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  • Today’s German word of the day is Schadenfreude.  And boy, did I have to work hard to not bust out laughing at a really inappropriate time today.
  • Irish Woman and I took the kids for a canoe float down at the park.  I like to call it “You paddle, I’ll pull”.
    • Next time, I’ll check to make sure the water’s a little deeper.
  • Came home to find a 20 pound bag of chestnuts on our doorstep.  I love our neighbors.
    • Now I have to look up how to process and use them.
  • It is good when you have to do work in front of your manager’s manager and everything goes right.
  • It is also good that when something goes wrong, it is not within your sphere of responsibility or influence.
  • Things that go through your mind as you clean out a closet – “When did I buy a telescope?”
  • One of the beta readers pointed out a simple grammatical mistake which, according to the word processor’s find function, I committed no less than 218 times.  Yeah, my 9th grade English teacher is up in heaven weeping right now.
  • It’s not every day that someone calls out of the blue and asks for your resume, but Irish Woman got that call last night.  This could be interesting.
by daddybear71 on September 22, 2014  •  Permalink
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Posted by daddybear71 on September 22, 2014

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4 Comments

  1. Old NFO's avatar

    Old NFO

     /  September 23, 2014

    Telescope = LONG range spotting scope… 🙂

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    • daddybear71's avatar

      daddybear71

       /  September 24, 2014

      Very long range. Interestingly enough, this one has a little red-dot scope for aiming. There are actually instructions in the box for how to zero it so that you can put the dot on whatever star or constellation you want, then look at it through the telescope.

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  2. Drang's avatar

    Drang

     /  September 23, 2014

    “It is good when you have to do work in front of your manager’s manager and everything goes right.
    “It is also good that when something goes wrong, it is not within your sphere of responsibility or influence.”
    It is less good when neither your manager, nor your manager’s manager, nor the doofus who has nothing to do with your chain of command but your manager’s manager thinks he’s the SME, have enough of a clue to realize that the cataclysmic failure has nothing to do with you and that you and your subordinates are, in fact, doing a bang-up job dealing with it.

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