Knuckles
Lives under a bridge
Gawd, please don't let this be an euphemism:lalala:......
A day in your life......
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You dirt bag.......
My labrador has a huge admiration for raw fruit and vegetables, she thrives on it and has been adoring it since she was a pup. It surprises many people actually, they've never known of a dog to have such a taste for fruit.
grimzentide
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My retriever loved fruit in particular apple... it also ate a box of liqueur chocolates once...You dirt bag.......
My labrador has a huge admiration for raw fruit and vegetables, she thrives on it and has been adoring it since she was a pup. It surprises many people actually, they've never known of a dog to have such a taste for fruit.
Ha! Shit eh, did it make your dog crook?
Reminds me of a funny story: We went to the in(out)laws one night prior to going out for dinner. It was Easter time so the mother in law gave us a bag of eggs (read as 3kg) so we sat it at the front door outside knowing we'd grab it when we dropped the parents off. When we came back, the silver foil was all over the front door step and the side gate open...........their Boxer dog had sniffed it out and hooked in to every single chocolate. She was in the backyard backing out a very liquid shit when we got there but seemed lively enough over the next few days and didn't appear to be ill. The dog turds on the morning walks wee apparently littered with silver foil. Crack up.
grimzentide
Likes Dirt
The dog was fine.. The back yard was covered in yogo for a week though. It somehow managed to unwrap every individual chocolate...
Alarm goes off 630.
Out of bed by 7 and straight to the shower. I don't function until atleast 10mins under hot hot water in winter.
Put on my penguin suit for the day and make lunch, out the door 740.
Biggest decision of the day is which of the 5 coffee shops I get my morning Joe from.
10 min drive to work along the bay, usually the long way on nicer days.
Get to work bit after 8.
Turn computer on and turn radio on, check emails, eat my breakky at my desk usually while reading one of the news websites to catch up on my current events.
Do lots of boring shit based around Procurement and Planning (forecasts, buying shit, and yelling at suppliers at why the stuff isn't here when requested).
2 more coffees between 10am and 2pm.
Plus a bit of Rotorburn and a few other forums to keep me relatively sane.
Gym at 520 Mon - Wed - Fri.
Footy training Tuesday/Thursday. However currently with a stuffed knee, footy training consists of standing around listening to the young blokes talk about their attempted sexual arrays on the previous Saturday night(usually extremely amusing), bit of physio time then leave.
Dinner, I usually cook with the squeeze most nights as I enjoy cooking, and also to make sure enough food is cooked to make me satisfied, I have found my misses is terrible at estimating portion sizes, especially during my heavy training phases where I eat elephant size intakes of food.
Tv and more forums time.
Bed - Sleep straight away, no time for forays, need my recovery time.
Repeat x 5
Out of bed by 7 and straight to the shower. I don't function until atleast 10mins under hot hot water in winter.
Put on my penguin suit for the day and make lunch, out the door 740.
Biggest decision of the day is which of the 5 coffee shops I get my morning Joe from.
10 min drive to work along the bay, usually the long way on nicer days.
Get to work bit after 8.
Turn computer on and turn radio on, check emails, eat my breakky at my desk usually while reading one of the news websites to catch up on my current events.
Do lots of boring shit based around Procurement and Planning (forecasts, buying shit, and yelling at suppliers at why the stuff isn't here when requested).
2 more coffees between 10am and 2pm.
Plus a bit of Rotorburn and a few other forums to keep me relatively sane.
Gym at 520 Mon - Wed - Fri.
Footy training Tuesday/Thursday. However currently with a stuffed knee, footy training consists of standing around listening to the young blokes talk about their attempted sexual arrays on the previous Saturday night(usually extremely amusing), bit of physio time then leave.
Dinner, I usually cook with the squeeze most nights as I enjoy cooking, and also to make sure enough food is cooked to make me satisfied, I have found my misses is terrible at estimating portion sizes, especially during my heavy training phases where I eat elephant size intakes of food.
Tv and more forums time.
Bed - Sleep straight away, no time for forays, need my recovery time.
Repeat x 5
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nathanm
Eats Squid
At the moment my life is not particularly interesting. In 4 weeks however that changes when http://paddlefishtasmania.com.au/ opens for it's new season. Then my day goes something like this.
6:30am - Up and scoff breakfast. Make sure all the participant documents are correct and all the required OH&S and safety folders are packed.
