Imponderables- bubble baths and chocolate by MsA

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Imponderables- bubble baths and chocolate

POSTED BY: MSA
UPDATED: Friday, May 15, 2009 01:07
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Thursday, May 7, 2009 12:28 PM

There was literally a wave of indie comics and creators in the early 90's. It spilled over to some of the major labels and made for darker, more interesting comics. Art and copetition really excelled at this time. I was glad to have witnessed it.

Info for ya's Zeek:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshal_Law_(comics)

Image had some awesome stories also.

One of my all time favorites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maxx

Probably the only time I ever wanted to truly watch MTV.

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Thursday, May 7, 2009 12:52 PM

I love the Maxx:)

Finally home and really really glad I have a half day tomorrow...

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
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Friday, May 8, 2009 1:57 AM

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Originally posted by MsA:

I'd love to see them do the mutant plague and Apocolypse story line...

If they brought in Apoc, then they'd hafta bring in Cable. Then again, since they're already working on a Deadpool movie, they may end up with a Cable & Deadpool one.

As for why they cram some many chars into a film, it's because the studio want to claim legal ownership of as many as possible.

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Friday, May 8, 2009 4:15 AM

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Originally posted by MsA:
Finally home and really really glad I have a half day tomorrow...

Way to rub it in.

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Friday, May 8, 2009 4:19 AM

trade ya... you can have my half day but it comes with having already put in 42 hours and a popped out belly + all the other joys of pregnancy...gigglesnort

HUGS Nico licensing is profitable:)

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Friday, May 8, 2009 4:49 AM

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Originally posted by MsA:
trade ya... you can have my half day but it comes with having already put in 42 hours and a popped out belly + all the other joys of pregnancy...gigglesnort

For a half day? I'll take it! I'm sure you guys just exaggerate pregnancy anyway

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Friday, May 8, 2009 5:28 AM

HA!! i will laugh when she slaps you for that XD

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Friday, May 8, 2009 7:37 AM

Dude if I could make that trade for a day I soooooo would. I wouldn't trade permanently, but for a day hell yes... I could sleep, you know a whole 6-7 straight hours.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
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Friday, May 8, 2009 9:02 AM

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Originally posted by MsA:
Dude if I could make that trade for a day I soooooo would. I wouldn't trade permanently, but for a day hell yes... I could sleep, you know a whole 6-7 straight hours.

Bring it on! I eat peanuts for breakfast. Actually I don't cause that would be gross. But sometimes as part of lunch. Though not very often. Almost never with dinner. Infrequently as a snack as well. But I've eaten peanuts in the past and it's been no problem at all. So, there!

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Friday, May 8, 2009 10:05 AM

HUGS thanks Zeek I needed that laugh....

Hey as long as you don't mind back pain,severe hip pain, dietary restrictions, swelling limbs, needing to pee constantly, exhaustion, and having to be constantly monitored.... you'll do just fine

Hey a baby ponder... what do you think the best name for a boy would be ( we've already chosen a girl name)

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Friday, May 8, 2009 10:29 AM

Gotta name him after the captain of course: Nathaniel.

Nathan and Nate are both good nicknames and you get to pull out the full Nathaniel when you're angry.

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Friday, May 8, 2009 12:52 PM

I'm not as crazy about Nathan, but Nathaniel is nice

I'm surprised you didn't suggest Malcolm

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Friday, May 8, 2009 4:28 PM

My vote is still for Batman.

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Friday, May 8, 2009 4:37 PM

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Originally posted by MsA:
I'm not as crazy about Nathan, but Nathaniel is nice

I'm surprised you didn't suggest Malcolm

Isn't Nathan just a nickname for Nathaniel?

Malcolm is messed up in my head forever. A guy in grade school was named Martin Malcolm and I awesome thought it was a goofy name. So Martin and Malcolm both just sound goofy to me now.

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Friday, May 8, 2009 8:33 PM

NVG here:

Our push for Batman has failed. Sorry Navy.

Nathaniel is surely a consideration.

Of course I thought of Melvin, the name of my grandpa, but it is more likely to get the poor kid beat up.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
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Saturday, May 9, 2009 5:43 AM

yeah melvin might get him beat up ><;; whats the girl name u picked?

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Saturday, May 9, 2009 8:31 PM

NVG here:

Lilly Margret.

BUMP

for Adult Swim rules and shows The Boondocks which makes me unfathomably happy,

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
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Saturday, May 9, 2009 9:31 PM

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Originally posted by MsA:
NVG here:
for Adult Swim rules and shows The Boondocks which makes me unfathomably happy

It is quite an awesome show.

