My boycott of chinese goods is driving me to do things that I would have considered ridiculous in the past. I end up repairing a lot of stuff that I otherwise would have thrown away. This morning, a button fractured on my shirt. Not too long ago, I would have just thrown it away and ironed a new one. Instead, I sewed a new button on ( Read more... )

So I met one of my neighbors today

"Hi my name is Cathy. I'm mentally ill, but I'm not dangerous. This is my cat"

and then she showed me her cat. which had this satellite dish type thing on it's head.

I think Boston Scientific is going bankrupt. which is hte fourth company in a row i've worked for that's gone bankrupt while i was working for

I just got finished deleting 14000 pieces of spam from my yahoo account.

I just watched an interview on CNN with some family that was trying to not buy products made in China for a year ( Read more... )

I'm back in Minnesota.

Currently living in Coon Rapids at In Town Suites while I look for an apartment. I'm thinking about Uptown.

I'm working at Boston Scientific in Supplier Development. I'm going to making sure the suppliers for extruded material (silicone, PFT, PU, etc) used in pacemakers and implantable defibulators are good.

Fun. Fun.

Farfour, the Hamas knockoff of Mickey Mouse, was martyred in the show's final episode by a "despicable, criminal terrorist" who was trying to buy his family's land.

This is what passes as a children's TV show? It's important to understand the mentality of the people the Israelis are up against.

Some family tries to go a week without buying anything made in China. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19508453/

Amateurs.

I sympathize with the difficulty in finding shows though.

Good news. I retook my drug test yesterday. My urine was the color of 14 ct gold. No way was that too watered down ( Read more... )

So I took a drug test on Monday, and I had some test results come in. Apparently, I didn't give a valid sample because I drink too much water. So I have to take it again and if I don't have enough stuff floating in my piss, they'll rescend my job offer.

So.... How am I supposed to make peepee without drinking something?

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