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Title: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 12, 2011, 05:39:40 AM

Good things go here. The old thread has grown too large.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 12, 2011, 05:42:47 AM

       First!  :zoinks:


 It's cool that we broke the old thread because of our positive outlook.
 That's something good that happened today (or maybe last night).  :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 12, 2011, 05:44:49 AM

Once people have read the last new posts in the old thread, the board will again become a little faster. And that is a good thing but maybe not for just today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 12, 2011, 06:45:35 AM

Got the first thread started by me locked for too many posts :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 12, 2011, 07:19:01 AM

Kitty katz ate some of the food I left her :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 12, 2011, 07:38:49 AM

I think I did ok on the cognitive psych exam. Forgot some stupid stuff, like where are neurotransmitters stored but also guessed some stuff that I checked later and found I got it right.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 12, 2011, 10:50:57 AM

I think Odeon gave this thread a Finnish technological title:  Parts Two.

Now this is a catty thread, since Odeon is fluent in so many more languages than I.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: lutra on November 12, 2011, 01:49:21 PM

Due to it was a sunny day and me doing a bit of gardening.. I gained a bit of a tan today.  :bounce:

(okay, the smiley make no sense.. I just like bouncing boobies.. )

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Binty on November 12, 2011, 03:00:49 PM

My mummy bought me mints.  Crazy she may be, but at least she loves me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 12, 2011, 04:30:17 PM

Got more work today

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 12, 2011, 04:31:13 PM

Quote from: parts on November 12, 2011, 06:45:35 AM

Got the first thread started by me locked for too many posts :headbang2:

I rephrased the title of the new thread ever so slightly to acknowledge that fact. ;D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 12, 2011, 04:32:01 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 12, 2011, 10:50:57 AM

I think Odeon gave this thread a Finnish technological title:  Parts Two.

Now this is a catty thread, since Odeon is fluent in so many more languages than I.

Nope. I did it because Parts started the first thread.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 12, 2011, 04:51:02 PM

Quote from: odeon on November 12, 2011, 04:32:01 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 12, 2011, 10:50:57 AM

I think Odeon gave this thread a Finnish technological title:  Parts Two.

Now this is a catty thread, since Odeon is fluent in so many more languages than I.

Nope. I did it because Parts started the first thread.

my boo-boo.  I meant to write post not thread. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 14, 2011, 02:42:50 AM

Kitty kats came all the way downstairs and stood on the tiles.

Progress!! :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 14, 2011, 06:01:58 AM

Quote from: Sinnocent on November 14, 2011, 02:42:50 AM

Kitty kats came all the way downstairs and stood on the tiles.

Progress!! :viking:

 You'll have a companion soon, I feel very hopeful about this.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 14, 2011, 06:11:01 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on November 14, 2011, 06:01:58 AM

Quote from: Sinnocent on November 14, 2011, 02:42:50 AM

Kitty kats came all the way downstairs and stood on the tiles.

Progress!! :viking:

 You'll have a companion soon, I feel very hopeful about this.  :thumbup:

Now she's lazing on the stairs :viking:

And she jumped up on the kitchen bench earlier *waggles finger*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 14, 2011, 06:13:41 AM

Quote from: Sinnocent on November 14, 2011, 06:11:01 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on November 14, 2011, 06:01:58 AM

Quote from: Sinnocent on November 14, 2011, 02:42:50 AM

Kitty kats came all the way downstairs and stood on the tiles.

Progress!! :viking:

 You'll have a companion soon, I feel very hopeful about this.  :thumbup:

Now she's lazing on the stairs :viking:

And she jumped up on the kitchen bench earlier *waggles finger*

 It's cute when they feel confident enough to be a bit naughty!  :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: ShyOne on November 14, 2011, 06:15:59 AM

I managed to go out without my sticks and I had a good meeting with my Disability Employment Advisor. :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 14, 2011, 06:21:55 AM

Quote from: Crip on November 14, 2011, 06:15:59 AM

I managed to go out without my sticks and I had a good meeting with my Disability Employment Advisor. :green:

 You are battling your way forward, good for you!  Kick ass!  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: ShyOne on November 14, 2011, 06:59:49 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on November 14, 2011, 06:21:55 AM

Quote from: Crip on November 14, 2011, 06:15:59 AM

I managed to go out without my sticks and I had a good meeting with my Disability Employment Advisor. :green:

 You are battling your way forward, good for you!  Kick ass!  :viking:

Don't encourage me, I've not long kicked my habit of beating people mercilessly with my crutches when they annoy me. :yarly:

.... But yeah, go me!  :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 14, 2011, 07:01:38 AM

Quote from: Crip on November 14, 2011, 06:59:49 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on November 14, 2011, 06:21:55 AM

Quote from: Crip on November 14, 2011, 06:15:59 AM

I managed to go out without my sticks and I had a good meeting with my Disability Employment Advisor. :green:

 You are battling your way forward, good for you!  Kick ass!  :viking:

Don't encourage me, I've not long kicked my habit of beating people mercilessly with my crutches when they annoy me. :yarly:

.... But yeah, go me!  :plus:

 Let the annoyers beware, and  ROCK ON, CRIP!  :headbang:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 24, 2011, 01:15:58 AM

My uni application was accepted :cheer:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 24, 2011, 01:51:27 AM

Quote from: Sinnocent on November 24, 2011, 01:15:58 AM

My uni application was accepted :cheer:

Excellent. :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on November 24, 2011, 06:06:01 AM

Quote from: Sinnocent on November 24, 2011, 01:15:58 AM

My uni application was accepted :cheer:

Congrats   :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 24, 2011, 06:09:05 AM

Quote from: Sinnocent on November 24, 2011, 01:15:58 AM

My uni application was accepted :cheer:

 Hooray!  Now go get those lucrative new skills!  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 24, 2011, 06:13:52 AM

Heh. I thought I wasn't gonna get it for a bit and was even shopping around for other courses at different uni's. They wanted me to send them a written statement about why I thought I was gonna do well at the course, while I flunked out last time blah blah fishpaste. Anway I sent them a nice detailed statement and they replied with my acceptance within 15 minutes :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on November 24, 2011, 07:29:48 AM

Quote from: Sinnocent on November 24, 2011, 01:15:58 AM

My uni application was accepted :cheer:

nice one :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: lutra on November 24, 2011, 08:57:15 AM

Good for you, SinnoC. May I ask what 'direction' are you going to study? (type of course, I mean)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 24, 2011, 10:04:03 AM

While rearranging the living room and dining room  I found an old box with minerals and fossils I had lost track of in the secretary desk.  Today while finding a new home for them I discovered one, a fossil bone, is slightly(.2-.3mR/h) radioactive.  Now I have another thing for my radioactive collection :parts:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: ShyOne on November 24, 2011, 03:58:59 PM

Found out my sister shall be hopefully discharged from hospital in the next month.  :2thumbsup:
The poor thing, she's been in there for many months :/

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 24, 2011, 05:44:43 PM

Quote from: Crip on November 24, 2011, 03:58:59 PM

Found out my sister shall be hopefully discharged from hospital in the next month.  :2thumbsup:
The poor thing, she's been in there for many months :/

that is good news.  Perhaps in time for the holidays?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: ShyOne on November 24, 2011, 05:46:10 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 24, 2011, 05:44:43 PM

Quote from: Crip on November 24, 2011, 03:58:59 PM

Found out my sister shall be hopefully discharged from hospital in the next month.  :2thumbsup:
The poor thing, she's been in there for many months :/

that is good news.  Perhaps in time for the holidays?

We hope so. Her medical team suggested perhaps around the 7th of December but to be honest I expect that to be postponed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on November 24, 2011, 06:57:35 PM

Had a result with one of the dogs today. :doggie:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 24, 2011, 08:38:28 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on November 24, 2011, 06:57:35 PM

Had a result with one of the dogs today. :doggie:

You would not believe the images that are going through my mind.  Or maybe you would.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 24, 2011, 08:39:26 PM

The Princess Royal overcame her loneliness at having such a small family (just the 3 of us) and ate Thanksgiving dinner with us.  A nice time was had by all.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 25, 2011, 03:22:47 AM

Quote from: Crip on November 24, 2011, 05:46:10 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 24, 2011, 05:44:43 PM

Quote from: Crip on November 24, 2011, 03:58:59 PM

Found out my sister shall be hopefully discharged from hospital in the next month.  :2thumbsup:
The poor thing, she's been in there for many months :/

that is good news.  Perhaps in time for the holidays?

We hope so. Her medical team suggested perhaps around the 7th of December but to be honest I expect that to be postponed.

What is she in there for? Sounds serious. Do you have just the one sister?

I had my last exam today, was really hard and I am glad it is over.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 26, 2011, 01:11:42 AM

Dude from PoF invited me to some music festival after-party in two weeks. I already know exactly what I'm gonna wear :cheer:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 26, 2011, 03:31:20 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 24, 2011, 08:38:28 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on November 24, 2011, 06:57:35 PM

Had a result with one of the dogs today. :doggie:

You would not believe the images that are going through my mind.  Or maybe you would.

Mine too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 26, 2011, 11:15:03 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 26, 2011, 03:31:20 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 24, 2011, 08:38:28 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on November 24, 2011, 06:57:35 PM

Had a result with one of the dogs today. :doggie:

You would not believe the images that are going through my mind.  Or maybe you would.

Mine too.

It's true then.  Dirty Great minds think alike.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on November 26, 2011, 03:08:43 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 26, 2011, 11:15:03 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 26, 2011, 03:31:20 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 24, 2011, 08:38:28 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on November 24, 2011, 06:57:35 PM

Had a result with one of the dogs today. :doggie:

You would not believe the images that are going through my mind.  Or maybe you would.

Mine too.

It's true then.  Dirty Great minds think alike.

:hahaha:  I work, train, and show American Bulldogs.  It was related to a bitch i have been training here called Amy who is very dominant and wants to fight anything in her way of becoming the alpha female.  She is fine with dogs,  i just have to separate her from other bitches.

The success i had referred to was that day i actually managed to walk her past one of my other bitches and she didn't kick off, growl, bark, or try to pull me.  It is a work in progress,  and although i know i will never leave her with my other girls for any length of time,  i hope to be able to have her focused enough to walk by without a lead.

I only mentioned it as she has been really stubborn.  I almost 'gave up' with her,  never had to work so hard to get even this limited result.

So,  i was chuffed,  a bit like a dog with two cocks!  hence the post.  You lot are smutty :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 26, 2011, 03:13:12 PM

Didn't have to work and I got a lot done around the yard.  I also had a really big fire outside (http://www.myemoticons.com/images/animals/nature/fire.gif)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on November 26, 2011, 03:30:24 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on November 26, 2011, 03:08:43 PM

:hahaha:  I work, train, and show American Bulldogs.  It was related to a bitch i have been training here called Amy who is very dominant and wants to fight anything in her way of becoming the alpha female.  She is fine with dogs,  i just have to separate her from other bitches.

The success i had referred to was that day i actually managed to walk her past one of my other bitches and she didn't kick off, growl, bark, or try to pull me.  It is a work in progress,  and although i know i will never leave her with my other girls for any length of time,  i hope to be able to have her focused enough to walk by without a lead.

I only mentioned it as she has been really stubborn.  I almost 'gave up' with her,  never had to work so hard to get even this limited result.

So,  i was chuffed,  a bit like a dog with two cocks!  hence the post.  You lot are smutty :zoinks:

Interesting and very cool. Does that mean if we have dog training questions, we can send them your way? What worked to get her calmer/focused?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 26, 2011, 05:05:36 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 26, 2011, 11:15:03 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 26, 2011, 03:31:20 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 24, 2011, 08:38:28 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on November 24, 2011, 06:57:35 PM

Had a result with one of the dogs today. :doggie:

You would not believe the images that are going through my mind.  Or maybe you would.

Mine too.

It's true then.  Dirty Great minds think alike.

But of course. Now watch Bodie try getting out of this one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on November 26, 2011, 06:16:38 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on November 26, 2011, 03:30:24 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on November 26, 2011, 03:08:43 PM

:hahaha:  I work, train, and show American Bulldogs.  It was related to a bitch i have been training here called Amy who is very dominant and wants to fight anything in her way of becoming the alpha female.  She is fine with dogs,  i just have to separate her from other bitches.

The success i had referred to was that day i actually managed to walk her past one of my other bitches and she didn't kick off, growl, bark, or try to pull me.  It is a work in progress,  and although i know i will never leave her with my other girls for any length of time,  i hope to be able to have her focused enough to walk by without a lead.

I only mentioned it as she has been really stubborn.  I almost 'gave up' with her,  never had to work so hard to get even this limited result.

So,  i was chuffed,  a bit like a dog with two cocks!  hence the post.  You lot are smutty :zoinks:

Interesting and very cool. Does that mean if we have dog training questions, we can send them your way? What worked to get her calmer/focused?

Yes i would be happy to talk 'dog' until the cows come home.

It's all reward based.  Sometimes i use a clicker,  but i tried this with her and she didn't get it.  Had to really think this one through...

When dogs are in a 'pack' scenario you might expect a bit of trouble to start with - while they sort out their positions.  Once top dog is established they usually sort themselves no problem.  A dog right at the bottom of the pecking order can still be happy once they know their place.  Trouble might occur if a dog shows weakness and the one behind tries to take it's place.  Amy is definitely top dog but was unusual because she would try and take out the next one in line.  She would make a 'b' line for her.

She also quite obviously forgot that actually i am top dog!  I only have four here at the moment and they all respond to my commands, but Amy had a selective deafness.

It is hard to explain briefly, so apologies for my essay.  Anyway i decided to 'lead from the top' and this meant re-establishing our positions (me and amy)  I should just explain that the dogs are all housed seperately,  but they can all see each other.  They have a waterproof igloo inside a 16ft chain mesh run which is roofed to about 12ft  ( i say this because people somehow think it cruel to keep dogs outside so i like to point out that they are only exposed to the elements if and when they choose to be )  Anyway i decided to move Amy away from the block, totally.  She went in solitary and could not even see the others.  I did this knowing how 'social' they are, but i substituted their company for mine.  I have not been able to devote so much time in ages due to having my own little one,  but he started school in September so i have been spending much of my day with her.  Basically i have been 'fun' for three weeks, also she has to do some basic commands every time i go in there,  and i praise her lots and always have some cheese on me for rewards.  Gradually i got her to walk past the kennels, using the cheese, and praise.  Then got closer and closer until today she walked past the number two dog who was freely in the garden. :thumbup:

Fucking hell i have written a book!

Anyway,  here are the players
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/missteresabrown/DSC_0336.jpg?t=1322351992)
This is 'top dog' Amy.



(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/missteresabrown/izzy10-1.jpg?t=1322352078)
This is bella (a.k.a.  Izzy/ Isabella) she is number two


(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/missteresabrown/star1.jpg?t=1322352166)
Number three...this is  Star.  Named 'Lone Star' as she was the only surviving pup in a whole litter.


(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a73/missteresabrown/dixie5_2009.jpg?t=1322352239)
Last but not least  meet Dixie,  who is still just a baby.


I am considering moving her back to her old kennel, if not tomorrow sometime next week.  I have my fingers crossed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 26, 2011, 10:34:27 PM

Dad and stepma came around and helped me do my garden. Now I haz pritty flowerz :cheer:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 27, 2011, 04:29:11 AM

Quote from: parts on November 26, 2011, 03:13:12 PM

Didn't have to work and I got a lot done around the yard.  I also had a really big fire outside (http://www.myemoticons.com/images/animals/nature/fire.gif)

 *loves fires, wants that fire smiley now too*  :puppy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: ShyOne on November 27, 2011, 07:14:11 AM

Cottage pie for dinner!  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 27, 2011, 08:45:48 AM

The Wrath of Khan was on when I got up :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 27, 2011, 09:22:15 AM

Quote from: parts on November 27, 2011, 08:45:48 AM

The Wrath of Khan was on when I got up :thumbup:

I hope this refers to a movie and not your wife's emotional state.   :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on November 27, 2011, 05:17:39 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 27, 2011, 09:22:15 AM

Quote from: parts on November 27, 2011, 08:45:48 AM

The Wrath of Khan was on when I got up :thumbup:

I hope this refers to a movie and not your wife's emotional state.   :dunno:

Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_II:_The_Wrath_of_Khan).

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Binty on November 27, 2011, 07:41:54 PM

Finally, this boxset has finished downloading!  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 27, 2011, 08:10:52 PM

I won the TV stand I bid on at the Tender Centre. I can finally get rid of my dad's flimsy one :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: earthboundmisfit on November 27, 2011, 09:03:25 PM

Quote from: Sinnocent on November 26, 2011, 10:34:27 PM

Dad and stepma came around and helped me do my garden. Now I haz pritty flowerz :cheer:

Were they okay with the kitty?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 28, 2011, 01:10:18 AM

Quote from: earthboundmisfit on November 27, 2011, 09:03:25 PM

Quote from: Sinnocent on November 26, 2011, 10:34:27 PM

Dad and stepma came around and helped me do my garden. Now I haz pritty flowerz :cheer:

Were they okay with the kitty?

Not really I don't think. Stepma was curious about it but dad reacted disgusted when I told him it was an indoor cat (looked at me as if I'd already ruined thousands of dollars worth of carpet and furniture). The cat barely touches the furniture, it has it's own scratching post. There's barely been a mess to clean up at all. He just hates animals. Tried to make me feel like I brang home vermin :(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on November 28, 2011, 01:13:22 AM

Quote from: Sinnocent on November 28, 2011, 01:10:18 AM

Quote from: earthboundmisfit on November 27, 2011, 09:03:25 PM

Quote from: Sinnocent on November 26, 2011, 10:34:27 PM

Dad and stepma came around and helped me do my garden. Now I haz pritty flowerz :cheer:

Were they okay with the kitty?

Not really I don't think. Stepma was curious about it but dad reacted disgusted when I told him it was an indoor cat (looked at me as if I'd already ruined thousands of dollars worth of carpet and furniture). The cat barely touches the furniture, it has it's own scratching post. There's barely been a mess to clean up at all. He just hates animals. Tried to make me feel like I brang home vermin :(

He needs to accept that you are a grown woman now and even if he thinks having an indoor cat is a mistake, it's your mistake to make and learn from, IMO.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 01, 2011, 06:50:59 PM

Personal pan pizza with tiny little pepperonis not more than a cm in diameter.

And GF to boot  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Adam on December 01, 2011, 06:52:22 PM

Having an indoor cat is not a mistake unless you're incapable / not prepared to look after him

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Adam on December 01, 2011, 06:53:03 PM

and good thing today is I found out my friend might be coming to manchester for a few days next week

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 01, 2011, 07:58:53 PM

Finished early and relaxed some 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on December 02, 2011, 06:28:17 AM

I keep reading this as:

Post something good that happened to Parts Two. 

And, then I wonder what happened to Parts One.   :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 02, 2011, 07:33:29 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 02, 2011, 06:28:17 AM

I keep reading this as:

Post something good that happened to Parts Two. 

And, then I wonder what happened to Parts One.   :-\

He wasn't made too well and fell apart.  Odeon rebuilt him with spare parts from the Jag, so he's good for years.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on December 02, 2011, 09:14:10 PM

I fixed an error that I made in a transformer cabinet two or three weeks ago. And I get 120 hours OT tomorrow and possibly Sunday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on December 02, 2011, 11:35:06 PM

Quote from: PPK on December 02, 2011, 09:14:10 PM

I fixed an error that I made in a transformer cabinet two or three weeks ago. And I get 120 hours OT tomorrow and possibly Sunday.

Oops! I meant 12 hours.  :tard: :pwned:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on December 02, 2011, 11:49:29 PM

Quote from: PPK on December 02, 2011, 11:35:06 PM

Quote from: PPK on December 02, 2011, 09:14:10 PM

I fixed an error that I made in a transformer cabinet two or three weeks ago. And I get 120 hours OT tomorrow and possibly Sunday.

Oops! I meant 12 hours.  :tard: :pwned:

That's good, else you would have been exhausted working all those OT hours.

 ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 03, 2011, 06:05:19 PM

Got two checks today

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 03, 2011, 08:19:55 PM

Quote from: PPK on December 02, 2011, 11:35:06 PM

Quote from: PPK on December 02, 2011, 09:14:10 PM

I fixed an error that I made in a transformer cabinet two or three weeks ago. And I get 120 hours OT tomorrow and possibly Sunday.

Oops! I meant 12 hours.  :tard: :pwned:

 I was about to say, I should get into your line of work.  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Adam on December 04, 2011, 06:22:28 PM

fuckin Excited!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 05, 2011, 01:07:35 AM

Quote from: Adam on December 04, 2011, 06:22:28 PM

fuckin Excited!

 Why, what has happened?  It's still early over there!  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 05, 2011, 01:09:22 AM

 As for me, I just found out that a new Hoarders episode airs on January 2!  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 05, 2011, 01:13:56 AM

GA treated me to lunch. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 05, 2011, 01:19:42 AM

Quote from: renaeden on December 05, 2011, 01:13:56 AM

GA treated me to lunch. :)

 That is nice.  Later this month I am buying a belated birthday dinner for a friend!  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Adam on December 05, 2011, 01:27:37 AM

fuck I'm listening to Imperanon!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Kaelyrhn on December 05, 2011, 09:05:57 AM

I got to watch The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson after ages of having a broken aerial.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 05, 2011, 03:14:14 PM

It was too damp to work at what I was supposed to do so I had most of the day off

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on December 06, 2011, 12:51:17 AM

Another interest rate cut today, yeaaahhh!! :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 06, 2011, 05:13:04 AM

 I slept better last night than I did the night before, which means I started the day better,
 and I just had a turkey sandwich for breakfast!  Life is good.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 06, 2011, 06:22:06 AM

Parents came home and we had pizza for dinner. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 06, 2011, 06:33:03 AM

Quote from: renaeden on December 06, 2011, 06:22:06 AM

Parents came home and we had pizza for dinner. :)

 So this is what you all looked like:


       :)      :)      :)

        :pizza:     :pizza:      :pizza:



 Awwww so happy at the table together!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 06, 2011, 06:35:41 AM

More foody goodness

My wife made cinnamon rolls for breakfast

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 06, 2011, 06:36:45 AM

Quote from: parts on December 06, 2011, 06:35:41 AM

More foody goodness

My wife made cinnamon rolls for breakfast

 Ooooooo I love cinnamon!  Did she frost the rolls as well?  :drool:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 06, 2011, 06:37:32 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 06, 2011, 06:36:45 AM

Quote from: parts on December 06, 2011, 06:35:41 AM

More foody goodness

My wife made cinnamon rolls for breakfast

 Ooooooo I love cinnamon!  Did she frost the rolls as well?  :drool:

Yes :autism: :autism: :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 06, 2011, 06:37:58 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 06, 2011, 06:33:03 AM

Quote from: renaeden on December 06, 2011, 06:22:06 AM

Parents came home and we had pizza for dinner. :)

 So this is what you all looked like:


       :)      :)      :)

        :pizza:     :pizza:      :pizza:



 Awwww so happy at the table together!

Heh, that is cool. Both parents came home with colds, hence the pizza as mum didn't feel up to cooking. I sure hope I don't get the cold, it doesn't sound very pleasant at all.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 06, 2011, 06:40:10 AM

Quote from: parts on December 06, 2011, 06:37:32 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 06, 2011, 06:36:45 AM

Quote from: parts on December 06, 2011, 06:35:41 AM

More foody goodness

My wife made cinnamon rolls for breakfast

 Ooooooo I love cinnamon!  Did she frost the rolls as well?  :drool:

Yes :autism: :autism: :autism:

 *tiptoes into parts' kitchen, scoops up a bagful of cinnamon rolls and darts away!*   :ninja:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 06, 2011, 04:05:26 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 06, 2011, 05:13:04 AM

I slept better last night than I did the night before, which means I started the day better,
 and I just had a turkey sandwich for breakfast!  Life is good.  8)

Turkey sandwich?  Did someone say turkey sandwich?  Did I mention that I love turkey?   :puppy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 06, 2011, 04:31:59 PM

Got a down payment on the current project I am working on

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: PuppetSockPenguin on December 07, 2011, 04:08:01 AM

My conductor friended me on Facebook.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 07, 2011, 04:18:42 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 06, 2011, 04:05:26 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 06, 2011, 05:13:04 AM

I slept better last night than I did the night before, which means I started the day better,
 and I just had a turkey sandwich for breakfast!  Life is good.  8)

Turkey sandwich?  Did someone say turkey sandwich?  Did I mention that I love turkey?   :puppy:

 Yes, Your Majesty, turkey sandwiches are grand and here is one for you!  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 07, 2011, 07:34:50 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 07, 2011, 04:18:42 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 06, 2011, 04:05:26 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 06, 2011, 05:13:04 AM

I slept better last night than I did the night before, which means I started the day better,
 and I just had a turkey sandwich for breakfast!  Life is good.  8)

Turkey sandwich?  Did someone say turkey sandwich?  Did I mention that I love turkey?   :puppy:

 Yes, Your Majesty, turkey sandwiches are grand and here is one for you!  :)

The traditional day-after-turkey breakfast for my sister and me was turkey, gravy and rice.  We had turkey for Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, New Years day, my Mom's birthday (8 January), my sister's birthday (7 February) and sometimes my Dad's birthday (8 April).  And these wer usually 20+ pound (a little over 9 kilograms) each time, for 4 people.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 07, 2011, 07:35:43 AM

maple and brown sugar oatmeal with peanut butter.  coldish outside so it's nice to have.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on December 07, 2011, 09:16:34 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 07, 2011, 07:34:50 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 07, 2011, 04:18:42 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 06, 2011, 04:05:26 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 06, 2011, 05:13:04 AM

I slept better last night than I did the night before, which means I started the day better,
 and I just had a turkey sandwich for breakfast!  Life is good.  8)

Turkey sandwich?  Did someone say turkey sandwich?  Did I mention that I love turkey?   :puppy:

 Yes, Your Majesty, turkey sandwiches are grand and here is one for you!  :)

The traditional day-after-turkey breakfast for my sister and me was turkey, gravy and rice.  We had turkey for Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, New Years day, my Mom's birthday (8 January), my sister's birthday (7 February) and sometimes my Dad's birthday (8 April).  And these wer usually 20+ pound (a little over 9 kilograms) each time, for 4 people.

We often have the huge turkey for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 07, 2011, 09:29:03 AM

The Jag passed the vehicle inspection with flying colours.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 07, 2011, 10:19:28 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 07, 2011, 09:29:03 AM

The Jag passed the vehicle inspection with flying colours.

 That's excellent, did you   :hotrodder:   home blasting cool tunes?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 07, 2011, 01:52:25 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 07, 2011, 10:19:28 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 07, 2011, 09:29:03 AM

The Jag passed the vehicle inspection with flying colours.

 That's excellent, did you   :hotrodder:   home blasting cool tunes?

 :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 07, 2011, 06:08:16 PM

And I guess it will be soon put away for the winter?  Fur coats that size are hard to find, even if it is a Jaguar.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 07, 2011, 10:57:58 PM

Drive to and back from the airport went smoothly.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 08, 2011, 05:24:45 AM

 The Drano Snake Plus^TM  worked, my bathroom sink is clear again!  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 08, 2011, 07:17:19 AM

I have used Drano before, but not a Snake Plus.

Something good was that my mum went to the trouble of buying me some food this morning even though she is not well (she caught a virus in Thailand :sick: ) I was surprised, I didn't expect that at all.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 08, 2011, 12:22:47 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 07, 2011, 06:08:16 PM

And I guess it will be soon put away for the winter?  Fur coats that size are hard to find, even if it is a Jaguar.

No, I'm going to drive it through the winter, too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 08, 2011, 03:04:40 PM

So far, 1 trash bag and 3 smaller bags for the thrift store and about a gazillion socks from the bedroom.  And it's only 3 p.m.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on December 08, 2011, 04:06:14 PM

^ Time for a "reuniting long lost socks" session?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 08, 2011, 06:18:37 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 08, 2011, 04:06:14 PM

^ Time for a "reuniting long lost socks" session?

Yes.  After the room is cleared out and the other vital areas addressed this week, it will be a sock-matching and clothes/towels mending marathon sometime next week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 08, 2011, 06:22:41 PM

I gave myself some freedom from perfection today. 

Our dryer has been non-working since the spring when the starter knob broke and the post it turns somehow fell down into the control panel.  I've been telling myself I should be able to fix something so simple, it's going to cost too much to fix, etc.  But it was always too hot, I couldn't figure out how to remove the panel (afraid I would break something even worse), etc. 

Finally called a repair place and they will send a man out tomorrow.  While he's here, if I'm here, he'll show me how to take the shell apart so I can do simple things like clean out the dryer since it's outside and needs periodic cleaning.  If I'm not then I guess he'll show Prince Albert. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 09, 2011, 02:09:21 AM

Got some information about the APAC11 presentations from the person who runs the autism group. They are only the abstracts but I should be able to find some of the articles online.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on December 09, 2011, 02:25:41 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 08, 2011, 06:18:37 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 08, 2011, 04:06:14 PM

^ Time for a "reuniting long lost socks" session?

Yes.  After the room is cleared out and the other vital areas addressed this week, it will be a sock-matching and clothes/towels mending marathon sometime next week.

I've found out that I am a master in procrastinating when it comes to the clothes/towels mending. My socks have experienced happy reunion not long ago. So, I'm good there now.

I've made a place to collect lost socks. The trouble is that I have created a few places to collect lost socks.  :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 09, 2011, 10:38:41 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 08, 2011, 03:04:40 PM

So far, 1 trash bag and 3 smaller bags for the thrift store and about a gazillion socks from the bedroom.  And it's only 3 p.m.

 Every hoard must yield to persistent work, soldier on!  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 09, 2011, 01:08:25 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 09, 2011, 02:25:41 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 08, 2011, 06:18:37 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 08, 2011, 04:06:14 PM

^ Time for a "reuniting long lost socks" session?

Yes.  After the room is cleared out and the other vital areas addressed this week, it will be a sock-matching and clothes/towels mending marathon sometime next week.

I've found out that I am a master in procrastinating when it comes to the clothes/towels mending. My socks have experienced happy reunion not long ago. So, I'm good there now.

I've made a place to collect lost socks. The trouble is that I have created a few places to collect lost socks.  :hahaha:

Ah yes, the myriad sock locations.  So far I've run across 3 and I know of at least one more.  The hold up with the mending was that the needles were again, somewhere in the bedroom and I was too stubborn to go out and buy needles for the 3rd time in a year.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 09, 2011, 01:12:35 PM

Houston, we have ignition (on the dryer).

AFAIcan reconstruct the scenario, the knob to start it cracked and came off in the PR's hand when she went to dry some clothes.  She tried to put it back on, but evidently accidentally knocked the post unit out of the clips that were holding it in place.  It took the repairman about 5 minutes to take the panel off and reattach the unit.  I now know where the screws are and he "let me watch closely" because he can't tell me how to do it for liability reasons.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 10, 2011, 03:18:43 AM

Got to see my friend in the city for a few hours. The city was really busy though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 10, 2011, 05:04:24 PM

My headache went away.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 10, 2011, 06:12:20 PM

 After moping all morning, I went to my job and did a good day's work.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 11, 2011, 09:54:44 AM

The site came back up!  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 11, 2011, 09:57:06 AM

It's a good thing, sure, but even better would be to know why it went down in the first place.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 11, 2011, 10:30:15 AM

Indeed.

:coolguy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 11, 2011, 12:20:05 PM

:GA: Not much closer to solving it yet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 11, 2011, 12:27:23 PM

I thought you said it was probably HostGator? If they had server issues or something, how can you know except by asking their techs?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 11, 2011, 12:38:08 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 11, 2011, 12:27:23 PM

I thought you said it was probably HostGator? If they had server issues or something, how can you know except by asking their techs?

It looked that way at first. Then they suspected that someone had hacked the account, but the logs don't show anything. Just my IP and the Hostgator IPs.

Someone/something had changed the password to access the database but I don't know who or what or how. :GA: :GA: :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 11, 2011, 12:56:31 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 11, 2011, 12:38:08 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 11, 2011, 12:27:23 PM

I thought you said it was probably HostGator? If they had server issues or something, how can you know except by asking their techs?

It looked that way at first. Then they suspected that someone had hacked the account, but the logs don't show anything. Just my IP and the Hostgator IPs.

Someone/something had changed the password to access the database but I don't know who or what or how. :GA: :GA: :GA:

Anyone care to start a list of who would want to do that to the site?   :zombiefuck:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 11, 2011, 01:18:44 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 11, 2011, 12:56:31 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 11, 2011, 12:38:08 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 11, 2011, 12:27:23 PM

I thought you said it was probably HostGator? If they had server issues or something, how can you know except by asking their techs?

It looked that way at first. Then they suspected that someone had hacked the account, but the logs don't show anything. Just my IP and the Hostgator IPs.

Someone/something had changed the password to access the database but I don't know who or what or how. :GA: :GA: :GA:

Anyone care to start a list of who would want to do that to the site?   :zombiefuck:

Baffling, right?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 11, 2011, 03:11:06 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 11, 2011, 01:18:44 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 11, 2011, 12:56:31 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 11, 2011, 12:38:08 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 11, 2011, 12:27:23 PM

I thought you said it was probably HostGator? If they had server issues or something, how can you know except by asking their techs?

It looked that way at first. Then they suspected that someone had hacked the account, but the logs don't show anything. Just my IP and the Hostgator IPs.

Someone/something had changed the password to access the database but I don't know who or what or how. :GA: :GA: :GA:

Anyone care to start a list of who would want to do that to the site?   :zombiefuck:

Baffling, right?

Well, Callaway comes to mind since she put Richard on ignore.   :facepalm2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Adam on December 11, 2011, 04:03:20 PM

My headache has almost totally gone!!!!!!1fucking HELL!!!!!!!

Almost too good to be real though. I hope it doesn't come back

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 11, 2011, 08:03:14 PM

Had a good daytime nap

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 11, 2011, 09:17:05 PM

Quote from: parts on December 11, 2011, 08:03:14 PM

Had a good daytime nap

 I love a good daytime nap, when I am actually able to fall fully asleep that is.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 12, 2011, 06:23:26 PM

Worked on some stuff I had never done before and it went very well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 12, 2011, 06:25:01 PM

 I had another productive day at work, am on a roll lately.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 12, 2011, 06:26:54 PM

Just got the word my niece had her baby boy today so I am once again a great uncle :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 12, 2011, 06:29:13 PM

Quote from: parts on December 12, 2011, 06:26:54 PM

Just got the word my niece had her baby boy today so I am once again a great uncle :headbang2:

 Fantastic, how many nieces and nephews do you have in all?  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 12, 2011, 06:48:12 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 12, 2011, 06:29:13 PM

Quote from: parts on December 12, 2011, 06:26:54 PM

Just got the word my niece had her baby boy today so I am once again a great uncle :headbang2:

 Fantastic, how many nieces and nephews do you have in all?  :)

Nine including this one

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 12, 2011, 06:49:02 PM

Quote from: parts on December 12, 2011, 06:48:12 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 12, 2011, 06:29:13 PM

Quote from: parts on December 12, 2011, 06:26:54 PM

Just got the word my niece had her baby boy today so I am once again a great uncle :headbang2:

 Fantastic, how many nieces and nephews do you have in all?  :)

Nine including this one

 I'll bet they love to visit Uncle Parts at his cool house with the fire barrel!  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2011, 08:54:47 PM

Stopped by the storage place twice and called 4 times, but no one was evidently working.  So I couldn't buy any moving boxes.  The good thing is that when I dropped off the stuff at the thrift store the grocery store in the area had perfectly useable boxes in their dumpster.  Money saved.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on December 12, 2011, 09:15:56 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2011, 08:54:47 PM

Stopped by the storage place twice and called 4 times, but no one was evidently working.  So I couldn't buy any moving boxes.  The good thing is that when I dropped off the stuff at the thrift store the grocery store in the area had perfectly useable boxes in their dumpster.  Money saved.

Were they moving or stationery?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Scrapheap on December 12, 2011, 09:23:03 PM

There's a hot chick librarian who's nice figure I'm ogling ATM.   :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2011, 10:00:35 PM

Quote from: PPK on December 12, 2011, 09:15:56 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2011, 08:54:47 PM

Stopped by the storage place twice and called 4 times, but no one was evidently working.  So I couldn't buy any moving boxes.  The good thing is that when I dropped off the stuff at the thrift store the grocery store in the area had perfectly useable boxes in their dumpster.  Money saved.

Were they moving or stationery?

Yes

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 12, 2011, 11:53:17 PM

Quote from: PPK on December 12, 2011, 09:15:56 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2011, 08:54:47 PM

Stopped by the storage place twice and called 4 times, but no one was evidently working.  So I couldn't buy any moving boxes.  The good thing is that when I dropped off the stuff at the thrift store the grocery store in the area had perfectly useable boxes in their dumpster.  Money saved.

Were they moving or stationery?

You mean stationary. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 13, 2011, 01:47:12 AM

Had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 13, 2011, 03:44:51 AM

Quote from: Grease Monkey on December 12, 2011, 09:23:03 PM

There's a hot chick librarian who's nice figure I'm ogling ATM.   :thumbup:

 Don't gawk too much or she might throw the book at you!  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 13, 2011, 03:47:11 AM

Quote from: PPK on December 12, 2011, 09:15:56 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2011, 08:54:47 PM

Stopped by the storage place twice and called 4 times, but no one was evidently working.  So I couldn't buy any moving boxes.  The good thing is that when I dropped off the stuff at the thrift store the grocery store in the area had perfectly useable boxes in their dumpster.  Money saved.

Were they moving or stationery?

 I don't understand this question.  :tard:  On the one hand it might mean "Were the boxes
 big moving boxes or little stationary boxes," on the other hand it might mean "Were the
 boxes lying still or were there creatures living in them shifting them around?"

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 13, 2011, 07:22:11 AM

It is a joke question in response to QV's statement about not being able to buy any "moving boxes". So were the boxes moving or were they sitting still (stationary)? Stationery = pens, pencils, paper, that sort of stuff.

Good news everyone! I got two Distinctions and a High Distinction. Best grades so far. I was hoping for 3 Ds but this is better. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 13, 2011, 07:24:21 AM

Quote from: renaeden on December 13, 2011, 07:22:11 AM

It is a joke question in response to QV's statement about not being able to buy any "moving boxes". So were the boxes moving or were they sitting still (stationary)? Stationery = pens, pencils, paper, that sort of stuff.

Good news everyone! I got two Distinctions and a High Distinction. Best grades so far. I was hoping for 3 Ds but this is better. :)

  :plus:   for showing them what you are made of, your hard work is paying off!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 13, 2011, 07:27:35 AM

^Thanks. Still not going to do Honours though. Best to stick to BPsych.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on December 13, 2011, 07:36:32 AM

Quote from: renaeden on December 13, 2011, 07:22:11 AM

It is a joke question in response to QV's statement about not being able to buy any "moving boxes". So were the boxes moving or were they sitting still (stationary)? Stationery = pens, pencils, paper, that sort of stuff.

Good news everyone! I got two Distinctions and a High Distinction. Best grades so far. I was hoping for 3 Ds but this is better. :)

:congrats:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 13, 2011, 01:38:57 PM

Congratulations Renaeden on your hard work and discipline even when I'm sure there were other things you'd rather have been doing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on December 13, 2011, 08:21:22 PM

I had myself an itty bitty Oz Lotto win :cheer:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 13, 2011, 08:24:19 PM

Quote from: Sinnocent on December 13, 2011, 08:21:22 PM

I had myself an itty bitty Oz Lotto win :cheer:

 And you can share it with your itty bitty kitty!  :kitten:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 13, 2011, 08:52:29 PM

Quote from: renaeden on December 13, 2011, 07:22:11 AM

Good news everyone! I got two Distinctions and a High Distinction. Best grades so far. I was hoping for 3 Ds but this is better. :)

 :headbang2: :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 13, 2011, 09:31:05 PM

Fit though a 15 inch square hole in a ceiling to get into an attic much to my helpers amazement

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on December 14, 2011, 02:18:15 AM

Quote from: renaeden on December 13, 2011, 07:22:11 AM

It is a joke question in response to QV's statement about not being able to buy any "moving boxes". So were the boxes moving or were they sitting still (stationary)? Stationery = pens, pencils, paper, that sort of stuff.

Good news everyone! I got two Distinctions and a High Distinction. Best grades so far. I was hoping for 3 Ds but this is better. :)

Awesome.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 14, 2011, 07:38:41 AM

Quote from: renaeden on December 13, 2011, 07:22:11 AM

It is a joke question in response to QV's statement about not being able to buy any "moving boxes". So were the boxes moving or were they sitting still (stationary)? Stationery = pens, pencils, paper, that sort of stuff.

Good news everyone! I got two Distinctions and a High Distinction. Best grades so far. I was hoping for 3 Ds but this is better. :)

Excellent! :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 14, 2011, 07:39:45 AM

Me, I managed to make Excel work as intended. Always unexpected and sometimes a good thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 14, 2011, 06:24:15 PM

The digital camera I "bought" with my points came today.  Of course, no batteries or memory card, but eh.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on December 14, 2011, 08:15:48 PM

I posted the presents to my brother finally :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on December 15, 2011, 07:26:11 AM

Lost parcel has been found and delivered. Girl is happy with her new coat.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Adam on December 15, 2011, 12:07:22 PM

Signed and sent off my deed poll (received it in the post yesterday) and tina came over to be witness.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 15, 2011, 02:36:50 PM

PA and I survived the night, although I slept more than he did.  We're getting the pain meds on a schedule which is helping.  1 day down, 41 to go with the cast.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 15, 2011, 07:55:31 PM

The house I am working on turned out to be very easy when it could have turned into a nightmare

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 15, 2011, 08:13:13 PM

Meeting first thing this morning that could have gone really badly actually went ok.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: earthboundmisfit on December 15, 2011, 10:20:15 PM

Quote from: Adam on December 15, 2011, 12:07:22 PM

Signed and sent off my deed poll (received it in the post yesterday) and tina came over to be witness.

What does that mean?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: PuppetSockPenguin on December 16, 2011, 01:35:32 AM

This was actually yesterday, but I got a trumpet for only $20. My boss was offloading old stock.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on December 16, 2011, 07:44:50 AM

Quote from: PuppetSockPenguin on December 16, 2011, 01:35:32 AM

This was actually yesterday, but I got a trumpet for only $20. My boss was offloading old stock.

:thumbup: Great find.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 16, 2011, 08:10:55 AM

Quote from: PuppetSockPenguin on December 16, 2011, 01:35:32 AM

This was actually yesterday, but I got a trumpet for only $20. My boss was offloading old stock.

Really good buy. :) Would you believe I learnt how to play the trumpet when I was in Year 7. Was in a band and everything. But that is the only instrument I have learnt. That and the recorder which everyone learns I think.

I was all prepared for the shops to be really crowded and horrible but it wasn't too bad.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: PuppetSockPenguin on December 16, 2011, 09:07:48 AM

It was an awesome buy. :)

I've been playing it today; I can play a few tunes now and I'm sounding less and less like a goose with sinus problems.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 16, 2011, 03:11:19 PM

I went with the PR to a thrift store.  I sat down on one of the couches in the front and didn't look for ANYTHING.  Truly a remarkable achievement for a hoarder. 

Also the other day I passed up a marvelous buy.  The office supply store had 5 mechanical pencils in a pack for 20 cents.  A real bargain, but a bargain you don't need isn't a bargain regardless of the price.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on December 16, 2011, 03:17:36 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 16, 2011, 03:11:19 PM

I went with the PR to a thrift store.  I sat down on one of the couches in the front and didn't look for ANYTHING.  Truly a remarkable achievement for a hoarder. 

Also the other day I passed up a marvelous buy.  The office supply store had 5 mechanical pencils in a pack for 20 cents.  A real bargain, but a bargain you don't need isn't a bargain regardless of the price.

  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on December 16, 2011, 03:19:31 PM

Realised I have collected quite a few square metres of space lately.

And I am greedy, I want more......

There is my bedroom to tackle the coming week.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 16, 2011, 03:57:05 PM

Finished the house I was working on in New Haven and have the weekend basically off

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 16, 2011, 06:46:05 PM

Managed to clear out about a 4 foot long space of stacked cans in the hallway.  Now I need to work on the other side and remove the clothes hamper, suitcase and ironing board.

I told ya'll I was a messy housekeeper/hoarder.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 17, 2011, 03:56:09 AM

I had coffee. There's nothing quite so delicious as the first cup of coffee of the day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 17, 2011, 04:31:42 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 03:56:09 AM

I had coffee. There's nothing quite so delicious as the first cup of coffee of the day.

 I love the rush of well-being that hits my bloodstream when the caffeine kicks in! :coffee:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 17, 2011, 04:32:18 AM

 As for me, I got a good sleep and woke up ready to postwhore properly!  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 17, 2011, 05:47:03 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 04:32:18 AM

As for me, I got a good sleep and woke up ready to postwhore properly!  :viking:

Dare you to start a new topic.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 17, 2011, 05:50:18 AM

Quote from: renaeden on December 17, 2011, 05:47:03 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 04:32:18 AM

As for me, I got a good sleep and woke up ready to postwhore properly!  :viking:

Dare you to start a new topic.

 Ooooo, you bet I will!  I have at least one in mind!  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:23:22 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 05:50:18 AM

Quote from: renaeden on December 17, 2011, 05:47:03 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 04:32:18 AM

As for me, I got a good sleep and woke up ready to postwhore properly!  :viking:

Dare you to start a new topic.

 Ooooo, you bet I will!  I have at least one in mind!  :viking:

Link or it didn't happen.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 17, 2011, 07:24:54 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:23:22 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 05:50:18 AM

Quote from: renaeden on December 17, 2011, 05:47:03 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 04:32:18 AM

As for me, I got a good sleep and woke up ready to postwhore properly!  :viking:

Dare you to start a new topic.

 Ooooo, you bet I will!  I have at least one in mind!  :viking:

Link or it didn't happen.

 It's my bifocal thread in General Discussion, I am too busy to link.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:34:20 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 07:24:54 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:23:22 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 05:50:18 AM

Quote from: renaeden on December 17, 2011, 05:47:03 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 04:32:18 AM

As for me, I got a good sleep and woke up ready to postwhore properly!  :viking:

Dare you to start a new topic.

 Ooooo, you bet I will!  I have at least one in mind!  :viking:

Link or it didn't happen.

 It's my bifocal thread in General Discussion, I am too busy to link.  :zoinks:

A true postwhore would have posted a link. :smarty:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 17, 2011, 07:35:53 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:34:20 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 07:24:54 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:23:22 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 05:50:18 AM

Quote from: renaeden on December 17, 2011, 05:47:03 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 04:32:18 AM

As for me, I got a good sleep and woke up ready to postwhore properly!  :viking:

Dare you to start a new topic.

 Ooooo, you bet I will!  I have at least one in mind!  :viking:

Link or it didn't happen.

 It's my bifocal thread in General Discussion, I am too busy to link.  :zoinks:

A true postwhore would have posted a link. :smarty:

 And waste time that could have been spent making another post?  :smarty:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:36:29 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 07:35:53 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:34:20 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 07:24:54 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:23:22 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 05:50:18 AM

Quote from: renaeden on December 17, 2011, 05:47:03 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 04:32:18 AM

As for me, I got a good sleep and woke up ready to postwhore properly!  :viking:

Dare you to start a new topic.

 Ooooo, you bet I will!  I have at least one in mind!  :viking:

Link or it didn't happen.

 It's my bifocal thread in General Discussion, I am too busy to link.  :zoinks:

A true postwhore would have posted a link. :smarty:

 And waste time that could have been spent making another post?  :P

OTOH we could just start a thread about it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 17, 2011, 07:39:38 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:36:29 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 07:35:53 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:34:20 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 07:24:54 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:23:22 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 05:50:18 AM

Quote from: renaeden on December 17, 2011, 05:47:03 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 04:32:18 AM

As for me, I got a good sleep and woke up ready to postwhore properly!  :viking:

Dare you to start a new topic.

 Ooooo, you bet I will!  I have at least one in mind!  :viking:

Link or it didn't happen.

 It's my bifocal thread in General Discussion, I am too busy to link.  :zoinks:

A true postwhore would have posted a link. :smarty:

 And waste time that could have been spent making another post?  :P

OTOH we could just start a thread about it.

 First find my bifocal thread and post in it so I can post back!  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:40:28 AM

Just read it. I might post in it later. :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 17, 2011, 07:42:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:40:28 AM

Just read it. I might post in it later. :orly:

 Why put off posting till later when it's so much fun to post right now?   :cheer:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:50:02 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 07:42:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:40:28 AM

Just read it. I might post in it later. :orly:

 Why put off posting till later when it's so much fun to post right now?   :cheer:

Because I'm doing :laundry:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 17, 2011, 07:52:15 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:50:02 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 07:42:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:40:28 AM

Just read it. I might post in it later. :orly:

 Why put off posting till later when it's so much fun to post right now?   :cheer:

Because I'm doing :laundry:

 Yet you found time to post this.  Interesting!  :police:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on December 17, 2011, 11:07:00 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 07:42:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:40:28 AM

Just read it. I might post in it later. :orly:

 Why put off posting till later when it's so much fun to post right now?   :cheer:

Some people have self discipline.  :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 17, 2011, 11:09:35 AM

Quote from: PPK on December 17, 2011, 11:07:00 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 07:42:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:40:28 AM

Just read it. I might post in it later. :orly:

 Why put off posting till later when it's so much fun to post right now?   :cheer:

Some people have self discipline.  :hahaha:

 Then why can't they get up to 11 posts per day?  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 17, 2011, 05:28:05 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 07:52:15 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:50:02 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 07:42:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:40:28 AM

Just read it. I might post in it later. :orly:

 Why put off posting till later when it's so much fun to post right now?   :cheer:

Because I'm doing :laundry:

 Yet you found time to post this.  Interesting!  :police:

Postwhoring is in my blood.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 17, 2011, 05:28:47 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 11:09:35 AM

Quote from: PPK on December 17, 2011, 11:07:00 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 07:42:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:40:28 AM

Just read it. I might post in it later. :orly:

 Why put off posting till later when it's so much fun to post right now?   :cheer:

Some people have self discipline.  :hahaha:

 Then why can't they get up to 11 posts per day?  :zoinks:

I think I'll let my post count speak for itself.  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 17, 2011, 05:29:43 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 05:28:47 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 11:09:35 AM

Quote from: PPK on December 17, 2011, 11:07:00 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 07:42:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:40:28 AM

Just read it. I might post in it later. :orly:

 Why put off posting till later when it's so much fun to post right now?   :cheer:

Some people have self discipline.  :hahaha:

 Then why can't they get up to 11 posts per day?  :zoinks:

I think I'll let my post count speak for itself.  :M

 I was making fun of PPK, not you.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 17, 2011, 05:30:59 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 05:29:43 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 05:28:47 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 11:09:35 AM

Quote from: PPK on December 17, 2011, 11:07:00 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 07:42:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:40:28 AM

Just read it. I might post in it later. :orly:

 Why put off posting till later when it's so much fun to post right now?   :cheer:

Some people have self discipline.  :hahaha:

 Then why can't they get up to 11 posts per day?  :zoinks:

I think I'll let my post count speak for itself.  :M

 I was making fun of PPK, not you.  :zoinks:

Oh.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on December 17, 2011, 06:47:49 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 11:09:35 AM

Quote from: PPK on December 17, 2011, 11:07:00 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 07:42:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:40:28 AM

Just read it. I might post in it later. :orly:

 Why put off posting till later when it's so much fun to post right now?   :cheer:

Some people have self discipline.  :hahaha:

 Then why can't they get up to 11 posts per day?  :zoinks:

Some of us prefer quality over quantity.  :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 17, 2011, 06:48:48 PM

Quote from: PPK on December 17, 2011, 06:47:49 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 11:09:35 AM

Quote from: PPK on December 17, 2011, 11:07:00 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2011, 07:42:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 17, 2011, 07:40:28 AM

Just read it. I might post in it later. :orly:

 Why put off posting till later when it's so much fun to post right now?   :cheer:

Some people have self discipline.  :hahaha:

 Then why can't they get up to 11 posts per day?  :zoinks:

Some of us prefer quality over quantity.  :hahaha:

 And a few of you don't care much about either!  :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on December 17, 2011, 08:02:25 PM

I am such a twatt,  i bumped into a 6ft serbian spruce   tree  in the garden centre..... and said
 'sorry'


ok...it is not really a good thing that happened today but it made me laugh.   and no serbian xmas trees were harmed during the incident :zoinks:   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 19, 2011, 04:20:54 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on December 17, 2011, 08:02:25 PM

I am such a twatt,  i bumped into a 6ft serbian spruce   tree  in the garden centre..... and said
 'sorry'


ok...it is not really a good thing that happened today but it made me laugh.   and no serbian xmas trees were harmed during the incident :zoinks:

:rofl:

:plus:

:LMAO:



























Sorry. I shouldn't laugh, but...

:rofl:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 19, 2011, 04:23:41 PM

Technically this didn't happen today but I got the confirmation today (that it isn't a practical joke). I've been asked to participate in an international standards committee.

Apart from the subject itself that is very, very cool, it's a huge ego boost.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 19, 2011, 06:58:23 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 19, 2011, 04:23:41 PM

Technically this didn't happen today but I got the confirmation today (that it isn't a practical joke). I've been asked to participate in an international standards committee.

Apart from the subject itself that is very, very cool, it's a huge ego boost.

I sure hope it helps the uppers at work to appreciate you more and reward you appropriately.  After all everytime someone reads your background when researching the committee your employer will be mentioned.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 19, 2011, 07:00:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 19, 2011, 04:23:41 PM

Technically this didn't happen today but I got the confirmation today (that it isn't a practical joke). I've been asked to participate in an international standards committee.

Apart from the subject itself that is very, very cool, it's a huge ego boost.

 That is cool!  Standards of what?  Is it related to film?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 19, 2011, 07:20:45 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 19, 2011, 04:23:41 PM

Technically this didn't happen today but I got the confirmation today (that it isn't a practical joke). I've been asked to participate in an international standards committee.

Apart from the subject itself that is very, very cool, it's a huge ego boost.

Heyyyyy. That's awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on December 19, 2011, 07:33:13 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 19, 2011, 04:23:41 PM

Technically this didn't happen today but I got the confirmation today (that it isn't a practical joke). I've been asked to participate in an international standards committee.

Apart from the subject itself that is very, very cool, it's a huge ego boost.

International Standards Committee  -  that is a swanky title!   will look good on a C.V.

Have you accepted?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on December 19, 2011, 07:35:22 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 19, 2011, 07:00:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 19, 2011, 04:23:41 PM

Technically this didn't happen today but I got the confirmation today (that it isn't a practical joke). I've been asked to participate in an international standards committee.

Apart from the subject itself that is very, very cool, it's a huge ego boost.

 That is cool!  Standards of what?  Is it related to film?  :orly:

Yes are you raising the standards of amateur porn? :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 19, 2011, 11:51:55 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 19, 2011, 07:00:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 19, 2011, 04:23:41 PM

Technically this didn't happen today but I got the confirmation today (that it isn't a practical joke). I've been asked to participate in an international standards committee.

Apart from the subject itself that is very, very cool, it's a huge ego boost.

That is cool!  Standards of what?  Is it related to film?  :orly:

I think odeon does stuff to do with computer programs. International standards committee sounds really important. :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 20, 2011, 01:51:18 AM

Can't tell you what it is yet. I think I'm not allowed to until my employer has accepted. But yes, it's about what I do for a living--XML markup languages and such. No pr0n.

And yes, I have accepted, but my employer needs to, too, because they will be carrying the costs associated with me spending some of my time working with this. I'm trying to think of blackmailing options ways to make them.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 20, 2011, 01:52:54 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 20, 2011, 01:51:18 AM

Can't tell you what it is yet. I think I'm not allowed to until my employer has accepted. But yes, it's about what I do for a living--XML markup languages and such. No pr0n.

And yes, I have accepted, but my employer needs to, too, because they will be carrying the costs associated with me spending some of my time working with this. I'm trying to think of blackmailing options ways to make them.

 Tell them you are a team player and it's all for the team!   :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 20, 2011, 01:54:39 AM

Photoshop and sordid images FTW

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 20, 2011, 01:55:25 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 20, 2011, 01:54:39 AM

Photoshop and sordid images FTW

 But only as a last resort!  Keep it classy for as long as you can!  :toporly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 20, 2011, 01:56:19 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 20, 2011, 01:55:25 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 20, 2011, 01:54:39 AM

Photoshop and sordid images FTW

 But only as a last resort!  Keep it classy for as long as you can!  :toporly:

Hey, my blackmail is always classy.  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 20, 2011, 01:58:05 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 20, 2011, 01:56:19 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 20, 2011, 01:55:25 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 20, 2011, 01:54:39 AM

Photoshop and sordid images FTW

 But only as a last resort!  Keep it classy for as long as you can!  :toporly:

Hey, my blackmail is always classy.  :autism:

 The pr0n stars wear the finest underwears!  :bra:  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on December 20, 2011, 04:07:36 AM

What!  so odeon isn't in the movies business?  i thought he directed porn films!  dammit!  i better quit sending those demo tapes to him :o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on December 20, 2011, 05:26:34 AM

I made my 2500th post. Username change in 3....2....1 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on December 20, 2011, 06:10:08 AM

7th grade check-up for the youngest went fine.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 20, 2011, 06:14:22 AM

Quote from: Sister O'Madness on December 20, 2011, 05:26:34 AM

I made my 2500th post. Username change in 3....2....1 8)

 Woohoo, you are now a Dedicated Postwhore!  This does call for a new name!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 20, 2011, 06:16:08 AM

Quote from: bodaccea on December 20, 2011, 04:07:36 AM

What!  so odeon isn't in the movies business?  i thought he directed porn films!  dammit!  i better quit sending those demo tapes to him :o

 It's all right, dear, you meant well.  Sit down and have a cuppa.  :blonde:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 20, 2011, 06:19:18 AM

Quote from: bodaccea on December 20, 2011, 04:07:36 AM

What!  so odeon isn't in the movies business?  i thought he directed porn films!  dammit!  i better quit sending those demo tapes to him :o

Do you see me complaining?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 20, 2011, 06:14:16 PM

My wife found my keys,  not the ones I lost a couple weeks ago the ones I lost last year :o  They were in the box with the Christmas tree ornaments.  Now to find the others

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 20, 2011, 06:17:00 PM

Quote from: parts on December 20, 2011, 06:14:16 PM

My wife found my keys,  not the ones I lost a couple weeks ago the ones I lost last year :o  They were in the box with the Christmas tree ornaments.  Now to find the others

 With your wife to help you, I'm sure it will be accomplished!  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 24, 2011, 09:02:14 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 20, 2011, 06:17:00 PM

Quote from: parts on December 20, 2011, 06:14:16 PM

My wife found my keys,  not the ones I lost a couple weeks ago the ones I lost last year :o  They were in the box with the Christmas tree ornaments.  Now to find the others

 With your wife to help you, I'm sure it will be accomplished!  :2thumbsup:

Found those keys too :2thumbsup:

Won ten dollars on a lottery ticket used it to pay for my morning coffee and another ticket and dropped the rest in the tip jar for luck and a Christmas tip

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 24, 2011, 07:30:50 PM

I took the PR to a thrift store today to cheer her up.  While there I found a unique present for my sister.  A zydeco rubboard.  That's the washboard "shield" some cajuns strum to make music.  Anyway, they run from $70 up and I only paid $5 for it.  I just need to get her the "church keys" for her to play it.

(http://larkinam.com/litmimages/dvd168.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 24, 2011, 07:59:51 PM

 I took a cab trip to a drugstore that was still open Christmas Eve, bought the Abreva to
 treat my (just-beginning) cold sore, and found a type of bandage in stock there that I've
 been looking for but haven't found either in the supermarket or in my usual drugstore. 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 24, 2011, 08:04:02 PM

Pumpkin pie and a Christmas tree (ok the Christmas tree's been there a while, but it's extra special today)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 24, 2011, 08:05:51 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 24, 2011, 08:04:02 PM

Pumpkin pie and a Christmas tree (ok the Christmas tree's been there a while, but it's extra special today)

 Pumpkin pie is delicious when well-spiced!  Who made this lovely pie?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 24, 2011, 08:36:03 PM

WolFish made the GF crust and I made the insides.  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 24, 2011, 08:47:09 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 24, 2011, 08:36:03 PM

WolFish made the GF crust and I made the insides.  :autism:

 Ooooo, what is a GF crust, I'll bet it is delicious!  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 24, 2011, 08:56:42 PM

Gluten free, made from crushed cookie crumbs and butter.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 24, 2011, 08:59:15 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 24, 2011, 08:56:42 PM

Gluten free, made from crushed cookie crumbs and butter.

 Pumpkin is a vegetable.  Therefore, pumpkin pie is good for me!   :puppy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 24, 2011, 09:00:04 PM

You can have the other half of the piece I was too full to finish.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 24, 2011, 09:05:05 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 24, 2011, 09:00:04 PM

You can have the other half of the piece I was too full to finish.  :)

 Thank you!  Merry Christmas to your household!  :snowman:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 24, 2011, 10:39:19 PM

I will convey the message! Merry Christmas back at you.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 27, 2011, 05:26:15 PM

While working in the center of a city I was a red tailed hawk perch on a pole and eat his lunch.
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/parts67/015-10.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Adam on December 27, 2011, 05:45:08 PM

Found out I can get a lift back to manchester off my mate's dad, meaning I don't have to get the train there and back!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 28, 2011, 05:05:08 PM

Got a tour of a very cool metal fabrication business . I am bidding work on a house for the owner.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 28, 2011, 07:15:18 PM

Quote from: parts on December 27, 2011, 05:26:15 PM

While working in the center of a city I was a red tailed hawk perch on a pole and eat his lunch.
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/parts67/015-10.jpg)

    I love those hawks!  They look so powerful in flight.  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 28, 2011, 07:17:26 PM

 I recognized that I have lost a little weight.  I was happy to walk home tonight
 instead of just hobbling to the bus stop.  There's less of a load on my joints.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on December 28, 2011, 09:31:24 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 28, 2011, 07:15:18 PM

Quote from: parts on December 27, 2011, 05:26:15 PM

While working in the center of a city I was a red tailed hawk perch on a pole and eat his lunch.
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/parts67/015-10.jpg)

    I love those hawks!  They look so powerful in flight.  :viking:

That one is parked CBC.  :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 28, 2011, 09:46:30 PM

Quote from: PPK on December 28, 2011, 09:31:24 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 28, 2011, 07:15:18 PM

Quote from: parts on December 27, 2011, 05:26:15 PM

While working in the center of a city I was a red tailed hawk perch on a pole and eat his lunch.
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/parts67/015-10.jpg)

    I love those hawks!  They look so powerful in flight.  :viking:

That one is parked CBC.  :hahaha:

    :evilplus:   for making me giggle!  You should narrate nature shows on TV.  :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 29, 2011, 12:52:18 AM

Had some coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 29, 2011, 03:34:49 PM

I wasn't in an accident today.   :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 29, 2011, 05:54:04 PM

Finished two jobs today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 29, 2011, 06:50:57 PM

Sat in the back of that stupid car.... now I hurt so much

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 30, 2011, 12:45:49 AM

That's a good thing? ???

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 30, 2011, 09:14:00 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 30, 2011, 12:45:49 AM

That's a good thing? ???

Maybe because he usually rides in the trunk/boot?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 30, 2011, 09:14:33 AM

The PR had the first (smaller) of her government checks deposited today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 30, 2011, 10:34:38 AM

Went to Grainger (http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/start.shtml) for the first time in a few years and found that I still had an account and a credit line to boot.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 30, 2011, 11:24:32 AM

Talked to a recruiting company in the UK. They are very interested in my services.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on December 30, 2011, 01:49:46 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 30, 2011, 11:24:32 AM

Talked to a recruiting company in the UK. They are very interested in my services.

That's very cool.  Would you move there, though?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on December 30, 2011, 04:25:16 PM

Quote from: Callaway on December 30, 2011, 01:49:46 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 30, 2011, 11:24:32 AM

Talked to a recruiting company in the UK. They are very interested in my services.

That's very cool.  Would you move there, though?

:indeed: Plan on working in the UK?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 30, 2011, 04:58:13 PM

My very good friend showed up with over 1/2 of their Christmas turkey, leftover rice dressing and gravy.  Since her husband went back to his job in Texas she had beaucoup leftovers and was sick of turkey.  I have about 4 cups of diced turkey, 1/2 of a breast and 2 drumsticks to work with.

Dinner tonight:  turkey, rice dressing, mushroom gravy, carrots, green beans.

Might splurge on some cookies.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 30, 2011, 05:47:50 PM

Quote from: Callaway on December 30, 2011, 01:49:46 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 30, 2011, 11:24:32 AM

Talked to a recruiting company in the UK. They are very interested in my services.

That's very cool.  Would you move there, though?

No, I wouldn't have to move. I would have to travel, though.

It was a good talk so they will schedule a follow-up next week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 30, 2011, 05:48:56 PM

Quote from: PPK on December 30, 2011, 04:25:16 PM

Quote from: Callaway on December 30, 2011, 01:49:46 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 30, 2011, 11:24:32 AM

Talked to a recruiting company in the UK. They are very interested in my services.

That's very cool.  Would you move there, though?

:indeed: Plan on working in the UK?

I might spend some time and work there but I won't move.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on December 30, 2011, 07:20:25 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 30, 2011, 05:47:50 PM

Quote from: Callaway on December 30, 2011, 01:49:46 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 30, 2011, 11:24:32 AM

Talked to a recruiting company in the UK. They are very interested in my services.

That's very cool.  Would you move there, though?

No, I wouldn't have to move. I would have to travel, though.

It was a good talk so they will schedule a follow-up next week.

I wondered how your family would feel about moving but if you can just travel there sometimes that sounds great.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 31, 2011, 04:01:43 AM

The job is not mainly in the UK, it's home-based and focusses on Scandinavia and Germany. There would be a fair amount of travelling.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on January 01, 2012, 03:09:16 AM

Ooooooh!!

I have a date with a Sockface at the races on the 14th! :eyelash:

Arrange a lunch date with Geoff the next day perhaps as well? :eyelash:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 01, 2012, 10:06:46 AM

I woke up and I remembered to take my weekly med.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: ShyOne on January 01, 2012, 05:26:16 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 28, 2011, 07:17:26 PM

I recognized that I have lost a little weight.  I was happy to walk home tonight
 instead of just hobbling to the bus stop.  There's less of a load on my joints.  :thumbup:

Fantastic! Go CBC! :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 01, 2012, 05:39:33 PM

I honestly don't know...

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 01, 2012, 05:57:42 PM

Cheesecake

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 02, 2012, 06:59:56 AM

I met up with a friend, we had burgers for lunch and then we went to the cinema and watched Happy Feet 2.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 03, 2012, 05:14:32 PM

Sometimes it happens, without knowing what precisely makes the difference, dinner turns out to be just absolutely fucking perfect.

I nearly orgasmed, when eating the food I made.
 :meditate:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on January 03, 2012, 05:25:02 PM

Years and years ago i used to run 3 miles every day.  I tried to do that same route today  -  and i made it!  In about double the time mind,  but that is something i can work on!

I got my happy feet back i think

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Psychophant on January 03, 2012, 05:28:13 PM

My GF and I are planning on living together. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on January 03, 2012, 05:38:28 PM

Quote from: Psychophant on January 03, 2012, 05:28:13 PM

My GF and I are planning on living together.

Good for you!  They say you don't really know someone til you have to live with them!  Hope you both will be very happy :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Psychophant on January 03, 2012, 06:43:11 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on January 03, 2012, 05:38:28 PM

Quote from: Psychophant on January 03, 2012, 05:28:13 PM

My GF and I are planning on living together.

Good for you!  They say you don't really know someone til you have to live with them!  Hope you both will be very happy :2thumbsup:

It's been long discussed...I actually proposed to her.  But after her douchebag exhusband screwed her over, she's pretty gun shy.  So this was a compromise.  Her son really likes me and we get along.  So we agreed that we'll see where this goes and after a time, it's up to her to propose.  Yeah, I know, it sounds weird, but, this is what we hashed out.   The ring is there, but, it's her call.  Our families are ok with this arrangement.  Now it's up to time and when my lease expires in two months.  Though we spend a lot of time sleeping over at each others places.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on January 03, 2012, 06:48:15 PM

Quote from: Psychophant on January 03, 2012, 06:43:11 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on January 03, 2012, 05:38:28 PM

Quote from: Psychophant on January 03, 2012, 05:28:13 PM

My GF and I are planning on living together.

Good for you!  They say you don't really know someone til you have to live with them!  Hope you both will be very happy :2thumbsup:

It's been long discussed...I actually proposed to her.  But after her douchebag exhusband screwed her over, she's pretty gun shy.  So this was a compromise.  Her son really likes me and we get along.  So we agreed that we'll see where this goes and after a time, it's up to her to propose.  Yeah, I know, it sounds weird, but, this is what we hashed out.   The ring is there, but, it's her call.  Our families are ok with this arrangement.  Now it's up to time and when my lease expires in two months.  Though we spend a lot of time sleeping over at each others places.   8)

:congrats:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 03, 2012, 06:53:21 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on January 03, 2012, 05:14:32 PM

Sometimes it happens, without knowing what precisely makes the difference, dinner turns out to be just absolutely fucking perfect.

I nearly orgasmed, when eating the food I made.
 :meditate:

 Er, what did you cook exactly?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 03, 2012, 06:57:34 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on January 03, 2012, 05:25:02 PM

Years and years ago i used to run 3 miles every day.  I tried to do that same route today  -  and i made it!  In about double the time mind,  but that is something i can work on!

I got my happy feet back i think

 It's great that you are running again, run like the wind!  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 03, 2012, 07:02:39 PM

Quote from: Psychophant on January 03, 2012, 06:43:11 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on January 03, 2012, 05:38:28 PM

Quote from: Psychophant on January 03, 2012, 05:28:13 PM

My GF and I are planning on living together.

Good for you!  They say you don't really know someone til you have to live with them!  Hope you both will be very happy :2thumbsup:

It's been long discussed...I actually proposed to her.  But after her douchebag exhusband screwed her over, she's pretty gun shy.  So this was a compromise.  Her son really likes me and we get along.  So we agreed that we'll see where this goes and after a time, it's up to her to propose.  Yeah, I know, it sounds weird, but, this is what we hashed out.   The ring is there, but, it's her call.  Our families are ok with this arrangement.  Now it's up to time and when my lease expires in two months.  Though we spend a lot of time sleeping over at each others places.   8)

 Best wishes to you both in 2012, got my fingers crossed for you!  :crossed:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 03, 2012, 07:10:00 PM

Found a stereo phono plug cleaning up in the basement and repaired some 70's Koss head phones I had laying around.  They are rather comfortable and block most outside sounds

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 03, 2012, 10:35:17 PM

I found a paper I need for my doctor's visit tomorrow.
Went shopping and only bought one thing not on my list.
Deposited a check from the PR's account to mine and paid it to the credit card company since it was charged to my card.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: lutra on January 11, 2012, 09:56:12 AM

My mum gave me a nice chef's (kitchen) knife today. She had saved up some coupons (or pieces of labels?) and got a free chef's knife from the supermarket she frequents.. thinking it be a nice present for 'beloved' son. Seems a decent knife too.

Maybe some flowers (or a plant in a pot) for her in return would be appropriate here.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 11, 2012, 10:12:49 AM

Quote from: lutra on January 11, 2012, 09:56:12 AM

My mum gave me a nice chef's (kitchen) knife today. She had saved up some coupons (or pieces of labels?) and got a free chef's knife from the supermarket she frequents.. thinking it be a nice present for 'beloved' son. Seems a decent knife too.

Maybe some flowers (or a plant in a pot) for her in return would be appropriate here.

 Yes, that would be a nice thoughtful gift.  Enjoy your knife!   :fatchef:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: lutra on January 11, 2012, 10:21:55 AM

Thanks, I will. Flowers or plant will follow a little later though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: ShyOne on January 11, 2012, 03:22:33 PM

Had a badass bacon and melted cheese bagel for breakfast this morning :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 11, 2012, 03:47:15 PM

Got a very useful letter in the mail.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 11, 2012, 04:32:32 PM

I went into 2 stores and only bought what I went in for!  I am beginning to tame the clutter monster and the evil money-eataing beast.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 11, 2012, 05:04:11 PM

Quote from: Crip on January 11, 2012, 03:22:33 PM

Had a badass bacon and melted cheese bagel for breakfast this morning :2thumbsup:

 Oooooo,  :bacon:  +  :cheese:  =  JOY!  What kind of cheese?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: ShyOne on January 11, 2012, 05:10:47 PM

Mature cheddar! :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 11, 2012, 05:12:26 PM

Quote from: Crip on January 11, 2012, 05:10:47 PM

Mature cheddar! :2thumbsup:

 Ooooo, I love a good sharp flavorful melty cheese!  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: ShyOne on January 11, 2012, 05:14:19 PM

Yay for social interaction! You now know the perfect bagel and now I know what kinda syrup goes best with pancakes! :2thumbsup: It's a win win situation! :cbc: (sorry for all the !!!!!, just had more pancakes and a truckload of syrup :P)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 11, 2012, 05:17:02 PM

Quote from: Crip on January 11, 2012, 05:14:19 PM

Yay for social interaction! You now know the perfect bagel and now I know what kinda syrup goes best with pancakes! :2thumbsup: It's a win win situation! :cbc: (sorry for all the !!!!!, just had more pancakes and a truckload of syrup :P)

 Does the sugar make you feel all  :woohoo:  inside?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: ShyOne on January 11, 2012, 05:18:46 PM

That and tired. Been stimploding lots today too :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 11, 2012, 05:19:56 PM

Quote from: Crip on January 11, 2012, 05:18:46 PM

That and tired. Been stimploding lots today too :GA:

 Maybe ease off the sugar so you don't crash too hard later.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 11, 2012, 06:11:20 PM

Got called  by a regular customer to look at a new house and major work on a renovation

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 11, 2012, 08:27:05 PM

nothing happened

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: lutra on January 13, 2012, 10:44:31 AM

On today's list of highscores I'm currently number 1 (and 7). That will not remain so for long though cos the score isn't that high. Seen scores at least twice as high.

Ja, blahiah/surry..

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 14, 2012, 12:24:12 AM

Well I got the letter about it yesterday. But my pension is going to be continued, I don't even have to go in for an interview. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on January 14, 2012, 08:37:10 AM

It's a long weekend, and I heard back from someone I'd been concerned about.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 14, 2012, 04:18:08 PM

Managed to get the DTS processor working without any problems.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: lutra on January 17, 2012, 04:40:03 PM

This evening some adolescent (in a group of 3 morons/showing off) called me a faggot in the supermarket. I just raised my eyebrows, looked 1 of  the retards 'pervasively'/straight in the eyes, walking towards them (had to go that way anyway) and said, in the low voice I have, very collected/chill, to him.. 'Bet you're a bigger faggot than I am'. Nothing more.

Hahahah, they, politely, made way for me to pass after that and 2 chickened off completely a little later. Um, after that, the 1 left stood before me in line to pay the cashier for the alcoholic beverage he/they picked out and he was nervous like some neurotic naked small dog (on speed). I did nothing but just grinned and stayed very chill, awaiting.. but he went in a halfway/all over the place state, there and then.

Oinky doinky, this city is truly populated with the biggest cowards we have in Holland. No fuckin' kid ya.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 18, 2012, 12:55:13 AM

Quote from: lutra on January 17, 2012, 04:40:03 PM

This evening some adolescent (in a group of 3 morons/showing off) called me a faggot in the supermarket. I just raised my eyebrows, looked 1 of  the retards 'pervasively'/straight in the eyes, walking towards them (had to go that way anyway) and said, in the low voice I have, very collected/chill, to him.. 'Bet you're a bigger faggot than I am'. Nothing more.

Hahahah, they, politely, made way for me to pass after that and 2 chickened off completely a little later. Um, after that, the 1 left stood before me in line to pay the cashier for the alcoholic beverage he/they picked out and he was nervous like some neurotic naked small dog (on speed). I did nothing but just grinned and stayed very chill, awaiting.. but he went in a halfway/all over the place state, there and then.

Oinky doinky, this city is truly populated with the biggest cowards we have in Holland. No fuckin' kid ya.

   :plus:  for grinning and using a low calm voice, that puts fear in little punks!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Calavera on January 18, 2012, 03:59:26 AM

+1 indeed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: lutra on January 18, 2012, 07:21:44 AM

Thanks.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 18, 2012, 08:40:24 AM

did you look like Dirty Harry when you said it?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 18, 2012, 08:42:14 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 18, 2012, 08:40:24 AM

did you look like Dirty Harry when you said it?

 That's what I was thinking!  Eastwood can be very menacing in his calm way!  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 18, 2012, 01:59:17 PM

I have more money than expected in my work account   after paying my suppliers :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Adam on January 18, 2012, 04:44:27 PM

Went and sorted out my name change at the bank. the woman I saw was really nice and friendly

also had two cheezburgers afterwards

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 18, 2012, 05:12:56 PM

Quote from: Adam on January 18, 2012, 04:44:27 PM

Went and sorted out my name change at the bank. the woman I saw was really nice and friendly

also had two cheezburgers afterwards

 :pirateship:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 18, 2012, 05:14:05 PM

A friend invited me for coffee on FB, and we made an appointment right away.

Haven't seen him for two years.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 18, 2012, 05:15:50 PM

Quote from: parts on January 18, 2012, 01:59:17 PM

I have more money than expected in my work account   after paying my suppliers :hyke:

Then something is definitely wrong.  Tell me how much more money and I'll tell you if it's the same amount that's missing from the Royal Treasury.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 18, 2012, 05:16:45 PM

Quote from: parts on January 18, 2012, 01:59:17 PM

I have more money than expected in my work account   after paying my suppliers :hyke:

I see a new popcorn maker and a new coffee machine in your future.    :yarly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 19, 2012, 03:15:06 PM

 I just found out my chest X-ray was normal.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 19, 2012, 03:57:57 PM

My lead class is done I passed the test now I just wait for my certificate

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 19, 2012, 04:17:06 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 19, 2012, 03:15:06 PM

I just found out my chest X-ray was normal.  :thumbup:

:thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 19, 2012, 04:19:11 PM

Youngest is past the worst of her double inner-ear infection. Pretty sure she can be in school again tomorrow.
And, also pretty sure that I can have an undisturbed night this night.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 19, 2012, 04:37:05 PM

Just received a terrific email.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 19, 2012, 04:39:21 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 19, 2012, 04:37:05 PM

Just received a terrific email.

Was it from a Nigerian prince :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 19, 2012, 04:57:27 PM

Quote from: parts on January 19, 2012, 04:39:21 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 19, 2012, 04:37:05 PM

Just received a terrific email.

Was it from a Nigerian prince :zoinks:

Yeah, apparently I'm going to be rich. ;D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 19, 2012, 08:24:13 PM

Made a couple of work contacts at the class I took

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 20, 2012, 02:13:54 AM

You've been networking. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 20, 2012, 07:14:17 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 20, 2012, 02:13:54 AM

You've been networking. :zoinks:

Strange isn't it :laugh: 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 20, 2012, 07:15:00 AM

Quote from: parts on January 20, 2012, 07:14:17 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 20, 2012, 02:13:54 AM

You've been networking. :zoinks:

Strange isn't it :laugh:

 I was thinking the same thing, networking, but I was too lazy to post it.  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 20, 2012, 07:21:48 AM

They had to practically hit me in the head with it though asking me after finding out what I do

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 20, 2012, 07:24:21 AM

Quote from: parts on January 20, 2012, 07:21:48 AM

They had to practically hit me in the head with it though asking me after finding out what I do

 But you made new business contacts, that's all that counts!  :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 20, 2012, 07:29:21 AM

And I am now a
Lead-Safe Renovator

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 20, 2012, 07:34:19 AM

Quote from: parts on January 20, 2012, 07:29:21 AM

And I am now a
Lead-Safe Renovator

 You should totally make business cards with that notation.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 20, 2012, 09:49:29 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 20, 2012, 07:34:19 AM

Quote from: parts on January 20, 2012, 07:29:21 AM

And I am now a
Lead-Safe Renovator

 You should totally make business cards with that notation.  :thumbup:

Once I register my company and give the EPA $300 I can but everyone is supposed to be one now

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 20, 2012, 12:01:35 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 20, 2012, 07:15:00 AM

Quote from: parts on January 20, 2012, 07:14:17 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 20, 2012, 02:13:54 AM

You've been networking. :zoinks:

Strange isn't it :laugh:

 I was thinking the same thing, networking, but I was too lazy to post it.  :autism:

Spazz. :smarty:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on January 20, 2012, 09:31:55 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 20, 2012, 07:34:19 AM

Quote from: parts on January 20, 2012, 07:29:21 AM

And I am now a
Lead-Safe Renovator

 You should totally make business cards with that notation.  :thumbup:

 :indeed: :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 20, 2012, 10:55:46 PM

A tasty sweet-sour crispy apple.  Don't know the name though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: eris on January 21, 2012, 04:47:08 AM

had an excellent dream



So i was a homeless person ( often am in dreams) and had a bookbag full of clothes, and my laptop, and that is is. I had traveling companions and we traveled along this mountainside that hid different houses in it and stayed in those houses. The main house was abandoned with no utilities. A real dump. Lots of homeless people stayed there, and it was full of people getting high and fucking and pissing in the corner and acting crazy and being general homeless slobs. But there were other houses too, some that had people living in them. But we wold break into those houses and steal the peoples shit, and like stay in empty rooms and hide from them. They never saw us, but knew we were there. So we would go back to the main abandoned house, but always go back to these other houses. So it started to attract police attention. There was one cop in particular that was investigating, and he was a real dumbass. he didnt care about the activity at the abandoned house just wanted to figure out what we were doing at the other houses. I talked to him a lot, and he believe that I was totally innocent. I stole his phone, and it was full of cock shots. lol. Ok now that I am writing this is seems kinda boring but it really really was not boring, it was very exciting. And it was like it was a few weeks, I mean all kinds of things happened. I smoked crack with a pedophile. I had sex with a sex doll in front of everyone. And people kept stealing my shit but I really didnt care, I wold just go steal more shit off of the people in the other houses. Right before I woke up, I was making a weapon out of razor blades and a pencil to sleep with. What a great dream.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 21, 2012, 07:25:13 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 20, 2012, 12:01:35 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 20, 2012, 07:15:00 AM

Quote from: parts on January 20, 2012, 07:14:17 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 20, 2012, 02:13:54 AM

You've been networking. :zoinks:

Strange isn't it :laugh:

 I was thinking the same thing, networking, but I was too lazy to post it.  :autism:

Spazz. :smarty:

 Yeah, maybe I should find someplace online where there are others like me!  :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Adam on January 21, 2012, 09:58:28 AM

My new debit card got here :) I no longer have to use the one with the wrong name lol

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 21, 2012, 03:21:11 PM

Quote from: Adam on January 21, 2012, 09:58:28 AM

My new debit card got here :) I no longer have to use the one with the wrong name lol

Must feel nice not having to worry if someone questions you when you use it and your other stuff has a different name on it.


Today I found that the van with the new tires on it does very well driving in the snow

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on January 22, 2012, 02:17:21 AM

Quote from: parts on January 21, 2012, 03:21:11 PM

Quote from: Adam on January 21, 2012, 09:58:28 AM

My new debit card got here :) I no longer have to use the one with the wrong name lol

Must feel nice not having to worry if someone questions you when you use it and your other stuff has a different name on it.


Today I found that the van with the new tires on it does very well driving in the snow

Are they special snow tires or are they tires with a more aggressive tread?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: PuppetSockPenguin on January 22, 2012, 07:56:48 AM

I bought a book for myself.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 22, 2012, 09:46:44 AM

Quote from: Callaway on January 22, 2012, 02:17:21 AM

Quote from: parts on January 21, 2012, 03:21:11 PM

Quote from: Adam on January 21, 2012, 09:58:28 AM

My new debit card got here :) I no longer have to use the one with the wrong name lol

Must feel nice not having to worry if someone questions you when you use it and your other stuff has a different name on it.


Today I found that the van with the new tires on it does very well driving in the snow

Are they special snow tires or are they tires with a more aggressive tread?

All season ones but with a little more of an aggressive tread not as much so as the ones I wanted but they cost $50 more per tire than the ones I have.  This is the first year in a long time I don't have four wheel drive

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on January 22, 2012, 04:17:14 PM

Quote from: parts on January 22, 2012, 09:46:44 AM

Quote from: Callaway on January 22, 2012, 02:17:21 AM

Quote from: parts on January 21, 2012, 03:21:11 PM

Quote from: Adam on January 21, 2012, 09:58:28 AM

My new debit card got here :) I no longer have to use the one with the wrong name lol

Must feel nice not having to worry if someone questions you when you use it and your other stuff has a different name on it.


Today I found that the van with the new tires on it does very well driving in the snow

Are they special snow tires or are they tires with a more aggressive tread?

All season ones but with a little more of an aggressive tread not as much so as the ones I wanted but they cost $50 more per tire than the ones I have.  This is the first year in a long time I don't have four wheel drive

My husband's Toyota Four Runner's tires have an aggressive tread and they do very well in the snow, especially in four wheel drive.  They are a bit noisy on the road when it's clear of snow, but it's probably worth the trade-off.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 23, 2012, 02:57:32 AM

Quote from: Adam on January 21, 2012, 09:58:28 AM

My new debit card got here :) I no longer have to use the one with the wrong name lol

Must be a relief.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 23, 2012, 06:18:45 AM

My mum's Kindle cover came in the mail. I thought I wasn't going to get it as it was meant to be here 2 weeks ago.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 23, 2012, 03:58:39 PM

I cleaned out the trunk of the car, amazing how much groceries I had stored there.  Threw away some insulation I had scrounged from a HVAC shop.  Realized I really don't need it.  (Another good step in my new personality.)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: lutra on January 24, 2012, 07:31:29 AM

Good thing today is that yesterday is over. (duh, but yesterday sucked big nips)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 24, 2012, 11:37:44 AM

It's very mild out today almost warm

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 25, 2012, 04:16:50 PM

 The tootache I had checked out today at the dentist's office appears to be a result of
 sinus irritation rather than another epic tooth infection like last time.  I happen to have
 very large maxillary sinuses, so any infection in them can cause a little ache in the
 roots of the neighboring teeth.  I am a mutant.  :insane:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 25, 2012, 05:05:06 PM

Got a check from my brother, not that is it's good and I have to wait till he calls to cash it but it's better than nothing

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 25, 2012, 05:07:38 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 25, 2012, 04:16:50 PM

The tootache I had checked out today at the dentist's office appears to be a result of
 sinus irritation rather than another epic tooth infection like last time.  I happen to have
 very large maxillary sinuses, so any infection in them can cause a little ache in the
 roots of the neighboring teeth.  I am a mutant.  :insane:

And I have the other option, long teeth nerves.  The get affected sometimes because of my sinuses.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 25, 2012, 05:12:19 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 25, 2012, 05:07:38 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 25, 2012, 04:16:50 PM

The tootache I had checked out today at the dentist's office appears to be a result of
 sinus irritation rather than another epic tooth infection like last time.  I happen to have
 very large maxillary sinuses, so any infection in them can cause a little ache in the
 roots of the neighboring teeth.  I am a mutant.  :insane:

And I have the other option, long teeth nerves.  The get affected sometimes because of my sinuses.

 Oh wow, I wonder if I have those too!  I've never known enough to ask!  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 27, 2012, 04:42:02 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 25, 2012, 05:12:19 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 25, 2012, 05:07:38 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 25, 2012, 04:16:50 PM

The tootache I had checked out today at the dentist's office appears to be a result of
 sinus irritation rather than another epic tooth infection like last time.  I happen to have
 very large maxillary sinuses, so any infection in them can cause a little ache in the
 roots of the neighboring teeth.  I am a mutant.  :insane:

And I have the other option, long teeth nerves.  The get affected sometimes because of my sinuses.

 Oh wow, I wonder if I have those too!  I've never known enough to ask!  :orly:

Apparently it's quite common that people see their dentist, because of sinus infections, thinking something is wrong with their teeth.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 27, 2012, 05:14:10 PM

 The downtime ended and I² is back up again!   :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: eris on January 27, 2012, 05:15:28 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 27, 2012, 05:14:10 PM

The downtime ended and I² is back up again!   :hyke:

yes, that is certainly a good thing !

I was going through withdrawl

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 27, 2012, 05:16:45 PM

Quote from: eris on January 27, 2012, 05:15:28 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 27, 2012, 05:14:10 PM

The downtime ended and I² is back up again!   :hyke:

yes, that is certainly a good thing !

I was going through withdrawl

 So was I!  There are other places, of course, but I was still sad.  :emosad:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 28, 2012, 03:56:52 AM

Finally had a cup of coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 28, 2012, 12:01:52 PM

Today's my birthday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on January 28, 2012, 12:21:22 PM

Have a good one!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on January 28, 2012, 05:48:36 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 28, 2012, 12:01:52 PM

Today's my birthday.

Happy Birthday!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Adam on January 28, 2012, 08:47:38 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 28, 2012, 12:01:52 PM

Today's my birthday.

by the time you've reached your age, surely that's a BAD thing that happened today? :P

hope you had a good one btw

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 29, 2012, 02:46:50 AM

Quote from: Adam on January 28, 2012, 08:47:38 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 28, 2012, 12:01:52 PM

Today's my birthday.

by the time you've reached your age, surely that's a BAD thing that happened today? :P

hope you had a good one btw

:laugh:

I did have a decent one. I worked all day at the cinema but some friends visited with stuff to eat. And I got pressies.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 04, 2012, 08:56:06 PM

Got a lot done out in the yard including making a new fire barrel and having a roaring fire in it
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/parts67/069.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 09, 2012, 06:43:12 PM

Went to the doctor and amazed her.  I am a bit overweight something they never let me forget yet my Blood pressure was just 128/62 and pulse was 68  I also have low cholesterol :laugh: 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 09, 2012, 06:58:11 PM

Quote from: parts on February 09, 2012, 06:43:12 PM

Went to the doctor and amazed her.  I am a bit overweight something they never let me forget yet my Blood pressure was just 128/62 and pulse was 68  I also have low cholesterol :laugh:

 Don't you just love it?  My blood pressure is always nice and low too!   :hyke: 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 09, 2012, 07:04:31 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 09, 2012, 06:58:11 PM

Quote from: parts on February 09, 2012, 06:43:12 PM

Went to the doctor and amazed her.  I am a bit overweight something they never let me forget yet my Blood pressure was just 128/62 and pulse was 68  I also have low cholesterol :laugh:

 Don't you just love it?  My blood pressure is always nice and low too!   :hyke:

I think a lot of it is genetic so thank god for good genes :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 09, 2012, 07:06:47 PM

Quote from: parts on February 09, 2012, 07:04:31 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 09, 2012, 06:58:11 PM

Quote from: parts on February 09, 2012, 06:43:12 PM

Went to the doctor and amazed her.  I am a bit overweight something they never let me forget yet my Blood pressure was just 128/62 and pulse was 68  I also have low cholesterol :laugh:

 Don't you just love it?  My blood pressure is always nice and low too!   :hyke:

I think a lot of it is genetic so thank god for good genes :2thumbsup:

 Maybe you'll still be burning shit in barrels when you're 90!   :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on February 10, 2012, 01:08:46 AM

I threw away a pen today. This is huge for me since I usually keep them around for years before I decide I cannot fix them. This one was a Faber Castell felt tip pen with a medium nib. I have better pens with specific nib sizes so when this one stopped writing I decided I could let it go. Another step toward being able to walk around in my room.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: ShyOne on February 10, 2012, 03:19:40 AM

I was feeling bored so I thought I'd do something different:
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/p480x480/402600_10150652098737938_710062937_11090473_1368731877_n.jpg)
Turned it into a great day, had loads of fun and it cheered my sisters up too :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on February 10, 2012, 04:44:49 AM

 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Peter on February 10, 2012, 07:13:13 AM

My abdominal, flank and lower back muscles were sore, which means that the electric muscle stimulator belt is giving me a great workout in those areas.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on February 10, 2012, 08:12:04 AM

I do not handle or adapt to change well. I came back after a 2 week holiday a couple of weeks ago and all my sales went down the tube and motivation bottomed out.
Now i am back on track and catching up to the others in my team in sales. Sucks arse because we are all the specialists there and roughly equivakent. I have made a rod for my back and have to do much better than normal top catch ground. Still have two weeks though and may well catch them yet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 10, 2012, 11:42:07 AM

Found some good stuff today will post photos later

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 10, 2012, 03:42:34 PM

Bought 3 winter/Christmas Tshirts for $1 each, a fleece pullover and a pair of flannel lounging pants for $3 each.  Downside was that I did't really need these things.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on February 10, 2012, 05:54:59 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 10, 2012, 03:42:34 PM

Bought 3 winter/Christmas Tshirts for $1 each, a fleece pullover and a pair of flannel lounging pants for $3 each.  Downside was that I did't really need these things.

But you spent less than $10 for all of them.  Do you mean that you won't wear them?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 10, 2012, 06:41:34 PM

Quote from: Callaway on February 10, 2012, 05:54:59 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 10, 2012, 03:42:34 PM

Bought 3 winter/Christmas Tshirts for $1 each, a fleece pullover and a pair of flannel lounging pants for $3 each.  Downside was that I did't really need these things.

But you spent less than $10 for all of them.  Do you mean that you won't wear them?

Yes, I'll wear them.  Only 2 tops were for me.  The other top, fleece pullover as well as some underwear and a pair of exercise pants were for the PR.  The lounging pants were for PA.  It's just that I have about 25 or more Tshirts and I really don't need any more.  But, I'm a sucker for a bargain.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 11, 2012, 10:42:49 PM

After looking for about 10 years I finally found a sewing machine table.  I had thrown my old one out because it was so rickety and always meant to replace it.  Well the ones sold today are mostly super duper ones for sergers, take up half a wall or cost over $150 if you can find an old-fashioned one that folds up to make a small table that stores the machine.  Anyway there was one for sale 1/2 price at the thrift store.  It was $15 for both the table and the Singer sewing machine in it, which I will most likely dispose of, or give to the PR for practicing on.

Now, to find a place for it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on February 12, 2012, 04:29:49 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 11, 2012, 10:42:49 PM

After looking for about 10 years I finally found a sewing machine table.  I had thrown my old one out because it was so rickety and always meant to replace it.  Well the ones sold today are mostly super duper ones for sergers, take up half a wall or cost over $150 if you can find an old-fashioned one that folds up to make a small table that stores the machine.  Anyway there was one for sale 1/2 price at the thrift store.  It was $15 for both the table and the Singer sewing machine in it, which I will most likely dispose of, or give to the PR for practicing on.

Now, to find a place for it.

That's very cool.  I have my grandmother's small folding sewing machine table with her sewing machine.  It comes with a chair with storage in the seat.

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Post by: Al Swearegen on February 12, 2012, 04:40:35 AM

Looks like i have a replacement babysitter. Did the vaccuming and the swept up the front and feel better about this

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Post by: Peter on February 12, 2012, 05:25:42 AM

Quote from: Callaway on February 12, 2012, 04:29:49 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 11, 2012, 10:42:49 PM

After looking for about 10 years I finally found a sewing machine table.  I had thrown my old one out because it was so rickety and always meant to replace it.  Well the ones sold today are mostly super duper ones for sergers, take up half a wall or cost over $150 if you can find an old-fashioned one that folds up to make a small table that stores the machine.  Anyway there was one for sale 1/2 price at the thrift store.  It was $15 for both the table and the Singer sewing machine in it, which I will most likely dispose of, or give to the PR for practicing on.

Now, to find a place for it.

That's very cool.  I have my grandmother's small folding sewing machine table with her sewing machine.  It comes with a chair with storage in the seat.

My mum has an old cast-iron one with a wheel that you have to manually turn to power it.  We both just sew things by hand whenever we need to.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on February 12, 2012, 05:56:04 AM

Quote from: Peter on February 12, 2012, 05:25:42 AM

Quote from: Callaway on February 12, 2012, 04:29:49 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 11, 2012, 10:42:49 PM

After looking for about 10 years I finally found a sewing machine table.  I had thrown my old one out because it was so rickety and always meant to replace it.  Well the ones sold today are mostly super duper ones for sergers, take up half a wall or cost over $150 if you can find an old-fashioned one that folds up to make a small table that stores the machine.  Anyway there was one for sale 1/2 price at the thrift store.  It was $15 for both the table and the Singer sewing machine in it, which I will most likely dispose of, or give to the PR for practicing on.

Now, to find a place for it.

That's very cool.  I have my grandmother's small folding sewing machine table with her sewing machine.  It comes with a chair with storage in the seat.

My mum has an old cast-iron one with a wheel that you have to manually turn to power it.  We both just sew things by hand whenever we need to.

That's very cool.  My other grandmother had one sort of like that, except that you pumped an iron pedal up and down with your foot.

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Post by: lutra on February 12, 2012, 11:16:36 AM

^ Remember my grand parents had one of those. No idea where it disappeared to though.

~

Good thing today: I'm on the second place of today's list of scores.. of some tetris like game I play sometimes. Yay.  :nerdy:

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Post by: Parts on February 12, 2012, 12:07:34 PM

Got out of having to go to my fathers :hyke:

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Post by: 'andersom' on February 12, 2012, 06:06:49 PM

I did go to my parents, and saw all bothers, SILs and nieces and nephews.

Was hectic, but, really nice.

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Post by: eris on February 12, 2012, 06:35:25 PM

today was a friend of mine birthday, so i sat over there most of the day smoking pot watching boys play video games. he turned 37. didn't know the motherfucker was that old. now i feel old. i should go conquer another 20 year old, ill feel better.

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Post by: Parts on February 15, 2012, 06:19:16 PM

Finished up putting up the new fence along the back of my yard

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Post by: odeon on February 16, 2012, 02:31:31 AM

Had coffee.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on February 16, 2012, 02:59:38 PM

The New Orleans Police Department Mounted Patrol Unit has it's first Clydesdale, named Bud, donated by Budweiser.  He'll be two years old in April and after being trained will be quite the horse patrolling the parades and French Quarter.

(http://media.nola.com/crime_impact/photo/10567635-large.jpg)

P. S. I love, love, love Clydesdales.

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Post by: Callaway on February 16, 2012, 03:35:14 PM

Bud is gorgeous.

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Post by: renaeden on February 17, 2012, 04:39:59 AM

That is one big horse.

I finally got my Irlen lenses in the mail today. They are lighter and more blue in colour than my old ones.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 17, 2012, 02:04:58 PM

Quote from: renaeden on February 17, 2012, 04:39:59 AM

That is one big horse.

I finally got my Irlen lenses in the mail today. They are lighter and more blue in colour than my old ones.

Yep, horses and dogs are the two best tools the police have to control crowds without getting too aggressive.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 17, 2012, 02:07:44 PM

My dentist came into the diner when I was having b'fast.  I said I'd see him Monday, he said they were closed.  I said I had an appt.  After some confusion it turns out yes, I had an appt on Monday, but they will be closed for Mardi Gras.  They sent my postcard with the new date written over the old one, but didn't say it was a new one.  Anyway, all's copacetic and I did get an extra time that new day for him to fix a tooth I chipped last week. 

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 17, 2012, 02:12:06 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 16, 2012, 02:59:38 PM

The New Orleans Police Department Mounted Patrol Unit has it's first Clydesdale, named Bud, donated by Budweiser.  He'll be two years old in April and after being trained will be quite the horse patrolling the parades and French Quarter.

(http://media.nola.com/crime_impact/photo/10567635-large.jpg)

P. S. I love, love, love Clydesdales.

 I love them too.  They're like the St. Bernards of the horse world!  :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 17, 2012, 02:15:00 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 17, 2012, 02:07:44 PM

My dentist came into the diner when I was having b'fast.  I said I'd see him Monday, he said they were closed.  I said I had an appt.  After some confusion it turns out yes, I had an appt on Monday, but they will be closed for Mardi Gras.  They sent my postcard with the new date written over the old one, but didn't say it was a new one.  Anyway, all's copacetic and I did get an extra time that new day for him to fix a tooth I chipped last week.

 Speaking of dental work, my two new crowns (on molars, one of which had been broken
 for months) look nice and natural.  I like having a full row of teeth again.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on February 20, 2012, 10:43:05 AM

I got money in my bank account.  :hyke:

Due to the changes in my income, not everything is going smooth yet, income wise. I had to send in all payslips from December on in again, before they are going to pay up to a minimum income. Apparently those pieces of paper got lost, where as the forms I sent with them are not lost. Oh well. Not too big a deal. I am kind of thrifty. But, it was getting to the edge of what I can bear. And now, there is some early tax return money.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Adam on February 20, 2012, 12:20:52 PM

My brothers went back to school after half term :M

don't get me wrong, I love my brothers, but kids are fucking NOISY

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 20, 2012, 03:24:41 PM

I gave blood today.  Covered myself, got a tshirt, a cover to keep bottles cool and a $10 give certificate.  Pretty good for doing a nice deed.

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Post by: Charlotte Quin on March 01, 2012, 06:32:42 PM

Kitty katz came home from summer camp :cheer:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 01, 2012, 06:57:33 PM

Bid on and got a small renovation to work on for Monday

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Post by: odeon on March 02, 2012, 12:47:29 PM

I'd hire you if you lived here.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 02, 2012, 05:11:20 PM

Not a damn good thing happened today.  Need to get some sweet medicine.  Pecan pie or cheesecake?

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Post by: bodie on March 02, 2012, 06:46:47 PM

Last couple of days we have had nice weather.  Let the boy sit in the front of Mercs on his booster seat.

He loves banging out the tunes,  his favourite at the moment is  'Eton Rifles' - the old Jam song.  He likes to change the words to  'Eating Trifles' :hahaha:

So, have been driving around the streets of Birmingham with windows down,  shades on,  and the urchin singing  'Eating Trifles' at unsuspecting passers by.   :green:

It was fun :laugh:

*just waiting for an adult to come and put us to bed

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 07, 2012, 10:25:41 AM

I loved my first morning at the thrift-shop.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 12, 2012, 05:08:11 PM

A friend went to the Irish St. Patricks Day Parade (not to be confused with the Irish-Italian St. Patrick's and St. Joseph's Day parade next Sunday) and offered me 3 cabbages, 6 potatoes, a very large carrot, a very large onion and 4 stuffed animals for the PR.

FYI - The SPSJ parade throws cabbage, potatoes, onions, carrots, bananas, hand pies, small cans of tomato sauce, small packets of spaghetti and bananas.   Only in New Orleans. 

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Post by: Meadow on March 12, 2012, 05:14:49 PM

Bought some artist materials and supplies and dvd's from amazon.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on March 12, 2012, 05:25:40 PM

Quote from: Meadow on March 12, 2012, 05:14:49 PM

Bought some artist materials and supplies and dvd's from amazon.

Which DVDs?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Meadow on March 12, 2012, 05:32:32 PM

Quote from: Callaway on March 12, 2012, 05:25:40 PM

Quote from: Meadow on March 12, 2012, 05:14:49 PM

Bought some artist materials and supplies and dvd's from amazon.

Which DVDs?

Flintstone's seasons four and five. :)

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Post by: Parts on March 12, 2012, 06:00:58 PM

Got calls on more work coming in

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Post by: odeon on March 13, 2012, 01:33:58 AM

Contract coming in for me too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 13, 2012, 06:21:00 AM

Despite being as slow as a slug on sleepingpills, positive things are happening.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 13, 2012, 06:28:52 AM

 I got rid of three more bags of trash, two bags of paper and cardboard, and my bin
 full of plastic recyclable stuff.  Little by little the hoard yields to my efforts!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 13, 2012, 06:41:30 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 13, 2012, 06:28:52 AM

I got rid of three more bags of trash, two bags of paper and cardboard, and my bin
 full of plastic recyclable stuff.  Little by little the hoard yields to my efforts!  :thumbup:

Is there already light to be seen, where the horizon is supposed to be?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 13, 2012, 06:51:47 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 13, 2012, 06:41:30 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 13, 2012, 06:28:52 AM

I got rid of three more bags of trash, two bags of paper and cardboard, and my bin
 full of plastic recyclable stuff.  Little by little the hoard yields to my efforts!  :thumbup:

Is there already light to be seen, where the horizon is supposed to be?

 Actually it looks a little more cluttered at the moment, because instead of stuffing
 things I don't want into the closets, I'm leaving them out so they can be hauled away!
 It's going to look worse before it looks better!  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 13, 2012, 07:09:54 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 13, 2012, 06:51:47 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 13, 2012, 06:41:30 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 13, 2012, 06:28:52 AM

I got rid of three more bags of trash, two bags of paper and cardboard, and my bin
 full of plastic recyclable stuff.  Little by little the hoard yields to my efforts!  :thumbup:

Is there already light to be seen, where the horizon is supposed to be?

 Actually it looks a little more cluttered at the moment, because instead of stuffing
 things I don't want into the closets, I'm leaving them out so they can be hauled away!
 It's going to look worse before it looks better!  :autism:

I've now made my bedroom the place where everything goes that I don't want to stuff back in closets. The rest of the house is looking better and better, but my bedroom.......

Thank goodness for curtains that block the light, or I would get frightened at night.

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Post by: Bastet on March 14, 2012, 06:30:17 PM

My friend hugged me and another friend rubbed my back. I was also able to post pics of my cat on here.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 15, 2012, 09:01:50 PM

 I had a long talk with a good friend who wants the best for me.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 15, 2012, 09:56:15 PM

I had a Shrink appointment today....

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 15, 2012, 10:06:11 PM

Quote from: Genesis on March 15, 2012, 09:56:15 PM

I had a Shrink appointment today....

 How did it go?  I used to like those appointments.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Meadow on March 15, 2012, 10:41:17 PM

Doing my creative work again after a two week break. I'm much happier alone with my work.

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Post by: BruceCM on March 16, 2012, 09:53:36 AM

I returned here!  :lol:

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Post by: odeon on March 16, 2012, 02:50:35 PM

The question is why.

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Post by: Parts on March 16, 2012, 03:21:18 PM

My brother gave me a check for the $1500 he has owed me since June :hyke:  Now when it clears we will be all settled up

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Post by: odeon on March 16, 2012, 03:25:04 PM

^The subject for tomorrow's quick bitch? :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: BruceCM on March 16, 2012, 04:09:07 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 16, 2012, 02:50:35 PM

The question is why.

No, the question is, why did I leave?  :lol: :mischief:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 16, 2012, 04:10:29 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 16, 2012, 03:25:04 PM

^The subject for tomorrow's quick bitch? :zoinks:

That is a distinct possibility

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 16, 2012, 04:32:50 PM

Quote from: BruceCM on March 16, 2012, 04:09:07 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 16, 2012, 02:50:35 PM

The question is why.

No, the question is, why did I leave?  :lol: :mischief:

Why did you?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on March 16, 2012, 04:36:10 PM

I2 became inundated with whiny, feckless, WP virgins.

Oh wait, a good thing that happened.  Hmm ........  :apondering:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on March 16, 2012, 04:47:51 PM

I ate a donut. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: BruceCM on March 17, 2012, 02:33:13 AM

Had a phone call!  :yarly: :lol:

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Post by: Parts on March 19, 2012, 01:38:18 PM

Quote from: BruceCM on March 17, 2012, 02:33:13 AM

Had a phone call!  :yarly: :lol:

That is not something I would call good I hate phones :zombiefuck:

I passed all the inspections on the building I was working on and was told good job by the building inspector

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: BruceCM on March 19, 2012, 02:39:28 PM

I've worked in call-centres, so I don't hate phones, personally. Glad you passed the tests!

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Post by: Bastet on March 23, 2012, 08:57:21 PM

Made a new friend today.

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Post by: Tequila on March 23, 2012, 09:15:00 PM

Had stew.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 24, 2012, 01:56:18 PM

Quote from: TheRealDuckFetishGirl on March 16, 2012, 04:47:51 PM

I ate a donut.

 Donuts are good.  What flavor was it?  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 24, 2012, 01:57:33 PM

 :minusevil:

Quote from: Tequila on March 23, 2012, 09:15:00 PM

Had stew.

 What was in the stew?  (I often ask people for details about their food.  :tard: )

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Post by: Tequila on March 24, 2012, 02:04:26 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2012, 01:57:33 PM

What was in the stew?  (I often ask people for details about their food.  :tard: )

Carrots.  Potatoes.  Meat.  Some other things I can't remember.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 24, 2012, 02:06:21 PM

Quote from: Tequila on March 24, 2012, 02:04:26 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2012, 01:57:33 PM

What was in the stew?  (I often ask people for details about their food.  :tard: )

Carrots.  Potatoes.  Meat.  Some other things I can't remember.

 I love a good hearty stew, with some nice bread and butter!  :2thumbsup:

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Post by: Bastet on March 24, 2012, 02:06:55 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2012, 01:56:18 PM

Quote from: TheRealDuckFetishGirl on March 16, 2012, 04:47:51 PM

I ate a donut.

 Donuts are good.  What flavor was it?  :thumbup:

It was glazed with green glaze for St. Patrick's Day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 24, 2012, 02:09:31 PM

Quote from: TheRealDuckFetishGirl on March 24, 2012, 02:06:55 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2012, 01:56:18 PM

Quote from: TheRealDuckFetishGirl on March 16, 2012, 04:47:51 PM

I ate a donut.

 Donuts are good.  What flavor was it?  :thumbup:

It was glazed with green glaze for St. Patrick's Day.

 A nice glazed donut sometimes is just the right snack!  :thumbup:

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 24, 2012, 02:10:55 PM

 And speaking of food, I just found a microwaveable croissant sandwich in my freezer!
 I thought I'd eaten them all, so this is truly a nice surprise, it's cooking now!  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on March 24, 2012, 02:11:35 PM

My cat touched me with his paw. :heart: :pinkbeat:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 24, 2012, 02:13:49 PM

Quote from: TheRealDuckFetishGirl on March 24, 2012, 02:11:35 PM

My cat touched me with his paw. :heart: :pinkbeat:

 Feline affection is so heartwarming!  :kitten: :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on March 24, 2012, 02:26:18 PM

My husband is flying home this evening.

 :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 24, 2012, 02:27:09 PM

Quote from: Callaway on March 24, 2012, 02:26:18 PM

My husband is flying home this evening.

 :)

 Awww, where was he and how long has he been gone?  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on March 24, 2012, 02:28:55 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2012, 02:27:09 PM

Quote from: Callaway on March 24, 2012, 02:26:18 PM

My husband is flying home this evening.

 :)

 Awww, where was he and how long has he been gone?  :)

He has been near you for the past two or three days or so. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 24, 2012, 02:32:41 PM

Quote from: Callaway on March 24, 2012, 02:28:55 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2012, 02:27:09 PM

Quote from: Callaway on March 24, 2012, 02:26:18 PM

My husband is flying home this evening.

 :)

 Awww, where was he and how long has he been gone?  :)

He has been near you for the past two or three days or so.

 Cool!  It has been unseasonably warm here lately, fortunately cooler today.  8)

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Post by: Parts on March 24, 2012, 06:36:40 PM

Got lots of copper an aluminum today to scrap

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 24, 2012, 06:42:13 PM

My daughter is wiser than I am.

(oops, is that a good thing  :hahaha: )

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Post by: P7PSP on March 24, 2012, 07:00:44 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2012, 02:32:41 PM

Quote from: Callaway on March 24, 2012, 02:28:55 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2012, 02:27:09 PM

Quote from: Callaway on March 24, 2012, 02:26:18 PM

My husband is flying home this evening.

 :)

 Awww, where was he and how long has he been gone?  :)

He has been near you for the past two or three days or so.

 Cool!  It has been unseasonably warm here lately, fortunately cooler today.  8)

I am sure it is coincidence. Mr Callaway does not actually control the weather.  :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 24, 2012, 08:29:18 PM

Election (Presidential Primary) = $200

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 25, 2012, 08:13:57 AM

Quote from: PPK on March 24, 2012, 07:00:44 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2012, 02:32:41 PM

Quote from: Callaway on March 24, 2012, 02:28:55 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2012, 02:27:09 PM

Quote from: Callaway on March 24, 2012, 02:26:18 PM

My husband is flying home this evening.

 :)

 Awww, where was he and how long has he been gone?  :)

He has been near you for the past two or three days or so.

 Cool!  It has been unseasonably warm here lately, fortunately cooler today.  8)

I am sure it is coincidence. Mr Callaway does not actually control the weather.  :hahaha:

 You are not a meteorologist, your opinion is worthless.  :M :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on March 25, 2012, 08:37:14 AM

Quote from: PPK on March 24, 2012, 07:00:44 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2012, 02:32:41 PM

Quote from: Callaway on March 24, 2012, 02:28:55 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2012, 02:27:09 PM

Quote from: Callaway on March 24, 2012, 02:26:18 PM

My husband is flying home this evening.

 :)

 Awww, where was he and how long has he been gone?  :)

He has been near you for the past two or three days or so.

 Cool!  It has been unseasonably warm here lately, fortunately cooler today.  8)

I am sure it is coincidence. Mr Callaway does not actually control the weather.  :hahaha:

That's quite some coincidence, IMO.  He leaves and the weather instantly cools off.

:flame:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 25, 2012, 08:38:34 AM

Quote from: Callaway on March 25, 2012, 08:37:14 AM

Quote from: PPK on March 24, 2012, 07:00:44 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2012, 02:32:41 PM

Quote from: Callaway on March 24, 2012, 02:28:55 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2012, 02:27:09 PM

Quote from: Callaway on March 24, 2012, 02:26:18 PM

My husband is flying home this evening.

 :)

 Awww, where was he and how long has he been gone?  :)

He has been near you for the past two or three days or so.

 Cool!  It has been unseasonably warm here lately, fortunately cooler today.  8)

I am sure it is coincidence. Mr Callaway does not actually control the weather.  :hahaha:

That's quite some coincidence, IMO.  He leaves and the weather instantly cools off.

:flame:

 When he returns, does he melt the snow off the Rockies?  :flame:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on March 25, 2012, 08:45:32 AM

Quote from: Callaway on March 25, 2012, 08:37:14 AM

Quote from: PPK on March 24, 2012, 07:00:44 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2012, 02:32:41 PM

Quote from: Callaway on March 24, 2012, 02:28:55 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2012, 02:27:09 PM

Quote from: Callaway on March 24, 2012, 02:26:18 PM

My husband is flying home this evening.

 :)

 Awww, where was he and how long has he been gone?  :)

He has been near you for the past two or three days or so.

 Cool!  It has been unseasonably warm here lately, fortunately cooler today.  8)

I am sure it is coincidence. Mr Callaway does not actually control the weather.  :hahaha:

That's quite some coincidence, IMO.  He leaves and the weather instantly cools off.

:flame:

Did you give him the cold shoulder?  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on March 25, 2012, 08:46:38 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 25, 2012, 08:38:34 AM

Quote from: Callaway on March 25, 2012, 08:37:14 AM

Quote from: PPK on March 24, 2012, 07:00:44 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2012, 02:32:41 PM

Quote from: Callaway on March 24, 2012, 02:28:55 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2012, 02:27:09 PM

Quote from: Callaway on March 24, 2012, 02:26:18 PM

My husband is flying home this evening.

 :)

 Awww, where was he and how long has he been gone?  :)

He has been near you for the past two or three days or so.

 Cool!  It has been unseasonably warm here lately, fortunately cooler today.  8)

I am sure it is coincidence. Mr Callaway does not actually control the weather.  :hahaha:

That's quite some coincidence, IMO.  He leaves and the weather instantly cools off.

:flame:

 When he returns, does he melt the snow off the Rockies?  :flame:

 :laugh:

Yes, he does.  All the snow has disappeared from our yard.

:flame:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 25, 2012, 08:46:58 AM

Quote from: PPK on March 25, 2012, 08:45:32 AM

Quote from: Callaway on March 25, 2012, 08:37:14 AM

Quote from: PPK on March 24, 2012, 07:00:44 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2012, 02:32:41 PM

Quote from: Callaway on March 24, 2012, 02:28:55 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2012, 02:27:09 PM

Quote from: Callaway on March 24, 2012, 02:26:18 PM

My husband is flying home this evening.

 :)

 Awww, where was he and how long has he been gone?  :)

He has been near you for the past two or three days or so.

 Cool!  It has been unseasonably warm here lately, fortunately cooler today.  8)

I am sure it is coincidence. Mr Callaway does not actually control the weather.  :hahaha:

That's quite some coincidence, IMO.  He leaves and the weather instantly cools off.

:flame:

Did you give him the cold shoulder?  :zoinks:

 I didn't even know he was here!  I am very friendly IRL as you know.  :angel:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 25, 2012, 09:09:42 AM

I think you're holding the real truth from us.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 25, 2012, 09:14:10 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 25, 2012, 09:09:42 AM

I think you're holding the real truth from us.

 That sounds a little  :tinfoil:


 The truth is that I was innocently postwhoring here yesterday!  :angel:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 25, 2012, 12:10:38 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 25, 2012, 09:14:10 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 25, 2012, 09:09:42 AM

I think you're holding the real truth from us.

 That sounds a little  :tinfoil:


 The truth is that I was innocently postwhoring here yesterday!  :angel:

Can you get independent confirmation on your actions?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 25, 2012, 12:17:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 25, 2012, 12:10:38 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 25, 2012, 09:14:10 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 25, 2012, 09:09:42 AM

I think you're holding the real truth from us.

 That sounds a little  :tinfoil:


 The truth is that I was innocently postwhoring here yesterday!  :angel:

Can you get independent confirmation on your actions?

 Check out my posts from yesterday!  Timestamps don't lie!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 25, 2012, 12:26:45 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 25, 2012, 12:17:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 25, 2012, 12:10:38 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 25, 2012, 09:14:10 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 25, 2012, 09:09:42 AM

I think you're holding the real truth from us.

 That sounds a little  :tinfoil:


 The truth is that I was innocently postwhoring here yesterday!  :angel:

Can you get independent confirmation on your actions?

 Check out my posts from yesterday!  Timestamps don't lie!  :thumbup:

You could have let an accomplice use your account while engaging in suspicious activities. :police:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 25, 2012, 12:28:22 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 25, 2012, 12:26:45 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 25, 2012, 12:17:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 25, 2012, 12:10:38 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 25, 2012, 09:14:10 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 25, 2012, 09:09:42 AM

I think you're holding the real truth from us.

 That sounds a little  :tinfoil:


 The truth is that I was innocently postwhoring here yesterday!  :angel:

Can you get independent confirmation on your actions?

 Check out my posts from yesterday!  Timestamps don't lie!  :thumbup:

You could have let an accomplice use your account while engaging in suspicious activities. :police:

 You would surely have noticed a decline in the quality of the posts, had I done so.  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 25, 2012, 12:38:10 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 25, 2012, 12:28:22 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 25, 2012, 12:26:45 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 25, 2012, 12:17:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 25, 2012, 12:10:38 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 25, 2012, 09:14:10 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 25, 2012, 09:09:42 AM

I think you're holding the real truth from us.

 That sounds a little  :tinfoil:


 The truth is that I was innocently postwhoring here yesterday!  :angel:

Can you get independent confirmation on your actions?

 Check out my posts from yesterday!  Timestamps don't lie!  :thumbup:

You could have let an accomplice use your account while engaging in suspicious activities. :police:

 You would surely have noticed a decline in the quality of the posts, had I done so.  :M

Now that you mention it... :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 25, 2012, 12:41:40 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 25, 2012, 12:38:10 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 25, 2012, 12:28:22 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 25, 2012, 12:26:45 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 25, 2012, 12:17:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 25, 2012, 12:10:38 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 25, 2012, 09:14:10 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 25, 2012, 09:09:42 AM

I think you're holding the real truth from us.

 That sounds a little  :tinfoil:


 The truth is that I was innocently postwhoring here yesterday!  :angel:

Can you get independent confirmation on your actions?

 Check out my posts from yesterday!  Timestamps don't lie!  :thumbup:

You could have let an accomplice use your account while engaging in suspicious activities. :police:

 You would surely have noticed a decline in the quality of the posts, had I done so.  :M

Now that you mention it... :zoinks:

 Don't even TRY to hate on my posts.  They are brilliant as always.  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 25, 2012, 01:18:47 PM

But of course they are. YOUR posts are.  :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 25, 2012, 01:27:02 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 25, 2012, 01:18:47 PM

But of course they are. YOUR posts are.  :hahaha:

 I see what you tried to do there!  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 25, 2012, 03:54:11 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 25, 2012, 01:27:02 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 25, 2012, 01:18:47 PM

But of course they are. YOUR posts are.  :hahaha:

 I see what you tried to do there!  :orly:

I am merely being my usual helpful self.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on March 25, 2012, 07:08:45 PM

I finally finished and turned in my homework.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Meadow on March 25, 2012, 07:20:52 PM

I made a salad for dinner.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 26, 2012, 07:01:12 PM

I got $582 at the scrap yard today :hyke:  Copper is up to$3.25 a pound

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 27, 2012, 02:40:31 AM

Quote from: TheRealDuckFetishGirl on March 25, 2012, 07:08:45 PM

I finally finished and turned in my homework.

What are you studying? I handed in an assignment yesterday and finished another.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 27, 2012, 06:21:32 AM

 The recycling truck was early today, I can bring my bin back inside!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: BruceCM on March 27, 2012, 06:29:59 AM

Recovered from eating tonnes of cake yet, cbc?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 27, 2012, 06:33:28 AM

Quote from: BruceCM on March 27, 2012, 06:29:59 AM

Recovered from eating tonnes of cake yet, cbc?

 Of course!  Weebles have outstanding resilience! :cbc:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: BruceCM on March 27, 2012, 06:42:11 AM

Good w/e off? But back to work now?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 27, 2012, 06:56:24 AM

Quote from: BruceCM on March 27, 2012, 06:42:11 AM

Good w/e off? But back to work now?

 Great weekend, actually went back to work yesterday!   :hamsterwheel:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: BruceCM on March 27, 2012, 07:35:34 AM

It's glorious, almost summery, sunshine here, btw!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on March 28, 2012, 02:54:07 AM

Quote from: BruceCM on March 27, 2012, 07:35:34 AM

It's glorious, almost summery, sunshine here, btw!

It's almost summery here too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: BruceCM on March 28, 2012, 03:32:54 AM

It's still lovely sunshine, though cooler, here. lol

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 28, 2012, 06:36:17 AM

Clear blue sky, 15.5ºC, very sunny. Little bit of wind.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 28, 2012, 06:39:28 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 28, 2012, 06:36:17 AM

Clear blue sky, 15.5ºC, very sunny. Little bit of wind.

Ooops, clear case of thread confusion.   :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 29, 2012, 06:12:20 PM

At work after drilling a hole into a wall and finding some debris I needed to remove to do what I was doing I found what I thought was a piece of copper flashing and just put it in my jacket.  Later while taking a break I went to toss it in with some other scrap and found it was a tin type photograph all bent up. 
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/parts67/043-2.jpg)
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/parts67/050.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Meadow on March 29, 2012, 06:19:29 PM

^Wow...how very cool! She's beautiful.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 29, 2012, 06:31:12 PM

I wonder what she did to deserve being bent up and shoved in a wall.  Photography was not cheep when these were made.  It is the same house that the patent medicine bottle of Psychine was found in I wonder if it was hers :apondering:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 29, 2012, 06:35:18 PM

Quote from: parts on March 29, 2012, 06:31:12 PM

I wonder what she did to deserve being bent up and shoved in a wall.  Photography was not cheep when these were made.  It is the same house that the patent medicine bottle of Psychine was found in I wonder if it was hers :apondering:

 You may have unearthed an old mystery!  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 29, 2012, 06:43:07 PM

It is a mystery indeed.  I would have tried to dig more stuff out of the hole if I had noticed what it was when I first found it.   The hole was only 2.5 inches round though and it wasn't easy to get that out   but I could have looked with my camera

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Meadow on March 29, 2012, 07:18:19 PM

Will you be able to go back and check tomorrow? Never know what you might find behind that wall.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on March 29, 2012, 07:31:24 PM

Quote from: parts on March 29, 2012, 06:31:12 PM

I wonder what she did to deserve being bent up and shoved in a wall.  Photography was not cheep when these were made.  It is the same house that the patent medicine bottle of Psychine was found in I wonder if it was hers :apondering:

Too bad Robert Stack is no longer around to look into it.  :police:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 30, 2012, 05:04:55 AM

Quote from: Meadow on March 29, 2012, 07:18:19 PM

Will you be able to go back and check tomorrow? Never know what you might find behind that wall.

Not really it's all full now and covered up, if it would not cause problems I would open up some more of that area but that is not the case :-[

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 30, 2012, 10:03:03 AM

They put on a new floor in our living room today. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 30, 2012, 12:50:00 PM

My daughter took a figure skating test for the next skill division and made it with top marks. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 30, 2012, 01:22:13 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 30, 2012, 10:03:03 AM

They put on a new floor in our living room today. :woohoo:

I am putting a new floor in my kitchen over the week end well repairing it at least the tiles just came in

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 30, 2012, 01:29:35 PM

Malted waffle and syrup.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 30, 2012, 01:45:57 PM

Quote from: parts on March 30, 2012, 01:22:13 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 30, 2012, 10:03:03 AM

They put on a new floor in our living room today. :woohoo:

I am putting a new floor in my kitchen over the week end well repairing it at least the tiles just came in

We'll have new floors everywhere in the house. The old ones were 37 years old.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 30, 2012, 02:34:18 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 30, 2012, 01:45:57 PM

Quote from: parts on March 30, 2012, 01:22:13 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 30, 2012, 10:03:03 AM

They put on a new floor in our living room today. :woohoo:

I am putting a new floor in my kitchen over the week end well repairing it at least the tiles just came in

We'll have new floors everywhere in the house. The old ones were 37 years old.

Our asbestos tiles date from the early 1960's and should be replaced.  However, PA and I rarely agree on decorating, so it will be a while before we replace them.  (It only took us 4 years to buy a house and only because I gave in and agreed to what he wanted.)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 05, 2012, 12:46:26 PM

Bank goes to court to save cat from being euthanized


​For months, Boots, an 11-year-old cat from a suburb of Chicago, had been on "kitty death row." Her owner died last December, and a 20-year-old will stipulated any cats the woman owned at the time of her death be euthanized. But trust officers at Fifth Third Bank in charge of, um, executing the will, couldn't bring themselves to carry out the request. So they went to court. The bank asked a judge to set aside the provision, arguing that killing Boots "would violate public policy to euthanize a healthy housecat where an appropriate shelter has been identified." The judge agreed, and the bank was able to place her at a no-kill shelter.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on April 05, 2012, 01:33:39 PM

I had grilled cheese for lunch.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on April 05, 2012, 02:51:31 PM

I got two of the three rookies. still waiting on ichiro, i hope it comes tomorrow!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 07, 2012, 02:29:48 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 30, 2012, 12:50:00 PM

My daughter took a figure skating test for the next skill division and made it with top marks. :)

 Excellent!  Is she hoping to make it to the Olympics?  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 07, 2012, 02:32:32 AM

 I botched a cake I made at work, but was able to cover the mess with
 whipped cream!  Nobody will ever know!   :fuckyeahdance:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on April 07, 2012, 02:35:35 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 07, 2012, 02:32:32 AM

I botched a cake I made at work, but was able to cover the mess with
 whipped cream!  Nobody will ever know!   :fuckyeahdance:

It's not a fuck up if you can fix it.  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 07, 2012, 02:46:39 AM

Quote from: PPK on April 07, 2012, 02:35:35 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 07, 2012, 02:32:32 AM

I botched a cake I made at work, but was able to cover the mess with
 whipped cream!  Nobody will ever know!   :fuckyeahdance:

It's not a fuck up if you can fix it.  :viking:

 I was thinking of that exact point while spackling over the messy top layer!  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on April 07, 2012, 03:09:16 PM

My ichiro rookie finally came, thank god. now I only have one card outstanding that I'll be waiting for

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 08, 2012, 06:56:50 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 07, 2012, 02:29:48 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 30, 2012, 12:50:00 PM

My daughter took a figure skating test for the next skill division and made it with top marks. :)

 Excellent!  Is she hoping to make it to the Olympics?  :)

She's not going to be that good, I think, but she loves skating. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 08, 2012, 07:27:55 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 08, 2012, 06:56:50 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 07, 2012, 02:29:48 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 30, 2012, 12:50:00 PM

My daughter took a figure skating test for the next skill division and made it with top marks. :)

 Excellent!  Is she hoping to make it to the Olympics?  :)

She's not going to be that good, I think, but she loves skating. :)

    :plus:  for supporting her in her love of her sport.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 08, 2012, 07:44:32 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 08, 2012, 07:27:55 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 08, 2012, 06:56:50 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 07, 2012, 02:29:48 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 30, 2012, 12:50:00 PM

My daughter took a figure skating test for the next skill division and made it with top marks. :)

 Excellent!  Is she hoping to make it to the Olympics?  :)

She's not going to be that good, I think, but she loves skating. :)

    :plus:  for supporting her in her love of her sport.

:) Thanks.

What's important is that she has fun doing it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on April 08, 2012, 01:29:09 PM

My uncle called from Texas and we had a nice chat.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on April 08, 2012, 06:38:18 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 30, 2012, 01:45:57 PM

Quote from: parts on March 30, 2012, 01:22:13 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 30, 2012, 10:03:03 AM

They put on a new floor in our living room today. :woohoo:

I am putting a new floor in my kitchen over the week end well repairing it at least the tiles just came in

We'll have new floors everywhere in the house. The old ones were 37 years old.

I am about to put a floor in the urchins room.  Then i will have wooden floor everywhere except bathroom (i haven't got round to that yet)  I started a couple of years ago, and i botched the first couple of rooms, but i am confident this room will be perfect!  I need a new saw first :viking: :viking: :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 08, 2012, 07:24:44 PM

Got through a whole holiday without arguing with WolFish over cooking.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on April 15, 2012, 12:36:32 PM

I made the decison to go back to arizona.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 15, 2012, 01:13:54 PM

Quote from: richard on April 15, 2012, 12:36:32 PM

I made the decison to go back to arizona.  :)

A change of scenery is often good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 15, 2012, 03:34:39 PM

Had an excellent   day up at the flea market :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on April 15, 2012, 03:58:44 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 15, 2012, 01:13:54 PM

Quote from: richard on April 15, 2012, 12:36:32 PM

I made the decison to go back to arizona.  :)

A change of scenery is often good.

:agreed:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on April 15, 2012, 09:49:47 PM

I went to a birthday party and had fun.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 15, 2012, 11:58:29 PM

Quote from: Duckfetishgirl on April 15, 2012, 09:49:47 PM

I went to a birthday party and had fun.

CBC is going to ask if you brought back any cake for her. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 16, 2012, 01:52:16 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 15, 2012, 11:58:29 PM

Quote from: Duckfetishgirl on April 15, 2012, 09:49:47 PM

I went to a birthday party and had fun.

CBC is going to ask if you brought back any cake for her.

That would be such a rude thing to do. There needs to be cake for the guests that pay a visit later in the day too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 16, 2012, 05:38:32 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 15, 2012, 11:58:29 PM

Quote from: Duckfetishgirl on April 15, 2012, 09:49:47 PM

I went to a birthday party and had fun.

CBC is going to ask if you brought back any cake for her.

 Yes, I might as well ask ... did you?  :eyelash:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 16, 2012, 05:40:48 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 16, 2012, 01:52:16 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 15, 2012, 11:58:29 PM

Quote from: Duckfetishgirl on April 15, 2012, 09:49:47 PM

I went to a birthday party and had fun.

CBC is going to ask if you brought back any cake for her.

That would be such a rude thing to do. There needs to be cake for the guests that pay a visit later in the day too.

 No, there really doesn't.  It's more important to bring cake back!   :hitler:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 16, 2012, 06:10:04 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 16, 2012, 05:40:48 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 16, 2012, 01:52:16 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 15, 2012, 11:58:29 PM

Quote from: Duckfetishgirl on April 15, 2012, 09:49:47 PM

I went to a birthday party and had fun.

CBC is going to ask if you brought back any cake for her.

That would be such a rude thing to do. There needs to be cake for the guests that pay a visit later in the day too.

 No, there really doesn't.  It's more important to bring cake back!   :hitler:

But, what if you are one of the guests that come later? Then there will be nothing left for you.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 16, 2012, 06:15:13 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 16, 2012, 06:10:04 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 16, 2012, 05:40:48 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 16, 2012, 01:52:16 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 15, 2012, 11:58:29 PM

Quote from: Duckfetishgirl on April 15, 2012, 09:49:47 PM

I went to a birthday party and had fun.

CBC is going to ask if you brought back any cake for her.

That would be such a rude thing to do. There needs to be cake for the guests that pay a visit later in the day too.

 No, there really doesn't.  It's more important to bring cake back!   :hitler:

But, what if you are one of the guests that come later? Then there will be nothing left for you.

 OMG now I'm confused and I don't know what to do!  :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on April 16, 2012, 06:29:20 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 16, 2012, 06:15:13 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 16, 2012, 06:10:04 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 16, 2012, 05:40:48 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 16, 2012, 01:52:16 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 15, 2012, 11:58:29 PM

Quote from: Duckfetishgirl on April 15, 2012, 09:49:47 PM

I went to a birthday party and had fun.

CBC is going to ask if you brought back any cake for her.

That would be such a rude thing to do. There needs to be cake for the guests that pay a visit later in the day too.

 No, there really doesn't.  It's more important to bring cake back!   :hitler:

But, what if you are one of the guests that come later? Then there will be nothing left for you.

 OMG now I'm confused and I don't know what to do!  :GA:

Don't let her pull that on you. How often are you late for cake?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on April 16, 2012, 09:46:42 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 16, 2012, 05:38:32 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 15, 2012, 11:58:29 PM

Quote from: Duckfetishgirl on April 15, 2012, 09:49:47 PM

I went to a birthday party and had fun.

CBC is going to ask if you brought back any cake for her.

 Yes, I might as well ask ... did you?  :eyelash:

No. But I have a recipe for chocolate cake from scratch. It is moist and fudgy and has a ribbon of cream cheese baked into it. I could scan the recipe from my cook book. I baked it for my step brother for his birthday. It is expensive to make. It has a lot of ingredients but it delicious. It tastes best when cold.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 16, 2012, 10:12:06 AM

Quote from: Duckfetishgirl on April 16, 2012, 09:46:42 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 16, 2012, 05:38:32 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 15, 2012, 11:58:29 PM

Quote from: Duckfetishgirl on April 15, 2012, 09:49:47 PM

I went to a birthday party and had fun.

CBC is going to ask if you brought back any cake for her.

 Yes, I might as well ask ... did you?  :eyelash:

No. But I have a recipe for chocolate cake from scratch. It is moist and fudgy and has a ribbon of cream cheese baked into it. I could scan the recipe from my cook book. I baked it for my step brother for his birthday. It is expensive to make. It has a lot of ingredients but it delicious. It tastes best when cold.

Oh yes, please.  :eyelash:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 16, 2012, 10:15:06 AM

Girl seems really to be on the mend now. Improving more and more. Building up her hours at school, catching up more and more on backlog. About time, after getting sick half September.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 16, 2012, 02:43:36 PM

Quote from: PPK on April 16, 2012, 06:29:20 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 16, 2012, 06:15:13 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 16, 2012, 06:10:04 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 16, 2012, 05:40:48 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 16, 2012, 01:52:16 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 15, 2012, 11:58:29 PM

Quote from: Duckfetishgirl on April 15, 2012, 09:49:47 PM

I went to a birthday party and had fun.

CBC is going to ask if you brought back any cake for her.

That would be such a rude thing to do. There needs to be cake for the guests that pay a visit later in the day too.

 No, there really doesn't.  It's more important to bring cake back!   :hitler:

But, what if you are one of the guests that come later? Then there will be nothing left for you.

 OMG now I'm confused and I don't know what to do!  :GA:

Don't let her pull that on you. How often are you late for cake?

 True, I have excellent cake-dar; I can smell buttercream frosting a mile away!  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 16, 2012, 05:36:06 PM

Pottermore is finally open.  I've been accepted and my magical name is SilverQueen11205.  Yea, me!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 16, 2012, 05:40:54 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 16, 2012, 05:36:06 PM

Pottermore is finally open.  I've been accepted and my magical name is SilverQueen11205.  Yea, me!

 I sense you will become a Royal Postwhore there!  :queenie:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 16, 2012, 05:42:16 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 16, 2012, 05:40:54 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 16, 2012, 05:36:06 PM

Pottermore is finally open.  I've been accepted and my magical name is SilverQueen11205.  Yea, me!

 I sense you will become a Royal Postwhore there!  :queenie:

It was a little embarrassing when they asked for my date of birth.  I guess that's where they got the Silver part from.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 16, 2012, 05:43:53 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 16, 2012, 05:42:16 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 16, 2012, 05:40:54 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 16, 2012, 05:36:06 PM

Pottermore is finally open.  I've been accepted and my magical name is SilverQueen11205.  Yea, me!

 I sense you will become a Royal Postwhore there!  :queenie:

It was a little embarrassing when they asked for my date of birth.  I guess that's where they got the Silver part from.

 I'll bet they will love having a motherly presence there.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 16, 2012, 06:09:01 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 16, 2012, 05:43:53 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 16, 2012, 05:42:16 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 16, 2012, 05:40:54 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 16, 2012, 05:36:06 PM

Pottermore is finally open.  I've been accepted and my magical name is SilverQueen11205.  Yea, me!

 I sense you will become a Royal Postwhore there!  :queenie:

It was a little embarrassing when they asked for my date of birth.  I guess that's where they got the Silver part from.

 I'll bet they will love having a motherly presence there.  :)

I have Madam Hooch's hairstyle and Professor Sprout's body.   :zombiefuck:    How I got them I'll never know.  Magic?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on April 16, 2012, 08:35:15 PM

My dad finally figured out he will be OK once i leave california.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 17, 2012, 04:38:55 AM

Quote from: richard on April 16, 2012, 08:35:15 PM

My dad finally figured out he will be OK once i leave california.

 Good, it's time for him to be an adult.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 17, 2012, 06:44:57 PM

Found out that one of the two wood planes I bought Saturday is relatively rare with just 200-250 known examples and should bring about $60 not bad for a dollar investment

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 17, 2012, 06:54:49 PM

The PR had a great day bowling.  She had 3 strikes in a row (a turkey) and ended up bowling a 144 in that game.

(http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx183/mom4nell/Nelliesbowlingscore4-17-12.jpg?t=1334712587)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 17, 2012, 07:08:40 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 17, 2012, 06:54:49 PM

The PR had a great day bowling.  She had 3 strikes in a row (a turkey) and ended up bowling a 144 in that game.

 Now I am craving a roast turkey dinner with all the fixin's!  :drool:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 17, 2012, 07:10:47 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 17, 2012, 07:08:40 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 17, 2012, 06:54:49 PM

The PR had a great day bowling.  She had 3 strikes in a row (a turkey) and ended up bowling a 144 in that game.

 Now I am craving a roast turkey dinner with all the fixin's!  :drool:

And I want to go bowling.  We have Duckpin and regular around here

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 17, 2012, 07:14:55 PM

 Got all my tax stuff together and made the deadline!    :fuckyeahdance:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 17, 2012, 07:23:39 PM

    I also made a truckload of posts today; this is #81!   I'm BACK!   :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on April 18, 2012, 08:23:19 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 17, 2012, 07:23:39 PM

    I also made a truckload of posts today; this is #81!   I'm BACK!   :headbang2:

Big deal. I could do 81 if I wanted to.  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 18, 2012, 08:29:06 AM

Quote from: PPK on April 18, 2012, 08:23:19 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 17, 2012, 07:23:39 PM

    I also made a truckload of posts today; this is #81!   I'm BACK!   :headbang2:

Big deal. I could do 81c if I wanted to.  :P

It's the "will" that is weak in you?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 18, 2012, 08:29:26 AM

Quote from: PPK on April 18, 2012, 08:23:19 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 17, 2012, 07:23:39 PM

    I also made a truckload of posts today; this is #81!   I'm BACK!   :headbang2:

Big deal. I could do 81c if I wanted to.  :P

    Get your flippers busy typing, I'm off to lunch with a friend!   :seal:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 18, 2012, 08:32:40 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 18, 2012, 08:29:26 AM

Quote from: PPK on April 18, 2012, 08:23:19 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 17, 2012, 07:23:39 PM

    I also made a truckload of posts today; this is #81!   I'm BACK!   :headbang2:

Big deal. I could do 81c if I wanted to.  :P

    Get your flippers busy typing, I'm off to lunch with a friend!   :seal:

Imagines a  :cbc: and a :seal: having lunch together.













 :shark:

Beware of the

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on April 18, 2012, 08:39:11 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 18, 2012, 08:29:06 AM

Quote from: PPK on April 18, 2012, 08:23:19 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 17, 2012, 07:23:39 PM

    I also made a truckload of posts today; this is #81!   I'm BACK!   :headbang2:

Big deal. I could do 81c if I wanted to.  :P

It's the "will" that is weak in you?

No, I am just busy preparing.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 18, 2012, 08:39:13 AM

    Actually PPK is the   :seal:   who needs to get busy typing!


    We had lunch in California, it looked like this ----->  :cbc: :pizza:  :pizza:      :seal: 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on April 18, 2012, 12:45:08 PM

cbc you had lunch in california? wanna have lunch with me bro? :trollface:
 ;) :santa:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 18, 2012, 02:42:33 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 18, 2012, 08:39:13 AM

    Actually PPK is the   :seal:   who needs to get busy typing!


    We had lunch in California, it looked like this ----->  :cbc: :pizza:  :pizza:      :seal:

That looks like a Weeble and a Seal on a diet.  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 20, 2012, 02:27:27 PM

Just submitted my whitepaper to a conference across the globe in August. :woohoo:

It's strange. Usually, after submitting a paper, I'll quickly start having doubts about it, thinking it's probably not all that original or clever, and that it will expose me as the fraud I am. This one, though, feels good. I wonder what's wrong.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on April 20, 2012, 02:31:47 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 20, 2012, 02:27:27 PM

It's strange. Usually, after submitting a paper, I'll quickly start having doubts about it, thinking it's probably not all that original or clever, and that it will expose me as the fraud I am. This one, though, feels good. I wonder what's wrong.

believe it or not I attempt to paint, and if I try to hard to make it look too cool I always mess it up.
Everything you try to do, Write, Paint, change a tire. doesnt matter, try to hard and you are blocked from enjoying your success.

Sounds like at this time that didnt happen so enjoy your triumph :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 20, 2012, 02:42:48 PM

Quote from: richard on April 20, 2012, 02:31:47 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 20, 2012, 02:27:27 PM

It's strange. Usually, after submitting a paper, I'll quickly start having doubts about it, thinking it's probably not all that original or clever, and that it will expose me as the fraud I am. This one, though, feels good. I wonder what's wrong.

believe it or not I attempt to paint, and if I try to hard to make it look too cool I always mess it up.
Everything you try to do, Write, Paint, change a tire. doesnt matter, try to hard and you are blocked from enjoying your success.

Sounds like at this time that didnt happen so enjoy your triumph :thumbup:

I suppose. Except i have positively hated some papers I've written in the past, but they've been accepted and appreciated once I'm there to present them.

Thanks, though. You have a point.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on April 20, 2012, 06:54:59 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 20, 2012, 02:27:27 PM

Just submitted my whitepaper to a conference across the globe in August. :woohoo:

It's strange. Usually, after submitting a paper, I'll quickly start having doubts about it, thinking it's probably not all that original or clever, and that it will expose me as the fraud I am. This one, though, feels good. I wonder what's wrong.

:congrats:

What's the conference?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 21, 2012, 06:10:19 AM

Quote from: Callaway on April 20, 2012, 06:54:59 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 20, 2012, 02:27:27 PM

Just submitted my whitepaper to a conference across the globe in August. :woohoo:

It's strange. Usually, after submitting a paper, I'll quickly start having doubts about it, thinking it's probably not all that original or clever, and that it will expose me as the fraud I am. This one, though, feels good. I wonder what's wrong.

:congrats:

What's the conference?

A markup language conference that is held in Montreal every year. I presented there a couple of years ago.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on April 21, 2012, 10:18:22 AM

This is me sitting next to the AC.  :tv:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 21, 2012, 11:39:07 AM

The whole day has been good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 21, 2012, 11:41:29 AM

Found the Fritz 12 PC chess software for very little money.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on April 21, 2012, 02:03:05 PM

Quote from: richard on April 21, 2012, 10:18:22 AM

This is me sitting next to the AC.  :tv:

uhhhh, if it aint keeping you cool, thats cos its a TV

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on April 21, 2012, 05:00:11 PM

So, I dont know if your joking or not but I think we all know its a TV. there is no AC emoticon here. thats why i used the tv

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on April 21, 2012, 05:55:10 PM

I slept in.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 24, 2012, 04:35:27 PM

My driver's license has been found.  It was accidentally packed away with some things from the election on Saturday.  The Registrar of Voters Office called to let me know they'd found it in their stuff.  I picked it up and now I'm legal again.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on April 24, 2012, 06:43:13 PM

It's a public holiday :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 24, 2012, 07:53:42 PM

Got 30 cents off per gallon for gas with a coupon that came out to $8.46 on a fill up today

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 25, 2012, 08:45:59 AM

Found out that my gut feeling was right, a bill of nearly €440 was sent by mistake.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on April 25, 2012, 09:13:26 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 25, 2012, 08:45:59 AM

Found out that my gut feeling was right, a bill of nearly €440 was sent by mistake.

:o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 26, 2012, 03:18:32 PM

Well it was yesterday, I won $10 on a lottery ticket

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on April 26, 2012, 05:41:21 PM

Thats awesome parts. I've basically just recoverd from my sisters visit today, It was that awful. i'm better now however :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: PuppetSockPenguin on April 27, 2012, 01:15:04 AM

New shoes.
Black leather, so good for orchestra.
Nice cushiony soles and cushioned bits around the ankles.
A perfect fit.

$6.45

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on April 27, 2012, 01:27:19 AM

Quote from: PuppetSockPenguin on April 27, 2012, 01:15:04 AM

New shoes.
Black leather, so good for orchestra.
Nice cushiony soles and cushioned bits around the ankles.
A perfect fit.

$6.45

:needpics:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: PuppetSockPenguin on April 27, 2012, 01:31:05 AM

Quote from: PPK on April 27, 2012, 01:27:19 AM

Quote from: PuppetSockPenguin on April 27, 2012, 01:15:04 AM

New shoes.
Black leather, so good for orchestra.
Nice cushiony soles and cushioned bits around the ankles.
A perfect fit.

$6.45

:needpics:

Later. :P
They're nothing fancy, just lace-up things.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 27, 2012, 05:53:35 AM

^That is an absolute bargain though.

I went to autism group today - it was an outing to the markets in Fremantle - and I didn't freak out. I actually talked to people.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on April 27, 2012, 12:19:30 PM

24 ct fire agate. hello my baby, hello my darling, hello my valentine! :heart: :pinkbeat:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on April 27, 2012, 04:18:28 PM

Quote from: richard on April 27, 2012, 12:19:30 PM

24 ct fire agate. hello my baby, hello my darling, hello my valentine! :heart: :pinkbeat:

Holy moly.  You going to fuck it next?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 28, 2012, 01:40:59 AM

Yesterday, technically. Its early in the morning here now.

But I got to talk to an autism researcher again, who is doing her dissertation, on our kind and our rxn to MDMA and psilocybin. I think she is on the spectrum somewhere. We were meant to be discussing psilocybin experiences, studies and the like but we both ended up kinda hyperfocussed on our general chat :P

Looks younger than she is, a lot younger (and I daresay. quite a fox!) stims sometimes, and other traits besides.She says she is NT...but I thinketh not.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on April 30, 2012, 09:32:52 PM

my sea turttle washed up ashore~ :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 01, 2012, 02:50:43 PM

Managed to complete *some* of the IKEA furniture we bought on Sunday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on May 01, 2012, 03:43:52 PM

fuck. me. my new fire agate is damn near life changing! its so bad ass. I now think my dad stole my 27ct arizona dream girl.
because it was shaped like a hand. the motherfucker stares at his paws, so what an asshole. I hate him

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 02, 2012, 04:12:55 PM

 I made an appointment for next week, for an orthopedic consult re: my hand.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 02, 2012, 05:49:51 PM

why not bang the cunt out richard? he sounds like a ginormous honking great faggot.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 02, 2012, 07:46:03 PM

If you click on the 3 dots where the pages are shown in a topic heading (you know what I mean) all the page numbers are shown.  So you don't have to constantly click back 3 pages at a time if you're searching for something.  (Like dingbat here has been doing since she became a member.)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 02, 2012, 07:48:23 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 02, 2012, 07:46:03 PM

If you click on the 3 dots where the pages are shown in a topic heading (you know what I mean) all the page numbers are shown.  So you don't have to constantly click back 3 pages at a time if you're searching for something.  (Like dingbat here has been doing since she became a member.)

  :hug:  I like that feature too, I discovered it by accident.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 02, 2012, 10:18:30 PM

I didn't know about it until this minute.  :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on May 02, 2012, 11:10:48 PM

I had class today and my instructor is a real character.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 03, 2012, 02:45:21 PM

:laugh:

Sorry, I think that's hilarious.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 03, 2012, 04:08:08 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 02, 2012, 07:46:03 PM

If you click on the 3 dots where the pages are shown in a topic heading (you know what I mean) all the page numbers are shown.  So you don't have to constantly click back 3 pages at a time if you're searching for something.  (Like dingbat here has been doing since she became a member.)

