lets not forget

lets not forget the night shot, but still tweaking it... the bright blues and reds in the middle are annoying me

most recent pano

My most recent pano...thought I'd share.  Vancouver, BC:

(click for fullsize.  10741 x 2614)

last minute

Leave it to me to leave my glass project to the last minute.   I've been working on it for weeks, but for some reason, whenever the holidays come around, I always finish at the last possible moment.

Late last night I patina'd and polished my project and sat in it's glory.   It's beautiful.  If the receiver doesn't absolutely crap themselves I'm going to force it out of them.  This one deserves the crap, lol.

Obviously I can't post pics until after Christmas.

I wanted to get a lot more done, get projects done for more people, but it just didn't happen.  Like always, people are going to get I.O.U.'s from me.

In other news, Andrew made a cheesy log and put it in the work kitchen.  It's so good, I can't even tell the obvious jokes.  nom nom nom.

how a dork spends his lunch hours

 

written entry 2

accessorize, bitches!

emailing: my boss is cool

[Boss]:

I realize it’s really late to be putting in a request, but I put a time off request in your office for next Monday.  Didn’t realize it wasn’t already off!

Not sure if your checking email while out today, just thought I’d give you a heads up.

You can always tell me no now and I’ll go rip it up and cry under my desk for an hour so you don’t have to see  :P

Daniel

 

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[Boss Responds]
Sure, you can take next monday off.... as long as you don't have a buzz cut!! ;-)

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[Me]

DAMNIT!  Ok I’ll be here…under my desk, with my tissues.

I might have a labret piercing too… *sobs*

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[Boss]

What is a labret piercing?

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(I email a picture)

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[Boss]

Oh God, never mind.  You can have the day off even if you did get a buzz cut.  :-)

hopped up on fudge

My co-worker, Rachel, is always hopped up on sugar.  See that smile?  That's her "I just had too much sugar!" smile.  It's a pretty constant thing as you can imagine.

She's totally fun to sit next to and is that one person in the office who is always in the know on everything.  I feel so in the know by association.

My favorite is when she's having a problem with a database and starts swearing like a sailor.

Good times.

I like it rough

So the joke around the office now is that I play to hard with Malcolm's sac.

He had loaned me on of those stress balls, which I've been squeezing non-stop.  When he stopped by my desk this morning I showed him that it had a little weak point on the seam.

"Would you be mad if it broke?"  *squeeze squeeze squeeze*
M: "No, just as long as it doesn't get all over me"

of course the evil thought raced through my mind, I grabbed it, aimed it him and squeezed!!  Just when I started laughing at being dumb, it pops and pink ooze starts squirting out of the ball and straight towards Malcolm!!  The look on his face was priceless.

It fell short and hit the big tin foil box (aka the ez bake oven) that sits near my desk.  i was laughing so hard i had to put my head down.

if only it would've actually hit him!  DAMNIT!

so hungry

 

So this morning, I went through the cabinet trying to find food.  I had the campbell's speghetti's style soup..which i killed from lack of hydration.

Then I grabbed cream corn.

Now I sit here staring at my sad can of corn... starving, but not thinking I could stomach that crap.  Why did I think I'd want this?

feeeeewd.

And then, to kick me when I'm down, Malcolm walks over and says "You know we don't have a can opener, right?"

It didn't even occur to me.  I'm so stoo-pid!

I'll just sit here and stab at the can with one of my pens.

bad day

Even when you are having a really bad day...

Someone will still screw you.

 

(thank you, tim!)

nothing like it

I brought a can of spaghetti O's to work for lunch, put it in a bowl and heated it.... and just before I ate it I realized I didn't add water to it.

I ate it anyways.

There is nothing like some noodles mixed with tomato paste in the morning.....mmm mmm *hork*

death...yay

 

Notice how the thought of killing Malcolm makes me grin.

He's lucky he stopped me with that foot.

lolly

car woes, morning surprise

 It's been a mixed morning so far.  I took my car to the shop this morning to have body work done, which is good..  then I sat around waiting for enterprise to come pick me up, which was okay.  Then upon signing everything I find out the car I'm supposed to get isn't even clean yet, so I sit around for a half hour waiting for it, which is not so okay.  Then when I finally get a kia sorento, it's banged up and dirty inside, which was sucky!

I'm debating whether to call the guy at enterprise or just stop being such a snob and deal with a semi dirty car.  The part that gets me is that I paid more for an SUV so they wouldn't stick me in a tiny neon or something again.

When I finally got to work my coworker brings me a gift.  Hello kitty note paper and a multiple color crayon pencil!! WHEEE!   She said the kitty paper had skulls all over it and made her think of me, heheh.

I can't wait till I have to leave someone a note!

New friend, deaf adventure

So last night after work I decided to meet up with a new net friend for coffee.   I've been working so much that it's hard to get out and make any friends... so I jumped on the offer when he mentioned he wanted to do something and had the night open.

I met up with Karl at the nearby sculpture park 20 minutes later.  Who knew getting coffee would turn into dinner, drinks and a night of fun.

11 o'clock hit and he had to run off and grab his partner from work.  It was a great night and I didn't want it to end.  Karl is by far the nicest person I think I've ever met.  I can't wait till we hang again.

 

Today has been dull and riddled with conference calls, setting up my car to be repaired and fixing minor issues on web sites. 

 

The highlight of the day was when I walked down to the lobby a few minutes ago and found 2 very lost deaf people.  They were trying to say something but was very hard to understand.  I signed to them "What are you trying to find?"   Shock spread over the girl's face... "YOU SIGN!" 

She told me they were trying to find a gourmet coffee shop to meet a friend...she pointed at a drawn map, which just showed the general area, but not which shop.  I signed, "There are 2 this way, 1 that way and 1 in that direction."

Dismay again.

"Come, I'll help you."

We got lucky on the second shop.  Not bad.

My good dead for the year is done.   Yup, 1 dead, that's all I do.  Peace out, Karma.

being scary

More and more I'm realizing I'm a big scary dude. I keep getting comments about not wanting to meet me in a dark alley.

For example, just a few minutes I was outside and Mr. Perfect body from accounting walks up to me and tells me "Your the nicest scariest guy I've ever met."

So I come up stairs to my desk and I tell Malcolm that another one is afraid of me... so he asks Shyla if I'm scary. She told me that other than the million earrings, the nose ring, the skulls and the general sense of death that surrounds me... I'm just a big teddy bear.

so I learned

So I learned yesterday that a free lunch, no matter no poor you are, is not worth a 4 hour meeting. 

And then jumping into another meeting right after didn't help either.

Yup, my whole day... in meetings.  It sucked. 

 

I was afraid to look at my calendar this morning in fear of more meetings.   Once I got up the courage to do so I found it completely empty.  YEAH!  woot woot!

bleeding is hot

Argh! Another cut.  I was making really good headway last night on my project until I sliced too many fingers over and all my glass was turning red.  Hehehe.

Took a while for it to stop bleeding and they keep breaking open today.

Bleeding is hot.

Sticky note conversations with myself

written entry

good weekend, crappy Monday

Saturday, I moseyed upstairs for my coffee where I found big cotton balls falling from the sky.  I guess pleading with the heavens for snow can actually work.  It was beautiful outside.  I felt sorry for the Canadians coming down to visit, but otherwise it was pretty.

By Sunday it was already slush and today it was flooding on the way to work.

Short lived but appreciated.

THANK YOU UP THERE... hehehe.

Malcolm is the mother of God