Good Tuesday Morning, Crew!

[Clintmax]

:donut::hi:
Welcome to a hideously early, Early Morning Crew! I have to be to work at 6 am today, so I'm having to get a extra early start.

My 4 day weekend is now officially over and I actually feel like I had some time off! :bounce: Usually, when I have a couple of days off in a row, they go by so quickly I don't feel like they even existed. So, it is good that I've had the time off!

Are you ready to get the day started with me even though it's so early? I hope so, because it's here!

Song Of The Day: "Crash And Burn" by Savage Garden

[Clintmax]

1. CURRENT EARLY MORNING CREW MEMBERS

• AirmensMom
• AussieDave
• Bigwillq
• Billyskank
• Bridgit
• Buddhamama
• BuffyTheFundieSlayer
• Bzzzz
• CallMeWesley
• Cannikin
• DanCa
• Entanglement
• FoxMulder
• GalleryGod
• Heidi
• Hissyspit
• Jamastiene
• Joan_Alpern
• Khashka
• KitchenWitch
• LizzieGrace
• Mdmc
• Minnesota Libra
• MissHoneychurch
• MrsGrumpy
• Mutley_r_us
• Newyawker99
• OhioBlues
• Redwitch
• Robeson
• Sbj405
• Scooter24
• SeattleGirl
• SimplyFugue
• Southlandshari
• SugarSmack
• Swimboy
• Tjwmason
• Wetzelbill
• Whoa_Nelly
• WildHorses
• WritingIsMyReligion
• XemaSab

[SeattleGirl]

2. Mornin', darlin' Clintmax!

Sorry you have to be up so danged early! That sucks, but you know, you have quite the posse of admirers here (including me), so hopefully we can send you off to work with a smile on your face! :loveya:

[Clintmax]

3. Morning, Miss Seattle!

:hi::hug:
Thank you, my dear. I always leave with a smile on my face every day, so I'm sure today will be no different. :loveya: How has the night been so far? Anything exciting going on?

[SeattleGirl]

4. Well let's see....

Tomorrow i have a meeting with my supervisor and the company owner (someone is trying to sabotage me -- there's a thread about that).


The good news is, my daughter just got engaged, and I am so happy about that!

[Clintmax]

5. Someone is trying to sabotage you?

:mad::grr:
They better be glad I don't work there! I'd turn them over my knee and give them a good :spank:! I'll have to go see about this in the thread...

I know how happy you are about the engagement! I'm so happy for you and the couple too! :bounce::party:

[SeattleGirl]

7. Yep. She has a history of that.

But at least i have my Lounge friends behind me, and my happiness at my daughter's engagement to balance out the bad stuff.

[Clintmax]

10. I wonder sometimes how people get and then KEEP their positions.

:shrug:
She has NO business being in that high position if she's going to conduct herself in this fashion.

[SeattleGirl]

12. Beats me

I think she intimidates the hell out of a lot of people. But I tell you, I'm getting mighty pissed about the whole thing. I'm not 5 years old, and I don't need someone making sure I dot every "i" and cross every "t".

[Clintmax]

14. Yeah, that's what I was thinking too!

Sometimes I think people get power high and like it when people are scared of them. If I were a district manager, I would NOT have it for people to be scared of me and dread my coming to their store.

[khashka]

6. Hey Cap'n Clint!

Yep, you got the best of the best here :)

And we wish you the best! Have a great day!



Khash.

[Clintmax]

9. Hail, Khash!

:hi:
I haven't talked to you in FOREVER, Mister! How the heck have ya been?

[KitchenWitch]

8. Hi Clintmax

I have been sleeping during your morning threads of late!

I can't sleep today, had a family funeral yesterday and I am grieving the loss of Kirby Puckett.

[Clintmax]

11. Morning, Miss Kitchen!

:hi::hug:
I've been missing you too! I'm so sorry for your loss, my dear. There is nothing worse than a funeral, I feel. I didn't know Kirby Puckett died. Jesus.

[KitchenWitch]

13. He (Puckett) had a stroke (brain aneurysm) Sunday

and died late yesterday afternoon.

The funeral was for my mom's uncle who was a WWII vet, and in his eighties. He died of CHF.