Thank you.

I have been as dingbatty as you have been.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 03, 2012, 04:11:02 PM

The good that happened, I got my hair cut today. It's really short again, and I love it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2012, 05:14:10 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 03, 2012, 04:11:02 PM

The good that happened, I got my hair cut today. It's really short again, and I love it.

The PR has had a major crush on a guy in a boy band.  She's built this whole life for them and talks about it quite a bit.  And there is to be heard NO negative comments about this AT ALL. 

Today she decided to get her hair cut from about the middle of her back to shoulder length because it's more grown-up.  After the haircut she walked to the magazine section of Walmart and found out he's been seeing another show business star.  She said very quietly, "My dream has died."  That may be a haircut she'll regret for a long time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on May 03, 2012, 05:22:25 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2012, 05:14:10 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 03, 2012, 04:11:02 PM

The good that happened, I got my hair cut today. It's really short again, and I love it.

The PR has had a major crush on a guy in a boy band.  She's built this whole life for them and talks about it quite a bit.  And there is to be heard NO negative comments about this AT ALL. 

Today she decided to get her hair cut from about the middle of her back to shoulder length because it's more grown-up.  After the haircut she walked to the magazine section of Walmart and found out he's been seeing another show business star.  She said very quietly, "My dream has died."  That may be a haircut she'll regret for a long time.

It will grow back

New dreams always come along

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Kapkao on May 03, 2012, 06:07:41 PM

I helped my mother clear out her "backyard retreat" after a 'monsoon' (what I call a full day of constant rain), all the while while it HAD to be 85% humid and feeling like it was in the low 90s. It was fun while she still had her strength, though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 04, 2012, 03:52:20 PM

The lady who lives in the house next to the one I am working on gave me a Korean   war era pistol belt with a ammo pouch and a WW2 canteen on it  :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on May 04, 2012, 04:16:22 PM

Quote from: parts on May 04, 2012, 03:52:20 PM

The lady who lives in the house next to the one I am working on gave me a Korean   war era pistol belt with a ammo pouch and a WW2 canteen on it  :hyke:

How nice :)

My neighbors just give me dirty looks

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 04, 2012, 04:24:51 PM

Quote from: Cumberdale on May 04, 2012, 04:16:22 PM

Quote from: parts on May 04, 2012, 03:52:20 PM

The lady who lives in the house next to the one I am working on gave me a Korean   war era pistol belt with a ammo pouch and a WW2 canteen on it  :hyke:

How nice :)

My neighbors just give me dirty looks

I get those a lot too :dunno:  When I am at work I try and talk to the people in the houses on either side especially when I am in a city where the houses are close and I have to go into there yards to set up ladders and such or where they may complain to the city and cause problems

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on May 17, 2012, 10:05:17 PM

Ebayed alot. I see something i just cant live without, wich is if I remember correctly ebays motto!  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on May 19, 2012, 05:49:35 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 03, 2012, 04:08:08 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 02, 2012, 07:46:03 PM

If you click on the 3 dots where the pages are shown in a topic heading (you know what I mean) all the page numbers are shown.  So you don't have to constantly click back 3 pages at a time if you're searching for something.  (Like dingbat here has been doing since she became a member.)

Thank you.

I have been as dingbatty as you have been.

As have I. I have been here ages and never knew about that. :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on May 19, 2012, 08:43:56 AM

the phone company wasnt lying. they did pay my bill for a month!  :2thumbsup:
I called my mom last night, and probably will call my sister today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on May 19, 2012, 09:31:48 AM

i have both of my kids home for the weekend. :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on May 19, 2012, 12:52:14 PM

nothing so far. I guess if my sister calls back it will be considerd a good day,  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 19, 2012, 03:11:08 PM

Home made chicken salad on whole wheat bread.   :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on May 19, 2012, 04:49:16 PM

well I finally got ahold of my sister on the telephone. it sounds like we are going to go visit my mothers mother in june or july because she's probably going to die soon. otherwise my sister is ok, she was throwing a birthday party for her daughter when i talked to her. I really wish i was there now at her kids party. not only would it be more comfortable than here, i'd get to eat.  :(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 19, 2012, 08:05:53 PM

Found lots of treasure out at the tag sales today

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 20, 2012, 08:19:14 AM

 I finally started to wake up, I hope to get a lot of trash bagged up today!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on May 20, 2012, 10:32:23 AM

I'm falling deeply in love with my jade carvings. not only do I have a nack for the exotic, they were a great deal!  >:D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on May 20, 2012, 04:13:09 PM

Quote from: richard on May 19, 2012, 04:49:16 PM

well I finally got ahold of my sister on the telephone. it sounds like we are going to go visit my mothers mother in june or july because she's probably going to die soon. otherwise my sister is ok, she was throwing a birthday party for her daughter when i talked to her. I really wish i was there now at her kids party. not only would it be more comfortable than here, i'd get to eat.  :(

That's too bad Richard. How old is your sister?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 20, 2012, 04:31:56 PM

Got rid of two big items I did not want to load back in the van at the end of the market

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on May 20, 2012, 05:58:58 PM

Quote from: PPK on May 20, 2012, 04:13:09 PM

That's too bad Richard. How old is your sister?

thanks, yeah family members dying does indeed suck. but ittle be good to see my grandma one last time
she's 28 i think. defintly my favorite sister

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on May 25, 2012, 01:59:55 PM

Got a lot done around the house. Kids are off to their Dad's for the weekend which means I can tackle things more efficiently without wee ones underfoot.  :sexymush:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 25, 2012, 02:31:14 PM

Did an awesome presentation for a client today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 27, 2012, 06:12:50 PM

Had the biggest single day in sales at the market yet  :dollar:  :dollar:  :dollar:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 27, 2012, 06:20:33 PM

Quote from: parts on May 27, 2012, 06:12:50 PM

Had the biggest single day in sales at the market yet  :dollar:  :dollar:  :dollar:

 Ooooo, I love the new smiley!  I'm going to use that as my inspiration!    :dollar:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on May 27, 2012, 07:16:00 PM

Backyard is 90% done. I feel so happy when I go out on my deck and see it's all ready to have friends over. Hoping the rain doesn't come out and it's not crazy hot tomorrow night so we can be outdoors.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on May 28, 2012, 07:07:33 AM

:hug: :pinkbeat: :heart: :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart: :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart:

my little boy said to me this morning

"You're the loveliest, beautiful-est mommy....ever"

 :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart: :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart: :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on May 28, 2012, 07:31:25 AM

Quote from: bodaccea on May 28, 2012, 07:07:33 AM

:hug: :pinkbeat: :heart: :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart: :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart:

my little boy said to me this morning

"You're the loveliest, beautiful-est mommy....ever"

 :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart: :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart: :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart:

will you be my mom? :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 28, 2012, 11:19:08 AM

Quote from: bodaccea on May 28, 2012, 07:07:33 AM

:hug: :pinkbeat: :heart: :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart: :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart:

my little boy said to me this morning

"You're the loveliest, beautiful-est mommy....ever"

 :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart: :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart: :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart:

From an old Dick Van Dyke show

"You're the top, you're the Mommy Lisa"

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on May 28, 2012, 11:49:16 AM

Quote from: bodaccea on May 28, 2012, 07:07:33 AM

:hug: :pinkbeat: :heart: :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart: :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart:

my little boy said to me this morning

"You're the loveliest, beautiful-est mommy....ever"

 :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart: :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart: :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart:

He's the sweetest little urchin ever.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 28, 2012, 05:07:25 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on May 28, 2012, 07:07:33 AM

:hug: :pinkbeat: :heart: :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart: :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart:

my little boy said to me this morning

"You're the loveliest, beautiful-est mommy....ever"

 :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart: :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart: :hug: :pinkbeat: :heart:

It's a trap.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on May 28, 2012, 08:58:28 PM

Two of my best friends came over for the evening. So nice to have the house to myself and be able to have people over again  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 31, 2012, 09:04:52 PM

The grocery store had a fresh supply of bent and dent.  I got 24 cans of soup and vegetables and 2 for the price of 1 bread for under $20.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 31, 2012, 09:16:03 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 31, 2012, 09:04:52 PM

The grocery store had a fresh supply of bent and dent.  I got 24 cans of soup and vegetables and 2 for the price of 1 bread for under $20.

 I really need to go grocery shopping with you, thrifty monarch!  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 01, 2012, 01:01:15 PM

Technically this was yesterday, but a recruiter contacted me about a job that promises to be very interesting.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 02, 2012, 01:58:24 AM

I made coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 02, 2012, 06:44:46 AM

Made tea, made coffee, butchered a pineapple (properly cutting it up, not murderous butchering). Had my brother, SIL and three nieces here for a short coffee break, they were here to pick up the youngest for an outing.
Now am proudly procrastinating.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 02, 2012, 06:49:44 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 02, 2012, 06:44:46 AM

Made tea, made coffee, butchered a pineapple (properly cutting it up, not murderous butchering). Had my brother, SIL and three nieces here for a short coffee break, they were here to pick up the youngest for an outing.
Now am proudly procrastinating.  :2thumbsup:

 Pineapples are ferocious, cutting them up is BRAVE!  :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 02, 2012, 06:56:45 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 02, 2012, 06:49:44 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 02, 2012, 06:44:46 AM

Made tea, made coffee, butchered a pineapple (properly cutting it up, not murderous butchering). Had my brother, SIL and three nieces here for a short coffee break, they were here to pick up the youngest for an outing.
Now am proudly procrastinating.  :2thumbsup:

 Pineapples are ferocious, cutting them up is BRAVE!  :arrr:

It had to be cut up, without a delay, so, we had it for breakfast. Her name was Annabella Constantina, and, she was a tasty thing. :pinan:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 02, 2012, 06:59:47 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 02, 2012, 06:56:45 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 02, 2012, 06:49:44 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 02, 2012, 06:44:46 AM

Made tea, made coffee, butchered a pineapple (properly cutting it up, not murderous butchering). Had my brother, SIL and three nieces here for a short coffee break, they were here to pick up the youngest for an outing.
Now am proudly procrastinating.  :2thumbsup:

 Pineapples are ferocious, cutting them up is BRAVE!  :arrr:

It had to be cut up, without a delay, so, we had it for breakfast. Her name was Annabella Constantina, and, she was a tasty thing. :pinan:

 She was a true aristocrat, with that name!  And she lived a BRAVE life!  :pinan:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 02, 2012, 07:01:35 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 02, 2012, 06:59:47 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 02, 2012, 06:56:45 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 02, 2012, 06:49:44 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 02, 2012, 06:44:46 AM

Made tea, made coffee, butchered a pineapple (properly cutting it up, not murderous butchering). Had my brother, SIL and three nieces here for a short coffee break, they were here to pick up the youngest for an outing.
Now am proudly procrastinating.  :2thumbsup:

 Pineapples are ferocious, cutting them up is BRAVE!  :arrr:

It had to be cut up, without a delay, so, we had it for breakfast. Her name was Annabella Constantina, and, she was a tasty thing. :pinan:

 She was a true aristocrat, with that name!  And she lived a BRAVE life!  :pinan:

Trust my daughter to recognise true aristocracy.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on June 02, 2012, 05:12:16 PM

Ladybugs best friend has an 11 year old golden doodle and they need someone to watch her while they go on vacation this summer. So she'll be living with me for 2.5 weeks. The sweetest dog ever. Soooo excited! :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 03, 2012, 01:09:53 PM

 :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on June 03, 2012, 01:10:55 PM

well done my post whoring friend!  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 03, 2012, 01:12:18 PM

Thanks. 70,000 is next!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 04, 2012, 03:11:20 AM

CBC will be so proud of you.

This may bring her to tears.

Quote from: odeon on June 03, 2012, 01:12:18 PM

Thanks. 70,000 is next!

Don't forget the main pit stop at 66.666.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 04, 2012, 02:25:42 PM

Maybe we should add another post count-based title?!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 04, 2012, 05:41:32 PM

Used Stop and Shop gas points and got 30.2 gallons of gas for $92

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 05, 2012, 03:40:01 AM

Just got a phonecall, We're getting a kind of independent hot-shot helping us.

*Wonders how independent someone is, when supporting one party * asperger mode taking over.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 05, 2012, 07:22:24 AM

LOL I'm sure they're not, but maybe they're at least biased in the right direction?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on June 06, 2012, 06:54:15 PM

I confronted something that was stressing me out. So much i want to do in this house but overwhelmed by the sheer size when you compile so many little jobs and put them all together. It's starting to make me physically ill. I have to learn how to manage my stress and anxiety better. I get so easily frustrated with myself. But I cleaned out 3 cupboards in my kitchen that were bothering me. 2 baskets for the garage sale and 1 bag of trash. One cupboard of stuff  worth keeping. So very productive after all :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 06, 2012, 07:13:49 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 04, 2012, 03:11:20 AM

CBC will be so proud of you.

This may bring her to tears.

Quote from: odeon on June 03, 2012, 01:12:18 PM

Thanks. 70,000 is next!

Don't forget the main pit stop at 66.666.

 It is indeed a great day for all postwhores, a vision of what is possible!  :'(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 06, 2012, 07:15:31 PM

 Today I kept my mouth shut and did not say vicious things when angered.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on June 06, 2012, 07:22:14 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 06, 2012, 07:15:31 PM

Today I kept my mouth shut and did not say vicious things when angered.  :thumbup:

:2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 06, 2012, 07:51:15 PM

 I just called my cable company to subscribe to a geeky science channel, and to my happy
 surprise I got that channel and several premium movie channels, all for just $2 more
 per month (it's a six-month promotional offer).  I'm so very pleased.  :tv:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 06, 2012, 07:54:03 PM

 The girl at the cable company described the channels that are included in the promotional
 package, and she said some are sports and exercise channels so I can work out at home.
 I resisted the urge to say, "What, do you think I SOUND FAT?!"  :rofl:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2012, 11:35:11 PM

I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 07, 2012, 01:12:19 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 05, 2012, 07:22:24 AM

LOL I'm sure they're not, but maybe they're at least biased in the right direction?

I am very hopeful.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 07, 2012, 02:58:15 AM

I had Hungry Jack's mini burgers. Delicious.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 07, 2012, 10:51:40 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 05, 2012, 03:40:01 AM

Just got a phonecall, We're getting a kind of independent hot-shot helping us.

*Wonders how independent someone is, when supporting one party * asperger mode taking over.  :asthing:

That meeting absolutely qualifies as "something good that happened today".  :cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on June 07, 2012, 11:44:00 AM

Reconnected with an old friend today and it did me a lot of good. She has a gorgeous little place (almost resembles an old barn, reno'd into a house) out by the lake. I felt a world away from the every day. And given that she's Aspie, and has an aspie son it was very relaxing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 11, 2012, 06:07:04 AM

Not today, but last Friday, I handed in my list of bus travels to and from work to my boss, when leaving for home. By the time I got home, I found the money already transferred to my bankaccount.

That's a lot better than having to wait for benefit payment for a month extra, for no reason at all.

And, yes, that pay over April has finally arrived too, together with the May payment.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on June 11, 2012, 06:41:02 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 11, 2012, 06:07:04 AM

Not today, but last Friday, I handed in my list of bus travels to and from work to my boss, when leaving for home. By the time I got home, I found the money already transferred to my bankaccount.

That's a lot better than having to wait for benefit payment for a month extra, for no reason at all.

And, yes, that pay over April has finally arrived too, together with the May payment.

Yay!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on June 11, 2012, 04:13:33 PM

I finally got my new crown!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on June 11, 2012, 04:18:46 PM

Quote from: Callaway on June 11, 2012, 04:13:33 PM

I finally got my new crown!

The Queen will be jealous.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 11, 2012, 04:56:05 PM

Quote from: Callaway on June 11, 2012, 04:13:33 PM

I finally got my new crown!

Congratulations.  What did you eat first with it?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on June 11, 2012, 09:46:34 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 11, 2012, 04:56:05 PM

Quote from: Callaway on June 11, 2012, 04:13:33 PM

I finally got my new crown!

Congratulations.  What did you eat first with it?

I ate a piece of chocolate cream pie first, then I had a rib eye steak topped with sauteed mushrooms and a baked potato.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 11, 2012, 11:18:17 PM

Quote from: Callaway on June 11, 2012, 09:46:34 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 11, 2012, 04:56:05 PM

Quote from: Callaway on June 11, 2012, 04:13:33 PM

I finally got my new crown!

Congratulations.  What did you eat first with it?

I ate a piece of chocolate cream pie first, then I had a rib eye steak topped with sauteed mushrooms and a baked potato.

 :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup:  I would have given you a dozen, but I don't like mushrooms.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 11, 2012, 11:28:34 PM

I had coffee. I might survive. Again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on June 12, 2012, 06:22:38 PM

Quote from: Callaway on June 11, 2012, 09:46:34 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 11, 2012, 04:56:05 PM

Quote from: Callaway on June 11, 2012, 04:13:33 PM

I finally got my new crown!

Congratulations.  What did you eat first with it?

I ate a piece of chocolate cream pie first, then I had a rib eye steak topped with sauteed mushrooms and a baked potato.

I should have been at your place for dinner. All I had was pizza and it wasn't even that good :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 12, 2012, 08:15:29 PM

My dinner satisfied me perfectly.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on June 13, 2012, 10:47:07 AM

DS is settling. I'm finding neither of us can handle really busy days lately so we've cut back on what is on our schedule and although he's battling a nasty cold, we're both just enjoying a quiet day doing whatever we feel like.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 13, 2012, 02:15:09 PM

Did a sales pitch that was as close to perfect as could make it. From a doubtful #3 position (of 3 competing companies), I think we rank now as #1. We'll know in just a few days.

Yet another headhunter phoned me about a UK position where I would "make very good money". It sounded like an interview with his client was a mere formality, if I'm interested, that is. I'm not likely to accept but it's always flattering to be sought after.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 15, 2012, 02:42:34 PM

I won $5 on a lottery ticket
My brother PAID me for my time and the materials I picked up and brought him today in cash.  I hope he's not sick or something :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 16, 2012, 02:51:04 AM

One more headhunter called. WTF is this?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on June 16, 2012, 02:55:33 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 16, 2012, 02:51:04 AM

One more headhunter called. WTF is this?

Apparently, you are hot stuff.  Where's this one from?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 16, 2012, 03:15:03 AM

Odeon, you know the old joke about the preacher and the flood?   He was trapped on his roof with water up to the eaves.  He prayed to G_d for rescue.  He ignored a big log floating past, turned down a guy in a boat and a guy in a helicopter, explaining that G_d would rescue him.  Well, he died and went to heaven.  He angrily asked G_d why he had deserted him. G_d replied, "WTF are you talking about?  I sent you a log, a boat and a helicopter."

Maybe it's time to listen?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 16, 2012, 03:38:28 AM

Her Majesty has a point.

Can't all be twelve year olds, hiring head-hunters to go and find you.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 16, 2012, 05:53:34 AM

Quote from: Callaway on June 16, 2012, 02:55:33 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 16, 2012, 02:51:04 AM

One more headhunter called. WTF is this?

Apparently, you are hot stuff.  Where's this one from?

The UK.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 16, 2012, 05:53:58 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 16, 2012, 03:15:03 AM

Odeon, you know the old joke about the preacher and the flood?   He was trapped on his roof with water up to the eaves.  He prayed to G_d for rescue.  He ignored a big log floating past, turned down a guy in a boat and a guy in a helicopter, explaining that G_d would rescue him.  Well, he died and went to heaven.  He angrily asked G_d why he had deserted him. G_d replied, "WTF are you talking about?  I sent you a log, a boat and a helicopter."

Maybe it's time to listen?

I want him to send me a jet. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 16, 2012, 08:35:26 AM

 Nobody hunted my head  :P  but I did score two big bags of my favorite Pink Lady apples at the store. 
 (I tried Golden Delicious but I'm allergic.  I like Gala apples but Pink Ladies are the best!)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 16, 2012, 01:11:53 PM

These headhunters are a persistent lot. The last one will call me again on Monday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on June 16, 2012, 04:08:30 PM

Quote from: parts on June 15, 2012, 02:42:34 PM

I won $5 on a lottery ticket
My brother PAID me for my time and the materials I picked up and brought him today in cash.  I hope he's not sick or something :laugh:

I did too the other day. I walked with my cousin to the convenience store since he didn't have his ID and got carded so I bought him cigarettes and while there bought a single scratcher for $1 for fun and actually won % bucks. Felt really good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on June 17, 2012, 04:06:09 PM

Not much but i did just make myself come in the bath :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on June 17, 2012, 04:09:58 PM

Woke up early today :D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on June 18, 2012, 04:56:13 AM

I refer to yesterday

Quote from: pleasure model on June 17, 2012, 04:06:09 PM

Not much but i did just make myself come in the bath :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on June 18, 2012, 04:46:46 PM

Quote from: parts on June 15, 2012, 02:42:34 PM

I won $5 on a lottery ticket
My brother PAID me for my time and the materials I picked up and brought him today in cash.  I hope he's not sick or something :laugh:

Holy crap! Enjoy THAT moment while it lasts!  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 18, 2012, 06:18:25 PM

My daughter had her middle school graduation and it went smoothly

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Post by: odeon on June 19, 2012, 03:19:33 PM

We *finally* had the outside rebuild inspected. He said it was a shoddy job and we should have no problem winning if this thing ends up in court.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on June 19, 2012, 08:17:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 19, 2012, 03:19:33 PM

We *finally* had the outside rebuild inspected. He said it was a shoddy job and we should have no problem winning if this thing ends up in court.

That's encouraging?  Reminds me of the doctor who told the man, "There's good news and bad news.  Your wife isn't pregnant.  Your mistress is."

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Post by: odeon on June 19, 2012, 11:32:11 PM

It is good news, considering we've had no headway with the contractor actually doing anything about his shoddy job.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 20, 2012, 05:52:13 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 19, 2012, 11:32:11 PM

It is good news, considering we've had no headway with the contractor actually doing anything about his shoddy job.

 Good, sue the schmuck and get what's yours!  Do it!   :boxers:

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Post by: Parts on June 20, 2012, 09:04:28 AM

Went to the dump and was not harassed by the people who work there,  they seem to make that part of their duty

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Post by: odeon on June 20, 2012, 01:06:02 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 20, 2012, 05:52:13 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 19, 2012, 11:32:11 PM

It is good news, considering we've had no headway with the contractor actually doing anything about his shoddy job.

 Good, sue the schmuck and get what's yours!  Do it!   :boxers:

We're going to. He's in trouble.

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Post by: Parts on June 20, 2012, 01:13:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 19, 2012, 11:32:11 PM

It is good news, considering we've had no headway with the contractor actually doing anything about his shoddy job.

What was it they screwed up anything big?  I have been otherwise occupied lately and have not been following much around here in case you already mentioned.

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Post by: odeon on June 20, 2012, 01:24:21 PM

Quote from: ` on June 20, 2012, 01:13:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 19, 2012, 11:32:11 PM

It is good news, considering we've had no headway with the contractor actually doing anything about his shoddy job.

What was it they screwed up anything big?  I have been otherwise occupied lately and have not been following much around here in case you already mentioned.

Lots of stuff. Just to take one example, there was the issue of nails. A lot of nails aren't all the way in, with heads several millimetres out, or have to great a distance between them, or, for that matter, that there aren't enough them on some boards and window frames, resulting in the boards twisting and loosening. It's the handiwork itself, but it's also that they've managed to fuck up some of the ventilation, remount drain pipes wrong, forget to seal cables running through the walls...

Of course, there is the isolation itself. It's not doing its job properly because the material they used is not properly sealed against window frames and such.

You name it, we have problems with it.  :tard:

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Post by: Parts on June 20, 2012, 01:31:40 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 20, 2012, 01:24:21 PM

Quote from: ` on June 20, 2012, 01:13:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 19, 2012, 11:32:11 PM

It is good news, considering we've had no headway with the contractor actually doing anything about his shoddy job.

What was it they screwed up anything big?  I have been otherwise occupied lately and have not been following much around here in case you already mentioned.

Lots of stuff. Just to take one example, there was the issue of nails. A lot of nails aren't all the way in, with heads several millimetres out, or have to great a distance between them, or, for that matter, that there aren't enough them on some boards and window frames, resulting in the boards twisting and loosening. It's the handiwork itself, but it's also that they've managed to fuck up some of the ventilation, remount drain pipes wrong, forget to seal cables running through the walls...

Of course, there is the isolation itself. It's not doing its job properly because the material they used is not properly sealed against window frames and such.

You name it, we have problems with it.  :tard:

EEK :zombiefuck:  So much for Scandinavian craftsmanship.  They use that wording here to imply how good they are but there are hacks in every country. 

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Post by: odeon on June 20, 2012, 01:34:42 PM

"Hack" is just too nice.

On the bright side, while it will cost money to fix this, the inspector thinks it's perfectly doable. And just as importantly, he thinks we will win the case if it ever ends up in court.

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Post by: Parts on June 20, 2012, 01:36:51 PM

Did you pay them the full amount for the work yet?

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Post by: odeon on June 20, 2012, 01:37:25 PM

No, not all of it.

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Post by: Parts on June 20, 2012, 02:04:15 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 20, 2012, 01:37:25 PM

No, not all of it.

Good move.  Do contractors have to licensed there?  If yes put in a complaint to the appropriate people

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Post by: MissKitty on June 20, 2012, 07:43:30 PM

I'm pet sitting my best friend's dog until Sunday. I love him to bits! I love how excited he gets to come to my house :heart:

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Post by: Bastet on June 20, 2012, 07:51:57 PM

My dress came! It fits almost pefectly. I need to cinch the waist. Looks stylish.

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Post by: odeon on June 20, 2012, 11:33:04 PM

Quote from: ` on June 20, 2012, 02:04:15 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 20, 2012, 01:37:25 PM

No, not all of it.

Good move.  Do contractors have to licensed there?  If yes put in a complaint to the appropriate people

No, unfortunately they do not. The way to go here is to use inspectors. They are licensed and their say weighs heavily in court.

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Post by: Charlotte Quin on June 22, 2012, 03:45:23 AM

I got my uni results; A pass, which was better than expected :P

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Post by: odeon on June 22, 2012, 06:37:44 AM

Quote from: Pedestrian Killer on June 22, 2012, 03:45:23 AM

I got my uni results; A pass, which was better than expected :P

Congrats! :)

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Post by: Charlotte Quin on June 22, 2012, 06:42:59 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 22, 2012, 06:37:44 AM

Quote from: Pedestrian Killer on June 22, 2012, 03:45:23 AM

I got my uni results; A pass, which was better than expected :P

Congrats! :)

Thanks :2thumbsup:

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Post by: Queen Victoria on June 22, 2012, 08:53:03 PM

Good work.

I had a lovely 2 hours at my G'friends.  She's in Houston this weekend and she asked me to dry the laundry she had in the washer.  Ah, the absolute peace and quiet of silence.  Quite a rare and lovely thing to hear.

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Post by: renaeden on June 22, 2012, 09:20:59 PM

Quote from: Pedestrian Killer on June 22, 2012, 03:45:23 AM

I got my uni results; A pass, which was better than expected :P

Good on you. :) I think (I hope) I will get that too, though results haven't come in yet.

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Post by: odeon on June 23, 2012, 02:02:45 AM

I had coffee.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on June 23, 2012, 10:23:44 AM

I got out of bed before noon

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Post by: Pyraxis on June 23, 2012, 12:24:21 PM

I am alone in the house. Maybe not for too much longer, but I shall enjoy it while it lasts.

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Post by: MissKitty on June 23, 2012, 02:49:54 PM

I have my girlie home for a week. So happy.

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Post by: Parts on June 23, 2012, 03:03:00 PM

Found a box of military metals and pins at a tag sale for $10

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Post by: Callaway on June 23, 2012, 11:16:13 PM

My sprinklers are fixed.

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Post by: bodie on June 24, 2012, 12:25:37 AM

enjoy sprinkling Callaway  :lol1:

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Post by: bodie on June 24, 2012, 12:26:26 AM

but do you sprinkle when you tinkle?  :zoinks:

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Post by: Callaway on June 24, 2012, 09:16:23 AM

Quote from: pleasure model on June 24, 2012, 12:26:26 AM

but do you sprinkle when you tinkle?  :zoinks:

No, but if I did, I would be neat and wipe the seat.

 :lol1:

I was talking about the lawn sprinklers, which have been fixed.

We live in a semi-arid climate here, so if lawns aren't watered regularly, they turn brown and die.

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Post by: MissKitty on June 24, 2012, 10:44:36 AM

Picked up the eldest from his first overnight camping trip with his autism teen group. He said at one point last night he really wanted to come home but he "got over it" and decided to stay. He slept in a tent for the first time (they had an option to sleep indoors in the museum) which was a huge accomplishment for him, especially since he bunked on his own because he's the early riser in the group, up with the sun. SO proud of him. :viking:

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Post by: odeon on June 24, 2012, 10:45:59 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on June 24, 2012, 10:44:36 AM

Picked up the eldest from his first overnight camping trip with his autism teen group. He said at one point last night he really wanted to come home but he "got over it" and decided to stay. He slept in a tent for the first time (they had an option to sleep indoors in the museum) which was a huge accomplishment for him, especially since he bunked on his own because he's the early riser in the group, up with the sun. SO proud of him. :viking:

He was very :viking:

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Post by: MissKitty on June 24, 2012, 10:52:59 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 24, 2012, 10:45:59 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on June 24, 2012, 10:44:36 AM

Picked up the eldest from his first overnight camping trip with his autism teen group. He said at one point last night he really wanted to come home but he "got over it" and decided to stay. He slept in a tent for the first time (they had an option to sleep indoors in the museum) which was a huge accomplishment for him, especially since he bunked on his own because he's the early riser in the group, up with the sun. SO proud of him. :viking:

He was very :viking:

I can't stop grinning. I'm so proud  :green:

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Post by: 'andersom' on June 24, 2012, 02:37:56 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on June 24, 2012, 10:52:59 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 24, 2012, 10:45:59 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on June 24, 2012, 10:44:36 AM

Picked up the eldest from his first overnight camping trip with his autism teen group. He said at one point last night he really wanted to come home but he "got over it" and decided to stay. He slept in a tent for the first time (they had an option to sleep indoors in the museum) which was a huge accomplishment for him, especially since he bunked on his own because he's the early riser in the group, up with the sun. SO proud of him. :viking:

He was very :viking:

I can't stop grinning. I'm so proud  :green:

:thumbup:

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Post by: 'andersom' on June 25, 2012, 06:16:13 AM

Phone conversation with an old friend of mine. Know him for over 40 years by now, our friendship is about 30 years old.

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Post by: odeon on June 25, 2012, 11:50:30 AM

We most likely closed one deal today.

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Post by: MissKitty on June 25, 2012, 12:36:03 PM

a weeks worth of groceries for under $60  :2thumbsup:

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Post by: ShyOne on June 25, 2012, 04:19:57 PM

Got some good exercise tips from someone I know. Physio was fucking awesome today, it'll hurt like a bitch tomorrow though. My legs are starting to look toned :green:

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Post by: bodie on June 25, 2012, 06:16:48 PM

Quote from: Crip on June 25, 2012, 04:19:57 PM

Got some good exercise tips from someone I know. Physio was fucking awesome today, it'll hurt like a bitch tomorrow though. My legs are starting to look toned :green:

 :santa: hello Emma

I read your post as 'psycho' -  :hahaha:

my eyes must be tired! 

anyways glad you are getting some good results from physio and not wrestling with norman bates  :zoinks:

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Post by: MissKitty on June 26, 2012, 04:52:24 PM

Having a girlie night with ladybug. Pizza and a movie. Watching Robots.  :2thumbsup:

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Post by: odeon on June 26, 2012, 11:17:32 PM

Technically this was yesterday, but I sold my soul and so will change my Jag S-Type to a Jag XK.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on June 27, 2012, 10:09:21 AM

Odeon's new avatar

(http://cdn.abovethelaw.com/uploads/2011/03/Monopoly-Mr-Moneybags-broke.jpg)

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Post by: MissKitty on June 27, 2012, 02:25:54 PM

Spent the day here with my daughter: http://www.thedonkeysanctuary.ca/ (http://www.thedonkeysanctuary.ca/)

We absolutely loved it. Definitely going back this summer.

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Post by: Parts on June 27, 2012, 03:12:24 PM

Went from being not to busy to bidding two jobs, getting one I bid a few weeks ago, getting a call asking me to bid on a 70 unit senior housing project, picking up work for tomorrow and work in a couple weeks up at a ski resort in Vermont :GA:

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Post by: odeon on June 27, 2012, 11:10:55 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 27, 2012, 10:09:21 AM

Odeon's new avatar

(http://cdn.abovethelaw.com/uploads/2011/03/Monopoly-Mr-Moneybags-broke.jpg)

I don't have a moustache. :P

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Post by: bodie on June 28, 2012, 05:22:44 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 26, 2012, 11:17:32 PM

Technically this was yesterday, but I sold my soul and so will change my Jag S-Type to a Jag XK.

yikes...you actually found a place that deals in dark souls?










where? :P

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Post by: midlifeaspie on June 28, 2012, 11:29:53 AM

Nobody else is going to celebrate the ACA ruling?

 :party: :party: :party: :celebrate: :celebrate: :celebrate:

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Post by: bodie on June 28, 2012, 11:51:16 AM

What is the ACA ruling?

anyway, today i took the urchin horse riding.  It is probably about his fifth lesson.  It is always a good feeling because he is doing really well.  He sits on 'Danny' and is the calmest i see him all week.  He has learned the rising trot, he can canter, and he did a couple of jumps today!

He is a little star :star:

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Post by: odeon on June 28, 2012, 12:07:13 PM

Quote from: pleasure model on June 28, 2012, 05:22:44 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 26, 2012, 11:17:32 PM

Technically this was yesterday, but I sold my soul and so will change my Jag S-Type to a Jag XK.

yikes...you actually found a place that deals in dark souls?










where? :P

I had to sell my mum's, too, but hey, it's a Jag.

He's the downstairs guy. You can't miss him.

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Post by: midlifeaspie on June 28, 2012, 12:09:42 PM

Quote from: pleasure model on June 28, 2012, 11:51:16 AM

What is the ACA ruling?

anyway, today i took the urchin horse riding.  It is probably about his fifth lesson.  It is always a good feeling because he is doing really well.  He sits on 'Danny' and is the calmest i see him all week.  He has learned the rising trot, he can canter, and he did a couple of jumps today!

He is a little star :star:

US Supreme Court upheld a challenge to the overhaul of our medical insurance system this morning.  A really big deal here in the states.

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Post by: Parts on July 01, 2012, 01:48:11 PM

Made a lot of money between the tag sale and the flea market this weekend

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Post by: MissKitty on July 01, 2012, 06:39:06 PM

I'm almost done cleaning out all of my kitchen cupboards and given them a thorough scrubbing.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on July 01, 2012, 09:14:48 PM

All day today Norton Security wasn't recognizing Google Chrome or Internet Explorer.  Finally called a friend late this evening and she walked me through enough that I could run AutoFix.  It found no problem.  And I can obviously access the internet.

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Post by: MissKitty on July 02, 2012, 08:28:42 PM

My neighbours (who are also really good friends of mine) are going away until Sunday and I'll be popping in to feed their cat while they're gone. They told me to make good use of their pool while they're away because we'll be under another heatwave. I have both kids this week and they have a huge pool, trampoline and a playground in their backyard. I forsee two very happy kids who will sleep very well this week after so much fun in the sun. And swimming and lounging poolside makes for a happy Mum too ;)

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Post by: 'andersom' on July 03, 2012, 01:57:56 AM

Got a phone-call from the school confidant. She's going to help filing the complaint in an effective way. She was abhorred by what she found on her answering machine this morning.

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Post by: MissKitty on July 03, 2012, 07:22:41 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on July 03, 2012, 01:57:56 AM

Got a phone-call from the school confidant. She's going to help filing the complaint in an effective way. She was abhorred by what she found on her answering machine this morning.

as she should be! Good news indeed.

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Post by: odeon on July 03, 2012, 11:17:57 PM

It hasn't happened yet, but later today I'm going to pick up the XK.

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Post by: bodie on July 04, 2012, 03:34:13 AM

^what colour?  Post pics :laugh:

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 04, 2012, 05:38:18 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on July 03, 2012, 07:22:41 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on July 03, 2012, 01:57:56 AM

Got a phone-call from the school confidant. She's going to help filing the complaint in an effective way. She was abhorred by what she found on her answering machine this morning.

as she should be! Good news indeed.

  Mama cow is going to kick some ass!   :hyke:

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 04, 2012, 05:40:05 PM

  Today I saw this new smiley  :star:  in one of Bodie's posts!

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Post by: MissKitty on July 04, 2012, 07:41:22 PM

4 hours of swimming with the kids. 2 hours in the afternoon and 2 hours after dinner. So much fun.

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Post by: odeon on July 04, 2012, 10:38:30 PM

Quote from: pleasure model on July 04, 2012, 03:34:13 AM

^what colour?  Post pics :laugh:

OK, if you insist:

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Post by: bodie on July 05, 2012, 12:17:20 AM

Nice motor, odeon.

Is it a babe magnet?

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Post by: lutra on July 05, 2012, 12:54:38 AM

Ja, nice, cool car there.

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Post by: odeon on July 05, 2012, 03:58:54 PM

Quote from: pleasure model on July 05, 2012, 12:17:20 AM

Nice motor, odeon.

Is it a babe magnet?

:eyelash:

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Post by: 'andersom' on July 05, 2012, 06:27:05 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on July 03, 2012, 07:22:41 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on July 03, 2012, 01:57:56 AM

Got a phone-call from the school confidant. She's going to help filing the complaint in an effective way. She was abhorred by what she found on her answering machine this morning.

as she should be! Good news indeed.

Trust the spindoctering to happen. :P

I should have known......

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Post by: Parts on July 06, 2012, 07:32:20 PM

My brother gave me cash again for the money he owed me and extra to buy some more materials from the supply house that banned him  he must be sick or something :dunno:

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Post by: TheoK on July 06, 2012, 07:43:22 PM

My brother often gives me stuff: beer, wine, booze, cigars, clothes. In addtion he sells stuff cheap to me, like this computer. But then again, he is the one with the money, so he can afford it.

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Post by: MissKitty on July 06, 2012, 08:49:40 PM

Ridiculous amount of laughing in the pool with the kids. An evening well spent.

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Post by: odeon on July 07, 2012, 01:22:54 AM

I had coffee.  :2thumbsup:

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Post by: bodie on July 07, 2012, 01:24:03 AM

I am not horizontal  :P

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Post by: MissKitty on July 07, 2012, 06:45:02 AM

The day is starting off with a storm

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Post by: Charlotte Quin on July 07, 2012, 07:03:33 AM

I went out for dinner with my dad and stepma. They're going on a driving expedition to the gulf for a few weeks.

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Post by: MissKitty on July 07, 2012, 11:48:35 AM

Just made plans with one of my best friends to go see Katy Perry's Part of Me in 3D on Tuesday night. Yay for girls night.  :green:

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Post by: Parts on July 07, 2012, 08:25:27 PM

There was a great fireworks show at the end of my street, it lasted about 15 minutes of constant aerial shots of smaller professional grade fireworks.  It was better than some shows I have seen put on by towns.  Here is a clip it was like this or with even more in the sky the entire time :o
fireworks 0022 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swVYvpVTYjM#ws)

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Post by: MissKitty on July 07, 2012, 08:32:55 PM

CBC just 69'd me  :orly:

Karma of course, you filthy bastards  :zoinks:

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Post by: Bastet on July 07, 2012, 09:48:18 PM

I had biscuits and gravy for lunch and ate fudge brownie ice cream

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Post by: odeon on July 08, 2012, 08:39:39 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on July 07, 2012, 08:32:55 PM

CBC just 69'd me  :orly:

Karma of course, you filthy bastards  :zoinks:

Post pics.

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Post by: P7PSP on July 08, 2012, 11:22:35 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on July 07, 2012, 11:48:35 AM

Just made plans with one of my best friends to go see Katy Perry's Part of Me in 3D on Tuesday night. Yay for girls night.  :green:

Have fun MK.

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Post by: bodie on July 08, 2012, 01:39:51 PM

Roast beef at my mom's,  the works.   :2thumbsup:

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Post by: MissKitty on July 08, 2012, 02:04:51 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on July 08, 2012, 11:22:35 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on July 07, 2012, 11:48:35 AM

Just made plans with one of my best friends to go see Katy Perry's Part of Me in 3D on Tuesday night. Yay for girls night.  :green:

Have fun MK.

Thanks. I'm actually ridiculously excited and I'm not exactly sure why. :laugh: Kids are going to their Dad's tonight for a week so making the most of my vacation week. :)

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Post by: odeon on July 08, 2012, 02:08:56 PM

Finally, I'm alone.

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Post by: Parts on July 08, 2012, 04:01:39 PM

The project I was working on came out nice

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Post by: Queen Victoria on July 08, 2012, 07:38:11 PM

Found some good buys in the bent and dent cans: soup and beans
Bought my usual 2+ pounds of ham seasoning for beans at 59 cents per pound.
Found un-iced oatmeal cookies for PA
Got 2 bottles of vinegar for free with coupons.   

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Post by: odeon on July 09, 2012, 02:03:56 AM

About to have coffee, soon.

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Post by: bodie on July 09, 2012, 02:26:20 AM

I got urchin to school and am burning rubbish

I love fire :viking:

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Post by: odeon on July 09, 2012, 02:30:22 AM

Fire is :viking:

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Post by: bodie on July 09, 2012, 02:51:07 AM

Fire is hawt :P

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 09, 2012, 05:25:39 AM

Quote from: Parts on July 06, 2012, 07:32:20 PM

My brother gave me cash again for the money he owed me and extra to buy some more materials from the supply house that banned him  he must be sick or something :dunno:

  Just enjoy the parade of    :dollar:  :dollar:  :dollar:    !

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on July 09, 2012, 05:29:04 AM

Today is my kitty's birthday. I rescued her in rural Georgia and was told she wouldn't live more than a few weeks at most being that she was the runt of a feral litter and quite sickly. 17 years later and she's still kickin.  8) She's my longest relationship :laugh:

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a260/Canuk1975/IMG_4714.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 09, 2012, 05:40:01 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on July 09, 2012, 05:29:04 AM

Today is my kitty's birthday. I rescued her in rural Georgia and was told she wouldn't live more than a few weeks at most being that she was the runt of a feral litter and quite sickly. 17 years later and she's still kickin.  8) She's my longest relationship :laugh:

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a260/Canuk1975/IMG_4714.jpg)

Happy Birthday to your cat. She looks awesome, she could be the older sister of my Sirius.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 09, 2012, 05:42:21 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on July 09, 2012, 05:29:04 AM

Today is my kitty's birthday. I rescued her in rural Georgia and was told she wouldn't live more than a few weeks at most being that she was the runt of a feral litter and quite sickly. 17 years later and she's still kickin.  8) She's my longest relationship :laugh:

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a260/Canuk1975/IMG_4714.jpg)

  Happy birthday to a gorgeous and  very  lucky girl!  :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 09, 2012, 07:04:06 AM

So are you bodie xD

Today is a turn up for the books alright. Finally got to see my doc, was at their door before 8.30am in the pissing rain. Wasn't giving anyone else a chance to take the last appointment with him. Got the stuff I needed, and oh boy, couldn't have come soon enough.

Payday too.  Got an appointment with the pain specialist tomorrow too, which will be good. Hopefully he and I can make some headway

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on July 09, 2012, 09:16:28 AM

 :eyelash:   Thanks

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 20, 2012, 06:05:22 PM

I looked at some silver spoons I had for awhile and found they were marked sterling but in letters so small I had to use a 10X jewelers loop to read them :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 20, 2012, 07:15:56 PM

Happy birthday to Miss Kitty's kitty.  Like most black cats, she and Martha could be twins.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 20, 2012, 07:41:59 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 20, 2012, 07:15:56 PM

Happy birthday to Miss Kitty's kitty.  Like most black cats, she and Martha could be twins.

  And a belated happy 23rd to the Princess Royal.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on July 20, 2012, 08:43:24 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on July 09, 2012, 05:29:04 AM

Today is my kitty's birthday. I rescued her in rural Georgia and was told she wouldn't live more than a few weeks at most being that she was the runt of a feral litter and quite sickly. 17 years later and she's still kickin.  8) She's my longest relationship :laugh:

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a260/Canuk1975/IMG_4714.jpg)

*gasps* a black cat with green eyes!!!!!   :pinkbeat: :pinkbeat: :pinkbeat: :pinkbeat: :pinkbeat:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 23, 2012, 06:00:02 PM

Had the first genuinely productive day at work in a while.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Adam on July 23, 2012, 06:01:48 PM

Met some really cool guys and what's more - they're local!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Adam on July 23, 2012, 06:02:17 PM

also got confirmation that I will be able to go back up to Edinburgh for my mate's birthday

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on July 23, 2012, 06:03:43 PM

Edimburgum fortis est?  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on July 23, 2012, 07:09:52 PM

Thank you for the belated birthday wishes for the kitty :) She's been an amazing companion. Going to enjoy my last two nights with her before it's time to let her go. Sigh.  :-\

In better news, I feel like a really good Mum right now. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 24, 2012, 03:03:11 AM

I made coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on July 24, 2012, 03:28:37 AM

Feci acetariam thunnum  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 24, 2012, 07:10:15 PM

Chocolate chip pancakes

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on July 24, 2012, 07:29:01 PM

I followed through on a promise to my daughter that meant the world to her.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 25, 2012, 08:16:58 AM

Got a text message from my brother, during break, that had me crying with laughter.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on July 25, 2012, 08:39:04 AM

My lawyer is awesome. We had a good laugh today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Adam on July 25, 2012, 12:53:30 PM

jess cuddles

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on July 25, 2012, 01:29:17 PM

Apricus et calidus fuit  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on July 25, 2012, 04:04:11 PM

Went back to the donkey sanctuary. Saw lots of ass. *ba doom boom ching*

Actually, I needed the distraction. I hate having a house with no pets. I feel empty.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on July 25, 2012, 04:08:18 PM

Aselli sunt fortes  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on July 25, 2012, 04:20:14 PM

Indeed they are! There's a huge one named Donkeshoen and he decided I was in his way so he put his whole head into my stomach to push me out of the way. Apparently walking around me wasn't an option. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Adam on July 25, 2012, 08:19:15 PM

haha what a great name for a dónk! did u see my fb pics of them little short horses i met on holiday? well cute they were. altho the quikly lost interest when they realîsed we had no food for them lol

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on July 26, 2012, 06:17:30 AM

Edi prandium in taberna  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on July 26, 2012, 06:28:29 AM

Sed ad tabernam. In horto sedi  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 26, 2012, 08:19:39 AM

I woke up at a decent hour this morning

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on July 26, 2012, 11:21:06 AM

Someone else saw the bullshit for what it was

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 27, 2012, 03:02:26 AM

I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 27, 2012, 07:30:16 AM

It's Friday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on July 28, 2012, 03:08:12 PM

I scored 100 out of 100 on my first Latin test online. It was pretty easy, though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on July 29, 2012, 02:46:51 AM

I finally got my towels off the clothesline. I hung them out 4 weekends ago :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 29, 2012, 02:53:33 AM

Quote from: Pedestrian Killer on July 29, 2012, 02:46:51 AM

I finally got my towels off the clothesline. I hung them out 4 weekends ago :zoinks:

  I took a closer look at your avatar and it made me smile.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 29, 2012, 11:46:10 AM

Just realised that I had a pipe laid out on my desk that had barely been blazed:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on July 29, 2012, 04:20:56 PM

My mom cooked me a bloody steak :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 29, 2012, 04:23:10 PM

Quote from: bodie on July 29, 2012, 04:20:56 PM

My mom cooked me a bloody steak :viking:

  Beef tastes best when it is a little rare.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on July 29, 2012, 04:28:22 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on July 29, 2012, 04:23:10 PM

Quote from: bodie on July 29, 2012, 04:20:56 PM

My mom cooked me a bloody steak :viking:

  Beef tastes best when it is a little rare.  :thumbup:

I like it bloody when you stick the knife in it.   I am pleased because my mom went through a stage of cremating anything beefy.  She got called to the phone today so i was able to rescue my steak just at the right time. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on July 29, 2012, 08:39:27 PM

Got all of my errands done so that I don't have to rush around getting things this week. Definitely makes my week less hectic.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 30, 2012, 11:25:20 AM

Lol bodie, I don't get how people can eat it when its still trying vainly to moo its last on the plate.

I like my steaks nicely chewy, but still very juicy. But I do like it to be dead BEFORE I eat it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 30, 2012, 02:40:43 PM

I passed my eye exam.  No evidence of diabetes complications, macular degeneration, etc.  No need for new glasses either.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on July 30, 2012, 03:24:34 PM

Took a huge step towards a more independent future. I'm no longer anyone's doormat.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on July 30, 2012, 03:27:09 PM

Next summer I've decided to move to dominica

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 30, 2012, 03:28:26 PM

Quote from: Lestat on July 30, 2012, 11:25:20 AM

Lol bodie, I don't get how people can eat it when its still trying vainly to moo its last on the plate.

I like my steaks nicely chewy, but still very juicy. But I do like it to be dead BEFORE I eat it.

Half the fun is to stab it to death while watching the blood flow. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on July 30, 2012, 04:04:16 PM

Quote from: richard on July 30, 2012, 03:27:09 PM

Next summer I've decided to move to dominica

Good idea.

Both male and female same-sex sexual activity is illegal in Dominica.  According to Article 14 of the Sexual Offences Act from 1998, anyone caught perpetrating an act of gross indecency can be punished with imprisonment of up to 5 years. Article 15 punishes anal sex (regardless of whether with men or women) with a prison sentence of up to 10 years, or in some cases can lead to internment in a mental asylum. Article 16 states the punishment for attempted anal sex is imprisonment of up to 4 years.

There go your weekends.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on July 30, 2012, 04:06:08 PM

Better go to Brazil  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on July 30, 2012, 04:07:39 PM

Quote from: Lit on July 30, 2012, 04:06:08 PM

Better go to Brazil  :zoinks:

Prison can cure his desire for the butt secks.  We all know that there is no butt secks in prison.   :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on July 30, 2012, 05:59:39 PM

Yikes! well that certainly is shocking. what the hell? Looks like I'll have to go to puerto rico now.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on July 30, 2012, 06:05:26 PM

What the hell is wrong with the rest of the world? How would they prove in a court that you buttfucked someone
 :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on July 30, 2012, 06:13:14 PM

DNA

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on July 30, 2012, 06:23:23 PM

So the person you buttfucked would run to the cops and give them your DNA? Or maybe it was left behind. anyways thats fucked up. Fuck those nig nogs, Although maybe I'll go and investigate just how hard it would be to be convicted of this horrendous crime. 

Can they convict americans? Where's the law student when you need one?  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on July 30, 2012, 08:51:10 PM

Quote from: richard on July 30, 2012, 06:23:23 PM

Can they convict americans? Where's the law student when you need one?  :zoinks:

Were you really under the impression that as an American you are only ever subject to American laws regardless of where you are at the time?  Or that foreign governments need American permission to prosecute and imprison you?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 30, 2012, 09:24:28 PM

Quote from: MLA on July 30, 2012, 08:51:10 PM

Quote from: richard on July 30, 2012, 06:23:23 PM

Can they convict americans? Where's the law student when you need one?  :zoinks:

Were you really under the impression that as an American you are only ever subject to American laws regardless of where you are at the time?  Or that foreign governments need American permission to prosecute and imprison you?

  Also, there is the educational TV show,  Locked Up Abroad.   :tv:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 30, 2012, 10:58:45 PM

Locked Up Abroad is fun. ;D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 31, 2012, 12:41:47 AM

Lol odeon. No...just...no.

Steak should NOT bleed after its been cooked. And cooked it should jolly well be!

I like mine covered in black pepper, 'devils brown sauce' (its like HP/daddie's sauce but spicy hot)
And marinaded for a while in a mixture of worcestershire sauce, some dark soy sauce, and then the moisture sealed in by covering with sesame oil (btw, be  CAREFUL with sesame oil, it is, for some reason, excruciatingly painful to get in one's eye, so I am told. Never had it happen to me, but my old man told me of somebody he knows that accidentally wiped his eyes when his hand had a trace of sesame oil on it, so I hear, it was as bad as getting chilli peppers in the eyes!)

And then served with a gravy made of stewed morels, beef gravy cubes, a little powdered fly agaric (must be heat-cured overnight in an oven with the door open, at the lowest possible heat setting to dry them out and render the mushroom non-toxic), and served with a big plate of shiitake, fried in butter.

I think I'll have to get me a couple of nice big juicy steaks as soon as I get paid. And do another chilli too come to think of it...but I crave steak now thanks to you lot. Although Bodie's idea of a good steak...is not something I would want to eat. I like mine WELL done. Nicely browned, cooked throughout and not the merest trace of pink inside. Ewwwww, nasty.

I need to get some more dried morels though, I used the lot in the last chilli I did, they are not easy to find though, I searched all over tesco in the local town and had no luck. They certainly used to sell them. I'll check again in case they were just out of stock, but I think I am going to have to check both the sainsbury's, and sainsbury's+tesco in the next town along, Sale.

Not sure what sort of steak to get though. Of course, depends if there is anything going on special offer/discount, but I can't quite decide...Fillet is a favourite, but I like a good hefty great chewy yet tender big meaty fuckoff hunk of rump steak.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on July 31, 2012, 05:29:44 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 30, 2012, 10:58:45 PM

Locked Up Abroad is fun. ;D

Love that show!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on July 31, 2012, 06:17:34 AM

Quote from: Lestat on July 31, 2012, 12:41:47 AM

Lol odeon. No...just...no.

Steak should NOT bleed after its been cooked. And cooked it should jolly well be!

I like mine covered in black pepper, 'devils brown sauce' (its like HP/daddie's sauce but spicy hot)
And marinaded for a while in a mixture of worcestershire sauce, some dark soy sauce, and then the moisture sealed in by covering with sesame oil (btw, be  CAREFUL with sesame oil, it is, for some reason, excruciatingly painful to get in one's eye, so I am told. Never had it happen to me, but my old man told me of somebody he knows that accidentally wiped his eyes when his hand had a trace of sesame oil on it, so I hear, it was as bad as getting chilli peppers in the eyes!)

And then served with a gravy made of stewed morels, beef gravy cubes, a little powdered fly agaric (must be heat-cured overnight in an oven with the door open, at the lowest possible heat setting to dry them out and render the mushroom non-toxic), and served with a big plate of shiitake, fried in butter.

I think I'll have to get me a couple of nice big juicy steaks as soon as I get paid. And do another chilli too come to think of it...but I crave steak now thanks to you lot. Although Bodie's idea of a good steak...is not something I would want to eat. I like mine WELL done. Nicely browned, cooked throughout and not the merest trace of pink inside. Ewwwww, nasty.

I need to get some more dried morels though, I used the lot in the last chilli I did, they are not easy to find though, I searched all over tesco in the local town and had no luck. They certainly used to sell them. I'll check again in case they were just out of stock, but I think I am going to have to check both the sainsbury's, and sainsbury's+tesco in the next town along, Sale.

Not sure what sort of steak to get though. Of course, depends if there is anything going on special offer/discount, but I can't quite decide...Fillet is a favourite, but I like a good hefty great chewy yet tender big meaty fuckoff hunk of rump steak.

Oh no,  the more you cook a fillet of steak the less tasty it becomes!  It requires just browning on the outside,  the rest should be pink and it should positively bleed in the middle.

I used to work in an Italian restaurant,  and they do a steak dish raw!  although i must admit, it's not for me.  And yes, peppered steak is good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 31, 2012, 09:08:25 AM

Damn you, I'm hungry now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on July 31, 2012, 10:30:57 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on July 31, 2012, 05:29:44 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 30, 2012, 10:58:45 PM

Locked Up Abroad is fun. ;D

Love that show!  :thumbup:

Looks like I'm going to have to find a place to live that isnt stuck in the dark ages,  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 31, 2012, 11:17:43 AM

I don't like it anything short of not cooked all the way through.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 31, 2012, 11:33:04 AM

When we get a good buy on steak (or steak-like cuts), I cut it into strips, quick fry them and serve them in a steak salad.  Makes the meat go a whole lot further.  And doesn't steak go with a salad? 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on July 31, 2012, 11:41:35 AM

Caro cum acetaria  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 01, 2012, 01:04:05 AM

Eww...salad. Not if its me eating it it doesn't. Can't eat any veg.

I'm due to get a refill on my meds today, but I just found one, solitary, lonesome oxycontin 40 and a couple of 25 microgram clonidine pills.

Glad I switched to clonidine from tizanidine recently, its been a huge improvement. And while they both are, clonidine makes a fantastic potentiator for opioids. Lol I daresay I've taken quite a liking to mixing them in the same syringe.

Time to go draw up the second 2.5ml aliquot of H2O they are stewing in to get the last of the goodness out. A nice chance find just after waking up and going to the bog. Found two fags also. For some reason opioids always make me want to smoke more.

Better than coffee to start my day :D

Although I might just have a  jug of hot lemon balm infusion with honey. Picked fresh from my garden (not the honey, although it would be lovely to have my own hives, bee populations are taking a massive crash thanks to disease:()

Although there is a bee's nest near one of the big bay windows. Folks wanted rid of it, but I did my best to stick up for them. Still there :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on August 01, 2012, 03:23:26 AM

i wish i had something to 'pick me up' this morning :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 01, 2012, 05:32:38 AM

Quote from: bodie on August 01, 2012, 03:23:26 AM

i wish i had something to 'pick me up' this morning :orly:

  This big fella looks able and willing!  ----->    :grimlock:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on August 01, 2012, 05:36:51 AM

I bet he runs out of batteries quickly too  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 01, 2012, 05:39:30 AM

Quote from: bodie on August 01, 2012, 05:36:51 AM

I bet he runs out of batteries quickly too  :P

    I wouldn't know.  :angel:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 01, 2012, 03:16:07 PM

Spent part of the day golfing with a mate.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 01, 2012, 07:37:30 PM

The lady I built the flower box for liked it so much she gave me an extra $50 over what I billed her :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 01, 2012, 08:11:43 PM

Quote from: richard on July 31, 2012, 10:30:57 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on July 31, 2012, 05:29:44 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 30, 2012, 10:58:45 PM

Locked Up Abroad is fun. ;D

Love that show!  :thumbup:

Looks like I'm going to have to find a place to live that isnt stuck in the dark ages,  :laugh:

  What's wrong with Arizona?  :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 01, 2012, 08:51:11 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 01, 2012, 08:11:43 PM

Quote from: richard on July 31, 2012, 10:30:57 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on July 31, 2012, 05:29:44 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 30, 2012, 10:58:45 PM

Locked Up Abroad is fun. ;D

Love that show!  :thumbup:

Looks like I'm going to have to find a place to live that isnt stuck in the dark ages,  :laugh:

  What's wrong with Arizona?  :dunno:

Maybe he thought this was a "I surrender, screw me" sign:

(http://www.desertmuseum.org/kids/oz/long-fact-sheets/saguaro%20copy.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 02, 2012, 03:02:07 AM

I got an appointment for a pre-op laser eye surgery examination.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on August 02, 2012, 03:08:57 AM

 :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 02, 2012, 03:13:15 AM

We'll see how it goes. I'm not expecting to get rid of glasses altogether (I'm too old for that) but if they can correct my eyesight so I'd only need simple reading glasses I'd be very happy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on August 02, 2012, 03:14:19 AM

Fortis esse necesse est  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: ShyOne on August 02, 2012, 03:37:39 AM

I got a call just a couple of minutes ago, I got my first job!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on August 02, 2012, 03:49:39 AM

 :roses:

Congratulations

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 02, 2012, 05:10:26 AM

Quote from: ShyOne on August 02, 2012, 03:37:39 AM

I got a call just a couple of minutes ago, I got my first job!!

  :viking: :pirate: :arrr:

:congrats: :party:
Wishing you as much pleasure at work as I am having at mine.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 02, 2012, 06:26:24 AM

Quote from: ShyOne on August 02, 2012, 03:37:39 AM

I got a call just a couple of minutes ago, I got my first job!!

Congratulations!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 02, 2012, 06:28:23 AM

Quote from: ShyOne on August 02, 2012, 03:37:39 AM

I got a call just a couple of minutes ago, I got my first job!!

  That is awesome, congratulations!  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on August 02, 2012, 06:28:59 AM

Sic, gratulationes!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 02, 2012, 08:39:48 AM

Quote from: ShyOne on August 02, 2012, 03:37:39 AM

I got a call just a couple of minutes ago, I got my first job!!

Congratulations!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 02, 2012, 09:21:20 AM

Had a nice big bowlful of homegrown blueberries, picked fresh from my bushes. Real big juicy buggers, up to a half inch across. Come to think of it, I might go and pick some more, I'm hungry again after that roast chicken.

Better than anything I've ever had from the supermarket, sure one has to pick out a few stems here and there, and remove the odd bit of wildlife, but they are much bigger, far sweeter and juicier than commercial ones.

Time for some more, and I'm going to grab some lemon balm to brew up tea from, take the taste of poppy pod tea out of my mouth...that stuff is fucking brutal, drank my jug full and oh jesus, the STENCH of that stuff makes me dread brewing it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on August 02, 2012, 09:26:28 AM

My son passed his deep water swim test. Given that he used to be terrified of water a few years ago, this is huge.

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Post by: Lestat on August 02, 2012, 09:50:42 AM

Well done him :)

I prefer deep water if I am going to get wet. Although I prefer to be under it, not had the chance to go scuba diving in ages though, other than in an abandoned quarry. And in the middle of winter in the UK, jesus H, do big sodding pits full of water ever get cold. Would much rather have got to do my training where I did my first diving, off the coast of turkey. As odd as it sounds, actually, getting an octopus stuck on my face was one of the most interesting experiences I have ever had :D

Such cute 'lil buggers they are.

Mmm....just started a pot of balm tea brewing, and the smell is heavenly. The smell of opium makes me gag just thinking about it, but even while just picking the balm, everything else was just overpowered. My kitchen smells of nothing but lemon/citrus fresh now, even with a pan full of ground up pods that have been brewed up, which I daresay, takes some doing. One of nature's own anticonvulsants too, which in my case is a good thing-I REALLY do not fancy another seizure at all, especially going face-first down the stairs.

Balm contains compounds which act as seemingly fairly potent inhibitors of GABA-transaminase, the enzyme that breaks down the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the CNS, gamma-aminobutyric acid/GABA, along with modulating nicotinic acetylcholine receptors giving it memory-enhancing properties too.

Delicious, AND a nootropic/anticonvulsant. Beats pills thats for sure, all it needs is a little honey to sweeten and its perfect.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on August 02, 2012, 03:54:43 PM

Quote from: ShyOne on August 02, 2012, 03:37:39 AM

I got a call just a couple of minutes ago, I got my first job!!

Congratulations.

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Post by: Parts on August 02, 2012, 06:04:56 PM

Even though my phone was not under warranty any longer ATT is sending me a free replacement due to the run around customer service has been giving us including them dropping the call about five times and giving us the wrong information several times over the last two days

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Post by: MissKitty on August 02, 2012, 07:33:37 PM

Got a text from a friend that really made my night.

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Post by: Pyraxis on August 03, 2012, 05:28:25 PM

Someone at work called me the monk of the team who always does the shit jobs without complaining, and said they wanted to be more like that. It felt bizarrely good. I hope I'm not being exploited by putting up with too much crap.

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Post by: MissKitty on August 03, 2012, 06:51:24 PM

Got encouraging news that my gut instinct was for once, bang on. Full steam ahead.

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Post by: Parts on August 06, 2012, 09:18:07 AM

Yesterday, biggest day at the market ever $$$$
I had a regular customer who I had given a good deal give me a gift

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Post by: Parts on August 06, 2012, 05:59:31 PM

My new phone came no more shitty spare phone for me

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Post by: odeon on August 06, 2012, 10:38:00 PM

Did an Open Forum presentation today. A 5-minute thing. Received quite well, I believe.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on August 07, 2012, 05:02:09 PM

Not a damn thing.

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Post by: Parts on August 07, 2012, 06:53:54 PM

My refund check from and overpayment to my insurance company came

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Post by: MissKitty on August 08, 2012, 06:41:38 AM

Reconnected with an old friend. Going to meet her for lunch on Friday.

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Post by: Parts on August 08, 2012, 02:34:47 PM

I had some fun at work playing with two bees nests one in the wall I was working on the other in the ground not far away.  The ones in the wall came flying out when I ripped the siding off the house but none got me. So we sprayed them the sucked them out of the air and their nests with a shop vac.  It was a very nostalgic moment bringing me back to my childhood :green:

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Post by: Queen Victoria on August 08, 2012, 02:47:42 PM

Found a pork roast marked down to about 50 cents a pound.  Roasting it now.  (It was marked down because the styrofoam tray was bent and the wrap had a hole in it.  Hey, the heat will kill any germs.

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Post by: TheoK on August 08, 2012, 03:19:44 PM

Porcus bonus est  :viking:

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Post by: midlifeaspie on August 08, 2012, 03:23:19 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 08, 2012, 02:47:42 PM

Found a pork roast marked down to about 50 cents a pound.  Roasting it now.  (It was marked down because the styrofoam tray was bent and the wrap had a hole in it.  Hey, the heat will kill any germs.

 :O_o:

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Post by: MissKitty on August 08, 2012, 08:26:55 PM

Took the dog for a long walk

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Post by: Queen Victoria on August 08, 2012, 08:36:28 PM

I've been so frantic with happenings recently I didn't remember if I'd paid the bills.  Somehow I did.  Whew.

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Post by: Bastet on August 08, 2012, 08:40:24 PM

I thought I lost something I love. I was sweating and hyperventilating over it. I found it! Thank god I found it!!! Phew!!!!

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Post by: odeon on August 08, 2012, 08:56:12 PM

Had a very nice evening dining and talking to colleagues.

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Post by: Jesse on August 08, 2012, 09:41:28 PM

I found a rare version of opeths album "blackwater park" today,  :thumbup:

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Post by: TheoK on August 09, 2012, 08:35:16 AM

I bought cognac and both the nerdy girl and the brunette worked at the café  :thumbup:

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Post by: MissKitty on August 09, 2012, 12:58:58 PM

Took the dog to my store because I had to pick something up. She was ridiculously excited to be there. I think her favourite part was the aisle with all of the dog bones. She thought it was self serve. :laugh:

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Post by: lutra on August 09, 2012, 02:34:46 PM

Dutch field hockey lads beat England with 9-2. Now the men and the ladies are in the finals.  :orly:

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 09, 2012, 05:23:03 PM

  Internet connection is better.  I replaced the filter that attaches to my phone cord
  and plugs into the wall jack, maybe that did the trick.  Time will tell.  :crossed:

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Post by: odeon on August 09, 2012, 08:11:05 PM

Several people praised my presentation today. I even got a mention in an O'Reilly blog entry.

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Post by: midlifeaspie on August 09, 2012, 10:10:11 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 09, 2012, 08:11:05 PM

Several people praised my presentation today. I even got a mention in an O'Reilly blog entry.

Bill?

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Post by: odeon on August 09, 2012, 10:13:05 PM

Quote from: MLA on August 09, 2012, 10:10:11 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 09, 2012, 08:11:05 PM

Several people praised my presentation today. I even got a mention in an O'Reilly blog entry.

Bill?

O'Reilly the book publisher.

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Post by: Pyraxis on August 11, 2012, 09:42:34 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 09, 2012, 08:11:05 PM

Several people praised my presentation today. I even got a mention in an O'Reilly blog entry.

 :party:  :viking:

First step O'Reilly, next step the world...

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Post by: Parts on August 11, 2012, 06:49:55 PM

I got my son's car to start and run after sucking about a half liter of water out of the engine

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Post by: odeon on August 11, 2012, 08:26:14 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on August 11, 2012, 09:42:34 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 09, 2012, 08:11:05 PM

Several people praised my presentation today. I even got a mention in an O'Reilly blog entry.

 :party:  :viking:

First step O'Reilly, next step the world...

Actually quite happy with the O'Reilly mention. I've met some very clever people this week and I feel humbled, to say the least.

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Post by: 'andersom' on August 12, 2012, 04:55:17 PM

Cats were thrilled to see us back home, we had been gone since Thursday. Luna ran all the way up to us, the moment she could hear us, and made us all stop to rub her tummy, before we were allowed to get closer to home.
Even Sirius forgot for a while that he is a shy cat.

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Post by: 'andersom' on August 12, 2012, 04:56:08 PM

And, the good that is about to happen, is that I will be sleeping in my own bed again, very likely, with a cat. 

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 12, 2012, 05:32:57 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on August 12, 2012, 04:56:08 PM

And, the good that is about to happen, is that I will be sleeping in my own bed again, very likely, with a cat.

  I love sleeping in my own bed again after being away.    :dream:

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Post by: 'andersom' on August 12, 2012, 05:39:02 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 12, 2012, 05:32:57 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on August 12, 2012, 04:56:08 PM

And, the good that is about to happen, is that I will be sleeping in my own bed again, very likely, with a cat.

  I love sleeping in my own bed again after being away.    :dream:

:agreed: :indeed:

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 12, 2012, 06:20:45 PM

  Hyke returned to Intensity after her trip.  :)

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Post by: MissKitty on August 12, 2012, 07:27:44 PM

Took the dog to visit my Gram. She's the reason I got into animal rescue and the one thing she misses most about having to live in a nursing home is not having a pet. So I surprised her and wheeled her outside in her wheelchair to a picnic area and when she saw the dog she was *so* excited. It's the most amazing feeling when you can give your 95 year old Gram experiences like that and see her light up.

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Post by: midlifeaspie on August 13, 2012, 12:19:50 PM

My little girl said her first word on Saturday, and hasn't stopped chanting it ever since.   Dadadadadadadadadadada  :green:

(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/420017_10152001702075313_1324570466_n.jpg)

A huge relief as her brother needed another 18 months to get to his first word.

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Post by: TheoK on August 13, 2012, 01:02:54 PM

What did she say? "Uncle Lit is  :viking: "?

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Post by: Queen Victoria on August 13, 2012, 04:32:35 PM

Well, if there was any doubt before, there isn't now.  We know who she's got wrapped around her 4 fingers and thumb. 
Great that she's talking.

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Post by: midlifeaspie on August 13, 2012, 04:58:33 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 13, 2012, 04:32:35 PM

Well, if there was any doubt before, there isn't now.  We know who she's got wrapped around her 4 fingers and thumb. 
Great that she's talking.

She knows how to manipulate, that's for sure :LOL:

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 13, 2012, 06:05:17 PM

Quote from: MLA on August 13, 2012, 04:58:33 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 13, 2012, 04:32:35 PM

Well, if there was any doubt before, there isn't now.  We know who she's got wrapped around her 4 fingers and thumb. 
Great that she's talking.

She knows how to manipulate, that's for sure :LOL:

  Manipulate?  No, not that little angel.  :heart:

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 13, 2012, 06:06:17 PM

  Today I found out that I have tomorrow morning off from work!  :green:

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Post by: MissKitty on August 14, 2012, 06:32:14 AM

Started my day with a call from my daughter while she was on her way to horse camp :heart:

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Post by: Charlotte Quin on August 14, 2012, 06:47:25 AM

Quote from: MLA on August 13, 2012, 12:19:50 PM

My little girl said her first word on Saturday, and hasn't stopped chanting it ever since.   Dadadadadadadadadadada  :green:

(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/420017_10152001702075313_1324570466_n.jpg)

A huge relief as her brother needed another 18 months to get to his first word.

A cute overload laced "teeheeheeheehee!!" always comes out of my mouth when I see that kid :laugh:

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Post by: Pyraxis on August 14, 2012, 06:55:05 AM

Nothing yet. Still hoping.

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Post by: midlifeaspie on August 14, 2012, 11:21:53 AM

Quote from: Pedestrian Killer on August 14, 2012, 06:47:25 AM

A cute overload laced "teeheeheeheehee!!" always comes out of my mouth when I see that kid :laugh:

She is kinda cute :)

(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s720x720/388161_10151980388265313_765243804_n.jpg)

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Post by: Lestat on August 14, 2012, 12:30:58 PM

I went on a good long hike in the local woodland, the one I've been mushroom hunting in since early childhood. Not a great harvest, it has been too hot and dry of late, but I did find a few blushers (Amanita rubescens)

They do contain a haemolytic poison, but if boiled first, the water thrown away, then boiled a second time, they can be eaten. I've  never tried them, but I figured since there is nothing else to be had right now, I may as well at least try them once.

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Post by: TheoK on August 14, 2012, 12:34:24 PM

 :viking:

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Post by: MissKitty on August 16, 2012, 03:37:50 PM

Got to my store and who should greet me at the door but a 5 mos only Leonburger puppy. They're rare so I was beyond excited to see one since it's the kind of dog I want to get. I gasped "OMG! You have a Leonburger!" :laugh: The wife was shocked I knew the breed since no one seems to ever get it right. I was sitting on the floor within a nanosecond with the pup. Holy crap, this totally sold me on my future adoption. :heart:

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 16, 2012, 06:22:04 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on August 16, 2012, 03:37:50 PM

Got to my store and who should greet me at the door but a 5 mos only Leonburger puppy. They're rare so I was beyond excited to see one since it's the kind of dog I want to get. I gasped "OMG! You have a Leonburger!" :laugh: The wife was shocked I knew the breed since no one seems to ever get it right. I was sitting on the floor within a nanosecond with the pup. Holy crap, this totally sold me on my future adoption. :heart:

  Awww, it's meant to be!  :thumbup:

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Post by: MissKitty on August 16, 2012, 06:35:22 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 16, 2012, 06:22:04 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on August 16, 2012, 03:37:50 PM

Got to my store and who should greet me at the door but a 5 mos only Leonburger puppy. They're rare so I was beyond excited to see one since it's the kind of dog I want to get. I gasped "OMG! You have a Leonburger!" :laugh: The wife was shocked I knew the breed since no one seems to ever get it right. I was sitting on the floor within a nanosecond with the pup. Holy crap, this totally sold me on my future adoption. :heart:

  Awww, it's meant to be!  :thumbup:

That's what I thought too! Poor Scally didn't know what to make of the whole thing. She knew it was a puppy in front of her that wanted to play, but I think she was completely confused by the fact that this "puppy" was nearly as big as she was. She hid behind my legs. :laugh:

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Post by: Charlotte Quin on August 17, 2012, 06:34:08 AM

Impromptu dinner date with mum and her friend.

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Post by: Parts on August 17, 2012, 08:39:02 AM

Had a nice nights sleep in my own bed

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Post by: TheoK on August 19, 2012, 08:46:08 AM

My brother gave me a bottle of Zinfandel from 2009, because he's  :viking:

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Post by: lutra on August 19, 2012, 04:11:12 PM

You know I don't like hot and damp weather (well, who does) and ja, today we had that type of weather, (max T, this afternoon, was at least 34C with an air-humidity of p/m 70%).. but the reason why I post this here is because I managed to stay quite zen today. A good thing, I say.

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Post by: odeon on August 19, 2012, 04:17:15 PM

Well, nothing bad happened, which is a good thing.

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Post by: Parts on August 19, 2012, 06:22:15 PM

I sold a lot of stuff

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Post by: MissKitty on August 19, 2012, 06:32:02 PM

Took the dog for a walk while girl rode her bike. We ended up at a nice park. I laid in the grass with the dog watching the sunset while girlie played her heart out in the playground. Perfect evening.

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Post by: Parts on August 19, 2012, 08:53:15 PM

I forgot I also saw two shooting stars on the way to the flea market early this morning when it was still dark

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Post by: odeon on August 19, 2012, 11:02:47 PM

I had coffee.

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Post by: Callaway on August 20, 2012, 12:29:09 AM

My husband picked up my pain medicine at the pharmacy before I ran out of it.

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Post by: TheoK on August 20, 2012, 09:31:28 AM

I was at the café. The nerd girl was serving :toporly:

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Post by: odeon on August 20, 2012, 02:38:32 PM

Got back my Jag from the shop. And since I've been looking for a phone hand unit for it, my friend the Jag tech gave me one that had been lying around. He said they aren't exactly sought after these days.

Except by me. ;D

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Post by: Pyraxis on August 20, 2012, 05:27:44 PM

Actually had a good day at work today.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 20, 2012, 05:51:48 PM

  I noticed I walk faster and feel more streamlined minus 20 extra pounds.  8)

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Post by: P7PSP on August 20, 2012, 07:01:47 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 20, 2012, 05:51:48 PM

  I noticed I walk faster and feel more streamlined minus 20 extra pounds.  8)

:thumbup: :plus: :cbc:

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Post by: Queen Victoria on August 20, 2012, 10:16:50 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 20, 2012, 05:51:48 PM

  I noticed I walk faster and feel more streamlined minus 20 extra pounds.  8)

I'm jealous.  But congratulations on your accomplishment.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 20, 2012, 11:34:42 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 20, 2012, 10:16:50 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 20, 2012, 05:51:48 PM

  I noticed I walk faster and feel more streamlined minus 20 extra pounds.  8)

I'm jealous.  But congratulations on your accomplishment.

  Thank you, Your Majesty! :cbc: *wobbles off to get you some tea*

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Post by: odeon on August 21, 2012, 11:54:11 AM

Had a nice chat with my daughter. So glad they still happen from time to time. :)

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Post by: Queen Victoria on August 21, 2012, 01:13:02 PM

Went to buy a new pair of pants.  So, I went to the thrift store and found a new to me pair of pants. 

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Post by: odeon on August 22, 2012, 11:01:06 PM

I had coffee. :)

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 23, 2012, 06:26:15 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 22, 2012, 11:01:06 PM

I had coffee. :)

  Me too!  I also had some cold leftover fish with a spicy sauce!  :thumbup:

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Post by: Parts on August 23, 2012, 04:46:21 PM

Work has become very busy

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Post by: MissKitty on August 24, 2012, 10:35:17 AM

A friend of mine has kids who outgrew their horse riding gear so she said I could have first dibs on it since the youngest has started riding. I got a helmet, riding gloves, and riding pants for free. She'll have to grow into the pants but everything else fits perfectly. :2thumbsup:

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Post by: odeon on August 24, 2012, 11:09:23 AM

It's Friday and I bought beer. That's about it, as far as good things are concerned. Workday was fucked up--I had a second salary discussion with the 12-yo and things went downhill fast from there.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on August 24, 2012, 12:22:16 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 24, 2012, 11:09:23 AM

It's Friday and I bought beer. That's about it, as far as good things are concerned. Workday was fucked up--I had a second salary discussion with the 12-yo and things went downhill fast from there.

 :hug:

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Post by: odeon on August 24, 2012, 12:46:53 PM

One beer down. Still pissed off.

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Post by: Parts on August 24, 2012, 04:40:40 PM

Had machinery problems at work but was able to fix everything and was paid in cash

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 24, 2012, 06:33:06 PM

  I started the day  FURIOUS  with my boss but the day turned out OK.  8)

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 24, 2012, 06:57:45 PM

  Yay Drano, my kitchen sink has clear drains!  :woohoo:

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Post by: odeon on August 25, 2012, 03:02:57 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 24, 2012, 06:33:06 PM

  I started the day  FURIOUS  with my boss but the day turned out OK.  8)

Did you kill your boss?

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 25, 2012, 08:04:10 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 25, 2012, 03:02:57 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 24, 2012, 06:33:06 PM

  I started the day  FURIOUS  with my boss but the day turned out OK.  8)

Did you kill your boss?

  No, I would never jeopardize my freedom to postwhore!  :zoinks:

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Post by: 'andersom' on August 25, 2012, 08:46:18 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 25, 2012, 08:04:10 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 25, 2012, 03:02:57 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 24, 2012, 06:33:06 PM

  I started the day  FURIOUS  with my boss but the day turned out OK.  8)

Did you kill your boss?

  No, I would never jeopardize my freedom to postwhore!  :zoinks:

So, I2 saved her life?

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 25, 2012, 09:05:22 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on August 25, 2012, 08:46:18 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 25, 2012, 08:04:10 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 25, 2012, 03:02:57 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 24, 2012, 06:33:06 PM

  I started the day  FURIOUS  with my boss but the day turned out OK.  8)

Did you kill your boss?

  No, I would never jeopardize my freedom to postwhore!  :zoinks:

So, I2 saved her life?

 It certainly helped!  :laugh:

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Post by: 'andersom' on August 25, 2012, 09:15:18 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 25, 2012, 09:05:22 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on August 25, 2012, 08:46:18 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 25, 2012, 08:04:10 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 25, 2012, 03:02:57 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 24, 2012, 06:33:06 PM

  I started the day  FURIOUS  with my boss but the day turned out OK.  8)

Did you kill your boss?

  No, I would never jeopardize my freedom to postwhore!  :zoinks:

So, I2 saved her life?

 It certainly helped!  :laugh:

This place should get credit for all the evil it has prevented to happen.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on August 25, 2012, 01:13:40 PM

Used a $5 off $25 coupon at a grocery store.  Bought
3 lbs oranges
3 bottles ketchup
5 jars mayonnaise
4 bottles apple juice (half gallon size)
3 large cans of winter greens

Total with tax:  $23.30.  Not shabby.

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Post by: odeon on August 25, 2012, 01:21:38 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on August 25, 2012, 09:15:18 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 25, 2012, 09:05:22 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on August 25, 2012, 08:46:18 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 25, 2012, 08:04:10 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 25, 2012, 03:02:57 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 24, 2012, 06:33:06 PM

  I started the day  FURIOUS  with my boss but the day turned out OK.  8)

Did you kill your boss?

  No, I would never jeopardize my freedom to postwhore!  :zoinks:

So, I2 saved her life?

 It certainly helped!  :laugh:

This place should get credit for all the evil it has prevented to happen.

QFT :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 25, 2012, 05:56:14 PM

I'm pretty good at tossing leftovers together and making a good meal.   :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 25, 2012, 06:27:35 PM

  I made good scrambled eggs with cheese.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 25, 2012, 07:03:29 PM

  I found a new splitter for my phone line and DSL modem line.  It won't solve the
  connection problem, but it does click tighter into the wall jack, so that's good.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 25, 2012, 07:55:50 PM

Followed up with AT&T about my credit posting.  It's showing on their records as being done.  So that's $49.95 back + the refund of the charge for the cancelled Fast Access service, about $7.00.  Should be around $55. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 25, 2012, 07:58:31 PM

  I cleaned up the apartment to the extent that it's beginning to look like the home
  of a relatively sane person.   :insane:   It's not done yet, but it's well on the way.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 25, 2012, 09:21:10 PM

Went swimming in the ocean.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 26, 2012, 02:17:46 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on August 25, 2012, 09:21:10 PM

Went swimming in the ocean.

Now I know what I am craving.

Been way too long, that I did that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: earthboundmisfit on August 27, 2012, 04:34:47 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on August 25, 2012, 09:21:10 PM

Went swimming in the ocean.

I used to do that often when I lived in Okinawa. Something grounding and cleansing about it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 27, 2012, 05:40:09 PM

Yeah it is. It's really strange, so calming, and then you come out of it and realize you're totally wiped out. Or at least I did. Touches on some deep level of the human biological instinct, or maybe even left over from a time before the evolution of humans.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on August 28, 2012, 10:26:28 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 25, 2012, 07:58:31 PM

  I cleaned up the apartment to the extent that it's beginning to look like the home
  of a relatively sane person.   :insane:   It's not done yet, but it's well on the way.

:thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 28, 2012, 12:11:35 PM

My daughter is in a happy and bouncy mood, always a good thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 28, 2012, 05:54:03 PM

Just found a stash of candy, food and rolling baccy that I had long forgotten about. Just about perfect timing too, I've not eaten in days.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 28, 2012, 07:16:40 PM

Work keeps rolling in

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: lutra on August 29, 2012, 01:35:20 PM

Fuckin' farts.. what a day. This morning, out of the blue, my router stopped doing it's wireless 'magic' and it shook up my routine that much I was distracted for most of the day. Couple of times I lost my 'zen' completely.

Well, found my older router, which I totally forgot I had, on the bottom of a box after dinner and after some network encrypted and password troubles.. Iz back now (=good thing).

Pffff..

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on August 30, 2012, 08:07:15 AM

My mum bought me a pair of wintershoes for 1500 kronor and then we had lunch at the café  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 30, 2012, 08:09:50 AM

Quote from: Lestat on August 28, 2012, 05:54:03 PM

Just found a stash of candy, food and rolling baccy that I had long forgotten about. Just about perfect timing too, I've not eaten in days.

  I should stash food around the apartment but I don't have the discipline.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 30, 2012, 12:47:02 PM

I just forgot it after buying it. Right when I was both hungry and out of baccy, it turned up.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 30, 2012, 12:52:02 PM

Quote from: Lestat on August 30, 2012, 12:47:02 PM

I just forgot it after buying it. Right when I was both hungry and out of baccy, it turned up.

  Food I buy doesn't usually last long enough to be forgotten.  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on August 30, 2012, 03:27:16 PM

I got my numbers to an interesting place :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on August 30, 2012, 03:29:55 PM

There, now I can leave it alone for a while

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 30, 2012, 10:52:45 PM

I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on August 31, 2012, 12:57:26 AM

3 times a charm - this time the archos tablet works and i have 2 more weeks to break it. sears called and let me know that the billing address on my bank card is three years out of date. they thought i was a thief sending it to florida instead of northampton where i used to live.

so i may get the galaxy tab in a week or maybe less if they feel guilty about it. meanwhile am loading videos on the card to watch on the archos!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 31, 2012, 10:58:13 AM

Not today (Friday), but yesterday.

Left Baton Rouge for home and made it safely.  No electricity (see Random observation thread)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 31, 2012, 03:21:29 PM

Heavy police presence on the street where I was working today kept the hooligans at bay.  At first I was a bit worried as I had to park the van and trailer across two handicapped spots and the cops in New Haven can be assholes but they were not interested in me what so ever

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 31, 2012, 06:09:49 PM

Quote from: Parts on August 31, 2012, 03:21:29 PM

Heavy police presence on the street where I was working today kept the hooligans at bay.  At first I was a bit worried as I had to park the van and trailer across two handicapped spots and the cops in New Haven can be assholes but they were not interested in me what so ever

  Why so many cops there today?  :police:  Dunkin' Donuts grand opening?  :police:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 31, 2012, 06:20:54 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 31, 2012, 06:09:49 PM

Quote from: Parts on August 31, 2012, 03:21:29 PM

Heavy police presence on the street where I was working today kept the hooligans at bay.  At first I was a bit worried as I had to park the van and trailer across two handicapped spots and the cops in New Haven can be assholes but they were not interested in me what so ever

  Why so many cops there today?  :police:  Dunkin' Donuts grand opening?  :police:

The street is a major drug dealing area,  yesterday it was crazy with all the people there.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 01, 2012, 01:05:37 AM

  My ears just unblocked.  I hadn't even noticed they were blocked!  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 01, 2012, 05:30:36 PM

  My boss extended my vacation to 7 days!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 01, 2012, 07:31:37 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 01, 2012, 05:30:36 PM

  My boss extended my vacation to 7 days!  :thumbup:

It's a good thing your ears were unblocked or you would have shown up for work on the 7th day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 02, 2012, 12:31:11 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 01, 2012, 07:31:37 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 01, 2012, 05:30:36 PM

  My boss extended my vacation to 7 days!  :thumbup:

It's a good thing your ears were unblocked or you would have shown up for work on the 7th day.

  And that would have sucked!  :laugh:


  It's about 2:30 a.m., I've just unwrapped and re-treated my cut thumb, and it's already beginning
  to heal.  I have added more Neosporin and bandages.  It should be fine in a few days.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 02, 2012, 03:43:24 AM

I made coffee. That's a very good thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 02, 2012, 03:34:19 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 02, 2012, 12:31:11 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 01, 2012, 07:31:37 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 01, 2012, 05:30:36 PM

  My boss extended my vacation to 7 days!  :thumbup:

It's a good thing your ears were unblocked or you would have shown up for work on the 7th day.

  And that would have sucked!  :laugh:


  It's about 2:30 a.m., I've just unwrapped and re-treated my cut thumb, and it's already beginning
  to heal.  I have added more Neosporin and bandages.  It should be fine in a few days.  8)

What did you do to it? Just a wee cut, or the big stuff?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 02, 2012, 03:47:37 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 02, 2012, 03:34:19 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 02, 2012, 12:31:11 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 01, 2012, 07:31:37 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 01, 2012, 05:30:36 PM

  My boss extended my vacation to 7 days!  :thumbup:

It's a good thing your ears were unblocked or you would have shown up for work on the 7th day.

  And that would have sucked!  :laugh:


  It's about 2:30 a.m., I've just unwrapped and re-treated my cut thumb, and it's already beginning
  to heal.  I have added more Neosporin and bandages.  It should be fine in a few days.  8)

What did you do to it? Just a wee cut, or the big stuff?

  Well, it looks OK now, but it was a fairly deep cut that left a flap!  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 02, 2012, 07:50:24 PM

This happened yesterday but met up with one of my dearest friends that I've known for 30+ years and his wife who I adore. They hosted a bbq/campfire at a friend's farmhouse. Kids and I went for the evening and had the best time. We were so relaxed, laughed a ton, ate until we were nearly bursting, went bug hunting in the fields, picked tomatoes and potatoes, played with glow sticks, roasted marshmallows etc. So much fun. And it turns out 2 of the guys who were there were talking about having a retro video game night (that is son's aspie obsession) and they invited him out. Two positive male role models (one being my best friend I mentioned earlier, the other a friend of his) taking my not so little guy under their wings and accepting him and making him feel valued and welcomed was a huge deal for me. It really boosted his self confidence.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 02, 2012, 08:18:56 PM

My arm wound is healing, still a kinda bifurcated hole though, left in the arm. Approx 1x1  width/depth. Still hurts like blases though.I'll be damn glad when I get my meds tomorrow (not to mention inc. chlormethiazole to prevent seizure/myoclonus) Glad the former is healing.

On the latter....I have concerns.  On the one hand, chlo(r)methiazole works fucking brilliantly. not one myoclonic episode since, barely any muscle twitching.  On the other...a terminal chloroalkane? shit, that wouldn't have got any further than a saturation binding radioassay if I were the one looking. That STINKS of alkylating agent. AKA either cancer or oldish antineoplastic agent. Not a fucking sleeping pill/antiseizure drug/detox med for pissheads!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 05, 2012, 09:45:55 AM

  I went to a dermatologist and I haz had a biopsy  :autism:  to see
  if my little white puffy skin lumps are flats warts or something else.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 05, 2012, 09:46:44 AM

  Also, I am told to keep the biopsy site dry, so no laundry today!  :angel:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 05, 2012, 09:47:35 AM

  Also, the biopsy was painless and may leave a cool little scar!  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 05, 2012, 12:23:28 PM

I got paid today. Which means FOOD!

I was bloody starving. Only had a few snacks really over the last few days.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 05, 2012, 12:34:25 PM

Quote from: Lestat on September 05, 2012, 12:23:28 PM

I got paid today. Which means FOOD!

I was bloody starving. Only had a few snacks really over the last few days.

  I'll bet you are going to get a roasted chicken!   :devour:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 05, 2012, 01:03:55 PM

I had an appointment with an ophthalmologist. Turns out they can probably fix my weak eye muscle. :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 05, 2012, 01:09:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 05, 2012, 01:03:55 PM

I had an appointment with an ophthalmologist. Turns out they can probably fix my weak eye muscle. :arrr:

  That's an awesome reward for your  BRAVE  persistence!   :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 05, 2012, 01:20:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 05, 2012, 01:09:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 05, 2012, 01:03:55 PM

I had an appointment with an ophthalmologist. Turns out they can probably fix my weak eye muscle. :arrr:

  That's an awesome reward for your  BRAVE  persistence!   :arrr:

Not as brave as having surgery with only local anesthesia. He asked me to consider it (easier to align the muscles if he can ask me questions and test the alignment) but I said no.  :zombiefuck:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 05, 2012, 01:25:59 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 05, 2012, 01:20:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 05, 2012, 01:09:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 05, 2012, 01:03:55 PM

I had an appointment with an ophthalmologist. Turns out they can probably fix my weak eye muscle. :arrr:

  That's an awesome reward for your  BRAVE  persistence!   :arrr:

Not as brave as having surgery with only local anesthesia. He asked me to consider it (easier to align the muscles if he can ask me questions and test the alignment) but I said no.  :zombiefuck:

  I wouldn't do it either, I'm sure I'd be flinching all over the place!  :zombiefuck:
  Even my simple little skin biopsy was done with me lying down so I couldn't see anything.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 05, 2012, 01:28:43 PM

I've been through two upper GI series in June this year and in March last year. They pumped me full with midazolam, though  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 05, 2012, 01:31:02 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 05, 2012, 01:20:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 05, 2012, 01:09:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 05, 2012, 01:03:55 PM

I had an appointment with an ophthalmologist. Turns out they can probably fix my weak eye muscle. :arrr:

  That's an awesome reward for your  BRAVE  persistence!   :arrr:

Not as brave as having surgery with only local anesthesia. He asked me to consider it (easier to align the muscles if he can ask me questions and test the alignment) but I said no.  :zombiefuck:

I remember when PA had his Corneal Cell Transplant.  The doctor had to inject sterile "air" behind the transplant several times to make sure the transplant stuck where it should stick.  It involved PA staring at an extremely bright light while the doctor inserted a large needle into his eye several times to put the air bubble(s) where they were needed.  This took between 5 and 10 minutes.  Then he had to lie on his back for an hour.  Very difficult for him since he has a back condition which causes pain when he lies on his back. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 05, 2012, 01:31:03 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 05, 2012, 01:28:43 PM

I've been through two upper GI series in June this year and in March last year. They pumped me full with midazolam, though  :viking:

  Do you have a diagnosis yet?  :nerd!:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 05, 2012, 01:32:40 PM

I matched up about 10 pairs of my socks today.  And did a wee bit of cleaning in the bedroom.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 05, 2012, 01:33:41 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 05, 2012, 01:31:03 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 05, 2012, 01:28:43 PM

I've been through two upper GI series in June this year and in March last year. They pumped me full with midazolam, though  :viking:

  Do you have a diagnosis yet?  :nerd!:

Yup. A small hiatal hernia  :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 05, 2012, 01:35:32 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 05, 2012, 01:33:41 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 05, 2012, 01:31:03 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 05, 2012, 01:28:43 PM

I've been through two upper GI series in June this year and in March last year. They pumped me full with midazolam, though  :viking:

  Do you have a diagnosis yet?  :nerd!:

Yup. A small hiatal hernia  :-\

  Are you going to have surgery for it?   :nurse:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 05, 2012, 01:36:18 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 05, 2012, 01:32:40 PM

I matched up about 10 pairs of my socks today.  And did a wee bit of cleaning in the bedroom.

  With persistence, it shall all be done in time!  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 05, 2012, 01:38:14 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 05, 2012, 01:36:18 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 05, 2012, 01:32:40 PM

I matched up about 10 pairs of my socks today.  And did a wee bit of cleaning in the bedroom.

  With persistence, it shall all be done in time!  :viking:

Can I trade persistence for a full-time live-in maid?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 05, 2012, 01:39:42 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 05, 2012, 01:38:14 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 05, 2012, 01:36:18 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 05, 2012, 01:32:40 PM

I matched up about 10 pairs of my socks today.  And did a wee bit of cleaning in the bedroom.

  With persistence, it shall all be done in time!  :viking:

Can I trade persistence for a full-time live-in maid?

  I might do it :cbc: but I couldn't stand the heat!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 05, 2012, 01:42:38 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 05, 2012, 01:35:32 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 05, 2012, 01:33:41 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 05, 2012, 01:31:03 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 05, 2012, 01:28:43 PM

I've been through two upper GI series in June this year and in March last year. They pumped me full with midazolam, though  :viking:

  Do you have a diagnosis yet?  :nerd!:

Yup. A small hiatal hernia  :-\

  Are you going to have surgery for it?   :nurse:

I haven't decided that yet. The surgery doesn't seem very reliable, and they are researching a new method with stem cells, so I won't undergo surgery yet, unless it becomes unbearable.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 05, 2012, 01:44:01 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 05, 2012, 01:42:38 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 05, 2012, 01:35:32 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 05, 2012, 01:33:41 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 05, 2012, 01:31:03 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 05, 2012, 01:28:43 PM

I've been through two upper GI series in June this year and in March last year. They pumped me full with midazolam, though  :viking:

  Do you have a diagnosis yet?  :nerd!:

Yup. A small hiatal hernia  :-\

  Are you going to have surgery for it?   :nurse:

I haven't decided that yet. The surgery doesn't seem very reliable, and they are researching a new method with stem cells, so I won't undergo surgery yet, unless it becomes unbearable.

  I hope your esophagus doesn't get damaged in the meantime.  :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 05, 2012, 01:45:30 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 05, 2012, 01:44:01 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 05, 2012, 01:42:38 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 05, 2012, 01:35:32 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 05, 2012, 01:33:41 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 05, 2012, 01:31:03 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 05, 2012, 01:28:43 PM

I've been through two upper GI series in June this year and in March last year. They pumped me full with midazolam, though  :viking:

  Do you have a diagnosis yet?  :nerd!:

Yup. A small hiatal hernia  :-\

  Are you going to have surgery for it?   :nurse:

I haven't decided that yet. The surgery doesn't seem very reliable, and they are researching a new method with stem cells, so I won't undergo surgery yet, unless it becomes unbearable.

  I hope your esophagus doesn't get damaged in the meantime.  :-\

Nah, I will have it checked again, if it feels really bad. I was at another doc, a private specialist, in July. My epiglottis and vocal cords are fine as well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 05, 2012, 04:40:20 PM

Really great shift at my store with the eldest. I only have 1 cat who is over a year old. The rest are all under 4 mos. Nine babies running around makes for some serious chaos. And mess. Kittens are seriously messy. Tipping over food bowls, water bowls, flinging litter. It's crazy. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 05, 2012, 05:53:25 PM

Aww.

I find one can usually tell the make of a person by how they treat their animals. Animal abuse is one of those triggers that is very likely to leave the one responsible in hospital.

Kittens are little terrors though alright, but one can't help but forgive 'em.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 05, 2012, 07:05:31 PM

I have a litter of 5 right now that I adore. 3 are white (each with a tiny streak of colour on the tops of their heads which makes them look like they got knocked with a paint brush) and then the other 2 are torties. But all from the same mama. That always cracks me up. One of the little torties is the runt of the litter. He's SO little and shy. Everything makes him hide in a corner because he gets so nervous but once he warms up he pounces around with not nearly the size or coordination of his littermates. He fits in the palm of my hand. I adore him. :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 05, 2012, 07:08:15 PM

I mean she. I always call her he and I don't know why. Found a pic of her though. She's such a wee thing. http://www.adoptapet.com/pet7737178.html (http://www.adoptapet.com/pet7737178.html)

:heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 05, 2012, 07:28:56 PM

I got a pdf of the Fleischmann family tree which is on my mother's side going back to about 1800 in Germany

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 05, 2012, 09:24:19 PM

I used the raincheck to get 20 cans of corn for 50 cents a can.  We use it a lot in the winter as a salad or salad garnish.  Also found some nice potato chips at the dollar storre.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 05, 2012, 11:09:33 PM

The Robot Chicken sketch I raved about at work today aired tonight on [adult swim]! Had to post it to fb. It's the Star Trek Red Shirt sketch.

Spock: "A vagina could prove most useful."

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 06, 2012, 12:19:27 PM

My 12-yo boss had a day off. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 06, 2012, 01:08:02 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 06, 2012, 12:19:27 PM

My 12-yo boss had a day off. :zoinks:

  Was he on a field trip to the zoo?  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 06, 2012, 01:35:59 PM

Bacon

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 06, 2012, 01:40:06 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 06, 2012, 01:35:59 PM

Bacon

  Slow-cooked for chewy deliciousness?


 

:bacon:  :drool:  :bacon:  :drool:  :bacon:  :drool:  :bacon:  :drool:  :bacon:  :drool:  :bacon: :drool: :bacon:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 06, 2012, 01:41:16 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 06, 2012, 01:40:06 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 06, 2012, 01:35:59 PM

Bacon

  Slow-cooked for chewy deliciousness?


 

:bacon:  :drool:  :bacon:  :drool:  :bacon:  :drool:  :bacon:  :drool:  :bacon:  :drool:  :bacon: :drool: :bacon:

There is no other way for me. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 07, 2012, 12:06:39 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 06, 2012, 01:08:02 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 06, 2012, 12:19:27 PM

My 12-yo boss had a day off. :zoinks:

  Was he on a field trip to the zoo?  :zoinks:

He's FROM the zoo, but escaped. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 07, 2012, 12:08:18 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 07, 2012, 12:06:39 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 06, 2012, 01:08:02 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 06, 2012, 12:19:27 PM

My 12-yo boss had a day off. :zoinks:

  Was he on a field trip to the zoo?  :zoinks:

He's FROM the zoo, but escaped. :zoinks:

  Well, I'm sure he'll be back at work tomorrow.  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 07, 2012, 12:09:36 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 07, 2012, 12:08:18 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 07, 2012, 12:06:39 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 06, 2012, 01:08:02 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 06, 2012, 12:19:27 PM

My 12-yo boss had a day off. :zoinks:

  Was he on a field trip to the zoo?  :zoinks:

He's FROM the zoo, but escaped. :zoinks:

  Well, I'm sure he'll be back at work tomorrow.  :autism:

It being Saturday and all, he might be smart enough to not do that.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 07, 2012, 12:17:09 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 07, 2012, 12:09:36 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 07, 2012, 12:08:18 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 07, 2012, 12:06:39 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 06, 2012, 01:08:02 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 06, 2012, 12:19:27 PM

My 12-yo boss had a day off. :zoinks:

  Was he on a field trip to the zoo?  :zoinks:

He's FROM the zoo, but escaped. :zoinks:

  Well, I'm sure he'll be back at work tomorrow.  :autism:

It being Saturday and all, he might be smart enough to not do that.

  I guess I meant today, it's already Friday where you are.  :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 07, 2012, 11:57:31 AM

My best friend and husband have stepped in during a crisis. Rough times really show you who your friends are.

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Post by: Trigger 11 on September 07, 2012, 12:51:04 PM

Bought Smashing Pumpkin tickets AND remembered I am going to see Jesus & Mary Chain Sunday in DC!!!

 :headbang2:

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Post by: MissKitty on September 07, 2012, 12:55:51 PM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on September 07, 2012, 12:51:04 PM

Bought Smashing Pumpkin tickets AND remembered I am going to see Jesus & Mary Chain Sunday in DC!!!

 :headbang2:

I need to live vicariously through you. Hope you post pics on FB  8)

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Post by: Trigger 11 on September 07, 2012, 01:09:54 PM

There will be! :headbang2:

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Post by: midlifeaspie on September 07, 2012, 01:12:49 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 06, 2012, 01:41:16 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 06, 2012, 01:40:06 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 06, 2012, 01:35:59 PM

Bacon

  Slow-cooked for chewy deliciousness?


 

:bacon:  :drool:  :bacon:  :drool:  :bacon:  :drool:  :bacon:  :drool:  :bacon:  :drool:  :bacon: :drool: :bacon:

There is no other way for me.

I like my bacon like this:  ;)

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PSjAUh_goeI/TcRFTECiYNI/AAAAAAAAA6k/tUXOWIswViA/s400/baby+pig.bmp)

Or sometimes with a hot cup of coffee

(http://bite-dose.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/baby-pig-drinking-coffee.jpg)

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 07, 2012, 01:48:20 PM

  ^  That really is rather precious.  :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 07, 2012, 07:30:56 PM

Went to my local Winn-Dixie grocery.  Found the marked down buggy.  Bought 31 items for $14.69 and a bag of pigs ears for the shelter dogs for $1.50.  I lucked into healthy soups, mushrooms, artichoke hearts, salsa, whole wheat macaroni, just oodles of good stuff.  Probably close to $60 or $75 worth.

I am the Queen of BaD (Bent and Dent).

Now I just have to hide the evidence before PA finds it and reminds me that I am a food hoarder.

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Post by: Pyraxis on September 07, 2012, 09:58:23 PM

Rock climbing!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 07, 2012, 10:02:46 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on September 07, 2012, 09:58:23 PM

Rock climbing!

I had a rock in my shoe a couple of times.  That's as close as I've come to rock climbing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 08, 2012, 12:33:52 AM

I can has coffee.

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Post by: renaeden on September 08, 2012, 06:21:14 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on September 07, 2012, 09:58:23 PM

Rock climbing!

I have done indoor rock climbing once but I wasn't very good at it.

Today I had strawberry ice cream in a waffle cone. Been ages since I had something nice like that.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 08, 2012, 06:42:48 AM

  It hasn't happened yet, but my sister and I are going to Denny's for breakfast!  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 08, 2012, 03:57:54 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 05, 2012, 01:32:40 PM

I matched up about 10 pairs of my socks today.  And did a wee bit of cleaning in the bedroom.

Ah, I've been gathering socks this morning, and the lines are full with the rest. Tomorrow, or Monday, I'll organise a speed-dating session for them.

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Post by: Parts on September 08, 2012, 06:07:42 PM

Had a couple good finds out at the tag sales today

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Post by: Queen Victoria on September 08, 2012, 07:41:19 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 08, 2012, 03:57:54 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 05, 2012, 01:32:40 PM

I matched up about 10 pairs of my socks today.  And did a wee bit of cleaning in the bedroom.

Ah, I've been gathering socks this morning, and the lines are full with the rest. Tomorrow, or Monday, I'll organise a speed-dating session for them.

Please be sure they're using contraceptives.  That's how all those spare socks are made.

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Post by: 'andersom' on September 09, 2012, 04:30:17 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 08, 2012, 07:41:19 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 08, 2012, 03:57:54 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 05, 2012, 01:32:40 PM

I matched up about 10 pairs of my socks today.  And did a wee bit of cleaning in the bedroom.

Ah, I've been gathering socks this morning, and the lines are full with the rest. Tomorrow, or Monday, I'll organise a speed-dating session for them.

Please be sure they're using contraceptives.  That's how all those spare socks are made.

I need to get new socks for the girls, for winter. So, maybe I should think on a breeding program.  :idea:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 09, 2012, 06:55:37 PM

Got lots of yard work done today

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on September 09, 2012, 07:02:22 PM

I found out I have an extra week on my assignments.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 09, 2012, 07:04:02 PM

Quote from: RagingBoner on September 09, 2012, 07:02:22 PM

I found out I have an extra week on my assignments.

  That's cool.  What are you studying?    :book:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 09, 2012, 07:27:10 PM

My son came home today

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on September 09, 2012, 11:20:56 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 09, 2012, 07:04:02 PM

Quote from: RagingBoner on September 09, 2012, 07:02:22 PM

I found out I have an extra week on my assignments.

  That's cool.  What are you studying?    :book:

Web graphic design

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 09, 2012, 11:27:51 PM

Quote from: RagingBoner on September 09, 2012, 11:20:56 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 09, 2012, 07:04:02 PM

Quote from: RagingBoner on September 09, 2012, 07:02:22 PM

I found out I have an extra week on my assignments.

  That's cool.  What are you studying?    :book:

Web graphic design

  I hope it brings you    :dollar:    AND creative fulfillment!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 10, 2012, 01:25:50 AM

Technically yesterday, but the Jesus & Mary Chain concert was fucking awesome!!! :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 10, 2012, 10:50:17 AM

Got myself a car until the truck is fixed. *woot* thank god for good friends

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Post by: Lestat on September 10, 2012, 12:35:33 PM

What did you do to the car?

I need to start saving for a car myself for when I pass my test. I want one of two. Either a lotus, or, I've found a site once, if I can find the link again, that will sell a fully functional soviet era tiger tank. Lol...lets see somebody try a road-rage attack, or clamp my wheels if I got one of those!

Or put down spike strips by pigs (stingers/stop sticks). That would just be funny, while I get to stop, pop my head out of the cockpit, point and laugh, then drive off. I'd let them box me in just for fun, then tell them they better get out of my twatting way when I've finished my little pit stop to mock them, and promptly just drive over the meatwagons in question:D

Good news for today-managed to get an appt with the decent doc, which was shocking in and of itself, he is fucking tricky to catch. The arsebag, moon-worshipping paedophile-venerating camelfucking raghead I saw last time, that screwed me over PROMISED me he would have my rx ready for 8:30am on the dot, that he would write it immediately and leave it for me to pick up.

He did no such thing. Went down there after staying up awake all night waiting as fast as my knee and hip would carry me, only to be told there wasn't so much as a bean waiting for me.

I'm disgusted, and fucked off. Really, really angry with It, and it's dirty muhammid-slobbering, soulless arse.

Being late with a sedative/antianxiety/anticonvulsant drug, or an alpha2 adrenoreceptor agonist anti-adrenergi agent is outright dangerous, or even possibly lethal in the case of the chlormethiazole, and every doctor knows that taking opiates away from a patient without tapering, while not going to kill, will be truly miserable.

Suddenly dropping my chlormethiazole would be worse than oxy w/d by FAR, I'd sooner have a large, gorilla-sized heroin monkey on my back than I would stop even a moderate dose of a benzodiazepine, let alone a fucking barbiturate binding site GABAaR PAM, it would be positively lovely by comparison. I already sometimes have myoclonic seizures sometimes, meaning my seizure threshold is lower to start with.

Being late, KNOWING I would run out on a weekend when its impossible to go in, surgery being shut, is fucking not on. Telling me he WOULD have it by monday morning first thing as they open, and lying about it, is totally unforgivable. He even refused to give me another dressing to cover the fly bite on my arm. Really...sheesh, what a fucking filthy islamite. I could, whilst certainly not forgiving It for refusing to rx controlled drugs like oxy or chlormethiazole, but telling me I can't even have a sterile dressing to change the old one over, what the hell is the need for that?

Wouldn't even let me have some movicol, a preparation of polyethylene glycol and isotonic electrolytes intended for preventing constipation, or relieving it, that I use a couple of times a week, on an as needed basis to stop constipation, which isn't uncommon with opioids...lol; especially if that happens to be regular armfuls of oxycontin.

Speaking of an armful of OC.....I could use one now:D

I got the receptionist though to speak to my usual guy, a Dr.Guest, who made sure that I got my essential meds 7 and a half hours before he even sees me in a while.

Just got time for a rollup as long as I'm quick finding a vein.

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Post by: MissKitty on September 10, 2012, 02:41:10 PM

The ignition cylinder broke and because it's an import it needs to be programmed and shipped in from Sweden. Me thinks I will have to go back to a domestic when I buy another truck :P Although I have to say, ordering the part on a Friday afternoon and having it arrive by Wednesday morning already programmed is pretty impressive!

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Post by: odeon on September 10, 2012, 10:58:28 PM

Technically yesterday, but...

My Jag received some TLC, including a cruise control. It's actually quite easy to install the few parts that are missing to the ones that didn't have cruise control installed at the factory.

Well, for someone who knows what he is doing. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 11, 2012, 10:28:25 AM

Ridiculously good bargains to be had at the grocery store!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on September 11, 2012, 03:24:34 PM

the calendar in my tablet synced flawlessly to the one in my music player. everything transferred with no writing things twice, no having to check the list twice and then check again and then ask someone else to check. it's not the best to be dependent on the cloud but it beats missing appointments.

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Post by: bodie on September 11, 2012, 04:37:08 PM

i have a new va va voom top! :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on September 11, 2012, 04:45:33 PM

Quote from: Miss Guided on September 11, 2012, 04:37:08 PM

i have a new va va voom top! :orly:

pics please

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 11, 2012, 05:08:54 PM

Picked up my ticket to see First Lady Michelle Obama Thursday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 11, 2012, 05:21:40 PM

The house I was working on took half of the materials I had allotted for it

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2012, 11:08:34 PM

A book I ordered from Amazon arrived.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 12, 2012, 11:11:38 AM

My truck is done! *woot* I've been driving a Sonata while it was being repaired and I feel like my butt is dragging on the ground. I will be so happy to have my truck back again :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 12, 2012, 03:07:25 PM

You need a Jaguar! :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 12, 2012, 03:18:45 PM

Compromise/committee decision:  A Jaguar truck.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 12, 2012, 03:19:46 PM

Volvo is Latin, ergo superior  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 12, 2012, 03:20:49 PM

An unopened 12 pack of legal pads at the thrift store for under $3.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 12, 2012, 03:33:19 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 12, 2012, 03:19:46 PM

Volvo is Latin, ergo superior  8)

 :zoinks:

One of the weird things in driving a car was when an 18 wheeler started drifting into my lane today and I had this feeling that I would be squished like a bug between him and guardrail quite easily. I don't like that feeling :laugh: *is so happy to have her Volvo back*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 12, 2012, 03:44:06 PM

My mother and brother dropped by for a coffee. Been over a year that my mother was at my place.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 12, 2012, 03:46:57 PM

Estne fortis, matercula tua?  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 13, 2012, 01:01:53 AM

It was yesterday, but Ceilidh and I found a load of Star Trek books at a bookshop in the city.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 13, 2012, 01:33:57 AM

Quote from: Lit on September 12, 2012, 03:46:57 PM

Estne fortis, matercula tua?  :viking:

She's a very brave woman, but, surgery, and taking care of my very sick father got her very house-bound.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 13, 2012, 04:05:07 AM

Matercula mea et fortis est  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 13, 2012, 10:58:02 AM

crunchy peanut butter on toast

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on September 13, 2012, 01:31:45 PM

The dentist didn't charge me for my dental work today! I will remember this forever!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 13, 2012, 02:43:04 PM

The boy ROCKED his academic testing scoring average or above in all areas but one. This is huge for us. I'm SO proud of him. Contrary to what some want to believe, homeschooling does indeed work.  :viking:

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 13, 2012, 02:49:00 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on September 13, 2012, 02:43:04 PM

The boy ROCKED his academic testing scoring average or above in all areas but one. This is huge for us. I'm SO proud of him. Contrary to what some want to believe, homeschooling does indeed work.  :viking:

  It works when done right, good on ya both!  :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 13, 2012, 02:49:13 PM

Homeschooling is illegal in Sweden, but after I got punished for giving some bullies what they deserved, my parents did it anyway for several months, because they were  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 13, 2012, 02:54:12 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 13, 2012, 02:49:13 PM

Homeschooling is illegal in Sweden, but after I got punished for giving some bullies what they deserved, my parents did it anyway for several months, because they were  :viking:

We have some German families who were under threat of legal action for homeschooling their kids so they moved to Canada.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 13, 2012, 02:55:34 PM

That was  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 13, 2012, 02:59:06 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on September 13, 2012, 02:54:12 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 13, 2012, 02:49:13 PM

Homeschooling is illegal in Sweden, but after I got punished for giving some bullies what they deserved, my parents did it anyway for several months, because they were  :viking:

We have some German families who were under threat of legal action for homeschooling their kids so they moved to Canada.

  My parents were opposed to the Vietnam War, and once my mother told me
  that if she'd ever met a draft dodger, she would have given him some money
  and told him to go to Canada!  :yarly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 13, 2012, 04:31:00 PM

I went to public school, but essentially was self-taught since I was set off in the corner to teach myself as I was way ahead of the other kids and couldn't shut up and behave.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 13, 2012, 09:12:52 PM

I went to public school too. I knew my stuff but I never tested well. I still don't. But my research projects were always way over the top and more detailed than everyone else. I love researching stuff  :nerdy:

My sister was homeschooled from age 11 until she went to uni.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 13, 2012, 11:08:30 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on September 13, 2012, 02:43:04 PM

The boy ROCKED his academic testing scoring average or above in all areas but one. This is huge for us. I'm SO proud of him. Contrary to what some want to believe, homeschooling does indeed work.  :viking:

He must have had a good teacher.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 13, 2012, 11:14:27 PM

 :indeed:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 14, 2012, 05:22:49 AM

I bought two bottles of Stella Artois and two bottles of Baron Trenck  :orly:

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Post by: Lestat on September 14, 2012, 05:26:56 AM

Sounds like his teacher is as bright as she is beautiful miss K :)

After a night with absolutely NO sleep whatsoever, thanks to my knee, my doc not only gave me my pain meds 4 days early, but chucked in an extra clonidine rx too, and did my chlormethiazole and other assorted minor stuff early too, (2 antihistamines, fexofenadine, a nonsedating one with reasonably long duration of action, and for a redose later in the evening, chlorphenamine [known in the US as chlorpheniramine. Along with indomethacin, my NSAID antiinflammatory, gaviscon to take with it to help protect my stomach wall from the corrosive effects NSAIDs in general tend to have there, and a xylometazoline nasal spray, a decongestant)

Got my doc to change the xylometazoline spray to the mentholated version of the same thing; not terribly important but simply preferable from a personal POV. I find it clears the pipework out quicker and doesn't leave the bitter aftertaste in my throat the other one does.

He accidentally wrote a rx for 2 bottles of the spray, not 1. They are OTC anyway, so I can buy more if ever I needed a refill early, but a free spare is handy.

And I managed to find a vein straight away when I got home with my goodies from the local chemist. I hate having to poke around trying to obtain venous access, this time, just stuck my needle in, and registered instantly on the very first time:)

Getting to try two new  things today, I ordered a gram of a (legal) synthetic cannabinoid that I've never tried before, AM-2233, a relative of the fluoropentylnapthoylindole based cannabinoid AM-2201. which I've tried before. Its highly potent, 1mg flattened me completely the first time I ever tried it. I was dissatisfied though with AM-2201 due to its very brief duration of action.

What I didn't expect, was for them to throw in 5x1mg etilaam tablets for nothing with any order thats worth more than £20, thats a novel 'benzo', thats not actually a benzo at all, but a thienoazepine. Indian make, don't thin its used here clinically at all, but they are no knockoffs from some shoddy basement 'lab', but properly diverted blisterpacked, foil-sealed pharmaceutical products. Never tried etizolam before, although I've had quite a few different benzos on rx in the past at different times, as well as the Z-drugs, and others off prescription, such as some of the barbiturates (barbital and phenobarb), various other antiquated sedatives, such as 2-methyl-butan-2-ol, a couple of carbamates, GHB, and its cyclic lactone prodrug form GBL. And of course my chlormethiazole rx.                                                                                                                                                                                               
               
And unlike the black mamba headshop branded product smoking 'blend', based on AM-2201, this AM-2203 isn't sprayed on a carrier herb, but rather, is a crystalline powder, in its pure state; that needs to be weighed out on a milligram scale, rather than the blend type products, those are built for the mass market, and the kiddies that are most unlikely to have a scale good enough to weigh out anything needing a resolution finer than needed for say, everyday stuff for the wee tykes, like speed, charlie or weed.

Which means I finally get to test my new 'glass dick' type pipe, which I got for free at the head shop, having spent quite a bit in there. They quite often give me free stuff in exchange for being a good customer :)

  http://www.tpub.com/maa/75.htm (http://www.tpub.com/maa/75.htm)

(link has a pic of a glass dick pipe, not the exact same model as mine, but same principle)                                                             

Yay! the postie just rang my doorbell while I was typing my post:)

Lol though, Not a moment out of place either, 5 seconds earlier and I'd have had to open the door half-dressed and with a needle in the back of my hand :P

Just weighed out my order too, and there was not 1g in the bag, as there wa meant to be, but 1.53g!

Going to boot up the last 2ml of my oxy solution, then try my pipe out for the first time:)

Came early too. Was meant to arrive in the mail (the etizolam and AM-2233 that is, I've had the pipe for around a month, but nothing of the sort that needs a glass dick to vaporize it to be smoked)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                   ,

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 14, 2012, 08:21:18 AM

I bought two mid century modern end tables by Baumritter for $25.  They are very trendy and the in thing right now I should get $100-150 for the pair

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Post by: MissKitty on September 14, 2012, 08:29:23 AM

Thanks guys. I'm quite proud of both of us  :nerdy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 15, 2012, 12:12:22 AM

My iPad arrived! This is my first post from it! :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 15, 2012, 07:50:28 AM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on September 15, 2012, 12:12:22 AM

My iPad arrived! This is my first post from it! :headbang2:

Curious to know if you like it. Might get one at some point down the line.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 15, 2012, 09:24:26 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on September 15, 2012, 07:50:28 AM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on September 15, 2012, 12:12:22 AM

My iPad arrived! This is my first post from it! :headbang2:

Curious to know if you like it. Might get one at some point down the line.

So far... :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 15, 2012, 11:18:06 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on September 14, 2012, 08:29:23 AM

Thanks guys. I'm quite proud of both of us  :nerdy:

And you should be.

 :thumbup: for your son too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: earthboundmisfit on September 15, 2012, 07:27:53 PM

Nothing happened today. And that was good.   :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 18, 2012, 08:53:18 AM

My mum bought me two Grolsch. Grolsch is  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 18, 2012, 09:31:06 AM

  I woke up early and got two bags of trash outside, plus my recycling.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 18, 2012, 03:02:40 PM

I had over $150 in materials left over at the end of the job which I an return

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 18, 2012, 04:39:35 PM

The torrential downpour tapered long enough for me to get the groceries to the truck and into the house without feeling like I drowning.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 23, 2012, 06:20:42 PM

Had a nice find at the flea market next to the garbage at the end of the day someone threw out a bag with mostly junky tools with a few nice ones mixed in along with a sterling silver swizzle stick that is almost 9 grams

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on September 23, 2012, 06:29:26 PM

Nice score Parts.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on September 23, 2012, 07:09:54 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on September 18, 2012, 04:39:35 PM

The torrential downpour tapered long enough for me to get the groceries to the truck and into the house without feeling like I drowning.

:thumbup:

Quote from: Parts on September 23, 2012, 06:20:42 PM

Had a nice find at the flea market next to the garbage at the end of the day someone threw out a bag with mostly junky tools with a few nice ones mixed in along with a sterling silver swizzle stick that is almost 9 grams

:thumbup: Is that like a 3rd Reich swizzle stick?

What do you want from life? (The Tubes) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgjfi1DU1mQ#)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 23, 2012, 07:12:12 PM

Friend of mine gave me a necklace. The symbol means "Destiny" which was the name of my cat. When they gave it to me, I cried. I love it. :heart:

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a260/Canuk1975/IMG_5312_zpsba619289.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on September 23, 2012, 07:13:55 PM

 :plus: :thumbup: density is cool.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 23, 2012, 07:19:50 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on September 23, 2012, 07:13:55 PM

:plus: :thumbup: density is cool.  :zoinks:

  Your density makes you entertaining to hang out with.   :tard:  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 23, 2012, 07:20:30 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 23, 2012, 07:19:50 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on September 23, 2012, 07:13:55 PM

:plus: :thumbup: density is cool.  :zoinks:

  Your density makes you entertaining to hang out with.   :tard:  :autism:

:lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on September 23, 2012, 07:21:40 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 23, 2012, 07:19:50 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on September 23, 2012, 07:13:55 PM

:plus: :thumbup: density is cool.  :zoinks:

  Your density makes you entertaining to hang out with.   :tard:  :autism:

Wait, I have something for you


































here it is  :finger: :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 23, 2012, 07:30:02 PM

  *pictures you hitting Enter 97 times, frantically trying to think of
   something clever to type, or indeed anything at all*   :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Peter on September 23, 2012, 07:41:36 PM

I saw a fox, a hedgehog and loads of bats while walking the dog.  The hedgehog smelled of shit, which wasn't so great, and my dog was interested in it at first, but wouldn't touch it, and after a while she decided to keep at least a couple of feet away from it.  She also didn't see the bats; they were wheeling around right above her, but she doesn't get the concept of looking up.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on September 23, 2012, 08:26:55 PM

Foxes are cool.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 24, 2012, 05:15:14 AM

I got 1l of Highland Park from 1998 from my brother  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 24, 2012, 04:34:04 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on September 23, 2012, 08:26:55 PM

Foxes are cool.

"Why does the word fox begin with f but its female counterpart, vixen, begin with v? The answer lies in English dialects. In the speech of Devon, Somerset, and Cornwall, counties of southern England, words that begin with the voiceless fricative sounds (f) and (s) are pronounced instead with voicing, as (v) and (z). (The local rendering of the county name Somerset, in fact, is "Zomerzet.") The voicing is due to a Middle English sound change and may have roots even earlier. At least three examples of this dialectal pronunciation have entered standard English: vat, vane, and vixen. The first of these is a variant of an earlier word fat; the pronunciation with (f) was still used in the 19th century before being displaced by the southern pronunciation (vt). Vane, which used to mean "flag," has a cognate in the German word for "flag," Fahne, showing the original f. Vixen, finally, represents the southern pronunciation of a word that goes back to Old English fyxe, the feminine of fox. It was formed by a change in the root vowel of fox and the addition of a suffix -e or -en. Besides being one of the rare southern English dialect forms to have come into standard English, vixen is also the only survival of this type of feminine noun in the modern language."

I wondered for years why fox/vixen.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 24, 2012, 04:53:44 PM

We have lots of such pairs of words in Swedish. For example: "peace" in the military/political meaning is fred, which is Götaland dialect. "Peace" as in "peace of mind" is frid, which is Svealand dialect.

Another example is that hågad is Götaland dialect and means "in the mood" while hugad is Svealand dialect and is usually used when someone is prone to buy something - "en hugad spekulant".

In this case it's dialect variations of the very same word, though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 24, 2012, 06:33:29 PM

  I got a flu shot, conveniently available at work!
   This actually happened on Thursday but I couldn't be arsed posting it then.  :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 24, 2012, 07:15:33 PM

I have another dog moving in for 2 weeks. He's new. Never met him before but he's 13 years old and has a case of kennel cough so he can't travel with his family for Thanksgiving liked planned since the place they're going has other dogs. This means my house is the perfect respite for him. I need to start turning this into a business :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on September 24, 2012, 07:25:52 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 24, 2012, 06:33:29 PM

  I got a flu shot, conveniently available at work!
   This actually happened on Thursday but I couldn't be arsed posting it then.  :tard:

If you can't post it at the right time GTFO OF THE THREAD!  :police: >:D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 24, 2012, 07:35:02 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on September 24, 2012, 07:25:52 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 24, 2012, 06:33:29 PM

  I got a flu shot, conveniently available at work!
   This actually happened on Thursday but I couldn't be arsed posting it then.  :tard:

If you can't post it at the right time GTFO OF THE THREAD!  :police: >:D

  You are not admin here, you just  S T F U.  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on September 24, 2012, 07:37:46 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 24, 2012, 07:35:02 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on September 24, 2012, 07:25:52 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 24, 2012, 06:33:29 PM

  I got a flu shot, conveniently available at work!
   This actually happened on Thursday but I couldn't be arsed posting it then.  :tard:

If you can't post it at the right time GTFO OF THE THREAD!  :police: >:D

  You are not admin here, you just  S T F U.  :P

:flamer: :cbc:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 24, 2012, 07:42:23 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on September 24, 2012, 07:37:46 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 24, 2012, 07:35:02 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on September 24, 2012, 07:25:52 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 24, 2012, 06:33:29 PM

  I got a flu shot, conveniently available at work!
   This actually happened on Thursday but I couldn't be arsed posting it then.  :tard:

If you can't post it at the right time GTFO OF THE THREAD!  :police: >:D

  You are not admin here, you just  S T F U.  :P

:flamer: :cbc:

                           :seal:
  I'm poking you.    :poke:   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 24, 2012, 07:47:40 PM

Are you trying to hard-boil the Weeble?  Not nice.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 24, 2012, 07:48:35 PM

Six, count them six, trash bags full of trash and garbage sitting on the curb.  That is good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 24, 2012, 07:49:15 PM

I now have 1666 Karma.  The year of the Plague and the Great London Fire. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 24, 2012, 07:56:33 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 24, 2012, 07:48:35 PM

Six, count them six, trash bags full of trash and garbage sitting on the curb.  That is good.

Well done, your Majesty  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on September 24, 2012, 08:02:21 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 24, 2012, 07:49:15 PM

I now have 1666 Karma.  The year of the Plague and the Great London Fire.

Robert Hooke was in charge of rebuilding London. He was fucking brilliant.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 24, 2012, 11:37:19 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 25, 2012, 02:21:53 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 24, 2012, 07:49:15 PM

I now have 1666 Karma.  The year of the Plague and the Great London Fire.

Time to start London rebuilding, and to mourn who were taken by the pest.

 :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 25, 2012, 06:32:00 AM

Just got a referral to a neurologist, for my seizures, as well as for some help (I hope) with my memory issues.

Got a fresh supply of oxy as well.

Time to relax and feel much better.
Damn am I ever tired.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 25, 2012, 04:23:18 PM

I got coffee in the morning and lunch at noon from the owner of the house I am working on for the second day in a row

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 25, 2012, 07:45:56 PM

Elated.

I phoned my stalker, and got to hear that beautiful, entrancing voice she has, first time I've heard from her in months. Her eldest son is getting married, just caught my stalker while she was busy packing for her flight.

She has an effect on me that no other woman ever has. Her voice, even hearing from her via email, truly captivated me. And her pics, I spend hours on end just looking at her sleeping. She is the first and last thing I see before going to bed, and on waking up. Truly, the most wonderful, sweetest, most beautiful woman ever to draw breath upon the face of this earth.                                   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 25, 2012, 09:19:42 PM

^Are you sure she is the one who is the stalker? :D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on September 25, 2012, 10:06:40 PM

I saw my cat friend again. She appeared to be in good shape and happy. I petted her so we are friends but not tight friends.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 25, 2012, 11:28:29 PM

I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on September 26, 2012, 09:19:22 AM

Quote from: renaeden on September 25, 2012, 09:19:42 PM

^Are you sure she is the one who is the stalker? :D

No kidding.  I can't help wondering if he calls her that in conversation, or if those are the terms he actually uses mentally when thinking about her.  I find it interesting that by calling her "my stalker" he pretty much takes ownership of her state of mind and makes her existence all about himself.  In my experience at least, this is fairly typical of addicts.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 26, 2012, 10:37:00 AM

That I've come through difficult circumstances and not become jaded or lost my sense of self. Life just keeps getting better.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 26, 2012, 02:28:55 PM

My two-day workshop went very well. Now all I have to do is to write the report.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 26, 2012, 05:26:11 PM

Lol....actually it was her who described herself that way. The reason I am using the same term is that I won't post her name here publicly.  And yes, we have had conversations where I used the term of her. She was pretty blatant about it. I'm not about to complain though, as she really is a very special lady :)

Not sure exactly what you mean, one L, about taking ownership. Personally I'd sooner the other way around.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 26, 2012, 05:50:20 PM

Finished up the house I was working on

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 26, 2012, 06:04:29 PM

Did a teeny, tiny bit of decluttering, washed dishes, dried a load of clothes, went to grocery, fed family.  Not much.  Oh, and I lived on the computer. :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 27, 2012, 04:55:21 AM

I'm part way through decluttering my room myself. Quite a task. Lol the place looked like it just got hit with a cruise missile before. At least now I can feel safe walking on the floor at night to get to the light switch without tripping over the mass of empty drink bottles, clothes for the wash, my set of weights, lol, I even found my ninja sword buried under all the rubble :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 27, 2012, 10:30:23 AM

a bath in the morning

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 27, 2012, 02:28:56 PM

Teenager just changed her fb status to single!  :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 27, 2012, 03:44:33 PM

New dog I'm taking care of arrived today. He's adorable. He's a 13 year old schnoodle. (Part miniature poodle and miniature schnauzer) but something was amiss in the genetics because he's definitely more terrier something than anything else. :laugh: He's great though. Loves the kids and is enjoying a busy family life. There's just 2 adults in his house this is new and exciting for him. :laugh: I have him for 2 weeks. :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 28, 2012, 08:09:09 AM

I was at the dentist and my teeth were pretty OK  :thumbup:

It cost 1100 kronor, though, since they took X-rays of every tooth  :thumbdn:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 28, 2012, 08:17:56 AM

SWEET!

I just found two syringes on the floor, full of an unknown substance.

It could be either a mixture of oxycodone and clonidine, or it might be either 4-methoxyphencyclidine, or 3-MeO-PCP...or if I am really lucky, N-ethylnorketamine.

I am hoping for one of the dissociative anaesthetics rather than opioids, as I already just picked up a fresh script of OC today.

I also found a vial full of a prepped oxycontin solution. Dosage unknown, but the last vials I prepped contained between 4 and 5 40mg oxycontins.

Choices choices...what do I shoot up first ^_^

I'm looking forward to this...I do like a nice surprise like that :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on September 28, 2012, 08:50:50 AM

Quote from: Lestat on September 28, 2012, 08:17:56 AM

SWEET!

I just found two syringes on the floor, full of an unknown substance.

It could be either a mixture of oxycodone and clonidine, or it might be either 4-methoxyphencyclidine, or 3-MeO-PCP...or if I am really lucky, N-ethylnorketamine.

I am hoping for one of the dissociative anaesthetics rather than opioids, as I already just picked up a fresh script of OC today.

I also found a vial full of a prepped oxycontin solution. Dosage unknown, but the last vials I prepped contained between 4 and 5 40mg oxycontins.

Choices choices...what do I shoot up first ^_^

I'm looking forward to this...I do like a nice surprise like that :)

Wise

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: luciaelizabeth on September 28, 2012, 08:54:42 AM

Quote from: Lestat on September 28, 2012, 08:17:56 AM

Choices choices...what do I shoot up first ^_^

Both at once. Obvs.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 28, 2012, 08:58:56 AM

Lol luciaelizabeth, thats exactly what I did.

Turned out not to be any dissociatives, sadly. But put together, turned out to be a whomping dose of oxy.

Feeling GOOD right now!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: luciaelizabeth on September 28, 2012, 09:04:48 AM

HAPPY FRIDAY :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Peter on September 28, 2012, 09:16:19 AM

Quote from: Lestat on September 28, 2012, 08:17:56 AM

SWEET!

I just found two syringes on the floor, full of an unknown substance.

It could be either a mixture of oxycodone and clonidine, or it might be either 4-methoxyphencyclidine, or 3-MeO-PCP...or if I am really lucky, N-ethylnorketamine.

I am hoping for one of the dissociative anaesthetics rather than opioids, as I already just picked up a fresh script of OC today.

I also found a vial full of a prepped oxycontin solution. Dosage unknown, but the last vials I prepped contained between 4 and 5 40mg oxycontins.

Choices choices...what do I shoot up first ^_^

I'm looking forward to this...I do like a nice surprise like that :)

Is there an end-plan to all this that doesn't involve you sucking cocks in public toilets for your next fix?  You're making your meds and whatever else you're taking much more addictive by taking them intravenously rather than orally.  My dexamphetamine gradually takes effect over 1-2 hours, and I get little or no craving for it if I don't take it; I just get tired and eat more, and it can be quite pleasant and relaxing to be off it for a while, but it might be a different story if I was injecting or snorting it.  Got to outsmart the old reptilian/fish brain by decoupling the taking of the drugs with the pleasurable effects of them.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on September 28, 2012, 09:22:13 AM

Quote from: Peter on September 28, 2012, 09:16:19 AM

Quote from: Lestat on September 28, 2012, 08:17:56 AM

SWEET!

I just found two syringes on the floor, full of an unknown substance.

It could be either a mixture of oxycodone and clonidine, or it might be either 4-methoxyphencyclidine, or 3-MeO-PCP...or if I am really lucky, N-ethylnorketamine.

I am hoping for one of the dissociative anaesthetics rather than opioids, as I already just picked up a fresh script of OC today.

I also found a vial full of a prepped oxycontin solution. Dosage unknown, but the last vials I prepped contained between 4 and 5 40mg oxycontins.

Choices choices...what do I shoot up first ^_^

I'm looking forward to this...I do like a nice surprise like that :)

Is there an end-plan to all this that doesn't involve you sucking cocks in public toilets for your next fix? 

No

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 28, 2012, 09:42:06 AM

Peter, MLA,

How about you go suck your grandmother's cocks?

And I wouldn't have any need to suck cock for a fix, I get my oxy on rx, which my benefits cover for free.
And I of course, have my lab, which should the need arise, could easily churn out opioids.
Hell...I can turn immodium (loperamide) into a highly potent opioid if I feel like it!

And I wouldn't suck any fucker's dick, for any reason. I'm not a faggot.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on September 28, 2012, 10:01:41 AM

Quote from: Lestat on September 28, 2012, 09:42:06 AM

Peter, MLA,

How about you go suck your grandmother's cocks?

And I wouldn't have any need to suck cock for a fix, I get my oxy on rx, which my benefits cover for free.
And I of course, have my lab, which should the need arise, could easily churn out opioids.
Hell...I can turn immodium (loperamide) into a highly potent opioid if I feel like it!

And I wouldn't suck any fucker's dick, for any reason. I'm not a faggot.

Yes, the world will always supply you with everything you need to remain in your selfish haze.  There is no way the drug fairy will ever stop providing you with your "benefits".  And if they did, you wouldn't have any problems at all.

No one said you were gay, what I am saying is that you will eventually find yourself so desperate that you will swallow cum anyway, just to get your all-important fix.  It will happen, and on that day you will remember this conversation.

Tickle his balls while you are at it  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on September 28, 2012, 10:03:03 AM

Quote from: Lestat on September 28, 2012, 09:42:06 AM

Peter, MLA,

How about you go suck your grandmother's cocks?

And I wouldn't have any need to suck cock for a fix, I get my oxy on rx, which my benefits cover for free.
And I of course, have my lab, which should the need arise, could easily churn out opioids.
Hell...I can turn immodium (loperamide) into a highly potent opioid if I feel like it!

And I wouldn't suck any fucker's dick, for any reason. I'm not a faggot.

Oh, and when you get caught, what else do you have to barter for drugs in prison?  It's your mouth or your asshole, and if you are really lucky you might get to pick which one it is.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 28, 2012, 10:09:43 AM

I've been locked up before, no not for drug 'crimes'.

Got caught with a load of explosives.

And what does one have to barter?

A serving of heroin or buprenorphine cost about 3-4 packs of baccy actually.

And I would sooner go without than suck any fucking cock. I just would not sink to that level.
If I want drugs...I can be my own drug fairy :P But not a Fairyboy. Fuck. That. Right. The. Flying. Fuck. Off!

If anybody came anywhere NEAR my cock, my arse, or any other part of me, I would have shivved the bugger in the eyes.

One chavscum turd did once threaten to rape me. He never got the chance. He mysteriously suffered a near-fatal case of nicotine and chlorate poisoning. Funny thing to turn up by accident in a packet of jam for his brekky that. No idea how that could have happened :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 28, 2012, 10:11:04 AM

Cops deserve to die. Filthy pigs  :litigious:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 28, 2012, 10:13:56 AM

ACAB!

I fucking hate the filth. They are to blame for my PTSD. And they even killed my pets. I lost an adult brown widow, and maybe 200 odd little babies. Got nicked, got home and found out they had slaughtered every single one of my spiders. They were no threat, they couldn't have just jumped out and bit the pigs (sadly). But were cold-heartedly murdered.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on September 28, 2012, 10:14:55 AM

Quote from: Lestat on September 28, 2012, 10:09:43 AM

And I would sooner go without than suck any fucking cock. I just would not sink to that level.
If I want drugs...I can be my own drug fairy :P But not a Fairyboy. Fuck. That. Right. The. Flying. Fuck. Off!

If anybody came anywhere NEAR my cock, my arse, or any other part of me, I would have shivved the bugger in the eyes.

One chavscum turd did once threaten to rape me. He never got the chance. He mysteriously suffered a near-fatal case of nicotine and chlorate poisoning. Funny thing to turn up by accident in a packet of jam for his brekky that. No idea how that could have happened :P

I think someone doth protest too much  :zoinks:

And by negging me over it you have pretty much proven it.  It's okay that you like boys Lestat.  Nobody here is going to judge you :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 28, 2012, 01:22:42 PM

I would probably have ignored it from anybody else actually. And I fail to see how that 'proves' anything.Other than my opinion of you being something like 'irritating, childish, selfrighteous brat'

But you have been on my case in general, acting like a mouthy, selfrighteous prick. So the threshold for getting a -karma is lower, for you in general,if you are acting like a knob :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on September 28, 2012, 01:37:21 PM

Quote from: Lestat on September 28, 2012, 01:22:42 PM

I would probably have ignored it from anybody else actually

 :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 29, 2012, 07:54:56 PM

Quote from: Lestat on September 28, 2012, 08:17:56 AM

I just found two syringes on the floor, full of an unknown substance.

That sounds pretty dodgy. Wonder what your floor must be like to find that there.

Nothing good has happened today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 29, 2012, 07:57:56 PM

I finally managed to swap out the broken bed frame for the PR.  I removed 5 full trash bags of crap from around and under the bed.  That's one accomplishment I feel good about.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 29, 2012, 09:58:12 PM

Did well at the tag sales

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on September 30, 2012, 07:38:57 AM

This happened yesterday but I had a blast with the youngest at an amusement park. Until we got rained out that is. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 30, 2012, 09:11:02 AM

I'n general I would agree ren, but I found them on a clearout and decluttering of my room, they just had dropped off either my computer desk, or my bed and rolled under the bed. Of course I wasn't about to IV them as they were, not knowing how long they had been there, so I ran them through an 0.2 micron sterilizing filter first.

Handy little things those are, remove even the tiniest particulate matter, and even bacteria, excluding some of the extremely tiny species such as mycoplasmas.

Glad you and the sprog had a great time o' pretty kitteh :) what did you two get up to? did the other brood get to go with?

Those kids are lucky to have a mom like you I think :)

As for my floor, it was pretty full of clutter and miscellaneous random stuff. Well overdue for a third Reich-esque purge of the most unforgiving and brutal nature. Found all sorts of things, from a couple of unsmoked cigarettes, a 2.6g bag of 4-methoxyphencyclidine (LOVE dissociative anaesthetics in general, I've only ever met one I didn't like, that being dextromethorphan, which for some reason I just don't respond to well at all, minimal effects aside from nausea and a bit of blurred vision, slight intoxicated feeling, one of my glass pipes, a surgical scalpel, one of my thumb drives...still can't find my favourite knife, a sturdy, sharp lockblade that I relieved my psychotic hellwhore bipolar, borderline personality disorder, OCD, vicious, violent, lying thief and much worse besides, of after kicking her out.

Not feeling too much of an upset stomach either, got put on erythromycin for an infection that set in to a cut on my earlobe which was making me feel pretty crappy, the first few days of being on an antibiotic in many cases upsets my stomach. As it is, I'm doing fine just taking a few 2mg immodium capsules a day for the first few days. And I think a minor infection had set in on the tip of one finger, around in line with the base of the nail, or just below it, nothing major, just some discoloration and soreness above and beyond what would be expected, I pricked the end of my finger cleaning up, on a little piece of broken glass. The erythromycin took care of that pretty quickly within 2 days of starting.

On that, plus a topically applied antibiotic cream to put on the wounded bit of ear a few times a day, which seems to be helping. Hadn't tidied up for ages, because it was almost impossible ro lift and move stuff, pick stuff up with the wrist drop, at the time it was near completely paralyzed, along with a partial loss of sensation; some parts of the hand I had feeling in, but much of it I wouldn't have felt a hot pinhead being pressed onto.


What is a tag sale? like a car boot? (what we call it on this side of the pond where some sort of land is used to hold a day where people set up a table, and sell a whole bunch pf  stuff, often out the back pof the boot of their cars.

The last one I went to, I am kicking myself, spent money to get in their, and managed to sell nothing whatsoever, and was just a tiny, tiny bit short of being able to afford a really nice looking SS dagger, which doubtless would have been worth a bit, and would make a nice addition to my weapon collection (so far, a ninja-to sword, ['ninja sword'], a set of nunchaku, a dart rifle with a pretty good telescopic sight, a .22 air pistol, and a S&W revolver, as well as the nice lock blade her now-dead grandfather gave as a last memory of him to The Hell Bitch :D)

Not something good that happened today, but that will happen at 3am or so in the coming morning-I get paid. I think I'm going to try 3-hydroxy-PCP. Its bloody expensive for some reason, no reason it should be, the synthetic procedure is no different from the much, much cheaper 3-methoxy and 4-methoxy phencyclidine analogs. Also going to buy either a 100mg sample of methoxydeschloroketamine, which only costs a fiver, in fact, theres one less step, that would be involved in any synth route I would know and use were I producing said arylcyclohexylamine myself, that being the reaction of the hydroxylated PCP compound with any one of a number of methylating agents to give the corresponding ether in the case of 3/4-MeO-PCP. Its much more potent though than either, and is apparently quite a potent opioid in and of its own right, Potency is way up too, being as potent as PCP itself IIRC.

The sample place that I get much of my research chemical type psychotropics from, also has got some really unusual, rare and interesting compounds. They are even getting in 14-methoxymetopon, which I actually find bloody shocking. As selling opioids is something that, other than ones of mild to moderate potency is something most RC companies actually shy away from big time, due to the potential for overdoses. This stuff is EXTREMELY potent. Never tried it, but my reading tells me, that depending on the assay method used, it is some 500x as potent as morphine. fentanyl is only 100x or so! Although this one has quite an unusual pharmacological profile, apparently it has a ceiling effect on respiratory depression, which must have played a large part in why it may have been chosen.

Its not in yet, but when it is, there is going to be an approval process one must go through to be allowed to purchase any. Which I am confident I will pass, being well equipped lab wise, and well educated in terms of psychoneuropharmacology. Not to mention opioid tolerant.

Definitely going to try some when it becomes available, at least the once, would be good to have something for breakthrough pain, I.e when what I'm on currently, the OC, just doesn't cut it, and my hip especially, being much worse than my knee, flares up.

Very, very surprised they are willing to go out on a limb and take the chance of selling this stuff, but looking forward to it a great deal. come monday, I'll place my order, do the bank wire, and have my stuff arrive early on tuesday via next-day shipping :)
Work still needs doing though but 'tis no longer like walking through a minefield :P

QV, what happened to the bed frame? And why so many bags of rubbish under one bed? is the PR pretty averse to anything that looks like it might involve tidying up? I don't blame her if she is :P

Found another gram of 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylnitrostyrene too, didn't realise I'd made quite that much, or that I had that other gram or so.

Lol, its quite amazing what I sometimes find when I tidy my room. It was way overdue in an epic way,thanks to my run-in with that wrist drop, I couldn't pick stuff up easily either, constantly bending down is bloody painful.

Still need to finish it off, but I'll need to get my fresh rx soon for that, as without, there is no WAY that my hip will let me bend, and I can't ever kneel down on my bad knee, as the slightest pressure is agonizing. I can only kneel down if I have a couple of soft, fat pillows and a cushion to place on top, to kneel down on, otherwise about the most pressure I can bear there, where the tendon and structures behind it have swollen up something awful, is using a couple of fingertips to rub in any of the various NSAID creams/gels. And the nerve damage from where they fucked up the surgery left me with a sort of numbness and paraesthesia, which is pretty uncomfortable if touched. Not in a painful way, just in an 'uggh that makes my skin crawl' sort of way.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 30, 2012, 11:21:43 AM

@ Lestat - QV, what happened to the bed frame? And why so many bags of rubbish under one bed? is the PR pretty averse to anything that looks like it might involve tidying up? I don't blame her if she is.

The PR was using the bed frame from the bedroom set my folks bought my sister and me in the mid 1960's.  One of the inside supports for the slats partially broke a good 8 or so inches off.  The slats were always iffy as far as staying in place because they were cut slightly short.  With the support broke they were impossible to keep the box spring up.  The PR had been fixing it every few days, but it was getting old hat.  She didn't have the $ for the frame, so I lent it to her.

The PR has minimal use of her right hand (she can mainly steady a piece of paper to write) and partial use of her right arm mostly because of a stroke before she was born.  She had managed to wrestle the mattress and box frame for about 6 weeks or so with one hand/arm.   

She has ADHD - Inattentive and a piss-poor role model in her mother as far as housekeeping go.  Her idea of a clean room was a partially clear space in the center, ignore the 5 foot + pile of clothes and towels taking up 1/4 of the room and shove everything under the bed or between the bed and the wall.  I'm changing and so will she. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 30, 2012, 05:37:05 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 30, 2012, 11:21:43 AM

@ Lestat - QV, what happened to the bed frame? And why so many bags of rubbish under one bed? is the PR pretty averse to anything that looks like it might involve tidying up? I don't blame her if she is.

The PR was using the bed frame from the bedroom set my folks bought my sister and me in the mid 1960's.  One of the inside supports for the slats partially broke a good 8 or so inches off.  The slats were always iffy as far as staying in place because they were cut slightly short.  With the support broke they were impossible to keep the box spring up.  The PR had been fixing it every few days, but it was getting old hat.  She didn't have the $ for the frame, so I lent it to her.

The PR has minimal use of her right hand (she can mainly steady a piece of paper to write) and partial use of her right arm mostly because of a stroke before she was born.  She had managed to wrestle the mattress and box frame for about 6 weeks or so with one hand/arm.   

She has ADHD - Inattentive and a piss-poor role model in her mother as far as housekeeping go.  Her idea of a clean room was a partially clear space in the center, ignore the 5 foot + pile of clothes and towels taking up 1/4 of the room and shove everything under the bed or between the bed and the wall.  I'm changing and so will she.

  Good for you and the PR, for changing your habits.  That reminds me ...  :apondering:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 01, 2012, 05:33:48 AM

She sounds rather like me then.

Although its my left hand that isn't working properly at the moment. No idea what caused the wrist drop/paralysis/numbness, although it is getting better at least.

