Well, I hope you had a tolerable New Year. I went to the festivities downtown and enjoyed myself, but was a little pissed off about what happened at midnight. There was no countdown, and the fireworks appeared to have started a little early. That made for some confused "Happy New Year, I think!" greetings. The fireworks also left a little to be desired, but I may have just been spoiled by last year's.
There is one good start to the year though. I'm finished training people for now! Yay! And I have all two-day weekends! Or I did, but someone asked me if I could work for them this Friday and I said okay. So three two-day weekends in a row! Yay! Just think of how much sleep I'm going to get... You know you're getting older when you look forward to weekends for the sleep they afford. It'll be so nice. Heck, I can lay my head on my desk right now and go for a snooze. Well, I can't, but you know what I mean.
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Just a friendly little reminder... The word "lose" only has one "o," as in "I hope I don't lose my gloves." If you add an extra "o" the word then becomes "loose," as in "These gloves don't fit, they are too loose." I can't believe how often I come across that extra "o." It's getting to be so often "lose" is starting to look wrong. That's bad when so many people don't know how to spell a simple, common fucking word (and by the way, graffitti vandals, it's "fucking," not "fucken." If you really must shorten it, the correct way is "fuckin'" (note the correct use of the apostrophe, another sore spot)).
I can barely tolerate "u" in place of "you" though I do look down on most people who use that as not too smart or just really friggin' lazy. I was reading a post on a message board last night and the author used big words, well formed, and not a single typo as far as I could tell but for some reason he kept saying "u" in an otherwise literate post. It just blew my mind. I've read about university students failing essays and such because they would use that form. Un-freakin'-believable. That's what happens when people start to use bad spelling on a regular basis. U kno? Dis isn't spiffeh. It's lame. Just very, very lame.
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by Tabby at 1/04/2005 01:15:00 p.m.
