Your Ipod should be pretty clean when you get it back. I think they have to wipe it 20x before they can return it. Unless they have modified those regulations.
I am SOOOOOO glad I am not your security custoadian! LOL
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Your Ipod should be pretty clean when you get it back. I think they have to wipe it 20x before they can return it. Unless they have modified those regulations.
I am SOOOOOO glad I am not your security custoadian! LOL
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Originally posted by QueenGOP
Hey Wizz, nest time can you reverse the image, from this angle I'm on the left.
Yes, Dear. Fixed as requested.http://ducati.bayarearidersforum.com.../smilies/4.gif
Yay! I am here. And I have rejoined both the 20th century (phone with consistant dial tone) and the 21st century (digital cable and high speed internet access) on the same day. It took a while, and I had 3 service appointments today, but it all seems to be working.
My movers didn't break much. Really, so far I found one broken wineglass (that my friend packed) and some handles snapped off my media center. But the handles could have just shattered in the cold as well as being broken by being bumped. All in all, I am very pleased. My computer and other electronics all seem to have survived the process. I even think even the lightbulbs are OK. Not bad.
And being in Maryland means I had about 6 inches of snow, not the over 12 inches my brother had in New Jersey or the 2 feet mom and dad had in MA.
Apartment seems fine, but I can't tell any more since the whole living room is filled with book boxes. I couldn't unpack them before now because I was still dealing with phone/cable/etc. people maybe wanting to access the ports behind the bookcases. Now that all the tech seems to be working I can start loading in the books.
Oh, and Whole Foods is damned expensive. I'm going out in search of a normal supermarket soon.
And it turns out that my apartment has a microwave so I didn't even have bring the microwave and its stand with me. I'm going to get someone to take it away for charity - Salvation Army, Good Will, someone. I think that I am finally ready to let Grandma's octagonal sofa end tables go too. They went with her style, but they really are ugly and are going to be too bulky to frame my sofa in the middle of the living room. No one else in the family wants anything to do with them.
So, I have food, shelter, heat, light, internet, telephone, cable TV and lots of unpacking to do. And I start work in a little over a week and a half. I finally think I can handle this.
But moving still sucks. Especially after nine years in the same apartment.
Polly
Welcome to the area! In Arlington we only got 2 inches of snow (yawn) Be warned, very few people around here know how to drive in the snow. The city shuts down with 3 inches of snow. Hell, when it drops below 20 degrees out schools are delayed in opening because it is deemed to cold for the kids to wait for busses.
Whole Foods has really good quality stuff but is expensive. I like Harris Teeter. The Deli is really good and the prices are competitive. Truth be told, the only reason I go there is the Deli and the Produce, I think they are better then Safeway and Giant. (shrugs).
Oh and the Metro will have some type of break down at least once a week, just be forewarned.
If you are interested in purchasing Crusade on DVD do so now. Apparently, JMS has succeeded in having his commentary removed from the DVD set. JMS had struck a deal with WB that he would provide commentary for the DVD set as long as WB included the entire commentary and did not edit it. WB agreed. When the DVD's came out JMSs' commentary was on it but it was greatly edited. WB had removed all of JMS comments on how the show was messed with. JMS was pissed.
The next pressing of the DVDs will come out without JMS commentary. Which means that the sets out now will become a bit of a collectors item. So, if you have not bought Crusade yet but are planning on doing so, now is the time.
Thanks for the head's up. I'll try and pick it up tomorrow.
I found the following sig on Slashdot
Hope you enjoy it as I did.
It takes a village to raise a child, but it takes a Viking to raze a village.
Nice topic..I like this board
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Welcome to the board talfighel, are you are a sci fi fan?
Hi, everyone.
Well, I survived my first week of work. I think I am going to like it. They put me in the special projects section, instead of the "help resolve specific things that came up in audits or examinations or requests for rulings" section. My boss is very glad to have me. And he keeps saying so, too, which is almost unheard of in my experience of bosses. We had a meeting to put together our group's joint comments on some proposals by another group on Friday and my suggestion was actually the preferred option for one of the 9 proposals. I did something useful. Yeah! Actually, writing up the combined group comments for my boss was the most useful thing I did, but it was fun to include my own idea in the memo.
The worst part of it so far is dealing with the human resources end of stuff. We went to orientation where I sort of expected to fill out some of the forms and be given enough useful information to allow me to fill out the other ones. No such luck. I have no idea which health plan to pick and no information to help me decide. I guess I hit the internet HARD tomorrow to try to figure it out.
I did take the oath office - you know, "protect and defend...all enemies...foreign and domestic..." Somewhat different than the oath you take to join the bar as an attorney, but not hugely so. I've already done that one three times, so this didn't seem so monumental - serious, but not monumental. That is a little disappointing. I think it should have felt monumental.
Oh, and it turns out that we were given the wrong form to fill out on our security background checks. The woman who gave them to us messed up and to try to correct her mistake, she wanted us to fill out the new ones while we were at orientation. Exactly how I was supposed to reconstruct every time I had been outside the country in the last 7 years without any of my personal information with me, I have no idea. Eventually, I had to rely on the dates on a program from some plays I saw in London to figure out when I took one trip. Glad I didn't toss all those programs in the move - I very nearly did. We all decided that her mistake wasn't our crisis and turned in the forms on Thursday instead of Monday.
I am in a cube, but it is fairly OK cube (good amount of storage space and a decent chair and the desk has an adjustable keyboard shelf), though not all the walls are 5 feet tall, so the privacy is minimal. My computer, internet and e-mail all function (which is nearly unheard of for the first week) and I have been promised access to the good legal research tools soon. All in all, am excellent first week. I think I can handle this.
Oh, and first day off is President's day, a week from Monday. Very nice, but we definitely did not start during the big end of the government holiday season. Next official day off won't be until Memorial Day. Still haven't talked to my boss about vacation, but I know when I want to take some (week in August and the Friday after Thanksgiving), I'll just have to see if he approves.
I did take the Metro to the Air and Space Museum during lunch on Thursday to get birthday presents for my cousin's 3rd birthday. It took a lot longer than such a trip would have taken in NYC. Things seem much farther apart than they look on a map in DC, while in NY things are closer than they look. Very odd. I think he will like the kid sized soccer ball with stars all over it and the blow up space shuttle. It was nice to be able to spend the money without freaking out or feeling guilty.
Work - its a good thing.
-Polly