What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Luke]

If you need to drown your food, you're all doing it wrong.

Steak sauce is an abomination unless you're cooking with it. A decent french fry needs nothing, but a small dunk in ketchup or horseradish is fine.

Smile: Another snow day. Roads still look awful, but I've heard via local news that the main roads are starting to not look so dangerous.

Frown: Due to the snow days, my wife's Spring Break is kaput.

Smile: I enjoyed our unexpected snowy vacation and preferred it over an extended weekend at some beach.

Snow forts? Check
Snowball fights? Check
Recreating a scene from Empire? Check
Writing things in the snow Check
Long snowy walks to get groceries? Check
Car problems? Eh. It's not the weather's fault the battery went out. Check.
Sledding down the driveway? Check
Pulling somewhat jerky pranks?* Check
Eat super spicy chili outside? Check
Set off firecrackers? Check
Spend five minutes with my wife watching My so called Life and then going upstairs to play Genesis games? Check



*Maybe "prank" isn't the correct word. In short, my wife, my friends, and even my parents and I have an ongoing battle of who can get the most snow on someone with by using the tactics of a jerk.

For example, ask someone "Didja see my new shoes?" and as soon as they bend over a bit, kick snow onto their face. My Sister once covered one of her knitted mittens in balls of snow, and when I wasn't looking she grabbed my back collar and threw it down my shirt.

Twas cold.

[dsheinem]

how much snow do you have, Luke?

[Luke]

how much snow do you have, Luke?

We had around a two inch thick layer of ice covered by around 4" to 6" of snow. Word around the city is that we got 8" to a foot, and that could be true for some areas, but our neighborhood didn't get as much.

When I shoveled the driveway I was allowed to wear a hockey sweater and my hockey gloves, but got a firm NO when I asked if I could wear my Jason Goalie mask.

[J T]

Ticked; the boss-man where I work is so politically correct. Like, *too* politically correct. He's one of those fuzzy wuzzy liberals, and I don't have any problem with liberals or anyone who thinks differently for that matter. But this guy takes it to another level. I work in a very black part of Syracuse. Not that it's a problem. But the boss fired a girl yesterday for calling a customer black. Which the customer was. I don't ask to be called "European-American." No. That'd be silly. And, as Louis CK has said, just because I call someone gay doesn't make me a homophobic person. The word is so widely used and I consider it to have three meanings.

1. Gay; state of happiness.

2. Gay; homosexual culture.

3. Gay; something irritating.

I know I might get some flack for posting this. But I just hate how politically correct everyone feels they need to be. Just say what you want. And god damn it, take everything in context!

I assume that you also believe that calling a mean and stingy African American person a niggard is a perfectly reasonable and acceptable thing to say. Just like telling a lesbian she is being totally gay to let her know she is being irritating to you is also a linguistically sound choice of words, right?

[Jmustang1968]

The use of the word niggard or niggardly has nothing to do with a slur.

[Luke]

I assume that you also believe that calling a mean and stingy African American person a niggard is a perfectly reasonable and acceptable thing to say. Just like telling a lesbian she is being totally gay to let her know she is being irritating to you is also a linguistically sound choice of words, right?

I've heard the use of the word niggardly used in business meetings where no one seemed offended.

[Jmustang1968]

I assume that you also believe that calling a mean and stingy African American person a niggard is a perfectly reasonable and acceptable thing to say. Just like telling a lesbian she is being totally gay to let her know she is being irritating to you is also a linguistically sound choice of words, right?

I've heard the use of the word niggardly used in business meetings where no one seemed offended.

Those who would be offended are ignorant. Unless, someone was intentionally trying to be cute with its usage.

[Ack]

Ticked; the boss-man where I work is so politically correct. Like, *too* politically correct. He's one of those fuzzy wuzzy liberals, and I don't have any problem with liberals or anyone who thinks differently for that matter. But this guy takes it to another level. I work in a very black part of Syracuse. Not that it's a problem. But the boss fired a girl yesterday for calling a customer black. Which the customer was. I don't ask to be called "European-American." No. That'd be silly. And, as Louis CK has said, just because I call someone gay doesn't make me a homophobic person. The word is so widely used and I consider it to have three meanings.

1. Gay; state of happiness.

2. Gay; homosexual culture.

3. Gay; something irritating.

I know I might get some flack for posting this. But I just hate how politically correct everyone feels they need to be. Just say what you want. And god damn it, take everything in context!

I assume that you also believe that calling a mean and stingy African American person a niggard is a perfectly reasonable and acceptable thing to say. Just like telling a lesbian she is being totally gay to let her know she is being irritating to you is also a linguistically sound choice of words, right?

And I assume you've never had a black person become angry because you called them African American, when in face their family was Melanesian. Black folks aren't all from Africa.

[Stark]

http://www.giveforward.com/blog/hemopha ... tiocytosis

My daughter is in a blog about HLH. Good to see people getting aware about the disease. She's been doing really well and is at Day +12. She has a really bad attitude, but its easy to understand why, we're going on 2.5 weeks straight in the hospital and since she's feeling good, she's confused and annoyed that she's stuck there.

[fastbilly1]

Good to hear shes doing well Stark.

Smile - If the automated reporting is done correctly this weekend, I should be done with my yearly goals at work on Monday. Our fiscal year began 12/22, so I had a few extra days, but I was on vacation from 12/22-1/2 and was sick for three days last week. What does this mean in the grandscheme of things, nothing at all. But it means that I have completed all long term projects that my company thinks someone in my position should take a year to complete in about 10 days, ontop of my team making quota.

Ticked - I am exhausted and have a long drive head of me tonight.