Today? Rocks!

[tehluggage]

Tomorrow, the world! Ahahahaha!!!

...Ahem.

Anyway, apropos of absolutely nothing, not only is there a metric fucktonne of snow (eeeeeeeeee), apparently I have two extra weeks of vacation that need to be taken before the end of the year.

Helloooo, end of November/start of December skiing!

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[fangses.livejournal.com]

That's...funny. It was pouring when I went running this morning (srsly, soaked through ten feet from the door, through the windbreaker I was wearing) and then warm and sunny the rest of the day.

Weather, man.

The vacation sounds awesome, though!

[tehluggage.livejournal.com]

Man, sorry for not being around these last few days, but what with the weather and trains and lousy internet in the snow and ACB oh my god it's awesome, well...I've been busy. Ought to be on tonight, though! If only for a few hours. ...I hope.

[chili-factor.livejournal.com]

That's an effin' megagram, I tell ya what. The metric system continues to niggle me. I find something pretensiously continental-European about describing practical measurements in terms of decimals.

I was both glad an annoyed to hear about the holiday thing. I'm sure you are acquainted with my bitching on the matter, but at the same time I am pretty well burned out after protecting the guarantee all summer and am looking forward to some time off: I'm taking the Dec. 6 week and getting the other one paid out. It pains me to let good time off go to waste, but that $25 a day just isn't going to cut it for a whole pay half!!

I am loath to interrupt lavish ski vacations, but might I suggest that one day in that week should involve Toy Story?

[tehluggage.livejournal.com]

Oi, metric is awesome! There is nothing practical about a system of measurement that uses as its base the length of some dead English guy's foot. (There is in fact some historical basis for this, but let's not let pedantry get in the way of a good rant, eh?).

Metric just makes sense. And as a sort of math-challenged person, it is infinitely easier to convert from, say, kilometres to centimetres simply by moving the decimal.

[chili-factor.livejournal.com]

I guess you can't argue with the math part. The breakdown of miles to rods to yards to feet to inches is rather obscure, but in the real world, feet and inches are appreciable distances (especially for anyone that lives on a country road or who ever builds anything out of wood) and metres, kilometres, and the like are essentially valueless quantities because it's not the way that our country, or any, for that matter, was designed.


And besides, it's discriminatory. Everyone's so big on base-ten. I happen to support multiples of four.