Good Friday Morning, Everyone!

[Clintmax]

:donut::hi:
Welcome to the Early Morning Crew for this Friday! :bounce: How the heck are ya? Everything is fine here at the Clintmax house, although I'm still trying to wake up. But I have some coffee now and I'll be fine here in a few minutes!

Here we are at Friday! Last work day of the week for a lot of us! :bounce: Do you have any big plans for the weekend? I hope so. Boring weekends are the worst. Who, me? Oh, I have to work the weekend this time. We have a huge floor move at my store so that's what I'll be doing. It's OK though, I love to see the store have a fresh, new look!

Are you ready to get this day started with me? Well grab some coffee, or some tea, have a seat, and let's get it started! :bounce:

Song Of The Day: "Water Under The Bridge" by Dan Seals

[Clintmax]

1. CURRENT EARLY MORNING CREW MEMBERS:

• AirmensMom
• AussieDave
• Bigwillq
• Billyskank
• Buddhamama
• BuffyTheFundieSlayer
• Bzzzz
• CallMeWesley
• Cannikin
• DanCa
• Entanglement
• FoxMulder
• GalleryGod
• Heidi
• Jamastiene
• Joan_Alpern
• Khashka
• KitchenWitch
• LizzieGrace
• Mdmc
• MissHoneychurch
• MrsGrumpy
• Mutley_r_us
• Newyawker99
• OhioBlues
• Redwitch
• Robeson
• Scooter24
• SeattleGirl
• SimplyFugue
• Southlandshari
• SugarSmack
• Swimboy
• Tjwmason
• Wetzelbill
• Whoa_Nelly
• WildHorses
• WritingIsMyReligion
• XemaSab

[SeattleGirl]

2. Clintmax!!

I'll be working this weekend too, mostly because I was completely unmotivated for a couple of days this week, so I'll have to make up the time. But that's cool, because I work from home, so it's not such a big deal.

No coffee for me yet, though, as it's actually time for me to hit the hay.

My song for the day is "Boys of Summer", in honor of the start of spring training! :bounce:

:loveya:

[Clintmax]

5. Morning, Miss Seattle!

:hi::hug:
I LOVE that song too! Perfect one for the start of spring! You work from home, huh? I didn't know that. That has to be great! I'd love to be able to do that...but I have no idea what I would do from home that would bring in as much money as I make now. :shrug: Do you do internet stuff?
:loveya:

[SeattleGirl]

85. I'm a vocational rehab counselor

I deal with folks hurt on the job, try to determine if they are able to return to work in something they already know how to do. If they can't, then I write retraining plans for them.

I should be sleeping right now, which I was for a couple of hours, but I woke up, so what the hey, I have 10 reports to write, so might as well get to it!

:hug: :loveya:

[XemaSab]

3. Good morning, Clint!

It doesn't feel like it should be Friday morning already, but I don't suppose my vote counts in the grand scheme of things!

:hi:

(on edit: It's Modest Mouse for me this morning... Third Planet yo...)

[Clintmax]

6. Good morning, Miss Xema!

:hi:
It actually feels like a Friday to me, but I know exactly what you mean about it not feeling like it. Modest mouse day, huh? I have days like that too. :rofl:

[XemaSab]

9. Every day is a Modest Mouse day

At least, when it's not a Radiohead day or a NIN day, or, horrors, a Tori Amos day! :P

[Clintmax]

11. LOL! I hear ya there!

I've been getting into country music again lately. My cowboy days keep coming back to mind and I remember all the fun I had. The rodeos, the dance competitions, the horses...I miss those times.

[XemaSab]

12. Which country artists?

I tried to get into county at least a little, and God help me, I failed miserably.

The only country song I like that they play on the radio is the one about gettin' a little mud on the tires. :D

I identify with it. :D

[Clintmax]

13. There are a few...

Clint Black, George Strait and Garth Brooks among the foremost. But, there are MANY of them...too many to list.

[XemaSab]

15. I just checked your profile

You live in Florida? Do you like Florida???

And you collect rotary phones and fountain pens?

