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01 March 2006

1/2 day! 1/2 day! w00t! (i really need the time off--it's been ages)

post by: amberglow at: 14:24 | 26 comments

Congrats amberglow. I just signed up for a 5-day training class the week of the 13th. I cannot wait. I'm required to take 3 weeks training a year. Our training classes are administered online, begin at 11am and end around 2:30. Other than those 4ish hours (during which I half pay attention while playing poker online or surfing the web), it's pretty much a nice week-long vacation.

posted by mike9322 01 March | 14:34

enjoy the afternoon, amberglow! :)

posted by chewatadistance 01 March | 14:35

Um, didn't you just get back from France, you lollygagging lollygagger?

posted by deadcowdan 01 March | 14:39

Um, didn't you just get back from France, you lollygagging lollygagger?

LOL

posted by tr33hggr 01 March | 14:43

nope--only Canada (in Jan), dead--that's only 1/2 as good ; >

excellent, mike--what will you learn?

posted by amberglow 01 March | 14:48

Canada > France

posted by King of Prontopia 01 March | 14:55

Hold 'em, mike9322?

You know, for the record, online cribbage usually sucks -- they count points automatically. No muggins!

posted by Hugh Janus 01 March | 14:55

Oh, it's riveting - database replication. I don't even use the product in my current job but after 4 years with three weeks of training per year, I'm having to reach to find topics I'm remotely interested in. Let's just say I'm glad it's not in a classroom where I'd be obligated to pay attention.

posted by mike9322 01 March | 14:57

Ugh, Mike, pay attention when you hit preview. I'm very self-conscious about making other people's threads about me - sorry amberglow! Hugh, yeah, hold'em. Poker has become a nice little side-job for me.

posted by mike9322 01 March | 15:00

CRIBBAGE!

posted by Divine_Wino 01 March | 15:11

Fuckin-A, Wino, cribbage, the worldwide game of winners worldwide. You play? Have we already established that we're both cribheads or something? When are we gonna get together, puff chillum puff puff, and hunt the elusive 29? When am I gonna give you Botchan?

Answers, man, I need answers!

posted by Hugh Janus 01 March | 15:18

Half days are so great. If the weather's OK, I strongly suggest you plop yourself down on a bench and watch the ducks somewhere.

posted by cmonkey 01 March | 15:21

Our weather is gorgeous and springlike today. I drove to work with the car windows 1/4 rolled down. And the next naked man who walks by is going to get GRABBED!

posted by matildaben 01 March | 15:33

*puts pants back on*

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 01 March | 15:35

*removes pants*

posted by mike9322 01 March | 15:37

I'm doing half days this week, too. Except I had to get bronchitis to earn mine. Ugh.

Should I throw up now, or wait till I get home?

posted by TrishaLynn 01 March | 15:38

MUST BE NICE. Can I have a half day too?

posted by sisterhavana 01 March | 15:43

it's cold here but sunny...i'm still fighting a bug and sinus thing, so am laying in front of the tv and computer, mostly : >

posted by amberglow 01 March | 15:56

(also, i might have been conceived today)

mike, i'd take anything if it'd get me away from the same old, same old, no? and some of it should be worth something at some point.

posted by amberglow 01 March | 16:03

*removes pants, heads to seattle*

posted by cmonkey 01 March | 16:05

Still Trisha? Yikes.

posted by danostuporstar 01 March | 16:09

Hugh it's just natural that two such saucy beard men such as ourselves would play the cribbage (I spent a long weed soaked semester making a cribbage board, it looked nuts). We should totally get up soon. I am struggling to overcome a serious excess of work and poverty, but I see a gap in the clouds coming in the next two weeks.

posted by Divine_Wino 01 March | 16:10

In other news, cmonkey arrested on Amtrak for indecent exposure.

DW, you've got sauce in your beard. *hands napkin*

posted by matildaben 01 March | 16:23

Dano: Still. You really don't want to hear me cough right now.

I would totally pay to watch DW and HJ duke it out pantless cribbage-style. Having met both of them (and kissed one!) I have no problems imagining this atall.

posted by TrishaLynn 01 March | 16:28

Oh, you're just gonna let my beard sauce go unmentioned and embarrassing all evening, huh matildaben?

Drop me an email or gimme a call when you're free, Divine_Wino. Or post here.

FREE BOB AVAKIAN!

On preview,

FREE BOB AVAKIAN!

posted by Hugh Janus 01 March | 16:30

Fuck. I just got an email that the class was cancelled. This is not good for my mental health.

posted by mike9322 01 March | 18:46

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