tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59520672011-06-08T02:14:21.504-04:00why hate your own life when you can laugh at mine?bullpen larryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06598325842971282697noreply@blogger.comBlogger651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5952067.post-63210872849410416172008-01-08T13:48:00.000-05:002008-01-08T13:50:22.944-05:00

Closing this bad boy down, and moving to a new place!http://bullpenlarry.blogspot.com/goodbye despair!

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this post has to be dedicated to A, because i feel like her right now after one of her dorkisms....i'm currently sitting at my desk, just typing away, doing some work....what nobody around me knows is that....i split my pants this morning....yup...right smack down the middle (and yes, its very visible)....i could feel cold gusts of air walking from the parking lot....made a mad dash for my seat,

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IMG_6445 Originally uploaded by photog larry.frisbee tournament this wkd with our friends from georgian bay ultimate up north. have no idea how we latched on with them last year, but we came out in last year's "pull for a cure" tournament with the championship, so we were back to defend our title. we started out with a bang, 845AM, winning our game. then after a long break, took down our

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OK - one last post on Australia. I just wanted to say thanks to all of the people who showed us a great time while we were down there and those in town that helped suggest things before the trip had even started. It meant a lot to us that you would spend the time to help make our trip as memorable as possible. Its true, friends make everything better. I can only suggest to all of you out

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Wow - finally done blogging about Australia. Now I can finally move on with my life.Here's the final tally:24 days3618 photos taken481 photos displayed on flickr.150 days to blog about the whole darn thing.haven't started reading about it and actually want to? ok, here are all the pages related to the Australia trip, since my sidebar is all messed up:Day 1-5 - MelbourneDay 6-10 Melbourne stillDay

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Day 23 - Sydney Harbour DaytimeOriginally uploaded by photog larry.We boarded the ferry and headed back to Hamilton Island for our flight out to Sydney. Our flight this time, was on discount airline Jetstar. Unfortunately, discount air means less perks, and apparently, lower baggage allowances. My bag, getting more and more stuffed with crap, ended up over by about 10lbs, meaning that I had to

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Day 20 - SummertimeOriginally uploaded by photog larry. Next day was another early day to catch our flight out of Carins to the Whitsunday Islands, a little further down the coast. The flight was uneventful, and we landed in Hamilton Island (one of the Whitsunday Islands). We spent a bit of time on the island just waiting for our ferry and took a few pictures.Just looking out at the harbour, we

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Day 17 - Larry and the fun busOriginally uploaded by photog larry.After a night at the Cairns night market, which included buying a bunch of souvenirs and getting a masage from the chinese contingent in the night market, it was off to the Atherton Tablelands. I was looking forward to this for the picture taking oppotunities it would afford.We joined a tour called Uncle Brian's. This tour had

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Day 16 - Getting Ready to Dive Originally uploaded by photog larry.Our next day took us on a Day trip to the Great Barrier Reef, on the appropriately named "Reef Daytripper". The boat was kinda slow, and many boats passed us going out of the dock, but our understanding was, that we were not going out as far, so we'd still have the same amount of reef time. Unfortunately, we only snorkelled in

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Day 15 - Spiky leavesOriginally uploaded by photog larry.We rolled into Cairns around 4-5pm after the time change, and headed for the phones in order to try to find a place to stay. This was the one place on our itinerary where we had booked absolutely nothing. No room, no tours. Being accountants by nature, we started to panic at this point. We started calling the places in the lonely planet,

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Day 14 -Atop Kings CanyonOriginally uploaded by photog larry. Kings Canyon is just that, a canyon. Reminds me of the Grand Canyon, but smaller. Either way, it was a beautiful hike. If you want some info on it, here you go. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_Canyon%2C_Northern_TerritoryI’ll let the pictures do the talking. Here’s one. Head to flickr for the rest.After that, was the long drive

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Day 13 - Sunrise at Uluru Originally uploaded by photog larry.Off for a beautiful sunrise at uluru. It was what it was cut out to be, spectacular. We then headed to the rock to walk around the site, and potentially climb the rock itself. But we were thwarted by bad weather, so no climbing for us. Whether we would have chosen to climb the rock or not (either out of fear, or respect for the

