My Dad showed me a vinyl earlier as he'd moved some stuff around the loft. It was an Aston Villa vinyl, and I said to him that I didn't think he had any vinyls as he'd told me years ago that he'd thrown all his vinyls away or something similar and he goes "no, I've still got most of them" :eek: He wanted me to see if I could help him sell them on Ebay.

Anyway I kept nagging him to let me go in the loft and have a look at the vinyls. Found these:

http://i49.tinypic.com/4j2gza.jpg

I feel like a child at Christmas x 10. And I don't even have a record player. Will try and talk him into not getting rid of these. I want them :o:

At my work, we have 10 "occurrences" per calendar year. These aren't just days you've called off; you get a quarter of an occurrence for being more than 7 but less than 15 minutes late, half an occurrence for more than 15 but less than half an hour late, and a full occurrence for anything beyond that - be it going home sick, whatever.

And I work about an hour away from my house, so you can imagine that it's a little hard to get there when it's snowy or a little frustrating to drive that distance when I'm not feeling well.

Anyway, I'd accumulated 7.5 occurrences and was kind of bummed out, but for whatever reason (out of the goodness of their hearts?) they took one of my occurrences off and I only have 6.5.

Most of mine were when I kept having to go to the doctor in September and October, so those will roll off. But I was still very thrilled to realize that I've still got a little wiggle room...plus I've now got 6 hours of paid personal time and 24 hours of vacation time at my disposal.

Thank the Jesus.

Derek has moved out. He's been vanquished. I am the victor! :)

The news we've all been waiting for!

By "has moved out", do you mean "is lying in a dumpster in several trash bags"?

I wish.

Bw I've sold my laptop so do t post much anymore...you lucky people.

You have no idea.

I finally found a new apartment. Rent's cheap, but I'm going to miss fucking with my old neighbor. He was such a tight-ass.

Send him some annoying mail or something.

**** in a bag and leave it in his mail.

7 projects on my list, and I don't feel like doin nunuvit.

I have one project about making a database from scratch and it's hard work!

Bought a book on how to knit dinosaurs, my life is complete.

Pretty lax.. was bored most of the day with nothing to do.. almost kinda how I ended up here XD.. But I might become a regular here if I like it enough..

:band::drummer::band::drummer::band::drummer:

Are you creating container like objects in C++/.NET kinda thing or just using SQL/MS Access?

I'm just using MS Access, have you made one before? It's funny, lots of guys can't believe I study IT. It's like, modern times!

Are you using SQL server as a back end?

As the actress said to the bishop.

:laughing:

I apparently volunteered for overtime. What the **** is wrong with me?

I mean, it IS time and a half, plus incentive (so, for example, if I get all of my incentive, it's that as my 'base pay' and then time and a half on top of that) but seriously. I'm going in an hour early tomorrow, and I highly doubt that I'll be motivated to stay later than my scheduled shift closing.

No amount of money is worth sitting with several hundred callers in queue for hours on end while they bitch about how they waited 20 minutes to an hour to speak with an associate.

It's not that hard for me to wrap my head around. I've worked with some incredibly knowledgeable women in my travels. I'm not your typical male chauvinist.

Yes, I've created DB's before. I created a drawing tracker program for GEIS/ComEd using VB/Lisp with a MS Access DB that tracks drawing revisions, plotting, attribute data, etc., some years back that's still in place, I've been using modified versions of that same base program for other clients too. Been away from the programming end of things for a while now at my current employer since I'm needed in the advert/engineering/proposal side of things.

But yeah, keep on keepin on 'Nilla!

I thought you'd said something else at first. :laughing:

Today was beautiful. Came home from school with a gorgeous friend of mine and watched a movie and both really appreciated it and had an intellectual conversation with her about it. Then, we went to the an art gallery show at my school and then to the movies and watched Side Effects, pretty good film. I'm honestly falling for this chick, it's a nice feeling

Very cool to hear. Happy for you, dude! She sounds like a keeper, for serious.

Yip, sure am! :)

That's awesome, I can't wait to be an expert in all of this! :D

I've been working on my sister's tattoo design. It's supposed to be two "sea stars," as my youngest sister and other sister call each other "seastar," with an infinity symbol incorporated.

