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Y'all know me so well.

Swift wrote:...If we want to have a "who hates their job more" contest, I'll wave the white flag and let someone else win.

i apologize, swift. truly, i didn't mean to offend you and yet i seem to have.

no, no 'who hates their job more' contest. i don't hate my job. i'm detached. perhaps it's the fact that i'm on the other side of the country. perhaps it's the fact that whatever nonsense it brings me could never cut as deeply as other events. or perhaps it's that i've been t this so long that there's nothing new and i simply say, 'yep, that's pirhana being pirhna. and joe being joe, vlad being vlad ...' you get the idea.

code monkey wrote:

Swift wrote:...If we want to have a "who hates their job more" contest, I'll wave the white flag and let someone else win.

i apologize, swift. truly, i didn't mean to offend you and yet i seem to have.

no, no 'who hates their job more' contest. i don't hate my job. i'm detached. perhaps it's the fact that i'm on the other side of the country. perhaps it's the fact that whatever nonsense it brings me could never cut as deeply as other events. or perhaps it's that i've been t this so long that there's nothing new and i simply say, 'yep, that's pirhana being pirhna. and joe being joe, vlad being vlad ...' you get the idea.

No problem. Its all good (which sounds like the wrong thing to say for BMR lite ).

Swift wrote:....... Its all good (which sounds like the wrong thing to say for BMR lite ).

Damned straight it does, we WANT BLOOD!, so go donate some

code monkey wrote:or perhaps it's that i've been t this so long that there's nothing new and i simply say, 'yep, that's pirhana being pirhna. and joe being joe, vlad being vlad ...' you get the idea.

When I started at a "large aerospace firm", one of the middle managers came off extremely aloof and so direct as to be insulting, so much so that another employee felt the need to apologize for the behavior later, saying "that's just John, he's not as bad as he used to be." I was there long enough to see the scene re-enacted through multiple iterations, where a generation would apologize to the next, in those words, and then that generation would pass it on to the next as they arrived. I never saw any behavioral change, that I could tell, but each group swore John wasn't as bad as he used to be.

You can get used to alot of things.

One should not be required to take a class entitled "Public Speaking". That is all...

Yeah,

hap wrote:One should not be required to take a class entitled "Public Speaking". That is all...

Ah... Speech class... you too?? I'm finding that if I have a choice, I go first. That way, I'm done, it's over with and I don't have to stress over it any more. I'm also really good at "winging it"... Last one I did, I was over prepared, and it sounded like I was "reading an essay"....

keep reminding yourself that neither your classmates nor the istructor is allowed to physically harm you.

In fifth grade I had to read a poem out loud as part of English class or something. I fell apart into a quivering ball of jelly. My sophomore year I had to take an entire semester of "Speech Class." It didn't go horrible. At work 18 years ago, we took a "Train the Trainer" class in preparation for my work group taking our presentations on the road. I did okay but did have a meltdown during one where I had to run out of the room. In Tae Kwon Do, we had to lead classes and tests barking out orders and instructions to large rooms full of practicing martial artists. I'm getting a little better.

Two years ago I lost a very close friend of mine who left behind a loving wife and two beautiful daughters at the age of 48. I got up and looked out over this packed room in the funeral home full of friends and family, most of them strangers to me. I told them about what Don meant to me. I told some stories that most did not know about him. I suggested what we might be able to learn from his passing. People laughed, people cried. I'll never forget his father's face, who I'd only met once before, coming up to me afterward, tears streaming down his face thanking me for what I'd said.

It was the hardest thing I'd ever had to do in my life. I'd practiced what I was going to say constantly for a week. I never got through it. That day, I got through it. It may sound weird but that may have been my finest moment. I don't know if any of those classes helped, but...

code monkey wrote:keep reminding yourself that neither your classmates nor the istructor is allowed to physically harm you.

Gosh, that's motivational.