I'm just absent minded and forget to put my clothes in the wash, and I always keep quite a few bottles of soft drink on the floor by my bed so all I have to do when I get thirsty at night is reach down, feel about and grab something.

(which atm, is a bottle of chocolate and mint milk/vodka mix stuff :autism:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 01, 2012, 11:42:31 AM

Yay! my package has been collected at the far end, and will be delivered tomorrow :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: earthboundmisfit on October 02, 2012, 11:14:56 PM

Socialized.


LIKE A BOSS.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 03, 2012, 09:07:07 AM

Brown sugar and maple oatmeal with peanut butter (chewed on the left side of mouth only)
Nice sales at the grocery stores
Meeting this afternoon to see if I can be an absentee voter poll commissioner.  Means extra $ for us

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 03, 2012, 11:48:51 AM

I was able to avoid the 12-yo all day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 03, 2012, 11:53:03 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 03, 2012, 11:48:51 AM

I was able to avoid the 12-yo all day.

  Did you have to hide in your office?   :hide:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on October 03, 2012, 12:05:19 PM

I'm getting my hair cut this afternoon. Still debating style and colours  :apondering:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 03, 2012, 12:14:14 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 03, 2012, 11:53:03 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 03, 2012, 11:48:51 AM

I was able to avoid the 12-yo all day.

  Did you have to hide in your office?   :hide:

Partly. But I also deliberately ignored him everywhere else. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 03, 2012, 12:22:40 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 03, 2012, 12:14:14 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 03, 2012, 11:53:03 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 03, 2012, 11:48:51 AM

I was able to avoid the 12-yo all day.

  Did you have to hide in your office?   :hide:

Partly. But I also deliberately ignored him everywhere else. :zoinks:

  Did you walk past him looking like  THIS?  ----->   :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 03, 2012, 12:49:52 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 03, 2012, 12:22:40 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 03, 2012, 12:14:14 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 03, 2012, 11:53:03 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 03, 2012, 11:48:51 AM

I was able to avoid the 12-yo all day.

  Did you have to hide in your office?   :hide:

Partly. But I also deliberately ignored him everywhere else. :zoinks:

  Did you walk past him looking like  THIS?  ----->   :M

Yes. ;D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on October 03, 2012, 03:06:28 PM

No cavities!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 03, 2012, 03:12:11 PM

I have a temp job the last week of October as a poll commissioner in the early voting.  The pay is $700 for 7 days and I still work the election on Nov 6 for $200.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 03, 2012, 03:13:58 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 03, 2012, 03:12:11 PM

I have a temp job the last week of October as a poll commissioner in the early voting.  The pay is $700 for 7 days and I still work the election on Nov 6 for $200.

  You really are what they call a working royal!  :queenie:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 03, 2012, 03:14:49 PM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on October 03, 2012, 03:06:28 PM

No cavities!

  Kudos on your well-tended teeth!  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 03, 2012, 03:16:53 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 03, 2012, 03:13:58 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 03, 2012, 03:12:11 PM

I have a temp job the last week of October as a poll commissioner in the early voting.  The pay is $700 for 7 days and I still work the election on Nov 6 for $200.

  You really are what they call a working royal pain in the arse!  :queenie:

fixed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 03, 2012, 03:19:01 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 03, 2012, 03:16:53 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 03, 2012, 03:13:58 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 03, 2012, 03:12:11 PM

I have a temp job the last week of October as a poll commissioner in the early voting.  The pay is $700 for 7 days and I still work the election on Nov 6 for $200.

  You really are what they call a working royal pain in the arse!  :queenie:

fixed.

  And that is your royal prerogative.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 03, 2012, 03:45:14 PM

Got a tedious job done. Will now move to the bitch thread about how tedious it was.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on October 03, 2012, 04:40:59 PM

Ridiculously happy with my change in hair colour. :dance:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 03, 2012, 04:43:09 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on October 03, 2012, 04:40:59 PM

Ridiculously happy with my change in hair colour. :dance:

  Do you feel like  THIS?  ----->   :cheer:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on October 03, 2012, 04:54:37 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 03, 2012, 04:43:09 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on October 03, 2012, 04:40:59 PM

Ridiculously happy with my change in hair colour. :dance:

  Do you feel like  THIS?  ----->   :cheer:

I do!!! :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 03, 2012, 10:01:56 PM

Resolved the problems holding up finishing the house in Vermont and should be going this weekend to get it done

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 03, 2012, 11:20:11 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 03, 2012, 03:14:49 PM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on October 03, 2012, 03:06:28 PM

No cavities!

  Kudos on your well-tended teeth!  :green:

:indeed:
I have a dentist appointment tomorrow and I hope it is the same for me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on October 04, 2012, 12:02:55 PM

The oldest has hooked up with 5 other homeschooling boys for what was supposed to be one morning of playing Minecraft together at a friend's house but they all hit it off so well that we're now getting together every Thursday morning. And today we decided to add Tuesday morning swims at a local community pool for them as well. Even better, I like all the Mum's and that's rare. :laugh:

Before this, he didn't have any friends that lived close by. All of his friends lived an hour away. These guys are within a 20 min drive and they're into the same things as him which is beyond cool.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on October 04, 2012, 01:21:48 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on October 04, 2012, 12:02:55 PM

The oldest has hooked up with 5 other homeschooling boys for what was supposed to be one morning of playing Minecraft together at a friend's house but they all hit it off so well that we're now getting together every Thursday morning. And today we decided to add Tuesday morning swims at a local community pool for them as well. Even better, I like all the Mum's and that's rare. :laugh:

Before this, he didn't have any friends that lived close by. All of his friends lived an hour away. These guys are within a 20 min drive and they're into the same things as him which is beyond cool.  8)

Yes it is.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 04, 2012, 02:51:32 PM

Got an appt. booked real soon to get some corticosteroid/local anaesthetic jabs into both my knee and my hip.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 04, 2012, 02:52:27 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on October 04, 2012, 12:02:55 PM

The oldest has hooked up with 5 other homeschooling boys for what was supposed to be one morning of playing Minecraft together at a friend's house but they all hit it off so well that we're now getting together every Thursday morning. And today we decided to add Tuesday morning swims at a local community pool for them as well. Even better, I like all the Mum's and that's rare. :laugh:

Before this, he didn't have any friends that lived close by. All of his friends lived an hour away. These guys are within a 20 min drive and they're into the same things as him which is beyond cool.  8)

:thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 04, 2012, 09:18:49 PM

Quote from: Lestat on October 04, 2012, 02:51:32 PM

Got an appt. booked real soon to get some corticosteroid/local anaesthetic jabs into both my knee and my hip.

About time! :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 04, 2012, 09:25:26 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on October 04, 2012, 01:21:48 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on October 04, 2012, 12:02:55 PM

The oldest has hooked up with 5 other homeschooling boys for what was supposed to be one morning of playing Minecraft together at a friend's house but they all hit it off so well that we're now getting together every Thursday morning. And today we decided to add Tuesday morning swims at a local community pool for them as well. Even better, I like all the Mum's and that's rare. :laugh:

Before this, he didn't have any friends that lived close by. All of his friends lived an hour away. These guys are within a 20 min drive and they're into the same things as him which is beyond cool.  8)

Yes it is.

  Your son has a posse now.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 04, 2012, 09:27:01 PM

Quote from: renaeden on October 04, 2012, 09:18:49 PM

Quote from: Lestat on October 04, 2012, 02:51:32 PM

Got an appt. booked real soon to get some corticosteroid/local anaesthetic jabs into both my knee and my hip.

About time! :P

    :agreed:    I hope it works well for you, pain relief is a great blessing!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 04, 2012, 09:29:59 PM

  Today I laughed at myself at work and cheered others up as well as myself.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 04, 2012, 10:33:08 PM

I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 05, 2012, 06:35:57 AM

Woke happy.

And, the red roses I worked with today had a real rosy odour.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 05, 2012, 08:47:22 AM

Agreed ren and ty weebly one.

Got an appt with the pain clinic on tuesday too. If they dont get something done, I figure it is time to head to the lab and work something out myself :P

Finally got the rest of my meds, I was feeling really overloaded without the clonidine to suppress noradrenaline release.

Although seeing as I had to miss my morning dose of oxy and just buy some liquid morphine instead at least that meant I could take a double dose at night, as I could only get a late appointment yesterday. Meant I got a very good nights sleep :D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 05, 2012, 09:35:28 AM

Just discovered some nice arabica dark roast filter coffee I'd forgotten about completely, I need to get another percolater when I get paid next. My last one died on me. Cooking it on the hotplate/mag stirrer in a flat-bottomed flask and filtering it through one of my buchner funnels works just fine though for now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 05, 2012, 05:23:40 PM

  I had my hot flashes at work today, surrounded by other middle-aged women
  with whom I could compare symptoms!  Menopause is going to rock!   :prude:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 06, 2012, 02:53:20 PM

My old man's computer gave out recently, dodgy processor, which fucked his motherboard, and did the same to the new mobo he bought to replace it. That isn't the good bit, what is, is that he couldn't use the RAM chips with the second new replacement board, so he gave it all to me for nothing.

I have a spare computer somewhere, at the moment I think in this machine, I have 2 gig of RAM. The old computer is a really, really slow old thing with just 512mb, currently not in use, the new ram chips I got given are 4 gig in total. So I can swap in the new 4 gig chips to this, the one that gets used for gaming and anything else intensive, and put what is in here into my spare machine.

I need to add a computer to the lab, doesn't need to be anything powerful, but just good enough not to crawl along really, and to run the software for a UV-vis spectrophotometer I've been looking into building (with the intent of experimenting and perhaps building an IR spec also, for analytical work once I have the basic visible range spec knocked together, assuming its successful)

Analytical kit like that goes secondhand etc. on ebay for quite a lot, some solely visible range ones can be had for about 200 or so, but there is a secondhand UV-Vis spectrophotometer, 200-850 nM range, going for a bit over 4.5 grand, US, or a UV-Vis spec with a 10nM resolution, 400-800nM range, thats going for nearly 13 K, US.

With some stuff I have been reading up on DIY-ed diffraction gratings, looks like its doable for less, much, much less than £50, UK :)

Sounds like it would make for an interesting project, and certainly bloody useful. Hell's bells, I've even read of an portable attachment suitable for field work that is compact enough to be clipped onto a mobile phone!

So of course, I'd need something to run the software with it, and I've been thinking of saving up for a bit and also investing in a USB camera for my lab microscope (a pretty good one, bought it from india for a bit short of $200 if I remember correctly, managed to get it imported marked as a 'gift' and save a whole bunch of import thef...err.'duty'. The oil immersion lens combined with the replacement eyepieces can get it up to 2000x magnification)

Would be nice to be able to take digital pics and upload them directly to a workstation in the lab, or (not sure if its capable of this), being able to get a live feed from the microscope to my computer screen. I'd still have to do all the focusing, tweaking, aligning slides and the like by hand of course, but it would be good to be able to view the output directly on the computer, sort of like a webcam feed.

Anybody know what a decent flat screen monitor goes for these days, on the cheap end of the scale? really doesn't have to be anything special, as I wouldn't be using it for anything graphics intensive, like gaming. Just need basics such as a sound card, already have a spare laser mouse, I'd have to get a spare keyboard, and a monitor, AFAIK thats just about it, aside from one of those USB hubs to give me some spare ports so as to enable running multiple analytical kit at once.

I do have a monitor spare somewhere, but its a big, bulky CRT, and I need something lighter and much more compact. I used to have the garage as lab space, but now we don't have a garage at all, thanks to my mother. She has MS, can't get up stairs, so my old man had to convert that into a downstairs bedroom:(

Which meant me having to convert the spare UPSTAIRS bedroom into a workspace. Way too little space in there, but its better than nothing. I'll need a lot of space already to build a fume hood, for the moment I still have to work outside if I'm working with anything really noxious, such as say, phosgene, large amounts of Cl2, H2S, etc.

Looking into the project, the site I'm reading from claims it's doable from $10 US. I already have some of the parts, so its looking very tempting to give this a go.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on October 06, 2012, 03:20:30 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on October 03, 2012, 04:40:59 PM

Ridiculously happy with my change in hair colour. :dance:

It looks good  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on October 06, 2012, 04:57:23 PM

Quote from: One L on October 06, 2012, 03:20:30 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on October 03, 2012, 04:40:59 PM

Ridiculously happy with my change in hair colour. :dance:

It looks good  :thumbup:

Thanks. Apparently once born a blonde always a blonde though. I couldn't figure where the heck all the dark hair was coming from in my truck until I glanced at myself in the mirror and realized it was me. It was like I was cheating on myself. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 06, 2012, 06:59:51 PM

Got any pics of the new hairdo miss kitty?

I thought you looked like a real stunner in that av pic you used to have, the one before you changed it to a black cat, sitting upright. Shows off your eyes, and that oh so pretty smile you have, all the pics I've seen I thought you looked really attractive, but that one in particular, what more can I say....? you look good enough to eat for breakfast (and tea, not to mention between-meal snacks  and when I wake up at night feeling peckish :))

I've found a site that sells some really nice looking dyes, been thinking I'll get some and do my hair bright electric blue.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 06, 2012, 07:47:49 PM

Found a nice big stash of forgotten candy. Not a full bag, but much of a big bag of blackberry and apple hard candies :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 06, 2012, 08:15:43 PM

Quote from: Lestat on October 06, 2012, 07:47:49 PM

Found a nice big stash of forgotten candy. Not a full bag, but much of a big bag of blackberry and apple hard candies :)

  You are always finding awesome things in your room, I don't know how you
  manage to hide it all from yourself!  I hardly ever find stuff like that at home!  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 06, 2012, 08:22:20 PM

  Today I stopped being disappointed in my natural eye color and started
  appreciating it instead.  My eyes are dark gray-green with brown centers and a few
  glints of blue, but in many kinds of light they just look dark and sharklike.  I have been
  wishing for blue off and on since I was 12 but now I love the color I have.  I read that
  Olivia Hussey's eyes, which are gray-green like mine, were much praised when she
  starred in  Romeo and Juliet  in 1968; also, my eyes are like my mother's.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 06, 2012, 08:41:50 PM

Went to the grocery store/pharmacy to pick up PA's Rx.  Forgot the pharmacy was closed.  But......... found 43 items in the newly put out bend and dent cart.  Got them for about 70% off!  Wheeeeeeeeeeeee 

Artichokes, pears, soups, cereals, asparagus, etc.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 06, 2012, 11:01:59 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 06, 2012, 08:41:50 PM

Went to the grocery store/pharmacy to pick up PA's Rx.  Forgot the pharmacy was closed.  But......... found 43 items in the newly put out bend and dent cart.  Got them for about 70% off!  Wheeeeeeeeeeeee 

Artichokes, pears, soups, cereals, asparagus, etc.

  If the Mayan apocalypse happens on Dec. 21, I'm heading to your house!  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 07, 2012, 02:21:08 AM

Yesterday but close enough, I won a game of spider solitaire playing with four suits

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 07, 2012, 06:23:09 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 06, 2012, 08:22:20 PM

  Today I stopped being disappointed in my natural eye color and started
  appreciating it instead.  My eyes are dark gray-green with brown centers and a few
  glints of blue, but in many kinds of light they just look dark and sharklike.  I have been
  wishing for blue off and on since I was 12 but now I love the color I have.  I read that
  Olivia Hussey's eyes, which are gray-green like mine, were much praised when she
  starred in  Romeo and Juliet  in 1968; also, my eyes are like my mother's.  8)

You do have great eyes.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 07, 2012, 06:43:15 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 07, 2012, 06:23:09 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 06, 2012, 08:22:20 PM

  Today I stopped being disappointed in my natural eye color and started
  appreciating it instead.  My eyes are dark gray-green with brown centers and a few
  glints of blue, but in many kinds of light they just look dark and sharklike.  I have been
  wishing for blue off and on since I was 12 but now I love the color I have.  I read that
  Olivia Hussey's eyes, which are gray-green like mine, were much praised when she
  starred in  Romeo and Juliet  in 1968; also, my eyes are like my mother's.  8)

You do have great eyes.

  Thank you, dear cow, so do you!  :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on October 07, 2012, 01:21:11 PM

I baked my first pie. It's pumpkin and it looks *so* good. Can't eat it until tomorrow though. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 07, 2012, 01:25:34 PM

I'm feeling a lot better than I felt this morning.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 07, 2012, 01:28:24 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on October 07, 2012, 01:21:11 PM

I baked my first pie. It's pumpkin and it looks *so* good. Can't eat it until tomorrow though. :P

  But you can post a picture of it.  :eyebrows:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 07, 2012, 01:29:48 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 07, 2012, 01:25:34 PM

I'm feeling a lot better than I felt this morning.

  Another member saved by the love and support of I²!    :grouphug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on October 07, 2012, 06:25:42 PM

Quote from: Lestat on October 06, 2012, 06:59:51 PM

you look good enough to eat for breakfast (and tea, not to mention between-meal snacks  and when I wake up at night feeling peckish :))

I think the world has had quite enough of cannibalistic junkies this year.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 07, 2012, 06:27:40 PM

  Columbo  is on after all, the channel just moved!   :tv:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 07, 2012, 07:33:14 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 07, 2012, 06:27:40 PM

  Columbo  is on after all, the channel just moved!   :tv:

Earthquake?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 07, 2012, 07:40:59 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 07, 2012, 07:33:14 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 07, 2012, 06:27:40 PM

  Columbo  is on after all, the channel just moved!   :tv:

Earthquake?

  I blame the cable company!  :orly: 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 07, 2012, 07:43:05 PM

I bought 2 Tshirts.  One said, I Don't Do Costumes.  The other was only $3, but it's brown.  Will definitely have to add some bling to it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on October 08, 2012, 04:37:32 PM

I made the best Thanksgiving feast. Quite the accomplishment for me given that I find the multi-tasking of having so many dishes on the go, overwhelming. But every dish turned out perfect. Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, baby carrots with a sugar honey glaze, and a homemade pumpkin pie.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 08, 2012, 04:41:40 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on October 08, 2012, 04:37:32 PM

I made the best Thanksgiving feast. Quite the accomplishment for me given that I find the multi-tasking of having so many dishes on the go, overwhelming. But every dish turned out perfect. Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, baby carrots with a sugar honey glaze, and a homemade pumpkin pie.

  *senses there might be leftovers*   :puppy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 08, 2012, 11:14:14 PM

I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on October 09, 2012, 03:26:21 PM

Quote from: Parts on October 07, 2012, 02:21:08 AM

Yesterday but close enough, I won a game of spider solitaire playing with four suits

four suited spider solitaire is impressive

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 09, 2012, 11:09:22 PM

Technically this was yesterday, but I had a job interview.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 10, 2012, 01:33:06 AM

My mum showed me how to work her treadmill so I can use that and watch tv at the same time. I will get my Star Trek DVDs and then it won't feel like I am exercising at all while I watch those.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 10, 2012, 07:52:10 AM

Quote from: Parts on October 07, 2012, 02:21:08 AM

Yesterday but close enough, I won a game of spider solitaire playing with four suits

Damn you Parts,

Had gotten that out of my obsessive routine, and, just when it's tricky, I saw this, and am hooked again. Am not allowed to go to bed before I succeed. And, I lost my skills, the time that I was not frantic about it.




Oh well, had it not been this, it would have been something else. Sometimes things like this cannot be avoided.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 10, 2012, 10:01:14 AM

There's going to be a second job interview on Friday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 10, 2012, 10:36:34 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 10, 2012, 10:01:14 AM

There's going to be a second job interview on Friday.

Same job or another company?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on October 10, 2012, 02:31:35 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 10, 2012, 10:01:14 AM

There's going to be a second job interview on Friday.

Hope it goes well for you, Odeon.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on October 10, 2012, 04:15:22 PM

Quote from: Callaway on October 10, 2012, 02:31:35 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 10, 2012, 10:01:14 AM

There's going to be a second job interview on Friday.

Hope it goes well for you, Odeon.

:agreed:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 10, 2012, 04:18:05 PM

 :indeed:

* jumping on the bandwagon *

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 10, 2012, 05:16:27 PM

Had corticosteroid shots in my knee and hip.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 10, 2012, 05:56:10 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 10, 2012, 04:18:05 PM

:indeed:

* jumping on the bandwagon *

  Wait for the Weeble! :cbc: Go get 'em odeon!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 10, 2012, 07:15:33 PM

Picked up a check from a very profitable job

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on October 10, 2012, 08:47:02 PM

Quote from: Lestat on October 10, 2012, 05:16:27 PM

Had corticosteroid shots in my knee and hip.

How do you feel?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 10, 2012, 11:41:51 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 10, 2012, 10:36:34 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 10, 2012, 10:01:14 AM

There's going to be a second job interview on Friday.

Same job or another company?

Another company, one that I found just the other day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on October 11, 2012, 12:11:26 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 10, 2012, 11:41:51 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 10, 2012, 10:36:34 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 10, 2012, 10:01:14 AM

There's going to be a second job interview on Friday.

Same job or another company?

Another company, one that I found just the other day.

Good luck with the job interview, odeon.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on October 11, 2012, 09:36:39 AM

Yesterday I crushed my Contracts midterm.  Killed it.  Made it my bitch.  I bent it over that exam table and it won't shit right for a month   :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on October 11, 2012, 11:36:26 AM

Edi placentam Neapolitanam - Vesuvium. Id est placenta Neapolitana cum porcum, caseum et solana lycopersicis  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on October 11, 2012, 11:43:57 AM

Quote from: Lit on October 11, 2012, 11:36:26 AM

Edi placentam Neapolitanam - Vesuvium. Id est placenta Neapolitana cum porcum, caseum et solana lycopersicis  8)

Chocolate, vanilla and strawberry, Phil Collins, pork ice cream and cheesy werewolves?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on October 11, 2012, 11:46:20 AM

No, no. "Placenta Neapolitana" is "pizza" - literally "cake from Naples". "Vesuvius" is (in Sweden) a pizza with ham, cheese and tomatoes  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 11, 2012, 11:48:45 AM

Quote from: One L on October 11, 2012, 09:36:39 AM

Yesterday I crushed my Contracts midterm.  Killed it.  Made it my bitch.  I bent it over that exam table and it won't shit right for a month   :viking:

MY LEGS rules!   :cfm:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 11, 2012, 02:11:04 PM

Quote from: One L on October 11, 2012, 09:36:39 AM

Yesterday I crushed my Contracts midterm.  Killed it.  Made it my bitch.  I bent it over that exam table and it won't shit right for a month   :viking:

That is an... interesting way to put it. :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on October 11, 2012, 02:32:27 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 11, 2012, 11:48:45 AM

Quote from: One L on October 11, 2012, 09:36:39 AM

Yesterday I crushed my Contracts midterm.  Killed it.  Made it my bitch.  I bent it over that exam table and it won't shit right for a month   :viking:

MY LEGS rules!   :cfm:

I had to look that up :)

That's a mnemonic for the Statute of Frauds.  That doesn't come up until the second half of the semester  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 11, 2012, 02:36:22 PM

Quote from: One L on October 11, 2012, 02:32:27 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 11, 2012, 11:48:45 AM

Quote from: One L on October 11, 2012, 09:36:39 AM

Yesterday I crushed my Contracts midterm.  Killed it.  Made it my bitch.  I bent it over that exam table and it won't shit right for a month   :viking:

MY LEGS rules!   :cfm:

I had to look that up :)

That's a mnemonic for the Statute of Frauds.  That doesn't come up until the second half of the semester  :viking:

Well, now you're that much ahead of the rest of the class.  Six less things to learn.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on October 11, 2012, 03:31:08 PM

The San Francisco Giants won the division series and will play for the National League Championship.  :thumbup: :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 11, 2012, 04:24:37 PM

Saw the pain doc, who is going to get onto my gp and hopefully do something. And got my doc to up my clonidine rx which ive wanted doing for ages-its one of the best meds for me ive ever been on, as it doesnt just kill 2 birds w/1 stone, this stuff goes and genocides the whole fucking aviary. Stops both my overloading and being overstimulated as well as suppressing my myoclonus+full body RLS as well as being a damn good sleep aid that does not carry the addictiom risk of barbs, benzos or z-drugs and similar agents. Hell of a muscle relaxant too. Works wonders on the spasms that have plagued my leg for ages. Even more so since added tizanidine to my rx (its a shorter acting but less hypotensive relative of clonidine). They work together really well. the steroids seem to be starting to work which is a relieif. Was hard to tell on the same day for they were sore for a while after. That and i just had picked up my oxy script. I do feel better able to move already though, particularly when it involves my having to bend, which typically is slow as frozen dogshit dripping off a stick, awkward and absolutely excruciating, even on high dose pain meds.   excuse the formatting btw ppl, posting from my phone. Have 2 get a new keyboard i think, having computer issues atm. I really hope i wont need to buy loads of expensive parts, and that i dont get stuck having to get my old machine out of the loft as a stopgap measure because i want to use that for a research data storage for the lab as well as to control a spectrophotometer.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 11, 2012, 05:25:28 PM

Put another check in the bank and picked up some subcontracting work where I provide labor only and don't need to buy any materials

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 11, 2012, 11:12:23 PM

I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 12, 2012, 04:23:15 AM

The steroid shots i had the other day are working a treat. Saw my doc today to get sm more clonidine and he was surprised at how fast and well im responding

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on October 12, 2012, 08:53:59 AM

Quote from: Lestat on October 11, 2012, 04:24:37 PM

does not carry the addictiom risk of barbs, benzos or z-drugs and similar agents.

 :lol1:

Concerned about addiction now are you?  Very good choice there  :thumbup:

Quote

involves my having to bend, which typically is slow as frozen dogshit dripping off a stick, awkward and absolutely excruciating, even on high dose pain meds.

But you can kick some serious ass when you want to, amirite? ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on October 12, 2012, 08:54:45 AM

Civ Pro went ..... well, it went.  I really have no idea.  Hopefully will have it graded in a month or so :(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on October 12, 2012, 09:01:28 AM

I had fish soup (salmon) at the cafe  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 12, 2012, 11:23:52 AM

Quote from: Lestat on October 12, 2012, 04:23:15 AM

The steroid shots i had the other day are working a treat. Saw my doc today to get sm more clonidine and he was surprised at how fast and well im responding

  That is awesome, I hope you continue to have good results.  :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 12, 2012, 11:31:53 AM

  I got home early from dogsitting today!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 12, 2012, 11:47:17 AM

I was offered the job today. I have over the weekend to decide. :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on October 12, 2012, 11:49:59 AM

Quote from: One L on October 12, 2012, 08:54:45 AM

Civ Pro went ..... well, it went.  I really have no idea.  Hopefully will have it graded in a month or so :(

Why will it take so long for it to be graded?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on October 12, 2012, 11:51:08 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 12, 2012, 11:47:17 AM

I was offered the job today. I have over the weekend to decide. :headbang2:

:cheer:

What's the job?  Why wouldn't you take it?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 12, 2012, 11:51:24 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 12, 2012, 11:47:17 AM

I was offered the job today. I have over the weekend to decide. :headbang2:

  :party:  Good for you, enjoy your weekend!  :party:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 12, 2012, 11:55:41 AM

Quote from: Callaway on October 12, 2012, 11:51:08 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 12, 2012, 11:47:17 AM

I was offered the job today. I have over the weekend to decide. :headbang2:

:cheer:

What's the job?  Why wouldn't you take it?

It's the one I was interviewed for the other day and again this morning. It's sort of like what I'm doing now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on October 12, 2012, 11:59:31 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 12, 2012, 11:55:41 AM

Quote from: Callaway on October 12, 2012, 11:51:08 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 12, 2012, 11:47:17 AM

I was offered the job today. I have over the weekend to decide. :headbang2:

:cheer:

What's the job?  Why wouldn't you take it?

It's the one I was interviewed for the other day and again this morning. It's sort of like what I'm doing now.

Getting away from the 12 year old is such a strong pro, but I wonder if there are any cons to taking this new job other than the learning curve involved with taking any new job?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 12, 2012, 12:10:03 PM

Quote from: Callaway on October 12, 2012, 11:59:31 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 12, 2012, 11:55:41 AM

Quote from: Callaway on October 12, 2012, 11:51:08 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 12, 2012, 11:47:17 AM

I was offered the job today. I have over the weekend to decide. :headbang2:

:cheer:

What's the job?  Why wouldn't you take it?

It's the one I was interviewed for the other day and again this morning. It's sort of like what I'm doing now.

Getting away from the 12 year old is such a strong pro, but I wonder if there are any cons to taking this new job other than the learning curve involved with taking any new job?

Well, it's a small company and I'd be working from home some of the time because the office is across the country. But I don't mind that, not really, and I don't mind the travelling that is expected from me.

A lot of people, including several here, have pointed out that my current job is affecting my health and it's not worth it. It's worth a lot to get away from it before I end up in a hospital.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on October 12, 2012, 12:30:24 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 12, 2012, 12:10:03 PM

Quote from: Callaway on October 12, 2012, 11:59:31 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 12, 2012, 11:55:41 AM

Quote from: Callaway on October 12, 2012, 11:51:08 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 12, 2012, 11:47:17 AM

I was offered the job today. I have over the weekend to decide. :headbang2:

:cheer:

What's the job?  Why wouldn't you take it?

It's the one I was interviewed for the other day and again this morning. It's sort of like what I'm doing now.

Getting away from the 12 year old is such a strong pro, but I wonder if there are any cons to taking this new job other than the learning curve involved with taking any new job?

Well, it's a small company and I'd be working from home some of the time because the office is across the country. But I don't mind that, not really, and I don't mind the travelling that is expected from me.

A lot of people, including several here, have pointed out that my current job is affecting my health and it's not worth it. It's worth a lot to get away from it before I end up in a hospital.

The company's office being located across the country, working from home, and needing to travel a lot sound like my husband's job even though you don't do the same thing otherwise.  I also think it would be worth a lot to get away from the stress.

You have a lot of thinking to do this weekend.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 12, 2012, 12:39:44 PM

Yes, there's a lot to think about.

I also feel like I'm betraying my friend at my current job. He's the one remaining colleague from before the 12-yo happened and I've had a lot of fun with him. :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 12, 2012, 01:02:10 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 12, 2012, 12:39:44 PM

Yes, there's a lot to think about.

I also feel like I'm betraying my friend at my current job. He's the one remaining colleague from before the 12-yo happened and I've had a lot of fun with him. :-\

  You have to take care of yourself!  Maybe your leaving will inspire him to leave!  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on October 12, 2012, 01:29:08 PM

Quote from: Callaway on October 12, 2012, 11:49:59 AM

Quote from: One L on October 12, 2012, 08:54:45 AM

Civ Pro went ..... well, it went.  I really have no idea.  Hopefully will have it graded in a month or so :(

Why will it take so long for it to be graded?

Law professors are notoriously lazy with this kind of thing.  It's why most classes only have one final exam for 100% of your total grade.  I'm lucky in that I have a midterm worth 20% of my grade and a final worth 80%.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 12, 2012, 01:44:36 PM

Quote from: One L on October 12, 2012, 01:29:08 PM

Quote from: Callaway on October 12, 2012, 11:49:59 AM

Quote from: One L on October 12, 2012, 08:54:45 AM

Civ Pro went ..... well, it went.  I really have no idea.  Hopefully will have it graded in a month or so :(

Why will it take so long for it to be graded?

Law professors are notoriously lazy with this kind of thing.  It's why most classes only have one final exam for 100% of your total grade.  I'm lucky in that I have a midterm worth 20% of my grade and a final worth 80%.

  80% for the final?!    :chores:    Start studying now!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on October 12, 2012, 02:02:50 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 12, 2012, 12:39:44 PM

Yes, there's a lot to think about.

I also feel like I'm betraying my friend at my current job. He's the one remaining colleague from before the 12-yo happened and I've had a lot of fun with him. :-\

Maybe you could help your friend get a job with your new company in the future when there's another opening for him, if you do take the job.  My husband did that for his friend.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on October 12, 2012, 02:35:16 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 12, 2012, 12:39:44 PM

Yes, there's a lot to think about.

I also feel like I'm betraying my friend at my current job. He's the one remaining colleague from before the 12-yo happened and I've had a lot of fun with him. :-\

That is emotion. It is not a valid REASON to stay in a job situation that you hate.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on October 12, 2012, 02:58:05 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on October 12, 2012, 02:35:16 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 12, 2012, 12:39:44 PM

Yes, there's a lot to think about.

I also feel like I'm betraying my friend at my current job. He's the one remaining colleague from before the 12-yo happened and I've had a lot of fun with him. :-\

That is emotion. It is not a valid REASON to stay in a job situation that you hate.

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Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 12, 2012, 03:01:06 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on October 12, 2012, 02:35:16 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 12, 2012, 12:39:44 PM

Yes, there's a lot to think about.

I also feel like I'm betraying my friend at my current job. He's the one remaining colleague from before the 12-yo happened and I've had a lot of fun with him. :-\

That is emotion. It is not a valid REASON to stay in a job situation that you hate.

Yeah, I know that. Intellectually.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 12, 2012, 03:01:34 PM

Quote from: Callaway on October 12, 2012, 02:02:50 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 12, 2012, 12:39:44 PM

Yes, there's a lot to think about.

I also feel like I'm betraying my friend at my current job. He's the one remaining colleague from before the 12-yo happened and I've had a lot of fun with him. :-\

Maybe you could help your friend get a job with your new company in the future when there's another opening for him, if you do take the job.  My husband did that for his friend.

True. I would like to do that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 12, 2012, 03:50:19 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 12, 2012, 12:39:44 PM

Yes, there's a lot to think about.

I also feel like I'm betraying my friend at my current job. He's the one remaining colleague from before the 12-yo happened and I've had a lot of fun with him. :-\

Your friend will have more a friend in you when you are healthy, than when you go down because of the 12-yo's policies.

Way more important is what the work-culture is in the new place, even when you would be working at home more.
Finding out, after taking it, that you only changed one 12-yo for another would be awful.

And, may be good to ponder on what working from home would mean for you. Are you someone with the double discipline that working from home takes? The discipline to get started, and, the discipline to take breaks and to stop at the end of the day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on October 12, 2012, 09:35:23 PM

Quote from: One L on October 12, 2012, 02:58:05 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on October 12, 2012, 02:35:16 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 12, 2012, 12:39:44 PM

Yes, there's a lot to think about.

I also feel like I'm betraying my friend at my current job. He's the one remaining colleague from before the 12-yo happened and I've had a lot of fun with him. :-\

That is emotion. It is not a valid REASON to stay in a job situation that you hate.

(http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/ww173/prestonjjrtr/Smileys/Star%20Trek/spock2.gif)

:thumbup: :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 13, 2012, 02:13:34 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 12, 2012, 03:50:19 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 12, 2012, 12:39:44 PM

Yes, there's a lot to think about.

I also feel like I'm betraying my friend at my current job. He's the one remaining colleague from before the 12-yo happened and I've had a lot of fun with him. :-\

Your friend will have more a friend in you when you are healthy, than when you go down because of the 12-yo's policies.

Way more important is what the work-culture is in the new place, even when you would be working at home more.
Finding out, after taking it, that you only changed one 12-yo for another would be awful.

And, may be good to ponder on what working from home would mean for you. Are you someone with the double discipline that working from home takes? The discipline to get started, and, the discipline to take breaks and to stop at the end of the day.

I've worked from home in the past, when I had my own company. I did have the discipline, most of the time, but it's a valid point and something I need to be very honest about to myself. I do think I could handle it well again. The fact that I've been less than focussed at times recently has more to do with the 12-yo, I think.

As for what the work culture is at the new company, my impressions is a good one. I found it easy to talk to the owners on Skype, always a good sign considering my phone conversation abilities.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on October 14, 2012, 10:35:03 AM

I got a bottle of Beringer Stone Cellars from 2009 from my brother. It is a Cabernet Sauvignon wine from California :toporly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 14, 2012, 10:57:36 AM

Not a damn thing so far.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on October 14, 2012, 12:02:43 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 14, 2012, 10:57:36 AM

Not a damn thing so far.

ditto....

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 14, 2012, 12:10:36 PM

Apart from Sirius smelling that bad that I washed him with a damp warm cloth, and had to strip, throw my clothes in the washing machine, and myself in the shower, this day has been an awesome day.

 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 14, 2012, 02:12:04 PM

Talked to a friend for a while.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on October 14, 2012, 03:18:43 PM

I adopted a kitty today from my rescue  :2thumbsup: They named him Little Foot and I'm keeping it as they've had him 18 mos and he's used to it. These pics were taken at the fosters house. Look at the spot on his side. It's in the shape of a heart. I'm in love :)

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a260/Canuk1975/LF3.jpg)

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a260/Canuk1975/LF1.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 14, 2012, 05:43:13 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on October 14, 2012, 03:18:43 PM

I adopted a kitty today from my rescue  :2thumbsup: They named him Little Foot and I'm keeping it as they've had him 18 mos and he's used to it. These pics were taken at the fosters house. Look at the spot on his side. It's in the shape of a heart. I'm in love :)

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a260/Canuk1975/LF3.jpg)

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a260/Canuk1975/LF1.jpg)

      :plus:   for adopting that sweet kitty, he looks very comfortable already!   :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 14, 2012, 05:44:08 PM

  Nobody ordered liver and onions today, so I didn't have a greasy grill to clean!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on October 14, 2012, 06:27:10 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 14, 2012, 05:43:13 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on October 14, 2012, 03:18:43 PM

I adopted a kitty today from my rescue  :2thumbsup: They named him Little Foot and I'm keeping it as they've had him 18 mos and he's used to it. These pics were taken at the fosters house. Look at the spot on his side. It's in the shape of a heart. I'm in love :)

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a260/Canuk1975/LF3.jpg)

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a260/Canuk1975/LF1.jpg)

      :plus:   for adopting that sweet kitty, he looks very comfortable already!   :heart:

Those pics were taken by the foster so they're not at my house. Right now he's hiding under the bed. it will take him a few days to adjust. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 14, 2012, 06:38:28 PM

  ^  I'm sure in a few days your kitty will feel right at home.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 14, 2012, 07:07:59 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 14, 2012, 05:44:08 PM

  Nobody ordered liver and onions today, so I didn't have a greasy grill to clean!  :thumbup:

So, it was good that I wasn't there.  I would have ordered that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 14, 2012, 07:09:57 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 14, 2012, 07:07:59 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 14, 2012, 05:44:08 PM

  Nobody ordered liver and onions today, so I didn't have a greasy grill to clean!  :thumbup:

So, it was good that I wasn't there.  I would have ordered that.

  I would have been happy to make it for you.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 14, 2012, 07:12:02 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 14, 2012, 07:09:57 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 14, 2012, 07:07:59 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 14, 2012, 05:44:08 PM

  Nobody ordered liver and onions today, so I didn't have a greasy grill to clean!  :thumbup:

So, it was good that I wasn't there.  I would have ordered that.

  I would have been happy to make it for you.  :)

I would have had seconds and possibly thirds.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on October 15, 2012, 07:00:46 PM

Oldest likes his new psych  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on October 15, 2012, 08:52:34 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on October 14, 2012, 03:18:43 PM

I adopted a kitty today from my rescue  :2thumbsup: They named him Little Foot and I'm keeping it as they've had him 18 mos and he's used to it. These pics were taken at the fosters house. Look at the spot on his side. It's in the shape of a heart. I'm in love :)

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a260/Canuk1975/LF3.jpg)

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a260/Canuk1975/LF1.jpg)

He looks just like George.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on October 15, 2012, 09:51:49 PM

I've had my parakeet since my senior year of high school.... this little girl is already five years old....

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 16, 2012, 07:18:32 AM

  Listening to the Dropkick Murphys has energized me!  :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on October 16, 2012, 09:12:07 AM

Quote from: Genesis on October 15, 2012, 09:51:49 PM

I've had my parakeet since my senior year of high school.... this little girl is already five years old....

I have had my dog since I was a junior in college.  She is already fifteen years old.   :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 16, 2012, 04:14:17 PM

Won $5 on the lottery ticket I got yesterday

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Natalia Evans on October 16, 2012, 04:27:26 PM

We finally got new gutters put on today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 16, 2012, 11:30:52 PM

I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 16, 2012, 11:37:32 PM

It's my son's birthday today. He's 18.

I think this is scary as hell but it's also a good thing. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on October 17, 2012, 06:42:08 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 16, 2012, 11:37:32 PM

It's my son's birthday today. He's 18.

I think this is scary as hell but it's also a good thing. :)

Happy Birthday to the little man who's not so little anymore :)

My son will be 14 next month which I find shocking. Time passes by so quickly.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on October 17, 2012, 07:15:25 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 16, 2012, 11:37:32 PM

It's my son's birthday today. He's 18.

I think this is scary as hell but it's also a good thing. :)

He's 18?

Happy Birthday to your son.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Peter on October 17, 2012, 09:26:57 AM

I found out that Alpha Centauri B delivers 5MW of light to the Earth.  I also found out that there's an Alpha Centauri B b.

http://oklo.org/2012/10/16/alpha-centauri-b-b/ (http://oklo.org/2012/10/16/alpha-centauri-b-b/)

Hopefully there's an Alpha Centauri B c and maybe an Alpha Centauri B d.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on October 17, 2012, 10:08:14 AM

My new kitty makes me ridiculously happy. He's so precious.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 17, 2012, 02:48:38 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 16, 2012, 11:37:32 PM

It's my son's birthday today. He's 18.

I think this is scary as hell but it's also a good thing. :)

As a special birthday present, did you let him wash the Jag?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on October 17, 2012, 06:06:11 PM

Best wishes to your son, odeon.  Hope he enjoyed his birthday :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on October 17, 2012, 06:09:30 PM

Yipeeeee!  I can announce a resurrection :angel:

The tumble dryer is back!  thanks to the urchins dad who put a new belt on it  -  hooray for men :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 17, 2012, 11:10:12 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 17, 2012, 02:48:38 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 16, 2012, 11:37:32 PM

It's my son's birthday today. He's 18.

I think this is scary as hell but it's also a good thing. :)

As a special birthday present, did you let him wash the Jag?

He isn't old enough for THAT yet. :P

He did want to taste a beer, though, so we got him a Heineken (usually considered to be a harmless first beer). He tried a glass of it and said it tasted like earwax. :rofl:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 17, 2012, 11:11:08 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 17, 2012, 06:06:11 PM

Best wishes to your son, odeon.  Hope he enjoyed his birthday :2thumbsup:

Thanks. :)

I think he did enjoy it. He was in a terrific mood all day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 18, 2012, 03:28:31 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 17, 2012, 11:11:08 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 17, 2012, 06:06:11 PM

Best wishes to your son, odeon.  Hope he enjoyed his birthday :2thumbsup:

Thanks. :)

I think he did enjoy it. He was in a terrific mood all day.

That always is a good sign.

Belated congratulations.

No hangover aftermath?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 18, 2012, 03:30:51 AM

The good of today is that a lot of paperwork has been dealt with.

And, the reward, koffie met slagroom, en twee scholiertjes (OK, lookalikes of scholiertjes, from the Aldi) is even better.

 :coffee: :dance:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on October 18, 2012, 07:11:04 AM

After an early appointment with a "new" Orthopedic surgeon to be briefed on the eight X-Rays I had two weeks ago, he does not want to commit more surgery upon my new hip joint, yet.
He wants to perform another series of Physical Therapy sessions, his way, for me.
 

I suppose that is good. :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on October 18, 2012, 01:03:13 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 17, 2012, 11:10:12 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 17, 2012, 02:48:38 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 16, 2012, 11:37:32 PM

It's my son's birthday today. He's 18.

I think this is scary as hell but it's also a good thing. :)

As a special birthday present, did you let him wash the Jag?

He isn't old enough for THAT yet. :P

He did want to taste a beer, though, so we got him a Heineken (usually considered to be a harmless first beer). He tried a glass of it and said it tasted like earwax. :rofl:

Should have given him a Stella.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on October 18, 2012, 01:16:26 PM

Stella cervisia bona est  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on October 18, 2012, 01:21:42 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on October 18, 2012, 07:11:04 AM

After an early appointment with a "new" Orthopedic surgeon to be briefed on the eight X-Rays I had two weeks ago, he does not want to commit more surgery upon my new hip joint, yet.
He wants to perform another series of Physical Therapy sessions, his way, for me.
 

I suppose that is good. :-\

Physical therapy is better than surgery, if it works.

At least you will know that you did everything you could to avoid further surgery if it does come down to more surgery in the end.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 18, 2012, 01:37:37 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 18, 2012, 03:28:31 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 17, 2012, 11:11:08 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 17, 2012, 06:06:11 PM

Best wishes to your son, odeon.  Hope he enjoyed his birthday :2thumbsup:

Thanks. :)

I think he did enjoy it. He was in a terrific mood all day.

That always is a good sign.

Belated congratulations.

No hangover aftermath?

Nah, just a little disagreement with a teacher. Nothing serious.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 18, 2012, 03:00:54 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 18, 2012, 01:37:37 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 18, 2012, 03:28:31 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 17, 2012, 11:11:08 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 17, 2012, 06:06:11 PM

Best wishes to your son, odeon.  Hope he enjoyed his birthday :2thumbsup:

Thanks. :)

I think he did enjoy it. He was in a terrific mood all day.

That always is a good sign.

Belated congratulations.

No hangover aftermath?

Nah, just a little disagreement with a teacher. Nothing serious.

disagreements with teachers are :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on October 18, 2012, 07:12:25 PM

Quote from: One L on October 16, 2012, 09:12:07 AM

Quote from: Genesis on October 15, 2012, 09:51:49 PM

I've had my parakeet since my senior year of high school.... this little girl is already five years old....

I have had my dog since I was a junior in college.  She is already fifteen years old.   :GA:

:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 18, 2012, 11:15:19 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 18, 2012, 03:00:54 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 18, 2012, 01:37:37 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 18, 2012, 03:28:31 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 17, 2012, 11:11:08 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 17, 2012, 06:06:11 PM

Best wishes to your son, odeon.  Hope he enjoyed his birthday :2thumbsup:

Thanks. :)

I think he did enjoy it. He was in a terrific mood all day.

That always is a good sign.

Belated congratulations.

No hangover aftermath?

Nah, just a little disagreement with a teacher. Nothing serious.

disagreements with teachers are :arrr:

This one was, certainly. Can you believe a teacher that, in the morning when the receiver is at his grumpiest, asks if the autistic kid in question hates him?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 18, 2012, 11:20:57 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 18, 2012, 11:15:19 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 18, 2012, 03:00:54 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 18, 2012, 01:37:37 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 18, 2012, 03:28:31 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 17, 2012, 11:11:08 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 17, 2012, 06:06:11 PM

Best wishes to your son, odeon.  Hope he enjoyed his birthday :2thumbsup:

Thanks. :)

I think he did enjoy it. He was in a terrific mood all day.

That always is a good sign.

Belated congratulations.

No hangover aftermath?

Nah, just a little disagreement with a teacher. Nothing serious.

disagreements with teachers are :arrr:

This one was, certainly. Can you believe a teacher that, in the morning when the receiver is at his grumpiest, asks if the autistic kid in question hates him?

I may be able to top that one.  I was extremely stressed studying for the CPA exam and started crying at work.  The area manager was on the audit site and asked what was wrong.  Stupid me asked if someone could kill the big boss.  I was put on medical leave until the exam and botched the apology when I met with all the bigwigs after the exam.  Autistic?  Yep.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on October 19, 2012, 12:32:16 AM

Coquebam coffeum  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 19, 2012, 09:31:45 AM

I was offered a very reasonable increase in salary, plus some additional benefits, at my current job. The 12-yo was at his humblest and we had a long chat about my notice and what he could do to reverse it. It turns out he was able to do a lot when pressed hard enough. It seems that my service are important to the company.

Anyway, I have decided to stay after all.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 19, 2012, 10:18:08 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 19, 2012, 09:31:45 AM

I was offered a very reasonable increase in salary, plus some additional benefits, at my current job. The 12-yo was at his humblest and we had a long chat about my notice and what he could do to reverse it. It turns out he was able to do a lot when pressed hard enough. It seems that my service are important to the company.

Anyway, I have decided to stay after all.

Congratulations (I think?)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on October 19, 2012, 10:37:07 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 19, 2012, 09:31:45 AM

I was offered a very reasonable increase in salary, plus some additional benefits, at my current job. The 12-yo was at his humblest and we had a long chat about my notice and what he could do to reverse it. It turns out he was able to do a lot when pressed hard enough. It seems that my service are important to the company.

Anyway, I have decided to stay after all.

I hope he stands by his word and becomes easier to work with. Sometimes after the first meeting, it's easier going forward to confront if things start to slip.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 19, 2012, 11:32:35 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 19, 2012, 10:18:08 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 19, 2012, 09:31:45 AM

I was offered a very reasonable increase in salary, plus some additional benefits, at my current job. The 12-yo was at his humblest and we had a long chat about my notice and what he could do to reverse it. It turns out he was able to do a lot when pressed hard enough. It seems that my service are important to the company.

Anyway, I have decided to stay after all.

Congratulations (I think?)

I think it was important for me to do this. I don't know if it is enough but I think I'm in control now, rather than the 12-yo.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 19, 2012, 11:34:08 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on October 19, 2012, 10:37:07 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 19, 2012, 09:31:45 AM

I was offered a very reasonable increase in salary, plus some additional benefits, at my current job. The 12-yo was at his humblest and we had a long chat about my notice and what he could do to reverse it. It turns out he was able to do a lot when pressed hard enough. It seems that my service are important to the company.

Anyway, I have decided to stay after all.

I hope he stands by his word and becomes easier to work with. Sometimes after the first meeting, it's easier going forward to confront if things start to slip.

Yes, it might become easier now. Then again, there's no telling if he can change--or if I can, in that I can't really go on hating his guts if I am to work there.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 19, 2012, 09:29:22 PM

I just went out to the cashpoint to check my balance, and on the way, I found a full packet of rolling baccy that somebody had obviously dropped.


Right as I was  running low on baccy too.

Went to pick up my meds, managed to get everything a few days early, and the doc I saw thought that the one-off short term rx for some nitrazepam (a strong benzo, decently long acting, and to which  I don't have a nasty paradoxical rxn to, as I do to some other  benzos)  was a longterm new med, and gave me a refill without my asking.

I only asked my regular GP for a few days worth last time I saw him, as I was really getting hit hard with an overload, asked for a single dose at the time to help bring me out of it, and rather than that he gave me a few days worth. Saw a different doc this time, who didn't realize I was only asking my regular guy for enough to end the overload I was having and gave me some more.

Didn't even know she had refilled  the rx until I  got home from the pharmacy. Sure as hades not complaining though!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 20, 2012, 07:21:45 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 19, 2012, 11:32:35 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 19, 2012, 10:18:08 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 19, 2012, 09:31:45 AM

I was offered a very reasonable increase in salary, plus some additional benefits, at my current job. The 12-yo was at his humblest and we had a long chat about my notice and what he could do to reverse it. It turns out he was able to do a lot when pressed hard enough. It seems that my service are important to the company.

Anyway, I have decided to stay after all.

Congratulations (I think?)

I think it was important for me to do this. I don't know if it is enough but I think I'm in control now, rather than the 12-yo.

Things like this make that my middle brother is still happy at the firm he has been working for for years. Whenever he had problems, he confronted the staff with a valid job option elsewhere. And, they never wanted to get rid of him.

So, this could pan out really well.

Being in control is :arrr:

Have heard the vision of am employer on this once too. She was shocked seeing someone nearly gone, and, things changed for the better for both employee and employer. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 20, 2012, 09:00:03 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 18, 2012, 11:15:19 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 18, 2012, 03:00:54 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 18, 2012, 01:37:37 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 18, 2012, 03:28:31 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 17, 2012, 11:11:08 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 17, 2012, 06:06:11 PM

Best wishes to your son, odeon.  Hope he enjoyed his birthday :2thumbsup:

Thanks. :)

I think he did enjoy it. He was in a terrific mood all day.

That always is a good sign.

Belated congratulations.

No hangover aftermath?

Nah, just a little disagreement with a teacher. Nothing serious.

disagreements with teachers are :arrr:

This one was, certainly. Can you believe a teacher that, in the morning when the receiver is at his grumpiest, asks if the autistic kid in question hates him?

  "Do you hate me?"  sounds pathetic enough coming from emo drunks.   :fiveshots:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 20, 2012, 09:01:34 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on October 19, 2012, 10:37:07 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 19, 2012, 09:31:45 AM

I was offered a very reasonable increase in salary, plus some additional benefits, at my current job. The 12-yo was at his humblest and we had a long chat about my notice and what he could do to reverse it. It turns out he was able to do a lot when pressed hard enough. It seems that my service are important to the company.

Anyway, I have decided to stay after all.

I hope he stands by his word and becomes easier to work with.  Sometimes after the first meeting, it's easier going forward to confront if things start to slip.

  ^ That's true, if he fails to keep his word, you can remind him what he promised.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 20, 2012, 09:08:37 AM

  My headache is going away, more :coffee: should do the trick!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on October 20, 2012, 09:51:55 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 19, 2012, 09:31:45 AM

I was offered a very reasonable increase in salary, plus some additional benefits, at my current job. The 12-yo was at his humblest and we had a long chat about my notice and what he could do to reverse it. It turns out he was able to do a lot when pressed hard enough. It seems that my service are important to the company.

Anyway, I have decided to stay after all.

Wow, I didn't see that coming.  I'm glad that you are valuable enough to your company for them to make you a good counteroffer and for the 12 year old to eat humble pie.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 20, 2012, 04:46:31 PM

Did well out at the tag sales and I just got an offer of $475 on a chair I paid $5 for

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on October 20, 2012, 05:38:47 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 19, 2012, 09:31:45 AM

I was offered a very reasonable increase in salary, plus some additional benefits, at my current job. The 12-yo was at his humblest and we had a long chat about my notice and what he could do to reverse it. It turns out he was able to do a lot when pressed hard enough. It seems that my service are important to the company.

Anyway, I have decided to stay after all.

Do you view the 12 year old in a better light now?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 20, 2012, 06:25:46 PM

I just reset my modem, with help from ATT tech support because I couldn't remember ID or password.  Instead of running as slow as glass it's now zipping along.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 20, 2012, 06:30:16 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 20, 2012, 06:25:46 PM

I just reset my modem, with help from ATT tech support because I couldn't remember ID or password.  Instead of running as slow as glass it's now zipping along.

    :plus:    Don't you love it when your computer is nice and fast?  Good for you!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on October 20, 2012, 10:12:29 PM

Quote from: Callaway on October 18, 2012, 01:21:42 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on October 18, 2012, 07:11:04 AM

After an early appointment with a "new" Orthopedic surgeon to be briefed on the eight X-Rays I had two weeks ago, he does not want to commit more surgery upon my new hip joint, yet.
He wants to perform another series of Physical Therapy sessions, his way, for me.
 

I suppose that is good. :-\

Physical therapy is better than surgery, if it works.

At least you will know that you did everything you could to avoid further surgery if it does come down to more surgery in the end.

Been down that road.

Remember, I spent (I really do mean spent) a full year in physical therapy, about the time you guys stopped seeing me around as often. I was helped a bit and I learned some things to help with the musculature atrophy, but overall the pain is worse.

The following surgery last summer has helped get the joint back to an acceptable range of motion , but the pain is still there.

This is why I have returned to (A NEW) orthopedic surgeon. I am trying to find how to eliminate the pain that wakes me up, destroying my sleep, four or five times each night.

 :violin:

Whatever! Do not cry too much for me. I am old and pain just barely feels like all that much these days, but losing sleep (FUCK), when I barely have ever gotten any sleep is a BIG deal.

I just want to go back to getting four or five hours of decent sleep per night.

FFS :police:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 20, 2012, 11:37:13 PM

I know how that feels, you have my sympathies. I too get kept awake by pain, my hip and knee in my case, have you considered trying corticosteroid shots? I just had two recently, one in my knee and the other into my hip joint. They didn't stop either hurting, although they have indeed eased my pain some. BUT, there has been a substantial and rapid increase in my mobility, my overall stiffness has abated quite a bit.

Might be worth a try.

Sleep deprivation does not do me good either, I need at LEAST 10-12 hours a night, any significant sleep deprivation affects me  pretty badly. Speaking of which, as soon as I finish devouring my book, I need to go and hit the deck.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 21, 2012, 02:19:50 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 20, 2012, 09:01:34 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on October 19, 2012, 10:37:07 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 19, 2012, 09:31:45 AM

I was offered a very reasonable increase in salary, plus some additional benefits, at my current job. The 12-yo was at his humblest and we had a long chat about my notice and what he could do to reverse it. It turns out he was able to do a lot when pressed hard enough. It seems that my service are important to the company.

Anyway, I have decided to stay after all.

I hope he stands by his word and becomes easier to work with.  Sometimes after the first meeting, it's easier going forward to confront if things start to slip.

  ^ That's true, if he fails to keep his word, you can remind him what he promised.  :thumbup:

I have his promises in writing. It's going to be very difficult for him to do anything else.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 21, 2012, 02:25:04 AM

Quote from: Callaway on October 20, 2012, 09:51:55 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 19, 2012, 09:31:45 AM

I was offered a very reasonable increase in salary, plus some additional benefits, at my current job. The 12-yo was at his humblest and we had a long chat about my notice and what he could do to reverse it. It turns out he was able to do a lot when pressed hard enough. It seems that my service are important to the company.

Anyway, I have decided to stay after all.

Wow, I didn't see that coming.  I'm glad that you are valuable enough to your company for them to make you a good counteroffer and for the 12 year old to eat humble pie.

I didn't realise I was that valuable, tbh. I knew I'd be difficult to replace because what I do is very different from what most developers do, but I always thought that wouldn't matter all that much to the powers that be.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 21, 2012, 02:26:25 AM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 20, 2012, 05:38:47 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 19, 2012, 09:31:45 AM

I was offered a very reasonable increase in salary, plus some additional benefits, at my current job. The 12-yo was at his humblest and we had a long chat about my notice and what he could do to reverse it. It turns out he was able to do a lot when pressed hard enough. It seems that my service are important to the company.

Anyway, I have decided to stay after all.

Do you view the 12 year old in a better light now?

Somewhat better. I try my best not to think of him as an idiot, basically.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 23, 2012, 07:50:06 AM

I decided to have another look on ebay for Voyager in the hard covers. All the ones I wanted were there. :) Two of them I have bought and the others I have placed bids for.

I saw some communicator pins I would like but I think I have done enough spending for now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on October 23, 2012, 03:05:50 PM

I'm meeting someone tomorrow for some coffee!  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 23, 2012, 04:44:18 PM

My brother is staying for the night. I haven't seen him in more than a year. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 23, 2012, 06:48:52 PM

I got everything put away before it rained

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Natalia Evans on October 23, 2012, 11:20:08 PM

I found out today before work that my brother and his girlfriend and their son are moving out here. She got the job she applied for. They are moving out here in two weeks. Now the only one left is my other brother who has not moved back here yet. I dunno if he will or not.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on October 24, 2012, 02:36:41 AM

He finally sent the cigars. That's his luck. Now I don't have to blow his house up! :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 24, 2012, 02:38:46 AM

Quote from: Lit on October 24, 2012, 02:36:41 AM

He finally sent the cigars. That's his luck. Now I don't have to blow his house up! :arrr:

  He was  BRAVE  to make you wait so long!   :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on October 24, 2012, 06:39:38 AM

Quote from: Lit on October 24, 2012, 02:36:41 AM

He finally sent the cigars. That's his luck. Now I don't have to blow his house up! :arrr:

:lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 24, 2012, 10:58:32 PM

Technically yesterday, but I had a very good time talking to my brother.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 25, 2012, 07:47:05 AM

Hung out with Ceilidh, she is amusing company.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on October 25, 2012, 08:39:45 AM

I have $1,000 saved for my baby.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on October 27, 2012, 12:17:08 PM

I got the Darjeeling tea just right. It's extremely hard, and it costs €44/100g  :zombiefuck:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on October 27, 2012, 02:34:20 PM

Quote from: Lit on October 27, 2012, 12:17:08 PM

I got the Darjeeling tea just right. It's extremely hard, and it costs €44/100g  :zombiefuck:

Do you like Earl Grey tea?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on October 27, 2012, 02:35:09 PM

Not in particular.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 27, 2012, 03:03:35 PM

If you want to try good tea
go with lady grey. Lovely citrus type taste to it.

Or my favourite, isn't technically tea, but, an infusion of lemon balm, sweetened with a little honey can't be beat.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on October 27, 2012, 03:35:08 PM

Quote from: Lestat on October 27, 2012, 03:03:35 PM

If you want to try good tea
go with lady grey. Lovely citrus type taste to it.

Or my favourite, isn't technically tea, but, an infusion of lemon balm, sweetened with a little honey can't be beat.

I have tried Lady Grey, I prefer the Earl Grey though both are good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on October 27, 2012, 03:35:22 PM

I get obsessed with games.  Latest fb is called 'hexar' and i am only mother fucking ranked numero uno all time greatest on the globe!
 :zoinks:

oh and i like assam tea

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on October 27, 2012, 03:38:20 PM

Darjeeling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darjeeling_tea)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on October 27, 2012, 07:49:47 PM

My favourite tea is White Chai. It has cinnamon, whole cloves, cardamom, ginger root and cassia in it. Yummy.

Today I went to a wedding, but just the ceremony since the reception will involve a lot of drinking and that's just not my scene. Then had a lovely dinner out despite the rain.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 27, 2012, 07:51:23 PM

Quote from: richard on October 25, 2012, 08:39:45 AM

I have $1,000 saved for my baby.

Shouldn't that be applied to your emergency room visit?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on October 27, 2012, 08:07:22 PM

The Giants are staying on top of Detroit.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on October 27, 2012, 09:05:36 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on October 27, 2012, 08:07:22 PM

The Giants are staying on top of Detroit.

Congrats dude. I use to live up in that area and I know there are alot of die hard fans, including my grandmother. I hope they win the world series.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on October 27, 2012, 09:07:04 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 27, 2012, 07:51:23 PM

Quote from: richard on October 25, 2012, 08:39:45 AM

I have $1,000 saved for my baby.

Shouldn't that be applied to your emergency room visit?

Oh no. Mitt is gonna have to pay for it,  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on October 27, 2012, 10:13:31 PM

Quote from: richard on October 27, 2012, 09:05:36 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on October 27, 2012, 08:07:22 PM

The Giants are staying on top of Detroit.

Congrats dude. I use to live up in that area and I know there are alot of die hard fans, including my grandmother. I hope they win the world series.  :thumbup:

:thumbup: They won 2-0. They are now at 3-0. Detroit would have to run the table to take it now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 28, 2012, 02:16:50 AM

My coffee is ready now.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 28, 2012, 02:27:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 28, 2012, 02:16:50 AM

My coffee is ready now.  :2thumbsup:

  Mine was ready yesterday.  I'm not fussy.  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 28, 2012, 02:28:45 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 28, 2012, 02:27:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 28, 2012, 02:16:50 AM

My coffee is ready now.  :2thumbsup:

  Mine was ready yesterday.  I'm not fussy.  :autism:

Seriously? :CanofWorms: :zombiefuck:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 28, 2012, 03:07:46 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 28, 2012, 02:28:45 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 28, 2012, 02:27:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 28, 2012, 02:16:50 AM

My coffee is ready now.  :2thumbsup:

  Mine was ready yesterday.  I'm not fussy.  :autism:

Seriously? :CanofWorms: :zombiefuck:

  I took it off the burner, of course.  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 28, 2012, 03:20:13 AM

I need more coffee. :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 03:57:46 AM

I went out to lunch for my friend's birthday and she invited her friend who I found out is a Trekkie. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on October 28, 2012, 03:59:41 AM

Finally winter time. I hate this summer time rubbish  :thumbdn:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on October 28, 2012, 04:02:42 AM

Quote from: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 03:57:46 AM

I went out to lunch for my friend's birthday and she invited her friend who I found out is a Trekkie. :)

I am jelous.  I wish i had trekkie pals to lunch with. :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 04:14:11 AM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 28, 2012, 04:02:42 AM

Quote from: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 03:57:46 AM

I went out to lunch for my friend's birthday and she invited her friend who I found out is a Trekkie. :)

I am jelous.  I wish i had trekkie pals to lunch with. :thumbup:

She lives a long way away so I do wonder if I will see her again. But it made our conversation a lot easier as I got into describing the episodes of Voyager that I have seen lately and she showed me her Starfleet tattoo.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on October 28, 2012, 04:23:49 AM

Quote from: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 04:14:11 AM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 28, 2012, 04:02:42 AM

Quote from: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 03:57:46 AM

I went out to lunch for my friend's birthday and she invited her friend who I found out is a Trekkie. :)

I am jelous.  I wish i had trekkie pals to lunch with. :thumbup:

She lives a long way away so I do wonder if I will see her again. But it made our conversation a lot easier as I got into describing the episodes of Voyager that I have seen lately and she showed me her Starfleet tattoo.

Seven of nine has just made an appearance in the voyager i am watching.  I like her, but i also liked Kes who has gone.  Whenever i mention voyager to people they shut off.   :nerdy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on October 28, 2012, 04:24:58 AM

Astronauta esse forte est  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 04:32:16 AM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 28, 2012, 04:23:49 AM

Quote from: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 04:14:11 AM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 28, 2012, 04:02:42 AM

Quote from: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 03:57:46 AM

I went out to lunch for my friend's birthday and she invited her friend who I found out is a Trekkie. :)

I am jelous.  I wish i had trekkie pals to lunch with. :thumbup:

She lives a long way away so I do wonder if I will see her again. But it made our conversation a lot easier as I got into describing the episodes of Voyager that I have seen lately and she showed me her Starfleet tattoo.

Seven of nine has just made an appearance in the voyager i am watching.  I like her, but i also liked Kes who has gone.  Whenever i mention voyager to people they shut off.   :nerdy:

There is something wrong with them then because Voyager is awesome. I am watching the second season at the moment (just watched an episode where Tom Paris broke the warp 10 barrier and then evolved into a strange creature along with Captain Janeway and they had little baby creatures together on a planet) and have bought more on DVD.

Kes is cool but they replaced her because they felt they couldn't do any more with her character. I have seen very few episodes with Seven of Nine in them. Read a few books with her in them though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on October 28, 2012, 04:40:29 AM

Quote from: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 04:32:16 AM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 28, 2012, 04:23:49 AM

Quote from: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 04:14:11 AM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 28, 2012, 04:02:42 AM

Quote from: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 03:57:46 AM

I went out to lunch for my friend's birthday and she invited her friend who I found out is a Trekkie. :)

I am jelous.  I wish i had trekkie pals to lunch with. :thumbup:

She lives a long way away so I do wonder if I will see her again. But it made our conversation a lot easier as I got into describing the episodes of Voyager that I have seen lately and she showed me her Starfleet tattoo.

Seven of nine has just made an appearance in the voyager i am watching.  I like her, but i also liked Kes who has gone.  Whenever i mention voyager to people they shut off.   :nerdy:

There is something wrong with them then because Voyager is awesome. I am watching the second season at the moment (just watched an episode where Tom Paris broke the warp 10 barrier and then evolved into a strange creature along with Captain Janeway and they had little baby creatures together on a planet) and have bought more on DVD.

Kes is cool but they replaced her because they felt they couldn't do any more with her character. I have seen very few episodes with Seven of Nine in them. Read a few books with her in them though.

Yes i remember that one.  I have seen all the series many times.  My favourite episode is called 'nemesis'  and it features Commander Chakotay who i like very much.  They also use oldy worldy language like 'ten thousand footfalls' instead of metres, and they don't 'think' they 'fathom' instead.  :nerdy:

Voyager is awesome, and i prefer it to TNG, but if i were in starfleet i would prefer my captain to be Picard. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on October 28, 2012, 04:42:57 AM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 28, 2012, 04:23:49 AM

Quote from: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 04:14:11 AM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 28, 2012, 04:02:42 AM

Quote from: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 03:57:46 AM

I went out to lunch for my friend's birthday and she invited her friend who I found out is a Trekkie. :)

I am jelous.  I wish i had trekkie pals to lunch with. :thumbup:

She lives a long way away so I do wonder if I will see her again. But it made our conversation a lot easier as I got into describing the episodes of Voyager that I have seen lately and she showed me her Starfleet tattoo.

Seven of nine has just made an appearance in the voyager i am watching.  I like her, but i also liked Kes who has gone.  Whenever i mention voyager to people they shut off.   :nerdy:

Put a woman in charge of a starship and she gets lost on the way to the mall.  :hahaha: :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 04:56:30 AM

^70 000 light years away? :D

I will look out for that Nemesis episode now. :) I do like Chakotay as well.

I am seeing a lot of the Kazon in the episodes I am watching now but figure the Borg will become more prominent later on as they have to go through their space as well.

Ceilidh told me that the Kazon are the Klingons of the Delta Quadrant. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on October 28, 2012, 05:08:52 AM

Yes the Kazon are like ferel Klingons :zoinks:

Hirogens are formidable 'hunters' in the delta quadrant, they are bad ass
(http://members.optusnet.com.au/stargate-sg1/voyager/images/hirogen_hunter.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on October 28, 2012, 05:11:00 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on October 28, 2012, 04:42:57 AM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 28, 2012, 04:23:49 AM

Quote from: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 04:14:11 AM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 28, 2012, 04:02:42 AM

Quote from: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 03:57:46 AM

I went out to lunch for my friend's birthday and she invited her friend who I found out is a Trekkie. :)

I am jelous.  I wish i had trekkie pals to lunch with. :thumbup:

She lives a long way away so I do wonder if I will see her again. But it made our conversation a lot easier as I got into describing the episodes of Voyager that I have seen lately and she showed me her Starfleet tattoo.

Seven of nine has just made an appearance in the voyager i am watching.  I like her, but i also liked Kes who has gone.  Whenever i mention voyager to people they shut off.   :nerdy:

Put a woman in charge of a starship and she gets lost on the way to the mall.  :hahaha: :zoinks:

Janeway is a good captain, but a little too emotional at times.  Picard is the captain of all captains. :pinkbeat:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 05:24:42 AM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 28, 2012, 05:08:52 AM

Yes the Kazon are like ferel Klingons :zoinks:

Hirogens are formidable 'hunters' in the delta quadrant, they are bad ass
(http://members.optusnet.com.au/stargate-sg1/voyager/images/hirogen_hunter.jpg)

Yeah I remember the Hirogen - I played a game called Star Trek: Elite Force (on the Playstation 2) that featured a Hirogen hunter and he was certainly very hard to kill, I almost rage quit because of him, heh.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on October 28, 2012, 05:25:08 AM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 28, 2012, 05:11:00 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on October 28, 2012, 04:42:57 AM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 28, 2012, 04:23:49 AM

Quote from: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 04:14:11 AM

Quote from: bodaccea on October 28, 2012, 04:02:42 AM

Quote from: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 03:57:46 AM

I went out to lunch for my friend's birthday and she invited her friend who I found out is a Trekkie. :)

I am jelous.  I wish i had trekkie pals to lunch with. :thumbup:

She lives a long way away so I do wonder if I will see her again. But it made our conversation a lot easier as I got into describing the episodes of Voyager that I have seen lately and she showed me her Starfleet tattoo.

Seven of nine has just made an appearance in the voyager i am watching.  I like her, but i also liked Kes who has gone.  Whenever i mention voyager to people they shut off.   :nerdy:

Put a woman in charge of a starship and she gets lost on the way to the mall.  :hahaha: :zoinks:

Janeway is a good captain, but a little too emotional at times.  Picard is the captain of all captains. :pinkbeat:

Possibly in part from almost drowning on Throw Mama From The Train.  :indeed:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 28, 2012, 09:02:00 AM

Went out for breakfast at the diner

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on October 28, 2012, 12:36:32 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on October 27, 2012, 10:13:31 PM

Quote from: richard on October 27, 2012, 09:05:36 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on October 27, 2012, 08:07:22 PM

The Giants are staying on top of Detroit.

Congrats dude. I use to live up in that area and I know there are alot of die hard fans, including my grandmother. I hope they win the world series.  :thumbup:

:thumbup: They won 2-0. They are now at 3-0. Detroit would have to run the table to take it now.

So I havent exactly been following them but who's on thier team again? Do they still have tim lincecum? and the beard?
One more game shouldnt be too hard to win.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on October 28, 2012, 12:40:31 PM

Quote from: richard on October 28, 2012, 12:36:32 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on October 27, 2012, 10:13:31 PM

Quote from: richard on October 27, 2012, 09:05:36 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on October 27, 2012, 08:07:22 PM

The Giants are staying on top of Detroit.

Congrats dude. I use to live up in that area and I know there are alot of die hard fans, including my grandmother. I hope they win the world series.  :thumbup:

:thumbup: They won 2-0. They are now at 3-0. Detroit would have to run the table to take it now.

So I havent exactly been following them but who's on thier team again? Do they still have tim lincecum? and the beard?
One more game shouldnt be too hard to win.  :thumbup:

Yes they do but Lincecum has not had much play lately. In any case they will hopefully finish the series tonight.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on October 28, 2012, 12:46:50 PM

party. party. party! I kind of miss santa rosa, the people were so friendly and the cops never gave me a hard time.

people in arizona are rude and the cops are assholes

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 28, 2012, 04:19:56 PM

Quote from: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 03:57:46 AM

I went out to lunch for my friend's birthday and she invited her friend who I found out is a Trekkie. :)

  So did you have a nice conversation?  :vulcan:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on October 28, 2012, 05:29:20 PM

Today I went out to the farm of the women who's raising the Leo's. Sitting on the floor of her house with FOUR full grown Leo's surrounding me? I was ridiculously happy!!!! I like them more than I like the puppies. Gave her my deposit.

One of the pups from her current litter was adopted by a conservation officer in the Arctic Circle. When the dog is full grown, he'll go on patrol with the man to make sure there's no polar bears in the area of the local public schools and if there is, he'll scare them off. :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on October 28, 2012, 05:34:05 PM

 :viking: That size dog will leave anti tank mines on the lawn MK.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 28, 2012, 05:37:44 PM

Quote from: Parts on October 28, 2012, 09:02:00 AM

Went out for breakfast at the diner

Oh, Parts, you should have come with me.  I did some family mending today.

I took the PR to the diner.  When we walked in the Registrar of Voters was having b'fast with his wife, their first time at Dot's Diner.  I said hello, and we talked for a bit.  After they left,  Tiffany, the waitress, told me he had paid for our breakfast! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 28, 2012, 05:39:01 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on October 28, 2012, 05:29:20 PM

Today I went out to the farm of the women who's raising the Leo's. Sitting on the floor of her house with FOUR full grown Leo's surrounding me? I was ridiculously happy!!!! I like them more than I like the puppies. Gave her my deposit.

One of the pups from her current litter was adopted by a conservation officer in the Arctic Circle. When the dog is full grown, he'll go on patrol with the man to make sure there's no polar bears in the area of the local public schools and if there is, he'll scare them off. :viking:

Hopefully your Leon will think your soon-to-be ex is a polar bear and chase him off too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 28, 2012, 05:42:16 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on October 28, 2012, 05:29:20 PM

Today I went out to the farm of the women who's raising the Leo's. Sitting on the floor of her house with FOUR full grown Leo's surrounding me? I was ridiculously happy!!!! I like them more than I like the puppies. Gave her my deposit.

One of the pups from her current litter was adopted by a conservation officer in the Arctic Circle. When the dog is full grown, he'll go on patrol with the man to make sure there's no polar bears in the area of the local public schools and if there is, he'll scare them off. :viking:

  Sitting in a cluster of Leos ... I think I'd love that!  :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 28, 2012, 05:46:30 PM

Family time and a paid-for b'fast.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 28, 2012, 05:49:13 PM

Added an XML database to my website, behind a proxy. Trust me, this is a very good thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on October 28, 2012, 10:07:21 PM

The San Francisco Giants have swept the Detroit Tigers 4-0 in the World Series! SF Giants are the fucking champs!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on October 28, 2012, 10:25:28 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on October 28, 2012, 10:07:21 PM

The San Francisco Giants have swept the Detroit Tigers 4-0 in the World Series! SF Giants are the fucking champs!

Wow... Thats a great accomplishment!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 28, 2012, 10:33:26 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on October 28, 2012, 10:07:21 PM

The San Francisco Giants have swept the Detroit Tigers 4-0 in the World Series! SF Giants are the fucking champs!

congratulations to the team and it's glad to see you overjoyed.  I bet SF thought there was another earthquake with the citizens jumping up and down in celebration.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on October 28, 2012, 11:13:25 PM

Quote from: richard on October 28, 2012, 10:25:28 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on October 28, 2012, 10:07:21 PM

The San Francisco Giants have swept the Detroit Tigers 4-0 in the World Series! SF Giants are the fucking champs!

Wow... Thats a great accomplishment!

:agreed: :thumbup:

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 28, 2012, 10:33:26 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on October 28, 2012, 10:07:21 PM

The San Francisco Giants have swept the Detroit Tigers 4-0 in the World Series! SF Giants are the fucking champs!

congratulations to the team and it's glad to see you overjoyed.  I bet SF thought there was another earthquake with the citizens jumping up and down in celebration.

Yes big time celebrations in SF.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on October 29, 2012, 09:52:45 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 27, 2012, 07:51:23 PM

Quote from: richard on October 25, 2012, 08:39:45 AM

I have $1,000 saved for my baby.

Shouldn't that be applied to your emergency room visit?

He would prefer that I pay for it.  Deep down inside, knowing that I am covering his medical expenses via my taxes makes him feel just a little bit loved ... and dirty.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on October 29, 2012, 09:54:03 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on October 28, 2012, 04:42:57 AM

Put a woman in charge of a starship and she gets lost on the way to the mall.  :hahaha: :zoinks:

And you notice they never did that again  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 29, 2012, 11:18:06 AM

Bad news the vintage  hydrometer I bought at an estate sale broke in the van.  Good news it was weighted with lead shot not mercury as many of the are.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on October 29, 2012, 02:27:06 PM

Dad put the winter tyres on my Volvo  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 29, 2012, 02:35:35 PM

Quote from: Parts on October 29, 2012, 11:18:06 AM

Bad news the vintage  hydrometer I bought at an estate sale broke in the van.  Good news it was weighted with lead shot not mercury as many of the are.

  Thank god you didn't have a mercury spill in the truck, you know what  THAT  stuff does.  :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on October 29, 2012, 02:37:16 PM

Meh, Fortuna helps the  :viking:

 :viking: people don't fear poisons.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 29, 2012, 04:31:56 PM

  I was privileged today to work with some of my favorite co-workers as we served
  dinner for lunch and gave the residents box lunches to eat later so we could get
  out of work before the worst weather hit.  We have excellent people where I work,
  I'm glad they were there today.  I like my workplace.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 29, 2012, 04:56:07 PM

Did a pretty good sales pitch today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on October 29, 2012, 06:27:02 PM

Nothing beats snuggling up on the couch with my youngest when she's in such a big "I miss Mommy" mode. :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on October 29, 2012, 06:43:49 PM

I ate a fat piece of chocolate cake, got online and basically took it easy most of the day.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 30, 2012, 07:39:33 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 28, 2012, 04:19:56 PM

Quote from: renaeden on October 28, 2012, 03:57:46 AM

I went out to lunch for my friend's birthday and she invited her friend who I found out is a Trekkie. :)

So did you have a nice conversation?  :vulcan:

It went ok. I am never sure of what to say to people when I meet them for the first time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on October 30, 2012, 08:05:00 AM

Emebam vischium  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on October 30, 2012, 09:48:32 AM

No large debris in my yard. All of it is small and manageable.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 30, 2012, 01:08:28 PM

Did another terrific sales pitch. This one is worth a lot and I'm pretty sure we'll close.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 30, 2012, 07:00:25 PM

The administrator of the voting site I worked for 7 days said I did an awesome job.  "Don't take offense, but it's hard to find women your age with computer skills.  And she recommended that I let the Registrar of Voters know that I would be interested in working any other election tasks. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on October 30, 2012, 10:25:45 PM

Quote from: richard on October 25, 2012, 08:39:45 AM

I have $1,000 saved for my baby.

YOU have a baby.

I am now convinced that there is NO GOD.

 :lol1:


But, seriously, Richard. We have never seen eye to eye, but I only wish the very best for you and your offspring.

You have some of the most INTENSELY satisfying days ahead of you.

GODSPEED, BRO!!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 30, 2012, 10:33:25 PM

^By his baby, he means a fire agate ring he is having made.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on October 30, 2012, 10:35:31 PM

Quote from: renaeden on October 30, 2012, 10:33:25 PM

^By his baby, he means a fire agate ring he is having made.

OK, so now I feel like an absolute imbecile. 


 :asthing:

 :GA:



...but, seriously,  I still wish the best for Richard (and his baby, as such applies).

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 30, 2012, 11:56:40 PM

His baby has his looks. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 31, 2012, 02:39:06 AM

This thread made me laugh.

Thank you DD, for making that happen.




And, now I find myself wondering if the "older" fire-agates get jealous of the new baby, once it arrives.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on October 31, 2012, 08:43:57 AM

There is no jelously in my happy little home. All the kids are treated equally,  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on October 31, 2012, 09:31:15 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 30, 2012, 11:56:40 PM

His baby has his looks. :zoinks:

Like a skittles turd

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on October 31, 2012, 12:43:50 PM

Someone sent me a valentines in my email.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 31, 2012, 12:44:51 PM

Quote from: richard on October 31, 2012, 12:43:50 PM

Someone sent me a valentines in my email.  :laugh:

  Do they realize Valentine's Day is February 14?  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on October 31, 2012, 12:46:17 PM

haha. I dont know, but everyday is like valentines when loving me baby. Maybe thats why they sent it, :seal:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 31, 2012, 02:09:53 PM

I did several things on my list.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 31, 2012, 05:00:00 PM

I power back

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on October 31, 2012, 08:41:08 PM

 :thumbup: :plus:

Quote from: Parts on October 31, 2012, 05:00:00 PM

I power back

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on October 31, 2012, 08:44:41 PM

Heard from the breeder that the Leo is definitely preggers. She even sent me an ultrasound pic. I feel like I've hired a surrogate mother. :laugh: Pup is due in December and comes home to me in February. :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 31, 2012, 09:18:24 PM

Quote from: Parts on October 31, 2012, 05:00:00 PM

I power back

  Power back, and back to work!    :fixin:    Houses to renovate!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 01, 2012, 12:46:03 AM

The storm is a business opportunity. :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 01, 2012, 06:30:38 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 01, 2012, 12:46:03 AM

The storm is a business opportunity. :orly:

It is I expect to be getting calls from all the houses I fixed last year after the hurricane to do it again.  They all liked my prices as many others looked at the storm as a excuse to charge outrageous prices I just bid things normally. One place got a price of over $2000 for something I felt guilty about charging $500 as it only took me four hours and was labor only.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 01, 2012, 06:33:59 AM

physiotherapy, she hurt me bad, but, all in the right places.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 01, 2012, 03:36:58 PM

Quote from: Parts on November 01, 2012, 06:30:38 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 01, 2012, 12:46:03 AM

The storm is a business opportunity. :orly:

It is I expect to be getting calls from all the houses I fixed last year after the hurricane to do it again.  They all liked my prices as many others looked at the storm as a excuse to charge outrageous prices I just bid things normally. One place got a price of over $2000 for something I felt guilty about charging $500 as it only took me four hours and was labor only.

:plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on November 01, 2012, 03:42:57 PM

My project for today was finished ahead of time and every lamp lit up as it was installed.  :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 01, 2012, 03:44:57 PM

I had a nice long chat with my daughter. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on November 02, 2012, 10:13:31 AM

Former friend has been stressing me out. She seems to pop up on my page only to be critical. Was contemplating deleting her when she went off on another friend of mine last night (that she doesn't even know and it was completely uncalled for) so I called her out on it nicely, asking that she be more respectful of my friends and that my little corner in cyberspace is a positive place. She deleted me. Saved me a struggle.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on November 02, 2012, 09:55:44 PM

The prospects of home ownership really seem to be firmly in my grasp. :prude:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on November 03, 2012, 08:23:06 AM

Sounds as though you have had to deal with quite a lot of irritating, oxygen thieving goobers lately MK. *hugs*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on November 03, 2012, 08:43:28 AM

My brother was here today  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on November 03, 2012, 11:31:51 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 31, 2012, 02:39:06 AM

This thread made me laugh.

Thank you DD, for making that happen.




And, now I find myself wondering if the "older" fire-agates get jealous of the new baby, once it arrives.

Sibling rivalry can be a real pain in the agate I'll bet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on November 03, 2012, 11:32:53 PM

Quote from: richard on November 02, 2012, 09:55:44 PM

The prospects of home ownership really seem to be firmly in my grasp. :prude:

 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on November 04, 2012, 10:24:19 AM

I got another bottle of wine from my brother  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on November 05, 2012, 09:20:31 AM

Went to the docs, because I've had another one of those awful adrenal storms that I've been suffering of late. Ended up leaving with my regular rx, almost 2 weeks early :D

I was very surprised indeed about that. The doc I saw, isn't exactly tight-fisted, but she isn't the kind that gives out pills as if they were candy. She doesn't mind giving me my script a day or two early, if I'm off for a sleepover with friends, as I regularly do with a couple of my mates, but 10 days? I'm shocked, to be honest. Although I am certainly not complaining :P

Just what I needed to shut it down, it had been tailing off, but I hadn't slept in days, mmmmm.....a nice fat shot of oxy is just what the doctor ordered, so to speak.

Got a nice cheap deal on some stilton cheese too. (no, not from the doctor :P )
The adrenergic storms completely nuke any hint of an appetite, when they happen, I simply cannot eat a bite. Although they make me insatiably thirsty.

Just picked up a 2l bottle of raspberryade, and 4 pints of fosters. A nice, ice-cold pint is just what I need right now, perfect to wash down my snack of stilton on cream crackers:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on November 05, 2012, 01:42:33 PM

Came in 6th (out of 70) on my Contracts mid-term.   :nerdy:

Now I just need to figure out who the remaining 5 targets are.   :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on November 05, 2012, 01:46:05 PM

I got a box of free fuse together with my mortars  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 05, 2012, 03:49:05 PM

PA got his driver's license renewed today without having to take the written or driving test. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Natalia Evans on November 05, 2012, 03:51:02 PM

My parents came home from their weekend trip and they brought home stuff they bought and dad gave me a small box of three chocolates in it and it was just enough for my whole family. I had one, my son, and so did my husband. My mother also got my son two books and he loves the Cars one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 05, 2012, 03:55:08 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 05, 2012, 03:49:05 PM

PA got his driver's license renewed today without having to take the written or driving test.

NO theory? :o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 05, 2012, 03:57:32 PM

Quote from: odeon on November 05, 2012, 03:55:08 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 05, 2012, 03:49:05 PM

PA got his driver's license renewed today without having to take the written or driving test.

NO theory? :o

No, no theory.  Evidently there is no method to how he drives.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 05, 2012, 04:01:43 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 05, 2012, 03:57:32 PM

Quote from: odeon on November 05, 2012, 03:55:08 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 05, 2012, 03:49:05 PM

PA got his driver's license renewed today without having to take the written or driving test.

NO theory? :o

No, no theory.  Evidently there is no method to how he drives.

:laugh: He's like the vast majority of drivers out there, then.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 05, 2012, 04:03:24 PM

Quote from: odeon on November 05, 2012, 04:01:43 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 05, 2012, 03:57:32 PM

Quote from: odeon on November 05, 2012, 03:55:08 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 05, 2012, 03:49:05 PM

PA got his driver's license renewed today without having to take the written or driving test.

NO theory? :o

No, no theory.  Evidently there is no method to how he drives.

:laugh: He's like the vast majority of drivers out there, then.

The closest I've come to figuring out his driving style is that he drives with his vocal cords.  Thank goodness cars don't come equipped with Public Address systems.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 05, 2012, 04:04:14 PM

I'd like them to come equipped with missiles. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on November 05, 2012, 04:11:17 PM

Quote from: Lestat on November 03, 2012, 08:23:06 AM

Sounds as though you have had to deal with quite a lot of irritating, oxygen thieving goobers lately MK. *hugs*

Yeah I don't know what the hell is going on but they're exhausting. God so over it. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on November 05, 2012, 04:21:22 PM

Quote from: odeon on November 05, 2012, 04:04:14 PM

I'd like them to come equipped with missiles. :P

 :agreed: :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 05, 2012, 05:48:18 PM

Quote from: One L on November 05, 2012, 01:42:33 PM

Came in 6th (out of 70) on my Contracts mid-term.   :nerdy:

Now I just need to figure out who the remaining 5 targets are.   :viking:

  By  "targets,"  you mean  "future study buddies,"  right?  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 05, 2012, 07:08:43 PM

Quote from: odeon on November 05, 2012, 04:04:14 PM

I'd like them to come equipped with missiles. :P

But then there would be more potholes in the streets from the exploding vehicles.  Explosions happen 360 degrees.  And the flying shrapnel might scratch the Jag.  Better invent a device to vaporize the other cars and drivers.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 06, 2012, 02:22:41 AM

We stopped to watch the Melbourne Cup at work. It was pretty lame but at least I got a beer.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 06, 2012, 06:20:09 AM

^Ha, the race that stops the nation? It didn't stop me from doing whatever it was I was doing (I think I was on the bus). I found out who won by looking at Facebook on my phone - my sister posted about it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 06, 2012, 07:00:54 AM

  I was feeling fearful about stupid petty stuff
  and then I listened to this song!  BRAVE!   :arrr:
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZhwhd4yJW8#ws[/url)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 06, 2012, 07:33:09 AM

Te bathroom is getting very girly. Somehow that makes me smile. Non of us here fit the really girly type. Non of us is the pink type. But, lots of pink in the bathroom is fun.
One more coat of paint to go.  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 06, 2012, 03:31:05 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 05, 2012, 07:08:43 PM

Quote from: odeon on November 05, 2012, 04:04:14 PM

I'd like them to come equipped with missiles. :P

But then there would be more potholes in the streets from the exploding vehicles.  Explosions happen 360 degrees.  And the flying shrapnel might scratch the Jag.  Better invent a device to vaporize the other cars and drivers.

You're right, of course. Maybe I need long-distance missiles. :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 06, 2012, 08:20:22 PM

(http://www.saynotocrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/missile-balloons.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 06, 2012, 09:13:32 PM

The wrestling lady lost the senate race in my state.  I disliked both candidates but I am glad we did not end up with her

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 07, 2012, 12:01:37 AM

You have quite a few kooks left. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on November 07, 2012, 10:01:06 AM

Quote from: Parts on November 06, 2012, 09:13:32 PM

The wrestling lady lost the senate race in my state.  I disliked both candidates but I am glad we did not end up with her

Are there any elected positions left for her to lose an election for?  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 07, 2012, 02:43:20 PM

Came up with a very clever solution for a client. It's going to save me time, save them money and result in a more robust system.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 08, 2012, 06:22:09 AM

Played two fun games of Star Trek Catan with Ceilidh.

Then I found out I won the bidding on Star Trek Voyager season 7. This means I will have all of them.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 08, 2012, 03:56:55 PM

The election is over.  Thank goodness.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 08, 2012, 04:44:46 PM

Quote from: One L on November 07, 2012, 10:01:06 AM

Quote from: Parts on November 06, 2012, 09:13:32 PM

The wrestling lady lost the senate race in my state.  I disliked both candidates but I am glad we did not end up with her

Are there any elected positions left for her to lose an election for?  :zoinks:

She spend 100 million dollars of her own money and lost both times :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on November 08, 2012, 04:51:13 PM

Quote from: Parts on November 08, 2012, 04:44:46 PM

Quote from: One L on November 07, 2012, 10:01:06 AM

Quote from: Parts on November 06, 2012, 09:13:32 PM

The wrestling lady lost the senate race in my state.  I disliked both candidates but I am glad we did not end up with her

Are there any elected positions left for her to lose an election for?  :zoinks:

She spend 100 million dollars of her own money and lost both times :hahaha:

At least she is pumping some money into the economy while looking like a fool.  Some people do it for free.  :zoinks:

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Post by: MissKitty on November 08, 2012, 05:01:17 PM

Found a really cool scarf at the thrift shop. Will post a pic in another thread later tonight.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 08, 2012, 05:04:58 PM

Quote from: One L on November 08, 2012, 04:51:13 PM

Quote from: Parts on November 08, 2012, 04:44:46 PM

Quote from: One L on November 07, 2012, 10:01:06 AM

Quote from: Parts on November 06, 2012, 09:13:32 PM

The wrestling lady lost the senate race in my state.  I disliked both candidates but I am glad we did not end up with her

Are there any elected positions left for her to lose an election for?  :zoinks:

She spend 100 million dollars of her own money and lost both times :hahaha:

At least she is pumping some money into the economy while looking like a fool.  Some people do it for free.  :zoinks:

  I look like a fool every day and I don't charge a penny!  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 09, 2012, 08:42:15 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on November 08, 2012, 05:01:17 PM

Found a really cool scarf at the thrift shop. Will post a pic in another thread later tonight.

I found a very nice glass bottle, and, a very cool shirt that hopefully will be fitting my youngest perfect. (If not, I can bring it back. :D )

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on November 09, 2012, 11:01:18 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on November 09, 2012, 08:42:15 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on November 08, 2012, 05:01:17 PM

Found a really cool scarf at the thrift shop. Will post a pic in another thread later tonight.

I found a very nice glass bottle, and, a very cool shirt that hopefully will be fitting my youngest perfect. (If not, I can bring it back. :D )

I love thrift store finds!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 09, 2012, 11:19:12 AM

The new kid at work had actually finished a lot of the code we've been wondering about.

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Post by: Parts on November 09, 2012, 11:43:18 AM

Received another confirmation on a house I bid work on

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 09, 2012, 12:27:54 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on November 09, 2012, 11:01:18 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on November 09, 2012, 08:42:15 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on November 08, 2012, 05:01:17 PM

Found a really cool scarf at the thrift shop. Will post a pic in another thread later tonight.

I found a very nice glass bottle, and, a very cool shirt that hopefully will be fitting my youngest perfect. (If not, I can bring it back. :D )

I love thrift store finds!

Me too. I hate shopping though. Lately, my best finds are during vacuum-cleaning the thrift store, or other chores.

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Post by: MissKitty on November 09, 2012, 01:17:55 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on November 09, 2012, 12:27:54 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on November 09, 2012, 11:01:18 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on November 09, 2012, 08:42:15 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on November 08, 2012, 05:01:17 PM

Found a really cool scarf at the thrift shop. Will post a pic in another thread later tonight.

I found a very nice glass bottle, and, a very cool shirt that hopefully will be fitting my youngest perfect. (If not, I can bring it back. :D )

I love thrift store finds!

Me too. I hate shopping though. Lately, my best finds are during vacuum-cleaning the thrift store, or other chores.

Me too. My finds are when I take the oldest to the thrift store so that he can buy himself VHS movies (he loves them) and it takes him so long to decide, I wander around. :laugh:

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Post by: MissKitty on November 09, 2012, 02:16:40 PM

Placed a book order for $63.79 and then remembered I had a $60 gift certificate that I hadn't used yet.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 12, 2012, 06:57:29 AM

Bought a ticket for the Tommy Emmanuel concert I discovered is being arranged here in Gothenburg on December 1st.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on November 12, 2012, 07:28:39 AM

My doc just started chasing up the pain clinic for a response from my visit there. They should, according to themselves, have contacted him within 2 weeks, tops. But no, did they buggery.

And got my pain meds, and some more clonidine, both badly needed right now. My bad leg has been absolute murder in this styx-born cold, wet and miserable weather we have had of late. Maybe now I can finally get some sleep. I've not slept in a few days, thanks to that keeping me awake.

Only sleep I've had was about three days ago, Couldn't bear weight on my leg, and it was hurting so fucking badly that I ended up knocking myself out with a little 1,1,1-trichloro-2-methyl-propan-2-ol.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 14, 2012, 07:32:16 AM

  I got my recycling bin outside  *just*  in time for the truck.   :woohoo:



  Shit, my life is boring!  :bigcry:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 14, 2012, 10:07:24 AM

I'm home again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 14, 2012, 11:49:34 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on November 14, 2012, 07:32:16 AM

  I got my recycling bin outside  *just*  in time for the truck.   :woohoo:



  Shit, my life is boring!  :bigcry:

Well, you could always put it out in the nude.  I'm sure the recycling guys would make an appointment to pick up your recyclables.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 14, 2012, 12:17:28 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 14, 2012, 11:49:34 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on November 14, 2012, 07:32:16 AM

  I got my recycling bin outside  *just*  in time for the truck.   :woohoo:



  Shit, my life is boring!  :bigcry:

Well, you could always put it out in the nude.  I'm sure the recycling guys would make an appointment to pick up your recyclables.

 
  I'd have to start drinking more juice then, to empty more bottles!   :apondering:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on November 15, 2012, 09:35:55 PM

Incredibly thankful for my Mum who is patient and wise. When I was triggered by something that brought up old baggage I didn't feel emotionally prepared to handle, she was there talking me through it. My Mum rocks.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 15, 2012, 10:00:42 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on November 15, 2012, 09:35:55 PM

Incredibly thankful for my Mum who is patient and wise. When I was triggered by something that brought up old baggage I didn't feel emotionally prepared to handle, she was there talking me through it. My Mum rocks.

  I'm glad you have her, I'll bet you are the same kind of Mum yourself.  :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on November 15, 2012, 10:53:25 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on November 15, 2012, 10:00:42 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on November 15, 2012, 09:35:55 PM

Incredibly thankful for my Mum who is patient and wise. When I was triggered by something that brought up old baggage I didn't feel emotionally prepared to handle, she was there talking me through it. My Mum rocks.

  I'm glad you have her, I'll bet you are the same kind of Mum yourself.  :hug:

If I can be that to my kids, then I've done my job well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 17, 2012, 09:26:45 AM

Apparently the roots of my broken molar are stable enough to be a base for a crown.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 17, 2012, 09:27:24 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on November 17, 2012, 09:26:45 AM

Apparently the roots of my broken molar are stable enough to be a base for a crown.

  That is very good news, when will the work be done?  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 17, 2012, 09:30:06 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on November 17, 2012, 09:27:24 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on November 17, 2012, 09:26:45 AM

Apparently the roots of my broken molar are stable enough to be a base for a crown.

  That is very good news, when will the work be done?  :)

The first base has been laid yesterday. In two weeks it will be drilled and shaped into the core that is to carry the crown, following the old schedule. How long it will take after that, I don't know. Somehow we did not discuss the time path. Won't take too long I think.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 17, 2012, 07:10:15 PM

I got a $50 tip

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on November 17, 2012, 11:04:30 PM

I saw the Lincoln movie with my husband and daughter today and we saw Breaking Dawn Part 2 yesterday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 18, 2012, 12:26:22 AM

Quote from: Callaway on November 17, 2012, 11:04:30 PM

I saw the Lincoln movie with my husband and daughter today and we saw Breaking Dawn Part 2 yesterday.

  Which one did you like more?  I want to see  Flight.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on November 18, 2012, 02:18:11 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on November 17, 2012, 09:30:06 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on November 17, 2012, 09:27:24 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on November 17, 2012, 09:26:45 AM

Apparently the roots of my broken molar are stable enough to be a base for a crown.

  That is very good news, when will the work be done?  :)

The first base has been laid yesterday. In two weeks it will be drilled and shaped into the core that is to carry the crown, following the old schedule. How long it will take after that, I don't know. Somehow we did not discuss the time path. Won't take too long I think.

So you got laid and soon you will be getting drilled?  :zoinks: :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 18, 2012, 04:00:15 AM

Quote from: Callaway on November 17, 2012, 11:04:30 PM

I saw the Lincoln movie with my husband and daughter today and we saw Breaking Dawn Part 2 yesterday.

How was the Lincoln movie? I think I want to see it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 18, 2012, 04:41:40 AM

My Youtube likes list, I found them. Yes!! :fuckyeahdance:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on November 18, 2012, 06:07:57 AM

This was last week but I went to Spectral Motion and saw their movie props and played with their robots. Was so fun. I showed Michael Elizalde my masks on my phone and he love them. I was in heaven that day. I really really wanna intern there.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 18, 2012, 07:38:19 AM

Quote from: RagingBoner on November 18, 2012, 06:07:57 AM

This was last week but I went to Spectral Motion and saw their movie props and played with their robots. Was so fun. I showed Michael Elizalde my masks on my phone and he love them. I was in heaven that day. I really really wanna intern there.

  I hope you get that internship, it sounds as if it would be great fun.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on November 18, 2012, 08:00:05 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on November 18, 2012, 02:18:11 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on November 17, 2012, 09:30:06 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on November 17, 2012, 09:27:24 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on November 17, 2012, 09:26:45 AM

Apparently the roots of my broken molar are stable enough to be a base for a crown.

  That is very good news, when will the work be done?  :)

The first base has been laid yesterday. In two weeks it will be drilled and shaped into the core that is to carry the crown, following the old schedule. How long it will take after that, I don't know. Somehow we did not discuss the time path. Won't take too long I think.

So you got laid and soon you will be getting drilled?  :zoinks: :thumbup:

Bad attempt at humor. Sorry Hyke, glad your tooth will be better soon.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 18, 2012, 08:14:01 AM

  I got off my fat ass and started some work!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 18, 2012, 02:11:23 PM

My thumb seems better after yesterdays hammering

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Post by: odeon on November 18, 2012, 03:17:22 PM

Finally got my svn server to work.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on November 18, 2012, 05:28:40 PM

I got my spazz money :toporly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 18, 2012, 05:45:32 PM

Quote from: Lit on November 18, 2012, 05:28:40 PM

I got my spazz money :toporly:

  Send it back and become an independent farmer instead!   :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on November 18, 2012, 05:46:53 PM

I don't have a farm  ???

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 18, 2012, 05:50:22 PM

Quote from: Lit on November 18, 2012, 05:46:53 PM

I don't have a farm  ???

  You live on some land, make a farm!  Wrestle a living from the stony ground!   :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on November 18, 2012, 05:54:01 PM

It's 10 cm down to the rock here. Not much to cultivate.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 18, 2012, 05:54:55 PM

Quote from: Lit on November 18, 2012, 05:54:01 PM

It's 10 cm down to the rock here. Not much to cultivate.

  Have you searched for Viking treasure on your land?  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on November 18, 2012, 05:58:45 PM

Yep. It has been throughly searched when we were digging and blasting for water, a new basement for the new part of the house et.  :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on November 18, 2012, 06:00:57 PM

Today my oldest turned 14 :heart:

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Post by: P7PSP on November 18, 2012, 06:56:09 PM

Congrats MK.  :thumbup:

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Post by: odeon on November 19, 2012, 12:28:22 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on November 18, 2012, 05:45:32 PM

Quote from: Lit on November 18, 2012, 05:28:40 PM

I got my spazz money :toporly:

  Send it back and become an independent farmer instead!   :arrr:

:plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 19, 2012, 12:29:34 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on November 18, 2012, 06:00:57 PM

Today my oldest turned 14 :heart:

Congrats! :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on November 19, 2012, 12:53:40 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on November 18, 2012, 12:26:22 AM

Quote from: Callaway on November 17, 2012, 11:04:30 PM

I saw the Lincoln movie with my husband and daughter today and we saw Breaking Dawn Part 2 yesterday.

  Which one did you like more?  I want to see  Flight.  :orly:

I liked Breaking Dawn more, but the Lincoln movie was also very good.

We saw Flight earlier today and it was also very good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on November 19, 2012, 12:59:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 18, 2012, 04:00:15 AM

Quote from: Callaway on November 17, 2012, 11:04:30 PM

I saw the Lincoln movie with my husband and daughter today and we saw Breaking Dawn Part 2 yesterday.

How was the Lincoln movie? I think I want to see it.

It was well worth seeing.  It mostly focused on him trying to get the House of Representatives to pass the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, the one that ended slavery except as punishment for a crime.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on November 19, 2012, 08:22:17 AM

My doc booked me in for an MRI scan on my bad knee today when I went in to see him. And I convinced him to increase my pain med dosage, I've gone from 40, to 60mg of oxycontin, twice daily.

Its not stopping the pain yet, still not enough, but its helping quite substantially. I've been finding it difficult even to take the stairs a lot of the time. Since I had run out on the evening before my appointment, and the oxy had worn off mostly, christ, I had to use just my upper body strength to get down the stairs.

And its handy, having my usual former dose of 40mg of OC, BD, gave me absolutely no room to fine-tune the timing, unless I broke them down to shoot up, but orally, theres no score to serve as a break line, as being a controlled/slow release preparation they aren't meant to be broken or snapped in half. Now I have the 2x40s per day, plus 2x20mg ones, which means I can say, take 20 per os in the morning for continuous slow release, and the morning 40 injected as usual (or rather, when I wake up...I don't DO mornings. Mornings are evil. Mornings should be banned. Lol, when I can sleep at all, I often only wake up at around 7pm :autism:)


Damn glad things are getting to be made moving in the direction of fixing my knee, being referred for an MRI.


And fuck, all I can say, is none too soon. I've had this knee problem for going on 15 years, and I'm fed up of it. Not to mention getting my meds refilled being due today. Glad the anticonvulsant I'm on, chlormethiazole, is a damn effective, barbiturate-like sedative (I find that benzos in many cases, even with no recent usage history whatsoever, with most benzos, it takes an absolutely HUGE amount to knock me out and put me to sleep, and that some, such as diazepam, desmethyldiazepam, chlordiazepoxide and a few others, mainly those with oxazepam as an active metabolite, cause an uncomfortable paradoxical reaction)

Finally..I'm getting some good, proper refreshing sleep. Before, I'd slept maybe 2-3 hours in 3-4 days.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 19, 2012, 08:59:10 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on November 18, 2012, 06:00:57 PM

Today my oldest turned 14 :heart:

Happy Birthday to him.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 19, 2012, 11:02:49 AM

Quote from: Callaway on November 19, 2012, 12:59:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 18, 2012, 04:00:15 AM

Quote from: Callaway on November 17, 2012, 11:04:30 PM

I saw the Lincoln movie with my husband and daughter today and we saw Breaking Dawn Part 2 yesterday.

How was the Lincoln movie? I think I want to see it.

It was well worth seeing.  It mostly focused on him trying to get the House of Representatives to pass the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, the one that ended slavery except as punishment for a crime.

I've read a very favourable review of the film. I definitely want to see it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Natalia Evans on November 19, 2012, 04:19:59 PM

Well that was easy, putting my son down for a nap. He usually fits it when I lay down with him and have to keep lying him down when he tries and gets out of bed or climbs on me and tries to sit up or stand. But this time he just lied down and stayed put and played with my hair until he fell asleep. Then I got out of bed. I wish all his naps be like this.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 20, 2012, 12:17:12 AM

It's my daughter's birthday today. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on November 20, 2012, 01:04:04 AM

Happy b/day wishes for her odeon. How old is she?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 20, 2012, 05:28:46 AM

Quote from: Lestat on November 20, 2012, 01:04:04 AM

Happy b/day wishes for her odeon. How old is she?

She's 16. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on November 20, 2012, 05:29:19 AM

I slept almost 14 hours  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 20, 2012, 05:31:02 AM

Quote from: Lit on November 20, 2012, 05:29:19 AM

I slept almost 14 hours  8)

That's a very good thing if you slept well. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 20, 2012, 07:47:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 20, 2012, 05:28:46 AM

Quote from: Lestat on November 20, 2012, 01:04:04 AM

Happy b/day wishes for her odeon. How old is she?

She's 16. :)

Congratulations.

They do grow up fast, don't they.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on November 20, 2012, 08:34:46 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 20, 2012, 05:28:46 AM

Quote from: Lestat on November 20, 2012, 01:04:04 AM

Happy b/day wishes for her odeon. How old is she?

She's 16. :)

Happiest of birthday wishes to her :cake:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on November 20, 2012, 10:44:59 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 20, 2012, 05:28:46 AM

Quote from: Lestat on November 20, 2012, 01:04:04 AM

Happy b/day wishes for her odeon. How old is she?

She's 16. :)

Scary age.  Best wishes to her :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 20, 2012, 11:56:42 AM

Congratulations to you and your wife for lasting this long.  I hope her birthday is great.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 20, 2012, 12:26:44 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on November 20, 2012, 07:47:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 20, 2012, 05:28:46 AM

Quote from: Lestat on November 20, 2012, 01:04:04 AM

Happy b/day wishes for her odeon. How old is she?

She's 16. :)

Congratulations.

They do grow up fast, don't they.  :laugh:

So fast it's scary.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 20, 2012, 12:30:04 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 20, 2012, 11:56:42 AM

Congratulations to you and your wife for lasting this long.  I hope her birthday is great.

I took her out to practise driving earlier. It was her first time. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on November 20, 2012, 08:34:54 PM

The youngest didn't want to go back to her Dad's tonight because she felt like she didn't have enough time to be with her big brother. Not happy that she was upset of course, but it always warms my heart to see how close they are. Before her Dad arrived she threw her arms around her brother and told him she loved him. :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 21, 2012, 12:15:25 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 20, 2012, 05:28:46 AM

Quote from: Lestat on November 20, 2012, 01:04:04 AM

Happy b/day wishes for her odeon. How old is she?

She's 16. :)

  You must be very proud of your little girl.   :cheer:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 21, 2012, 12:16:14 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 20, 2012, 05:31:02 AM

Quote from: Lit on November 20, 2012, 05:29:19 AM

I slept almost 14 hours  8)

That's a very good thing if you slept well. :)

  :indeed:    How often do you have these really long sleeps?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 21, 2012, 12:18:02 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on November 20, 2012, 08:34:54 PM

The youngest didn't want to go back to her Dad's tonight because she felt like she didn't have enough time to be with her big brother. Not happy that she was upset of course, but it always warms my heart to see how close they are. Before her Dad arrived she threw her arms around her brother and told him she loved him. :heart:

  Your kids sound very loving, like their Mum.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 21, 2012, 12:23:49 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on November 21, 2012, 12:15:25 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 20, 2012, 05:28:46 AM

Quote from: Lestat on November 20, 2012, 01:04:04 AM

Happy b/day wishes for her odeon. How old is she?

She's 16. :)

  You must be very proud of your little girl.   :cheer:

I am. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on November 21, 2012, 10:20:42 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on November 20, 2012, 08:34:54 PM

The youngest didn't want to go back to her Dad's tonight because she felt like she didn't have enough time to be with her big brother. Not happy that she was upset of course, but it always warms my heart to see how close they are. Before her Dad arrived she threw her arms around her brother and told him she loved him. :heart:

My wife is pushing for a third.  What can I tell her to convince her that one of each is perfect?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on November 21, 2012, 10:21:31 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on November 21, 2012, 12:16:14 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 20, 2012, 05:31:02 AM

Quote from: Lit on November 20, 2012, 05:29:19 AM

I slept almost 14 hours  8)

That's a very good thing if you slept well. :)

  :indeed:    How often do you have these really long sleeps?

I usually sleep at least 8 hours, but 14 happens a couple of days a month.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on November 21, 2012, 12:33:05 PM

Quote from: One L on November 21, 2012, 10:20:42 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on November 20, 2012, 08:34:54 PM

The youngest didn't want to go back to her Dad's tonight because she felt like she didn't have enough time to be with her big brother. Not happy that she was upset of course, but it always warms my heart to see how close they are. Before her Dad arrived she threw her arms around her brother and told him she loved him. :heart:

My wife is pushing for a third.  What can I tell her to convince her that one of each is perfect?

That God only gave her two hands and if she's walking with three kids and one runs into traffic, she's screwed? :laugh: Other than that, I have no idea. The ex always wanted three as well. I don't like uneven numbers. One is always left out. I say stay with two or aim for four  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on November 21, 2012, 12:44:24 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on November 21, 2012, 12:33:05 PM

aim for four  :green:

 :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on November 21, 2012, 03:58:28 PM

Lol lit...I've been sleeping like that a lot lately.

Sometimes when my sleep cycle flips its lid, as it be wont to do, I end up sleeping for 18 hours a day, or even sleeping for a week straight, only waking to use the bog and take in fluids and sometimes food.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on November 21, 2012, 04:00:45 PM

Fuckin thing is done. 

:hyke: :bonban: :bunny love: :oranna: :party: :celebrate: :hadron: :congrats: :cheer: :book: :happydance: :shamone: :dance: :oneliner: :moon: :fun dance: :babyban: :fuckyeahdance: :fuckyeahdance: :fuckyeahdance:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 21, 2012, 05:37:10 PM

Quote from: One L on November 21, 2012, 04:00:45 PM

Fuckin thing is done. 

:hyke: :bonban: :bunny love: :oranna: :party: :celebrate: :hadron: :congrats: :cheer: :book: :happydance: :shamone: :dance: :oneliner: :moon: :fun dance: :babyban: :fuckyeahdance: :fuckyeahdance: :fuckyeahdance:

Is this "Fuckin thing" sexual or academic?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on November 21, 2012, 06:01:51 PM

Quote from: One L on November 21, 2012, 04:00:45 PM

Fuckin thing is done. 

:hyke: :bonban: :bunny love: :oranna: :party: :celebrate: :hadron: :congrats: :cheer: :book: :happydance: :shamone: :dance: :oneliner: :moon: :fun dance: :babyban: :fuckyeahdance: :fuckyeahdance: :fuckyeahdance:

Yay!!! YOU DID go for four!!!! :dance:  If it's a girl you must name her after me  :M

 :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 22, 2012, 12:16:32 AM

He's nothing if not dedicated, that MLA fellow. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on November 22, 2012, 07:29:49 AM

are you going to end up like the Walton's MLA?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 22, 2012, 02:36:51 PM

Sorry, you were saying? I was trying to read your post when I noticed your avatar.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 22, 2012, 04:18:20 PM

There was pie, cake and ice cream after dinner

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 22, 2012, 05:00:21 PM

Quote from: Parts on November 22, 2012, 04:18:20 PM

There was pie, cake and ice cream after dinner

  "Was" ?   Meaning, there is none left?   :emosad:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on November 23, 2012, 02:54:23 PM

parent/teacher interview for the youngest. She's doing awesome. I adore her teacher.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 23, 2012, 04:12:45 PM

I got a box of old tools from the owner of the house I was working on

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: earthboundmisfit on November 23, 2012, 04:20:08 PM

Got the afternoon off, as well as this weekend.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on November 26, 2012, 10:36:45 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 21, 2012, 05:37:10 PM

Quote from: One L on November 21, 2012, 04:00:45 PM

Fuckin thing is done. 

:hyke: :bonban: :bunny love: :oranna: :party: :celebrate: :hadron: :congrats: :cheer: :book: :happydance: :shamone: :dance: :oneliner: :moon: :fun dance: :babyban: :fuckyeahdance: :fuckyeahdance: :fuckyeahdance:

Is this "Fuckin thing" sexual or academic?

A memo I had been working on for the past month.  About half my grade for that class, and the last assignment for the year.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on November 26, 2012, 01:00:08 PM

Got my meds a week early.

Heard back from the radiology dept of the local hospital, got my MRI booked, which was astonishingly fast, usually referrals take weeks or months to actually get an appointment. Not only that, but its in early december, so no endless months of waiting. I hope they find out whats wrong, I've lived with this fucking pain for too cunting long; its going on something like 15 years ish now. Theres only so much of it I can deal with, even with what a doc who used to work at the practice I go to, called a fraction of what I'm on now 'an elephant dose of painkillers'

Already had one operation on it (the bad knee that is), to remove some hypertrophic bone growth from behind the patellar tendon. Major fuckup. Operation failed totally to cure the problem, and left me with neuropathic pain, and loss of sensory perception around my knee and in both cases, for varying lengths down my leg.

Neuropathic pain is a complete tosser, as its pretty much unresponsive to opioids. Oxy does dull it for me, but only to a certain extent. Only time it goes away, if I'm having a neuropathic flareup, is if I were to take so much OC that I'd be sitting at my computer chair, fast asleep, paying a visit to ol' man Morpheus.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on November 26, 2012, 02:01:50 PM

Really glad I had a long weekend with both of the kids. We needed some solid time together without feeling rushed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 26, 2012, 03:47:49 PM

I found out I was overdrawn at the bank before they closed for the day.  I was able to cover it so I won't have to pay an NSF fee or returned check fee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 29, 2012, 12:58:50 PM

  My nosebleed dried up fast.  Hooray for my naturally high platelet count!   :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Peter on November 29, 2012, 01:51:29 PM

I phoned the GP at 14:40 and got an appointment for 15:10.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on November 29, 2012, 01:59:56 PM

My last Uverse bill was $40 more than usual because I had made 136 minutes of overseas phone calls. I could account for $28 of that but not 11 plus change. When I called to inquire about it the woman I talked to knocked off the $40 even though I did not ask her to do so.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 29, 2012, 03:13:08 PM

Work continues to be busy, I picked up a couple more houses to work on today

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 29, 2012, 03:44:34 PM

I used my Fuel Perks reward card and only paid $1.39 a gallon for gas.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 29, 2012, 03:53:09 PM

  Actually it has been happening all week ... since being driven to the dogs' house on Sunday, I have not spent
  any money at all!  This inspires me to embark upon a new Cheapness Lifestyle!   :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on November 29, 2012, 03:53:50 PM

Something fun arrived :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 29, 2012, 04:01:22 PM

Quote from: One L on November 29, 2012, 03:53:50 PM

Something fun arrived :)

  Is it a friendly ghost to liven up the holidays?   :boo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 29, 2012, 04:04:14 PM

Quote from: One L on November 29, 2012, 03:53:50 PM

Something fun arrived :)

  Or perhaps a nice bottle of holiday cheer?    :scotch:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on November 29, 2012, 04:04:57 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on November 29, 2012, 04:04:14 PM

Quote from: One L on November 29, 2012, 03:53:50 PM

Something fun arrived :)

  Or perhaps a nice bottle of holiday cheer?    :scotch:

Scrappy the rage-monster to play with  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on November 29, 2012, 06:25:13 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 29, 2012, 03:44:34 PM

I used my Fuel Perks reward card and only paid $1.39 a gallon for gas.

:thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on November 29, 2012, 08:34:51 PM

I just discovered Brownies and Cookie Dough ice cream by Haagen Dazs and only because it was on sale. Completely satisfies the chocolate craving that always hits ahead of Aunt Flo :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 30, 2012, 02:24:04 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on November 29, 2012, 03:53:09 PM

  Actually it has been happening all week ... since being driven to the dogs' house on Sunday, I have not spent
  any money at all!  This inspires me to embark upon a new Cheapness Lifestyle!   :arrr:

And when you take pictures of your worn socks and undies, to sell them. You may save a lot on washing expenses too.   :yarly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 30, 2012, 02:30:18 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on November 29, 2012, 08:34:51 PM

I just discovered Brownies and Cookie Dough ice cream by Haagen Dazs and only because it was on sale. Completely satisfies the chocolate craving that always hits ahead of Aunt Flo :P

Here Aunt Flo has arrived, and I'm happy to have gotten rid of the water retention by now.

It's not as bad as it used to be, about three litres I guess, it used to be up to five.  :zombiefuck:

The triple hormonal storm has passed too. Yay for daughters.  :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 30, 2012, 02:31:29 AM

Paracetamol and hot cherry pip bag and hot wheat bag are being effective. Feeling a bit more human than four hours ago.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 30, 2012, 10:36:12 AM

  I reset the brightness level on my phone, so now I can actually SEE what I am posting.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on November 30, 2012, 11:35:13 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on November 30, 2012, 02:30:18 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on November 29, 2012, 08:34:51 PM

I just discovered Brownies and Cookie Dough ice cream by Haagen Dazs and only because it was on sale. Completely satisfies the chocolate craving that always hits ahead of Aunt Flo :P

Here Aunt Flo has arrived, and I'm happy to have gotten rid of the water retention by now.

It's not as bad as it used to be, about three litres I guess, it used to be up to five.  :zombiefuck:

The triple hormonal storm has passed too. Yay for daughters.  :hahaha:

Women who live together tend to follow the same schedule because their hormones are in sync. I think it's hilarious that the same applies for you, me and CBC and we're in three different countries. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 30, 2012, 11:50:41 AM

  ^  Are we all in sync then?  It's been a red week for me too!   :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 30, 2012, 03:23:43 PM

Submitted a paper for a conference to be held in Prague next year and got accepted at another. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on November 30, 2012, 08:20:20 PM

The urchin said  "you are the prettiest mommy in the whole wide world"  awwww

ok ok it was followed shortly by can i have an electric scooter for xmas, but it was nice for a moment

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on November 30, 2012, 08:23:39 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on November 30, 2012, 08:20:20 PM

The urchin said  "you are the prettiest mommy in the whole wide world"  awwww

ok ok it was followed shortly by can i have an electric scooter for xmas, but it was nice for a moment

The child is becoming an adult quickly

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Callaway on November 30, 2012, 08:28:54 PM

Quote from: skyblue1 on November 30, 2012, 08:23:39 PM

Quote from: bodaccea on November 30, 2012, 08:20:20 PM

The urchin said  "you are the prettiest mommy in the whole wide world"  awwww

ok ok it was followed shortly by can i have an electric scooter for xmas, but it was nice for a moment

The child is becoming an adult quickly

I think it was very sweet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on November 30, 2012, 09:33:26 PM

The oldest scored 90% on his math test on integers. I don't know who I'm more proud of. Him for retaining the info or me for being able to teach it in a way that he can learn :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 01, 2012, 04:24:33 AM

Well done, both of you. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 01, 2012, 06:02:59 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 30, 2012, 03:23:43 PM

Submitted a paper for a conference to be held in Prague next year and got accepted at another. :)

  That is awesome.  You are kicking ass in your profession!   :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on December 01, 2012, 07:34:42 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 01, 2012, 04:24:33 AM

Well done, both of you. :)

Thanks :) And well done on your paper!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 02, 2012, 03:26:26 AM

Thanks. :)

Technically this was yesterday, but I went to a Tommy Emmanuel concert. It was fabulous. I'm still high from it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 02, 2012, 07:02:12 AM

 The predicted freezing rain did not happen.  I would have had a dilemma if it had.  My boss, for whom I am dogsitting, told me to salt the deck in the event of freezing rain, but I notice that the dogs like to eat snow, and I did not want to risk making them sick by salting the snow.   :apondering:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Peter on December 02, 2012, 09:22:09 AM

Maybe they wouldn't eat it if it was salty?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 02, 2012, 10:27:27 AM

Quote from: Peter on December 02, 2012, 09:22:09 AM

Maybe they wouldn't eat it if it was salty?

 I'd rather not take the risk.  Even one taste might contain more salt than they could safely ingest.  :apondering:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 02, 2012, 10:28:26 AM

I posted without the fuss of setting font size and style, and my posts looked OK anyway.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 02, 2012, 11:32:21 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 02, 2012, 10:28:26 AM

I posted without the fuss of setting font size and style, and my posts looked OK anyway.  :green:

  But now I am back to my favored settings, and they look even better!  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 02, 2012, 11:33:20 AM

  I busted ass and got everything cleaned up and packed before my boss came home!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 02, 2012, 04:08:56 PM

I finally got a stylesheet to produce output that parses. Bloody hell, that was far more trouble than I expected.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on December 02, 2012, 04:42:29 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 02, 2012, 07:02:12 AM

The predicted freezing rain did not happen.  I would have had a dilemma if it had.  My boss, for whom I am dogsitting, told me to salt the deck in the event of freezing rain, but I notice that the dogs like to eat snow, and I did not want to risk making them sick by salting the snow.   :apondering:

Freezing rain on snow isn't that bad. Freezing rain directly on the deck would make the deck very tricky, but with snow underneath your feet would crack through the ice, it just wouldn't turn into an effective ice-floor.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 02, 2012, 05:54:53 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 02, 2012, 04:42:29 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 02, 2012, 07:02:12 AM

The predicted freezing rain did not happen.  I would have had a dilemma if it had.  My boss, for whom I am dogsitting, told me to salt the deck in the event of freezing rain, but I notice that the dogs like to eat snow, and I did not want to risk making them sick by salting the snow.   :apondering:

Freezing rain on snow isn't that bad. Freezing rain directly on the deck would make the deck very tricky, but with snow underneath your feet would crack through the ice, it just wouldn't turn into an effective ice-floor.

  :agreed:    I left enough snow on the deck to give myself and the dogs something
   to crunch our feet into in the event of freezing rain.  I'd rather not salt the deck, knowing
   how much the dogs love to eat snow.  I would hate for them to get sick.  I love them.  :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on December 02, 2012, 05:58:40 PM

Finished nearly all of my christmas shopping and went out for lunch while my truck was being aligned. They did a good job too.  :santa:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 02, 2012, 06:00:22 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on December 02, 2012, 05:58:40 PM

Finished nearly all of my christmas shopping and went out for lunch while my truck was being aligned. They did a good job too.  :santa:

  And then you drove your presents home in style!   :icequeen:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on December 02, 2012, 06:01:39 PM

 :agreed:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 02, 2012, 06:52:06 PM

  Postwhoring helped me regain alertness after my long nap!   :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 03, 2012, 12:26:23 AM

I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on December 06, 2012, 12:39:13 AM

I'm getting a petrol reimbursement at work for the travel I do going to the other office :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: PuppetSockPenguin on December 06, 2012, 06:25:21 AM

1. I found my glasses that were lost.

2. After orchestra tonight, the conductor came up to me and thanked me for being one of the only people who were actually watching her.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 06, 2012, 06:40:19 AM

Managed to persuade my old man to lend me the money to get some rolling baccy. Old bugger wasn't having any of it at first, but eventually he figured out I was just going to stick at it until he gave in :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on December 06, 2012, 06:45:22 AM

Quote from: PuppetSockPenguin on December 06, 2012, 06:25:21 AM

1. I found my glasses that were lost.

2. After orchestra tonight, the conductor came up to me and thanked me for being one of the only people who were actually watching her.

:thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 06, 2012, 08:51:30 AM

I too just found both pairs of my reading glasses. They had dropped behind my air conditioning unit I have in my room. I don't usually bother to wear my glasses just for day to day activities, but I need to for reading at any more than a couple of  feet away, ever since an accident in the lab as a little kid; which was the result of my failing to predict an exothermic reaction, that caught me right in the face.

I've posted about that before. But that eye seems prone to misfortune. I'm not now really, but I used to be into pyrotechnics, I was shooting down conkers (the large, hard seeds of the horse chestnut tree, used by kids in britain to be threaded on a string for playing the game called ''conkers'' out of a tree with, essentially, one person holds their conker still, dangling in the air from its string, while the other does their best to flick their conker towards the opent. The winner is either the one who breaks the rival's conker fastest, or who survives the most of the attacker's conkers, breaking them in the process)

 something that in principle, was basically a launcher for a rifle grenade-style shell, and the propellant charge ignited prematurely, load of hot sparks got me in the eye, and my face caught bunch of shell casing fragments. Luckily none of the shell casing ended up in my eye.

Still had to have it irrigated for something like 6-7 hours; which I might add, was fucking uncomfortable as shit. 


Could have sworn my shades were in the same place too, but I can't find the twatting things ANYWHERE.

I think I'll get a new pair as soon as I get paid, if I can afford to after paying my old man  back what I owe him, and getting myself the chainmail shirt I've been feasting my eyes on for ages now, I want some to go over my trench, and my shortish, but heavy and restrictive biker style leather coat, to serve as a nicely stylish  weighted sensory toy.

     

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on December 06, 2012, 09:36:00 AM

Last night: 

• company "mafia" Christmas party.  We call it the "mafia" Christmas because the CEO hands out thick envelopes of cash that aren't reported for taxes.  Hey, I'm not complaining :)
• After two large Stellas I had to leave to go to my final Contracts class.  Two of three classes in the bag now.  Just finals remain.

Today:

• Last Civil Procedure class
• Board meeting to approve next years bonuses

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 06, 2012, 10:37:44 AM

Hot buttered flaky biscuits for b'fast.  Yum.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 06, 2012, 05:58:43 PM

I paid my property taxes.  Good because

A) We have a house
B) We own the house
C) We had enough money to pay the taxes.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on December 06, 2012, 06:33:09 PM

Put money in bank.
Paid $800 credit card bill.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on December 07, 2012, 10:28:07 AM

Last night was my last class of 2012 :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on December 07, 2012, 10:51:29 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 06, 2012, 05:58:43 PM

I paid my property taxes.  Good because

A) We have a house
B) We own the house
C) We had enough money to pay the taxes.

:thumbup:

Quote from: One L on December 07, 2012, 10:28:07 AM

Last night was my last class of 2012 :)

Enjoy your Christmas vacation.  :santa:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on December 07, 2012, 11:42:39 AM

The oldest got a perfect score on both of his language arts tests and I'm prepping for a girlie weekend with the little one. Baking and a christmas party are in the plans!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on December 07, 2012, 11:45:49 AM

Quote from: MissKitty on December 07, 2012, 11:42:39 AM

The oldest got a perfect score on both of his language arts tests and I'm prepping for a girlie weekend with the little one. Baking and a christmas party are in the plans!

:thumbup: That sounds fun.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 07, 2012, 03:02:06 PM

  I missed a stair in my building and landed hard  but unhurt  on my right foot.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 07, 2012, 04:00:40 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on December 07, 2012, 11:42:39 AM

The oldest got a perfect score on both of his language arts tests and I'm prepping for a girlie weekend with the little one. Baking and a christmas party are in the plans!

Allsome.

That's one not so good things about having kids.  You have to share licking the bowls.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 07, 2012, 04:02:39 PM

I fixded the internetz.  It wuz ther and then it wuznt.  I turned off my thingy and turned it on and I fixded the whooooollllleee internetz.  Now every bode has internetz.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 07, 2012, 04:55:01 PM

You practically IT support now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on December 08, 2012, 03:50:37 AM

There's one flea in my trap already :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 08, 2012, 06:43:34 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 07, 2012, 04:55:01 PM

You practically IT support now.

  She really does!  Her Majesty  :queenie:  haz mad internet skillz!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 08, 2012, 06:46:03 AM

Quote from: Mia Wallace on December 08, 2012, 03:50:37 AM

There's one flea in my trap already :2thumbsup:

  How do you make a flea trap?  During the summer, I make a fruit-fly trap using a small
   glass cup  (a candle holder)  filled with apple cider vinegar with a few drops of dishwashing
   soap mixed into it, to create a fragrant but deadly drowning pool!   :yarly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on December 08, 2012, 06:57:31 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 08, 2012, 06:46:03 AM

Quote from: Mia Wallace on December 08, 2012, 03:50:37 AM

There's one flea in my trap already :2thumbsup:

  How do you make a flea trap?  During the summer, I make a fruit-fly trap using a small
   glass cup  (a candle holder)  filled with apple cider vinegar with a few drops of dishwashing
   soap mixed into it, to create a fragrant but deadly drowning pool!   :yarly:

It's an electric flea trap that I bought at Bunnings. It's just a lamp with a sticky pad underneath. The fleas are attracted to the warmth of the globe and get stuck on the pad.
I could have made one for 1/2 the price with a desk lamp and a plate of water but oh well :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 08, 2012, 06:03:00 PM

Finished a couple of stylesheets I've been struggling with.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on December 08, 2012, 06:32:25 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 08, 2012, 06:46:03 AM

Quote from: Mia Wallace on December 08, 2012, 03:50:37 AM

There's one flea in my trap already :2thumbsup:

  How do you make a flea trap?  During the summer, I make a fruit-fly trap using a small
   glass cup  (a candle holder)  filled with apple cider vinegar with a few drops of dishwashing
   soap mixed into it, to create a fragrant but deadly drowning pool!   :yarly:

Killing flies is  :viking:  :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on December 08, 2012, 06:53:22 PM

Took the youngest to a Christmas party. We had a really good time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 08, 2012, 08:46:31 PM

Quote from: Mia Wallace on December 08, 2012, 06:57:31 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 08, 2012, 06:46:03 AM

Quote from: Mia Wallace on December 08, 2012, 03:50:37 AM

There's one flea in my trap already :2thumbsup:

  How do you make a flea trap?  During the summer, I make a fruit-fly trap using a small
   glass cup  (a candle holder)  filled with apple cider vinegar with a few drops of dishwashing
   soap mixed into it, to create a fragrant but deadly drowning pool!   :yarly:

It's an electric flea trap that I bought at Bunnings. It's just a lamp with a sticky pad underneath. The fleas are attracted to the warmth of the globe and get stuck on the pad.
I could have made one for 1/2 the price with a desk lamp and a plate of water but oh well :P

Put a nightlight in an electic socket and put some sticky tape sticky side out hanging from it.  Works well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 09, 2012, 02:37:55 AM

I had coffee. And I posted this.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on December 09, 2012, 09:05:15 PM

You're such a high achiever

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 09, 2012, 09:07:27 PM

  Coffee :coffee:  and posting ... really, what else is there?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on December 09, 2012, 09:15:20 PM

tea and posting
pop and posting
water and posting
hot chocolate and posting

Really....there's so many options!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 09, 2012, 09:17:50 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on December 09, 2012, 09:15:20 PM

tea and posting
pop and posting
water and posting
hot chocolate and posting

Really....there's so many options!

  You're right!  And for the unwise there's also   :beer:   and posting!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: earthboundmisfit on December 09, 2012, 09:33:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 09, 2012, 09:17:50 PM

Quote from: MissKitty on December 09, 2012, 09:15:20 PM

tea and posting
pop and posting
water and posting
hot chocolate and posting

Really....there's so many options!

  You're right!  And for the unwise there's also   :beer:   and posting!

You guys forgot one.


(http://www.divavillage.com/images/Oct05/woman-restroom-on-toilet-with-laptop0210-200x300.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 09, 2012, 09:47:36 PM

  It's also bad to post while    :chainsaw:   'cause bad stuff can happen!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 09, 2012, 10:51:52 PM

And never post while having sex.  The client is paying for your undivided attention.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 09, 2012, 10:54:24 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 09, 2012, 10:51:52 PM

And never post while having sex.  The client is paying for your undivided attention.

  But my Twitter followers, they depend upon me to keep them posted!   :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 10, 2012, 06:00:32 AM

Eating and posting

Shooting up and posting

Reading a book and posting

Hades, I've even brought the microscope out from the lab and used it to check up on growing microorganism cultures while busily postwhoring away.

My good event for the day-Went to the docs to get the corticosteroid injections I had a couple of months ago into my bad hip and knee. Turns out I was due to pick up a refill of my normal meds 2 days from today, but my regular GP, the one I always try to see isn't too strict, and all I had to do was ask him to cancel that one, and give me my meds today please, so as to save me from waking up early in the morning twice in one week to go in.

He knows I am NOT a morning person (lol, it isn't unknown for me to only start waking up from between 7-11PM. I have always had really squirrelly circadian rhythms), and to get an appointment reliably, I have to wake up at 8am, and be the first in the line, before they open at 8:30am. Yuck.

Its possible to book one by phone, but within oh, about a femtosecond or two all the lines are jammed, and theres very, very little chance of my getting one with Dr.Guest, the guy I always try to get the appointments with.

So thats left me with 4x80mg oxycontin pills, seeing as I got everything two days early, which equates to 2 shots spare :)

Well...one, now. Thats put a quick and efficient stop to the lower back pain I have been having, probably due to being unable to sleep, which always makes my muscles tense up, and staying up all night with my nose in a book (I'm re-reading Tolkein's 'the silmarillion' for the first time in yonks)

Time to kick my shoes off, roll my feet along a pair of hair brushes (one of my stims, try it some time, its REALLY comfy :autism:), have a rollup and enjoy the nice warm fuzzly opioid glow:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 11, 2012, 03:41:48 PM

Finally had a test release of the publishing software we've been working on.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 12, 2012, 05:20:54 AM

Just this minute got back from a walk in the freezing bloody cold (cold enough that I still have my big, warm, fluffy bathrobe on, hidden under my leather trench) to buy some snacks.

What happened on the way back?

I just found a tenbag of skunk, lying in the road :D  Not had a smoke in ages, aside from sharing some on a joint that was being passed around at a sleepover with a friend of mine a few weeks ago. Pretty stinky, sticky stuff too.

I was going to get a lift from my old man to the shop, but couldn't find him. If I hadn't have walked; I would never have found it.

And there was nearly 220 pounds in my bank account that I had no idea was there...right when I thought I was very low on money.

Time to load up my pipe in celebration of my good luck :D

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Post by: P7PSP on December 12, 2012, 05:52:26 AM

220 pounds isn't being low on funds?  ???

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 12, 2012, 12:16:09 PM

More than I usually have. I'm stuck on benefits at the moment. Haven't been able to find any work since I left school. Either there isn't much round here I'm qualified to do, or I've had a singular run of awful luck applying.

Just got back from the city center, visiting the nearest town in the opposite direction also.

Absolutely dead on my feet...but, I did find my walking cane, which I'd lost over 2 months ago. Figured it might be at the local headshop. And it was, guy remembered me and had kept it.

Its been blasted hard work walking without it for so long. Now I will have to get used to using it again.

An early night for me tonight I think.
Take my meds, have a pipe or two of that herb I found to ease my aching legs, and turn in.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on December 12, 2012, 09:52:39 PM

Sorry if that came off as rude Lestat.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on December 13, 2012, 12:41:56 AM

The neighbours are moving out! :woohoo:

God, I love the person who invented 6 month leases. I wonder who will move in next :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on December 13, 2012, 02:22:20 AM

Quote from: Mia Wallace on December 13, 2012, 12:41:56 AM

The neighbours are moving out! :woohoo:

God, I love the person who invented 6 month leases. I wonder who will move in next :orly:

Congrats on divesting yourself of hillbilly (bogan?) neighbors.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on December 13, 2012, 06:35:57 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on December 13, 2012, 02:22:20 AM

Quote from: Mia Wallace on December 13, 2012, 12:41:56 AM

The neighbours are moving out! :woohoo:

God, I love the person who invented 6 month leases. I wonder who will move in next :orly:

Congrats on divesting yourself of hillbilly (bogan?) neighbors.  :thumbup:

Thanks. Young messy hooligans more like it :prude:. Don't think the landlord cares all that much about who goes in there.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 13, 2012, 07:35:09 AM

Post I was waiting for arrived early

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 13, 2012, 07:56:38 AM

  One of my neighbors slammed the back door, thus waking me in a timely fashion
   from a deep sleep filled with elaborate dreams.  Now I'm ready to face the day!  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 13, 2012, 01:36:05 PM

I managed to remove a trash bag and several smaller bags/items from the house.   :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 13, 2012, 04:38:57 PM

Just finished a last bit of code for a client.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 13, 2012, 06:47:56 PM

Got a compliment on the presentation I did from a guy at work who's really talented and skilled.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 13, 2012, 07:13:18 PM

When I stopped by the grocery for light bulbs and cheese, I bought 6 boxes of bent and groceries @ $4 per box.  The bad something is that PA doesn't know we've added about 120 cans to the food stockpile. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 13, 2012, 07:41:41 PM

I was able to troubleshoot and fix the problem with my furnace. It was just some bearings that needed oil.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on December 13, 2012, 08:35:22 PM

My son's psych is awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 14, 2012, 12:14:19 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 13, 2012, 06:47:56 PM

Got a compliment on the presentation I did from a guy at work who's really talented and skilled.

I like it when someone who knows what he is talking about does that. It's the only time such things will sometimes matter to me.

Happened to me in Montréal in August. After my presentation, I got an email saying well done from a colleague in the field who is about as respected within my field as is possible. He was in the audience and he had chaired the spec I based my work on.

My problem is that I never know what to do with such a compliment. I wrote a thank you but managed to include something about "I hope I didn't butcher the spec" and afterwards that came off as cheesy and moronic, somehow.

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Post by: Parts on December 15, 2012, 05:51:20 PM

Picked up a check and was told they did not want the extra foam left over from the job so I have about $200 worth to use on my house

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 15, 2012, 05:59:13 PM

The local Christmas parade includes cheerleaders from the various playgrounds.  One playground had a girl about 6 or so marching.  What made it so wonderful is the girl is blind (uses a disability cane) and she was marching with her Mom. 

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Post by: Pyraxis on December 15, 2012, 10:38:25 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 14, 2012, 12:14:19 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 13, 2012, 06:47:56 PM

Got a compliment on the presentation I did from a guy at work who's really talented and skilled.

I like it when someone who knows what he is talking about does that. It's the only time such things will sometimes matter to me.

Happened to me in Montréal in August. After my presentation, I got an email saying well done from a colleague in the field who is about as respected within my field as is possible. He was in the audience and he had chaired the spec I based my work on.

My problem is that I never know what to do with such a compliment. I wrote a thank you but managed to include something about "I hope I didn't butcher the spec" and afterwards that came off as cheesy and moronic, somehow.

Nice.

This guy stopped by my desk and asked me about the projects I had done illustration for. The sad thing is none of the recent ones are published, it's just for friends and my own work. It was kind of a letdown, I want to be able to say "Yes, and if you want to know the story behind it, here's where you can get it."

Out of context, that phrase doesn't sound cheesy and moronic.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 22, 2012, 03:47:06 AM

This was yesterday, but my paper was accepted for a conference. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 22, 2012, 05:03:04 AM

Bought my old man a bottle of rum as his xmas present yesterday.

Only I forgot to pick it up from the shops. I'd bought the mid-sized bottle, as I hadn't enough for a full size one.

Told the manager I'd forgotten it, he was alright, and replaced it. Only he just handed me a 70cl bottle, not knowing which I'd bought. I'm sure as hell not correcting him  :santa:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 22, 2012, 08:15:34 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 22, 2012, 03:47:06 AM

This was yesterday, but my paper was accepted for a conference. :woohoo:

  That's awesome!  Will you go to the conference to present the paper yourself?  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 22, 2012, 08:16:41 AM

Quote from: Lestat on December 22, 2012, 05:03:04 AM

Bought my old man a bottle of rum as his xmas present yesterday.

Only I forgot to pick it up from the shops. I'd bought the mid-sized bottle, as I hadn't enough for a full size one.

Told the manager I'd forgotten it, he was alright, and replaced it. Only he just handed me a 70cl bottle, not knowing which I'd bought. I'm sure as hell not correcting him  :santa:

  Nothing finer at Christmas than a good bottle of rum!   :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on December 22, 2012, 09:18:50 AM

All the urchin's pressies are wrapped up and hidden!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on December 22, 2012, 04:44:20 PM

wOOHOO i GOT SOME NICE BIRTHDAY PRESENTS!

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Post by: Queen Victoria on December 22, 2012, 08:42:01 PM

I got an electric tea kettle that turns itself off automatically and a bottle of sherry for early christmas presents today.  Now PA can't burn water (he left the tea pot to boil dry twice this past 3 or 4 months.  Thank heavens for Corning Ware.)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 23, 2012, 01:17:41 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 22, 2012, 08:15:34 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 22, 2012, 03:47:06 AM

This was yesterday, but my paper was accepted for a conference. :woohoo:

  That's awesome!  Will you go to the conference to present the paper yourself?  :viking:

Yes, definitely. It's in February.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 23, 2012, 01:45:09 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 23, 2012, 01:17:41 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 22, 2012, 08:15:34 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 22, 2012, 03:47:06 AM

This was yesterday, but my paper was accepted for a conference. :woohoo:

  That's awesome!  Will you go to the conference to present the paper yourself?  :viking:

Yes, definitely. It's in February.

  Do you get nervous presenting papers, or are you confident?   :toporly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 23, 2012, 01:54:32 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 23, 2012, 01:45:09 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 23, 2012, 01:17:41 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 22, 2012, 08:15:34 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 22, 2012, 03:47:06 AM

This was yesterday, but my paper was accepted for a conference. :woohoo:

  That's awesome!  Will you go to the conference to present the paper yourself?  :viking:

Yes, definitely. It's in February.

  Do you get nervous presenting papers, or are you confident?   :toporly:

I'm confident. Sure, I am usually nervous right before my presentations, but the talks themselves are fun.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 23, 2012, 01:55:35 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 23, 2012, 01:54:32 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 23, 2012, 01:45:09 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 23, 2012, 01:17:41 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 22, 2012, 08:15:34 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 22, 2012, 03:47:06 AM

This was yesterday, but my paper was accepted for a conference. :woohoo:

  That's awesome!  Will you go to the conference to present the paper yourself?  :viking:

Yes, definitely. It's in February.

  Do you get nervous presenting papers, or are you confident?   :toporly:

I'm confident. Sure, I am usually nervous right before my presentations, but the talks themselves are fun.

  I  hope you have a great time.  Which language will you use?   :nerdy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 23, 2012, 01:56:16 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 23, 2012, 01:55:35 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 23, 2012, 01:54:32 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 23, 2012, 01:45:09 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 23, 2012, 01:17:41 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 22, 2012, 08:15:34 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 22, 2012, 03:47:06 AM

This was yesterday, but my paper was accepted for a conference. :woohoo:

  That's awesome!  Will you go to the conference to present the paper yourself?  :viking:

Yes, definitely. It's in February.

  Do you get nervous presenting papers, or are you confident?   :toporly:

I'm confident. Sure, I am usually nervous right before my presentations, but the talks themselves are fun.

  I  hope you have a great time.  Which language will you use?   :nerdy:

English.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 23, 2012, 01:58:00 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 23, 2012, 01:56:16 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 23, 2012, 01:55:35 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 23, 2012, 01:54:32 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 23, 2012, 01:45:09 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 23, 2012, 01:17:41 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 22, 2012, 08:15:34 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 22, 2012, 03:47:06 AM

This was yesterday, but my paper was accepted for a conference. :woohoo:

  That's awesome!  Will you go to the conference to present the paper yourself?  :viking:

Yes, definitely. It's in February.

  Do you get nervous presenting papers, or are you confident?   :toporly:

I'm confident. Sure, I am usually nervous right before my presentations, but the talks themselves are fun.

  I  hope you have a great time.  Which language will you use?   :nerdy:

English.

  It's cool to have options.  I use English for everything'cuz it's all I know.   :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 23, 2012, 02:07:33 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 23, 2012, 01:58:00 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 23, 2012, 01:56:16 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 23, 2012, 01:55:35 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 23, 2012, 01:54:32 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 23, 2012, 01:45:09 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 23, 2012, 01:17:41 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 22, 2012, 08:15:34 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 22, 2012, 03:47:06 AM

This was yesterday, but my paper was accepted for a conference. :woohoo:

  That's awesome!  Will you go to the conference to present the paper yourself?  :viking:

Yes, definitely. It's in February.

  Do you get nervous presenting papers, or are you confident?   :toporly:

I'm confident. Sure, I am usually nervous right before my presentations, but the talks themselves are fun.

  I  hope you have a great time.  Which language will you use?   :nerdy:

English.

  It's cool to have options.  I use English for everything'cuz it's all I know.   :tard:

Well, THEY wouldn't understand me if I chose Finnish. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 23, 2012, 02:35:27 PM

Found 2 Tshirts with price tags on them totaling $45 at the thrift store for $3.49 total.  Also managed to find some decaf English Tea Time tea as part of PA's Christmas present.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 23, 2012, 03:33:39 PM

Finished most of the Christmas-related chores. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 23, 2012, 03:48:00 PM

Wellllllllllllllllllll.

I saw an accident today, well not exactly.  I heard the accident and saw the cars immediately afterwards.  I gave my name and phone number to the car that was hit.

As I was going about my running around, I had a fictional conversation with the insurance companies.

You saw the accident?  Well, no.  But I heard it and my eyes immediately went to to sound.

So you didn't see the accident?  Listen, I was one car back from the intersection.  One car was turning left on a green light and the other car ran a red light.

How could see this if you were one car back from the intersection?  Because I go through that intersection about 20 to 25 times a week.  I have autistim and part of my autism is that I'm fascinated with signal lights changing colors.  So, I was leaning forward to watch the light and I saw that it was red when the lady went through it.

What's so good?  I never realized that I was fascinated with signal lights before. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 24, 2012, 04:32:29 PM

Picked up a check from a small but very profitable job

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 24, 2012, 05:44:18 PM

My book came.  I had been looking for The Tightwad Gazette Vol. 2 for at least 10 years in the thrift stores.  No where to be found.  I finally gave up and ordered it on line for $1 and postage.  It came today.  Relief and happiness.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 28, 2012, 07:48:29 AM

Went to the doc to pick up some meds, and discuss the results of the MRI scan I had done on my knee.

Apparently there is no structural damage at all, which is good to know.  I hated the idea of possibly needing surgical treatment to fix it, the first op I had on it was hardly a success. But the doc is of the opinion that my knee issues can be sorted by intensive physiotherapy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on December 29, 2012, 06:12:49 AM

nothing....yet!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 30, 2012, 03:29:11 PM

Today I finished clearing out my email inbox.  Over 450 messages were either deleted or stored in the appropriate folder.  My goal for next year is to go through the folders and weed them out. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 30, 2012, 04:53:50 PM

Electronic dehoarding?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 30, 2012, 06:22:00 PM

  I needed just one more quarter in order to do laundry, and I found it behind a couch cushion.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 30, 2012, 06:39:32 PM

Got lots of cleaning done.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 30, 2012, 09:33:33 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 30, 2012, 04:53:50 PM

Electronic dehoarding?

Yes.  It was taking too long to load my inbox.  So, a winter cleaning was in order.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Calavera on January 03, 2013, 05:24:47 PM

I got a percentile rank of 80.5 on the STAT test (received the results just a few minutes ago). I'm the happiest man alive now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 03, 2013, 05:27:13 PM

Quote from: Calavera on January 03, 2013, 05:24:47 PM

I got a percentile rank of 80.5 on the STAT test (received the results just a few minutes ago). I'm the happiest man alive now.

