I squeeze the sky out but not a star appears

[cyrano]

1. Got the Post Office Battery Test results back, and scored an 86.6% which is not embarrassing. However, Experts(tm) say that a score in the mid to high 90s is required to get a call in the first year or so.
2. Got my schedule. I'll be working 5am to 1.30pm Friday through Tuesday, starting next week. I was going to start on Friday, but I mentioned that this would be ten days in a row and I was concerned about how I'd hold up and they said 'D'oh! Yeah, let's fix that.'
3. I called Debbie and told her that I had a schedule, and she said I'd made her afternoon and she'd put me on the schedule for next Wednesday and Thursday, and we'd discuss how much more work I felt like doing once I'd been on the schedule for more than forty minutes.
4. The first week of training, which was going to send me to Salt Lake City in October, has been rescheduled. The 16 September date, which had initially been full, got some holes in it and Hollis said Do you want it? and we said Hell yeah. So I'm leaving town next weekend.
5. On the way home there was this pretty and very distracting sight. The clouds were pouring over the mountains to the right, and into the little valley where the lake/reservoir/thingie is--it was very fluid, and I really liked the way it channelled down into a thick stream and then, as it got over the water it just... puffed up and away into a big fan of fog.

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[ophanim.livejournal.com]

I like the song. "Language or the Kiss" is one of my favorites.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

It hits me pretty strongly when it does, and I've had it stuck in my head for a while.
Which is kind of odd, since I haven't actually played it and it's certainly not on any of my driving mixes which are usually ear bleeding adrenaline fests, to distract me from the fact that I'm hurtling down the road in a hunk of metal at horrific speeds with a bunch of other hunks of metal who are trying to drive faster than that. (:

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Good God. 5am. I would be dead. Dead dead dead. (Then again, it kind of fits the housemate's schedule, only earlier.)

Anyway, the clouds on 280 make me smile a lot. Good image.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I'll find out soon how dead I am. It looks like my new bedtime will be about 8pm, so at least I won't have to worry about the new fall schedule.
Or I won't for a couple of months, at least, until the new shift bids are made.

[ambar.livejournal.com]

You also won't have to worry about evil commute traffic at those times of day.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

And, in the morning at least, the slowly burgeoning light is interesting.

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

Re: #5

That is not a "thingie," it is Crystal Springs Resevoir. My father has worked on the feasibility of using it as an emergency water supply for SF.

But more importantly, Crystal Springs sits directly on top of the San Andreas Fault. So that "little valley" is actually the intersection of the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate. Amazing that something so peaceful looking, could have so much dangerous potential.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a pretty little thingie.
I suspect that one of the reasons it's still pretty is that it's dangerous enough to make developers speculators and city planners think twice before fucking with it.
I like it. A lot.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

The "thingie" is right by 92, yes?

I have to stop reading your journal, you're making me long for a longer commute, and that's just wrong wrong wrong.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Not a longer commute. A *different* commute.
And there's nothing wrong with different.

I'm a big meanie

[lynthia.livejournal.com]

I hate to interrupt the lovely talk about the pretty water, but I happened to notice that your schedule is Friday through Tuesday. That would indicate that you work weekends. Following this train of thought, one might suppose that you will be missing the next 2-day Nero event, and that is a train that should be derailed, immediately.

No no missing Nero! I will cry!

Re: I'm a big meanie

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Alas, while you will have a fully functional Cyrano to serve your every whim at Craft Day, you will have to sneak away from Camp Cutter and come to Santa Clara to get a Cyrano for the next weekend.
However, I'm certain he'd be happy to see you, before he gets sent away to Utah for the week.
As they say on 'Kids in the Hall', It's A Fact.

Re: I'm a big meanie

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

For the first six months, I get no vacation time.
And come review time, they apparently frown most sternly on missing days, either due to NERO or to a death in the family or a personal being dead thing.
However, in two months shift bids go through again and I may be able to ask for a shift where I get Saturdays off. (I cannot imagine getting Saturdays /and/ Sundays off however.)

Re: #1 & $5

[tersa.livejournal.com]

#1 - D'oh. I thought you said 'mid to high 80's' last night, not 90's. In that case, sorry. :/

#5 - Yeah, I absolutely adore the fluid nature of the fog coming over the mountains in the afternoon. Makes me wish there were more 'vista points' other than the scary monk statute to pull off and watch it sometime.

Re: #1 & $5

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

In fact, I did say that.
However, then I actually looked at the book and it said 'No, you moron, I said high NINETIES'.
And I still have failed to find the scary monk statue.

Re: #1 & $5

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

The scary monk can be difficult to spot, even for natives. I'm not quite sure why. It is easier the week prior to the Stanford/Cal football game because the Stanford kids paper mache it, or whatever.

Re: #1 & $5

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

I was near a scary monk statue? I do not recall this. Perhaps I stumbled onto the only other vista on 280 that lacks a monk.

Or perhaps I was too banjaxed by the sunset to notice the monk. Which is more probable.

Re: #1

[spenceraloysius.livejournal.com]

Still looks like a good score to me. Good luck.

Post Office test

[(Anonymous)]

Chris, my friend who works at the Rigby post office and did work at Rexburg also said that your score isn't bad. She said that after a year or two (who couldn't remember which) you have to send them a note that says you still want to be on their list for employment.