[Clintmax]

15. I'm so sorry, my dear.

:loveya::hug::hug:
It's hard to lose someone like that regardless how old they are.

[KitchenWitch]

17. He had some very interesting stories to tell

I sure hope his children recorded them. He was in the Army very late in the war and was in Europe. He was there when the war ended and stayed to help "clean up"

[Clintmax]

19. I'm sure he did!

I hope someone wrote them down also...those stories are gone with him if they didn't.

[tjwmason]

16. You're on-line before I am today.

:wow:

:hi:

I'm still settling into the office - haven't even started to drink my coffee.

Is Greekspeak still away?

:hug:

[Clintmax]

18. Hail, TJ!

:hi::hug:
Yes, it's an extra early day for me. Have some coffee with me, Man. :donut: Yes, Greekspeak is gone until monday next week. :cry:

[tjwmason]

21. I'm having it now.

Can feel the caffeine starting to work its way into my veins. :D

Keeping busy with work will probably help the time pass more quickly until next Monday - in the meantime, if there's anything I can do to help just let me know. :pals:

[Clintmax]

23. Thanks, TJ.

:pals:
I'm going to do what I can to make the time go by as quickly as possible. Being here with you all the crew will certainly help. :hug:

[tjwmason]

25. We're delighted to be able to do anything we can...

I'm now getting more switched on - J.S.B. and his St. Luke Passion is playing, which is very cheering. :D

[Clintmax]

30. That's good then!

Cheery music at work is a MUST! I'm glad you'll be here with me, Man. :loveya:

[tjwmason]

34. It's not really cheery music.

But cheery music would just make me pissed off at the moment...the utterly sublime nature of it dramatically improves my mood.

:loveya:

[Clintmax]

40. We're going to do some Country music when I get to the store!

:woohoo:
I have many many CD's I've made and the receiving supervisor likes country as well...it will be a good time!

[tjwmason]

49. Is that before it opens?

Or do you get to choose what music you have on when it's open?

[Clintmax]

51. No, that's before we open.

We don't open until 10am, so we'll have about 4 hours of Country! :woohoo: I'm off to get ready now, TJ! Talk to you tomorrow, Man!

[HEyHEY]

20. SOng of the day? Are you in Hade's town?

[Clintmax]

22. Morning, HEyHEy!

:hi:
Hade's town? Nope. DU Town. :rofl:

[HEyHEY]

35. Too bad you're a guy

"tallahasie Laddie" doesn't sound as good

[Clintmax]

39. LOL!

Too bad indeed. :rofl:

[MissHoneychurch]

24. Good morning Clint

what an early nice surprise :)

Did I mention that I am now very excited and can't wait till it is September?? Three weeks U.S.A. :woohoo:

[Clintmax]

Morning, Miss Honey!

:hi::hug:
Well thank you! It IS a nice early surprise isn't it?! I can't wait for you to visit the U.S. in September! It will be a great time I'm sure! :woohoo:

[MissHoneychurch]

31. You can show up whenever you want

it will be always nice to see you. :hug:

I will have a great time. And imagine all the DUers I am going to meet. :bounce:

[Clintmax]

36. Yes, and I hope one of them is ME!

:bounce::party:
It's VERY exciting!

[MissHoneychurch]

44. You can be sure of that

we will talk on the phone definitely and if we get as South as I think we will then there is no chance that I will miss out on that. And I am sure Joani would love to meet you too.

[Clintmax]

48. I sure hope so!

I must get ready for work now, Miss Honey. I have to be to work soon and need to get going. I'll talk to you again in the morning, OK? :hug:

[tjwmason]

27. Good morning Miss Honeychurch.

:hi:

It certainly sounds like you're going to have a most splendid time over there.

[MissHoneychurch]

32. Good morning tj

I am going to take billskank with me as my hand luggage. As what should I take you?

[tjwmason]

38. billy sounds like interesting hand luggage

I'm not sure how he'd fit into the over-head locker...

Sounds like I'm just going to have to stow away.

[MissHoneychurch]

45. We will find a way

:7

[northofdenali]

26. Finally, FINALLY, I am in the same day!

:bounce:

[Clintmax]

28. Well hello, Northofdenali!

:hi:
How are you today?