You wouldn't happen to have a rotary phone with a hammer and sickle in the middle of the dial, would you? :D

[Clintmax]

17. Yes, I love it down here in Florida!

No freakin snow...EVER! :rofl: It's great down here! I have lots of rotary phones...my goal is to have one of each of the colors they came in in both wall and desk styles! No, no hammer and sickle dials. :rofl:

[XemaSab]

23. No hammer and sickle dials???

Heinous!!!

I'd like to move to Florida, but every employer I've talked to wants me to know the plants, and well... let's just say plants are not my forte. :P

[Clintmax]

25. I'm a little adrift here...

What do plants have to do with it?

[XemaSab]

26. I'm a soil scientist

but my avocation is birds.

Most of the private soils jobs involve doing wetland delineations, but botany is a big part of that, and dude, I look at plants and I just go DUHHHHH....

:P

[Clintmax]

29. Ah, ok...I get it now...

If you're a soil scientist, why do they want you to know plants to begin with? If they are adamant, maybe you need to take a few classes somewhere so you can learn a little about them. :shrug:

[XemaSab]

45. For wetland delineations

there are three criteria that must be met in order to legally establish a wetland: soils, hydrology, and plants.

I've got a minor in watershed management, and I'm one class (Calc II) short of qualifying to be a hydrologist for the federal government.

I took a class in wetland soils in lieu of taking soil microbiology for my major requirement.

But, and here's the kicker, instead of taking plant taxonomy, I took dendrology (trees), because I was lazy. :P

So I'm totally qualified to determine 2 out of 3 legal criteria for a jurisdictional wetland.

Of course, all of this is moot if the supreme court strikes the "navigable waters" clause of the Army Corps jurisdiction, which they heard the other day. :scared:

[Clintmax]

53. Wow.

I had no idea. :scared:

[XemaSab]

59. Be afraid.

Be VERY afraid. :D

[tjwmason]

4. Good morning Clint.

:hi:

Work is actually happening in this office today - :wow:

Not quite sure why, I'm sure that this dangerous tendacy will pass shortly.

Buxtehude organ works here (excellent to play whilst working).

:hug:

[Clintmax]

7. Hail, TJ!

:hi::hug:
You're ACTUALLY working today? AMAZING! :rofl: But, hey, I guess you have to sometimes, huh? :shrug: I don't know about organ works, Man. I think I'd feel like I was at a funeral all day or something. :scared:

[tjwmason]

19. Ahhhhhhh the organ really is the king of instruments.

This is fairly early stuff (late 17th early 18th century), my collection goes right through into the wonderful 20th century organ works from the French masters. :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: It's one of the few things which really does get me excited.

Definitely no funereal connotations - although I do have the pieces I want played before and after my funeral.... L'Apparition de l'Eglise Eternelle by Olivier Messiaen, and Le Cinqieme Trompette from Cinq Meditations sur l'Apocalypse by Jean Langlais (both are 20th century pieces).

[Clintmax]

21. I have never thought of organ music as "exciting"...

maybe I just haven't heard any except at funerals or something. :shrug:

[tjwmason]

27. Very possibly.

The normally played at funeral is, tautologically, funereal. But that's only a tiny portion of the repertoire. I've probably got more organ music than any other instrument.

[Clintmax]

36. Really? Wow!

I really like the pedal steel guitar!

[tjwmason]

51. I've got 4 composers' complete organ works

J.S. Bach (20 C.D.s), D. Buxtehude (3), J. Alain (2), and O. Messiaen (6). Plus bits and pieces of Reger, Langlais, Tournemire, Widor, Lefebure-Wely........

[Clintmax]

54. So let me ask you this...

do you ever want to hear someone SING? Instead of instrumentals all the time? I think that would drive me CRAZY. :rofl:

[tjwmason]

63. Oh yes.

I've got tons of vocal stuff too.

Rennaisance stuff is usually voices alone (a capella), I've got oodles of choral music (over 20 settings of the Mass, for example), opera as well. But if I'm trying to work, I find that voices distract me. I've got very few "songs" - the biggest group of classical music in song form are German lieder, for which I have a vehement and utterly irrational hatred (at least I admit it's irrational).

