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  #261  
Old January 18th 05, 04:26 PM
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:21:22 -0700, "Monique Y. Mudama"
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On 2005-01-17, bonbon penned:
I freeze my butt off. It's been rather chilly here in Houston lately, and
although I'm actually a seamstress, for the past 6 months or so, I've been
installing marble flooring and just recently began working with natural
slate also. It's pretty cold running that wet saw outside in 35 degree
temperatures, but it's very gratifying work at the end. (Well, aside from
the callouses, broken off fingernails, and rather embarrassing arm muscles.)


I'll trade ya! I'd love to have those embarrassing arm muscles! (Without all



of that, you know, pesky *work* that goes along with them)


LOL! Work IS a four letter word.

-bonbon
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Old January 18th 05, 04:30 PM
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Stormin Mormon wrote in message
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Sounds like you take all the heat for everyone else in th e company who is
making life miserable for the customer.


Not quite. We all take the heat from the customers for errors done
internally, in a part of the bank we have nothing to do with.

Blessed be,
Baha

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"Singh" wrote in message
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I work in the customer service phone center for a bank whose territory
stretches from Buffalo, the city of its founding, to Northern Virginia.
(those of y'all down South may remember the former Allfirst, now M&T;
colloquially known as "M & Fee") Alternatively, my workplace is known as

the
Whine Line, the Salt Mine, Siberia, or simply as "the sewer." It is the
principal reason that I am medicated, and is the place that provided such
stress last August that I got carried off to the Crazy Wing of the county
hospital.

That is my job. My vocation is writer, and if I can actually become a
success at it then I can either leave the bank, or not give a damn because
then I could work from choice and not necessity.

Blessed be,
Baha





  #263  
Old January 18th 05, 04:54 PM
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:45:40 +0700, "badwilson"
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"bonbon" wrote in message
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:15:32 GMT, Tanada


wrote:
snip

I am a Substitute Teacher for Cumberland Co. North Carolina,

married to
a Blackhawk mechanic/inspector who is medically retired from the US

army.

Pam S.


I freeze my butt off. It's been rather chilly here in Houston

lately,
and although I'm actually a seamstress, for the past 6 months or so,
I've been installing marble flooring and just recently began working
with natural slate also. It's pretty cold running that wet saw
outside in 35 degree temperatures, but it's very gratifying work at
the end. (Well, aside from the callouses, broken off fingernails,

and
rather embarrassing arm muscles.)

-bonbon


Arm muscles are not embarrassing. I lift weights every second day in
order to get as many muscles as possible. Muscles are a "good thing"!


It's a bummer though when you put on a nice blouse, go into the
bathroom to fix the hair and upon bending and raising your arms, split
the seams in the sleeves.

Dennis used to moonlight as a tile layer in the winters. He tiled a
bunch of new high-rise condos in downtown Vancouver. He learned how
to do it so well, we tore all the carpet out of our brand new condo
before even moving in and tiled the whole place. It was awesome, but
hard work!.


We got 40% off the price of the tiles too because he
worked in the industry.


That's always a nice bonus. The price of tile adds up quickly when
you start figuring your square footage. Especially with some of the
$5 or $6/sq. ft. marble. Then, include all the mud, marble sealer and
cleaner, grout, floor tools........Yep, definitely nice to find the
tile at 40% off.

I found some Cream Jade marble on sale, and bought a bunch of it.
It's still all in the boxes, stacked neatly in the garage
though.........by the time I get home from work, I'm too exhausted to
even think about more work, even if it is for our own house.

-bonbon
  #264  
Old January 18th 05, 05:14 PM
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In ,
Monique Y. Mudama shouted to everyone in earshot,

I know what you mean. I run my own mail server from home,


Yep, that used to be me, too, before I had more family members using
it than my home connection could handle well (not to mention all the
pictures of my kitties and whatever). 128kb ISDN only goes so far.

mostly so that I
can completely customize my own spam-filtering solutions.


Boy, I hear ya. Have you written your own deal from scratch, or did
you build something around SpamAssassin or something like it?

Jeff
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Old January 18th 05, 05:39 PM
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:38:27 +1100, "Yowie"
yodeled:

"Victor Martinez" wrote in message
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Marina wrote:
I hear it's an acquired taste. Yowie is training Cary to love vegemite
as we speak. How's the carpet?


