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by oz_media

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Well every May we celebrate a single day for the 365 other days that our mothers are our mothers.

I move to make today December 17th, 2004 TR's SPECIAL Mothers Day.

I was just talking to my mother and she has been helping me with some contracts I am working on by running around her area and picking up forms, getting paperwork notorized etc. all in an effort to ease MY day as I am a long way and a fair chunk of change away from her corner of BC. I had developed relationships when I livedin the her area and still need their services for some issues.

So enough about the why's and what fors, MY mother is a mother to me EVERYDAY and has been for nearly 36 years now, I often wonder how she does it, I was not an easy teen (as if any are)and that's assuming I am any easier as an adult.

So anyway, I move to make December 17th SPECIAL Mothers Day. So call your mother, or your daughter if SHE is a mother, and have a chat dammit!

Buy your wife some flowers and shock the living sh*t out of her or go out for Mother's Day in December. If not for me, do it for her and if not for her then the shock value will definitely be worth it!

These brave and powerful women deserve another day of recognition for all they do.

Geez, I might even call the ex wiff! (Nah) :D

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by mrafrohead

I love to get my wife flowers for no reason. She always gets so surprised, it's worth the look on her face. I just hate spending 75-150 bucks on flowers when they only last about a week. ;p

Mrafrohead

by oz_media

Go visit someone ELSE's mothers grave and just steal the flowers, remove th eRIP banner and you're good to go.

THat way you are visiting someone's Mother, cleaning up a nice park, and getting flowers for your own. Flowers are a visual and aromatic joy, something you cannot enjoy from 6' under know matter what god you believe in.

MUAHAHAHAHAHA! ]:)

by hal 9000

Just for the hell f it I got a roasting and it continued for hour as to what I'd been up to. Needless to say never again if she wants something she can get it herself. I'm all for a quite life and I do not need the problems.

Col :D

by oz_media

In your case it seems women are best used for hand to hand combat or just for laying down and avoiding, kinda like a bottle of Watney's Red Barrel.

You got in trouble for opening a door (you sexist pig you), I think if you bought a women flowers she'd slap you with a sexism lawsuit.

Better just let this one be any old day in your case. :)

by mlandis

That you were fooling around with a motherboard, and were coming home with computer no. 26 for her to trip over!

Maureen

by mlandis

That you were fooling around with a motherboard, and were coming home with computer no. 26 for her to trip over!

Maureen

by gbrownlee

Funny you should mention buying the wife flowers. When I was in town this morning, I picked up a very nice pink poinsetta for my wife. I picked pink because its the color of what I'll be seeing lots of, tonight, after she comes home and sees what she got, just because.

Its the little warm heartfelt gestures that women and men appreciate.

Happy weekend !

Greg

by oz_media

Maybe you can post the pictures somehwre for us all to see just how happy she was!

Or just let me know and I can stream the video for you.

WOCKA WOCKA !!! Badum-dum. :p

by oz_media

No mum, its a mothers day wreath HONEST, the man said do!

"What man?

The man from the cat detector van!

What CAT detector Van?

The cat detector van from the ministry of Owsinge."

Sorry, so sorry, I really meant to go elsewhere and ended up right back on the Python path.

by oz_media

Since leaving the city I have grown very fond of whales and wildlife. The more wildlife I see, the less I respect people. Can't wait 'til I'm an old man, I can just see me running around naked in the bush with one of those big old ZZTop beards to keep my nuts warm!

by hal 9000

That way.

I just try to avoid them as much as possible and then I have the standard response of "What Have I done Wrong Now?" That at least seems to work.

Col :D

by hal 9000

And today I've had to sit down and watch an entire Gall Bladder removal operation streamed to video in an unknown format as there where many errors on it which I had to fix.

I really think I need to stay home more as I'm getting far too many of this type of work recently.

It really puts one of eating particuarly when you have a surgeon standing over ones shoulder complaining that he wants to see the operation not look at a liver. I just said "Aren't you hungry now?" and then "Didn't your mother teach you to enjoy Liver?"

I think I need to stay in more rather than go out more.

Col :D

by house

Strange. That reminds me of the hospital where I was on contract. Our little storage area was in an inactive morgue.

The drawer marked "autopsy saw" was full of rj-45's. There were strange chains and levers. Everytime I dropped some type of hardware through one of the "slab" holes, I would have to lift the section up and grab it from an old stained drain. We called it the "ghost" room - double meaning I guess, since that's where our ghosting took place. I remember picking up the phone and saying "Morgue" with a really loud and blunt voice. Some of the senior administration began to wonder about us.

We also found a dead cockroach the size of a fist. We had it on the desk right beside one of the main doors. Everytime an IT person would walk in, they'd say "cool". Anyone else usually screamed and ran. What is it about IT that has us sitting down with a dead roach to drink our morning coffee among dirty slabs and autopsy tools?

house

by hal 9000

Once upon a time I used to work in a Class 1 Clean Room and it was a sterile place with absolutely no fun to be had at all really boring actually so I had a half full ash tray sealed in epoxy along with a pack of cigarettes on my work bench and when things got too much I would just say I'm going to have a smoke while you guys settle down. This always accrued when some senior manager was in the place and they went right off the deep end when they say the ash tray. But eventually they worked it out and just complained we where all a bunch of "Mad Bastards" so it's probably better to keep away from them or we most likely will become contaminated by them.