Forcing everything into song form is one reason I don't like pop music, it makes everything too narrow for my tates.

[Clintmax]

67. Gee...you and I would NEVER get along in the music area.

[Robeson]

8. Morning Clint!....

...sorry you have to work this weekend. That'll make your next free weekend that much better...:thumbsup:

[Clintmax]

10. Hail, Robeson!

Yes, it will! I'm not sure WHEN that will happen, but as many as I go working will make the next one all that more fun! How's every little thing with you today, Man?

[Robeson]

16. Doing good! Just gettin' ready to go feed the outdoor ferel cats...

...that come around here about this time of the morning. Yep, they know I'm a sucker for cats.

[Clintmax]

20. You and me both!

My mother has several ferels she feeds too every day. I hear all about them every time I talk to her and it makes me wish I had a couple of them here!

[Robeson]

30. Hey, I'll be happy to send you a couple! LOL!.....

...One of them, a beautiful tortie, is about to drop a litter of them. She's already found a spot on my back porch, so I know I'll have no choice but to let her deliver them here. I'm kind of a nervous wreck trying to line up good homes for the kitties that will soon be here. She's a beautiful cat, and almost a "blond" tortie. I know her kittens will be beautiful, too. I'm already hitting up friends, telling them how much they need a cat...

Oh, well! I'll bust my buns to make sure they get a good home.

[Clintmax]

34. Awww...the poor thing!

I hope you find homes for the little ones! Kittens need so much love! If I were near you, I'd take one for sure!

[Robeson]

44. I know you would...

...:thumbsup:

[NMMNG]

14. Good morning Clint!

Get this...I actually have....are you sitting down? I have taken THE WEEKEND OFF!

Yes indeed, I have taken the weekend off.

Of course it's not all fun and games. I have a bunch of stuff to do around the house and several dump runs to make. However just having three whole days away from work (particularly from my weekend job) is enough to make me do cartwheels. Or at least I'd do them if I thought I could still do them without hurting myself or breaking things around me. :rofl:

[Clintmax]

18. Morning, Miss Buffy!

:hi::hug:
I am SO happy for you, my dear! The whole weekend off! :bounce: Like me, you don't get those every often, I know! That's so exciting! I hope you're going to have SOME fun these three days and not just do work around the house. Too many of my weekends off have been spent that way and I ALWAYS regret it when the weekend is over.

You certainly deserve the weekend off! :woohoo:

[NMMNG]

22. Darn tootin'

I'm going to Outback tonight with some friends for a Bloomin' Onion and salad. I just adore those onions.

As to Saturday and Sunday, I'll play them by ear. Likely I'll work by day and play by night.

[Clintmax]

24. Sounds like a good plan to me!

These next few days will prove to be very therapeutic, I bet! I'm SO happy for ya, Miss Buffy!

[LaurenG]

28. Good Morning Clintmax!!!

I woke up at 3:00 am for some reason? No problem though, someone called off so it'll give me time to do her work as well as mine :eyes: lol. I don't know what I'm doing this weekend. I do hope yours is good even though you'll be working. Have a great day! :loveya:

[Clintmax]

32. Good morning, Miss OhioB!

:hi::hug:
Good to see you today, my dear! I hate it when I wake up extra early like that. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, I get ALL upset! I hope YOU have a great weekend too! :bounce: I think my weekend will be lots of fun, actually! Floor moves are fun and the store looks so good after them, I always look forward to getting to work on it!

