phattonez wrote:California summers are too damn hot.
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It was so friggen hot on my vacation it wasn't funny.
And Nevada and Arizona were even worse. >_< I now know the meaning of the words "Burning Heat"
And Biggiy, I hope your condition starts to improve.
Moving from the coast, once you get past downtown LA it gets unbearable around like 2:00. Santa Monica always feels great, I just wish that I had the money to live there.
Challenge time!Find that story thread in which I originally posted my first three South Park parodies. It was for a competition hosted by Glenn the Great (who never got around to writing the second one he promised), and I wanna reread the 'lost scene' from Episode I.
A cookie to the winner who posts the link to it here!
Luigi wrote:Easy:http://www.armageddongames.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=96842
Amaster42: Thanks for trying anyway. Here, you can have a consolation prize:
Glenn: That looks like it would have been fun. Shame you never finished it.
spyk99999: Mine are funnier.
Yay! Pirates!
It's not just California. Wisconsin's been gettin' it's fair share of the heat as well. Especially when your job involves standing outside for nine hours in hot clothing.
^^Do you mean like a costume, or a suit, or something else completely?
Costume. I wear a renassaince peasent shirt, which is thick, baggy and strapped like a straightjacket to my wrists, some renassaince pants, which are thick, baggy and itchy, and a bandanna, which serves to lock all the sweat on my scalp in. All while I'm doing large amounts of physical labor, such as pushing the swinging ships, etc. It's fun though.
I thought that there was some sort of air conditioning for suits like that.
I think you're thinking about those characters you see at DisneyWorld. I'm pretty sure they have air conditioning.
Darth Marsden wrote:I think you're thinking about those characters you see at DisneyWorld. I'm pretty sure they have air conditioning.
They do. There was a little kid who stuck a straw into the grill of one of the fans and it jammed the fan. Highlight of my trip watching this person take off when he/she found out there was no air moving inside.
biggiy05 wrote:They do. There was a little kid who stuck a straw into the grill of one of the fans and it jammed the fan. Highlight of my trip watching this person take off when he/she found out there was no air moving inside.
I wish I coulda seen that... Would have been fun to watch. :kitty:
So I was e-mailing my girlfriend when she was at work to show her a truck I found that I want to look into. It turned into a two hour go around about who is going to have a bigger truck. That's gonna be sad if my girlfriend shows up at the fire station and pulls up beside my truck just to show everyone how small mine is....what's even worse is she has the money to buy a bigger truck.
I'm never gonna be able to live it down at the fire station if that happens. I think everyone should give me $5 and a cookie.
I didn't know I was part of the AG Elite....
sweet.
Well the cookie is no problem, but...
:P I'd only be able to give you $5 Canadian.
Anyone here ever see the new Oceans 11? I just thought of that scene where the two driving brothers are introduced. With the trucks.
Yeah, 5 bucks is my limit too. I'm poor.😞
biggiy05 wrote:So I was e-mailing my girlfriend when she was at work to show her a truck I found that I want to look into. It turned into a two hour go around about who is going to have a bigger truck. That's gonna be sad if my girlfriend shows up at the fire station and pulls up beside my truck just to show everyone how small mine is....what's even worse is she has the money to buy a bigger truck.I'm never gonna be able to live it down at the fire station if that happens. I think everyone should give me $5 and a cookie.
I don't have a cookie, but would you mind taking the stye out of my eye that's been bothering me? I want my contacts back.
So I went to a Dodger game today and saw an ex-girlfriend of mine on the big screen. I go to games to get away from life, not to have it slap me in the face. At least I didn't have to talk to her.
You ever seen The Naked Gun? Your conversation reminds me of an early scene from that...
Welcome home, Frank. Good work in Beirut. We heard about it.
Thanks. l want to know one thing - is it true about Victoria?
l'm afraid so. She ran off with some guy. They got married last week.
Then it's over. All of this is meaningless. l did it for her. Everything. And now she's gone. [Stepping off the plane to a bunch of reporters] And you came down here to get a hot story, didn't you? Pictures of me
to sell your newspapers.
- Frank...
Sure, you think l'm a big hero. Do any of you understand how a man can hurt inside?
Frank, they're not here for you. ''Weird Al'' Yankovic is on the plane. [He emerges, the press go wild. The two get into a car and drive off]
What about the wedding? What was she wearing?
Don't torture yourself! Put her out of your mind.
l can't get her out of my mind. What about the guy? Do you know anything about him?
