-09 04:45 am (UTC)I haven't been to PF Changs in such a long time. I forgot how much I like it.
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Date: 2008-06-10 02:11 am (UTC)I started the internship at NARA and on Wednesday they used the loud speaker to tell us all to get away from all the windows.
Well, I work in the basement...no windows...in the film lab. We all just kept working. We figured we were safe.
My supervisor informed me that in the 5 years she had been working there they had never used the loud speakers. Go me in my first week I guess.
Oh, and PF Chang's is loud, but soooo gooood. :)