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thats who I will vote for.

my sister squirted out her kid yesterday morning.  and she named him jerricho xaiver (pronounced xavier, she just misspelled it-spelling is not one of her strengths) 

cliffy and i are going home for a family reunion next weekend, and there will be nine people in out 3 br house. yes, thats what i said, nine.  NINE. parents, brither, sister, offspring, dad's friend and his lady, plus cliff and me.  im seriously considering staying at grandma's.  she has lots of space.  

ive been working on things for halloween.  so far i have cliff's shirt, most of his doublet, my rosary, aaaaand thats about it. i do have my skirt mostly cut out.  one of these days when i get some time, i will finish cliff's doublet then work on y skirt next. after that, im torn between doing his pants or more of my costume. i think his pants would be the better, that way all i have left to do for him would be his hat and jewellry.  i have so much work to do for my costume...and will anyone have any idea about who i am? probably not. noone cares about por bloody mary i of england, shes always overshadowed by her sister elizabeth...sigh.

i got the forst installment of my pe study materials yesterday. they sent out a book friday, but it was the wrong one, so i had to send it back, and its replacement is the one i got, so yay! i get to study geotechnical engineering. 

they say genius borders insanity, right? well, im borderline genius, so does that mean that i am already insane, or is genius more that just a line? i would think that it is a polygon, what, with supergenius, insanity, and gifted(and who knows what else) being bordertowns.  

alternately, if i am on the boundary of gifted/genius as well as insane, am i at some sort of 3 point corner?

that was random...but thats not whats pushing today.

I work as an engineer and frequently i have to do some surveying/stake out work as well.  (really wish we employed a ps so i could get my ps when i go for my pe, btw)  stakes, to equiment operators are nothing more than target practice. it doesnt matter who tells them to be careful, be it the supervisor, engineer, other operators, the stakes will be taken out.  

the superintendant on this construction site asked me(last week) to put in a few offset stakes in one area where some work will be done.  the work we do requires a honeycomb-style layout, where each hole is marked with a stake, then drilled with a very large drill(10' diam)  i like this layout, it makes sense to me. it makes me feel special because other people get confused by it.  Anyway, i put in my offsets. They then excavated the entire area, which was not too bad, they saved all but one of my 8 stakes. actually damn good for 2 excavators and a bulldozer. 

yesterday, they wanted an indication of where the boundary of this particular drilling area were. he told me a paint line would do, so i assumed the worst, and just used some cheap wire pin flags to mark the outermost holes.  ok, they said, i thought no more of this layout.  until this morning...

amy, can you lay out those holes again? sure, and ill put more offsets in so layout later will be super easy (can not lay out any more than one row of holes at a time, as thats just stake suicide!) ok, sounds good.  everyone was happy with this situation until we got ready to go. they dug it out too low! were too close to the water table.  fill it back in(losing several stakes in the process, as well as all offsets) damn. then i was asked to do it all again.  and again. an again.  today...blah.