  Congratulations!  :thumbup:  What is the STAT test, and what do your results entitle you to?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on January 03, 2013, 05:36:57 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 03, 2013, 05:27:13 PM

Quote from: Calavera on January 03, 2013, 05:24:47 PM

I got a percentile rank of 80.5 on the STAT test (received the results just a few minutes ago). I'm the happiest man alive now.

  Congratulations!  :thumbup:  What is the STAT test, and what do your results entitle you to?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Tertiary_Admissions_Test (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Tertiary_Admissions_Test)

Congrats!  Applying to colleges?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Calavera on January 03, 2013, 05:37:14 PM

Thanks, guys. STAT test in Australia is sort of like an entry test into some universities for adults who've been out of school for quite a while. The one I did (two months ago) was a multiple choice test of 70 questions that test how well you can read what's provided to you and answer the questions based on the given texts. Sort of like an IQ test but different in that it tests for reading comprehension and analysis skills (I think).

Also, just realized it would've gone higher had I had a better vocabulary (only 47.3 percentile rank in Verbal). But overall, this should be more than enough to get me into a course like Psychology.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 04, 2013, 12:40:04 AM

Quote from: Calavera on January 03, 2013, 05:24:47 PM

I got a percentile rank of 80.5 on the STAT test (received the results just a few minutes ago). I'm the happiest man alive now.

What's a STAT test? Congrats, anyway, although I suppose the congrats will possibly mean more to you when I know what it is. :)

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Post by: odeon on January 04, 2013, 12:41:28 AM

and considering how I managed to completely ignore the follow-up posts before asking, I probably wouldn't score very high on anything right now. :P

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Post by: bodie on January 06, 2013, 04:49:17 PM

Quote from: Calavera on January 03, 2013, 05:37:14 PM

Thanks, guys. STAT test in Australia is sort of like an entry test into some universities for adults who've been out of school for quite a while. The one I did (two months ago) was a multiple choice test of 70 questions that test how well you can read what's provided to you and answer the questions based on the given texts. Sort of like an IQ test but different in that it tests for reading comprehension and analysis skills (I think).

Also, just realized it would've gone higher had I had a better vocabulary (only 47.3 percentile rank in Verbal). But overall, this should be more than enough to get me into a course like Psychology.

Well done x

Psychology eh?   :eyebrows: i volunteer to sit on your couch for practice analysis  >:D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Calavera on January 07, 2013, 12:57:09 AM

Well, since my goal is actually through conducting experiments, I'll be sure to treasure you as a precious experimental subject. Sort of like my number one Guinea Pig. :zoinks:

Thanks, anyhow. Your comments always make me smile.

Oh, thanks to Odeon as well.

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Post by: Peter on January 07, 2013, 05:21:00 AM

The doctor put me on a 6-month course of oral terbinafine hydrochloride after my toenails tested positive for fungus.  The good part of it is that I should finally be able to clear up all the annoying fungal infections that have been bothering me for years and that I've been unable to permanently clear with topical creams.

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Post by: odeon on January 07, 2013, 03:25:11 PM

Did a well-received presentation today.

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Post by: Parts on January 07, 2013, 06:31:50 PM

More calls about work and I had a neighbor of the house I am working on ask me to give them a price to work on their house.

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Post by: Lestat on January 09, 2013, 08:45:59 AM

Several good things today:

Walking home from picking up my meds from the pharmacy, found a five pound note, just blowing down the road. Just as I'd spent some money on topping up my phone too.

My old man gave me the heads up that the guy I sometimes do metalwork for wants 100 quid worth of the bolts that are used for setting the depth guides for fret saws as used in guitar manufacture.

Old man is just setting up the lathe in the shed, so while he goes to hospital to see my mother. She hasn't been well, came down with norovirus, or something similar (aka the winter vomiting bug, rarely fatal, but extremely contagious, and will leave one essentially shitting and vomiting out of both ends simultaneously. She is recovering though.


Got a new dealer for herb. Not actually checked the guy yet though, didn't need to the night I randomly walked past the guy in town, only for him to ask if I smoked weed. I'd just picked up some methyl-AM-2201, AM-2201, and some tetramethylcyclopropanyl based synthetic cannabinoid legal smoking blend.

I figure when I have some spare cash, which will be soon, I'll check him out, just for something small, ten bag to an 8th, to make sure he is legit.

The metalwork job shouldn't take too long, haven't made any in a while,but it isn't difficult, its a pleasant way to while away the time too, I enjoy the work. 100 quid, tax free, cash in hand isn't anything to be sniffed at either :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on January 09, 2013, 10:19:25 AM

Quote from: Lestat on January 09, 2013, 08:45:59 AM

Several good things today:

Walking home from picking up my meds from the pharmacy, found a five pound note, just blowing down the road. Just as I'd spent some money on topping up my phone too.

My old man gave me the heads up that the guy I sometimes do metalwork for wants 100 quid worth of the bolts that are used for setting the depth guides for fret saws as used in guitar manufacture.

Old man is just setting up the lathe in the shed, so while he goes to hospital to see my mother. She hasn't been well, came down with norovirus, or something similar (aka the winter vomiting bug, rarely fatal, but extremely contagious, and will leave one essentially shitting and vomiting out of both ends simultaneously. She is recovering though.


Got a new dealer for herb. Not actually checked the guy yet though, didn't need to the night I randomly walked past the guy in town, only for him to ask if I smoked weed. I'd just picked up some methyl-AM-2201, AM-2201, and some tetramethylcyclopropanyl based synthetic cannabinoid legal smoking blend.

I figure when I have some spare cash, which will be soon, I'll check him out, just for something small, ten bag to an 8th, to make sure he is legit.

The metalwork job shouldn't take too long, haven't made any in a while,but it isn't difficult, its a pleasant way to while away the time too, I enjoy the work. 100 quid, tax free, cash in hand isn't anything to be sniffed at either :autism:

I'm sure you will spend it wisely.  Or give some to your poor old dad to help out your poor old mom.  Yer a good kid like that.   :thumbup:

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Post by: midlifeaspie on January 09, 2013, 11:19:57 AM

First grade for last semester posted.  :headbang2:

Will spend all day refreshing that page looking for the rest though they might not come for another week :(

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Post by: Lestat on January 09, 2013, 02:02:17 PM

Oh, my old man does the same work himself actually MLA. He is helping me out learning the trade, as he used to make guitars back in the day. He has been teaching me how to set up, maintain the lathe, do the welding where needed, etc.

As for what I intend to spend it on...aside from the essentials, food/drink and the like, I'm going to be investing most of it into projects I have going that should make me more money. Well, all but one of my projects. The other is for myself, working on a novel nootropic, DM-235, one of the AMPAkines, intended to facilitate learning and memory acquisition. Not sure as that would sell, although I guess it might, amongst those sort of people who currently use the 'racetams, anticholinesterases, and other such cognitive enhancers. As DM-235 is, to the best of my knowledge, not available anywhere from any of the online nootropic vendors. Looks very good on paper, and the research journals I've been reading on the stuff have produced some excellent results in rats, with a very good toxicological profile.

Actually, if I could convince her, I think my mom would very likely benefit from it, as her memory and cognitive abilities have really declined over the past few years, and I'd be happy to share it with her once the synthesis is complete.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: midlifeaspie on January 09, 2013, 02:13:59 PM

Quote from: Lestat on January 09, 2013, 02:02:17 PM

Oh, my old man does the same work himself actually MLA. He is helping me out learning the trade, as he used to make guitars back in the day. He has been teaching me how to set up, maintain the lathe, do the welding where needed, etc.

As for what I intend to spend it on...aside from the essentials, food/drink and the like, I'm going to be investing most of it into projects I have going that should make me more money. Well, all but one of my projects. The other is for myself, working on a novel nootropic, DM-235, one of the AMPAkines, intended to facilitate learning and memory acquisition. Not sure as that would sell, although I guess it might, amongst those sort of people who currently use the 'racetams, anticholinesterases, and other such cognitive enhancers. As DM-235 is, to the best of my knowledge, not available anywhere from any of the online nootropic vendors. Looks very good on paper, and the research journals I've been reading on the stuff have produced some excellent results in rats, with a very good toxicological profile.

Actually, if I could convince her, I think my mom would very likely benefit from it, as her memory and cognitive abilities have really declined over the past few years, and I'd be happy to share it with her once the synthesis is complete.

Keep it up!  Most of the big pharmacological breakthroughs come from autistic guys in their parent's basements.  You would be shocked at the breakthroughs I have read about on this site, truly amazing stuff.  Did you know that there is a pizza delivery man who is going to build dirigibles that will put a space elevator in orbit?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on January 09, 2013, 02:32:16 PM

Quote from: Lestat on January 09, 2013, 02:02:17 PM

Oh, my old man does the same work himself actually MLA. He is helping me out learning the trade, as he used to make guitars back in the day. He has been teaching me how to set up, maintain the lathe, do the welding where needed, etc.

As for what I intend to spend it on...aside from the essentials, food/drink and the like, I'm going to be investing most of it into projects I have going that should make me more money. Well, all but one of my projects. The other is for myself, working on a novel nootropic, DM-235, one of the AMPAkines, intended to facilitate learning and memory acquisition. Not sure as that would sell, although I guess it might, amongst those sort of people who currently use the 'racetams, anticholinesterases, and other such cognitive enhancers. As DM-235 is, to the best of my knowledge, not available anywhere from any of the online nootropic vendors. Looks very good on paper, and the research journals I've been reading on the stuff have produced some excellent results in rats, with a very good toxicological profile.

Actually, if I could convince her, I think my mom would very likely benefit from it, as her memory and cognitive abilities have really declined over the past few years, and I'd be happy to share it with her once the synthesis is complete.

Using your mother, who is already in bad health, as a guinea pig for your basement pharmacology experiments sounds like a real shitty idea to me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 09, 2013, 07:41:37 PM

The compound in question isn't one of my inventions, the research has already been done.

I'm running the synthesis for me, but by weight, its highly potent. Even doing a pilot run on the scale of 8g (the amount of piperazine I have handy for the starting precursor), that will leave a good few thousand doses, assuming no dramatically low-yielding step somewhere down the line.

I just thought it would be a good thing to suggest it, explain it to my mom, and make the offer. Rather than sitting on something that might be of help to her.

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Post by: Lestat on January 09, 2013, 07:56:54 PM

Made good headway on my guitar/guitar making tool parts order this evening.

Few hours work at the lathe, aside from being an enjoyable evening. halfway or sp towards finishing the job.

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Post by: odeon on January 10, 2013, 12:00:02 AM

Technically this was yesterday, but I got the Jag back from the repair shop.

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Post by: lutra on January 10, 2013, 02:42:55 PM

Woot. Iz won €4 with the lottery ticket I've got for free from me newspaper. Four frikkin' whole euros.

Oh, bumped into horny Tina this evening too. Well, horny.. :laugh: Don't think she ever did some of the old school dancin' bizz. We just talked for a bit.. she said I should befriend her on Facebook. Thing is, here.. I don't do facebook. Blah..

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Post by: Charlotte Quin on January 11, 2013, 05:17:10 AM

Bumped into my uncle at the shops and he asked me if I knew any single mums under 45 with long hair (to date) :laugh:. I WILL do what I'm told and keep the question between me and him. As to my answer to said question, I had no idea :-\

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Post by: Charlotte Quin on January 11, 2013, 05:24:01 AM

Quote

I WILL do what I'm told and keep the question between me and him

Which is why I'm posting it for all the world wide webz to see :zoinks:

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Post by: Parts on January 11, 2013, 07:19:44 PM

The homeowner asked for additional work to be done on his house which made a job I wasn't expecting to make much on to one I did pretty good on

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Post by: 'andersom' on January 13, 2013, 04:34:28 PM

Really pleased to finally have that map hanging. My dad gave it to me more than a year ago, framed with a frame he made himself. And I kept postponing to hang it.

Also happy the girls were away till bit after 7 pm. Very nice and good to have this day for me.

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Post by: earthboundmisfit on January 13, 2013, 05:08:59 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on January 13, 2013, 04:34:28 PM

Really pleased to finally have that map hanging. My dad gave it to me more than a year ago, framed with a frame he made himself. And I kept postponing to hang it.

Also happy the girls were away till bit after 7 pm. Very nice and good to have this day for me.

Do you have a pic of it? I love maps, especially old ones.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 13, 2013, 05:29:07 PM

Quote from: Mia Wallace on January 11, 2013, 05:24:01 AM

Quote

I WILL do what I'm told and keep the question between me and him

Which is why I'm posting it for all the world wide webz to see :zoinks:

  Don't worry, we are models of discretion and tact here.  :tard:  :autism:

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Post by: Pyraxis on January 13, 2013, 05:29:55 PM

Lead climbing. Been doing nothing but top rope for a year. Very good to get back into it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Calavera on January 17, 2013, 01:49:35 PM

I got an offer from one university today, so looks like I'm set for good now.

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Post by: odeon on January 17, 2013, 02:38:37 PM

What kind of offer? One that you couldn't refuse? :P

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Post by: midlifeaspie on January 17, 2013, 02:39:16 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 17, 2013, 02:38:37 PM

What kind of offer?

The kind that you can't refuse .....

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Post by: odeon on January 17, 2013, 02:46:15 PM

Quote from: One L on January 17, 2013, 02:39:16 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 17, 2013, 02:38:37 PM

What kind of offer?

The kind that you can't refuse .....

You managed to reply before I modified my post. Not fair.

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Post by: Calavera on January 17, 2013, 03:03:21 PM

Well, obviously something I can't refuse. I'd be a big idiot if I did. :P

I'll make sure I'm a psychologist 6 years from now, and contributing something big to the field. Or at least die trying.

I have two goals in mind already.

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Post by: Parts on January 17, 2013, 06:15:57 PM

I collected some money that had been owed awhile and it was paid in cash
Finished a house I had been working on and had almost $200 in materials left over

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Post by: skyblue1 on January 17, 2013, 06:20:23 PM

Quote from: Parts on January 17, 2013, 06:15:57 PM

I collected some money that had been owed awhile and it was paid in cash
Finished a house I had been working on and had almost $200 in materials left over

profitable day :santa:

 :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 18, 2013, 12:36:50 AM

I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Peter on January 21, 2013, 08:56:49 AM

My mum's bf is developing socialist leanings in his old age, after being a life-long conservative.  I think what changed his mind was the Atos debacle with disabled people being told they're fit for work and then promptly dying.  Unfortunately, he still thinks that climate change is nonsense and doesn't like wind turbines.

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Post by: skyblue1 on February 01, 2013, 06:07:59 PM

The sun came up

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Post by: Queen Victoria on February 01, 2013, 06:58:51 PM

payday was today.  Only 28 more days until next payday. 

Got a haircut to help my decision to let my hair grow.  It looks and feels better and it's not a drastic change from the growing out lack-of-style.

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Post by: Parts on February 01, 2013, 07:38:27 PM

I got the new Grainger (http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/start.shtml) catalog in the mail

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Post by: Queen Victoria on February 01, 2013, 09:11:00 PM

GE called this evening and asked me to rate the service call for the washing machine.  I thought I was very gracious all things considered. 

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Post by: odeon on February 02, 2013, 02:38:59 AM

I had coffee and a sandwich.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 02, 2013, 06:33:41 PM

I bought a 357 page book of naughty limericks.  Guess what I'll be posting? 

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Post by: Pyraxis on February 02, 2013, 08:51:03 PM

Found the clothes I needed were all on sale.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on February 02, 2013, 09:54:45 PM

Someone put out on Craigslist that they had free grapefruit for the taking.  I went, expecting there to be none left this late in the day, but I came home with about a dozen.  Just had one and it's quite juicy.

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Post by: Parts on February 03, 2013, 09:31:04 AM

Drove over the new highway bridge across the Housatonic River for the first time

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Post by: odeon on February 03, 2013, 03:22:13 PM

After today's last show the ushers brought some Chardonnay with them up to the booth. Yay for champagne!

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Post by: Queen Victoria on February 03, 2013, 07:53:11 PM

Quote from: Parts on February 03, 2013, 09:31:04 AM

Drove over the new highway bridge across the Housatonic River for the first time

A few years back they added a second bridge over the Mississippi next to the older one.  The first time I drove on it the theme song from the Magnificant Seven was playing on the radio.  Boy, I felt awesome.

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Post by: Pyraxis on February 03, 2013, 08:21:26 PM

Lead climbing, got most of the way up a 5.10 at the gym.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on February 03, 2013, 11:13:40 PM

I'm wishing the 49ers had managed to win the Super Bowl. On a positive note only a conference champion can lose a Super Bowl.

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Post by: odeon on February 04, 2013, 09:26:38 AM

I managed to get some sleep, finally.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 04, 2013, 11:49:48 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on February 03, 2013, 11:13:40 PM

I'm wishing the 49ers had managed to win the Super Bowl. On a positive note only a conference champion can lose a Super Bowl.

Agreed.

Also that the SuperBowl is over and there will only be a day or 2 more of SuperBowl in the local media.  TV, newspaper and talk radio were full of it for the last week.

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Post by: P7PSP on February 04, 2013, 03:25:32 PM

Yes constant media coverage of anything can get annoying.  :indeed:

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Post by: Pyraxis on February 04, 2013, 07:05:28 PM

Gotta admit the power outage was a nice touch.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on February 05, 2013, 03:17:26 AM

I found buds on my Gardenia! :fuckyeahdance:

Finally the damn thing is going to flower! There's some bugs on it but that can be remedied with some insecticide spray I have.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 05, 2013, 06:13:03 AM

I woke up and found all the windows in my van are intact and I did not steal a cop car like in my dream that seemed so real.

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Post by: P7PSP on February 05, 2013, 07:01:44 AM

Quote from: Mia Wallace on February 05, 2013, 03:17:26 AM

I found buds on my Gardenia! :fuckyeahdance:

Finally the damn thing is going to flower! There's some bugs on it but that can be remedied with some insecticide spray I have.

Do you have Ladybugs in Australia?

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Post by: odeon on February 05, 2013, 01:41:00 PM

I had no festival films to show because the festival is over!!! :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on February 05, 2013, 10:29:57 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 05, 2013, 01:41:00 PM

I had no festival films to show because the festival is over!!! :woohoo:

They will rope you in next year. You are a Film Festival whore.  :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 06, 2013, 12:14:35 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on February 05, 2013, 10:29:57 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 05, 2013, 01:41:00 PM

I had no festival films to show because the festival is over!!! :woohoo:

They will rope you in next year. You are a Film Festival whore.  :hahaha:

I know. I'm just trying to make a living. :-[

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on February 06, 2013, 05:16:48 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on February 05, 2013, 07:01:44 AM

Quote from: Mia Wallace on February 05, 2013, 03:17:26 AM

I found buds on my Gardenia! :fuckyeahdance:

Finally the damn thing is going to flower! There's some bugs on it but that can be remedied with some insecticide spray I have.

Do you have Ladybugs in Australia?

Yes but these aren't the bugs on my buds, these are really tiny black ones, even smaller than a sandfly.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 06, 2013, 05:58:57 AM

I woke up feeling well rested

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on February 06, 2013, 07:53:52 AM

Quote from: Mia Wallace on February 06, 2013, 05:16:48 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on February 05, 2013, 07:01:44 AM

Quote from: Mia Wallace on February 05, 2013, 03:17:26 AM

I found buds on my Gardenia! :fuckyeahdance:

Finally the damn thing is going to flower! There's some bugs on it but that can be remedied with some insecticide spray I have.

Do you have Ladybugs in Australia?

Yes but these aren't the bugs on my buds, these are really tiny black ones, even smaller than a sandfly.

I ask because Ladybugs eat Aphids and may eat other bugs too. I like Ladybugs.

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Post by: RageBeoulve on February 06, 2013, 11:50:48 AM

I was growing squash like a few months ago. One day it was looking awesome. Healthy, leafing out well, the squash were swelling quickly and well formed with no trouble at their stems. Then the very next day I walk outside and a writhing mass of gray covered them. I was like WTF? Took a closer look, it was bugs. Thousands and thousands of them. TONS of them. I quickly picked what squash was left and just ripped the plants out of the ground, tossed them on the burn pile and lit it up. Fucking bugs.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on February 06, 2013, 12:26:09 PM

Quote from: RageBeoulve on February 06, 2013, 11:50:48 AM

I was growing squash like a few months ago. One day it was looking awesome. Healthy, leafing out well, the squash were swelling quickly and well formed with no trouble at their stems. Then the very next day I walk outside and a writhing mass of gray covered them. I was like WTF? Took a closer look, it was bugs. Thousands and thousands of them. TONS of them. I quickly picked what squash was left and just ripped the plants out of the ground, tossed them on the burn pile and lit it up. Fucking bugs.

That's fucked up. I like stuffed zucchini and barely boiled any other squash with butter salt and pepper.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 06, 2013, 04:38:29 PM

Fixed several annoying stylesheet bugs.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on February 06, 2013, 04:57:25 PM

I figured out the mechanics of the other part of the popup card. It isn't as elaborate as I had originally hoped, but it does the job.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 07, 2013, 12:22:24 AM

I had coffee, wonderful black coffee.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 07, 2013, 03:54:13 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 07, 2013, 12:22:24 AM

I had coffee, wonderful black coffee.  :2thumbsup:

  Me too! :coffee:  Nothing starts a day better than a good caffeine buzz!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 07, 2013, 05:41:14 PM

I landed in Prague, safely, and survived the taxi cab ride into the city. The cab driver drove in 160 km/h and slowed down to about 90 in the city, hitting the brakes only when spotting speed cameras.

The taxi cab drivers in Prague are mad.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on February 07, 2013, 09:06:44 PM

But you got to the city fast.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on February 08, 2013, 11:11:20 AM

Computer is being generous today. It is already functioning for over 45 minutes.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 08, 2013, 04:07:53 PM

Met with some friends and colleagues in Prague over some dinner and Czech beer. Very nice. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on February 11, 2013, 06:24:30 AM

I made a new friend named Rex :eyelash:

But he's a bit too young and he lives too far away for more.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 11, 2013, 09:32:09 AM

Received some encouraging comments about my talk via email.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on February 12, 2013, 01:09:36 AM

3,000!! :fuckyeahdance:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on February 12, 2013, 01:15:14 AM

 :thumbup:

Quote from: Mia Wallace on February 12, 2013, 01:09:36 AM

3,000!! :fuckyeahdance:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 12, 2013, 01:58:33 PM

It's Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Pancake Day.  Anyone have pancakes today?  Go to a parade?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 12, 2013, 04:41:55 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 12, 2013, 01:58:33 PM

It's Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Pancake Day.  Anyone have pancakes today?  Go to a parade?

Pancakes yes parade no

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 12, 2013, 08:34:12 PM

Quote from: Parts on February 12, 2013, 04:41:55 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 12, 2013, 01:58:33 PM

It's Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Pancake Day.  Anyone have pancakes today?  Go to a parade?

Pancakes yes parade no

  Neither, I am trying to become less  gras. :cbc:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 13, 2013, 12:36:09 AM

Quote from: Mia Wallace on February 12, 2013, 01:09:36 AM

3,000!! :fuckyeahdance:

Well done, you! :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on February 13, 2013, 01:17:06 AM

I went to the monthly aspie meeting at the M.I.N.D. Institute and we had an enjoyable discussion. One young man there is now working a job in customer service in a shoe store. He is a bit spazzy but very  :viking: for facing uncomfortable situations.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on February 18, 2013, 06:59:51 AM

i found a very old but very crisp pound note stuffed in an old poetry book.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 18, 2013, 07:23:59 PM

Quote from: SHUNNED on February 18, 2013, 06:59:51 AM

i found a very old but very crisp pound note stuffed in an old poetry book.

There, you see, literacy is worth it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 19, 2013, 12:29:42 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 18, 2013, 07:23:59 PM

Quote from: SHUNNED on February 18, 2013, 06:59:51 AM

i found a very old but very crisp pound note stuffed in an old poetry book.

There, you see, literacy is worth it.

Never happens to me. I need to read classier books.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: PuppetSockPenguin on February 21, 2013, 08:31:46 AM

I got given the use of an alto saxophone in return for joining the orchestra's jazz ensemble.
I was quite amused by the fact that my brothers didn't bat an eyelid when I explained that they couldn't shut the door yet because I had 3 instruments to bring in, and by my youngest brother's explanation "We'd raise our eyebrows if you said you had 30 instruments."

One of the old clarinettists came to rehearsal to say hi to people too; it was good to see him.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on February 21, 2013, 08:41:39 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 19, 2013, 12:29:42 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 18, 2013, 07:23:59 PM

Quote from: SHUNNED on February 18, 2013, 06:59:51 AM

i found a very old but very crisp pound note stuffed in an old poetry book.

There, you see, literacy is worth it.

Never happens to me. I need to read classier books.

The Private collection?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 21, 2013, 10:16:08 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on February 21, 2013, 08:41:39 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 19, 2013, 12:29:42 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 18, 2013, 07:23:59 PM

Quote from: SHUNNED on February 18, 2013, 06:59:51 AM

i found a very old but very crisp pound note stuffed in an old poetry book.

There, you see, literacy is worth it.

Never happens to me. I need to read classier books.

The Private collection?

True literary masterpieces.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on February 22, 2013, 06:02:26 PM

recieved a refund on part of the amount I paid for car insurance

knew they had charged to much

raising hell works every now and then

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Calavera on February 22, 2013, 06:19:19 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 13, 2013, 12:36:09 AM

Quote from: Mia Wallace on February 12, 2013, 01:09:36 AM

3,000!! :fuckyeahdance:

Well done, you! :2thumbsup:

She registered here before me and I've been long away from this forum since joining for at least two times, and yet I have more posts than Mia. Even though she posts a lot in the forums. I don't get it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on February 22, 2013, 08:14:01 PM

My professor called back in a timely manner.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 23, 2013, 08:12:41 AM

  My upper respiratory congestion seems to be clearing.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 23, 2013, 09:10:12 AM

The cost to replace a wheel bearing in my wife's car came up less than the estimate

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on February 24, 2013, 02:05:47 AM

My first week back to work and I made it ... :headbang2:

Any more would seem like bragging, but ... never mind. I did it!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 24, 2013, 02:46:44 AM

My headache seems to be mostly gone now. The fever isn't, but I can live with that for now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 24, 2013, 07:48:52 AM

  Despite the    :snowing: :snowing: :snowing:   I did not get called in to work today!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on February 24, 2013, 10:16:14 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 24, 2013, 07:48:52 AM

  Despite the    :snowing: :snowing: :snowing:   I did not get called in to work today!

Despite our weather I am going out anyway.  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 24, 2013, 10:18:20 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on February 24, 2013, 10:16:14 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 24, 2013, 07:48:52 AM

  Despite the    :snowing: :snowing: :snowing:   I did not get called in to work today!

Despite our weather I am going out anyway.  :viking:

  Let me guess ... 60 degrees F and sunny, surf's up!  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on February 24, 2013, 10:21:18 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 24, 2013, 10:18:20 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on February 24, 2013, 10:16:14 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 24, 2013, 07:48:52 AM

  Despite the    :snowing: :snowing: :snowing:   I did not get called in to work today!

Despite our weather I am going out anyway.  :viking:

  Let me guess ... 60 degrees F and sunny, surf's up!  :autism:

Wrong! 66F and sunny no wind. And in Esparto I will have to cope wth 67F sunny and no wind.  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 24, 2013, 10:23:01 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on February 24, 2013, 10:21:18 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 24, 2013, 10:18:20 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on February 24, 2013, 10:16:14 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 24, 2013, 07:48:52 AM

  Despite the    :snowing: :snowing: :snowing:   I did not get called in to work today!

Despite our weather I am going out anyway.  :viking:

  Let me guess ... 60 degrees F and sunny, surf's up!  :autism:

Wrong! 66F and sunny no wind. And in Esparto I will have to cope wth 67F sunny and no wind.  :viking:

  High class problems.  :P  I will be lucky if I can get my front door open tomorrow.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: earthboundmisfit on February 24, 2013, 01:27:30 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on February 24, 2013, 10:21:18 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 24, 2013, 10:18:20 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on February 24, 2013, 10:16:14 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 24, 2013, 07:48:52 AM

  Despite the    :snowing: :snowing: :snowing:   I did not get called in to work today!

Despite our weather I am going out anyway.  :viking:

  Let me guess ... 60 degrees F and sunny, surf's up!  :autism:

Wrong! 66F and sunny no wind. And in Esparto I will have to cope wth 67F sunny and no wind.  :viking:

I bet all you West Coasters are wearing winter jackets   :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 24, 2013, 02:26:50 PM

Quote from: earthboundmisfit on February 24, 2013, 01:27:30 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on February 24, 2013, 10:21:18 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 24, 2013, 10:18:20 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on February 24, 2013, 10:16:14 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 24, 2013, 07:48:52 AM

  Despite the    :snowing: :snowing: :snowing:   I did not get called in to work today!

Despite our weather I am going out anyway.  :viking:

  Let me guess ... 60 degrees F and sunny, surf's up!  :autism:

Wrong! 66F and sunny no wind. And in Esparto I will have to cope wth 67F sunny and no wind.  :viking:

I bet all you West Coasters are wearing winter jackets   :hahaha:

  And life preservers in case the surf is a tad too rough.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on February 24, 2013, 03:34:51 PM

Roast chicken dinner at my mums.  yum yum.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 24, 2013, 03:36:08 PM

Quote from: SHUNNED on February 24, 2013, 03:34:51 PM

Roast chicken dinner at my mums.  yum yum.

  Please describe the menu in detail.  :puppy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on February 24, 2013, 03:40:00 PM

Roast chicken
stuffing
roast potatoes
roast sweet potatoes
roast parsnips
spinach
thick, thick gravy

and toffee pavlova

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 24, 2013, 03:41:46 PM

Quote from: SHUNNED on February 24, 2013, 03:40:00 PM

Roast chicken
stuffing
roast potatoes
roast sweet potatoes
roast parsnips
spinach
thick, thick gravy

and toffee pavlova

  So much roastiness!  All the veg!  Outstanding deliciousness!  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on February 24, 2013, 03:49:36 PM

there was boiled potatoes and green beans too but i don't like them  :nono:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 24, 2013, 03:58:47 PM

Quote from: SHUNNED on February 24, 2013, 03:49:36 PM

there was boiled potatoes and green beans too but i don't like them  :nono:

  *grabs the leftovers and eats them, well buttered*  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on February 24, 2013, 04:11:11 PM

I lost weight. I don't know how much I weigh because our old scale stopped working. My dad is fixing it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on February 24, 2013, 04:15:45 PM

Quote from: SHUNNED on February 24, 2013, 03:40:00 PM

Roast chicken
stuffing
roast potatoes
roast sweet potatoes
roast parsnips
spinach
thick, thick gravy

and toffee pavlova

I had a ham and egg burrito with tomatoes, bell peppers and melted cheese. mmmmmm

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on February 24, 2013, 05:15:21 PM

Quote from: earthboundmisfit on February 24, 2013, 01:27:30 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on February 24, 2013, 10:21:18 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 24, 2013, 10:18:20 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on February 24, 2013, 10:16:14 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 24, 2013, 07:48:52 AM

  Despite the    :snowing: :snowing: :snowing:   I did not get called in to work today!

Despite our weather I am going out anyway.  :viking:

  Let me guess ... 60 degrees F and sunny, surf's up!  :autism:

Wrong! 66F and sunny no wind. And in Esparto I will have to cope wth 67F sunny and no wind.  :viking:

I bet all you West Coasters are wearing winter jackets   :hahaha:

Are not  :-[ :'(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 24, 2013, 05:16:20 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on February 24, 2013, 05:15:21 PM

Quote from: earthboundmisfit on February 24, 2013, 01:27:30 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on February 24, 2013, 10:21:18 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 24, 2013, 10:18:20 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on February 24, 2013, 10:16:14 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 24, 2013, 07:48:52 AM

  Despite the    :snowing: :snowing: :snowing:   I did not get called in to work today!

Despite our weather I am going out anyway.  :viking:

  Let me guess ... 60 degrees F and sunny, surf's up!  :autism:

Wrong! 66F and sunny no wind. And in Esparto I will have to cope wth 67F sunny and no wind.  :viking:

I bet all you West Coasters are wearing winter jackets   :hahaha:

Are not  :-[ :'(

  Harden the fuck up!  :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 25, 2013, 08:21:29 AM

Just got confirmation on three projects I bid on and was asked to look at some more

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 25, 2013, 11:12:07 AM

Fixed a stylesheet bug. I'm sick and at home but I got restless.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 04, 2013, 10:28:54 PM

I managed to find the Munich DVD at the thrift store (Daniel Craig has the best walking away ass in it) and a blue jean purse for the summer, a small purse to hold the grocery money and receipts.

Dumpster diving yielded a passenger seat full of clothes and a child's skateboard, which will come in handy so I will not have to lift as many things to carry them.

Basil pesto on french bread.  I'm hoping to put some on my eggs tomorrow. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 05, 2013, 12:09:52 AM

Munich is a good film.

This was yesterday but I finally managed to solve a little coding problem that has been bugging me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 05, 2013, 03:10:46 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on March 04, 2013, 10:28:54 PM

I managed to find the Munich DVD at the thrift store (Daniel Craig has the best walking away ass in it) and a blue jean purse for the summer, a small purse to hold the grocery money and receipts.

Dumpster diving yielded a passenger seat full of clothes and a child's skateboard, which will come in handy so I will not have to lift as many things to carry them.

Basil pesto on french bread.  I'm hoping to put some on my eggs tomorrow.

  Too cute.  :hug:  Now I am picturing you, blue jean purse primly over your arm, skateboarding
   down a sidewalk behind Daniel Craig, watching his ass as he walks down the street.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on March 05, 2013, 09:48:19 AM

The new motherboard my old man had to get me  arrived.

His old computer died on him, so he had to replace it. That and a second new MOBO got wiped out by unknown causes, only stopping that by chance IMO, the NEXT new one he got couldn't take one thing he never suspected, the RAM he was using-which he gave me as I could use it.

And that promptly went and murdered my board.
So  he ordered me a new one, and a much better one than I had at that, being a few years old now.

Specs-
ASrock N68C-GS-FX
8 core CPU, not sure the model yet
RAM-4 Ghz,
On-board graphics-Nvidia GeForce 7025
Onboard sound



That and I got paid. I've seen a laptop for sale in the local paper, going for £50. I'm going to get that assuming its not been sold,  I've been wanting a laptop for a while now, so I have something to keep my lab notes on, and use as a dedicated lab workstation.

Trying out a new synthetic cannabinoid. Those govt pricks banned 1-(5-fluoropentyl)-3-napthoyl-1H-indole, and a methylated analog of it just within days, which is a bastard. Within days though the headshop have brought out another, quinolin-8-yl-1-(5-fluoropentyl)-1H-indole-3-carboxylate.

It is pretty fucking strong, but too short acting. Tailing off at T+:50 minutes after the last bong i had. :P time for another methinks, and a nice cold glass of cherry vodka :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on March 05, 2013, 06:12:08 PM

She's here.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 05, 2013, 06:14:09 PM

Quote from: Jack on March 05, 2013, 06:12:08 PM

She's here.

  Who's here?  Can we see her?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 05, 2013, 06:15:26 PM

The PR bought me some M&M Peanut candies at the bowling alley.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: earthboundmisfit on March 13, 2013, 07:34:45 PM

I think I got eyefucked today by a hot girl. Either that or it was the stinkeye.   :dunno:  Fuck if I know.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on March 13, 2013, 09:43:42 PM

typo-'8 core' should read '4 core'

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 13, 2013, 10:19:02 PM

That marx vs SteveAdmin callout.  :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

Oh, and SimCity.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on March 13, 2013, 10:32:59 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on March 05, 2013, 06:15:26 PM

The PR bought me some M&M Peanut candies at the bowling alley.

I only eat the peanut M&Ms and not real often.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on March 13, 2013, 10:42:09 PM

Hooked on fast break candy bars, frozen. They're the devil.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 14, 2013, 03:17:58 PM

Quote from: earthboundmisfit on March 13, 2013, 07:34:45 PM

I think I got eyefucked today by a hot girl. Either that or it was the stinkeye.   :dunno:  Fuck if I know.

  My life is much less confusing, as I get neither.   :ninja:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on March 15, 2013, 03:05:08 PM

Mmmm....the lucky bugger.

We can't buy peanut butter M&Ms over here in the UK, here its peanut, regular, or nothing.

TheBitch (my former housemate/parasite god squirrel had some sent over from her mom and gave me some....damn...I could easily see myself holding up supermarkets at the end of a sawn-off 10-gauge just for those peanut butter candies)

What good happened today?

Finally got referred ASAP to a neurologist, for my seizures, and  got given a tenner for absolutely no reason whatsoever by my old man, so I could go eat.

Went out and got a liter of schnapps, some cookies and a flapjack with that :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 15, 2013, 05:55:45 PM

Had a nice talk with my g'friend.  Hung the towels on the line to dry since it's practically a desert right now, 28% humidity.  They should dry in about an hour.

I don't like peanut butter candies.  They have a grainy quality to them.  Much prefer the regular peanut or almond type candy.  So Lestat, if I get and peanut butter M&Ms I'll toss them your way.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 15, 2013, 08:18:10 PM

I bid work on a restaurant the lesser of the two options was just under $20,000. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on March 16, 2013, 12:39:05 AM

Gahh...you US people are lucky buggers, at least with regards to foods available.

Can't get koolaid here either which is a right fucker. Lol, I stole the lot from my former housemate just after I kicked her arse to the curb.

(before anyone gives me hell for that.....yes, she deserved it. Bitch by the name of
squirrel/fire. Compulsive liar, kitten-kidnapping, thieving, attentionwhore, fat slapper that went to the pigs to make a rape claim against a guy (albeit a bit of a dick...he couldn't rape his way out of a paper bag with a load of willy peter and a block of C4)....then went back for more...from the same guy.)

In other words...a parasitic serpent that deserved her property rinsing after she got her arse kicked out :P

(I only wish I hadn't swiped her trenchcoat and laptops as well as the meds, kool-aid and other sugar-based foreign goods)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 17, 2013, 10:02:59 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on March 13, 2013, 10:32:59 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on March 05, 2013, 06:15:26 PM

The PR bought me some M&M Peanut candies at the bowling alley.

I only eat the peanut M&Ms and not real often.

Do you place them on alphabetical order, before you eat them?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: earthboundmisfit on March 17, 2013, 10:18:37 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 17, 2013, 10:02:59 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on March 13, 2013, 10:32:59 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on March 05, 2013, 06:15:26 PM

The PR bought me some M&M Peanut candies at the bowling alley.

I only eat the peanut M&Ms and not real often.

Do you place them on alphabetical order, before you eat them?

M before W

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 17, 2013, 10:27:16 AM

Quote from: earthboundmisfit on March 17, 2013, 10:18:37 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 17, 2013, 10:02:59 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on March 13, 2013, 10:32:59 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on March 05, 2013, 06:15:26 PM

The PR bought me some M&M Peanut candies at the bowling alley.

I only eat the peanut M&Ms and not real often.

Do you place them on alphabetical order, before you eat them?

M before W

:indeed:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on March 17, 2013, 12:21:08 PM

Now I will just avoid eating them to not have to think about that.  :hahaha:

I could live the rest of my life without M&Ms or twinkies.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on March 17, 2013, 12:43:21 PM

Got lent a fiver so I could buy some codeine syrup today.

Was in withdrawal as I have no oxy until tomorrow, that helped a ton.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 17, 2013, 12:58:44 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on March 17, 2013, 12:21:08 PM

Now I will just avoid eating them to not have to think about that.  :hahaha:

I could live the rest of my life without M&Ms or twinkies.

That's just crazy talk :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 17, 2013, 01:41:42 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on March 17, 2013, 12:21:08 PM

Now I will just avoid eating them to not have to think about that.  :hahaha:

I could live the rest of my life without M&Ms or twinkies.

:indeed:

they are all wannabee :chocolate:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on March 17, 2013, 01:51:55 PM

 :agreed: You Dutchies and your Belgique neighbors are famous for that.  :2thumbsup:

We have See's over here. They are the best mass produced American candy IMO.  :hyke:

(http://i47.tinypic.com/25rcc3c.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 17, 2013, 01:58:21 PM

Mmmmmmm, those look scrumptious.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 18, 2013, 11:35:58 AM

I wants chocolate now. :(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 18, 2013, 07:01:33 PM

Quote from: Lestat on March 17, 2013, 12:43:21 PM

Got lent a fiver so I could buy some codeine syrup today.

Was in withdrawal as I have no oxy until tomorrow, that helped a ton.

  I bought codeine *cough* syrup today, prescribed for me of course.  :angel:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: earthboundmisfit on March 18, 2013, 07:08:20 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 18, 2013, 07:01:33 PM

Quote from: Lestat on March 17, 2013, 12:43:21 PM

Got lent a fiver so I could buy some codeine syrup today.

Was in withdrawal as I have no oxy until tomorrow, that helped a ton.

  I bought codeine *cough* sizzurp today, prescribed for me of course.  :angel:

fixed   :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 18, 2013, 07:28:21 PM

A new belt.....

Along with a stash of DVDs to watch when I get bored from the library.

oh and a Whatsyoumacallit Chocolate bar from Wal-mart.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Zippo on March 19, 2013, 04:45:24 AM

played dnd with some randoms today

wound up being the ONLY guy to kill people. happened to be playing a vampire and killed them with grapple + catching on fire due to sunrise... also decapitation by metal chain with blades attached... was rather awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on March 19, 2013, 04:05:29 PM

OTC here.

Cooking up a spicy steak and wild mushroom feast fit for an emperor :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 20, 2013, 06:07:58 PM

PA had his cast taken off today.  He can wear the elastic stocking and the walking boot, but can't put any weight on the ankle.  At least he can take a full-body bath and sleep a little easier now.  Follow-up on 10 April.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 21, 2013, 10:29:23 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on March 20, 2013, 06:07:58 PM

PA had his cast taken off today.  He can wear the elastic stocking and the walking boot, but can't put any weight on the ankle.  At least he can take a full-body bath and sleep a little easier now.  Follow-up on 10 April.

Happy celebration of your 28th anniversary.   :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 08, 2013, 01:48:46 PM

News from the Ortho doc.

PA's ankle is almost totally healed.  One more visit and he'll be officially discharged.  Only took 16 months and 2 surgeries.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 08, 2013, 04:55:45 PM

 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on May 11, 2013, 11:54:31 AM

I took oxycodone, just 5mg but better than nothing  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on May 11, 2013, 07:51:00 PM

The last few months have been a rough time but I just don't give a fuck now about trying to conform who I am to meet someone elses needs. If you don't like the person you meet then I am so sorry but get the fuck out of my life. because I like living it,  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 12, 2013, 02:30:03 AM

Welcome back, Richard. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 12, 2013, 01:34:33 PM

A Thai massage with happy ending.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 12, 2013, 02:37:15 PM

Had fun teaching my daughter how to drive. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on May 12, 2013, 02:43:00 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 12, 2013, 02:37:15 PM

Had fun teaching my daughter how to drive. :)

Can you help CBC with her driving skills, too?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 12, 2013, 02:59:04 PM

Quote from: skyblue1 on May 12, 2013, 02:43:00 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 12, 2013, 02:37:15 PM

Had fun teaching my daughter how to drive. :)

Can you help CBC with her driving skills, too?

There might be some practical problems, but sure. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 12, 2013, 04:12:16 PM

Quote from: richard on May 11, 2013, 07:51:00 PM

The last few months have been a rough time but I just don't give a fuck now about trying to conform who I am to meet someone elses needs. If you don't like the person you meet then I am so sorry but get the fuck out of my life. because I like living it,  :laugh:

Hi Richard.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 12, 2013, 04:38:17 PM

Quote from: skyblue1 on May 12, 2013, 02:43:00 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 12, 2013, 02:37:15 PM

Had fun teaching my daughter how to drive. :)

Can you help CBC with her driving skills, too?

  Yes, fly over here and teach me to drive!   :puppy:   It'll be ever so much fun!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 12, 2013, 04:40:26 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 12, 2013, 04:38:17 PM

Quote from: skyblue1 on May 12, 2013, 02:43:00 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 12, 2013, 02:37:15 PM

Had fun teaching my daughter how to drive. :)

Can you help CBC with her driving skills, too?

  Yes, fly over here and teach me to drive!   :puppy:   It'll be ever so much fun!

Why don't you fly over to Europe?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 12, 2013, 04:50:38 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 12, 2013, 04:40:26 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 12, 2013, 04:38:17 PM

Quote from: skyblue1 on May 12, 2013, 02:43:00 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 12, 2013, 02:37:15 PM

Had fun teaching my daughter how to drive. :)

Can you help CBC with her driving skills, too?

  Yes, fly over here and teach me to drive!   :puppy:   It'll be ever so much fun!

Why don't you fly over to Europe?

  That would be great! :cbc: I could learn to drive on the Autobahn!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 12, 2013, 04:53:29 PM

In my case, NOTHING, is good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 12, 2013, 10:52:09 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 12, 2013, 04:50:38 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 12, 2013, 04:40:26 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 12, 2013, 04:38:17 PM

Quote from: skyblue1 on May 12, 2013, 02:43:00 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 12, 2013, 02:37:15 PM

Had fun teaching my daughter how to drive. :)

Can you help CBC with her driving skills, too?

  Yes, fly over here and teach me to drive!   :puppy:   It'll be ever so much fun!

Why don't you fly over to Europe?

  That would be great! :cbc: I could learn to drive on the Autobahn!

Because that's the obvious place to start! :snowman:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 12, 2013, 10:52:49 PM

And the good thing that happened today, so far, is that I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 12, 2013, 11:16:06 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 12, 2013, 10:52:09 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 12, 2013, 04:50:38 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 12, 2013, 04:40:26 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 12, 2013, 04:38:17 PM

Quote from: skyblue1 on May 12, 2013, 02:43:00 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 12, 2013, 02:37:15 PM

Had fun teaching my daughter how to drive. :)

Can you help CBC with her driving skills, too?

  Yes, fly over here and teach me to drive!   :puppy:   It'll be ever so much fun!

Why don't you fly over to Europe?

  That would be great! :cbc: I could learn to drive on the Autobahn!

Because that's the obvious place to start! :snowman:

Well, cross-roads and country roads with cyclist and pedestrians on it can be a lot harder.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 13, 2013, 12:56:56 AM

There's a nice drizzle outside, and I cleared the front garden of weeds yesterday.
Time for the good plants to grow a lot.


It was really time for rain. Only 22 mm in April, and so far only 10 mm in May. May is supposed to be one of the two wettest months in the year. It is supposed to rain all week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 13, 2013, 01:46:07 AM

School started. After two weeks of holidays, that is a real treat.


 :hyke: :hyke: :hyke: :hyke: :hyke: :hyke: :hyke: :hyke: :hyke: :hyke:

The bovine is in a house cleaning spree mode.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 13, 2013, 09:19:34 AM

I think my allergies may be pretty much over for this spring.   :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 13, 2013, 03:02:02 PM

I finished the house I have been working for the last week and a half

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 13, 2013, 03:03:23 PM

Quote from: Parts on May 13, 2013, 03:02:02 PM

I finished the house I have been working for the last week and a half

And the dickhead didn't have the check for you.  What a putz!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 13, 2013, 11:09:15 PM

Nothing good happened. :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 13, 2013, 11:22:03 PM

Is that why you had two cups of coffee before 7 am already?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 14, 2013, 01:47:14 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 13, 2013, 11:22:03 PM

Is that why you had two cups of coffee before 7 am already?

Yes. I wanted to get a head start.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on May 14, 2013, 02:21:30 PM

I always drink at least two cups  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 14, 2013, 03:00:20 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 12, 2013, 10:52:09 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 12, 2013, 04:50:38 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 12, 2013, 04:40:26 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 12, 2013, 04:38:17 PM

Quote from: skyblue1 on May 12, 2013, 02:43:00 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 12, 2013, 02:37:15 PM

Had fun teaching my daughter how to drive. :)

Can you help CBC with her driving skills, too?

  Yes, fly over here and teach me to drive!   :puppy:   It'll be ever so much fun!

Why don't you fly over to Europe?

  That would be great! :cbc: I could learn to drive on the Autobahn!

Because that's the obvious place to start! :snowman:

  That's right!  I can go as fast as I want!   :snowman:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 14, 2013, 03:04:28 PM

  I got to and from my doctor's appointment ( out of town! ) completely by bus, and it only cost me $3.50
   for the whole round trip, as compared to the $40.00 it would have cost me to take cabs, ka-ching!    :oranna:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 14, 2013, 03:05:29 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2013, 03:04:28 PM

  I got to and from my doctor's appointment ( out of town! ) completely by bus, and it only cost me $3.50
   for the whole round trip, as compared to the $40.00 it would have cost me to take cabs, ka-ching!    :oranna:

  I almost missed the first bus in the trip, but I ran as fast as I could, and the driver kindly waited for me.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 14, 2013, 11:35:38 PM

I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 15, 2013, 09:55:12 AM

Oatmeal with blueberries

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on May 20, 2013, 01:29:20 PM

I was at McDonalds and they gave me a 40cl Coke by mistake  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: lutra on May 20, 2013, 01:55:57 PM

Yay, this is the 4000th post of mine on I². Yay also.. because 4 is a number I like way better then 3. (Um, 3 is the number of illogicality, in my opinion.. 4 however.. )

(no biggie though)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on May 20, 2013, 03:16:49 PM

The more things change, the more they stay the same I guess.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 20, 2013, 04:05:51 PM

My paper was accepted at a conference! :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 20, 2013, 04:08:37 PM

Yay for you. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 20, 2013, 04:33:08 PM

I thought I wouldn't hear from them until tomorrow so this was a nice surprise. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 20, 2013, 04:42:07 PM

Nice, indeed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 20, 2013, 05:13:42 PM

Quote from: Lit on May 20, 2013, 01:29:20 PM

I was at McDonalds and they gave me a 40cl Coke by mistake  :thumbup:

  I'm sure you immediately returned it, or paid the difference!  :police:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on May 20, 2013, 05:15:25 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 20, 2013, 04:05:51 PM

My paper was accepted at a conference! :woohoo:

if they required payment it's a scam.  :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 20, 2013, 05:17:06 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 20, 2013, 04:05:51 PM

My paper was accepted at a conference! :woohoo:

  That's excellent!  Will you attend and present it yourself?  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on May 20, 2013, 05:50:37 PM

well. I just fucked some FAT pussy in my mind a moment ago, so that was pretty cool.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 20, 2013, 05:55:35 PM

PA got up and down the ladder several times without damaging anything.  He's working on the trim at the roof line.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 20, 2013, 09:56:04 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2013, 05:17:06 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 20, 2013, 04:05:51 PM

My paper was accepted at a conference! :woohoo:

  That's excellent!  Will you attend and present it yourself?  :green:

Yes, I will. ;D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 20, 2013, 09:57:49 PM

Quote from: McJaguar on May 20, 2013, 05:15:25 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 20, 2013, 04:05:51 PM

My paper was accepted at a conference! :woohoo:

if they required payment it's a scam.  :LOL:

I sometimes do get offers to publish my presented papers from less than serious individuals. They harvest conference sites, I believe.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 20, 2013, 10:13:17 PM

I got confirmation emails on two houses I bid work on.  One will be ready in two weeks the other in one month

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 20, 2013, 10:31:53 PM

I'd hire you if I could.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 20, 2013, 10:43:08 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 20, 2013, 10:31:53 PM

I'd hire you if I could.

  I would too, but I don't own a house.  :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2013, 09:37:30 AM

The 12-yo has resigned! In less than a month, he is history! :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on May 22, 2013, 09:40:34 AM

He obviously wasn't  :viking: enough!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on May 22, 2013, 10:04:35 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 22, 2013, 09:37:30 AM

The 12-yo has resigned! In less than a month, he is history! :woohoo:

I hope you have a proper send-off planned for him.  >:D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on May 22, 2013, 10:12:46 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on May 22, 2013, 10:04:35 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 22, 2013, 09:37:30 AM

The 12-yo has resigned! In less than a month, he is history! :woohoo:

I hope you have a proper send-off planned for him.  >:D

whiskey, cocaine and strippers.
:brave:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2013, 10:56:38 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on May 22, 2013, 10:04:35 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 22, 2013, 09:37:30 AM

The 12-yo has resigned! In less than a month, he is history! :woohoo:

I hope you have a proper send-off planned for him.  >:D

I wouldn't do such a thing. :angel:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 22, 2013, 12:22:47 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 22, 2013, 09:37:30 AM

The 12-yo has resigned! In less than a month, he is history! :woohoo:

Any chance of you getting/wanting his position?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 22, 2013, 12:38:47 PM

My butler managed to procure a magnum of 1945 Lafite. Superb.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 22, 2013, 01:05:43 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 22, 2013, 12:22:47 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 22, 2013, 09:37:30 AM

The 12-yo has resigned! In less than a month, he is history! :woohoo:

Any chance of you getting/wanting his position?

Or any danger of the 11 yo applying for the position?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2013, 03:41:34 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 22, 2013, 12:22:47 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 22, 2013, 09:37:30 AM

The 12-yo has resigned! In less than a month, he is history! :woohoo:

Any chance of you getting/wanting his position?

No way in hell.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2013, 03:41:57 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 22, 2013, 01:05:43 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 22, 2013, 12:22:47 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 22, 2013, 09:37:30 AM

The 12-yo has resigned! In less than a month, he is history! :woohoo:

Any chance of you getting/wanting his position?

Or any danger of the 11 yo applying for the position?

No way in hell squared.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on May 22, 2013, 03:43:11 PM

Vischium emebam  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 22, 2013, 04:18:04 PM

Lit, dear boy, are you aware of the fact that Winston Churchill never learned Latin in school?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on May 22, 2013, 04:37:41 PM

I slept til noon

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on May 22, 2013, 09:28:45 PM

I have half my money saved. next month the other half,  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2013, 11:00:10 PM

Quote from: The Right Honourable Lord Cuntington on May 22, 2013, 04:18:04 PM

Lit, dear boy, are you aware of the fact that Winston Churchill never learned Latin in school?

Was he unusually stupid?  :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on May 23, 2013, 03:37:12 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 22, 2013, 11:00:10 PM

Quote from: The Right Honourable Lord Cuntington on May 22, 2013, 04:18:04 PM

Lit, dear boy, are you aware of the fact that Winston Churchill never learned Latin in school?

Was he unusually stupid?  :tard:

He claimed that his teacher was a very bad pedagouge, though it's hard to say if that's the truth or if Winnie just made an excuse for being dumb.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on May 23, 2013, 03:47:18 AM

Quote from: Lit on May 23, 2013, 03:37:12 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 22, 2013, 11:00:10 PM

Quote from: The Right Honourable Lord Cuntington on May 22, 2013, 04:18:04 PM

Lit, dear boy, are you aware of the fact that Winston Churchill never learned Latin in school?

Was he unusually stupid?  :tard:

He claimed that his teacher was a very bad pedagouge, though it's hard to say if that's the truth or if Winnie just made an excuse for being dumb.

Too bad he was not as brilliant as you are. He might have been able to accomplish something noteworthy if he had been that smart.  :evillaugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 23, 2013, 04:39:31 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 22, 2013, 09:37:30 AM

The 12-yo has resigned! In less than a month, he is history! :woohoo:

  Wow, congratulations to you and condolences to his next workplace!   :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 23, 2013, 09:25:30 AM

Quote from: McJaguar on May 22, 2013, 10:12:46 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on May 22, 2013, 10:04:35 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 22, 2013, 09:37:30 AM

The 12-yo has resigned! In less than a month, he is history! :woohoo:

I hope you have a proper send-off planned for him.  >:D

whiskey, cocaine and strippers.
:brave:

  And remember, what happens at the going-away party ... stays at the going-away party!   :flash:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 23, 2013, 02:56:26 PM

Only 8 more hours to the day.  Looking forward to bed.

Got the tie rod replaced on the car and the brake fluid flushed.  That should be the extent of necessary repairs until after hurricane season.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 24, 2013, 01:28:27 AM

Pure guesswork, but I made the legs of pants of the costume for my youngest exactly the right length.  That suit was a great find of a colleague of mine.

She's going to make a fine president of the USA in the school musical.  :asthing:

Now she only needs a jacket and a shirt to complete her outfit.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: PuppetSockPenguin on May 24, 2013, 04:27:45 AM

Attempted Bearnaise sauce. Succeeded.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 27, 2013, 11:18:24 PM

Quote from: PuppetSockPenguin on May 24, 2013, 04:27:45 AM

Attempted Bearnaise sauce. Succeeded.

  That's excellent!   :fatchef:   I have never made a sauce myself, not even a simple one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 27, 2013, 11:19:50 PM

  I dropped my phone, but my Otterbox case kept it intact!   :2thumbsup:


 
      This actually happened a few days ago, but a post is a post.  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 27, 2013, 11:22:19 PM

I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 28, 2013, 12:06:42 AM

  I had dinner at a restaurant ( a few days ago, big deal  :P ) and the meal included tiny peas that were delicious!
   Ordinarily I hate peas.  These must have been baby or  "petite"  peas, now I want to buy some to eat at home.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 28, 2013, 01:12:21 AM

My phone has been found.

Could not find it last night, I use it as an alarm. Called myself, no answer. That's when I realised it probably was left in the supermarket.
Called this morning. Indeed, someone at the supermarket answered. Will pick my phone up very soon.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on May 28, 2013, 01:44:32 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 28, 2013, 01:12:21 AM

My phone has been found.

Could not find it last night, I use it as an alarm. Called myself, no answer. That's when I realised it probably was left in the supermarket.
Called this morning. Indeed, someone at the supermarket answered. Will pick my phone up very soon.

Did they call a bunch of the 1-800-HOT-SLUT numbers? :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 28, 2013, 01:46:06 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on May 28, 2013, 01:44:32 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 28, 2013, 01:12:21 AM

My phone has been found.

Could not find it last night, I use it as an alarm. Called myself, no answer. That's when I realised it probably was left in the supermarket.
Called this morning. Indeed, someone at the supermarket answered. Will pick my phone up very soon.

Did they call a bunch of the 1-800-HOT-SLUT numbers? :zoinks:

Not sure yet.

But, it's a prepaid thing, and there wasn't much on it, so, if they did, they did not come very far or often.  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 28, 2013, 05:03:03 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on May 28, 2013, 01:44:32 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 28, 2013, 01:12:21 AM

My phone has been found.

Could not find it last night, I use it as an alarm. Called myself, no answer. That's when I realised it probably was left in the supermarket.
Called this morning. Indeed, someone at the supermarket answered. Will pick my phone up very soon.

Did they call a bunch of the 1-800-HOT-SLUT numbers? :zoinks:

    You know you did.  Get to confession!   :pope:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on May 28, 2013, 06:22:41 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 28, 2013, 05:03:03 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on May 28, 2013, 01:44:32 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 28, 2013, 01:12:21 AM

My phone has been found.

Could not find it last night, I use it as an alarm. Called myself, no answer. That's when I realised it probably was left in the supermarket.
Called this morning. Indeed, someone at the supermarket answered. Will pick my phone up very soon.

Did they call a bunch of the 1-800-HOT-SLUT numbers? :zoinks:

    You know you did.  Get to confession!   :pope:

:dunno: I did not even know Hyke's phone was missing until I read her post. You live about 3000 miles closer to Hyke than I do.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 28, 2013, 07:03:38 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on May 28, 2013, 06:22:41 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 28, 2013, 05:03:03 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on May 28, 2013, 01:44:32 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 28, 2013, 01:12:21 AM

My phone has been found.

Could not find it last night, I use it as an alarm. Called myself, no answer. That's when I realised it probably was left in the supermarket.
Called this morning. Indeed, someone at the supermarket answered. Will pick my phone up very soon.

Did they call a bunch of the 1-800-HOT-SLUT numbers? :zoinks:

    You know you did.  Get to confession!   :pope:

:dunno: I did not even know Hyke's phone was missing until I read her post. You live about 3000 miles closer to Hyke than I do.

  Just remember, God knows what you did and God is not mocked.  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on May 28, 2013, 07:30:49 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 27, 2013, 11:18:24 PM

Quote from: PuppetSockPenguin on May 24, 2013, 04:27:45 AM

Attempted Bearnaise sauce. Succeeded.

  That's excellent!   :fatchef:   I have never made a sauce myself, not even a simple one.

apple sauce is easy.
1. Peel and smash
2. Add sugar and/or cinnimon.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 28, 2013, 08:29:29 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 28, 2013, 05:03:03 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on May 28, 2013, 01:44:32 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 28, 2013, 01:12:21 AM

My phone has been found.

Could not find it last night, I use it as an alarm. Called myself, no answer. That's when I realised it probably was left in the supermarket.
Called this morning. Indeed, someone at the supermarket answered. Will pick my phone up very soon.

Did they call a bunch of the 1-800-HOT-SLUT numbers? :zoinks:

    You know you did.  Get to confession!   :pope:

I declare that PPK is not guilty. He did not use my phone for calls, not to his relatives, nor to costly phone-numbers. You may need to apologise to him, for your hasty conclusions CBC.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: lutra on May 28, 2013, 09:24:11 AM

Dear diary,
Today, May 28th, the first iris went into bloom. Must be the latest date (end of May) I have ever seen for an iris to open up. April and May, here/'13, were like the coldest in years and years. (thus.. )

(http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Foto-GIH4MWQY.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 28, 2013, 10:18:58 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 28, 2013, 08:29:29 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 28, 2013, 05:03:03 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on May 28, 2013, 01:44:32 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 28, 2013, 01:12:21 AM

My phone has been found.

Could not find it last night, I use it as an alarm. Called myself, no answer. That's when I realised it probably was left in the supermarket.
Called this morning. Indeed, someone at the supermarket answered. Will pick my phone up very soon.

Did they call a bunch of the 1-800-HOT-SLUT numbers? :zoinks:

    You know you did.  Get to confession!   :pope:

I declare that PPK is not guilty. He did not use my phone for calls, not to his relatives, nor to costly phone-numbers. You may need to apologise to him, for your hasty conclusions CBC.

  He needs to search his soul and apologize to God for any past use of porn.  :M :angel:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 28, 2013, 10:22:16 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 28, 2013, 10:18:58 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 28, 2013, 08:29:29 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 28, 2013, 05:03:03 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on May 28, 2013, 01:44:32 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 28, 2013, 01:12:21 AM

My phone has been found.

Could not find it last night, I use it as an alarm. Called myself, no answer. That's when I realised it probably was left in the supermarket.
Called this morning. Indeed, someone at the supermarket answered. Will pick my phone up very soon.

Did they call a bunch of the 1-800-HOT-SLUT numbers? :zoinks:

    You know you did.  Get to confession!   :pope:

I declare that PPK is not guilty. He did not use my phone for calls, not to his relatives, nor to costly phone-numbers. You may need to apologise to him, for your hasty conclusions CBC.

  He needs to search his soul and apologize to God for any past use of porn.  :M :angel:

  I tried to type that PPK needs to apologize to the  A l m i g h t y  for using porn, and only a blank space appeared
   where that word was meant to be.  Evidently this is a heathen site with a wicked, wicked word filter!  :zombiefuck:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 28, 2013, 03:37:10 PM

Quote from: lutra on May 28, 2013, 09:24:11 AM

Dear diary,
Today, May 28th, the first iris went into bloom. Must be the latest date (end of May) I have ever seen for an iris to open up. April and May, here/'13, were like the coldest in years and years. (thus.. )

(http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Foto-GIH4MWQY.jpg)

I'm having the Iris Germanica blooming for a bit more than a week now. And that when living north of you. Only one patch is blooming yet though, the patch growing at the south wall of my house. The others are barely showing that they will bloom soon.

My peonies have been blooming first week of may for all the years I had them, but, not this year. Tomorrow, or the day after, the first bloom will show her colours.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on May 28, 2013, 03:41:57 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 28, 2013, 03:37:10 PM

My peonies have been blooming

penis flowers, awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on May 28, 2013, 07:01:44 PM

eris made some amusing posts.  :2thumbsup: So much for the site being dead.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on May 28, 2013, 07:03:17 PM

It was nice to have an excuse to post

More than one word at a time

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 28, 2013, 07:18:28 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on May 28, 2013, 07:01:44 PM

eris made some amusing posts.  :2thumbsup: So much for the site being dead.

It's such an eclectic group here; seemingly impossible to either love or hate everyone. Not even sure why she left; really only talked about herself, so not much confrontation. She should come back.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on May 28, 2013, 07:21:18 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 28, 2013, 07:18:28 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on May 28, 2013, 07:01:44 PM

eris made some amusing posts.  :2thumbsup: So much for the site being dead.

It's such an eclectic group here; seemingly impossible to either love or hate everyone. Not even sure why she left; really only talked about herself, so not much confrontation. She should come back.

In the end, she just, set up her excuse for leaving.

That was all.

Her usual exit

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on May 28, 2013, 07:26:25 PM

Yes she has a pattern.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 28, 2013, 07:28:20 PM

Then she will be back. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on May 28, 2013, 07:34:47 PM

I like Eris, and even Buttcoffee but I dunno If I will ever be friends with people like them in real life.
People like that for the most part are Toxic. the constant drama, and passive aggressiveness in a person is really off putting to me

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on May 28, 2013, 07:41:10 PM

Quote from: Nile on May 28, 2013, 07:34:47 PM

I like Eris, and even Buttcoffee but I dunno If I will ever be friends with people like them in real life.
People like that for the most part are Toxic. the constant drama, and passive aggressiveness in a person is really off putting to me

I don't have a strong opinion of them unless they are being asses to me. I dislike lies. I am wary.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 28, 2013, 08:03:52 PM

BadgerTom's response to eris was priceless.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on May 28, 2013, 08:10:53 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 28, 2013, 08:03:52 PM

BadgerTom's response to eris was priceless.

which one. Link please.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 28, 2013, 08:12:06 PM

All of them.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on May 28, 2013, 08:15:06 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 28, 2013, 08:12:06 PM

All of them.

i agree. It was a busy day of posts. I'm too lazy to reasearch.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 29, 2013, 05:23:35 PM

Finished up work on clubhouse/banquet hall and got a check which the builder rounded up the amount $150 so he could enter an even number in his check book

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 29, 2013, 05:25:41 PM

  I found out about my minor heart abnormality, which gives me one more medical oddity to geek out over.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 29, 2013, 05:50:12 PM

abnormality?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 29, 2013, 05:51:56 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 29, 2013, 05:50:12 PM

abnormality?

  I have a harmless electrical quirk known as RV conduction delay.  It is just a cool factoid, no worries.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 29, 2013, 08:39:45 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 29, 2013, 05:51:56 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 29, 2013, 05:50:12 PM

abnormality?

  I have a harmless electrical quirk known as RV conduction delay.  It is just a cool factoid, no worries.  8)

I was told I had mitral valve prolapse and had to take antibiotics before any dental work.  This was done for years.  About 3 years age i had a geriatric workup done, some small concern and to get a baseline for any future tests.  My heart is fine.  Years of silly worrying.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 29, 2013, 09:30:08 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 29, 2013, 08:39:45 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 29, 2013, 05:51:56 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 29, 2013, 05:50:12 PM

abnormality?

  I have a harmless electrical quirk known as RV conduction delay.  It is just a cool factoid, no worries.  8)

I was told I had mitral valve prolapse and had to take antibiotics before any dental work.  This was done for years.  About 3 years age i had a geriatric workup done, some small concern and to get a baseline for any future tests.  My heart is fine.  Years of silly worrying.

  I've heard of that precaution being recommended for MVP.  I'm glad your heart is OK.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on May 30, 2013, 09:35:23 AM

The drumming on this album is basically out of this world. try playing it on your dums, your legs will fall off

Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdE37c2ZNuA#)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 30, 2013, 12:52:40 PM

Quote from: Nile on May 30, 2013, 09:35:23 AM

The drumming on this album is basically out of this world. try playing it on your dums, your legs will fall off

Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdE37c2ZNuA#)

Ladies don't play the drums because we have limbs instead of legs.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on May 30, 2013, 12:55:44 PM

Homo quattuor membra habet - duo bracchia et duo crura  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on May 30, 2013, 05:03:48 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 30, 2013, 12:52:40 PM

Ladies don't play the drums because we have limbs instead of legs.

I didn't know you were a feminist.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 30, 2013, 05:25:45 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 29, 2013, 05:51:56 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 29, 2013, 05:50:12 PM

abnormality?

  I have a harmless electrical quirk known as RV conduction delay.  It is just a cool factoid, no worries.  8)

Good. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 30, 2013, 05:27:22 PM

Quote from: Nile on May 30, 2013, 05:03:48 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 30, 2013, 12:52:40 PM

Ladies don't play the drums because we have limbs instead of legs.

I didn't know you were a feminist.

Nope, just the original Victorian.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 30, 2013, 05:28:36 PM

Quote from: Nile on May 30, 2013, 05:03:48 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 30, 2013, 12:52:40 PM

Ladies don't play the drums because we have limbs instead of legs.

I didn't know you were a feminist.

IRL - I had the original Cosmopolitan magazine with a nude Burt Reynolds on it and used to subscribe to Playgirl. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 30, 2013, 07:28:56 PM

Quote from: Nile on May 30, 2013, 05:03:48 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 30, 2013, 12:52:40 PM

Ladies don't play the drums because we have limbs instead of legs.

I didn't know you were a feminist.

    She's no feminist, she is the Queen! :queenie:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 31, 2013, 06:02:34 AM

  I woke up feeling relatively OK despite having been up postwhoring half the night!  :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on May 31, 2013, 12:30:53 PM

I had lunch at the café and bought a bottle of wine  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 31, 2013, 07:25:28 PM

AwesomePossom registered for a web forum.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on May 31, 2013, 07:27:09 PM

Thank you Jack :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 31, 2013, 07:34:16 PM

:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 01, 2013, 03:57:48 PM

  Ladder Man took the weekend off, so I had peace and privacy all day!  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on June 02, 2013, 01:11:06 AM

I attended a bbq with friends and had lots of delicious food and swam in the pool and spent time in a jacuzzi.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 02, 2013, 04:17:06 PM

Did just above average in sales at the flea market, most other dealers I talked to did very bad one barely getting back the entrance fee

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 02, 2013, 05:10:49 PM

Quote from: Parts on June 02, 2013, 04:17:06 PM

Did just above average in sales at the flea market, most other dealers I talked to did very bad one barely getting back the entrance fee

  Must be your people skills, the shoppers can tell you are a friendly guy!   :chainsaw:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 02, 2013, 05:32:49 PM

The Czech quintuplets are here.  The four boys and a girl and mom are doing fine.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on June 02, 2013, 05:49:44 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 02, 2013, 05:32:49 PM

The Czech quintuplets are here.  The four boys and a girl and mom are doing fine.

Czech mate.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 02, 2013, 06:00:25 PM

Garreth posted today.
Here, at Intensity squared.
Omg. Omg. Omg.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 02, 2013, 08:07:04 PM

made a few spots in my case for my fire agates I should be getting this week

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on June 02, 2013, 10:05:53 PM

Quote from: Nile on June 02, 2013, 08:07:04 PM

made a few spots in my case for my fire agates I should be getting this week

:thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 02, 2013, 11:04:56 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 02, 2013, 06:00:25 PM

Garreth posted today.
Here, at Intensity squared.
Omg. Omg. Omg.

He does that every now and then, you know. He is a member.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 03, 2013, 12:28:42 AM

Oldest back to school.  :thumbup:

My dizziness a lot less. Dared to do "some" gardening yesterday.

Garden looks like a garden now, and not like a field. Did like the field look too though, with all the daisies and buttercups and grass high enough for cats to hide in.

Was in time to cut it without being left with just a brown field of stubbles.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on June 03, 2013, 12:30:18 AM

It hasn't happened yet but:

1. I will have my hair cut.
2. I will probably have lunch at the café.

 :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on June 03, 2013, 12:59:17 AM

Quote from: Lit on June 03, 2013, 12:30:18 AM

It hasn't happened yet but:

1. I will have my hair cut.
2. I will probably have lunch at the café.

 :viking:

A fresh haircut is nice.  :thumbup: What will you eat at the cafe?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on June 03, 2013, 03:02:37 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on June 03, 2013, 12:59:17 AM

Quote from: Lit on June 03, 2013, 12:30:18 AM

It hasn't happened yet but:

1. I will have my hair cut.
2. I will probably have lunch at the café.

 :viking:

A fresh haircut is nice.  :thumbup: What will you eat at the cafe?

Some kassler and broccoli gratin  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on June 03, 2013, 03:33:27 AM

I had to look up what kassler is. It sounds delicious.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on June 03, 2013, 07:22:39 AM

It is  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 03, 2013, 08:01:13 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 02, 2013, 11:04:56 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 02, 2013, 06:00:25 PM

Garreth posted today.
Here, at Intensity squared.
Omg. Omg. Omg.

He does that every now and then, you know. He is a member.

i know.
I was like a school girl who finally got to meet one direction.  He even quoted me. :asthing:
Omg. Omg. Omg.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 03, 2013, 01:09:23 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on June 02, 2013, 10:05:53 PM

Quote from: Nile on June 02, 2013, 08:07:04 PM

made a few spots in my case for my fire agates I should be getting this week

:thumbup:

Thanks, they should arrive today according to the tracking #

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 03, 2013, 03:51:57 PM

I got a call about something I bid but figured I had lost asking about when I can start

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 03, 2013, 08:03:08 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 03, 2013, 08:01:13 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 02, 2013, 11:04:56 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 02, 2013, 06:00:25 PM

Garreth posted today.
Here, at Intensity squared.
Omg. Omg. Omg.

He does that every now and then, you know. He is a member.

i know.
I was like a school girl who finally got to meet one direction.  He even quoted me. :asthing:
Omg. Omg. Omg.

  I guess you won't want to hang around us ordinary I² postwhores anymore.  :emosad:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 03, 2013, 08:15:11 PM

Two more for the collection. it grows,  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on June 03, 2013, 08:20:33 PM

Quote from: Nile on June 03, 2013, 08:15:11 PM

Two more for the collection. it grows,  :laugh:

PICTURES! NOW!   :mischief:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 03, 2013, 08:33:30 PM

ask and ye shall receive!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 03, 2013, 08:44:01 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 03, 2013, 08:03:08 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 03, 2013, 08:01:13 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 02, 2013, 11:04:56 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 02, 2013, 06:00:25 PM

Garreth posted today.
Here, at Intensity squared.
Omg. Omg. Omg.

He does that every now and then, you know. He is a member.

i know.
I was like a school girl who finally got to meet one direction.  He even quoted me. :asthing:
Omg. Omg. Omg.

  I guess you won't want to hang around us ordinary I² postwhores anymore.  :emosad:

i read (what I think was gareths blog in 2005) some thoughts on aspbergers which changed my life.

I love him.
Omg. Omg. Omg!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on June 03, 2013, 08:45:32 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 03, 2013, 08:44:01 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 03, 2013, 08:03:08 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 03, 2013, 08:01:13 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 02, 2013, 11:04:56 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 02, 2013, 06:00:25 PM

Garreth posted today.
Here, at Intensity squared.
Omg. Omg. Omg.

He does that every now and then, you know. He is a member.

i know.
I was like a school girl who finally got to meet one direction.  He even quoted me. :asthing:
Omg. Omg. Omg.

  I guess you won't want to hang around us ordinary I² postwhores anymore.  :emosad:

i read (what I think was gareths blog in 2005) some thoughts on aspbergers which changed my life.

I love him.
Omg. Omg. Omg!

ass kisser

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 03, 2013, 08:50:46 PM

Quote from: skyblue1 on June 03, 2013, 08:45:32 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 03, 2013, 08:44:01 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 03, 2013, 08:03:08 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 03, 2013, 08:01:13 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 02, 2013, 11:04:56 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 02, 2013, 06:00:25 PM

Garreth posted today.
Here, at Intensity squared.
Omg. Omg. Omg.

He does that every now and then, you know. He is a member.

i know.
I was like a school girl who finally got to meet one direction.  He even quoted me. :asthing:
Omg. Omg. Omg.

  I guess you won't want to hang around us ordinary I² postwhores anymore.  :emosad:

i read (what I think was gareths blog in 2005) some thoughts on aspbergers which changed my life.

I love him.
Omg. Omg. Omg!

ass kisser

dont be jealous.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 03, 2013, 10:36:00 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 03, 2013, 08:44:01 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 03, 2013, 08:03:08 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 03, 2013, 08:01:13 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 02, 2013, 11:04:56 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 02, 2013, 06:00:25 PM

Garreth posted today.
Here, at Intensity squared.
Omg. Omg. Omg.

He does that every now and then, you know. He is a member.

i know.
I was like a school girl who finally got to meet one direction.  He even quoted me. :asthing:
Omg. Omg. Omg.

  I guess you won't want to hang around us ordinary I² postwhores anymore.  :emosad:

i read (what I think was gareths blog in 2005) some thoughts on aspbergers which changed my life.

I love him.
Omg. Omg. Omg!

You're a few short steps away from stalking. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on June 03, 2013, 11:07:40 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 03, 2013, 10:36:00 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 03, 2013, 08:44:01 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 03, 2013, 08:03:08 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 03, 2013, 08:01:13 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 02, 2013, 11:04:56 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 02, 2013, 06:00:25 PM

Garreth posted today.
Here, at Intensity squared.
Omg. Omg. Omg.

He does that every now and then, you know. He is a member.

i know.
I was like a school girl who finally got to meet one direction.  He even quoted me. :asthing:
Omg. Omg. Omg.

  I guess you won't want to hang around us ordinary I² postwhores anymore.  :emosad:

i read (what I think was gareths blog in 2005) some thoughts on aspbergers which changed my life.

I love him.
Omg. Omg. Omg!

You're a few short steps away from stalking. :laugh:

:indeed: don't stop now. You are almost there.  :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 03, 2013, 11:39:14 PM

Gareths words gave meaning to my life.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 04, 2013, 01:59:05 PM

ice cold water

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on June 04, 2013, 02:04:20 PM

I have been in touch with my oldest niece who is visiting from N. Carolina with her two little boys. I am meeting her and a few other family for lunch @ 2:00 pm. Her grandma is bring chicken tacos and other Mexican food. I am stopping to get a cheesecake on the way. This will be a fun visit.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: El-Presidente on June 04, 2013, 02:26:48 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 03, 2013, 11:39:14 PM

Gareths words gave meaning to my life.

Its ok buddy. We all feel that way in the presence of the messiah.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 04, 2013, 03:55:07 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 04, 2013, 01:59:05 PM

ice cold water

For McJ, to cool off, straight in his face?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 04, 2013, 07:36:18 PM

I'm becoming more content

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 04, 2013, 07:38:14 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 04, 2013, 03:55:07 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 04, 2013, 01:59:05 PM

ice cold water

For McJ, to cool off, straight in his face?

but. But, gareth!

He quoted me in a post.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on June 04, 2013, 08:13:45 PM

I had a mild breakthrough with schoolwork. I got a mild dose of mania hours ago. It felt nice.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 04, 2013, 10:30:16 PM

I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 05, 2013, 06:30:16 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 04, 2013, 10:30:16 PM

I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2013, 06:38:01 AM

I took a long bicycle ride  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 05, 2013, 07:16:19 AM

Quote from: Lit on June 05, 2013, 06:38:01 AM

I took a long bicycle ride  :orly:

i owe you post.
I haven't forgotten. I've just been busy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 05, 2013, 08:51:30 AM

I found one of my green Tourmalines

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2013, 08:52:55 AM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 05, 2013, 07:16:19 AM

Quote from: Lit on June 05, 2013, 06:38:01 AM

I took a long bicycle ride  :orly:

i owe you post.
I haven't forgotten. I've just been busy.

No worry  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on June 05, 2013, 09:01:13 AM

got off

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2013, 09:01:48 AM

 :o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 05, 2013, 01:12:29 PM

Quote from: AwesomePossum on June 05, 2013, 09:01:13 AM

got off

thinking of me...again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on June 05, 2013, 01:25:30 PM

can't help myself

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: BadgerTom on June 05, 2013, 02:09:31 PM

Here's where i've been for most of the day. Sat underneath a ttee. Spliff in hand. Enjoying the sunshine! It's been Glorious :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on June 05, 2013, 02:13:24 PM

Where is that?  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 05, 2013, 02:59:52 PM

AFTER 18 MONTHS, TWO SURGERIES AND A LOT OF PATIENCE, PA HAS BEEN DISCHARGED. HIS ANKLE IS FUSED. 


 :raining:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 05, 2013, 04:25:48 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 04, 2013, 07:38:14 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 04, 2013, 03:55:07 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 04, 2013, 01:59:05 PM

ice cold water

For McJ, to cool off, straight in his face?

but. But, gareth!

He quoted me in a post.

Yes, he did. He has done it to more people. And they still breathe, make their own breakfast, take showers and shits.

Breathe in, breathe out.

Sit down. Look outside, ponder all the miracles you see every day. And calm down.

You too can live, a relatively normal life, after you have been quoted by Gareth.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on June 05, 2013, 04:52:26 PM

TSA decided not to allow knives on airplanes

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 05, 2013, 05:20:22 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 05, 2013, 04:25:48 PM

Quote from: McAnarchist on June 04, 2013, 07:38:14 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 04, 2013, 03:55:07 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 04, 2013, 01:59:05 PM

ice cold water

For McJ, to cool off, straight in his face?

but. But, gareth!

He quoted me in a post.

Yes, he did. He has done it to more people. And they still breathe, make their own breakfast, take showers and shits.

Breathe in, breathe out.

Sit down. Look outside, ponder all the miracles you see every day. And calm down.

You too can live, a relatively normal life, after you have been quoted by Gareth.

i know. I know. It takes time.
But the event was so recent. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: BadgerTom on June 05, 2013, 05:42:12 PM

Quote from: Lit on June 05, 2013, 02:13:24 PM

Where is that?  :)

From the park in my village! In the middle of Wales! (not cardiff as some people believe!)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on June 05, 2013, 11:02:34 PM

I feel less stressed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 06, 2013, 08:32:12 AM

I hope it works out with this hot white boy.  :santa:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on June 06, 2013, 08:46:30 AM

My brother is here  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on June 06, 2013, 09:18:23 AM

I cleaned my apt overnight in preparation for a fire sprinkler inspection. Now my place is better.  :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on June 06, 2013, 10:03:04 AM

Eggs

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 06, 2013, 10:09:43 AM

would you like some sperm for your eggs?  >:D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 06, 2013, 10:13:20 AM

I like hot sauce on mine.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 07, 2013, 04:27:59 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 05, 2013, 02:59:52 PM

AFTER 18 MONTHS, TWO SURGERIES AND A LOT OF PATIENCE, PA HAS BEEN DISCHARGED. HIS ANKLE IS FUSED. 


 :raining:

      :plus:   for 18 months of patient nursing care at home, I hope he is walking comfortably.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 07, 2013, 04:29:34 PM

Quote from: skyblue1 on June 05, 2013, 04:52:26 PM

TSA decided not to allow knives on airplanes

  There goes my vacation.  Guess I"ll have to travel by boat.   :swords:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 07, 2013, 04:31:32 PM

Quote from: Nile on June 06, 2013, 08:32:12 AM

I hope it works out with this hot white boy.  :santa:

  He looks a little old for you, and forget about spending Christmas with him, he's always working!  :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 07, 2013, 04:35:03 PM

Oh my you have had practice.  :yoda:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 07, 2013, 04:36:52 PM

Quote from: Nile on June 07, 2013, 04:35:03 PM

Oh my you have had practice.  :yoda:

  Clever with a wisecrack I am!   :yoda:  Miss a trick I do not.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 07, 2013, 04:52:37 PM

  Those missing cable channels are back on tha air, a bit slow to load but they're back!   :tv:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on June 07, 2013, 05:09:16 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 07, 2013, 04:52:37 PM

  Those missing cable channels are back on tha air, a bit slow to load but they're back!   :tv:

My cable works very well.  :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 07, 2013, 05:13:03 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on June 07, 2013, 05:09:16 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 07, 2013, 04:52:37 PM

  Those missing cable channels are back on tha air, a bit slow to load but they're back!   :tv:

My cable works very well.  :hahaha:

  Good thing, since you seem to sit at home all day every day.  :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on June 07, 2013, 05:14:58 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 07, 2013, 05:13:03 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on June 07, 2013, 05:09:16 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 07, 2013, 04:52:37 PM

  Those missing cable channels are back on tha air, a bit slow to load but they're back!   :tv:

My cable works very well.  :hahaha:

  Good thing, since you seem to sit at home all day every day.  :hahaha:

:razz:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 07, 2013, 05:19:54 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on June 07, 2013, 05:14:58 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 07, 2013, 05:13:03 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on June 07, 2013, 05:09:16 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 07, 2013, 04:52:37 PM

  Those missing cable channels are back on tha air, a bit slow to load but they're back!   :tv:

My cable works very well.  :hahaha:

  Good thing, since you seem to sit at home all day every day.  :hahaha:

:razz:

  It figures you would laugh at my industrious wobbling! :cbc: Enjoy your leisure time while I rake in the bucks!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 08, 2013, 08:58:12 AM

It's not raining

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 09, 2013, 05:05:41 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 07, 2013, 04:27:59 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 05, 2013, 02:59:52 PM

AFTER 18 MONTHS, TWO SURGERIES AND A LOT OF PATIENCE, PA HAS BEEN DISCHARGED. HIS ANKLE IS FUSED. 


 :raining:

      :plus:   for 18 months of patient nursing care at home, I hope he is walking comfortably.

How did I miss this?

Your Highness, wishing you and your consort decades of joy and pleasure with this happy result.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on June 09, 2013, 11:50:02 AM

sun is out

sort of

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 09, 2013, 10:00:07 PM

Well. I can't wait for the end of the month, when I will finally get my Ring made. almost there, so happy!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 09, 2013, 11:03:09 PM

I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 09, 2013, 11:03:43 PM

Quote from: Nile on June 09, 2013, 10:00:07 PM

Well. I can't wait for the end of the month, when I will finally get my Ring made. almost there, so happy!

Just make sure that another ring is not made. :hide:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 10, 2013, 07:42:36 AM

I'm on comeback at work.  Which means I don't have to go to the hall and pick up a job.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on June 10, 2013, 08:13:39 AM

I got some blue pills  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 10, 2013, 05:59:08 PM

Take the red pill.



I'm eating tacos with delicious ripe avocado.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 10, 2013, 07:22:08 PM

Avocado. Mmmmmmmm.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 11, 2013, 08:45:06 AM

18.3 cts of Fire Agate. and my others, hanging out in their case. hundreds of carats probably, all of it gem quality

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on June 11, 2013, 09:08:27 AM

Last night...found a slip of paper that mom had kept with the paint colors for the trim of the house written down on it. 

I was wondering how the hell I was going to match it, now I know.

Thanks mom.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 11, 2013, 09:09:20 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on June 11, 2013, 09:08:27 AM

Last night...found a slip of paper that mom had kept with the paint colors for the trim of the house written down on it. 

I was wondering how the hell I was going to match it, now I know.

Thanks mom.

  That is a nice little find.  Sometimes hoarding is a good thing.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 11, 2013, 02:49:12 PM

I mailed my fire agate to a silversmith in Illinois. My ring should be made by my birthday, of course I will share the pictures Once I get them.

Its a special ring because the silver I'm using is from a coin from 2011. the year my grandfather passed, that my father gave me.

I didn't pay for it. I traded a gem quality fire agate for the labour,  :santa:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 12, 2013, 05:07:56 PM

I got paid in cash for the work I did on an addition today

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 12, 2013, 07:44:40 PM

Green tea. Honey& Ginseng. marvelous,  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: BadgerTom on June 12, 2013, 08:08:39 PM

I completely exhausted myself today playing two hours of solid badminton and i found the workout amazing!

Also got my old racket fixed and it's now super smooth and agile... and has a bright orange handle :p

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 12, 2013, 08:38:18 PM

I look forward to the future.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 12, 2013, 08:48:44 PM

Quote from: BadgerTom on June 12, 2013, 08:08:39 PM

I completely exhausted myself today playing two hours of solid badminton and i found the workout amazing!

Also got my old racket fixed and it's now super smooth and agile... and has a bright orange handle :p

sounds like a good day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 12, 2013, 11:00:20 PM

My ring. again, and again and again. I think I'll name my first born after my grandpa

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 12, 2013, 11:01:25 PM

I had coffee. Doesn't get any better than that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: AspieMomma on June 12, 2013, 11:42:36 PM

My Dad picked up his stuff while I was out.  Now his stuff is gone, plus I didn't have to deal with him!  Hurray.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on June 12, 2013, 11:46:36 PM

Quote from: AspieMomma on June 12, 2013, 11:42:36 PM

My Dad picked up his stuff while I was out.  Now his stuff is gone, plus I didn't have to deal with him!  Hurray.

So everything is okay so far?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: AspieMomma on June 12, 2013, 11:55:52 PM

Quote from: Genesis on June 12, 2013, 11:46:36 PM

Quote from: AspieMomma on June 12, 2013, 11:42:36 PM

My Dad picked up his stuff while I was out.  Now his stuff is gone, plus I didn't have to deal with him!  Hurray.

So everything is okay so far?

Better than OK.  He's gone.  He can continue to feel like a victim of life's circumstances, wallowing in self-pity and feces in someone else's basement, instead of owning his selfish, manipulative, juvenile behavior like a grown ass man.  I can get my basement back and wash my hands of him.  Literally.  I'm still cleaning up the mess he left. 

Everybody wins!  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 13, 2013, 07:07:27 AM

Quote from: AspieMomma on June 12, 2013, 11:55:52 PM

Quote from: Genesis on June 12, 2013, 11:46:36 PM

Quote from: AspieMomma on June 12, 2013, 11:42:36 PM

My Dad picked up his stuff while I was out.  Now his stuff is gone, plus I didn't have to deal with him!  Hurray.

So everything is okay so far?

Better than OK.  He's gone.  He can continue to feel like a victim of life's circumstances, wallowing in self-pity and feces in someone else's basement, instead of owning his selfish, manipulative, juvenile behavior like a grown ass man.  I can get my basement back and wash my hands of him.  Literally.  I'm still cleaning up the mess he left. 

Everybody wins!  :2thumbsup:

sometime it's for the best.  I have learned to walk away from toxic people.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on June 13, 2013, 07:16:23 AM

Prandium in taberna habebam  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 13, 2013, 07:54:02 AM

Quote from: AspieMomma on June 12, 2013, 11:55:52 PM

Quote from: Genesis on June 12, 2013, 11:46:36 PM

Quote from: AspieMomma on June 12, 2013, 11:42:36 PM

My Dad picked up his stuff while I was out.  Now his stuff is gone, plus I didn't have to deal with him!  Hurray.

So everything is okay so far?

Better than OK.  He's gone.  He can continue to feel like a victim of life's circumstances, wallowing in self-pity and feces in someone else's basement, instead of owning his selfish, manipulative, juvenile behavior like a grown ass man.  I can get my basement back and wash my hands of him.  Literally.  I'm still cleaning up the mess he left. 

Everybody wins!  :2thumbsup:

Enjoy the cleaning. It's a reclaiming of space.  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 13, 2013, 04:17:30 PM

I really love merauders master killer. So far, besides the coldcoffee it's the best thing that has happened to me today

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 13, 2013, 05:02:38 PM

 
Some one sent a letter.  But it wasn't a letter. It was a check for a substantial amount.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 13, 2013, 09:48:55 PM

  Today was the 25th anniversary of my start date at my job. 

   I've been at that job more than half my life!   :yarly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on June 13, 2013, 09:54:11 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 13, 2013, 09:48:55 PM

  Today was the 25th anniversary of my start date at my job.  I've been at that job more than half my life!   :yarly:

:2thumbsup: :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 14, 2013, 02:11:43 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 13, 2013, 09:48:55 PM

  Today was the 25th anniversary of my start date at my job. 

   I've been at that job more than half my life!   :yarly:

Did they treat you on something nice?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 14, 2013, 02:30:57 PM

Do I have to spell it out...

The 12-yo is gone!

:woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 14, 2013, 02:37:57 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 14, 2013, 02:30:57 PM

Do I have to spell it out...

The 12-yo is gone!

:woohoo:

What?

I can't hear you.

Speak up, man. These old ears want to know.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 14, 2013, 02:39:13 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 14, 2013, 02:37:57 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 14, 2013, 02:30:57 PM

Do I have to spell it out...

The 12-yo is gone!

:woohoo:

What?

I can't hear you.

Speak up, man. These old ears want to know.

Ding dong, the witch is dead!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on June 14, 2013, 03:03:30 PM

 :laugh: :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 14, 2013, 03:04:12 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 14, 2013, 02:39:13 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 14, 2013, 02:37:57 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 14, 2013, 02:30:57 PM

Do I have to spell it out...

The 12-yo is gone!

:woohoo:

What?

I can't hear you.

Speak up, man. These old ears want to know.

Ding dong, the witch is dead!

What, you threw him on the BBQ?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 14, 2013, 03:58:56 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 14, 2013, 02:11:43 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 13, 2013, 09:48:55 PM

  Today was the 25th anniversary of my start date at my job. 

   I've been at that job more than half my life!   :yarly:

Did they treat you on something nice?

  I will get something at the Christmas party, that is when all the milestones are celebrated.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 14, 2013, 04:00:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 14, 2013, 02:30:57 PM

Do I have to spell it out...

The 12-yo is gone!

:woohoo:

  Hooray!  Now he is someone else's problem!  :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on June 14, 2013, 04:03:53 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 14, 2013, 03:58:56 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 14, 2013, 02:11:43 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 13, 2013, 09:48:55 PM

  Today was the 25th anniversary of my start date at my job. 

   I've been at that job more than half my life!   :yarly:

Did they treat you on something nice?

  I will get something at the Christmas party, that is when all the milestones are celebrated.  8)

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwscjiH0d41ql55zvo1_500.jpg)

Sure you will.  >:D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 14, 2013, 04:10:37 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 14, 2013, 03:04:12 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 14, 2013, 02:39:13 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 14, 2013, 02:37:57 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 14, 2013, 02:30:57 PM

Do I have to spell it out...

The 12-yo is gone!

:woohoo:

What?

I can't hear you.

Speak up, man. These old ears want to know.

Ding dong, the witch is dead!

What, you threw him on the BBQ?

I would have liked to.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 14, 2013, 04:47:07 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 13, 2013, 09:48:55 PM

  Today was the 25th anniversary of my start date at my job. 

   I've been at that job more than half my life!   :yarly:

What a great accomplishment. congrats to you!  :plus: :indeed:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on June 14, 2013, 04:50:21 PM

George

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 15, 2013, 04:56:26 AM

George happened? :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on June 15, 2013, 05:00:39 AM

She likes George Harrison too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 15, 2013, 05:18:59 AM

George Harrison rules.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 15, 2013, 07:33:44 AM

The NSA collected my phone records.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 15, 2013, 07:39:25 AM

Quote from: McPostWhore on June 15, 2013, 07:33:44 AM

The NSA collected my phone records.

  Mine too!  We're going to be famous, I can't wait!   :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 15, 2013, 07:41:58 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 15, 2013, 07:39:25 AM

Quote from: McPostWhore on June 15, 2013, 07:33:44 AM

The NSA collected my phone records.

  Mine too!  We're going to be famous, I can't wait!   :woohoo:

the first thing I'm going to do is get a $100 haircut and Elvis sun glasses.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 15, 2013, 07:44:51 AM

For McPW and CBC (http://www.happyplace.com/24470/a-love-letter-to-the-nsa-agent-who-is-monitoring-my-online-activity)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 15, 2013, 07:46:14 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 15, 2013, 07:44:51 AM

For McPW and CBC (http://www.happyplace.com/24470/a-love-letter-to-the-nsa-agent-who-is-monitoring-my-online-activity)

  The woman in the cartoon has brown hair in a bun!  That's me!  They spied on my and took my picture!   :hide:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 15, 2013, 07:46:52 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 15, 2013, 07:46:14 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 15, 2013, 07:44:51 AM

For McPW and CBC (http://www.happyplace.com/24470/a-love-letter-to-the-nsa-agent-who-is-monitoring-my-online-activity)

  The woman in the cartoon has brown hair in a bun!  That's me!  They spied on my and took my picture!   :hide:

They love you.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 15, 2013, 07:49:49 AM

 :laugh: at the keywords in bold type.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 15, 2013, 07:52:59 AM

You know you want to use them too.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 15, 2013, 07:57:15 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 15, 2013, 07:46:52 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 15, 2013, 07:46:14 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 15, 2013, 07:44:51 AM

For McPW and CBC (http://www.happyplace.com/24470/a-love-letter-to-the-nsa-agent-who-is-monitoring-my-online-activity)

  The woman in the cartoon has brown hair in a bun!  That's me!  They spied on my and took my picture!   :hide:

They love you.

  That's because I am a good citizen who visits only the most patriotic sites!  :angel:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 15, 2013, 07:58:59 AM

  I will never use a bad word or a suspicious phrase!  My government is counting on me!   :bint:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 15, 2013, 07:59:34 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 15, 2013, 07:57:15 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 15, 2013, 07:46:52 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 15, 2013, 07:46:14 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 15, 2013, 07:44:51 AM

For McPW and CBC (http://www.happyplace.com/24470/a-love-letter-to-the-nsa-agent-who-is-monitoring-my-online-activity)

  The woman in the cartoon has brown hair in a bun!  That's me!  They spied on my and took my picture!   :hide:

They love you.

  That's because I am a good citizen who visits only the most patriotic sites!  :angel:

Your doing it wrong.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 15, 2013, 08:00:56 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 15, 2013, 07:58:59 AM

  I will never use a bad word or a suspicious phrase!  My government is counting on me!   :bint:

thats why I use phrases like: kewl cray totes.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 15, 2013, 08:01:59 AM

Quote from: McPostWhore on June 15, 2013, 08:00:56 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 15, 2013, 07:58:59 AM

  I will never use a bad word or a suspicious phrase!  My government is counting on me!   :bint:

thats why I use phrases like: kewl cray totes.

:lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 15, 2013, 08:12:59 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 15, 2013, 07:59:34 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 15, 2013, 07:57:15 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 15, 2013, 07:46:52 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 15, 2013, 07:46:14 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 15, 2013, 07:44:51 AM

For McPW and CBC (http://www.happyplace.com/24470/a-love-letter-to-the-nsa-agent-who-is-monitoring-my-online-activity)

  The woman in the cartoon has brown hair in a bun!  That's me!  They spied on my and took my picture!   :hide:

They love you.

  That's because I am a good citizen who visits only the most patriotic sites!  :angel:

Your doing it wrong.

  I am a good American with nothing to hide, I shall continue to avoid controversy and stay on approved sites!  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 15, 2013, 10:43:33 AM

Obama White House Bomb Kill Kill Kill

:trollface:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 15, 2013, 10:45:07 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 15, 2013, 10:43:33 AM

Obama White House Bomb Kill Kill Kill
:trollface:

  Now, sir, there'll be none of that!  Come with us.   :police:  :moomin:  :police:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 15, 2013, 10:46:19 AM

Terror Bomb White House Jihad God Godless Kill Kill Kill

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on June 15, 2013, 10:48:28 AM

You must murder the Hangman Rope Sneak parrotting puppet scum-on-top!!!  :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :pirateship:  :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 15, 2013, 10:48:33 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 15, 2013, 10:46:19 AM

Terror Bomb White House Jihad God Godless Kill Kill Kill

  We take that kind of talk very seriously here!  :dom:  :moomin:  :litigious:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 15, 2013, 10:52:20 AM

Quote from: Lit on June 15, 2013, 10:48:28 AM

You must murder the Hangman Rope Sneak parrotting puppet scum-on-top!!!  :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :pirateship:  :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr:

  You're threatening a smiley?  That won't get you any attention from the NSA.  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 15, 2013, 05:57:17 PM

I'm thinking I really like my arrowheads. The one from peru has a zebra pattern in it with purple stripes, so cool! the other one is a boring jizz white.  :evillaugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 16, 2013, 01:32:19 AM

Thinking about coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 16, 2013, 05:04:39 AM

  I woke up, and I smelled the coffee! :coffee:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 16, 2013, 03:58:16 PM

Everything is falling into place with me.  :harp:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 16, 2013, 03:59:44 PM

That poor little darling on the harp has been taking too much drugs. her harp playing is very fast

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 16, 2013, 04:11:19 PM

Quote from: Merauder on June 16, 2013, 03:59:44 PM

That poor little darling on the harp has been taking too much drugs. her harp playing is very fast

      I think she's all right, she's just very motivated!  :harp:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 16, 2013, 04:17:45 PM

Well. whatever It is, its giving me a headache looking at it.  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 16, 2013, 04:17:58 PM

Something weird is happening with the smileys. Recently noticed the peeing guy smiley was moving really fast.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 16, 2013, 04:19:42 PM

 :pee:

This one. It's funny. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 16, 2013, 04:19:49 PM

Quote from: Jack on June 16, 2013, 04:17:58 PM

Something weird is happening with the smileys. Recently noticed the peeing guy smiley was moving really fast.

  Maybe he just really, really needs to go!  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 16, 2013, 04:20:36 PM

It looks like an emergency. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 16, 2013, 04:21:14 PM

I'm sure the webmaster will hop too it once he finds out.

headache time!  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 16, 2013, 05:03:42 PM

  Today my sister and I visited our father in the nursing home, then went shopping and had lunch at Wendy's.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 16, 2013, 05:38:05 PM

Quote from: Jack on June 16, 2013, 04:20:36 PM

It looks like an emergency. :laugh:

  That reminds me of some of my grade school teachers who used to make a big deal of it when kids had to go.
   They would ask,  "Is it an EMERGENCY?!"   I hope they have more sense these days.  Bladders matter!  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 16, 2013, 05:50:15 PM

:laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 16, 2013, 05:51:13 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 16, 2013, 05:38:05 PM

Quote from: Jack on June 16, 2013, 04:20:36 PM

It looks like an emergency. :laugh:

  That reminds me of some of my grade school teachers who used to make a big deal of it when kids had to go.
   They would ask,  "Is it an EMERGENCY?!"   I hope they have more sense these days.  Bladders matter!  :laugh:

i once had to say, "not anymore!" 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 16, 2013, 05:53:53 PM

  My insurance does that too.  Once a year they refuse to pay for my Strattera without getting  "prior authorization"
  from my psychiatrist.  They'd like me to go on something cheaper, and they keep doing this despite the fact that
  my doc always authorizes the Strattera, and it's the equivalent of the teacher asking me if I really need to go.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 16, 2013, 06:28:45 PM

I'm happy I am not on medication

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 16, 2013, 07:37:49 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 16, 2013, 05:38:05 PM

Quote from: Jack on June 16, 2013, 04:20:36 PM

It looks like an emergency. :laugh:

  That reminds me of some of my grade school teachers who used to make a big deal of it when kids had to go.
   They would ask,  "Is it an EMERGENCY?!"   I hope they have more sense these days.  Bladders matter!  :laugh:

I'm sure a lot of folks here wish they would have been brave enough to do this, but it was an accident.  I waited so long in line to confess my sins to the priest that I went in the confessional. I wonder if pissing in a church makes it Holy Piss?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 16, 2013, 08:24:20 PM

I think the blue in this stone is as cool as Ice.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 17, 2013, 04:40:48 AM

Quote from: Merauder on June 16, 2013, 08:24:20 PM

I think the blue in this stone is as cool as Ice.  8)

  Have you posted a picture of this fine gemstone yet?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: BadgerTom on June 17, 2013, 09:16:09 AM

Yay, Brotherhood finished Downloading... Again!

Maes-san Ikuze!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 17, 2013, 12:45:15 PM

Quote from: Merauder on June 16, 2013, 04:21:14 PM

I'm sure the webmaster will hop too it once he finds out.

headache time!  :laugh:

I really need to go now. :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 17, 2013, 04:14:44 PM

Is it an emergency?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: AspieMomma on June 17, 2013, 04:17:46 PM

I told you to go before we left the house.   :M  Now you're just gonna have to hold it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Kapkao on June 17, 2013, 04:19:37 PM

Quote from: AspieMomma on June 17, 2013, 04:17:46 PM

I told you to go before we left the house.   :M  Now you're just gonna have to hold it.

How's your husband's paranoia?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 17, 2013, 06:12:07 PM

New garage door installed.  Now PA will have one less hurricane worry.

(It's silly of us to have a garage door because we have a carport.  But since we store everything but the car there, a garage door does keep things from flying out in high winds.)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 17, 2013, 07:13:58 PM

I worked today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on June 17, 2013, 07:14:28 PM

A eureka moment in school

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 17, 2013, 08:06:53 PM

The internet. great deals everywhere!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 17, 2013, 11:03:54 PM

Quote from: Jack on June 17, 2013, 04:14:44 PM

Is it an emergency?

:GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: AspieMomma on June 17, 2013, 11:43:32 PM

Quote from: Kapkao on June 17, 2013, 04:19:37 PM

Quote from: AspieMomma on June 17, 2013, 04:17:46 PM

I told you to go before we left the house.   :M  Now you're just gonna have to hold it.

How's your husband's paranoia?

Alive and well.

Come to think of it, he is a mortal combat fan...

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on June 18, 2013, 04:47:11 PM

Disability time  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 18, 2013, 11:14:54 PM

Quote from: Lit on June 18, 2013, 04:47:11 PM

Disability time  :orly:

  What's that?  Did you qualify for extra benefits?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 18, 2013, 11:15:51 PM

  Intensity² returned to normal, such as that may be.  :insane:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 18, 2013, 11:31:17 PM

The last I saw before the regular login screen was "this account has been suspended"?

I almost choked on my morning coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 18, 2013, 11:39:44 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 18, 2013, 11:31:17 PM

The last I saw before the regular login screen was "this account has been suspended"?

I almost choked on my morning coffee.

  OMG, you must have wanted to track down the responsible party and ... have some civilized words with them!   :toporly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on June 19, 2013, 02:12:21 AM

 :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on June 19, 2013, 03:48:54 AM

The sun is out.  The urchin is awesome.  The cat has grown.  So far so good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 19, 2013, 05:08:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 18, 2013, 11:31:17 PM

The last I saw before the regular login screen was "this account has been suspended"?

I almost choked on my morning coffee.

:rofl:

Were you afraid a coup had happened?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on June 19, 2013, 05:08:30 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 18, 2013, 11:14:54 PM

Quote from: Lit on June 18, 2013, 04:47:11 PM

Disability time  :orly:

  What's that?  Did you qualify for extra benefits?  :orly:

No, but I got my disability payment today :toporly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on June 19, 2013, 05:08:48 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 19, 2013, 05:08:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 18, 2013, 11:31:17 PM

The last I saw before the regular login screen was "this account has been suspended"?

I almost choked on my morning coffee.

:rofl:

Were you afraid a coup had happened?

 :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 19, 2013, 05:09:55 AM

Quote from: Lit on June 19, 2013, 05:08:48 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 19, 2013, 05:08:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 18, 2013, 11:31:17 PM

The last I saw before the regular login screen was "this account has been suspended"?

I almost choked on my morning coffee.

:rofl:

Were you afraid a coup had happened?

 :viking:

 :pirate:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 19, 2013, 07:19:22 AM

Dispute three different cars trying to merge into my lane (in the space I'm already occupying) I made it to work without getting into an accident.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: AspieMomma on June 19, 2013, 08:26:38 AM

Quote from: McJagger on June 19, 2013, 07:19:22 AM

Dispute three different cars trying to merge into my lane (in the space I'm already occupying) I made it to work without getting into an accident.

Merging is a concept that many people seem to find difficult to grasp. Very annoying.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 19, 2013, 08:30:59 AM

Quote from: AspieMomma on June 19, 2013, 08:26:38 AM

Quote from: McJagger on June 19, 2013, 07:19:22 AM

Dispute three different cars trying to merge into my lane (in the space I'm already occupying) I made it to work without getting into an accident.

Merging is a concept that many people seem to find difficult to grasp. Very annoying.

spelling is a difficult concept for me to grasp.  I meant to write, despite. :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: AspieMomma on June 19, 2013, 08:37:10 AM

Quote from: McJagger on June 19, 2013, 08:30:59 AM

Quote from: AspieMomma on June 19, 2013, 08:26:38 AM

Quote from: McJagger on June 19, 2013, 07:19:22 AM

Dispute three different cars trying to merge into my lane (in the space I'm already occupying) I made it to work without getting into an accident.

Merging is a concept that many people seem to find difficult to grasp. Very annoying.

spelling is a difficult concept for me to grasp.  I meant to write, despite. :-\

Just a litttle typo.  No vig deal.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 19, 2013, 09:56:32 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 18, 2013, 11:39:44 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 18, 2013, 11:31:17 PM

The last I saw before the regular login screen was "this account has been suspended"?

I almost choked on my morning coffee.

  OMG, you must have wanted to track down the responsible party and ... have some civilized words with them!   :toporly:

(http://shaunphilly.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/stock-photo-laptop-computer-damaged-with-axe-concept-of-anger-frustration-isolated-on-white-27987056.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 19, 2013, 01:27:34 PM

Last week, some dude at work was rude to me.  I walked away and shrugged it off.
This morning, same guy pulls me aside and apologizes.
My faith in humanity...restored.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 19, 2013, 02:51:12 PM

Quote from: McJagger on June 19, 2013, 01:27:34 PM

Last week, some dude at work was rude to me.  I walked away and shrugged it off.
This morning, same guy pulls me aside and apologizes.
My faith in humanity...restored.

:thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on June 19, 2013, 05:23:54 PM

York Peppermint Patty

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 19, 2013, 06:26:24 PM

Quote from: McJagger on June 19, 2013, 07:19:22 AM

Dispute three different cars trying to merge into my lane (in the space I'm already occupying) I made it to work without getting into an accident.

  I think your phone is auto-correcting your attempts to spell  "despite."  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 19, 2013, 06:35:37 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 19, 2013, 06:26:24 PM

Quote from: McJagger on June 19, 2013, 07:19:22 AM

Dispute three different cars trying to merge into my lane (in the space I'm already occupying) I made it to work without getting into an accident.

  I think your phone is auto-correcting your attempts to spell  "despite."  :orly:

i dispute that assertion and thank you for quoting.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 19, 2013, 06:37:29 PM

Quote from: McJagger on June 19, 2013, 06:35:37 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 19, 2013, 06:26:24 PM

Quote from: McJagger on June 19, 2013, 07:19:22 AM

Dispute three different cars trying to merge into my lane (in the space I'm already occupying) I made it to work without getting into an accident.

  I think your phone is auto-correcting your attempts to spell  "despite."  :orly:

i dispute that assertion and thank you for quoting.

  You fool, you're so wrong  You're welcome.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 19, 2013, 07:40:06 PM

  The mushrooms I over-washed yesterday seem all right on the beef kabobs.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 19, 2013, 08:07:22 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 19, 2013, 07:40:06 PM

  The mushrooms I over-washed yesterday seem all right on the beef kabobs.  :thumbup:

oh, praise jeebus.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 19, 2013, 08:08:29 PM

Quote from: McJagger on June 19, 2013, 08:07:22 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 19, 2013, 07:40:06 PM

  The mushrooms I over-washed yesterday seem all right on the beef kabobs.  :thumbup:

oh, praise jeebus.

  The kabobs have tender marinated beef, onions, peppers, mushrooms and cherry tomatoes.  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 19, 2013, 08:10:51 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 19, 2013, 08:08:29 PM

Quote from: McJagger on June 19, 2013, 08:07:22 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 19, 2013, 07:40:06 PM

  The mushrooms I over-washed yesterday seem all right on the beef kabobs.  :thumbup:

oh, praise jeebus.

  The kabobs have tender marinated beef, onions, peppers, mushrooms and cherry tomatoes.  :M

I like tomatoes, but not heated.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 19, 2013, 08:12:14 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 19, 2013, 08:10:51 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 19, 2013, 08:08:29 PM

Quote from: McJagger on June 19, 2013, 08:07:22 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 19, 2013, 07:40:06 PM

  The mushrooms I over-washed yesterday seem all right on the beef kabobs.  :thumbup:

oh, praise jeebus.

  The kabobs have tender marinated beef, onions, peppers, mushrooms and cherry tomatoes.  :M

I like tomatoes, but not heated.

  *returns to the kitchen   :fatchef:   to make QV some beef-and-onion kabobs just for her!*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 19, 2013, 11:35:20 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on June 20, 2013, 02:29:54 AM

Ah, coffeum factum est. Bene! Et ego iam coffeum feci  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 20, 2013, 03:05:28 PM

My wife's birthday and I got a nap.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 20, 2013, 04:16:09 PM

a pound of Greek cherries.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 20, 2013, 04:16:48 PM

Quote from: McJagger on June 20, 2013, 03:05:28 PM

My wife's birthday and I got a nap.

Congratulations on both events.  :santa: :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: AspieMomma on June 20, 2013, 04:59:16 PM

Happy birthday to Mrs. McJagger!

I cleaned out my garage.  It is so satisfying to have an orderly space. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on June 20, 2013, 05:03:34 PM

I dont have a garage

All my vehicles are parked outside in the fresh air

They like it

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: AspieMomma on June 20, 2013, 05:10:32 PM

 :thumbup: Free range vehicles.  It is much more humane. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 20, 2013, 05:38:52 PM

half-priced shakes at sonic today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 20, 2013, 06:03:01 PM

Quote from: McJagger on June 20, 2013, 03:05:28 PM

My wife's birthday and I got a nap.

  And what did your wife get?  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on June 20, 2013, 06:03:59 PM

Wow a rare double post


quickly fixed :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 20, 2013, 06:13:14 PM

Quote from: skyblue1 on June 20, 2013, 06:03:59 PM

Wow a rare double post


quickly fixed :headbang2:

  It was actually a triple post.  The site is very slow for me right now.  :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 20, 2013, 07:25:17 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 20, 2013, 06:03:01 PM

Quote from: McJagger on June 20, 2013, 03:05:28 PM

My wife's birthday and I got a nap.

  And what did your wife get?  :P

she got a nap too. :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on June 21, 2013, 01:03:00 AM

It's Midsummer Eve  :)

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Post by: bodie on June 21, 2013, 02:22:48 AM

TFI Friday

I have some spondoolicks

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on June 21, 2013, 07:30:47 AM

Quote from: bodie on June 21, 2013, 02:22:48 AM

TFI Friday

I have some spondoolicks

acccording to urban dictionary:

Cockney/Yiddish colloquial term for money, particularly cash acquired in a profitable exchange.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 21, 2013, 08:58:53 AM

My holiday money came in.  :flyingbat:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 22, 2013, 09:31:12 AM

Green Tourmaline all day. then, my ring from the mail.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 22, 2013, 12:22:21 PM

Spent 90 minutes teaching my daughter how to drive.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on June 22, 2013, 03:08:56 PM

my ring is finally here. I gotta say, I'm inlove!  :GA:

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 23, 2013, 05:04:18 AM

  I got to sleep fairly early, so I am awake and alert for my early ( 8:30 a.m. ) start time at work.  :headbang2:

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Post by: BadgerTom on June 23, 2013, 01:22:41 PM

Finished Downloading all 3 OST's of FMA: Broterhood.

Ahhh that Haunting melody makes my hair stand on end!

OST 2 - The Fullmetal alchemist.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on June 23, 2013, 04:34:24 PM

My Mom gave  me my Nan's dinner set.  It is RIDGWAYS Staffordshire fine bone china with 22kt gold edging.  It has a blue cornflower and pink rose border.  A couple of pieces are slightly damaged, but nothing major.

I now have to wait for suitable guests to come for tea.  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 23, 2013, 04:37:34 PM

  We didn't have a tornado today.  From now on, every time I bitch about the heat and humidity, I will
  remind myself that at least we're not in the path of a tornado.  I hope everyone here gets through the summer safely.  :crossed:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 23, 2013, 07:56:35 PM

Seeing the PR thoroughly enjoy swimming.  She's loved the water from infancy.  Even though she can't use her right arm she taught herself to swim and she will dive from the side of the pool, go under water, literally swims like a fish.  Totally fearless.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 23, 2013, 08:04:34 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 23, 2013, 07:56:35 PM

Seeing the PR thoroughly enjoy swimming.  She's loved the water from infancy.  Even though she can't use her right arm she taught herself to swim and she will dive from the side of the pool, go under water, literally swims like a fish.  Totally fearless.

  That's excellent, kudos to her for being self-taught.  I never quite learned to swim
   despite having full use of all my limbs.  Being self-taught at anything is  :viking:  !

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Post by: odeon on June 23, 2013, 11:33:21 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on June 24, 2013, 01:50:07 AM

Ah, coffeum factum est. Bene! Hic coffeum quoque factum est.  :thumbup:

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Post by: 'andersom' on June 24, 2013, 05:26:29 AM

Second cup of coffee about to happen. Think I'm coming in a coffee mode again. Wonder how long it will last, weeks, years?

Had a good conversation this morning, with a woman with some really sensible suggestions. Good to ponder on that, and then act on it.

Also, got a nice post card from the USA, though with a Dutch stamp. Generated on "Kaartwereld.nl".

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Post by: P7PSP on June 24, 2013, 05:31:53 AM

Quote from: bodie on June 23, 2013, 04:34:24 PM

My Mom gave  me my Nan's dinner set.  It is RIDGWAYS Staffordshire fine bone china with 22kt gold edging.  It has a blue cornflower and pink rose border.  A couple of pieces are slightly damaged, but nothing major.

I now have to wait for suitable guests to come for tea.  :M

:thumbup:

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 24, 2013, 05:26:29 AM

Second cup of coffee about to happen. Think I'm coming in a coffee mode again. Wonder how long it will last, weeks, years?

Had a good conversation this morning, with a woman with some really sensible suggestions. Good to ponder on that, and then act on it.

Also, got a nice post card from the USA, though with a Dutch stamp. Generated on "Kaartwereld.nl".

:GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 24, 2013, 05:46:19 AM

Why the  :GA: ?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on June 24, 2013, 05:48:49 AM

From your lack of caffeine tolerance.  :nerdy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 24, 2013, 05:51:52 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on June 24, 2013, 05:48:49 AM

From your lack of caffeine tolerance.  :nerdy:

I hardly ever have caffeine problems. Only when really tired, then too much coffee can make me jittery. But, somehow I have coffee era's in my life, and extended times without coffee. Don't know why, it just happens, and it doesn't harm me to go with that flow.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on June 24, 2013, 05:55:07 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 24, 2013, 05:51:52 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on June 24, 2013, 05:48:49 AM

From your lack of caffeine tolerance.  :nerdy:

I hardly ever have caffeine problems. Only when really tired, then too much coffee can make me jittery. But, somehow I have coffee era's in my life, and extended times without coffee. Don't know why, it just happens, and it doesn't harm me to go with that flow.

Did any of your ancestors serve in Dutch East Indies?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 24, 2013, 05:59:16 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on June 24, 2013, 05:55:07 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 24, 2013, 05:51:52 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on June 24, 2013, 05:48:49 AM

From your lack of caffeine tolerance.  :nerdy:

I hardly ever have caffeine problems. Only when really tired, then too much coffee can make me jittery. But, somehow I have coffee era's in my life, and extended times without coffee. Don't know why, it just happens, and it doesn't harm me to go with that flow.

Did any of your ancestors serve in Dutch East Indies?

No, why?

One or more of the ancestors of my girls did though. There is Indonesian blood in their veins. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on June 24, 2013, 06:39:22 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 24, 2013, 05:59:16 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on June 24, 2013, 05:55:07 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 24, 2013, 05:51:52 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on June 24, 2013, 05:48:49 AM

From your lack of caffeine tolerance.  :nerdy:

I hardly ever have caffeine problems. Only when really tired, then too much coffee can make me jittery. But, somehow I have coffee era's in my life, and extended times without coffee. Don't know why, it just happens, and it doesn't harm me to go with that flow.

Did any of your ancestors serve in Dutch East Indies?

No, why?

One or more of the ancestors of my girls did though. There is Indonesian blood in their veins.

Sorry Ma'am. I can't discuss ongoing investigations.  :police:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: BadgerTom on June 24, 2013, 10:38:28 AM

Quote from: bodie on June 23, 2013, 04:34:24 PM

My Mom gave  me my Nan's dinner set.  It is RIDGWAYS Staffordshire fine bone china with 22kt gold edging.  It has a blue cornflower and pink rose border.  A couple of pieces are slightly damaged, but nothing major.

I now have to wait for suitable guests to come for tea.  :M

Oooooh a Tea Party! How Quaint :D

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Post by: Parts on June 24, 2013, 11:33:05 AM

I got two fencing masks and some other good stuff curbside at the condos today

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Post by: bodie on June 24, 2013, 03:32:39 PM

Quote from: BadgerTom on June 24, 2013, 10:38:28 AM

Quote from: bodie on June 23, 2013, 04:34:24 PM

My Mom gave  me my Nan's dinner set.  It is RIDGWAYS Staffordshire fine bone china with 22kt gold edging.  It has a blue cornflower and pink rose border.  A couple of pieces are slightly damaged, but nothing major.

I now have to wait for suitable guests to come for tea.  :M

Oooooh a Tea Party! How Quaint :D

My apologies.  Had to cancel the Garden Tea Party due to the frightful weather.  Cream Tea's shall be served in the Drawing Room for today.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 24, 2013, 08:01:35 PM

Quote from: bodie on June 24, 2013, 03:32:39 PM

Quote from: BadgerTom on June 24, 2013, 10:38:28 AM

Quote from: bodie on June 23, 2013, 04:34:24 PM

My Mom gave  me my Nan's dinner set.  It is RIDGWAYS Staffordshire fine bone china with 22kt gold edging.  It has a blue cornflower and pink rose border.  A couple of pieces are slightly damaged, but nothing major.

I now have to wait for suitable guests to come for tea.  :M

Oooooh a Tea Party! How Quaint :D

My apologies.  Had to cancel the Garden Tea Party due to the frightful weather.  Cream Tea's shall be served in the Drawing Room for today.

  I want to come to tea too! :cbc: I can even help serve!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 24, 2013, 10:53:24 PM

So far, coffee happened. And I bought a cabin bag on Amazon for my upcoming trip.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on June 24, 2013, 11:18:30 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 24, 2013, 10:53:24 PM

So far, coffee happened. And I bought a cabin bag on Amazon for my upcoming trip.

Have you been to Canada before?

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Post by: odeon on June 24, 2013, 11:24:39 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on June 24, 2013, 11:18:30 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 24, 2013, 10:53:24 PM

So far, coffee happened. And I bought a cabin bag on Amazon for my upcoming trip.

Have you been to Canada before?

Several times. Montréal is a haven for markup geeks in August and I have been there twice to present papers. And I visited Vancouver about 15 years ago.

Montréal feels more like a European city but both are great places to visit.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 25, 2013, 01:29:27 AM

  A roast beef sandwich with tartar sauce is happening right now!   :oranna:

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Post by: TheoK on June 25, 2013, 01:42:42 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 25, 2013, 01:29:27 AM

  A roast beef sandwich with tartar sauce is happening right now!   :oranna:

 :viking:

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Post by: 'andersom' on June 25, 2013, 02:02:02 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on June 24, 2013, 06:39:22 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 24, 2013, 05:59:16 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on June 24, 2013, 05:55:07 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 24, 2013, 05:51:52 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on June 24, 2013, 05:48:49 AM

From your lack of caffeine tolerance.  :nerdy:

I hardly ever have caffeine problems. Only when really tired, then too much coffee can make me jittery. But, somehow I have coffee era's in my life, and extended times without coffee. Don't know why, it just happens, and it doesn't harm me to go with that flow.

Did any of your ancestors serve in Dutch East Indies?

No, why?

One or more of the ancestors of my girls did though. There is Indonesian blood in their veins.

Sorry Ma'am. I can't discuss ongoing investigations.  :police:

 * packing bags *

Iceland, here we come.

 :runaway:  :runaway:  :runaway:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on June 25, 2013, 11:22:43 AM

I received my copy of Hiltler's Children The Story Of The Baader-Meinhoff Terrorist Gang by Jillian Becker today.  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on June 25, 2013, 02:43:28 PM

What was good today!   Custard!

Lovely, scrummy, velvety smooth, hot custard.

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Post by: McGiver on June 25, 2013, 08:32:43 PM

Quote from: bodie on June 25, 2013, 02:43:28 PM

What was good today!   Custard!

Lovely, scrummy, velvety smooth, hot custard.

on my torso

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Post by: Queen Victoria on June 25, 2013, 09:52:16 PM

That I am only very, very, extremely very, very related DISTANTLY to Gallstone.  Yikes!

Modified to add DISTANTLY

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Post by: odeon on June 25, 2013, 10:42:52 PM

Finally solved a problem I've been struggling with at work.

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Post by: Jesse on June 26, 2013, 05:56:35 PM

I got a new tourmaline. so that made me pretty happy today!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 26, 2013, 11:21:10 PM

Coffee happened.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 27, 2013, 05:46:16 AM

  Cool air seems to have arrived in the night.  Maybe work will be less like a sauna.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 01, 2013, 05:36:46 PM

  A tornado warning was issued for my area this afternoon  :zombiefuck:  but the storm passed us.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 01, 2013, 09:40:40 PM

We had a nice rain at the AA meeting tonight.

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Post by: odeon on July 02, 2013, 12:42:16 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 26, 2013, 11:21:10 PM

Coffee happened.

^This

This post should be automated. It's hard to post in the morning.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on July 02, 2013, 12:58:22 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 01, 2013, 09:40:40 PM

We had a nice rain at the AA meeting tonight.

An outdoor meeting?  ???

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Post by: Lestat on July 02, 2013, 05:06:30 AM

The filth FINALLY returned the remainder of my stolen property (stolen that is, by the pigs themselves).

Got my guns back, my mortar and pestle (empty...why the hell take an empty container...then again they did even take and then were forced to return a packet of crisps :P), along with some nootropics (choline and pramiracetam) along with some AMT, 5-MeO-DALT  and some rather precious reagent supplies.

I honestly never thought I'd get those back, especially the revolver/dart rifle, and 4-methyl-2,5-dimethoxybenzaldehyde.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 02, 2013, 06:48:43 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on July 02, 2013, 12:58:22 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 01, 2013, 09:40:40 PM

We had a nice rain at the AA meeting tonight.

An outdoor meeting?  ???

Nope, just a case of, "OMW, are my window's down?"  Dash to the car, then just stand for a bit in the rain to enjoy it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on July 02, 2013, 08:17:18 AM

I bought coffee, food and medication, got my hair cut and had lunch - salmon - at the café  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 02, 2013, 04:59:48 PM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on July 02, 2013, 12:58:22 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 01, 2013, 09:40:40 PM

We had a nice rain at the AA meeting tonight.

An outdoor meeting?  ???

:laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: BadgerTom on July 03, 2013, 04:58:10 PM

I had a rather satisfying bowel movement.

It was solid for once!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on July 03, 2013, 05:07:05 PM

Barak Obama happened.
He's good.

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Post by: skyblue1 on July 03, 2013, 05:09:19 PM

Quote from: McWorker on July 03, 2013, 05:07:05 PM

Barack Obama happened.
He's good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on July 03, 2013, 05:10:05 PM

Quote from: skyblue1 on July 03, 2013, 05:09:19 PM

Quote from: McWorker on July 03, 2013, 05:07:05 PM

Barack Obama happened.
He's good.

:thumbup:

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Post by: BadgerTom on July 03, 2013, 05:11:53 PM

Quote from: skyblue1 on July 03, 2013, 05:09:19 PM

Almost as pointless as saying <No Comment>

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Post by: skyblue1 on July 03, 2013, 05:21:44 PM

* No comment

Get that fucking camera out my face

Or I am going to twist off your nose *

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: BadgerTom on July 03, 2013, 05:41:24 PM

Not if i cut off all your appendages!

Then what will you do.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 04, 2013, 05:10:47 PM

Ew, yuck!. Salmon is beyond disgusting IMO.

Got some sleep, for a change. Trying to decide weather to load a pipe of the 5-MeO-DALT I had returned by the filth (who, lol, didn't really look like they were thrilled with having to deliver several bags full of firearms, lab chemicals and psychotropics haha. Fuckweaselry, the bloody lot of them, I should not have to wait as long as I did for their return.)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 04, 2013, 05:15:27 PM

Quote from: Lestat on July 04, 2013, 05:10:47 PM

Ew, yuck!. Salmon is beyond disgusting IMO.

Not a huge fish fan in general, but have you ever tired salmon mousse? No idea who was the first person to imagine whipped fish would be a good idea, but they were a genius.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 04, 2013, 05:18:58 PM

No I haven't. Why would I, when I absolutely cannot bear that odious stuff?

Would be just the same as whipping up onions, vegetables, or dog waste into a mousse. Would just make for fluffy dog shit, not a meal.

Garbage in, garbage out as they say. I prefer my salmon alive, and staying off my table.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 04, 2013, 05:23:20 PM

:laugh: Might want to give it a day in court one day. Just saying.

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Post by: skyblue1 on July 04, 2013, 05:26:36 PM

Quote from: Lestat on July 04, 2013, 05:18:58 PM

No I haven't. Why would I, when I absolutely cannot bear that odious stuff?

Would be just the same as whipping up onions, vegetables, or dog waste into a mousse. Would just make for fluffy dog shit, not a meal.

Garbage in, garbage out as they say. I prefer my salmon alive, and staying off my table.

And the salmon thank you

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 04, 2013, 06:48:11 PM

My sister does not eat fish or seafood, but loves garlic.  She was married to a man who did not eat garlic, but loved fish and seafood.  They wouldn't kiss each other within 24 hours of the other eating the offending food.  Their marriage lasted about 2 years.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 04, 2013, 08:09:15 PM

That's terrible for your sister, but still a funny story. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 04, 2013, 08:15:12 PM

And why would I want to tire a salmon? pretty unlikely habitat for one to get run over in. Imagine they get tired enough swimming the wrong way up a river to spawn.

Never really been a fan of freshwater fish, to eat. Although I did enjoy some kind of vietnamese catfish a while back that I tried, can't remember what it was though. I do love eating fish though, but I prefer salt water varities, especially tuna or shark steaks, swordfish, marlin, or those old but classic brit comfort nosh favourites, haddock or cod, deep fried in salty batter. Yum.

Salmon I can't stand, it stinks, has a nasty texture and tastes all wrong. No thanks.

This thread has made me hungry though...think I'll have a can of tuna or three after I finish my fag.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 04, 2013, 08:19:17 PM

Was wondering what you were on about until noticing my typo. Salmon probably don't get tired easily. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: AspieMomma on July 04, 2013, 10:57:10 PM

I like most fish, but I will never, ever eat salmon mousse. 

Salmon Mousse! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk3bhyIaxSE#)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 04, 2013, 11:24:43 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 04, 2013, 06:48:11 PM

My sister does not eat fish or seafood, but loves garlic.  She was married to a man who did not eat garlic, but loved fish and seafood.  They wouldn't kiss each other within 24 hours of the other eating the offending food.  Their marriage lasted about 2 years.

That used to be the  price fore me, when eating fish too. Now my daughters look away for half a day, when I eat fish.
My marriage did last ten times as long as your sisters. Maybe it has to do with me finding kissing awkward and not necessarily pleasant, for a long, long time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 05, 2013, 01:10:09 AM

Coffee happening now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 07, 2013, 01:39:11 AM

Quote from: Jack on July 04, 2013, 05:15:27 PM

Quote from: Lestat on July 04, 2013, 05:10:47 PM

Ew, yuck!. Salmon is beyond disgusting IMO.

Not a huge fish fan in general, but have you ever tired salmon mousse? No idea who was the first person to imagine whipped fish would be a good idea, but they were a genius.

  Now I am thinking about the whipping of fish!   :dom:   :fish:    Catch it, whip it, eat it!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 07, 2013, 01:59:20 AM

Kinky bitch :D

Animal bondage has to be a sin though (although with cat'licks, everything is a sin unless jebus said it/wore it/ate it/possibly even shat it :P At least, if its enjoyable, you can pretty much guarantee its sinful)

Whipped fish though...what a thought. Ew. I don't fancy sushi either, come to think of it. Raw fish...lovely. not.

Although cooked, I like most fish, about the only one I have tried and REALLY hated, was monkfish, that was awful. Apparently its very expensive now, people seek it as a delicacy.

But why, I cannot possibly imagine. They taste like shit, and are ugly fucking bastards to boot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkfish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkfish)  a face not even a mother could love.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 07, 2013, 02:03:35 AM

Coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 07, 2013, 02:53:17 PM

Something possibly marvelous was offered today, but I'm not sure if it can be done. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 07, 2013, 05:58:33 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 07, 2013, 02:53:17 PM

Something possibly marvelous was offered today, but I'm not sure if it can be done.

  Dear little Majesty, I hope it can be worked out.  :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 07, 2013, 06:00:14 PM

  Today was somewhat less humid, meaning work was somewhat more tolerable.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 07, 2013, 06:07:33 PM

I got four fiesta ware cups that read about 3mR/h on my Geiger counter and uranium glass for free at the end of the day that was getting thrown out because the people didn't want to pack it up

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 07, 2013, 06:09:44 PM

  My boss brought me a grape-flavored Powerade Zero!  It kept me hydrated!  :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 07, 2013, 06:20:13 PM

Hm....know anywhere that does an affordable, decent neutron counter?  I've been just itching to try building a cyclotron..but for the sorts of things I'd likely DO with it, I'd certainly need one. Neutron radiation is useful as hell, but has a nasty tendency to make other things radioactive.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 08, 2013, 12:35:16 AM

Silvered Geiger-Müller Tubes: A do it yourself neutron detector (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqudcOJTnRE#)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on July 08, 2013, 08:53:25 AM

Thea mea e Gallia venit  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 08, 2013, 09:47:00 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 08, 2013, 12:35:16 AM

Silvered Geiger-Müller Tubes: A do it yourself neutron detector (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqudcOJTnRE#)

I have one of the Geiger counters they used in the vid :parts:
 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 08, 2013, 03:39:40 PM

I finally made the phone calls for the next step in getting the PR's job training.  Now to wait for everyone to get together, find funding, etc.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 08, 2013, 03:42:00 PM

Finally, some peace and quiet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 09, 2013, 10:34:01 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 08, 2013, 03:39:40 PM

I finally made the phone calls for the next step in getting the PR's job training.  Now to wait for everyone to get together, find funding, etc.

  I really hope this works out, it sounds like a great opportunity.  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on July 09, 2013, 12:05:53 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on July 09, 2013, 10:34:01 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 08, 2013, 03:39:40 PM

I finally made the phone calls for the next step in getting the PR's job training.  Now to wait for everyone to get together, find funding, etc.

  I really hope this works out, it sounds like a great opportunity.  :viking:

Me too. I hope it can be done.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 09, 2013, 02:22:30 PM

Thank you both.

Today was fairly productive. 
I had b'fast with my friend,
Went to call back on the mother of our deceased neighbor.  They are giving us all the unused food and spices (lots and lots and lots of decaf tea, which PA loves to drink),
Rounded up some more stuff and drove to the thrift store with the back seat full,
Washed and dried (one in dryer, one hung on the line) 2 loads of towels,
Grocery shopped,
Fed the family and cat
Etc.
 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 10, 2013, 03:11:32 PM

The mother of my deceased neighbor brought us the contents of the kitchen and freezer. 
Close to 12 grocery bags of unbelievable items.  I shared what we couldn't use with a friend.

Oatmeal and assorted grains
Seasoning packets
Soups
Dried and frozen fruits
MAPLE SYRUP
Home baked muffins and cookies
Tahini
Butter, oils
etc, etc, etc

I've never had this much bounty to work with before.  I am unbelievably blessed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on July 10, 2013, 03:43:18 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 10, 2013, 03:11:32 PM

The mother of my deceased neighbor brought us the contents of the kitchen and freezer. 
Close to 12 grocery bags of unbelievable items.  I shared what we couldn't use with a friend.

Oatmeal and assorted grains
Seasoning packets
Soups
Dried and frozen fruits
MAPLE SYRUP
Home baked muffins and cookies
Tahini
Butter, oils
etc, etc, etc

I've never had this much bounty to work with before.  I am unbelievably blessed.

Now you must make me some food :D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 11, 2013, 01:01:59 AM

Technically this was yesterday, but...

They finally restored my interwebz! :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 11, 2013, 07:38:15 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 11, 2013, 01:01:59 AM

Technically this was yesterday, but...

They finally restored my interwebz! :woohoo:

Oh, no!   :GA:  The world is in danger again.  Everyone hide!   :hide:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on July 11, 2013, 08:05:38 AM

I made 1.25kg of green stars  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 11, 2013, 09:57:13 AM

My old man had bought a dessicator, but he thought before buying that it was a vacuum dessicator, which it is not.
He needed one to force potting compound into the wiring of a transformer under vacuum....but its not a vac type.

So he cannot make use of it, and rather than send it back for a refund, he just told me I could have it for the lab.

A vacuum dessicator would be useful to me...but there aren't all THAT many solid compounds that are not susceptible to drying agents such as concentrated sulfuric acid, or  phosphorus pentoxide (hell...solid P2O5, iirc, will actually suck the water from concentrated sulfuric, liberating fucking SO3, or it will liberate dinitrogen tet from concentrated nitric acid, even capable of being used for the synthesis of perchloric anhydride from its acid. Aside from the use of hard vacuum..if P2O5 (actually P4O10), won't do it...there probably isn't much that WILL do the trick)

Asked him what he wanted for it, but he just gave it to me for nothing, as he cannot make use of it, but knows that I can give it a good home in the lab, and at least get some use out of it, and I most certainly will do.

And when I'm not actually using it for drying anything in particular, i can fill it with inert gas, drying agent, and use it to store things like my lithium aluminium hydride, and other such beastly water/air sensitive reagents, although that is already stored in a plastic container, wrapped in cling film, inside a sealed glass jar full of packets of silica gel dessicant, filled with argon, and wrapped in teflon tape, still, no point in having it 'go off' any sooner than needs be.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 11, 2013, 01:32:30 PM

More de-cluttering.  A backseat full of stuff to the thrift store and a trash bag out for pick-up.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 11, 2013, 01:53:18 PM

Quote from: Lit on July 11, 2013, 08:05:38 AM

I made 1.25kg of green stars  8)

Can't resist, have to ask, even when knowing better.


Do they taste good?  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on July 11, 2013, 02:10:38 PM

Nescio  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 11, 2013, 02:58:06 PM

Tasting fireworks is  :viking: :headexplode:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 11, 2013, 03:02:12 PM

My dinner happened, and happened to be very very tasty.
One of those lucky days, when it just pans out perfect.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 11, 2013, 05:16:44 PM

The first of the leftovers from my deceased neighbor - Roasted corn and shrimp soup, home-made blueberry muffins.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 11, 2013, 05:54:34 PM

And stupid.

Green is often done using barium salts (depending on the shade of green wanted, although copper is used also. Ba gives a lighter, clearer green. Boron salts can be used too, but barium is useful as it readily forms a chlorate and perchlorate salt, which is an oxidizer in its own right as well as a dye for flames). Ba salts that can be absorbed by the body are highly toxic, primarily affecting the cardiovascular system.



Good stuff for today...I JUST this moment found my chlormethiazole caps. I haven't had any since the day I picked them up, last monday, been using herbs to stave off any chance of seizure, but I felt pretty fucking shite without it. The withdrawal is downright nasty. I'd taken my first dose immediately after getting my scripts on monday morning, got home, put it down, and I must have dropped the bottle, because I hadn't been able to find them since. So there is almost a full bottle left, and I was really starting to feel the lack of it bite pretty hard. They had dropped off my bed I presume, when I poured everything out of the bag from the pharmacy to sort through and take what I then needed, then rolled out of sight.

Just found them about 30s ago. Thankfully they act fast. Although a shot of a couple of oxy 80s certainly helped take the edge off :D But I would have been completely unable to sleep, and feeling rough as shit without them, as they are a barbiturate-like sedative (in terms of action, rather than structure that is, actually its a derivative of vitamin B1 [thiamine], and is indeed, not difficult to prepare starting from B1 [2 steps, plus isolation of product])

Seeing as how I had to go without for a fair few days, I now have some surplus, which means I'll definitely get a few good uninterrupted nights of deep sleep.

After taking time for a quick supper of fresh strawberries, sprinkled with a light dusting of sugar, a pre-bed rollup and a few nice, icy cold, frosty bottled lagers, straight from the fridge I fan feel those starting to kick in already.

And just caught a neat looking spider, crawling up the walls. Some sort of fairly large araneomorph, genus is Dysdera, the woodlouse-hunting spiders, although I haven't as yet identified it to species level. I may perhaps keep it as a pet. They are not dangerous (unless you happen to be a woodlouse, upon which many species within the genus Dysdera prey exclusively, or almost so, although some will also take beetles). They are aggressive however, and have massive fangs, the venom isn't medically significant, excepting cases of allergy of course, but it is apparently fairly painful; and in any case, they really do have a whopping pair of chelicera on the business end with which to deliver it, so I will not be picking it up and taking it walkies on a lead :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysdera_crocata (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysdera_crocata) The most common member of Dysdera, wouldn't surprise me if it turns out to be this one. They feed exclusively upon woodlice, although perhaps occasionally taking other prey in an opportunistic manner; their massive fangs allow them to crack the armored shells of woodlice with ease.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on July 11, 2013, 10:30:28 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on July 11, 2013, 02:58:06 PM

Tasting fireworks is  :viking: :headexplode:

 :agreed: :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on July 11, 2013, 11:11:01 PM

Quote from: Lestat on July 11, 2013, 05:54:34 PM

And stupid.

Green is often done using barium salts (depending on the shade of green wanted, although copper is used also. Ba gives a lighter, clearer green. Boron salts can be used too, but barium is useful as it readily forms a chlorate and perchlorate salt, which is an oxidizer in its own right as well as a dye for flames). Ba salts that can be absorbed by the body are highly toxic, primarily affecting the cardiovascular system.

I use barium chlorate. The colour is unbeatable. In commercial fireworks they only use the carbonate and nitrate nowadays.

I have touched a crystal of barium chlorate with the tip of my tongue once. Awful taste, of course. And I rinsed my mouth thoroughly with water afterwards, of course  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 12, 2013, 12:12:05 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 11, 2013, 07:38:15 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 11, 2013, 01:01:59 AM

Technically this was yesterday, but...

They finally restored my interwebz! :woohoo:

Oh, no!   :GA:  The world is in danger again.  Everyone hide!   :hide:

:chicken:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 12, 2013, 12:12:57 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 12, 2013, 01:50:11 PM

Hm...just a thought, lit...random, haven't tried this.

But I wonder if making a mixed ester between a polyol and both boric acid, and some sort of explosophore might yield good results. Would be a HE though probably. Something like a dinitroglycerol borate ester perhaps. Could be interesting. things like methyl, ethyl borate burn with a vivid green flame.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on July 12, 2013, 02:03:38 PM

I have thought about that too. Many similar substances could actuslly be used in pyrotechnics. I think the US military tried some stuff like that in the 1960's.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 12, 2013, 05:23:29 PM

I took my daughter to work and she cleaned up in the van when she got bored, between the floor and the center console she came up with this 6 one dollar bills, $69 in quarters, $31.70 in dimes, $7.80 in nickles, $3.39 in pennies plus 2 wheat back pennies,2 Canadian pennies and a 5 pence coin from the UK.  Not bad for spare change :2thumbsup:
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/parts67/001_zpsde15d6e1.jpg) (http://s135.photobucket.com/user/parts67/media/001_zpsde15d6e1.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 12, 2013, 11:21:07 PM

Well well....that was pretty sweet...

Just went out on an early morning walk, I'd popped a couple of sleeping pills, but still couldn't get to sleep all night, so I figured on going out to stretch my legs a bit and cool off.

Went out to a local field to check if the masses of wild raspberry andblackberries were yet bearing fruit. They weren't.

But I noticed a 4-leaf clover, as they said, they bring good luck (I have an idea for perhaps something in the way of an artistic gift for a certain special someone.

And what did I see when I bent to pick it? nice bit of spliff, just what I fancy right now :D
Not damp with dew or anything, and a lighter to go with it. Not a huge amount, but I could get three bongs out of it if I really tried. I'm not going to though, I'm just going to stuff it all in one, breaking out an extra-large downpipe and bowl.

I only really went out for a quick walk, a morning fag and to go grab some pods from the various spots I'd clandestinely sown poppy seeds over earlier this year. And as it happened, I was just thinking to myself 'mmm...I really wouldn't mind a wee bit of vitamin THC right now xD

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 13, 2013, 03:58:27 AM

Quote from: Parts on July 12, 2013, 05:23:29 PM

I took my daughter to work and she cleaned up in the van when she got bored, between the floor and the center console she came up with this 6 one dollar bills, $69 in quarters, $31.70 in dimes, $7.80 in nickles, $3.39 in pennies plus 2 wheat back pennies,2 Canadian pennies and a 5 pence coin from the UK.  Not bad for spare change :2thumbsup:
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/parts67/001_zpsde15d6e1.jpg) (http://s135.photobucket.com/user/parts67/media/001_zpsde15d6e1.jpg.html)

Wow, did she split half the treasure with you?


And, Canadian pennies, did they not end up in CBC's apartment also? Something mysterious going on? :tinfoil:










I miss our kwartjes and dubbeltjes (Quarters and dimes).

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on July 14, 2013, 08:50:20 AM

My brother came back from a business trip to Germany. He brought me a bottle of Jack Daniel's  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 14, 2013, 08:54:26 AM

I beat Ceilidh in a game of Magic - The Gathering. Mostly because she had dud cards and not enough land to bring creatures out like I did.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 14, 2013, 09:26:21 AM

My digital camera works.  I just need to buy a memory card for it so I can get the best use out of it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 14, 2013, 01:38:45 PM

My father was in a better mood and more with it than the last time I went up to see him

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 14, 2013, 04:49:18 PM

Delightful day with friends who gave a(n early) surprise birthday party for the PR.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on July 14, 2013, 04:53:18 PM

Blues band played at the market today where I work.

It was a day all about the blues.

 :coolguy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on July 14, 2013, 05:07:54 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 14, 2013, 04:49:18 PM

Delightful day with friends who gave a(n early) surprise birthday party for the PR.

Happy Birthday to PR :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 14, 2013, 05:43:05 PM

Finished and submitted the final version of my paper.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on July 14, 2013, 11:20:26 PM

Music.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 15, 2013, 01:45:01 AM

Coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 16, 2013, 01:05:13 PM

The PR went into the store to spend the rest of her money while I waited in the car.  She picked up a Disney Princess book, a wall poster, and a bouquet of carnations for me.  What made it extra special was that she didn't have quite enough money, so an old lady behind her made up the difference.  "There's too much bad in this world," the lady said.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: BadgerTom on July 17, 2013, 05:39:25 PM

Good news happened today! Just found out i'll be sat next to my step-gran at my Grandfathers funeral...

I guess i should've asterisked the word good!!! Maybe a cough.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 17, 2013, 07:39:08 PM

Quote from: skyblue1 on July 14, 2013, 05:07:54 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 14, 2013, 04:49:18 PM

Delightful day with friends who gave a(n early) surprise birthday party for the PR.

Happy Birthday to PR :)

  From me too.  I am pretty good at cake mixes, here is a cake for her.   :cake:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on July 19, 2013, 01:18:03 AM

Disability money  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 19, 2013, 01:18:15 AM

Coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 19, 2013, 08:59:00 AM

Was told by someone that my price was too low so they bumped it up $100 and asked me if that was okay with me

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 19, 2013, 09:39:53 AM

Found a couple of wild cherry trees, laden with ripe, sweet, juicy fruit. So I scurried up the trunk of the trees, and picked a big bowlful of cherries.

I'm sitting at the computer, while a pan of opium tea stews away, with my cheeks bulging out like a hamster, spitting out cherry stones into the trash can as I munch. And damn tasty they are too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on July 19, 2013, 06:37:57 PM

well, I didn't sell my amethyst. yay!  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 20, 2013, 02:19:09 AM

Coffee about to happen...

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 20, 2013, 02:28:40 AM

My pod tea just kicked in. Nice warm morphine fuzzies :D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 20, 2013, 02:35:18 AM

Coffee happening NOW. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 20, 2013, 06:37:28 AM

After a LOT of work chopping, blending, stewing in alcohol etc.

My propionyl-omnopon homebake skag project is almost come to fruition. At the stage where I should be able to precipitate the alkaloids out of solution now :) Just about to go get started.


Ohboy...I so cannot wait until this is finished.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'Butterflies' on July 20, 2013, 07:07:02 PM

Played tennis with my niece. Kicked her butt :hadron:

NO MERCY :headbang2: :headbang2: :headbang2:

Later on, met up with girlfriend in Belfast and had a lovely Chinese meal. She came back with me, and is staying with me for the weekend.
I think we'll go for a drive on the scooters tomorrow.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 20, 2013, 09:58:59 PM

  We had delicious creamy iced coffee drinks at work today, to help us through the heat.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on July 21, 2013, 05:34:37 PM

I went to safeway and bought some mint Klondike bars,  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 21, 2013, 07:26:28 PM

DIY acetylated black tar poppy pod H. Yum.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: lutra on July 26, 2013, 04:46:07 AM

Temperature dropped quite a bit here today. That was welcomed (by me).

