Thread Stealers With Too Much On Their Minds

[amita17]

:ftp: on page 1139 on another delegated day off.

Sorry I don’t have any answers for you, Noonan.  I don’t get any souvenirs that require multiple efforts.  I just don’t have the time, it’s not that I am against souvenirs.  So I haven’t looked into what is required for this one.

[amita17]

My last post was also a palindromic-numbered post, as if that matters.  But isn’t that the essence of Thread Stealers, inconsequence?

[rawevil]

amita17 wrote:

My last post was also a palindromic-numbered post, as if that matters. But isn’t that the essence of Thread Stealers, inconsequence?

Too funny!!

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

-Henry David Thoreau

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Noonan wrote:

Seems to me like these Adventure Labs are essentially the same as Wherigo?

The Adventure Labs seem to be like that, or maybe multis that allow a “find” for each stage, which I wasn’t crazy to see.  Trekkin’ did the local one, which was a repeat of a former intercache (which is also kind of what they’re like, I guess).  No expert, since we’ve only done one and haven’t sought them out.

For the souvenir, you have to have finds on “six caching outings.” In other words, cache or attend an event on six different days during the time frame of this.  We’ve skipped a lot of souvenirs this past year, but since we’ve been mostly vacation cachers, we have stuff close by that we can try to use for this promotion.  Honestly, I feel like they’ve kind of gone overboard with those things….just my opinion.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Different topic….I have one more holiday card to make.  I have the photo for it, but this is for someone who has SAD and hates the holidays, which increase his depression.  What in the world can I write as a greeting in that card?  I don’t want to pretend that saying “Merry Christmas buck up” will acknowledge his mood.  His feelings are real and legitimate and to pretend otherwise isn’t helpful.   TIA

[BigJim]

I was on the nice list once, but I haven’t made either list in several years.

All opinions, comments, and useless drivel I post are mine alone and do not reflect the opinions of the WGA BOD.

[rawevil]

Trekkin and Birdin wrote:

Different topic….I have one more holiday card to make. I have the photo for it, but this is for someone who has SAD and hates the holidays, which increase his depression. What in the world can I write as a greeting in that card? I don’t want to pretend that saying “Merry Christmas buck up” will acknowledge his mood. His feelings are real and legitimate and to pretend otherwise isn’t helpful. TIA

Make the best of the season?

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

-Henry David Thoreau

[rawevil]

I got into the office this morning and the first thing I do is turn on all of the Christmas lights I brought in to make my department bright and merry. I get to the lunch area and there is an entire strand MISSING! What the fudge? I waited until the last person in my department got in and asked if he did anything with it Friday. His reply was no.

So, I went into HR and asked if she’d seen any lights somewhere where they normally wouldn’t be. Otherwise, I was going to ask to look at the security camera to see if the cleaning crew stole the set. Lo and behold, she said walk out by the press and look at the window that faces the WIOUWASH trail.

I go out and there is a single strand of lights and a little Christmas tree with a window sticky of the leg lamp from A Christmas Story. I looked at the pressman from the press on the other side and gave him a questioning look. I asked where the lights came from when the other pressman started walking back towards us. He told me they weren’t plugged in on Saturday when they were working so he used them. I said of course they weren’t plugged in, I didn’t work Saturday so I didn’t plug them in! I was kinda irritated at this and it must have shown on my face. The first pressman I saw says, “Hold on, we are all adults here.”

I looked at him and said, “My last name is Children!” All conversation was then halted as I stormed back to my office.

It was a turd thing to do without asking permission or leaving a note or texting me or something. I’d be more irritated if the window decoration didn’t look nice. Good for the guys wanting to make their area Christmasy, too. But still . . . grrrr . . . . 😉

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

-Henry David Thoreau

[rawevil]

Update on the strand of lights thief . . . @2:30 he came to my office and asked if I had any hooks.

I think it’s time to go home now LOL

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

-Henry David Thoreau

[amita17]

Trekkin and Birdin wrote:

Different topic….I have one more holiday card to make. I have the photo for it, but this is for someone who has SAD and hates the holidays, which increase his depression. What in the world can I write as a greeting in that card? I don’t want to pretend that saying “Merry Christmas buck up” will acknowledge his mood. His feelings are real and legitimate and to pretend otherwise isn’t helpful. TIA

Is it a holiday photo?  Does it need to be a holiday card?  Maybe a neutral photo and a nonholiday message would be more appropriate, just something informative for keeping in touch.?