[northofdenali]

37. Great. Sir Clint!

But then again, I haven't been to bed yet, so it's still kinda Monday night for me, and I'm going to have to have a kittenectomy before I can get to sleep..........

It's snowing!! :hi:

[Clintmax]

41. I can certainly understand THAT.

Needing the kittenectomy! Down here in Florida, it's going to be 80 degress today, so no snow for me! :bounce:

[northofdenali]

47. Sending some good wake-up caffeine your way -

Kinda heavy on the oil, but basically a good coffee:

[Clintmax]

50. Why thank you!

I'll try it and let you know! :rofl: :hi:

[Jamastiene]

29. Good Morning to you too.

I'm still nursing the medicine fog after-effects of that bad headache I woke up with yesterday. I will, sadly, have to go to bed soon if I am going to call the school about my "award" guests. I'm apparently going to Raleigh in April to meet some politicians about the college. They picked two of us to go and apparently they think I can talk the politicians into giving the school some more money. It's something to do with the soon-to-be-gone 4.0 GPA I have had for the last 2 and a half years. Damn physics class. I know it'll be the one to do me in. I just can't understand the concept that putting on the brakes is actually accelerating in the reverse direction. I always thought you had to change gears entirely to do that. I don't understand the concept, but that nutty physics professor swears up and down that he is right. He's a control freak and I argued with him about it. In order to accelerate in the reverse direction, I really do think you would have to change to reverse gear and then slam on the gas. Oh well. He's nuts and so am I, but who is nuttier, I wonder. I'm doomed now. Oh well.

[Clintmax]

33. Morning, Jamastiene!

:hi:
Well I'm sorry about the physics class. I'm trying to wrap my mind around that concept now...brakes...accelerating in reverse direction...hmmmm, I'm going to have to think about this one. x(

[Jamastiene]

42. That's the same face I made at the teacher

when he pulled that crap out of his ass. I just can't wrap my head around it. It could be the cause of my headache. I just don't get it. It's too much to try to understand a concept when it wreaks of bullshit so much. :P

[Clintmax]

46. Yeah, no doubt.

I'll be thinking about this all day, I'm sure. I'm sorry you're going to lose that 4.0...if you do.

[billyskank]

52. Hi Jamastiene!

:hi:

How did your maths exam go?

Your nutty physics professor is correct. Acceleration does not mean "getting faster," it means a change in velocity. Velocity is a vector quantity, that is it specifies direction as well as magnitude. This means that turning the steering wheel causes your car to acclelerate as well, because a change in direction means a change in velocity has occurred. A reduction in speed is assuredly a change in velocity, so putting on the brakes counts as acceleration too.

The 'problem' occurs because the technical physicist's definition of the term is not quite the same as the everyday meaning of the term. You will find this a lot. Weight, for example, is a force, and is measured in newtons. What we generally call weight, in pounds or kilos or whatever, is actually mass. This is another example.

[tjwmason]

55. Good morning billy.

:hi:

How are you today?

I see that you managed to ignore my little map indignantly :P

[billyskank]

57. Hi mason!

Your map was bogus. It didn't even follow the usual convention of defining the north as everything above the Watford Gap! (And even that isn't true. What the inhabitants of Birmingham, Coventry, Nottingham, Leicester, Derby and Lincoln call their region is the Midlands. The north is Leeds, Manchester and all those places up there).

I just endured a whole hour at the dentist! Apart from that I'm okay. How are you?

[tjwmason]

58. My map was totally accurate.

The real definition is above Watford.

I don't really care what northern folk use to rebrand their northern homelands. I could call here the Arctic, it would change reality one jot.

Sorry to hear about the dentist - was it vicious? :hug:

[billyskank]

59. No, not very vicious

not like when she cleaned them a couple of weeks ago - THAT was vicious! x(

It just took too long. After about half an hour my jaw was really tired from holding my mouth open all the time.

At least she used anaesthetic that doesn't numb my whole face. I should be glad for everything I get, I guess.