I don't want to say anything and cause a stir, because I'm hella peaceful, but one sister being all, "Design my tattoo for me for our sister and me," seems kind of frowny face. I mean, I tried to justify it to myself, like, "It's a tattoo designed by me, for BOTH of my sisters," but I still feel weirdly excluded.

SO yeah. Been working on that today, and feeling kind of bummed out. It's like, I always have to do art for everything, but I'm always kind of detached from it in a way, because it's not me that's doing whatever; it's what I draw. I feel like I'm drawing for a client instead of making something substantial for a family member. I'm just the artist; I'm not a real part of the work itself. I'm making something for other people and that's it.

Bums me out.

This pertains to the last week or so but our regular pot washer at work didn't turn up on the Friday before last and he didn't contact work but we took this as normal as Friday is payday and he sometimes got wasted on his wages and went AWOL.

However he has been the pot wash for over 15 years and by Wednesday the following week we still had no contact from him which wasn't right and I talked to the general manager to seriously look into this as he wouldn't have left it this long to make contact.

We even got a member of staff to visit his home to see what was going to no avail so we contacted his family on Thursday last week to contact the police. The police had to break down the door of his home that day to find him passed away.

We are all hoping that the first day he wasn't in work was his last but the fact that he wasn't found for 5 days is upsetting but I am glad that I pressed my concerns to management when I did as it could have been many more days before he was found.

Miss you Graham and we are working on a plaque for you above the dishwasher machine to honour you within the ****hole I work in.

Finally able to drive.]


Seeing a cairopracter(can't be arsed checkin the spelling) tomorrow. Gonna **** with mah neck.

I'm sorry to hear man. That's really sad. :(

So then you surely know how to create a query using TSQL. Tell me how you would change all the passwords of users in a database in which a website relied on for logon purposes.

Let's say you are tasked to changing everyone's password to "BetterPassword". How would you go about that?

So I witnessed an "assault" today. I put that in quotes because while technically it is an assault...no punches were thrown. I had literally just pulled up to this when it happened and the guy who drove off will be getting his ass arrested or at least summoned to court. The guy in the BMW wanted to press charges so I stayed and gave a statement to the police.

Why am I not describing what happened? Because I have a dashboard cam silly and I caught all the **** on tape. Check er out...



That ******* hocked a huge loogie in the other guys face by the way. You can't tell from the video, but he was making threatening remarks as well. The guy in the bmw ended up being an older gentlemen.

Holy shit. Your dashboard cam videos might just become my favorite thing on the internet.

Ever since I bought it **** has been happening. I'm just glad that this time it had nothing really to do with me. I have some other funny videos of me and my friends in the car that I saved. I've been thinking about loading them up.

You need to slow down there turbo. :p: Pretty good stuff, but what a pansy the guy in the BMW is. He didn't even kick his rig, I would have caved that fender in with one kick.

I edited the post for context. The guy in the bmw must have been at least 60. He could not have taken that guy on. The ******* doing all the threatening was a lunatic. He's the kind of guy that would put an old man in the hospital for no reason other than to show he's tough. I know I was driving a bit too fast in the residential but I didn't want to lose the guy. I actually ended up losing him after the video cuts out because they were FLYING doing about 50 in a residential and spilling out onto a main road. The guy in the white focus ended up whipping a 180 and booking it out of there and that's when BMW gave up and I found him on the side of the road calling the fuzz. It was pretty intense. I envy cops who get to drive like that every day.

Do you have any idea what sparked the confrontation?

BMW pulled out in front of assh*le. Assh*le went completely crazy and tried to pass BMW on the right when there was clearly no room to do so. Assh*le then proceeds to cross the double yellow and overtake BMW and then they hit the red light.

BMW said that he might have pulled out too soon (TWSS) but even if he did assh*les reaction was WAY too much. I didn't know that spitting on somebody is a minor assault. Today I learned...

Ive been getting that **** off Derek and the guy upstairs, both with a considerable size advantage over me. Some people need to get taught how to be civilised...knuckle dragging idiots.