[amita17]

rawevil wrote:

I got into the office this morning and the first thing I do is turn on all of the Christmas lights I brought in to make my department bright and merry. I get to the lunch area and there is an entire strand MISSING! What the fudge? I waited until the last person in my department got in and asked if he did anything with it Friday. His reply was no. So, I went into HR and asked if she’d seen any lights somewhere where they normally wouldn’t be. Otherwise, I was going to ask to look at the security camera to see if the cleaning crew stole the set. Lo and behold, she said walk out by the press and look at the window that faces the WIOUWASH trail. I go out and there is a single strand of lights and a little Christmas tree with a window sticky of the leg lamp from A Christmas Story. I looked at the pressman from the press on the other side and gave him a questioning look. I asked where the lights came from when the other pressman started walking back towards us. He told me they weren’t plugged in on Saturday when they were working so he used them. I said of course they weren’t plugged in, I didn’t work Saturday so I didn’t plug them in! I was kinda irritated at this and it must have shown on my face. The first pressman I saw says, “Hold on, we are all adults here.” I looked at him and said, “My last name is Children!” All conversation was then halted as I stormed back to my office. It was a turd thing to do without asking permission or leaving a note or texting me or something. I’d be more irritated if the window decoration didn’t look nice. Good for the guys wanting to make their area Christmasy, too. But still . . . grrrr . . . .

Does the person know that the lights belonged to you?  If he thought they were company property, maybe he thought it was ok to move them.  You have a right to take them if they belong to you.  That said, I would make sure the person knew why you were taking them back.  And, it doesn’t hurt to say that courtesy would dictate not messing with another person’s display.  Of course, I don’t know your work environment, and maybe the less said, the better.  Still, some people don’t realize their seemingly inconsequential actions really do affect others.

[Noonan]

Wow, this has been a busy thread today!

Dealing with work stuff isn’t easy. We came in today to a half empty gallon of chocolate milk having gone bad, expanded the jug to the point that it leaked out into the fridge (fortunately it was on the bottom) and then leaked out into the rug.

Our maintenance staff is great and he gets things clean quickly. It still smells though. The thing about this is: nobody is claiming the milk belonged to them. Nobody. We’re a pretty tight knit group of ~10 in our wing, some of us hang out together outside of work, the guys in my department have been great at helping fix up our new house. Nobody will admit the milk was theirs.

I also get here first every day. I have a ton of copies to make for my classes, and don’t like hogging the machine when I know others need it. I sat in the copy room with that rotten milk and didn’t place the smell. I thought it was butter from microwave popcorn. I couldn’t figure out who was here before 7 AM making popcorn! Guess my nose is going now too.

As far as the message in the card goes, I live with people with SAD, but they enjoy the holidays much more than I ever will. It’s been Hallmark movies since Halloween, or whenever they started showing them this year. I just go to another room and do my own thing. I think they go gung ho on decorating and movies to help combat their depression. Me, my family just never celebrated like this, for so long, so it’s not my thing. It irritates my wife, but after being together almost 20 years, I think she’s starting to realize I’m not going to join in. I was surprised that she didn’t bite when I offered to put up the outside lights the last warm weekend we had. She said we didn’t really have any anymore and didn’t know where they were at that time either. So, we’re full of inside decorations and completely barren outside.

The best sig is no sig.

[Noonan]

The Squirrel wrote:

Sometime in 2007, Team Bear Bear posted

OK guys here’s your chance to steal a thread! What should we talk about? hmmmm beer – nope been done, bonfire – when?, rockets – now there’s a topic. I once saw a cache that looked like a rocket. How cool was that! Didn’t fly very high when tossed. Needed more powder. What’s on your mind?

The best sig is no sig.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

amita17 wrote:

Trekkin and Birdin wrote:

Different topic….I have one more holiday card to make. I have the photo for it, but this is for someone who has SAD and hates the holidays, which increase his depression. What in the world can I write as a greeting in that card? I don’t want to pretend that saying “Merry Christmas buck up” will acknowledge his mood. His feelings are real and legitimate and to pretend otherwise isn’t helpful. TIA

Is it a holiday photo? Does it need to be a holiday card? Maybe a neutral photo and a nonholiday message would be more appropriate, just something informative for keeping in touch.?

I made the card with a non-holiday photo and it isn’t very Christmas-y of a design.  My others actually weren’t, either.  I think I ended up with a bit of a pun and more of an encouragement that we’re here sort of thing.  I have read so many things of late about not denying the darkness in our lives, but accepting it and allowing it to help us work through whatever we might need.   I remember a saying somewhere and I cannot for the life of me come up with the exact words, but family said something like “into every life some darkness will come.”  I’m in danger of going on and on here, but our culture is so fixated on “happy, happy” and “shop, shop,” that I can see how someone who suffers depression anyway can be completely overwhelmed by it all.  It gets to me and I’m fairly optimistic in my outlook on life.

[hack1of2]

You could possibly use that picture, but add a funny object to it via Photoshop to introduce humor.

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