Actually, according to my LJ calender, we're two days early. Although I'm all for birthday weeks.
IJS...
Does anybody mind if I pass out?
Willow ,'Beneath You'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Barb - Aug 27, 2008 5:27:28 am PDT #5618 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”
lisah - Aug 27, 2008 5:46:40 am PDT #5619 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
Hey! Thanks for all the birthday wishes you guys! I took off yesterday because I hate the idea of working on my birthday (since, when I was a kid, we never started school until after Labor Day). I took the boyfriend up to DE to show him my old stomping grounds. We had lunch at the Charcoal Pit where we used to hang out (until we got kicked out) in high school and took him to Old New Castle where I lived until I was 11. Fun but a little unsettling in the way visiting the past can be.
Today I am very tired.
Theodosia - Aug 27, 2008 5:56:12 am PDT #5620 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
When I worked at Lotus, we each got our birthday off as a personal holiday.
Unfortunately, my birthday is the day after Christmas, which we inevitably got off anyway. Just one more example of the Incredible Suckiness Of That Birthdate.
Trudy Booth - Aug 27, 2008 6:01:23 am PDT #5621 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
So, we're keeping tumbling? Should Orienteering be part of the survival Olympics? Or maybe something like rally (in car racing)? Dog sledding?
Orienteering deffinately. And auto repair.
tommyrot - Aug 27, 2008 6:01:42 am PDT #5622 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
When I worked at Lotus, we each got our birthday off as a personal holiday.
I knew a woman who always took off the day after her birthday, so she could go out on her birthday and get trashed.
Companies need to have "hangover days" in addition to personal and sick days....
amych - Aug 27, 2008 6:08:47 am PDT #5623 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
When I worked at Lotus, we each got our birthday off as a personal holiday.
Weird. I mean, it's great to get the birthday holiday (def. not true at all places), but most places I've seen that have it let you take your birthday or some other day within the month. After all, even those of us who don't have Christmas birthdays have them on weekends on a pretty regular basis...
Gudanov - Aug 27, 2008 6:09:06 am PDT #5624 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
And auto repair.
They may not be competitive enough, the Italians and British would dominate.
sumi - Aug 27, 2008 6:11:10 am PDT #5625 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
We could have a "dead reckoning" contest in sailing.
Jesse - Aug 27, 2008 6:16:45 am PDT #5626 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Unfortunately, my birthday is the day after Christmas, which we inevitably got off anyway. Just one more example of the Incredible Suckiness Of That Birthdate.
It's so funny -- I think of it as Yet Another Benefit to the day! I've never worked on my birthday, and don't ever plan to.
tommyrot - Aug 27, 2008 6:26:16 am PDT #5627 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We could have a "dead reckoning" contest in sailing.
Random bit o' trivia: Some people say it's supposed to be "ded reckoning" (short for "deduced reckoning" or somesuch) but apparently that's a myth (which I just learned upon googling): [link]
What makes deduced reckoning and ded reckoning seem plausible is that dead reckoning doesn’t make sense, even though you might end up dead if you got your sums wrong. Writers are divided on which sense of dead the old-time mariners had in mind. Was it perhaps the idea of being as still as a corpse, so referring your position to a point that’s dead in the water? Or is it something completely or absolutely so, exact or precise, as in dead level, dead wrong, or dead ahead? The OED plumps for the latter.