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Work Report - Mike Crowl focuses on jobs and work and anything connected to the two.
Mike blogs in two places on Orble, and two on Blogger. His wife thinks he writes too much.
We’re not going to get to any clear point on Climate Change, or Global Warming any day soon. Which is a great pity, because it’s probable there are plenty of issues we need to deal with in terms of climate, with or without the change.
I was reading Terence Corcoran’s article, Nothing Wacky About the Weather, in the Financial Post online. As the header says: When it’s cold, it proves climate change is taking place. And if it’s hot, it also proves climate change is taking place
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I’ve just been outside because, for the second time in a week, someone has crashed into someone else. As always one of the two drivers failed to give way at the Give Way sign. They do it several times a year out there. I can remember coming home from church one Sunday a few years back and finding my mother cleaning up some young feller – blood over both of them – after his car had nearly gone down the bank across the road, when someone failed to stop.
Anyway, while I was outside with my daughter checking this out, I noticed how severely the temperature had dropped, that there was a nasty drizzle, and was reminded of the post I did recently about the weather sites.
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While watching Mystic River last night, in which the girl who gets murdered early in the piece was planning to do some Las Vegas travel (in other words, eloping with her boyfriend to that fair city where they’d get married) I was reminded of a crazy piece of TV apocalyptic soap that appeared for a couple of nights recently. Unfortunately, I missed not only the name of the piece, but the second and last instalment (there’s only so much blowing up of the entire US continent that you can do) and so I didn’t see Las Vegas completely vanish from the face of the earth. When I was last looking, models of all the fancy hotels in that dry and arid desert city were crumbling in spectacular heaps, while lots of extras and stuntmen/women ran around inside some old studio set that no one wanted any more and which the series producers had consequently got for half price, pretending that their casinos were crashing down around their heads.
Presumably the next night, after Las Vegas had been fully disposed of, they set to and got the San Andreas fault doing its thing, and sent all of California and the rest of the coast sliding off into the sea
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While we were in England, we carried around three memory cards with our digital camera, and amazingly, in spite of their small size, managed to bring all three of them back home with us, something we didn’t manage to do with several other items we’d taken. I mention this because I suppose it’s quite something to be found on the Internet at all, so I should be grateful that people do find things I write.
Every day I get three reports from Orble.com, as no doubt many other people do. The first lists the total number of hits, the second the number of individual readers, the third the homepages and categories and the last the posts. I’m not entirely sure what the third and fourth stats actually tell me, but they’re there anyway
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Last week my immediate boss and I tried to pin down my job in a format that would please the powers that be (the chief of whom, apparently doesn’t think that there shouldn't even be a job for me to hold). It didn’t really happen as we were too preoccupied with something else that was going on in the office and that was taking up everyone’s attention.
However, today, someone else got called in, and instead of being assailed by interruptions, as we had been last week, she was able to get on and sort the thing out within an hour and a half or so. What it is to have time to get on with a job! My usual day tends to start out straightforwardly, but almost invariably, just when I think I’ll settle into something that’ll take a bit of thought and consistent time, along comes something else that believes itself to be more urgent, and bang goes my straightforward day
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Remember the way the house lights in cinemas used to have fittings over them so that they didn’t shine directly outwards, but only downwards? Apparently they’re called sconces, and they’re amongst the many items that are being sold in conjunction with home theater units these days.
Home theater sconces: when I first read that I thought it said scones, those tasty items made with lots of flour and all manner of fillings, from dates and raisins to savoury things like bacon and cheese
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