[LaurenG]

35. Well Clintmax I need a floor move at my house

do you consult on such things in Ohio? lol (I know, but it would be nice to have someone with fresh ideas say, move the sofa over there... etc.) ((((Big Hug)))

[Clintmax]

38. I haven't ever gone to someone else's house to do it...

but that would be a lot of fun too! :woohoo:

[aQuArius]

31. Yeah, its morning....

but good? Mornings are rarely good. :hangover: At least its Friday :|

[Clintmax]

33. Hello, Aquarius!

:hi:
Mornings can ALWAYS be good if you want them to be. I always do, so mine always are. :rofl: Don't you just love us morning people? :rofl:

[aQuArius]

39. In the morning I'm like Cheney....

:spank: I tell morning people to go F*** themselves. But I still :loveya: YA, despite the fact. Just gimme a couple cups of coffe and I'll come around. x(

[Clintmax]

42. LOL! No dont' be Cheney ANYTIME!

:spank: Maybe you should adjust your sleeping habits so that you get up around five every morning. You know the old saying..."Early To Bed, Early To Rise..." :rofl:

[buddhamama]

37. Good Morning, Clint !

And a Happy Friday to you. :bounce:

hold on, i'll be right back...

[Clintmax]

40. Morning, Miss Mama!

:hi::hug:
Ok...holding...

[buddhamama]

41. ok

much better :donut: :)

[Clintmax]

43. Did you need some coffee?

:donut:

[buddhamama]

49. i did

although i went to bed early enough last night, i awoke this morning feeling sluggish and not very refreshed.

i'll probably be putting in a few hours of work tomorrow myself...still, I am happy it's Friday !

[Clintmax]

56. So am I!

But since we're going to be doing a floor move at the store, and I enjoy that, I don't mind having to work this weekend!

[buddhamama]

61. yeah, i enjoy stuff like that too.

rearranging/redecorating, etc, and knowing you helped with the transformation is very cool.

[Clintmax]

65. Yes, it sure is!

So, I'm looking forward to it! Anything exciting going on in YOUR neck of the woods?

[buddhamama]

68. my son and I

will probably take in a movie this weekend (haven't decided on one yet though) but other than that, no plans. we're spontaneous creatures, him and I.

[Clintmax]

76. I like to be that way too.

I want to go see Brokeback again before it leaves the theater, so that would be MY choice.

[buddhamama]

good choice

i haven't seen it yet and my son has no interest in seeing it so i'll catch it when it comes out on DVD.

well, I had better get going,

Have a Great Day, Clint!!! :hug:

and one more for the road :donut: :loveya:

[Clintmax]

83. Good to see you today, Miss Mama!

:hi::loveya:
You have a great day too! I'll see you tomorrow!

[billyskank]

46. Hi Clint

:hi:

[Clintmax]

48. Hail, Billy!

:hi:
How's work today?

[billyskank]

52. Work is dull

I've run out of stuff to do again. I'm going to have to go and invent work for myself. x(

[Clintmax]

55. I've had to do that too.

Invent stuff to do. I hate that. x(

[XemaSab]

60. You can always go sort the office supply cabinet!

:bounce:

[Clintmax]

66. LOL! Sort the office supply cabinet!

:rofl:
There's only so much of that one can do though.

[billyskank]

71. Good idea, thanks Xema

:P

[tjwmason]

64. Good morning billy.

:hi:

How are you this fine morning?

:hug:

[billyskank]

72. Morning mason

I am mostly okay. You? :hi:

[tjwmason]

77. All's good here thanks.

Especially as it's such a beautiful sunny day - and properly cold too. :D

[billyskank]

78. Blustery too

Brrr.

[SeattleGirl]

89. billy, darlin'!!!!

Nice to see you! :loveya:

[billyskank]

90. Hi SeattleGirl

Nice to see you too. :loveya:

[SeattleGirl]

91. I'm so glad you're feeling better!

I wish I could get rid of my insomnia! Oh well. I'm getting some work done, so it's not all bad.

:loveya:

[billyskank]

94. Thank you

I wish you could sleep properly as well. :hug:

[SeattleGirl]

96. This happens now and then

I'll probably hit the wall tomorrow night. Sleep like a log for hours and hours, and be fine.

[lizziegrace]

47. Morning Clint!!

I loved the photos of the car. I got on-line too late to participate yesterday.

My car is going into the shop for an oil change and to have a rim ground down. There's all kinds of "stuff" that has collected over the years on the edges of these alloy wheels and the tire won't seal properly. Time to bring out the grinder and hopefully keep me from having yet another flat tire. :(

I've done my 40 hours already this week and have a 3-day weekend.

What are you up to?

