learnteach: (kissing)
learnteach ([personal profile] learnteach) wrote2007-08-27 05:21 pm

Shucky Drat! (3)

How does one say that in Texan? I'm not sure. Probably you don't say that at all.


Dad is doing better, but still, he's old. We're fixing up the house and bugging out; he will come out to be with me later in the year, if I come down and bring him out. Ohhhhhkay. Still, it's one of life's cruelties that I, who has inherited packrat/mess tendencies, am cleaning up a 2000 foot house.

And yes, CV, he is saving piles of cans sorted by type (spam, tuna, etc) for storing things in.

SD 2: Well, the trip to Germany is off (not officially, but it's being killed slowly.) The bosslady wants me to be fully capable, and doesn't have a login for me or a badge or...so, we'll see. I'll devote the end of the week to study, but at some point, you have to ask: is there money in this somewhere? Why am I doing this? Because if I have to learn everything about Cisco VoIP, including CCM (three versions), SRST configs, ER servers, IPSLA machines, interactions with MoM systems, phone codes, equipment compatibilities and timelines, that's a fairly large commitment of time.

SD 3: The cold I've been fighting for a week is gaining on me, perhaps, helped by the cold/hot transfers. So I may be getting ill.


SHUCKY DRATS!

How would I say that in German?

Ooopsala?

PS: Norman haircuts are in style, at least in the teen crowd. They do seem cooler in heat. I saw 5 at the Wallyworld today.

PPS: I don't think this side trip being taken impaired my possiblity of getting to go to Germany. And as long as I don't freak, I think I'll be getting class contracts. But I need to get to the point where I can be paid to do these things.

PPPS: My, it's warm! Warm enough perhaps for fish to swim!

[identity profile] ladybrid.livejournal.com 2007-08-28 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
in Texan I believe it would be something close to
"gawdamn" with proper drawl... but I'm outta practice

Saving cans

[identity profile] cvirtue.livejournal.com 2007-08-28 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
If he's doing that sort of saving, you need to find out if he feels emotionally attached to the saved things, and/or to saving in general. It can be an honest to god mental imbalance, or it can just be weirdness, but if it's really a mental problem (Obsessive compulsive disorder with hoarding) then he needs professional help (ideally.)

Just throwing things out, if OCD, can send him into a legitimate panic, as much as locking a claustrophobe in a closet or covering an arachnophobe with spiders.

I wish I'd known this when I was cleaning up for my father. He had agreed to it, but he felt violated.

[identity profile] aastg.livejournal.com 2007-08-28 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
That would be "SHEE-it!" in Texan; "oopsala" is a Swedish cathedral, not a German expletive.

[identity profile] judith-s.livejournal.com 2007-08-28 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Scheisse, I believe is the proper German term. Or possibly donner wetter, which is more of an expression of frustration (and oddly translates to thunder weather).

[identity profile] sbuchler.livejournal.com 2007-08-28 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
e-hugs, hope you feel better soon!

[identity profile] shutt3rg33k.livejournal.com 2007-08-28 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
SD 3: All apologies

[identity profile] klwilliams.livejournal.com 2007-08-28 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
In Texan: Sheeeee-it, with as many syllables as you can manage in one breath.

Will you still be competing in Bardic?

[identity profile] trinsf.livejournal.com 2007-08-28 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Gol-darn. Phonetically, gawwwwwwllll-daaaarrrrrnnn.

More obscurely, Gawl-dang it.