I have some very good news to relay to all of you.
I am proud to announce the unlike Wikipedia, and other popular web sites this site The D Rules will NOT be going dark on January 18.
The reason for not going dark is because I have no clue what SOPA or PIPA is and I’m not sure if I care. Since I don’t know what they are, or what they mean, how can I give a shit about them?
And isn’t a web site going dark, in a form of protest, a lot like skipping school on Martin Luther King Day?
In other good news I’m down 3.1 lbs since January 11th, and I haven’t even started running yet! YEA ME!!
Today I learned the difference between a Donkey Punch and a Rabbit Punch.
As per Urban Dictionary.com
A Donkey Punch is – The Donkey Punch is when your engaged in anal sex and when your about to ejaculate you punch the poor little lady in the back of the head so her anal cavity tightens making the orgasm all that more better (for you of course).
and a Rabbit Punch is - A punch to the back of the head that can cause injury or death. Common term in the sport of boxing (is an illegal move).
We are really slow at the of salt mine. Just like every year at this time but this year we are REALLLLLy slow.
So slow in fact, that I haven’t charged and entire 40 hour week to a project all year.Ive been charging my time to overhead and training. I need to have 100% of my time chargeable to a costumer, or “billable time” as we call it.
So we had a meeting this week with the department manager and all of us designers. (I design mechanical systems, HVAC, piping, plumbing, I lay the systems out using AutoCAD and other drafting software.) The department manager said we have work coming in just not right now and a lot of our current projects are on hold by the client for whatever reason.
He suggested that some of us could go on a less that 40 hour work week, or a modified work week, or people might be temporarily switched to part time.
Eff that!
I looked at my PTO (paid time off) and realized I had a shit load coming to me.
I have an excess of 126.5 hours, that’s about 3 weeks of EXCESS PTO!
At the end of the year I’ll have 270.50 total hours of PTO that’s over 6 weeks of PTO I have to take this year.
So instead of having to put someone on a modified work week schedule for multiple weeks. I going to volunteer that I take one day off a week until all of my excess PTO is used up. Using 8 hours a week will take about 15 weeks.
By then we will be going full bore on the projects that are being negotiated now, and I’ll still have over 3 weeks of PTO left.
The good thing is the department manager assured us all that no one will be let go becasue we do have work coming down, it just not gotten to us yet.
The Saturday football game between the Saints and the 49ers had one of the best endings that I can remember. And no I don’t remember last seasons playoffs. The rest of the weekend games were over before the 2 min warning.
And don’t get me started on that terrible game Saturday night. Tim Tebow choked like a teenager at her first porn shoot.
I picked Pats, Texans, Saints, and Packers to win this weekend. So don’t ask me any thing about football I don’t know shit. Unless its about Fantasy Football becasue I’m a 5 time Superbowl Champion.
The Golden Globes are on right now. Kate Beckinsale is the Mayor of Boner Town.
Today, I was out running some errands and I got this GENIUS idea!
I thinking about converting my detached garage into a mini home gym. I just need a cheap new or used treadmill, a space heater, and a 27 or so flat screen and I’m set.
The problem is that I want to tear down that garage and build a bigger one that I can fit my car into. You see, the garage is 2″ to short for my car to fit into with the doors closed.
The garage has electricity but no heat or air conditioning. It’s basically used as a storage shed for all of my yard tools, mower, weed eater, leaf blower, ect.
It’s just an idea for now.
I figure a space heater would run – $50 +/-
A new 27″ flat screen would cost – $250 +/-
Used treadmill – $200 – $300
So the total cost of all this would run about $600
It basically says that people that leave comments on articles or blog post under anonymous or pseudonyms leave better quality comments, and that they leave more comments than people who use their real names.
I have to say that I agree with what the article says. I think anon comments are funnier, and more constructive comments on post that have a serious subject matter.
I also tend to leave more comments as The D instead of my real name. Also, I don’t want to know the real name of some people. I think their anonymous comments and post are better than their real life personae.
What do you think? If you use a pseudonym, or an alias to leave comments, do you also post using your real name?
Think of the worst thing that could ever happen to you and multiply that by a kabillion.
That’s what happened to me last night.
It totes changes everything in my life from this point forward.
You know how you have a favorite thing? I mean, it’s just the best thing ever, and you never make plans if something should happen to that thing because you expect it to be there every year, year after year. You never plan for the “what if”.
Today the what if came.
Both of zippers from my Columbia parka have broken and it makes the coat TOTALLY UNWEARABLE!!!!
LOOK, LOOK AT IT!!
The one above is the outer shell you can see the zipper on the left, the one that goes up, doesn’t have handle TOTALLY USELESS.
Then is one happened today!!!!
This is the fleece liner that can also be worn as it’s own jacket. The zipper on it is broken too. The handle is broken and the zipper has some kind of mechanism that holds the zipper up so it wont unzip. So unless I can get this zipper to unzip then I can’t attach it to the outer shell and wear both the fleece inner liner and the outer shell together as one kick-ass coat.
If you think I’m going to wear each one as separate coat then you’re fuckin’ nuts. I’m not some homeless, unemployed, degenerate from Independence Missouri.
I’ve had this coat for like, 8-10 years, it’s my favorite coat and now it’s RUINED FOREVER!!!