[Clintmax]

50. Morning, Lizzie!

:hi:
I'm glad you liked the pictures! I LOVE my new car, let me just tell ya! They need stuff done to them from time to time though. That's just the nature of it.

I'm glad you have a three day weekend! :woohoo: Do you have any big plans for the days off? Me? i'm just hangin out here on DU until it's time to get ready for work.

[lizziegrace]

57. Big plans?

Not really. I've got a trunkload of blankets and down spreads that need to be washed. The laundromat (to use the huge washers) is on he list. Then there's packing for the move in March. Also, tomorrow's my birthday, but everyone's busy. It'll probably be me, some wine and a sappy movie. :shrug: I'm not looking forward to this birthday at all but when the alternative is considered, I'm okay. :)

Oh, and I have an interview for a full-time permanent job with GOOD BENEFITS on Monday. Keep your fingers crossed!

:hi:


On edit, it'll be wine, a movie and DU. :)

[Clintmax]

73. I hate going to the laundromat!

But, it has to be done, lest I decide I can go to work in my underwear or something. :rofl: Tomorrow is your birthday? Well HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Miss Lizzie! :party::bounce::party::bounce:

[entanglement]

58. Morning, Clintmax!

:toast:

[Clintmax]

62. Hail, Entanglement!

:hi::toast:
How's it going, Dude?

[entanglement]

86. Pretty good, thank you

:toast:

I have a meeting today, and I expect to be asked dozens of questions by different people (some of them simultaneously, believe it or not :eyes:)

How about yourself?

[Callalily]

69. Morning Clint

So, you're spiffing up the store? I suspect spring merchandise will be moved in. I'm still in the winter mode. The snow is still here so I plan on doing some x-country skiing again this weekend, but other than that, I've got nothing planning.

[Clintmax]

74. Hello, hello, Miss SimplyF!

:hi::hug:
Yep, you got it! Spring merchandise coming in, old stuff going out! :woohoo: Cross country skiing sounds fun, but I've never done such a thing so I'd probably break my neck on my first try. I hope YOU have lots of fun though!

[Callalily]

79. Oh, it's easy

Clint. I always say, if you can walk you can x-country ski.

It's like anything else. It can be an easy workout or a strenuous one. I typically take a backpack with a camera along. Have gotten some nice shots that way. It's very peaceful in the woods. A nice calming. Think that's why I like it so much.

But then, I like being outdoors.

[Clintmax]

80. Maybe a few lessons would help me.

I'm sure I could master it. Plus, I can see how it would be very peaceful. Taking a camera along is a GREAT idea, because I can imagine the pictures you could get that way! I like being outdoors too!

[Dead_Parrot]

70. No.

Its Sat AM in NZ, and not good at all.

:(

[Clintmax]

75. Hello, DP!

:hi:
Not good? How come?

[Dead_Parrot]

81. Well...

The climate is fucked, you have a fuckwit for president, we're living off oil like it was air, and every poor fuck we send to Iraq will die for no reason.

Other than that, I'm peachy. Hows FL?

:)

[Clintmax]

82. I know how you feel...

All that's going on in the world could make anyone depressed. Sometimes I'd like to crawl into a hole and pull the top over me until its all over with.

Florida is great! I just wish it would quit raining all the time. x( I want to go wash and wax mu new car!

[Dead_Parrot]

88. tell you what...

...tell me which town you're in and I'll tell you how many years you have before you sink under the rising tides.

I'm that pissed off. :D

edit: work is no excuse. PM me, it'll be good property investment....

[Clintmax]

84. I have to go get ready for work now, Folks!

I wish I could stay longer, but duty calls you know. Have a great day everybody and I'll see you in the morning! Same time, same place! Take care!

Clint

[kid a]

87. good morning clintmax

:hi:

[Cannikin]

92. Is it morning again so soon? Howdy Clintmax!

[newyawker99]

93. Good morning everyone!

:donut:


:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

95. Morning, newyawker99!!!

:loveya:

[In_The_Wind]

97. Good Morning

[bigwillq]

98. Hey Clint!

Happy Friday! :hi: