Dispatch from DesWorld #9

[angledge]

Since I'm still the health & safety officer for my office back in San Francisco, every month I get an email from our corporate occupational health care provider regarding who needs to schedule their annual physical:

Occupational Health Care Provider: Here is the list of all the employees due for their physicals. Let me know who's Active, Inactive or Terminated:
[...names...]
Des Garner
[...names...]
angledge (with a cc: to Des): Des Garner is an active employee. I will let him know that he needs to schedule a physical in March. (Got that, Des?)
Des: I'm actually pretty inert
angledge: Ha! That's, like, a CHEMIST joke!
Des: Yes - I am a Noble Gas at heart - with a hardened shell of exterior electrons (eight in all). Hence my reticence & inertness.

Dispatch #10.
Dispatch #8.

Comments

[thepikey.livejournal.com]

Eight outer shell electrons... that'd make him either Neon or Argon. Does he glow when you pass a current through him, or can he be found at Dodge dealerships? (trying to narrow it down)

[angledge.livejournal.com]

There's always one more layer of geekiness to unravel, isn't there?

-1, GOTWIMPLJ.

[thepikey.livejournal.com]

I'm a chemist, dammit! It's my special flavor of geekiness.

Hell, I could've tried tying in some sort of comment with governor Ahnold and the 'terminated' comment, would that have been better? HUH? WOULD IT REALLY?

[branniejan.livejournal.com]

BRILLIANT!

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

No, I actually prefer the geekiness myself. *hugs and sneaks a +1 back to the Pikey*

[thepikey.livejournal.com]

Och, bless ye miss!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes it would. You can never go wrong with Ahnold quotes.

[thepikey.livejournal.com]

But the Terminator quotes are really kind of sub-par. 'Hasta la vista' and 'Come with me if you want to live' are almost kind of throwaway lines. If you really want to get Ahnold at his peak, you need to go Conan, dig?

[effrontery.livejournal.com]

Hey, Ang, I saw about the tornadoes in New Orleans. Just wanted to make sure you're doing OK--let us know? Sending you good thoughts and prayers.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

My ceiling sprouted a water fountain at 2:30 AM, & the airport was temporarily closed, but trust me - I will be leaving NOLA tomorrow if I have to fly the plane myself.

[sasscat.livejournal.com]

"Noble gas" is when a Lord farts. Ha.

I shall ponce back to my other journal now. :-) And get around to putting a note up on this one so more people can find it. Cool people. Yeah baby.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

...putting a note up on this one so more people can find it. Cool people. Yeah baby.

Well then, if I can't find it, I guess I'll know.

(Good to hear from you.)

[sasscat.livejournal.com]

I went to reply to this and got slapped on the hand by LJ because I was logged in under the wrong account. Cruel, cruel LJ.

Because I'm lazy and I don't know when I'll get around to putting up the appropriate note, I am at thechinesecurse

[sasscat.livejournal.com]

also: OTTER!!!!!!!!

kyoot.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Ahh! I was wondering who that was.

[sasscat.livejournal.com]

I's sneaky :-)