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Day 12 - Valley of the (fill in the blank)Originally uploaded by photog larry.getting back to the campsite, I remember thinking that I wasn’t sure what to expect. we were given fairly scant details by our travel agent, except that it was a tour, we would be fed, and would be sleeping in private camp facilities.as we drove up, you couldn’t really miss Uluru (or Ayers Rock). There is really nothing

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A late night packing, and an early morning flight brought us to our final morning in Melbourne. I grabbed a final coffee from Steve’s great Saeco espresso maker (which is actually the Starbucks Barista), and we headed for the airport.No real incidents to report, except that we got lost on the way to the gas station that was right beside the airport.We sat, waiting, I had a hideously overpriced

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OK - put to shame by the fact that Denise and Julie are already back from their tour of Australia, and have a full blog and pictures up, I am reinspired to bring you the last 2 weeks of Linda and my trip in January. I'll have at least something up tonight. That's a promise.

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Day 10 - The 12 ApostlesOriginally uploaded by photog larry.day 10 brought us, unfortunately, to our final full day in melbourne. debra was leaving that morning (or so she thought – it was really an afternoon flight) for paris that day, so much of the morning (and the previous night!) was spent repeatedly saying goodbye. :) steve and debra went with us to grab our rental car, which was located in

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Day 9 - Yering Station Fortified ShirazOriginally uploaded by photog larry.day 9 was australia day. the day the brits invaded australia, and beat up on the aboriginals. similar to Canada day. at any rate, it was a national holiday, and allowed us to head out to the yarra valley with debra, steve, and mr ian moore. ian rented a car, and debra drove as well, so the boys decided to give debs and

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Day 8 - Queen Victoria MarketOriginally uploaded by photog larry.wow…really don’t feel like doing any work today!day 8 brought us back to the city. we ate at a small café that was nothing special. I had a calzone that was pretty good, and Linda had a crappy wrap. so our record for choosing our own restaurants remained pitiful. we did some basic window shopping, and then Linda headed over to D. to

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Day 7 - Phillip IslandOriginally uploaded by photog larry.debra took the day off today to spend with us. we had decided that tonight was going to be penguin parade night at phillip island, so we figured that we would take a drive up around phillip bay towards the mornington peninsula.we started off in st. Kilda and had a gigantic breakfast at a nice little restaurant in the area. st Kilda looks

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Day 6 - HingisOriginally uploaded by photog larry.we decided to spend the day in the city and explore for a bit, given that we had the tennis to go to at night. we headed to the carlton gardens, where we had a look around, took some pictures in the cool park with the kids. why don’t we have cool parks like this in Toronto?we continued to walk into the downtown area, where Linda was going to try

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Day 5 - Melbourne's Poorest Busker Originally uploaded by photog larry.OK - i didnt get this into the last post, but i would be doing you a disservice if i did not tell you about who i believe is the worlds, and if not, then definitely melbourne's poorest busker.As I had talked about previously, a busker is just a street performer. you know, the guys in outfits who perform tricks on the street,

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Day 5 - Insect PapparazziOriginally uploaded by photog larry.suffice it to say, we slept in a little, catching up on lost winks from the plane ride over. when we finally arose from our slumber, it was off to the pier for lunch. the pier was fairly typical, blending highrise condos with restaurants and small shops, and some random art. we headed to a place called mecca bah, which serves

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dumb flickrok. getting some complaints about the pictures i am posting. that they are too small and in random order. you need to click on the "Australia Set" from the main page, otherwise, you'll get the pics small and in a funky order. So to alleviate confusion, here is the new link. To navigate through the pictures, there is a navigator on the right hand side. click the picture to go to the

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The Papparazzi at the Open! Originally uploaded by photog larry.