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 26, 2013, 02:35:27 PM

Spent the afternoon with some friends.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 26, 2013, 02:36:39 PM

I accomplished my to do list.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on July 27, 2013, 08:40:18 PM

Stopped in here! :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 28, 2013, 02:29:54 AM

It's good to see you around. :)

I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on July 31, 2013, 02:31:13 PM

I hung out with my ring from salt lake city.  :santa:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 31, 2013, 06:56:55 PM

  I pulled off my waterproof bandage before my skin was ready, but I did not bleed.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on July 31, 2013, 09:38:14 PM

My midsection looks less volumeous. the fat is leaving back to the asteroid belt where it belongs, :blonde:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on July 31, 2013, 10:32:18 PM

I have a perfect 100% in my class assignments

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 31, 2013, 10:37:26 PM

That's awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 31, 2013, 11:04:59 PM

Coffee happened.

Yesterday, I managed to solve a coding problem I have been working on for weeks.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on July 31, 2013, 11:34:00 PM

Why the fuck am i crying. What is wrong with me?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 01, 2013, 05:22:56 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 31, 2013, 11:04:59 PM

Coffee happened.

Yesterday, I managed to solve a coding problem I have been working on for weeks.

Did you get the smilies to move in the other direction?

:orly:

Quote from: duckfetishgirl on July 31, 2013, 11:34:00 PM

Why the fuck am i crying. What is wrong with me?

That's not something good that happened today. Unless they are tears of joy?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 01, 2013, 09:57:09 AM

Quote from: duckfetishgirl on July 31, 2013, 10:32:18 PM

I have a perfect 100% in my class assignments

  That's excellent!  What is your professional goal?  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 01, 2013, 09:58:51 AM

Quote from: duckfetishgirl on July 31, 2013, 11:34:00 PM

Why the fuck am i crying. What is wrong with me?

  Is it hormonal?  Sometimes we girls just get weepy.  :blonde:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 01, 2013, 10:00:59 AM

Quote from: Merauder on July 31, 2013, 09:38:14 PM

My midsection looks less volumeous. the fat is leaving back to the asteroid belt where it belongs, :blonde:

      :lol1:    My midsection fat is firmly in orbit, I have a snowman silhouette! ----->  :snowman:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on August 01, 2013, 10:11:20 AM

My coffee is hot but the outside is not

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 01, 2013, 11:24:44 AM

Today....I had a dream about a hideous monster baby, who actually was kind...all he wanted was love and trust. I loved him like a brother, his parents were fools to shun him. He ended up saving my life...I think.  :apondering:  A little fuzzy now...but at any rate...it pays off to show kindness to monsters. Remember that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 01, 2013, 10:54:01 PM

My wife brought me coffee at work :coffee:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on August 02, 2013, 01:53:49 PM

Quote from: Parts on August 01, 2013, 10:54:01 PM

My wife brought me coffee at work :coffee:

Your wife is awesome. :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 02, 2013, 01:58:51 PM

Quote from: Parts on August 01, 2013, 10:54:01 PM

My wife brought me coffee at work :coffee:

Was she wearing a stewardess uniform and ask, "Coffee, tea or me?"

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Silk on August 02, 2013, 03:13:39 PM

I brought my ass back over here to see what you guys have been up to. The reminder was kind of weird though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 02, 2013, 06:26:47 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 01, 2013, 11:24:44 AM

Today....I had a dream about a hideous monster baby, who actually was kind...all he wanted was love and trust. I loved him like a brother, his parents were fools to shun him. He ended up saving my life...I think.  :apondering:  A little fuzzy now...but at any rate...it pays off to show kindness to monsters. Remember that.

  That's a really sweet dream.  I wish you remembered more of it.  :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 02, 2013, 06:27:40 PM

Quote from: Parts on August 01, 2013, 10:54:01 PM

My wife brought me coffee at work :coffee:

  Those little thoughtful gestures can make your whole day.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 02, 2013, 06:29:25 PM

Quote from: Silk on August 02, 2013, 03:13:39 PM

I brought my ass back over here to see what you guys have been up to. The reminder was kind of weird though.

  Reminder?  Was it a friendly e-mail from your local NSA officer?  :police:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'Butterflies' on August 02, 2013, 06:53:02 PM

Have been trying for a while to make friends with a Hungarian girl who works in Tesco.
Today, I was meeting my friend who works in Tesco for lunch in McDonalds, and she brought along her Hungarian workmate. She is really nice, and speaks great English. She's coming for a night out with us next week :green:
I think we might be bonding :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Silk on August 02, 2013, 06:56:27 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 02, 2013, 06:29:25 PM

Quote from: Silk on August 02, 2013, 03:13:39 PM

I brought my ass back over here to see what you guys have been up to. The reminder was kind of weird though.

  Reminder?  Was it a friendly e-mail from your local NSA officer?  :police:

FX's The Bridge panel at a press tour being posted on twitter. I've been too good lately for NSA to snoop on me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 02, 2013, 07:10:40 PM

Quote from: Silk on August 02, 2013, 06:56:27 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 02, 2013, 06:29:25 PM

Quote from: Silk on August 02, 2013, 03:13:39 PM

I brought my ass back over here to see what you guys have been up to. The reminder was kind of weird though.

  Reminder?  Was it a friendly e-mail from your local NSA officer?  :police:

FX's The Bridge panel at a press tour being posted on twitter. I've been too good lately for NSA to snoop on me.

  Watching a police drama, hmmm, perhaps trying to outsmart law enforcement?  :police:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 03, 2013, 03:11:40 AM

The filth are hardly known for being the sharpest tools in the box. The BIGGEST tools, quite probably, but sharpest? not before tartarus becomes Hades's walk-in meat freezer :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on August 03, 2013, 03:23:08 AM

Quote from: Lestat on August 03, 2013, 03:11:40 AM

The filth are hardly known for being the sharpest tools in the box. The BIGGEST tools, quite probably, but sharpest? not before tartarus becomes Hades's walk-in meat freezer :P

 :agreed: They need some lead therapy :litigious:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 03, 2013, 03:43:02 AM

Only if I can guaranteed get the slugs out again, thats perfectly good scrap metal/rad shielding there!

Long walk off a short clif would be perfect :P In fact, pork belongs with the other meat, kept in the freezer. And tartarus would be just great (unless yer one of the old bill that is bwahaha)

Their stupidity never ceases to astound me it really doesn't.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on August 03, 2013, 03:45:28 AM

If you are intelligent you don't become a cop in the first place. Maybe someone in the homicide detail, but the average cop is a dumbfuck.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on August 03, 2013, 06:56:13 PM

Took my littlest two minions to lunch and a movie...Turbo! It's fun having them to myself for 5 days. :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 03, 2013, 08:53:14 PM

Arrived in Montréal after a long trip.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 03, 2013, 09:13:50 PM

...a friend indeed. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 03, 2013, 09:19:07 PM

strawberries in sugared syrup, homemade.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 03, 2013, 10:41:42 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2013, 08:53:14 PM

Arrived in Montréal after a long trip.

Welcome to North America! :2thumbsup:

Are you stopping to visit the US? :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on August 04, 2013, 08:38:09 AM

I got up

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on August 04, 2013, 04:12:46 PM

Tourmaline. :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: lutra on August 05, 2013, 06:10:16 AM

Yay.. good news. My (youngest) sister called me up this morning and said she's declared healthy again. Well, she still needs to get stronger yet but she battled a quite aggressive form of cancer for more than six months and won. This morning doctors did a couple of tests and yes, the outcome was good. She still will be tested every three months, though.

Yes.  :thumbup:

Man o man.. I was so überly worried at times.

Going to buy her a bouquet of flowers (or a plant for indoors) this afternoon and bring it along this evening when I'll visit them.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 05, 2013, 09:54:37 AM

Quote from: lutra on August 05, 2013, 06:10:16 AM

Yay.. good news. My (youngest) sister called me up this morning and said she's declared healthy again. Well, she still needs to get stronger yet but she battled a quite aggressive form of cancer for more than six months and won. This morning doctors did a couple of tests and yes, the outcome was good. She still will be tested every three months, though.

Yes.  :thumbup:

Man o man.. I was so überly worried at times.

Going to buy her a bouquet of flowers (or a plant for indoors) this afternoon and bring it along this evening when I'll visit them.

FANTASTIC

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: lutra on August 05, 2013, 11:02:20 AM

Thank you, QV. It is fantastic. We're all very happy about this good news.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on August 05, 2013, 11:23:37 AM

Took my youngest minion to swimming lessons! She is getting better, but still terrified of jumping off the diving board.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 05, 2013, 03:50:03 PM

Quote from: skyblue1 on August 04, 2013, 08:38:09 AM

I got up

With or without pills? ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on August 05, 2013, 03:59:22 PM

Link sat next to me. He is a very standoffish little Siamese prince. :3 So his sitting next to me is flattering.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 05, 2013, 08:12:19 PM

I did something so intelligent today, I blew my own mind. Then I taught someone else how to do it, and I blew their mind too.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 05, 2013, 08:17:47 PM

Quote from: Crocodile Dundee on August 05, 2013, 08:12:19 PM

I did something so intelligent today, I blew my own mind. Then I taught someone else how to do it, and I blew their mind too.  :green:

Crikey!

Is that all you blew? ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 05, 2013, 09:17:57 PM

Applied for a job :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 06, 2013, 02:49:14 AM

Quote from: lutra on August 05, 2013, 06:10:16 AM

Yay.. good news. My (youngest) sister called me up this morning and said she's declared healthy again. Well, she still needs to get stronger yet but she battled a quite aggressive form of cancer for more than six months and won. This morning doctors did a couple of tests and yes, the outcome was good. She still will be tested every three months, though.

Yes.  :thumbup:

Man o man.. I was so überly worried at times.

Going to buy her a bouquet of flowers (or a plant for indoors) this afternoon and bring it along this evening when I'll visit them.

Awesome.

So no aftertreatments, like decades of hormone supplements either.

Hope she'll recover well. And that she can deal ok with the long time it will take to get her strength back.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: lutra on August 06, 2013, 03:36:20 AM

Thank you, Hykey.

Dunno about any aftertreatments with supplements but she now has to decide.. ja, whether she's going to have her breasts 'removed' completely or not. Like, soon. Womb and ovaries has been 'removed' p/m six months ago. (sorry 'bout the/my sec wording of this)

Yestereve, visiting them, was nice though. Nice to see her with hope in her eyes again. She's so must a binnenvetter, like my dad and other sister, it struck me deep seeing her worrying so much (earlier).

Yestereve (which isn't proper English, I know) we laughed again and had a glass of wine. Cosy, nice and cheerful, it was.

Yes, hope she'll recovers well.   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 06, 2013, 01:50:21 PM

Quote from: lutra on August 06, 2013, 03:36:20 AM

Thank you, Hykey.

Dunno about any aftertreatments with supplements but she now has to decide.. ja, whether she's going to have her breasts 'removed' completely or not. Like, soon. Womb and ovaries has been 'removed' p/m six months ago. (sorry 'bout the/my sec wording of this)

Yestereve, visiting them, was nice though. Nice to see her with hope in her eyes again. She's so must a binnenvetter, like my dad and other sister, it struck me deep seeing her worrying so much (earlier).

Yestereve (which isn't proper English, I know) we laughed again and had a glass of wine. Cosy, nice and cheerful, it was.

Yes, hope she'll recovers well.

:hug: :thumbup:

Last I checked, "yestereve" is a word. It's archaic, though. Most Americans say "last night".

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 06, 2013, 03:50:37 PM

Quote from: lutra on August 06, 2013, 03:36:20 AM

Thank you, Hykey.

Dunno about any aftertreatments with supplements but she now has to decide.. ja, whether she's going to have her breasts 'removed' completely or not. Like, soon. Womb and ovaries has been 'removed' p/m six months ago. (sorry 'bout the/my sec wording of this)

Yestereve, visiting them, was nice though. Nice to see her with hope in her eyes again. She's so must a binnenvetter, like my dad and other sister, it struck me deep seeing her worrying so much (earlier).

Yestereve (which isn't proper English, I know) we laughed again and had a glass of wine. Cosy, nice and cheerful, it was.

Yes, hope she'll recovers well.

It's good to see hope and lust for life again in someone after a treatment for cancer.

Does she have a genetically disposed form of cancer?

Keep a close eye on the binnenvetter, while she decides on what to do with her breasts. Those pans of soup and good meals will very likely still be needed. What I have seen in more than one cancer patient is that after the treatment, there is finally time for the emotional roller coaster of winding down. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: lutra on August 07, 2013, 05:39:58 AM

Yes, I'm afraid so. BRCA1, the gen is called. She carries it and I might carry it myself also. Contemplating if I should have me tested for it at the moment. But ja, then, what? What difference does it make?

Well, me.. not so important.. just hope mother nature let her two daughters off the hook.

And yeah, food. Good proper food, the intake of it, is SO important. They still don't get it though. He, her husband, is basically a moron concerning this, I'm sorry to say. 'We eat well enough!' I had to shut my mouth too often, avoiding driving a wedge between us lot and not to go preaching about food for the last half year.

Well, she's making broths and soups herself now.. which I consider a good thing. Going to buy her, for sister's birthday soon, a proper chef's knife so maybe she grows a little bit more interest in cooking. Her/their kitchen knives, now, are awfully shite. Ridiculously so. Teach her to use it properly, too. Cat's claw and stuff..

Um, thinking now.. perhaps a pot with chives a/o parsley as a little hinting present could be a tadski helpful here also.   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Beardy McFuckface on August 07, 2013, 12:27:27 PM

Did some jogging and started going back to the gym.

I'm not aiming to enter the gun show or anything, just going to keep my weight under control.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 07, 2013, 12:58:59 PM

Finished the hell hole of an attic I was working on

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 09, 2013, 05:36:40 PM

Quote from: lutra on August 07, 2013, 05:39:58 AM

Yes, I'm afraid so. BRCA1, the gen is called. She carries it and I might carry it myself also. Contemplating if I should have me tested for it at the moment. But ja, then, what? What difference does it make?

Well, me.. not so important.. just hope mother nature let her two daughters off the hook.

And yeah, food. Good proper food, the intake of it, is SO important. They still don't get it though. He, her husband, is basically a moron concerning this, I'm sorry to say. 'We eat well enough!' I had to shut my mouth too often, avoiding driving a wedge between us lot and not to go preaching about food for the last half year.

Well, she's making broths and soups herself now.. which I consider a good thing. Going to buy her, for sister's birthday soon, a proper chef's knife so maybe she grows a little bit more interest in cooking. Her/their kitchen knives, now, are awfully shite. Ridiculously so. Teach her to use it properly, too. Cat's claw and stuff..

Um, thinking now.. perhaps a pot with chives a/o parsley as a little hinting present could be a tadski helpful here also.

Your sister and BIL probably have a lot more on their mind than healthy food. Keeping themselves, and their kids sane, and as good as can be in a time this scary is more than enough to fill the day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 09, 2013, 06:07:43 PM

I got a $950 refund check from my business insurance  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 09, 2013, 07:04:55 PM

Quote from: lutra on August 05, 2013, 06:10:16 AM

Yay.. good news. My (youngest) sister called me up this morning and said she's declared healthy again. Well, she still needs to get stronger yet but she battled a quite aggressive form of cancer for more than six months and won. This morning doctors did a couple of tests and yes, the outcome was good. She still will be tested every three months, though.

Yes.  :thumbup:

Man o man.. I was so überly worried at times.

Going to buy her a bouquet of flowers (or a plant for indoors) this afternoon and bring it along this evening when I'll visit them.

  Good for your sister for kicking cancer's ass!   :boxers:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 09, 2013, 07:09:38 PM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on August 05, 2013, 11:23:37 AM

Took my youngest minion to swimming lessons! She is getting better, but still terrified of jumping off the diving board.

  I used to be afraid of that too, because I'm really afraid of heights, but eventually I was able to do it. 
  My mother just missed qualifying as a lifeguard in her youth because of her fear of diving, but
  there is still plenty of time for your daughter.  Go, little minion, go!  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 09, 2013, 07:17:39 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 06, 2013, 01:50:21 PM

Quote from: lutra on August 06, 2013, 03:36:20 AM

Thank you, Hykey.

Dunno about any aftertreatments with supplements but she now has to decide.. ja, whether she's going to have her breasts 'removed' completely or not. Like, soon. Womb and ovaries has been 'removed' p/m six months ago. (sorry 'bout the/my sec wording of this)

Yestereve, visiting them, was nice though. Nice to see her with hope in her eyes again. She's so must a binnenvetter, like my dad and other sister, it struck me deep seeing her worrying so much (earlier).

Yestereve (which isn't proper English, I know) we laughed again and had a glass of wine. Cosy, nice and cheerful, it was.

Yes, hope she'll recovers well.

:hug: :thumbup:

Last I checked, "yestereve" is a word. It's archaic, though. Most Americans say "last night".

  The first line of the Christmas carol  "Christ In The Stranger's Guise"  contains the word  "yestreen."  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 09, 2013, 07:19:11 PM

Quote from: schleed on August 07, 2013, 12:27:27 PM

Did some jogging and started going back to the gym.

I'm not aiming to enter the gun show or anything, just going to keep my weight under control.

  I should do that too.  Well, not the running part, because I have iffy knees.  :situp:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 09, 2013, 07:20:31 PM

Quote from: Parts on August 07, 2013, 12:58:59 PM

Finished the hell hole of an attic I was working on

  Was it haunted?  Did you make any new friends?   :boo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 09, 2013, 07:23:03 PM

  My brother and I made plans to go out tomorrow night for ice cream and a movie!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 09, 2013, 07:24:04 PM

  I found out that one of my friends has bought a house, so she and her husband will be moving back to this area.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 10:40:56 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 07:23:03 PM

  My brother and I made plans to go out tomorrow night for ice cream and a movie!  :thumbup:

You've never mentioned a brother before. :tinfoil:

Have you?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 09, 2013, 10:43:17 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 10:40:56 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 07:23:03 PM

  My brother and I made plans to go out tomorrow night for ice cream and a movie!  :thumbup:

You've never mentioned a brother before. :tinfoil:

  So now you have to ask yourself, is this the real  Weeble, or has her account been hacked?  >:D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 10:50:37 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 10:43:17 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 10:40:56 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 07:23:03 PM

  My brother and I made plans to go out tomorrow night for ice cream and a movie!  :thumbup:

You've never mentioned a brother before. :tinfoil:

  So now you have to ask yourself, is this the real  Weeble, or has her account been hacked?  >:D

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln4lo2FgGy1qe57oao1_100.gif)

There's only one test that can separate a real CBC from a fake CBC. You'll need to post your noodz, though. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 09, 2013, 11:04:40 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 10:50:37 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 10:43:17 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 10:40:56 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 07:23:03 PM

  My brother and I made plans to go out tomorrow night for ice cream and a movie!  :thumbup:

You've never mentioned a brother before. :tinfoil:

  So now you have to ask yourself, is this the real  Weeble, or has her account been hacked?  >:D

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln4lo2FgGy1qe57oao1_100.gif)

There's only one test that can separate a real CBC from a fake CBC. You'll need to post your noodz, though. :P

  (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Chicken_egg_2009-06-04.jpg/429px-Chicken_egg_2009-06-04.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:07:50 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:04:40 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 10:50:37 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 10:43:17 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 10:40:56 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 07:23:03 PM

  My brother and I made plans to go out tomorrow night for ice cream and a movie!  :thumbup:

You've never mentioned a brother before. :tinfoil:

  So now you have to ask yourself, is this the real  Weeble, or has her account been hacked?  >:D

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln4lo2FgGy1qe57oao1_100.gif)

There's only one test that can separate a real CBC from a fake CBC. You'll need to post your noodz, though. :P

  (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Chicken_egg_2009-06-04.jpg/429px-Chicken_egg_2009-06-04.jpg)

:drool:

It's her! :2thumbsup:

So, you have a brother. :cbc:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 09, 2013, 11:13:43 PM

  Yes, I do have a brother.  But he is not of Weebly build, he is much thinner!  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:16:08 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:13:43 PM

  Yes, I do have a brother.  But he is not of Weebly build, he is much thinner!  :laugh:

Your brother isn't here, is he?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 09, 2013, 11:17:15 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:16:08 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:13:43 PM

  Yes, I do have a brother.  But he is not of Weebly build, he is much thinner!  :laugh:

Your brother isn't here, is he?

  No.  I come here to post stuff I don't necessarily want my RL people to see.  ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:18:41 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:17:15 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:16:08 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:13:43 PM

  Yes, I do have a brother.  But he is not of Weebly build, he is much thinner!  :laugh:

Your brother isn't here, is he?

  No.  I come here to post stuff I don't necessarily want my RL people to see.  ;)

That's the case for a lot of us. I remember reading about friends, but I didn't realize that you had a posse IRL. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 09, 2013, 11:20:03 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:18:41 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:17:15 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:16:08 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:13:43 PM

  Yes, I do have a brother.  But he is not of Weebly build, he is much thinner!  :laugh:

Your brother isn't here, is he?

  No.  I come here to post stuff I don't necessarily want my RL people to see.  ;)

That's the case for a lot of us. I remember reading about friends, but I didn't realize that you had a posse IRL. :laugh:

  Occasionally I go out, mostly I socialize at work.  My posse and I talk about food service stuff!  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:22:46 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:20:03 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:18:41 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:17:15 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:16:08 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:13:43 PM

  Yes, I do have a brother.  But he is not of Weebly build, he is much thinner!  :laugh:

Your brother isn't here, is he?

  No.  I come here to post stuff I don't necessarily want my RL people to see.  ;)

That's the case for a lot of us. I remember reading about friends, but I didn't realize that you had a posse IRL. :laugh:

  Occasionally I go out, mostly I socialize at work.  My posse and I talk about food service stuff!  :laugh:

Do you go to nightclubs? That would make three I2 :scenester:. 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 09, 2013, 11:25:36 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:22:46 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:20:03 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:18:41 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:17:15 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:16:08 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:13:43 PM

  Yes, I do have a brother.  But he is not of Weebly build, he is much thinner!  :laugh:

Your brother isn't here, is he?

  No.  I come here to post stuff I don't necessarily want my RL people to see.  ;)

That's the case for a lot of us. I remember reading about friends, but I didn't realize that you had a posse IRL. :laugh:

  Occasionally I go out, mostly I socialize at work.  My posse and I talk about food service stuff!  :laugh:

Do you go to nightclubs? That would make three I2 :scenester:. 8)

  I never do, which is funny because as a child I used to picture myself as an adult, going out late at night
   to nightclubs with neon signs featuring outlines of martinis.  I thought I'd naturally do that when I grew up.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 10, 2013, 07:19:36 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:25:36 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:22:46 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:20:03 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:18:41 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:17:15 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:16:08 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:13:43 PM

  Yes, I do have a brother.  But he is not of Weebly build, he is much thinner!  :laugh:

Your brother isn't here, is he?

  No.  I come here to post stuff I don't necessarily want my RL people to see.  ;)

That's the case for a lot of us. I remember reading about friends, but I didn't realize that you had a posse IRL. :laugh:

  Occasionally I go out, mostly I socialize at work.  My posse and I talk about food service stuff!  :laugh:

Do you go to nightclubs? That would make three I2 :scenester:. 8)

  I never do, which is funny because as a child I used to picture myself as an adult, going out late at night
   to nightclubs with neon signs featuring outlines of martinis.  I thought I'd naturally do that when I grew up.  :laugh:

That's :(. You could go dancing with PMS Elle, and with Adam if he visits. :dance:

So you're a pub girl?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 10, 2013, 07:39:45 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 10, 2013, 07:19:36 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:25:36 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:22:46 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:20:03 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:18:41 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:17:15 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:16:08 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:13:43 PM

  Yes, I do have a brother.  But he is not of Weebly build, he is much thinner!  :laugh:

Your brother isn't here, is he?

  No.  I come here to post stuff I don't necessarily want my RL people to see.  ;)

That's the case for a lot of us. I remember reading about friends, but I didn't realize that you had a posse IRL. :laugh:

  Occasionally I go out, mostly I socialize at work.  My posse and I talk about food service stuff!  :laugh:

Do you go to nightclubs? That would make three I2 :scenester:. 8)

  I never do, which is funny because as a child I used to picture myself as an adult, going out late at night
   to nightclubs with neon signs featuring outlines of martinis.  I thought I'd naturally do that when I grew up.  :laugh:

That's :(. You could go dancing with PMS Elle, and with Adam if he visits. :dance:

So you're a pub girl?

  No, I don't drink or dance at all.  I go out maybe 6 or 7 times a year, mostly to eat.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 10, 2013, 07:58:45 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 10, 2013, 07:39:45 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 10, 2013, 07:19:36 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:25:36 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:22:46 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:20:03 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:18:41 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:17:15 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 09, 2013, 11:16:08 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 09, 2013, 11:13:43 PM

  Yes, I do have a brother.  But he is not of Weebly build, he is much thinner!  :laugh:

Your brother isn't here, is he?

  No.  I come here to post stuff I don't necessarily want my RL people to see.  ;)

That's the case for a lot of us. I remember reading about friends, but I didn't realize that you had a posse IRL. :laugh:

  Occasionally I go out, mostly I socialize at work.  My posse and I talk about food service stuff!  :laugh:

Do you go to nightclubs? That would make three I2 :scenester:. 8)

  I never do, which is funny because as a child I used to picture myself as an adult, going out late at night
   to nightclubs with neon signs featuring outlines of martinis.  I thought I'd naturally do that when I grew up.  :laugh:

That's :(. You could go dancing with PMS Elle, and with Adam if he visits. :dance:

So you're a pub girl?

  No, I don't drink or dance at all.  I go out maybe 6 or 7 times a year, mostly to eat.  :laugh:

I know you don't drink. :P

You need to have more exploits to post about. :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 10, 2013, 05:27:11 PM

I saw a woman who was incredibly beautiful. She had the sweetest smile and the most beautiful eyes. She came into the the icecream shop and as she and her guy friend left, and I chased after them and told her she was so beautiful and she did the cutest bashful smile; then I ran away like a shy 3 year old. I think she said something in reply, but I was already speeding away and didn't catch it.

What a beauty. I wanted to ask her about her background....I suspect she is southeastern european....or some rare breed of german. I would not have been surprised if she had an accent...but of course, I ran away before I could hear her speak.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 10, 2013, 05:30:45 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 03, 2013, 10:41:42 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2013, 08:53:14 PM

Arrived in Montréal after a long trip.

Welcome to North America! :2thumbsup:

Are you stopping to visit the US? :viking:

No, sorry. I will, next year, because the conference will be held in Bethesda, Maryland, and I despertely want to be there.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 10, 2013, 05:57:37 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 10, 2013, 05:30:45 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 03, 2013, 10:41:42 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2013, 08:53:14 PM

Arrived in Montréal after a long trip.

Welcome to North America! :2thumbsup:

Are you stopping to visit the US? :viking:

No, sorry. I will, next year, because the conference will be held in Bethesda, Maryland, and I despertely want to be there.

You can stop in and visit Buttcoffee :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 11, 2013, 05:39:12 AM

Quote from: Parts on August 10, 2013, 05:57:37 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 10, 2013, 05:30:45 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 03, 2013, 10:41:42 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2013, 08:53:14 PM

Arrived in Montréal after a long trip.

Welcome to North America! :2thumbsup:

Are you stopping to visit the US? :viking:

No, sorry. I will, next year, because the conference will be held in Bethesda, Maryland, and I despertely want to be there.

You can stop in and visit Buttcoffee :zoinks:

You could visit Washington, D.C. :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 11, 2013, 07:15:13 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 10, 2013, 05:27:11 PM

I saw a woman who was incredibly beautiful. She had the sweetest smile and the most beautiful eyes. She came into the the icecream shop and as she and her guy friend left, and I chased after them and told her she was so beautiful and she did the cutest bashful smile; then I ran away like a shy 3 year old. I think she said something in reply, but I was already speeding away and didn't catch it.

What a beauty. I wanted to ask her about her background....I suspect she is southeastern european....or some rare breed of german. I would not have been surprised if she had an accent...but of course, I ran away before I could hear her speak.

  You probably made her day, so shy and cute!  :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 11, 2013, 07:17:06 AM

Quote from: Parts on August 10, 2013, 05:57:37 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 10, 2013, 05:30:45 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 03, 2013, 10:41:42 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2013, 08:53:14 PM

Arrived in Montréal after a long trip.

Welcome to North America! :2thumbsup:

Are you stopping to visit the US? :viking:

No, sorry. I will, next year, because the conference will be held in Bethesda, Maryland, and I despertely want to be there.

You can stop in and visit Buttcoffee :zoinks:

  Then he can head north and visit us in beautiful New England!   :moomin:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 11, 2013, 08:50:31 AM

I'm back in Europe, at Heathrow airport waiting for my flight home. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 11, 2013, 06:56:53 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 11, 2013, 08:50:31 AM

I'm back in Europe, at Heathrow airport waiting for my flight home. :)

Why do you desperately want to go to Maryland?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on August 11, 2013, 06:57:38 PM

You mean Moominland  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 11, 2013, 06:59:02 PM

Good/bad.  I didn't have to put any leftovers away.  I had planned on leftovers.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 11, 2013, 07:07:42 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 11, 2013, 07:15:13 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 10, 2013, 05:27:11 PM

I saw a woman who was incredibly beautiful. She had the sweetest smile and the most beautiful eyes. She came into the the icecream shop and as she and her guy friend left, and I chased after them and told her she was so beautiful and she did the cutest bashful smile; then I ran away like a shy 3 year old. I think she said something in reply, but I was already speeding away and didn't catch it.

What a beauty. I wanted to ask her about her background....I suspect she is southeastern european....or some rare breed of german. I would not have been surprised if she had an accent...but of course, I ran away before I could hear her speak.

  You probably made her day, so shy and cute!  :hug:

Your post number is majestic 38986

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 12, 2013, 11:12:11 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 11, 2013, 06:56:53 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 11, 2013, 08:50:31 AM

I'm back in Europe, at Heathrow airport waiting for my flight home. :)

Why do you desperately want to go to Maryland?

Next year's conference is there.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 13, 2013, 12:33:20 PM

A hard, penetrating, cold, driving rain.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 13, 2013, 02:26:03 PM

Finished the addition I was working on and had $160 in materials left over I also got paid for the work before I was even done

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 13, 2013, 06:43:36 PM

Quote from: Lit on August 11, 2013, 06:57:38 PM

You mean Moominland  :autism:

  Life is tranquil there.  Moomins lounge on porches drinking sweet tea!   :moomin:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: conlang returns on August 13, 2013, 07:24:13 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 13, 2013, 12:33:20 PM

A hard, penetrating, cold, driving rain.

That's what she--oh.  Never mind. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 13, 2013, 08:58:07 PM

A maraschino cherry
pain pills
steps toward peace
a hard, penetrating, cold, driving rain (yep, it's repeated again.  I like the rain)
new shoes
a good life

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 13, 2013, 09:05:32 PM

Quote from: simbaflyingoveracliff on August 13, 2013, 07:24:13 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 13, 2013, 12:33:20 PM

A hard, penetrating, cold, driving rain.

That's what she--oh.  Never mind.

Cold? :zombiefuck:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 13, 2013, 09:14:12 PM

I just jizzed all over this thread and made it as awesome as I am.

 :dick:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 13, 2013, 11:03:50 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 13, 2013, 06:43:36 PM

Quote from: Lit on August 11, 2013, 06:57:38 PM

You mean Moominland  :autism:

  Life is tranquil there.  Moomins lounge on porches drinking sweet tea!   :moomin:

Actually we have beer and crisps. :moomin:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: conlang returns on August 13, 2013, 11:55:44 PM

I saw this picture: http://exileden.deviantart.com/art/Ingvarr-392645221 (http://exileden.deviantart.com/art/Ingvarr-392645221)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on August 14, 2013, 12:35:29 AM

All in one day:

Got paid for making a comic for someone - the site where I make them sells services to people who don't have time or etc to make their own. This is my second job for them. Getting paid to do something that is fun: :2thumbsup:

and

My proposal for a presentation at my school got accepted. Hopefully they will let me teach more now.

Swam 14 laps in the pool. Pyraxis has taught me how to swim and I am recovered from my anemia. Surprised myself.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 14, 2013, 02:45:48 PM

Did the final delivery for a client. It's a fucking miracle, I didn't think we would make it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 14, 2013, 04:23:39 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 13, 2013, 11:03:50 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 13, 2013, 06:43:36 PM

Quote from: Lit on August 11, 2013, 06:57:38 PM

You mean Moominland  :autism:

  Life is tranquil there.  Moomins lounge on porches drinking sweet tea!   :moomin:

Actually we have beer and crisps. :moomin:

You have Anchor Steam from America. :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 14, 2013, 11:01:23 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 14, 2013, 04:23:39 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 13, 2013, 11:03:50 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 13, 2013, 06:43:36 PM

Quote from: Lit on August 11, 2013, 06:57:38 PM

You mean Moominland  :autism:

  Life is tranquil there.  Moomins lounge on porches drinking sweet tea!   :moomin:

Actually we have beer and crisps. :moomin:

You have Anchor Steam from America. :arrr:

And, more recently, Fuller's IPA! :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 14, 2013, 11:02:10 PM

Found the boob thread.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 14, 2013, 11:02:36 PM

Had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on August 15, 2013, 04:52:28 AM

Partner at work left for his 4 week holiday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 15, 2013, 04:08:26 PM

Quote from: WolFish on August 14, 2013, 12:35:29 AM

All in one day:

Got paid for making a comic for someone - the site where I make them sells services to people who don't have time or etc to make their own. This is my second job for them. Getting paid to do something that is fun: :2thumbsup:

and

My proposal for a presentation at my school got accepted. Hopefully they will let me teach more now.

Swam 14 laps in the pool. Pyraxis has taught me how to swim and I am recovered from my anemia. Surprised myself.

Awesome, to see you are in better shape again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on August 15, 2013, 08:51:16 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on August 15, 2013, 04:08:26 PM

Quote from: WolFish on August 14, 2013, 12:35:29 AM

All in one day:

Got paid for making a comic for someone - the site where I make them sells services to people who don't have time or etc to make their own. This is my second job for them. Getting paid to do something that is fun: :2thumbsup:

and

My proposal for a presentation at my school got accepted. Hopefully they will let me teach more now.

Swam 14 laps in the pool. Pyraxis has taught me how to swim and I am recovered from my anemia. Surprised myself.

Awesome, to see you are in better shape again.

Thanks
I got a bonus for the comic today from the site owner.
And I finished my grading!

That means if my headache and stomachache and the thunderstorms go away I can go swimming tomorrow. They kick us out of the pool if there is even a threat of lightning. And they close the hot tub too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 16, 2013, 12:49:17 PM

Fixed a bug that was, er, bugging me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on August 16, 2013, 01:49:12 PM

Weekend!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 16, 2013, 07:24:46 PM

Got a nice size check for the house I am working on and I am not even done yet

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Eclair on August 16, 2013, 08:32:34 PM

Quote from: Parts on August 16, 2013, 07:24:46 PM

Got a nice size check for the house I am working on and I am not even done yet

Good to hear you got something befor it's done.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 17, 2013, 04:04:03 AM

Our lawyer sent a building inspector we hired last year to inspect the renovation of our house a formal complaint.  :headbang2: :headbang2: :headbang2:

We are finally starting to settle scores.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 19, 2013, 11:03:06 PM

Technically yesterday but worth mentioning...

I did my best sales presentation in years, I think... to my boss. I've managed to not only secure funding for my new cool feature but also for the product itself. For years to come.

Fucking hell, that was awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: conlang returns on August 20, 2013, 03:03:21 AM

Slept through midnight. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 20, 2013, 03:19:07 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 19, 2013, 11:03:06 PM

Technically yesterday but worth mentioning...

I did my best sales presentation in years, I think... to my boss. I've managed to not only secure funding for my new cool feature but also for the product itself. For years to come.

Fucking hell, that was awesome.

Wish they had let you be on that committee.  But congratulations on your accomplishment this week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on August 20, 2013, 03:26:00 PM

Mum and I had lunch at the hotel  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 20, 2013, 04:29:05 PM

I got paid on monday, and I now, for the first time in a long, long, long fucking time, I have a fridge that is full to bursting with food, soft drinks and mmm....two crates of beer. Canned stella, and the very tasty kronenbourg, in glass bottles.

Bottled beer is so much better than canned, don't y'all think? no chance of any hint of metallic taste to the beer that way.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 21, 2013, 05:54:26 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 13, 2013, 11:03:50 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 13, 2013, 06:43:36 PM

Quote from: Lit on August 11, 2013, 06:57:38 PM

You mean Moominland  :autism:

  Life is tranquil there.  Moomins lounge on porches drinking sweet tea!   :moomin:

Actually we have beer and crisps. :moomin:

  I guess that explains the Moominbelly!  :moomin:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 21, 2013, 06:03:13 AM

  This actually happened days ago ... I stood up to my boss ( just a bit ).  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 21, 2013, 09:27:04 AM

It's my birthday and while I can't make it to the casino today, I will still be able to play bingo. 

(Well, I am a little old lady.  Now were did I put my hairnet and shopping cart?)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: conlang returns on August 21, 2013, 10:24:55 AM

I got contacted by my action coach for protesting the keystone XL pipeline.  I was worried it might not happen, since I don't know anything about what goes on inside the building I was supposed to scout, just what it looks like from the outside.  But now I'm panicking a little.  I'll need to assign personnel.  They'll provide some.  And I am certain I can recruit at least one or two people from the local Green Party, if not from my campus sustainability committee.  But I'm scared of losing credibility if I have to admit I don't have friends IRL. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 21, 2013, 01:01:11 PM

Quote from: simbaflyingoveracliff on August 21, 2013, 10:24:55 AM

I got contacted by my action coach for protesting the keystone XL pipeline.  I was worried it might not happen, since I don't know anything about what goes on inside the building I was supposed to scout, just what it looks like from the outside.  But now I'm panicking a little.  I'll need to assign personnel.  They'll provide some.  And I am certain I can recruit at least one or two people from the local Green Party, if not from my campus sustainability committee.  But I'm scared of losing credibility if I have to admit I don't have friends IRL.

I think it's unrealistic for them to expect your friends to be involved anyways. You just have to use the connections that you have- the sustainability committee, etc. Ask them for help- they ought to be able.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 21, 2013, 02:42:45 PM

Quote from: simbaflyingoveracliff on August 21, 2013, 10:24:55 AM

I got contacted by my action coach for protesting the keystone XL pipeline.  I was worried it might not happen, since I don't know anything about what goes on inside the building I was supposed to scout, just what it looks like from the outside.  But now I'm panicking a little.  I'll need to assign personnel.  They'll provide some.  And I am certain I can recruit at least one or two people from the local Green Party, if not from my campus sustainability committee.  But I'm scared of losing credibility if I have to admit I don't have friends IRL.

So you're an agitator. ;) I didn't know that you were so politically active.

Can you obtain blueprints from somewhere? Wouldn't that be easier that trying to sneak in?

Rather than protest, invite the people who own the building to I2. We will set them straight. :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: conlang returns on August 21, 2013, 06:21:01 PM

Thank you, SG.  I feel better reading that.  And Semicolon, I am trying to become more politically active.  But there are still times when I want to turn it all off and forget it.

By the way, this is an interesting tag.  What does it do?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 21, 2013, 09:48:39 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 21, 2013, 02:42:45 PM

Quote from: simbaflyingoveracliff on August 21, 2013, 10:24:55 AM

I got contacted by my action coach for protesting the keystone XL pipeline.  I was worried it might not happen, since I don't know anything about what goes on inside the building I was supposed to scout, just what it looks like from the outside.  But now I'm panicking a little.  I'll need to assign personnel.  They'll provide some.  And I am certain I can recruit at least one or two people from the local Green Party, if not from my campus sustainability committee.  But I'm scared of losing credibility if I have to admit I don't have friends IRL.

So you're an agitator. ;) I didn't know that you were so politically active.

Can you obtain blueprints from somewhere? Wouldn't that be easier that trying to sneak in?

Rather than protest, invite the people who own the building to I2. We will set them straight. :thumbup:

Yes, we will lure them in with b00bz...........

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 22, 2013, 05:52:08 AM

Quote from: simbaflyingoveracliff on August 21, 2013, 06:21:01 PM

Thank you, SG.  I feel better reading that.  And Semicolon, I am trying to become more politically active.  But there are still times when I want to turn it all off and forget it.

By the way, this is an interesting tag.  What does it do?

It changes your font to teletype. I believe that that's a monospaced font (every letter is the same size).

So you're not good at sneaking. Why not tell your action coach this?

If you make friends with protesters, perhaps you can lure them to an autism rights demonstration with promises of social injustice and n00dz. :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on August 22, 2013, 09:51:55 AM

I was at Systembolaget and bought some vinum. The bitch said that it cost 129 kronor but it said 119 kronor on the shelf. According to the law they must sell to the price that is on the shelf. I won  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 22, 2013, 12:58:06 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 21, 2013, 06:03:13 AM

  This actually happened days ago ... I stood up to my boss ( just a bit ).  :thumbup:

Well done.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 25, 2013, 12:22:03 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 21, 2013, 06:03:13 AM

  This actually happened days ago ... I stood up to my boss ( just a bit ).  :thumbup:

Baby steps are the most courageous ones.

Go on like this dear Weeble.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 25, 2013, 12:23:57 PM

I'm finally finding time to be on I2 for more than just five minutes.  :thumbup:

The bread I made today is awesome.

I found something I had lost.

And, I am having a night on my own.



Now I am only craving :chocolate:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 25, 2013, 12:26:03 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 21, 2013, 09:27:04 AM

It's my birthday and while I can't make it to the casino today, I will still be able to play bingo. 

(Well, I am a little old lady.  Now were did I put my hairnet and shopping cart?)

Congratulations dear Queen.

I hope this new year will bring you more ease than last. And that it will bring you lots of joy and laughter.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on August 25, 2013, 03:14:11 PM

Took a walk inside my mind. :blonde:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 25, 2013, 03:25:53 PM

Did pretty good at the flea marked and even got to talk with one of my favorite customers for awhile

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 25, 2013, 07:17:45 PM

Off-and-on rainy day.  Looked quite wintery.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on August 25, 2013, 08:46:18 PM

spent some time with my gemstone collection.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on September 06, 2013, 01:47:11 AM

A girl came because I am awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on September 06, 2013, 02:11:59 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on September 06, 2013, 01:47:11 AM

A girl came because I am awesome.

:thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 06, 2013, 04:02:48 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 22, 2013, 12:58:06 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 21, 2013, 06:03:13 AM

  This actually happened days ago ... I stood up to my boss ( just a bit ).  :thumbup:

Well done.

  Thank you.  It's a work in progress, one that will have to be repeated many times!  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 06, 2013, 04:03:41 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on August 25, 2013, 12:22:03 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on August 21, 2013, 06:03:13 AM

  This actually happened days ago ... I stood up to my boss ( just a bit ).  :thumbup:

Baby steps are the most courageous ones.

Go on like this dear Weeble.

  Thank you, I shall wobble forth bravely! :cbc:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 06, 2013, 04:05:28 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on August 25, 2013, 12:23:57 PM

I'm finally finding time to be on I2 for more than just five minutes.  :thumbup:

The bread I made today is awesome.

I found something I had lost.

And, I am having a night on my own.



Now I am only craving :chocolate:

  Save me some homemade bread  :drool:  and I will bring the  :chocolate:  !

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 06, 2013, 10:01:16 AM

I found some nice tools at a tag sale including some Snap'on and pre 1900 Starrett

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 06, 2013, 10:04:27 AM

Quote from: Parts on September 06, 2013, 10:01:16 AM

I found some nice tools at a tag sale including some Snap'on and pre 1900 Starrett

  Someone in my old neighborhood must have worked for Snap-on, their van was always in his driveway!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 06, 2013, 10:28:31 AM

Just had  a bong (5-fluoropentyl-AKB-48 and its nonfluorinated analog

Had it before, but damned if itsn't one of the most potent cannabinoids I havew yet encountered.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on September 06, 2013, 10:33:19 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on September 06, 2013, 01:47:11 AM

A girl came because I am awesome.

You keep telling yourself that ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 07, 2013, 01:52:36 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on September 08, 2013, 04:29:14 PM

Watched a interesting documentary today on India. that was cool, mostly because it is good for me to see how other cultures live. it almost makes the one you live in seem fucking ridiculous. :blonde:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 08, 2013, 06:25:40 PM

The one we live in is fucking ridiculous.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on September 08, 2013, 06:38:38 PM

Quote from: Richard on September 08, 2013, 04:29:14 PM

Watched a interesting documentary today on India. that was cool, mostly because it is good for me to see how other cultures live. it almost makes the one you live in seem fucking ridiculous. :blonde:

Quote from: Pyraxis on September 08, 2013, 06:25:40 PM

The one we live in is fucking ridiculous.

And Indian culture makes perfect sense?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 08, 2013, 07:11:13 PM

Finally got the new brakes on my wife's car after many road blocks

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 08, 2013, 07:26:33 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on September 08, 2013, 06:38:38 PM

And Indian culture makes perfect sense?

I wouldn't know.

I would guess it's just another flavor of ridiculous.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 08, 2013, 09:58:53 PM

  I filled yet another bag of trash, I'm de-hoarding and I love it!  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 09, 2013, 05:42:57 PM

Go CBC go!  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 09, 2013, 06:17:48 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on September 09, 2013, 05:42:57 PM

Go CBC go!  :asthing:

  Thank you, Pyraxis!  I just found another pocket of hoarded paper and cardboard in a closet!  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 09, 2013, 06:19:04 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 09, 2013, 06:17:48 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on September 09, 2013, 05:42:57 PM

Go CBC go!  :asthing:

  Thank you, Pyraxis!  I just found another pocket of hoarded paper and cardboard in a closet!  :viking:

  AND in a forgotten envelope, I found a $20 bill.  It really does pay to de-hoard!  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 09, 2013, 09:52:17 PM

More de-hoarding in the South.  Some items given to a friend for her church's rummage sale.

Found that I need knee surgery to repair 2 tears in my left knee's meniscus.  I almost feel like a football player.  Yea, me!!!!

When our next door neighbor was dieing her mother came to stay for a couple of months.   When Marcie passed away in early July I gave my condolences to her mother and brother.  We were never really friends with Marcie (maybe spoke 100 words in the 23 years we were neighbors.)  Anyway, the mother asked if we wanted some of the groceries that would be left over when they returned to Connecticut.  I said yes.  The next day she asked if it would be alright if she paid to have our front roof line (soffit and facia), repaired, new columns installed on the porch, the soffit and facia fixed on the carport, and replace any missing window panes (2 in the PR's bedroom).  While not mentioned it's to make our house more presentable so her house can be sold quicker.  At first PA was very against this charity.  But since my inheritance went to pay off the mortgage he is warming to the situation. The repairs are to start on Wednesday and be finished by Friday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 11, 2013, 11:31:55 AM

Got enough money off my old man to get quite a lot of fresh lychee juice, my thirst, up until now has been intense and unquenchable-anything I put in it save for icecubes came straight the fuck back up, sometimes within 20 sec.

Currently drinking ice-cold slushee type concoction of iced lychee juice served over cracked, crushed ice, which, after four days and 3 nights of BARELY being able to tolerate sips of ice water through ice cubes for limited time periods...mmmmmm....outer gods damn! being able to GULP down a liter portion of slushee in a few minutes and feel fine is absolute manna from heaven.

Gone from throwing up acid  from a raw-scoured throat, traded for being repeatedly prone to bouts of hiccups...annoying, but the numbing, freezing cold is helpful...and oh so soothing and refreshing, calming on both stomach, it being less likely to reject anything sufficiently cold, and really nice and soothing of my burnt throat.

Just about to go refill on ice and lychee juice.

Just puked....a tiny, halfarsed not-even-projectile, non-brutally acidic squirt of a barf, which is a big improvement, tossing something like a tablespoon worth of fluid, in exchange for keeping the rest of a rapidly scarfed liter and a half or so down. Shouldn't guzzle, I know, I know, but when you can FINALLY sate the unrelenting thirst of almost a week, oh fuck it is too good not to.


Just as well I had a clean rig and needle to go though, as I couldn't keep oral antiemetics down long enough, and it would have just wasted my oxy too, and the only other way to get it in me would be to dissolve it and stick it up..well...nuff said, no thanks. Not until there IS no other way will I stick it up my arse'ole :P




*Slurps more lychee juice slush puppy on ice, over ice, with ice cubes floating in it, through a hollow ice cube, and is bloody well contented. GOD DAMN THIS IS GOOD!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 11, 2013, 03:54:08 PM

My son and his girlfriend stopped by for a few hours

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 11, 2013, 04:21:29 PM

I think this cute girl was checking me out.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on September 11, 2013, 07:12:10 PM

I had received a free cake by one of the customers today as they were celebrating their birthday. It was definitely worth a treat.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2013, 10:47:57 PM

Coffee happened. Thank goodness.

Otherwise, I'm barely awake. I don't know why I insist on replying in this thread in the morning.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 12, 2013, 08:43:14 AM

Well I stopped feeling so lousy finally. The iced lychee slushpuppy diet for a couple of days was just what the doc ordered, well so to speak. Too bad I can't get a prescription for the stuff, I just love lychee flavor anything.

Today I managed to actually eat. Just had a triple cheese pizza with a full jar of black olives scattered over it. Saving a couple of slices for later, but munched down most of it and don't feel at all sick. And a couple of fresh apples that just happened to fall as I walked under the tree, with its apple-laden branches overhanging the street.

Of course I wouldn't break into someone's garden to scrump from, but if a couple of ripe, sweet, crisp and juicy apples just happen to almost fall on my head (landed in the hood of my hoodie lol) then I'm not going to leave them to rot in the street when they can be tucked into. Overhanging fruit too is fair game IMO once it leaves the gardens and becomes an overhang, if theres fruit there, fair game to eat it. And besides, I was hungry as fuck, having eaten nothing in over a week, or almost nothing but a few raspberries and some milk.

My insides are now contented at least, having been fed.


And something good that happened today...hmm...well it hasn't actually happened yet, but I have a physiotherapy appointment in a couple of hours so they can work on my buggered up joints.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on September 12, 2013, 10:53:23 AM

Scored two Liga Privada UF-13.  Very hard to come by, and at a decent price. 

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Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 12, 2013, 01:46:59 PM

I didn't want to mention it earlier, but it has come true.

Our next door neighbor died the week of July 4.  We'd only spoken less than 100 words living next door in 22 years.  Her mother had come to take care of her her in her last days.  The mother came over after Marcie died and asked if we wanted any of the food since she was going back Northeast in a while.  I said yes.

About 2 hours later she came over and asked if I would be insulted if she paid to have the front of our house (soffit and fascias, columns, etc.) repaired and replaced.  It would be a while she said because she had to settle some things.

The men started the work this morning.  All we are going to pay for is 1 column and 2 small window panes replaced, less than $125. 

WOW.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on September 12, 2013, 04:25:18 PM

Today is my clean birthday. So, I am pretty happy about that.  :laugh: :cheer:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: cynara on September 12, 2013, 04:29:08 PM

Quote from: Richard on September 12, 2013, 04:25:18 PM

Today is my clean birthday. So, I am pretty happy about that.  :laugh: :cheer:

That is brilliant!!!!!!!!
Well done, takes a lot to do it Richard.
 :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on September 12, 2013, 04:31:31 PM

thank you cynara. it was something that I look back on now and am kind of happy I went through it, it defintley made me a better person

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 12, 2013, 06:34:35 PM

Happy Dry Day, Richard.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on September 13, 2013, 06:49:55 AM

Quote from: Possum on September 12, 2013, 10:53:23 AM

Scored two Liga Privada UF-13.  Very hard to come by, and at a decent price. 

(http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/happy/dancing-with-joy-smiley-emoticon.gif)

I didn't know that you smoke cigars.

Quote from: Richard on September 12, 2013, 04:25:18 PM

Today is my clean birthday. So, I am pretty happy about that.  :laugh: :cheer:

:2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 13, 2013, 09:30:57 AM

Smoking cigars is  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 13, 2013, 10:04:21 AM

Where did you get  those possum? I am partial too the odd cigar, Montecristo are probably my favourite, or H.upman coronas.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 13, 2013, 03:46:32 PM

The weekend has started.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 13, 2013, 05:39:25 PM

I got a half dozen fresh eggs straight out of the coup as a tip from the people whose house I am working on. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 13, 2013, 06:32:58 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 13, 2013, 05:39:25 PM

I got a half dozen fresh eggs straight out of the coup as a tip from the people whose house I am working on.

  Are you going to scramble them with some cheese?   :cheese:    That would be the best use of them!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 13, 2013, 06:35:15 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 13, 2013, 06:32:58 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 13, 2013, 05:39:25 PM

I got a half dozen fresh eggs straight out of the coup as a tip from the people whose house I am working on.

  Are you going to scramble them with some cheese?   :cheese:    That would be the best use of them!

Not sure yet that does sound good though

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 13, 2013, 06:36:39 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 13, 2013, 06:35:15 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 13, 2013, 06:32:58 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 13, 2013, 05:39:25 PM

I got a half dozen fresh eggs straight out of the coup as a tip from the people whose house I am working on.

  Are you going to scramble them with some cheese?   :cheese:    That would be the best use of them!

Not sure yet that does sound good though

  I don't always cook at home, but when I do, I prefer to cook scrambled eggs with cheese.   :toporly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 13, 2013, 06:41:19 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 13, 2013, 06:36:39 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 13, 2013, 06:35:15 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 13, 2013, 06:32:58 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 13, 2013, 05:39:25 PM

I got a half dozen fresh eggs straight out of the coup as a tip from the people whose house I am working on.

  Are you going to scramble them with some cheese?   :cheese:    That would be the best use of them!

Not sure yet that does sound good though

  I don't always cook at home, but when I do, I prefer to cook scrambled eggs with cheese.   :toporly:

CBC the most interesting poster in the world :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 13, 2013, 06:52:29 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 13, 2013, 06:41:19 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 13, 2013, 06:36:39 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 13, 2013, 06:35:15 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 13, 2013, 06:32:58 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 13, 2013, 05:39:25 PM

I got a half dozen fresh eggs straight out of the coup as a tip from the people whose house I am working on.

  Are you going to scramble them with some cheese?   :cheese:    That would be the best use of them!

Not sure yet that does sound good though

  I don't always cook at home, but when I do, I prefer to cook scrambled eggs with cheese.   :toporly:

CBC the most interesting poster in the world :zoinks:

  Stay cheesy, my friend.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 13, 2013, 06:53:28 PM

But theres something missing ther CBC. Wild mushrooms. Its great when one can go out searching the woods with a fine toothed comb, and come back with some nice exotic novelties to throw in.


And somehow all the more satisfying having a delicious meal that you went out and worked for, when one finally gets back home, stop for a pint or five on the way back, then have yourself a scrumptious treat of a dinner.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 13, 2013, 06:55:35 PM

Quote from: Lestat on September 13, 2013, 06:53:28 PM

But theres something missing ther CBC. Wild mushrooms. Its great when one can go out searching the woods with a fine toothed comb, and come back with some nice exotic novelties to throw in.


And somehow all the more satisfying having a delicious meal that you went out and worked for, when one finally gets back home, stop for a pint or five on the way back, then have yourself a scrumptious treat of a dinner.

  I'd be afraid to pick wild mushrooms because I don't know the edible ones from the poisonous ones.  :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 13, 2013, 07:34:10 PM

It isn't hard to learn, if not taking up mushroom foraging seriously as I did (memorized the mycology textbooks I had at about 4-5yo, learned some microscopy skills relevant to IDing fungi, and chemical reagent spot tests for helping narrow down species until one has a positive ident.

Best thing IMO, is to learn the most common deadly poisonous species, such as death caps (Amanita phalloides), destroying angel (A.virosa), nephrotoxic Cortinarius spp., Galerina species, some Lepiotas etc.

And learn them so well you will recognize any, and each of them off by heart. And then learn a few of the best eatables, there are many that are SO distinctive they literally cannot be mistaken for anything else. Giant puffball (fantastic fried as slices in batter, grows to over a meter in diameter sometimes)
Cauliflower fungus (grows at the base of trees, conifers specifically and looks like a giant convoluted brain thats been ripped out of somebody's skull and stuck to the base of a tree lol)

Various Boletus species are excellent eating, such as the one used in canned mushroom soups, the cep, penny bun or porcini as the italians call it.

There are quite a few really easy ID'ed mushrooms around, and amongst them are some of the finest fungal treats of them all, at least the ones that contain neither psilocybin/psilocin/baeocystin, or muscimol :D

That said, I do use fly agaric mushrooms (Amanita muscaria, that mushroom of garden gnome fame with its red cap flecked with white, warty remnants of the partial veil), a magic mushroom although extremely different to psilocybin mushrooms, its toxic raw, and must be slowly cured in the oven at the lowest heat possible, with the oven door left slightly ajar before use that way.

Most often though I use it as a spice whilst cooking meat dishes, especially steak, for the sauce/marinade, and I never make a chilli con carne or steak stew without; its got the perculiar property of activating directly the taste type the japanese call 'umami', or savoury (like meat, bovril, marmite etc) and adding a teaspoonful or so of A.muscaria to the cooking meat works absolute wonders for the flavor :)

Lol my old man ALWAYS yaps on about how I'm 'going to ruin that' (meaning the chilli) when he sees me add it in, along with some dried, powdered  Chalciporus piperatus, the peppery boletus; he has had it  though and didn't complain :P

And I say so myself but meh, I know I am right. I do a real mean chilli.

Special ingredients there I HAVE to have when I  make chilli are the fly agaric, peppery boletus, and fresh shiitake mushrooms (from the shop, I'd have to grow them myself otherwise as they do not grow wild here.

And if I am lucky enough to be able to lay hands on them, morels, even dried ones, morels stewed with meat are just heavenly.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on September 13, 2013, 08:05:07 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 13, 2013, 06:52:29 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 13, 2013, 06:41:19 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 13, 2013, 06:36:39 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 13, 2013, 06:35:15 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 13, 2013, 06:32:58 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 13, 2013, 05:39:25 PM

I got a half dozen fresh eggs straight out of the coup as a tip from the people whose house I am working on.

  Are you going to scramble them with some cheese?   :cheese:    That would be the best use of them!

Not sure yet that does sound good though

  I don't always cook at home, but when I do, I prefer to cook scrambled eggs with cheese.   :toporly:

CBC the most interesting poster in the world :zoinks:

  Stay cheesy, my friend.  :green:

:plus: :D

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Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 14, 2013, 10:50:46 AM

Quote from: Parts on September 13, 2013, 05:39:25 PM

I got a half dozen fresh eggs straight out of the coup as a tip from the people whose house I am working on.

I got a half dozen fresh eggs too.  :hyke:
Neighbour gave them to me. She said I was to enjoy the eggs, since I had to endure the noise the critters make. They are not even that noisy. Now I have to find out how long to boil them, for a soft yolk and firm white. They are mini eggs, from mini chickens.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 14, 2013, 11:38:30 AM

My grandfather's ex sambo was here today. I got a bottle of Italian vinum  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 14, 2013, 05:50:05 PM

If those eggs don't have chocolate inside hyke, take them back and demand a refund, you were cheated!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 15, 2013, 02:28:27 AM

Quote from: Lestat on September 14, 2013, 05:50:05 PM

If those eggs don't have chocolate inside hyke, take them back and demand a refund, you were cheated!

They were a gift, Lestat.
 :cbc: :cbc: :cbc:
 :cbc: :cbc: :cbc:  Six cute tiny, very fresh eggs.

And I do have some nice dark 85% :chocolate: at home. No need for way too sweet chocolate eggs here.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 15, 2013, 02:08:28 PM

My brother was here and I got a bottle of vinum  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 15, 2013, 04:52:40 PM

Had a kid over to play with one of mine. They were baking bread together. Then she had to leave, to eat at home, and they would be eating fish, as fresh as you can get it. She picked up I love fish. So, within half an hour, she dropped by, bringing some, prepared by her dad. They were very good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 15, 2013, 05:40:38 PM

  I told myself to hell with the    :laundry:    'cause I can do it tomorrow!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 15, 2013, 06:14:27 PM

I found a sterling silver spoon in a box of junk at my fathers condo

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 15, 2013, 07:30:16 PM

A laughter filled time with some friends while the football game was on.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on September 15, 2013, 09:00:51 PM

My reliable horse peyton manning has another great game!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 15, 2013, 11:10:39 PM

Coffee. My one constant in life.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 17, 2013, 04:20:26 PM

I was joking about the mini-eggs Hyke.

Not sure if you'd have them over in the netherlands but mini eggs are a kind of candy we have in the UK, made by cadbury's, egg-shaped sickly sweet milk 'chocolate's with a thin colored sugar shell externally.

Not fond of them at all myself though, most chocolate I find not to be worth the name. REAL chocolate should be very, very very dark indeed, bittersweet and at least 85% cocoa. I'm rather fond of some of the speciality flavoured dark chocolates myself, like high cocoa dark chocolate with chilli peppers, or lime, or honeycomb.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 17, 2013, 11:36:27 PM

Quote from: Lestat on September 17, 2013, 04:20:26 PM

I was joking about the mini-eggs Hyke.

Not sure if you'd have them over in the netherlands but mini eggs are a kind of candy we have in the UK, made by cadbury's, egg-shaped sickly sweet milk 'chocolate's with a thin colored sugar shell externally.

Not fond of them at all myself though, most chocolate I find not to be worth the name. REAL chocolate should be very, very very dark indeed, bittersweet and at least 85% cocoa. I'm rather fond of some of the speciality flavoured dark chocolates myself, like high cocoa dark chocolate with chilli peppers, or lime, or honeycomb.

My favourite is a dark chocolate with coarsely ground black pepper and lemon-zest. Very hard to find though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 18, 2013, 03:17:16 AM

So your a fan of speciality chocolates like that too eh? :) I've had a really nice sea salt and black pepper one before, that was one of the nicest I've tried so far.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 18, 2013, 03:53:43 AM

Quote from: Lestat on September 18, 2013, 03:17:16 AM

So your a fan of speciality chocolates like that too eh? :) I've had a really nice sea salt and black pepper one before, that was one of the nicest I've tried so far.

Wasabi flavoured did not really do it for me. But my daughter thought it was one of the best ever.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 18, 2013, 04:13:07 AM

I've never had wasabi anything to compare it with, not got a clue what its like, other than green and hot.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on September 18, 2013, 05:40:13 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 17, 2013, 11:36:27 PM

Quote from: Lestat on September 17, 2013, 04:20:26 PM

I was joking about the mini-eggs Hyke.

Not sure if you'd have them over in the netherlands but mini eggs are a kind of candy we have in the UK, made by cadbury's, egg-shaped sickly sweet milk 'chocolate's with a thin colored sugar shell externally.

Not fond of them at all myself though, most chocolate I find not to be worth the name. REAL chocolate should be very, very very dark indeed, bittersweet and at least 85% cocoa. I'm rather fond of some of the speciality flavoured dark chocolates myself, like high cocoa dark chocolate with chilli peppers, or lime, or honeycomb.

My favourite is a dark chocolate with coarsely ground black pepper and lemon-zest. Very hard to find though.

So make some. :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 18, 2013, 10:37:47 PM

Quote from: Lestat on September 18, 2013, 04:13:07 AM

I've never had wasabi anything to compare it with, not got a clue what its like, other than green and hot.

Check  out an Asian grocery store if you get the chance. There are a lot of delicious wasabi-flavored crackers and savories.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on September 21, 2013, 01:32:37 PM

My colorful little peanut made me happy today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 21, 2013, 02:33:15 PM

Absolutely nothing happened to me today. That was fantastic.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 21, 2013, 03:21:47 PM

It's what's about to happen - PIZZA!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 21, 2013, 03:23:50 PM

Bene, Victoria Regina! Placenta Neapolitana bona est!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 21, 2013, 03:27:42 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 21, 2013, 03:23:50 PM

Bene, Victoria Regina! Placenta Neapolitana bona est!  :thumbup:

Caio.  I only wish the pizza would deliver itself.  I have to drive to pick it up.  Speaking of which, I'd better be going.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 21, 2013, 08:50:12 PM

I found two Snap-On wrenches for a quarter each at a tag sale.  I get $7-10 for them at the market :headbang2:

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Post by: skyblue1 on September 21, 2013, 10:34:50 PM

was up all night

so didnt work

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on September 22, 2013, 08:27:47 AM

well. I have made some really fantastic coffee this morning, so this has made me quite happy!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 22, 2013, 08:51:04 AM

Quote from: Jesse on September 22, 2013, 08:27:47 AM

well. I have made some really fantastic coffee this morning, so this has made me quite happy!  :thumbup:

  Good strong :coffee: +  AC/DC  on the CD player = morning happiness!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 22, 2013, 09:38:16 AM

The rain cleared out before I got up, much earlier than I thought it would

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Post by: Jesse on September 22, 2013, 04:02:23 PM

So I have this Airfreshner that smells like Bamboo. I didn't know Bamboo had a smell? but it does.

Its called, "Crisp Bamboo" wow! it smells Divine. its the only way to describe it!  :santa:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on September 24, 2013, 04:31:00 AM

Doctor Who has a new hot companion.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on September 24, 2013, 10:04:06 AM

nothing like a good cup of coffee in the morning!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 24, 2013, 11:47:14 AM

Sure there is-a steaming cup of honeyed white tea, or a REALLY cold bottled beer.



Finding nearly £80 in my account when I thought I was down to my last fiver , but unbeknownst to me, there was around 86-jj-80 or so.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on September 24, 2013, 01:41:35 PM

Quote from: Jesse on September 24, 2013, 10:04:06 AM

nothing like a good cup of coffee in the morning!  :thumbup:

Even better, that first cup of coffee after surgery.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on September 24, 2013, 07:35:13 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 24, 2013, 01:41:35 PM

Quote from: Jesse on September 24, 2013, 10:04:06 AM

nothing like a good cup of coffee in the morning!  :thumbup:

Even better, that first cup of coffee after surgery.

:plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 24, 2013, 08:15:09 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 24, 2013, 01:41:35 PM

Quote from: Jesse on September 24, 2013, 10:04:06 AM

nothing like a good cup of coffee in the morning!  :thumbup:

Even better, that first cup of coffee after surgery.

  Best of all is that :coffee: that clears out the cobwebs from a carbohydrate fog or a caffeine-deprivation headache!

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Post by: odeon on September 24, 2013, 10:53:04 PM

Coffee happened. :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on September 25, 2013, 10:29:53 AM

That little baby in my avatar winked at me right now. made my day!  :santa:

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Post by: Queen Victoria on September 25, 2013, 02:03:08 PM

The knee is doing quite well, although quite swollen.  The wrappings are off, bandaids put on the 3 incisions, ice applied and pain is almost nil.  The major problem is the swelling which will eventually go down.  I've been walking around, some cooking (cutting up things for PA to cook), etc.  No bath or shower until Monday.   :thumbdn:  Minnie cat baths until then.

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Post by: TheoK on September 25, 2013, 02:07:09 PM

Didn't you get any nice pills, like Vicodin or such?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 25, 2013, 02:08:28 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 25, 2013, 02:07:09 PM

Didn't you get any nice pills, like Vicodin or such?

Yes, Vicodin.  My regular doctor prescribes them for my back.  I'm just glad to be back on my anti-inflammatory meds. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 25, 2013, 02:10:04 PM

Don't you like opioids?  ??? I love them!  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 25, 2013, 02:12:29 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 25, 2013, 02:10:04 PM

Don't you like opioids?  ??? I love them!  :viking:

Well, they are cheaper than a bottle of sherry.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 25, 2013, 02:15:24 PM

Alcohol is lousy compared to wonderful opioids.

Two cuntish docs stopped me from getting more tramadol.  :thumbdn: I had only gotten about 2000 of them  :-\

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Post by: conlang returns on September 25, 2013, 03:07:59 PM

I got up to five hundred posts.  Hooray. 

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Post by: Lestat on September 25, 2013, 04:59:15 PM

2K tramadol pills? nice score. At least if you are one of those people who likes tramadol; I find tramadol is one of those marmite opioids...lol.   That is to say, you either love it, or hate it, with not that much territory in between. I don't like it.

Hey lit, want an article on opioid aryl ethers? that way you could have a crack at preparing O-desmethyltramadol (note...do NOT try formation of an acyl ester, E.g acetylating for instance. Never done it myself but I have read reports of people who carried that synth out and found it to be absolute rank poison [acetyltramadol that is, not O-desmethyl; which is considerably more potent, being the active metabolite of tramadol])

I know you do pyro chem....but no reason not to include a little organic from time to time, eh?


And too right about alcohol, it is SUCH a poor excuse for a recreational or medicinal drug (unless somebody has been accidentally poisoned with methanol, here, mass quantities of ethanol used to be used  because it then outcompetes the MeOH in the body to prevent it becoming formaldehyde and formic acid, to prevent death and/or blindness. Although there is a more modern and easily tolerated  than being made forcibly shitthefuckingwellfaced, fomepizole.

Rather than getting myself drunk and paying the government money they do not deserve, having done nothing to earn or deserve it, comitting for what is for all intents and purposes, an act of  piracy upon the consumer, the manufacturers, and distributors I prefer to walk round a few pharmacies, picking up a bottle of codeine linctus or OTC morphine cough mixture or Gee's linctus (OTC cough/stomach soother based upon tincture of opium) instead at each pharmacy.

Under £4 last I bought any codeine linctus, quite a bit under. Lasts most of the day if suitable enzyme inhibitors of the CYP-P450 pathways used to metabolize it after its all been metabolized to the active metabolites and is fully doing its thing, lasts ages at a full dose (bearing in mind my having a tolerance), cheaper than a pack of beer, and got a lot longer pair of legs to it.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 25, 2013, 06:24:42 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 25, 2013, 02:15:24 PM

Alcohol is lousy compared to wonderful opioids.

Two cuntish docs stopped me from getting more tramadol.  :thumbdn: I had only gotten about 2000 of them  :-\

  2000 is a lot of anything!  What kind of pain do you have?  :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 25, 2013, 06:25:01 PM

I found my  borescope in my office behind some boxes from my fathers where it must have fallen,  I had thought it had been stolen out of my van
 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on September 25, 2013, 06:41:11 PM

I realized why I have been so angry lately. I have been drinking too much coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 25, 2013, 11:00:47 PM

Quote from: Obamaeatssyrianbabies on September 25, 2013, 06:41:11 PM

I realized why I have been so angry lately. I have been drinking too much coffee.

  Wow, I suppose that would do it!  When I drink too much coffee I  "crash,"  getting sad and headachy
  and occasionally queasy.  The first time it happened I was baffled till I realized   :idea:   what I had done.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 26, 2013, 04:03:46 AM

I was at the hospital and had another upper GI series. My hiatal hernia isn't worse than before  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: P7PSP on September 26, 2013, 07:55:46 AM

Quote from: Parts on September 25, 2013, 06:25:01 PM

I found my  borescope in my office behind some boxes from my fathers where it must have fallen,  I had thought it had been stolen out of my van

I felt bad and returned it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 26, 2013, 07:58:07 AM

Quote from: Cassanova Frankenstein on September 26, 2013, 07:55:46 AM

Quote from: Parts on September 25, 2013, 06:25:01 PM

I found my  borescope in my office behind some boxes from my fathers where it must have fallen,  I had thought it had been stolen out of my van

I felt bad and returned it.

  You will still need to come with us and make a statement.   :police:  :-[  :police:

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Post by: Lestat on September 27, 2013, 03:56:33 PM

The mango sorbet/vanilla ice cream ripple that I bought the other day and got round to trying today. I ate both tubs :P

It was from the 'rubicon' brand, the same that do the really REALLY good exotic fruit juices. Ate one tub, then went for my dinner (a roast chicken) and had the other for pudding.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on September 27, 2013, 05:06:14 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 25, 2013, 06:24:42 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 25, 2013, 02:15:24 PM

Alcohol is lousy compared to wonderful opioids.

Two cuntish docs stopped me from getting more tramadol.  :thumbdn: I had only gotten about 2000 of them  :-\

  2000 is a lot of anything!  What kind of pain do you have?  :-\

I don't have terrible pain, but opioids work as antidepressants for me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on September 27, 2013, 06:43:33 PM

I slept.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 27, 2013, 07:39:43 PM

Quote from: Lestat on September 27, 2013, 03:56:33 PM

The mango sorbet/vanilla ice cream ripple that I bought the other day and got round to trying today. I ate both tubs :P

It was from the 'rubicon' brand, the same that do the really REALLY good exotic fruit juices. Ate one tub, then went for my dinner (a roast chicken) and had the other for pudding.

  Do you often eat an entire roast chicken at one meal?   :devour:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 27, 2013, 09:30:52 PM

Turkey.  With some leftovers (put into the freezer with gravy and some made into turkey salad for sandwiches).
Delightful preview of Thanksgiving.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 28, 2013, 12:28:23 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 27, 2013, 09:30:52 PM

Turkey.  With some leftovers (put into the freezer with gravy and some made into turkey salad for sandwiches).
Delightful preview of Thanksgiving.

  *lingers in QV's yard   :puppy:   dreaming of turkey and gravy and sammiches*

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Post by: Queen Victoria on September 28, 2013, 11:12:30 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 28, 2013, 12:28:23 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 27, 2013, 09:30:52 PM

Turkey.  With some leftovers (put into the freezer with gravy and some made into turkey salad for sandwiches).
Delightful preview of Thanksgiving.

  *lingers in QV's yard   :puppy:   dreaming of turkey and gravy and sammiches*

Awwwwwww.  Opens door and chases dog from yard.  I'll share my steak, but not my turkey.

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Post by: TheoK on September 28, 2013, 11:13:58 AM

Estne possitsobrina canis?  ???

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 28, 2013, 11:15:07 AM

Quote from: Lit on September 28, 2013, 11:13:58 AM

Estne possitsobrina canis?  ???

I shoot first and ask questions later when my turkey is in danger.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 29, 2013, 02:37:41 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 28, 2013, 11:12:30 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 28, 2013, 12:28:23 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 27, 2013, 09:30:52 PM

Turkey.  With some leftovers (put into the freezer with gravy and some made into turkey salad for sandwiches).
Delightful preview of Thanksgiving.

  *lingers in QV's yard   :puppy:   dreaming of turkey and gravy and sammiches*

Awwwwwww.  Opens door and chases dog from yard.  I'll share my steak, but not my turkey.

  Oooooo steak?!?!?!   :puppy:   Yes please, with mashed potatoes!

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 29, 2013, 02:39:01 PM

Quote from: Lit on September 28, 2013, 11:13:58 AM

Estne possitsobrina canis?  ???

  Well, like a dog, I love my food, and I like to tease the Queen by figuratively begging outside her house!  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 29, 2013, 02:41:42 PM

  Strong coffee, AC/DC and a friendly PM dispelled my bad morning mood.  It was a good day at work too.  8)

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Post by: Lestat on September 29, 2013, 08:13:06 PM

Couldbe-yes I do. Put a cold (preferably, cook it, stick it in the fridge first, its all the tastier then IMO and the texture is nicer) roast chicken in front of me, a couple of beers and a bottle of really HOT chilli pepper sauce and likely as not it gets stripped until there is nothing left but skin, fat, cartilage and bones, down to the last little shreds of meat.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 29, 2013, 08:14:21 PM

Quote from: Lestat on September 29, 2013, 08:13:06 PM

Couldbe-yes I do. Put a cold (preferably, cook it, stick it in the fridge first, its all the tastier then IMO and the texture is nicer) roast chicken in front of me, a couple of beers and a bottle of really HOT chilli pepper sauce and likely as not it gets stripped until there is nothing left but skin, fat, cartilage and bones, down to the last little shreds of meat.

  Do you get rotisserie chickens already cooked at the supermarket?  Those are really good.   :devour:

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Post by: Queen Victoria on September 30, 2013, 03:26:50 PM

The doctor said my knee is healing well.  No stupid stuff (climbing stairs, twisting, kneeling, etc.) but I can begin some short walking and take a shower (no bath because of the possibility of a fall getting out of the tub - even with a safety mat).  Go back in a month if I have to, otherwise, I'm free to do what I sensibly want to do.

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Post by: 'andersom' on September 30, 2013, 05:14:04 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 30, 2013, 03:26:50 PM

The doctor said my knee is healing well.  No stupid stuff (climbing stairs, twisting, kneeling, etc.) but I can begin some short walking and take a shower (no bath because of the possibility of a fall getting out of the tub - even with a safety mat).  Go back in a month if I have to, otherwise, I'm free to do what I sensibly want to do.

Yay for the knee, and yay for the doctor thinking he can rely on your sensibility too.  :hyke:

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Post by: Lestat on October 03, 2013, 05:34:13 AM

Yeah they are tasty CBC. I do get them sometimes, when I know I'll want a snack on the way home from shopping, they are filling at least, and mighty tasty. Tesco has them on the deli area,  and better still, they are hot from the get-go AND tesco does a rotisserie chicken that is impregnated with spicy flavouring. Those are just !YUM!

And there is no WAY there is even the slightest chance of there ever, ever, being any leftovers remaining, only cartilage, skin and bones.

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Post by: conlang returns on October 03, 2013, 06:11:02 AM

Laughed until I felt dizzy :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: El-Presidente on October 03, 2013, 07:25:57 AM

I did a wonderfully satisfying poo.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 03, 2013, 08:00:48 AM

Started munching on almost a whole roast chicken (folks split a bit of one breast between them), positively drowned in fiery habanero chilli pepper sauce. Then decided it would be nice to have a bong before eating after a few bites, as it would taste even better, be even more satisfying with the munchies :D

I was peckish to begin with, but now, that chicken has been literally stripped to the bone. All thats left is a mangled heap of bones, cartilage, fat and skin.

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Post by: El-Presidente on October 03, 2013, 09:52:11 AM

Quote from: Lestat on October 03, 2013, 08:00:48 AM

Started munching on almost a whole roast chicken (folks split a bit of one breast between them), positively drowned in fiery habanero chilli pepper sauce. Then decided it would be nice to have a bong before eating after a few bites, as it would taste even better, be even more satisfying with the munchies :D

I was peckish to begin with, but now, that chicken has been literally stripped to the bone. All thats left is a mangled heap of bones, cartilage, fat and skin.

You lucky bastard! Sounds like a great day.

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Post by: Semicolon on October 03, 2013, 04:47:16 PM

Quote from: Lestat on October 03, 2013, 08:00:48 AM

Started munching on almost a whole roast chicken (folks split a bit of one breast between them), positively drowned in fiery habanero chilli pepper sauce. Then decided it would be nice to have a bong before eating after a few bites, as it would taste even better, be even more satisfying with the munchies :D

I was peckish to begin with, but now, that chicken has been literally stripped to the bone. All thats left is a mangled heap of bones, cartilage, fat and skin.

Do you cook much?

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Post by: Lestat on October 03, 2013, 05:05:26 PM

I cook sometimes. Other times, I often CBF.

I might not be the best cook ever to have walked the face of the earth, but neither am I the worst one either.

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Post by: Semicolon on October 03, 2013, 05:17:53 PM

Quote from: Lestat on October 03, 2013, 05:05:26 PM

I cook sometimes. Other times, I often CBF.

I might not be the best cook ever to have walked the face of the earth, but neither am I the worst one either.

So use the bones to make stock. :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 04, 2013, 08:40:54 PM

Had a long talk with a friend who also sells up at the flea market about antique tools

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 06, 2013, 07:48:19 AM

Quote from: Gotboredwithlions on October 03, 2013, 06:11:02 AM

Laughed until I felt dizzy :)

  Laughing is fantastic.  I remember a co-worker once saying,  "I love coming to work, I laugh so hard!"  :laugh:

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 06, 2013, 07:50:36 AM

Quote from: Lestat on October 03, 2013, 05:05:26 PM

I cook sometimes. Other times, I often CBF.

I might not be the best cook ever to have walked the face of the earth, but neither am I the worst one either.

  That sums me up too.  I almost never cook at home, but after 25 years in food service,
   I have absorbed some basic knowledge.  I could make a passable dinner at home if I had to.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 14, 2013, 11:03:24 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on October 15, 2013, 11:09:33 AM

Spring rolls with shrimp and lobster are happening.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: RageBeoulve on October 15, 2013, 11:31:07 AM

I want me sum scrimp now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 15, 2013, 05:21:39 PM

Even though help never showed up I still finished the work I had to get done

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on October 15, 2013, 05:25:06 PM

I had salmon pie at the café. Then I bought food and vinum  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 15, 2013, 06:23:55 PM

Quote from: Lit on October 15, 2013, 05:25:06 PM

I had salmon pie at the café. Then I bought food and vinum  8)

We had flounder, dressing, broccoli and carrots.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on October 15, 2013, 08:30:38 PM

I have a plan for my future.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: McGiver on October 15, 2013, 08:32:41 PM

Quote from: Obama eats  Syrian babies on October 15, 2013, 08:30:38 PM

I have a plan for my future.

does it include bacon?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on October 15, 2013, 08:37:43 PM

Quote from: McGiver on October 15, 2013, 08:32:41 PM

Quote from: Obama eats  Syrian babies on October 15, 2013, 08:30:38 PM

I have a plan for my future.

does it include bacon?

Most likely. I had a meeting discussing further living arrangements. I am excited.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on October 15, 2013, 08:38:35 PM

 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on October 15, 2013, 08:45:35 PM

The world goes on...

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 17, 2013, 01:47:54 PM

I got home and had an awesome cheese fondue. Just like that, in the middle of the week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on October 17, 2013, 02:39:28 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 17, 2013, 01:47:54 PM

I got home and had an awesome cheese fondue. Just like that, in the middle of the week.

What made it awesome?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 17, 2013, 02:51:17 PM

Taking the PR and her "honorary" cousin thrift store shopping.  The girls had a ball, but managed to leave some things on the store shelves.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on October 17, 2013, 10:28:51 PM

I learned about a project that I very much want to be a part of.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 19, 2013, 05:16:16 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 17, 2013, 02:51:17 PM

Taking the PR and her "honorary" cousin thrift store shopping.  The girls had a ball, but managed to leave some things on the store shelves.

Drop by at my shop, one Thursday morning, that's when I am at the till.

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Post by: Lestat on October 19, 2013, 08:23:34 PM

Mmmm...I love seafood. Not so much shrimp, but my local chinky does the most wonderful king prawns in various sauces, either spicy hot black bean sauce,  a black pepper sauce that is hot enough to near well enough blow your head clean off from ten feet away, tangy sweet and sour sauce, or just occasionally I'll have it with a portion of paddy straw mushroom egg stages (Volvariella speciosa.....this species is a wee bit of a problem actually. It can look a LOT like albinistic forms of Amanita phalloides, the death cap, or dirty A.virosa [destroying angel], and as it has a volva at the base of the stem, idiots confuse the edible species, despite the difference in habitat...ffs...its a fucking saprobe not a mycorrhizal species!, a lot of east asian immigrants die due to confusion between V.speciosa and lethal Amanita species. )

The straw mushrooms aren't on the menu, but the local chinese has had a fair few orders from me, the woman owner knows I like to eat there, so is happy to do me king prawns with Volvariella eggs on request.


Took my iffy CD player back, got a replacement one. Now I have earsplittingly loud  metal music again :D

And I NEED music today, as I'm currently rolling along nicely on a couple of N-ethyl-5-APB beans. Got a fair few CDs that I had barely listened to at all before my CD player gave up the ghost on me, so for all intents, plenty of new music to check out while I'm up on the pills  :mischief:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 19, 2013, 09:24:18 PM

  I made a drawing, discovered that I don't have the patience for photorealistic pencil rendering,
   and concluded that I will be happier adding charcoal to the pencils and developing a freer personal style.   :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 20, 2013, 07:01:24 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 19, 2013, 09:24:18 PM

  I made a drawing, discovered that I don't have the patience for photorealistic pencil rendering,
   and concluded that I will be happier adding charcoal to the pencils and developing a freer personal style.   :2thumbsup:

GOOD! Find the thing that suits you best.

Maybe you can drop in occasional photorealistic elements, now and then.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 20, 2013, 04:44:41 PM

I sold A LOT of stuff at the flea market

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on October 20, 2013, 05:27:40 PM

Quote from: Parts on October 20, 2013, 04:44:41 PM

I sold A LOT of stuff at the flea market

:congrats:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 20, 2013, 05:45:38 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 20, 2013, 07:01:24 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 19, 2013, 09:24:18 PM

  I made a drawing, discovered that I don't have the patience for photorealistic pencil rendering,
   and concluded that I will be happier adding charcoal to the pencils and developing a freer personal style.   :2thumbsup:

GOOD! Find the thing that suits you best.

Maybe you can drop in occasional photorealistic elements, now and then.

  Finding a personal style will be so much fun!   :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 20, 2013, 05:57:02 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 20, 2013, 05:45:38 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 20, 2013, 07:01:24 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 19, 2013, 09:24:18 PM

  I made a drawing, discovered that I don't have the patience for photorealistic pencil rendering,
   and concluded that I will be happier adding charcoal to the pencils and developing a freer personal style.   :2thumbsup:

GOOD! Find the thing that suits you best.

Maybe you can drop in occasional photorealistic elements, now and then.

  Finding a personal style will be so much fun!   :woohoo:

Yes, it will be.

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Post by: Semicolon on October 20, 2013, 06:00:55 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 20, 2013, 05:57:02 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 20, 2013, 05:45:38 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 20, 2013, 07:01:24 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 19, 2013, 09:24:18 PM

  I made a drawing, discovered that I don't have the patience for photorealistic pencil rendering,
   and concluded that I will be happier adding charcoal to the pencils and developing a freer personal style.   :2thumbsup:

GOOD! Find the thing that suits you best.

Maybe you can drop in occasional photorealistic elements, now and then.

  Finding a personal style will be so much fun!   :woohoo:

Yes, it will be.

Try 11 point Georgia. :P

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 20, 2013, 06:34:39 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on October 20, 2013, 06:00:55 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 20, 2013, 05:57:02 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 20, 2013, 05:45:38 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 20, 2013, 07:01:24 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on October 19, 2013, 09:24:18 PM

  I made a drawing, discovered that I don't have the patience for photorealistic pencil rendering,
   and concluded that I will be happier adding charcoal to the pencils and developing a freer personal style.   :2thumbsup:

GOOD! Find the thing that suits you best.

Maybe you can drop in occasional photorealistic elements, now and then.

  Finding a personal style will be so much fun!   :woohoo:

Yes, it will be.

Try 11 point Georgia. :P

  As usual, you are Johnny-on-the-spot.  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on October 21, 2013, 03:10:52 PM

I found out that you don't have to paste plastic firework shells. A pasting machine would of course be an option, but that is expensive, and I don't have the skills to build one myself.

Wonder what pasting a shell is? This:

Decent Pasting Method (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c4UCul-37Q#ws)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 21, 2013, 03:29:37 PM

My style was a bit 'rough and ready. I liked going with the classic pipe bomb myself, or shaped charges. Those are kinda neat.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on October 21, 2013, 03:33:00 PM

I made pipe bombs when I was younger. These are display shells.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 21, 2013, 03:38:54 PM

And another of my 'thing' was using chlorate weedkiller to make incendiaries, adding sugar and igniting piles of it under gas canisters.

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Post by: TheoK on October 21, 2013, 03:42:00 PM

Potassium chlorate, sugar and then just a drop of concentrated sulfuric acid...  :viking:

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Post by: Lestat on October 21, 2013, 04:05:50 PM

Yup. Thats the bugger. Hehehehe brings back memories. I added salt to phlegmatize it, stuck a propane cylinder on top, lit it and ran like hell.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 21, 2013, 10:55:00 PM

Nothing particularly good has happened yet, except for the coffee.

I am hoping that there won't be too many disasters today. I've had my share of them lately.

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Post by: Bastet on October 22, 2013, 12:29:45 AM

I found my dry erase agenda book. yay

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 27, 2013, 03:03:59 PM

Last day of the autumn break. Tomorrow the regular routine will start again.  :hyke: :hyke: :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 27, 2013, 03:04:55 PM

Chestnuts happened too, today. So, thinking on Brussels sprouts with chestnuts for dinner, tomorrow.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 27, 2013, 03:19:53 PM

Pass on the sprouts. But I think I'll have to schedule a trek through my favourite mushroom-foraging stomping grounds to look, as there are a great many sweet chestnut trees, which often produce large, roastable nuts.

And free chow is always a good thing. Especially when one doesn't have to put a bullet in its head, gut it and skin it first.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 28, 2013, 12:45:23 AM

Just ordered the following. Should go towards building a pretty good stash hehe :)
2NE1 3000mg (synthetic cannabinoid)
Dimethocaine 3G (cocaine-like DARI/local anaesthetic) Planning on some modifications to this to address what I think are some structural issues.
Pyrazolam 250 x 0.5mg  Benzodiazepine, unscheduled, comes in little bitter-fruity/sour and totally foul tasting pills, but fucking potent in my experience with it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 28, 2013, 09:59:44 AM

Oatmeal  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 28, 2013, 10:58:35 AM

Wrote an Excel conversion stylesheet that works like a charm.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 28, 2013, 04:58:47 PM

I finished up the house I was working on and got a check

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Post by: odeon on October 28, 2013, 11:45:50 PM

I made coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 29, 2013, 01:59:26 AM

I had coffee. And I think I finally have got the hectic panic of the morning ladies out of my system.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on October 29, 2013, 05:11:37 AM

The hailstorm was cool. Well, not cool in the sense it made small dings in lots of people's cars, but cool in that I escaped it because I happened to go home for lunch, and it was cool to watch. The loud noise of it freaked the cat out though.

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Post by: Semicolon on October 29, 2013, 05:48:25 AM

Quote from: Mia Wallace on October 29, 2013, 05:11:37 AM

The hailstorm was cool. Well, not cool in the sense it made small dings in lots of people's cars, but cool in that I escaped it because I happened to go home for lunch, and it was cool to watch. The loud noise of it freaked the cat out though.

Welcome to Australia, where even the weather tries to kill you. :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 29, 2013, 12:52:44 PM

Actually Sunday and Monday.

We were at a friend's house Sunday for an American Football party.  After the game the young folk started to play the Wii.  The PR began having the sulks because she is the only one of the 3 that doesn't have a Wii.  The hostess pulled out a used Wii from her closet and said, "Happy early Christmas."

We (the PR actually) set it up on Monday.  I haven't seen the PR since then.  That is good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 29, 2013, 03:20:09 PM

the idiot handyman responsible for wrecking our house is finally getting sued. :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on October 29, 2013, 03:47:35 PM

 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 29, 2013, 05:07:36 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 29, 2013, 03:20:09 PM

the idiot handyman responsible for wrecking our house is finally getting sued. :arrr:

I hope it goes well  for you :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 29, 2013, 05:11:20 PM

Quote from: Parts on October 29, 2013, 05:07:36 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 29, 2013, 03:20:09 PM

the idiot handyman responsible for wrecking our house is finally getting sued. :arrr:

I hope it goes well  for you :thumbup:

Me too. His lawyer replied with the most moronic defence I've read in a while. Thankfully, his version of a builder's code is unlikely to happen any time soon.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on October 29, 2013, 05:16:24 PM

Home-cooked sweet and sour beef with rice happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 29, 2013, 11:55:10 PM

^Sounds like a good thing indeed.

Yesterday's good thing turned out to be last night's lost sleep. I've been mulling over it all night.

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Post by: 'andersom' on October 30, 2013, 12:12:01 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 29, 2013, 11:55:10 PM

^Sounds like a good thing indeed.

Yesterday's good thing turned out to be last night's lost sleep. I've been mulling over it all night.

Yesterday's good thing wasn't home-cooked sweet and sour beef for you?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 30, 2013, 12:14:56 AM

It was us suing the builder. Go back a few posts.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on October 30, 2013, 12:20:17 AM

You can't get sleepless for that. What would Caesar have done? He would have crucified the builder and then slept good all night!  :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 30, 2013, 12:31:24 AM

And I wouldn't mind that solution, except that we still need to fix the problems that resulted from his ineptness. It all costs money.

I'd be happy to crucify him after the trial.

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Post by: 'andersom' on November 11, 2013, 01:27:19 AM

This morning, the youngest was back to full bouncy mode. After a week of no bouncing at all.
Her voice still sounds as if she has been drinking and smoking all night. That's not a problem.
She's back to school. Not by bike though. I would not let her, she lost too much weight and general fitness to do that today.

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Post by: 'andersom' on November 11, 2013, 01:28:30 AM

This also means that I am having a few hours alone, for the first time in a fortnight.  :hyke:

Not too many hours though, appointments and obligations. :P

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Post by: odeon on November 11, 2013, 09:47:43 AM

Apparently DFGL has trouble accessing the site. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on November 11, 2013, 01:32:52 PM

My brother has a new bottle of vinum for me  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 11, 2013, 03:53:18 PM

I checked what I thought was a crappy silver plated candle holder and discovered it's sterling.  Odd as the color is off as is the feel of it

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 11, 2013, 11:42:11 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 12, 2013, 07:55:17 PM

Quote from: Parts on November 11, 2013, 03:53:18 PM

I checked what I thought was a crappy silver plated candle holder and discovered it's sterling.  Odd as the color is off as is the feel of it

When silver has that bluish tarnish on it?  Does it affect the value of the silver if the item is merely sold for the silver value? 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on November 12, 2013, 09:46:16 PM

I got to walk out on the boss as he was praising me for being so loyal an employee and really wanted to see me step up.

One of the full timers had called off work on a VERY BIG work day and he was praising my loyalty (FFS?) and asked me to stay and cover his shift. I just shook my head and asked if was seriously expecting me to fall for that kind of weak shit.

 :wanker:

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Post by: DirtDawg on November 12, 2013, 09:52:20 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 12, 2013, 07:55:17 PM

Quote from: Parts on November 11, 2013, 03:53:18 PM

I checked what I thought was a crappy silver plated candle holder and discovered it's sterling.  Odd as the color is off as is the feel of it

When silver has that bluish tarnish on it?  Does it affect the value of the silver if the item is merely sold for the silver value?

Hell no!

Bluish silver; no problem! Seriously the actual color of the patina being a way to determine the purity of the silver, is NOT a problem to the knowing.  IN fact those who know how to buy silver know a lot about how the color and depth and stability of the patina reflects quality.

A fresh polish is always a problem when determining the purity, unless you are able to take a scraping from an unexposed area (if you are not allowed, as a buyer= red flag!!) and use chemicals to assess its purity.


My dad used to do silver plating on musical instruments and he had to have a high purity (sterling at .92 fine was common fake silver!  He had to use 0.975 fine, at least) in the bars he bought to use as anodes in his process. (impure bars such as "sterling" meant a spotty plating which always had "weak spots"  in the plating. Everything got a slight (half a micron or so) copper flashing to begin, then a nickel flashing (about the same as the copper) to make it more durable, then the actual silver coating).

He had three acids he used (sorry, but chromic, nitric and I can not remember the third) to make sure he was buying the product that would meet the needs of his plating requirements. He could look at an old piece and say that it was good or not so good, by the patina. He knew his shit.

Once the plating process was complete, he would reverse the polarity of the system, agitating the bath overnight and reclaim the silver lost in the acid bath, as it built up on a disposable copper cathode and sell it back to a recycler.

Along in the seventies (with many other techs) he began using a super fast flash of Rhodium (little more expensive, but worth it) to extend the "shininess" of his silver plate jobs. Rhodium made the silver hold its color and shine and you could not actually tell a difference in Rh plated silver and just plain silver, but the Rh plated silver lasted better in the dirty hands of kids who do not take good care of their instruments.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on November 13, 2013, 05:37:30 PM

finally got the clothes dryer fixed. saved us major bucks and got a new multimeter out of it.

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Post by: Pyraxis on November 14, 2013, 12:09:41 AM

 :2thumbsup:

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Post by: odeon on November 14, 2013, 11:52:10 PM

Quote from: WolFish on November 13, 2013, 05:37:30 PM

finally got the clothes dryer fixed. saved us major bucks and got a new multimeter out of it.

A new multimeter is always worth the trouble.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on November 16, 2013, 05:24:53 AM

I found this new flash powder composition. It seems to be more powerful than Shimizu's #3 with sulfur:

Potassium perchlorate 64
German Dark aluminium 27
Antimony trisulfide 9

Antimony flash powder (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsmMjzRwqNI#ws)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on November 17, 2013, 12:43:21 PM

I got my vinum from my brother  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 17, 2013, 03:18:03 PM

Met with some acquaintances in Munich.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 17, 2013, 03:28:16 PM

  Thanks to our Moomin webmaster  :moomin:  the site worked pretty well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 20, 2013, 02:49:14 PM

Had most of the day off

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on November 29, 2013, 01:56:07 PM

My brother was here. I lit a Bengal fire that I had made myself  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on November 29, 2013, 07:40:30 PM

I got my gold 3ds xl gold today. It is the color of like piss.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on November 29, 2013, 08:06:11 PM

Quote from: Lit on November 29, 2013, 01:56:07 PM

My brother was here. I lit a Bengal fire that I had made myself  8)

What's a Bengal fire?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on November 29, 2013, 11:28:17 PM

Quote from: Lit on November 29, 2013, 01:56:07 PM

My brother was here. I lit a Bengal fire that I had made myself  8)

That shit takes talent.

What did you display?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on November 29, 2013, 11:32:44 PM

I had the easiest black friday day since I started working at BB.  No split shift; no stupid early start time. Went in at six AM (got there early enough to buy something cool) and went home at four PM and do not have to go back until four PM tomorrow.

 :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on November 30, 2013, 03:14:06 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on November 29, 2013, 11:28:17 PM

Quote from: Lit on November 29, 2013, 01:56:07 PM

My brother was here. I lit a Bengal fire that I had made myself  8)

That shit takes talent.

What did you display?

Just a Bengal fire. Barium chlorate and shellac. Burns with a very intense green.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 30, 2013, 03:29:43 AM

I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on December 02, 2013, 03:18:20 PM

The urchin was off school due to teacher training.  He has recently become a big fan of  'Ninja Warrior'  don't know if any of you will have seen it but basically ninja warrior is a gruelling obstacle course.

So today, Ladies and Gentlemen, we had Ninja Warrior day in my living room.  The floor was filled with imaginary murky water and was out of bounds.  Moving around was fine as long as you didn't touch the floor.  Furniture was transformed into obstacles and I even managed to get a big hook in the ceiling joist and we had a rope swing, too.

It was fun in a strange way.  :zoinks:

The urchin is sleeping now and I have both feet on the ground again. 

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Post by: odeon on December 02, 2013, 11:41:08 PM

Sounds fun. :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 02, 2013, 11:41:37 PM

I submitted a paper to a conference, me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 02, 2013, 11:46:44 PM

My g'friend offered me the remains of her turkey:  the carcass and attached meat, a whole drumstick and part of one, and the pan juices.  Turkey soup is in the very near future.  Yum.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 03, 2013, 07:32:38 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 02, 2013, 11:41:37 PM

I submitted a paper to a conference, me.

Sounds like a Giant step!

Hope it turns out well in reception.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 03, 2013, 07:38:21 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 02, 2013, 11:46:44 PM

My g'friend offered me the remains of her turkey:  the carcass and attached meat, a whole drumstick and part of one, and the pan juices.  Turkey soup is in the very near future.  Yum.

Awesome!!

We bought a smoked turkey this year, but I am still making soup from the carcass. Actually, I have already "rendered"  two gallons of broth. One for the freezer and one to accept all the leftover, fresh veggies from a (TOO) massive snack tray and the nearly pound of turkey meat that rendering frees easily from the bones.

 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 03, 2013, 07:25:59 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on December 03, 2013, 07:38:21 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 02, 2013, 11:46:44 PM

My g'friend offered me the remains of her turkey:  the carcass and attached meat, a whole drumstick and part of one, and the pan juices.  Turkey soup is in the very near future.  Yum.

Awesome!!

We bought a smoked turkey this year, but I am still making soup from the carcass. Actually, I have already "rendered"  two gallons of broth. One for the freezer and one to accept all the leftover, fresh veggies from a (TOO) massive snack tray and the nearly pound of turkey meat that rendering frees easily from the bones.

 :thumbup:

Smoked turkey makes an excellent gumbo.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 03, 2013, 10:32:22 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 03, 2013, 07:25:59 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on December 03, 2013, 07:38:21 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 02, 2013, 11:46:44 PM

My g'friend offered me the remains of her turkey:  the carcass and attached meat, a whole drumstick and part of one, and the pan juices.  Turkey soup is in the very near future.  Yum.

Awesome!!

We bought a smoked turkey this year, but I am still making soup from the carcass. Actually, I have already "rendered"  two gallons of broth. One for the freezer and one to accept all the leftover, fresh veggies from a (TOO) massive snack tray and the nearly pound of turkey meat that rendering frees easily from the bones.

 :thumbup:

Smoked turkey makes an excellent gumbo.

See had you not already revealed that you are not some disgruntled BritCunt, I would now know from where you hail.

Only problem to us in the north is that fresh tomatoes are imposssible to come by with winter or even fall approaching.


...   but gumbo sounds great! 

We had a really early hard freeze this year and I gave up on my garden for a couple of weeks. When we got decent weather I went out to clear things out - found over-sized okra still growing past the freeze.  This was a learning experience for me. I always thought that okra was extremely summery and any call to winter weather would kill it. 

I now know, it is more hardy than they say. I could have had any kind of okra had I gone out the next day, instead of allowing the plants to get weedy and stemmy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 03, 2013, 11:56:36 PM

I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 06, 2013, 05:18:13 PM

Got a nice letter from Habitat for Humanity thanking me for donating two big garbage  bags full of painting supplies

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Post by: 'andersom' on December 06, 2013, 05:41:46 PM

I just had an awesome evening, celebrating St. Nic.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 06, 2013, 06:04:16 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 06, 2013, 05:41:46 PM

I just had an awesome evening, celebrating St. Nic.

Have you been good this year? :santa:

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Post by: TheoK on December 06, 2013, 06:05:12 PM

Hyke semper vacca proba est  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 06, 2013, 06:15:45 PM

Quote from: Lit on December 06, 2013, 06:05:12 PM

Hyke semper vacca proba est  :M

:hyke: spends time with :cbc:; the :trollface: could rub off.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on December 06, 2013, 06:19:31 PM

 :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 06, 2013, 06:49:16 PM

Quote from: Lit on December 06, 2013, 06:19:31 PM

:tard:

You've posted a number of single smilies today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on December 06, 2013, 06:58:24 PM

 :agreed:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on December 06, 2013, 06:59:24 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 06, 2013, 06:04:16 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 06, 2013, 05:41:46 PM

I just had an awesome evening, celebrating St. Nic.

Have you been good this year? :santa:

St. Nic. was pleased with all of us.
He had written great poems, and got us laughing a lot.
The presents were good too.

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Post by: Semicolon on December 06, 2013, 07:04:07 PM

Quote from: Lit on December 06, 2013, 06:58:24 PM

:agreed:

:GA:

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 06, 2013, 06:59:24 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 06, 2013, 06:04:16 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 06, 2013, 05:41:46 PM

I just had an awesome evening, celebrating St. Nic.

Have you been good this year? :santa:

St. Nic. was pleased with all of us.
He had written great poems, and got us laughing a lot.
The presents were good too.

If he had come later in the year, he wouldn't have been able to start his sleigh. :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 06, 2013, 07:51:48 PM

Again, as I look at these dying plants, there are many just set blooms and a number of young fruit just becoming established.

I have resisted growing gumbo for a number of years, due to the fact that I live in a northern climate = dead freeze of everything in early October. Plants which need many months to grow to fruition are planted in the earliest of spring.  Yet these plants need very warm temps just to germinate.

Next year, I plan to start my okra in my greenhouse (I have a design in mind  of using a simple lightbulb to create a mini oven to raise temps inside one small space) and keep it going until the final freeze.

Had I been more attentive this year, I would have harvested quite a bit more gumbo for the table....Have not figured how to to preserve it yet, except for freezing, but that means only a "soup" will revive it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 06, 2013, 09:13:45 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 06, 2013, 06:49:16 PM

Quote from: Lit on December 06, 2013, 06:19:31 PM

:tard:

You've posted a number of single smilies today.

Curiously, it is usually the "Tard" smilie that he posts, singly


.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 07, 2013, 02:01:08 AM

I like  :CanofWorms: and  :GA: more. But  :zoinks: is my favourite.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 07, 2013, 07:15:06 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on December 06, 2013, 09:13:45 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 06, 2013, 06:49:16 PM

Quote from: Lit on December 06, 2013, 06:19:31 PM

:tard:

You've posted a number of single smilies today.

Curiously, it is usually the "Tard" smilie that he posts, singly


.

He also likes :orly: and :M.

Quote from: odeon on December 07, 2013, 02:01:08 AM

I like  :CanofWorms: and  :GA: more. But  :zoinks: is my favourite.

Perhaps you should immortalize them in a smiley ballet. :P

:CanofWorms:

:GA:
:zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 07, 2013, 10:07:32 AM

Wanted to go into town to buy something from the head shop, but hadn't enough money for both the product I wanted, and a tram ticket to manchester city center. So I waited around at the station, until somebody returning from there dumped their ticket. Checked a couple, and eventually got a passenger's discarded return ticket.

Got there, on my free ride, only to find that the half gram ethylphenidate bags were £12 not half the price of the full gram ones (only had a tenner on me). But the guys that work there know my face, and that I spend a fair bit when I shop there, and that I go in there quite frequently, so were happy to let me off the two quid until monday when I planned to go in there anyhow.

Just wanted a little pick me up, for a couple of days so to speak. The head shop staff/owner recognized a loyal customer. I don't usually want to do business with head shops, save for the likes of pipes, bong downpipes, books etc. As I have a virulent dislike of the whole shitty business model of the 'research chemical' proprietary products. As far as I'm concerned, the sort of compounds sold, should be freely available, as they are, but they should never be branded. I.e if for instance, 5-n-ethyl-aminopropylbenzofuran (aka 5-EAPB, the benzofuran homolog of MDE, where the methylenedioxy ring is substituted for a benzofuran, 1 oxygen, rather than two in the ring attached to the phenyl ring of MDxx, the other methylenedioxy oxygen replaced by carbon, and in the case of 5-EAPB, the entire secondary ring system shifted up a position on the phenyl ring, from 3,4-methylenedioxy to a 5,6-benzofuran, in this case, the 5-position oxygen were it 5,6-methylenedioxy rather than the single oxygen of the benzofuran, is where the O is, rather than the 6-position. The MDA homolog, got sold until banned, under the name 'benzo fury', and now theres a 'benzo fury xtreme'. Thats the sort of shit I don't like. These things should not be marketed, but sold as-is, under their real names, not some stupid fucking branding.)

But this place is pretty decent, and they know what they are selling. I don't think they would sell something they didn't know the identity of. Like, their branded cannabinoid products are all ones that, despite the obvious intent of being smoked, weed leaf packaging and flavoring etc., nevertheless list the chemical ingredients, and in most cases even the inert carrier plant material species used, and how much of each is present by percentage/per weight of inert carrier.

And they seem to have some sense of responsibility about what they sell too. So I do buy there sometimes, if I just want a (albeit fucking pricy) synthetic smoke NOW, same day, rather than buying bulk chemical online, which is far, far cheaper. But then I'd have to wait a day for next day shipping etc.  This place refuses to stock/sell certain things, the sort of things that could well prove dangerous to incautious users that go solely seeking something to get off on, without knowing really what they are doing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on December 07, 2013, 03:52:45 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 06, 2013, 07:04:07 PM

Quote from: Lit on December 06, 2013, 06:58:24 PM

:agreed:

:GA:

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 06, 2013, 06:59:24 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 06, 2013, 06:04:16 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 06, 2013, 05:41:46 PM

I just had an awesome evening, celebrating St. Nic.

Have you been good this year? :santa:

St. Nic. was pleased with all of us.
He had written great poems, and got us laughing a lot.
The presents were good too.

If he had come later in the year, he wouldn't have been able to start his sleigh. :orly:

What sleigh. We're not having the Coca Cola fiction here.

He came through snow, hail, thunder and lightning, and wind force 10. St. Nic has been brave and awesome. And he comes by boat and horse.  :M  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 07, 2013, 08:14:11 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 07, 2013, 03:52:45 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 06, 2013, 07:04:07 PM

Quote from: Lit on December 06, 2013, 06:58:24 PM

:agreed:

:GA:

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 06, 2013, 06:59:24 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 06, 2013, 06:04:16 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 06, 2013, 05:41:46 PM

I just had an awesome evening, celebrating St. Nic.

Have you been good this year? :santa:

St. Nic. was pleased with all of us.
He had written great poems, and got us laughing a lot.
The presents were good too.

If he had come later in the year, he wouldn't have been able to start his sleigh. :orly:

What sleigh. We're not having the Coca Cola fiction here.

He came through snow, hail, thunder and lightning, and wind force 10. St. Nic has been brave and awesome. And he comes by boat and horse.  :M  :viking:

That's the mail carrier. :M

Quote

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

Santa Claus comes in a sleigh led by eight reindeer (nine if you include Rudolph). :smarty:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 08, 2013, 03:02:31 AM

Can't he just beam down?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 08, 2013, 07:14:20 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 08, 2013, 03:02:31 AM

Can't he just beam down?

He does, in a way. He lands his sleigh on the roof of a house, slides down the chimney with his sack full of toys and puts some presents under the tree. :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 08, 2013, 11:07:09 AM

Found a few kilos of powdered poppy pod in a mixing bowl in the kitchen I had completely forgot about. Right when I was in absolute excruciating pain with my hip and knee even despite oxy, to the extent I don't think I could have made the 10-minute walk to the local shops if I wanted to do so, and got back again. And when I was having a bit of a comedown thanks to spending last night banging ethylphenidate.

Wasn't sure it would be all that good given the age of it, but that was until I tasted the first pot of pod tea. Some of the bitterest, vilest tasting (indicative of high alkaloid content) pods I'd been lucky enough to get from a crop in a long time. Had two pots today, one about 9am, the other just about now, and even the first one alone left me droopy-eyed, barely able to keep from falling asleep face first into my newspaper whilst lazing on top of my bed listening to music. And considering my tolerance to shooting my OC80s thats fucking saying something from pod tea. It can be pretty strong, yes, but THAT strong...damn.

Just waiting for the second brew to absorb its way past the plateful of toad-in-the-hole that followed it down the hatch.

No pain to speak of, at all. I don't get pain free days often now, at all. Right now though, I don't feel like moving one bit..but in a good way for a change :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 08, 2013, 11:22:12 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 08, 2013, 07:14:20 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 08, 2013, 03:02:31 AM

Can't he just beam down?

He does, in a way. He lands his sleigh on the roof of a house, slides down the chimney with his sack full of toys and puts some presents under the tree. :viking:

Couldn't he just land on the front lawn and use the door?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 08, 2013, 04:41:05 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 08, 2013, 11:22:12 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 08, 2013, 07:14:20 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 08, 2013, 03:02:31 AM

Can't he just beam down?

He does, in a way. He lands his sleigh on the roof of a house, slides down the chimney with his sack full of toys and puts some presents under the tree. :viking:

Couldn't he just land on the front lawn and use the door?

(http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_super/12/121851/2368566-tumblr_m4ddq6l2dq1r7ut7mo2_400.jpg)

He might set off burglar alarms that way. Who alarms their chimney?

Besides, the children would hear the door opening. :ninja:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 09, 2013, 12:29:01 AM

And they wouldn't hear an abnormally fat guy get stuck in the chimney? Yeah, right.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 12:50:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 09, 2013, 12:29:01 AM

And they wouldn't hear an abnormally fat guy get stuck in the chimney? Yeah, right.

Perhaps he opens the flue with a pointed stick, or he covers himself with lard in order to slide down. :dunno:

Didn't we already have this discussion? :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on December 09, 2013, 02:46:28 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 12:50:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 09, 2013, 12:29:01 AM

And they wouldn't hear an abnormally fat guy get stuck in the chimney? Yeah, right.

Perhaps he opens the flue with a pointed stick, or he covers himself with lard in order to slide down. :dunno:

Didn't we already have this discussion? :GA:

With lard he would sizzle nicely, if the fire was still on. Slow roast in the chimney. Dripping fat in the fire. Huge breakfast.
Throw another reindeer on the hearth, in case of many guests. And don't forget to serve the drinks of the sponsor, Coca Cola.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 03:33:04 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 09, 2013, 02:46:28 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 12:50:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 09, 2013, 12:29:01 AM

And they wouldn't hear an abnormally fat guy get stuck in the chimney? Yeah, right.

Perhaps he opens the flue with a pointed stick, or he covers himself with lard in order to slide down. :dunno:

Didn't we already have this discussion? :GA:

With lard he would sizzle nicely, if the fire was still on. Slow roast in the chimney. Dripping fat in the fire. Huge breakfast.
Throw another reindeer on the hearth, in case of many guests. And don't forget to serve the drinks of the sponsor, Coca Cola.

Disturbing. :plus:

That assumes that the homeowners start fires in their fireplaces despite knowing that Santa will be coming. :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on December 09, 2013, 03:36:15 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 03:33:04 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 09, 2013, 02:46:28 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 12:50:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 09, 2013, 12:29:01 AM

And they wouldn't hear an abnormally fat guy get stuck in the chimney? Yeah, right.

Perhaps he opens the flue with a pointed stick, or he covers himself with lard in order to slide down. :dunno:

Didn't we already have this discussion? :GA:

With lard he would sizzle nicely, if the fire was still on. Slow roast in the chimney. Dripping fat in the fire. Huge breakfast.
Throw another reindeer on the hearth, in case of many guests. And don't forget to serve the drinks of the sponsor, Coca Cola.

Disturbing. :plus:

That assumes that the homeowners start fires in their fireplaces despite knowing that Santa will be coming. :M

Responsible home owners will keep their house at a minimum temperature in winter, to keep the pipes from freezing.  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 03:39:58 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 09, 2013, 03:36:15 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 03:33:04 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 09, 2013, 02:46:28 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 12:50:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 09, 2013, 12:29:01 AM

And they wouldn't hear an abnormally fat guy get stuck in the chimney? Yeah, right.

Perhaps he opens the flue with a pointed stick, or he covers himself with lard in order to slide down. :dunno:

Didn't we already have this discussion? :GA:

With lard he would sizzle nicely, if the fire was still on. Slow roast in the chimney. Dripping fat in the fire. Huge breakfast.
Throw another reindeer on the hearth, in case of many guests. And don't forget to serve the drinks of the sponsor, Coca Cola.

Disturbing. :plus:

That assumes that the homeowners start fires in their fireplaces despite knowing that Santa will be coming. :M

Responsible home owners will keep their house at a minimum temperature in winter, to keep the pipes from freezing.  :M

If you heat your home with fireplaces, you probably have more than one. Just leave one unlit, and Santa can come through the chimney with no smoke. :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on December 09, 2013, 03:45:07 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 03:39:58 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 09, 2013, 03:36:15 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 03:33:04 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 09, 2013, 02:46:28 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 12:50:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 09, 2013, 12:29:01 AM

And they wouldn't hear an abnormally fat guy get stuck in the chimney? Yeah, right.

Perhaps he opens the flue with a pointed stick, or he covers himself with lard in order to slide down. :dunno:

Didn't we already have this discussion? :GA:

With lard he would sizzle nicely, if the fire was still on. Slow roast in the chimney. Dripping fat in the fire. Huge breakfast.
Throw another reindeer on the hearth, in case of many guests. And don't forget to serve the drinks of the sponsor, Coca Cola.

Disturbing. :plus:

That assumes that the homeowners start fires in their fireplaces despite knowing that Santa will be coming. :M

Responsible home owners will keep their house at a minimum temperature in winter, to keep the pipes from freezing.  :M

If you heat your home with fireplaces, you probably have more than one. Just leave one unlit, and Santa can come through the chimney with no smoke. :M

Our St Nic has kept up with the changes. In houses without a fireplace, with central heating, kids often place their shoes in the hall, close to the door.
At "pakjesavond" he either knocks on the window, to let you know a bag full of presents is standing in front of the door, or he comes to bring them personally. And he makes poems, for the recipients. Custom made poetry. Nothing beats that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 09, 2013, 06:09:25 AM

Good thing happening for me today was that I found out I passed my unit for uni. A bad mark, but I still passed. So relieved I didn't fail because that would mean repeating the unit.

Next year I am doing two units at once. Don't know what I am letting myself in for.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on December 09, 2013, 06:25:37 AM

 :santa:

Bah Humbug!  Fed up with the urchin going on and on about bloody christmas and a new xbox i finally snapped and said  "santa is dead, he electrocuted himself on his christmas lights" (which is another bone of contention)

How horrible am i?  bah humbug
It's ok i did say i was joking



the good thing today - i found out i am eligible for a new efficient central heating boiler from govt.   if i can get through the paper work and forms  :chores: 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 10:23:36 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 09, 2013, 03:45:07 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 03:39:58 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 09, 2013, 03:36:15 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 03:33:04 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 09, 2013, 02:46:28 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 12:50:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 09, 2013, 12:29:01 AM

And they wouldn't hear an abnormally fat guy get stuck in the chimney? Yeah, right.

Perhaps he opens the flue with a pointed stick, or he covers himself with lard in order to slide down. :dunno:

Didn't we already have this discussion? :GA:

With lard he would sizzle nicely, if the fire was still on. Slow roast in the chimney. Dripping fat in the fire. Huge breakfast.
Throw another reindeer on the hearth, in case of many guests. And don't forget to serve the drinks of the sponsor, Coca Cola.

Disturbing. :plus:

That assumes that the homeowners start fires in their fireplaces despite knowing that Santa will be coming. :M

Responsible home owners will keep their house at a minimum temperature in winter, to keep the pipes from freezing.  :M

If you heat your home with fireplaces, you probably have more than one. Just leave one unlit, and Santa can come through the chimney with no smoke. :M

Our St Nic has kept up with the changes. In houses without a fireplace, with central heating, kids often place their shoes in the hall, close to the door.
At "pakjesavond" he either knocks on the window, to let you know a bag full of presents is standing in front of the door, or he comes to bring them personally. And he makes poems, for the recipients. Custom made poetry. Nothing beats that.

Fatty fat Americans don't appreciate poetry. :M

What if you're not home? :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on December 09, 2013, 11:22:16 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 09, 2013, 12:29:01 AM

And they wouldn't hear an abnormally fat guy get stuck in the chimney? Yeah, right.

Not in fatty fat America  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on December 09, 2013, 04:37:59 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 10:23:36 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 09, 2013, 03:45:07 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 03:39:58 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 09, 2013, 03:36:15 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 03:33:04 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 09, 2013, 02:46:28 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 12:50:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 09, 2013, 12:29:01 AM

And they wouldn't hear an abnormally fat guy get stuck in the chimney? Yeah, right.

Perhaps he opens the flue with a pointed stick, or he covers himself with lard in order to slide down. :dunno:

Didn't we already have this discussion? :GA:

With lard he would sizzle nicely, if the fire was still on. Slow roast in the chimney. Dripping fat in the fire. Huge breakfast.
Throw another reindeer on the hearth, in case of many guests. And don't forget to serve the drinks of the sponsor, Coca Cola.

Disturbing. :plus:

That assumes that the homeowners start fires in their fireplaces despite knowing that Santa will be coming. :M

Responsible home owners will keep their house at a minimum temperature in winter, to keep the pipes from freezing.  :M

If you heat your home with fireplaces, you probably have more than one. Just leave one unlit, and Santa can come through the chimney with no smoke. :M

Our St Nic has kept up with the changes. In houses without a fireplace, with central heating, kids often place their shoes in the hall, close to the door.
At "pakjesavond" he either knocks on the window, to let you know a bag full of presents is standing in front of the door, or he comes to bring them personally. And he makes poems, for the recipients. Custom made poetry. Nothing beats that.

Fatty fat Americans don't appreciate poetry. :M

What if you're not home? :dunno:

If you are not at home, St Nic will deliver the goods a day early or even a day late. Or, he will bring the gifts to where you are. Sometimes he does make 'mistakes' for the amusement of the children, for no one is perfect, not even St Nic. And then he will drop an extra present for a child in the house of a grandparent or friend. It just happens.

St Nic is less fat than Santa, that's because he has not been raised on Coca Cola.  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on December 09, 2013, 05:14:26 PM

 :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 06:16:34 PM

Quote from: Lit on December 09, 2013, 11:22:16 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 09, 2013, 12:29:01 AM

And they wouldn't hear an abnormally fat guy get stuck in the chimney? Yeah, right.

Not in fatty fat America  :M

We need good hearing to catch a wild cheeseburger in its natural habitat. :M

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 09, 2013, 04:37:59 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 10:23:36 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 09, 2013, 03:45:07 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 03:39:58 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 09, 2013, 03:36:15 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 03:33:04 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 09, 2013, 02:46:28 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 12:50:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 09, 2013, 12:29:01 AM

And they wouldn't hear an abnormally fat guy get stuck in the chimney? Yeah, right.

Perhaps he opens the flue with a pointed stick, or he covers himself with lard in order to slide down. :dunno:

Didn't we already have this discussion? :GA:

With lard he would sizzle nicely, if the fire was still on. Slow roast in the chimney. Dripping fat in the fire. Huge breakfast.
Throw another reindeer on the hearth, in case of many guests. And don't forget to serve the drinks of the sponsor, Coca Cola.

Disturbing. :plus:

That assumes that the homeowners start fires in their fireplaces despite knowing that Santa will be coming. :M

Responsible home owners will keep their house at a minimum temperature in winter, to keep the pipes from freezing.  :M

If you heat your home with fireplaces, you probably have more than one. Just leave one unlit, and Santa can come through the chimney with no smoke. :M

Our St Nic has kept up with the changes. In houses without a fireplace, with central heating, kids often place their shoes in the hall, close to the door.
At "pakjesavond" he either knocks on the window, to let you know a bag full of presents is standing in front of the door, or he comes to bring them personally. And he makes poems, for the recipients. Custom made poetry. Nothing beats that.

Fatty fat Americans don't appreciate poetry. :M

What if you're not home? :dunno:

If you are not at home, St Nic will deliver the goods a day early or even a day late. Or, he will bring the gifts to where you are. Sometimes he does make 'mistakes' for the amusement of the children, for no one is perfect, not even St Nic. And then he will drop an extra present for a child in the house of a grandparent or friend. It just happens.

St Nic is less fat than Santa, that's because he has not been raised on Coca Cola.  :M

Santa drinks milk and eats cookies. :M

In various stores or malls, children can find Santa's helpers (who are dressed like Santa). There are opportunities for children to speak with Santa and tell him what they want, or to get their pictures taken with him.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 11, 2013, 12:15:45 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 12:50:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 09, 2013, 12:29:01 AM

And they wouldn't hear an abnormally fat guy get stuck in the chimney? Yeah, right.

Perhaps he opens the flue with a pointed stick, or he covers himself with lard in order to slide down. :dunno:

Didn't we already have this discussion? :GA:

Probably, but this is I2. Wait and see, it will soon about what Caesar would have done in that chimney.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 11, 2013, 12:40:46 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 11, 2013, 12:15:45 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 12:50:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 09, 2013, 12:29:01 AM

And they wouldn't hear an abnormally fat guy get stuck in the chimney? Yeah, right.

Perhaps he opens the flue with a pointed stick, or he covers himself with lard in order to slide down. :dunno:

Didn't we already have this discussion? :GA:

Probably, but this is I2. Wait and see, it will soon about what Caesar would have done in that chimney.

:indeed:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on December 11, 2013, 04:08:57 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 11, 2013, 12:15:45 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 12:50:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 09, 2013, 12:29:01 AM

And they wouldn't hear an abnormally fat guy get stuck in the chimney? Yeah, right.

Perhaps he opens the flue with a pointed stick, or he covers himself with lard in order to slide down. :dunno:

Didn't we already have this discussion? :GA:

Probably, but this is I2. Wait and see, it will soon about what Caesar would have done in that chimney.

Caesar was slender, not fatty fat, so he would have gotten down without problems  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 14, 2013, 05:33:15 AM

Quote from: Lit on December 11, 2013, 04:08:57 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 11, 2013, 12:15:45 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2013, 12:50:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 09, 2013, 12:29:01 AM

And they wouldn't hear an abnormally fat guy get stuck in the chimney? Yeah, right.

Perhaps he opens the flue with a pointed stick, or he covers himself with lard in order to slide down. :dunno:

Didn't we already have this discussion? :GA:

Probably, but this is I2. Wait and see, it will soon about what Caesar would have done in that chimney.

Caesar was slender, not fatty fat, so he would have gotten down without problems  :M

It would have changed the history books if he had, though. :nerdy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on December 14, 2013, 06:00:03 AM

Imagine Caesar delivering Christmas gifts  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 14, 2013, 08:41:31 AM

Quote from: Lit on December 14, 2013, 06:00:03 AM

Imagine Caesar delivering Christmas gifts  :orly:

Bringing each child a small gift and a military coup? :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: TheoK on December 14, 2013, 08:43:17 AM

 :agreed: :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 14, 2013, 12:21:53 PM

Found a tenner while in manchester city center, right in front of the entrance to the arndale centers food court, it had been staring some guy giving flyers out in the face and I almost missed it too, looked back to double-check, and walk off ten quid richer.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 16, 2013, 11:49:39 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 14, 2013, 08:41:31 AM

Quote from: Lit on December 14, 2013, 06:00:03 AM

Imagine Caesar delivering Christmas gifts  :orly:

Bringing each child a small gift and a military coup? :orly:

Crucifying the naughty ones.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 17, 2013, 12:21:03 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 16, 2013, 11:49:39 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 14, 2013, 08:41:31 AM

Quote from: Lit on December 14, 2013, 06:00:03 AM

Imagine Caesar delivering Christmas gifts  :orly:

Bringing each child a small gift and a military coup? :orly:

Crucifying the naughty ones.

:viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 17, 2013, 12:25:30 AM

Quote from: Lestat on December 08, 2013, 11:07:09 AM

Found a few kilos of powdered poppy pod in a mixing bowl in the kitchen I had completely forgot about.

  I found a Lindor truffle on my bedroom floor.  It's still wrapped, so it's OK to eat.  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 17, 2013, 10:26:34 PM

Christmas lights.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 18, 2013, 12:07:58 AM

Got an unexpectedly quick email reply from a friend. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 18, 2013, 06:53:10 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on December 17, 2013, 12:25:30 AM

Quote from: Lestat on December 08, 2013, 11:07:09 AM

Found a few kilos of powdered poppy pod in a mixing bowl in the kitchen I had completely forgot about.

  I found a Lindor truffle on my bedroom floor.  It's still wrapped, so it's OK to eat.  :autism:

That's the :autism: :santa: spirit. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 25, 2013, 10:50:31 PM

I won $25 on a scratch lottery ticket I got for Christmas

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 06, 2014, 06:27:49 AM

My paper was accepted at a conference in Prague next month. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on January 06, 2014, 06:35:09 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 06, 2014, 06:27:49 AM

My paper was accepted at a conference in Prague next month. :woohoo:

Congratulations. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on January 06, 2014, 10:09:26 AM

Quote from: Jack on January 06, 2014, 06:35:09 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 06, 2014, 06:27:49 AM

My paper was accepted at a conference in Prague next month. :woohoo:

Congratulations. :)

:indeed:

Now you'll get to practice your Czech.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 06, 2014, 11:55:25 AM

Quote from: Jack on January 06, 2014, 06:35:09 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 06, 2014, 06:27:49 AM

My paper was accepted at a conference in Prague next month. :woohoo:

Congratulations. :)

Piggy back post

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 06, 2014, 11:33:42 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on January 06, 2014, 10:09:26 AM

Quote from: Jack on January 06, 2014, 06:35:09 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 06, 2014, 06:27:49 AM

My paper was accepted at a conference in Prague next month. :woohoo:

Congratulations. :)

:indeed:

Now you'll get to practice your Czech.

I don't use it enough so what little I know is rusty. :(

It'll be good to see Prague again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 12, 2014, 01:58:27 PM

I think my stones have passed

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 12, 2014, 03:14:03 PM

Quote from: Parts on January 12, 2014, 01:58:27 PM

I think my stones have passed

Ah, you pissed your passed stones.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 12, 2014, 03:48:06 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 12, 2014, 03:14:03 PM

Quote from: Parts on January 12, 2014, 01:58:27 PM

I think my stones have passed

Ah, you pissed your passed stones.

  Once again, Parts has terminated them with extreme prejudice!   :litigious:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 12, 2014, 04:44:12 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 12, 2014, 03:48:06 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 12, 2014, 03:14:03 PM

Quote from: Parts on January 12, 2014, 01:58:27 PM

I think my stones have passed

Ah, you pissed your passed stones.

  Once again, Parts has terminated them with extreme prejudice!   :litigious:

The stones have not been terminated, they have been used as ammunition.

Glad you are feeling better, Parts.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 12, 2014, 11:46:50 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 17, 2014, 06:35:40 PM

  Good work happened in the kitchen today, I was alert and productive.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Eclair on January 17, 2014, 07:42:39 PM

Quote from: Parts on January 12, 2014, 01:58:27 PM

I think my stones have passed

Fuck, c'mon you old dog, is this what posting here has come to!  :zombiefuck:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 17, 2014, 07:55:35 PM

Quote from: Eclair on January 17, 2014, 07:42:39 PM

Quote from: Parts on January 12, 2014, 01:58:27 PM

I think my stones have passed

Fuck, c'mon you old dog, is this what posting here has come to!  :zombiefuck:

  Passing stones is BRAVE!   :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 18, 2014, 12:45:10 AM

Quote from: Eclair on January 17, 2014, 07:42:39 PM

Quote from: Parts on January 12, 2014, 01:58:27 PM

I think my stones have passed

Fuck, c'mon you old dog, is this what posting here has come to!  :zombiefuck:

Hey, this is what we live for. :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on January 18, 2014, 03:50:54 PM

Quote from: Eclair on January 17, 2014, 07:42:39 PM

Quote from: Parts on January 12, 2014, 01:58:27 PM

I think my stones have passed

Fuck, c'mon you old dog, is this what posting here has come to!  :zombiefuck:

Has it ever been any different? :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 20, 2014, 12:11:39 AM

Coffee happened.

Quote from: Jack on January 18, 2014, 03:50:54 PM

Quote from: Eclair on January 17, 2014, 07:42:39 PM

Quote from: Parts on January 12, 2014, 01:58:27 PM

I think my stones have passed

Fuck, c'mon you old dog, is this what posting here has come to!  :zombiefuck:

Has it ever been any different? :laugh:

Not really, no. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 20, 2014, 07:03:41 AM

 
Not today but last night, I got the call from a customer that he is going ahead with the improvement I proposed to do to his home

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on January 20, 2014, 11:43:12 AM

I don't have to go to work today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 20, 2014, 01:34:16 PM

Submitted the final version of my whitepaper to Prague next month.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 02, 2014, 12:24:55 PM

The last coat of lacquer on my radio  turned out good I'm very happy I didn't have to put on a sixth coat

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 02, 2014, 05:43:29 PM

Didn't burn myself on the pie that fell out of the toaster oven.

The rack just collapsed between its rails, tilting down towards the door and sliding pie out into my hands. Luckily I had a potholder in my hand but it smooshed right through the crust of one side.

Still edible. And the toaster oven is going out with the trash.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 03, 2014, 12:25:41 AM

I had coffee. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 03, 2014, 04:12:20 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 03, 2014, 12:25:41 AM

I had coffee. :)

I did too :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 03, 2014, 09:13:59 PM

apple fritter

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 03, 2014, 10:50:55 PM

For the third time my wife and my daughter made "Rice Krispie Treats" together and it seems that my daughter can now create them on her own.

Only good things can come from this!

 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 03, 2014, 11:37:21 PM

Quote from: Parts on March 03, 2014, 04:12:20 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 03, 2014, 12:25:41 AM

I had coffee. :)

I did too :2thumbsup:

And again!  :2thumbsup: :thumbup: :zoinks:

It's the only good thing about this morning.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 09, 2014, 06:08:08 AM

Liam (the cat) kept me company while I have been studying today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 09, 2014, 11:36:51 AM

Waffle

AND

PA cleaned the refrigerator for me  :clap:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on March 09, 2014, 01:14:37 PM

The monkeys helped me clean the kitchen.  :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 09, 2014, 11:26:59 PM

Nothing has come up yet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 13, 2014, 12:01:54 PM

My brother showed up and gave me at least a partial payment for the work I did two weeks ago, well it's better than nothing

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on March 13, 2014, 03:12:44 PM

Cooking an awesome dinner

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 13, 2014, 11:46:09 PM

:coffee: happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 17, 2014, 02:23:07 PM

SPG finally got the last of the albums in stock.  Placed my order. 

:2thumbsup:  :2thumbsup:  :2thumbsup:  :celebrate: :celebrate: :party: :party: :oranna: :raining: :woohoo: :woohoo: :lutra: :lutra: :rock: :dance: :dance: :thanks:

Did you notice that I'm just a wee bit happy?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 18, 2014, 12:20:46 AM

But you hide it so well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 18, 2014, 01:14:48 AM

Yes, we were quite amused.  I think I held my rapture in check.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 19, 2014, 12:52:07 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 19, 2014, 03:03:33 AM

Saw two very bright sundogs this morning. Was pretty.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 20, 2014, 03:41:02 PM

I found a drill that has been missing for months under some stuff in the shed that had fallen over

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 20, 2014, 11:53:51 PM

Technically yesterday but my new headphones arrived. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 21, 2014, 01:54:58 PM

I had a nice ride along the shore when I was out measuring houses

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 21, 2014, 03:33:04 PM

They shipped my order, they shipped my order, they shipped my order...........

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 21, 2014, 04:00:54 PM

An ice-cold IPA happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 21, 2014, 09:27:03 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 19, 2014, 03:03:33 AM

Saw two very bright sundogs this morning. Was pretty.

What are sundogs?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 22, 2014, 02:56:00 AM

Quote from: renaeden on March 21, 2014, 09:27:03 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 19, 2014, 03:03:33 AM

Saw two very bright sundogs this morning. Was pretty.

What are sundogs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on March 22, 2014, 03:16:12 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 22, 2014, 02:56:00 AM

Quote from: renaeden on March 21, 2014, 09:27:03 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 19, 2014, 03:03:33 AM

Saw two very bright sundogs this morning. Was pretty.

What are sundogs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog)

Have never seen that before.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 22, 2014, 06:21:14 AM

Quote from: Jack on March 22, 2014, 03:16:12 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 22, 2014, 02:56:00 AM

Quote from: renaeden on March 21, 2014, 09:27:03 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 19, 2014, 03:03:33 AM

Saw two very bright sundogs this morning. Was pretty.

What are sundogs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog)

Have never seen that before.

Saw another one yesterday, but that was a small one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 22, 2014, 06:44:00 AM

I know I can look up everything on Wikipedia but sometimes I would like a person's take on what something is.

But thanks for the link anyway. :) Sundogs are fascinating. I don't think I have seen one in rl.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 22, 2014, 06:59:05 AM

Quote from: renaeden on March 22, 2014, 06:44:00 AM

I know I can look up everything on Wikipedia but sometimes I would like a person's take on what something is.

But thanks for the link anyway. :) Sundogs are fascinating. I don't think I have seen one in rl.

I was born and raised in a woody area, and never saw one there.
When I was 18, and living in a flat, I saw the first sundog of my life. It was extremely bright. So bright that there was no rainbow effect on the sides. It looked like a sun.
I was opening the door for a visitor of my flatmate, and suddenly I saw two suns. They looked equally bright. So, I blurted out, look, there are two suns.
The guy I opened the door for happened to be a meteorologist. So, he explained what it was, and said this was a very bright one indeed. In Dutch the name is "bijzon", translates best as "sun on the side" or "extra sun" I think.
Now that I live in an area with less trees, and more sky to see, I see them quite often. Most of the time they are weak though. And, sometimes they do come with a full ring around the sun.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 22, 2014, 07:03:26 AM

That's what I like, a personal account of what was seen. :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 22, 2014, 04:06:13 PM

Steam Powered Giraffe cds came. 
Steam Powered Giraffe cds came.
Steam Powered Giraffe cds came. 

 :happydance:

Did I mention Steam Powered Giraffe cds came?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 23, 2014, 03:36:12 AM

Quote from: renaeden on March 22, 2014, 06:44:00 AM

I know I can look up everything on Wikipedia but sometimes I would like a person's take on what something is.

But thanks for the link anyway. :) Sundogs are fascinating. I don't think I have seen one in rl.

I don't think I have ever seen a proper one, I've just read about them. Hence the link.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on March 30, 2014, 08:41:42 AM

This is cute:

My mum, who is 80, has been really trying to get to grips with all this new fangled technology.  She has recently started sending text messages and I was quite impressed when i first saw her use 'LOL'

She has been LOL'ing a lot.  This morning she sent  "Your hair looked nice yesterday, LOL"  and I thought  'is she being sarcastic or what' :o

Over lunch today (it is mother's day here) i asked her about it and it seems she thought LOL to mean 'lots of love'

Ahhh, bless.   :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 30, 2014, 08:46:47 AM

Quote from: bodie on March 30, 2014, 08:41:42 AM

This is cute:

My mum, who is 80, has been really trying to get to grips with all this new fangled technology.  She has recently started sending text messages and I was quite impressed when i first saw her use 'LOL'

She has been LOL'ing a lot.  This morning she sent  "Your hair looked nice yesterday, LOL"  and I thought  'is she being sarcastic or what' :o

Over lunch today (it is mother's day here) i asked her about it and it seems she thought LOL to mean 'lots of love'

Ahhh, bless.   :tard:

:rofl:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MissKitty on March 30, 2014, 08:46:24 PM

Took monkeyboy to the movies with a friend of mine and her son. The boys had fun and so did we.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 30, 2014, 11:07:06 PM

I remember seeing, "Sorry your dog died, LOL." They too meant "lots of love."

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 30, 2014, 11:10:47 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 30, 2014, 11:12:47 PM

... grapefruit happened.


I just love it! I use a bit of salt.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 30, 2014, 11:34:21 PM

I did not cut my hair.


It has been seven months since I cut my hair last.

I decided to give it a pardon.

(usually, this time of year, I just buzz it all off in anticipation of the summer heat.  Today, I decided to let it stay a few more days. My hair is below my ears and below my collar. Thinking of trying it long for the first time in about twenty five years.)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 30, 2014, 11:36:12 PM

Trying it back so that it is off your neck will help in summer.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 31, 2014, 07:05:53 AM

Snow happened,  I know I should be sick of it by now but it's nice to see it one last time this season.  It helps knowing it shouldn't stick around with the temperature supposed to go up this week

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on March 31, 2014, 07:39:30 AM

Went into town and got a few things I wanted, some new music, and some stuff for my stash mainly.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 31, 2014, 08:59:20 AM

Quote from: Lestat on March 31, 2014, 07:39:30 AM

Went into town and got a few things I wanted, some new music, and some stuff for my stash mainly.

And the doctor/hospital?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 31, 2014, 11:11:45 AM

Finished editing the user guide for our system. I've been meaning to do it for months but something always got in the way.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on March 31, 2014, 01:35:51 PM

Today,  was a bouncy happy day
:tigger: :lutra:  :tigger:  :lutra:  :tigger:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 01, 2014, 01:25:20 AM

Coffee is happening, right now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 01, 2014, 01:25:56 AM

The cookies were very nice too, they are all gone now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on April 01, 2014, 05:21:10 AM

I woke up

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 01, 2014, 10:46:46 AM

Went on sunday QV.

Good? cold day, but when I got to subway early in the morning on the way to pick up my scripts and kill some time, the lady serving had JUST begun to take the first batches of freshly baked. steaming squishly gooey triple chocolate cookies, spent just enough on cookies and a big sugary black coffee to get enough loyalty card points to get half of my footlong triple extra double roast beef, triple extra double cheeses (only had the sliced kind in store. Wanted shredded too :/) and meatballs, and more or less carpetbombed in black olives)


Found 2 dropped baggies, which on inspection, both turned out to contain a small but serviceable quantity of rather strong bolivian marching candy :P

Found a new e-ciggie, just when the shit early version model I bought broke.
This one is not only one of the expensive models, but much higher quality, and with a bigger battery to boot.

Nipped a potential ice comedown from tartarus neatly in the bud at the zygote stage thanks to my rx being due today.

Got an extra £80-something in my7 bank I didn't expect too today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 01, 2014, 12:59:06 PM

Quote from: Lestat on April 01, 2014, 10:46:46 AM

Went on sunday QV.

Good? cold day, but when I got to subway early in the morning on the way to pick up my scripts and kill some time, the lady serving had JUST begun to take the first batches of freshly baked. steaming squishly gooey triple chocolate cookies, spent just enough on cookies and a big sugary black coffee to get enough loyalty card points to get half of my footlong triple extra double roast beef, triple extra double cheeses (only had the sliced kind in store. Wanted shredded too :/) and meatballs, and more or less carpetbombed in black olives)


Found 2 dropped baggies, which on inspection, both turned out to contain a small but serviceable quantity of rather strong bolivian marching candy :P

Found a new e-ciggie, just when the shit early version model I bought broke.
This one is not only one of the expensive models, but much higher quality, and with a bigger battery to boot.

Nipped a potential ice comedown from tartarus neatly in the bud at the zygote stage thanks to my rx being due today.

Got an extra £80-something in my7 bank I didn't expect too today.

Black Olives for the win! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 02, 2014, 01:32:44 AM

MY "frenemy"  came back to work today. His right arm is in a sling.

He wanted to apologize to me and say that it is over, but he would not take back the write up on the noob that started our argument.

(Honestly, I am just glad he is man enough to not press charges against me for his childishness)

I will never turn my back on him.

 :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 02, 2014, 07:40:57 AM

Ugh.

Maybe you could be a reference for the noob if he tries to get a job somewhere else.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 03, 2014, 11:06:59 PM

Coffee. What else is there?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 04, 2014, 11:56:37 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 02, 2014, 07:40:57 AM

Ugh.

Maybe you could be a reference for the noob if he tries to get a job somewhere else.

It is worse than that.

I had to sit through an hour and a half write up ceremony with the "injured"  and the big boss.  They made up shit about me, put it in writing and expected to get me to sign off on it after saying the lies were true for an hour. I was accused of "reading a novel" while I was supposed to be in charge of security and they had photographic proof. (actually I did hold a paperback for a few minutes. It was brand new book, never even had the binding cracked, which I was inspecting as a co-worker walked out the door with it. I did read the back cover, but it was a "friends" brand new book. I never even tried to open it, but it is enough for them to have proof they need.)
They also have "proof" that I was reading a magazine,, instead of doing my job. I was actually glancing through our new buyers' guide, published every month. It is a duty of all of us to know what we a re advertising, right? Anyway, they are twisting the truth in order to get rid of me.

There is another problem with me continuing work. I have been there a long time. I have mentioned that I have already been eliminated from full time work - which means no more employee benefits, which had become substantial due to my extended tenure.  There is also the problem of my wage. If they get me out and hire someone new onto my position, they will only have to pay that person two thirds what my wage is.

Whether I like it or not, I am on my way out. Stupid punk supe thought he could hit me in the parking lot and put me off, but he is the one with a dramatically dislocated elbow (I caught his arm straight out as he swung at me and popped his elbow up from below to about ninety degrees beyond straight out, then grabbed it and raked it about one hundred twenty more degrees around, ripping his shoulder completely out of joint and leaving it sticking out from under his scapula, several inches from home) and shoulder which will end up being far worse than a clean break of either bone as his recovery proceeds. That is why he was unconscious when I was about to pound his face. He was already in shock from the pain.

... but as I can see now what is happening (I have been through this once before remember - from back ten years ago and another job, remember?), I am a target for dismissal, just as are all others who have been there too long.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 05, 2014, 02:24:03 AM

That sucks, DD.

I hate it how nowadays companies get rid of their long-term, skilled, people, to cut back their costs. It will bite them in the ass, they lose their expertise.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 05, 2014, 02:25:30 AM

That is so fucked up, DD. I get mad just thinking about it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 05, 2014, 10:50:11 AM

Yeah. It so badly sucks how companies are just dispensing with experienced full time people whenever they can get away with it, to bring on part-timers whom they won't have to give health insurance. What you did to the guy must have hurt like hell but it's hard to have much sympathy for him.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 05, 2014, 01:21:15 PM

Sorry to hear about this DD.  I sincerely hope things work out well for you.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on April 05, 2014, 04:39:18 PM

I would have refused to sign and walked out probably.

Sounds like the guy you ploughed has been kissing the boss's ass in all the right places.

What an ass...I hope he heals slowly. >:D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 05, 2014, 07:47:23 PM

Your a better man than me I would have never been able to sit though a meeting like that.  I am somewhat surprised they even had it considering the paranoia about workplace violence and shootings.  My son was fired last week in a management shake up and replaced by someone they had him training the last month and was going to be doing his job at 2/3 the pay he was making.  They were quick about it though just ten minutes.  He is sure they will not oppose his unemployment though  he had a flash drive full of unflattering emails and memos and could easily prove a hostile work environment  add in the fact his girlfriend is going to have a baby any day now they would surly look bad.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 05, 2014, 08:45:17 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on April 05, 2014, 04:39:18 PM

Sounds like the guy you ploughed has been kissing the boss's ass in all the right places.

In this day and age of zero tolerance, it's actually surprising they're not both being dismissed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 05, 2014, 11:27:57 PM

I had a wonderful talk with someone about a situation I was uncomfortable with.  The advice helped me gain comfort and confidence.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 06, 2014, 08:06:44 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 05, 2014, 02:24:03 AM

That sucks, DD.

I hate it how nowadays companies get rid of their long-term, skilled, people, to cut back their costs. It will bite them in the ass, they lose their expertise.

I am one of three who have been there more than two years.

OUr "oldest guy" Has been there since last summer, when all this started.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 06, 2014, 08:14:32 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 05, 2014, 10:50:11 AM

Yeah. It so badly sucks how companies are just dispensing with experienced full time people whenever they can get away with it, to bring on part-timers whom they won't have to give health insurance. What you did to the guy must have hurt like hell but it's hard to have much sympathy for him.

I think to me, the worst part of all this is that they could not do it all above board, so to speak. They had to put false testimonies against me into my write up and then expected me to sign it.

There were three outright lies written into my latest "final warning."

NOthing much I can do. I can see that the big boss is on his way out. There is no way he will survive this latest "Physical Inventory."  Last time's pi s what put HIM in final warning as well. This is why he is writing up every one in sight, on his way out, trying to grasp at straws.  He makes Too Much money as well and has been here too long, but he has let things slip due to his health being in jeopardy over the past three years.

Our store is too much in "violation"  and out inventory integrity is non-existent. Our expected "total inventory"  was over one hundred thousand in the red last time. He went on final notice. I am sure it is even worse this time around. He will not survive this year's  inventory analysis.

NOt sure I can last to his final days, either.

Actually, I am one year away from being able to access my investments with not penalty; three years away from accessing a bit more in the way of social security benefits.  I went to work at this store as a "kind of bridge"  measure to get me to the end game of my life's works.

I am within only a year of making it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 06, 2014, 10:42:21 PM

It makes me angry just to think about how they've treated you.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 07, 2014, 03:42:31 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 06, 2014, 10:42:21 PM

It makes me angry just to think about how they've treated you.

Actually, the company treated me quite well, up to the point where this boss saw his last days inhand and had to remove everyone with tenure and every one with higher wage and everyone with lower scores in the sales grid.

He has to save his ass!  edit : (He has young children starting in college. HE HAS to save his ass!!  He will not.)

I just hope I survive his demise,   but I am still worried ... what comes next may be worse.

I actually have (had for five weeks since the first one) several other menial job interviews open and pending, in theory.

I hope to finish my last menial jobs as something I can stomach before I can fully retire from having to work (about one and one half more years, FFS!).

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 07, 2014, 08:56:03 AM

Two layers of red made the walls look pretty and evenly covered.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 07, 2014, 10:24:14 AM

Went into town, it was raining cats and dogs, got absolutely piss wet through.

But day was improved by, when I got to the head shop, the owner let me owe him a bit, as I was just £1.50 short of what I needed to get 3 caps of methiopropamine (analog of meth, where a thiophene ring replaces phenyl), I thought I'd only have enough money for two.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on April 07, 2014, 02:13:10 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 07, 2014, 03:42:31 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 06, 2014, 10:42:21 PM

It makes me angry just to think about how they've treated you.

Actually, the company treated me quite well, up to the point where this boss saw his last days inhand and had to remove everyone with tenure and every one with higher wage and everyone with lower scores in the sales grid.

He has to save his ass!  edit : (He has young children starting in college. HE HAS to save his ass!!  He will not.)

I just hope I survive his demise,   but I am still worried ... what comes next may be worse.

I actually have (had for five weeks since the first one) several other menial job interviews open and pending, in theory.

I hope to finish my last menial jobs as something I can stomach before I can fully retire from having to work (about one and one half more years, FFS!).

You will survive...you must be there to eat cake when he is handed his walking papers.  >:D

Hopefully it can only get better, not worse DD.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 07, 2014, 03:49:01 PM

If you're being presented with a warning, DirtDawg, even a final one, that's a very good thing. Didn't really expect that result.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 07, 2014, 10:11:36 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on April 07, 2014, 02:13:10 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 07, 2014, 03:42:31 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 06, 2014, 10:42:21 PM

It makes me angry just to think about how they've treated you.

Actually, the company treated me quite well, up to the point where this boss saw his last days inhand and had to remove everyone with tenure and every one with higher wage and everyone with lower scores in the sales grid.

He has to save his ass!  edit : (He has young children starting in college. HE HAS to save his ass!!  He will not.)

I just hope I survive his demise,   but I am still worried ... what comes next may be worse.

