MOAR OT: Whatcha all working on/doing this afternoon?
Some of you enjoyed this thread last Friday so I figured I'd strike it up again today.
I'm not going to do a damn thing for the rest of the day. The majority of my business people are at the Wells Fargo Championshio down here at Quail Hollow (which is a beautiful course, by the way) and I'm stuck here. So I've decided to take a flier for the rest of the day. My plan is to:
1. Do some research on YouTube to become a better Battlefield 3 multiplayer. There is a staggering number of videos and I intend to spend a good 2 hours watching some.
2. The little dude is coming up to the office to monkey around a bit. He loves visiting daddy at work.
3. Probably going to hit up Chick-fil-A for a chocolate milkshake before we head for home.
4. Profit (no pun intended).
Whatcha all up to on your end? Anything exciting?
P.S. I'll be playing some Battlefield 3 late-night tonight (starting at around 1am). if anyone is interested, PSN me and we'll shoot some enemies.
tip back some brass monkey in honor of MCA. Nothin else.
Great idea. That sounds vile though, despite the fact that it is so well intentioned.
I'm bumpin the greatest hits right now. RIP That Funky Money
Adding random numbers on my 10 key calculator at regular intervals to make my boss think I am working while I peruse the internets.
ice skates.
falling asleep at my desk due to lack of sleep from Avengers
Up late at the midnight showing or just couldn't sleep like a kid on Christmas Eve?
Credit and financial analyses - I need to regularly check in here so I don't go mad.
The best thing to do on a Friday! As someone who works in the Auto industry... it's so much paperwork. You have no idea how obnoxious getting anything done on a car is.
Ben, what do you do in the auto industry? Work for a dealership?
BSME 2009 from Michigan, I work for a tier 1 (and sometimes tier 2) auto supplier outside Chicago (not where the company is headquartered) as a product engineer. I work with OEMs to design components that they want and then work within the plant/manufacturing side to get them made.
Gotcha, I work with a technology company that produces software solutions for dealerships. We are based out of Chicago, but are nationwide. Thought we might have known some of the same people.
I've only been at the job since August and I deal mostly with OEMs. It's a fun industry though, and definitely a fun time to be in it. Politics aside, before the economy went boom in 2008 (right before I graduated... wasn't that awesome) Americans bought 16M cars a year like clockwork. After the April numbers came in it seems like 14.5-15M is on the table for 2012... which is pretty sweet for the industry. Tons of new cars are coming out all the time, pretty much the whole mid-size (D) and compact (C) segments are new. The sub-compact (B) segment just came to the States... it's a great time to be a car nerd.
Setting up an Oracle JDBC datasource on an Apache Tomcat server, since you asked
Nice! You're a nerd after my my own heart
for real. Developing a forecast of my employer's NCAA revenue for the next fiscal year.
Crafting a report informing a nuclear power plant how to load their latest batch of fuel. And then finishing opening up my pool so I can float around drinking in it until October/November.
Pretty sad, but completely understandable. You have an addiction and we are your enablers.
I was trying to follow the MLB playoffs on my honeymoon in Greece in 2004 with no laptop/smartphone. I was upset at the lack of info until I realized the Yankees were collapsing against Boston. Let's just say I'll always remember that playoff year, though I deny it happened since I was out of the USA.
Updating a water network with GPS I collected yesterday. Not as exciting as it sounds. Laid off the Swiss Cake rolls and Coke this week because I had Waffle House for lunch. I was going to make a comment about your #2 activity until I realized your kid was involved. The first sentence still makes me laugh (yes, I am a ten year old). My daughter's molars are coming in so I'm sure I'll have a pitiful little girl waiting for me at home. I actually enjoy her wanting comfort since she's become so independent recently. Happy weekend all!
Posbang thread.
I'll be doing MCAT stuff from now until I pass out around 2 tonight. Probably going to grab some delicious tacobell in a bit to break things up though.
Since you mentioned it, I think I'm going to posbang my own thread. I've never done it before and it sounds fun . . .
[Edit: I was right - it was very enjoyable.]
I've been posbangin my own thread for years ;) Sorry, we are in the midst of a high risk pregnancy and I haven't, well, you know, for a while.
*Insert Kate Upton GIF here for 74polSKA*
I can't as I'm on my phone at the moment.
Good luck to you both, kind sir!
Thanks. Our daughter was 7+ weeks early, so it's not completely uncharted water but any reassurance is welcome.
I wonder if anyone has made a second account, gotten it to 100 points, and then used the secondary account to posbang themselves all the time.
This sounds a lot like a dutch rudder from "Zack and Miri Make a Porno"
and if you dont know what a dutch rudder is...I warned you.
Quail Hollow as in Charlotte? A mere stone's throw from where my grandparents used to live.
I don't think this is going to be a productive afternoon. Check back next week when I've actually started my job. I did put the screen windows up this morning. That probably earned me my evening drink(s) later on.
Yes sir. Charlotte is a great city.
Your mom.
It had to be done.
not a thing...just graduated, grad school starts in July, so couldn't get an internship. I will also be checking the mgoboard about once every 10 minutes to alleviate the boredom.
Glad somebody is curious...
I am finishing up some statistics on the relative contribution of various planning areas with our service region of the company to the backlogged jobs in the design queue. It's not terribly interesting unless you plan to attend a meeting where they will be asking your group why it takes you so long to design work for electric distribution systems.
Yes, I admit...I have an Excel problem.
Taking the kids to Kalahari Water Park in "ohio", going to relax all weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Watching my students take a stats exam.
Paired sample t-tests, ho!
Seeing patients until 5PM
Probably will hit Annapolis with the wife, doggy if it doesn't rain. 50 cent oysters at McGarvey's until 8PM!
Raw or steamed? How do you prefer?'
Just be careful with the wife and the dog around... I hear oysters are great aphrodisiacs.
Raw. They are delicious. HepA risk be damned.
My dog has been fixed so no worries, and heck, my wife wants a kid anyways, hahaha.
Bom-chicka-bom!
Just bullcrapped my way into a Chick-Fil-A convention for execs and scored some free (quality) food. A suit and a few neologisms will get you a long way. Apparently neither the long hippie-type hair nor the fact that I'm 15 years younger than everyone else tipped them off...
I'm sure Truett Cathy would appreciate the ingenuity. Free food is always good.
And no, they didn't have chicken. The stuffed mushrooms were delicious though
I'm in love with chicken biscuits...glorious food.
Wrapped up my patient follow-up and email early for the week, so I'm going to get some non-work tasks done at work, while refreshing mgoblog every 5.
I imagine a section of the newspaper and the lovely extra tall, throne-like toilet in the handicapped stall will feature prominently in my afternoon