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“It's been slow at my work lately, though it will get very busy starting next week. Here's a few of the things I've been doing today since I have NOTHING to do at the moment.

1. Calculated the time I think a big storm is going to hit here (first rain drops at 3:20pm ET)

2. Surfed the internet, but the waves are seemingly pretty flat at the moment.

3. Stared blankly at screen, pretended to be working when footsteps/swishy pants were heard outside of office.

4. Ate lunch early because I was bored (red beans & rice, peanut butter sandwhich, pineapples and strawberries).

5. See if I could successfully throw strawberry stems in wastebasket from across room. I'm proud to report I was 4 for 4. Eat your heart out, Kobe.

That's it so far.”

“1) checking TT
2) reworking my Gear spread sheet
3) trying to look busy when people walk by

Boss is traveling, so its slow right now.”

“I've finished all my work for this release, so I'm in a slow period too. Wish they'd go ahead and let me work on stuff for next release.

Anyway, I'm
1) checking on TT and posting to a thread here and there

2) Listening to everyone else's typing

3) Waiting for a call from the car dealership saying, "your truck is in"”

“1. Read posts on TT.
2. Posted to TT.
3. Reviewed the tourist guide for SLC.
4. Spent time talking to a cute chick over in marketing.
5. Read my mail and dictated a couple of letters.
6. Went back over to talk the the chick in marketing again.

Around here it seems like I work in two speeds, go and stop.”

“1. Walk around and talk to the cute chicks ( like chili36 ).

2. Eat junk food

3. Surf

4. Call friends that HAVE work to do and bug them.

5. Juggle my schedule so someone else will have to do my work.

6. Go to my friend's office and hide.

7. Order hiking gear off the internet that I don't need.

8. The list goes on...”

“So MDS, you think Chili is cute?”

“1) wishes there were cute chicks to talk to in my office (one of the drawbacks of working in technology)

2) repeat 1) as needed....”

“1) Discuss the finer points of potato guns w/ boss's son (who is also slacking)

2) Pretend to be doing some accounting (by having Quickbooks window and TT window both open, I can flip back and forth)

3) Call and talk to Newergirl on the phone, she yelled "noo Mama" and dropped the phone (apparently playing w/ her buds in my mom's daycare)

4) Sold about $500 worth of S4S 2x material to a local minister

5) Tried to get fellow TTers to tell me how to alleviate my small town boredom”

“Vacation?? Again?? Oh, okay.... I'll go... That was a pretty tough twelve days, though.”

“Another one for my list:

7. Daydream about what the cute chick in marketing would look like in a thong bikini.

8. Heck, begin to wonder what the cute chick in marketing would look like in no bikini.”

“I do the same thing almost every day...

Waste as much time as possible :)

Check email, post on message boards, check bank accounts, credit card accounts, shop on ebay, look at sportbike movies,
Like this one talk on the phone... etc”

“All worthy time wasters Tarp”

“Things I've Been Eating At Work Since It Is Slow:

1) Granola Bars
2) Uncle Ben's Rice Bowl
3) Yoplait Yogurt
4) Snickers
5) Smoked Almonds
6) 3 cups of joe
7) 7-Up
8) Shared nasty Skittles w/ Boss's son
9) now for lunch . . .”

“We just had a fire alarm! It was false though.”

“Man, that is some freakin' excitment!”

“Yeah, but by the time I walked down six floors worth of stairs and got to the bottom, the security guards told everyone it was a false alarm. Would have been nice to spend some time outside, but oh well, at least I got out of the office.”

“Yeah, nice break. I usually pretend that I need to check on 4x4 stock or I check the mailbox about 80 times. These are my little excuses to get out the door.”

“It seems they work on the fire alarm system here every three days.

It does not inspire confidence in the fire alarm system.”

“If we had a fire here, it would be a huge ordeal. It's a freakin' lumberyard!!!!!”

“watch out for that sawdust pile....”

“I can relate to that.. seems to go off every few weeks here, but the alarm in our offices don't work. Have to rely on hearing it faintly from the speakers or whatever in the hallways. Apparently the alarm was going off for a while but I was on a conference call so I didn't hear it.”

“When we have a fire in the hospital, someone announces over the speaker system...

"Dr. Red, calling Dr. Red!
Please report to the 4th floor."

That means there's a fire on the 4th floor.

Ok, I'll shut up now.”

“Artex, the codes for alarms here would ensure you could hear it. I get a headache everytime it goes off.”

“It's painfully loud here.

The alarm will go off and a security guard will announce (in his best broken english) that
"Maintense is werkin on da fier larm sistun, puleez iknore all fier larms unteal furder no-ice. Tank U."

I feel secure in that the barely literate security foce will save me when the constantly in need of repair fire alarm system fails to work.”

“Yes, he really does sound like that.”

“Dreaming about my new golf clubs. They came in yesterday. Went out and shot the best 9 holes of the year, 41, with a seven on #5.

Wondering what the cute chick in marketing looks like with a thong on.”

“Counting down the hours until I leave for a 4-day trip to north east Yosemite.

As of noon...5 hours to go!!”

“What the heII was I thinking? We don't have a marketing department.”

“Perhaps chili will post pics of his cute chick in marketing, so the rest of us can spend time daydreaming about what she looks like with a thong on.”

“The fire alarm here is when somebody goes running to the door yelling "fire!"
God, I hope nobody here comes to work in a thong! Aaauuuggghhh!”

“I think there is some data base with pics. Let me see if I can find it.”

“I knew I could count on you, chili...”

“chili, find one that looks like you so MDS won't be disappointed...”

“bp, check your mail”

“Wow she is a cutie. I'd try and make time with her, too....

Sorry, MDS, she looks nothing like chili....”

“Chili, I'm a bit bored.. how about sending me the picture also? Click on my name, address is there.”

“1)Plan my trip to Canada's West Coast Trail in August.

2)Look outside: I have a window! Have window, will daydream...”

“Working my bottom off today, but we still get lunch. This is the drawback of infrastructure engineering during the summer.”

“Damn chili, don't blame you one bit..! She's a cutie!”

“Is she coming to the Sipsey Reunion trip?”

“Chilli is a freakin guy? What the hell!”

“no tarp rat, I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body”

“bp, I wish. But who knows.”

“I am thankful for complex macros processing large files and overworked servers.”

“Well she sure as heck won't if she reads this thread. Unless she enjoys having old perverts imagine what she looks like in a thong....”

“Speaking of fire.... It looks like the new high school, two blocks from my house is going up in smoke.... guess school's out!

Hey 43withkids - Let me know if I can offer any assistance, or info, for your WCT trip”

“hey chili..i wanna see the cute chic in marketing, my boss is pretty hot..but married. *grin*

Hmm i dunno if miss opie needs to go work over there with you MDS

I was bored so i threw darts for an hour or so”

“Should I just email to Miss Opie first?”

“Okay, here's what I did for the last couple hours:

1) Finally got off TT for awhile.

2) Watched vehicles speed past on the highway, trying desperately to get away from my tiny town as quick as they can.

3) Tried to read for my summer session class. Decided I no longer care.

4) Ate another Snickers.

5) Harassed the guys out on the yard w/ the radio.”

“One of them finally told me to put the radio away. I guess I'm not allowed to play w/ it ever again.”