I actually have (had for five weeks since the first one) several other menial job interviews open and pending, in theory.

I hope to finish my last menial jobs as something I can stomach before I can fully retire from having to work (about one and one half more years, FFS!).

You will survive...you must be there to eat cake when he is handed his walking papers.  >:D

Hopefully it can only get better, not worse DD.

Thank you for the positivity. I need some of that right now!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 07, 2014, 10:20:29 PM

Quote from: Jack on April 07, 2014, 03:49:01 PM

If you're being presented with a warning, DirtDawg, even a final one, that's a very good thing. Didn't really expect that result.

Sorry, but I do not see how being told that you are on your last stand is a good thing.

Realize, this is a very large company that I work for. They can not just fire someone, except for ONE massive infraction, stealing. That is an instant dismissal.

No problem. I would NEVER do that. The only way that a person can be fired, who has not stolen anything from the company, is through a lengthy process of documentation of substandard performance.

The fact that that they have made things up about my activities, then set about hours of research combing through old security video to find proof shows me how determined they are to have me gone.

I just wish I had a recourse aside from the violence I have already taken out on my immediate supervisor. I do regret stopping from pummeling him when I realized he was unconscious. I should have kept bruising him.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 07, 2014, 10:33:36 PM

It's still fucked up. :(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 07, 2014, 11:50:24 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 07, 2014, 10:33:36 PM

It's still fucked up. :(

Yeah.

 :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 08, 2014, 05:06:37 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 07, 2014, 10:20:29 PM

Quote from: Jack on April 07, 2014, 03:49:01 PM

If you're being presented with a warning, DirtDawg, even a final one, that's a very good thing. Didn't really expect that result.

Sorry, but I do not see how being told that you are on your last stand is a good thing.

Realize, this is a very large company that I work for. They can not just fire someone, except for ONE massive infraction, stealing. That is an instant dismissal.

No problem. I would NEVER do that. The only way that a person can be fired, who has not stolen anything from the company, is through a lengthy process of documentation of substandard performance.

The fact that that they have made things up about my activities, then set about hours of research combing through old security video to find proof shows me how determined they are to have me gone.

I just wish I had a recourse aside from the violence I have already taken out on my immediate supervisor. I do regret stopping from pummeling him when I realized he was unconscious. I should have kept bruising him.

Most large companies have violence policies and it was surprising both parties weren't dismissed, so just considered it a good thing that didn't happen. Company I work for has a number of things which could result in immediate dismissal; that's one of them. Yes, it's a bad thing to make up lies about you. Still have a job and no legal action as a result; Jack is looking on the bright side.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 08, 2014, 05:35:28 AM

Everyone left now for some peace and quiet

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 08, 2014, 06:50:55 AM

Quote from: Jack on April 08, 2014, 05:06:37 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 07, 2014, 10:20:29 PM

Quote from: Jack on April 07, 2014, 03:49:01 PM

If you're being presented with a warning, DirtDawg, even a final one, that's a very good thing. Didn't really expect that result.

Sorry, but I do not see how being told that you are on your last stand is a good thing.

Realize, this is a very large company that I work for. They can not just fire someone, except for ONE massive infraction, stealing. That is an instant dismissal.

No problem. I would NEVER do that. The only way that a person can be fired, who has not stolen anything from the company, is through a lengthy process of documentation of substandard performance.

The fact that that they have made things up about my activities, then set about hours of research combing through old security video to find proof shows me how determined they are to have me gone.

I just wish I had a recourse aside from the violence I have already taken out on my immediate supervisor. I do regret stopping from pummeling him when I realized he was unconscious. I should have kept bruising him.

Most large companies have violence policies and it was surprising both parties weren't dismissed, so just considered it a good thing that didn't happen. Company I work for has a number of things which could result in immediate dismissal; that's one of them. Yes, it's a bad thing to make up lies about you. Still have a job and no legal action as a result; Jack is looking on the bright side.

Ya know wut?

I do not even know who Jack is, so I would question your input outright.

But to try to be "friendly,"  Teh altercation between me and my twenty something year old supervisor occurred while we were both off the clock and technically away from the store. The violence we shared was not a part of anything the company can control, however, that asshole could probably have made an issue of it, but hee is too arrogant to think that he needs to have anymore than he already has on me. Hee is smug.

I am sure I am done, but my own desire would be for another altercation. I know that I can punk that fuck any time I want, despite the fact he outways me by forty pounds and has two inches of hieght on me. I won his ass.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 08, 2014, 06:51:37 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 08, 2014, 06:50:55 AM

Quote from: Jack on April 08, 2014, 05:06:37 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 07, 2014, 10:20:29 PM

Quote from: Jack on April 07, 2014, 03:49:01 PM

If you're being presented with a warning, DirtDawg, even a final one, that's a very good thing. Didn't really expect that result.

Sorry, but I do not see how being told that you are on your last stand is a good thing.

Realize, this is a very large company that I work for. They can not just fire someone, except for ONE massive infraction, stealing. That is an instant dismissal.

No problem. I would NEVER do that. The only way that a person can be fired, who has not stolen anything from the company, is through a lengthy process of documentation of substandard performance.

The fact that that they have made things up about my activities, then set about hours of research combing through old security video to find proof shows me how determined they are to have me gone.

I just wish I had a recourse aside from the violence I have already taken out on my immediate supervisor. I do regret stopping from pummeling him when I realized he was unconscious. I should have kept bruising him.

Most large companies have violence policies and it was surprising both parties weren't dismissed, so just considered it a good thing that didn't happen. Company I work for has a number of things which could result in immediate dismissal; that's one of them. Yes, it's a bad thing to make up lies about you. Still have a job and no legal action as a result; Jack is looking on the bright side.

Ya know wut?

I do not even know who Jack is, so I would question your input outright.

But to try to be "friendly,"  Teh altercation between me and my twenty something year old supervisor occurred while we were both off the clock and technically away from the store. The violence we shared was not a part of anything the company can control, however, that asshole could probably have made an issue of it, but hee is too arrogant to think that he needs to have anymore than he already has on me. Hee is smug.

I am sure I am done, but my own desire would be for another altercation. I know that I can punk that fuck any time I want, despite the fact he outways me by forty pounds and has two inches of height on me. I own his ass.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 08, 2014, 04:19:16 PM

My misunderstanding, DirtDawg. Was completely under the impression this happened at work.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 08, 2014, 11:36:35 PM

Coffee. :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 10, 2014, 02:48:28 AM

Quote from: Jack on April 08, 2014, 04:19:16 PM

My misunderstanding, DirtDawg. Was completely under the impression this happened at work.

It happened at work, in the parking lot, just minutes after we left the building.

So, yeah.

It did NOT happen while we were both "on the clock,"  but it basically happened as a result of our {non}working relationship.

... but stop avoiding my question.  Who the fuck are you and why do you pretend to know me?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 10, 2014, 04:17:43 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 10, 2014, 02:48:28 AM

... but stop avoiding my question.  Who the fuck are you and why do you pretend to know me?

Didn't realize you had asked those questions. I'm Jack and I know you about as much as I know anyone here. Which means I don't actually know you; I read your posts and respond to them as much as I do anyone here. Thanks for explaining this wasn't a work altercation, previous posts had given that impression.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on April 10, 2014, 04:36:44 AM

Quote from: Jack on April 10, 2014, 04:17:43 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 10, 2014, 02:48:28 AM

... but stop avoiding my question.  Who the fuck are you and why do you pretend to know me?

Didn't realize you had asked those questions. I'm Jack and I know you about as much as I know anyone here. Which means I don't actually know you; I read your posts and respond to them as much as I do anyone here. Thanks for explaining this wasn't a work altercation, previous posts had given that impression.

Jack is a mysterious flower. :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 10, 2014, 04:49:33 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 10, 2014, 04:36:44 AM

Quote from: Jack on April 10, 2014, 04:17:43 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 10, 2014, 02:48:28 AM

... but stop avoiding my question.  Who the fuck are you and why do you pretend to know me?

Didn't realize you had asked those questions. I'm Jack and I know you about as much as I know anyone here. Which means I don't actually know you; I read your posts and respond to them as much as I do anyone here. Thanks for explaining this wasn't a work altercation, previous posts had given that impression.

Jack is a mysterious flower. :M

Semicolon is a mysterious mastodon. :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 10, 2014, 01:10:05 PM

Watching David dance to rap music.  6 foot 3 inch white guys are hilarious.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 10, 2014, 01:54:32 PM

  I had an unexpectedly good dental checkup today.  Teeth and gums looked healthy to the hygienist,
   and X-rays showed far fewer trouble spots than I thought I'd have.  I need a few small fillings and then
   some crowns over old root canals, which I already knew I needed.  I will continue to brush and floss!   :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 10, 2014, 03:01:37 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 10, 2014, 01:54:32 PM

  I had an unexpectedly good dental checkup today.  Teeth and gums looked healthy to the hygienist,
   and X-rays showed far fewer trouble spots than I thought I'd have.  I need a few small fillings and then
   some crowns over old root canals, which I already knew I needed.  I will continue to brush and floss!   :arrr:

So that is what you have been doing, all the time you were not posting. Brushing and flossing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on April 10, 2014, 04:09:53 PM

Only one bad thing happened, does that count?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 10, 2014, 05:32:44 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 10, 2014, 03:01:37 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 10, 2014, 01:54:32 PM

  I had an unexpectedly good dental checkup today.  Teeth and gums looked healthy to the hygienist,
   and X-rays showed far fewer trouble spots than I thought I'd have.  I need a few small fillings and then
   some crowns over old root canals, which I already knew I needed.  I will continue to brush and floss!   :arrr:

So that is what you have been doing, all the time you were not posting. Brushing and flossing.

  And doing a fine job of it too!  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 10, 2014, 05:33:41 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on April 10, 2014, 04:09:53 PM

Only one bad thing happened, does that count?

  Absolutely!  Be sure to post about that bad thing in as many complaint threads as you can find!   :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 10, 2014, 08:30:03 PM

I am re-reading Bunny Bennett's blog.  This time I'm taking notes.  Lots of insights on sexuality, business, being an entertainer, family dynamics etc. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:25:56 PM

I returned to a board with more posts.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 10, 2014, 10:43:16 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:25:56 PM

I returned to a board with more posts.

    :agreed:   A posty board is a happy board!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:49:18 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 10, 2014, 10:43:16 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:25:56 PM

I returned to a board with more posts.

    :agreed:   A posty board is a happy board!

Yesterday, I really worried about it. I don't want this place to die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:54:39 PM

Rather than starting a thread about good things that happened yesterday, I'll just post off topic here.

My boss gave me a raise, albeit a fairly small one, and OK'd a trip to a conference in the US in August. My first visit in the US, apart from airports for connecting flights. :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 11, 2014, 12:24:51 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:54:39 PM

Rather than starting a thread about good things that happened yesterday, I'll just post off topic here.

My boss gave me a raise, albeit a fairly small one, and OK'd a trip to a conference in the US in August. My first visit in the US, apart from airports for connecting flights. :2thumbsup:

You deserved no less, after all the stress you endured on behalf of the company.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on April 11, 2014, 02:17:05 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:49:18 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 10, 2014, 10:43:16 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:25:56 PM

I returned to a board with more posts.

    :agreed:   A posty board is a happy board!

Yesterday, I really worried about it. I don't want this place to die.

:agreed:

Quote from: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:54:39 PM

Rather than starting a thread about good things that happened yesterday, I'll just post off topic here.

My boss gave me a raise, albeit a fairly small one, and OK'd a trip to a conference in the US in August. My first visit in the US, apart from airports for connecting flights. :2thumbsup:

America is :viking:.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 11, 2014, 04:43:06 PM

Quote from: Jack on April 10, 2014, 04:17:43 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 10, 2014, 02:48:28 AM

... but stop avoiding my question.  Who the fuck are you and why do you pretend to know me?

Didn't realize you had asked those questions. I'm Jack and I know you about as much as I know anyone here. Which means I don't actually know you; I read your posts and respond to them as much as I do anyone here. Thanks for explaining this wasn't a work altercation, previous posts had given that impression.

Obviously, we do not know each other, but you seem to avoiding the simple question.

Do I "KNOW" you by another moniker?  HAve we talked before a feww weeks ago? have we shared this much in the past.

ASShole!!

I have not changed my profile in a few years, except for when everyone was doing so, but I came back to my original profile, avatar, name, etc.


Do I know you "ON THIS FORUM"  by another name?

You can PM me if you are hiding.  If it is ME from whom you are hiding, then stop posting answers to my posts and actually "learn"  how to hide.

If you are hiding from me, all your posts directed towards me have done is work to cause me even more concern and curiosity.

IF you avoid answering this outright direct response, then FUCK YOU!!

BUT do not worry; I have been way past FUCK YOU with a number of people. There is a road back.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 11, 2014, 05:12:31 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:49:18 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 10, 2014, 10:43:16 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:25:56 PM

I returned to a board with more posts.

    :agreed:   A posty board is a happy board!

Yesterday, I really worried about it. I don't want this place to die.

  Don't worry, Pater Moomin.  :hug:   We won't let it die.   :moomin:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 11, 2014, 05:13:17 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:54:39 PM

Rather than starting a thread about good things that happened yesterday, I'll just post off topic here.

My boss gave me a raise, albeit a fairly small one, and OK'd a trip to a conference in the US in August. My first visit in the US, apart from airports for connecting flights. :2thumbsup:

  That is most excellent!  Where in the US will you be landing?   :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 11, 2014, 05:14:58 PM

  Loud Neighbor and his loud friends went inside the apartment to continue talking.  Life is good.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 11, 2014, 05:31:47 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:54:39 PM

Rather than starting a thread about good things that happened yesterday, I'll just post off topic here.

My boss gave me a raise, albeit a fairly small one, and OK'd a trip to a conference in the US in August. My first visit in the US, apart from airports for connecting flights. :2thumbsup:

Congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 11, 2014, 05:33:37 PM

  I got a nice check today thanks to the flexible spending plan at work, which allows us to have a pre-set
  amount of pay deducted and held tax-free, to be paid back to us to cover out-of-pocket medical expenses.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 11, 2014, 05:35:01 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 11, 2014, 05:33:37 PM

  I got a nice check today thanks to the flexible spending plan at work, which allows us to have a pre-set
  amount of pay deducted and held tax-free, to be paid back to us to cover out-of-pocket medical expenses.  :thumbup:

      tl;dr   :dollar:  :drool:  :dollar:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 11, 2014, 05:40:39 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 11, 2014, 04:43:06 PM

Quote from: Jack on April 10, 2014, 04:17:43 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 10, 2014, 02:48:28 AM

... but stop avoiding my question.  Who the fuck are you and why do you pretend to know me?

Didn't realize you had asked those questions. I'm Jack and I know you about as much as I know anyone here. Which means I don't actually know you; I read your posts and respond to them as much as I do anyone here. Thanks for explaining this wasn't a work altercation, previous posts had given that impression.

Obviously, we do not know each other, but you seem to avoiding the simple question.

Do I "KNOW" you by another moniker?  HAve we talked before a feww weeks ago? have we shared this much in the past.

ASShole!!

I have not changed my profile in a few years, except for when everyone was doing so, but I came back to my original profile, avatar, name, etc.


Do I know you "ON THIS FORUM"  by another name?

You can PM me if you are hiding.  If it is ME from whom you are hiding, then stop posting answers to my posts and actually "learn"  how to hide.

If you are hiding from me, all your posts directed towards me have done is work to cause me even more concern and curiosity.

IF you avoid answering this outright direct response, then FUCK YOU!!

BUT do not worry; I have been way past FUCK YOU with a number of people. There is a road back.

No, as far as I'm aware, I have only interacted with you on this site, and only as Jack. Used the name Osensitive1 when first joining I2, but not for very long and have been Jack since them. Have used other usernames on other sites, but don't recall knowing you from any of those sites. Could give you a list of all of the usernames I've used on autism sites, if you like, but pretty sure I2 is the only place we've ever interacted. We haven't shared a great deal here, but the site is slow and you were talking about something interesting so I responded. I actually think your fractals are much more interesting than your personal problems, and have been waiting to see more of them, but I take what I get around here. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 11, 2014, 07:15:55 PM

Fair enough.

Thank you for the answer.

As far as fractals, I have agreed with the site's management that they take up too much server space. I have agreed to stop posting my art.

Again, thank you for trying to help.

Never knew my personal posts were as much of a burden as well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on April 11, 2014, 07:24:40 PM

:dunno:

Jack is Jack.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 12, 2014, 02:42:41 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 11, 2014, 02:17:05 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:49:18 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 10, 2014, 10:43:16 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:25:56 PM

I returned to a board with more posts.

    :agreed:   A posty board is a happy board!

Yesterday, I really worried about it. I don't want this place to die.

:agreed:

Quote from: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:54:39 PM

Rather than starting a thread about good things that happened yesterday, I'll just post off topic here.

My boss gave me a raise, albeit a fairly small one, and OK'd a trip to a conference in the US in August. My first visit in the US, apart from airports for connecting flights. :2thumbsup:

America is :viking:.

I'm really looking forward to it, too. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 12, 2014, 02:43:11 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 11, 2014, 12:24:51 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:54:39 PM

Rather than starting a thread about good things that happened yesterday, I'll just post off topic here.

My boss gave me a raise, albeit a fairly small one, and OK'd a trip to a conference in the US in August. My first visit in the US, apart from airports for connecting flights. :2thumbsup:

You deserved no less, after all the stress you endured on behalf of the company.

I think so too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 12, 2014, 02:43:51 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 11, 2014, 05:13:17 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:54:39 PM

Rather than starting a thread about good things that happened yesterday, I'll just post off topic here.

My boss gave me a raise, albeit a fairly small one, and OK'd a trip to a conference in the US in August. My first visit in the US, apart from airports for connecting flights. :2thumbsup:

  That is most excellent!  Where in the US will you be landing?   :hyke:

Washington DC :moomin:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 12, 2014, 02:46:00 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 11, 2014, 07:15:55 PM

Never knew my personal posts were as much of a burden as well.

Your personal posts are not a burden at all.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on April 12, 2014, 05:15:51 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 12, 2014, 02:42:41 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 11, 2014, 02:17:05 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:49:18 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 10, 2014, 10:43:16 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:25:56 PM

I returned to a board with more posts.

    :agreed:   A posty board is a happy board!

Yesterday, I really worried about it. I don't want this place to die.

:agreed:

Quote from: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:54:39 PM

Rather than starting a thread about good things that happened yesterday, I'll just post off topic here.

My boss gave me a raise, albeit a fairly small one, and OK'd a trip to a conference in the US in August. My first visit in the US, apart from airports for connecting flights. :2thumbsup:

America is :viking:.

I'm really looking forward to it, too. :)

We will do our best to ensure that you become fatty fat. :cbc:

Quote from: odeon on April 12, 2014, 02:43:51 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 11, 2014, 05:13:17 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 10, 2014, 10:54:39 PM

Rather than starting a thread about good things that happened yesterday, I'll just post off topic here.

My boss gave me a raise, albeit a fairly small one, and OK'd a trip to a conference in the US in August. My first visit in the US, apart from airports for connecting flights. :2thumbsup:

  That is most excellent!  Where in the US will you be landing?   :hyke:

Washington DC :moomin:

On the one hand, you'll get to visit the Smithsonian. :thumbup: On the other, you probably won't get to fire a gun. :thumbdn:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 12, 2014, 09:50:38 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 11, 2014, 07:15:55 PM

Never knew my personal posts were as much of a burden as well.

Oh FFS. Neither your fractals nor your personal posts are a burden. I've given up on the fractals, but - hm maybe if you don't want new people responding to your personal posts, you could necrobump threads and put them there and hope nobody notices.  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 12, 2014, 02:14:07 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 11, 2014, 07:15:55 PM

Fair enough.

Thank you for the answer.

As far as fractals, I have agreed with the site's management that they take up too much server space. I have agreed to stop posting my art.

Again, thank you for trying to help.

Never knew my personal posts were as much of a burden as well.

No burden.  Didn't mean to upset you. Am currently out of town and had considered leaving the computer at home. Now really glad I brought it along, or my absence might have been misinterpreted as avoiding you. :laugh: Personally haven't given up on the fractals and hope you'll find a host for them and share it some day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on April 12, 2014, 06:14:33 PM

(as its 1am now it was technically yesterday but what the hell...)

I had a date  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on April 12, 2014, 07:06:58 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on April 12, 2014, 06:14:33 PM

(as its 1am now it was technically yesterday but what the hell...)

I had a date  :green:

:)

Post the noodz. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 12, 2014, 09:52:52 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on April 12, 2014, 06:14:33 PM

(as its 1am now it was technically yesterday but what the hell...)

I had a date  :green:

Medjool?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 12, 2014, 09:53:50 PM

Tomorrow I start with a fresh slate.  The Good Lord knows I could use it.

Biked 2.16 miles in 21 minutes.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 13, 2014, 01:35:22 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 12, 2014, 05:15:51 AM

We will do our best to ensure that you become fatty fat. :cbc:

A more lasting memory from my trip? :P

Quote

On the one hand, you'll get to visit the Smithsonian. :thumbup: On the other, you probably won't get to fire a gun. :thumbdn:

I'm definitely going to visit the Smithsonian. :)

It looks like I won't have a lot of time for the touristy bits, though. I'm thinking about staying at least a day or two after the conference ends.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 13, 2014, 01:37:36 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 12, 2014, 09:50:38 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 11, 2014, 07:15:55 PM

Never knew my personal posts were as much of a burden as well.

Oh FFS. Neither your fractals nor your personal posts are a burden. I've given up on the fractals, but - hm maybe if you don't want new people responding to your personal posts, you could necrobump threads and put them there and hope nobody notices.  :P

I feel guilty for complaining about post attachment sizes. :(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 13, 2014, 02:14:00 AM

Tea is happening right now. Big mug of morning tea.
Yes I slept in, and I do not even feel groggy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on April 13, 2014, 02:34:35 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 13, 2014, 01:35:22 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 12, 2014, 05:15:51 AM

We will do our best to ensure that you become fatty fat. :cbc:

A more lasting memory from my trip? :P

Quote

On the one hand, you'll get to visit the Smithsonian. :thumbup: On the other, you probably won't get to fire a gun. :thumbdn:

I'm definitely going to visit the Smithsonian. :)

It looks like I won't have a lot of time for the touristy bits, though. I'm thinking about staying at least a day or two after the conference ends.

You will need reservations for a few things, so look into them now. :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on April 13, 2014, 03:46:29 PM

Neighbor gave me the grand tour of the new car.

(http://images.thecarconnection.com/lrg/2014-cadillac-cts_100423336_l.jpg)

She got a silver one, brought it home last night.
It just about drives itself...scary. :o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 13, 2014, 09:45:11 PM

I just took a walk outside, to go to the local cashpoint to see if my sick pay came through.

Good news is a couple of hundred quid in the bank, bad news is whilst I turned round to ask a few kids walking down the road if they had any numbers for a bud. Took too long and the sodding cashpoint swallowed my card.

Was going to pay for a little...nose candy..so to speak, that they happened to have. Card got ate, guy decides he was calling it a night, and just gave me what must have been the best part of at least 1.5g of some alright sniff.

Just the kick up the arse I needed to get me motivated to go set up my computer properly at last :D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 13, 2014, 10:29:30 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 13, 2014, 02:34:35 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 13, 2014, 01:35:22 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 12, 2014, 05:15:51 AM

We will do our best to ensure that you become fatty fat. :cbc:

A more lasting memory from my trip? :P

Quote

On the one hand, you'll get to visit the Smithsonian. :thumbup: On the other, you probably won't get to fire a gun. :thumbdn:

I'm definitely going to visit the Smithsonian. :)

It looks like I won't have a lot of time for the touristy bits, though. I'm thinking about staying at least a day or two after the conference ends.

You will need reservations for a few things, so look into them now. :thumbup:

The Smithsonian, too? :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 13, 2014, 10:34:36 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on April 13, 2014, 03:46:29 PM

Neighbor gave me the grand tour of the new car.

(http://images.thecarconnection.com/lrg/2014-cadillac-cts_100423336_l.jpg)

She got a silver one, brought it home last night.
It just about drives itself...scary. :o

Looks sort of menacing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on April 14, 2014, 03:08:31 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 13, 2014, 10:29:30 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 13, 2014, 02:34:35 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 13, 2014, 01:35:22 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 12, 2014, 05:15:51 AM

We will do our best to ensure that you become fatty fat. :cbc:

A more lasting memory from my trip? :P

Quote

On the one hand, you'll get to visit the Smithsonian. :thumbup: On the other, you probably won't get to fire a gun. :thumbdn:

I'm definitely going to visit the Smithsonian. :)

It looks like I won't have a lot of time for the touristy bits, though. I'm thinking about staying at least a day or two after the conference ends.

You will need reservations for a few things, so look into them now. :thumbup:

The Smithsonian, too? :-\

No. For the Smithsonian, you stand in line.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on April 14, 2014, 07:20:09 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 13, 2014, 10:34:36 PM

Looks sort of menacing.

Yep, doesn't get any less so on the inside either.

(http://www.torquenews.com/sites/default/files/image-106/%5Btitle-raw%5D/2014_cadillac_cts_dash.jpg)

She got the all cream interior.

Retired school teachers need menacing cars. :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 14, 2014, 11:43:51 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 14, 2014, 03:08:31 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 13, 2014, 10:29:30 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 13, 2014, 02:34:35 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 13, 2014, 01:35:22 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 12, 2014, 05:15:51 AM

We will do our best to ensure that you become fatty fat. :cbc:

A more lasting memory from my trip? :P

Quote

On the one hand, you'll get to visit the Smithsonian. :thumbup: On the other, you probably won't get to fire a gun. :thumbdn:

I'm definitely going to visit the Smithsonian. :)

It looks like I won't have a lot of time for the touristy bits, though. I'm thinking about staying at least a day or two after the conference ends.

You will need reservations for a few things, so look into them now. :thumbup:

The Smithsonian, too? :-\

No. For the Smithsonian, you stand in line.

They moved the space shuttle, though, didn't they? It's the one thing I really want to see. This trip requires some planning, methinks. It's a shame I don't have more time to spend.

My daughter says I should see the White House. Not convinced, me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 15, 2014, 01:40:20 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 14, 2014, 11:43:51 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 14, 2014, 03:08:31 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 13, 2014, 10:29:30 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 13, 2014, 02:34:35 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 13, 2014, 01:35:22 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 12, 2014, 05:15:51 AM

We will do our best to ensure that you become fatty fat. :cbc:

A more lasting memory from my trip? :P

Quote

On the one hand, you'll get to visit the Smithsonian. :thumbup: On the other, you probably won't get to fire a gun. :thumbdn:

I'm definitely going to visit the Smithsonian. :)

It looks like I won't have a lot of time for the touristy bits, though. I'm thinking about staying at least a day or two after the conference ends.

You will need reservations for a few things, so look into them now. :thumbup:

The Smithsonian, too? :-\

No. For the Smithsonian, you stand in line.

They moved the space shuttle, though, didn't they? It's the one thing I really want to see. This trip requires some planning, methinks. It's a shame I don't have more time to spend.

My daughter says I should see the White House. Not convinced, me.

Sweden has white houses too, isn't it?  :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on April 15, 2014, 03:15:01 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 14, 2014, 11:43:51 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 14, 2014, 03:08:31 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 13, 2014, 10:29:30 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 13, 2014, 02:34:35 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 13, 2014, 01:35:22 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 12, 2014, 05:15:51 AM

We will do our best to ensure that you become fatty fat. :cbc:

A more lasting memory from my trip? :P

Quote

On the one hand, you'll get to visit the Smithsonian. :thumbup: On the other, you probably won't get to fire a gun. :thumbdn:

I'm definitely going to visit the Smithsonian. :)

It looks like I won't have a lot of time for the touristy bits, though. I'm thinking about staying at least a day or two after the conference ends.

You will need reservations for a few things, so look into them now. :thumbup:

The Smithsonian, too? :-\

No. For the Smithsonian, you stand in line.

They moved the space shuttle, though, didn't they? It's the one thing I really want to see. This trip requires some planning, methinks. It's a shame I don't have more time to spend.

My daughter says I should see the White House. Not convinced, me.

Discovery is here (http://airandspace.si.edu/visit/udvar-hazy-center/), not in Washington, DC. If you're flying into Washington Dulles, the space shuttle will be just south of you. :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 15, 2014, 11:03:00 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 15, 2014, 01:40:20 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 14, 2014, 11:43:51 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 14, 2014, 03:08:31 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 13, 2014, 10:29:30 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 13, 2014, 02:34:35 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 13, 2014, 01:35:22 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 12, 2014, 05:15:51 AM

We will do our best to ensure that you become fatty fat. :cbc:

A more lasting memory from my trip? :P

Quote

On the one hand, you'll get to visit the Smithsonian. :thumbup: On the other, you probably won't get to fire a gun. :thumbdn:

I'm definitely going to visit the Smithsonian. :)

It looks like I won't have a lot of time for the touristy bits, though. I'm thinking about staying at least a day or two after the conference ends.

You will need reservations for a few things, so look into them now. :thumbup:

The Smithsonian, too? :-\

No. For the Smithsonian, you stand in line.

They moved the space shuttle, though, didn't they? It's the one thing I really want to see. This trip requires some planning, methinks. It's a shame I don't have more time to spend.

My daughter says I should see the White House. Not convinced, me.

Sweden has white houses too, isn't it?  :tard:

OMG, you're right. I don't have to go. :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 15, 2014, 11:06:10 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 15, 2014, 03:15:01 AM

Discovery is here (http://airandspace.si.edu/visit/udvar-hazy-center/), not in Washington, DC. If you're flying into Washington Dulles, the space shuttle will be just south of you. :thumbup:

+

Hmm. Maybe I can see it on my way back or something. I really want to see it, though.

This is going to require some planning. The conference will take up most of my time during the week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 16, 2014, 12:14:21 AM

Learned a bit about mime.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 16, 2014, 08:15:49 PM

I just packed, and am about to hit a big fat packed out bong of some pretty nice skunk:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 16, 2014, 11:03:45 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 17, 2014, 07:17:19 AM

I get to help a friend out who has helped me out a lot of times.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 17, 2014, 08:03:28 AM

I2 is back.
I'm home from work.
Two good things.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on April 17, 2014, 08:13:54 AM

Had a sugar cookie, cuddled a cat.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 17, 2014, 10:57:35 AM

Went on an easy service call and got paid cash

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 17, 2014, 11:41:45 AM

A nicely loaded syringe full of oxycodone just happened, and a fresh bong is being packed ;P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 17, 2014, 08:04:25 PM

I put another brick in the road to discipline.  (I basically have minimal discipline, don't do housework, cook anymore, not much of anything.  But I am determined to overcome that fault.)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 17, 2014, 08:31:29 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 17, 2014, 08:04:25 PM

I put another brick in the road to discipline.  (I basically have minimal discipline, don't do housework, cook anymore, not much of anything.  But I am determined to overcome that fault.)

  One brick at a time builds Her Majesty's mighty fortress wall.  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 18, 2014, 03:30:54 AM

My whitepaper is in a reasonable shape so that's a good thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 18, 2014, 11:40:24 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 17, 2014, 08:31:29 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 17, 2014, 08:04:25 PM

I put another brick in the road to discipline.  (I basically have minimal discipline, don't do housework, cook anymore, not much of anything.  But I am determined to overcome that fault.)

  One brick at a time builds Her Majesty's mighty fortress wall.  :viking:

Or else they fall from my hands when I'm carrying them and bruise my foot.  Today my left knee is a bit sore, so probably no gym.  Being reasonable, that's the knee with the most problems and I'd rather take a day off than injure it and possibly need to take 2 or 3 weeks off to let it heal.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on April 18, 2014, 04:16:40 PM

Sculpted Sammy savis jr

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 19, 2014, 02:30:37 AM

Submitted my paper.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on April 19, 2014, 06:33:15 AM

Found two job offers.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on April 21, 2014, 09:10:00 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on April 19, 2014, 06:33:15 AM

Found two job offers.

Are you looking for a permanent position to keep during college (university in the UK :P), or just one for the summer?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 21, 2014, 10:51:08 PM

Coffee happened. :tigger:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 21, 2014, 11:21:33 PM

A) I made it to the gym and didn't die

B) I think PA may have been convinced finally to use a CPAP machine for his sleep apnea

C) I'm actually walking better and easier.  Damn, who would have thought exercise works? 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on April 22, 2014, 04:46:17 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 17, 2014, 08:31:29 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 17, 2014, 08:04:25 PM

I put another brick in the road to discipline.  (I basically have minimal discipline, don't do housework, cook anymore, not much of anything.  But I am determined to overcome that fault.)

  One brick at a time builds Her Majesty's mighty fortress wall.  :viking:

All in all, it's just another brick in the wall. :rock:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on April 22, 2014, 05:25:00 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 21, 2014, 09:10:00 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on April 19, 2014, 06:33:15 AM

Found two job offers.

Are you looking for a permanent position to keep during college (university in the UK :P), or just one for the summer?

Part-time.

Haven't heard back from either offers so I'll say it again, trying to find a part-time job in my country is the 7th level of Hell

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on April 22, 2014, 05:30:22 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on April 22, 2014, 05:25:00 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 21, 2014, 09:10:00 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on April 19, 2014, 06:33:15 AM

Found two job offers.

Are you looking for a permanent position to keep during college (university in the UK :P), or just one for the summer?

Part-time.

Haven't heard back from either offers so I'll say it again, trying to find a part-time job in my country is the 7th level of Hell

Hopefully not the Wood of Suicides. :toporly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 25, 2014, 01:11:41 PM

  My glasses didn't break when I sat on them.  :nerdy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 25, 2014, 01:20:45 PM

The workday was boring but the evening has been good fun.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 25, 2014, 01:25:53 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 25, 2014, 01:20:45 PM

The workday was boring but the evening has been good fun.

  Evenings at home are always better than the workday!   :tv:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 25, 2014, 01:37:13 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 25, 2014, 01:25:53 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 25, 2014, 01:20:45 PM

The workday was boring but the evening has been good fun.

  Evenings at home are always better than the workday!   :tv:

I've been engaging in the social media. 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 25, 2014, 01:57:35 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 25, 2014, 01:37:13 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 25, 2014, 01:25:53 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 25, 2014, 01:20:45 PM

The workday was boring but the evening has been good fun.

  Evenings at home are always better than the workday!   :tv:

I've been engaging in the social media. 8)

  You must be cured, then!  Thanks be to Jenny McCarthy!   :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 25, 2014, 02:02:54 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 25, 2014, 01:57:35 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 25, 2014, 01:37:13 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 25, 2014, 01:25:53 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 25, 2014, 01:20:45 PM

The workday was boring but the evening has been good fun.

  Evenings at home are always better than the workday!   :tv:

I've been engaging in the social media. 8)

  You must be cured, then!  Thanks be to Jenny McCarthy!   :woohoo:

I'm exhausted, that's what I am.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 25, 2014, 03:30:07 PM

CBC, thank her why?

Did she do the right thing and top herself at last? :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 25, 2014, 03:39:30 PM

Quote from: Lestat on April 25, 2014, 03:30:07 PM

CBC, thank her why?

Did she do the right thing and top herself at last? :P

  She cured Odeon and made him social!   :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 25, 2014, 03:46:18 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 25, 2014, 03:39:30 PM

  She cured Odeon

:laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 25, 2014, 06:26:46 PM

I don't see what could possibly be good about 'curing' anybody on the spectrum.

Other than The Bitch From Hell. That would be good in the sense of no longer having that anus ring fuck-ugly psychotic slag associated with the other, decent autistic human beings :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 25, 2014, 06:38:26 PM

Quote from: Lestat on April 25, 2014, 06:26:46 PM

I don't see what could possibly be good about 'curing' anybody on the spectrum.

Other than The Bitch From Hell. That would be good in the sense of no longer having that anus ring fuck-ugly psychotic slag associated with the other, decent autistic human beings :P

  Silly vampire, I'm trolling here.  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on April 25, 2014, 07:29:34 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 25, 2014, 06:38:26 PM

Quote from: Lestat on April 25, 2014, 06:26:46 PM

I don't see what could possibly be good about 'curing' anybody on the spectrum.

Other than The Bitch From Hell. That would be good in the sense of no longer having that anus ring fuck-ugly psychotic slag associated with the other, decent autistic human beings :P

  Silly vampire, I'm trolling here.  :P

(http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/They_dcf71c_250827.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 25, 2014, 09:50:54 PM

I was being facetious you daft spazz :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 26, 2014, 03:17:57 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 25, 2014, 03:39:30 PM

Quote from: Lestat on April 25, 2014, 03:30:07 PM

CBC, thank her why?

Did she do the right thing and top herself at last? :P

  She cured Odeon and made him social!   :2thumbsup:

I've been going to cocktail parties ever since. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on April 26, 2014, 01:40:03 PM

Quote from: Lestat on April 25, 2014, 09:50:54 PM

I was being facetious you daft spazz :P

Here you are, chasing CBC to enlighten her with knowledge. Unfortunately, she's too hungry to stop spazzing. :toporly:

:nerd!:          :cbc:          :devour:

Quote from: odeon on April 26, 2014, 03:17:57 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 25, 2014, 03:39:30 PM

Quote from: Lestat on April 25, 2014, 03:30:07 PM

CBC, thank her why?

Did she do the right thing and top herself at last? :P

  She cured Odeon and made him social!   :2thumbsup:

I've been going to cocktail parties ever since. :P

Stay away from the vaccines and you'll be fine. :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 27, 2014, 02:57:10 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 26, 2014, 01:40:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 26, 2014, 03:17:57 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 25, 2014, 03:39:30 PM

Quote from: Lestat on April 25, 2014, 03:30:07 PM

CBC, thank her why?

Did she do the right thing and top herself at last? :P

  She cured Odeon and made him social!   :2thumbsup:

I've been going to cocktail parties ever since. :P

Stay away from the vaccines and you'll be fine. :orly:

There are vaccines at cocktail parties?  :zombiefuck:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 27, 2014, 05:17:11 AM

Quote from: Lestat on April 25, 2014, 09:50:54 PM

I was being facetious you daft spazz :P

  I have Ass Burgers, I cannot grasp the facetious.  :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 27, 2014, 11:05:58 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 27, 2014, 05:17:11 AM

Quote from: Lestat on April 25, 2014, 09:50:54 PM

I was being facetious you daft spazz :P

  I have Ass Burgers, I cannot grasp the facetious.  :tard:

your arms can barely grasp a skateboard

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 27, 2014, 12:04:35 PM

Fucking hungry myself.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on April 27, 2014, 05:53:27 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 27, 2014, 02:57:10 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 26, 2014, 01:40:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 26, 2014, 03:17:57 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 25, 2014, 03:39:30 PM

Quote from: Lestat on April 25, 2014, 03:30:07 PM

CBC, thank her why?

Did she do the right thing and top herself at last? :P

  She cured Odeon and made him social!   :2thumbsup:

I've been going to cocktail parties ever since. :P

Stay away from the vaccines and you'll be fine. :orly:

There are vaccines at cocktail parties?  :zombiefuck:

They are at the fun parties. :zoinks:

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 27, 2014, 05:17:11 AM

Quote from: Lestat on April 25, 2014, 09:50:54 PM

I was being facetious you daft spazz :P

  I have Ass Burgers, I cannot grasp the facetious.  :tard:

Is that why you don't dig it out when constipated? :tard:

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 27, 2014, 11:05:58 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 27, 2014, 05:17:11 AM

Quote from: Lestat on April 25, 2014, 09:50:54 PM

I was being facetious you daft spazz :P

  I have Ass Burgers, I cannot grasp the facetious.  :tard:

your arms can barely grasp a skateboard

I suspect that that's actually a pickle. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 27, 2014, 07:01:53 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 27, 2014, 05:53:27 PM

I suspect that that's actually a pickle. :P

It's a green  :vibe: on wheels.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on April 27, 2014, 07:34:59 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 27, 2014, 07:01:53 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 27, 2014, 05:53:27 PM

I suspect that that's actually a pickle. :P

It's a green  :vibe: on wheels.

It's longer than her arm. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 27, 2014, 10:17:21 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 27, 2014, 11:05:58 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 27, 2014, 05:17:11 AM

Quote from: Lestat on April 25, 2014, 09:50:54 PM

I was being facetious you daft spazz :P

  I have Ass Burgers, I cannot grasp the facetious.  :tard:

your arms can barely grasp a skateboard

  I'm holding on tight!  It's my skateboard and I'm not sharing!  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 27, 2014, 10:33:29 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 27, 2014, 05:53:27 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 27, 2014, 02:57:10 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 26, 2014, 01:40:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 26, 2014, 03:17:57 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 25, 2014, 03:39:30 PM

Quote from: Lestat on April 25, 2014, 03:30:07 PM

CBC, thank her why?

Did she do the right thing and top herself at last? :P

  She cured Odeon and made him social!   :2thumbsup:

I've been going to cocktail parties ever since. :P

Stay away from the vaccines and you'll be fine. :orly:

There are vaccines at cocktail parties?  :zombiefuck:

They are at the fun parties. :zoinks:

Curebie parties?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on April 28, 2014, 06:10:16 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 27, 2014, 10:17:21 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 27, 2014, 11:05:58 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 27, 2014, 05:17:11 AM

Quote from: Lestat on April 25, 2014, 09:50:54 PM

I was being facetious you daft spazz :P

  I have Ass Burgers, I cannot grasp the facetious.  :tard:

your arms can barely grasp a skateboard

  I'm holding on tight!  It's my skateboard and I'm not sharing!  :green:

That's not nice. :orly:

I'm telling Odeon. :M

Quote from: odeon on April 27, 2014, 10:33:29 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 27, 2014, 05:53:27 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 27, 2014, 02:57:10 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 26, 2014, 01:40:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 26, 2014, 03:17:57 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 25, 2014, 03:39:30 PM

Quote from: Lestat on April 25, 2014, 03:30:07 PM

CBC, thank her why?

Did she do the right thing and top herself at last? :P

  She cured Odeon and made him social!   :2thumbsup:

I've been going to cocktail parties ever since. :P

Stay away from the vaccines and you'll be fine. :orly:

There are vaccines at cocktail parties?  :zombiefuck:

They are at the fun parties. :zoinks:

Curebie parties?

They're like pox parties for spazzes. :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 28, 2014, 07:02:52 AM

What the heck is a pox party? Is that when you invite all the people who have colds or the flu and be miserable together?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 28, 2014, 07:08:46 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 28, 2014, 07:02:52 AM

What the heck is a pox party? Is that when you invite all the people who have colds or the flu and be miserable together?

  Possibly a children's get-together, with the intention of exposing those not yet afflicted with chicken pox
   to a child who currently has it, in order that the unafflicted will catch chicken pox and get it over with.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on April 28, 2014, 07:22:31 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 28, 2014, 07:08:46 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 28, 2014, 07:02:52 AM

What the heck is a pox party? Is that when you invite all the people who have colds or the flu and be miserable together?

  Possibly a children's get-together, with the intention of exposing those not yet afflicted with chicken pox
   to a child who currently has it, in order that the unafflicted will catch chicken pox and get it over with.  :orly:

:indeed:

It's outdated. Now have a vaccine for chickenpox. :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 28, 2014, 02:38:37 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 28, 2014, 07:22:31 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 28, 2014, 07:08:46 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 28, 2014, 07:02:52 AM

What the heck is a pox party? Is that when you invite all the people who have colds or the flu and be miserable together?

  Possibly a children's get-together, with the intention of exposing those not yet afflicted with chicken pox
   to a child who currently has it, in order that the unafflicted will catch chicken pox and get it over with.  :orly:

:indeed:

It's outdated. Now have a vaccine for chickenpox. :arrr:

What does that do to the chance to get shingles/zona?

My kids just got the chickenpox. There is no vaccination program for that here in the Netherlands.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on April 28, 2014, 06:21:25 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 28, 2014, 02:38:37 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 28, 2014, 07:22:31 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 28, 2014, 07:08:46 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 28, 2014, 07:02:52 AM

What the heck is a pox party? Is that when you invite all the people who have colds or the flu and be miserable together?

  Possibly a children's get-together, with the intention of exposing those not yet afflicted with chicken pox
   to a child who currently has it, in order that the unafflicted will catch chicken pox and get it over with.  :orly:

:indeed:

It's outdated. Now we have a vaccine for chickenpox. :arrr:

What does that do to the chance to get shingles/zona?

My kids just got the chickenpox. There is no vaccination program for that here in the Netherlands.

It's a sad state of affairs when someone else has reason to be jealous of the American health care system.

Apparently, it's not conclusively known how the vaccine will affect shingles rates. Link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicella_vaccine#Herpes_zoster)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 28, 2014, 10:45:49 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 28, 2014, 06:10:16 AM

They're like pox parties for spazzes. :autism:

You'd better not come close. My Ass Burgers is infectious.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 29, 2014, 05:12:05 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 28, 2014, 10:45:49 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 28, 2014, 06:10:16 AM

They're like pox parties for spazzes. :autism:

You'd better not come close. My Ass Burgers is infectious.

Let's have an Ass Burgers party :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on April 29, 2014, 06:11:36 AM

Quote from: Parts on April 29, 2014, 05:12:05 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 28, 2014, 10:45:49 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 28, 2014, 06:10:16 AM

They're like pox parties for spazzes. :autism:

You'd better not come close. My Ass Burgers is infectious.

Let's have an Ass Burgers party :zoinks:

We could sneak a volunteer into the Autism Speaks headquarters. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 29, 2014, 10:29:35 PM

New ecosphere arrived.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 29, 2014, 10:44:11 PM

Quote from: Parts on April 29, 2014, 05:12:05 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 28, 2014, 10:45:49 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 28, 2014, 06:10:16 AM

They're like pox parties for spazzes. :autism:

You'd better not come close. My Ass Burgers is infectious.

Let's have an Ass Burgers party :zoinks:

About the only kind of party where nobody is infected by anything. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on April 30, 2014, 02:47:14 AM

Quote from: Jack on April 29, 2014, 10:29:35 PM

New ecosphere arrived.

I looked up what it is, and it seems like it has limited use. Why not get an open aquarium?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 30, 2014, 09:28:07 AM

I am feeling much, much better physically.  And much better mentally.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 30, 2014, 01:31:49 PM

This was the other day actually but at the time I was far too wasted to post.

Just finished picking up a quarter  oz of some fucking potent skunk in the city center, was walking back to get the tram home and when I stopped to ask for directions, and scavenge a smoke off someone; the guy I asked said I had a long walk back and asked if I had bus fare, to which I said no.

To my great surprise he just fished out a fiver and handed it over.
Still walked back though, but it meant I could get myself a couple of nice chilly pints of beer in a bar on the way back to the tram station, and stop to use the bogs to mix a crafty shot of charlie to put a spring in my step and banish any fatigue.

At the time, I'd been out since about 9:30am until about 8pm in the PM, and was hot and weary. So a wee bit of coke and those frosty pints of ale hit just the right spot:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 30, 2014, 03:08:17 PM

I got a call back on a rather large job I bid that I thought I had lost,  I didn't get it yet but I am meeting with them tomorrow

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 30, 2014, 05:05:31 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 30, 2014, 02:47:14 AM

Quote from: Jack on April 29, 2014, 10:29:35 PM

New ecosphere arrived.

I looked up what it is, and it seems like it has limited use. Why not get an open aquarium?

It lives at work and requires no care.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 30, 2014, 05:09:57 PM

Quote from: Jack on April 30, 2014, 05:05:31 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on April 30, 2014, 02:47:14 AM

Quote from: Jack on April 29, 2014, 10:29:35 PM

New ecosphere arrived.

I looked up what it is, and it seems like it has limited use. Why not get an open aquarium?

It lives at work and requires no care.

Had the other one for just over two years, after the beginning of the year it started dying. Really enjoyed it so got a new one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 30, 2014, 10:17:12 PM

We adopted a dog!!

I use the word, "adopted," due to the many hoops we had to jump throough to even meet with the "Parents" of the dog.

We were were tired of shopping the Humane Society's offerings. It aseems as if everyone and their idiot cousins have taken on pit bulls and no one wants to deal with a full grown pitbull. So, if you are of a kind soul with plenty of room in your property, then, by all means, get yourself a a cast off pitbulll!  They are actually wonderful dogs, very loyal and protective. Simple fact is they are "large terrritory" dogs and do not do well in apartment living.

Any way, people who are turning over dogs in this area are either ridding themselves of pitbulls or really large other breed dogs.

We needed a small dog that would be happy in an urban environment.

We found a beautiful girl dog, two years old, mix breed, only eighteen pounds, immediately took to me upon my arrival at her home (almost as if she recognized the decision maker and the alpha).  We had to wait threough three other potential adopters

(WTF!!  Really, it has become very difficult to acquire a dog in these stupid times.  When I was a kid and you wanted a dog, there were usually two or three kids at each end of every grocery store with boxes of puppies for free.)

These days, you have to prove that you are worthy of keeping a dog. I can see the logic. Dogs are higher, more intelligent animals and deserve the best from humans when being kept as pets or workers or just service animals. 

It is almost sad that it has come to this, but when we look at all those asssholes who abuse these amazing animals, I have to hold my tongue from expressing my own frustration. The laws are there to protect these intelligent animals from the abuse of horrible, ignorant owners.

Anyway, we won!!!!


Tomorrow, we will take possession (probably the wrong word  -  maybe better words would be take companionship or take association or possibly take friendship), but in the eyes of the law, my possession of this dog will be judged for a period of one year, before I can actually keep her for our own.

Sometimes I despise city living!!  I just wanted a dog. Not a big one, but one that would be happy living with people inside a house for the most part.

It has been a two year hunt, but I thiunk we have found our dog!!

I will post pics, when it is all done and the adoption has gone from pending to probational.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 01, 2014, 02:13:42 AM

Here, dogs cost a fortune these days. It's ridiculous.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 03, 2014, 10:57:23 AM

Husband is a mechanical genius; fixing my bitch.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 03, 2014, 07:45:54 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 30, 2014, 09:28:07 AM

I am feeling much, much better physically.  And much better mentally.

  Feeling better mentally is essential. Long live the Queen!  :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 03, 2014, 07:51:09 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 03, 2014, 10:57:23 AM

Husband is a mechanical genius; fixing my bitch.

  Why does he have to fix your bitch?  Did he smack it up?  :zoinks:

The Prodigy - Smack my bitch up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzxd9d41Hhc#)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 03, 2014, 07:56:42 PM

  I read a very encouraging essay by neurologist Oliver Sacks, about turning 80 and still loving life.

  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/opinion/sunday/the-joy-of-old-age-no-kidding.html?r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/opinion/sunday/the-joy-of-old-age-no-kidding.html?r=0)

   I feel a lot better about being 48, and I'm determined to make the most of ALL my time!  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2014, 08:08:43 PM

The election is over.  13 hours, 46 voters.  BORING

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 03, 2014, 08:11:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 03, 2014, 07:51:09 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 03, 2014, 10:57:23 AM

Husband is a mechanical genius; fixing my bitch.

  Why does he have to fix your bitch?  Did he smack it up?  :zoinks:

The Prodigy - Smack my bitch up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzxd9d41Hhc#)

:laugh: Not really certain what he does; he just solves all my problems.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 03, 2014, 08:11:55 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2014, 08:08:43 PM

The election is over.  13 hours, 46 voters.  BORING

  But you have enriched the royal coffers.   :dollar:   :queenie:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2014, 08:14:29 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 03, 2014, 08:11:55 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2014, 08:08:43 PM

The election is over.  13 hours, 46 voters.  BORING

  But you have enriched the royal coffers.   :dollar:   :queenie:

That was the only good part, besides not having to be there until 6:30 a.m.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 03, 2014, 08:21:48 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2014, 08:14:29 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 03, 2014, 08:11:55 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2014, 08:08:43 PM

The election is over.  13 hours, 46 voters.  BORING

  But you have enriched the royal coffers.   :dollar:   :queenie:

That was the only good part, besides not having to be there until 6:30 a.m.

  Well done, Your Majesty! :cbc: :tea:    I'll wobble round with some tea!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2014, 09:39:14 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 03, 2014, 08:21:48 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2014, 08:14:29 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 03, 2014, 08:11:55 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2014, 08:08:43 PM

The election is over.  13 hours, 46 voters.  BORING

  But you have enriched the royal coffers.   :dollar:   :queenie:

That was the only good part, besides not having to be there until 6:30 a.m.

  Well done, Your Majesty! :cbc: :tea:    I'll wobble round with some tea!

I've had my evening meds and a sleeping pill.  A check up in the laundry, a bath and then to bed.  I'll drink the tea in the bath.  Oh, and add some whiskey to it please.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 03, 2014, 09:44:19 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2014, 09:39:14 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 03, 2014, 08:21:48 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2014, 08:14:29 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 03, 2014, 08:11:55 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2014, 08:08:43 PM

The election is over.  13 hours, 46 voters.  BORING

  But you have enriched the royal coffers.   :dollar:   :queenie:

That was the only good part, besides not having to be there until 6:30 a.m.

  Well done, Your Majesty! :cbc: :tea:    I'll wobble round with some tea!

I've had my evening meds and a sleeping pill.  A check up in the laundry, a bath and then to bed.  I'll drink the tea in the bath.  Oh, and add some whiskey to it please.

  Here's the whiskey, Your Majesty! :cbc: :scotch: :tea: :bath:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 03, 2014, 11:35:26 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 03, 2014, 08:11:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 03, 2014, 07:51:09 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 03, 2014, 10:57:23 AM

Husband is a mechanical genius; fixing my bitch.

  Why does he have to fix your bitch?  Did he smack it up?  :zoinks:

The Prodigy - Smack my bitch up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzxd9d41Hhc#)

:laugh: Not really certain what he does; he just solves all my problems.

Perhaps he's spaying your dog. :orly:

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 03, 2014, 09:44:19 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2014, 09:39:14 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 03, 2014, 08:21:48 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2014, 08:14:29 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 03, 2014, 08:11:55 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2014, 08:08:43 PM

The election is over.  13 hours, 46 voters.  BORING

  But you have enriched the royal coffers.   :dollar:   :queenie:

That was the only good part, besides not having to be there until 6:30 a.m.

  Well done, Your Majesty! :cbc: :tea:    I'll wobble round with some tea!

I've had my evening meds and a sleeping pill.  A check up in the laundry, a bath and then to bed.  I'll drink the tea in the bath.  Oh, and add some whiskey to it please.

  Here's the whiskey, Your Majesty! :cbc: :scotch: :tea: :bath:

Why are you watching the queen shower? Is there a secret love affair something you'd like to share with the forum? :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 04, 2014, 02:18:50 AM

I posted. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 04, 2014, 05:48:56 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 04, 2014, 02:18:50 AM

I posted. :P

Congratulations.

After 37 more posts, you will have a symmetrical postcount number.  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 04, 2014, 10:35:40 AM

Nah. 77,777 is the next interesting number.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 04, 2014, 10:39:14 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 04, 2014, 02:18:50 AM

I posted. :P

  That is flipping awesome.  You are unstoppable!    :worship:  :moomin:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 04, 2014, 08:19:46 PM

I've been starting to work on building an electrophoresis chamber; a piece pf equipment for separating DNA based upon variations in the electric charges  of each DNA segment, usually prior to splicing and dicing in the process of creating a transgenic organism.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 04, 2014, 08:24:38 PM

Quote from: Lestat on May 04, 2014, 08:19:46 PM

I've been starting to work on building an electrophoresis chamber; a piece pf equipment for separating DNA based upon variations in the electric charges  of each DNA segment, usually prior to splicing and dicing in the process of creating a transgenic organism.

You are like the mad doctor :)
 :voodoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 04, 2014, 08:53:37 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2014, 08:08:43 PM

The election is over.  13 hours, 46 voters.  BORING

Did I miss a vote?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 04, 2014, 09:29:09 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 04, 2014, 08:53:37 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2014, 08:08:43 PM

The election is over.  13 hours, 46 voters.  BORING

Did I miss a vote?

  Queen Victoria is an election worker in her home city.  She put in a long day!  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 04, 2014, 10:30:18 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 04, 2014, 08:53:37 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2014, 08:08:43 PM

The election is over.  13 hours, 46 voters.  BORING

Did I miss a vote?

Local ad valorem taxes renewals.  They all passed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 04, 2014, 10:32:13 PM

While de-cluttering the dining room (AKA Middle Clutter Pile), I found my evacuation folder, which I knew was in there.  In it was $430 of our $500 evacuation money.  I can only assume I "borrowed" the other $70.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 04, 2014, 10:57:17 PM

Coffee happened. :tigger:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 05, 2014, 08:54:07 AM

Mad? why so?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 05, 2014, 03:05:58 PM

Quote from: Lestat on May 05, 2014, 08:54:07 AM

Mad? why so?

Because you are brilliant and have your own personal lab..... two traits of a mad scientist in popular literature.


Either that, or you are a superhero.  :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 05, 2014, 03:48:34 PM

Superhero? far from it.

I'm sane. But I have my own personal values, which frequently conflict with the majority of NTs. I'm not so much immoral, more amoral. At least in their moral systems.

Boils down to 'give someone the benefit of the doubt until proven or given good evidence to do otherwise' 'treat a lady well'  and 'treat sex offenders, and those responsible for cruelty to animals with brutal prejudice involving grossly excessive physical violence'

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 05, 2014, 07:07:48 PM

Quote from: Lestat on May 05, 2014, 03:48:34 PM

Superhero? far from it.

I'm sane. But I have my own personal values, which frequently conflict with the majority of NTs. I'm not so much immoral, more amoral. At least in their moral systems.

Boils down to 'give someone the benefit of the doubt until proven or given good evidence to do otherwise' 'treat a lady well'  and 'treat sex offenders, and those responsible for cruelty to animals with brutal prejudice involving grossly excessive physical violence'

Those are some good morals.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 05, 2014, 08:46:22 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 04, 2014, 10:30:18 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 04, 2014, 08:53:37 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2014, 08:08:43 PM

The election is over.  13 hours, 46 voters.  BORING

Did I miss a vote?

Local ad valorem taxes renewals.  They all passed.

SO, you were working to get this done?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 05, 2014, 08:49:51 PM

My bosses told me today that I have been doing an amazing job lately (as if there was a change!  I am just me and I do what I can to help things along. They are just not smart enough to judge me, most of the time.)  and took me off of "Final Warning"  status.

SO I still have a job.

 :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 05, 2014, 08:51:41 PM

That's awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 05, 2014, 09:54:37 PM

Congrats. The assholes can suck it.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 05, 2014, 10:35:50 PM

That's good news, DD. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 06, 2014, 12:04:12 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 05, 2014, 08:46:22 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 04, 2014, 10:30:18 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 04, 2014, 08:53:37 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2014, 08:08:43 PM

The election is over.  13 hours, 46 voters.  BORING

Did I miss a vote?

Local ad valorem taxes renewals.  They all passed.

SO, you were working to get this done?

Nope, poll commissioners are neutral.  Just check the ID, have them sign the voter registration book, write their name in the poll booklet, re-set the voting machine, repeat.  We had 3 commissioners this time because they knew it would be low turn-out.  It's a relatively effortless way to earn $200.

I voted all the renewals down.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 06, 2014, 12:38:58 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 05, 2014, 08:49:51 PM

My bosses told me today that I have been doing an amazing job lately (as if there was a change!  I am just me and I do what I can to help things along. They are just not smart enough to judge me, most of the time.)  and took me off of "Final Warning"  status.

SO I still have a job.

 :autism:

:thumbup:

Good they did decide to notice and acknowledge your impute at work, this time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 06, 2014, 06:47:54 AM

I slept well last night, whilst not expecting to. Whatever was in that syringe I found did a damn good job of rendering me unconscious.

First thing upon waking, I was taken to collect my prescriptions, and the instant I got back home, had myself a nice big, relaxing shot of morphine sulfate. Well, several shots actually, I'm just about to boot up my third one. Feeling all warm and glowy, relaxed as can be, my eyelids are drooping and I'm just on the verge of nodding out.

Due to the fact my old man had to be there whilst the carers for the bitch..err..my mother..came round I couldn't get a lift to the usual pharmacy I go to, and had to go to the one at the end of my road which is closer, as without already being ON my painkillers I cannot walk to the usual one without unbearable pain, if my leg will function at all, as I need to be on a pretty large dose of one of if not THE most powerfully effective muscle relaxants used in outpatient medicine (ignoring of course the paralytic type of muscle relaxant, those acting like curare)


And for shot no.3, I didn't need to resort to using my tourniquet(s), needle slipped into the chosen vein without argument, and registered instantly without any effort to find and properly enter a vein.

*Lestat sits back in his chair, lights a cigarette, with a smile on his face and makes a little appreciative sigh of delight; as he feels the prickling of histamine release slowly crawling up his right arm, the force of the rush making him catch his breath, and that lovely sensation of tasting the drug as the circulation makes it from arm to the blood supply of his tongue*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 06, 2014, 07:00:37 PM

Quote from: Lestat on May 06, 2014, 06:47:54 AM

Whatever was in that syringe I found did a damn good job of rendering me unconscious.

Lestat....where did you find the syringe?  :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 06, 2014, 07:56:57 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 06, 2014, 07:00:37 PM

Quote from: Lestat on May 06, 2014, 06:47:54 AM

Whatever was in that syringe I found did a damn good job of rendering me unconscious.

Lestat....where did you find the syringe?  :-\

Why would you ask? :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 06, 2014, 09:37:48 PM

Have yet again confirmed that the ancient greeks ruined everything. -_-

Oh, the good thing was learning that things might have been very different...and thus I have new possibilities to ponder.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 07, 2014, 05:15:12 AM

Oh, the rig was in the liter jug that I use for putting cold drinks in when I want a drink with ice, as it holds a lot of liquid, with room for ice, so I can just plonk a straw in and slurp away; or that gets used when we have roast chicken, for the gravy, etc. etc.

It had been used for a load of pink lemonade w/ice, and I guess I just stuck my rig in there and forgot about it until a day or two later after I'd finished my drink.

Why?



My something good is that I just got back from seeing my GP. And I got a rather good haul out of him today.

I was due for (and got) my regular rx yesterday, couldn't see the doc though as my guy doesn't work tuesdays, his day off. Found out that I'd been kept on the same dose (60mg twice a day) of XR morphine, but rather than taking 4 30s, I was given this week, 2 60s per day. Told him I preferred it the other way as it gives me some freedom to make adjustments in timing etc., as my pain level isn't always the same, sometimes better, sometimes worse.

So not only did he just offer (to my great surprise) an extra few 10s a  day on top of that, but put me back on the 30s, said I could get those next week when i pick my stuff up, but then offered again, 'but I could give you some 30s if you like' (of course, I'm hardly going to say no to that, am I now :P), and gave me some oxycodone instant release caps too.

Didn't insist on my returning the 60mg morph pills I was already given yesterday either xD

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 07, 2014, 05:47:43 AM

Oooohhh, nice!

It just got better still.

Found out that the doc this time gave me the capsule form rather than MS-contin tablets for the morphine XR 30s. The entire dose is contained in a little pinch of tiny beads, rather than a big pill with a vastly excessive lot of binding agents and inert excipients. No gelling up at all, they filter like a dream come true, no more trying to draw up something that has the consistency of thick, slimy nasal mucus. And judging by the taste of the resulting solution, bitterness-wise, grinding up allows almost if not all the morphine to be drawn into solution, less binders means less inert crap to absorb some of the water for my shots too.

Although as they say, the proof of the pudding, is in the eating. Or in this case shooting up. Time to find out I think :D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 07, 2014, 04:07:21 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 06, 2014, 09:37:48 PM

Have yet again confirmed that the ancient greeks ruined everything. -_-

Oh, the good thing was learning that things might have been very different...and thus I have new possibilities to ponder.

Except for all of their cultural advancements. :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 07, 2014, 05:10:20 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 07, 2014, 04:07:21 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 06, 2014, 09:37:48 PM

Have yet again confirmed that the ancient greeks ruined everything. -_-

Oh, the good thing was learning that things might have been very different...and thus I have new possibilities to ponder.

Except for all of their cultural advancements. :orly:

Which they STOLE from more sophisticated societies after burning them to the ground and calling them barbarians.   :facepalm2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 07, 2014, 06:54:48 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 07, 2014, 05:10:20 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 07, 2014, 04:07:21 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 06, 2014, 09:37:48 PM

Have yet again confirmed that the ancient greeks ruined everything. -_-

Oh, the good thing was learning that things might have been very different...and thus I have new possibilities to ponder.

Except for all of their cultural advancements. :orly:

Which they STOLE from more sophisticated societies after burning them to the ground and calling them barbarians.   :facepalm2:

???

Do you have any proof of this?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 07, 2014, 08:33:08 PM

My father came by and we had a nice philosophical conversation. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 07, 2014, 10:07:29 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 05, 2014, 09:54:37 PM

Congrats. The assholes can suck it.  :thumbup:

Biggest boss came to me today and told me he had thirty hours to use next week and offered me my choice  as long as I do not go into overtime.

I took twenty.

I am really at a loss to understand what has happened. The altercation in the parking lot, about six weeks ago,  I was sure meant the death of my job! (I mean, I put that young punk supe in the hospital with a severely dislocated shoulder, bruised face, broken ribs (all in about a stretch of four seconds, by the watchful eyes of other "over /elder"supe and his underling girlfriends which he is "suping to his benefit")(they said I looked like Yoda - walking with a cane half the time and then whipping awesome ass on someone who needed it).

I have not contacted HR since the first time they tried to make me sign something that was not true; some time in October. This last bit, when they said I was reading a novel on the job. - know whut? I do not read novels these days. I mostly read online, I never contacted HR.  I just assumed that it was over and I resolved myself to finding another job for a couple of years while I wind down into retirement.


I am at a loss to understand what is going on without my knowing. I know the big boss still respects me and supports me, but his punk kid supe of mine has never taken to me. Hence the parking lot scene. It may have been HIS undoing, instead of mine despite the fact that I walked away without a scratch and he had to have an ambulance on that night. I do not know.

Anyway, the big boss has offered me extra hours next week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 07, 2014, 10:17:21 PM

Glad to hear the boss seems to appreciate you DD  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 10, 2014, 07:24:33 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 07, 2014, 10:17:21 PM

Glad to hear the boss seems to appreciate you DD  :thumbup:

Remains to be seen how far this can go.

I am positive, but I am also reserved to remembering what has already happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 10, 2014, 10:31:35 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 10, 2014, 07:24:33 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 07, 2014, 10:17:21 PM

Glad to hear the boss seems to appreciate you DD  :thumbup:

Remains to be seen how far this can go.

I am positive, but I am also reserved to remembering what has already happened.

Sensible.

I wish I had had a better experience with a team I was working with. I ended having to put my foot down by leaving when one person decided to go dictator on the decision making. I tried contacting her several times when finally she couldn't avoid me she properly blew me off. Quite needless of her... Not only that, turns out she's a closet racist...which is another matter entirely, but it adds insult to injury. Luckily its not a real job...everyone I've talked to has told me she has a massive ego and two others stepped away for good. A third was already stepping away, and a fourth is about ready to leave. Imagine...you have an awesome team but one member shits on everything. That type of thing should not be allowed to happen.... :scratchhead:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 11, 2014, 01:17:47 AM

I made coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 11, 2014, 01:43:18 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 10, 2014, 10:31:35 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 10, 2014, 07:24:33 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 07, 2014, 10:17:21 PM

Glad to hear the boss seems to appreciate you DD  :thumbup:

Remains to be seen how far this can go.

I am positive, but I am also reserved to remembering what has already happened.

Sensible.

I wish I had had a better experience with a team I was working with. I ended having to put my foot down by leaving when one person decided to go dictator on the decision making. I tried contacting her several times when finally she couldn't avoid me she properly blew me off. Quite needless of her... Not only that, turns out she's a closet racist...which is another matter entirely, but it adds insult to injury. Luckily its not a real job...everyone I've talked to has told me she has a massive ego and two others stepped away for good. A third was already stepping away, and a fourth is about ready to leave. Imagine...you have an awesome team but one member shits on everything. That type of thing should not be allowed to happen.... :scratchhead:

Talk about insult to injury? Are you Asking AgAIN!


Dude, MY BOSS (young, stupid punk, etc.) took a fucking swing at my face!!

Now, understand, I wear glasses. One can not attempt to hit someone who wears glasses without expecting some sort of resistance!

Wearing glasses is dangerous to begin with.

Having some asshole take a swing at one who wears glasses might start a regular fight, if things go wrong.

All I can say at this point is that that son of a bitch tried to hurt me by starting to swing at me. I would not allow it to happen.

I think I have already mentioned this, but I stopped his punch with my forearm, flipped his elbow around about one hundred twenty degrees, then, dislocating his shoulder radically, I slammed his head into the asphalt. I then came down "as hard as I could" (I only weigh about two hundred twenty pounds) directly on his gut (aiming for his solar plexus, I missed by a foot because of how fucking BIG the stupid fucker is and how he fell so fucking tall.)

Then I hit him, hard, but then realized that if I really hit him again, I could kill him. His head was in contact with the pavement.  If I actually hit himn as I NEEDED/wanted to, I would beat him to death with about three or four blows. I stopped. I only hit him once and then I backed off and stood up as eight other assholes approached to "pull me off of him".  It was already over and I was vibrating. I was so stoked, I had a hard time settling down.

One "supe"  came up to me and TOLD me I had to wait for the police. I took two steps toward him an asked if he really wanted to stop me from going home.

He just lifted his arms an said, "No!"

 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 11, 2014, 01:56:09 AM

It seems as if this shit has kept me on edge a bit and it has for six fucking weeks, it seems.

I fucking keep mentioning it, right?  The whole thing disturbed me. Not so much keeping my head past the stupid kid, but how things have gone since. There was never a question that that punk kid could touch me physically and THAT might have been part of the problem between he and me. He KNEW he could do anything he wanted; I never gave it a second thought, because I KNEW he could not touch me.

That punk kid has never done a second of actual work in his entire life, let alone try to "whatever" to someone four times as strong and ten times as smart and one hundred times as deviant as me.

Well, as I mentioned, the punk has (been forced?)  to give me "MEDALS"  (shit we earn for doing tests)  all the way past silver and gold but awarded me platinum status.  FUCK!! WTF!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 11, 2014, 09:10:24 AM

Yeah you do seem on edge about it. Re-reading SG's comment, I can't figure out where he implied that he might not have understood what happened.

Best I can figure without actually knowing anyone else involved, young punk must have been really widely hated, to the point where it reached critical mass of enough people feeling glad that someone finally snapped and beat his ass, that they don't feel too inclined to lift a finger to defend him. And young punk isn't canny enough to rally people with outrage of his own.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 11, 2014, 12:56:36 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 11, 2014, 01:43:18 AM

Are you Asking AgAIN!

No...I was just sharing my recent experience. But I appreciate you filling me about exactly what went down...I would be on edge too if I knew I almost killed a man.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 11, 2014, 05:56:57 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 11, 2014, 01:17:47 AM

I made coffee.

  Yesterday I brought home a bottle of coffee from work.  Free stuff is good.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 11, 2014, 11:02:47 PM

Coffee needs to be fresh! :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 12, 2014, 07:20:38 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 11, 2014, 11:02:47 PM

Coffee needs to be fresh! :GA:

CBC needs penalty work, writing a hundred times, by hand: "Coffee needs to be fresh!"

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 12, 2014, 07:24:11 AM

The Bacon of Brian.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 12, 2014, 12:37:28 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 12, 2014, 07:24:11 AM

The Bacon of Brian.

Wrong thread?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 12, 2014, 05:07:30 PM

Maybe someone called Brian cooked her bacon.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 12, 2014, 08:35:10 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 11, 2014, 09:10:24 AM

Yeah you do seem on edge about it. Re-reading SG's comment, I can't figure out where he implied that he might not have understood what happened.

Best I can figure without actually knowing anyone else involved, young punk must have been really widely hated, to the point where it reached critical mass of enough people feeling glad that someone finally snapped and beat his ass, that they don't feel too inclined to lift a finger to defend him. And young punk isn't canny enough to rally people with outrage of his own.

You may have actually drawn things down into a final drop from a crucible.

He could not do more than try to get other people to "rally" around him trying to smite me.
The witnesses (eight of which) called me the calm one. I stood there with my arms at my side while he was waving his all around me (I was watching intently) I was only brought to action after he tried to swing at my glasses.

I do think that almost every one there who witnessed (honest as they were) had to admit that they enjoyed seeing this punk ass punk get a shellacking for once. Five of them had gone to school with him. Another was another boss and I am not sure that I knew very well, but he told THE true story about the events. It matched all the other's accounts.

To be as candid as I possibly can, it was not until he took on a leadership role that his character came into question with the bunch of his piers that he was attempting to lead. He had been pissing people off for a living for about six months. His choice. His way to the fire. His choice to try to hit someone who has been hit many times in the past and is fucking tired of and will do all he can to prevent it from ever happening again.

His walking around with a sling on his arm did not make people think more of him. I seemed to have gathered a fan club, in fact. NOT my style though! I do not want to be celebrated in any way, least of all for hurting someone.

I will not even allow any discussions of the things I did that I am actually proud of. It is not my style. NOT in pewson. I will write and I will create rhyme and I will set myself toward fire and make my garden better because of my feats, but I will not talk about it with people I have to deal with on a daily basis. I will just ask if they remember and remind them that I do not want to, because, except for planting a unique figure of specific Genus' of plants which represent my surviving once again this year, I do not plan more.
I will dig and I will plant.

I feel I have "friends" here and I can express how I really need to learn more restraint. I feel comfortable to allow myself to show that I "need" here.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 12, 2014, 10:00:57 PM

'Sblood, what an utter, total, unforgivable CUNT.

You shouldn't have to deal with that sort of uppity little anusmonger at work.
He needs a hole drilling in his head with a rusty flat-bit.

My something good-got paid, went to manchester city center shopping and updated my music library. Yes, for once I paid for it :P but hey I had some spare cash.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 12, 2014, 10:12:27 PM

Speaking of planting...about to plant a garden for the first time....I have some little plants I started in an egg carton that are ready to go in the ground. I am quite nervous about it...

As for the good thing that happened, my father came by this evening and we got noodles and watched Star Trek Voyager.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 13, 2014, 07:37:40 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 12, 2014, 07:20:38 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 11, 2014, 11:02:47 PM

Coffee needs to be fresh! :GA:

CBC needs penalty work, writing a hundred times, by hand: "Coffee needs to be fresh!"

:indeed: :pope:

Quote from: sg1008 on May 12, 2014, 12:37:28 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 12, 2014, 07:24:11 AM

The Bacon of Brian.

Wrong thread?

:P at :hyke:.

Quote from: sg1008 on May 12, 2014, 10:12:27 PM

Speaking of planting...about to plant a garden for the first time....I have some little plants I started in an egg carton that are ready to go in the ground. I am quite nervous about it...

As for the good thing that happened, my father came by this evening and we got noodles and watched Star Trek Voyager.

Be gentle with them. :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 13, 2014, 11:51:09 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 12, 2014, 07:20:38 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 11, 2014, 11:02:47 PM

Coffee needs to be fresh! :GA:

CBC needs penalty work, writing a hundred times, by hand: "Coffee needs to be fresh!"

  First I must pour a big cup of old rotgut coffee, to keep me awake while I write.   :chores:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 13, 2014, 11:53:37 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 12, 2014, 05:07:30 PM

Maybe someone called Brian cooked her bacon.  :asthing:

  I do hope you are talking about actual   :bacon:   being cooked in an actual pan.


  Otherwise, you're guilty of dirty innuendo and you'll have to come with us.  :police:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 13, 2014, 11:57:18 PM

  This actually happened yesterday, but my nagging headache went away after a good sleep and some :coffee:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 13, 2014, 11:59:18 PM

  Today I baked three desserts at work, and got ideas about how to make them better next time.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 14, 2014, 12:05:06 AM

  Also today, I heard a song on the radio in my brother's car and he identified the song and singer.
  I've been hearing it on the radio at work but hadn't yet identified it.  Now I know.  :green:

Pharrell Williams - Happy (Official Music Video) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM#ws)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 14, 2014, 06:47:51 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 13, 2014, 11:53:37 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 12, 2014, 05:07:30 PM

Maybe someone called Brian cooked her bacon.  :asthing:

  I do hope you are talking about actual   :bacon:   being cooked in an actual pan.


  Otherwise, you're guilty of dirty innuendo and you'll have to come with us.  :police:

:bacon: comes from pigs. If it was innuendo, it would be, "Brian cooked her flank steak." :M :P

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 13, 2014, 11:57:18 PM

  This actually happened yesterday, but my nagging headache went away after a good sleep and some :coffee:

This isn't the proper thread for this post. :police:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 14, 2014, 08:23:37 AM

  ^ Senmicolon is being pedantic.  He is acting very   :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 14, 2014, 09:03:55 AM

Senmicolon is Semicolon's eviler twin.  >:D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 14, 2014, 09:18:44 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 14, 2014, 09:03:55 AM

Senmicolon is Semicolon's eviler twin.  >:D

  I can't type today.  My fingers haz the dum.  :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 14, 2014, 11:07:30 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 09:18:44 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 14, 2014, 09:03:55 AM

Senmicolon is Semicolon's eviler twin.  >:D

  I can't type today.  My fingers haz the dum.  :tard:

Senmicolon hath possessed CBC's fingers!!!  :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 14, 2014, 11:52:39 AM

I discovered Triple Berry Newtons!!!  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 14, 2014, 07:58:25 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 08:23:37 AM

  ^ Senmicolon is being pedantic.  He is acting very   :asthing:

I am having an :autism: flare-up. :tard:

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 09:18:44 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 14, 2014, 09:03:55 AM

Senmicolon is Semicolon's eviler twin.  >:D

  I can't type today.  My fingers haz the dum.  :tard:

At least it's only your fingers today. :zoinks:

Quote from: sg1008 on May 14, 2014, 11:07:30 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 09:18:44 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 14, 2014, 09:03:55 AM

Senmicolon is Semicolon's eviler twin.  >:D

  I can't type today.  My fingers haz the dum.  :tard:

Senmicolon hath possessed CBC's fingers!!!  :GA:

CBC's fingers have possessed me. :bloody: :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 14, 2014, 08:25:48 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 14, 2014, 11:07:30 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 09:18:44 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 14, 2014, 09:03:55 AM

Senmicolon is Semicolon's eviler twin.  >:D

  I can't type today.  My fingers haz the dum.  :tard:

Senmicolon hath possessed CBC's fingers!!!  :GA:

  Now the punctuation mark is going to call you out!  :popcorn:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 14, 2014, 08:26:46 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 14, 2014, 11:52:39 AM

I discovered Triple Berry Newtons!!!  :autism:

  What three berries are used in the manufacturing of those cookies?  :nerd!:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 14, 2014, 08:27:50 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 08:25:48 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 14, 2014, 11:07:30 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 09:18:44 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 14, 2014, 09:03:55 AM

Senmicolon is Semicolon's eviler twin.  >:D

  I can't type today.  My fingers haz the dum.  :tard:

Senmicolon hath possessed CBC's fingers!!!  :GA:

  Now the punctuation mark is going to call you out!  :popcorn:

I should. :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 14, 2014, 08:28:04 PM

  Semicolon keeps answering multiple quotes in single posts.  He's sabotaging his post count!  :mischief:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 14, 2014, 08:32:06 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 08:28:04 PM

  Semicolon keeps answering multiple quotes in single posts.  He's sabotaging his post count!  :mischief:

I'm postwhoring within each post. :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 14, 2014, 08:38:32 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 14, 2014, 08:32:06 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 08:28:04 PM

  Semicolon keeps answering multiple quotes in single posts.  He's sabotaging his post count!  :mischief:

I'm postwhoring within each post. :M

  But your post count lags behind.  You're sabotaging yourself.  :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 14, 2014, 08:41:21 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 08:38:32 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 14, 2014, 08:32:06 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 08:28:04 PM

  Semicolon keeps answering multiple quotes in single posts.  He's sabotaging his post count!  :mischief:

I'm postwhoring within each post. :M

  But your post count lags behind.  You're sabotaging yourself.  :hahaha:

My content-per-post is high enough that every word is worth reading. :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 14, 2014, 08:46:07 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 14, 2014, 08:41:21 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 08:38:32 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 14, 2014, 08:32:06 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 08:28:04 PM

  Semicolon keeps answering multiple quotes in single posts.  He's sabotaging his post count!  :mischief:

I'm postwhoring within each post. :M

  But your post count lags behind.  You're sabotaging yourself.  :hahaha:

My content-per-post is high enough that every word is worth reading. :M

  I got as far as  "high enough"  and CBA to read the rest.  But drugs are bad, mmmkay?    :baked:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 14, 2014, 08:48:59 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 08:46:07 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 14, 2014, 08:41:21 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 08:38:32 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 14, 2014, 08:32:06 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 08:28:04 PM

  Semicolon keeps answering multiple quotes in single posts.  He's sabotaging his post count!  :mischief:

I'm postwhoring within each post. :M

  But your post count lags behind.  You're sabotaging yourself.  :hahaha:

My content-per-post is high enough that every word is worth reading. :M

  I got as far as  "high enough"  and CBA to read the rest.  But drugs are bad, mmmkay?    :baked:

It's your loss to miss out. :M

How would you know? :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 14, 2014, 08:52:20 PM

  I know because I obey the law.  The law is good.   :borg: :borg: :borg:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 14, 2014, 09:08:10 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 08:52:20 PM

  I know because I obey the law.  The law is good.   :borg: :borg: :borg:

I could ask the obvious trick question about whether you obey the law of the Bible, too. :trollface: Instead, I will simply post that resistance is futile. :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 16, 2014, 09:56:19 AM

I got just over 12 hours of sleep last night only waking briefly to look at the clock twice

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on May 16, 2014, 04:00:40 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 08:52:20 PM

  I know because I obey the law.  The law is good.   :borg: :borg: :borg:

(http://www.quickmeme.com/img/fe/fe6a3c8d06372c00a5ceed70796b4d84bd645692177f3755d6d99f9de10a24a6.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 16, 2014, 04:36:06 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 14, 2014, 09:08:10 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 08:52:20 PM

  I know because I obey the law.  The law is good.   :borg: :borg: :borg:

I could ask the obvious trick question about whether you obey the law of the Bible, too. :trollface: Instead, I will simply post that resistance is futile. :M

      You *WILL* come with us.


  :cbc: :cbc: :cbc: ; :cbc: :cbc: :cbc:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 16, 2014, 05:08:55 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 16, 2014, 04:36:06 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 14, 2014, 09:08:10 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 08:52:20 PM

  I know because I obey the law.  The law is good.   :borg: :borg: :borg:

I could ask the obvious trick question about whether you obey the law of the Bible, too. :trollface: Instead, I will simply post that resistance is futile. :M

      You *WILL* come with us.


  :cbc: :cbc: :cbc: ; :cbc: :cbc: :cbc:

I fought the law and the law won. :(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on May 16, 2014, 05:31:47 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 16, 2014, 04:36:06 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 14, 2014, 09:08:10 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 08:52:20 PM

  I know because I obey the law.  The law is good.   :borg: :borg: :borg:

I could ask the obvious trick question about whether you obey the law of the Bible, too. :trollface: Instead, I will simply post that resistance is futile. :M

      You *WILL* come with us.


  :cbc: :cbc: :cbc: ; :cbc: :cbc: :cbc:

Is Semicolon going to be assimilated into a Weeble?  :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 16, 2014, 05:41:40 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on May 16, 2014, 05:31:47 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 16, 2014, 04:36:06 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 14, 2014, 09:08:10 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 08:52:20 PM

  I know because I obey the law.  The law is good.   :borg: :borg: :borg:

I could ask the obvious trick question about whether you obey the law of the Bible, too. :trollface: Instead, I will simply post that resistance is futile. :M

      You *WILL* come with us.


  :cbc: :cbc: :cbc: ; :cbc: :cbc: :cbc:

Is Semicolon going to be assimilated into a Weeble?  :GA:

Would I start imitating CBC and have to change my avatar to a Weeble? :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 17, 2014, 01:15:30 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 16, 2014, 05:41:40 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on May 16, 2014, 05:31:47 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 16, 2014, 04:36:06 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 14, 2014, 09:08:10 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2014, 08:52:20 PM

  I know because I obey the law.  The law is good.   :borg: :borg: :borg:

I could ask the obvious trick question about whether you obey the law of the Bible, too. :trollface: Instead, I will simply post that resistance is futile. :M

      You *WILL* come with us.


  :cbc: :cbc: :cbc: ; :cbc: :cbc: :cbc:

Is Semicolon going to be assimilated into a Weeble?  :GA:

Would I start imitating CBC and have to change my avatar to a Weeble? :GA:

  Don't be silly!  In what universe would you have to do such a thing?  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 17, 2014, 02:31:35 AM

A weeble borg? :hide:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 17, 2014, 11:03:29 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 17, 2014, 02:31:35 AM

A weeble borg? :hide:

  :cbc: Join us! :cbc: Join us! :cbc: Join us! :cbc: Join us! :cbc:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 17, 2014, 09:06:54 PM

My girlfriend's son's girlfriend won her national powerlifting competition.  She's in the 140 lb (63 kg) class and lifted over 1000 lbs (450 kg).  The PR and I went to see her compete.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 17, 2014, 10:30:55 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 17, 2014, 02:31:35 AM

A weeble borg? :hide:

This place gets scarier every day. :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 17, 2014, 10:50:29 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 17, 2014, 09:06:54 PM

My girlfriend's son's girlfriend won her national powerlifting competition.  She's in the 140 lb (63 kg) class and lifted over 1000 lbs (450 kg).  The PR and I went to see her compete.

Congratulations to your friends son's girlfriend  :thumbup:

Btw, found this article:
8-year-old Damascus girl breaks national powerlifting record (http://www.gazette.net/article/20140507/NEWS/140509420/1007/8-year-old-damascus-girl-breaks-national-powerlifting-record&template=gazette)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 18, 2014, 12:47:03 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 17, 2014, 11:03:29 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 17, 2014, 02:31:35 AM

A weeble borg? :hide:

  :cbc: Join us! :cbc: Join us! :cbc: Join us! :cbc: Join us! :cbc:

:GA:
What have you done with your avatar?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 18, 2014, 12:58:01 AM

^Apparently nothing. I seem to have a caching problem. :apondering:

My good thing that happened, btw, is that my paper got accepted at the Washington conference in August. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 18, 2014, 05:20:01 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 18, 2014, 12:58:01 AM

^Apparently nothing. I seem to have a caching problem. :apondering:

My good thing that happened, btw, is that my paper got accepted at the Washington conference in August. :woohoo:

Congratulations. :cake: Remember to use small words, so the fatty fat Americans can understand you. :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 18, 2014, 07:38:57 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 18, 2014, 12:58:01 AM

^Apparently nothing. I seem to have a caching problem. :apondering:

My good thing that happened, btw, is that my paper got accepted at the Washington conference in August. :woohoo:

  So you will be delivering it here at the conference?  Welcome to America!    :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 18, 2014, 07:56:02 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 18, 2014, 07:38:57 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 18, 2014, 12:58:01 AM

^Apparently nothing. I seem to have a caching problem. :apondering:

My good thing that happened, btw, is that my paper got accepted at the Washington conference in August. :woohoo:

  So you will be delivering it here at the conference?  Welcome to America!    :hyke:

 :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 18, 2014, 03:32:44 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 18, 2014, 07:38:57 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 18, 2014, 12:58:01 AM

^Apparently nothing. I seem to have a caching problem. :apondering:

My good thing that happened, btw, is that my paper got accepted at the Washington conference in August. :woohoo:

  So you will be delivering it here at the conference?  Welcome to America!    :hyke:

Fuck yeah! :fuckyeahdance:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 18, 2014, 04:57:09 PM

Found a 20p piece on my ay back home from manchester city center.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 18, 2014, 05:14:14 PM

  I had today to myself.  I haven't spoken all day long.   :nicegear:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 18, 2014, 07:43:15 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 18, 2014, 05:14:14 PM

  I had today to myself.  I haven't spoken all day long.   :nicegear:

That's amazing! :toporly: I never thought I'd read that sentence. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 18, 2014, 08:38:13 PM

a chocolate chip waffle

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 18, 2014, 10:27:24 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 18, 2014, 05:20:01 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 18, 2014, 12:58:01 AM

^Apparently nothing. I seem to have a caching problem. :apondering:

My good thing that happened, btw, is that my paper got accepted at the Washington conference in August. :woohoo:

Congratulations. :cake: Remember to use small words, so the fatty fat Americans can understand you. :tard:

Are there any particular problems you have problems with?  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 19, 2014, 05:25:48 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 18, 2014, 10:27:24 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 18, 2014, 05:20:01 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 18, 2014, 12:58:01 AM

^Apparently nothing. I seem to have a caching problem. :apondering:

My good thing that happened, btw, is that my paper got accepted at the Washington conference in August. :woohoo:

Congratulations. :cake: Remember to use small words, so the fatty fat Americans can understand you. :tard:

Are there any particular problems you have problems with?  :autism:

Most words with two or more syllables. :tard: Be sure to use "freedom", "guns" and "fuck yeah" frequently in your presentation. :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 19, 2014, 04:42:02 PM

Am actually hoping no one leaves a nasty impression on Odeon. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 19, 2014, 05:09:21 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 19, 2014, 05:25:48 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 18, 2014, 10:27:24 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 18, 2014, 05:20:01 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 18, 2014, 12:58:01 AM

^Apparently nothing. I seem to have a caching problem. :apondering:

My good thing that happened, btw, is that my paper got accepted at the Washington conference in August. :woohoo:

Congratulations. :cake: Remember to use small words, so the fatty fat Americans can understand you. :tard:

Are there any particular problems you have problems with?  :autism:

Most words with two or more syllables. :tard: Be sure to use "freedom", "guns" and "fuck yeah" frequently in your presentation. :autism:

Semicolon- you are making these assertions based on a narrow audience probability.

Just because loud mouth conservatives and FOX news talk like that does not mean ALL americans enjoy that shit. I have to point this out because for some reason the whole world thinks that americans are like that. While there ARE americans like that and while the things which they say and express make great joke material, its hardly a majority and it would be silly to imply to a non-american that this was what their crowd was going to be like. If Odeon were to go around Washington assuming americans were all conservative gun-toting patriotic fat idiots then he is likely piss off quite a few people and scare away other sensible company.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 19, 2014, 05:46:32 PM

Odeon should just do his presentation, and then find a strip club or gocart track to unwind afterward; guaranteed no problems.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 19, 2014, 06:05:06 PM

Went out to dinner and had a tasty steak

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on May 19, 2014, 06:52:15 PM

drove home from Fayetteville at one in the  morning

and didnt wreck

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 19, 2014, 07:38:28 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 19, 2014, 04:42:02 PM

Am actually hoping no one leaves a nasty impression on Odeon. :laugh:

We've already left a nasty enough impression on him. :P

Quote from: Jack on May 19, 2014, 05:46:32 PM

Odeon should just do his presentation, and then find a strip club or gocart track to unwind afterward; guaranteed no problems.

In Washington, DC? :toporly:

Quote from: sg1008 on May 19, 2014, 05:09:21 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 19, 2014, 05:25:48 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 18, 2014, 10:27:24 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 18, 2014, 05:20:01 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 18, 2014, 12:58:01 AM

^Apparently nothing. I seem to have a caching problem. :apondering:

My good thing that happened, btw, is that my paper got accepted at the Washington conference in August. :woohoo:

Congratulations. :cake: Remember to use small words, so the fatty fat Americans can understand you. :tard:

Are there any particular problems you have problems with?  :autism:

Most words with two or more syllables. :tard: Be sure to use "freedom", "guns" and "fuck yeah" frequently in your presentation. :autism:

Semicolon- you are making these assertions based on a narrow audience probability.

Just because loud mouth conservatives and FOX news talk like that does not mean ALL americans enjoy that shit. I have to point this out because for some reason the whole world thinks that americans are like that. While there ARE americans like that and while the things which they say and express make great joke material, its hardly a majority and it would be silly to imply to a non-american that this was what their crowd was going to be like. If Odeon were to go around Washington assuming americans were all conservative gun-toting patriotic fat idiots then he is likely piss off quite a few people and scare away other sensible company.

It was a joke. :laugh: Odeon has been talking with Americans online for so long that he probably realizes who he'll encounter in America. Given the strict laws there, I doubt that Odeon would even encounter a gun unless it was owned by the police or a criminal. I also doubt that Odeon would find it a conservative city, given the prevalence of Democrats, although Scandinavia takes liberalism to a level that we can't match in America. :P

You're on the topic of Washington, DC, and you didn't include the representation debate.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 19, 2014, 08:42:53 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 19, 2014, 07:38:28 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 19, 2014, 05:46:32 PM

Odeon should just do his presentation, and then find a strip club or gocart track to unwind afterward; guaranteed no problems.

In Washington, DC? :toporly:

America has gocart tracks *everywhere*. :M
http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=go+kart+racing&find_loc=Washington%2C+DC (http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=go+kart+racing&find_loc=Washington%2C+DC)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 19, 2014, 09:16:09 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 19, 2014, 07:38:28 PM

It was a joke. :laugh:

My bad.



*quietly laughs*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 19, 2014, 10:57:42 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 19, 2014, 05:25:48 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 18, 2014, 10:27:24 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 18, 2014, 05:20:01 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 18, 2014, 12:58:01 AM

^Apparently nothing. I seem to have a caching problem. :apondering:

My good thing that happened, btw, is that my paper got accepted at the Washington conference in August. :woohoo:

Congratulations. :cake: Remember to use small words, so the fatty fat Americans can understand you. :tard:

Are there any particular problems you have problems with?  :autism:

Most words with two or more syllables. :tard: Be sure to use "freedom", "guns" and "fuck yeah" frequently in your presentation. :autism:

It's going to be a brilliant presentation. Fuck yeah! :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 19, 2014, 10:58:44 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 19, 2014, 04:42:02 PM

Am actually hoping no one leaves a nasty impression on Odeon. :laugh:

I'm not particularly worried.

Really looking forward to this one. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 19, 2014, 11:00:14 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 19, 2014, 05:09:21 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 19, 2014, 05:25:48 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 18, 2014, 10:27:24 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 18, 2014, 05:20:01 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 18, 2014, 12:58:01 AM

^Apparently nothing. I seem to have a caching problem. :apondering:

My good thing that happened, btw, is that my paper got accepted at the Washington conference in August. :woohoo:

Congratulations. :cake: Remember to use small words, so the fatty fat Americans can understand you. :tard:

Are there any particular problems you have problems with?  :autism:

Most words with two or more syllables. :tard: Be sure to use "freedom", "guns" and "fuck yeah" frequently in your presentation. :autism:

Semicolon- you are making these assertions based on a narrow audience probability.

Just because loud mouth conservatives and FOX news talk like that does not mean ALL americans enjoy that shit. I have to point this out because for some reason the whole world thinks that americans are like that. While there ARE americans like that and while the things which they say and express make great joke material, its hardly a majority and it would be silly to imply to a non-american that this was what their crowd was going to be like. If Odeon were to go around Washington assuming americans were all conservative gun-toting patriotic fat idiots then he is likely piss off quite a few people and scare away other sensible company.

You mean they aren't? :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 19, 2014, 11:02:44 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 19, 2014, 07:38:28 PM

It was a joke. :laugh: Odeon has been talking with Americans online for so long that he probably realizes who he'll encounter in America.

I've also met one or two IRL. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 05:59:13 AM

Quote from: Jack on May 19, 2014, 08:42:53 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 19, 2014, 07:38:28 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 19, 2014, 05:46:32 PM

Odeon should just do his presentation, and then find a strip club or gocart track to unwind afterward; guaranteed no problems.

In Washington, DC? :toporly:

America has gocart tracks *everywhere*. :M
http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=go+kart+racing&find_loc=Washington%2C+DC (http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=go+kart+racing&find_loc=Washington%2C+DC)

None of those are in Washington. :M They're in Maryland or Virginia. :P

Quote from: odeon on May 19, 2014, 10:57:42 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 19, 2014, 05:25:48 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 18, 2014, 10:27:24 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 18, 2014, 05:20:01 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 18, 2014, 12:58:01 AM

^Apparently nothing. I seem to have a caching problem. :apondering:

My good thing that happened, btw, is that my paper got accepted at the Washington conference in August. :woohoo:

Congratulations. :cake: Remember to use small words, so the fatty fat Americans can understand you. :tard:

Are there any particular problems you have problems with?  :autism:

Most words with two or more syllables. :tard: Be sure to use "freedom", "guns" and "fuck yeah" frequently in your presentation. :autism:

It's going to be a brilliant presentation. Fuck yeah! :2thumbsup:

:viking:

Quote from: odeon on May 19, 2014, 11:02:44 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 19, 2014, 07:38:28 PM

It was a joke. :laugh: Odeon has been talking with Americans online for so long that he probably realizes who he'll encounter in America.

I've also met one or two IRL. :P

That sounds scary. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 20, 2014, 07:15:05 AM

Not all americans are up their own arseholes about guns jesus abortion and intravenous liquidized grease-burgers for breakfast. My stalker, heretic is a perfect example. Fiercely driven and independent, smart as all fucking well fuck on toast with extra fucking butter, slimmer than the chances of G.W.bush ever (assuming such a place exists) getting into heaven upon his death, and I daresay, at 48-49yo, quite the most breathtakingly beautiful lady I have ever had the honor of being permitted to know. Known her for what seems like all my life, although in reality has been merely some 5-6 years ish, and heretic still knocks the wind right out of me with every hit I get of her voice, every moment I get to peek at her pics, see her in my email inbox...

NOT a bloated, opinionated greasy republican noxious YVWH-molestering gun-maniac slug. As far from it as it is possible to be. She is one of the most compassionate and wonderful women ever to have lived.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 20, 2014, 07:23:00 AM

Good thing for today?

Morphine and oxycodone happened to accidentally happen to be my breakfast. Finally got the extra XR morph 10s and IR oxy added to my repeat RX-s by another doc, my guy meant to but, whilst a brilliant doctor, can be a right forgetful old bugger sometimes.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 20, 2014, 08:25:10 AM

Quote from: Jack on May 19, 2014, 04:42:02 PM

Am actually hoping no one leaves a nasty impression on Odeon. :laugh:

  Me too.  As an American, I am concerned about our country's image.  :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 20, 2014, 09:25:37 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 08:25:10 AM

Quote from: Jack on May 19, 2014, 04:42:02 PM

Am actually hoping no one leaves a nasty impression on Odeon. :laugh:

  Me too.  As an American, I am concerned about our country's image.  :tard:

We must purge the country of all embarrassing people before he arrives.  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 20, 2014, 09:32:25 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 20, 2014, 09:25:37 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 08:25:10 AM

Quote from: Jack on May 19, 2014, 04:42:02 PM

Am actually hoping no one leaves a nasty impression on Odeon. :laugh:

  Me too.  As an American, I am concerned about our country's image.  :tard:

We must purge the country of all embarrassing people before he arrives.  :M

  We're the NSA, and we're here to help with your worthy cause!  :police:


   These embarrassing people will have to come with us.   :police:  :tard: :nerdy: :autism:  :police:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 09:55:50 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 09:32:25 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 20, 2014, 09:25:37 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 08:25:10 AM

Quote from: Jack on May 19, 2014, 04:42:02 PM

Am actually hoping no one leaves a nasty impression on Odeon. :laugh:

  Me too.  As an American, I am concerned about our country's image.  :tard:

We must purge the country of all embarrassing people before he arrives.  :M

  We're the NSA, and we're here to help with your worthy cause!  :police:


   These embarrassing people will have to come with us.   :police:  :tard: :nerdy: :autism:  :police:

Don't forget these people: :M

:police: :cbc: :chicken: :police:
QV and I are observing: :ninja:

:queenie: :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 20, 2014, 10:56:05 AM

WE BROKE FREE!! I don't know who the flamer is, but he is useful. The old man helped us break free so he's with us now.

:chicken:   :cbc:   :oldman:                                        :flamer:    :police:  :police:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 20, 2014, 11:08:21 AM

  And don't forget the worst offender of all!    :police: ; :police:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 20, 2014, 11:09:56 AM

  Something good:  Loud Neighbor removed his smelly bag of trash from the hall outside my front door!  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 05:45:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 11:08:21 AM

  And don't forget the worst offender of all!    :police: ; :police:

I'm innocent. :angel:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 20, 2014, 06:08:20 PM

Morphine (180mg, sulfate salt)  and oxycodone (HCl, 30-40mg) are just about to happen to my veins. My excuse is they are thirsty, and with this fucking horrid  heatwave we have been enduring lately here, its just an additional way to add a little extra H2O in one's diet :P



*sighs with pleasure* mmmmmhhhhhhh that feels gooood.

Huh...? (later still) Hmph.
It now appears to be  nearly 1AM on wednesday.
I LIKE the now-properly-added update to my refill types on file at the docs!
gone from 60mg XR morphine sulfate tablets twice daily (plus an extra 10mg capsule of XR morphine and the same of oxy IR per dose) back down to twice that number of 30mg ones, and at my req., now in capsule form.

Gives me some flexibility, having twice the number of 30s (4xdaily) than just twice 60, easier to determine when to take it, sometimes I won't need it all, or need a bit more on one day, or part of a day, and just compensate by using less over a further day or two, the 10mg morphine XRs are handy for really fine-tuning it all.

The capsules, the kind  with a load of minute little beads, sort of like dextroamphetamine capsules, and they are wonderful. FAR less binder and filler material, almost bugger all, easy to grind to powder, and they do not gel whilst  being filtered. Which translates to better for the vascular system and not so damn murderous to filter cartridges, using an 0.2 micron filter on the tablet form, ESPECIALLY those fucking awful 60s just gets it clogged instantly, like trying to filter a mixture of wallpaper paste (and/or partially fossilized loogie), they had to be prefiltered through cigarette filters for making rollups, and even then it takes about 3-5 of the buggers just for one handful of ground pills. and they still weren't all that friendly to my ultrafine filter cartridges either.

And to boot, the actual extraction (I mean just with water/saline amps rather than referring to solvent extractions in this case) perform so much more effectively. I JUST woke up a few minutes ago from my last shot after I nodded off at the computer :P and I still have half the last shot ready to mix up and poke that I ground&added some IR oxy to ready for later. IF I even want it.

That the microsphere capsules are so much more ready and willing to part with their precious and tasty contents is just plainly evident. Less gloopy plastic waste too (if any) when it comes to setting up a blind date for the things with the appropriate solvents and other stuff:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 06:20:02 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 20, 2014, 10:56:05 AM

WE BROKE FREE!! I don't know who the flamer is, but he is useful. The old man helped us break free so he's with us now.

:chicken:   :cbc:   :oldman:                                        :flamer:    :police:  :police:

They're probably Odeon and Parts. :P

Odeon is :moomin:. :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 20, 2014, 06:59:55 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 05:45:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 11:08:21 AM

  And don't forget the worst offender of all!    :police: ; :police:

I'm innocent. :angel:

  Save that for the jury.  :police:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 20, 2014, 07:01:12 PM

  The washer and dryer were free when I got home.  My laundry is now whirling in the dryer!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 07:12:23 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 06:59:55 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 05:45:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 11:08:21 AM

  And don't forget the worst offender of all!    :police: ; :police:

I'm innocent. :angel:

  Save that for the jury.  :police:

That assumes that I have peers. :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 20, 2014, 07:18:28 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 07:12:23 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 06:59:55 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 05:45:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 11:08:21 AM

  And don't forget the worst offender of all!    :police: ; :police:

I'm innocent. :angel:

  Save that for the jury.  :police:

That assumes that I have peers. :M

  Be sure to bring that attitude to court with you.  The jury will love it.  ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 07:21:24 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 07:18:28 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 07:12:23 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 06:59:55 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 05:45:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 11:08:21 AM

  And don't forget the worst offender of all!    :police: ; :police:

I'm innocent. :angel:

  Save that for the jury.  :police:

That assumes that I have peers. :M

  Be sure to bring that attitude to court with you.  The jury will love it.  ;)

My lawyer will ensure my acquittal. :hitler:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 20, 2014, 08:13:12 PM

Woke up just a bit ago from a really refreshing (especially after nearly 4 days with no sleep to speak of, or even a nap to sodding well shut the fuck up about) nearly 24 hour long, morphine/oxy-laced journey to the lethean lands of Morpheus, whilst Hypnos and Somnus paid a house call, courtesy of 3 rather effective sleeping pills (well caps of liquid in their case).

Slept like a log, if one wrapped a log in soft sheets and pillows liberally splashed with lavender essential oil and played it doom and tech-metal bands at high volume :D

Woke up at nearly 1am, went downstairs wanting some breakfast, and after my cornflakes and a couple of fags, and what else did I find, but a tub of triple-chocolate ice cream with chocolate sauce ripple and three different kinds of chocolate shavings over the top, and a generous share left over of a big tub of strawberries, which are (or more accurately, were, past tense) at their height of ripeness, sweet and juiciness, had those with a sprinkling of brown sugar poured into the holes left after the hulls are dug out. I left the ice cream for now though, put that in the fridge from the freezer, to let it melt some and go squishy and soft, but still cold, ready to blend up with some milk and a splash of double cream for an ice cream milkshake.

I fancy another smoke, and a little smattering of H or oxy whilst I wait for the requisite ice cream softening to occur.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 20, 2014, 10:40:18 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 06:59:55 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 05:45:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 11:08:21 AM

  And don't forget the worst offender of all!    :police: ; :police:

I'm innocent. :angel:

  Save that for the jury.  :police:

Are you going to bother with a jury? :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 20, 2014, 11:40:32 PM

Oooh goody! Popping back into this thread, I reminded myself about the ice cream I'd been leaving in the fridge to soften.

And just found a fair bit of oxy in concentrated solution while I was about to make a shot of morphine. So I used the former as the liquid for the latter. Should be a good 'un, not a clue how much oxy is in there, but quite a lo......bloody blithering badger fucknipples! That was a twatting heavy one; I think that would have taken me off my feet if I'd taken it whilst standing upright. That went in a small vein in the back of my hand, but straight away it made my entire arm itch and my lips and face tingle.


 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 21, 2014, 05:50:29 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 20, 2014, 10:40:18 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 06:59:55 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 05:45:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 11:08:21 AM

  And don't forget the worst offender of all!    :police: ; :police:

I'm innocent. :angel:

  Save that for the jury.  :police:

Are you going to bother with a jury? :zoinks:

I find it hard to believe that a jury of my peers would consider me an undesirable. :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 21, 2014, 10:29:51 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 21, 2014, 05:50:29 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 20, 2014, 10:40:18 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 06:59:55 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 05:45:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 11:08:21 AM

  And don't forget the worst offender of all!    :police: ; :police:

I'm innocent. :angel:

  Save that for the jury.  :police:

Are you going to bother with a jury? :zoinks:

I find it hard to believe that a jury of my peers would consider me an undesirable. :M

Your buddies the colon and the period?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 21, 2014, 03:02:31 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 21, 2014, 10:29:51 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 21, 2014, 05:50:29 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 20, 2014, 10:40:18 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 06:59:55 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 05:45:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 11:08:21 AM

  And don't forget the worst offender of all!    :police: ; :police:

I'm innocent. :angel:

  Save that for the jury.  :police:

Are you going to bother with a jury? :zoinks:

I find it hard to believe that a jury of my peers would consider me an undesirable. :M

Your buddies the colon and the period?

My army of semicolons:

; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 21, 2014, 05:58:13 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 21, 2014, 03:02:31 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 21, 2014, 10:29:51 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 21, 2014, 05:50:29 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 20, 2014, 10:40:18 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 06:59:55 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 05:45:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 11:08:21 AM

  And don't forget the worst offender of all!    :police: ; :police:

I'm innocent. :angel:

  Save that for the jury.  :police:

Are you going to bother with a jury? :zoinks:

I find it hard to believe that a jury of my peers would consider me an undesirable. :M

Your buddies the colon and the period?

My army of semicolons:

; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

You do realise you cannot select your own jury, right?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 21, 2014, 06:46:17 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 21, 2014, 05:58:13 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 21, 2014, 03:02:31 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 21, 2014, 10:29:51 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 21, 2014, 05:50:29 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 20, 2014, 10:40:18 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 06:59:55 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 05:45:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 11:08:21 AM

  And don't forget the worst offender of all!    :police: ; :police:

I'm innocent. :angel:

  Save that for the jury.  :police:

Are you going to bother with a jury? :zoinks:

I find it hard to believe that a jury of my peers would consider me an undesirable. :M

Your buddies the colon and the period?

My army of semicolons:

; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

You do realise you cannot select your own jury, right?

You're just trying to distract us from your own trolling. :police:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 21, 2014, 06:48:45 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 21, 2014, 06:46:17 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 21, 2014, 05:58:13 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 21, 2014, 03:02:31 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 21, 2014, 10:29:51 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 21, 2014, 05:50:29 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 20, 2014, 10:40:18 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 06:59:55 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 05:45:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 11:08:21 AM

  And don't forget the worst offender of all!    :police: ; :police:

I'm innocent. :angel:

  Save that for the jury.  :police:

Are you going to bother with a jury? :zoinks:

I find it hard to believe that a jury of my peers would consider me an undesirable. :M

Your buddies the colon and the period?

My army of semicolons:

; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

You do realise you cannot select your own jury, right?

My only peers are other semicolons. :M

But....semicolons cannot exist independent of sentences and lists. Your peers will include every letter of the alphabet, punctuation marks, and numbers.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 21, 2014, 11:18:16 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 21, 2014, 05:50:29 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 20, 2014, 10:40:18 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 06:59:55 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 05:45:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 11:08:21 AM

  And don't forget the worst offender of all!    :police: ; :police:

I'm innocent. :angel:

  Save that for the jury.  :police:

Are you going to bother with a jury? :zoinks:

I find it hard to believe that a jury of my peers would consider me an undesirable. :M

        ;;;  ;;;
   ;;;  ;;;    "GUILTY, Your Honor!"   :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 22, 2014, 05:00:04 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 21, 2014, 11:18:16 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 21, 2014, 05:50:29 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 20, 2014, 10:40:18 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 06:59:55 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 05:45:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 11:08:21 AM

  And don't forget the worst offender of all!    :police: ; :police:

I'm innocent. :angel:

  Save that for the jury.  :police:

Are you going to bother with a jury? :zoinks:

I find it hard to believe that a jury of my peers would consider me an undesirable. :M

        ;;;  ;;;
   ;;;  ;;;    "GUILTY, Your Honor!"   :hahaha:

At least I'm not getting eaten for breakfast. :hahaha:

:cbc: :cbc: :cbc: :cbc: :cbc: :cbc:
:cbc: :cbc: :cbc: :cbc: :cbc: :cbc:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 22, 2014, 05:10:41 AM

Scrambled weeble brains on toast? hard-boiled weeble? just knock the top off of its head with a spoon after cooking, mix with a little salt and pepper, then sprinkle with a spoonful of caviar if one can find small tins at a fair price.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 22, 2014, 05:51:47 AM

I just found the tourniquet I was looking for everywhere earlier on today. Turns out I'd sat on it and the velcro strap had stuck to the seat of my pants.

Currently cooking a big fat juicy 26-double slice bacon sandwich. Two full packs of bacon, bar one slice so my old man doesn't twig to the fact I've just eaten almost all his bacon :P

Got a 5ml rig full of morphine ready to go after I finish cooking and eating my dead pig sandwich.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 22, 2014, 08:10:01 AM

Quote from: Lestat on May 22, 2014, 05:10:41 AM

Scrambled weeble brains on toast? hard-boiled weeble? just knock the top off of its head with a spoon after cooking, mix with a little salt and pepper, then sprinkle with a spoonful of caviar if one can find small tins at a fair price.

      HEY!  Why are you threatening the Weebles?  I'm getting out of here!   :runaway:  :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 22, 2014, 09:15:59 AM

Quote from: Lestat on May 22, 2014, 05:51:47 AM

I just found the tourniquet I was looking for everywhere earlier on today. Turns out I'd sat on it and the velcro strap had stuck to the seat of my pants.

Currently cooking a big fat juicy 26-double slice bacon sandwich. Two full packs of bacon, bar one slice so my old man doesn't twig to the fact I've just eaten almost all his bacon :P

Got a 5ml rig full of morphine ready to go after I finish cooking and eating my dead pig sandwich.

        You sat on your tourniquet.  :hahaha:



   We will guard the remaining bacon.  :police:  :bacon:  :police:   No more sandwiches for Weeble-eaters!


 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 22, 2014, 10:27:36 AM

Trust me couldbe, when I say you do not want to spend time in the proximity of that bacon.

Out of two 24 packs, of which my old man got to use a couple of slices, there is one remaining rasher. I left that so he can't accuse me of scoffing all his bacon. Used the entire lot to make one huge quadruple-decker layered bacon and brown sauce/pepper sandwich, folded over in one slice of buttery bread.

I have no money to buy any food until monday at the very earliest, and I flat out refuse to go hungry. There are one or two people who I would give the remaining food to if they were to go without, but very few of them.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 22, 2014, 11:25:52 AM

Tosses my bacon to Lestat.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2014, 12:42:41 PM

You saved his bacon.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 22, 2014, 12:47:06 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 21, 2014, 06:46:17 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 21, 2014, 05:58:13 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 21, 2014, 03:02:31 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 21, 2014, 10:29:51 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 21, 2014, 05:50:29 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 20, 2014, 10:40:18 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 06:59:55 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 20, 2014, 05:45:00 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 20, 2014, 11:08:21 AM

  And don't forget the worst offender of all!    :police: ; :police:

I'm innocent. :angel:

  Save that for the jury.  :police:

Are you going to bother with a jury? :zoinks:

I find it hard to believe that a jury of my peers would consider me an undesirable. :M

Your buddies the colon and the period?

My army of semicolons:

; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

You do realise you cannot select your own jury, right?

You're just trying to distract us from your own trolling. :police:

Semicolon, you are under arrest for changing your post and making false accusations. Let's see what your "jury" has to say about this one....

:police: :police: :police: :police: :police: :police: :police:
 :police: :police: :police:  ;  :police: :police: :police:
 :police: :police: :police: :police: :police: :police: :police:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 22, 2014, 02:34:35 PM

Quote from: Lestat on May 22, 2014, 05:10:41 AM

Scrambled weeble brains on toast? hard-boiled weeble? just knock the top off of its head with a spoon after cooking, mix with a little salt and pepper, then sprinkle with a spoonful of caviar if one can find small tins at a fair price.

:agreed: :drool:

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 22, 2014, 08:10:01 AM

Quote from: Lestat on May 22, 2014, 05:10:41 AM

Scrambled weeble brains on toast? hard-boiled weeble? just knock the top off of its head with a spoon after cooking, mix with a little salt and pepper, then sprinkle with a spoonful of caviar if one can find small tins at a fair price.

      HEY!  Why are you threatening the Weebles?  I'm getting out of here!   :runaway:  :GA:

You started it. :M

Quote from: Lestat on May 22, 2014, 10:27:36 AM

Trust me couldbe, when I say you do not want to spend time in the proximity of that bacon.

Breakfast is here: :bacon: :cbc: :coffee:

Quote from: sg1008 on May 22, 2014, 12:47:06 PM

Semicolon, you are under arrest for changing your post and making false accusations. Let's see what your "jury" has to say about this one....

:police: :police: :police: :police: :police: :police: :police:
 :police: :police: :police:  ;  :police: :police: :police:
 :police: :police: :police: :police: :police: :police: :police:

Changing what post? :zoinks:

None of my accusations of the Weeble's trolling are false. Any rumors to the contrary are mere propaganda. :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 22, 2014, 02:55:00 PM

  Is the little punctuation mark scared now?  He posted a big bad post and then he ran away!  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 22, 2014, 02:56:46 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 22, 2014, 02:55:00 PM

  Is the little punctuation mark scared now?  He posted a big bad post and then he ran away!  :zoinks:

I didn't run away; I was accidentally escorted from the thread by several police officers. :M I'm back now, so there's no need to trouble yourself about me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 22, 2014, 02:57:19 PM

  I got my permanent crown cemented in place today.  It looks and feels fine.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 22, 2014, 03:35:34 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 22, 2014, 02:57:19 PM

  I got my permanent crown cemented in place today.  It looks and feels fine.  :green:

Be careful with those. If you suspect it is even a tiny bit loose, get it fixed immediately....otherwise it can rapidly decay your tooth. I hope the dentist did a good job.

Is it a gold crown by any chance? :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 22, 2014, 03:46:00 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 22, 2014, 03:35:34 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 22, 2014, 02:57:19 PM

  I got my permanent crown cemented in place today.  It looks and feels fine.  :green:

Be careful with those. If you suspect it is even a tiny bit loose, get it fixed immediately....otherwise it can rapidly decay your tooth. I hope the dentist did a good job.

Is it a gold crown by any chance? :)

  I think it will be OK, I have had 5 crowns done by this dentist.  I will watch for looseness.  And it is porcelain.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 22, 2014, 08:20:15 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 22, 2014, 03:46:00 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 22, 2014, 03:35:34 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 22, 2014, 02:57:19 PM

  I got my permanent crown cemented in place today.  It looks and feels fine.  :green:

Be careful with those. If you suspect it is even a tiny bit loose, get it fixed immediately....otherwise it can rapidly decay your tooth. I hope the dentist did a good job.

Is it a gold crown by any chance? :)

  I think it will be OK, I have had 5 crowns done by this dentist.  I will watch for looseness.  And it is porcelain.  8)

Oooh...porcelain in your teeth! This will make for many a joke  :mischief:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2014, 10:42:14 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 22, 2014, 11:04:33 PM

Damned if I can remember what it was.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 23, 2014, 02:21:28 PM

CBC, I meant that by the time you could approach that bacon, it would be post-exodus from one's rear end, and no longer smell or look anywhere near so appetizing as it started out :P

As for today..slept most of it. Otherwise, morphine happened (and is in the process of happening)

(is has now happened) MMmm, thats better :)
I would have stayed asleep all day today, if it had not been for my hip, along with the over-tight, shortened tendons in the back of my leg. If I lie on my back, or front, then the leg cramps are unbearable without continuously having to wake so I can redose my muscle relaxer, as it doesn't last long enough, and if I go on my sides, after a while my hip on either side really hurts.



I had finished this post, but something else good just happened.
I bent down from my computer chair to pick up a CD that had fallen from the bed, and found a rig full of morph underneath it, that I must have dropped whilst nodding off or something. Nice.  Plus just had a big hearty bowl of two lots of leftover egg fried rice from the local chinese, my mom had missed some of her king prawns too, buried in the rice. She barely eats anything now, which means all the more for me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 23, 2014, 04:48:25 PM

  Lestat is always finding drugs in his room.  I'm lucky if I can find a stashed bag of candy!  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 23, 2014, 05:40:25 PM

I didn't FIND the morph pills I used earlier, or the ones I'm prepping my bed-time shot with now, I knew where they were, on a shelf I usually keep them on, with my box of rigs on the shelf just underneath for easy access.

But I've lost some a fair few times, and if its just one, two or a few of them I can compensate with other easily available things, or oral morphine in the form of an over the counter cough mixture, so I don't suffer any withdrawal symptoms (been having to take opioid analgesics for quite a large span of years, over a decade now with no sign of anybody going to fix my knee or hip permanently, other than one failed surgery on my knee), when I find a pile of pain pills later though either when I'm in dire need, or even better, after I get my next RX, leaving me free to do what I like with the ones I find, its always a treat :D

I have found quite a lot of the other, sugar-based kind of candy too though. I have a very sweet tooth indeed. I'm STILL finding individual lemon flavour boiled sweets from a packet that split open a couple of weeks ago.

Anybody with lots of free/spare/unwanted candy feel free to send it my way!
I find that the combination of sedating (antimuscarinic effects) antihistamine, the three kinds of pain pills, well, capsules, I have to take daily along with two (nor)adrenaline release-inhibiting meds (clonidine, taken to prevent overloading, and tizanidine, a damn strong relaxer of voluntary muscle to stop the otherwise constant cramp I have in the worse of my two legs, both act the same way, as alpha2-adrenoreceptor agonists, effectively working by slamming the brakes on [nor]adrenaline release both can cause quite severe drymouth, so drinking a lot of fluid aside, I like to always have some hard, long-lasting candy to nibble on, the longer the better; my favourites being 'nigroids' which are little tiny slightly rectangular shaped liquorice extract pellets, spiked with capsaicin, the main substance responsible for giving chilli peppers their fire, which here seem only to be found in pharmacies rather than in sweet shops; coltsfoot or liquorice rock, cough drops of more or less any kind, barley sugar or cough candy twists, aniseed balls, these clearish-translucent and rockhard lemon boiled sweets, stockley's is the brand I think, but I can't remember for sure, and I especially love sarsaparilla, rhubarb and custards, or pear drops, with their delicious scent of n-pentyl and hints of ethyl acetate.

I don't much go in for chocolate though, but I do enjoy the very highest quality stuff, dark chocolate with at the very least, 80% cocoa, 85% even better. One of my local supermarkets stocks wide bars of thin squares of this really high cocoa chocolate, with other stuff added in there, such as lime or orange oil, chilli pepper (MY FAVOURITE!), that is lovely and bitter, and darker than the bum crack of a covert prisoner of the CIA in a secret african detention facility during the middle of a solar eclipse.

I actually find a lot of milk chocolate almost nauseatingly sickly in all but small amounts (E.g coatings on stuff). Good chocolate to me, is dark enough that your average nigerian racist would shout 'oi! white boy, cracker' to their countrymen by comparison, were it to incarnate in human form :P

Chocolate-wise, other than solid high cocoa dark chocolate, then my favourite would have to be those wafer thin 'after eight' mints. One time I got a box of those from I think, my grandmother, for xmas as a kid, and after offering them round the family gathering, scoffed the remaining lot, which was 99% of the entire box, one after another, or by the odd handful. Very satisfying it was too :autism:

Of all the soft candy types about, I like the really tough and chewy varieties of liquorice the best, especially salmiak-a norse-bloc area speciality, salted liquorice with ammonium chloride, and liquorice generously spiked with hot chilli peppers.

And any sweets made with honey, I love the taste, and scent of honey, which I always use instead of sugar, assuming I have any, to sweeten my cups of tea. Honey flavoured candies are some I find very, very, very moreish indeed. Can't have just the one bag.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 23, 2014, 07:24:12 PM

My father came by, brought me a sandwich, and we watched Star Trek Voyager. A few more intense episodes....Seven of Nine is really an excellent character, as is her dynamic with the captain and crew.







Not to mention her attractiveness....

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 23, 2014, 07:56:48 PM

Midnight Blue nail polish

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 24, 2014, 12:10:51 AM

Today, May 24 is my birthday.  I'm 195 years old. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 24, 2014, 04:10:35 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 24, 2014, 12:10:51 AM

Today, May 24 is my birthday.  I'm 195 years old.

Happy Birthday your Highness.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 24, 2014, 09:13:01 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 24, 2014, 04:10:35 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 24, 2014, 12:10:51 AM

Today, May 24 is my birthday.  I'm 195 years old.

Happy Birthday your Highness.

Happy Birthday my Queen.

Your cake has arrived:
(http://flutterflyevents.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/royal-wedding-cake2.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 24, 2014, 09:28:26 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 24, 2014, 09:13:01 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 24, 2014, 04:10:35 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 24, 2014, 12:10:51 AM

Today, May 24 is my birthday.  I'm 195 years old.

Happy Birthday your Highness.

Happy Birthday my Queen.

Your cake has arrived:
(http://flutterflyevents.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/royal-wedding-cake2.jpg)

How would you serve that? :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 24, 2014, 11:15:52 AM

Hyke, Lady Weeble will just have to get a ladder to cut it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 24, 2014, 01:28:05 PM

Congrats, Your Majesty. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on May 28, 2014, 05:08:09 PM

made a lot  of  money

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 28, 2014, 05:11:07 PM

Quote from: skyblue1 on May 28, 2014, 05:08:09 PM

made a lot  of  money

Money is good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 28, 2014, 05:11:57 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 24, 2014, 09:13:01 AM

Your cake has arrived:
(http://flutterflyevents.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/royal-wedding-cake2.jpg)

The expression on the chef's face is priceless. Yeah that's right. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 28, 2014, 07:37:55 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 28, 2014, 05:11:57 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 24, 2014, 09:13:01 AM

Your cake has arrived:
(http://flutterflyevents.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/royal-wedding-cake2.jpg)

The expression on the chef's face is priceless. Yeah that's right. :laugh:

Facial expressions? :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 29, 2014, 05:16:09 PM

Yes, and his body language. Have never thought to have trouble with noticing expression, just don't recall faces in general. Studied body language quite a bit in twenties. It's an interesting topic.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on May 29, 2014, 07:53:24 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 29, 2014, 05:16:09 PM

Yes, and his body language. Have never thought to have trouble with noticing expression, just don't recall faces in general. Studied body language quite a bit in twenties. It's an interesting topic.

That's how sg1008 would look while posting a meme. :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on June 02, 2014, 07:35:30 PM

I got :pizza: and :headphones: today.... :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on June 02, 2014, 07:36:06 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 29, 2014, 07:53:24 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 29, 2014, 05:16:09 PM

Yes, and his body language. Have never thought to have trouble with noticing expression, just don't recall faces in general. Studied body language quite a bit in twenties. It's an interesting topic.

That's how sg1008 would look while posting a meme. :orly:

Is that a compliment?  ???

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on June 02, 2014, 10:25:34 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on June 02, 2014, 07:36:06 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on May 29, 2014, 07:53:24 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 29, 2014, 05:16:09 PM

Yes, and his body language. Have never thought to have trouble with noticing expression, just don't recall faces in general. Studied body language quite a bit in twenties. It's an interesting topic.

That's how sg1008 would look while posting a meme. :orly:

Is that a compliment?  ???

That depends on your opinion of the picture.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 03, 2014, 06:30:21 AM

Got a bonus at work.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 03, 2014, 09:56:33 AM

I seem to be in a very good mood 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on June 03, 2014, 02:23:47 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 03, 2014, 06:30:21 AM

Got a bonus at work.

Congrats! :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 03, 2014, 06:03:15 PM

I got a lot of work done around the house and yard

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 03, 2014, 08:09:37 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on June 03, 2014, 02:23:47 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 03, 2014, 06:30:21 AM

Got a bonus at work.

Congrats! :)

Thank you!  :checkout:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 03, 2014, 10:13:04 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 03, 2014, 06:30:21 AM

Got a bonus at work.

Congrats. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 03, 2014, 10:44:07 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 03, 2014, 06:30:21 AM

Got a bonus at work.

  That is awesome.   :dollar: :dollar: :dollar:   I hope it was hefty!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 03, 2014, 10:46:55 PM

Quote from: Parts on June 03, 2014, 09:56:33 AM

I seem to be in a very good mood 8)

  Me too.  We need a "high five" smiley.  Anyway, enjoy!  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 03, 2014, 10:47:52 PM

Quote from: Parts on June 03, 2014, 06:03:15 PM

I got a lot of work done around the house and yard

  I love a productive day, whether at work or at home de-hoarding.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2014, 03:17:38 AM

It's the Swedish National Day, which means sleeping late and no work. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 06, 2014, 03:20:43 AM

We have no national day.  :thumbdn:

Even Liberation day is not a reason to have the day off, most of the years. The Netherlands want to give up all, for economy. Next year we will have the day of on the fifth of may, because then it is a 70th anniversary.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2014, 03:24:51 AM

Sweden didn't use to have one either because there is no single day that is more suitable than any other day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 06, 2014, 03:26:52 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 06, 2014, 03:24:51 AM

Sweden didn't use to have one either because there is no single day that is more suitable than any other day.

That is the best reason to just pick a random day in a time of year that most of the times is good for having a day off and enjoy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2014, 03:29:10 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 06, 2014, 03:26:52 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 06, 2014, 03:24:51 AM

Sweden didn't use to have one either because there is no single day that is more suitable than any other day.

That is the best reason to just pick a random day in a time of year that most of the times is good for having a day off and enjoy.

 :2thumbsup:

Imagine people doing just that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on June 06, 2014, 06:50:52 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 06, 2014, 03:24:51 AM

Sweden didn't use to have one either because there is no single day that is more suitable than any other day.

The day commemorates the invasion of Europe at Normandy?

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 06, 2014, 03:20:43 AM

We have no national day.  :thumbdn:

Even Liberation day is not a reason to have the day off, most of the years. The Netherlands want to give up all, for economy. Next year we will have the day of on the fifth of may, because then it is a 70th anniversary.

:(

Get one. :arrr:

As you may know, we have July 4, which commemorates the Declaration of Independence. We have other national holidays commemorating various events (Veterans Day, Memorial Day), but July 4 is Independence Day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 06, 2014, 07:40:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 06, 2014, 03:17:38 AM

It's the Swedish National Day, which means sleeping late and no work. :woohoo:

Jack is taking the day off in recognition of Swedish National Day too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2014, 08:00:01 AM

Jack is being very supportive.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2014, 08:00:28 AM

Managed to reprogram the Jag's key fobs, earlier.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 06, 2014, 05:40:26 PM

It's Friday. Every Friday is a good Friday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 06, 2014, 05:50:21 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 06, 2014, 03:29:10 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 06, 2014, 03:26:52 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 06, 2014, 03:24:51 AM

Sweden didn't use to have one either because there is no single day that is more suitable than any other day.

That is the best reason to just pick a random day in a time of year that most of the times is good for having a day off and enjoy.

 :2thumbsup:

Imagine people doing just that.

  We do that in America!  Happy Fourth of July!   :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 06, 2014, 05:51:45 PM

Quote from: Jack on June 06, 2014, 07:40:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 06, 2014, 03:17:38 AM

It's the Swedish National Day, which means sleeping late and no work. :woohoo:

Jack is taking the day off in recognition of Swedish National Day too.

    Jack's boss will find that ... interesting.  :trollface:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 06, 2014, 05:53:05 PM

  Tha laundry machines in my building work again and my laundry is DONE!   :oranna:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 06, 2014, 07:40:30 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 06, 2014, 05:51:45 PM

Quote from: Jack on June 06, 2014, 07:40:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 06, 2014, 03:17:38 AM

It's the Swedish National Day, which means sleeping late and no work. :woohoo:

Jack is taking the day off in recognition of Swedish National Day too.

    Jack's boss will find that ... interesting.  :trollface:

You underestimate Jack's importance in the workplace.  :laugh: Very rarely take any time off work, and more likely to work extra, so Swedish National Day is completely acceptable.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 06, 2014, 10:57:16 PM

Quote from: Jack on June 06, 2014, 07:40:30 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 06, 2014, 05:51:45 PM

Quote from: Jack on June 06, 2014, 07:40:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 06, 2014, 03:17:38 AM

It's the Swedish National Day, which means sleeping late and no work. :woohoo:

Jack is taking the day off in recognition of Swedish National Day too.

    Jack's boss will find that ... interesting.  :trollface:

You underestimate Jack's importance in the workplace.  :laugh: Very rarely take any time off work, and more likely to work extra, so Swedish National Day is completely acceptable.

  And Jack's boss underscores these points with an enthusiastic  "Bork bork bork!"  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 07, 2014, 05:32:45 AM

:laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 08, 2014, 04:48:13 AM

Updated my CV at a number of job sites. This is a very good thing, considering my recent level of procrastination.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 10, 2014, 11:28:28 PM

I found my anti-inflammatory meds.  Thank goodness. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 10, 2014, 11:49:35 PM

What kind of meds?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 11, 2014, 02:38:29 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 10, 2014, 11:49:35 PM

What kind of meds?

Meloxicam/Mobic.  It's for the back and leg pain from the arthritis.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on June 13, 2014, 01:08:30 AM

Woke up to a rig full of morphine, hit a few bongs, just blazing another one now, whilst a piece of fried fish in batter reheats in the microwave.

And discovered two tubs of ice cream in the freezer, plus 2 left of a 3-pack of 'magnum' ice creams. HATE the texture of lolly sticks though, sensory nightmare, so I wrap the wrapper round the stick or wear gloves to hold it, which seems to work just fine.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 14, 2014, 02:58:28 AM

I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 14, 2014, 06:06:34 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 06, 2014, 05:50:21 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 06, 2014, 03:29:10 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 06, 2014, 03:26:52 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 06, 2014, 03:24:51 AM

Sweden didn't use to have one either because there is no single day that is more suitable than any other day.

That is the best reason to just pick a random day in a time of year that most of the times is good for having a day off and enjoy.

 :2thumbsup:

Imagine people doing just that.

  We do that in America!  Happy Fourth of July!   :hyke:

How random is the Fourth of July?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 14, 2014, 02:45:00 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 14, 2014, 06:06:34 AM

How random is the Fourth of July?

It isn't.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on June 14, 2014, 05:54:17 PM

Today marks the four month anniversary of my relationship.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 14, 2014, 06:08:15 PM

Quote from: Jack on June 14, 2014, 02:45:00 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 14, 2014, 06:06:34 AM

How random is the Fourth of July?

It isn't.

That was my point indeed.  :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on June 14, 2014, 09:27:07 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on June 14, 2014, 05:54:17 PM

Today marks the four month anniversary of my relationship.  :asthing:

Are you doing an AS thing? :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on June 15, 2014, 10:25:40 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on June 14, 2014, 09:27:07 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on June 14, 2014, 05:54:17 PM

Today marks the four month anniversary of my relationship.  :asthing:

Are you doing an AS thing? :orly:

You figure it out  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on June 15, 2014, 02:19:21 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on June 15, 2014, 10:25:40 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on June 14, 2014, 09:27:07 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on June 14, 2014, 05:54:17 PM

Today marks the four month anniversary of my relationship.  :asthing:

Are you doing an AS thing? :orly:

You figure it out  :M

No. :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 15, 2014, 05:19:37 PM

Cut up fruit:  pineapple, seedless red grapes, cantaloupe and honeydew melon.  All fresh from the store, so just enjoy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 17, 2014, 07:27:51 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 15, 2014, 05:19:37 PM

Cut up fruit:  pineapple, seedless red grapes, cantaloupe and honeydew melon.  All fresh from the store, so just enjoy.

  Fruit party at the Palace!  :pineapple: :queenie: :pineapple:  All Her Majesty's subjects are welcome!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 17, 2014, 07:30:36 PM

  My phone DIED  :bigcry:  but a nice young man at Best Buy fixed it for me!   :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 17, 2014, 07:45:35 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 17, 2014, 07:30:36 PM

  My phone DIED  :bigcry:  but a nice young man at Best Buy fixed it for me!   :2thumbsup:

DirtDawg is a "young" man?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 17, 2014, 07:52:28 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 17, 2014, 07:45:35 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 17, 2014, 07:30:36 PM

  My phone DIED  :bigcry:  but a nice young man at Best Buy fixed it for me!   :2thumbsup:

DirtDawg is a "young" man?

  He wasn't at this Best Buy.  But I found help anyway!  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 17, 2014, 10:17:24 PM

What was wrong with it?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on June 17, 2014, 11:51:34 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 17, 2014, 07:45:35 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 17, 2014, 07:30:36 PM

  My phone DIED  :bigcry:  but a nice young man at Best Buy fixed it for me!   :2thumbsup:

DirtDawg is a "young" man?

Compared to CBC. :oldman: :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 18, 2014, 12:12:54 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 17, 2014, 10:17:24 PM

What was wrong with it?

  It just went dark!   :GA:   The tech guy opened it, took out the battery, and pressed the power button
   and held it down for about 30 seconds before putting the battery back in.  He said sometimes
   there is a buildup of electricity inside the phone and doing what he did discharges the buildup.
   Anyway, it's back to normal and all is well and the repair was FREE. :cbc:  So life is good for this Weeble!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on June 18, 2014, 06:16:00 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 18, 2014, 12:12:54 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 17, 2014, 10:17:24 PM

What was wrong with it?

  It just went dark!   :GA:   The tech guy opened it, took out the battery, and pressed the power button
   and held it down for about 30 seconds before putting the battery back in.  He said sometimes
   there is a buildup of electricity inside the phone and doing what he did discharges the buildup.
   Anyway, it's back to normal and all is well and the repair was FREE. :cbc:  So life is good for this Weeble!

Now you can post from two devices at once. :multitask:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 18, 2014, 06:33:04 AM

I had a nice hour of alone time this morning

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 18, 2014, 07:01:46 AM

That new doctor really is a gem. She even got my daughter to talk.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 18, 2014, 10:18:17 AM

Some of the buildings I am working on are in much better shape than they have been in previous years

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 18, 2014, 07:30:16 PM

What could have been an awesome work opportunity fell through.

That wasn't the good thing, and that didn't happen today. The good part was the guy I interviewed with, who's part of a company small enough that he can afford to act human, felt bad enough for stringing me along that he offered a follow-up call to answer questions. I got the rare opportunity to grill somebody who interviewed me on what actually, honestly, went wrong during the interview process.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 18, 2014, 08:08:22 PM

I found the body powder.  (Little things make me happy.)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 18, 2014, 08:39:19 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 18, 2014, 07:30:16 PM

What could have been an awesome work opportunity fell through.

That wasn't the good thing, and that didn't happen today. The good part was the guy I interviewed with, who's part of a company small enough that he can afford to act human, felt bad enough for stringing me along that he offered a follow-up call to answer questions. I got the rare opportunity to grill somebody who interviewed me on what actually, honestly, went wrong during the interview process.

That sounds interesting.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 18, 2014, 10:54:14 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 18, 2014, 07:30:16 PM

What could have been an awesome work opportunity fell through.

That wasn't the good thing, and that didn't happen today. The good part was the guy I interviewed with, who's part of a company small enough that he can afford to act human, felt bad enough for stringing me along that he offered a follow-up call to answer questions. I got the rare opportunity to grill somebody who interviewed me on what actually, honestly, went wrong during the interview process.

A shame you didn't get the job. He sounds like a good boss.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 18, 2014, 10:58:09 PM

This was yesterday, but anyway: Me and a mate rewired most of the projector in the garage. Some of the cables were in really bad shape.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 19, 2014, 07:02:38 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 18, 2014, 10:54:14 PM

A shame you didn't get the job. He sounds like a good boss.

Yeah, I think he would have been. I'm going to stay in touch with him just in case.

Quote from: Jack on June 18, 2014, 08:39:19 PM

That sounds interesting.

It was. Apparently my resume and background are very strong but it's not reflected in my portfolio. They'd given me an art test to do, and I did it, and it was about that time that I started getting vibes that they weren't quite as enthusiastic about me as they had been. I asked if there was a quality issue with the results of the test, and he said no - but that because my portfolio wasn't directly reflective enough of the type of work he needed, he would have needed me to do some additional art specifically for them in order to tell whether I was going to be fulfill their specific requirements. I guess he wasn't comfortable asking for it when he wasn't sure if he was going to actually hire me.

It had become apparent in the past month that he needed someone with a different specialty to help out one of his team members who was completely swamped. He could only afford to bring on one person. The problem wasn't that I had priced myself out of the opportunity, but that there were so many incidental costs to bringing a new employee on, separate from their actual salary, that it wasn't feasible to bring on two.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 19, 2014, 07:10:33 AM

I hope you'll get a second chance with him, in the near future.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 19, 2014, 04:48:21 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 19, 2014, 07:10:33 AM

I hope you'll get a second chance with him, in the near future.

Agreed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 20, 2014, 02:09:01 AM

Speaking of pricing oneself out of the opportunity, a headhunter called me yesterday about a job in London. His client was very eager to get someone with my qualifications so everything went very well up and until the moment they inquired about my salary requirements. Apparently I was well beyond their budget.

Such a shame. It sounded like an interesting job.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 20, 2014, 11:13:20 AM

Especially in London. I believe the living cost there is even worse than New York.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 20, 2014, 05:27:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 20, 2014, 02:09:01 AM

Speaking of pricing oneself out of the opportunity, a headhunter called me yesterday about a job in London. His client was very eager to get someone with my qualifications so everything went very well up and until the moment they inquired about my salary requirements. Apparently I was well beyond their budget.

Such a shame. It sounded like an interesting job.

You should get a job in NYC then we can be neighbors :zoinks:


Good things today.
Took my 15 year old daughter to work and she did much better than I ever expected.  I'm thinking of taking her again on Monday

Max earned his keep today when he caught one of the evil ground hogs in the back yard and ate half of it before we got him away from it :dog:   My neighbor whose yard they like much better as she no longer has a dog was thrilled but declined my offer to nail the remaining bits to her fence above the hole they go through as a warning to the other ground hogs  to leave :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 20, 2014, 11:34:48 PM

I uploaded some pics from this week end's classic car show to share. I took five hundred eighty nine over a few hours, but only uploaded a few to see how this will work for future reference.
If you look at the site you will also see a few other images from when a tree fell over in our street a week or so ago.


https://imageshack.com/i/ncvjrbj (https://imageshack.com/i/ncvjrbj)

https://imageshack.com/i/nlu5uoj (https://imageshack.com/i/nlu5uoj)

https://imageshack.com/i/mvyez5j (https://imageshack.com/i/mvyez5j)

https://imageshack.com/i/ms2b08j (https://imageshack.com/i/ms2b08j)

https://imageshack.com/i/ms2b08j (https://imageshack.com/i/ms2b08j)

https://imageshack.com/i/ndnwq04j (https://imageshack.com/i/ndnwq04j)

https://imageshack.com/i/muaqepdj (https://imageshack.com/i/muaqepdj)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 21, 2014, 02:01:21 AM

Hoping you make an album for your fractals there.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 21, 2014, 02:31:18 AM

Love the classic cars. +

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 21, 2014, 03:41:29 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 21, 2014, 02:31:18 AM

Love the classic cars. +

You and me; the same, bro!!

I wish you had been there! I walked around for hours, taking pics. Seriously!  I have many more to share.

Some were plane old restored classics and many were hotrods that only the imagination could support

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 21, 2014, 04:01:35 AM

I went to a Jag meeting last year, with around 400 Jaguars comprising pretty much every model they ever made. I should probably upload some of the pictures I took then. Here's a Youtube clip, in the meantime.

World champion and Jaguar meeting. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koe0JZJnr1w#ws)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 21, 2014, 04:10:16 AM

Quote from: Jack on June 21, 2014, 02:01:21 AM

Hoping you make an album for your fractals there.

I thank you for this.

Seriously, my art remained private for many years, but you ask again!!

My profane vanity requires that I, no read that as I, should respond with some updates of my latest art.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on June 21, 2014, 06:04:45 AM

Quote from: Parts on June 20, 2014, 05:27:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 20, 2014, 02:09:01 AM

Speaking of pricing oneself out of the opportunity, a headhunter called me yesterday about a job in London. His client was very eager to get someone with my qualifications so everything went very well up and until the moment they inquired about my salary requirements. Apparently I was well beyond their budget.

Such a shame. It sounded like an interesting job.

You should get a job in NYC then we can be neighbors :zoinks:


Good things today.
Took my 15 year old daughter to work and she did much better than I ever expected.  I'm thinking of taking her again on Monday

Max earned his keep today when he caught one of the evil ground hogs in the back yard and ate half of it before we got him away from it :dog:   My neighbor whose yard they like much better as she no longer has a dog was thrilled but declined my offer to nail the remaining bits to her fence above the hole they go through as a warning to the other ground hogs  to leave :zoinks:

:laugh:

Join the dark side, Odeon. :vader:

Caddyshack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf3QIkQRGtI#)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 21, 2014, 11:45:59 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on June 21, 2014, 04:10:16 AM

Quote from: Jack on June 21, 2014, 02:01:21 AM

Hoping you make an album for your fractals there.

I thank you for this.

Seriously, my art remained private for many years, but you ask again!!

My profane vanity requires that I, no read that as I, should respond with some updates of my latest art.

I would love that. The things I have seen were great to get "lost" in.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 22, 2014, 01:26:11 AM

  This summer ... vengeance is coming.

(http://dappered.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/evilHog.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 22, 2014, 01:28:14 AM

  Boss snapped at me (again), and while offended by the rudeness, I did not get emo  :'(  as in the past.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 22, 2014, 02:33:01 AM

Snap back at her. You know you want to. >:D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on June 22, 2014, 05:59:47 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 22, 2014, 01:26:11 AM

  This summer ... vengeance is coming.

(http://dappered.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/evilHog.jpg)

Is that a self-portrait? :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 22, 2014, 04:28:35 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on June 22, 2014, 05:59:47 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 22, 2014, 01:26:11 AM

  This summer ... vengeance is coming.

(http://dappered.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/evilHog.jpg)

Is that a self-portrait? :orly:

  It is the avenger of the groundhog killed by Parts's dog.  Try to follow the other posts.  :M :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on June 22, 2014, 08:57:48 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 22, 2014, 04:28:35 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on June 22, 2014, 05:59:47 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 22, 2014, 01:26:11 AM

  This summer ... vengeance is coming.

(http://dappered.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/evilHog.jpg)

Is that a self-portrait? :orly:

  It is the avenger of the groundhog killed by Parts's dog.  Try to follow the other posts.  :M :P

That groundhog looks like a soulless monster and isn't making eye contact. It must have the Ass Burgers. :autism: :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 22, 2014, 10:10:33 PM

  Ass Burgers is a widespread problem throughout the animal kingdom!   :yarly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on June 23, 2014, 05:52:46 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 22, 2014, 10:10:33 PM

  Ass Burgers is a widespread problem throught the animal kingdom!   :yarly:

:indeed:

I wonder who vaccinated the groundhog. :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on June 26, 2014, 12:09:41 AM

I woke up last night in the early AM, about 3-3:30, feeling parched and with my stomach growling as though it were feeding time at pet's corner, perdition franchise; and went downstairs to see what was to be had.

Laid myself on a veritable feast, 4/5ths of a roast chicken, cold from the fridge, as I prefer it to be cooled right down before I eat them, slathered in some fiery hot habanero sauce, followed by half of one of those big bake-at-home tesco apple pies with double cream, both poured over the pie, then once that was done, I ate the entire rest of the pot, finished that off, then padded out the gaps in the corners of my insides with some of the contents of a vast bag of 'jelly belly' brand jellybeans, the fancy (and pricy) ones that have all the really good different flavors, just to squeeze out any little gaps in my GI system that might have been hiding :D

Before doing anything more than starting with a little nibble at a slice or two of the unfortunate chicken's tits, given an emergency double mastectomy, with chilli on top, I decided to scurry back up to my room and fetch both bong, and something to put in it, for the main reason of inducing the munchies, which I find aside than merely giving me an appetite (which mind you I already had one hell of a big one at the time), hitting the green stuff makes everything eaten finer to savour, makes otherwise poor, meager fare, although tonight's was certainly not, taste good, and turns good hearty nosh  REALLY good and a treat for the senses.

Hit up a quick shot of morphine sulfate, seasoned with a bit, just a little, oxy-10mg and no more until I finished eating, and 100mg cyclizine added to the shot (its a sedating antihistamine, with very considerable efficacy against nausea), just to make sure my stomach didn't end up merely having the promise of such a large pile of grub waved in front of its eyes and then thrown back up :P Got back downstairs w/the first of my bongs to come to hand, torched my bowl, and just before starting my little 3am feast realized I needed a drink, so I checked the fridge and found that I had one last lonesome bottle of ice-cold 'dead crow' bourbon beer from the crate I bought the other day. I was only expecting a choice of either milk or orange squash, so needless to say I was most pleased.

Mmmmm. I feel all sleepy and relaxed now, esp. after getting back upstairs and mixing another 60mg/10/100 morphine, oxy, and cyclizine respectively, along with remembering to take my clonidine, and that there is indeed a sedative I CAN take, in lieu of my chlormethiazole rx (which has a specific potentiating and duration-lengthening effect upon coadministration of alcohol that goes above and beyond the usual ordinary additive effect of depressant with another depressant agent, which can be quite dangerous if not done carefully, if the two are to be consumed together.)

I just remembered now that I have my choice of a couple of different benzos, (a benzodiazepine and thienodiazepine technically speaking, actually), squirreled away 'for a rainy day' as the expression goes. a baggie of etizolam (the thienodiazepine, a little  reminiscent of the AP drug olanzapine, but a GABAergic sedative as many other benzos are rather than a nasty, horrid dopamine D2 receptor antagonist, and stashed away likewise, a good few pyrazolam tablets. Both legal in the UK, as for the pyrazolam, its one of the triazolo-benzodiazepines, related most closely to alprazolam/xanax and halcion/triazolam. Mostly the triazolos are fuckoff potent but very short acting but pyrazolam has the best of both worlds, retaining the heavy duty work capacity of alprazolam and the like, but with a decently respectable duration of action.

I like to keep those around for nights just such as this, after I've had alcohol, or consumed more opioids than I would be comfortable with taking my chlormethiazole script with, and/or as part of my comedown first aid supplies for bringing any lingering overstimulation from my occasional stimulant use, or for after I've finished up with some or other variety of psychedelic and want to reliably and quickly induce a good restoring deep sleep.


Hmm....where the deuce that food all GO? I think I might just go back downstairs, take that chickens leftovers out of the fridge and rip its motherfucking legs off.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 06, 2014, 08:12:12 PM

Kinky Boots on TV.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 13, 2014, 07:03:29 AM

We changed to a new diner for going out for breakfast and today for the first time at this one the waitress remembered I always get the same thing and just looked at me and said 'I know what you want' then turned to my wife

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 13, 2014, 07:31:27 AM

Quote from: Parts on July 13, 2014, 07:03:29 AM

We changed to a new diner for going out for breakfast and today for the first time at this one the waitress remembered I always get the same thing and just looked at me and said 'I know what you want' then turned to my wife

:thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 13, 2014, 06:29:41 PM

I fell back on the wagon.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 13, 2014, 08:22:17 PM

I found out that I passes my two uni classes; Fourth Year Seminar and Family Relations and Social Development. Failed one of the assignments for Seminar so I thought I would fail the unit. But I must have done ok in the exam.

