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[Aqizzar]

For three years and ten months I, Aqizzar, was the man who arranges the blocks.



No longer.  Tonight, I turned in my badge and (tape)gun, took off my (hazard-reflect) vest and steel-toe boots, hung up my gloves, and covered my insignia.  I will arrange blocks no more.

I took in a sack of chocolates to hand out, and returned with one left.  Got several hugs, some of them manly, others not.  Also got a long of whatevers.  And found out the guy who's replacing me is exactly the kind of person I wished I could have worked with for the last nearly four years, but whatever.  Then I told my boss to take this job and shove it.

That's it.  I'll never see the inside of that building again, never drive that road again, never wear those clothes again, never see those people again (in all likelihood).

It's weird really.  That job defined my life for the last four years, ironically enough the same span of time I've been hanging around this forum.  And a lot of other stuff besides.  I don't have to schedule my life around being awake until 5AM from Sunday to Thursday.  I don't have to take aspirin, stretch, and put on ratty-ass work rags.  I don't ever have to think about it.  It all ends just that easily.

Now I have five days to adjust.  And Monday, my first real job.

I have a massive sweet tooth, but jams/preserves/jellies never really appealed to me. I think I'm culturally attuned to not eating sweets with grain foods. Like Asian countries not really serving sweets with rice.

I have a huge sweet tooth myself (it seems to be getting worse lately), but I've always liked jelly.  Every time I eat a PB&J, I think man, why don't I do this more often.  And I never do.

[Reudh]

Aqizzar, do you really have a green beard in Real Life?

[Jackrabbit]

Aqizzar, if there were any way I could empower my wishing you the best of luck so that my wish exploded out of the screen and fist bumped you I would do it. Good luck bro. You deserve it.

[Ehndras]

Aqizzar, if there were any way I could empower my wishing you the best of luck so that my wish exploded out of the screen and fist bumped you I would do it. Good luck bro. You deserve it.

I totally second that insane idea and offer my own luck-bump into the fray.

[penguinofhonor]

Man, as soon as my friends all start getting third-shift shipping jobs, Aqizzar goes and quits his. That was potential bonding material.

[Jopax]

Just finished watching Toy Story 3.

Quite an awesome one, very happy that a movie like this can still move me and make me cheer and laugh as it did

[Duke 2.0]

For three years and ten months I, Aqizzar, was the man who arranges the blocks.

AND THE WORKERS WILL RISE WE WILL NOT COMPROMISE FOR WE KNOW THAT THE OLD REGIME MUST DIE

Gonna be great not hearing the problems you have with a manual labor job, instead being problems with a white-collar job.

[Rose]

I don't remember the last time I made a o_O face, but I just did.

I don't know weather to laugh or cry.

http://youtu.be/Y94Khr_bqNs

[Heron TSG]

For three years and ten months I, Aqizzar, was the man who arranges the blocks.

AND THE WORKERS WILL RISE WE WILL NOT COMPROMISE FOR WE KNOW THAT THE OLD REGIME MUST DIE

Gonna be great not hearing the problems you have with a manual labor job, instead being problems with a white-collar job.

And now the cycle is complete, and you have finished the song.

Pointless work for pointless pay,
This is one game he shall not play!

[Pnx]

So I got a minute before we go off to "The Olive Tree", a restaurant. It's been a really busy couple of days, and I've yet to get a decent night's sleep, so I'm rather tired.

Let's see... what interesting stuff has happened to me on my holiday that someone on the big wide interwebs might just be interested in?

I went to see my grandmother. I was always under the impression they hated me on that side of the family, but they seem to have warmed up to me, it was rather nice to see her.

I did go clubbing with my brother, I have nowhere near enough confidence to master the dance floor, although I was coaxed into doing the proscribed dance for "I'm sexy and I know it" (it involves flexing, crotch thrusting, and butt wiggling).

Well at the supermarket there were three women wearing those conservative Muslim full body dresses. One of them, whom I guess was the youngest (it's rather hard to tell when all you can see of them is their eyes, but I think she was relatively young, and then there was her mother and a grandmother or aunt or some such). Anyway, I was kinda nervously avoiding looking at them, but I finally gave in and just decided to stare right back at her... and you know what? She was wearing eye-liner and mascara. I have no clue what to make of that but I think it's fascinating, I thought the point of covering everything except the eyes was not to look good!

I also got to see a whole bunch of the British countryside, I'd forgotten how idyllically beautiful it was. All those rolling green hills. We had to go on a bit of a road trip across the country to get to see my grandmother and my aunt, since there were roadworks on the M3, we had the GPS set to "shortest", rather than "fastest", which led to an interesting detour through Bath. Which has incredibly interesting Georgian architecture. It was basically big brown block houses as far as the eye could see.

Ok, end of rant, I think it's nearing time to pack up soon.

[Bauglir]

I made some homemade mayonnaise. Completely winged it; no recipe, no experience. Just the knowledge of "Oil and vinegar emulsified with egg". It's thickening as it cools, and I think it'll be about right when it reaches room temperature, so I appear to have done it right. Yessss.

[MonkeyHead]

Heres hoping you dont end up in Salmonella Town, Population: You.

[Nadaka]

I have accomplished phase 1 of helping my depressed, unemployed, shut in sister attempt to have a social life.

I got her on facebook and got her to send friend requests to people she went to college with.

Phase two may be convincing her to be less of a judgmental bitch to people. 

[Rose]

I think phase 1 and 2 should be reversed.

[Nadaka]

I think phase 1 and 2 should be reversed.

Im not a miracle worker.