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day 4 – cavity searches and green whizzing ballswe awake to a nice breakfast on the plane. enough to keep us going for a bit. we’re told that we’ll be beginning our descent and that the temperature in melbourne is in the 30’s and expected to rise to a balmy 38 degrees or something.....nice start to the trip!anyways, we land, and are welcomed by the big welcome to melbourne sign in the airport and

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day 2 - travel dayso now we are on the plane, and all in all, i am fairly impressed. since i haven't been on an oversees flight since i was 10 years old, all this technology is new to me. i proceed to play with the in dash TV, which features 6 movies, and a variety of shows. i quickly become obsessed with a show called mythbusters, which is a science show devoted to dispelling urban legends

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disclaimer:since this is my blog, what you are about to read is vacation larry’s account of the events related to larry and linda’s adventure in oz. please note, that the opinions expressed may not represent those of lz. furthermore, i take no responsibility for any advance story telling. if you are linda’s friend, and would like to get the lz version of the story before any other (as she would

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the returnjust back from a 3 week hiatus in OZ. and im back from an even longer hiatus to this blog. ill start to post our adventures in OZ on this page, along with a link to our pictures. we'll have to sort through them, but the initial count is some 3,618 photos...i love my canon...i love digital :)ed.as mentioned previously, photos were a big part of our trip….we spent a lot of our time

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hfcthis message is dedicated to d.hot french chick (hfc) invaded today. we had an all-day meeting of the minds in the group, and were introduced to our newest member, hfc. hfc came in tweed off-white and pink power suit with girly frills, and knee high boots. hfc admits that she does not speak very good anglais. bad news is that hfc works out of Mtl, so i cannot personally monitor the extent of

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RoadkillYesterday, driving home from dinner, i witnessed a heinous act. i couldn't believe that it could come from someojne who is usually so sweet and innocent. i saw rage, i saw spite, i saw some pent up emotions that must have boiled over from early childhood memories.yes, my "girlfriend" ran over a cute little bunny on garden ave. yesterday. the bunny just sort of blinked at us as we

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the road is long…with many a winding turn….spent the weekend road tripping to Ottawa. i’ve never been there before in the winter, so it was a pretty cool experience. militant driving schedules, skating on the rideau canal, warming up to hot congee and world domination games, and playing with my mental equivalents (8 month old babies). fun times. who knew Ottawa could be so fun…especially after

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"planning"i spent most of the day today compiling a list of things that i need to do. strangely, i prepared a similar list of things to do last friday. and i thought about creating that list on thursday. oh yes, and i spent the remainder of the day talking about a list of things to do as compiled by someone else (and simultaneously thinking about how i would need to update my own list). based on

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Choice hypothetically...say your significant other has very bad taste. obviously, you can't choose all the time. so how often are you obliged to let them choose?hypothetically of course...on a completely unrelated note: i will never watch another japanese movie ever again. completely unrelated...

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Superpoker / Superbowl v.1.0 All in all, it seemed like superpoker/supoerbowl v1.0 went over pretty well with the masses. 2 official tournaments pre-game, with over $200 in the pot for each. It was a bit of a work in progress, since I really had no idea what I was doing in organizing a tournament with that many people, but still, I think it worked out pretty well, and was reasonably civil.

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HML well, it was inevitable. HML has reared its ugly head, on my 28th official work day. in a nutshell, bullpen larry and his new group (that consists currently of only himself) has been deemed the saviour of bigtelco. his time frame to understand and come up witha plan to fix the world? 2 weeks. right. ok. fine. can i get some staff then? sorry. hiring freeze. HML. thanks to the

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time (ed. oops - old draft post that i forgot to put through a month ago...) it takes time here at bigtelco to get stuff done. perhaps i’m spoiled. i’m used to coming into a company and having an orientation session that lays all this crap out. since i’ve gotten here, here are the lag times i’ve encountered: time to get an empty desk with a paper print out saying “desk of Lawrence Wong” –

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other habits http://discoverniagara.com/fallsviewcasino/poker_room.html three days and counting... dan and i might head down on a sunday for sunday playoff football on HDTV and all you can eat ribs. if you're interested, let me know. http://discoverniagara.com/fallsviewcasino/tailgate_buffet.html i guess we'll at least be able to check out how the room looks at that time, though playing

