This is the first of two weeks of active duty.

Blogging will of course be sporadic over the next few days.

In the meantime, here is something to think about.

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I hope  you all have a happy and prosperous 2008! 
UPDATE: Congratulations Brendan Loy!!


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We have survived the biggest Christmas season evah!

Well I'm not sure about the reindeer.....

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Christmas Hell is almost over.

This has been by far the heaviest Christmas ever. My little neck of the woods exceeded its all time highest package count by almost 25%.

This is almost certainly not typical of UPS but I imagine the company did rather well. I suppose the online orders are responsible for this happy state of affairs.

Today we go in early for the annual Christmas Party, we load the remaining parcels and those that go out in the trucks don't come back until the trucks are empty. We'll get every present we can out tomorrow.

I work all week save Tuesday and start my 2 weeks at the USCG next
 Tuesday. It's been a rough couple of weeks, but its nearly over.

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Your IQ Is 125

Your Logical Intelligence is Below Average Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius Your General Knowledge is Exceptional

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Today is the day to give thanks.

For me there is much to be thankful for.

Not landing on the rake when I fell off the roof for one.


But there are many other things both more and less profound that cause me to feel exceptionally blessed.

However, I'm going to take this moment to give thanks for one of the greatest moments of broadcast TV EVAH!!!



UPDATE: Via Murdoc, the outcome.
UPDATE 2: Wonderduck reports that due to rights issues the DVD collection is pretty much unwatchable.

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Today, my second day back to UPS, the floodgates opened and a tsunami of cardboard chaos consumed the building. We got hit quite a bit harder than anticipated.

Tomorrow is supposed to be vastly worse, and actual Christmas season hell is not set to begin until Monday.  On the up side...Overtime!!! On the down side...Wauuugh!!!

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  Back from the Coast Guard. Today was quite busy as we tried to clear as much of the inspection list for the active duty people for next week.

   In about 15 minutes, for the first time in 6 weeks, I'm heading out to work.

   Yay!

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Bitch, bitch bitch....Bitch. That's why the banality is below the fold....

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After several days of improvement I took a turn for the worst Friday.
I may actually need spinal surgery. I'll find out Monday or Tuesday. It took me an hour to put my shoes on last night and the pain is pretty much constant.

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 "A"s in all exams taken...current grades in all for-credit classes... "A"

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Last night, I got up from studying.....

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Waugh! Aieee!!

Light Posting ahead!

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Nothing to see here citizen.....just life more...

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I was rear-ended at a stoplight tonight.

The bumper on the pickup of peril is folded under the bed.

I am super sore.

The truck drives...I'm in one piece....just a painful piece. 

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No casualties were incurred.

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Japanese test (done)
Math test (done)
Biology test (done)
Make up Biology lab (done)
Asian History paper  (done)
Cut lawn (nope not yet)

what else...what else...

oh yeah ....

MY LITTLE SISTER

 IS GETTING

 MARRIED

 TOMORROW!!!!

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  Early Wednesday morning I leave for Japan.

The implications of this are just beginning to fully register, specifically the fact that....

HOLY FREAKING CRAP!!!
I'M  ACTUALLY GOING TO JAPAN!!!

I should, you know, pack or something.

This morning I had another flat tire on I664.  As I was changing it the highway assistance people showed up. This was welcome as the blinky lights dissuaded anyone from  turning me into an overage student road pizza, but I was largely finished by the time the truck arrived.

Most disturbing was his surprise that I knew how to change said tire. It seems he'd changed 5 over the course of the weekend. Yeesh!

Off to study Japanese....oh...and pack.

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Between the box tsunami that is Harry Potter and the short-handedness resulting from vacations and "summeritis" UPS has been a zoo.
I'm tired of work and fearful of something happening in the next few days to botch the trip. I've still a zillion things to do.

7 days till I leave for Japan...
I just...

I know I really shouldn't go on about this...
...so I'll let this here imaginary grrrl do it.
Take it away Tomo...

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1

For future reference, you may want to avoid using foreign characters in your post titles. Minx chokes and can't create a direct link to the post. Try adding a comment to (or even click into) your テスト post.

Oh, and おめでとう.

Posted by: Will at Wed Jul 25 15:57:38 2007 (SOx9v)

2 Well dang!

Thanks for the heads up!

Posted by: Ken Talton at Wed Jul 25 16:33:58 2007 (V5zw/)

3 I would say that's a bug, and Pixy should be alerted.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wed Jul 25 17:48:25 2007 (+rSRq)

4 Yes, I've sent him an E-mail. 

Posted by: Ken Talton at Wed Jul 25 18:00:34 2007 (V5zw/)

5 Workin' on it!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wed Jul 25 21:41:34 2007 (PiXy!)

6 Aha.  It's working as designed.  It's just that there's a tiny flaw in the design.

Minx generates individual entry URLs from the post title, but to avoid generating invalid URLs it strips out anything other than the usual alphanumeric characters and allowed punctuation.  So accented letters and non-Latin characters won't be included in the URL.  If the entire title is in Japanese, it can't generate an individual entry URL at all.

Two ways to fix this.

1. In the options section for the post, you can manually update the post URL.
2. I can tweak the code so that in such a case, the system generates a numeric URL based on the post ID, like... so.  If you now edit and save the post, this should take effect.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wed Jul 25 22:00:10 2007 (PiXy!)

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