Pack the pre-made food and fluids into the eski and head outside to hitch the pre-packed trailer full of equipment.
7:00am - Collect the days participants and travel to the site. Normally this is a range of different locations on the Derwent River or Lakes such as Meadowbank or Craigbourne.
8:00am - Participant and safety briefing including equipment display and testing. Complete disclaimers and launch.
9:00 -12:00am - Keep an eye on the participants and deliver guide services ie - stop casting up the tree's, no you can't take a piss into the scupper holes. yes they're is fish here you're just not good enough to catch them, because you're doing the opposite to what I tell you. Holy Shit a clients on and trying to skull drag that 10 pounder into the boat, yell at them to ease up and pump and wind. Prepare rods with a range of lures, tie on new ones etc etc.
12:00 - 12:30 - Prep some lunch. We've normally got some light refreshments all ready packed but on the full day trips I'll crack out the bbq and cook up some gourment snags.
12:30 - 3pm - continuing guiding. Prep fish caught and pack up and head home.
5pm - 8pm Housework and play time with the kid then prep dinner for myself and the kid. Avoid talking to the missus who just wants to crap on about her boring government job I don't care about and then get the kid into bed and asleep.
8pm - 10:30pm - hit the gym or the shed for some time on the trainer, or tinker with bikes or the khana car.
10:30 pm pass out in a state of unconsciousness.
But all this doesn't matter. I jus got's ta know about MWI's day. The dude chops peoples heads off and cuts out animal foetus for a living.
6:30am - Up and scoff breakfast. Make sure all the participant documents are correct and all the required OH&S and safety folders are packed.
Pack the pre-made food and fluids into the eski and head outside to hitch the pre-packed trailer full of equipment.
7:00am - Collect the days participants and travel to the site. Normally this is a range of different locations on the Derwent River or Lakes such as Meadowbank or Craigbourne.
8:00am - Participant and safety briefing including equipment display and testing. Complete disclaimers and launch.
9:00 -12:00am - Keep an eye on the participants and deliver guide services ie - stop casting up the tree's, no you can't take a piss into the scupper holes. yes they're is fish here you're just not good enough to catch them, because you're doing the opposite to what I tell you. Holy Shit a clients on and trying to skull drag that 10 pounder into the boat, yell at them to ease up and pump and wind. Prepare rods with a range of lures, tie on new ones etc etc.
12:00 - 12:30 - Prep some lunch. We've normally got some light refreshments all ready packed but on the full day trips I'll crack out the bbq and cook up some gourment snags.
12:30 - 3pm - continuing guiding. Prep fish caught and pack up and head home.
5pm - 8pm Housework and play time with the kid then prep dinner for myself and the kid. Avoid talking to the missus who just wants to crap on about her boring government job I don't care about and then get the kid into bed and asleep.
8pm - 10:30pm - hit the gym or the shed for some time on the trainer, or tinker with bikes or the khana car.
10:30 pm pass out in a state of unconsciousness.
But all this doesn't matter. I jus got's ta know about MWI's day. The dude chops peoples heads off and cuts out animal foetus for a living.
Brooksy007
Likes Dirt
Alarm goes off 5:45am - hit snooze until 6:30am before finally getting up
Shower, cereal, coffee - my brain is finally working.
Watch various crap TV shows before leaving for work at 7:30
Essentially 0k drive to work that takes up to an hour... Already lost my mind by the time I arrive at work.
Another coffee
Spend couple hours on internet, particularly RB
Another coffee
Answer some emails, start a report
Lunch at the Vietnamese Bakery - best pork roll EVER!
Sometimes I'll walk to the Vic Market for a Bratwurst.
Read Herald Sun to laugh at the shite reporting / what they consider news
Get most of my actual work done in the afternoon
another coffee at 3pm
Drive home at 4:30pm - for some reason it only takes 1/2 hour(?)
BEER!
Watch something like GoT or Walking Dead, or possibly head for a night ride
Dinner - usually t/a as I live alone, but sometimes I like to cook
More Beer with dinner
Some computer time - likely working on photos, or tralling FB and/or RB, watch'n MTB movies...
Realise its bloody late and go to bed at around 11-1:30pm - next day wonder why I have to hit the snooze button so many times...
Shower, cereal, coffee - my brain is finally working.
Watch various crap TV shows before leaving for work at 7:30
Essentially 0k drive to work that takes up to an hour... Already lost my mind by the time I arrive at work.
