Your Day

jibber · 10-17-2006, 02:58 AM

ferry ride, lots of throwing up due to motion sickness.
just before that however, i talked to my best friend from home, whos just started a web marketing company with a few other people. they've teamed up with some major companies and have got contracts to sell their stuff over their website. one of his business partners is a 26 year old who could be retired if he wanted to. a few of my friends now have started their own companies, a few more have just finished their degrees and are now working in office jobs, and have a clear idea of where they're going. It's funny, a few years ago I was the one in my group of friends who knew exactly where i was going and what i wanted to do, the rest of my friends didnt have a clue. now, they're finishing degrees, graduating and starting their careers, or starting their own businesses. I'm bouncing around different continents, picking up the odd part time job when i get to be flat broke again, plan on going to school again but have no idea what i'm going to do once I graduate. funny how things work out like that, haha.

Cheese · 10-17-2006, 05:15 AM

Trailered my totalled car home today. Will post a pick when I find the camera. The thing that has me a little concerned is there is a lot of blood inside the car and it's not mine.......and I was alone when I fell off the road.

DontRunMeOver · 10-17-2006, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Cheese

Trailered my totalled car home today. Will post a pick when I find the camera. The thing that has me a little concerned is there is a lot of blood inside the car and it's not mine.......and I was alone when I fell off the road.

What the hell?? That sounds pretty freaky. Let us know what or who it was if you find out. Do you think it was an animal or a person?

My day: I'm reading literature about ATRP (Atom Transfer Radical Polymerisation) which is an extremely exciting technique I can use to control the concentration of radicals in a radical polymerisation via a revesible equilibrium between the growing radicals and the dormant catalyst species. As the catalyst allows you to keep the concentration of radicals low throughout, this suppresses termination, which I know is dependent upon the square of the radical concentration (compared to the propogation, which is directly proportional to the radical concentation).

I'm not sure at the moment why you would bother with all of that, rather than just use a very small amount of initiator. It might be to do with wanting to generate a lot of seperate polymer chains, but not wanting the increased radical concentration that goes with it. Or it might be to do with accounting for permanent terminations from other sources by altering the equilibrium to produce more radicals to ensure the monomer consumption goes to completion. Or it might be both.

Anyhow, that's what I have been and will be doing today.

I hope it was thrilling for you.

Alo · 10-17-2006, 09:02 AM

I went to school, and after school I went to the city centre. I bought car-socks, and a scarff. Tonight I'm going to a friend of mine, his best friend just got murdered, so it'll prolly be an emotional evening.

DontRunMeOver · 10-17-2006, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Alo

I went to school, and after school I went to the city centre. I bought car-socks, and a scarff. Tonight I'm going to a friend of mine, his best friend just got murdered, so it'll prolly be an emotional evening.

Was that the kid who was chopped up by his stepdad?

Alo · 10-17-2006, 09:06 AM

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Was that the kid who was chopped up by his stepdad?

Yeah!

Alo · 10-17-2006, 09:08 AM

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How well did you know them? Because that's a ****ing horrible way to go. This is the first person you know who died in a ****ed up way?

It's the first person I know who died!
But I didn't know him well at all, luckily, if it's not too selfish to add.

DontRunMeOver · 10-17-2006, 09:13 AM

You said about it a few days ago. A kid near you went missing, then they found his ribcage. That kind of post is quite easy to remember. Probably it was easier for me because it put me in mind of the kids and teachers who died (most of them in slightly weird ways) at my school, so everybody who knew that boy has my sympathies.

DontRunMeOver · 10-17-2006, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Alo

But I didn't know him well at all, luckily, if it's not too selfish to add.

In this case I'd say it is lucky for you that you didn't know him. Particularly because then you'd probably have known his stepfather (if he was the killer) too. By your mid 20's its probably pretty usual to have known a few people who died, but knowing a murderer - before and after the murder even, now that would **** with my mind.

Alo · 10-17-2006, 09:21 AM

^ Knowing the murderer wouldn't mind me that much. It's more the emotional ties you would have had towards the person you knew well.

All I hope is that his stephdad get's some serious punishment!

10-17-2006, 02:58 AM	#3561 (permalink)
jibber Freeskier Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Istanbul was Constantinople now it's Istanbul not Constantinople... Posts: 1,536	ferry ride, lots of throwing up due to motion sickness. just before that however, i talked to my best friend from home, whos just started a web marketing company with a few other people. they've teamed up with some major companies and have got contracts to sell their stuff over their website. one of his business partners is a 26 year old who could be retired if he wanted to. a few of my friends now have started their own companies, a few more have just finished their degrees and are now working in office jobs, and have a clear idea of where they're going. It's funny, a few years ago I was the one in my group of friends who knew exactly where i was going and what i wanted to do, the rest of my friends didnt have a clue. now, they're finishing degrees, graduating and starting their careers, or starting their own businesses. I'm bouncing around different continents, picking up the odd part time job when i get to be flat broke again, plan on going to school again but have no idea what i'm going to do once I graduate. funny how things work out like that, haha. __________________ What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass. HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER

10-17-2006, 09:02 AM	#3564 (permalink)
Alo Scarf Join Date: May 2006 Location: Brighton, UK Posts: 715	I went to school, and after school I went to the city centre. I bought car-socks, and a scarff. Tonight I'm going to a friend of mine, his best friend just got murdered, so it'll prolly be an emotional evening. __________________ I rocked my shoelaces untied

10-17-2006, 09:21 AM	#3570 (permalink)
Alo Scarf Join Date: May 2006 Location: Brighton, UK Posts: 715	^ Knowing the murderer wouldn't mind me that much. It's more the emotional ties you would have had towards the person you knew well. All I hope is that his stephdad get's some serious punishment! __________________ I rocked my shoelaces untied

10-17-2006, 05:15 AM	#3562 (permalink)
Cheese Shadow on the wall Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: New Zealand Posts: 823	Trailered my totalled car home today. Will post a pick when I find the camera. The thing that has me a little concerned is there is a lot of blood inside the car and it's not mine.......and I was alone when I fell off the road.