What made today good?

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:07 am

the grim squeaker wrote:S'ok, the painkillers are doing their job well. Have to go to physio therapy twice a week, which means catching an hour bus ride to the hospital, which is a real bummer.
Knife-crime in this country is rising all the time, I just happened to be in wrong place at the wrong time.

So stop pissing your woman off ...

CodeBlower · Post by **CodeBlower** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:49 pm

Post by **Darb** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:07 pm

the grim squeaker wrote:Having my stitches out and on the verge of regaining full used of index finger and thumb after some drunken A hole stuck a knife THROUGH my palm.

Ouch. I bet that earned a pretty grim sounding squeak.

Sorry ....

the grim squeaker · Post by **the grim squeaker** » Fri May 01, 2009 8:46 am

Darb wrote:
the grim squeaker wrote:Having my stitches out and on the verge of regaining full used of index finger and thumb after some drunken A hole stuck a knife THROUGH my palm.
Ouch. I bet that earned a pretty grim sounding squeak.

Sorry ....

Nah, t'was 50/50, it happened on my birthday celebration, spent the rest of my B-day in A&E, but I was pretty drunk so pain was minimal. Thats the last time I protect a friend of mine against a drunk with a flick-knife. NOT!

sweetharleygirl · Post by **sweetharleygirl** » Fri May 01, 2009 11:22 am

Awww, bummer for your birthday, not a great way to celebrate, at least the intoxication dulled the pain.

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Fri May 01, 2009 6:51 pm

sweetharleygirl wrote:Awww, bummer for your birthday, not a great way to celebrate, at least the intoxication dulled the pain.

It always does

sweetharleygirl · Post by **sweetharleygirl** » Sat May 02, 2009 9:31 am

What made today good was waking up to nice weather, maybe nice enough to get the Harley out, I can hope anyway!

Post by **gollum** » Sun May 03, 2009 7:49 am

Purchased all the bits for a new computer today. (My previous boxes have been off-the-shelf)

From research on components/brands to haggling over prices, it's been an interesting and satisfying experience.

Assembling and installing minimal software consumed the last 5 hours - and the old brain is bit "fried" - so goodnight.

moonwolf021 · Post by **moonwolf021** » Mon May 25, 2009 4:46 pm

Several good things have happened to me lately, but I've been too busy to tell.

My column (that I mentioned a while ago that I would be writing) on Going Green was chosen to be on the National Edition of the national high school journalism website. Read it here

I learned to dirt bike this weekend (yes, wasting gas for recreation is totally hypocritical of the hippie that I am, but it's a guilty pleasure)

At my second dragon boat race of the season, I tilled (steered) the boat for the first time. I have tilled for over a year now but this was my first race doing it. In the Finals, not 50m from the start, our rivals started to veer towards us. I screamed at the other boat to no avail. The boats crashed with their nose in the side of ours. Now these boats are some of the tippiest boats that can be paddled. Somehow I kept my team from capsizing. We continued to paddle, realizing that the officials didn't call off the race. Then, the other boat once again crashed into us. We pulled out of it and won the race by 0.01 seconds.
When we got back to the dock, it was lined with tons of people cheering us. Before I could even get out of the boat, people were shaking my hand saying things like "I've never seen a seasoned tiller take a situation like that, that well" "You made my day", etc.
For the rest of the day, people I had never met were finding me to shake my hand and talk to me. At the end of the day, the lady in charge of the whole race came to find me and tell me that she had never seen anything like that. I won the Best Tiller of the Race, which is not an award given out usually.
That was literally the proudest day of my life.

CodeBlower · Post by **CodeBlower** » Tue May 26, 2009 8:36 am

Excellent! Congrats.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue May 26, 2009 9:00 am

Congrats, moonwolf.

