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The Late Shift III..(Abbot and Costello meet the Late Shift)

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Rev. Orr

01:27 / 24.10.02

Haus, what can I say? Greater love hath no man. I'd offer you my undying coffee services but you only get those when actually in the office...

Chadwick minor will be on your doorstep tomorrow morning wearing nothing but a smile and a large silk bow.

ONLY NICE THINGS

01:50 / 24.10.02

Well, I may drop in tomorrow. Will almost certainly be around Friday. Keep the coffee warm and the linseed oil warmer.

Mazarine

01:56 / 24.10.02

Scanners just keep getting more and more erotic. So who's got snow?

The Return Of Rothkoid

01:59 / 24.10.02

Not me. All I got is dust-storms (yesterday: no kidding) and bushfires.

Bushfires already.

It's not even summer yet.

There's a good chance I may burn to death this year. Nice.

Saint Keggers

01:59 / 24.10.02

no snow here now..but my cousin who lives just 2 hours away sent pictures of the snowman his kids made...its slowly creeping up this way. (the snow I mean, not the snowman)

Rev. Orr

02:07 / 24.10.02

Give it a chance - most kids forget to give 'em legs and this slows them down.

Mazarine

02:07 / 24.10.02

We got a bit of snow last night and this mornin' in Albany, but it was gone by afternoon. The weatherfolk say there may be more in the next six days. But Albany's weird- when I visited in June, before I moved here, I saw torential downpour, temperate sunshine, hail, and (I think) snow all in one four hour timeblock. And I thought New England was weird.

Saint Keggers

02:34 / 24.10.02

"Give it a chance - most kids forget to give 'em legs and this slows them down"

Wow..I can just see it Night of the Living Dead Snowmen..no frosty! no!

Mazarine

02:38 / 24.10.02

Well, time for me to go to bed, if I'm going to be fit to kind of work tomorrow. Orr, Keg, Roth, sleep tight.

Saint Keggers

02:38 / 24.10.02

G'night RGM, wherever you are!

The Strobe

23:05 / 24.10.02

Just checking in before I toddle off to bed. Got back from seeing Spirited Away, feel all happy and child-like inside, but am also super-tired and scared of crapness of my work situation. And parents are here at the moment, so need to spend time seeing them.

Shush. Calm Paleface. Off to bed.

Mazarine

23:09 / 24.10.02

I just saw a scanner on sale for forty dollars. I'm going to check around online, see if it's any good, and if it is, I may have my own scanning stories to share...

So who else is up, and whatcha doin'?

Kit-Cat Club

23:13 / 24.10.02

I keep taking breaks here from my paper. It's getting done, but oh so slowly. I keep trying to use HTML tags to italicise titles. I hate myself. What have I become?

Linus Dunce

23:24 / 24.10.02

As long as you don't try to [a href=...] to your footnotes you should be OK. Most of my lecturers I think were closet geeks who would have been entirely au fait with tags.

And thinking about my own late-night essay adventures with a 10-year-old PC running Wordstar, it's not so weird.

The Return Of Rothkoid

23:32 / 24.10.02

HTML essaying bad.

Distraction good... but bad.

Work. Indifferent.

ONLY NICE THINGS

23:37 / 24.10.02

Insomnia - tastic. After my scanoddyssey of last night, I have more scanning to do - yay! - though much less, blessedly, and have spent the day helping my sister look at laptops.

And then a 2 1/2 hour Sapphire and Steel ORGY.

Which was nice.

Hell, yeah.

Linus Dunce

23:38 / 24.10.02

Work. Got laid off Monday morning. My ex-colleagues want me to go for a Friday night drink with them tomorrow. I think I'd like to hang out with them one last time, but would it be sad (pathetic) to turn up?

Asda Rioja, £2.98 a bottle, best. :-)

Mazarine

23:43 / 24.10.02

KKC- I sympathize. I lacked wordprocessing software (aside from wordpad and notepad) and wound up using a piece of German language freeware with a tendency to crash in mid save, leaving behind nothing. And footnotes are just pure ibid.y evil.

Linus Dunce

23:46 / 24.10.02

Bulk scanning can be OK if you can get into the groove. OCR though, that is torture. Makes me want to learn to touch type.

Kit-Cat Club

23:46 / 24.10.02

I'm just desperately trying to stuff all the things I glanced at briefly in them to make it look as if I've read more than I actually have.

Ignatius - yeah, go along. I went along to a drinks things after I left my last job and they gave me chocolate and a bottle of perfume which was rather sweet.

The Return Of Rothkoid

23:47 / 24.10.02

Ignatius: nah. Go along. Make them pay for drinks.

Haus: insomniac "hell yeah"s and condolences. Have been there for the past couple of weeks. Though without the benefit of S&S, which I've never seen. Like The Prisoner.

I'm missing out. Sigh.

Linus Dunce

23:57 / 24.10.02

Thanks -- free drinks/presents -- I think I'll go.

Kit-Cat Club

00:17 / 25.10.02

BTW, are you Ignatius J as in Reilly?

Linus Dunce

00:19 / 25.10.02

I am indeed your ever-loving working boy.

Damn, busted.

Saint Keggers

01:31 / 25.10.02

hey folks, just tuned into this batchanel...

videodrome

01:34 / 25.10.02

Must....write. Inspire me.

But this is cheating. It's not late here.

Saint Keggers

01:39 / 25.10.02

well its only 10:37pm here...as for inspiring you...what context?

Kit-Cat Club

01:41 / 25.10.02

I'm still up, and it is quite late here... I think I've written about six words in the last hour, and subsequently deleted half of them... even the happy student playing his guitar across the quad has gone to bed, woe is me.

Sorry, not very inspiring... chiz moan drone

Mazarine

01:43 / 25.10.02

If I only came on the late shift when it was actually late in my time zone I'd never get to talk to anyone and I'd never get to work in the morning. Wait, no, I'd have to come home early from work in the afternoon.

Mazarine

01:43 / 25.10.02

What are you writing about again, Kit-Kat?

Trijhaos

01:45 / 25.10.02

What exactly constitutes a late shift anyway? Never having had a job (Bastards just don't know quality workers when they seem them), I'd assume it'd be some godawful thing like Midnight until 8 AM.

Saint Keggers

01:49 / 25.10.02

I thought it was 11-7.

Kit-Cat Club

01:50 / 25.10.02

I'm doing a bibliography paper (longish essay, I suppose, but calling it a paper makes me feel like a proper graduate student an t'ing) on the historiography relating to English attitudes towards the Dutch and Anglo-Dutch relations in general, 1680-1720. So, yes, fascinating...

I think it would actually be easier if I knew how to write a bibliography paper.

Murray Hamhandler

01:51 / 25.10.02

Late-ish here. Buses will stop running before long. Must wrap up the studying (where studying=cramming down several weeks worth of reading on the night before the exam). Why am I here? Proooooocrastination, my friends. Give me scads of time to complete a task and I will squander it all, w/the exception of the smallest crumb at the tail-end, wherein I become like a god of knowledge absorption/expulsion. Just imagine all of the shit I'm going to get done in my last few moments of life. It's gonna fucking rock!

Saint Keggers

01:52 / 25.10.02

Deric just described my college life to a T...just add guinness and baileys cheesecake.

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