look where i've wandered into in the middle of the night...after getting floored by nt wright, i guess i just can't go to sleep. i was looking through some old college photos, and i found our florida pics :) almost every single one of them made me laugh. us in our yellow mickey ponchos, us in our stranded log flume, us in goofy ears and grumpy beards, us on the beach avoiding certain people...

A+D+D+E+F+J+V=fun fun fun. and so much blessing now too.

Ro- this is for you: Fact or Fiction?
Antoine de Chezy (1718-1798)
French hydraulic engineer and author of a basic formula for calculating the velocity of a fluid stream
Chezy formula was developed in 1775; it relates channel velocity to roughness, hydraulic radius, and channel slope. (From Encyclopedia Britannica)

hehe, it's true. Not that i particularly wanted to bring that horrid nickname up again but i ran into it again at work.. It's kinda related to my job, uncanny eh?
perhaps i shall call myself Shana de la Chez. Sophisticated, non? I can be ghetto french. And have some of jeanbean's FUNKY french music for a soundtrack...

quite an overflow of posts this morning, i feel overwhelmed.

- i have added monsieur zefrank to my links; i feel that he is just a kindred spirit and role model to us all.
- no, no, ain't no color (buttery or not) that can subdue our insanity.
- mr. ralph still needs his engine checked. i'm worried for him but i'm not sure when i can take him in (or where there's a lexus dealer nearby.. do I have to take him in to the dealer??) sigh. this can only mean spending money i don't have...
- R: oh, honey, hang in there.. and i think your Ode speaks volumes more than any man-made insanity test.

ode to krispy kremes

ode to you, my squishy-soft and chocolatey friend
where in my tummy exactly 1.5 of you are nestled
ode to you, fatty treat of encouragement from my boss
you have made my rainy day so sweet


...it's so quiet here at the institute. i could run up and down the halls reciting my poem...but i choose not to lose my job.

last night's misadventure:
i take nyquil and then watch "a walk to remember" with cindy, resulting in both of us laughing at the sheer idiocy of the movie. it had its moments, mandy can sing, shane can smirk, but by the end, cindy and i were consoling each other (i.e. "WHY oh WHY did we spend the night watching that?!). i was so...discombobulated that i actually passed the insanity test. i took it right after the movie and i didn't laugh. you know me, i laugh at almost everything. i'm sane, shane and mandy, thanks to you.

It's Friday, it's drizzling, and the IMF protests are happening a few blocks away from work. Our building is formally shut down for the day. Junior staff had to come into work to prepare for a semiannual conference we're having next week. There aren't many cars as driving was discouraged today. But most people are still walking to work, like me, merely glancing at the protestors with green signs, long hair, and bandanas -- 20,000 of them.

Let me pose a question: does the fact that you're protesting the corruption of portions of international society nullify the fact that you're disrupting a significant portion of American society? A portion that has nothing to DO with the corruption that you're protesting, and even has the potential to HELP you?

One of our consultants looks just like Edward Norton, and his firm is basically running amuck on one of our facilities -- they're taking OVER i tell you, they're on like EVERY JOB there and I think that they think they own the place. Sigh, what to do, what to do...
[Talking about work is so boring but i've gotta have some outlet to rant. Sometimes Do talks about my work. According to her, i'm the plumber of my building and they keep me locked up in the basement. My main responsibility is to turn on water faucets.]

- Fro, I like your layout. There aren't that many good ones to choose from anyway. (goodbye avocado)

i can't leave ANY of you alone for one minute! (ron throws hands up in the air) what am i going to do with you?! i'm talking to my hobbits by the way. does this monologue supercede the insanity test? my memorable quote for yesterday: "if i were flexible enough i'd kick myself in the head." that was after i got charged big time at a korean dry cleaner. i'm starting to seriously have doubts about my own race...

oh happy day, oh happy day. OH can we change the background here? to something more autumn-ish?

ok. Speaking of tests and Insanity, here's the official insanity test. BUT, I MUST WARN YOU: YOU HAVE TO HAVE YOUR SOUND TURNED ON (IF YOU'RE AT WORK WAIT TIL YOU'RE AT HOME!) AND YOU HAVE TO BE IN A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN GUFFAW AND ROLL ON THE FLOOR FREELY.

oh fro, that's too funny. QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Black man's toothpaste is still Black man's toothpaste."
I sat in on a meeting this morning of the Mayor and City Council. Did you know that the City Council is entirely African American ? It was great (and of the six, four were women!), I was pleasantly surprised. Well, the Mayor's caucasian of course.. ;)

ok First of all, the "category of the day" has BEEN Nerdiness for the WHOLE WEEK. Between joke links, accusations, and confessions (a whole LOT from our anonymous shout outers!), that dead horse has been beaten to a PULP. Could i possibly request that the N word be banned for a very very VERY long time? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. Seriously.
(The related G word i think is dead but not quite pulp-like; on the other hand there is plenty of life left in Freakishness and other such topics.)