Hmmm... that might qualify as child abuse in some countries... ;-)

Victor, who knows lots of people love vegemite but still can't
understand why


The trick with vegemite is not to slap it on like you would jelly or peanut
butter. A *scraping* is all that is required, at least until you can eat it
straight out the jar :-)


I played a game of Vegemite Poker once with my Aussie ex and his
brothers. The loser of each hand had to eat a tablespoonful of
Vegemite. I provided them with lots of amusement. :P



Theresa
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  #266  
Old January 18th 05, 05:43 PM
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O J wrote:
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(deep and humble bow)! Now, on with the new tale:

I have never seen a rat, alive or dead, in any of the places I've
worked underground. BUT, I've seen one that was neither alive nor
dead. Bwah-hah-hah-hah!

When you see a telephone truck parked by a manhole, the splicer or
lineman is down in a little, or occasionally huge, concrete room with
cables that come in one side and leave by the other. Most are fairly
clean and a few, where there is laser equipment to extend circuits to
the field, have lights, tiled floors, and air conditioning.

We used to use what was essentially a modeling clay known as 'duct
seal' to keep water and gasses from seeping along the cable paths
between locations in the underground. It was grayish in appearance
and would hold its shape, without ever getting permanently hard. One
could either use it for its intended purpose, or for self-amusement,
constructing little models and figures.

Some of the figures I used to like to make were rats! You could make
the basic shape out of the duct seal, use little wire connectors for
the eyes, and find some scraps of wire for whiskers to complete the
creepy critter. It became an amusement of mine to construct these
little statues and leave them in the various locations I had visited
so as to spook whoever was next to come down the ladder.

One day I had constructed a truly masterful example and left it
sitting on a cable where, as soon as one had come down through the
round 'chimney', it would be visible and sitting about a foot and a
half from the face of the unlucky visitor. Chortling to myself, I
wondered who my victim might be. We finished the job over the next
several weeks and everything tested good except for one circuit.
Someone needed to go down and find where the trouble might be. That
someone was me -- the hole I needed to check was the one with my
masterpiece. As soon as I cleared the chimney I looked to the right!

Aaakkk!!!

I nearly had a heart attack. Caught like a rat by my own trap! After
that I gave up my little hobby.

Regards and Purrs,
O J


Thanks for posting, that's a keeper. :-)
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera)
A house is not a home, without a cat.


  #267  
Old January 18th 05, 05:46 PM
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O J wrote:
Karen Chuplis wrote:

---------snip of O J's old TelCo stories----------
I have to pass these on to the techs in my company


OK, if you do, tell them this one as well.

The standard underground copper cables are composed of up to 3600
pairs of twisted copper wires. They're heavy, and to pull one from
one manhole to the next takes all the power of one of the heavy
lineman's trucks.

I had something of an intimidating reputation, my nickname was "The
Beast". I was something of a cross between a bear and a geek. I
could decipher any print and at one time all the old DOS portable
computers in South LA ran on menu batch files that I had written.

I was assigned to show an only moderately experienced craftsman how to
do a particular type of splice and I arrived at the location ahead of
him. I opened the hole to let it air out and, after having a cup of
coffee in my truck, decided not to wait any longer for the other
splicer to show up. When I got down into the large hole, I found that
the line crew had left an excess of cable.

Sensing the opportunity to play a classic prank, I cut off about
twenty feet of excess from the real cable, tucked the real end out of
sight behind a few other cables, and shoved about ten feet of the
excess up a spare duct. I then started to set up the fake end as if
it were the real cable, but in such a way that it looked a little
short.

When the other fellow arrived, he joined me downstairs and I began to
complain that the line crew had left the cable a little short and that
I would like to have a little more slack. I spit on my hands and
rubbed them together. I too several deep breaths. I grabbed the fake
end and started to pull. It was easy to move, but I did my best to
pantomime someone straining with all his might.

Slowly the fake cable started to move. I dragged about five more feet
of it into the hole and turned to look at my fellow craftsman. His
jaw was on the floor and an eerie look of disbelief was in his eyes.

"Well, that's a little more like it!" I said. "Now we can get to
work!" I carried on as if the morning's events were nothing special
for about another fifteen minutes or so before I let him in on my
little charade.

Life is short, you have to make your fun where you can find it!

Regards and Purrs,
O J


ROTFL!
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera)
A house is not a home, without a cat.


