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Borrowed with permission from Khayman! LOL
Fairly swiped from Incarnadine.
Oddly, though, the final report switched some of my answers. For example: It asked if I have 20/20 vision. I do. I clicked YES. When the report came back, it said NO. So, I lost money. (shrug) At least it got the "gay, straight, bi" question correct.
I am worth $2,676,330 on HumanForSale.com
How much are you worth?
Today, after 7 weeks of studying every day and night (well...almost every day and night. ;-) ) I finished the last of 9 exams required to upgrade my merchant marine licence to "Chief Mate - Any Oceans - Any Gross Tonnage."
I can't begin to relate what a huge deal this is for me. If I had to equate it, I guess a Masters degree would be close, but it's a lot more than that.
9 exams over the course of 7 days. I think that, in itself is part of the process that one is expected to go through. Let me break it down:
Exam #1 and 2: 50 questions. 90% is a passing grade. You can miss 5.
Exam 3 and 4: 50 and 70 questions. 70% passing
Exam #5: 70 questions. 70% passing
Those are the easy ones. Except for the fact that each exam is drawn from a question bank of about 2000 questions. That's roughly 12000 questions to study. So, 290 questions out of 12000.
Exam #6: 15 questions. 70% passing. These are all computations and calculations, not just guess the right answer.
Now it gets tough:
Exam #7: 10 questions. 90% to pass. This exam was chart navigation. You can't fake this stuff and you can only miss 1.
Exam #8: 10 questions. 90% to pass. Terrestrial navigation. Calculating things like distances and courses over thousands of miles, fuel consumtion, engine efficiency, rising and setting of the sun, moon, planets, etc. Not fun. You can only miss one.
Exam #9: 15 question: 80% to pass. More of the above, but adding celestial navigation. A LOT of celestial navigation. You can miss 2.
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None of this really means anything to anyone outside of my industry or my life. Those of you who DO get it, understand that this is a huge deal for me. This is one of those points in my life that actually MATTERS. It's pretty big. If you don't get it, oh well. This is my journal, and today, I'm not writing this for anyone but me. heheh
So, I'm done with that. I don't know what to do, now. LOL I've been in study mode for so long that I don't know what to do with an evening when I don't have to. Guess I'll get drunk. Hell, I'm ALREADY drunk. :-)
I couldn't have done it without you. Thank you so much for your time, support and for putting up with my bad mental attitude. WE earned this. :-)
Thanks to Flannery for bringing this song to my attention. :-)
http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/christmas.htm
I say that. I say it because that's what I learned to say and have been saying since I knew why dad put that tree in the living room in December, every year.
When I say "Merry Christmas" I expect people to do some mental interperatation and translate it into whatever faction of "the season" that they observe.
So, I say "Merry Christmas." To further pontificate, I have been known to say "Happy Holidays" on the days leading up to Christmas, but starting on Christmas eve, I definitely say "merry Christmas."
If folks are offended...tough tittie and humbug to them. :-)
So...
Merry Christmas.
Requiem and I were playing volleyball with math jokes tonight, and I found this one.
Three statisticians go out hunting together. After a while they spot a solitary rabbit. The first statistician takes aim and overshoots. The second aims and undershoots. The third shouts out "We got him!"
One of my closest e-friends on this site is Daire. Some have accused us of being kin, and I regretfully must deny the accusation. Now I can officially say that Daire is no longer my E-pal. After meeting him in person, he's officially on the real-for-sure-enough FRIEND Friend list.
I had dinner with Flannery, Sahahria and the little Irish Patato Rapist, himself and a good time was had by all. They were kind enough to bestow upon me some Happy Squirrel Chewing Gum, a little plastic Pirate and a ... um...I guess you could call it a bouncy boob on a rope. I'd put pics in here but someone stole my camera. (Bastards) The pirate went with me to my exams this morning, and sat on the desk while I filled in the little A, B, C, and D's. He'll sit there every day until his juju fails. heheh
It was great to meet them all, and to finally be able to raz Daire, personally, for cutting his hair. The circle is now complete....
So, that's 6 out of 8 admins that's I've met from this site. (Including Jamie) I'm hoping to meet Images when I head back home... Nic, well, who the hell knows how I'm going to pull that one off. LOL
...start today.
Two exams a day from today until Friday, then 1 more next Tuesday. Yes...the day after Christmas. Bleh.
I may or may not be online much this week.
Brain....hurts....
Check THIS asshole out! I'm not even going to prep it with a description. You'll figure out what's going to happen before it does. I love the reaction of the kids at the end.
Dumbass.
lol guy shoots himself on accident!
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Fuck it. It ain't worth the headache.
...I'm thinking about Steve Martin's character at the moment.
Such an afternoon I have planned....
It's going to cost me almost 2 grand and 2 hours in the dental chair, but at least I'll be able to chew on the right side with no pain for the first time in a year.
Joy.
Oh, my aching bank account...
Except for the Saints winning, Sunday ended kinda "meh."
It was an end to an incredible week, though. Can't say I'll forget it. :-)
Someone sent this to me with the subject of "You're famous!!!"
I find it funny that VR got lumped in with "thehun.com" a serious porno site!!
http://www.hotqa.com/teen-preteen/1147-2-dmt123.html
DB Edit: Holy Crap, thats so ridiculous. Ps: Who takes advice from an idiot who doesn't know how to spell??? Its funny though. Pss: We need to get rid of the scum of the earth people who taint this website....I say, lets go on a suspension rampage & get rid of them!!! ;)
Psss: Its not a crime to kill their profiles *double wink*
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