I learned that looking at paint chips with ones wife after a jumbo margarita and three beers is not a good idea. . .

I learned, that if I clutch the mouse on my work computer in a death grip for over 7 hrs a day, it hurts when I try to open my hand. I also learned, that while "Everyone" Loves raymond on his show, I am totally immune to his charms, even while trying to watch "Iceage" where he is just a irritating voice on a wolly mammoth. I also learned, that while it can be good to have outside help, if you really want it done right, learn how and do it yourself, whenever it is within the realm of possability .

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I learned that this thread is warming up nicely. It is for us.

I learned that the French word 'inbecillité' takes two Ls.

I learned how to make better bread.

I learned my bike does the shimmy at 48 mph.

That peanut butter and pinapples should never be eaten together-
That people will look up even when it's silent-

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Originally posted by Anabel:
I learned that this thread is warming up nicely. It is for us.

Yes, nice thread Anabel.

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Originally posted by Marshdrifter:
I learned my bike does the shimmy at 48 mph.

Woohoo! Get in that aero tuck!

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Originally posted by Noirjyre:
That peanut butter and pinapples should never be eaten together-
That people will look up even when it's silent-

Unexpected biology news! lol

If you need to cut a circle of a certain diameter (eg, for partially blocking a vent so the damn air comes down to the end of the pipe instead of freezing all the offices between the AC unit and the server room), and all you have is computer tools--no protractors--it turns out that a reversed pair of needle-nose pliers can help generate the necessary markings pretty efficiently.

I learned that I'm going to have to learn about Knoxville, TN.

Today I learned about company policy. The print- and mail-shop I work for was bought out late last year, and almost all the employees were retained and moved to a new location. Under the new management, employees can work their way up to a limit of two weeks' vacation time. No one in the company (except, I imagine, the owners) may have more than two weeks of paid vacation, ever. Moreover, the company offers no paid sick leave. If you want to be paid for a day you take off sick, you must use one of your [ten total] vacation days.

All this I knew since soon after I started at the new location with the new owners. What I did not know is that if you have vacation time saved up and you call in sick to work, you must use one of your vacation days. You don't have the option of waiving payment for the day you were sick.

So I'm taking a half day (unpaid, I hope...gotta save that vacation time) so I can work on my resume this afternoon.

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AC unit

heh heheh heh

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Originally posted by Bravus:

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AC unit

heh heheh heh

I saw that too. Made me giggle a little bit.

Ouch. I started April with 38 vacation days to use by the end of next March (although 8 of those were carried over from last year).

I saw a documentary on Sperm Whales last night (well, it was mostly CGI), which got me thinking about how whales suckle as Sperm Whales have a very long, narrow lower jaw. So I googled it and it seems that Sperm Whale suckling is a bit of a mystery, but it might be the case that they suckle through their blow-hole!

I learned never to compose a song called "Bring the Rain" while walking to work.

I don't know if I learned this so much as realized it - in the shower this week, (where epiphanies fall like rain) it came to me that the orchestral piece opening every 'Jonesy's Jukebox' show -- a riff on violins, repeated louder, bring in the tympani and the woodwinds and repeat to a crashing finish with a string flourish at the end -- is the final 'No Future' refrain from the Pistols 'God Save the Queen.'

And it only took me a year or two to work that one out. Not listening every day, y'know, but still.

Today at work, I learned that our old drying rack
is about 0.5 cm too wide to fit through the door
of our new place.

I learned that I am going to have to sell the house I grew up in. I hate it. Yet, perhaps it is better to cut it loose and start anew. It is going to take weeks to go through all of the stuff in here. Just recently I found a fossil collection in a box. There included was the mandible of some strange prehistoric animal, or perhaps it came from one of my neighbors.

That is so sad, dawntreader!

We think ourselves so lucky to live in a modern civilized society and then have to give up all the most human things about our lives in order to keep up with it.

They take our very souls!