  #268  
Old January 18th 05, 08:11 PM
Monique Y. Mudama
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On 2005-01-18, JB penned:
In , Monique Y. Mudama
shouted to everyone in earshot,

I know what you mean. I run my own mail server from home,


Yep, that used to be me, too, before I had more family members using it than
my home connection could handle well (not to mention all the pictures of my
kitties and whatever). 128kb ISDN only goes so far.


We have a static IP and 1.5Mbps down / 500kbps up, but it still only goes so
far. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I ran web stuff from my home
machine, but I now find it much easier to let Pair host my web stuff. They're
also more attentive as sysadmins than I am.

mostly so that I can completely customize my own spam-filtering solutions.


Boy, I hear ya. Have you written your own deal from scratch, or did you
build something around SpamAssassin or something like it?


Well, by customize, I just mean "install the stuff I want with the options I
want." I use a combo of SA, procmail, and tmda. I don't use the c/r aspect
of tmda; I mostly use it because the filter rules are so easy to implement.
If I just want to block something or send it to a directory, tmda's syntax is
very clean. I also like leaving unrecognized email in a queue, rather than
getting all excited that I have new mail and then seeing that it's crap =/

--
monique, roommate of Oscar the (female) grouch
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Eros was adopted! Eros has a home now! *cheer!*
  #269  
Old January 18th 05, 10:48 PM
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In ,
Monique Y. Mudama shouted to everyone in earshot,

Well, by customize, I just mean "install the stuff I want with the options I
want."


I figured, but I was playing it safe in case you *had* written a big
thing from scratch. g Anyway, that sounds cool. I like hearing
about homegrown mail thingies--never know what I might be able to pick
up and wrap into mine.

I also like leaving unrecognized email in a queue, rather than
getting all excited that I have new mail and then seeing that it's crap =/


Yeah, that's definitely the way to do it. Similarly, we save all mail
to a database, and non-spam also goes to users' spool files. Periodic
spam report via e-mail, web tool for retrieving "spam" that really
isn't (and for having accidentally-deleted non-spam redelivered).
Plus a web tool for configuring whitelists/blacklists/other settings.

Jeff
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  #270  
Old January 19th 05, 02:48 AM
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"bonbon" wrote in message
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:45:40 +0700, "badwilson"
wrote:


"bonbon" wrote in message
.. .

I freeze my butt off. It's been rather chilly here in Houston

lately,
and although I'm actually a seamstress, for the past 6 months or

so,
I've been installing marble flooring and just recently began

working
with natural slate also. It's pretty cold running that wet saw
outside in 35 degree temperatures, but it's very gratifying work

at
the end. (Well, aside from the callouses, broken off

fingernails,
and
rather embarrassing arm muscles.)

-bonbon


Arm muscles are not embarrassing. I lift weights every second day

in
order to get as many muscles as possible. Muscles are a "good

thing"!

It's a bummer though when you put on a nice blouse, go into the
bathroom to fix the hair and upon bending and raising your arms,

split
the seams in the sleeves.


Yes, that's true. They don't seem to make clothes for athletic women
with muscles. It's even worse here in Thailand where all women are
these rail thin waifs of under 100 lbs with no boobs. I have a hard
enough time finding something that fits across the chest, then it's
usually too tight around the shoulders and arms too. I wear a lot of
tank tops ;-)

Dennis used to moonlight as a tile layer in the winters. He tiled

a
bunch of new high-rise condos in downtown Vancouver. He learned

how
to do it so well, we tore all the carpet out of our brand new condo
before even moving in and tiled the whole place. It was awesome,

but
hard work!.


We got 40% off the price of the tiles too because he
worked in the industry.


That's always a nice bonus. The price of tile adds up quickly when
you start figuring your square footage. Especially with some of the
$5 or $6/sq. ft. marble. Then, include all the mud, marble sealer

and
cleaner, grout, floor tools........Yep, definitely nice to find the
tile at 40% off.


Yes, for sure. We didn't realize that he would get a discount through
his employer but when he told him that we were going to tile our own
place, he said just mention my name at the front desk at any tile
store in Vancouver and you'll get 40% off. Woo hoo! We were so happy
:-)

I found some Cream Jade marble on sale, and bought a bunch of it.
It's still all in the boxes, stacked neatly in the garage
though.........by the time I get home from work, I'm too exhausted

to
even think about more work, even if it is for our own house.


Yes, I can see that you wouldn't want to keep doing the same thing at
home that you do at work all day. Especially something as tiring as
tiling. I remember how exhausted I was after only 4 days of doing our
condo. And your knees get so sore!
--
Britta
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covered in fur!
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