Not much. Just that he's an Olympic gymnast and it's the best sex she's ever had.
l trusted her and followed my heart. Foolishly, it seems. l'm just gonna have
to learn to forget. That's why l took my vacation in Beirut - to find some peace. lt won't be easy. Everywhere l look, something reminds me of her. [They drive past a pair of fuel storage facilities that look suspiciously like boobs]
Loans suck because they have an interest rate on them but having a loan for school I can deal with. I qualify for a stafford loan and I don't need all of it so I can send in a change form and only ask for what I need.
Now that I know I don't have to pay out of pocket I can go start working with my personal trainer again.
Last thing left is to get my mom off my back about giving her more money every month. Who in their right mind tells their kid to put off their education so they can give them more money every month?!
Apparently your mother. My mom doesn't even want me to get a job for college, I guess she doesn't want me to learn anything about life in college.
You are truly blessed if you don't have to work during college.
I haven't had to have a job during college, and it has allowed me to focus my time on my studies. Most people I know who balance school and work have poor grades.
Both of my brother's worked through college, and I know that I'm blessed, but I don't want my parents to make the whole sacrifice so that I can get a few extra hours to study.
I worked while I was at College and University - the weekend and three days a week respectively. It sucked. I had hardly any free time at all. I stuck with the College job, but ended up quiting the Uni one. Working on the checkouts sucks.
Ah, forget about it. Learning about life is for after college. I had the same thing when I went to college, my parents didn't want me working, but looking back, I can see why. (A) it ensures you have time to study, which is important, and (B) college is about much more than just taking classes, and if you're spending all your non-class time either studying or working, you're going to miss out on that. Just remember there are all kinds of things going on outside of class - sign up for extracurriculars, have crazy misadventures with friends, get yourself involved with some big creative endeavor.
Which leads to another point, all that stuff will help you prepare for the real world in terms of being sure that there's something else going on in your life besides work. I have too many friends who, after college, just got wrapped up in their work. And we're not even talking interesting jobs here, they just never figured out how to have a life outside of work.
So, I walked home from work yesterday (which is about a 3.5 miles) with my paycheck in my pocket. When I was about a quarter of the way home, I hear thunder. I recall the newspaper's weather saying there would be light rain that day. So I started picking up the pace.
It started to freaking downpour. It was like I could've taken a swim through the rain.
So yeah, I get home completely soaked. I took a hairdryer to my paycheck to see if I could save it, but there was one number (account number) missing at the bottom, so I couldn't cash it and have to get it reissued.
I hate Pennsylvania's weather. 😞
Darth Marsden wrote:I worked while I was at College and University - the weekend and three days a week respectively. It sucked. I had hardly any free time at all. I stuck with the College job, but ended up quiting the Uni one. Working on the checkouts sucks.
I worked while in high school and college. Almost every night, I would have a shift, and it really hurt my grades. I was so burnt out by the time I'd get home that I wouldn't want to do my homework, and any nights I had off, I'd want to do something fun. You might know where that ended me up. Worked my way into a depression that lead me to make the impulsive decision to join the army.
Damn, now I'm starting to think that I shouldn't get a job from Anthony's story. There has to be a happy medium. How many hours a week did you work Anthony?
I'll be working different hours every week but average is around 30. I'm also going to to be a volunteer at the fire station and going to school. I don't plan on taking 4-5 classes this quarter but just my emt basic. That class alone is going to feel like a full work load. Class three times a week plus hospital clinics.
I've got plenty of people that can help me throughout the quarter if I need any extra help. Worst comes to worst I'll just cut back on hours I work so I don't burn my self out.
edit: Now I just need to decide which time slot I want. Wake up at 5am to be at class at 8am. Take the 12pm class or the 6pm class. I go early and I gotta deal with traffic. I go late and I gotta deal with traffic. Upside to going early is if I choose not to work those days I've got all afternoon and evening free....I think I just found my time slot.
I live out in the country and my college is almost an hour away when driving in the mornings.
Yoshiman wrote:So, I walked home from work yesterday (which is about a 3.5 miles) with my paycheck in my pocket. When I was about a quarter of the way home, I hear thunder. I recall the newspaper's weather saying there would be light rain that day. So I started picking up the pace.It started to freaking downpour. It was like I could've taken a swim through the rain.
So yeah, I get home completely soaked. I took a hairdryer to my paycheck to see if I could save it, but there was one number (account number) missing at the bottom, so I couldn't cash it and have to get it reissued.
I hate Pennsylvania's weather. 😞
We had that happen to one of the guys when i worked at a local amusement park. Since he was at work, hefigured he'd just place the check on top of an oven to dry out.
He then found a bank that would take a wrinkled check with a scorch mark through it.
What bank is that? I want to make sure that I never have anything to do with them.
I don't have the chance to get to the bank very often. That is why I am glad I have direct deposit so I don't have to worry about any of this.