Are Some Of You On This Forum When You're Supposed To Be Working? (sidewalk, scene)

[kaykay]

Originally Posted by I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA

NO!!!!! Don't do it!!!! It's way too HOT. I hate it here.

It is hot! Of course, Dallas is not quite as hot and humid as Houston (where ILNC is!)

[kawgpz550]

If you want HOT, come here to Bullhead City, Arizona It was 114 today and getting hotter through the week. We look forward to 120's in July and August

sorry MG, a little off topic, but here's a bit of Arizona humor for you all

Ode To Arizona

The Devil wanted a place on earth.
Sort of a summer home.
A place to spend his vacation
Whenever he wanted to roam.

So he picked out Arizona.
A place both wretched and rough.
Here the climate was to his liking
And the cowboys were hardened and tough.

He dried up the streams in the canyons
and ordered no rain to fall:
He dried up the lakes in the valleys,
Then baked and scorched it all.

Then over his barren desert
He transplanted shrubs from Hell.
The cactus, thistle and prickly pear --
The climate suited them well.

Now, the home was much to his liking.
But animal life, he had none:
So he created crawling creatures
That all mankind would shun.

First he made the rattlesnake.
With its forked poisonous tongue:
Taught it to strike and rattle
And how to swallow its young.

Then he made Scorpions and Lizards
And the ugly old Horned Toad.
He placed spiders of every description
Under rocks by the side of the road.

Then he ordered the sun to shine hotter.
Hotter and hotter still.
Until even the cactus wilted
And the old Horned Toad looked ill.

Then he gazed on his earthly kingdom.
As any creator would:
He chuckled a little up his sleeve
And admitted that it was good.

'Twas summer now and Satan lay
By a prickly pear to rest.
The sweat rolled off his wearthy brow.
So he took off his coat and vest.

"By Golly," he finally panted
"I did my job too well.
I'm going back where I came from
Arizona is hotter than Hell!"

[jabogitlu]

Originally Posted by gizmo980

I occasionally post from work, but only when I'm on the reference desk & it's REALLY slow... it would be impossible otherwise, since I literally have kids & adults standing at my desk asking for help. So I'm not about to say "can you hold on for a few minutes while I answer a message board post?" Oh, and I do get a total of 90 minutes of break-time, so you'll sometimes see me here during those.

You also have to keep 2 things in mind - one is that I'm on Pacific Standard Time, so the time-stamp on my posts is off by a few hours. Second, I don't work a standard Monday-Friday 9-5 kind of job... my hours are different every day (either 9-6, 10-7 or 12-9), and I alternate every month between working Saturdays or Mondays, and an occasional Sunday. So if you see me posting on a Monday, chances are it's my day off! Don't worry, I'm not wasting taxpayer's money too often...

Your entire schedule sounds like my best friend's (in Hamilton, Ontario) - she's a library tech and she gets so bored on refdesk that she IMs me! I keep t hreatening to report her to her boss

I work from 4 (a.m.) till 10 or 11 so I have most of the "day" free to post - that is, if I'm not totally unconscious in bed till about 8 p.m.! My commute is nearly an hour so I have to get up at 2:30... sigh.

[Jason_Els]

Yes! Absolutely!

The IT admin came to me the other day with a list of web sites to block because of employees browsing personal sites on company time. I saw CD was on the list. I felt slightly panicked but...

I told him to let it go and he did so because I own the business.

In truth, when you work for yourself it's like working for the toughest boss you've ever had, but for the first time, in a long time, I allowed myself a tiny privilege and felt happy for it.

[Sunnydee]

kawgpz550, loved the poem!

jason_els, there have to be some advantages to being the boss. I think you are entitled to tiny indulgence now and then.

[jeffncandace]

Guilty! I have a job where I am at a desk and behind a computer AND surfing the net all day. So yes, and I'm careful not to let it interfere with work-too much.

[MontanaGuy]

Kawg, I liked your poem about Arizona and I know it's hotter where you live than it is in Phoenix where I live. A couple of years ago when it was over 120 in Bullhead City there were a couple of disc jockeys in Chicago joking about the heat and they called up an ice cream store, I think it was Baskin and Robbins, located in Bullhead City and they asked them to take a scoop of ice cream and let it drop on the hot sidewalk and measure the time it took to melt. As I recall it was just seven seconds.

[Pathwalker]

Originally Posted by dzaenglein

I'm on vacation and enjoying the warm, sunny weather, so each time I walk into the house for something I've been checking my email and CD. This is getting a little bit addictive.

By the way, WCRob, would that be West Chester, Ohio?

Yep - the chamber pot for many people in Cincinnati, because they hate us and think we're all about suburban sprawl and McMansions. Amazing how a brand new highway exit can turn so many people against you. LOL!

Originally Posted by I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA

NO!!!!! Don't do it!!!! It's way too HOT. I hate it here.

Is it humid as well? I don't mind the heat. But ask dzaenglein - the humidity around here is enough to make you wanna slap your momma! More than anything, I'd want want to be able to get out and about to take some great pictures.

Originally Posted by irishmom

Actually it's pretty and cheap to buy a house in Texas...if it weren't so dang hot I would consider it too.

I've heard it's rather cheap down there, which kinda surprises me. I thought somehow it would be more expensive. Is it the same for the whole state? Austin, Dallas, San Antonio?

Originally Posted by Jason_Els

Yes! Absolutely!

The IT admin came to me the other day with a list of web sites to block because of employees browsing personal sites on company time. I saw CD was on the list. I felt slightly panicked but...

I told him to let it go and he did so because I own the business.

In truth, when you work for yourself it's like working for the toughest boss you've ever had, but for the first time, in a long time, I allowed myself a tiny privilege and felt happy for it.

Got any job openings? Can I come work for you? I don't mind getting on the internet during the day! Hmmmm....Warwick is starting to sound like a cool place. Where is it, and what kind of business do you own?

[irishmom]

Originally Posted by WCRob

I've heard it's rather cheap down there, which kinda surprises me. I thought somehow it would be more expensive. Is it the same for the whole state? Austin, Dallas, San Antonio?

My sister-in-law moved just outside of Austin, my in-laws are moving there this summer, and my other evil sister-in-law moved there as well. My mother-in-laws family is from Texas so there's lots of cousins and aunts and uncles there...from what I have heard from them houses range from cheap to inexpensive compared to other parts of the country that have a great job market. Now of course you can find the houses you can't afford there as well...but in Round Rock you can get a very nice 4 bedroom home for around $230...so I think that's cheap considering the job market there is good as well. Austin is a great place to go for IT positions...I don't know as much about Dallas but I'm sure someone will help you out. But it's WAT too hot to consider for me.

[irishmom]

Originally Posted by kawgpz550

If you want HOT, come here to Bullhead City, Arizona It was 114 today and getting hotter through the week. We look forward to 120's in July and August

sorry MG, a little off topic, but here's a bit of Arizona humor for you all

That was great! I've never seen it before.