But what made my day good is... SHE DID IT

She= my daughter
It= getting into a one-year post-studies program, which will make her a civil servant (specialized in tracking frauds and counterfeits made on French territory, in contradistinction to Customs who are supposed to keep counterfeits and such made abroad to enter French territory). So from this october she'll get a moderate salary as "fonctionnaire stagiaire"="learning civil servant", and from october 2010 she'll have a job for life. Not just any job, but practically the very job she wanted (her very first choice was Customs, but she did not get into that program, bad luck on the exam- did not miss by much, though -OK, your second choice is not that bad!)
In this time of unemployment, this is great news!!!!!!

sweetharleygirl · Post by **sweetharleygirl** » Tue May 26, 2009 1:04 pm

awsome, good job!!

moonwolf021 · Post by **moonwolf021** » Tue May 26, 2009 5:00 pm

Follow up:

Today I found out that because of what I did at my race, I'm getting a personal sponsorship. Somebody decided to sponsor me! I don't know who or really why, but I'm really excited. Especially considering our trips are really expensive and I have very little money.

CodeBlower · Post by **CodeBlower** » Wed May 27, 2009 7:31 am

voralfred and moonwolf021 have such good news that that's enough in itself to make today "shiny" ..

.. but the roofers are at my house and replaced my battered roof this morning.

(Although, my wife didn't get to sleep in nearly as long as she usually does ...)

susanspy · Post by **susanspy** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:25 pm

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Mary Russell · Post by **Mary Russell** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:04 pm

Updating a bit here.

Today, I figured out how our neutron detectors work and how we can use the timing signals to ensure all our hits are within the region we want! That was very exciting! Granted, I was mainly just applying what I knew from another similar part of the experiment, but I didn't have to ask my professor to explain it!!!

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:40 am

Mary Russell wrote:(...) our neutron detectors (...) similar part of the experiment, but I didn't have to ask my professor to explain it!!!

Neutron detectors?
What kind of experiment are you doing?

Do you glow in the dark?

Mary Russell · Post by **Mary Russell** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:18 am

We're doing a d(n,np)n quasi-elastic experiment. In English, we bombarding deuterium (H-2) with neutrons from a particle accelerator and detected the neutron and proton from the deuteron (the nuclei of the deuterium atom). The tricky part is all the timing stuff, which I am just starting to figure out. The timing on the neutron bars is what I figured out yesterday!

We'll be doing this experiment at Los Alamos National Lab. The general setup has been going on for ten years, but this particular version was only done two years ago. The exciting thing is that no one has actually measured an nd breakup reaction before at intermediate energies! This makes it harder to read up on the experiment and write my paper, but it's exciting to be on the forefront of nuclear physics research!

Oh, and no glowing in the dark.

A little radiation and whatnot, but there's TONS of shielding!

CodeBlower · Post by **CodeBlower** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:26 am

I only understand 1/2 of what you said .. but I think I just nerd-gasmed.

The way you describe it makes it sounds extremely cool. Which suggests that you obviously enjoy what you're doing ..

Even though I only spend the day bossing computers around, I enjoy my work as well (and think everyone should be lucky enough to love what they do).

Congratulations!

KeE · Post by **KeE** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:00 am

What made today good: Babbling, play and smiles from my 3 months old daughter... Living on a farm really pays off these days. I get this little bubble of happiness everytime I decide it's time for a break.

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 12:50 pm

Almost done paying for the wedding!!

I am sooo happy it will be completely paid for BEFORE we get married.

No loans!!!

w00t!!!!

gpackin · Post by **gpackin** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:15 pm

Susan just ordered Judas Priest tickets for me.

CodeBlower · Post by **CodeBlower** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:03 am

I spent most of Saturday standing out in a field with my oldest and a half-dozen other people at a "Wing Shooting Clinic for Kids and Women".

They gave them instruction on basic gun safety and then a little training on shooting clays (little hardened-clay "frisbees" that are tossed into the air by a machine) and then they got to spend quite a while practicing shooting targets thrown several different directions.

He had a great time -- which means a lot to me.

I got a little teary for a second -- thinking that my wife's dad would've loved to have shared the day with us -- but I'm sure he's watching from heaven.

I've got several bug-bites .. and we had to kill a few ticks .. and it got a little hot later in the day .. but he's already talking like crazy about "next time".

the grim squeaker · Post by **the grim squeaker** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:44 am

Getting just over Â£4,500 compensation from the council about a city bus that ran through a red light and clipped me, sending me into a face-plant onto the ground. Its been a long time coming, but at least it'll pay for our holiday when we finally decide where to go...

sweetharleygirl · Post by **sweetharleygirl** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:22 am

Oh my gosh TGS, when did this happen! I'm glad it came through for you and it's even better that you can take a vacation on it!