Hmm. I love the fall because
*of the air, definitely. Not humid and gross and not so dry that your hair gets all static-y. And i know exactly what you mean, R, about the driving experience :D ..makes you want to go for walks too.
*apple cider (hot or cold) yummm.
*the leaves of course, but only when you're not the one that has to rake them up...

Aside from that, i don't know if fall's really my favorite season.
And is it just me or does being out of school kind of make all the seasons blur together..? There isn't that whole excitement (and/or dread) of going back to school, with new supplies and teachers and classes... sad sad.

i had another jane&steve wedding dream. I KNOW! but let me tell the story first. so they had to have the wedding ceremony again for some reason, and this time it was in the caribbean. it was in one of those rustic churches (white paint slightly chipping off, small with pews) with the windows and doors open, letting the cool caribbean breeze come in. really pretty. and NONE of us had to get our hair done, we just all had it down... you can analyze this, but i've already decided that i was sufficiently traumatized with the whole studio stupid episode, enough so that it is haunting me in my dreams to this day. that or the moon cake i ate last night was really bad?

ooo, ooo! i love the fall because...
*of the riot of orange, red, yellow, and brown color
*it changes your driving experience (windows down please!)
*of that crisp wind, that smell of smoke from the leaves burning (well, in the ny/nj area)
*you can still wear open-toed, but now you can wear your favorite sweater too
*i remember childhood
*it is transient. that's what makes me appreciate it

ok, what IS this?! Voting on my name now? And I thought the fall of the Blogger dictatorship was a good thing.
Anyway where did you GET some of those names ??

fro: G.O.D? that's also a Korean singing group, one of the ONLY ones that i actually like.
de: here is your fortune cookie reading for today --> don't be too ambitious (or insane). stick with "whodo" and lose "woohoo" unless you also want to add "eeehee."
do: here here about watching TV while you work out. i say HERE HERE.

oh my, our new RAs and interns crack me up. two of the guys take longer to get ready in the mornings than most of the girls. one of them wears a headband and has been nicknamed "flash" or "flashdancer." today he was also called "jigolo." why does that word look weird typed out? WHO ARE YOU?

oh, did you know that chris has a link to this page under "gnome weblog"?! i'm not even going to ask why he chose the word "gnome" (as i see my reflection off the computer screen).

i suppose it's high-time i put a link up. here you go...oh wait, i have to learn how to do that :)

That's some RaNdOm stuff on your site fro. Did you notice the lisa simpson (i guess she gained some weight)?! She's a Monster, dude.

R- oh, rondo, you've not been the same since you left for nj. don't be dazed and confused. When in doubt, just keep on blogging..

I move to have my name changed from "WhoDo?" to "WooHoo!". It doesn't change the feel of the site does it ?
RoFroDoWooHoo.

When I was at home this past weekend, Monica was like, "What do your friends call you again? Bobbit something?" I was shocked, simply shocked, and said, "RONDO. Rondo BAGGINS." Is this not something everyone should know?!

On another note, I feel...lost, disconnected. I don't know what you all talk about anymore.

i just got back from doing maybe the scariest thing i've ever done. This one job i'm on is in construction and part of it's a 60-foot-tall tank with steps winding around it on the outside. You know those ugly industrial tanks you see when you're on 695 East, it's like one of those but skinnier and not painted yet.
After our meeting we walked up those steps.
They were JUST put in a couple weeks ago mind you, by some of the guys i've seen working there. The steps are just grating so you can see EVERYTHING below you as you're walking further and further up (and away from safety). Not to mention that every step of the guy going up in front of me was making the whole stairway jiggle.

The view from the top was great though.
(Fro, i wished i could have taken a picture dude, i had my hard hat on too)