Randomness
Oct. 12th, 2007 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
murakoziHere are some recent events and other stuff, in no particular order or relevance:
Instead of listening to the classical station on the radio in my office, I decided to log onto XM radio and listen to the classic alternative station. They played a cover of Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum. The song always seems to make me think of a bunch of Tauren sitting around in Thunder Bluff, smoking one of those huge pipes and eating Funyuns. Just substitute An'she or Mu'sha for 'Jesus.' Greenbaum's video could be very easily recreated in WoW, almost shot for shot.
There's more, but I just got one of the two things I was missing for the monthly contract report. Now if only I could get the last bit and turn the thing in.
Instead of listening to the classical station on the radio in my office, I decided to log onto XM radio and listen to the classic alternative station. They played a cover of Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum. The song always seems to make me think of a bunch of Tauren sitting around in Thunder Bluff, smoking one of those huge pipes and eating Funyuns. Just substitute An'she or Mu'sha for 'Jesus.' Greenbaum's video could be very easily recreated in WoW, almost shot for shot.
Hawkeye's shoulder is nearly healed. I was hay'ing the horses a few weeks back and noticed a big pink circle on his side, near the shoulder. It looked like something you'd see an 'indian horse' painted with in an old western. Being bright pink meant that it was Swat (a fly repelling ointment used on horse wounds). Looking closer, I saw he had a really nasty looking gash about 6 or 8" long that had been stitched up. It turned out that he and some others were being run in from the pasture and one of the other geldings, Dan, decided to remind Hawkeye that he was higher ranking and chomped Hawkeye on the butt just as he was going into his stall. Hawkeye jumped to the left and gouged his side against the stall's latch. Ow.
Katie is really starting to show her age, mentally, I think. She's starting to consider the living room an acceptable place to relieve herself if she's snoozing in there and needs to go. Otherwise, she seems to use her litterbox. This is definitely not good.
Last week saw some of the demo/testing for the contract I've been working on for the past year. The two sites we were at were the MUTR reactor over at the University of Maryland and the Old Dominion Brewery near the office here. I wasn't really needed on either site but went out just in case someone was needed for lugging equipment or writing down of measurements. I spent most of last Tuesday sitting in a chair, outside the reactor control room, doing absolutely nothing other than staring at a door in case someone knocked on it, whereupon I'd open it and let them in. I believe my billing rate on this contract is something like $120/hour. Your tax dollars at work, folks. You'd be amazed, or maybe not, at how boring reading reactor safety publications is.
Here's the view I had:
I'll have to upload the rather phallic looking results of putting a piece of plexiglass in the linear accelerator there, later.
Katie is really starting to show her age, mentally, I think. She's starting to consider the living room an acceptable place to relieve herself if she's snoozing in there and needs to go. Otherwise, she seems to use her litterbox. This is definitely not good.
Last week saw some of the demo/testing for the contract I've been working on for the past year. The two sites we were at were the MUTR reactor over at the University of Maryland and the Old Dominion Brewery near the office here. I wasn't really needed on either site but went out just in case someone was needed for lugging equipment or writing down of measurements. I spent most of last Tuesday sitting in a chair, outside the reactor control room, doing absolutely nothing other than staring at a door in case someone knocked on it, whereupon I'd open it and let them in. I believe my billing rate on this contract is something like $120/hour. Your tax dollars at work, folks. You'd be amazed, or maybe not, at how boring reading reactor safety publications is.
Here's the view I had:
I'll have to upload the rather phallic looking results of putting a piece of plexiglass in the linear accelerator there, later.
There's more, but I just got one of the two things I was missing for the monthly contract report. Now if only I could get the last bit and turn the thing in.