Another coffee
Spend couple hours on internet, particularly RB
Another coffee
Answer some emails, start a report
Lunch at the Vietnamese Bakery - best pork roll EVER!
Sometimes I'll walk to the Vic Market for a Bratwurst.
Read Herald Sun to laugh at the shite reporting / what they consider news
Get most of my actual work done in the afternoon
another coffee at 3pm
Drive home at 4:30pm - for some reason it only takes 1/2 hour(?)
BEER!
Watch something like GoT or Walking Dead, or possibly head for a night ride
Dinner - usually t/a as I live alone, but sometimes I like to cook
More Beer with dinner
Some computer time - likely working on photos, or tralling FB and/or RB, watch'n MTB movies...
Realise its bloody late and go to bed at around 11-1:30pm - next day wonder why I have to hit the snooze button so many times...
Knuckles
Lives under a bridge
So local government job then....
which bakery? I work near the Vic Market, love those Vietnamese rolls.
Mywifesirrational
I however am very normal. Trust me.
My days are generally pretty boring with some dissection thrown in:
A normal work day is leaving home before or after peak hour as I travel across Melbourne to get to work and getting home from 6-10pm, once at work it depends on the day. Often will ride (37km each way), enjoy the ride but makes a long day, really long.
Research work day, liaising with participants, surgeons or Dr’s; testing / training participants. At work use a PQ-CT , sonography, EMG, transcranial magnetic stimulation, dynamometry or training individuals in the uni’s rehab clinic. No set times for lunch or anything else, just when it fits in.
Teaching day, depends on the subject, biomedical sciences this semester has a lot of dissection, rats, brains and this week fetal piglets – basically hands on for the students, teaching them to find all the organs and remove them, the pigs are pretty cute but afterwards it’s a horror story, lots of blood. Could post photos, but it’ll just offend people. I’ve not taught this before, so I have a pleasant amount of stress to learn it which I am enjoying.
Teach anatomy and neural anatomy every second semester, with cadavers. You get used to the smell and dead people staring at you. Generally the students enjoy it, once they get over the initial shock, very hands on and you learn a lot because of this. Seeing how the human body works, if you ever get the chance take it.
Anatomy wise, at either lab we have either 8 or 12 cadavers, replaced every 2.5-3 years. New cadavers need to be shaven (face/head) all makeup removed and generally made look as less individual as possible, freaks students out less. The cadavers then get dissected depending on what is needed, skin and adipose is removed to allow visual and palpation to underlying structures, generally heads or heads and trunk, arms and legs, or arms + shoulders and legs and hips, occasionally organs removed brains and hearts being most common. I have cut up corpses under the close scrutiny of a lab manager – stuff it up and they have to wait a few years for replacement, very stressful. Stumbled into this work by accident, anatomy just jells with me, particularly the applied side, kinesiology or how it all works. Illegal to take or publish photos from the anatomy labs other than for education, it would freak people out I imagine.
Not sure where life is leading, post doc, fulltime research has many pitfalls and fulltime lecturing can be quite hard to get into – although not many people with my expertise which hopefully helps, although sessional work pays really well.
pistonbroke
Eats Squid
2.5 to 3 years? That seems like a long time. Are they frozen or preserved in some way?
I have recently started thinking about donating my body to science once I'm finished with it. Is there a big demand?
What happens to the cadavers/parts when you're finished with them?
I have recently started thinking about donating my body to science once I'm finished with it. Is there a big demand?
What happens to the cadavers/parts when you're finished with them?
Mywifesirrational
I however am very normal. Trust me.
Yeah there is some sort of glycol formula they use to preserve them, but they need to be mould free - well preserved from the start. They aren't allowed to use such things as Formaldehyde as in the olden days due to the risk it poses.
At least in melbourne donations for medical research are closed. They have a completely full waitlist for years to come. They provide a free funeral as part of the deal, pretty basic, but cetainly a selling piont.
All parts / material must be accounted for and after the period of time all is buried or cremated as per the wish of the individual.
From my experience, cadavers are treated respectfully by the staff and students, and staff do respect what people are offering to education by donating their bodies. I used to joke that i'd donate my body just so I'd be touched up by hot med science students... because it aint going to happen while I am alive.
Edit: cadavers usually cost about 8k.