It really worked out well but putting a bunch of IT guys in a disused Morgue is the best one that I've ever heard of there would be some fun to be had there and the best bit is that no one could complain.

Col :D

by hal 9000

Thanks Maureen you have just given me a way of getting even more computers in here. A few flowers would be a small price to pay for some extra processing power.

"She Who Must be Obeyed" actually didn't complain when I brought a new LT a few weeks ago but I think she believes the people who trashed my old one are paying for it I didn't have the heart to tell her differently.

They ran over it with an excavator as I had it sitting on one of the tracks doing some diagnostic when the thing when it just took off by itself exit one LT CRO and a lot of other expensive gear after all it was only a 80 ton unit so it shouldn't have done that much damage if the units where only made better.

You are supposed to have all that junk in the cab but as I'm not authorized to drive one of those things and there just isn't enough room I had then sitting on the track while I was illegally in the cab connecting up some patch leads what made it worse is the thing wasn't even running but it had been recently so there was still a lot of hydraulic pressure available well enough to move it about 10 feet anyway which was just enough to run over all my equipment.

It only brought home to me that "No good Deed Ever Goes Unpunished!"

Col :D

by mlandis

If only they were built better?

I am seeing this in s-l-o-o-o-w motion. You couldn't predict it, and once started you couldn't stop it.

Where is Uncle Tony when you need him? Sounds like you are the one who needs the (ahem) 'patch'ing up?

It was propbably a good thing you didn't tell your partner what happened. It would be hard to resist saying nothing negative about the whole incident.

Maureen
Maureen

by hal 9000

And had no idea of what was happening or how to stop it. All the levers where in the park position and as I do not usually play with these things "well what could I say" I would love to see a film of it as I'm still laughing just thinking about it now.

What made it even worse was that after all my equipment was destroyed I found the problem a wire had come off one of the computer controllers which the fitter had not picked up on his visual inspection so he asked me could I connect up the diagnostic gear and run a scan with my LT.

These things are really fun there have been a few incidents that I wished I could have filmed but the best one had to be where a 40 ton unit which had been parked for a lunch break slewed returned to the park position "only problem" was that there was a brand new Range Rover in the way that the bucket and boom proceeded to wreck literally cut it in half.

I don't know if you have ever seen "Best Defense" but I can not help but remember that excavator every time I see the out of control tank flatten the Mercedes the only difference was it was really slow on the part of the excavator but it was unstoppable.

I should have mentioned that the Range Rover belonged to a local Politician who had only come out to see how the work was going it was removed in two main pieces with quite a few smaller bits just dug into the ground. But it was really impressive to see.

Col

by house

Trust me, there was fun to be had there. We used to crank out the tunes and drum on the slabs. Disturbed crew indeed. It was the main spot where we kept all of our backup hardware. Anything from spare monitors, workstations, printers, etc. It also had a shipping bay attached so we could receive product directly without going through the shipping and receiving area. It makes me wonder why they would need two massive bay doors in a morgue.

We actually had an entire floor reserved for IT upstairs, but the morgue space was necessary because the hospital, HRSRH, serves as a central location for many of Northern Ontario's health centres. We always joked about how one day, we will take over the world. It's still expanding, and that expansion is what I am constantly looking into. The more clients that they serve, the more IT staff they will need. Help desk is currently at 3 right now, with a total of 6 in rotation, but in early 2005, It's been predicted that they will need a few more. I hope to squeeze in during that time frame, but I do not want to go to another town in order to represent the central base.

Chris :)

by hal 9000

The big doors are to get the stiffs out to the undertakers. Over here I've seen them stacked on gurneys and just pushed by the load sideways to the loading dock which again is a necessary part of any morgue.

While I've never personally seen this I have heard of the folk who work with the medical cadavers actually make a "Giant" out of several bodies they throw one with their legs hanging over the ens another with their hear sticking out the top and one on each side with an arm hanging down. They then proceed to wheel these four bodies around in public places if they can walk up the side of a road way so much the better as the people driving past panic and tend to run off the road by rubber necking.

While the IT types are 3 parts mad to begin with those that deal with medical cadavers make us look sane. I've long since escaped that whole thing but I still have friends who work in hospitals and constantly come to me for advice particuarly after one of the new staff managed to roll a new color HP laser down several flights of stairs and completely destroy the thing. apparently people where jumping out of the way as it proceeded in a self destructive path down the stairs. Like all good Government Departments they had spent their allocated replacement budget so they had it repaired because money was available for that option and even though it cost 3 times as much as a new printer the repair was considered as a complete success. I went over there a few weeks ago now just to drop in to see someone and still found some parts of that printer.

Anyway this particular place has a microwave link to 4 other local hospitals so it is the hub of all activity and they are slowly "read that as very slowly" bringing the system into some sought of working state as each hospital has different systems and even then in different parts of the hospital they have different systems again ranging from Unix Servers to Windows Desktops with the odd Apple thrown in for good measure it's a real mis mash and a totally useless setup.

But I'll have to suggest the Morgue Idea to some of those guys they would just love it no end.

Col :D

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