Next units I will be doing are just fillers in order to get my degree; Intro to Criminology and Intro to Social Media.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Calandale on July 13, 2014, 09:10:11 PM

I went swimming in a thunderstorm.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 14, 2014, 04:06:29 PM

Quote from: renaeden on July 13, 2014, 08:22:17 PM

I found out that I passes my two uni classes; Fourth Year Seminar and Family Relations and Social Development. Failed one of the assignments for Seminar so I thought I would fail the unit. But I must have done ok in the exam.

Next units I will be doing are just fillers in order to get my degree; Intro to Criminology and Intro to Social Media.

Congratulations.  Feel free to use all of us in your Intro to Criminology course work.  Your papers will be unique and fascinating.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 14, 2014, 04:07:45 PM

We have a working computer.  Turn around time less than 5 hours.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 14, 2014, 06:17:48 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 14, 2014, 04:07:45 PM

We have a working computer.  Turn around time less than 5 hours.

Welcome back.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 14, 2014, 09:53:28 PM

Quote from: Jack on July 14, 2014, 06:17:48 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 14, 2014, 04:07:45 PM

We have a working computer.  Turn around time less than 5 hours.

Welcome back.

Thank you.  And they gave me the one that is crashing so I can take it apart and learn about computers.   :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on July 14, 2014, 10:19:00 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 14, 2014, 04:06:29 PM

Quote from: renaeden on July 13, 2014, 08:22:17 PM

I found out that I passes my two uni classes; Fourth Year Seminar and Family Relations and Social Development. Failed one of the assignments for Seminar so I thought I would fail the unit. But I must have done ok in the exam.

Next units I will be doing are just fillers in order to get my degree; Intro to Criminology and Intro to Social Media.

Congratulations.  Feel free to use all of us in your Intro to Criminology course work.  Your papers will be unique and fascinating.

There should be a joke about an Australian taking a criminology course. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 15, 2014, 02:28:22 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 14, 2014, 04:07:45 PM

We have a working computer.  Turn around time less than 5 hours.

 :2thumbsup:

What was the problem?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 15, 2014, 02:29:00 AM

Technically this was yesterday, but our house guests left.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 15, 2014, 02:43:24 AM

Just cooking up a nice big shot of morphine, 180mg, think I'll add some cyclizine (sedating antihistamine) with that, as at that level, morphine produces one bejeezus of a histamine release.

Mmmm, this should be good:D
Didn't have any left last night, but my last dose was sufficiently close to stop any nasty withdrawal issues arising. Couldn't sleep though, too wide awake.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on July 15, 2014, 02:53:53 AM

Michael Gove who WAS the evil Education Secretary has gone

bye bye

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 15, 2014, 03:02:19 AM

Owch! buggering sodding shit jesus grandmother of fuck that stung. Almost like a bee sting or wasp, only lasting for a mere few seconds. Tolerable, but not nice.

Still, 'mmmm, thats so much better!' though. I needed that. For once my joints weren't hurting to begin with, at all, but fucked if I'm going to wait until they do.

Been meaning to try mono-acetylation of it, to see how it compares to H and morphine. Some who have tried it say its better than smack. Interestingly 6-MAM is apparently selective between gene splice variants of the Mu-1 opioid receptor.

Synthesis is simple enough, reflux in glacial acetic acid (as opposed to acetic anhydride or acetyl chloride/bromide/iodide/tosylate, etc. etc.) with a little catalytic conc. sulfuric.

I've done my fair share of heroin in the past, a lot of morphine sulfate, and dipropionylmorphine, but never mono-propionylmorphine or 6-MAM, I'll be interested to see how they stack up. And I have almost a liter of GAA hanging around on the shelves in ye olde skunkworks:P

Idle chemicals make just as much of the devil's work as do idle hands. Only usually its a better quality of deviltry when there's skag involved:D



Other good thing today: whilst walking to the pharmacy to pick up my scripts, I happened to pass a hedge which was almost entirely japanese wineberry plants. Got to grab a nice handful of juicy, ripe, sweet fruit on the way there, and some blackberries from a hedge along the short-cut home.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 15, 2014, 03:05:33 AM

Gove was (and is) a bit of a knobend.

But its that witch harriet harman and her other half/partner in paedo-loving that I want to see dead and gone. What a prize pair of cocksucking, two-faced, mendacious little rat bastards.

Refusing to apologize for supporting 'PIE' (paedophile information exchange) is unforgivable IMO. I'd gut the pair of them with a rusty tuna can lid if I could do it and get away with it; and walk away cackling like a hyena on ket.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 16, 2014, 07:47:14 AM

My regular mechanic told me the guy at the tire place was just trying to sell me stuff and there is nothing wrong with the ball joints and that I did not even need an alignment all for no charge

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 21, 2014, 06:10:50 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on July 14, 2014, 10:19:00 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 14, 2014, 04:06:29 PM

Quote from: renaeden on July 13, 2014, 08:22:17 PM

I found out that I passes my two uni classes; Fourth Year Seminar and Family Relations and Social Development. Failed one of the assignments for Seminar so I thought I would fail the unit. But I must have done ok in the exam.

Next units I will be doing are just fillers in order to get my degree; Intro to Criminology and Intro to Social Media.

Congratulations.  Feel free to use all of us in your Intro to Criminology course work.  Your papers will be unique and fascinating.

There should be a joke about an Australian taking a criminology course. :P

Oh, haha, very funny.

Thanks QV. My first assignment will be about comparing two theories in regards to the crime of murder.

Good thing: my newest tic didn't bother me at all today. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 21, 2014, 06:18:08 AM

  Renaeden posted a lot here today.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 22, 2014, 05:25:18 AM

A lot for me, anyway, heh.

Had a good day at uni today, just a lecture for intro to social media.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 23, 2014, 01:40:27 PM

  My nosebleed started up again, but I stopped it and I think I know how to prevent more.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 23, 2014, 01:58:07 PM

I got the 1970s lawn mower I have been working on running great just in time,  last week my old mower finally bit the dust with a bent shaft and broken blade.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 23, 2014, 02:30:57 PM

  I just sneezed and the sneeze did NOT restart my nosebleed.   :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 23, 2014, 02:58:36 PM

I'm finally back home. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 23, 2014, 03:01:22 PM

Quote from: odeon on July 23, 2014, 02:58:36 PM

I'm finally back home. :)

    There's no place like home.  :nicegear:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 23, 2014, 03:03:11 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on July 23, 2014, 03:01:22 PM

Quote from: odeon on July 23, 2014, 02:58:36 PM

I'm finally back home. :)

    There's no place like home.  :nicegear:

I'm fortunate.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 31, 2014, 05:06:04 AM

Well it was yesterday but not much has happened yet today
I went and looked at a small warehouse and bid work on it, within a half hour I got the call back and they want it done this weekend

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on July 31, 2014, 02:27:01 PM

Didn't happen today but I got my associates degree

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on July 31, 2014, 02:34:56 PM

Quote from: EasilyButthurtPsycho on July 31, 2014, 02:27:01 PM

Didn't happen today but I got my associates degree

Sweet! Congratulations DFG  :asthing:

What is the degree in? Any future plans?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 31, 2014, 04:19:03 PM

Quote from: EasilyButthurtPsycho on July 31, 2014, 02:27:01 PM

Didn't happen today but I got my associates degree

  That's excellent.  Like sg1008, I am curious about your field of study and future plans.  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 31, 2014, 04:20:25 PM

Despite my having procrastinated all day, the laundry machines were still available when I wanted them.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 31, 2014, 04:58:00 PM

Now that you have your associates degree, do you still have to associate with us?

Really, congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on July 31, 2014, 04:59:54 PM

got the grass cut before it started raining

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 31, 2014, 06:34:22 PM

Congrats, DFG.  :party:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on July 31, 2014, 07:58:08 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on July 31, 2014, 04:19:03 PM

Quote from: EasilyButthurtPsycho on July 31, 2014, 02:27:01 PM

Didn't happen today but I got my associates degree

  That's excellent.  Like sg1008, I am curious about your field of study and future plans.  :viking:

Web design


Hopefully
I
Can
Make
Money
And
Stuff

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 31, 2014, 09:46:20 PM

Quote from: EasilyButthurtPsycho on July 31, 2014, 02:27:01 PM

Didn't happen today but I got my associates degree

Congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 31, 2014, 11:39:45 PM

Congrats, DFG!  :2thumbsup:

Me, I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 01, 2014, 11:11:33 AM

Quote from: EasilyButthurtPsycho on July 31, 2014, 07:58:08 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on July 31, 2014, 04:19:03 PM

Quote from: EasilyButthurtPsycho on July 31, 2014, 02:27:01 PM

Didn't happen today but I got my associates degree

  That's excellent.  Like sg1008, I am curious about your field of study and future plans.  :viking:

Web design


Hopefully
I
Can
Make
Money
And
Stuff

Sweet!
If you ever want to design a website for fun, let me know.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 01, 2014, 04:01:59 PM

Bank holiday this monday, so it means I'll have got paid today.

I fancy going on a hunt for some ket tomorrow :D
Need to order some mercury salts, carbon tet and generally restock the lab with solvents of one sort or another too. There was something else I had meant to do as well but I can't for the life of me think what it was now :P


Got a fair bit of chow for once at home, my old man got the reward point vouchers from tesco, so came home with some actual food for once. Plus some stuff for me, got a whole load of pink lemonade, some leftover fruit, and donuts. Needless to say the donuts didn't last very long at all :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 01, 2014, 06:48:53 PM

Watching a new series called "Resurrection"

Dude.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 02, 2014, 04:37:28 PM

Quote from: EasilyButthurtPsycho on July 31, 2014, 07:58:08 PM

Web design


Hopefully
I
Can
Make
Money
And
Stuff

That's awesome, congrats!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on August 02, 2014, 04:42:54 PM

There was a gay pride parade as well as other gay pride events in Belfast today. I didn't go because I thought that those pesky Orangemen would cause trouble (they'll look at any excuse to riot)

I was in Belfast after the event. It turns out that there wasn't any trouble from anyone. I heard that there were a small number of protesters bigots but no violence.

Perhaps my country isn't doomed to forever be in the dark ages after all.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 02, 2014, 04:44:22 PM

What is an Orangeman?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on August 02, 2014, 04:56:08 PM

A picture of the protesters bigots.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t1.0-9/s720x720/10590497_273555852849373_8106472702221667413_n.png)

Quote from: Pyraxis on August 02, 2014, 04:44:22 PM

What is an Orangeman?

Someone in Northern Ireland who is a very, very, very strong supporter of Unionism and Christianity. They are considered  "Anti-Gay, Anti-Gaza, Anti-Fucking Everything" by some.

They believe that everyone should respect their culture, but that they have the rights to disrespect any culture they choose. Particularly the Catholic, Nationalist, Islamic,  LGBT communities, immigrants and anyone who isn't white.

Every year they have a period of marching rioting that starts on the 12th of July. This benefits the Northern Irish economy by causing massive damage, disrupting days of trade/travel and scaring away all of the pesky tourists.

On the night before the 12th, they have bonfires where they burn Irish "flegs" and other things that they don't agree with, such as pictures of politicians who don't agree with Unionism.

(http://www.funniestmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Funniest_Memes_belfast-bonfires-last-night_1569.jpeg)

(Bonfire night in 2014).

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 02, 2014, 06:15:37 PM

Interesting. +

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 02, 2014, 07:59:53 PM

I like the bonfire picture. Death to all shipping pallets in North Ireland.  :viking:

(http://www.info-links.com/images/places/northern-ireland-bonfires.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 02, 2014, 10:34:01 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 02, 2014, 07:59:53 PM

I like the bonfire picture. Death to all shipping pallets in North Ireland.  :viking:

(http://www.info-links.com/images/places/northern-ireland-bonfires.jpg)

That looks to be too close to those houses for such a large bonfire. :flames:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 03, 2014, 11:35:52 AM

Most of the ones I looked at are close to buildings.  :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 03, 2014, 11:44:06 AM

I have a new appreciation for the anger which consumes my heart, turning it into a live burning coal.  :flame:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 03, 2014, 02:52:32 PM

Bumped into colleagues that I last met in Prague.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 03, 2014, 04:52:02 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2014, 02:52:32 PM

Bumped into colleagues that I last met in Prague.

"Well, this is awkward."

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 03, 2014, 06:35:12 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 03, 2014, 11:35:52 AM

Most of the ones I looked at are close to buildings.  :dunno:

Perhaps those weren't riots that I've read about. The Irish just don't understand fire safety. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 03, 2014, 06:57:05 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 03, 2014, 06:35:12 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 03, 2014, 11:35:52 AM

Most of the ones I looked at are close to buildings.  :dunno:

Perhaps those weren't riots that I've read about. The Irish just don't understand fire safety. :P

I don't think it has anything to do with rioting. I just looked up images of 11th night bonfires. The bonfire night seems like it's just an annual celebratory thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 03, 2014, 08:31:13 PM

Some decent shopping at the thrift and grocery stores.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 03, 2014, 10:15:56 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 03, 2014, 06:57:05 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 03, 2014, 06:35:12 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 03, 2014, 11:35:52 AM

Most of the ones I looked at are close to buildings.  :dunno:

Perhaps those weren't riots that I've read about. The Irish just don't understand fire safety. :P

I don't think it has anything to do with rioting. I just looked up images of 11th night bonfires. The bonfire night seems like it's just an annual celebratory thing.

I meant the actual riots. :party:

Link (http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/twelfth/in-pictures-bonfires-across-northern-ireland-ahead-of-twelfth-marches-30424896.html)

There is a site from the government of Northern Ireland about bonfire safety: Link (http://www.nifrs.org/fire-safety/bonfire-safety-advice/)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 03, 2014, 10:32:52 PM

Big fucking bonfire.

All it needs is a couple of molotov cocktails to get it going nicely ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 03, 2014, 10:57:52 PM

hydrocodone/APAP

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 04, 2014, 02:50:36 AM

Hope that fixed the aches and pains QV. The former isn't something I've ever tried, we don't use it (hydrocodone) in british medical practice for some reason,  I'm not sure why, as it would make a good alternative (and somewhat stronger) for those who for such reasons as enzyme deficiencies, cannot make use of codeine, and those who either cannot take or who hate tramadol (which in any case cannot be used at doses over a few hundred mg, due to seizure risk, its fucking shite stuff IMO, I like my opiates, but tramadol is a crap wannabe)

We have dihydrocodeine as the step up from codeine here, but it really isn't all that much (maybe twice, twice and a bit if your lucky) more effective than codeine, and its fairly shortlived, I used to be on it for my knee but switched (at the time) to oxycontin as the DHC was wearing off so fast that I couldn't avoid withdrawal symptoms no matter how religiously I stuck to dosing, and IMO an XR form of a prodrug is a daft idea if the metabolism is rate-limited, as codeine and afaik (may possibly be wrong here) DHC are.

Failing that, the other mid-range opioid we use is meptazinol, which is only a partial agonist at Mu-opioid receptors, and will put somebody in a really nasty precipitated withdrawal if they are already used to a normal opioid. And even if not, from experience it gave me the most brutal gutsache I've ever had the misfortune to encounter, short of one bout of food poisoning that actually put me in hospital twice, not long after taking it,  I almost collapsed it was that bad. IIRC I still have some derivative form, I think, the propionyl or benzoyl ester sitting on the shelf if I haven't thrown that away, if its still around after all these years I have no pressing desire to try it :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 04, 2014, 07:43:57 AM

The arthritic neck pain is tolerable for now.  I just need to learn how to adjust to and exercise with this.  A learning process. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 04, 2014, 05:14:00 PM

I was useful to someone *flexes muscles*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 04, 2014, 05:46:13 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 03, 2014, 10:15:56 PM

There is a site from the government of Northern Ireland about bonfire safety: Link (http://www.nifrs.org/fire-safety/bonfire-safety-advice/)

 :2thumbsup:

(http://img.rt.com/files/news/29/f5/00/00/bonfires-ireland-the-twelfth.n.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 04, 2014, 05:52:44 PM

I ordered my autographed copy of MKIII on Friday morning, it was delivered today.  San Diego to here over the weekend.  Awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 04, 2014, 07:27:06 PM

Put another check in the bank and got a call asking me about when I can start working on an addition I bid on

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 04, 2014, 08:52:46 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 04, 2014, 05:46:13 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 03, 2014, 10:15:56 PM

There is a site from the government of Northern Ireland about bonfire safety: Link (http://www.nifrs.org/fire-safety/bonfire-safety-advice/)

 :2thumbsup:

(http://img.rt.com/files/news/29/f5/00/00/bonfires-ireland-the-twelfth.n.jpg)

Those buildings are made of brick, but that's still close. :GA:

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 04, 2014, 05:52:44 PM

I ordered my autographed copy of MKIII on Friday morning, it was delivered today.  San Diego to here over the weekend.  Awesome.

Mortal Kombat 3? :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 04, 2014, 08:55:17 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 03, 2014, 04:52:02 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2014, 02:52:32 PM

Bumped into colleagues that I last met in Prague.

"Well, this is awkward."

Not particularly. We spent some time chatting.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 04, 2014, 09:58:40 PM

@ Semicolon

No, the musical automoton's Steam Powered Giraffe CD.

Album One
The 2 Cent Show
MK III
Vice Quadrant (in progress)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 05, 2014, 09:02:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 04, 2014, 08:55:17 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 03, 2014, 04:52:02 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2014, 02:52:32 PM

Bumped into colleagues that I last met in Prague.

"Well, this is awkward."

Not particularly. We spent some time chatting.

It's good to Czech in with colleagues. :P

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 04, 2014, 09:58:40 PM

@ Semicolon

No, the musical automoton's Steam Powered Giraffe CD.

Album One
The 2 Cent Show
MK III
Vice Quadrant (in progress)

The names have a pattern. :tard:

What does "MK" stand for?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 05, 2014, 11:19:23 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 04, 2014, 05:46:13 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 03, 2014, 10:15:56 PM

There is a site from the government of Northern Ireland about bonfire safety: Link (http://www.nifrs.org/fire-safety/bonfire-safety-advice/)

 :2thumbsup:

(http://img.rt.com/files/news/29/f5/00/00/bonfires-ireland-the-twelfth.n.jpg)

Quote from: BONFIRE SAFETY ADVICE

Never build a hut or den inside the bonfire;

Quote from: BONFIRE SAFETY ADVICE

Responsible adults should look after lighting the bonfire.  Before lighting the fire check that no children or pets are hiding inside it;

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 05, 2014, 11:35:25 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 05, 2014, 09:02:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 04, 2014, 08:55:17 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 03, 2014, 04:52:02 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2014, 02:52:32 PM

Bumped into colleagues that I last met in Prague.

"Well, this is awkward."

Not particularly. We spent some time chatting.

It's good to Czech in with colleagues. :P

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 04, 2014, 09:58:40 PM

@ Semicolon

No, the musical automoton's Steam Powered Giraffe CD.

Album One
The 2 Cent Show
MK III
Vice Quadrant (in progress)

The names have a pattern. :tard:

What does "MK" stand for?

Yeah, the choices were deliberate.  MK is supposed to stand for MarK.  Why MarK, i'm not sure, maybe a mispronounciation of Mach because their dad was a fighter pilot in Vietnam.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 05, 2014, 12:06:35 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 05, 2014, 09:02:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 04, 2014, 08:55:17 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 03, 2014, 04:52:02 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2014, 02:52:32 PM

Bumped into colleagues that I last met in Prague.

"Well, this is awkward."

Not particularly. We spent some time chatting.

It's good to Czech in with colleagues. :P

lol. It must be strange to bump into people halfway across the world...

That would throw me off. But I guess the venue is common ground no matter where it is located.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Calandale on August 05, 2014, 02:40:14 PM

I found food in the trash. And Vodka.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 05, 2014, 04:28:14 PM

Quote from: Calandale on August 05, 2014, 02:40:14 PM

I found food in the trash. And Vodka.

What food are you eating from the trash?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Calandale on August 05, 2014, 08:12:51 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 05, 2014, 04:28:14 PM

Quote from: Calandale on August 05, 2014, 02:40:14 PM

I found food in the trash. And Vodka.

What food are you eating from the trash?  :orly:

Pepperoni, cheese, crackers, olives....


It got down into the 80's overnight, so they weren't too bad.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 05, 2014, 10:20:33 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 05, 2014, 11:19:23 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 04, 2014, 05:46:13 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 03, 2014, 10:15:56 PM

There is a site from the government of Northern Ireland about bonfire safety: Link (http://www.nifrs.org/fire-safety/bonfire-safety-advice/)

 :2thumbsup:

(http://img.rt.com/files/news/29/f5/00/00/bonfires-ireland-the-twelfth.n.jpg)

Quote from: BONFIRE SAFETY ADVICE

Never build a hut or den inside the bonfire;

I wondered about that one. Perhaps that's an Irish sauna? :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 06, 2014, 04:28:13 PM

I was busy  :chores:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 06, 2014, 08:02:07 PM

1)  It was fairly easy to convince myself to go to the gym.

2)  Only one other person showed up for the AA meeting.  We had a lovely chat.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 06, 2014, 08:24:39 PM

Quote from: Calandale on August 05, 2014, 08:12:51 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 05, 2014, 04:28:14 PM

Quote from: Calandale on August 05, 2014, 02:40:14 PM

I found food in the trash. And Vodka.

What food are you eating from the trash?  :orly:

Pepperoni, cheese, crackers, olives....


It got down into the 80's overnight, so they weren't too bad.

That sounds dangerous. :GA: Why were they in the trash? Were they expired or something?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 06, 2014, 08:36:06 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 05, 2014, 09:02:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 04, 2014, 08:55:17 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 03, 2014, 04:52:02 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2014, 02:52:32 PM

Bumped into colleagues that I last met in Prague.

"Well, this is awkward."

Not particularly. We spent some time chatting.

It's good to Czech in with colleagues. :P

Norway you would miss that pun.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 06, 2014, 10:55:15 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 06, 2014, 08:36:06 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 05, 2014, 09:02:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 04, 2014, 08:55:17 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 03, 2014, 04:52:02 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2014, 02:52:32 PM

Bumped into colleagues that I last met in Prague.

"Well, this is awkward."

Not particularly. We spent some time chatting.

It's good to Czech in with colleagues. :P

Norway you would miss that pun.

Pun are great ways to Finnish your conversations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on August 07, 2014, 05:35:10 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 03, 2014, 06:57:05 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 03, 2014, 06:35:12 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 03, 2014, 11:35:52 AM

Most of the ones I looked at are close to buildings.  :dunno:

Perhaps those weren't riots that I've read about. The Irish just don't understand fire safety. :P

I don't think it has anything to do with rioting. I just looked up images of 11th night bonfires. The bonfire night seems like it's just an annual celebratory thing.

Orangemen will find any excuse to riot, though. There have been riots on the 11th before  :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 07, 2014, 07:06:37 PM

I rode my bike home and accidently ended up on the highway where the smog triggered an asthma attack and I thought I was gonna die.


BUT I DID NOT.

And after catching my breath I continued until I realised I needed to get to the other side of the highway for my exit. I sat on the side of the road for a long time wondering If I would ever be able to cross it and live.

AND I DID.

And then I stopped for a frozen yoghurt once I was back in town.

Good day :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 07, 2014, 07:40:17 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 06, 2014, 10:55:15 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 06, 2014, 08:36:06 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 05, 2014, 09:02:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 04, 2014, 08:55:17 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 03, 2014, 04:52:02 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2014, 02:52:32 PM

Bumped into colleagues that I last met in Prague.

"Well, this is awkward."

Not particularly. We spent some time chatting.

It's good to Czech in with colleagues. :P

Norway you would miss that pun.

Pun are great ways to Finnish your conversations.

Been there, Dane that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 07, 2014, 09:37:52 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 07, 2014, 05:35:10 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 03, 2014, 06:57:05 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 03, 2014, 06:35:12 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 03, 2014, 11:35:52 AM

Most of the ones I looked at are close to buildings.  :dunno:

Perhaps those weren't riots that I've read about. The Irish just don't understand fire safety. :P

I don't think it has anything to do with rioting. I just looked up images of 11th night bonfires. The bonfire night seems like it's just an annual celebratory thing.

Orangemen will find any excuse to riot, though. There have been riots on the 11th before  :GA:

You should have an annual riot day. :GA:

Quote from: sg1008 on August 07, 2014, 07:06:37 PM

I rode my bike home and accidently ended up on the highway where the smog triggered an asthma attack and I thought I was gonna die.


BUT I DID NOT.

And after catching my breath I continued until I realised I needed to get to the other side of the highway for my exit. I sat on the side of the road for a long time wondering If I would ever be able to cross it and live.

AND I DID.

And then I stopped for a frozen yoghurt once I was back in town.

Good day :)

You accidentally ended up on the highway? :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 07, 2014, 11:57:41 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 07, 2014, 09:37:52 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 07, 2014, 07:06:37 PM

I rode my bike home and accidently ended up on the highway where the smog triggered an asthma attack and I thought I was gonna die.


BUT I DID NOT.

And after catching my breath I continued until I realised I needed to get to the other side of the highway for my exit. I sat on the side of the road for a long time wondering If I would ever be able to cross it and live.

AND I DID.

And then I stopped for a frozen yoghurt once I was back in town.

Good day :)

You accidentally ended up on the highway? :orly:

I knew it was a road, I knew it was efficient and not very hilly, and I knew it led straight downtown. I did not realise (due to the contrast in speed from car to bike) that it was in fact a highway.... I never would have wittingly rode my bike in the middle of a highway (I didn't even have my helmet today)...but....I was wondering why so many cars were honking until I started seeing exit signs.

 :facepalm2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 08, 2014, 04:57:47 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 07, 2014, 11:57:41 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 07, 2014, 09:37:52 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 07, 2014, 07:06:37 PM

I rode my bike home and accidently ended up on the highway where the smog triggered an asthma attack and I thought I was gonna die.


BUT I DID NOT.

And after catching my breath I continued until I realised I needed to get to the other side of the highway for my exit. I sat on the side of the road for a long time wondering If I would ever be able to cross it and live.

AND I DID.

And then I stopped for a frozen yoghurt once I was back in town.

Good day :)

You accidentally ended up on the highway? :orly:

I knew it was a road, I knew it was efficient and not very hilly, and I knew it led straight downtown. I did not realise (due to the contrast in speed from car to bike) that it was in fact a highway.... I never would have wittingly rode my bike in the middle of a highway (I didn't even have my helmet today)...but....I was wondering why so many cars were honking until I started seeing exit signs.

 :facepalm2:

:hahaha: :fp:

:icequeen: :icequeen: :icequeen: :icequeen: :icequeen: :icequeen:

:chicken:

:icequeen: :icequeen: :icequeen: :icequeen: :icequeen: :icequeen:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 08, 2014, 07:31:03 AM

Those darn wandering auties can get themselves into some dangerous situations. We better lock them up at home.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on August 08, 2014, 07:34:50 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 07, 2014, 09:37:52 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 07, 2014, 05:35:10 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 03, 2014, 06:57:05 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 03, 2014, 06:35:12 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 03, 2014, 11:35:52 AM

Most of the ones I looked at are close to buildings.  :dunno:

Perhaps those weren't riots that I've read about. The Irish just don't understand fire safety. :P

I don't think it has anything to do with rioting. I just looked up images of 11th night bonfires. The bonfire night seems like it's just an annual celebratory thing.

Orangemen will find any excuse to riot, though. There have been riots on the 11th before  :GA:

You should have an annual riot day. :GA:

I'm not an Orangeman though, so I'm not allowed to riot  :headhurts:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 08, 2014, 07:41:16 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 08, 2014, 07:34:50 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 07, 2014, 09:37:52 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 07, 2014, 05:35:10 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 03, 2014, 06:57:05 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 03, 2014, 06:35:12 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 03, 2014, 11:35:52 AM

Most of the ones I looked at are close to buildings.  :dunno:

Perhaps those weren't riots that I've read about. The Irish just don't understand fire safety. :P

I don't think it has anything to do with rioting. I just looked up images of 11th night bonfires. The bonfire night seems like it's just an annual celebratory thing.

Orangemen will find any excuse to riot, though. There have been riots on the 11th before  :GA:

You should have an annual riot day. :GA:

I'm not an Orangeman though, so I'm not allowed to riot  :headhurts:

Allowed to riot? Do you have to get a permit? :orly: Just do it. :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 08, 2014, 08:48:03 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 08, 2014, 07:34:50 AM

I'm not allowed to riot  :headhurts:

 :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 08, 2014, 09:23:44 PM

Had a very nice evening with some of the conference people. Some of them have been doing what I do since what I do was invented in the 60s (and some were part of inventing it), so I guess it's a little bit like going backstage with the Beatles. You just can't believe you're there, talking to these people.

It was amazing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 08, 2014, 09:58:55 PM

Glad you're having an awesome time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 08, 2014, 10:00:29 PM

Steam Powered Giraffe is playing Orlando Nerd Fest and their performance/concert was broadcast live over Twitch.  Not the greatest visual quality, but a rare treat for those who will probably never see their act "live."

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 08, 2014, 10:00:56 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on August 08, 2014, 09:58:55 PM

Glad you're having an awesome time.

Thanks, me too. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 08, 2014, 10:29:26 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 08, 2014, 10:00:56 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on August 08, 2014, 09:58:55 PM

Glad you're having an awesome time.

Thanks, me too. :)

Our country is your country. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 09, 2014, 02:57:17 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 08, 2014, 10:29:26 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 08, 2014, 10:00:56 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on August 08, 2014, 09:58:55 PM

Glad you're having an awesome time.

Thanks, me too. :)

Our country is your country. :)

Unless you're from Honduras.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 10, 2014, 08:17:04 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 09, 2014, 02:57:17 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 08, 2014, 10:29:26 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 08, 2014, 10:00:56 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on August 08, 2014, 09:58:55 PM

Glad you're having an awesome time.

Thanks, me too. :)

Our country is your country. :)

Unless you're from Honduras.

Or any other Latin American country.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on August 10, 2014, 08:37:06 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 08, 2014, 07:41:16 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 08, 2014, 07:34:50 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 07, 2014, 09:37:52 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 07, 2014, 05:35:10 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 03, 2014, 06:57:05 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 03, 2014, 06:35:12 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 03, 2014, 11:35:52 AM

Most of the ones I looked at are close to buildings.  :dunno:

Perhaps those weren't riots that I've read about. The Irish just don't understand fire safety. :P

I don't think it has anything to do with rioting. I just looked up images of 11th night bonfires. The bonfire night seems like it's just an annual celebratory thing.

Orangemen will find any excuse to riot, though. There have been riots on the 11th before  :GA:

You should have an annual riot day. :GA:

I'm not an Orangeman though, so I'm not allowed to riot  :headhurts:

Allowed to riot? Do you have to get a permit? :orly: Just do it. :viking:

No. It's a cultural thing. Only Orangemen are allowed to riot.  :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 11, 2014, 05:03:49 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 10, 2014, 08:37:06 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 08, 2014, 07:41:16 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 08, 2014, 07:34:50 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 07, 2014, 09:37:52 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 07, 2014, 05:35:10 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 03, 2014, 06:57:05 PM

I don't think it has anything to do with rioting. I just looked up images of 11th night bonfires. The bonfire night seems like it's just an annual celebratory thing.

Orangemen will find any excuse to riot, though. There have been riots on the 11th before  :GA:

You should have an annual riot day. :GA:

I'm not an Orangeman though, so I'm not allowed to riot  :headhurts:

Allowed to riot? Do you have to get a permit? :orly: Just do it. :viking:

No. It's a cultural thing. Only Orangemen are allowed to riot.  :GA:

Become an Orangeman. :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on August 11, 2014, 05:31:18 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 11, 2014, 05:03:49 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 10, 2014, 08:37:06 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 08, 2014, 07:41:16 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 08, 2014, 07:34:50 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 07, 2014, 09:37:52 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 07, 2014, 05:35:10 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 03, 2014, 06:57:05 PM

I don't think it has anything to do with rioting. I just looked up images of 11th night bonfires. The bonfire night seems like it's just an annual celebratory thing.

Orangemen will find any excuse to riot, though. There have been riots on the 11th before  :GA:

You should have an annual riot day. :GA:

I'm not an Orangeman though, so I'm not allowed to riot  :headhurts:

Allowed to riot? Do you have to get a permit? :orly: Just do it. :viking:

No. It's a cultural thing. Only Orangemen are allowed to riot.  :GA:

Become an Orangeman. :thumbup:

Orangemen are Unionist, bigoted, loud and violent assholes. No thank you. I think I'll stick to being a quiet, moderate socialist atheist with aspergers  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 11, 2014, 05:48:27 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 11, 2014, 05:31:18 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 11, 2014, 05:03:49 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 10, 2014, 08:37:06 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 08, 2014, 07:41:16 AM

Allowed to riot? Do you have to get a permit? :orly: Just do it. :viking:

No. It's a cultural thing. Only Orangemen are allowed to riot.  :GA:

Become an Orangeman. :thumbup:

Orangemen are Unionist, bigoted, loud and violent assholes. No thank you. I think I'll stick to being a quiet, moderate socialist atheist with aspergers  :M

Yes, but is it the Protestant God or the Catholic God that you don't believe in? :zoinks:

You could become a soccer fan and riot that way. :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on August 11, 2014, 07:48:36 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 11, 2014, 05:48:27 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 11, 2014, 05:31:18 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 11, 2014, 05:03:49 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 10, 2014, 08:37:06 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 08, 2014, 07:41:16 AM

Allowed to riot? Do you have to get a permit? :orly: Just do it. :viking:

No. It's a cultural thing. Only Orangemen are allowed to riot.  :GA:

Become an Orangeman. :thumbup:

Orangemen are Unionist, bigoted, loud and violent assholes. No thank you. I think I'll stick to being a quiet, moderate socialist atheist with aspergers  :M

Yes, but is it the Protestant God or the Catholic God that you don't believe in? :zoinks:

(http://cdn.memegenerator.net/images/6150492.jpg)

Quote

You could become a soccer fan and riot that way. :orly:

Sport is boring  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 11, 2014, 10:36:22 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 08, 2014, 10:29:26 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 08, 2014, 10:00:56 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on August 08, 2014, 09:58:55 PM

Glad you're having an awesome time.

Thanks, me too. :)

Our country is your country. :)

:)

I've liked it here. I'll be back next year, if I can.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: lutra on August 11, 2014, 11:10:26 AM

This afternoon I got an email saying that my laptop is back in the store again. Asus/the repair company have replaced the mother board and the laptop's hard drive. I don't have to pay anything because the product's warranty covered it. That's basically the good news..

.. but ja, missing the hard drive kinda sucks, I'm thinking now. Hope that the old one will be in the store also when I'm going to pick the thing up again tomorrow.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 11, 2014, 11:20:46 AM

Hopefully somebody backed up your hard drive before it was replaced.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on August 11, 2014, 11:59:18 AM

Didn't die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: lutra on August 11, 2014, 12:24:53 PM

^
^ I don't know what their procedure is.. but hopefully, yes.. they did do a backup beforehand.

We'll see..

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 11, 2014, 03:54:03 PM

I rode my bike slowly up a hill.


I'm feeling shitty. Tried to think of something good....

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 11, 2014, 04:03:12 PM

The day just ended.  :thumbup:

Or should I be even more positive, and tell that a new day just began?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 11, 2014, 04:39:47 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on August 11, 2014, 04:03:12 PM

The day just ended.  :thumbup:

Or should I be even more positive, and tell that a new day just began?

A new day with hyke is always a good thing :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on August 11, 2014, 07:49:02 PM

Dammit, can't think of anything.

Stumbled in here?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 11, 2014, 07:54:50 PM

These headphones are AWESOME.

Listening to this song with awesome bass
Ratatat - Gettysburg [HD] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGuPcxByNGk#ws)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 11, 2014, 11:15:54 PM

The PR will probably have surgery in late September to fuse her wrist.  It's been hurting her lately.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 11, 2014, 11:20:42 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 11, 2014, 11:15:54 PM

The PR will probably have surgery in late September to fuse her wrist.  It's been hurting her lately.

I hope it goes well with a good outcome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 12, 2014, 01:36:34 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 11, 2014, 11:20:42 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 11, 2014, 11:15:54 PM

The PR will probably have surgery in late September to fuse her wrist.  It's been hurting her lately.

I hope it goes well with a good outcome.

Thanks.  I'm not sure what approvals are required for Medicare (federal) and Medicaid (state) funded operations.  It will definitely be at least one operation on the wrist and possible one on her hand with intensive therapy in between.  Probably a year all total.  But if it works she won't have the pain and muscle spasms.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 12, 2014, 03:43:29 AM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on August 11, 2014, 07:49:02 PM

Dammit, can't think of anything.

Stumbled in here?

That's a good thing indeed. Do stumble in more often.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 12, 2014, 03:45:50 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 12, 2014, 01:36:34 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 11, 2014, 11:20:42 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 11, 2014, 11:15:54 PM

The PR will probably have surgery in late September to fuse her wrist.  It's been hurting her lately.

I hope it goes well with a good outcome.

Thanks.  I'm not sure what approvals are required for Medicare (federal) and Medicaid (state) funded operations.  It will definitely be at least one operation on the wrist and possible one on her hand with intensive therapy in between.  Probably a year all total.  But if it works she won't have the pain and muscle spasms.

Hope it will make a big difference for her.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 12, 2014, 06:03:00 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on August 12, 2014, 03:45:50 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 12, 2014, 01:36:34 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 11, 2014, 11:20:42 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 11, 2014, 11:15:54 PM

The PR will probably have surgery in late September to fuse her wrist.  It's been hurting her lately.

I hope it goes well with a good outcome.

Thanks.  I'm not sure what approvals are required for Medicare (federal) and Medicaid (state) funded operations.  It will definitely be at least one operation on the wrist and possible one on her hand with intensive therapy in between.  Probably a year all total.  But if it works she won't have the pain and muscle spasms.

Hope it will make a big difference for her.

 :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on August 12, 2014, 06:21:50 AM

Let me get back to you...

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 12, 2014, 06:59:20 PM

I found $13 wrapped up in a receipt dated September 2013 in my desk while cleaning out a drawer,  maybe I should clean it out more often :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on August 12, 2014, 07:09:50 PM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on August 12, 2014, 06:21:50 AM

Let me get back to you...

I synced my iPod, iPhone, and iPad? Can't really think of anything else.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 13, 2014, 10:45:53 AM

How did the PR do her wrist/hand in? *is tempted to make a rather rude joke;):autism:*

I hope shes getting some good pain meds and muscle relaxers.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 13, 2014, 03:28:34 PM

Quote from: Lestat on August 13, 2014, 10:45:53 AM

How did the PR do her wrist/hand in? *is tempted to make a rather rude joke;):autism:*

I hope shes getting some good pain meds and muscle relaxers.

Old history to some here, so feel free to skip.

She had a stroke before she was born.  It left her with clenched fist and paraplegia arm on the right side.  The right leg and foot is also affected, but quite mildly. (The right foot is 1 shoe size smaller than the left = 2 pairs of shoes to get one pair that fits, unless they're lace-ups.) 

She also had an immature brain (6 weeks of steroid shots).  Now she has Mild/moderate mental retardation and cerebral palsy, ADD - Inattentive and High Functioning Autism.

Because of the epilepsy we're treating her with acetaminophen (Tylenol) several times a day.  It's primarily nerve damage, so muscle relaxants probably wouldn't do too much.

Don't worry about the rude joke, I sometimes say that if she learned sign language she'd do it with an accent.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 13, 2014, 05:26:18 PM

The general contractor on the house I was working on today bought lunch for me and his carpenter

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on August 13, 2014, 08:33:13 PM

Played hooky from work and went to a movie.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 20, 2014, 06:29:59 PM

Work today turned out easier and took less materials than I had planed resulting in a much higher profit than anticipated :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 20, 2014, 10:42:12 PM

Coffee happened. I may survive.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 21, 2014, 03:53:04 AM

Money in, bills paid, time to look for a graphic calculator for the oldest.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 21, 2014, 05:17:35 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 20, 2014, 10:42:12 PM

Coffee happened. I may survive.

As long as you know how to love, you know you'll be alive. :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 21, 2014, 07:05:33 PM

Finished the house I worked on today and got a check

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 22, 2014, 03:03:52 PM

My daughter and I walked in quite heavy rain this afternoon. Waiting for it to stop was useless, the radar showed it would last for more than an hour. We were hardly out of the building when a woman offered us her umbrella. It had taken a beating from the weather, but, it was still functional, if you held it with two hands. She had almost reached her destiny.
We did not end up soaked to the bone, when reaching the bus-stop. The bus-ride would last long enough to end up home dry. So, at the bus-stop we offered the umbrella to yet another person. This lady happily ventured off in the rain, with a red cover over her head.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on August 23, 2014, 09:35:03 PM

Still not dead.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 23, 2014, 09:36:34 PM

pharmaceuticals

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on August 24, 2014, 01:29:45 AM

Just saw the intro to the new Dr Who series and it is all cogs and clocks! Awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 24, 2014, 12:50:42 PM

Quote from: renaeden on August 24, 2014, 01:29:45 AM

Just saw the intro to the new Dr Who series and it is all cogs and clocks! Awesome.

Watched the first of the new Dr. Who.  As usual, I've missed half of the dialog because the actors speak lower than the background noise.  But.............  I like Capaldi and caught his "I've seen this face before," line.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on August 24, 2014, 06:16:18 PM

Quote from: renaeden on August 24, 2014, 01:29:45 AM

Just saw the intro to the new Dr Who series and it is all cogs and clocks! Awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 24, 2014, 09:00:36 PM

Cheesecake (the kind one eats, not the kind one looks at)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 24, 2014, 09:46:46 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on August 22, 2014, 03:03:52 PM

My daughter and I walked in quite heavy rain this afternoon. Waiting for it to stop was useless, the radar showed it would last for more than an hour. We were hardly out of the building when a woman offered us her umbrella. It had taken a beating from the weather, but, it was still functional, if you held it with two hands. She had almost reached her destiny.
We did not end up soaked to the bone, when reaching the bus-stop. The bus-ride would last long enough to end up home dry. So, at the bus-stop we offered the umbrella to yet another person. This lady happily ventured off in the rain, with a red cover over her head.

People are nice in the Netherlands. :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 24, 2014, 10:49:40 PM

It happened yesterday, but we got the magnetic preamps to work. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 24, 2014, 11:02:53 PM

Nothing good has happened yet, today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 24, 2014, 11:10:43 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on August 24, 2014, 11:02:53 PM

Nothing good has happened yet, today.

You've posted on I2. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 25, 2014, 03:15:45 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 24, 2014, 11:10:43 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on August 24, 2014, 11:02:53 PM

Nothing good has happened yet, today.

You've posted on I2. :P

OK, I have given a life sign, and I am not feeling that crap that I can't bring myself to go online. That is something indeed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on August 25, 2014, 08:19:37 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on August 25, 2014, 03:15:45 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on August 24, 2014, 11:10:43 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on August 24, 2014, 11:02:53 PM

Nothing good has happened yet, today.

You've posted on I2. :P

OK, I have given a life sign, and I am not feeling that crap that I can't bring myself to go online. That is something indeed.

I feel warm and fuzzy now. :P

:hug: :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on August 25, 2014, 11:39:53 AM

Won 1600 jackpot keno

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 25, 2014, 02:40:12 PM

DOCTOR WHO

:TARDIS:   <------HOW does I^2 not have a TARDIS emoticon???????

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 25, 2014, 05:33:57 PM

I imagine the PR could benefit from pregabalin or gabapentin, both great for nerve pain. I take gabapentin for the neuropathic pain I get down the side of my bad knee, post-op. Works quite well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 25, 2014, 05:41:11 PM

set up french military pup tent to air out.... liking it already :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 25, 2014, 06:14:41 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 25, 2014, 05:41:11 PM

set up french military pup tent to air out.... liking it already :)

Why does it need airing out? Does it smell like the French?  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 25, 2014, 09:53:11 PM

Quote from: Lestat on August 25, 2014, 05:33:57 PM

I imagine the PR could benefit from pregabalin or gabapentin, both great for nerve pain. I take gabapentin for the neuropathic pain I get down the side of my bad knee, post-op. Works quite well.

Thanks, I wish it were that simple.

It's not only the nerve pain. The wrist is at a 90 degree angle. It makes dressing harder because the wrist won't flex to let sleeves on easily. 

She's getting self-conscious about it. 

Lastly, her hand has been basically a fist since she was born. It's always moist and I'm concerned about future skin infections.  As it is, there is a definite sweaty odour about it.

All in all, it will eventually make her healthier and happier, although it will be a bit of a rough road until everything is completed.

I'll look into the meds for my pain, since some of it is from arthritis.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on August 26, 2014, 01:16:44 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on August 25, 2014, 02:40:12 PM

DOCTOR WHO

:TARDIS:   <------HOW does I^2 not have a TARDIS emoticon???????

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t34.0-12/10643399_551114791661299_1918931226_n.jpg?oh=39397b387a5a0281940d8267080c381d&oe=53FE0B81&__gda__=1409166369_bb0322010111eed43ef82ee2e4e89084)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 26, 2014, 03:25:10 AM

Got my meds, I'm going to spend today hiking in the woods to pick mushrooms, if I have time, build a gauss rifle, and bag me some squirrels and wood pigeons, just take what I need for a family meal, plus plenty fried mushrooms which should be popping up in an absolute glut, given the recent autumn rains.

Been absolutely ADORING the southeast asian ginger/lime/chilli/vinegar/brown sugar marinaded fried tiger prawns, served w/ egg fried rice, bit of soy sauce.

Got a weeks worth of chilli, steak mince based, with shiitake, fly agaric, peppery boletus, birds eye peppers. Going to build myself a gauss rifle today, in either 10mm, 9mm, .357. or maybe a .44 caliber, hack on the sniper scope from my dart rifle, as well as taking my revolver for bigger prey. Gonna spend all day on a morphine/Oxycontin-fuelled hike, with some of the dissociative anaesthetic/stimulant/probable opioid analog of lefetamine, diphenidine, a nice long-acting stimulant, although methinks it needs some structural tweaks in my beloved skunk-works, aka the lab, to produce a more suitable for injection compound that both retains duration of action length, and perhaps increased potency. I'm thinking a dichloro or di-trifluoromethyl moiety could do the trick wonderfully.

Going to ask a friend of my old man's from when he had a workshop years back, if I can go hunt for grey squirrel and wood pigeon on his land, as well as take home a few mushrooms which are bound to be sprouting up in a glut given the recent rains :)

Fueled by a breakfast of shiitake and some oxy/morphine/diphenidine/chlo(r)methiazole and chilli chickpea/kidney bean chilli-stew. Time to go and get me some luuurvely free wild grub. Got to check see on the puffball I've been keeping an eye on.

Hope to come back with some sulfur polypores, fly agaric, peppery boletus, if i get real lucky maybe a few chanterelles,   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 28, 2014, 09:00:53 AM

Just getting ready go to pick up a gram of diphenidine, a  psychedelic amphetamine analog from town, and just as I got my trousers on, found the remaining content of a vial of STS-135, a potent synthetic cannabinoid in an E-cig refill format made for vaporising, and allowing for one to get baked as a motherfucker without actually having to smoke, 3-4 deep tokes on the e-fag using at most a few microliters to tens of microliters per dose, all packed in a pleasanly sweet blueberry flavoured e-liquid.

Time for a quick toke or three on that, before I go out first to pick up my dissociative/probable mild to moderate strength opioid distant cousin of speed and then if I have the energy and my legs aren't too sore after walking around town and home again, I'll take the tram to to the town closest to the woodland and golf course thats one of my favourite spots to pick wild mushrooms, both the kind useful for making supper, and fly agaric, a medicinal (and in larger doses psychedelic/trance inducing hallucinogenic fungus, quite different from the tryptamines like psiloc(yb)in) fungus, as well as a cooking spice when treated correctly, par excellence.

Had my beady eyes on some puffballs growing on the canal towpath I take as a scenic, quiet route home away from the noisy, pollution-stinking roads, looked like they were getting big enough to be taken out of the ground and fried in butter w/ a little salt, or fried as sliced cutlets in batter, just like making fish and chips, but with a puffball filling rather than fish. Hope those are still growing there and haven't been taken by another hungry mycophage or kicked to bits by some cretinous, lager-swilling pikey pisspot/shat/pissed on by a dog (or drunken charver cunt :P)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on August 28, 2014, 01:19:36 PM

Didn't die

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 28, 2014, 04:22:38 PM

Always a plus.


I took Monday and Tuesday off, and I have a teambuilding thing tomorrow that might actually be fun (Go Karting), and the following Monday is Labor Day in the USA... I just had a two day workweek which is now launching into a four day weekend.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 31, 2014, 02:16:33 PM

My wife won $60 on a nickle slot machine

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on August 31, 2014, 05:56:59 PM

Still not dead

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 31, 2014, 07:28:10 PM

Quote from: Parts on August 31, 2014, 02:16:33 PM

My wife won $60 on a nickle slot machine

Cha-ching.   :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 31, 2014, 10:43:03 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 01, 2014, 12:20:40 AM

Yay! went out to check my bank, and I've been paid on time, wasn't sure whether my spazz pay was coming in this monday or next, but its this one. Got a bit over 200 pounds in the bank. Going to get 2 bottles of STS-135 E-cig liquid, 3-4g of diphenidine and a generous pile of sniff, and some benzos to get some sleep once I'm done with partying.

And while I wait for the place to open where I'll go to get most of those goodies, methinks I'll go to the newsagent and buy myself a bottle of something to drink. Not sure if I want peach schnapps or raw vodka, the schnapps is a little cheaper per liter, but less than half as strong. So I'll probably go for the vodka, and pour myself a pint of that when I get back home, that should let me get some sleep for a couple of hours before going out to score.

I want to go to the pharmacies also, to load up on codeine, and I also need to buy some more hydrogen peroxide, I'm fresh out, after using a load of it to help dissolve a bucket of copper, by adding H2O2 to the copper metal sitting in a bucket full of fuming hydrochloric acid. HCl on its own wasn't attacking the copper very much, but once the oxidizer is added, it really takes off and makes mincemeat out of it. Learned that trick for dissolving tungsten and titanium, especially tungsten. HCl and a fair few other acids don't attack tungsten very much, but add some peroxide and it dissolves readily. Same goes for quite a few other metals, H2O2/HCl makes quite a good combination for dissolving metals that are not attacked, or are only slowly so by hydrochloric acid alone, really speeds it up.

Might start work on an MDA synthesis later if I can be bothered, I've been meaning to get round to it  for some time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 01, 2014, 05:34:22 AM

For the first time in four months I got paid in time.  :headbang2:
Could hardly believe my eyes when I saw it.

Pay of last month happened bit more than a week ago.

I almost feel rich now.  :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 01, 2014, 05:39:20 AM

Not today, but only a few days ago, I found out that the city of Zwolle has a decent second hand bookstore again. Guy working at "de Slegte" started it, after the nation wide "de Slegte/selexys/polaris" drama.

I was very pleased when I noticed.
 :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on September 01, 2014, 05:22:55 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 01, 2014, 05:39:20 AM

Not today, but only a few days ago, I found out that the city of Zwolle has a decent second hand bookstore again. Guy working at "de Slegte" started it, after the nation wide "de Slegte/selexys/polaris" drama.

I was very pleased when I noticed.
 :hyke:

Nationwide drama in the Netherlands sounds tame. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 01, 2014, 09:35:57 PM

Might be getting a hookup for some M-ket. Love the stuff, but its gotten hard to lay hands on since the UKs wide-ranging ban on arylcyclohexylamine ket and PCP analogs.
Never had PCP itself, but I loved 4-methoxy-PCP and M-ket whilst they were around, and even more so 3-hydroxy-PCP. The new wave of dissociatives based on lefetamine lacks the sedative properties of ket and MXE, instead being strong stimulants. I can't sleep for a long time after doing diphenidine or methoxphenidine, and the solubility of the former is piss poor, although they are good in their own right.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 01, 2014, 10:49:55 PM

Coffee happened.

There's not a lot to be happy about right now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 01, 2014, 11:35:57 PM

The industrial-sized can of red bull I bought just now is easing my hung over headache.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 02, 2014, 12:40:27 AM

Found this paper in JOC, interesting, looks very amenable to cathinone synthesis. Two steps, potentially a onepot. I'll have to get some borohydride to try this out, would do it already, but the only hydride reducing agent I have on the shelves is LiAlH4, and of course LAH isn't the most friendly of reagents, has a nasty tendency to catch fire if exposed to air, inert gas is a must. Not quite so unstable as to require Schlenk lines but it does like to burst into flames. Not good if one is using it as is usually the case, in ether or THF.

Barely started reading the paper but already fascinating and innovative and useful chemistry.

Transition-Metal-Free Oxidative α‑C−H Amination of Ketones via a
Radical Mechanism: Mild Synthesis of α‑Amino Ketones

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 02, 2014, 01:54:19 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 01, 2014, 10:49:55 PM

Coffee happened.

There's not a lot to be happy about right now.

 :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 02, 2014, 03:36:13 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on September 01, 2014, 05:22:55 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 01, 2014, 05:39:20 AM

Not today, but only a few days ago, I found out that the city of Zwolle has a decent second hand bookstore again. Guy working at "de Slegte" started it, after the nation wide "de Slegte/selexys/polaris" drama.

I was very pleased when I noticed.
 :hyke:

Nationwide drama in the Netherlands sounds tame. :P

In the setting of second hand bookstores, it was big.

We do have some bigger dramas now and then. Relief for them is less easy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 02, 2014, 03:54:56 AM

190mg of intravenous morphine sulfate happened, in addition to 60-70mg of oxycodone by mouth about half an hour ago. The morphine wasn't that long ago though, just finished my shot, and now feel fucking wonderful :D

Going to pick up a couple of grams of white later though too, so I can have some speedballs as well as just plain vanilla morphine/heroin/dipropionyl morphine/oxy. Nice enough as they are true, but a wee dash of coke, meth or ethylphenidate/methylphenidate thrown into the same syringe barrel as the opiate(/s) is really the icing on the cake, maybe with some cyclizine (a sedating antihistamine that for some reason, really enhances the rush and subsequent euphoriant effects of opiates when shot alongside them)

Mmmm yum yum, just prepping another shot with another 50-60mg of oxy.
Lurvely. I just love the taste of morphine when I can taste it after doing a shot. After that, time for a rollup, a handful of candy and some of the lovely 'KA' brand black grape soda I bought earlier, I just adore the stuff, it really is quite delicious. Hehe, my doctor so kicks arse for not being way overconservative and a stingy arsebag like many GPs are with opiates and sleepers, a script for 120mg morphine a day and 20 of oxy is a lot more generous than most docs are willing to be, as well as a script for tizanidine (a muscle relaxer and adrenergic release inhibitor like clonidine, its relative, that I get on my rx too), and a twice daily dose of chlormethiazole, an oldschool sedative-hypnotic
that is much more effective than the modern Z-drugs and benzos, being far more like the barbiturates, although admittedly I've only tried a small number of those, that very, very VERY rarely get used these days, aside from butalbital as a part of a migraine treatment, or phenobarb as an anticonvulsant. Even willing as per my request to give me some cyclizine too, and doesn't seem to mind the fact that I do use other substances from time to time, and like a nice juicy bong or ten, without taking my meds off me.  Possibly figures that I'd simply go and make my own shit if he didn't allow me to have my medication, but he is a really compassionate guy who won't just leave someone out in the cold to wallow in their misery if they have a need that needs attending by the medical profession. Knows I blaze, occasionally like a wee bit of charlie, have a passion for chemistry that can 'bee' applied in the pharmaceutical and pharmacological directions, sometimes grow/use/pick shrooms if I'm either lucky enough to find any on my hunts for more regular fungal treats or can obtain spores to run a culture and grow or tissue from the fruitbody for cloning and of course further stashing of spores from the mushrooms raised. 'Tis a bit more technically involved and requires of course, exacting standards for sterility, but anybody can learn to grow a huge variety of psilocin/psilocybin containing mushrooms, either on substrates like grain, or some can be grown outdoors on woodchip beds. I like to surreptitiously spawn any woodchip piles/beds I see that aren't on private residential properties. Even had three big patches of Psilocybe cyanescens lurking outside a local macdonalds bwahahahaha, that fruited a good few kg of shrooms a season (wet weight) every winter, very welcome those were too, as P.cyanescens is a cold-appreciating woodlover that fruits much later than most other psilocybin mushrooms, and cyans are REALLY strong too, not the best for longterm storage unless its done carefully, preferably vacuum-dried and then stored under inert gas like argon to preserve them, with some silica gel desiccant packs to keep them all dry, as there is a very high ratio of psilocin to the more stable psilocybin in P.cyanescens. But they really do pack a motherfucking hefty wallop, I've actually started tripping pretty pleasantly without even having consumed any mushrooms, solely off cleaning the harvest, presumably the psilocin and psilocybin/baeocystin content absorbing through my skin and that of the person who was assisting with the clean of our harvest from my lovely clandestine patch outside maccy D's, both of us started tripping part way through the cleaning process, to remove soil and leaf debris, bits of woodchip etc. Totally unexpected, but very welcome, first thing I knew about it was seeing my assistant at the time's pupils dilate to dinnerplate-mode and noticing that colours looked deeper and richer, while the walls were breathing and waving :D

1g of those little brutes was enough to trip hard, two grams sufficient (more than in fact) for a really fucking hard trip and 3-4g of cyans is enough to floor more or less anyone with a seriously intense whomping great trip. a kilo of wavy caps is enough to last for the rest of the season and the next year with one or two people consuming them, even a half gram can be enough for a moderate trip, although nothing overwhelming. so a kilo can be as many in theory as a thousand trips, although I do like a bit more than 1g (dry weight), for my average mushroom sesh, a light-moderate dose, just a few wavycap fruitbodies is lovely for a walk out in the woods to pick more mushrooms for the table and for use as spices/condiments for my favoured, rather mycologically heavy style of cooking. I just lurve my shiitake, oyster, honshimeiji and enokitake for shop bought mushies, and my wild larch boletes, slippery jacks, chicken of the woods/sulfur polypore, honey fungus and of course, the ever so scrummy puffballs, ceps and chanterelles, plus the sheer joy of going out to pick them for myself in the forests, hedgerows, fields and woodlands, coming home with a pair of tired feet to a nice revivifying shot of morphine and a muscle relaxer after walking from the crack of dawn to the onset of darkness, knocking up a tasty treat out of whatever I happen to find growing, with something different for supper, and a nice big plate of fried, stewed etc. mushrooms or a bowl of steaming hot and spicy mushroom soup made in advance for brekky the next day so all that needs doing is to pop whatever is made into the microwave for a quick blast of the nuker then eating. There is something inherently satisfying to me, about the harvesting my own free chow as well as the munching
so as to be able to enjoy the fruits of one's own labor, even better when it costs not a penny more than is needed for a bit of refreshment and some snacks for the trail, and transport if its not local (I'm not above traveling for a good few hours, if I have a good reason to believe that I'm in with a good chance of finding something that will make me a top notch noshup, or something exotic that I don't find in many places. Got a very, very good memory for what species I find where, right down to what patches of bushes and trees I might do best looking under (or on in the case of polypores and other woodlovers like honey fungus), for instance I know exactly where I found some liberty caps at lamaload reservoir, where I found also the quite rare Hygrocybe calyptriformis, a species I have seen only once, or maybe twice as a child outside the area surrounding this particular english reservoir, but that fruits in profusion there, a good thing as its redlisted for conservation status in quite a few countries all over europe according to wiki. I knew it was rare, but I didn't realize just quite how scarce it is. Next time I'm down there at the reservoir at the right time of year if I find any, I'll take a few for sporeprints and knock out some cultures, with which to introduce them to other pastures and grassland all over the place.

Johnny appleseed, only with fungus :autism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygrocybe_calyptriformis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygrocybe_calyptriformis)

As for dutch argy-bargey, the low level of intensity of said dramawhoring might be due to everybody getting baked and as as result, laid back unless some tight bastard starts bogarting :P
 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on September 02, 2014, 03:37:31 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 02, 2014, 03:36:13 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on September 01, 2014, 05:22:55 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 01, 2014, 05:39:20 AM

Not today, but only a few days ago, I found out that the city of Zwolle has a decent second hand bookstore again. Guy working at "de Slegte" started it, after the nation wide "de Slegte/selexys/polaris" drama.

I was very pleased when I noticed.
 :hyke:

Nationwide drama in the Netherlands sounds tame. :P

In the setting of second hand bookstores, it was big.

We do have some bigger dramas now and then. Relief for them is less easy.

:GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 02, 2014, 11:12:46 PM

Can't think of anything. I have a headache.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on September 03, 2014, 06:33:31 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on September 02, 2014, 03:37:31 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 02, 2014, 03:36:13 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on September 01, 2014, 05:22:55 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 01, 2014, 05:39:20 AM

Not today, but only a few days ago, I found out that the city of Zwolle has a decent second hand bookstore again. Guy working at "de Slegte" started it, after the nation wide "de Slegte/selexys/polaris" drama.

I was very pleased when I noticed.
 :hyke:

Nationwide drama in the Netherlands sounds tame. :P

In the setting of second hand bookstores, it was big.

We do have some bigger dramas now and then. Relief for them is less easy.

:GA:

Scandal in the Netherlands: Mayor Denies Grabbing Queen's Buttocks (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/04/29/Scandal-in-the-Netherlands-Mayor-Denies-Grabbing-Dutch-Queen-s-Buttocks)

:GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 03, 2014, 03:45:38 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on September 03, 2014, 06:33:31 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on September 02, 2014, 03:37:31 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 02, 2014, 03:36:13 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on September 01, 2014, 05:22:55 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 01, 2014, 05:39:20 AM

Not today, but only a few days ago, I found out that the city of Zwolle has a decent second hand bookstore again. Guy working at "de Slegte" started it, after the nation wide "de Slegte/selexys/polaris" drama.

I was very pleased when I noticed.
 :hyke:

Nationwide drama in the Netherlands sounds tame. :P

In the setting of second hand bookstores, it was big.

We do have some bigger dramas now and then. Relief for them is less easy.

:GA:

Scandal in the Netherlands: Mayor Denies Grabbing Queen's Buttocks (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/04/29/Scandal-in-the-Netherlands-Mayor-Denies-Grabbing-Dutch-Queen-s-Buttocks)

:GA:

I'd grab some of that :2thumbsup:
(http://cdn.breitbart.com/mediaserver/Breitbart/Big-Peace/2014/04/29/Queen-Maxima-King-Willem-Alexander-afp.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 03, 2014, 11:14:40 PM

  The repair job I did on my glasses, using stiff waterproof tape, is holding up!  :nerdy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on September 04, 2014, 05:20:57 AM

Quote from: Parts on September 03, 2014, 03:45:38 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on September 03, 2014, 06:33:31 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on September 02, 2014, 03:37:31 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 02, 2014, 03:36:13 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on September 01, 2014, 05:22:55 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 01, 2014, 05:39:20 AM

Not today, but only a few days ago, I found out that the city of Zwolle has a decent second hand bookstore again. Guy working at "de Slegte" started it, after the nation wide "de Slegte/selexys/polaris" drama.

I was very pleased when I noticed.
 :hyke:

Nationwide drama in the Netherlands sounds tame. :P

In the setting of second hand bookstores, it was big.

We do have some bigger dramas now and then. Relief for them is less easy.

:GA:

Scandal in the Netherlands: Mayor Denies Grabbing Queen's Buttocks (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/04/29/Scandal-in-the-Netherlands-Mayor-Denies-Grabbing-Dutch-Queen-s-Buttocks)

:GA:

I'd grab some of that :2thumbsup:
(http://cdn.breitbart.com/mediaserver/Breitbart/Big-Peace/2014/04/29/Queen-Maxima-King-Willem-Alexander-afp.jpg)

Are you trying to start Dutch drama? :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 05, 2014, 11:17:07 AM

(http://38.media.tumblr.com/cfd42413f390fcd4978fcd089b92b456/tumblr_nbegaxJs741r69kkdo1_500.jpg)

Adopt or fuck?  Adopt or fuck?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 05, 2014, 05:47:10 PM

     :lol1:    I love our little Queen and her dirty mind!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 05, 2014, 05:48:50 PM

  My laundry-hogging neighbor appears to be getting the laundry done.

 
   Maybe by tomorrow I can do mine!  :crossed:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 05, 2014, 05:50:17 PM

  I made an appointment with my new caseworker at the state vocational rehab agency.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 05, 2014, 07:26:57 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 05, 2014, 05:47:10 PM

     :lol1:    I love our little Queen and her dirty mind!

Here's some more to ogle.  Whoever this is found his favorite jacket while he was cleaning out his room.  Fortunately it was his favorite jacket when he was 9.

(http://31.media.tumblr.com/bee9f369a1ef65228179cacdf3dbae97/tumblr_inline_nbeybr9QJQ1r8fc82.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on September 06, 2014, 04:36:20 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 05, 2014, 05:50:17 PM

  I made an appointment with my new caseworker at the state vocational rehab agency.  8)

You're on your way to becoming a professional belly dancer. :P

:belly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 06, 2014, 05:40:50 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on September 06, 2014, 04:36:20 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 05, 2014, 05:50:17 PM

  I made an appointment with my new caseworker at the state vocational rehab agency.  8)

You're on your way to becoming a professional belly dancer. :P

:belly:

  Actually, I'd love to get paid to shop and eat!   :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 06, 2014, 01:21:07 PM

  The neighbor's laundry is FINALLY getting done (some is in the dryer, some on top of the dryer).
   I saw her in the hall and talked to her. I may actually be able to get some laundry done by nightfall.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 06, 2014, 02:10:02 PM

  I just started my first load of laundry, 27 hours after I first attempted it!   :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 06, 2014, 02:14:55 PM

It's raining  hopefully  that reduces the humidity some

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 06, 2014, 02:24:17 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 06, 2014, 02:14:55 PM

It's raining  hopefully  that reduces the humidity some

  We still have blue skies here despite warnings of heavy storms.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on September 06, 2014, 06:13:48 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 06, 2014, 05:40:50 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on September 06, 2014, 04:36:20 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 05, 2014, 05:50:17 PM

  I made an appointment with my new caseworker at the state vocational rehab agency.  8)

You're on your way to becoming a professional belly dancer. :P

:belly:

  Actually, I'd love to get paid to shop and eat!   :2thumbsup:

If you work in logistics, you can buy stuff with other people's money. :thumbup:

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 06, 2014, 02:10:02 PM

  I just started my first load of laundry, 27 hours after I first attempted it!   :2thumbsup:

Set the laundry on fire next time! :arrr:

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 06, 2014, 02:24:17 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 06, 2014, 02:14:55 PM

It's raining  hopefully  that reduces the humidity some

  We still have blue skies here despite warnings of heavy storms.  :orly:

If you're lucky, you'll get to see a tornado. :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 06, 2014, 06:30:00 PM

  Laundry's done, all four loads, with not a tornado in sight.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on September 06, 2014, 07:49:11 PM

Just noticed the title of this thread reads, Parts two.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on September 07, 2014, 04:50:53 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 06, 2014, 06:30:00 PM

  Laundry's done, all four loads, with not a tornado in sight.  :green:

So no pictures? :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 07, 2014, 05:26:33 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on September 07, 2014, 04:50:53 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 06, 2014, 06:30:00 PM

  Laundry's done, all four loads, with not a tornado in sight.  :green:

So no pictures? :P

  I'm afraid not.  Go on youtube if you want to see footage.  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on September 07, 2014, 06:04:37 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 07, 2014, 05:26:33 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on September 07, 2014, 04:50:53 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 06, 2014, 06:30:00 PM

  Laundry's done, all four loads, with not a tornado in sight.  :green:

So no pictures? :P

  I'm afraid not.  Go on youtube if you want to see footage.  :P

YouTube is on the other side of the interwebs. :GA: How will I get there? :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 07, 2014, 06:38:17 AM

  The  "interwebs"  ::)  do not HAVE  "sides."  ::)   Just do a search, duh.  ::)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 07, 2014, 06:50:03 AM

I had a very satisfying nights sleep last night

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 07, 2014, 07:07:40 AM

Quote from: Parts on September 07, 2014, 06:50:03 AM

I had a very satisfying nights sleep last night

  That's excellent.  I hope it enables you to kick ass at the flea market!   :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on September 07, 2014, 08:16:47 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 07, 2014, 06:38:17 AM

  The  "interwebs"  ::)  do not HAVE  "sides."  ::)   Just do a search, duh.  ::)

So the interwebs are circular? :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 07, 2014, 08:33:05 AM

  The  "interwebs"  ::)  exist in a place that defies all natural laws.  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 07, 2014, 12:41:20 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 07, 2014, 07:07:40 AM

Quote from: Parts on September 07, 2014, 06:50:03 AM

I had a very satisfying nights sleep last night

  That's excellent.  I hope it enables you to kick ass at the flea market!   :arrr:

Didn't go this week which is one of the reasons for the great nights sleep :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on September 07, 2014, 06:26:43 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 07, 2014, 08:33:05 AM

  The  "interwebs"  ::)  exist in a place that defies all natural laws.  :M

Except for Rule 34. :trollface:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 07, 2014, 11:11:42 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on September 07, 2014, 08:16:47 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 07, 2014, 06:38:17 AM

  The  "interwebs"  ::)  do not HAVE  "sides."  ::)   Just do a search, duh.  ::)

So the interwebs are circular? :orly:

This is the interwebz. With bots. :M

(http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/images/moebius_strip.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 11, 2014, 01:28:13 PM

Went out hiking round a rather large forest, brought back a few different kinds of wild mushrooms, including a huge great bag of saffron milk caps (Lactarius deliciosus), 2kg of those all in all, and more of other kinds of mushrooms too. The Lactarius are well renowned for being one of the tastiest wild offerings out there to be had, and I'm inclined to agree. After stopping for a quick pint of ale in a nearby pub, got home, had a fag and started roasting some milk caps. Really nice texture, quite firm, slightly reminds me of Russula species (brittlegills) in texture the way they are sort of friable, but unlike Russulas, not brittle. Great taste too. Never had the good fortune to find saffron milk caps before, damn glad I did though, I have a distinct feeling I'll be eating quite a lot of these in the next few days. Got more than I CAN eat in fact, so I'll cook and freeze some.

Really tasty just roasted over the gas flame of the cooker. Got a big super double decker multistory cheeseburger with black olives and 5 extra portions of double extra cheese too :)

Nicely satiated right now. Pulled a few other of my favourite kinds of mushrooms in as well, including one, just the one lonesome solitary slippery jack, one of the boletes, Suillus species. A few people are allergic to this one, but its very popular apparently in poland, and its always been a favourite of mine, needs a layer of slime peeling off the surface of the cap, but once thats done, either fried in butter, or in garlic butter with a dash of lemon and a pinch of salt, they are just divine when prepared like that, I've loved slippery jack and the very similar larch bolete which grows in the same places under the same trees.

I'm all full up now. *BURP*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on September 11, 2014, 04:21:31 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 07, 2014, 11:11:42 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on September 07, 2014, 08:16:47 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on September 07, 2014, 06:38:17 AM

  The  "interwebs"  ::)  do not HAVE  "sides."  ::)   Just do a search, duh.  ::)

So the interwebs are circular? :orly:

This is the interwebz. With bots. :M

(http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/images/moebius_strip.jpg)

How do they dig shit out of their asses? :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 11, 2014, 06:38:58 PM

Chocolate chip frappe

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 11, 2014, 07:03:11 PM

Steak and fries.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2014, 11:05:55 PM

^Yummy. I want that now.

Coffee happened. And yesterday evening, I found a 12-position Dolby fanning strip that I need for the garage's sound rack.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 12, 2014, 12:00:49 PM

Not eaten it yet, but my folks just bought me a plate of fried fish in batter and chips.

Going to have some of the saffron milk-caps that I've spent all fucking day scrubbing clean of soil, pine needles and patches of the green mushroom flesh that the normally orange mushrooms discolor to, they have a really nice, firm texture and mild, pleasant flavour, very good eating according to the books, and having tried Lactarius deliciosus for the first time yesterday, roasted over an open flame until nice and crunchy, yet tender I am inclined to agree. Very tasty.

Got several 4-packs of white chocolate chip and honeycomb white chocolate giant chewy cookies too, and a couple of bottles of coke, some of a rather nice elderflower and pear fizzy spring water to wash everything down. Got some of an unknown Agaricus spp. mushroom too that needs IDing to see if I can eat them, as well as some Russulas, and boletes, a Suillus species, plus the one lonesome slippery jack, those are one of my favourites out of all the boletes, right up there with the cep, the larch bolete, and B.appendiculatus, B.aereus.

Picked myself a real feast yesterday; when I get hungry again after having my fish and chips, methinks I'll have to whip up a quick batch of salted pasta with a dash of olive oil and some tabasco and soy sauce, to serve up a plateful of my lucky find of saffron milk caps (the Lactarius spp). Lol my hands, and even feet from where droplets of the milky secretions that come out of injured, cut mushroom tissue hit the floor, and with it, my toes, which along with my fingers and hands, are now bright nuclear orange in colour.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on September 12, 2014, 04:29:01 PM

good business

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 13, 2014, 02:27:22 AM

Sleep happened, and then coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on September 13, 2014, 04:15:26 AM

got up

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 16, 2014, 09:00:50 PM

Although not today -

Monday night an AA member was recognized for 13 years of sobriety.
Sunday night 2 AA members were recognized for sobriety.  One for 21 years and one for 33 years.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 16, 2014, 11:47:48 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 16, 2014, 09:00:50 PM

Although not today -

Monday night an AA member was recognized for 13 years of sobriety.
Sunday night 2 AA members were recognized for sobriety.  One for 21 years and one for 33 years.

That's pretty impressive.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 16, 2014, 11:48:08 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on September 17, 2014, 09:07:54 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 16, 2014, 09:00:50 PM

Although not today -

Monday night an AA member was recognized for 13 years of sobriety.
Sunday night 2 AA members were recognized for sobriety.  One for 21 years and one for 33 years.

:) Good news indeed.


I am starting two courses, one on philosophy, one on the US constitution. I am also starting to write a paper. feeling pretty busy...

And I successfully got my loan deferred.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 18, 2014, 12:38:03 AM

My throat is better today. I have a headache, though, so I guess it's not completely over yet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on September 19, 2014, 09:14:51 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 18, 2014, 12:38:03 AM

My throat is better today. I have a headache, though, so I guess it's not completely over yet.

Vitamin C.

Since reading about all the illness I even bought myself some. I highly recommend it.

Also, vitamin D helps reduce headaches. Spend more time outside in the sun...and consider taking vitamin D supplements. I'm serious- we have a specialised headache clinic at the children's hospital here, and when I shadowed a clinician the doc went on about how important it is to take vitamin D.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 21, 2014, 03:03:22 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on September 19, 2014, 09:14:51 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 18, 2014, 12:38:03 AM

My throat is better today. I have a headache, though, so I guess it's not completely over yet.

Vitamin C.

Since reading about all the illness I even bought myself some. I highly recommend it.

Also, vitamin D helps reduce headaches. Spend more time outside in the sun...and consider taking vitamin D supplements. I'm serious- we have a specialised headache clinic at the children's hospital here, and when I shadowed a clinician the doc went on about how important it is to take vitamin D.

I will. Thanks. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 21, 2014, 04:21:37 AM

I'm kicking lethargy.  :flyingbat:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 21, 2014, 02:42:28 PM

Leave bruises.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 21, 2014, 03:21:49 PM

Starbucks had a BOGO on their Fall drinks today.  The Salted Caramel Mocha Frappacino is really good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on September 21, 2014, 04:20:24 PM

pleasant day, it was all good

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 23, 2014, 07:04:38 PM

I fucked up when I measured the house I was working on today but in my favor with around $350 worth of materials left over that can be returned for credit

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on September 25, 2014, 10:32:38 AM

Didn't die...Yay?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on September 25, 2014, 12:27:28 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on September 25, 2014, 10:32:38 AM

Didn't die...Yay?

hoooray!  try to repeat tomorrow

Living is good



Me!  I did not tread in any doggy doo doo

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 25, 2014, 11:30:44 PM

Coffee happened. And an overjoyed puppy was all over me when I got up.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on September 26, 2014, 01:57:31 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 25, 2014, 11:30:44 PM

Coffee happened. And an overjoyed puppy was all over me when I got up.

Aaw do you have a puppy odeon?  or did you just leave your back door open and one wondered in?

I have been away so not upto date?  What name is the puppy? post a pic please?
I love puppies.  I love dogs.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 26, 2014, 12:23:27 PM

Quote from: bodie on September 26, 2014, 01:57:31 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 25, 2014, 11:30:44 PM

Coffee happened. And an overjoyed puppy was all over me when I got up.

Aaw do you have a puppy odeon?  or did you just leave your back door open and one wondered in?

I have been away so not upto date?  What name is the puppy? post a pic please?
I love puppies.  I love dogs.

We're dog-sitting. Her name is Wilda.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: bodie on September 26, 2014, 12:41:32 PM

She is beautiful.  She looks all snuggly and ready for winter.  Have fun with her.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 26, 2014, 12:42:26 PM

She is an adorable little thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 26, 2014, 02:37:59 PM

Nice name, Wilda.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 26, 2014, 03:55:30 PM

As in Wilda da Beast?

The PR came through her surgery in flying colours.  We asked her how she liked surgery and she gave it a thumbs up.  We were there for 7, but surgery was delayed until about 9.  She went to pre-op for 11 and we were told that surgery was going to be delayed for an hour because they had to re-sterilize one of her implants.  Anyway, she went in for noon and was out for 1:15.

HER WRIST IS STRAIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She has a splint and will get her cast next Friday.  In the meantime, ice and pain meds for 48 hours.

Mom will medicate herself appropriately.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 27, 2014, 02:02:02 AM

Glad to hear it, QV. :)

I don't know how Wilda got her name. I think the kennel named her.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 27, 2014, 04:51:44 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 26, 2014, 03:55:30 PM

As in Wilda da Beast?

The PR came through her surgery in flying colours.  We asked her how she liked surgery and she gave it a thumbs up.  We were there for 7, but surgery was delayed until about 9.  She went to pre-op for 11 and we were told that surgery was going to be delayed for an hour because they had to re-sterilize one of her implants.  Anyway, she went in for noon and was out for 1:15.

HER WRIST IS STRAIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She has a splint and will get her cast next Friday.  In the meantime, ice and pain meds for 48 hours.

Mom will medicate herself appropriately.

Awesome!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 27, 2014, 01:24:02 PM

PA thinks I'm a Pollyana.  Maybe he's right.

The PR is now complaining mightily if you even look at her hand.  Admittedly her fingers look like little sausages, so I've been gently stroking them (what can be seen peeking out of the splint) whenever I pass by.  She's now saying, "I think I regret having surgery." 

I now start the off-the-cuff bullshit on how her body is working as it should, swelling is healing; keep the hand over your heart, etc.  That poor child believes the worst shit from me.  I'll say anything that sounds reasonable or even remotely believable.  And you know what?  I think I'm a damn good Mom for doing it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 27, 2014, 02:44:47 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 27, 2014, 01:24:02 PM

PA thinks I'm a Pollyana.  Maybe he's right.

Pollyana types are nice to be around.  :eyelash:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 28, 2014, 11:17:29 AM

I successfully extracted the broken bolt from the bracket that holds the tension pulley

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on September 28, 2014, 12:45:50 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 28, 2014, 11:17:29 AM

I successfully extracted the broken bolt from the bracket that holds the tension pulley

 :thumbup:

 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on September 29, 2014, 03:59:15 PM

Didn't die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 29, 2014, 06:04:08 PM

Some_Bloke didn't die.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 29, 2014, 10:06:51 PM

 :lol1:

Good for him.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 30, 2014, 07:08:42 PM

That was actually a risky post, because if he did die then I'd look really insensitive.  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 30, 2014, 11:48:32 PM

Where is he?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on October 02, 2014, 06:44:23 PM

 :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 02, 2014, 10:51:23 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 27, 2014, 01:24:02 PM

PA thinks I'm a Pollyana.  Maybe he's right.

The PR is now complaining mightily if you even look at her hand.  Admittedly her fingers look like little sausages, so I've been gently stroking them (what can be seen peeking out of the splint) whenever I pass by.  She's now saying, "I think I regret having surgery." 

I now start the off-the-cuff bullshit on how her body is working as it should, swelling is healing; keep the hand over your heart, etc.  That poor child believes the worst shit from me.  I'll say anything that sounds reasonable or even remotely believable.  And you know what?  I think I'm a damn good Mom for doing it.

I'm pretty sure you are.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 03, 2014, 03:41:57 AM

I don't think the ultrasound guy saw my scarred shoulder. Saw my tattoo though. Anyway, all I have is a bit of bursitis which can be helped with a cortisone injection. I was surprised at how sore it was when he ran the ultrasound device over my shoulder though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 03, 2014, 01:33:48 PM

Is cortisone the first option they go for, with bursitis?

Good that they made the ultrasound btw.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 03, 2014, 10:50:44 PM

I am not sure about the cortisone. I just asked the ultrasound guy what the treatment for bursitis was and that is what he said. He also said my bursitis wasn't very bad. I replied that what prompted me to do something was that my shoulder has been sore for 5 months and not getting any better.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 04, 2014, 03:55:42 AM

Here they go for physiotherapy first, I think. Don't know if they still do, cortisone injection is cheaper, of course.

I had physiotherapy when I had bursitis in my hip.  Worked well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 04, 2014, 10:45:14 AM

I didn't have to go to a birthday party.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 27, 2014, 04:25:26 AM

Yesterday I won $60

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on October 27, 2014, 10:50:27 AM

Congrats, how did you win it?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on October 27, 2014, 12:15:10 PM

Quote from: Parts on October 27, 2014, 04:25:26 AM

Yesterday I won $60

From Megamillions??

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Post by: Queen Victoria on October 27, 2014, 01:58:35 PM

While not cured, my knee feels better after having some fluid drawn off it.

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Post by: odeon on October 27, 2014, 02:06:51 PM

Fixed a bug that I thought would be problematic.

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Post by: Parts on October 27, 2014, 05:46:37 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on October 27, 2014, 10:50:27 AM

Congrats, how did you win it?

5  cent slot machine with the $20 free slot play they sent me as a promotion for signing up last time I went.  I think the other two times I went I spent a total of less than $10 combined and this time I cashed out as soon as I won :green:  Not a big gambler mostly just lotto here and there.

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Post by: Pyraxis on October 27, 2014, 09:16:05 PM

Nice.  :)

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Post by: odeon on October 28, 2014, 12:02:56 AM

Coffee happened.

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Post by: 'andersom' on October 28, 2014, 12:41:48 AM

Your coffee happened in my future. That was weird to see.

I need to adjust the time of I2 to the ending of daylight saving time.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on October 28, 2014, 05:57:45 PM

While at the grocery getting PA's lunch I met someone he breakfasts with.  Sal said that Kenny had PA's glasses.  The other combatant showed up this morning to give them back, claiming the sheriff's deputy put them in his pocket. 

I had picked up the prescription for PA's glasses an hour before.  So, about $150 to $200 saved.

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Post by: Parts on October 30, 2014, 06:22:33 PM

I got a lot done today

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Post by: Queen Victoria on October 30, 2014, 08:01:36 PM

On a whim I checked the balance in the checking account.  We have 3 cents.  I transferred some $ from savings.  One check comes tomorrow, but I wanted a bit of a cushion.

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Post by: Pyraxis on October 30, 2014, 10:09:43 PM

Found some beautiful piano covers on YouTube for Kalafina which make me wish I still had access to a piano.

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Post by: odeon on October 30, 2014, 11:23:26 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 28, 2014, 12:41:48 AM

Your coffee happened in my future. That was weird to see.

I need to adjust the time of I2 to the ending of daylight saving time.

I *am* from the future. :zoinks:

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Post by: 'andersom' on October 31, 2014, 06:50:36 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 30, 2014, 08:01:36 PM

On a whim I checked the balance in the checking account.  We have 3 cents.  I transferred some $ from savings.  One check comes tomorrow, but I wanted a bit of a cushion.

Should I see it as positive that I have about €3 on the checking account? Savingsaccount has about the same amount.  :-\

Money will be in today. Very much needed. Shoes and other necessities happened last month. And I have to start doing some serious budgeting. Healthcare will be paid out of insurance, but the extra traveling costs we have at the moment not. Right now the extra costs vary between €100 and €160 a month.

Birthdays are coming up. Thank goodness our St. Nic tradition will not cost a lot. And X-mas is not a real biggie either.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on November 06, 2014, 07:18:17 PM

The PR had her cast taken off and is wearing a day splint for the next 4 weeks.  The incision is beautiful, no sign of redness, bumps, etc. 

We don't expect much more than this because she really couldn't use the hand before.  But at least the pain is gone and the arm appears more normal.  She is over the moon.

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Post by: Gopher Gary on November 06, 2014, 08:21:16 PM

 :2thumbsup:

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Post by: 'andersom' on November 07, 2014, 03:02:07 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 06, 2014, 07:18:17 PM

The PR had her cast taken off and is wearing a day splint for the next 4 weeks.  The incision is beautiful, no sign of redness, bumps, etc. 

We don't expect much more than this because she really couldn't use the hand before.  But at least the pain is gone and the arm appears more normal.  She is over the moon.

I was about to ask about the PR and her hand. Awesome news. Great to have her without pain. Does she have any sensations at all in her hand?

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Post by: Parts on November 08, 2014, 04:43:58 PM

Got paid CASH

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Post by: Queen Victoria on November 08, 2014, 08:07:53 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on November 07, 2014, 03:02:07 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 06, 2014, 07:18:17 PM

The PR had her cast taken off and is wearing a day splint for the next 4 weeks.  The incision is beautiful, no sign of redness, bumps, etc. 

We don't expect much more than this because she really couldn't use the hand before.  But at least the pain is gone and the arm appears more normal.  She is over the moon.

I was about to ask about the PR and her hand. Awesome news. Great to have her without pain. Does she have any sensations at all in her hand?

She does have feeling, usually when you try to stretch the fingers.

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Post by: odeon on November 09, 2014, 02:09:38 AM

Coffee happened.

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Post by: 'andersom' on November 10, 2014, 04:01:19 AM

Coffee happened here too. And, got one kid out to school. Yay.

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Post by: Arya Quinn on November 10, 2014, 02:16:35 PM

Got my laptop back

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Post by: 'andersom' on November 10, 2014, 03:34:48 PM

^ your laptop got you back here.

 :party:

Good to see you back, Some_Bloke.

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Post by: Jack on November 10, 2014, 07:22:57 PM

Welcome back.

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Post by: Pyraxis on November 10, 2014, 09:24:19 PM

Got an enthusiastic lesson in vector transforms and basic matrix math.

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Post by: Arya Quinn on November 10, 2014, 09:28:25 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on November 10, 2014, 03:34:48 PM

^ your laptop got you back here.

Yes, my laptop and I go on many journeys across the internet together. Everywhere from cute pug videos on youtube to the darker corners of the internet where horrors lie waiting for us in the form of the Ogrelord.

Nothing is sacred on the internet. You just need to know where to look.  :GA: :GA: :GA:

Quote from: Pyraxis on November 10, 2014, 09:24:19 PM

Got an enthusiastic lesson in vector transforms and basic matrix math.

If that Matrix math allows you to do cool stuff like this:

(http://www.metaltoad.com/sites/default/files/bullet-time.gif)

Please teach me a thing or two  :zoinks:

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Post by: Pyraxis on November 10, 2014, 10:59:30 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on November 10, 2014, 09:28:25 PM

If that Matrix math allows you to do cool stuff like this:

(http://www.metaltoad.com/sites/default/files/bullet-time.gif)

Please teach me a thing or two  :zoinks:

Well yes, actually, that camera transform was done with matrix math.  :P

It involves having two coordinate systems, one based on the world and the other based on your point of view, and then multiplying vectors from one to the other to calculate what Neo looks like at each angle.

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Post by: odeon on November 11, 2014, 12:56:39 AM

Vector analysis is cool. Clearly. :P

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Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 12, 2014, 04:15:28 AM

Got my car serviced.

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Post by: Parts on November 12, 2014, 05:39:29 PM

They fixed my connection and I have tv and internet at home again

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Post by: odeon on November 13, 2014, 02:16:22 AM

I had coffee. I posted here. I didn't fall to pieces.

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Post by: skyblue1 on November 13, 2014, 05:47:12 AM

^ditto

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Post by: Parts on November 14, 2014, 03:10:38 PM

Got paid CASH for the attic I worked on today:2thumbsup:

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Post by: Parts on November 15, 2014, 03:56:16 PM

Found out that all the Bess Eaton coffee shops didn't close there are four of five left up on the RI boarder. 

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Post by: Arya Quinn on November 15, 2014, 07:59:28 PM

People near the bus station were giving out free hot chocolate and it wasn't drugged.

They were promoting some Christmas menu thing. I took the hot chocolate and then around 15 minutes later I binned the menu thing. I hate Christmas, but love hot chocolate.

:santa: :litigious:

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Post by: odeon on November 16, 2014, 04:36:33 AM

Posted here. It's good to unwind here sometimes.

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Post by: 'andersom' on November 16, 2014, 04:37:30 AM

There are days I2 is the only sane place to be.  :hyke:

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Post by: odeon on November 16, 2014, 04:39:28 AM

And that is saying something. :zoinks:

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Post by: 'andersom' on November 16, 2014, 04:42:57 AM

does tell something about my life.  :hahaha:

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Post by: odeon on November 16, 2014, 05:19:39 AM

I'm feeling very sane today. :M

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Post by: Hannah on November 16, 2014, 07:25:25 PM

I laughed my head off, is always a good thing  ;) I also went to the gym and worked out, didn't note the guys that were  :bounce: whatever at me because honestly I'm there to work out not get a date... :asthing:

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Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on November 16, 2014, 07:30:34 PM

Quote from: Mia Wallace on November 12, 2014, 04:15:28 AM

Got my car serviced.

I've never heard that euphamism for sex before.   :orly:

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Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 17, 2014, 04:11:56 AM

My car has never been to a hooker :P

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Post by: odeon on November 19, 2014, 03:03:12 AM

Is this an important distinction to make? :P

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Post by: Parts on November 19, 2014, 04:59:55 PM

I got call backs on two jobs I bid asking when I can get to them

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Post by: 'andersom' on November 23, 2014, 04:16:06 AM

Flu is leaving. Leaving us behind slightly weakened, dizzy and such. And, in case of my girls, much thinner. But, it is gone.
Youngest looks like a skin covered skeleton. But, both girls are eating proper food again.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on November 23, 2014, 05:25:54 PM

Today was spent away from fire related duties.  PA and I had milk shakes for lunch. 

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Post by: Pyraxis on December 02, 2014, 05:47:34 PM

Today was all-around awesome. Had a full day training session at work on a subject that I'm really interested in, and got to mess around with some ideas for new projects. Afterwards, a certain phone call went really well and it gives me hope for the future.

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Post by: Semicolon on December 03, 2014, 10:55:50 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 02, 2014, 05:47:34 PM

Today was all-around awesome. Had a full day training session at work on a subject that I'm really interested in, and got to mess around with some ideas for new projects. Afterwards, a certain phone call went really well and it gives me hope for the future.

Fuck yeah! :viking:

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Post by: Parts on December 03, 2014, 08:12:41 PM

A Happy customer recommended me to multiple people

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Post by: odeon on December 03, 2014, 11:58:17 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 02, 2014, 05:47:34 PM

Today was all-around awesome. Had a full day training session at work on a subject that I'm really interested in, and got to mess around with some ideas for new projects. Afterwards, a certain phone call went really well and it gives me hope for the future.

 :thumbup:

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Post by: Jack on December 05, 2014, 02:49:40 PM

Received an award at work today.

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Post by: Pyraxis on December 05, 2014, 05:27:04 PM

What was the award for?

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Post by: Jack on December 05, 2014, 05:52:44 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 05, 2014, 05:27:04 PM

What was the award for?

Being accepting to forward momentum and change, I guess. End of the year recognition awards, two of my team members and I received awards. We have a new software application used corporate wide, a new master data source, which our department has been willing to take on responsibilities of other departments who were combative to the new system and it's processes. Of course, we were individually praised for other accomplishments within the department, but I think our acceptance for change was the big ticket; we're making it happen and without complaining. I personally was praised for developing new auditing tools and processes for our department which align with the new application, saves time, promotes efficiency and better data integrity. It was stated my personal level of accuracy is 'unparalleled'. :M Pats on the back are nice, but this was my favorite type of recognition, cash. :laugh:

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Post by: sg1008 on December 05, 2014, 08:27:24 PM

Quote from: Jack on December 05, 2014, 05:52:44 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 05, 2014, 05:27:04 PM

What was the award for?

Being accepting to forward momentum and change, I guess. End of the year recognition awards, two of my team members and I received awards. We have a new software application used corporate wide, a new master data source, which our department has been willing to take on responsibilities of other departments who were combative to the new system and it's processes. Of course, we were individually praised for other accomplishments within the department, but I think our acceptance for change was the big ticket; we're making it happen and without complaining. I personally was praised for developing new auditing tools and processes for our department which align with the new application, saves time, promotes efficiency and better data integrity. It was stated my personal level of accuracy is 'unparalleled'. :M Pats on the back are nice, but this was my favorite type of recognition, cash. :laugh:

Ohh, does this mean you'll buy us all a round of drinks??  :eyebrows:

Congrats Jack, sounds like it was a nice, perk-filled day!

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Post by: Jack on December 06, 2014, 02:36:22 PM

Thanks, SG. :)

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Post by: Parts on December 06, 2014, 05:19:04 PM

I went to the first time to Hobby Lobby and found so many things I have been looking for at other hobby and art stores without success.

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Post by: odeon on December 07, 2014, 02:53:20 AM

Technically this happened the day before yesterday, but I forgot to post about it: I was contacted by a recruiter about a job that seems to be a good match for me.

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Post by: 'andersom' on December 07, 2014, 03:44:48 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 07, 2014, 02:53:20 AM

Technically this happened the day before yesterday, but I forgot to post about it: I was contacted by a recruiter about a job that seems to be a good match for me.

Nice!

Want to tell more?

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Post by: sg1008 on December 07, 2014, 09:42:14 AM

It's my mom's birthday today.  :)

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Post by: Gopher Gary on December 07, 2014, 07:04:32 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 07, 2014, 02:53:20 AM

Technically this happened the day before yesterday, but I forgot to post about it: I was contacted by a recruiter about a job that seems to be a good match for me.

Does this mean you're moving to America?  :zoinks:

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Post by: odeon on December 07, 2014, 11:52:12 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 07, 2014, 03:44:48 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 07, 2014, 02:53:20 AM

Technically this happened the day before yesterday, but I forgot to post about it: I was contacted by a recruiter about a job that seems to be a good match for me.

Nice!

Want to tell more?

Well, the first thing that happened when I said yes to the recruiter was that I got an aptitude and skills test that I spent yesterday doing. We'll see. I don't want to jinx it.

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Post by: odeon on December 07, 2014, 11:52:49 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on December 07, 2014, 07:04:32 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 07, 2014, 02:53:20 AM

Technically this happened the day before yesterday, but I forgot to post about it: I was contacted by a recruiter about a job that seems to be a good match for me.

Does this mean you're moving to America?  :zoinks:

With fries. :zoinks:

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Post by: sg1008 on December 08, 2014, 12:40:14 AM

Confronted someone in a very polite manner. Basically strongly reminded them of something they said they'd do long ago, and made suggestions every time they evaded making plans to do it....I finally figured out the issue. And now I have a solution.

I don't get people who are so proud. We were prepared to deal with the issue happily, but she insisted she could take care of it- I mean, she didn't have to insist, it was going to be taken care of. But her insistence stopped us. Months later it is not done and she is too proud to admit she cannot take care of it....and I wonder if she ever had the intention of doing so in the first place. wtf!!!!

But I am glad I got it out of her. So now I will take care of it while she is not around so she needn't object.

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Post by: 'andersom' on December 08, 2014, 05:02:33 AM

Youngest is doing great. Got a long way to go, but that is OK. She surprised me every day last week, in a good way.

Oldest is turning 17 today. In one hour and 15 minutes she will be 17 exactly.

She's as cute as she was back then. But added some mischief and fun to her persona. She also grew a bit bigger.

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Post by: Semicolon on December 08, 2014, 10:03:56 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 05, 2014, 08:27:24 PM

Quote from: Jack on December 05, 2014, 05:52:44 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 05, 2014, 05:27:04 PM

What was the award for?

Being accepting to forward momentum and change, I guess. End of the year recognition awards, two of my team members and I received awards. We have a new software application used corporate wide, a new master data source, which our department has been willing to take on responsibilities of other departments who were combative to the new system and it's processes. Of course, we were individually praised for other accomplishments within the department, but I think our acceptance for change was the big ticket; we're making it happen and without complaining. I personally was praised for developing new auditing tools and processes for our department which align with the new application, saves time, promotes efficiency and better data integrity. It was stated my personal level of accuracy is 'unparalleled'. :M Pats on the back are nice, but this was my favorite type of recognition, cash. :laugh:

Ohh, does this mean you'll buy us all a round of drinks??  :eyebrows:

Congrats Jack, sounds like it was a nice, perk-filled day!

Yes, congratulations. Here we all are, celebrating:

:mastodon: :cbc: :hyke: :M :chicken: :moomin:

Quote from: odeon on December 07, 2014, 11:52:12 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 07, 2014, 03:44:48 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 07, 2014, 02:53:20 AM

Technically this happened the day before yesterday, but I forgot to post about it: I was contacted by a recruiter about a job that seems to be a good match for me.

Nice!

Want to tell more?

Well, the first thing that happened when I said yes to the recruiter was that I got an aptitude and skills test that I spent yesterday doing. We'll see. I don't want to jinx it.

Headhunters who give tests? :GA:

Quote from: odeon on December 07, 2014, 11:52:49 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on December 07, 2014, 07:04:32 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 07, 2014, 02:53:20 AM

Technically this happened the day before yesterday, but I forgot to post about it: I was contacted by a recruiter about a job that seems to be a good match for me.

Does this mean you're moving to America?  :zoinks:

With fries. :zoinks:

:arrr:

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 08, 2014, 05:02:33 AM

Youngest is doing great. Got a long way to go, but that is OK. She surprised me every day last week, in a good way.

Oldest is turning 17 today. In one hour and 15 minutes she will be 17 exactly.

She's as cute as she was back then. But added some mischief and fun to her persona. She also grew a bit bigger.

Having a birthday so close to Sinterklaasavond must be rough. :-\

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Post by: 'andersom' on December 08, 2014, 03:12:12 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 08, 2014, 10:03:56 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 08, 2014, 05:02:33 AM

Youngest is doing great. Got a long way to go, but that is OK. She surprised me every day last week, in a good way.

Oldest is turning 17 today. In one hour and 15 minutes she will be 17 exactly.

She's as cute as she was back then. But added some mischief and fun to her persona. She also grew a bit bigger.

Having a birthday so close to Sinterklaasavond must be rough. :-\

I'm slowly getting used to it. Often I proposed to the girls to let Sinterklaas visit us in summer. But they never wanted that.

I was happy she was not born on Sinterklaas or Christmas. That would have been tougher.

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Post by: Semicolon on December 08, 2014, 03:19:38 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 08, 2014, 03:12:12 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 08, 2014, 10:03:56 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 08, 2014, 05:02:33 AM

Youngest is doing great. Got a long way to go, but that is OK. She surprised me every day last week, in a good way.

Oldest is turning 17 today. In one hour and 15 minutes she will be 17 exactly.

She's as cute as she was back then. But added some mischief and fun to her persona. She also grew a bit bigger.

Having a birthday so close to Sinterklaasavond must be rough. :-\

I'm slowly getting used to it. Often I proposed to the girls to let Sinterklaas visit us in summer. But they never wanted that.

I was happy she was not born on Sinterklaas or Christmas. That would have been tougher.

Sinterklaas visits Australia during the summer. :GA:

Being born on Christmas could be fun, especially if you don't give gifts that day. :santa: I've read of articles and books that will tell you which famous people share your birthday. Being born on Christmas would be a trump card. :laugh:

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Post by: 'andersom' on December 08, 2014, 03:37:43 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 08, 2014, 03:19:38 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 08, 2014, 03:12:12 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 08, 2014, 10:03:56 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 08, 2014, 05:02:33 AM

Youngest is doing great. Got a long way to go, but that is OK. She surprised me every day last week, in a good way.

Oldest is turning 17 today. In one hour and 15 minutes she will be 17 exactly.

She's as cute as she was back then. But added some mischief and fun to her persona. She also grew a bit bigger.

Having a birthday so close to Sinterklaasavond must be rough. :-\

I'm slowly getting used to it. Often I proposed to the girls to let Sinterklaas visit us in summer. But they never wanted that.

I was happy she was not born on Sinterklaas or Christmas. That would have been tougher.

Sinterklaas visits Australia during the summer. :GA:

Being born on Christmas could be fun, especially if you don't give gifts that day. :santa: I've read of articles and books that will tell you which famous people share your birthday. Being born on Christmas would be a trump card. :laugh:

Wikipedia has lists like that.

Some famous murders on the BD of my daughter (already knew that). And I just could not resist telling her she had to share this BD with Nicki Minaj.

She was not pleased.  :laugh:

There are some good names on the list too though.

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Post by: sg1008 on December 08, 2014, 05:16:28 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 08, 2014, 05:02:33 AM

Youngest is doing great. Got a long way to go, but that is OK. She surprised me every day last week, in a good way.

Oldest is turning 17 today. In one hour and 15 minutes she will be 17 exactly.

She's as cute as she was back then. But added some mischief and fun to her persona. She also grew a bit bigger.

Your daughter shares a birthday with my little brother. He is 23 today.

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Post by: 'andersom' on December 09, 2014, 03:38:35 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 08, 2014, 05:16:28 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 08, 2014, 05:02:33 AM

Youngest is doing great. Got a long way to go, but that is OK. She surprised me every day last week, in a good way.

Oldest is turning 17 today. In one hour and 15 minutes she will be 17 exactly.

She's as cute as she was back then. But added some mischief and fun to her persona. She also grew a bit bigger.

Your daughter shares a birthday with my little brother. He is 23 today.

Congratulations.

Did he come as a BD present for your mother?

Is he as cute as my daughter is?

How many brothers do you have?

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Post by: Pyraxis on December 09, 2014, 12:22:46 PM

I did not fall asleep at work this morning and actually got something done, despite having been up till stupid o'clock last night.

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Post by: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 07:06:31 PM

I had one of those weird dreams at work, where I was dreaming, and then I "woke up", and everything was exactly the same as real life except I noticed the time was 7:30pm and I was freaking out that I had slept that long, and then I actually woke up and the time was still early. And then it happened again.

It was weird...waking up twice.

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Post by: Gopher Gary on December 09, 2014, 07:09:20 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 07:06:31 PM

I had one of those weird dreams at work, where I was dreaming, and then I "woke up", and everything was exactly the same as real life except I noticed the time was 7:30pm and I was freaking out that I had slept that long, and then I actually woke up and the time was still early. And then it happened again.

It was weird...waking up twice.

I've never dreamed about waking up and still be dreaming. I thought that only happened in the movies.  :zoinks:

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Post by: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 07:22:24 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on December 09, 2014, 07:09:20 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 07:06:31 PM

I had one of those weird dreams at work, where I was dreaming, and then I "woke up", and everything was exactly the same as real life except I noticed the time was 7:30pm and I was freaking out that I had slept that long, and then I actually woke up and the time was still early. And then it happened again.

It was weird...waking up twice.

I've never dreamed about waking up and still be dreaming. I thought that only happened in the movies.  :zoinks:

Me too. But now...since it happened twice I know it's possible. Crazy eh?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 09, 2014, 10:22:41 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 07:22:24 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on December 09, 2014, 07:09:20 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 07:06:31 PM

I had one of those weird dreams at work, where I was dreaming, and then I "woke up", and everything was exactly the same as real life except I noticed the time was 7:30pm and I was freaking out that I had slept that long, and then I actually woke up and the time was still early. And then it happened again.

It was weird...waking up twice.

I've never dreamed about waking up and still be dreaming. I thought that only happened in the movies.  :zoinks:

Me too. But now...since it happened twice I know it's possible. Crazy eh?

(http://www.cilliansite.com/assets/images/blog-pics/2009-08/25-inception-top.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 11:43:27 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2014, 10:22:41 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 07:22:24 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on December 09, 2014, 07:09:20 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 07:06:31 PM

I had one of those weird dreams at work, where I was dreaming, and then I "woke up", and everything was exactly the same as real life except I noticed the time was 7:30pm and I was freaking out that I had slept that long, and then I actually woke up and the time was still early. And then it happened again.

It was weird...waking up twice.

I've never dreamed about waking up and still be dreaming. I thought that only happened in the movies.  :zoinks:

Me too. But now...since it happened twice I know it's possible. Crazy eh?

(http://www.cilliansite.com/assets/images/blog-pics/2009-08/25-inception-top.jpg)

A dreidel?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 10, 2014, 12:08:22 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 11:43:27 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2014, 10:22:41 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 07:22:24 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on December 09, 2014, 07:09:20 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 07:06:31 PM

I had one of those weird dreams at work, where I was dreaming, and then I "woke up", and everything was exactly the same as real life except I noticed the time was 7:30pm and I was freaking out that I had slept that long, and then I actually woke up and the time was still early. And then it happened again.

It was weird...waking up twice.

I've never dreamed about waking up and still be dreaming. I thought that only happened in the movies.  :zoinks:

Me too. But now...since it happened twice I know it's possible. Crazy eh?

(http://www.cilliansite.com/assets/images/blog-pics/2009-08/25-inception-top.jpg)

A dreidel?

A totem. Link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception)

A dreidel has a square cross-section. :nerdy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 10, 2014, 02:35:09 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 08, 2014, 10:03:56 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 07, 2014, 11:52:12 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 07, 2014, 03:44:48 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 07, 2014, 02:53:20 AM

Technically this happened the day before yesterday, but I forgot to post about it: I was contacted by a recruiter about a job that seems to be a good match for me.

Nice!

Want to tell more?

Well, the first thing that happened when I said yes to the recruiter was that I got an aptitude and skills test that I spent yesterday doing. We'll see. I don't want to jinx it.

Headhunters who give tests? :GA:

:orly:

I'm going to talk to them in about 45 minutes.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on December 10, 2014, 02:44:12 AM

^ Good Luck :2thumbsup:


As for me my credit file came back clean.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on December 10, 2014, 02:46:02 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 10, 2014, 12:08:22 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 11:43:27 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2014, 10:22:41 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 07:22:24 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on December 09, 2014, 07:09:20 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 07:06:31 PM

I had one of those weird dreams at work, where I was dreaming, and then I "woke up", and everything was exactly the same as real life except I noticed the time was 7:30pm and I was freaking out that I had slept that long, and then I actually woke up and the time was still early. And then it happened again.

It was weird...waking up twice.

I've never dreamed about waking up and still be dreaming. I thought that only happened in the movies.  :zoinks:

Me too. But now...since it happened twice I know it's possible. Crazy eh?

(http://www.cilliansite.com/assets/images/blog-pics/2009-08/25-inception-top.jpg)

A dreidel?

A totem. Link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception)

A dreidel has a square cross-section. :nerdy:

Interesting. When you posted the photo my initial thought was "inception", but I couldn't reason how that thing reminded me of it. Must have had it lodged in my memory.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 10, 2014, 07:56:48 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 10, 2014, 02:35:09 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 08, 2014, 10:03:56 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 07, 2014, 11:52:12 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 07, 2014, 03:44:48 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 07, 2014, 02:53:20 AM

Technically this happened the day before yesterday, but I forgot to post about it: I was contacted by a recruiter about a job that seems to be a good match for me.

Nice!

Want to tell more?

Well, the first thing that happened when I said yes to the recruiter was that I got an aptitude and skills test that I spent yesterday doing. We'll see. I don't want to jinx it.

Headhunters who give tests? :GA:

:orly:

I'm going to talk to them in about 45 minutes.

If you get recruited, ask for more money than you think they'll offer. They've already gone to the trouble of selecting you. :thumbup:

Quote from: sg1008 on December 10, 2014, 02:46:02 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 10, 2014, 12:08:22 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 11:43:27 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2014, 10:22:41 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 07:22:24 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on December 09, 2014, 07:09:20 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 07:06:31 PM

I had one of those weird dreams at work, where I was dreaming, and then I "woke up", and everything was exactly the same as real life except I noticed the time was 7:30pm and I was freaking out that I had slept that long, and then I actually woke up and the time was still early. And then it happened again.

It was weird...waking up twice.

I've never dreamed about waking up and still be dreaming. I thought that only happened in the movies.  :zoinks:

Me too. But now...since it happened twice I know it's possible. Crazy eh?

(http://www.cilliansite.com/assets/images/blog-pics/2009-08/25-inception-top.jpg)

A dreidel?

A totem. Link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception)

A dreidel has a square cross-section. :nerdy:

Interesting. When you posted the photo my initial thought was "inception", but I couldn't reason how that thing reminded me of it. Must have had it lodged in my memory.

Perhaps I put that thought there. :tinfoil:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 11, 2014, 12:46:56 AM

Happened yesterday, but...

I was interviewed for a job. The interview went really well. At least I think it did.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 11, 2014, 07:59:49 PM

I finally have my tablet and the internet talking to each other. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 11, 2014, 10:11:56 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 11, 2014, 12:46:56 AM

Happened yesterday, but...

I was interviewed for a job. The interview went really well. At least I think it did.

Hopefully, this job is less stressful. :spaz:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 11, 2014, 11:46:27 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 11, 2014, 10:11:56 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 11, 2014, 12:46:56 AM

Happened yesterday, but...

I was interviewed for a job. The interview went really well. At least I think it did.

Hopefully, this job is less stressful. :spaz:

Not there yet.

But I got invited to a second interview yesterday. I'm talking to them again next week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 12, 2014, 11:57:12 AM

*cheers Odeon on*

Is it an interesting position? Like with somewhat compelling problems to solve?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on December 12, 2014, 03:59:45 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 12, 2014, 11:57:12 AM

*cheers Odeon on*

Is it an interesting position? Like with somewhat compelling problems to solve?

I heard he was going to be working on new software for the NSA..... :tinfoil:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 12, 2014, 05:43:24 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 12, 2014, 03:59:45 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 12, 2014, 11:57:12 AM

*cheers Odeon on*

Is it an interesting position? Like with somewhat compelling problems to solve?

I heard he was going to be working on new software for the NSA..... :tinfoil:

He can post the source code here. We'll debug it for him. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on December 12, 2014, 08:39:42 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 10, 2014, 07:56:48 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 10, 2014, 02:46:02 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 10, 2014, 12:08:22 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 11:43:27 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 09, 2014, 10:22:41 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 07:22:24 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on December 09, 2014, 07:09:20 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 09, 2014, 07:06:31 PM

I had one of those weird dreams at work, where I was dreaming, and then I "woke up", and everything was exactly the same as real life except I noticed the time was 7:30pm and I was freaking out that I had slept that long, and then I actually woke up and the time was still early. And then it happened again.

It was weird...waking up twice.

I've never dreamed about waking up and still be dreaming. I thought that only happened in the movies.  :zoinks:

Me too. But now...since it happened twice I know it's possible. Crazy eh?

(http://www.cilliansite.com/assets/images/blog-pics/2009-08/25-inception-top.jpg)

A dreidel?

A totem. Link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception)

A dreidel has a square cross-section. :nerdy:

Interesting. When you posted the photo my initial thought was "inception", but I couldn't reason how that thing reminded me of it. Must have had it lodged in my memory.

Perhaps I put that thought there. :tinfoil:

:tinfoil:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on December 12, 2014, 08:40:21 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 12, 2014, 05:43:24 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 12, 2014, 03:59:45 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 12, 2014, 11:57:12 AM

*cheers Odeon on*

Is it an interesting position? Like with somewhat compelling problems to solve?

I heard he was going to be working on new software for the NSA..... :tinfoil:

He can post the source code here. We'll debug it for him. :zoinks:

 :mischief:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 12, 2014, 08:53:38 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 12, 2014, 08:40:21 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 12, 2014, 05:43:24 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 12, 2014, 03:59:45 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 12, 2014, 11:57:12 AM

*cheers Odeon on*

Is it an interesting position? Like with somewhat compelling problems to solve?

I heard he was going to be working on new software for the NSA..... :tinfoil:

He can post the source code here. We'll debug it for him. :zoinks:

 :mischief:

That smiley creeps him out. :twitch:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on December 12, 2014, 08:55:51 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 12, 2014, 08:53:38 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 12, 2014, 08:40:21 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 12, 2014, 05:43:24 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 12, 2014, 03:59:45 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 12, 2014, 11:57:12 AM

*cheers Odeon on*

Is it an interesting position? Like with somewhat compelling problems to solve?

I heard he was going to be working on new software for the NSA..... :tinfoil:

He can post the source code here. We'll debug it for him. :zoinks:

 :mischief:

That smiley creeps him out. :twitch:

Why are you speaking for him? Have you been authorised to be Odeon's spokesperson? hmmm? hmmmmmmmm?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 12, 2014, 10:15:46 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 12, 2014, 08:55:51 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 12, 2014, 08:53:38 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 12, 2014, 08:40:21 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 12, 2014, 05:43:24 PM

He can post the source code here. We'll debug it for him. :zoinks:

 :mischief:

That smiley creeps him out. :twitch:

Why are you speaking for him? Have you been authorised to be Odeon's spokesperson? hmmm? hmmmmmmmm?

Quote from: odeon on June 14, 2014, 02:17:46 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 13, 2014, 05:02:05 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on June 12, 2014, 09:48:55 AM

:mischief:

I can't see that icon without thinking of Bruce. Not a good association.

And neither can I. I've been considering removing that smiley, actually. Gives me the creeps.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on December 12, 2014, 10:31:14 PM

*sigh*

I've heard stories about Bruce. Not keen on stirring up those apparently traumatic memories.


(btw, I suspected you were going to post a reference lol. you are very encyclopedic about I^2)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 12, 2014, 10:43:59 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 12, 2014, 10:31:14 PM

*sigh*

I've heard stories about Bruce. Not keen on stirring up those apparently traumatic memories.


(btw, I suspected you were going to post a reference lol. you are very encyclopedic about I^2)

I'm an echolalic mastodon; I'm encyclopedic about a lot of things. :P Perhaps I'm a spastic. :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 13, 2014, 02:47:06 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 12, 2014, 11:57:12 AM

*cheers Odeon on*

Is it an interesting position? Like with somewhat compelling problems to solve?

Extremely interesting, in fact. The job description is great and the people there seem to know what they're talking about.

The downside seems to be that they may not be able to afford me. I got an email from their recruiter yesterday, where she suggested that they may not be able to match my salary expectations and wanted to know what my expectations are. I replied, saying that what I listed is pretty much where I want our discussions to start.

Haven't received a reply yet and so won't receive one until Monday. It'll be interesting to see if the 2d interview still stands.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 13, 2014, 02:48:09 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 12, 2014, 03:59:45 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 12, 2014, 11:57:12 AM

*cheers Odeon on*

Is it an interesting position? Like with somewhat compelling problems to solve?

I heard he was going to be working on new software for the NSA..... :tinfoil:

I've read you emails. Be careful. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 13, 2014, 02:49:09 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 12, 2014, 08:53:38 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 12, 2014, 08:40:21 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on December 12, 2014, 05:43:24 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 12, 2014, 03:59:45 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 12, 2014, 11:57:12 AM

*cheers Odeon on*

Is it an interesting position? Like with somewhat compelling problems to solve?

I heard he was going to be working on new software for the NSA..... :tinfoil:

He can post the source code here. We'll debug it for him. :zoinks:

 :mischief:

That smiley creeps him out. :twitch:

Because it reminds me of watsisname that turned out to be a closet paedo.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 13, 2014, 02:50:04 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 12, 2014, 10:31:14 PM

*sigh*

I've heard stories about Bruce. Not keen on stirring up those apparently traumatic memories.


(btw, I suspected you were going to post a reference lol. you are very encyclopedic about I^2)

Bruce :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on December 15, 2014, 05:49:38 PM

Husband said I'm a scholar and a gentleman. :M

:laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 15, 2014, 07:36:51 PM

Quote from: Jack on December 15, 2014, 05:49:38 PM

Husband said I'm a scholar and a gentleman. :M

:laugh:

 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on December 15, 2014, 08:09:49 PM

I'm a student again! waaaahoooooo! I'm doubly happy because now I can get my sleep schedule normalised again.  :happydance:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 16, 2014, 12:15:59 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 15, 2014, 08:09:49 PM

I'm a student again! waaaahoooooo! I'm doubly happy because now I can get my sleep schedule normalised again.  :happydance:

Explain, please.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on December 16, 2014, 03:11:44 AM

Insurance money came in this morning.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 17, 2014, 12:46:52 AM

Coffee, and the fact that I decided to work from home today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on December 17, 2014, 12:51:17 AM

 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 17, 2014, 04:56:42 PM

A nice Christmas tree was bought.  Waiting for the branches to settle before decorating it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on December 17, 2014, 05:57:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 16, 2014, 12:15:59 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 15, 2014, 08:09:49 PM

I'm a student again! waaaahoooooo! I'm doubly happy because now I can get my sleep schedule normalised again.  :happydance:

Explain, please.

Indeed. Congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on December 18, 2014, 12:55:00 AM

Quote from: Jack on December 17, 2014, 05:57:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 16, 2014, 12:15:59 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 15, 2014, 08:09:49 PM

I'm a student again! waaaahoooooo! I'm doubly happy because now I can get my sleep schedule normalised again.  :happydance:

Explain, please.

Indeed. Congratulations.

Thanks! I have a teacher and am going to study islamic theology (fiqh). I want to also study vedas and am cultivating an interest in qigong, but one thing at a time. Doing this while at the same time taking free online law and philosophy courses.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 20, 2014, 04:01:20 AM

Cool. Why all this?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 20, 2014, 10:05:54 AM

It is Christmas break.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on December 20, 2014, 10:12:50 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 18, 2014, 12:55:00 AM

Quote from: Jack on December 17, 2014, 05:57:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 16, 2014, 12:15:59 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 15, 2014, 08:09:49 PM

I'm a student again! waaaahoooooo! I'm doubly happy because now I can get my sleep schedule normalised again.  :happydance:

Explain, please.

Indeed. Congratulations.

Thanks! I have a teacher and am going to study islamic theology (fiqh). I want to also study vedas and am cultivating an interest in qigong, but one thing at a time. Doing this while at the same time taking free online law and philosophy courses.  :green:

That's awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 20, 2014, 11:29:03 AM

Finally got a check for the renovation I finished over a week ago

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 20, 2014, 01:33:39 PM

Work has started on the house!      :asthing: :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on December 20, 2014, 02:36:53 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 20, 2014, 01:33:39 PM

Work has started on the house!      :asthing: :asthing:

Woo Hoo!! :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on December 20, 2014, 02:58:48 PM

Technically received yesterday, but a very important person within the industry hand crafted a Christmas gift and shipped it from the north east to me. Have never met her. Was also informed my presence has been requested to visit and tour our north eastern facility, so the company will be flying me there in the near future. Not sure why am suddenly receiving so much praise and attention. Husband said someone important wants me up there to work for them. Told him that's silly; already work for them and don't need to live there to do that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on December 20, 2014, 05:12:42 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on December 20, 2014, 02:36:53 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 20, 2014, 01:33:39 PM

Work has started on the house!      :asthing: :asthing:

Woo Hoo!! :woohoo:

Very good. Have they made an estimation on when they hope to finish it?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 20, 2014, 07:20:34 PM

Decorated the Christmas tree.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 20, 2014, 08:07:25 PM

They are replacing the burned rafters and the roof shingles, burned soffit and fascia.  They will replace the undamaged, but in need of repairs flat roof on the carport.  Front windows will be next.  Then discussions with the HVAC, electrician, etc.  Still a long ways to go. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 21, 2014, 03:42:26 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 20, 2014, 08:07:25 PM

They are replacing the burned rafters and the roof shingles, burned soffit and fascia.  They will replace the undamaged, but in need of repairs flat roof on the carport.  Front windows will be next.  Then discussions with the HVAC, electrician, etc.  Still a long ways to go. 

But at least it's happening. :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on December 21, 2014, 03:45:52 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 20, 2014, 08:07:25 PM

They are replacing the burned rafters and the roof shingles, burned soffit and fascia.  They will replace the undamaged, but in need of repairs flat roof on the carport.  Front windows will be next.  Then discussions with the HVAC, electrician, etc.  Still a long ways to go.

Hope for you the discussions with the HVAC will bring you a less moldy place to live in.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 21, 2014, 10:15:57 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 20, 2014, 08:07:25 PM

They are replacing the burned rafters and the roof shingles, burned soffit and fascia.  They will replace the undamaged, but in need of repairs flat roof on the carport.  Front windows will be next.  Then discussions with the HVAC, electrician, etc.  Still a long ways to go.

Once it gets going it will move along fairly quick at least that's my experience with fire insurance jobs the hard part is almost always getting things started.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 21, 2014, 04:09:58 PM

Quote from: Jack on December 20, 2014, 02:58:48 PM

Technically received yesterday, but a very important person within the industry hand crafted a Christmas gift and shipped it from the north east to me. Have never met her. Was also informed my presence has been requested to visit and tour our north eastern facility, so the company will be flying me there in the near future. Not sure why am suddenly receiving so much praise and attention. Husband said someone important wants me up there to work for them. Told him that's silly; already work for them and don't need to live there to do that.

But if you move to New England, you can move in with CBC and yell at her in person for not posting more. :orly:

:M :cbc: :heisenberg:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 21, 2014, 10:05:18 PM

Quote from: Parts on December 21, 2014, 10:15:57 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 20, 2014, 08:07:25 PM

They are replacing the burned rafters and the roof shingles, burned soffit and fascia.  They will replace the undamaged, but in need of repairs flat roof on the carport.  Front windows will be next.  Then discussions with the HVAC, electrician, etc.  Still a long ways to go.

Once it gets going it will move along fairly quick at least that's my experience with fire insurance jobs the hard part is almost always getting things started.

I suspect the hard part will be fudging so we can get energy efficient windows and replacing the sliding glass door with a regular door and a window.  That's the only major changes we want done.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 22, 2014, 12:00:52 AM

This happened yesterday, but still... I managed to replace the battery on my MP3 player.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on December 22, 2014, 10:04:28 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 22, 2014, 12:00:52 AM

This happened yesterday, but still... I managed to replace the battery on my MP3 player.

:thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 22, 2014, 12:46:14 PM

I got stuck in traffic on the highway  but luckily made it past the burning car just before the fire department showed up and closed the road for about a half hour otherwise I would have been stuck.  Not sure why the car was on fire no signs of an accident, just one car with the driver standing well away completely engulfed in flames :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 23, 2014, 12:28:37 AM

Quote from: Parts on December 22, 2014, 12:46:14 PM

I got stuck in traffic on the highway  but luckily made it past the burning car just before the fire department showed up and closed the road for about a half hour otherwise I would have been stuck.  Not sure why the car was on fire no signs of an accident, just one car with the driver standing well away completely engulfed in flames :dunno:

Insurance fraud. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 23, 2014, 06:15:05 PM

The PR bowled 4 strikes in a row and 2 more strikes in the next game!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 27, 2014, 02:47:59 AM

That's awesome, QV.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 27, 2014, 02:48:29 AM

As for me, coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 27, 2014, 11:10:34 AM

Peach flavored oatmeal

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 28, 2014, 03:19:24 AM

Watched Orange is the New Black. Don't think it will ever be shown on tv here. And a movie; The Fault in Our Stars, made me cry.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 28, 2014, 09:13:21 PM

Whoops, think I posted in the wrong thread.

Today? I got up at a reasonable hour.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 28, 2014, 11:49:47 PM

Coffee happened. I don't know what I'd do without it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 31, 2014, 09:35:41 AM

I'm back home from vacation and I have reliable internet again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on December 31, 2014, 01:48:33 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 31, 2014, 09:35:41 AM

I'm back home from vacation and I have reliable internet again.

 :eyelash:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 31, 2014, 03:21:42 PM

 :eyebrow:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 31, 2014, 03:38:47 PM

A short but extremely satisfying nap happened, just about 20 minutes but it felt like a whole nights sleep

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on December 31, 2014, 08:16:36 PM

Quote from: Parts on December 31, 2014, 03:38:47 PM

A short but extremely satisfying nap happened, just about 20 minutes but it felt like a whole nights sleep

I like catnaps

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on January 01, 2015, 06:45:46 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 31, 2014, 03:21:42 PM

:eyebrow:

It's time to :hide:. :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 01, 2015, 09:48:18 AM

maple brown sugar steel cut oatmeal

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 01, 2015, 11:21:20 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 31, 2014, 09:35:41 AM

I'm back home from vacation and I have reliable internet again.

+

Welcome back. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 01, 2015, 11:22:11 AM

A whole afternoon of peace and quiet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on January 01, 2015, 09:38:52 PM

Got $100 Amazon GC and R.E.M.'s 'Eponymous' on vinyl. I am retroactively buying vinyl for my favorite bands. As a kid, vinyl made no sense as it didn't play in my 80s boombox or my Fiero cassete deck.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Hannah on January 01, 2015, 09:56:56 PM

paid yesterday...nails done today...good mood today :nerdy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 01, 2015, 11:38:34 PM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on January 01, 2015, 09:38:52 PM

Got $100 Amazon GC and R.E.M.'s 'Eponymous' on vinyl. I am retroactively buying vinyl for my favorite bands. As a kid, vinyl made no sense as it didn't play in my 80s boombox or my Fiero cassete deck.

It's a bit odd that they are selling vinyl again, I have to say.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on January 02, 2015, 11:14:16 AM

Richer sound quality!

Today I found out I was getting a $1,086 cash award, which seems cool until you take into account I can't get a pay raise until I get promoted and my management won't put me forward for the promotion (going on 5 years). I am stuck at the top of my pay band and unable to move up. A pay raise is far better than a yearly cash award, even if spread out over the year, since it carries over year to year. Oldest is 2-1/2 years from college. Maybe taking German will pay off and I can send her to Germany for free college.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on January 02, 2015, 01:24:47 PM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on January 02, 2015, 11:14:16 AM

Richer sound quality!

Today I found out I was getting a $1,086 cash award, which seems cool until you take into account I can't get a pay raise until I get promoted and my management won't put me forward for the promotion (going on 5 years). I am stuck at the top of my pay band and unable to move up. A pay raises se is far better than a yearly cash award, even if spread out over the year, since it carries over year to year. Oldest is 2-1/2 years from college. Maybe taking German will pay off and I can send her to Germany for free college.

She could visit Hyke and Lutra on the weekends. :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on January 02, 2015, 01:38:40 PM

She's a bit weird, so maybe she'd fit in!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 02, 2015, 04:35:09 PM

My last xmas gift arrived

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on January 02, 2015, 05:18:49 PM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on January 02, 2015, 01:38:40 PM

She's a bit weird, so maybe she'd fit in!

If she has a bicycle, she'll fit right in. :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 02, 2015, 05:31:07 PM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on January 02, 2015, 01:38:40 PM

She's a bit weird, so maybe she'd fit in!

By that time my oldest will be off for college too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on January 02, 2015, 05:36:55 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on January 02, 2015, 05:31:07 PM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on January 02, 2015, 01:38:40 PM

She's a bit weird, so maybe she'd fit in!

By that time my oldest will be off for college too.

Perhaps she should come to America, to make up for Trigger's daughter going to Europe. :orly:

Education is comparatively expensive here. :nerdy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 02, 2015, 05:41:49 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on January 02, 2015, 05:36:55 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on January 02, 2015, 05:31:07 PM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on January 02, 2015, 01:38:40 PM

She's a bit weird, so maybe she'd fit in!

By that time my oldest will be off for college too.

Perhaps she should come to America, to make up for Trigger's daughter going to Europe. :orly:

Education is comparatively expensive here. :nerdy:

Swapping vegetarian kids with bright coloured hair. No one would notice the difference.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on January 02, 2015, 05:47:34 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on January 02, 2015, 05:41:49 PM

Quote from: Semicolon on January 02, 2015, 05:36:55 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on January 02, 2015, 05:31:07 PM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on January 02, 2015, 01:38:40 PM

She's a bit weird, so maybe she'd fit in!

By that time my oldest will be off for college too.

Perhaps she should come to America, to make up for Trigger's daughter going to Europe. :orly:

Education is comparatively expensive here. :nerdy:

Swapping vegetarian kids with bright coloured hair. No one would notice the difference.

She'll be properly fatty fat in no time. :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on January 02, 2015, 07:49:51 PM

My daughter eats like a pig, but is super skinny. She'll regret her eating habits when her matabolism changes.

Let's see...her hair has been blonde, red, purple, and currently orange.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 03, 2015, 03:28:26 AM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on January 02, 2015, 11:14:16 AM

Richer sound quality!

Different sound quality. Analogue is usually better, I agree, but there's more to it than simply offering vinyl versions of new music.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 04, 2015, 03:34:10 AM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on January 02, 2015, 07:49:51 PM

My daughter eats like a pig, but is super skinny. She'll regret her eating habits when her matabolism changes.

Let's see...her hair has been blonde, red, purple, and currently orange.

The metabolism of mine has changed. She's still not fat, but she got out of the scary skinny zone.

Hair has been blond, a darkening blond, near black, red, green, blue, purple, a bluish green. Currently it is a fading cotton candy pink. Orange is what it will be in a few weeks. She already got the dye.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 04, 2015, 03:35:58 AM

Coffee happened. And needs to happen again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Hannah on January 05, 2015, 12:24:30 AM

I am studying for my 201 A plus exam and am confident I will pass it on the first go...I've been preparing for this first test for a long while and though this road of being citified is long...I'm proud of myself for setting a date to take the first and second tests for A plus and then take the 10 classes on Networking those tests followed by the Security class and those tests...once done getting the ciritfications under my belt I'm going to look for employment...

In the mean time God has brought folks in my path that have been hugely helpful...My job coach/life adviser through the autie speaks fund (finally VA is starting to take note) she is getting to know me and blessing of all blessings she is a Christian herself I am getting to know her she is taking me to my GRASP meetings about 45 minute drive (at night of all times) when the traffic is good that is it's 45 minutes...we got there in plenty of time and I got to tell her my 2 hour life story...before I knew it I killed two hours she knew me better, and I was ready for the meeting...

I have so many ideas for the GRASP meetings and folks really seemed to open up when I was there, yes I was doing all the talking one of the new guys who has just been Dx with HFA told me as much and I laughed along with him! I love the honesty and the way we can bounce ideas off each other...a guy who is in his 50's spoke for the first time in six months! I have realistically high hopes and am excited for my future...

I've been told more then once I should advocate for others because well I know what it is like to be on the receaving end of harshness and I'm so glad for the turn around in not only my own life but in the lives of others...

We do impact folks, we do make a difference it's what we do with the painful things we encounter and learn from them, grow or remain 'comfortably miserable' trust me I know all too well what that was like, never again...

I do have my down moments, but you know what I have you all to thank partly for kicking me in the rear metaphorically...even Gary I love you sock puppet man...I do, you inspire me to be a better person weather you like it or not...

I'm finally happy and joyful to live life, and am excited to see what comes next... :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on January 05, 2015, 04:51:06 PM

Quote from: Hannah on January 05, 2015, 12:24:30 AM

...even Gary I love you sock puppet man...I do, you inspire me to be a better person weather you like it or not...

Hannah, I'm sure you're a good enough person that you don't need that sort of inspiration from me. I can understand how you might want to be able to take something away from that, and whatever that might be is fine with me. The reason I can understand is because I realize I'm the only one who took anything away from it, and that's to know where my boundaries lie with you. I also understand that you may not fully realize what happened there, so I'm going to make one sincere attempt to explain it, and then I'm going to leave both you and this topic alone. I'm a complete smartass around here, and the reason I feel comfortable doing that is because I believe folks here can take it, and the last thing I want is to be taken personally by anyone. I also realize there's people in the world who can't. I happen to live with an autistic person who can't take it, and it's not because it confuses him or he doesn't understand it. He thinks it's hilarious when I do it to other people, when people do it to me, when other people do it to each other, and sometimes he can even dish it out himself. However, when it's directed at him, he's genuinely hurt and offended and he just can't take it. So I simply don't talk to him that way and I would never recommend this forum to him, because he's so incredibly sweet and sensitive. I don't think it's a bad thing, but it is what it is, and I don't think my mannerisms are going to sit well with you. When comes to people I don't know, I tend to find that the ones who can take a playful slap in the face, are also equipped to address a genuine slap in the face. If I knew how to teach my son to stand up for himself in life, to want to stand up for himself, or even recognize situations where he should stand up for himself, then that's the inspiration I'd want to be to you. But I don't know how to do that or if it's even possible, so I'm just going to leave it alone.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 07, 2015, 12:13:42 AM

Awwww.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Hannah on January 07, 2015, 01:42:20 AM

later today I shall be speed walking around 10:30 am est with the woman who is my job/life coach...walk and talk if she can manage to keep up with my 4.0 MPH speed walking  :mischief:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 07, 2015, 11:22:38 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 08, 2015, 09:20:53 AM

Stayed awake and coherent as long as was needed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on January 08, 2015, 12:11:32 PM

Discovered a big mistake in some stuff that just got finished at work before anyone important did.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on January 08, 2015, 11:35:27 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on January 08, 2015, 09:20:53 AM

Stayed awake and coherent as long as was needed.

That's not fun. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 09, 2015, 01:32:49 AM

Quote from: Semicolon on January 08, 2015, 11:35:27 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on January 08, 2015, 09:20:53 AM

Stayed awake and coherent as long as was needed.

That's not fun. :P

But it was a good thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 16, 2015, 06:11:24 PM

Well not so much for except in terms of karma but for the cashier it was possibly a job saver,  I bought 14 bags of insulation but was only charged for one, almost a $400 difference,  which I didn't notice till I got in my van and looked at the receipt when putting it away.  I went back in and had them fix it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on January 16, 2015, 06:25:16 PM

 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 17, 2015, 02:04:35 AM

 :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 20, 2015, 12:33:42 AM

I got a new(to me) machine to play with a Krendl 500 all fiber blowing machine 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 20, 2015, 03:31:19 AM

Managed to get a kid to school.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Hannah on January 22, 2015, 07:30:10 PM

Got some VS sports bras that FIT and look bad ass... :yarly: as well as a VS shirt...

I went to therapy, it went well...I walk with my job coach tomorrow, and tomorrow is also Shabbat (date night with God.)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Hannah on January 22, 2015, 07:30:39 PM

I'm not afraid of what folks think of me any longer... :heisenberg:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 23, 2015, 01:32:21 AM

Got to sleep for a little while longer.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 24, 2015, 12:35:28 AM

Deer breakfast sausage, deer summer sausage, deer jalapeno and cheddar cheese sausage and some venison steaks.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on January 24, 2015, 01:03:27 AM

Made huge progress on my cluttered garage.

I now have a place for my Roll-around table saw. My table saw is mounted on a base that I can stand on and set the roller brakes.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on January 25, 2015, 11:23:41 PM

Today, I finally "permanently" mounted my reloading press.

Before, it was kind of clamped with two giant "C" clamps.  I got brave and bored three holes through my bench top and mounted it properly. My work bench is made of left-over lumber, which used to be purposed as a huge lift in two sections that,  six steps high, could hold up to two hundred soldiers for a group picture.

I re-purposed the wood a few years ago and now I have a solid bench made of five, two by twelves "east-west" and ten two by twelves "north-south."  So, in short, I have a four inch thick, eight feet by five feet, work surface with only a crazy cool weird Chinese design six inch vise mounted on one end and a two horse power, three thousand RPM buffer  motor on the other.
Due to my braven attempts to make things permanent, I now have my massive (Dillon multi stage - does everything in one handle pump, once it is all set properly   -   very accurately. I am set up for hand loading 45 auto, 9 mm,  44 magnum, 357 magnum, 40 S&W, 30.06, 300  Rem Magnum, 7 mm Magnum, .308 Win,  .223 Rem, 45 long colt and 380 auto, all the weapons I own, in other words. I just have to switch the top turret to change calibers) reloading press, permanently mounted about a foot away from the east end where the buffer/grinder motor lives.

Only other question is, where do I mount my old single stage press which I only use for my three most accurate bolt action, long range rifles? I use it only to make specific cartridges for specific rifles, one cartridge at a time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 04, 2015, 12:14:33 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on February 04, 2015, 08:03:22 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 24, 2015, 12:35:28 AM

Deer breakfast sausage, deer summer sausage, deer jalapeno and cheddar cheese sausage and some venison steaks.

It sounds like you've had a productive hunting season. :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 06, 2015, 01:48:13 AM

It has been a relatively quiet day. Ceilidh is asleep due to staying up all night watching tv. Only noise now is the neighbours.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 07, 2015, 04:03:37 AM

I didn't have to get up at stupid o'clock.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on February 07, 2015, 08:16:26 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 07, 2015, 04:03:37 AM

I didn't have to get up at stupid o'clock.

You have extra time to drink coffee and postwhore. :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 09, 2015, 02:50:43 PM

My linear algebra book finally arrived.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on February 09, 2015, 02:52:48 PM

Vet thought cat would recover well without any antibiotics. And that it very likely was a fighters abscess indeed.  So only got some spray and ointment for her.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on February 09, 2015, 02:55:28 PM

Found my lease paperwork! That means I can stop feeling like I'm on unsteady ground when negotiating with my landlord, because I can look up exactly what it does and does not contain.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on February 09, 2015, 03:22:12 PM

 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on February 09, 2015, 03:25:53 PM

I've got a cool neighbour.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on February 10, 2015, 07:51:50 PM

Found an honest electrician.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 12, 2015, 09:17:31 PM

The storm we were supposed to get never showed up

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 13, 2015, 05:37:01 AM

Had a really nice old electrician guy come and install a smoke alarm. Normally I can't stand having people I don't know in the house but this guy was so personable and friendly that I didn't mind.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 15, 2015, 03:24:42 PM

Got an unexpected recommendation from a colleague.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on February 15, 2015, 03:39:24 PM

Home alone for awhile.

Tis wonderful.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Graelwyn on February 15, 2015, 05:42:48 PM

Going to be getting a cat  :) Not had anything beyond reptiles since I was a teen and with my family and people have said I should have a companion of some kind. She is white and deaf and very sweet. Now I shall be fretting about getting everything right in meeting her needs.  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 15, 2015, 11:55:33 PM

Quote from: Graelwyn on February 15, 2015, 05:42:48 PM

Going to be getting a cat  :) Not had anything beyond reptiles since I was a teen and with my family and people have said I should have a companion of some kind. She is white and deaf and very sweet. Now I shall be fretting about getting everything right in meeting her needs.  :lol1:

Awww. I once looked after a neighbour's cats, all three were white and deaf. Very affectionate also. Lovely cats.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Graelwyn on February 16, 2015, 02:58:57 PM

Quote from: renaeden on February 15, 2015, 11:55:33 PM

Quote from: Graelwyn on February 15, 2015, 05:42:48 PM

Going to be getting a cat  :) Not had anything beyond reptiles since I was a teen and with my family and people have said I should have a companion of some kind. She is white and deaf and very sweet. Now I shall be fretting about getting everything right in meeting her needs.  :lol1:

Awww. I once looked after a neighbour's cats, all three were white and deaf. Very affectionate also. Lovely cats.

Yeah, this one is called Christine...after the Phantom Of The Opera character, which is quite cool as I love the musical. She is apparently a real attention seeker, not an aloof cat at all and needs lots of brushing, petting and love. I shall have to take some photos when I get her. Meanwhile, I am sort of reading all I can as I have no idea the best routine to have for her, given my odd sleeping hours, or whether I need to stick down things on shelves etc... I also have to decide where the best place is to stick a litter tray and food bowls etc as my kitchen is quite small. I am imagining my OCD might have to vanish a little too  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 16, 2015, 03:48:44 PM

Back home. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 16, 2015, 11:21:09 PM

Quote from: Graelwyn on February 16, 2015, 02:58:57 PM

Quote from: renaeden on February 15, 2015, 11:55:33 PM

Quote from: Graelwyn on February 15, 2015, 05:42:48 PM

Going to be getting a cat  :) Not had anything beyond reptiles since I was a teen and with my family and people have said I should have a companion of some kind. She is white and deaf and very sweet. Now I shall be fretting about getting everything right in meeting her needs.  :lol1:

Awww. I once looked after a neighbour's cats, all three were white and deaf. Very affectionate also. Lovely cats.

Yeah, this one is called Christine...after the Phantom Of The Opera character, which is quite cool as I love the musical. She is apparently a real attention seeker, not an aloof cat at all and needs lots of brushing, petting and love. I shall have to take some photos when I get her. Meanwhile, I am sort of reading all I can as I have no idea the best routine to have for her, given my odd sleeping hours, or whether I need to stick down things on shelves etc... I also have to decide where the best place is to stick a litter tray and food bowls etc as my kitchen is quite small. I am imagining my OCD might have to vanish a little too  :lol1:

The litter tray should be as far as possible from the food and water dishes but I think you already know that. Do you have a laundry room? Good place for a litter tray.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Graelwyn on February 16, 2015, 11:24:49 PM

Quote from: renaeden on February 16, 2015, 11:21:09 PM

Quote from: Graelwyn on February 16, 2015, 02:58:57 PM

Quote from: renaeden on February 15, 2015, 11:55:33 PM

Quote from: Graelwyn on February 15, 2015, 05:42:48 PM

Going to be getting a cat  :) Not had anything beyond reptiles since I was a teen and with my family and people have said I should have a companion of some kind. She is white and deaf and very sweet. Now I shall be fretting about getting everything right in meeting her needs.  :lol1:

Awww. I once looked after a neighbour's cats, all three were white and deaf. Very affectionate also. Lovely cats.

Yeah, this one is called Christine...after the Phantom Of The Opera character, which is quite cool as I love the musical. She is apparently a real attention seeker, not an aloof cat at all and needs lots of brushing, petting and love. I shall have to take some photos when I get her. Meanwhile, I am sort of reading all I can as I have no idea the best routine to have for her, given my odd sleeping hours, or whether I need to stick down things on shelves etc... I also have to decide where the best place is to stick a litter tray and food bowls etc as my kitchen is quite small. I am imagining my OCD might have to vanish a little too  :lol1:

The litter tray should be as far as possible from the food and water dishes but I think you already know that. Do you have a laundry room? Good place for a litter tray.

Sadly, no laundry room. I live in a 2 bedroom flat(apartment) with a small kitchen. I was going to put the bowls and tray in the kitchen but although not next to each other, they wouldn't be more than a 3 feet apart. My front bedroom is basically more a storage room for my clothes and books. My bedroom is, well my sleep room, and my living room certainly isn't the place for them. Other than that I have a very long hallway, but did not think that is a very good spot for a litter tray. I already found a local vet who will probably sort any issues for free due to my being on disability and housing help here, so that is one good thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 17, 2015, 12:28:15 AM

I also live in a 2 bedroom place but we have a laundry. Christine will let you know if she has issues with dish and tray placement for sure. ;)

You and I have a few things in common - we are both on disability and housing help.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on February 17, 2015, 12:40:45 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on February 15, 2015, 03:39:24 PM

Home alone for awhile.

Tis wonderful.  8)

Enjoy!

If all goes well, that will be happening to me too, today.  :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Graelwyn on February 17, 2015, 01:32:07 AM

Quote from: renaeden on February 17, 2015, 12:28:15 AM

I also live in a 2 bedroom place but we have a laundry. Christine will let you know if she has issues with dish and tray placement for sure. ;)

You and I have a few things in common - we are both on disability and housing help.

Yes, I am probably going to be moving this year. I am in a privately rented place right now, but am bidding for a council flat, not sure the USA name for them, but I shall have to be sure I bid on those that allow pets. My mother will not be knowing about the cat too soon as she will see it as an impediment to my moving but at the same time, I do not wish to go somewhere I can never have a pet. I need a companion.
I am guessing you don't have cats now ? Or do you ?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 17, 2015, 06:53:07 AM

Quote from: Graelwyn on February 17, 2015, 01:32:07 AM

Quote from: renaeden on February 17, 2015, 12:28:15 AM

I also live in a 2 bedroom place but we have a laundry. Christine will let you know if she has issues with dish and tray placement for sure. ;)

You and I have a few things in common - we are both on disability and housing help.

Yes, I am probably going to be moving this year. I am in a privately rented place right now, but am bidding for a council flat, not sure the USA name for them, but I shall have to be sure I bid on those that allow pets. My mother will not be knowing about the cat too soon as she will see it as an impediment to my moving but at the same time, I do not wish to go somewhere I can never have a pet. I need a companion.
I am guessing you don't have cats now ? Or do you ?

I am Australian and not even sure of the Aussie name for council flats, heh. I got my place through an association called Access Housing. Waited nearly 10 years for it.

Me and my flatmate (Ceilidh on here) have two cats, Liam and Mollie. Liam we got as a stray (or so we thought until a neighbour claimed him and then left him behind when she moved so we took him in) and Mollie was my mum's cat until she couldn't take her into a rental place and so we took her.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on February 17, 2015, 06:58:18 AM

Quote from: Graelwyn on February 15, 2015, 05:42:48 PM

Going to be getting a cat  :) Not had anything beyond reptiles since I was a teen and with my family and people have said I should have a companion of some kind. She is white and deaf and very sweet. Now I shall be fretting about getting everything right in meeting her needs.  :lol1:

Do you know if she is a loud cat? Some deaf cats have no idea of the sounds they make, but they are aware that making them may trigger their humans to interact with them. Fellow student of mine, long ago, had a white deaf cat who loved to play in the metal paper bin. The sound she made, with her play was deafening, but since she did not hear it, it did not stop her. She also would mew very hard when her human was out of sight.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on February 17, 2015, 08:32:51 AM

Hmm are all deaf cats white, all white cats deaf, or are we getting a shitload of coincidences coming up?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Semicolon on February 17, 2015, 08:44:10 AM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on February 17, 2015, 08:32:51 AM

Hmm are all deaf cats white, all white cats deaf, or are we getting a shitload of coincidences coming up?

It's not a coincidence. Link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_white_cat)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 17, 2015, 03:49:01 PM

Got myself an interview based on a recommendation I got in Prague this weekend.  :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Graelwyn on February 17, 2015, 04:17:27 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on February 17, 2015, 06:58:18 AM

Quote from: Graelwyn on February 15, 2015, 05:42:48 PM

Going to be getting a cat  :) Not had anything beyond reptiles since I was a teen and with my family and people have said I should have a companion of some kind. She is white and deaf and very sweet. Now I shall be fretting about getting everything right in meeting her needs.  :lol1:

Do you know if she is a loud cat? Some deaf cats have no idea of the sounds they make, but they are aware that making them may trigger their humans to interact with them. Fellow student of mine, long ago, had a white deaf cat who loved to play in the metal paper bin. The sound she made, with her play was deafening, but since she did not hear it, it did not stop her. She also would mew very hard when her human was out of sight.

Hmm, that is one I wont know until I get her  :lol1: She wasn't making much noise when I met her, but I only saw her for a short time. I shall have to ask when I get her. I wear earplugs at night, fortunately, so it shouldn't impact my sleeping. But I must admit, a lot of noise can be quite aggravating for me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on February 17, 2015, 04:23:44 PM

My ex and I kept several cats. All foundlings.

The one thing you really need to know in advance is:

Your cat will always puke on the living room carpet just before your guests ring the doorbell.  And she will always compete with any other crisis in your life, by suddenly becoming very ill and needing the vet right now.

Aside from that, they are a doddle to care for.

Good luck !

-Walkie

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Graelwyn on February 17, 2015, 04:34:32 PM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on February 17, 2015, 04:23:44 PM

My ex and I kept several cats. All foundlings.

The one thing you really need to know in advance is:

Your cat will always puke on the living room carpet just before your guests ring the doorbell.  And she will always compete with any other crisis in your life, by suddenly becoming very ill and needing the vet right now.

Aside from that, they are a doddle to care for.

Good luck !

-Walkie

Omg, cat sick is the worst to clear up, it smells so utterly vile.
Any tips on best ways to clean it up, lol ?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on February 17, 2015, 05:04:40 PM

Quote from: Graelwyn on February 17, 2015, 04:34:32 PM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on February 17, 2015, 04:23:44 PM

My ex and I kept several cats. All foundlings.

The one thing you really need to know in advance is:

Your cat will always puke on the living room carpet just before your guests ring the doorbell.  And she will always compete with any other crisis in your life, by suddenly becoming very ill and needing the vet right now.

Aside from that, they are a doddle to care for.

Good luck !

-Walkie

Omg, cat sick is the worst to clear up, it smells so utterly vile.
Any tips on best ways to clean it up, lol ?

Depends on the cat how often they'll get sick, and how bad it is. One of mine does it once a year or less, but it takes time to clean up, when he does and it is gross. The other throws up her food if she ate too fast or ate mice, about every fortnight. It is like a dry sausage, smelling of catfood, with the occasional mouse in it, nothing else, and can be picked up with a tissue. Neighbour cat that used to visit left residue behind daily, slime with grass. No smell, but yucky. Easy to clean.

