Dream Silently

Walking through the store today with LN, she gave me a wonderful memory to keep in my back pocket whenever I need to make myself laugh. We went passed the bras, she turns to me and goes, “Kristina, do you need some boobies?”

LN is russian for those who don’t know. I love hanging out with her for moments exactly like those. Languages can be such a blast sometimes.

The room mate thing is not going to be panning out unfortunately. I am slightly disappointed, though I did get a clean house out of it. And, well, I do enjoy being by myself (or with Joe).

In other news, Apophysis has just released an update. I’ve been playing a little with it, but really don’t see a whole grand scheme of changes. I would share a few images, but my ImageManager plugin just went to hell again. Later, perhaps?

Spin that word around I dare you.

I’ve had a rough couple of weeks. Tonopah was a nightmare. Just about anything that could go wrong, went wrong, and throw in triple digit heat and I owe those drillers a case. And right before we finished, right before we drilled that last 30 feet that would of sent me home cheering, the drill rig buried itself. We had to get a CAT to pull it out. I have pics so I’ll share later.

This week found me trying to catch paperwork up, while juggling and filling in on other people’s jobs. And I have to go in tomorrow because I haven’t finished. I would hold off until Monday to do it, but I’m headed to Denver for two weeks to help write reports there.

I feel special.

Mom is excited, that’s for sure. I got this huge long e-mail from her about this and that. And the whole time I’m thinking, “Mom, I’m not a needy teenage kid. Make sure there’s just coffee. Love you.” She sounded slightly worried because of the lifestyle changes she’s had to make with the gastric bypass. If anything, I was cheering when I read about the lack of soda and the surplus of fruits and vegetables.

Joe is also good. I got one of his letters today and I broke down at the end of it. I think its the dose of estrogen in addition to the need to catch up on sleep and stress. I’m sure it’s obvious, I don’t want him over there. I want him with me so badly. I wish my government wasn’t ran by a bunch of idiots. And I didn’t vote for the current one, so, yes, I can say that.

On other news, might be getting a roommate for a month and a half. She’s coming over tomorrow so I can show her around a bit. I’m probably going to let her move in while I’m in Denver too. She sounds cool. I’ll fill in more later.

And since the cats are starving and the house is a mess, I’m going to close and say adieu.

Dear creators of the Pentax camera,

Your camera is awesome. Today, I got to run it through heat resistance testing, not on purpose of course. And the results were surprising.

While working in extreme conditions where wind, dust, and sun are usually my primary concerns, I was melting wax to cap the end of a Shelby Tube. The firm I work for is a geotechnical firm, and since I’m the cheapest engineer in their hire at the field office, I’m the lucky one that gets to go out on site and collect samples for testing purposes. Shelby tubes recover undisturbed soil samples by being pushed into the soil, and are required to be capped in such a way to keep the contents from being shook up.

My crew, the drillers, went to get water. I was keeping myself busy by prepping wax and such. To melt the wax, I was doing it on a propane stove with a pot on the back of my tail gate. I stepped away for a mere ten minutes, going into the cab with the AC turned on high. While I was in the truck, a gust of wind came along, knocked the umbrella I was using to create shade with over, and things went up in smoke.

By the time the flames were put out, anything within the vencity of the flames (paper and plastic) were nice melted lumps. While sifting through the melted lumps of unidentifiable things, I pulled out your camera. The viewing screen was slightly buckled and cracked. Putting it near the AC in the truck, I cooled it down, and then attempted to turn it on.

It came on and the viewing screen even worked. It even snapped and stored the picture.

I was seriously amazed.

Your camera freaking rocks.

Sincerely,

Me

I had an interesting day. Minus that I’m still slightly shook up and lost 50 feet worth of data and samples. But the cold one I’m drinking right now is definitely soothing my nerves.

I was going around, reading my regulars, and then realized I was missing out on the fun! My sentence rocks.

I ran over a ninja because I’m sexy and I do what I want.

From this post at Karnov’s and B Sheep’s.

Work the 3 tables below, then: type out the sentence you end up with in the subject line of a blog post and copy this text. Also, link back to the blog you read it on. DON’T LEAVE ME HANGING ALONE!

Pick the month you were born:
January——-I kicked
February—–I loved
March——–I karate chopped
April———-I licked
May———- I jumped on
June———- I smelled
July———–I did the Macarena With
August——-I had lunch with
September—I danced with
October——I sang to
November—-I yelled at
December—-I ran over

Pick the day (number) you were born on:

1——-a birdbath
2——-a monster
3——-a phone
4——-a fork
5——-a snowman
6——-a gangster
7——-my cell phone
8——-my dog
9——-my best friends’ boyfriend
10——-my neighbor
11—- —my science teacher
12——-a banana
13——-a fireman
14——-a stuffe d animal
15——-a goat
16——-a pickle
17——-your mom
18—- —a spoon
19——- a smurf
20——-a baseball bat
21——-a ninja
22——-Chuck Norris
23——-a noodle
24——-a squirrel
25——-a football player
26——-my sister
27——-my brother
28——-an ipod
29——-a surfer
30——-a llama
31——-A homeless guy

Pick the color of shirt you are wearing:
White———because I’m cool like that
Black———because that’s how I roll.
Pink———-because I’m NOT crazy.
Red———–because the voices told me to
Blue———-because I’m sexy and I do what I want.
Green———because I think I need some serious help.
Purple——–because I’m AWESOME!
Gray———-because Big Bird said to and he’s my leader.
Yellow——–because someone offered me 1 ,000,000 dollars
Orange ——–because my family thinks I’m stupid anyway.
Brown ———because I can.
Other———because I’m a Ninja !
None———-because I can’t control myself.

Now type out the sentence you made and put in your subject line and copy the text of this post.

Don’t forget to link back to the person that tagged you!

I actually came back yesterday and I’ll be heading back to Tonopah sometime on monday. The motor for the hammer on the drill rig is busted. The drillers are being UPS’d the replacement, but brown can’t guarantee a delivery time because Tonopah is considered the middle of no where.

Lovely, non?

So, I was looking forward to sleeping in as late as possible today. And guess what time my biological alarm clock went off? 0500. Add the fact that the cats like to wrestle on top of me, and its been a great morning.

I’m bored, bored to tears.

So, a bunch of random facts:

1. Dream Silently is 1 year old.

2. I have 175 posts and 319 comments. HAHAHA.

3. Wordpress is driving me nuts with all the frequent patches and upgrades. My version is behind once again.

4. I still have a mild migraine.

5. I’m a workaholic.

6. I miss Joe, which is what makes me number 5.

7. I gotta mid year bonus.

Yeah, I’m drawing blanks now.

Oh, Daz|Studio reopened their new site. I think it looks cool, a little on the hard side to navigate now, so I thought I’d share.

I think I’m going to go wash my truck now.