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habits this morning, i found myself doing something rather strange, given that its my 3rd day at the new job. i found myself revamping and updating my resume….on my yet to be returned oldfirm laptop, in the middle of the newco bullpen. interesting, that i have already accepted the fact, based on the setbacks in the hiring process and with the first few days, that newco may not necessarily be

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Pressureok fine. i relent. i succumb to peer pressure. here's some pics from days past. more "current" stuff will be posted in the future, so if you have dial-up ... well... um.... sorry??!!Anyways, here's some pics of lucas culcio that i took for class a few years back. i was actually in union station trying to take pics, but security gave me the boot because i didnt have a permit. so i went

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Grossman Placeholder for the upcoming grossman story. yeah - you don't know who gross man - don't worry - all to be revealed. should have been a story for a number of weeks ago, but certain laptop theft circumstances thwarted the opportunity. i'll catch up soon.

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Results Final Score: SMC 22 Pickering 15 "Warm up the bus! Warm up the bus! Warm up the bus!" Don't care what your excuse is Dan. The only thing that matters is results!

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Double Blue Day Heading up (down?) to Hamilton today with Danny to see the Metro Bowl finals, pitting the St. Michael's Kerry Blues against the Pickering Trojans (many whom Dan coaches during the summer on the Scarboro Ghettoleague Team). So you probably wonder why the hell am I going to a high school football game. Those who've known me for a long time will know that part of me lives in the

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Aside So here’s a side note story for you on my resignation day. This is so typical of my life. One of my colleagues (whom will remain nameless), whom I consider a friend, was working on a file with me this year. He’s leaving the firm as well in the near future to pursue some other endevours, so I sent him a quick email asking him about the state of the archive file, and when we could get it

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Just call me Tom. As many of you faithful followers may already know, I have accepted a new job at AnonBigTelco Inc. The first question people usually ask me when I tell them this is: "So, what are you going to be doing there." So here's my answer. Just call me Tom Smykowski. Eh? Think, Office Space - The Movie. Think, "jump to conclusion's mat". I think it can be summarized in this

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Yes you are In response to a query from an unnamed source, the answer is Yes. You ARE a doofus if you don't know how to spell doofus. What would possess you to think that it was spelled doophis. That's just silly. http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=doofus doofus.

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Cheque's in the mail I've been told that for 3.5 weeks now. How long would you wait til you called the police? They have resort to pre-empting my call with a call to tell me the cheque's in the mail. How many times have I heard that it'll be here by "the end of the week". With this and Frankie Fed Hall looming, I'm starting to wonder a little bit.

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Note to Self If you tell the ref to F off, expect to get a penalty. But it was worth it. Also, I've heard from Lucas that if you comment to the ref about his mullet, you'll also get two minutes. But that's even more worth it...

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Replaced I've been replaced as Public Enemy #1 in KD's eyes. Thanks to Dan for assuming the position in such a graceful manner. I do presume, though, that I'll take the title back once the golf itch hits somewhere around March next year. HAHA Dan, you do all that stupid stuff, and you still end up in the doghouse. WAY TO GO!

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Fall Sweeps The ratings wars are upon us as Neilsen goes about doing its semi-annual survey's to determine which TV/radio station gets to charge the most for an advertisement next quarter. This has two implications on audiences - "shocking ending" TV shows.... and promos promos promos. Yesterday, i was privileged enough to be involved in a promo for one of my clients, as an observer of a draw

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Addendum and I'm sorry i almost got your car stolen.... hahahahaha.

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I'm sorry I lost your kite... Too lazy to write this on my own, so I'll just rip it off of L.'s site. "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown." Flew a kite today, which I haven't done in a long time. So I got a new kite yesterday, and Lawrence and I took it out today. Unfortunately, there was little to no wind (per Environment Canada, wind was 0 km/h)! So it was actually quite difficult! But we did

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Tilt Most people have heard the stories of my vegas trips, and the ADD curse that sometimes pops up at the tables (which is why i quit playing table games...unless of course, those evil coupons come in the mail...) anyways, i read this today, and it made me laugh... ---------- The Voice A guy gets home from work one night and hears a voice in his head, which tells him, "Quit your job, sell

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Joss Joss Stone's new album comes out tomorrow. http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/stone_joss/772409/album.jhtml The first album was one of my favorite albums ever (a collection of little known soul songs from way back), so I've been looking forward to this one since then. Her concert last year was one of the weirdest crowds i have ever seen, with grandpa standing in front of me, and some

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Ice winter is upon us. how do i know? ice hockey season officially kicked into gear yesterday. team's looking as good as can get in division D hockey, or whatever bottom of the barrel scum division we're in. sub-in carlton got the team off to a rousing start by gooning it up with the other team, and forcing us to "practice" our penalty killing. i got a warning from the ref for cursing...AT

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Pitbulls I'm sure a number of you have read the news in the past few weeks about the possible ban on pitbulls in Ontario. I don't necessarily have an opinion on the matter, and even if i did, it would be biased based on my general fear of dogs and dislike (thats too harsh a word, but i can't think of a better one) for pets (pets, not animals) for them. Anyways, in general, i think there may be

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Equity Its hard sometimes to swallow when your work goes unappreciated. First day back at work today, and the bonus payouts came out last week. I have known whats been coming for the entire year really, because our bonus structure is dumb, but it still stings when you see the final result. this year i got $407 (0.60% of my gross pay - yes - point six PERCENT), bringing my three year total

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LA/ the OC Trip recap Just got back from a week in LA (actually, really the OC), visiting Dave (jono) in his new digs. A few semi-random points / high/low-lights of the trip: - hotwire / expedia for rental cars... i would suggest - not using it. if you dunno, this is a prepaid service in which you can rent your car at the lowest possible rate. why not... you'll regret it about 2 hours into

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Andy Roddick continues to be my hero. 152MPH serve. 6-0,6-2,6-2. 17 year old rookie go buh-bye.

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Milestones Yet another milestone in my despair: Dan's second last day at the firm is today. Oh no, not his second last day as in, tomorrow is his last day. No no, it is his SECOND last day at the old D. , from his SECOND tour of duty at the firm. Yes, true, that his second stint was always only temporary, but from my standpoint, sad nonetheless. Props to you Dan, you have beaten me...again...

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Update on the Wonky (GIMP) Knee After a week of pain, daddy came home and gave me some drugs. Felt good the very next day, and didn't have to use the drugs for the rest of the week. So we'll chalk this up to an inflammed tendon from overuse (i.e. OLD AGE). Update on the update And....no sooner than posting this, the knee is flaring up again....nice....shooting pains...

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Ups and Downs? This year could potentially be a year of career ups and downs for me. Take for instance, the golf course. Career year - posted a career low of 80 this year. Previous career best was probably around a 90 taking into account improper scoring (read: generous) in previous years. Tennis - career low record of 2-4324954 (or something like 8). However, we ended up on a high note, taking

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Apple Crumble? "Are you happy are you satisfied? How long can you stand the heat Out of the doorway the bullets rip To the sound of the beat look out Another one bites the dust Another one bites the dust And another one gone and another one gone Another one bites the dust Hey I'm gonna get you too Another one bites the dust" Today is a different day, and today there is a different quitter. And

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Preggies? Today I was compared to a woman in labour. Another buddy quit today. Before me. She was my junior when i was a first year senior. I was talking to another friend saying it was sad. I wondered aloud: "when is it going to be MY turn??" She responded: " it will be soon, very soon" Followed by: "that's what they always say to women in labour too" Nice nice. Only 33 more years til

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Last Man Standing It is Friday, and I have done 3 hours of chargeable work this week, despite probably actually having about 50 to do. Jay Kim is close, but not quite at my level of inefficiency, coming in at 6 hours. Nerdia has fallen off the face of the planet, probably meaning that she is working overtime like a MOFO. Based on my unofficial research, we appear to be the only three people

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HML "God must hate me He cursed me for eternity God must hate me Maybe you should pray for me I'm breaking down and you can't save me I'm stuck in hell And I wanna go home" ...I mean...everything is GREAT!

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