Knuckles
Lives under a bridge
So no YouTube, Weekend at Bernie's parodies? Much disappointment.
Mywifesirrational
I however am very normal. Trust me.
Apparently it has happened, might be urban legend but I was told off a retiring anatomist at Melb Uni a med student once borrowed a body and used it in the car on the eastern freeway transit lane... police pulled them over becuase it looked like they had a dead passanger... just googled, could not find a newspaper article so more than likely morbid humor?
I once was going through the aductor or groin muscles if you like, heard some sniggering from a few students looked down and there was a dead mans penis resting on the back of my hand... the only penis I have touched other than my own. I kepts a straight face move it over with other hand and kept going.
http://medicine.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/968118/BODY_DONOR_PROGRAM-info_sheet.pdf
Your body will be used for the purposes of anatomical examination and the teaching and study ofanatomy over a period that may extend for up to 3 years.*
http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/the-body-shop/2007/05/28/1180205159835.html
PINT of Stella. mate!
Many, many Scotches
Get up at 12
Have a wank.
Grab a coffee
Play some Dark Souls, maybe some Grid Autosport.
Have another wank.
Go for a ride
hit up the servo for some bain-marie dimmies.
go home and have another wank.
crack open a beer.
start cooking.
Eat dinner and watch the latest Daily Show + Colbert Reports
Have a cheeky dram
have another wank.
Watch my stories.
bedtime.
Maybe another wank.
Have a wank.
Grab a coffee
Play some Dark Souls, maybe some Grid Autosport.
Have another wank.
Go for a ride
hit up the servo for some bain-marie dimmies.
go home and have another wank.
crack open a beer.
start cooking.
Eat dinner and watch the latest Daily Show + Colbert Reports
Have a cheeky dram
have another wank.
Watch my stories.
bedtime.
Maybe another wank.
akashra
Eats Squid
Geez, this is gonna bore the hell out of people:
4:50am, alarm goes off.
Hit snooze at least twice, and eventually get up at 5:10am.
Share breakfast (toast) with the dogs. Means I gotta make 50% more ;p
5:45: Ride to work
7:15ish: Ride to work, lock up bike, shower, change etc.
By 7:30-7:35 I'm basically at my desk.
On average I'll generally field at least one MTBA related call somewhere in the morning every second day, sometimes from staff, sometimes from people wanting to sign up, sometimes from Parks, sometimes from other organisers. Somewhere between 10 and 11 a project manager will come bug me wanting a status update. They'll ask me how long something's going to take and I'll tell them the same thing every time: You're asking us to build something we've never built before, and estimate how long we think it will take, not withstanding all the unexpected problems will undoubtedly encounter along the way.
Somewhere between here I might get some code written or debugged.
Hm, 12:00, lunchtime! My choices at the moment are basically Subway, Subway, Subway, or junk food, because well... last time I went to the cafe across the road, the woman serving had her thumb in some guys food she was dishing up. The time before that I went out of my way to hand her money in the hand she didn't have a glove on, but ignored that and then just went straight to serving the next customer. Yeah it might be cheaper to bring lunch, but I don't have time for that.
12:45ish I'm generally back in the office, and almost noone else is around til almost 1:45.
Try get as much work done as I can in between getting interrupted. There's a good chance once of the teams upstairs will want something done that's 'urgent', and I'll usually bounce it back at least two or three times because they haven't included information, or haven't got permission from a manager requesting access to a system, because you know, I'm not an idiot who just gives out access to systems just because you said so.
Somewhere around 3:50 to 4pm I'll get my shit together and leave, by the time I'm changed and on the bike it's generally about 4:15. On an average day with 20km/h headwinds it'll usually be 6pm by the time I'm home.
By the time I've showered, made dinner, fed the dogs it's getting on 7pm. That leaves two hours to pissfart around reading reddit, working on some electronics or code, or watching whatever TV show was aired during the day. Bed at 9 not because I'm tired, but because I'm gonna struggle getting out of bed again at 4:50am.
On Thursdays it's similar cept I'll get up a bit later, drive to work, and then head to Westgate at 4 to run Dirt Crits, so get home at about 8:30pm.
Yeeeeaaaah. I basically have two hours a day to get stuff done.
4:50am, alarm goes off.
Hit snooze at least twice, and eventually get up at 5:10am.
Share breakfast (toast) with the dogs. Means I gotta make 50% more ;p
5:45: Ride to work
7:15ish: Ride to work, lock up bike, shower, change etc.
