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#601 2010-01-20 12:22:23

Magpie
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Re: QM - The North Pole (A Ghost of Christmas Past)

Yay for vacations!


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#602 2010-01-20 15:32:40

Magpie
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Posts: 19909
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Re: QM - The North Pole (A Ghost of Christmas Past)

Random observation of the day: We got new drinking glasses. If I drink water out of the green one, it looks almost exactly like the fertilizer we used to use at work.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#603 2010-01-20 15:47:47

Em
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From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42262

Re: QM - The North Pole (A Ghost of Christmas Past)

Another random observation of the day: We are on page 25!


Someday will find you.

 

#604 2010-01-20 15:57:13

Magpie
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Re: QM - The North Pole (A Ghost of Christmas Past)

Not so random observation: I'm too tired/lazy to come up with a new Mint.

And I need more food.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#605 2010-01-20 15:58:07

Em
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From: somewhere left of reality
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Posts: 42262

Re: QM - The North Pole (A Ghost of Christmas Past)

Bowling night!


Someday will find you.

 

#606 2010-01-21 01:44:19

Genisis X
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From: Canberra
Registered: 2005-05-08
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Re: QM - The North Pole (A Ghost of Christmas Past)

Hello minters, mintees and the minted.

-X


Cyan on the merits of Dubstep: "That's not music. That's a patchwork quilt made by a blind iron worker."

My new webcomic of sarcasm and profanity!

 

#607 2010-01-21 03:05:28

Magpie
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Re: QM - The North Pole (A Ghost of Christmas Past)

Well dammit. It appears I will have to do some really careful cleaning/tidying/room searching today, because some rather important stuff appears to have mysteriously vanished.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#608 2010-01-21 03:10:04

Magpie
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Re: QM - The North Pole (A Ghost of Christmas Past)

Oh, OK. In fact, it hadn't - it was just a reminder I need to clean up my drawers (I just had the idea to check behind the drawers, and there it was - the folder in question was pushed out of the overflowing drawer when I closed it)


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#609 2010-01-21 04:40:45

Em
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From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42262

Re: QM - The North Pole (A Ghost of Christmas Past)

Soon on the road to Florida.


Someday will find you.

 

#610 2010-01-21 09:15:39

Magpie
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Re: QM - The North Pole (A Ghost of Christmas Past)

I suppose the interview went well enough. I don't think I exactly impressed anyone with my brilliance or something, but I didn't make a complete fool of myself, either.
I won't know for another three weeks or so, though. And I'm still not entirely sure if I actually want to go into graveyard gardening.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#611 2010-01-21 13:22:22

Sahi
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From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
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Posts: 37874
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Re: QM - The North Pole (A Ghost of Christmas Past)

Just spent quite some time on ASCII-arting an hour registration sheet. The client I'm working for has tossed out the old system, but the new one doesn't have monthly reports yet.* And I need that for my boss so he can get paid for my work. And seeing how tomorrow is my last day, I want a signature on one. So I simply faked the old monthly report and filled in the hours of this month.

*When I asked about it I got a reply that "they thought they wouldn't need it until the end of the month".


"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#612 2010-01-21 13:25:29

Magpie
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From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 19909
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Re: QM - The North Pole (A Ghost of Christmas Past)

Trying to find motivation to do anything. Lots of tidying and some playing-with-plants planned for tomorrow, but it's too late to start with any of that today.


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#613 2010-01-21 13:40:39

Sahi
Mantis
From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
Registered: 2001-06-04
Posts: 37874
Website

Re: QM - The North Pole (A Ghost of Christmas Past)

Well then you might join me in going to sleep.

Night all!


"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#614 2010-01-21 14:04:41

Magpie
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From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 19909
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Re: QM - The North Pole (A Ghost of Christmas Past)

Much too early for that!


I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#615 2010-01-21 14:15:34

Genisis X
Pilgrim
From: Canberra
Registered: 2005-05-08
Posts: 12422
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Re: QM - The North Pole (A Ghost of Christmas Past)

That's it! Everyone out!

-X


Cyan on the merits of Dubstep: "That's not music. That's a patchwork quilt made by a blind iron worker."

My new webcomic of sarcasm and profanity!

 

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