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Sunday, May 10, 2009 10:32 AM

have yet to see Adult Swim. ive seen a few snippets of a few eps, bout it.

aaaaaw lilly ^_^

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Monday, May 11, 2009 4:39 AM

Lillypad hehe...you know you guys just love Allyson Hannigan.

OK so I'm a fairly easy going person. I just go with the flow and deal with things. I've never dropped a course or quit a job. I just take my lumps. If ever I've wanted to quit a job it's now. I just found out I'm getting a "new" manager. Though she's not really new. She was my manager's manager a couple years ago when I had to challenge a poor performance evaluation. An evaluation that got reversed the day I challenged it which the HR rep I talked to said "never happens". She is a micromanaging moron who had us jumping through hoops and never listened to a word we said. We were jumping up and down, waving and screaming about a problem and she didn't listen until it was right on top of us and said "oh my gosh we'll what can we do about this problem?". Not much now you bitch! I'm so so so pissed right now.

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Monday, May 11, 2009 5:37 AM

sorry to hear that zeek. i love micromanaging morons, they make my day ><;;

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Monday, May 11, 2009 6:37 AM

Actually it is my great grandmothers name. We're trying to keep family names as much as possible. MSA suggested my brothers name, but he my decide to have a Jr some day. I think is middle name might be appropriate.

James

Nathaniel James?

Gideon James?

Funny. Seems we can't keep tribal Administrators for just the same reason. I don't know why, but they all try to change individual programs. Almost as if the people hiring expect them to fail. Not cool.

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Monday, May 11, 2009 9:50 AM

HUGS Zeek.. you could try sending her "status updates" in which you make points then when she tries the how did that happen crap you can say here.. and hand her all the updates.

NV hmm James is good. How about
Zachary James???

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
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Monday, May 11, 2009 10:26 AM

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Originally posted by MsA:
HUGS Zeek.. you could try sending her "status updates" in which you make points then when she tries the how did that happen crap you can say here.. and hand her all the updates.

I know but we tried a lot of it and she just turns it around on us. I think I may have to literally start putting things in writing and asking for her signature. Like you said such and such in this meeting please sign here.

She even invented stuff when she was trying to give me a bad review. She said I'd gotten an interim review telling me to shape up and that she had the email that I was copied on. I told her I store everything and I didn't have anything called that. When I asked for her to forward me a copy of what she had it suddenly disappeared and she said "well I saw it here just a minute ago. Then she just stopped talking about it. She's an underhanded jerk IMO. I just can't stand people who lie in a professional environment. We're trying to get a job done here and flat out lying is unacceptable.

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Monday, May 11, 2009 10:54 AM

That's totally what'd I'd do Zeek. Every time she asks you to do something tell her you'll be happy to as soon as she puts it in writing and signs her name to it. Say you're just ensuring clear lines of communication and making sure you are following her instructions exactly as she wants. Then you can keep them all and if there's any question you've got proof. If you send her something in writing, make sure you have an email reciept that shows when it was received and read and make sure if you're telling ehr something important you go in, explain it and have a pre written point by point of what you are telling her. Make sure you have one more person with you and ask her to sign saying she received a copy of the point by point... it's the only way. I've had a boss like that and if you don't she will twist everything you say, lie about what you told her and generally screw you over. She's incompetent and she hides it by trying to skew things to make her employees look bad.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
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Monday, May 11, 2009 10:59 AM

Agreed. A clear point that she's incompetent is that a while ago there was a presentation about how some people got into the role they're in inside the company and she was on a panel of 3 people. The other 2 took half the time to reach the role they were in compared to her and now she's basically taken a step back down to a lower role in the company. I just don't get why they keep people like that around. We're clearly shrinking as a company right now so let the dead wood go already. Sheesh.

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Monday, May 11, 2009 11:06 AM

This is probably a test to see if she screws up I'd bet her job is riding on this latest managerial assignment... so watch your back sweety

Right now I really want to quit my job too... I worked an insane number of hours last week and suddenly this week I am beyond booked solid and people keep piling it on... I'm happy to pull my share, but not overly thrilled at pulling triple the caseload anyone else is carrying.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 3:11 AM

Getting her to sign something will be very difficult. I kind of doubt she'll do that.

I've had a similar situation in the past. What I did was send an e-mail summary after each meeting. At the end of the e-mail, I offered the person the chance to "clarify" anything from the meeting. In order to do that, they had to then respond in writing...

