Musings of a Yankee

Thoughts on a Sunday: Monday graveyard edition

My rotating shift is such that once every five weeks I end up doing a week of graveyard shifts (11:45 PM - 7:45 AM). In the spring semester, it so happened that my vacation requests for Spring Break and the week of my senior thesis presentation happened to fall on my regularly scheduled graveyard shift and as a result of taking vacation I didn't do it.

I think that this is the first full week of graveyards I've done since the beginning of the year. No, I take that back - did one in May.

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Twice today (or only once if you go strictly by military time) was a special moment when the clock read:

12:34:56 for the date 7/8/9.

While technically it is 7/8/09, "0" means nothing and can be ignored.

Of course, for those of us who were in the military, today was 8JUL2009, and not 7/8/9 (or even 7/8/09).

Thoughts on a Sunday: Monday evening edition

Some belated ToaS thoughts that should have been included in last week's ToaS.

Virtuality : Ghod, it sucked. Really, really, sucked. Kinda like the vacuum of space trying to suck the commander out the airlock. That is how hard it sucked. I wasted two hours of my life watching this dreck when I could have been doing something more productive like, oh, having bloody diarreha. The only thing cool about it was the design of the ship. But even that wasn't enough to save it.

There was something else I was going to expound upon that I left out of last week's ToaS, but I forget now what it was about...

Onto this week's belated ToaS...

Thoughts on a Sunday: Monday edition

Welcome to "ToaS" the Monday edition.

I had to cover nine hours of a shift last night, from 7:30 PM Sunday to 4:30 AM Monday, thus the delayed "ToaS" posting. Plus I had to think about what I wanted to post.

Thoughts on a Sunday - Summer Solstice Edition

Happy Father's Day / Summer Solstice.

The weather here continues to be unusual, looking more like winter than summer with nearly solid overcast that is keeping the days on the cool side (mid- to upper 80s instead of mid- to upper 90s) and the nights too warm (70s instead of 60s).

Thoughts on a Sunday

Untypical weather - overcast and rainy, looks more like winter than late spring...

Barney O'Borg Reviews: X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Barney gives "Wolverine" three extruded adamantium claws out of six.

"Morphine makes me stoned..."

The comment from the better 7/8ths as she laid in the hospital bed following her total knee replacement surgery.

Midweek post

Some pre-Sunday thoughts since I might not get around to getting to the Sunday post...

Thoughts on a Sunday - Monday edition...

We were lazy bums yesterday - well, I was a lazy bum. The better 7/8ths and a former TA / lab slave went to some property that we watch for others and spent four hours clearing brush and creating a fire brake. In the process she discovered that our gas powered weed whacker has a pinhole leak in the plastic gas tank, so that will need to be replaced.

Me, I organized a bookcase, paid some bills, and did some shredding.