I'll show you scaling

[threeplusfire]

It made me very sappy and overjoyed to see the gay marriages today. Especially the women who had been together for about 51 years. I just don't understand objecting to anyone finding bliss with another person and making a choice to be bound with that person for life. Everyone should have the choice, regardless of their preferences. For crying out loud, we don't forbid certain ethnic groups from marrying, or fat kids, or even murderers on death row! Everyone deserves a chance at happiness. It's in our Consitution, and this is America.

We had a couple hours of training classes tonight, which was a nice break from work at least. In the first class, it was a review of scaling structures from aerials. The streets on the flood map were drawn a little too wide, and one of the instructors had scaled the lot incorrectly, which Alan took great delight in pointing out to the other instructor. I was irritated and tired of messing with numbers that didn't quite add up, so I marked off some points and drew the structure in freehand.

When I went up to the light table to compare with the instructors' supposedly correct copy, I was only slightly off! But the awful instructor freaked out and snapped at me for doing it freehand. It made me laugh and get very unpleasant for the rest of the class. Just to spite her and her elementary instructor attitude, I freehanded the second one and it was dead on perfect. I took some evil satisfaction there.

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[feu-de-fripe.livejournal.com]

try telling that to the crazies in congress who believe that blak people should have hteir own bathrooms... er i mean gay people should not be married

surprising how one discrimination is ok and the other isn't.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

That paticular mentality drives me up the wall. People who would scream and rage if these things were applied black people or Asians or Native Americans don't bat an eyelash over it when it applies to gays...

[tamperevident.livejournal.com]

hi! i was recommended your journal by Cate. may i read?

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Hello. Go right ahead. If Cate says it is a good idea, it must be. ;)

[a311renegade.livejournal.com]

I thought the old ladies were so sweet together. I just don't get the big deal all these holier-than-thou people make out of gay marriage. I mean god forbid that any gay person should stop being "promiscuous" and want to commit themselves to one person. Horrors!

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Forsooth!

And I want to know, were you involved in this? :P
http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/02/12/milk.mistake.ap/index.html

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[a311renegade.livejournal.com]

Alas, I had nothing to do with it. But see how easy it is to poison the milk supply?

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Mwuhahahah!

off subject, but...

[water-damage.livejournal.com]

Hey, Amanda. Have you ever considered working for the CIA or the FBI with your languages? I think both czech and russian would be of value to them. They pay well and I know the CIA has this really cool job that's sortof a "foreign media analyst" gig where you basically perused foreign-language websites, newspapers and stuff. I think it has YOU written all over it. Just so you know. With most of the CIA jobs you have to move to DC, but then sometimes you get to go live in your country of interest.

:-)

Re: off subject, but...

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

It's an interesting thought, but I don't think I have a chance in hell of passing the psych profile they would probably want to give me. :P Not to mention all those times in public and in print I've damned the government for one thing or another. :P

Still, I wouldn't mind being a media analyst.