By 7:30-7:35 I'm basically at my desk.
On average I'll generally field at least one MTBA related call somewhere in the morning every second day, sometimes from staff, sometimes from people wanting to sign up, sometimes from Parks, sometimes from other organisers. Somewhere between 10 and 11 a project manager will come bug me wanting a status update. They'll ask me how long something's going to take and I'll tell them the same thing every time: You're asking us to build something we've never built before, and estimate how long we think it will take, not withstanding all the unexpected problems will undoubtedly encounter along the way.
Somewhere between here I might get some code written or debugged.
Hm, 12:00, lunchtime! My choices at the moment are basically Subway, Subway, Subway, or junk food, because well... last time I went to the cafe across the road, the woman serving had her thumb in some guys food she was dishing up. The time before that I went out of my way to hand her money in the hand she didn't have a glove on, but ignored that and then just went straight to serving the next customer. Yeah it might be cheaper to bring lunch, but I don't have time for that.
12:45ish I'm generally back in the office, and almost noone else is around til almost 1:45.
Try get as much work done as I can in between getting interrupted. There's a good chance once of the teams upstairs will want something done that's 'urgent', and I'll usually bounce it back at least two or three times because they haven't included information, or haven't got permission from a manager requesting access to a system, because you know, I'm not an idiot who just gives out access to systems just because you said so.
Somewhere around 3:50 to 4pm I'll get my shit together and leave, by the time I'm changed and on the bike it's generally about 4:15. On an average day with 20km/h headwinds it'll usually be 6pm by the time I'm home.
By the time I've showered, made dinner, fed the dogs it's getting on 7pm. That leaves two hours to pissfart around reading reddit, working on some electronics or code, or watching whatever TV show was aired during the day. Bed at 9 not because I'm tired, but because I'm gonna struggle getting out of bed again at 4:50am.
On Thursdays it's similar cept I'll get up a bit later, drive to work, and then head to Westgate at 4 to run Dirt Crits, so get home at about 8:30pm.
Yeeeeaaaah. I basically have two hours a day to get stuff done.
Knuckles
Lives under a bridge
This is where you take a leaf out of PoSm's book.
Oh, and reddit is for work hours only :tsk:
eastie
Likes Bikes and Dirt
Normal day? To much travel to be normal, but generally depending on travel...
When at home: 2am quick check of usa/euro/sa colleagues and client messages, quick calls.
6am get up, put car in autopilot and get to work/alternatively work from home if 2am wasn't quick.
Work on plans, deliver training, undertaken assessments, etc in am.
Project and staff management in the pm.
Get home 6pm, family time.
Away: It's normal to me....
Grow beard, plan and coordinate transport, route planning, local intel gathering and risk assessments in hostile areas, liaise with law enforcement, military and militia, source body armour and tools, coordinate sat comms systems, get clients out of harms way, get journos and photographers into harms way. Plus everything else i do when not away and also post of rotorburn in tranist and in the wee hours when sleep isnt my friend.
Weekends: single track, labradors and family rate pretty high.
MYwife... Interesting work! I went to melb uni years ago (specialist focus, not degree) and we did some anatomy lessons and got to see and handle some of the donations! Amazing how much a head weighs. The weirdest part was the trip to the vic uni basement in flinders st where they skin them... Very fine knife work and pretty weird stuff.
When at home: 2am quick check of usa/euro/sa colleagues and client messages, quick calls.
6am get up, put car in autopilot and get to work/alternatively work from home if 2am wasn't quick.
Work on plans, deliver training, undertaken assessments, etc in am.
Project and staff management in the pm.
Get home 6pm, family time.
Away: It's normal to me....
Grow beard, plan and coordinate transport, route planning, local intel gathering and risk assessments in hostile areas, liaise with law enforcement, military and militia, source body armour and tools, coordinate sat comms systems, get clients out of harms way, get journos and photographers into harms way. Plus everything else i do when not away and also post of rotorburn in tranist and in the wee hours when sleep isnt my friend.
Weekends: single track, labradors and family rate pretty high.
MYwife... Interesting work! I went to melb uni years ago (specialist focus, not degree) and we did some anatomy lessons and got to see and handle some of the donations! Amazing how much a head weighs. The weirdest part was the trip to the vic uni basement in flinders st where they skin them... Very fine knife work and pretty weird stuff.