normally i love my job, but at 4.50am this morning my alarm went off for me to get ready for work and i hated it so much.
i've been off for 2 weeeks, and my first shift back is a 1ohr shift on a sunday morning.
its enough to make me wish i was getting up for a meeting instead!!!
Hate is a strong word. There are several things I dislike about my job but in the main I love my job. I carry a pager 24x7 but I only have to be primary support for the week 1 in every 8 weeks. I hate being paged at 2 O' clock in the morning. It's almost as bad as being woken by a baby needing attention.
Thirdson
with so many new ones, and not so new ones, its kinda hard to get to know people.
i'm just wondering, what do you like to do besides post on the jwd discussion board?.
me, during the spring - fall months like my yard & gardening.
I have always enjoyed jobs where I made things. I like my current job the best when I can make something, even if it is only writing programs. At home I make, renovate and repair. I made this adirondack chair last fall. It's not my design I found the drawings on the Internet. I recently renovated a old side table I found in an antique store. I took it apart, made a new top , distressed the new wood in keeping with the old, tiled the top and refinished it.
Thirdson
I remade all the deck railing in the picture and made the flower boxes
hmmmm?
football game?
sports of any kind?
Turkey day? Why of course we eat turkey. What else you gonna do?
Thirdson
PS I think it's great holiday for families to get together and there isn't the pressure of big gift giving. Its a great pre-winter feast.
i deal with over 400 people where i work, and i have trouble remembering names.
everyone knows mine though.
i can remember their ip addresses more easily than i can remember their names.
I am terrible with names and can forget someone's name seconds after meeting them. I try to make a habit of repeating their name when introduced to someone new, it helps. Fortunately, at work, we all wear ID badges (secure ID is our business) and a casual glance at a badge helps. I also print meeting invitations so I have everyone's name in front of me. I'm getting better but it takes effort.
Thirdson
when we were kids, our mothers would treat our cuts and grazes with an antiseptic cream called germoline.
it's still widely used today.. to mask the antiseptic smell, thereby making the product more acceptable to kids, the manufacturers would mix in sassafras to the finished product.
sassafras has a very distinctive smell.. root beer also contains sassafras, which duly imparts it's distinctive aroma to the drinker.. so, to your average brit anyway, drinking root beer is akin to swallowing antiseptic cream, because it smells just the same!.
I love Root beer and loved it from the first taste. I guess I was intrigued because of the odd references to root beer in Peanuts cartoons. When my parents visited a few years ago they tried it and their reaction was pretty much like Simon's.
I always wanted to try Hershey chocolate as well. Now that was a disappointment. It's fine on S'mores but it aint great by any means.
Thirdson
i'm like mr. bean!.
http://darrenlondon.tripod.com/britquiz1.htm.
englishman.
I am British Passport holder (issued in Washington DC) but I'm only 42% British now (like CZJ). I still talk funny.
Thirdson
If I type my name and "Minnesota" Google finds my home address and phone number. I am unique in Minnesota. If I type my name in the Friends Fiends Reunited web site in the UK I have to scroll through 6 pages of names to find me.
Thirdson
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that believe women have nothing of "real value" to teach them about life in general or even about spirituality.. is this "belief" bible based or is it a personal belief?
just wondering.
I think I know a lot more about the Bible and its content than Mrs Thirdson but I think she knows a lot more about Christian thought and teaching and spirituality than me. She knows a lot more than me about current issues within protestant churches than me. We share in saying Grace at dinner and she doesn't have to wear a Kleenex on her head either.
One of the best things I discovered outside of the JWs were women priests and preachers. When Mrs Thirdson and I married we chose a female Episcopal priest and friend to conduct the service. Since I am quite prepared to trust women with the responsibility of my care from women surgeons to women pilots I don't have a problem with my spiritual welfare entrusted to women either.
Thirdson
this just in from the globe weekly tabloid of july 29, 2003:.
it's not just stars like gwyneth paltrow, madonna, gillian anderson, liv tyler, and gwen stefani--british guys are many american gals' cup of tea.. "british men are more articulate, mature, and sophisticated," says cary cooper, a university of manchester (england) psychologist, who isn't entirely biased since he was born in hollywood and has citizenship of both the u.s. and the u.k. he adds that british men are better listeners and pay more attention to their women, while u.s. men are too juvenile.. "british men also invest more in a relationship and are more emotional," cooper says.. "american men are good at talking about emotion, but really that's all it is, talk.".
speaking of talk, might those sexy accents have something to do with it?.
:British men are more articulate, mature, and sophisticated
Yes, and you should see the fine example of British men at any Spanish resort and then decide. To be honest, I don't see much difference between Brit men and American men. My American wife likes and loves me despite my less than perfect grasp of language, my juvenile behaviour and my toilet humor. She's the first to tell anyone that the image that Americans have of the Brits is totally wrong.
Thirdson
We may shop at fancy carpeted supermarkets but they still sell bog-roll
i was reading a post and someone said that you need to evaluate a religion based on what it would be like if everyone followed the rules of that religion perfectly.
well, over on randy's site at www.freeminds.org, he has a link to the armageddon okies.
the following is leroy's great dream which is taken from the armageddon okies site.
Very few in hall would be married as they would view being single and unburdened by spouses as helpful to their fulltime ministry. There would hardly be any children for the few that had "passions" would resolve to be responsible and not have children until after the new system. (This despite the man's member naturally fitting into the womans birth canal when they render their due.)
All men would be elders or ministerial servants they would each give only 1 public talk per year but none would feel qualfied to teach about rearing children. All the men would be pioneers and hold part time janitorial jobs and their wives would be pioneers but stay at home the rest of the time. Their homes would be modest but clean and their lawns always neatly mowed.
No one would own a TV, a VCR or a DVD player and their music collection would consist only of Kingdom Song recordings and Bible Dramas. Cable, satelite TV and Internet service costs would be unheard of.
The field service overseer would never phone for report slips as everyone reports on the last day of the month. Judicial committees would never be formed, no one is ever removed from the pioneer ranks but the CO would always find fault and admonishes the congregation to do more, pray more, study more and give more. Everyone is thankful that the CO visits and encourages them.
Thirdson
The perfect JW town would be Pleasantville...only less exciting