One of the ways I'm weird is that I don't really mind public speaking; I couldn't even tell you how or why, but I've done it for a long time and it doesn't bother me.

But calling up a stranger on the phone, like for something at work, that I have to get my courage up for.

hap wrote:One should not be required to take a class entitled "Public Speaking". That is all...

I suppose I don't have so much of a problem with this. ... (watch the video)
http://www.fox9.com/news/25848348-story

pumpkinpi wrote:

hap wrote:One should not be required to take a class entitled "Public Speaking". That is all...

I suppose I don't have so much of a problem with this. ... (watch the video)
http://www.fox9.com/news/25848348-story

Nice!

Thumper wrote:

pumpkinpi wrote:

hap wrote:One should not be required to take a class entitled "Public Speaking". That is all...

I suppose I don't have so much of a problem with this. ... (watch the video)
http://www.fox9.com/news/25848348-story

Nice!

Very nice

pumpkinpi wrote:

hap wrote:One should not be required to take a class entitled "Public Speaking". That is all...

I suppose I don't have so much of a problem with this. ... (watch the video)
http://www.fox9.com/news/25848348-story

Wow! Fox News actually reporting news... without fear.

Good job!

quote="Thumper"]
Two years ago I lost a very close friend of mine who left behind a loving wife and two beautiful daughters at the age of 48. I got up and looked out over this packed room in the funeral home full of friends and family, most of them strangers to me. I told them about what Don meant to me. I told some stories that most did not know about him. I suggested what we might be able to learn from his passing. People laughed, people cried. I'll never forget his father's face, who I'd only met once before, coming up to me afterward, tears streaming down his face thanking me for what I'd said.

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I've struggled with both public speaking and public singing. I am actually a really good singer, so most people don't understand my fear of singing in front of audiences. I don't even understand it. Last year, my uncle died, and my cousin asked me to sing at his funeral. I was determined that this time, I was not going to let fear hinder my performance. I was nervous. I was so nervous that I sneaked in one of those little airplane bottles of vodka. Five minutes before my performance, I drank it, when no one was looking.

It was actually the best public singing performance I've ever given. Next up - sing without drinking a shot of vodka first.

I have no problem getting up in front of lots of people with an instrument in my hands. Make me have to say something, and I turn into a big heaping mass of "I don't want to!" with a healthy serving of "You can't make me!" on the side.

Both Mrs. T and The Kid are fantastic singers. Both have sung publicly before. Mrs. T was in a band, The Kid used to do talent shows and open mics when she was, well, The Little Kid. Now they both have stage fright...go figure.

I've had a cold for about a week and I'm still in the runny nose, sniffly, foggy-headed phase. Not horrible, but highly annoying.

We are working on this very important developmental level order with a big customer. My boss and my co-worker are at the equipment vendor making greenware, to be shipped back to me for screening and firing. My boss is very nervous about this order, and he gets even more crazy and anal-retentive when he is like that; he is driving me nuts.

Last night my car gave me all these brake system error messages and the brakes are definitely not great today. I've had this same problem several times, and it seems each time it is one last thing to fix on the stupid thing. I have an appoint at the dealer tomorrow, but I'm pissed. I'm seriously torn between not throwing money at this car and squeezing another year or two out of it (it is at 168,000 miles); I don't want to pay for even a better used car at the moment.

None of these are particularly big deals, but the collection of them sucks.

Brakes? You don't need no stinking brakes!

geonuc wrote:Brakes? You don't need no stinking brakes!

Sure, just drag my feet on the ground... it worked for Fred.

lol

So when I start the car this morning: no warnings, no warning lights, brakes seem fine. Went to the dealership anywhen. The fellow I dealt with said "I hate cars" (about intermittent problems). So now we wait to see if it does it again.

Did it not store any codes in the OBD?

If you were interested, you could list (or PM me) the Make Model Year etc. and what you noted of the symptoms. I can check with mechanic buddies to see if there is a known issue or any TSB's in the data base.