Comments on: Would you like paper or plastic?

By: Buf

Buf — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:50:57 +0000

I’m right there on the fence with you!

By: cardiogirl

cardiogirl — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:52:05 +0000

You are a brave woman, Buf. I don’t believe there will ever be a full face picture of me on this here site. But it would be fun to see what you actually look like.

I’m on the fence, part of me likes not knowing what you look like but another part of me is curious.

By: Buf

Buf — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:26:35 +0000

Thanks for indulging my curiosity. Actually you’re not too far off. I highlight my hair to keep in blond but the natural color is getting more and more brown (with grays/white) as I get older. I’m just too pale for darker hair. Lengthwise, it’s not quite shoulder length. I think you are actually a little taller than me, I’m 5′5″. Clotheswise, at work I dress refinery business casual which allows for jeans daily!!! So except during summer, I’m normally in jeans, polo/golf type shirt and tennis shoes (aka sneakers out here). I love that you saw me as normal BMI!!! Now if I can just start to see that myself, I could make it happen!

Btw, I’m considering posting a pick but can’t decide if I’m brave enough! Wouldn’t want to shatter people’s mental images of me..lol

By: cardiogirl

cardiogirl — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:29:51 +0000

I do love your willingness to indulge my requests and I loved the sample! Thanks a million!

By: cardiogirl

cardiogirl — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:27:13 +0000

Yes ma’am, it is The Engineering Thing. I believe that should become a gene, if you will, and that it should be applied to the appropriate people. The ones, obviously, who carry The Engineering Thing.

Of course there are probably recessive traits with The Engineering Thing which are the result of spliced genes. But enough about that.

In my dream we were able to chat pretty well but you led the conversation. We were back at my old company and the desks were rearranged but the file cabinets were right where they used to be.

For some reason you were showing me something in the file cabinets. You had mostly brown hair with some blond highlights, but I swear you’ve told me you have mostly blond hair. Go figure.

I do remember thinking you had an average BMI since you have mentioned here that yours is higher than you’d like and that you are working on that. You were dressed in business casual — khaki dockers and a golf shirt, I think — and your hair was shoulder length and down. No ponytail for you.

You were also my height since we were able to look each other in the eye. Not surprisingly, Natural and Kathy looked like the pictures they have posted on their sites, although Natural had 0prah’s hair style since that’s one of the last pictures I saw of her on her site.

By: Buf

Buf — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:40:10 +0000

For what it’s worth there’s a handwriting sample up on my blog.

By: Buf

Buf — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:03:57 +0000

Actually, practicing that all caps drafting writing is why I no longer write in cursive. I took a drafting class in high school and we were still doing it all by hand no CAD yet. So to practice that style of print, I started taking all my notes in it. Now I no longer print in all CAPS but i will see what I can still do. I will post a sample of both print styles as well as my 5th grade level of cursive writing…lol

By: Buf

Buf — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:55:01 +0000

@ CG – lol…It must be the engineering, it’s always the engineering thing (or so I like to believe).

Your dream sounds fun. I don’t know if Nat and Kathy could handle having their desks that close to mine, since mine is invariably piled under with stuff. But it would be fun. I can just imagine the bizarre conversations we would get into…lol No need to be tongue-tied in front of me…I’m probably just as uncomfortable as you are but once one of us actually says something I’m sure we would get appropriately silly pretty quick…lol (just realizing that I use lol way too much…as well as the 3 dot thing, need to come up with a new style!)

Btw, if you don’t mind sharing what did I look like in your dream? I’m always curious what type of mental images people develop of someone they haven’t met in real life.

By: Les

Les — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:02:40 +0000

Yeah, but there’s paper ALL. OVER. THE. PLACE. And always always always… “I need another music notebook, Mom…” “Is it full?” “No. I can’t find it.”

By: cardiogirl

cardiogirl — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:48:40 +0000

Oh that would bite it hard if you were not one of the chosen thousand, which you obviously were.

Hey do you have that cool all caps graph paper writing? I love that kind of writing but cannot achieve it. And if you do have that cool handwriting, will you please post something at your site showing it off.

Just a quick sentence like, “I’m posting this to get Cardiogirl off my back.” That would work.

And it would be fun to post something written with my left hand. Heads up, it will look like a three-year-old’s chicken scratch.