I also kept a hand-written log book for anything that did not fit into this category. So, if something was said on a given day, I'd write down what was said, when it was said, and who was present when it was said.

My manager would then try to blame things on me, but I would just pull out the documentation of what actually occurred. After that, they would come up with some excuse and leave me alone. Until the next time...

But all of this really sucked. I put up with it for nearly two years, hoping they would move on. They didn't. The day I left that company was one of the best days of my life.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 4:19 AM

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But all of this really sucked. I put up with it for nearly two years, hoping they would move on. They didn't. The day I left that company was one of the best days of my life.

That's what I'm most worried about. Though so far I've been at this company 5 and a half years and this will be my 6th manager. So, hopefully she won't last more than a year.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 6:14 AM

Funny. I've been through seven or eight Facility Mangers/Directors in the facility in the last nine and a half years. Seems after watching so many come and go it is easier to figure the shelf life of a manager than to simply endure the B.S.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 6:20 AM

I think MsA's right about this being a last chance for her. if she's been stepped down it doesn't sound like she's doin too great.

Quote:
Originally posted by NVGhostRider: Gideon James?

I like that one, NV ^_^

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 9:48 AM

It'll be Friday before we know it.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:31 AM

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It'll be Friday before we know it.

Really? I mean I hope so, but it doesn't feel like it will.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:44 PM

Tuesday is almost gone...

Holidays are few and far between. We get Memorial Day, then nothing until July 3rd. That is actually quite cool as I haven't heard of anyone getting "not the 4th" off. Next is Labor Day which is September 7th. Labor Day works out great as we'll still be reeling from Dragon*Con.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:49 PM

HUGS Solar.. been there. Had a boss ( well boss's boss with a lot of influence) like that for 7 years. Made me very bitter and I left the school rather than let it ruin everything

HUGS Zeek sweety hopefully she'll re-prove her incompetence and get kicked to the curb

NV

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:11 AM

Putting my office into some sort of "order" is a joke. I do like it being cleaner though. While I'm gone Friday new carpet is being installed. This is cool because my office, the office next to me, and the client rooms have had the oldest carpet in the building (ten years old at best).

I feel spoiled.

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 7:02 AM

Thanks MSA. I'm in a great place now. I go to work. Do work. And people are nice to me. It seems simple. But I treasure it now that I have it again.

Other good news:
My son's grades have rebounded. Thanks for the input (from you and everyone on the board). It really helped.
Also, my stress fracture has healed. (Don't know if I shared this before.) I've been running again for the past 2 weeks, and I was able to run 5 miles last night. It was great. Key learning point here: stress fractures suck!

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:41 AM

HUGS Solar yes stress fractures suck! I'm so glad you're doing better. If there's any more help you need I'd be happy to give my two cents. I figure that's what teachers are for:)

NV now all you need is a plant and some pictures...hmmm and maybe a goldfish

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 4:19 AM

Morning bump...

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:26 AM

Lost makes Zeek angry. The show is so all over the place. The characters are not even slightly believable. Yet still I'm stuck trying to figure out what in the world the island is.

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Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:50 AM

Sorry Zeek, but I gave up on Lost a few episodes in. It played too much on the fantasy/reality angle and added a semi known cast for appeal. When the story started to go all wierd is when they lost me. Not that it was hard to keep up with. More like they played on its predictability by trying too hard to be unpredictable. Lost, American Idol, and Survivor made me really stop watching TV altogether for almost to years.

One day of work before mini vacation. Yay!

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Thursday, May 14, 2009 6:09 AM

The first season I thought the characters were really interesting. What motivated them, how they changed when they were around a ton of strangers and could reinvent themselves. That's all gone though and it's clear that the whole show, characters, rules of reality, whatever will be changed at any time to get to a specific scene the writers think will be cool. It's very annoying. Still now that I've gone this far I might as well see it through. Though I think my boycott of J.J. Abrams will not be lifted by the end of the show. I think I'll conclude he's just a hack.

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Thursday, May 14, 2009 6:19 AM

Thank you Zeek. I was forming a similar opinion of Abrams. Kinda like Jerry Bruckheimer, it was fun in the beginning, but now it is just par for the course.

I do understand finishing the ride though. No point in stopping now if you'd gone this far.

I am just having trouble typing today.

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Thursday, May 14, 2009 6:37 AM

I just never got on the ride... just had too much Gilligan's Island feel

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 7:28 PM

NVG here:

Twelve hours and we're on our way to California.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Friday, May 15, 2009 1:07 AM

On our way n a few hours.

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