[Jamastiene]

63. Does your dentist ask you tons of questions, but only

after numbing your face, sticking wads of cotton in your mouth, and sticking every shiny metal thing in the room in your mouth as well. Mine sure does. He just loves to numb my mouth up and cram it full of tools and then just ask tons of questions. He just chitter chatters away while I mumble and drool. I guess he is amusing himself when he does that. It must be funny from his perspective.

[billyskank]

66. Fortunately she isn't much of a conversationalist

I guess dentists getting pretty good at deciphering mmmmph mmm mmp phmmmm mmmmmmmmph. :)

[Jamastiene]

62. I got a 90 on the maths exam.

I wonder why the physics teacher didn't just say that. I get that better now that you have explained it. Thanks. You should be a teacher. You'd be good at it.

[billyskank]

64. Happy to help

You mean 90 out of 100, yes? If so, congratulations! :bounce:

[Jamastiene]

65. Yep. I got a 90 out of 100.

This teacher is old school too. He grades firm but fair. I'm pleased with that grade. We are now into the law of sines and will be starting the laws of cosines after spring break. I think I am understanding this part better. I just had to get through the weird algebra with sines and cosines and secants and all that. As one of my other teachers always says when he erases the board, "Let's erase all this foolishness." I kind of felt that that last chapter was a bunch of foolishness, because it didn't look like any normal trigonometry. My stepdad does trig for a living and that totally baffled him. I guess that is what makes it calculus. :shrug:

[billyskank]

67. Calculus is something different

When I learned about calculus, then I really saw how powerful mathematics is. It's magic! :bounce:

[Jamastiene]

68. I'm beginning to learn that there are ways

to find answers to brain teasers much easier than I previously thought. As I practice the maths better, I begin to understand better. I am glad you were here to help me though that last one though. It was definitely different.

I'm off to bed now. I need to call the school in the morning, well, in the afternoon now, because I stayed up all night again. Nitey night.

[billyskank]

69. Good night!

:hi:

[Clintmax]

43. Time to get ready for work, folks!

It's 5:09 am and I have to be there at 6. x( Sorry I didn't get much time with you this morning. See you tomorrow, my crew!

[billyskank]

53. See you Clint!

:hi:

[bridgit]

54. morning there, Clint, stopping in super quick, have to go out real...

soon for a re-set in the bay area :hi: :donut:

[Hissyspit]

56. Just missed you!

[NMMNG]

60. Good morning Clint!

Boy, you did come in early. I'm glad you enjoyed your time off. It's always good to have time away from work. :woohoo:

[Minnesota Libra]

61. Good Morning everyone!! It's a good day for an Impeachment let's........

....all write a letter to our Representative today.:toast: :bounce: In the meantime be good to each other and remember impeachment makes every day good!!:toast: Here's a link to get you started.

http://www.house.gov/

[In_The_Wind]

70. Darn! I missed you again!

x(

[billyskank]

71. Hi Joani!

:hi:

[In_The_Wind]

74. Hey billyskank!

:loveya::pals: How are you this fine Tuesday morning?

[billyskank]

76. I'm okay thanks

:loveya: How are you?

[In_The_Wind]

77. A little tired but I went to sleep for a few hours last night.

[buddhamama]

72. Good Morning Everyone

Good Morning, Clint!

Yay on the feeling good after your four day weekend. As for myself, I have been feeling slightly under the weather- time of year, i guess. Anyhow, here's to Tuesday :donut:

[newyawker99]

73. Good morning DU!

:donut:


:hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

75. Hi Clintmax!

Yaaaawwwwwn! Sorry your weekend is over. But glad you enjoyed it. This is the last (hopefully) really cold day for us before we get some Springlike weather. I can't wait! :hi:

[tjwmason]

78. Hello Mrs. G.

:hi:

It's turned nasty and rainy here - apparently that's what we need though. :(

Hope that you start to warm up soon.

[ScreamingMeemie]

80. Hi tj!

Rainy days are the worst in my opinion. And then, if they are windy and rainy, I don't even want to get up! Here's to a quick clear up for you. :hi: :pals:

[Cannikin]

79. Ack! I slept late. I've got 20 minutes for coffee before shower time.

[tjwmason]

81. Good morning.

I'm guessing that you've vanished now - hope you're having a splendid day. :hi: :hug:

[bigwillq]

82. Hi Clint!

Have a great day! :hi: