Whatever hell-spawned infection I came down with has gotten worse in the last day. Accordingly, staying home from work. The extra four hours of sleep should've helped ( Read more... )

Ok, so, this week, I sent a draft of a white paper to a coworker, for her to review. She came back to me, and suggested that I might want to change the wording in a part of one of the discussions of a hypothetical case to not include the words "flowing heavily" in reference to a pipeline. She said that it didn't sound like I was talking about ( Read more... )

At work, this happened:

Scene: Two men and one woman are having a conversation. The two men are at their desks, and the woman is standing a couple of feet away. Your humble author takes his place in the scene, standing more or less between the two desks, the only available space.

Woman: "What'cha lookin' at, [Man 1]?"
Man 1: "Sfida's ass... Kinda ( Read more... )

Also, I now have a new Zen QuoteTM (Warning: Some Wikipedia links may not be entirely worksafe):

Monica: "So, Zen, how was the Folsom Street Fair?"
Zen: "It was great; there was lots of nudity. Nick, I got you something..." [pulls out what appears to be a set of alligator clips] "...a set of nipple clamps."
Sfida: "... ... ...Thanks? Um...wow. Oh ( Read more... )

Last night, went to Mixers and Elixirs; basically, the Houston Museum of Natural Science plus food, music, and alcohol. The museum is fun, but it's even more fun with a glass of wine in your hand.

In the Hall of Shiny Things, there is an amethyst geode big enough to be a throne, and roughly the right shape for one. I think an amethyst geode throne ( Read more... )

I'm finding that a lot of the people that, four or five years ago, I thought were complete assholes, are people whose company I now enjoy greatly. More than anything else, I think this has to do with me lightening up a bit.

In TOTALLY UNRELATED news, I had dinner last night with Everyone's Favorite Jehovah's Witness and his wife. Cool lady.

Is drunk email as bad as drunk dialing? Is it worse? Because I totally almost did that.

My friend Jason once told me (when we were freshmen in college), "Never drink to get a girl out of your head. It doesn't work. It makes her fucking omnipresent." He is definitely correct ( Read more... )

I am very behind on my CAD class. This is a problem. Compounding this problem is that I've become sick now that I'm relegated to the disease factory that is the ME LRC.

Anyway, I'm looking up some things for this project.
Sfida: "Okay, what the hell? I'm looking up flanges, right? And look what the first image is."
Jillian: "...What is that? ( Read more... )

Sfida: "Apparently, Britney is back at the top of Yahoo!'s Most Searched List. And all it took was climbing out of a car with no underwear."
The Kitty: [laughs]
Sfida: "That's sad, isn't it?"
The Kitty: "I don't know. I doubt Britney's poo-nanny smells like roses, but I can think of worse things in life."

Copied from an email I sent out a while ago:I just realized that "Testing & Analysis" is abbreviated "T&A".

I really wish that that weren't the only T&A I was getting at all this semester.

Ah, the life of an engineer.