Quite a few cats like to take care of their human too.

My female cat defends my daughter when we mockfight. She comes up, stares at us, and then slaps me to tell me off.
She is  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 17, 2015, 05:16:04 PM

There was hardly any wind which made the 24F(-4.4C) it got up to seem almost like tee shirt weather

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on February 17, 2015, 05:40:14 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 17, 2015, 03:49:01 PM

Got myself an interview based on a recommendation I got in Prague this weekend.  :headbang2:

Good luck with the interview, Odeon.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on February 17, 2015, 05:46:02 PM

Quote from: Graelwyn on February 17, 2015, 04:34:32 PM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on February 17, 2015, 04:23:44 PM

My ex and I kept several cats. All foundlings.

The one thing you really need to know in advance is:

Your cat will always puke on the living room carpet just before your guests ring the doorbell.  And she will always compete with any other crisis in your life, by suddenly becoming very ill and needing the vet right now.

Aside from that, they are a doddle to care for.

Good luck !

-Walkie

Omg, cat sick is the worst to clear up, it smells so utterly vile.
Any tips on best ways to clean it up, lol ?

Hyke is right. it depends on the cat, and what exactly they ate. But cats' digestive systems are designed to work like that, so I hear.  A healthy cat will make herself sick, once in a while, to clear out the crud. Usually they do this by eating grass.

Don't be fooled into thinking the poor thing can't help it. Cat vomit attacks can be very deliberately targetted .

Sadly I've no tips. I think l  must have blotted out the trauma of cleaning the damned stuff up. :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Graelwyn on February 17, 2015, 06:20:14 PM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on February 17, 2015, 05:46:02 PM

Quote from: Graelwyn on February 17, 2015, 04:34:32 PM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on February 17, 2015, 04:23:44 PM

My ex and I kept several cats. All foundlings.

The one thing you really need to know in advance is:

Your cat will always puke on the living room carpet just before your guests ring the doorbell.  And she will always compete with any other crisis in your life, by suddenly becoming very ill and needing the vet right now.

Aside from that, they are a doddle to care for.

Good luck !

-Walkie

Omg, cat sick is the worst to clear up, it smells so utterly vile.
Any tips on best ways to clean it up, lol ?

Hyke is right. it depends on the cat, and what exactly they ate. But cats' digestive systems are designed to work like that, so I hear.  A healthy cat will make herself sick, once in a while, to clear out the crud. Usually they do this by eating grass.

Don't be fooled into thinking the poor thing can't help it. Cat vomit attacks can be very deliberately targetted .

Sadly I've no tips. I think l  must have blotted out the trauma of cleaning the damned stuff up. :LOL:

I will have to invest in nose pegs.
I tend to start retching in the presence of any bad smells... other than my own, though sometimes those are pretty bad  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 18, 2015, 12:01:15 AM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on February 17, 2015, 05:40:14 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 17, 2015, 03:49:01 PM

Got myself an interview based on a recommendation I got in Prague this weekend.  :headbang2:

Good luck with the interview, Odeon.

Thank you. :)

I'm really excited.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on February 18, 2015, 02:57:10 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 18, 2015, 12:01:15 AM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on February 17, 2015, 05:40:14 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 17, 2015, 03:49:01 PM

Got myself an interview based on a recommendation I got in Prague this weekend.  :headbang2:

Good luck with the interview, Odeon.

Thank you. :)

I'm really excited.

Awesome. Will you have to go abroad for the interview?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Graelwyn on February 18, 2015, 08:21:30 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 17, 2015, 03:49:01 PM

Got myself an interview based on a recommendation I got in Prague this weekend.  :headbang2:

Best of luck with that...what sort of job is it for ?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Graelwyn on February 18, 2015, 08:23:01 AM

Well, today, a member of my meetup group messaged me a deal with groupon for a distance learning/online diploma in forensic science and profiling...needless to say, I have gone for it since I had been looking into this anyway weeks ago and not got round to doing anything about it. I hope I will do well. Only £24.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 20, 2015, 12:33:45 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on February 18, 2015, 02:57:10 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 18, 2015, 12:01:15 AM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on February 17, 2015, 05:40:14 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 17, 2015, 03:49:01 PM

Got myself an interview based on a recommendation I got in Prague this weekend.  :headbang2:

Good luck with the interview, Odeon.

Thank you. :)

I'm really excited.

Awesome. Will you have to go abroad for the interview?

No, it's a Skype interview. :)

I've got another interview next week. I'm popular, all of a sudden.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 20, 2015, 12:40:18 AM

Quote from: Graelwyn on February 18, 2015, 08:21:30 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 17, 2015, 03:49:01 PM

Got myself an interview based on a recommendation I got in Prague this weekend.  :headbang2:

Best of luck with that...what sort of job is it for ?

Not an easy one to explain... basically a presales and field engineer role for the company's clients. They make a database ideally suited for what these days is called big data.

It's a very cool company, one that I really would like to work for if the job is right.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on February 20, 2015, 04:36:59 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 20, 2015, 12:33:45 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on February 18, 2015, 02:57:10 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 18, 2015, 12:01:15 AM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on February 17, 2015, 05:40:14 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 17, 2015, 03:49:01 PM

Got myself an interview based on a recommendation I got in Prague this weekend.  :headbang2:

Good luck with the interview, Odeon.

Thank you. :)

I'm really excited.

Awesome. Will you have to go abroad for the interview?

No, it's a Skype interview. :)

I've got another interview next week. I'm popular, all of a sudden.

Did you show them your noodz?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on February 20, 2015, 08:32:15 AM

It's weird how job interviews come in batches. It's like the recruiters coordinate with each other.

Wishing you more good luck.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on February 20, 2015, 12:22:29 PM

Didn't die...Yay?  :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 21, 2015, 02:39:48 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on February 20, 2015, 04:36:59 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 20, 2015, 12:33:45 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on February 18, 2015, 02:57:10 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 18, 2015, 12:01:15 AM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on February 17, 2015, 05:40:14 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 17, 2015, 03:49:01 PM

Got myself an interview based on a recommendation I got in Prague this weekend.  :headbang2:

Good luck with the interview, Odeon.

Thank you. :)

I'm really excited.

Awesome. Will you have to go abroad for the interview?

No, it's a Skype interview. :)

I've got another interview next week. I'm popular, all of a sudden.

Did you show them your noodz?

I didn't have to, yet. I'm saving them for later. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 21, 2015, 02:43:35 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on February 20, 2015, 08:32:15 AM

It's weird how job interviews come in batches. It's like the recruiters coordinate with each other.

Wishing you more good luck.

One of the two in my case was initiated by a recruiter. The other is based on a reference and introduction I got from a colleague at the conference last weekend. He sent an email to the head of a department at the company where he works, recommending me, and that was enough.

Both of these are really exciting.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on February 21, 2015, 08:48:02 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 21, 2015, 02:43:35 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on February 20, 2015, 08:32:15 AM

It's weird how job interviews come in batches. It's like the recruiters coordinate with each other.

Wishing you more good luck.

One of the two in my case was initiated by a recruiter. The other is based on a reference and introduction I got from a colleague at the conference last weekend. He sent an email to the head of a department at the company where he works, recommending me, and that was enough.

Both of these are really exciting.

Wow! Successful social networrking,  yet . :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :woohoo: :tigger: :congrats: :party: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

 :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on February 22, 2015, 01:50:21 PM

I woke up.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on February 22, 2015, 01:51:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 21, 2015, 02:43:35 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on February 20, 2015, 08:32:15 AM

It's weird how job interviews come in batches. It's like the recruiters coordinate with each other.

Wishing you more good luck.

One of the two in my case was initiated by a recruiter. The other is based on a reference and introduction I got from a colleague at the conference last weekend. He sent an email to the head of a department at the company where he works, recommending me, and that was enough.

Both of these are really exciting.

Best wishes Odeon! I hope one of them well deserves you and pays nicely.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Graelwyn on February 22, 2015, 05:37:51 PM

Bought my new cat home.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 22, 2015, 11:53:11 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on February 23, 2015, 04:08:57 PM

It was a productive day. And I am looking forward to meet my pillows.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 23, 2015, 05:44:43 PM

I'm finding good things while sorting of stuff in the basement

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 26, 2015, 06:41:18 AM

I went to the gym for a review. Turns out I have lost 3 kilos.
:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Hannah on February 26, 2015, 12:43:18 PM

watched big hero 6 and it was so cute  :yarly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 26, 2015, 02:30:48 PM

I had not one but two--count that--two awesome job interviews today. The first one is a contractor position, unfortunately, and I'm not sure I want it because of that fact, but they have now made an offer.

The second one is for a permanent position and the company is awesome. Probably also the job. I want it really bad.

I'm overwhelmed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on February 26, 2015, 05:59:00 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 26, 2015, 02:30:48 PM

I had not one but two--count that--two awesome job interviews today. The first one is a contractor position, unfortunately, and I'm not sure I want it because of that fact, but they have now made an offer.

The second one is for a permanent position and the company is awesome. Probably also the job. I want it really bad.

I'm overwhelmed.

Good luck.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on February 26, 2015, 06:05:57 PM

Wiped and sanitised my laptop :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on February 26, 2015, 06:29:15 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on February 26, 2015, 06:05:57 PM

Wiped and sanitised my laptop :)

Odeon getting a job was that exciting for you?  :o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on February 26, 2015, 06:35:49 PM

hmm. Ok that was a bit crude and a bit wicked. Just couldn't resist :runaway:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on February 26, 2015, 07:52:28 PM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on February 26, 2015, 06:29:15 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on February 26, 2015, 06:05:57 PM

Wiped and sanitised my laptop :)

Odeon getting a job was that exciting for you?  :o

 :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on February 26, 2015, 08:03:20 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 26, 2015, 02:30:48 PM

I had not one but two--count that--two awesome job interviews today. The first one is a contractor position, unfortunately, and I'm not sure I want it because of that fact, but they have now made an offer.

The second one is for a permanent position and the company is awesome. Probably also the job. I want it really bad.

I'm overwhelmed.

Congrats! :)

Let us know what happens.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on February 26, 2015, 08:04:24 PM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on February 26, 2015, 06:29:15 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on February 26, 2015, 06:05:57 PM

Wiped and sanitised my laptop :)

Odeon getting a job was that exciting for you?  :o

Lol I knew someone was going to go straight into gutter mode.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 26, 2015, 09:33:08 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 26, 2015, 02:30:48 PM

I had not one but two--count that--two awesome job interviews today. The first one is a contractor position, unfortunately, and I'm not sure I want it because of that fact, but they have now made an offer.

The second one is for a permanent position and the company is awesome. Probably also the job. I want it really bad.

I'm overwhelmed.

take the fricking job and get out of hell

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 26, 2015, 11:13:50 PM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on February 26, 2015, 06:29:15 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on February 26, 2015, 06:05:57 PM

Wiped and sanitised my laptop :)

Odeon getting a job was that exciting for you?  :o

  :LMAO:

Odeon, this is just my opinion, but I would take the second offer. More job security.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 26, 2015, 11:49:34 PM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on February 26, 2015, 06:29:15 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on February 26, 2015, 06:05:57 PM

Wiped and sanitised my laptop :)

Odeon getting a job was that exciting for you?  :o

:eyebrows:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 26, 2015, 11:51:26 PM

Quote from: renaeden on February 26, 2015, 11:13:50 PM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on February 26, 2015, 06:29:15 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on February 26, 2015, 06:05:57 PM

Wiped and sanitised my laptop :)

Odeon getting a job was that exciting for you?  :o

  :LMAO:

Odeon, this is just my opinion, but I would take the second offer. More job security.

Er, no second offer yet. That one is in the early stages, but it looks very, very promising. But you're right. Job security is very important.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on February 27, 2015, 05:06:48 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 26, 2015, 11:51:26 PM

Quote from: renaeden on February 26, 2015, 11:13:50 PM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on February 26, 2015, 06:29:15 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on February 26, 2015, 06:05:57 PM

Wiped and sanitised my laptop :)

Odeon getting a job was that exciting for you?  :o

  :LMAO:

Odeon, this is just my opinion, but I would take the second offer. More job security.

Er, no second offer yet. That one is in the early stages, but it looks very, very promising. But you're right. Job security is very important.

Awesome company and job you really want are important too.

Hope they will make you an offer soon.

And that you could unwind in a good way from the being overwhelmed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on February 27, 2015, 06:59:18 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 26, 2015, 02:30:48 PM

I had not one but two--count that--two awesome job interviews today. The first one is a contractor position, unfortunately, and I'm not sure I want it because of that fact, but they have now made an offer.

The second one is for a permanent position and the company is awesome. Probably also the job. I want it really bad.

I'm overwhelmed.

Good luck.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 27, 2015, 10:00:15 AM

Thanks, everybody. :)

I've been thinking about this all day. It's very difficult to get anything done.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on February 27, 2015, 10:12:14 PM

SHE'S BACK!!!!

 :happydance:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 27, 2015, 10:20:30 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on February 27, 2015, 10:12:14 PM

SHE'S BACK!!!!

 :happydance:

    Who?  :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on February 27, 2015, 10:38:06 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 27, 2015, 10:20:30 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on February 27, 2015, 10:12:14 PM

SHE'S BACK!!!!

 :happydance:

    Who?  :tard:

HINT: She's wobbly.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 27, 2015, 10:41:08 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on February 27, 2015, 10:38:06 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 27, 2015, 10:20:30 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on February 27, 2015, 10:12:14 PM

SHE'S BACK!!!!

 :happydance:

    Who?  :tard:

HINT: She's wobbly.

  :cbc: She's a Weeble then!  Soon to be wobbling off to bed!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on February 27, 2015, 10:49:30 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 27, 2015, 10:41:08 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on February 27, 2015, 10:38:06 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 27, 2015, 10:20:30 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on February 27, 2015, 10:12:14 PM

SHE'S BACK!!!!

 :happydance:

    Who?  :tard:

HINT: She's wobbly.

  :cbc: She's a Weeble then!  Soon to be wobbling off to bed!

 :green:

Good night Wobbly Weeble!  :flyingbat:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 27, 2015, 10:56:47 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on February 27, 2015, 10:49:30 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 27, 2015, 10:41:08 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on February 27, 2015, 10:38:06 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 27, 2015, 10:20:30 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on February 27, 2015, 10:12:14 PM

SHE'S BACK!!!!

 :happydance:

    Who?  :tard:

HINT: She's wobbly.

  :cbc: She's a Weeble then!  Soon to be wobbling off to bed!

 :green:

Good night Wobbly Weeble!  :flyingbat:

  Good night, small chicken.  :chicken:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 28, 2015, 01:54:34 AM

:woohoo:

Welcome back.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on February 28, 2015, 03:24:03 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 27, 2015, 10:20:30 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on February 27, 2015, 10:12:14 PM

SHE'S BACK!!!!

 :happydance:

    Who?  :tard:

You,you silly dearly missed Weeble.

 :party: :party: :party:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 28, 2015, 09:12:33 AM

Found some things I had hidden away a long time ago and though I had sold at the flea market

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on February 28, 2015, 06:03:46 PM

Quote from: Parts on February 28, 2015, 09:12:33 AM

Found some things I had hidden away a long time ago and though I had sold at the flea market

What did you find?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 28, 2015, 11:05:19 PM

The fan to the PR's room was on sale

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 01, 2015, 03:42:36 AM

Coffee. Maybe.

I'm barely awake. :yawn:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 01, 2015, 10:45:59 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on February 28, 2015, 06:03:46 PM

Quote from: Parts on February 28, 2015, 09:12:33 AM

Found some things I had hidden away a long time ago and though I had sold at the flea market

What did you find?

Some coins  including   1976 proof set, a 1967 special mint set and a 1971 silver dollar proof  also two small metals that have about a gram of gold on them :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 01, 2015, 05:16:06 PM

Decided on the cabinet layout for the kitchen.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Hannah on March 01, 2015, 06:24:34 PM

Had my nails done today! they look fab... :heisenberg:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 02, 2015, 12:16:09 AM

Coffee. Coffee. Coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 02, 2015, 04:02:40 PM

Got paid cash for work I did for someone a couple weeks ago when I saw him at the coffee shop he bought me a coffee and cinnamon roll too :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 02, 2015, 08:14:55 PM

major purchases for the house

doors
kitchen cabinets
countertop
flooring tiles
lights and ceiling fans
bathtub surround
handicap bars for tub
towel bar
hand held shower
vanity and sink
medicine chest
door knobs
finish trim
paint
arranged to have the carpet measured
garbage disposal
toilet

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on March 02, 2015, 09:34:43 PM

Two skyline chilis and tea.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 03, 2015, 11:29:43 AM

Put on shorts I had not worn since fall to work around in the house and found $6 in the pocket

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on March 03, 2015, 01:38:50 PM

Quote from: Parts on March 03, 2015, 11:29:43 AM

Put on shorts I had not worn since fall to work around in the house and found $6 in the pocket

 :headbang2:

That is awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 03, 2015, 04:27:24 PM

Company #1 upped their offer to me. :o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on March 03, 2015, 04:38:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 03, 2015, 04:27:24 PM

Company #1 upped their offer to me. :o

 :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 03, 2015, 05:49:41 PM

Have you heard back from Company #2 yet?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 03, 2015, 05:53:28 PM

That's what I'd like to hear about too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 04, 2015, 12:26:09 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on March 03, 2015, 05:49:41 PM

Have you heard back from Company #2 yet?

No, not yet. Thinking I should email them.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 07, 2015, 02:08:04 AM

My scope arrived yesterday. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Hannah on March 07, 2015, 02:08:49 PM

nice woman paid for my coffee in the drive through, I also get to watch and walk wally again 120 bucks in my pocket is always nice... :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on March 09, 2015, 04:33:01 PM

got my radio. it has mp3 input a remote and great sound, though i will have to put in speakers to take advantage of it. much cheaper than buying a new one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on March 09, 2015, 11:21:13 PM

I ordered a new (used) backpack. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Hannah on March 10, 2015, 10:27:46 PM

Just finished a card for my sister having completed her BS in graphic design, plus being a full time mom of one little boy as well as another on the way...She makes me proud as a sister...Got a 45 dollar rebate for VS I could use but decided to put it in the card for her when I next see her...It feels good to give, it will surprise her and she hardly ever gets or does anything for herself and I love giving things away with thought behind them...

I was on the VS webpage and it was the same old same old for me, I think I've reached contentment with VS and perhaps a thing or two in the future but as stated I need some comfortable but professional outfits in my closet for when I land that IT job...

Don't know must be maturity on my part, but it feels good to say no to myself and yes to giving to a very deserving sister :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: El on March 12, 2015, 05:57:39 AM

Thinking I consistently find members on this forum annoying when they get manicky.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 12, 2015, 07:21:43 AM

Quote from: PMS Elle on March 12, 2015, 05:57:39 AM

Thinking I consistently find members on this forum annoying when they get manicky.

Only with members on this forum?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 12, 2015, 06:43:08 PM

Popeye's fried chicken with red beans and rice on the side.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: El on March 13, 2015, 05:01:28 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 12, 2015, 07:21:43 AM

Quote from: PMS Elle on March 12, 2015, 05:57:39 AM

Thinking I consistently find members on this forum annoying when they get manicky.

Only with members on this forum?

At work at least I have the hope that we'll medicate them better at some point.   :autism:

Also, why the fuck did I post this here and not in the "what are you thinking right now?" thread?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on March 13, 2015, 05:55:58 PM

Quote from: PMS Elle on March 13, 2015, 05:01:28 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 12, 2015, 07:21:43 AM

Quote from: PMS Elle on March 12, 2015, 05:57:39 AM

Thinking I consistently find members on this forum annoying when they get manicky.

Only with members on this forum?

At work at least I have the hope that we'll medicate them better at some point.   :autism:

Also, why the fuck did I post this here and not in the "what are you thinking right now?" thread?

Consistently find the depressy more annoying.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on March 13, 2015, 08:09:26 PM

Quote from: PMS Elle on March 12, 2015, 05:57:39 AM

Thinking I consistently find members on this forum annoying when they get manicky.

Why don't you just say it's me.   :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 14, 2015, 05:27:50 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 12, 2015, 07:21:43 AM

Quote from: PMS Elle on March 12, 2015, 05:57:39 AM

Thinking I consistently find members on this forum annoying when they get manicky.

Only with members on this forum?

And this is a good thing? :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 14, 2015, 05:20:17 PM

bee and flower sandal wood soap.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 14, 2015, 05:53:39 PM

Assembled my telescope and took it outside for a first look. Spotted Jupiter with a nice set of bands (no red spot, though) and its four largest moons.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Hannah on March 14, 2015, 07:19:19 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 14, 2015, 05:53:39 PM

Assembled my telescope and took it outside for a first look. Spotted Jupiter with a nice set of bands (no red spot, though) and its four largest moons.

neat!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 15, 2015, 09:57:56 AM

My sons car would not start, drove over to see why and it was just a loose battery cable. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on March 15, 2015, 01:19:54 PM

Tried some new food. Loved it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 15, 2015, 05:21:36 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 15, 2015, 01:19:54 PM

Tried some new food. Loved it.

What was it?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 15, 2015, 07:21:54 PM

Pretty much done with the contents list.  Should be finished tomorrow.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on March 15, 2015, 08:48:58 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 14, 2015, 05:20:17 PM

bee and flower sandal wood soap.

I love that soap. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 15, 2015, 11:59:34 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on March 15, 2015, 08:48:58 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 14, 2015, 05:20:17 PM

bee and flower sandal wood soap.

I love that soap. :)

Me too, it's a rare joy, finding a shop that has it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 16, 2015, 12:19:01 AM

You all know that Jimi Hendrix is one of my all time heroes.

Just got this amazing blu-ray rendering of Jimi Hendrix's performance at the Monterrey Pop Festival.

... did not really cry, but it was close. Amazing stuff.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: El on March 16, 2015, 05:15:02 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 14, 2015, 05:27:50 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 12, 2015, 07:21:43 AM

Quote from: PMS Elle on March 12, 2015, 05:57:39 AM

Thinking I consistently find members on this forum annoying when they get manicky.

Only with members on this forum?

And this is a good thing? :zoinks:

No, but my brain just wasn't working right all last week, so I ended up posting in the wrong thread.

Quote from: Pappy on March 13, 2015, 08:09:26 PM

Quote from: PMS Elle on March 12, 2015, 05:57:39 AM

Thinking I consistently find members on this forum annoying when they get manicky.

Why don't you just say it's me.   :autism:

Because it's not JUST you.  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 16, 2015, 09:39:50 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on March 15, 2015, 08:48:58 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 14, 2015, 05:20:17 PM

bee and flower sandal wood soap.

I love that soap. :)

Just thought that it was about thirty years ago I first saw that soap. I hated soapbars, but this was the exception.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 16, 2015, 09:41:43 AM

The good today was how deep the physiotherapist could delve into my muscles. Painful, in the good way. I had goosebumps on my toes when she treated my shoulders.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Hannah on March 16, 2015, 10:17:31 AM

the white house wrote me back and said thanks for the thank you note of encouragement I wrote them about 3 months ago... :yarly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on March 16, 2015, 05:41:46 PM

Quote from: PMS Elle on March 16, 2015, 05:15:02 AM

Quote from: Pappy on March 13, 2015, 08:09:26 PM

Quote from: PMS Elle on March 12, 2015, 05:57:39 AM

Thinking I consistently find members on this forum annoying when they get manicky.

Why don't you just say it's me.   :autism:

Because it's not JUST you.  :P

Am I at least #1 on the list??    :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 16, 2015, 11:57:08 PM

Stop being so needy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: El on March 17, 2015, 05:55:29 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 16, 2015, 11:57:08 PM

Stop being so needy.

He's too manicky for that kind of self-control.   :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on March 17, 2015, 06:14:13 AM

^^  I'll take that as a yes.    :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 17, 2015, 08:37:34 PM

PA and I celebrated our 30th anniversary a day late.  Just a quiet dinner with the PR at Outback Steakhouse.  (Somehow we never get to celebrate our anniversary on the actual date.)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 17, 2015, 09:27:36 PM

My "eldest son"  who I have mentioned being away from for almost thirty years without knowing he existed, before we got things together has sent me a copy of his collection of "Fluffy" vids, trying to get me hooked.
(We are trying to develop a history between one another.)

Fluffy is a stand up comedian, if you do not know.

Something good: he sent pics of his new family with the discs. I am astounded!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on March 17, 2015, 10:21:05 PM

Awesome luck. Pyraxis asked for a new router when we got cable installed. Too late, we discovered that she did not get a wireless card for her behemoth of a computer. We still had the old router, which because we didn't know the cable company in Florida was fucking with our service, was a top of the line (then) TP-LINK with bridging capability. I got directions on the internet and of course, it did not work.

The good thing is that I was able to figure out what happened.
The new router kept kicking the old one off even though the old one was hard wired. Solution: configured it on the behemoth.
Still no access, but I was able to reboot it and surprise, connect with it from my notebook.

The biggest good was that I found my mistakes - the incorrect MAC address that I had put in - off by one digit. And I realized that since I had to start over I had not turned off the DHCP on the old router. Did that and it worked. Now we don't have to buy anything to get her internet access and she doesn't have to use my wonky HP while I am at my conference on the Levono.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 17, 2015, 11:59:42 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 19, 2015, 09:48:43 PM

I love our new apartment.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 20, 2015, 03:46:31 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on March 19, 2015, 09:48:43 PM

I love our new apartment.

Cool! I am glad about that.

I had a good gym session. Almost had the whole gym to myself.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on March 20, 2015, 10:10:28 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on March 19, 2015, 09:48:43 PM

I love our new apartment.

Why do they call them apartments when they're all together?? Shouldn't they be called togetherments??

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 21, 2015, 02:06:40 AM

Because you need something to post about.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on March 21, 2015, 08:49:06 AM

Quote from: Pappy on March 20, 2015, 10:10:28 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on March 19, 2015, 09:48:43 PM

I love our new apartment.

Why do they call them apartments when they're all together?? Shouldn't they be called togetherments??

It was originally used to note private rooms within a house to allow individuals within a group to be apart from each other.

Quote

apartment (n.) Look up apartment at Dictionary.com1640s, "private rooms for the use of one person within a house," from French appartement (16c.), from Italian appartimento, literally "a separated place," from appartere "to separate," from a "to" (see ad-) + parte "side, place," from Latin partem (see part (n.)). Sense of "set of private rooms in a building entirely of these" (the U.S. equivalent of British flat) is first attested 1874.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=apartment (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=apartment)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on March 21, 2015, 03:52:29 PM

What?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 22, 2015, 02:55:44 AM

Looks like something bad to me. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 22, 2015, 06:15:11 AM

I woke up this morning and my eye wasn't sore anymore. Yay!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on March 22, 2015, 07:57:38 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 22, 2015, 02:55:44 AM

Looks like something bad to me. :P

Just not sure what the watermelon smiley means.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 22, 2015, 10:00:47 AM

Maybe the good what happened was having watermelon as a snack. In the bloody heat he lives in that could be very welcome.
 :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on March 22, 2015, 12:12:37 PM

Quote from: Jack on March 22, 2015, 07:57:38 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 22, 2015, 02:55:44 AM

Looks like something bad to me. :P

Just not sure what the watermelon smiley means.

Oooh, FFS, haven't any of you watched any Gallagher DVD's??     :facepalm2:

Making fun of English peculiarities was part of his act.

"Why do we park on a driveway and drive on a parkway?" "Why is it a pair of panties but only one bra?" "Why are they called apartments when they're all together?"

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on March 22, 2015, 12:33:23 PM

Don't remember much about Gallagher other than the watermelon bit; didn't think he's funny.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on March 22, 2015, 12:47:50 PM

Didn't die

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 22, 2015, 02:35:05 PM

Pad Thai just happened, and it was delicious.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on March 22, 2015, 04:10:06 PM

^^ ... but then Meekrob ruined it.      :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 22, 2015, 05:28:36 PM

The weekend and all it's potential drama is over.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 22, 2015, 05:41:31 PM

Quote from: Pappy on March 22, 2015, 04:10:06 PM

^^ ... but then Meekrob ruined it.      :autism:

Who?  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on March 22, 2015, 05:45:25 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on March 22, 2015, 05:41:31 PM

Quote from: Pappy on March 22, 2015, 04:10:06 PM

^^ ... but then Meekrob ruined it.      :autism:

Who?  :P

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=meekrob (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=meekrob)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 22, 2015, 05:48:08 PM

Crispy noodles and shrimp don't sound so bad, I wonder what's wrong with poak berries.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on March 22, 2015, 07:23:49 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on March 22, 2015, 05:48:08 PM

I wonder what's wrong with poak berries.

Was told as a kid, they're poisonous to both people and animals. Not just the berry but the plant as well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Hannah on March 22, 2015, 07:31:51 PM

I took a nap

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 23, 2015, 12:36:37 PM

I got a call back on a house I looked at in January which I had figured I didn't get telling me they are ready

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 23, 2015, 06:50:39 PM

My new shirt feels like pajamas.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 23, 2015, 11:27:48 PM

Quote from: Jack on March 22, 2015, 07:57:38 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 22, 2015, 02:55:44 AM

Looks like something bad to me. :P

Just not sure what the watermelon smiley means.

Watermelons are evil.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 23, 2015, 11:29:14 PM

Coffee. Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on March 24, 2015, 05:20:58 AM

Didn't die  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 26, 2015, 02:44:00 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 24, 2015, 05:20:58 AM

Didn't die  :P

It was only 620 am when you posted this hope things are still going well for you   :santa:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on March 26, 2015, 04:26:21 PM

Quote from: Parts on March 26, 2015, 02:44:00 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 24, 2015, 05:20:58 AM

Didn't die  :P

It was only 620 am when you posted this hope things are still going well for you   :santa:

:laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 27, 2015, 12:13:25 AM

Has he posted since then? :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on March 27, 2015, 04:31:50 AM

Quote from: Parts on March 26, 2015, 02:44:00 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 24, 2015, 05:20:58 AM

Didn't die  :P

It was only 620 am when you posted this hope things are still going well for you   :santa:

Not really. A few minutes after I posted that the purple-shirted eye stabber got me.  :headhurts:

Quote from: odeon on March 27, 2015, 12:13:25 AM

Has he posted since then? :P

Yes, but I'm a ghost now.  :boo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Hannah on March 27, 2015, 10:44:16 AM

I'm really off the grid, twitter gone, tumblr gone...I might even leave here not sure yet, the net is just so underwhelming and too many folks watch...bleh, feels good... :yarly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Hannah on March 27, 2015, 04:37:28 PM

did jillian michaels six week six pack ab's level one day three of this week, tomorrow makes it day four or something...I'm freaking exusted, headed to church despite that fact and yea...or something...how many calories did I burn?  :nerdy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 27, 2015, 09:06:12 PM

Beef jerky.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 28, 2015, 03:04:26 AM

Coffee.

And the fact that it's Saturday. I don't have to go to work today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 28, 2015, 05:43:20 AM

Found some bargains at the second hand shop.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 28, 2015, 09:59:24 AM

Kid is less sick compared to yesterday. And so far, she has not really contaminated us.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on March 30, 2015, 03:24:29 PM

Ate some cake.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 30, 2015, 06:21:33 PM

Found out I'm going to have Easter Monday off as well as Good Friday.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 30, 2015, 11:03:32 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on March 30, 2015, 06:21:33 PM

Found out I'm going to have Easter Monday off as well as Good Friday.  :2thumbsup:

You don't usually have that?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on March 31, 2015, 07:36:45 AM

Coffee is really good this morning, and the house is quiet...I'm sure it won't last long, but it's good. :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on March 31, 2015, 03:54:06 PM

I finally cracked the 1 post/day threshold.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 31, 2015, 06:19:18 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 30, 2015, 11:03:32 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on March 30, 2015, 06:21:33 PM

Found out I'm going to have Easter Monday off as well as Good Friday.  :2thumbsup:

You don't usually have that?

Nope.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 31, 2015, 06:34:19 PM

Finished up the house I was working on and picked up a check

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 31, 2015, 11:18:08 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on March 31, 2015, 06:19:18 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 30, 2015, 11:03:32 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on March 30, 2015, 06:21:33 PM

Found out I'm going to have Easter Monday off as well as Good Friday.  :2thumbsup:

You don't usually have that?

Nope.

It's one of the good things about living in Scandinavia.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 01, 2015, 01:30:19 AM

Good Friday, some get the day off, some don't. Easter Monday, almost everyone has the day off, unless you have the bad luck to work at a shop that thinks they should have an extra special day for their clients. (furniture, DYI and such, bad luck, working there). New trend, having shops open on Easter Monday. Bad new habit.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 01, 2015, 06:57:39 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 31, 2015, 11:18:08 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on March 31, 2015, 06:19:18 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 30, 2015, 11:03:32 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on March 30, 2015, 06:21:33 PM

Found out I'm going to have Easter Monday off as well as Good Friday.  :2thumbsup:

You don't usually have that?

Nope.

It's one of the good things about living in Scandinavia.

Unlike the slave-drivers in the USA.  :dom:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on April 01, 2015, 08:58:49 AM

Suddenly, I am not fat anymore. I knew moving out of the south would result in immediate loss, but I was unprepared for how much. I thought I would have to work at it.
Between the pneumonia detox from Florida and what I will call ADHD on the stairs, I've lost 20# in three weeks. No change in diet, and since I almost immediately got sick, very little exercise.
Seriously good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on April 01, 2015, 01:49:11 PM

Didn't die.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 01, 2015, 06:45:45 PM

Worked on something interesting enough today that I didn't realize time was passing until a couple of hours had gone by. This almost never happens to me.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on April 01, 2015, 08:34:33 PM

This:

HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ5LpwO-An4#)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walker on April 02, 2015, 12:20:59 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkP3WiWDDr0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkP3WiWDDr0) (http://runningwithscissors.com/main/Smileys/Custom/Dude.png)
I found out that this comes out on the 17th of the month.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 03, 2015, 02:49:34 AM

Coffee and paracetamol.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 06, 2015, 01:06:14 PM

Fisher Z- Pretty Paracetamol (first impressions) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ToaPuOr99E#)

Was a good start of the day.

Rest of the day was better.

Easter Eggs happened. And green thumbed fingerless mittens.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 06, 2015, 07:11:23 PM

Easter Eggs make for a good day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 06, 2015, 07:16:46 PM

A train engine just passed the apartment.  And it blew its whistle.  (Yeah, I know.  I'm easy to please.)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on April 06, 2015, 07:31:38 PM

Didn't die.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 06, 2015, 07:33:31 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 06, 2015, 07:16:46 PM

A train engine just passed the apartment.  And it blew its whistle.  (Yeah, I know.  I'm easy to please.)

Another engine!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 07, 2015, 08:42:30 AM

Got the chance to jay QV to 2222.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 07, 2015, 08:45:12 AM

Got a handwritten letter today, 6 pages long. From an old friend I had lost out of sight. Begin March we came in contact again, and found out we thought of each other at the same occasions. Really old friend, we were in kindergarten together.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 07, 2015, 12:24:20 PM

It's nice to get in touch with old friends. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 07, 2015, 12:27:06 PM

Especially if the base of the friendship is still there. And it is. We go on as if we did not miss 15 years in our contact. (Last time I visited her was when I was pregnant from the youngest, admiring her newborn)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 07, 2015, 12:28:38 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 07, 2015, 08:42:30 AM

Got the chance to jay QV to 2222.

Thank you.  Engines, sex and a karma + - a trifecta.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 07, 2015, 01:52:52 PM

I got all the materials I needed for the next two days in the van but it was tight some stuff had to go on the front seat

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 07, 2015, 05:37:22 PM

Spaghetti!

Easy to cook a big batch and freeze it, easy to boil some pasta when I get home from work fried, delicious dinner.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 07, 2015, 07:30:44 PM

I fixed some machinery that nobody else was able to figure out what was wrong with it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on April 08, 2015, 04:29:51 AM

Finally (fucking) finally got a job...Sort of. Eh, I think it deserves a celebration dance nonetheless:

Celebration dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS1cLOIxsQ8#)

Bank hours so it's not full time but it's something and that's enough for me.

:asthing: :asthing: :asthing: :asthing: :asthing: :asthing: :asthing: :asthing: :asthing: :asthing: :asthing: :asthing: :asthing: :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 08, 2015, 07:07:06 AM

Congratulations!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on April 08, 2015, 10:48:50 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 08, 2015, 07:07:06 AM

Congratulations!

Thank you  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 08, 2015, 12:24:52 PM

Congratulations, Some_Bloke. What will you be doing?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on April 08, 2015, 02:18:27 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 08, 2015, 12:24:52 PM

Congratulations, Some_Bloke. What will you be doing?

I'll be a care assistant at a care home for the elderly. The job is for bank hours so I'll only be working when someone else screws up, gets sick or gets pregnant. Basically I fill in on shifts when someone else can't make it.

I do that for a few months and then move up to actual hours when a proper position is available. I start at the bottom and make my way up I suppose.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 08, 2015, 05:06:21 PM

Congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 09, 2015, 11:26:35 PM

Congrats! :party:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on April 10, 2015, 01:22:33 AM

Nice one. Feels good to have work.  :2thumbsup:

I just found out I lost 9lb (4kg) in the last few weeks... only another 85 or so to go  :cbc:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 10, 2015, 02:29:08 AM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on April 10, 2015, 01:22:33 AM

Nice one. Feels good to have work.  :2thumbsup:

I just found out I lost 9lb (4kg) in the last few weeks... only another 85 or so to go  :cbc:

Wow. Have you picked up hiking again?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 10, 2015, 12:21:43 PM

Traffic is crazy around town today, many stop lights, but, I am soooooooo glad for my SIRIUSXM satellite radio.  Listening to tunes without hearing 15 minutes of commercials for every five minutes of music makes the travel much easier to bear.   8)  And I can hear what I want in many genres!   <bliss>   :headbang2:  The best xmas gift I ever got from my lovely wife!   :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 10, 2015, 04:41:57 PM

I finished up the house I was working on

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on April 10, 2015, 09:02:40 PM

Quote from: Parts on April 10, 2015, 04:41:57 PM

I finished up the house I was working on

 :2thumbsup:

Any pics?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 10, 2015, 09:32:23 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on April 10, 2015, 09:02:40 PM

Quote from: Parts on April 10, 2015, 04:41:57 PM

I finished up the house I was working on

 :2thumbsup:

Any pics?

No pics I only installed the insulation on the third floor so there wasn't much to see but it was nice getting it done and getting a check

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on April 10, 2015, 09:42:27 PM

Quote from: Parts on April 10, 2015, 09:32:23 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on April 10, 2015, 09:02:40 PM

Quote from: Parts on April 10, 2015, 04:41:57 PM

I finished up the house I was working on

 :2thumbsup:

Any pics?

No pics I only installed the insulation on the third floor so there wasn't much to see but it was nice getting it done and getting a check

Ah, 'tis a nice thing indeed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on April 12, 2015, 08:13:55 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 10, 2015, 02:29:08 AM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on April 10, 2015, 01:22:33 AM

Nice one. Feels good to have work.  :2thumbsup:

I just found out I lost 9lb (4kg) in the last few weeks... only another 85 or so to go  :cbc:

Wow. Have you picked up hiking again?

Not yet but planning to start having a regular morning walk again, as of this coming week. My fitness is way off hiking at the moment sadly - I hope to be ready for that again in a few months if I can shift a bit more weight - don't want to give myself a heart attack.  :smashviolin:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 12, 2015, 08:41:08 AM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on April 12, 2015, 08:13:55 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 10, 2015, 02:29:08 AM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on April 10, 2015, 01:22:33 AM

Nice one. Feels good to have work.  :2thumbsup:

I just found out I lost 9lb (4kg) in the last few weeks... only another 85 or so to go  :cbc:

Wow. Have you picked up hiking again?

Not yet but planning to start having a regular morning walk again, as of this coming week. My fitness is way off hiking at the moment sadly - I hope to be ready for that again in a few months if I can shift a bit more weight - don't want to give myself a heart attack.  :smashviolin:

Heart attacks are no pleasure indeed. I've subscribed myself to the local gym. Very calm and small gym. Exercises are tough enough, but no unnecessary boosting inputs in nasty sportive colourschemes and even worse sporty types of background music. Never more than 10 people in the building, most elderly ladies. Just right for me.
 :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 12, 2015, 09:19:08 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 12, 2015, 08:41:08 AM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on April 12, 2015, 08:13:55 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 10, 2015, 02:29:08 AM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on April 10, 2015, 01:22:33 AM

Nice one. Feels good to have work.  :2thumbsup:

I just found out I lost 9lb (4kg) in the last few weeks... only another 85 or so to go  :cbc:

Wow. Have you picked up hiking again?

Not yet but planning to start having a regular morning walk again, as of this coming week. My fitness is way off hiking at the moment sadly - I hope to be ready for that again in a few months if I can shift a bit more weight - don't want to give myself a heart attack.  :smashviolin:

Heart attacks are no pleasure indeed. I've subscribed myself to the local gym. Very calm and small gym. Exercises are tough enough, but no unnecessary boosting inputs in nasty sportive colourschemes and even worse sporty types of background music. Never more than 10 people in the building, most elderly ladies. Just right for me.
 :hyke:

That is like my yoga classes, mostly women, older, rarely is the studio full.   Sets a relaxing focused mind set for my day!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 12, 2015, 11:29:06 AM

Does yoga help you?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 12, 2015, 12:27:44 PM

Yes it does.  Physically and mentally.  My focus is better, especially since I went off the ritalin.  My doctor was concerned about the rapid heartbeat I was having with it.  And at 60 that's not a good thing.  My heart rate and BP have gone down to very good levels. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Hannah on April 12, 2015, 12:30:32 PM

surprisingly tempted to of all things cut myself, and I didn't give in!!! :headbang2: so to reward myself I'm dyeing my hair  :2thumbsup: (it's this dang time of year bleh) it'll get better with time but I'm so proud of myself

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 12, 2015, 12:51:15 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 12, 2015, 12:27:44 PM

Yes it does.  Physically and mentally.  My focus is better, especially since I went off the ritalin.  My doctor was concerned about the rapid heartbeat I was having with it.  And at 60 that's not a good thing.  My heart rate and BP have gone down to very good levels.

I tried yoga for the very first time the other day, but it turned out my back was in poor shape so the instructor told me to stop. I'm interested in trying again, though, once my back is better.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 12, 2015, 12:51:45 PM

Quote from: Hannah on April 12, 2015, 12:30:32 PM

surprisingly tempted to of all things cut myself, and I didn't give in!!! :headbang2: so to reward myself I'm dyeing my hair  :2thumbsup: (it's this dang time of year bleh) it'll get better with time but I'm so proud of myself

Glad to hear that you didn't give in. :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 12, 2015, 02:08:44 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 12, 2015, 12:51:15 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 12, 2015, 12:27:44 PM

Yes it does.  Physically and mentally.  My focus is better, especially since I went off the ritalin.  My doctor was concerned about the rapid heartbeat I was having with it.  And at 60 that's not a good thing.  My heart rate and BP have gone down to very good levels.

I tried yoga for the very first time the other day, but it turned out my back was in poor shape so the instructor told me to stop. I'm interested in trying again, though, once my back is better.

You do have to listen to your body and a GOOD teacher will emphasize that a lot.  Go only as far into the pose as you can without pain. Or move slower than the others are.  The emphasis should be on the breath.  If my shoulder or hip or back give me a twinge or is stiff.  I'll will either slow down or do a different pose or go into child's pose and rest or do some cat/cow poses to stretch the back and hip out.  We have a lady in our class with MS and she goes only as far as she can.  I've been at it now for 3 years and there are still things I can't do.  Oh well.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 12, 2015, 11:08:55 PM

She did talk about breathing a lot, yes. Half of the time I forgot to breathe properly.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 13, 2015, 02:21:39 PM

Got my 3 mile walk in.  Gorgeous sunny day in the 70's F.  Found a handful of coins and even a dollar bill!  Well, that pays for our paper tomorrow!   :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 13, 2015, 02:22:34 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 12, 2015, 11:08:55 PM

She did talk about breathing a lot, yes. Half of the time I forgot to breathe properly.

Easy to do.  Especially when the pose is a tad strenuous. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 13, 2015, 03:47:09 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 12, 2015, 11:08:55 PM

She did talk about breathing a lot, yes. Half of the time I forgot to breathe properly.

Do you hold your breath or breath too much?  I tend to hold my breath a lot sometimes I do it on purpose as a stim other times I don't even realize I'm doing it

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 13, 2015, 03:48:50 PM

My brother stopped by and gave me a check for materials I had bought for him :thumbup:  Then he told me not to put it in the bank until he calls me  :thumbdn:  Overall a good thing though

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 13, 2015, 04:15:19 PM

The Crocuses and snowdrops are bursting into bloom today!   :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 13, 2015, 05:02:27 PM

A stove.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 13, 2015, 11:07:00 PM

Quote from: Parts on April 13, 2015, 03:47:09 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 12, 2015, 11:08:55 PM

She did talk about breathing a lot, yes. Half of the time I forgot to breathe properly.

Do you hold your breath or breath too much?  I tend to hold my breath a lot sometimes I do it on purpose as a stim other times I don't even realize I'm doing it

Hold my breath. And yes, I do that too, sometimes.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 14, 2015, 07:03:01 PM

Quality shushi, not from a buffet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on April 14, 2015, 08:44:36 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 14, 2015, 07:03:01 PM

Quality shushi, not from a buffet.

I always think sushi smells like cat breath.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 14, 2015, 08:47:54 PM

You must have well-fed cats.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on April 14, 2015, 09:00:32 PM

:tea:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 14, 2015, 09:06:15 PM

Ah yes. Ginger tea happened today and it was good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on April 14, 2015, 09:08:35 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 14, 2015, 09:06:15 PM

Ah yes. Ginger tea happened today and it was good.

 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 15, 2015, 02:02:27 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 13, 2015, 11:07:00 PM

Quote from: Parts on April 13, 2015, 03:47:09 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 12, 2015, 11:08:55 PM

She did talk about breathing a lot, yes. Half of the time I forgot to breathe properly.

Do you hold your breath or breath too much?  I tend to hold my breath a lot sometimes I do it on purpose as a stim other times I don't even realize I'm doing it

Hold my breath. And yes, I do that too, sometimes.

For a while I had this tic where I would breathe in, hold my breath and then let the air out bit by bit. It was really annoying so my doctor raised my haloperidol and now I don't have the problem anymore.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on April 15, 2015, 02:08:15 PM

Didn't die.  :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 15, 2015, 02:54:10 PM

I got a call back on a house I bid work on asking when I can start

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on April 15, 2015, 03:23:47 PM

I won a really prestigious award today.  Those on my Facebook can see the details there as my wife is pretty vocal about it :)

I have to go to a gala now.  Didn't even know that was still a thing.  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 15, 2015, 06:23:39 PM

Congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on April 15, 2015, 07:11:22 PM

Quote from: Hubert on April 15, 2015, 03:23:47 PM

I won a really prestigious award today.  Those on my Facebook can see the details there as my wife is pretty vocal about it :)

I have to go to a gala now.  Didn't even know that was still a thing.  :autism:

 :asthing: Do you get any $$$? :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on April 15, 2015, 08:43:33 PM

Quote from: Hubert on April 15, 2015, 03:23:47 PM

I won a really prestigious award today.

Whore of the year?  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on April 15, 2015, 09:03:08 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on April 15, 2015, 08:43:33 PM

Quote from: Hubert on April 15, 2015, 03:23:47 PM

I won a really prestigious award today.

Whore of the year?  :zoinks:

Yup  :booty:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on April 15, 2015, 09:04:40 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on April 15, 2015, 07:11:22 PM

Quote from: Hubert on April 15, 2015, 03:23:47 PM

I won a really prestigious award today.  Those on my Facebook can see the details there as my wife is pretty vocal about it :)

I have to go to a gala now.  Didn't even know that was still a thing.  :autism:

 :asthing: Do you get any $$$? :P

I get two free tickets to the $65-a-head gala, and a metal and glass award to stick on my desk.  Mostly I get a line on my resume that carries a lot of weight.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on April 16, 2015, 12:23:29 AM

i'm feeling -for the first time all day- hopeful.

 :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on April 16, 2015, 08:05:49 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on April 16, 2015, 12:23:29 AM

i'm feeling -for the first time all day- hopeful.

 :)

 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 16, 2015, 11:05:14 PM

Didn't happen today, but it's a very good thing.

I'm switching jobs.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on April 16, 2015, 11:40:53 PM

Congrats!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 17, 2015, 01:24:51 AM

 :congrats:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 17, 2015, 08:54:12 AM

Had a good yoga class! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 17, 2015, 09:41:27 AM

Replacement physiotherapist now knew where to hurt me.
Was good!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on April 17, 2015, 10:15:21 AM

I have a pretty little baby nephew ^_^

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 17, 2015, 12:20:49 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on April 17, 2015, 10:15:21 AM

I have a pretty little baby nephew ^_^

How old is he?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 17, 2015, 12:53:51 PM

Well, the sun came out for a short time. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 17, 2015, 04:16:16 PM

I had time on my own today.

Was that baffled by it, that I did not even use it the way I had planned I would if the rare occasion would happen.  :laugh:

But, did go for a nice walk with a friend, because we had planned that, no matter what.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on April 17, 2015, 04:27:28 PM

*tries to remember what time on my own feels like*  :zoinks:

I got some duck eggs today. So tomorrow breakfast will be awesome.   :dance:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 17, 2015, 04:30:08 PM

I'm hoping for more of that kind of time next week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 17, 2015, 04:48:33 PM

It is lovely to have alone time!!! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 17, 2015, 05:17:54 PM

Did almost everything on my to do list.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 17, 2015, 05:38:26 PM

Finished up work on a house in Massachusetts got paid

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on April 17, 2015, 05:47:49 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 17, 2015, 12:20:49 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on April 17, 2015, 10:15:21 AM

I have a pretty little baby nephew ^_^

How old is he?

Less than a day!
He was just born early this morning... I'm an uncle!
:D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on April 17, 2015, 07:05:46 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 16, 2015, 11:05:14 PM

Didn't happen today, but it's a very good thing.

I'm switching jobs.

:woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on April 17, 2015, 10:36:33 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on April 17, 2015, 07:05:46 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 16, 2015, 11:05:14 PM

Didn't happen today, but it's a very good thing.

I'm switching jobs.

:woohoo:

Good news indeed. Well done bruh  :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 18, 2015, 02:19:57 PM

Hauled a bunch of empty boxes outside, and boxes filled with packing paper, to be recycled. Suddenly there is a big new space in the living room. There's almost enough space to get a couch.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on April 18, 2015, 04:21:25 PM

I got a frozen yogurt and ate it at the park...and attempted to practice mindfulness while I did so.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 18, 2015, 05:07:22 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on April 18, 2015, 04:21:25 PM

I got a frozen yogurt and ate it at the park...and attempted to practice mindfulness while I did so.  :green:

Cool.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 18, 2015, 05:14:50 PM

Girl and I did an evening stroll, and stood still for a while, admiring bats.

Saw this morning the first swallows have returned to the village.

Some things of the warmer season are really nice.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on April 18, 2015, 05:54:17 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 18, 2015, 05:14:50 PM

Girl and I did an evening stroll, and stood still for a while, admiring bats.

Saw this morning the first swallows have returned to the village.

Some things of the warmer season are really nice.

 :2thumbsup:

The season is nice where I am...trees are blooming and the air smells like flowers...little petals fly off in the wind...bees start to come out again, being fairly benign as they are looking for places to hive....and the little ants swarm the cracks of sidewalks....

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 18, 2015, 05:55:46 PM

Feeling less tired than I did after the set construction!  I just basically rested, read books and drank hot tea! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on April 18, 2015, 06:09:11 PM

Got the shed cleaned.

Wheeled the mower out, checked the oil, put some gas in it, started on the first pull like always.
The neighbor came out when he saw me wheel it out...he has been waiting for it to die for the last 10 years.

In about two more years it will turn 30.  The last year Honda made that model was in 1988.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on April 18, 2015, 06:49:08 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on April 18, 2015, 06:09:11 PM

Got the shed cleaned.

Wheeled the mower out, checked the oil, put some gas in it, started on the first pull like always.
The neighbor came out when he saw me wheel it out...he has been waiting for it to die for the last 10 years.

In about two more years it will turn 30.  The last year Honda made that model was in 1988.

Wow. Has it been yours the whole time?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on April 18, 2015, 07:56:54 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on April 18, 2015, 06:49:08 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on April 18, 2015, 06:09:11 PM

Got the shed cleaned.

Wheeled the mower out, checked the oil, put some gas in it, started on the first pull like always.
The neighbor came out when he saw me wheel it out...he has been waiting for it to die for the last 10 years.

In about two more years it will turn 30.  The last year Honda made that model was in 1988.

Wow. Has it been yours the whole time?

Yep, my dad bought this one new, first he bought a push mower the same size, traded it in on the self-propelled after a couple months.

Too damn heavy to push up the hill.

I had two others a little bit newer and bigger, but not by much, picked up used, the SO uses one at his trailer, and another he let the renters have at his house.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on April 18, 2015, 11:33:03 PM

Today- I manned up, confronted a liar in the nicest way possible- but still absolutely direct. Didn't sugarcoat anything.

Did what had to be done. Feeling kind of proud. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on April 18, 2015, 11:34:22 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on April 18, 2015, 07:56:54 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on April 18, 2015, 06:49:08 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on April 18, 2015, 06:09:11 PM

Got the shed cleaned.

Wheeled the mower out, checked the oil, put some gas in it, started on the first pull like always.
The neighbor came out when he saw me wheel it out...he has been waiting for it to die for the last 10 years.

In about two more years it will turn 30.  The last year Honda made that model was in 1988.

Wow. Has it been yours the whole time?

Yep, my dad bought this one new, first he bought a push mower the same size, traded it in on the self-propelled after a couple months.

Too damn heavy to push up the hill.

I had two others a little bit newer and bigger, but not by much, picked up used, the SO uses one at his trailer, and another he let the renters have at his house.

Nice. You must take care of appliances very well  :thumbup:
Stuff doesn't last so long at my house...

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 19, 2015, 03:59:25 AM

The doctor said my daughter probably won't need surgery. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 19, 2015, 04:29:21 AM

Did he have an idea what is wrong?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 19, 2015, 06:49:19 AM

It is appendicitis but they think antibiotics will be enough.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 19, 2015, 08:24:52 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 19, 2015, 06:49:19 AM

It is appendicitis but they think antibiotics will be enough.

Antibiotics seem to be the preferred first defense.  Tell her get well from us.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 19, 2015, 08:26:59 AM

Sending good thoughts!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 19, 2015, 11:29:21 AM

Thanks, everyone. :)

She's back home now, tired but feeling better.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on April 19, 2015, 04:23:51 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 19, 2015, 11:29:21 AM

Thanks, everyone. :)

She's back home now, tired but feeling better.

Glad to hear it :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on April 19, 2015, 06:03:47 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 19, 2015, 06:49:19 AM

It is appendicitis but they think antibiotics will be enough.

That's very good news. :thumbup:

My son had to have surgery, he was a very unhappy camper.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on April 19, 2015, 06:52:44 PM

Glad everything turned out okay.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 19, 2015, 06:55:02 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 19, 2015, 11:29:21 AM

Thanks, everyone. :)

She's back home now, tired but feeling better.

Good news indeed.

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 19, 2015, 08:24:52 AM

Antibiotics seem to be the preferred first defense.  Tell her get well from us.

Didn't know this until looking it up and assumed surgery is a given with appendix. First thought was, what no surgery? Makes sense though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 19, 2015, 10:36:28 PM

Insurance paperwork is organized. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 19, 2015, 11:06:57 PM

Finally got some sleep.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on April 20, 2015, 06:25:16 PM

The movers vanished my full set of expensive drill bits but somehow missed the quarter inch bit I needed to install my closet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 20, 2015, 06:32:27 PM

Managed a walk despite the rain!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 21, 2015, 08:08:37 PM

Insurance paperwork has been copied.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 22, 2015, 03:30:28 AM

This hasn't happened yet but I will be going to the movies with Ceilidh and her friend to see Avengers.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 22, 2015, 05:42:12 AM

Started off sunny today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 22, 2015, 01:18:58 PM

A friend told me he quit his job. I've seen him grow more and more unhappy the past few years.
Now he will step into an uncertain future, but, also in a field he really loves and thrives in.

His email made me smile. Think he is taking the right risks. If he had not done it he would have run a pretty sure risk of getting depressed and burnt out.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 22, 2015, 01:59:05 PM

Got 2 nice walks in before the rains come! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on April 22, 2015, 03:47:46 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 22, 2015, 01:59:05 PM

Got 2 nice walks in before the rains come!

Nice. I'm about to go for a bike ride a buy a fizzy drink of some sort.

Oh yeah...lots of good things happened today- for one, I am happy. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 22, 2015, 06:39:52 PM

Mailed the insurance papers (I'll still need to provide more information, but they can start processing them.
Lunch with g'friend.
The electrician came (didn't finish the job  :thumbdn:)
Refrigerator was delivered.
Drove someone I saw with groceries to her house.  Passed the license department on the way back, saw it was virtually empty and was in and out in less than 15 minutes.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on April 25, 2015, 06:25:41 PM

Got some peace. Admittedly I was asleep, but it's been a pretty chilled out day really.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 25, 2015, 06:30:34 PM

Did an early celebration of our 24th wedding anniversary!   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 25, 2015, 06:36:13 PM

We got a smallish (four figure) check from the insurance company. 

Paid the sub-contractor the money he lent me to pay the electrician.  I had the available credit, but the electrician doesn't take credit cards.  What was awesome was that he found out about the situation from someone else and offered the loan.  I paid him a little extra amount just as a small thank you. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 25, 2015, 06:38:19 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 25, 2015, 06:30:34 PM

Did an early celebration of our 24th wedding anniversary!   8)

Congratulations.  We celebrated our 30th ln March.  If we make it to our 50th, PA will be 93 and I'll be 85.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on April 25, 2015, 06:51:33 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 25, 2015, 06:38:19 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 25, 2015, 06:30:34 PM

Did an early celebration of our 24th wedding anniversary!   8)

Congratulations.  We celebrated our 30th ln March.  If we make it to our 50th, PA will be 93 and I'll be 85.

When I read that the first time, somehow I concluded that you were already 85 and PA was 93, and I was amazed that you were on the internet!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 25, 2015, 06:57:03 PM

 :plus:

Quote from: sg1008 on April 25, 2015, 06:51:33 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 25, 2015, 06:38:19 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 25, 2015, 06:30:34 PM

Did an early celebration of our 24th wedding anniversary!   8)

Congratulations.  We celebrated our 30th ln March.  If we make it to our 50th, PA will be 93 and I'll be 85.

When I read that the first time, somehow I concluded that you were already 85 and PA was 93, and I was amazed that you were on the internet!

PA just got a tablet 6 weeks ago.  He uses it to play chess and card games.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on April 25, 2015, 07:01:12 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 25, 2015, 06:57:03 PM

:plus:

Quote from: sg1008 on April 25, 2015, 06:51:33 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 25, 2015, 06:38:19 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 25, 2015, 06:30:34 PM

Did an early celebration of our 24th wedding anniversary!   8)

Congratulations.  We celebrated our 30th ln March.  If we make it to our 50th, PA will be 93 and I'll be 85.

When I read that the first time, somehow I concluded that you were already 85 and PA was 93, and I was amazed that you were on the internet!

PA just got a tablet 6 weeks ago.  He uses it to play chess and card games.

:P My grandpa borrows my mom's tablet to play Sodoku.
I was thinking (recently) I wonder what our generation will be like when we're old. Will we play old people video games? listen to old people dubstep? wear old people gelled hair? watch old people reality TV? :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 25, 2015, 07:15:27 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 25, 2015, 06:38:19 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 25, 2015, 06:30:34 PM

Did an early celebration of our 24th wedding anniversary!   8)

Congratulations.  We celebrated our 30th ln March.  If we make it to our 50th, PA will be 93 and I'll be 85.

If we make it to our 50th and I am still on this plane of existence, I will be 86 and Carla will be 79.  Only my female bio-progenitor made it into the 80's.  So it will be interesting to see how long I keep going!   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on April 25, 2015, 07:34:40 PM

Finished a paper I had been procrastinating on.  Just need a title.  It's on false accusations of domestic violence in custody evaluations.  I was considering "Bitches Be Trippin'"

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on April 25, 2015, 08:10:45 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 25, 2015, 07:15:27 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 25, 2015, 06:38:19 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 25, 2015, 06:30:34 PM

Did an early celebration of our 24th wedding anniversary!   8)

Congratulations.  We celebrated our 30th ln March.  If we make it to our 50th, PA will be 93 and I'll be 85.

If we make it to our 50th and I am still on this plane of existence, I will be 86 and Carla will be 79.  Only my female bio-progenitor made it into the 80's.  So it will be interesting to see how long I keep going!   8)

Congrats on you both btw...successful marriages are impressive.  :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on April 25, 2015, 08:34:48 PM

Quote from: Hubert on April 25, 2015, 07:34:40 PM

Finished a paper I had been procrastinating on.  Just need a title.  It's on false accusations of domestic violence in custody evaluations.  I was considering "Bitches Be Trippin'"

"Wolves Who Cry Wolf"
"Dishonesty is the Second Best Policy"
"Testifier Pants on Fire"

 :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 25, 2015, 09:00:46 PM

Bullshit.

How about something bad?

I was taking the dog tor a walk. He was running all around my feet -  So fucking happy to go out!!
He tangled me and I went down, smashing my glasses into the pavement (basically ruining them with a massive scratch across both lenses and flattening them out. My forehead hit the pavement first)

I was stunned, disoriented and bleeding from four head wounds. Had to take a minute to understand how badly hurt I was.

In the mean time the dog (who was terribly abused before we got him and scared to death of me at first. I have JUST gained a bit of his trust, then this happens)

He did come back to me, though, to offer help.

I fucking love dogs!! Even when they are scared as fuck, they try to help!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on April 25, 2015, 09:07:43 PM

A living wreath covered with succulents.  :o

It looks a lot like this.  :orly:

(http://www.thegreenhead.com/imgs/xl/living-succulent-wreath-xl.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 26, 2015, 12:25:15 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 25, 2015, 09:00:46 PM

Bullshit.

How about something bad?

I was taking the dog tor a walk. He was running all around my feet -  So fucking happy to go out!!
He tangled me and I went down, smashing my glasses into the pavement (basically ruining them with a massive scratch across both lenses and flattening them out. My forehead hit the pavement first)

I was stunned, disoriented and bleeding from four head wounds. Had to take a minute to understand how badly hurt I was.

In the mean time the dog (who was terribly abused before we got him and scared to death of me at first. I have JUST gained a bit of his trust, then this happens)

He did come back to me, though, to offer help.

I fucking love dogs!! Even when they are scared as fuck, they try to help!!

Goodness. Are you OK?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 26, 2015, 04:08:53 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on April 25, 2015, 06:51:33 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 25, 2015, 06:38:19 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 25, 2015, 06:30:34 PM

Did an early celebration of our 24th wedding anniversary!   8)

Congratulations.  We celebrated our 30th ln March.  If we make it to our 50th, PA will be 93 and I'll be 85.

When I read that the first time, somehow I concluded that you were already 85 and PA was 93, and I was amazed that you were on the internet!

Plenty of people that age are on the internet, and the numbers are growing. But none of that age on I2.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 26, 2015, 04:13:36 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 25, 2015, 09:00:46 PM

Bullshit.

How about something bad?

I was taking the dog tor a walk. He was running all around my feet -  So fucking happy to go out!!
He tangled me and I went down, smashing my glasses into the pavement (basically ruining them with a massive scratch across both lenses and flattening them out. My forehead hit the pavement first)

I was stunned, disoriented and bleeding from four head wounds. Had to take a minute to understand how badly hurt I was.

In the mean time the dog (who was terribly abused before we got him and scared to death of me at first. I have JUST gained a bit of his trust, then this happens)

He did come back to me, though, to offer help.

I fucking love dogs!! Even when they are scared as fuck, they try to help!!

The glasses you only got repaired recently?
Hope you are OK.

Brave dog, to step over his fears. And kudos to you, for giving him the safe surroundings that he can let go of those fears bit by bit.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 26, 2015, 05:10:26 PM

Ow DirtDawg

 :doggie: for the dog and
:nurse: for you

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 26, 2015, 05:29:18 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on April 25, 2015, 09:07:43 PM

A living wreath covered with succulents.  :o

It looks a lot like this.  :orly:

(http://www.thegreenhead.com/imgs/xl/living-succulent-wreath-xl.jpg)

I like that :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on April 27, 2015, 03:43:16 AM

Got my shit together early and crossed several things off my to do list  :chores:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 27, 2015, 04:04:56 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 26, 2015, 12:25:15 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 25, 2015, 09:00:46 PM

Bullshit.

How about something bad?

I was taking the dog tor a walk. He was running all around my feet -  So fucking happy to go out!!
He tangled me and I went down, smashing my glasses into the pavement (basically ruining them with a massive scratch across both lenses and flattening them out. My forehead hit the pavement first)

I was stunned, disoriented and bleeding from four head wounds. Had to take a minute to understand how badly hurt I was.

In the mean time the dog (who was terribly abused before we got him and scared to death of me at first. I have JUST gained a bit of his trust, then this happens)

He did come back to me, though, to offer help.

I fucking love dogs!! Even when they are scared as fuck, they try to help!!

Goodness. Are you OK?

Mostly OK, yes.

I took a pic this morning. As you can see, I hit my forehead with quite a large force. The "stereo black eyes" is just a bonus. I did not break anything, but MAN!!!! my sinuses are terribly sore.

Everyone is telling me to make up some incredible story about how this happened, because the truth is just lame. Honestly, I fell down some stairs and hit my head on a concrete sidewalk (I don't know - try it. It is rather dramatic).
Only story I can think of that sounds funny is that "I am having second thoughts about joining the Fight Club."

Maybe if it did not hurt so much I could be a little more funny.

Today I got my completely destroyed eyeglasses replaced. Unfortunately I do not use cheap glasses. I have to have invisible line bifocals and anti-glare treatments and I like "space-age" super light frames. Mine cost over three hundred dollars to get them in less than one day. (This was an emergency, understand!)

Anyway, help me come up with a great story to "explain"  how I look this way.

 :2thumbsup:



I forgot to mention.  Sorry about how ancient I look. Please understand that my sixtieth birthday occurs in a few months. I AM OLD!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 27, 2015, 04:11:09 PM

Something heinous that could have happened to you?

Plastic surgery?  :zoinks:

Glad you got out so well. Hope your sense of smell hasn't suffered from this fall.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 27, 2015, 04:52:32 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 27, 2015, 04:11:09 PM

Something heinous that could have happened to you?

Plastic surgery?  :zoinks:

Glad you got out so well. Hope your sense of smell hasn't suffered from this fall.

Not sure why you would mention my sense of smell. I am fairly sure that that part of me is neurological. Just feeling pain in knowing what scents are left behind is just because of the injury.

Pretty sure all the rest of me is still OK and my face will be back to normal scary very soon.

As far as plastic surgery, it would not work.  Any one who knows me also knows that I have no alterations, no tats, no piercings, no nothing. It is just me as I was born. All I have ever done to alter my body's natural state is cut my nails and my hair.

Well OK! NOw I am busted!!
I occasionally use a skin conditioner.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 27, 2015, 04:57:05 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 26, 2015, 04:13:36 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 25, 2015, 09:00:46 PM

Bullshit.

How about something bad?

I was taking the dog tor a walk. He was running all around my feet -  So fucking happy to go out!!
He tangled me and I went down, smashing my glasses into the pavement (basically ruining them with a massive scratch across both lenses and flattening them out. My forehead hit the pavement first)

I was stunned, disoriented and bleeding from four head wounds. Had to take a minute to understand how badly hurt I was.

In the mean time the dog (who was terribly abused before we got him and scared to death of me at first. I have JUST gained a bit of his trust, then this happens)

He did come back to me, though, to offer help.

I fucking love dogs!! Even when they are scared as fuck, they try to help!!

The glasses you only got repaired recently?
Hope you are OK.

Brave dog, to step over his fears. And kudos to you, for giving him the safe surroundings that he can let go of those fears bit by bit.

HOnestly, this little dog is amazing.

What a natural friend!!

As much as he had fear of me (He was abused terribly by an alpha in his early life. It has taken a bit of patience to win him over   ---   then this scary thing happened to both of us.  He was the hero, though. He could easily have run away and left me there but he came back to help me.  He is A REAL dog!!)



OH and I love this dog dearly!!

He is MY Dog!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 27, 2015, 05:18:23 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 27, 2015, 04:52:32 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 27, 2015, 04:11:09 PM

Something heinous that could have happened to you?

Plastic surgery?  :zoinks:

Glad you got out so well. Hope your sense of smell hasn't suffered from this fall.

Not sure why you would mention my sense of smell. I am fairly sure that that part of me is neurological. Just feeling pain in knowing what scents are left behind is just because of the injury.

Pretty sure all the rest of me is still OK and my face will be back to normal scary very soon.

As far as plastic surgery, it would not work.  Any one who knows me also knows that I have no alterations, no tats, no piercings, no nothing. It is just me as I was born. All I have ever done to alter my body's natural state is cut my nails and my hair.

Well OK! NOw I am busted!!
I occasionally use a skin conditioner.

I mentioned the sense of smell because my grandmother lost hers completely after a fall, it never came back.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 28, 2015, 10:00:10 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 27, 2015, 05:18:23 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 27, 2015, 04:52:32 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 27, 2015, 04:11:09 PM

Something heinous that could have happened to you?

Plastic surgery?  :zoinks:

Glad you got out so well. Hope your sense of smell hasn't suffered from this fall.

Not sure why you would mention my sense of smell. I am fairly sure that that part of me is neurological. Just feeling pain in knowing what scents are left behind is just because of the injury.

Pretty sure all the rest of me is still OK and my face will be back to normal scary very soon.

As far as plastic surgery, it would not work.  Any one who knows me also knows that I have no alterations, no tats, no piercings, no nothing. It is just me as I was born. All I have ever done to alter my body's natural state is cut my nails and my hair.

Well OK! NOw I am busted!!
I occasionally use a skin conditioner.

I mentioned the sense of smell because my grandmother lost hers completely after a fall, it never came back.

Sounds to me as if she had suffered a far more serious injury than mine.

I just bumped my head and have a mild concussion; nothing broken.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 28, 2015, 02:38:18 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 28, 2015, 10:00:10 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 27, 2015, 05:18:23 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 27, 2015, 04:52:32 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 27, 2015, 04:11:09 PM

Something heinous that could have happened to you?

Plastic surgery?  :zoinks:

Glad you got out so well. Hope your sense of smell hasn't suffered from this fall.

Not sure why you would mention my sense of smell. I am fairly sure that that part of me is neurological. Just feeling pain in knowing what scents are left behind is just because of the injury.

Pretty sure all the rest of me is still OK and my face will be back to normal scary very soon.

As far as plastic surgery, it would not work.  Any one who knows me also knows that I have no alterations, no tats, no piercings, no nothing. It is just me as I was born. All I have ever done to alter my body's natural state is cut my nails and my hair.

Well OK! NOw I am busted!!
I occasionally use a skin conditioner.

I mentioned the sense of smell because my grandmother lost hers completely after a fall, it never came back.

Sounds to me as if she had suffered a far more serious injury than mine.

I just bumped my head and have a mild concussion; nothing broken.

She had no concussion, but the impact was more on the nose, if I remember the bruises well. (was the day before her 40 year anniversary, and the whole family gathered to celebrate and get a family picture.)
She fell with her bike and hit the pavement. Her hip got spared. That luck she did have.

Take it easy with your concussion. It does need some proper healing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 28, 2015, 02:48:21 PM

Visited our daughter today, and spoke with her about the upcoming graduation ceremony and her need to move out of her apartment.  Looks like we are all on the same page and it looks easy and uncomplicated.  Plus, it was a beautiful day to drive to Portland Maine and back.   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 29, 2015, 09:40:28 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 28, 2015, 02:38:18 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 28, 2015, 10:00:10 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 27, 2015, 05:18:23 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 27, 2015, 04:52:32 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 27, 2015, 04:11:09 PM

Something heinous that could have happened to you?

Plastic surgery?  :zoinks:

Glad you got out so well. Hope your sense of smell hasn't suffered from this fall.

Not sure why you would mention my sense of smell. I am fairly sure that that part of me is neurological. Just feeling pain in knowing what scents are left behind is just because of the injury.

Pretty sure all the rest of me is still OK and my face will be back to normal scary very soon.

As far as plastic surgery, it would not work.  Any one who knows me also knows that I have no alterations, no tats, no piercings, no nothing. It is just me as I was born. All I have ever done to alter my body's natural state is cut my nails and my hair.

Well OK! NOw I am busted!!
I occasionally use a skin conditioner.

I mentioned the sense of smell because my grandmother lost hers completely after a fall, it never came back.

Sounds to me as if she had suffered a far more serious injury than mine.

I just bumped my head and have a mild concussion; nothing broken.

She had no concussion, but the impact was more on the nose, if I remember the bruises well. (was the day before her 40 year anniversary, and the whole family gathered to celebrate and get a family picture.)
She fell with her bike and hit the pavement. Her hip got spared. That luck she did have.

Take it easy with your concussion. It does need some proper healing.

I am a really fast healer.

While my right eye was swollen shut about twelve hours after that original pic, I am now feeling very little pain. Still some swelling and a huge amount of pain when I bend down; feels like my entire brain is going to begin dripping out of my eyes.

Just need to keep my head up and generally soaked with a witch hazel balm, which I have growing in my back yard.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 29, 2015, 11:22:28 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 27, 2015, 04:04:56 PM

Anyway, help me come up with a great story to "explain"  how I look this way.

"I was planning on a boob job but there was a mix-up."
"You should see the other guy."
"A little shaving accident."
"I'm researching fans."

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 30, 2015, 01:32:36 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 29, 2015, 09:40:28 PM

I am a really fast healer.

While my right eye was swollen shut about twelve hours after that original pic, I am now feeling very little pain. Still some swelling and a huge amount of pain when I bend down; feels like my entire brain is going to begin dripping out of my eyes.

Just need to keep my head up and generally soaked with a witch hazel balm, which I have growing in my back yard.

The bruises are not the problem. The brain may need a bit longer to get back to "normal". I'm a pretty fast healer, but started working again too quickly after a fall with mild concussion. The bruises were long gone and forgotten when that concussion still made me mix up words and such. I had no idea how bad it was, till last year my kids told me that that they had been freaked out with worries for a long time by me, because of the concussion.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 30, 2015, 12:51:55 PM

It was my last day at work. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 30, 2015, 02:57:56 PM

Finished construction of the big fairy tale book for the children's play.  4 feet by 8 feet.  <phew>

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 30, 2015, 03:50:10 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 29, 2015, 11:22:28 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 27, 2015, 04:04:56 PM

Anyway, help me come up with a great story to "explain"  how I look this way.

"I was planning on a boob job but there was a mix-up."
"You should see the other guy."
"A little shaving accident."
"I'm researching fans."

"Was playing air baseball with a friend and he is quite good!"

 :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 30, 2015, 04:37:54 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 30, 2015, 03:50:10 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 29, 2015, 11:22:28 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 27, 2015, 04:04:56 PM

Anyway, help me come up with a great story to "explain"  how I look this way.

"I was planning on a boob job but there was a mix-up."
"You should see the other guy."
"A little shaving accident."
"I'm researching fans."

"Was playing air baseball with a friend and he is quite good!"

 :dunno:

Never do oral on a ticklish woman.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 01, 2015, 01:39:33 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 30, 2015, 04:37:54 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 30, 2015, 03:50:10 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 29, 2015, 11:22:28 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 27, 2015, 04:04:56 PM

Anyway, help me come up with a great story to "explain"  how I look this way.

"I was planning on a boob job but there was a mix-up."
"You should see the other guy."
"A little shaving accident."
"I'm researching fans."

"Was playing air baseball with a friend and he is quite good!"

 :dunno:

Never do oral on a ticklish woman.

"I'm into body art."
"Look in the mirror before criticising others."

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 01, 2015, 02:34:27 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 01, 2015, 01:39:33 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 30, 2015, 04:37:54 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 30, 2015, 03:50:10 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 29, 2015, 11:22:28 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 27, 2015, 04:04:56 PM

Anyway, help me come up with a great story to "explain"  how I look this way.

"I was planning on a boob job but there was a mix-up."
"You should see the other guy."
"A little shaving accident."
"I'm researching fans."

"Was playing air baseball with a friend and he is quite good!"

 :dunno:

Never do oral on a ticklish woman.

"I'm into body art."
"Look in the mirror before criticising others."

It's make up, I'll be an alleged victim in a practice run for emergency rescuers this afternoon.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on May 01, 2015, 04:49:24 PM

I exceeded target for productivity for April, so I should be in a good position to request a pay rise to benchmark. Did get the annual pay rise today too... adds up to about £25 a month extra but every little helps  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 01, 2015, 11:09:41 PM

Back to topic ...


This spring is looking like massive awesomeness.  I am taking my saw out of doors and getting ready to make things.

Chairs, tables, you all know I am planning to market my wares on the corner where I live, right?

I only have about twelve things to show right now. I am ready, thouhg!! 

Fuck how my face looks.  My wooden sale items are more ,,, MORE ... ready to sell.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 02, 2015, 04:50:07 PM

Two boxes of items from storage were brought to the thrift store.  There are 4 boxes of items to be brought to the resale shop. I have bagged 7 huge bags of Styrofoam peanuts.  Two trash bags of trash were thrown away.  There are about 30 more boxes to go through.  So far I've only kept about 10 boxes of stuff.   

I helped PA put paper on the front windows to keep the contents hidden just as precaution. .

I am contented with my accomplishments.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 02, 2015, 05:01:49 PM

I was needing a plant pot, and I found one on liquidation with a shiny surface that reflects orange light.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 03, 2015, 07:19:10 AM

I found two snow blowers and some other stuff curbside shopping this morning

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 03, 2015, 07:43:11 AM

The PR served me coffee in bed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 03, 2015, 09:58:01 AM

Found a critical ingredient needed for Carla's cooking project.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 03, 2015, 10:30:46 AM

I woke up! In the MORNING time! :D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 03, 2015, 12:02:22 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 03, 2015, 10:30:46 AM

I woke up! In the MORNING time! :D

 :2thumbsup:

 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on May 03, 2015, 02:49:12 PM

I had a really nice walker with a seat and big wheels that I got from the thrift store for $16. Today while we were out some thieves stole it from where it was locked up near our house. My fault for not locking it to the pole instead of the links. Now we know not to leave anything outside, locked or not.

The good thing is that it was locked with the bike lock I used in Florida for years with no issues. So the lesson cost me $16 instead of the $435 that I spent on the bike. Going to buy a better lock for here.

Karma's going to get the thieves. If they'd waited they could have had it from the thrift store because I was thinking of donating it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 03, 2015, 02:58:06 PM

Planted some Basil and some Cucumbers!  Got a three mile walk in, helped somebody out with directions around a closed bridge. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 03, 2015, 03:13:11 PM

I found a guitar it needs some love but it's not beyond repair
Got one of the snow blowers to start briefly, enough to tell it is fixable

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 03, 2015, 03:40:20 PM

Quote from: WolFish on May 03, 2015, 02:49:12 PM

I had a really nice walker with a seat and big wheels that I got from the thrift store for $16. Today while we were out some thieves stole it from where it was locked up near our house. My fault for not locking it to the pole instead of the links. Now we know not to leave anything outside, locked or not.

The good thing is that it was locked with the bike lock I used in Florida for years with no issues. So the lesson cost me $16 instead of the $435 that I spent on the bike. Going to buy a better lock for here.

Karma's going to get the thieves. If they'd waited they could have had it from the thrift store because I was thinking of donating it.

And people say I'm an optimist. :o  A walker signifies a physically handicapped person, and to me first brings to mind an elderly handicapped person, and you live around people who would steal a freaking walker.  :orly: I'm glad you don't actually need the walker.

Quote

Now we know not to leave anything outside, locked or not.

Quote

Going to buy a better lock for here.

Are you going to lock your bike outside with a better lock?  :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 03, 2015, 05:11:40 PM

Went to th elibrary and did some gran thunting.



I am just going to leave the typos.  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 03, 2015, 10:29:12 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 04, 2015, 03:50:44 PM

I convinced PA that he was worth the lawn mower that cost $70 more.  And buying it online means it will be delivered to the house.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 05, 2015, 03:29:05 AM

Someone handed me all the remaining cake, to take home with me, after treating our group at the gym.

 :hyke:

Shaping the rotund bovine at the gym.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 05, 2015, 09:51:28 AM

:)

Today is simply a good day. 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on May 06, 2015, 01:30:20 AM

Hasn't happened yet, but I am going out and having fish and chips for tea. I will be having the kids' meal as it is just enough.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 06, 2015, 12:58:03 PM

Slept about 8/9 hours and feeling good.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on May 06, 2015, 01:30:29 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 04, 2015, 03:50:44 PM

I convinced PA that he was worth the lawn mower that cost $70 more.  And buying it online means it will be delivered to the house.

PA needs a Honda.  ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on May 06, 2015, 01:47:31 PM

They fixed my power pole today after some delivery van the neighbor had in here ran into the wire stabilizing the pole about a month ago and snapped it.

The totally hot nice guy from the power company even checked the transformer and replaced a part, just in case.

If I'm lucky a tree will hit it now.   :autism:
 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on May 06, 2015, 10:21:05 PM

^Then the nice guy will be back again? :green:

I had interesting conversations with people from the walking group.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 07, 2015, 06:02:15 PM

Things at work went much smoother than yesterday

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 08, 2015, 12:15:02 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 27, 2015, 04:04:56 PM

Just to post again to let everyone know that ten days out, I am ok.

... barely any "black eyes"  and only a tiny goose-egg still showing on my forehead.

BUT, FUCK!! this thing has taken a long time  to heal!

 :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 08, 2015, 07:26:20 AM

Glad you're doing better.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 08, 2015, 08:38:15 AM

Went to yoga and did some planning for our upcoming trip to see Carla's parents and begin the beguine of helping them move to Kentucky!   :apondering:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 08, 2015, 12:29:49 PM

Had a good day at work. I like my new job.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 08, 2015, 04:17:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 08, 2015, 12:29:49 PM

Had a good day at work. I like my new job.

:thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 08, 2015, 07:15:46 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 08, 2015, 12:29:49 PM

Had a good day at work. I like my new job.

 :viking:  False Expectations Appearing Real. Glad you made the change.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 08, 2015, 10:25:39 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 08, 2015, 12:29:49 PM

Had a good day at work. I like my new job.

Awesome. Imma let this news be the good thing for my day.




well, I'll also add, Imma volunteer with a trans support network thingy. Looking forward to helping youth in my area.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 09, 2015, 03:16:52 AM

Thanks. :)

Here's a weird thing, though: I feel guilty for enjoying my new job. No idea why.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 09, 2015, 04:57:26 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 09, 2015, 03:16:52 AM

Thanks. :)

Here's a weird thing, though: I feel guilty for enjoying my new job. No idea why.

Your aspie brain may have made a connection between job and agony. One that was there with your former job.

Time to cut that connection. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 09, 2015, 03:31:14 PM

Found big metal jobsite lock box  and a metal garbage can that looks like a bomb curbside

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 09, 2015, 04:24:53 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 09, 2015, 03:16:52 AM

Thanks. :)

Here's a weird thing, though: I feel guilty for enjoying my new job. No idea why.

 :dunno:

Do some community service?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 09, 2015, 04:26:00 PM

Quote from: Parts on May 09, 2015, 03:31:14 PM

Found big metal jobsite lock box  and a metal garbage can that looks like a bomb curbside

cool. you gonna post any pics?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 09, 2015, 07:20:36 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 09, 2015, 03:16:52 AM

Thanks. :)

Here's a weird thing, though: I feel guilty for enjoying my new job. No idea why.

How dare you get paid for doing something you like.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 09, 2015, 07:25:14 PM

Amber graduated today.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 09, 2015, 07:31:00 PM

Congratulations to her!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 10, 2015, 02:51:16 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 09, 2015, 07:20:36 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 09, 2015, 03:16:52 AM

Thanks. :)

Here's a weird thing, though: I feel guilty for enjoying my new job. No idea why.

How dare you get paid for doing something you like.

Exactly. It's a bit like now. It's Sunday and I feel guilty for having the day off.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 10, 2015, 02:52:07 AM

Quote from: rock hound on May 09, 2015, 07:25:14 PM

Amber graduated today.   8)

Congrats to her!  :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 10, 2015, 06:11:32 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 10, 2015, 02:51:16 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 09, 2015, 07:20:36 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 09, 2015, 03:16:52 AM

Thanks. :)

Here's a weird thing, though: I feel guilty for enjoying my new job. No idea why.

How dare you get paid for doing something you like.

Exactly. It's a bit like now. It's Sunday and I feel guilty for having the day off.

You took the protestant work ethics too far. And have no religion left to tell you so. :smarty:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 10, 2015, 02:49:28 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 10, 2015, 06:11:32 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 10, 2015, 02:51:16 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 09, 2015, 07:20:36 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 09, 2015, 03:16:52 AM

Thanks. :)

Here's a weird thing, though: I feel guilty for enjoying my new job. No idea why.

How dare you get paid for doing something you like.

Exactly. It's a bit like now. It's Sunday and I feel guilty for having the day off.

You took the protestant work ethics too far. And have no religion left to tell you so. :smarty:

It sucks to be me. :P

But the weekend is ending and I'm going back to work.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on May 11, 2015, 10:02:57 AM

got all the grading done on time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Hannah on May 11, 2015, 10:12:10 AM

a few good things over the past few days...

taking a break from the net and all forms of bombarding loud noise meaning the media and I'm proud of myself for doing that...it's helped so much... :asthing:

bought the person behind me their Starbucks whatever it was and I always love doing things like that don't' know what it is about giving but it feels good... :yarly:

Things are falling into place, abet slowly, but still falling into a sense of a place...

Hopefully getting a new computer soon or newer one, and will be putting Linux on it...frak windows and apple...Linux is beast, is hoss is the top boss...period...

Sleep could be better but otherwise things are going well... :yarly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 11, 2015, 01:52:20 PM

Got an unexpected but very flattering recommendation from a colleague at the sprint planning session today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 11, 2015, 06:03:43 PM

Got my stitches taken out

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 11, 2015, 06:04:56 PM

The house passed the mechanical inspection.  The journey is nearing its end.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 11, 2015, 10:09:33 PM

Climbing!  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on May 11, 2015, 10:37:19 PM

Odeon has changed things around here so that now I can see YouTubes on my Kindle without having to follow a link. Yay!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 13, 2015, 10:29:19 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 08, 2015, 07:26:20 AM

Glad you're doing better.

Thank you.

Most of the color is gone. Now I just look like I have been on a two week drunk or something. But the bump, I was told will take up to ten to twelve weeks to heal, since it is an actual bone injury.

As far as all the sinus membranes behind where I hit my head --- FUCK!!
Swelling, pain, sneezing (Oh and BTW that hurts like Hell! while everything is all iffy up there), constant mucous discharge, and now I have at least six lymph nodes that are showing some degree of anger at the entire event.

I am wondering if I should go back to my "real doctor (not some emergency room hack)"  and get another opinion.

I am healing well, but the swollen lymph nodes worry me.

BUt hell, Every time I jerk my collar down to my belt line, I feel better. SO HEY!  I am a doctor , too!!

Seriously, I mostly feel OK and I sneeze like crazy for over two weeks now  (had colds worse than this), but I can not account for the swollen lymph nodes (btw, if you do not know what this is, then good for you!!) in my upper body.

Opinions?  Let it go?  Get some help? Trust in my own inner strength? Trust that I will heal normally? Invest in medication?

 :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 14, 2015, 04:25:32 AM

Get the sneezing checked. They'll probably glance at your lymphnodes too, but them being reactive on the situation seems logical to me. (My lymphnodes are pretty reactive)

As for the bump, don't touch it. :P

13 years ago I had minor bone damage in my face, with massive black eyes. Hair-fracture somewhere under my eye. For half a year, if I rubbed my eyes the wrong way, it would damage some blood vessels, and I would have a shiny black eye again. Did not need any medical attention. But I did get weird looks that half year. Only two people asked me carefully how things were at home though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 14, 2015, 07:16:04 AM

Take immune supplements?

I've had swollen lymph nodes and it was always part of some infection. I would eventually go to an urgent care and they would prescribe me antibiotics.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 14, 2015, 10:22:44 AM

Made some progress with my first real assignment at work. There's so much to learn and find out about so I haven't felt very useful until the last day or two.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 14, 2015, 02:26:57 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 14, 2015, 10:22:44 AM

Made some progress with my first real assignment at work. There's so much to learn and find out about so I haven't felt very useful until the last day or two.

 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 14, 2015, 02:53:26 PM

I got a nice down payment on the house I began work on

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on May 14, 2015, 04:40:08 PM

Finished spring semester!

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Post by: 'andersom' on May 14, 2015, 04:42:14 PM

Congratulations!

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Post by: MLA on May 14, 2015, 04:43:54 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 14, 2015, 04:42:14 PM

Congratulations!

Thank you :)

I have 13 days off now until summer semester begins!

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Post by: sg1008 on May 14, 2015, 11:29:54 PM

Quote from: Hubert on May 14, 2015, 04:43:54 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 14, 2015, 04:42:14 PM

Congratulations!

Thank you :)

I have 13 days off now until summer semester begins!

congrats! I might have asked this elsewhere but...are you studying law? if so...what exactly are you interested in?

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Post by: MLA on May 15, 2015, 09:27:59 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 14, 2015, 11:29:54 PM

Quote from: Hubert on May 14, 2015, 04:43:54 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 14, 2015, 04:42:14 PM

Congratulations!

Thank you :)

I have 13 days off now until summer semester begins!

congrats! I might have asked this elsewhere but...are you studying law? if so...what exactly are you interested in?

My background in business lends itself to business law, but my passion is in helping kids and criminal defense.  As I transferred to a better school after 2 years, and have to complete a full 2 years at the better school, I will have 33% more school than your average new law grad.  So I am using the situation to gain a very broad legal education. So far I have specialized (taken 2 or more upper-division electives) in: business law, family law, bankruptcy, intellectual property, contracts & real estate.

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Post by: odeon on May 15, 2015, 09:53:12 AM

I might need to talk to you, considering my new job and who I'm working for.

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Post by: MLA on May 15, 2015, 11:49:53 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 15, 2015, 09:53:12 AM

I might need to talk to you, considering my new job and who I'm working for.

I saw that.  Pretty cool.  I prefer their competitor, but they are a good second choice :)

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Post by: odeon on May 15, 2015, 12:27:41 PM

Quote from: Hubert on May 15, 2015, 11:49:53 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 15, 2015, 09:53:12 AM

I might need to talk to you, considering my new job and who I'm working for.

I saw that.  Pretty cool.  I prefer their competitor, but they are a good second choice :)

Haha, I don't actually know anywhere near enough to comment. But I am starting to understand how things get published and what the weaknesses are.

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Post by: MLA on May 15, 2015, 02:15:40 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 15, 2015, 12:27:41 PM

Quote from: Hubert on May 15, 2015, 11:49:53 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 15, 2015, 09:53:12 AM

I might need to talk to you, considering my new job and who I'm working for.

I saw that.  Pretty cool.  I prefer their competitor, but they are a good second choice :)

Haha, I don't actually know anywhere near enough to comment. But I am starting to understand how things get published and what the weaknesses are.

I've always been curious how that works.  It seems like an extreme amount of work.  Especially all the cross-referencing.

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Post by: odeon on May 15, 2015, 02:56:33 PM

Quote from: Hubert on May 15, 2015, 02:15:40 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 15, 2015, 12:27:41 PM

Quote from: Hubert on May 15, 2015, 11:49:53 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 15, 2015, 09:53:12 AM

I might need to talk to you, considering my new job and who I'm working for.

I saw that.  Pretty cool.  I prefer their competitor, but they are a good second choice :)

Haha, I don't actually know anywhere near enough to comment. But I am starting to understand how things get published and what the weaknesses are.

I've always been curious how that works.  It seems like an extreme amount of work.  Especially all the cross-referencing.

There's a lot of technical wizardry and relying on phrasing, but also a fair amount of manual work. The process is changing but it's going to take a while. It's why they hire people like me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on May 15, 2015, 03:41:53 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 15, 2015, 02:56:33 PM

Quote from: Hubert on May 15, 2015, 02:15:40 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 15, 2015, 12:27:41 PM

Quote from: Hubert on May 15, 2015, 11:49:53 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 15, 2015, 09:53:12 AM

I might need to talk to you, considering my new job and who I'm working for.

I saw that.  Pretty cool.  I prefer their competitor, but they are a good second choice :)

Haha, I don't actually know anywhere near enough to comment. But I am starting to understand how things get published and what the weaknesses are.

I've always been curious how that works.  It seems like an extreme amount of work.  Especially all the cross-referencing.

There's a lot of technical wizardry and relying on phrasing, but also a fair amount of manual work. The process is changing but it's going to take a while. It's why they hire people like me.

Can you get me an employee discount?  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on May 15, 2015, 04:28:12 PM

Quote from: Hubert on May 15, 2015, 09:27:59 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 14, 2015, 11:29:54 PM

Quote from: Hubert on May 14, 2015, 04:43:54 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 14, 2015, 04:42:14 PM

Congratulations!

Thank you :)

I have 13 days off now until summer semester begins!

congrats! I might have asked this elsewhere but...are you studying law? if so...what exactly are you interested in?

My background in business lends itself to business law, but my passion is in helping kids and criminal defense.  As I transferred to a better school after 2 years, and have to complete a full 2 years at the better school, I will have 33% more school than your average new law grad.  So I am using the situation to gain a very broad legal education. So far I have specialized (taken 2 or more upper-division electives) in: business law, family law, bankruptcy, intellectual property, contracts & real estate.

Interesting. Have you ever had the opportunity to volunteer with a pro-bono organisation that represents children? Anyways, I was asking about your background because I find political philosophy interesting, and like to learn about constitutional law and human rights law.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on May 15, 2015, 04:35:33 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 15, 2015, 04:28:12 PM

Have you ever had the opportunity to volunteer with a pro-bono organisation that represents children?

Yes.  I do work for the Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence.  I am looking into doing side work as a Guardian Ad Litem for the state.  There is a magistrate judge that I work with in the child protection court that has almost convinced me to become a foster parent.  Need to convince my wife of that one first :)

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Post by: MLA on May 15, 2015, 04:39:08 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on May 15, 2015, 04:28:12 PM

like to learn about constitutional law and human rights law.

Con Law is not what anyone thinks it is, until they go to law school anyway.  It's boring as hell, but I'm happy to discuss in another thread if you want.

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Post by: DirtDawg on May 16, 2015, 12:03:43 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 14, 2015, 07:16:04 AM

Take immune supplements?

I've had swollen lymph nodes and it was always part of some infection. I would eventually go to an urgent care and they would prescribe me antibiotics.

TBH, I always use more than average amounts of anti-oxidants, such as melons and berries, greens, etc.

Thank you, but the only ones which still show swelling are directly under my jaw. In ONE DAY it seems as if most of the trouble has gone elsewhere.

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Post by: 'andersom' on May 16, 2015, 04:41:36 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 16, 2015, 12:03:43 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 14, 2015, 07:16:04 AM

Take immune supplements?

I've had swollen lymph nodes and it was always part of some infection. I would eventually go to an urgent care and they would prescribe me antibiotics.

TBH, I always use more than average amounts of anti-oxidants, such as melons and berries, greens, etc.

Thank you, but the only ones which still show swelling are directly under my jaw. In ONE DAY it seems as if most of the trouble has gone elsewhere.

It is not uncommon for swelling in the face to "drop", starting at the brow, ending below the jaw.
Don't know where I found that, and can't be arsed to look for it again. I looked it up a while ago because my ex was having an inflammatory swelling, that after the inflammation was under control slowly migrated over his face, to disappear once it was below the jaw.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 16, 2015, 12:11:04 PM

Quote from: Hubert on May 15, 2015, 03:41:53 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 15, 2015, 02:56:33 PM

Quote from: Hubert on May 15, 2015, 02:15:40 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 15, 2015, 12:27:41 PM

Quote from: Hubert on May 15, 2015, 11:49:53 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 15, 2015, 09:53:12 AM

I might need to talk to you, considering my new job and who I'm working for.

I saw that.  Pretty cool.  I prefer their competitor, but they are a good second choice :)

Haha, I don't actually know anywhere near enough to comment. But I am starting to understand how things get published and what the weaknesses are.

I've always been curious how that works.  It seems like an extreme amount of work.  Especially all the cross-referencing.

There's a lot of technical wizardry and relying on phrasing, but also a fair amount of manual work. The process is changing but it's going to take a while. It's why they hire people like me.

Can you get me an employee discount?  :autism:

Sorry, I doubt it. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 17, 2015, 09:01:12 AM

Feeling a little better than yesterday and my voice is starting to come back

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Post by: rock hound on May 17, 2015, 10:45:16 AM

Slipping into post travel routines at home.  Did my first yoga class in a week.  Unfortunately, this particular teacher played this monotone music in the back ground which made my focus near impossible.  Fortunately, I've been prepared and carry ear plugs at all times, since whenever I ask for the music to be turned down I get a wall of resistance as it is the instructors, "artistic freedom" to play anything and everything at (what to me) are loud levels.  I have sound sensitivities which means certain sounds can drive me to distraction.  But, the ear plugs made it tolerable and I could still make out what the instructor was saying.  But, the moves and focus are what I needed to transition back to grind.   :P

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Post by: Gopher Gary on May 17, 2015, 01:48:37 PM

Gay boi crotch seriously pressed against my shoulder while getting my eyebrows waxed.  :2thumbsup:

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Post by: renaeden on May 18, 2015, 12:21:01 AM

Got my flu injection for free at the doctors and it was also done without me having to wait or come back another day.

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Post by: 'andersom' on May 18, 2015, 02:44:20 AM

The bread kid and I made yesterday turned out really well. Had been a long time, since we baked bread. Often the first after a long time isn't that good.

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Post by: 'andersom' on May 18, 2015, 02:46:13 AM

Both colourful kids are in school today. One is a red head, the other has very fiery variegated orange hair now.

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Post by: Jack on May 18, 2015, 04:28:30 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on May 17, 2015, 01:48:37 PM

Gay boi crotch seriously pressed against my shoulder while getting my eyebrows waxed.  :2thumbsup:

He's going to keep doing it.

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Post by: Gopher Gary on May 18, 2015, 05:42:53 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 18, 2015, 04:28:30 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on May 17, 2015, 01:48:37 PM

Gay boi crotch seriously pressed against my shoulder while getting my eyebrows waxed.  :2thumbsup:

He's going to keep doing it.

 :hahaha: You can thank me later.

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Post by: Bastet on May 18, 2015, 10:04:14 PM

Learning how to robot

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Post by: Jack on May 18, 2015, 11:45:04 PM

Quote from: Buttplug on May 18, 2015, 10:04:14 PM

Learning how to robot

Are you going to post your robot?

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Post by: DirtDawg on May 20, 2015, 07:52:08 PM

 All better, now, even the sinus issues.

Only thing that still betrays my health is the mass forehead contusion, which the ER doc told me might take up to twelve weeks to heal.

Still have a bump, but I am telling people that I am growing a HORN.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on May 21, 2015, 01:35:23 AM

got another raise. I just got one less than 6 months ago.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on May 21, 2015, 02:55:13 AM

My friend had a great day. She has been down so long that I am glad it is going right for her for a change.

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Post by: odeon on May 21, 2015, 12:44:48 PM

A friend called. We chatted for a while.

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Post by: Hannah on May 21, 2015, 03:25:15 PM

shared my story with a guy at pet boys in the waiting area...though the wait was long at the end they said they were too busy for inspection today come back tomorrow, might try another auto shop...

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Post by: odeon on May 22, 2015, 01:13:28 PM

Beer and crisps happened.

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Post by: rock hound on May 22, 2015, 01:21:24 PM

I did get two tickets for a Graham Nash Concert!    :rock:

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Post by: 'andersom' on May 22, 2015, 01:24:59 PM

Beer and Crisps will be happening any moment now.  :hyke:

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Post by: odeon on May 22, 2015, 01:25:32 PM

 :thumbup:

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Post by: 'andersom' on May 22, 2015, 01:25:55 PM

I could go for port too, but that does not go well with crisps, and I don't have any Blue Stilton in the house.

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Post by: rock hound on May 22, 2015, 01:26:09 PM

The TLC channel show "19 kids and counting" was cancelled over the revelations that the older Duggar son molested his siblings and other kids.  And he was a leading spokesman for the "Family Values political groups" that abound in the USA.  To fight equality in marriage laws that are happening in many states.  Plus, his father concealed the crimes for a year before going to the cops when word started spreading outside the clan.  Karma is such a bitch!   :hahaha:

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Post by: odeon on May 22, 2015, 01:27:14 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 22, 2015, 01:25:55 PM

I could go for port too, but that does not go well with crisps, and I don't have any Blue Stilton in the house.

Port is just wrong and you need to be brave and say no to it.

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Post by: Parts on May 22, 2015, 04:30:33 PM

Quote from: rock hound on May 22, 2015, 01:26:09 PM

The TLC channel show "19 kids and counting" was cancelled over the revelations that the older Duggar son molested his siblings and other kids.  And he was a leading spokesman for the "Family Values political groups" that abound in the USA.  To fight equality in marriage laws that are happening in many states.  Plus, his father concealed the crimes for a year before going to the cops when word started spreading outside the clan.  Karma is such a bitch!   :hahaha:

My wife watches it, or did, we always wondered which one of them would come out as being gay and be disowned

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 22, 2015, 04:35:55 PM

Quote from: WolFish on May 21, 2015, 01:35:23 AM

got another raise. I just got one less than 6 months ago.

Congratulations.

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Post by: Icequeen on May 22, 2015, 04:48:14 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 22, 2015, 01:27:14 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 22, 2015, 01:25:55 PM

I could go for port too, but that does not go well with crisps, and I don't have any Blue Stilton in the house.

Port is just wrong and you need to be brave and say no to it.

I enjoy being wrong and I am not brave. :zoinks:

My mom had a huge shrub of scotch broom (considered an invasive weed in some places), I loved it, my dad bought it for her, it died a year after he did. Was telling a friend how I would love to have one again just yesterday.

Walked in WalMart today and they had one huge lonely shrub setting by itself, not another in sight.

Guess what it was?  8) 

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Post by: 'andersom' on May 22, 2015, 04:52:29 PM

Cheers IQ.

Guess what I am drinking now.  :laugh:

I love that shrub. The scent it has, when in bloom is awesome too.

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Post by: rock hound on May 22, 2015, 07:48:45 PM

Quote from: Parts on May 22, 2015, 04:30:33 PM

Quote from: rock hound on May 22, 2015, 01:26:09 PM

The TLC channel show "19 kids and counting" was cancelled over the revelations that the older Duggar son molested his siblings and other kids.  And he was a leading spokesman for the "Family Values political groups" that abound in the USA.  To fight equality in marriage laws that are happening in many states.  Plus, his father concealed the crimes for a year before going to the cops when word started spreading outside the clan.  Karma is such a bitch!   :hahaha:

My wife watches it, or did, we always wondered which one of them would come out as being gay and be disowned

Stay tuned, this is going to get even more interesting!

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Post by: Gopher Gary on May 23, 2015, 09:41:02 AM

Almond joy candy flavored coffee creamer!! :GA:

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Post by: Lord of the Ales on May 23, 2015, 06:22:39 PM

I got the electric window on my driver side car door fixed... now I don't have to pull a bit forward of drive through speakers and shout a bit through the rear passenger window.  :lol1:

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Post by: WolFish on May 25, 2015, 03:43:34 PM

found missing parker sonnet to replace the one I lost.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 25, 2015, 07:32:21 PM

The idiot that rear ended Amber's car....his car was totaled and needed a Tow truck.....Amber can still drive hers, 2005 Totoya Matrix.    Pretty sturdy car if you ask me!  It will need some repair....but, it still runs!

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Post by: DirtDawg on May 25, 2015, 08:00:20 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 14, 2015, 07:16:04 AM

Take immune supplements?

I've had swollen lymph nodes and it was always part of some infection. I would eventually go to an urgent care and they would prescribe me antibiotics.

Completely all better, now.
Spent time in the sun. Did some gardening/exercise. Got some rest, etc.
Had a good time at the "Yard o' Bricks". Watched a momentous, historically significant race. Loved it.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on May 25, 2015, 08:53:37 PM

Dinner with two friends.  Lots of laughter.

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Post by: MLA on May 26, 2015, 10:01:15 AM

Back to work.  No ... wait ... that isn't good :(

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Post by: odeon on May 26, 2015, 02:55:50 PM

Two colleagues who I know from other places work on site this week (yesterday was a bank holiday so they both arrived today).

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 26, 2015, 07:13:10 PM

Drove a 15 foot uhaul.  The hardest part was getting in the damn thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 27, 2015, 08:38:20 PM

Climbing!

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Post by: rock hound on May 28, 2015, 09:09:47 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 27, 2015, 08:38:20 PM

Climbing!

Are there some good climbing cliffs around Montreal?  Have you ever climbed in the Shawangunks in NY State?

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Post by: Icequeen on May 29, 2015, 08:15:42 AM

Well yesterday anyways...

Yesterday was one of those "magic" days. Kid and I went to the local game store, and found the exact game we wanted...reduced.  The exact same quilt I had wanted in walmart a month ago...but wasn't willing to pay $50 for, was found at the church sale for $8. 

The hippie style tops I love that are hard to find, found one.  The jeans I loved at first sight...were my size. The denim jacket the kid spotted from the door, was his size. 

The old woman that tried to block me in when she parked at the church failed to estimate the agility of a 21 yr old truck and a determined 48 yr old woman. The cop watching from across the street even cracked a smile when I pulled out.


All my favorite songs came on the radio, we didn't forget anything later at walmart, and we didn't have to wait in line.

Magic.

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Post by: rock hound on May 29, 2015, 08:45:05 AM

 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 29, 2015, 11:11:40 AM

Talked to my brother on the phone. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 30, 2015, 07:31:53 PM

Quote from: rock hound on May 28, 2015, 09:09:47 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 27, 2015, 08:38:20 PM

Climbing!

Are there some good climbing cliffs around Montreal?  Have you ever climbed in the Shawangunks in NY State?

It was at a gym. I think there are some good places nearby but everything here is still pretty new and we haven't gotten organized enough for a camping trip yet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 30, 2015, 08:03:16 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 30, 2015, 07:31:53 PM

Quote from: rock hound on May 28, 2015, 09:09:47 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 27, 2015, 08:38:20 PM

Climbing!

Are there some good climbing cliffs around Montreal?  Have you ever climbed in the Shawangunks in NY State?

It was at a gym. I think there are some good places nearby but everything here is still pretty new and we haven't gotten organized enough for a camping trip yet.

Ah, The Shawangunks are near the Hudson River region of NY State off the Taconic Parkway a little south of Albany.  I tried rock climbing there as part of class years ago.  It's quite a mecca for outdoor climbing in that area.  Hope things get organized or settled soon with peak camping season coming up.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 03, 2015, 11:39:54 AM

Had an unexpected and very informal job interview. Apparently I'm sought after these days. :o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 03, 2015, 12:02:17 PM

Got my 3 mile walk in!   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 03, 2015, 01:09:23 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 03, 2015, 11:39:54 AM

Had an unexpected and very informal job interview. Apparently I'm sought after these days. :o

Was it a tempting offer?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on June 03, 2015, 01:20:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 03, 2015, 11:39:54 AM

Had an unexpected and very informal job interview. Apparently I'm sought after these days. :o

Sweet!

I landed a very nice letter of recommendation from a very (locally) prestigious individual.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 03, 2015, 01:33:49 PM

The sun came out and my tomatoes and cucumbers are looking gooooooooooood.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 03, 2015, 08:40:56 PM

2 monitors and 1 computer and the free TV came today.  Ordered them Sunday night.  The other computer is on back order for June 9.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on June 04, 2015, 02:09:34 AM

My research methods class, which has been good pay but hellish with students who are clueless about research, was cancelled. Apparently I have been demoted to undergrad research - which is not the pansy ass stuff I was trying to get the students to at least read in the last class.

Hell of a lot of reading (three textbooks plus articles) but at least it's real research methods. Not sure how the students are going to get all the work done in five weeks.

Five week classes are nice.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 04, 2015, 10:18:38 AM

My brother called me to tell me I could deposit a check he gave me about a month ago that I had forgotten all about he could have saved himself $350 if he had just kept his mouth shut :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 04, 2015, 12:45:05 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 03, 2015, 01:09:23 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 03, 2015, 11:39:54 AM

Had an unexpected and very informal job interview. Apparently I'm sought after these days. :o

Was it a tempting offer?

It's not quite an offer yet but it might be if I choose to follow up on it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 04, 2015, 12:45:43 PM

Quote from: Hubert on June 03, 2015, 01:20:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 03, 2015, 11:39:54 AM

Had an unexpected and very informal job interview. Apparently I'm sought after these days. :o

Sweet!

I landed a very nice letter of recommendation from a very (locally) prestigious individual.

I'm pretty sure you're worth it. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 04, 2015, 06:53:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 04, 2015, 12:45:43 PM

Quote from: Hubert on June 03, 2015, 01:20:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 03, 2015, 11:39:54 AM

Had an unexpected and very informal job interview. Apparently I'm sought after these days. :o

Sweet!

I landed a very nice letter of recommendation from a very (locally) prestigious individual.

I'm pretty sure you're worth it. :)

Your mutual chest thumping and ego stroking is highly erotic.  :eyelash:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on June 04, 2015, 09:08:09 PM

Not only did I find my missing money clip with $10 in it, I also found $20 on the ground while grocery shopping.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 05, 2015, 03:14:50 AM

A $30 profit! Awesome.

Some people came and cleaned our roof gutters today. Bonus was that they cleaned up after themselves. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on June 05, 2015, 08:17:45 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 04, 2015, 12:45:43 PM

Quote from: Hubert on June 03, 2015, 01:20:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 03, 2015, 11:39:54 AM

Had an unexpected and very informal job interview. Apparently I'm sought after these days. :o

Sweet!

I landed a very nice letter of recommendation from a very (locally) prestigious individual.

I'm pretty sure you're worth it. :)

Thanks

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on June 05, 2015, 08:18:28 AM

Grades posted last night.  Healthy bump in my cumulative makes me  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 05, 2015, 04:04:13 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 04, 2015, 06:53:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 04, 2015, 12:45:43 PM

Quote from: Hubert on June 03, 2015, 01:20:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 03, 2015, 11:39:54 AM

Had an unexpected and very informal job interview. Apparently I'm sought after these days. :o

Sweet!

I landed a very nice letter of recommendation from a very (locally) prestigious individual.

I'm pretty sure you're worth it. :)

Your mutual chest thumping and ego stroking is highly erotic.  :eyelash:

Feeling left out? :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 05, 2015, 08:04:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 05, 2015, 04:04:13 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 04, 2015, 06:53:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 04, 2015, 12:45:43 PM

Quote from: Hubert on June 03, 2015, 01:20:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 03, 2015, 11:39:54 AM

Had an unexpected and very informal job interview. Apparently I'm sought after these days. :o

Sweet!

I landed a very nice letter of recommendation from a very (locally) prestigious individual.

I'm pretty sure you're worth it. :)

Your mutual chest thumping and ego stroking is highly erotic.  :eyelash:

Feeling left out? :zoinks:

I was thinking about gay porn at the time.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 06, 2015, 12:01:41 AM

Good music

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2015, 11:20:11 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 05, 2015, 08:04:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 05, 2015, 04:04:13 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 04, 2015, 06:53:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 04, 2015, 12:45:43 PM

Quote from: Hubert on June 03, 2015, 01:20:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 03, 2015, 11:39:54 AM

Had an unexpected and very informal job interview. Apparently I'm sought after these days. :o

Sweet!

I landed a very nice letter of recommendation from a very (locally) prestigious individual.

I'm pretty sure you're worth it. :)

Your mutual chest thumping and ego stroking is highly erotic.  :eyelash:

Feeling left out? :zoinks:

I was thinking about gay porn at the time.  :zoinks:

:dunno: Whatever floats your boat.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 06, 2015, 11:23:52 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 06, 2015, 11:20:11 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 05, 2015, 08:04:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 05, 2015, 04:04:13 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 04, 2015, 06:53:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 04, 2015, 12:45:43 PM

Quote from: Hubert on June 03, 2015, 01:20:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 03, 2015, 11:39:54 AM

Had an unexpected and very informal job interview. Apparently I'm sought after these days. :o

Sweet!

I landed a very nice letter of recommendation from a very (locally) prestigious individual.

I'm pretty sure you're worth it. :)

Your mutual chest thumping and ego stroking is highly erotic.  :eyelash:

Feeling left out? :zoinks:

I was thinking about gay porn at the time.  :zoinks:

:dunno: Whatever floats your boat.

Yeah, speaking of boats. Now I'm thinking about MLA, Parts, and you "fishing".  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2015, 04:46:20 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 06, 2015, 11:23:52 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 06, 2015, 11:20:11 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 05, 2015, 08:04:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 05, 2015, 04:04:13 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 04, 2015, 06:53:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 04, 2015, 12:45:43 PM

Quote from: Hubert on June 03, 2015, 01:20:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 03, 2015, 11:39:54 AM

Had an unexpected and very informal job interview. Apparently I'm sought after these days. :o

Sweet!

I landed a very nice letter of recommendation from a very (locally) prestigious individual.

I'm pretty sure you're worth it. :)

Your mutual chest thumping and ego stroking is highly erotic.  :eyelash:

Feeling left out? :zoinks:

I was thinking about gay porn at the time.  :zoinks:

:dunno: Whatever floats your boat.

Yeah, speaking of boats. Now I'm thinking about MLA, Parts, and you "fishing".  :lol1:

One-track mind much? :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 06, 2015, 09:52:39 PM

Shashigai showed me how to use a sewing machine and I made something and did not stitch my finger.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 07, 2015, 02:46:34 AM

Coffee happened. It's been a while since I could last have a cup of coffee before leaving the house.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 07, 2015, 10:48:32 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 06, 2015, 09:52:39 PM

Shashigai showed me how to use a sewing machine and I made something and did not stitch my finger.

I'd laugh, but my mom did that once.  And she was an experienced seamstress.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 07, 2015, 03:30:08 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 07, 2015, 10:48:32 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 06, 2015, 09:52:39 PM

Shashigai showed me how to use a sewing machine and I made something and did not stitch my finger.

I'd laugh, but my mom did that once.  And she was an experienced seamstress.

My mum is an experienced seamstress, she did it a few times. Long, fast, boring stretches to sew, that is were the danger is.
Always was afraid one day I would do that to me. When it happened, it was no worse than any splinter. Pretty amazing, to have a needle going up and down a finger, leaving a hole on both sides, one of them through the nail.
The thread was a bit weird.  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 07, 2015, 05:31:07 PM

I sliced my fingernail with a jigsaw once. I suppose it would be less damage than that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 07, 2015, 11:45:58 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 07, 2015, 05:31:07 PM

I sliced my fingernail with a jigsaw once. I suppose it would be less damage than that.

Ouch!!!

No neat edgings of the wound either, with a jigsaw. And sawdust sucking up the blood right in the wound. We need CBC around to marvel about this.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 09, 2015, 12:23:28 AM

Try crushing a light bulb with your fingers. I still have the scar to remind me of that mishap.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 09, 2015, 01:36:36 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 09, 2015, 12:23:28 AM

Try crushing a light bulb with your fingers. I still have the scar to remind me of that mishap.

My godson crushed a Christmas ball, at the age of nearly two, ending up covered in shimmering glass and blood.
For months he would freeze in his movements, look at his hands with glazy eyes, muttering: "ball....broken". Then he would lift his head again and go on with what he was doing.

I have a a scar left from stepping into buried broken beer-bottles. The wound healed weird, so I had to get it checked every other week for months. That in a time when you could not make appointments, just had to go sit in the waiting-room, and hope it was your turn within two hours. Ahh, the good old times.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 09, 2015, 08:43:42 AM

Received my Loop Magnifier in the mail today.  It is everything I had hoped it would be.  Looked at a few of my rock and crystal specimens with it and saw a whole lot more to them than with just my eyes or a regular magnifying glass.    :dwave: :woohoo: :celebrate:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 09, 2015, 01:00:25 PM

I got a call back on a house I bid work on about scheduling I looked at it  awhile ago and figured I didn't get it

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on June 09, 2015, 04:19:11 PM

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Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on June 11, 2015, 08:34:53 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 07, 2015, 03:30:08 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 07, 2015, 10:48:32 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 06, 2015, 09:52:39 PM

Shashigai showed me how to use a sewing machine and I made something and did not stitch my finger.

I'd laugh, but my mom did that once.  And she was an experienced seamstress.

My mum is an experienced seamstress, she did it a few times. Long, fast, boring stretches to sew, that is were the danger is.
Always was afraid one day I would do that to me. When it happened, it was no worse than any splinter. Pretty amazing, to have a needle going up and down a finger, leaving a hole on both sides, one of them through the nail.
The thread was a bit weird.  :autism:

My mom said everyone had to learn how to sew, even me. I saw how useful it was (it costs mucho bux to have a hem done or a seam fixed so I've always owned a sewing machine). My mother worked as a seamstress when she was 12 to help family income.
To me it's just like working with a jigsaw which I did in shop class. I have never put a needle through but I have put a post the size of a box nail through my finger. I was so fascinated that I just stared at it for a little while. I was playing with it and a rubber band during fifth grade class.
It was more painful when I stepped on a 1.25 inch roofing nail in my attic. It went through the ball of my foot all the way to the head. It didn't bleed very much but I was worried because it was rusty and had roof gunk on it. It didn't get infected, but I did limp for a while after that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on June 11, 2015, 08:39:18 AM

Really excited that there were 13 new posts overnight!  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on June 11, 2015, 09:53:18 AM

My credit rating is good. With ADHD and marginal employment, it was very bad at one time. But I've paid off most of my "buy groceries with credit card" debt and so many on time payments that when my pre-scheduled payment didn't go through and I got a late notice, it doesn't seem to have counted for much - I think I lost two points. I don't get the "apply for this" notices any more because they can't find me in Canada.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on June 11, 2015, 04:39:30 PM

Kids had a good time with the science experiments today. They learned Newton's second law...and later, through the socratic method, they figured out what makes objects float.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 11, 2015, 07:52:55 PM

The PR has been taking her meds regularly.  She's much easier to live with now.


The second Wii Game we ordered came.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 12, 2015, 10:30:52 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 09, 2015, 01:36:36 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 09, 2015, 12:23:28 AM

Try crushing a light bulb with your fingers. I still have the scar to remind me of that mishap.

My godson crushed a Christmas ball, at the age of nearly two, ending up covered in shimmering glass and blood.
For months he would freeze in his movements, look at his hands with glazy eyes, muttering: "ball....broken". Then he would lift his head again and go on with what he was doing.

I have a a scar left from stepping into buried broken beer-bottles. The wound healed weird, so I had to get it checked every other week for months. That in a time when you could not make appointments, just had to go sit in the waiting-room, and hope it was your turn within two hours. Ahh, the good old times.

I was really mad at my dad--he wouldn't buy me a replacement bulb for a projector so I crushed the one I had in my hands in anger. Blood gushed out and so I walked into the living room, still mad, to show my mum what I considered to be my dad's fault. She fainted.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 12, 2015, 10:31:42 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on June 09, 2015, 04:19:11 PM

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So, what are you saying, exactly? :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 12, 2015, 10:32:24 AM

Quote from: Hubert on June 11, 2015, 08:39:18 AM

Really excited that there were 13 new posts overnight!  :zoinks:

:hamsterwheel:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 12, 2015, 10:47:08 AM

Picked up a check

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 17, 2015, 04:09:01 AM

No fractures found in shoulder of the youngest.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on June 17, 2015, 01:44:24 PM

Yesterday I received news that I should be able to graduate in December instead of May.

 :celebrate: :happydance: :dancers: :shamone: :dance: :party: :cheer: :roses: :hadron:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 17, 2015, 02:46:07 PM

Quote from: Hubert on June 17, 2015, 01:44:24 PM

Yesterday I received news that I should be able to graduate in December instead of May.

 :celebrate: :happydance: :dancers: :shamone: :dance: :party: :cheer: :roses: :hadron:

 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 17, 2015, 03:18:08 PM

Good news for Hykeaswell and Hubert.  :melon: :celebrate:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 17, 2015, 03:20:18 PM

The a/c fan in the car is now fixed.  The heat index today was 103.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 18, 2015, 12:24:29 AM

Quote from: Hubert on June 17, 2015, 01:44:24 PM

Yesterday I received news that I should be able to graduate in December instead of May.

 :celebrate: :happydance: :dancers: :shamone: :dance: :party: :cheer: :roses: :hadron:

See, after the  :rollercoaster: of emotions, toil and turmoil comes :kumbaya:


Congratulations, and already a "well done" in advance.
:dwave: :dwave: :dwave:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on June 18, 2015, 11:43:16 AM

Thanks  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 18, 2015, 08:01:55 PM

I'll congratulate you in December instead of may.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 18, 2015, 09:20:41 PM

Hubert and the missus looking spectacular on FB

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on June 19, 2015, 09:34:13 AM

The award dinner was a lot of fun.  Two hours of cocktails and socializing with good people followed by a mediocre (at $65 a plate anyway) meal, followed by more drinking, being presented on stage, and then a group of us went to a local bar afterwards and drank some more.

I got to take home a professionally framed copy of the article and a really heavy steel trophy/award/thingy.  I get a pdf of the article on Monday for anyone who wants to see it and haven't already on Facebook :)

It was a good time and a nice line item on my resume.  In all It seems to have been a success.   :hadron:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 19, 2015, 05:17:40 PM

Congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 19, 2015, 10:12:12 PM

Quote from: Hubert on June 19, 2015, 09:34:13 AM

The award dinner was a lot of fun.  Two hours of cocktails and socializing with good people followed by a mediocre (at $65 a plate anyway) meal, followed by more drinking, being presented on stage, and then a group of us went to a local bar afterwards and drank some more.

I got to take home a professionally framed copy of the article and a really heavy steel trophy/award/thingy.  I get a pdf of the article on Monday for anyone who wants to see it and haven't already on Facebook :)

It was a good time and a nice line item on my resume.  In all It seems to have been a success.   :hadron:

I don't care about the article, post a picture of your heavy steel trophy/award/thingy.  :o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 19, 2015, 10:19:04 PM

I want to see the article too. :)

I also am meant to be graduating at the end of this year. I am doing an Independent Study Contract about ADHD and gaming/internet addiction.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on June 20, 2015, 10:42:53 PM

We got in and out of Ikea in about 15 minutes.
We got the long driving errands out of the way today so we can go rock climbing tomorrow.
I got the new drawers from Ikea (Helmer) at lower price than expected ($39 instead of $49 CDN) AND they weren't defective and I got them put together in about 45 minutes for the first and watching Tintin for the second. They help form my new desk and now I have 12 drawers to organize my crap.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 21, 2015, 02:39:53 AM

^IKEA is the work of the devil.

Great news, Hyke! Congrats, Hubert!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 21, 2015, 09:10:58 AM

Went to a nice restorative yoga class this morning!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 21, 2015, 08:52:38 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 21, 2015, 02:39:53 AM

^IKEA is the work of the devil.

Does God build from scratch?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 22, 2015, 04:38:01 AM

Clipped my hedge this morning, and got my washing inside in time before the massive rain started again.
Cats are pondering on taking swimming lessons.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on June 22, 2015, 09:10:20 AM

Took a buddy from school out on the boat for a day of fathers day fishing.  Went to a new reservoir about 90 miles away that I had never visited before.  About 25 miles in (away from civilization) the reservoir suddenly changes from 65 feet deep to about 3.  I assume that it was overfilled and we were actually on shore by a few hundred feet.  Anyway, grounded the damn boat.  Had to push it back into the deeper water with 20 lb carp jumping all around us and pelicans laughing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 22, 2015, 11:47:37 AM

Quote from: Hubert on June 22, 2015, 09:10:20 AM

Took a buddy from school out on the boat for a day of fathers day fishing.  Went to a new reservoir about 90 miles away that I had never visited before.  About 25 miles in (away from civilization) the reservoir suddenly changes from 65 feet deep to about 3.  I assume that it was overfilled and we were actually on shore by a few hundred feet.  Anyway, grounded the damn boat.  Had to push it back into the deeper water with 20 lb carp jumping all around us and pelicans laughing.

Great way to push in the heat, being 3 ft in water.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 22, 2015, 01:46:56 PM

Quote from: Hubert on June 22, 2015, 09:10:20 AM

Took a buddy from school out on the boat for a day of fathers day fishing.  Went to a new reservoir about 90 miles away that I had never visited before.  About 25 miles in (away from civilization) the reservoir suddenly changes from 65 feet deep to about 3.  I assume that it was overfilled and we were actually on shore by a few hundred feet.  Anyway, grounded the damn boat.  Had to push it back into the deeper water with 20 lb carp jumping all around us and pelicans laughing.

We are quite amused.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on June 22, 2015, 02:19:30 PM

made my own buffalo wing sauce and my own dip for the wings.
yum.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 22, 2015, 06:01:08 PM

And GF chocolate cake with delicious white mousse layers for dessert.   :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 23, 2015, 07:23:03 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 19, 2015, 10:12:12 PM

Quote from: Hubert on June 19, 2015, 09:34:13 AM

The award dinner was a lot of fun.  Two hours of cocktails and socializing with good people followed by a mediocre (at $65 a plate anyway) meal, followed by more drinking, being presented on stage, and then a group of us went to a local bar afterwards and drank some more.

I got to take home a professionally framed copy of the article and a really heavy steel trophy/award/thingy.  I get a pdf of the article on Monday for anyone who wants to see it and haven't already on Facebook :)

It was a good time and a nice line item on my resume.  In all It seems to have been a success.   :hadron:

I don't care about the article, post a picture of your heavy steel trophy/award/thingy.  :o

Are you going to post your thingy or not?  >:(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 24, 2015, 04:49:25 AM

The cinema rang Kayleigh early this morning and said they had my phone. I went and picked it up shortly afterwards. Honestly, I thought that I would never see it again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 24, 2015, 05:05:33 AM

Quote from: renaeden on June 24, 2015, 04:49:25 AM

The cinema rang Kayleigh early this morning and said they had my phone. I went and picked it up shortly afterwards. Honestly, I thought that I would never see it again.

Can't see why anyone would keep it. It's probably not very helpful for someone to have another person's phone. Not for very long anyway.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 24, 2015, 10:07:54 AM

 :thumbup:

Quote from: renaeden on June 24, 2015, 04:49:25 AM

The cinema rang Kayleigh early this morning and said they had my phone. I went and picked it up shortly afterwards. Honestly, I thought that I would never see it again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on June 24, 2015, 11:07:21 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 23, 2015, 07:23:03 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 19, 2015, 10:12:12 PM

Quote from: Hubert on June 19, 2015, 09:34:13 AM

The award dinner was a lot of fun.  Two hours of cocktails and socializing with good people followed by a mediocre (at $65 a plate anyway) meal, followed by more drinking, being presented on stage, and then a group of us went to a local bar afterwards and drank some more.

I got to take home a professionally framed copy of the article and a really heavy steel trophy/award/thingy.  I get a pdf of the article on Monday for anyone who wants to see it and haven't already on Facebook :)

It was a good time and a nice line item on my resume.  In all It seems to have been a success.   :hadron:

I don't care about the article, post a picture of your heavy steel trophy/award/thingy.  :o

Are you going to post your thingy or not?  >:(

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a2iylJFWTsSHvJ1xuKrNc266t-a2t4Pe5wJ3l4Hk56E3=w529-h939-no)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: El on June 24, 2015, 06:51:06 PM

My boyfriend got a full-time in-field job after 2 years in retail and one year unemployed before that.

We are super fucking happy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 24, 2015, 08:06:21 PM

Congrats to him!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 25, 2015, 02:39:53 AM

Quote from: Hubert on June 24, 2015, 11:07:21 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 23, 2015, 07:23:03 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 19, 2015, 10:12:12 PM

Quote from: Hubert on June 19, 2015, 09:34:13 AM

The award dinner was a lot of fun.  Two hours of cocktails and socializing with good people followed by a mediocre (at $65 a plate anyway) meal, followed by more drinking, being presented on stage, and then a group of us went to a local bar afterwards and drank some more.

I got to take home a professionally framed copy of the article and a really heavy steel trophy/award/thingy.  I get a pdf of the article on Monday for anyone who wants to see it and haven't already on Facebook :)

It was a good time and a nice line item on my resume.  In all It seems to have been a success.   :hadron:

I don't care about the article, post a picture of your heavy steel trophy/award/thingy.  :o

Are you going to post your thingy or not?  >:(

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a2iylJFWTsSHvJ1xuKrNc266t-a2t4Pe5wJ3l4Hk56E3=w529-h939-no)

 :thumbup:    :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 25, 2015, 06:15:57 AM

My wife won a hundred dollars on a state lottery scratch ticket!   :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 25, 2015, 07:11:55 AM

Quote from: rock hound on June 25, 2015, 06:15:57 AM

My wife won a hundred dollars on a state lottery scratch ticket!   :2thumbsup:

Fuckin' rocks, dude!!

Most I have ever won is ten US$. (Can not even imagine how many hundreds I played to get lucky --- once.)

I rarely do such, being so universally unable to "access" luck and shit, but my wife seems to do better than I can at the "Ghetto lotto."

She actually hit the "Lucky Sevens"  one time (couple of years back)  and brought home a car full of groceries when we really needed it (I was not working or gambling, mostly thought I was dying, but I am back) along with about three hundred bucks to use for what ever!!

OH!  "Lucky Sevens"  is a local game where you play craps and when you win, you take home seven hundred bucks
(I am talking about $US, not sure who I am typing/talking to, but if it was Euros it might be considerably less [kind of funny how so much less/fewer of our worth less/ lower valued  USA$$ can buy so much more valuable shit, right?  One of those true economic quandaries, right??, lol] and in OZ$, sorry it has lost so damn much over the years -when I was a kid the Aussie buck was worth more than two of our continental US$bucks-,   we can talk about that if you need, but I would prefer not)

Anyway, I have NEVER come out ahead!!

Only my (treasured)  wife has won at local lotto.

Your wife may have superpowers, dude!

Sounds like we both have keepers!  I actually can lay claim to a large number of "throwbacks"  in my history. That is one damn good way to know how to recognize a "keeper" when you see one, right?.

 :thumbup:

edit: sorry, it is not my spelling, as sad and questionable as it might be, my typing seems to be more of an issue today.

:lol:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 25, 2015, 09:35:05 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on June 25, 2015, 07:11:55 AM

Quote from: rock hound on June 25, 2015, 06:15:57 AM

My wife won a hundred dollars on a state lottery scratch ticket!   :2thumbsup:

Fuckin' rocks, dude!!

Most I have ever won is ten US$. (Can not even imagine how many hundreds I played to get lucky --- once.)

I rarely do such, being so universally unable to "access" luck and shit, but my wife seems to do better than I can at the "Ghetto lotto."

She actually hit the "Lucky Sevens"  one time (couple of years back)  and brought home a car full of groceries when we really needed it (I was not working or gambling, mostly thought I was dying, but I am back) along with about three hundred bucks to use for what ever!!

OH!  "Lucky Sevens"  is a local game where you play craps and when you win, you take home seven hundred bucks
(I am talking about $US, not sure who I am typing/talking to, but if it was Euros it might be considerably less [kind of funny how so much less/fewer of our worth less/ lower valued  USA$$ can buy so much more valuable shit, right?  One of those true economic quandaries, right??, lol] and in OZ$, sorry it has lost so damn much over the years -when I was a kid the Aussie buck was worth more than two of our continental US$bucks-,   we can talk about that if you need, but I would prefer not)

Anyway, I have NEVER come out ahead!!

Only my (treasured)  wife has won at local lotto.

Your wife may have superpowers, dude!

Sounds like we both have keepers!  I actually can lay claim to a large number of "throwbacks"  in my history. That is one damn good way to know how to recognize a "keeper" when you see one, right?.

 :thumbup:

edit: sorry, it is not my spelling, as sad and questionable as it might be, my typing seems to be more of an issue today.

:lol:

Playing the $1 scratch tickets is one of our little indulgences.  So it was pretty cool to win that amount, most of the time it's $1 winners with the occasional $2, $5, $10 and a $20.  Yep, my wife is a keeper!  So it was good that she started off the day with a big smile.   :green:

And yes, we never come out ahead, but, things seem to balance out in the end.  I quit playing the mega bucks tickets and did win $40 once, but, the amount I put in was more than what I won.  But, that's how gambling works!  So we keep it at a little indulgence.  I see many people come into the store and buy vast quantities of tickets or go in with a wad a cash and wad of numbers to play for the big games.  If the mood hits me, I'll play one game and see what happens.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 25, 2015, 01:30:25 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 21, 2015, 08:52:38 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 21, 2015, 02:39:53 AM

^IKEA is the work of the devil.

Does God build from scratch?

He buys from better stores.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 25, 2015, 06:29:03 PM

Caramel drizzled apple pie.  What is the best is that I couldn't taste cinnamon.  But the pie was pretty awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 25, 2015, 06:57:09 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 25, 2015, 01:30:25 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 21, 2015, 08:52:38 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 21, 2015, 02:39:53 AM

^IKEA is the work of the devil.

Does God build from scratch?

He buys from better stores.

Maybe he recycles.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 26, 2015, 04:47:27 PM

Flew back home. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 26, 2015, 04:51:28 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 26, 2015, 04:47:27 PM

Flew back home. :)

Your posting schedule has been weird and it's been freaking me out. :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 26, 2015, 05:00:48 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 26, 2015, 04:51:28 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 26, 2015, 04:47:27 PM

Flew back home. :)

Your posting schedule has been weird and it's been freaking me out. :GA:

Sorry. :-[

I tend not to post before going to work while in London. I can't get decent coffee in the hotel and so prefer to sleep longer and get the coffee from the shop outside the office instead.

So don't blame me, blame the coffee that they make available at the hotel. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 26, 2015, 05:12:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 26, 2015, 05:00:48 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 26, 2015, 04:51:28 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 26, 2015, 04:47:27 PM

Flew back home. :)

Your posting schedule has been weird and it's been freaking me out. :GA:

Sorry. :-[

I tend not to post before going to work while in London. I can't get decent coffee in the hotel and so prefer to sleep longer and get the coffee from the shop outside the office instead.

So don't blame me, blame the coffee that they make available at the hotel. :zoinks:

I blame lots of stuff on coffee, so that works for me.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on June 26, 2015, 05:46:46 PM

M'erica took not just a step, but a leap forwards into the 21st century :ghey:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 26, 2015, 06:39:11 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 25, 2015, 01:30:25 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 21, 2015, 08:52:38 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 21, 2015, 02:39:53 AM

^IKEA is the work of the devil.

Does God build from scratch?

He buys from better stores.

I thought he/she/it already made all the "scratch" needed to build whatever is fun to play with.

 :zombiefuck:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 26, 2015, 06:46:41 PM

Quote from: rock hound on June 25, 2015, 09:35:05 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on June 25, 2015, 07:11:55 AM

Quote from: rock hound on June 25, 2015, 06:15:57 AM

My wife won a hundred dollars on a state lottery scratch ticket!   :2thumbsup:

Fuckin' rocks, dude!!

Most I have ever won is ten US$. (Can not even imagine how many hundreds I played to get lucky --- once.)

I rarely do such, being so universally unable to "access" luck and shit, but my wife seems to do better than I can at the "Ghetto lotto."

She actually hit the "Lucky Sevens"  one time (couple of years back)  and brought home a car full of groceries when we really needed it (I was not working or gambling, mostly thought I was dying, but I am back) along with about three hundred bucks to use for what ever!!

OH!  "Lucky Sevens"  is a local game where you play craps and when you win, you take home seven hundred bucks
(I am talking about $US, not sure who I am typing/talking to, but if it was Euros it might be considerably less [kind of funny how so much less/fewer of our worth less/ lower valued  USA$$ can buy so much more valuable shit, right?  One of those true economic quandaries, right??, lol] and in OZ$, sorry it has lost so damn much over the years -when I was a kid the Aussie buck was worth more than two of our continental US$bucks-,   we can talk about that if you need, but I would prefer not)

Anyway, I have NEVER come out ahead!!

Only my (treasured)  wife has won at local lotto.

Your wife may have superpowers, dude!

Sounds like we both have keepers!  I actually can lay claim to a large number of "throwbacks"  in my history. That is one damn good way to know how to recognize a "keeper" when you see one, right?.

 :thumbup:

edit: sorry, it is not my spelling, as sad and questionable as it might be, my typing seems to be more of an issue today.

:lol:

Playing the $1 scratch tickets is one of our little indulgences.  So it was pretty cool to win that amount, most of the time it's $1 winners with the occasional $2, $5, $10 and a $20.  Yep, my wife is a keeper!  So it was good that she started off the day with a big smile.   :green:

And yes, we never come out ahead, but, things seem to balance out in the end.  I quit playing the mega bucks tickets and did win $40 once, but, the amount I put in was more than what I won.  But, that's how gambling works!  So we keep it at a little indulgence.  I see many people come into the store and buy vast quantities of tickets or go in with a wad a cash and wad of numbers to play for the big games.  If the mood hits me, I'll play one game and see what happens.   8)

Yeah, me too. I'll drop a buck or two when I dip in for a beer or two, sometimes, but I am well beyond keeping any delusion that I am going to offset my gambling "investments" by scratching vinyl off printed paper.
 :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 26, 2015, 07:43:04 PM

I bought volume 1 -10 of the Amber Chronicles.  I'd reason the first story, but the library never got the others.  My search of 30+ years is over.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 27, 2015, 12:22:39 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on June 26, 2015, 06:39:11 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 25, 2015, 01:30:25 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 21, 2015, 08:52:38 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 21, 2015, 02:39:53 AM

^IKEA is the work of the devil.

Does God build from scratch?

He buys from better stores.

I thought he/she/it already made all the "scratch" needed to build whatever is fun to play with.

 :zombiefuck:

In the beginning god created money. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 27, 2015, 12:24:34 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 26, 2015, 07:43:04 PM

I bought volume 1 -10 of the Amber Chronicles.  I'd reason the first story, but the library never got the others.  My search of 30+ years is over.

Roger Zelazny?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 27, 2015, 12:32:23 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 27, 2015, 12:24:34 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 26, 2015, 07:43:04 PM

I bought volume 1 -10 of the Amber Chronicles.  I'd reason the first story, but the library never got the others.  My search of 30+ years is over.

Roger Zelazny?

. 
Yes.  I realized I'd read Nine Princes in the early 70's.  Been looking for it to re-read and the other books in the series.  Only took about 35 years.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 27, 2015, 12:39:54 AM

I have a friend who loves the Amber Chronicles. Me, I've never gotten into them for some reason.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 27, 2015, 12:52:31 AM

I'll probably find that my rates have changed.  But at least I can see.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 27, 2015, 10:15:13 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 27, 2015, 12:22:39 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on June 26, 2015, 06:39:11 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 25, 2015, 01:30:25 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 21, 2015, 08:52:38 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 21, 2015, 02:39:53 AM

^IKEA is the work of the devil.

Does God build from scratch?

He buys from better stores.

I thought he/she/it already made all the "scratch" needed to build whatever is fun to play with.

 :zombiefuck:

In the beginning god created money. :zoinks:

Might disagree, here.

With what "god gave us"  we figured out how to tie rocks onto sticks and it was only when we discovered that one our neighbors had bigger rocks on longer sticks that someone thought to create "money."  Then, almost immediately some asshole suggested that, just like sticks with rocks tied to them, not all money was equal and then, there we go again!!

 :zombiefuck:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on June 27, 2015, 04:04:42 PM

Didn't die.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 27, 2015, 04:33:01 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on June 27, 2015, 04:04:42 PM

Didn't die.  :zoinks:

 :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 27, 2015, 04:36:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 27, 2015, 12:22:39 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on June 26, 2015, 06:39:11 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 25, 2015, 01:30:25 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 21, 2015, 08:52:38 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 21, 2015, 02:39:53 AM

^IKEA is the work of the devil.

Does God build from scratch?

He buys from better stores.

I thought he/she/it already made all the "scratch" needed to build whatever is fun to play with.

 :zombiefuck:

In the beginning god created money. :zoinks:

Unlike some, I see what you did there.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 27, 2015, 08:33:23 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 27, 2015, 12:52:31 AM

I'll probably find that my rates have changed.  But at least I can see.

This makes NO sense.  I think I meant to say if my "tastes" have changed, referring to the Amber Chronicles

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 28, 2015, 04:05:21 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 27, 2015, 08:33:23 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 27, 2015, 12:52:31 AM

I'll probably find that my rates have changed.  But at least I can see.

This makes NO sense.  I think I meant to say if my "tastes" have changed, referring to the Amber Chronicles

Thank you, this makes a lot more sense. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 28, 2015, 04:06:23 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 27, 2015, 04:36:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 27, 2015, 12:22:39 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on June 26, 2015, 06:39:11 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 25, 2015, 01:30:25 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 21, 2015, 08:52:38 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 21, 2015, 02:39:53 AM

^IKEA is the work of the devil.

Does God build from scratch?

He buys from better stores.

I thought he/she/it already made all the "scratch" needed to build whatever is fun to play with.

 :zombiefuck:

In the beginning god created money. :zoinks:

Unlike some, I see what you did there.  :zoinks:

I merely presented a viewpoint. :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 28, 2015, 01:56:33 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on June 27, 2015, 04:04:42 PM

Didn't die.  :zoinks:

Intriguing enough, but it would be so much more so if YOU controlled the prospect.

 >:D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 28, 2015, 01:57:55 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 28, 2015, 04:06:23 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 27, 2015, 04:36:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 27, 2015, 12:22:39 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on June 26, 2015, 06:39:11 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 25, 2015, 01:30:25 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 21, 2015, 08:52:38 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 21, 2015, 02:39:53 AM

^IKEA is the work of the devil.

Does God build from scratch?

He buys from better stores.

I thought he/she/it already made all the "scratch" needed to build whatever is fun to play with.

 :zombiefuck:

In the beginning god created money. :zoinks:

Unlike some, I see what you did there.  :zoinks:

I merely presented a viewpoint. :M

... as I did, but I was actually trying to add humor to the mix.
 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 28, 2015, 02:05:38 PM

My favourite dog came to visit today.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on June 28, 2015, 11:56:20 PM

Returned the bike I bought and they are building me a bigger one - turns out I needed a 19 inch frame. I was afraid they would not take it back but I brought pics with measuring tape of my old bike and they understood the issue. So hopefully a new bike by Tuesday or Thursday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 29, 2015, 04:22:45 PM

Finally got home after a whirlwind weekend trip to my in-laws to help clean out their barns before they move to Kentucky.  At least the filthiest of the 3 barns is empty.  Aka, Bat Guano central.   :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 29, 2015, 11:53:53 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 30, 2015, 04:05:32 AM

Ticked off another appointment that has to happen before summer holidays start. This is a pretty packed week with stuff like that.
Guy was a pleasant and kind man, that was good. Way better than the woman on that job before him.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on June 30, 2015, 09:31:01 PM

Went to the Restore to find that they were having a half price sale. Got a wonky halogen bankers lamp for 12.50 CDN. It works only sometimes - like when I hold it upside down to see what is the problem. Then it comes on and blinds me. I'm hoping its the bulb. Even if I have to fix it, it's still a hundred dollar lamp.
Also got some cool fixtures and wiring - 3.50 for a hanging lamp, 50 cents for a lamp fixture - all because I was too tired to ride Py's bike to home depot.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 30, 2015, 10:58:41 PM

Coffee, so far.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 01, 2015, 05:03:31 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 28, 2015, 02:05:38 PM

My favourite dog came to visit today.  :)

NIce.

My favorite dog (for the length of his life, anyway) lives with me.

OH!!  Did I mention we have a dog?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on July 01, 2015, 09:27:14 PM

Hung out with my lil bros and sisterlings.  :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 01, 2015, 09:42:58 PM

Guacamole, cake and an excellent day of vacation.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 01, 2015, 11:25:08 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on July 01, 2015, 05:03:31 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 28, 2015, 02:05:38 PM

My favourite dog came to visit today.  :)

NIce.

My favorite dog (for the length of his life, anyway) lives with me.

OH!!  Did I mention we have a dog?

Yes, I distinctly remember you mentioning it. :)

I would like to have a dog.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 02, 2015, 02:12:35 AM

Quote from: WolFish on June 30, 2015, 09:31:01 PM

Went to the Restore to find that they were having a half price sale. Got a wonky halogen bankers lamp for 12.50 CDN. It works only sometimes - like when I hold it upside down to see what is the problem. Then it comes on and blinds me. I'm hoping its the bulb. Even if I have to fix it, it's still a hundred dollar lamp.
Also got some cool fixtures and wiring - 3.50 for a hanging lamp, 50 cents for a lamp fixture - all because I was too tired to ride Py's bike to home depot.

That bolded part had me in a fit of laughter imagining it. That is something good that happened today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 02, 2015, 08:35:35 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 01, 2015, 11:25:08 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on July 01, 2015, 05:03:31 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 28, 2015, 02:05:38 PM

My favourite dog came to visit today.  :)

NIce.

My favorite dog (for the length of his life, anyway) lives with me.

OH!!  Did I mention we have a dog?

Yes, I distinctly remember you mentioning it. :)

I would like to have a dog.

I am glad you remember. 
We rescued a dog from the "Humane Society" which unfortunately had been terribly abused by an alpha male human.  I love dogs and I have usually done well with even stray dogs which had been abandoned, which I brought home and loved until the day they died.

This beautiful dog, after four months of my best love giving, still does not fully trust that I will not injure him in some way.

He is a "Standard Chihuahua,"  and is fucking awesome (twenty two pounds - not like two pounds or some other little squeaky toy, manmade breed thing that could never exist in nature) and I love him. He welcomes me at the door when I return home, like any good dog. He will obey all my commands he understands, he respects my eating area and does not even sniff my food, he is perfectly house "pleasant"  and nothing but a pleasure.

We were doing great until yesterday, even if just a little tentative and  "iffy" at times.   BUT!!!!   Yesterday, my wife was injured at work and came home with a cast on her arm. The dog saw this and immediately blamed me and today he is terrified again to have any contact with me.

So, what ever asshole mistreated and abused this beautiful little dog probably mistreated and abused the rest of the family as well.

We (the dog and I) were doing fine, until he saw the cast on my wife's arm this morning. NOW he avoids me again, even after four months of progress, loving him, talking to him, never ever hurting him, etc.

This is going to be a long road, but if I can give this little beautifully loving dog a decent end to his life, knowing that we can never make up for the abuse he has already suffered, I will feel like I have done all that anyone could ever have done for him.

I cry for how difficult it is to show him the love I feel for him.
 :'(

Some might take that one should NEVER take in a "rescue dog"  but I would disagree, even today. This little guy NEEDS some kind of stable home and I intend to provide one for him.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 03, 2015, 12:32:07 AM

Poor dog.

How's your wife? Will her injury heal quickly?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 04, 2015, 11:04:09 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on July 03, 2015, 12:32:07 AM

Poor dog.

How's your wife? Will her injury heal quickly?

Turned out to be a massive sprain with no fractured bones. Thank God and alll the angels of mercy and fuck and all!!  Problem is, it is her right hand and she is right hand dominate.
Fucking crazy is the fact that she was forced to come in to work the next day, despite showing all the managers that she could find, a doctor's recommendation that she not use her hand for four days. She had to come in to work and go through hours and hours of "safety training" bullshit. (Punishment?  Maybe.)

Then, still, she had to come in the next day to fill out a fucking mountain of forms (using a pen on paper, ffs) all about how well she had learned all the safety crap that she had gone through the day before.  She objected at length, then used her left hand to write in all the forms and, according to her assessment, most of what she wrote was illegible.  :hahaha:

Anyway, except for having been abused (in my book) by her bosses covering their collective asses, she is fine and healing well.

There is a huge, large, massive, enormous amount of shit, speckled with brilliance and deep understanding of the way the world works I can say about how management's just getting a small amount of leverage over the union this past vote has changed how her UPS job works, which might take weeks to express in its entirety.  However, therefore, and or but, it would best be left for another time and thread.  :LOL:


As far as the dog, we all know how brave dos are. This little guy has impressed me many times with his courage; trying to know me, trying to allow me to be the alpha he needs, trying to find a way to live near a person (leader of the pack, let's say, thinking in the terms a dog understands) with whom he is terrified to be around. He still tries AND I try my best to be as gentle and gracious as possible with him.

Now, after two days, the dog and I are getting back on track. He sees me caring for my wife's injury and seems to allow the possibility that I did not do this to her.
I think that dogs are way more intelligent than "science"  gives them credit for. (I know I am personifying him a bit, but anyone who does not get this should try living with one. Then you will understand) We know they love with no bounds. I only hope that he feels my unbound love for him.


BTW, this little dog was there in "humaine"  care for over seven months before we got him. He was not the dog we had met, chosen and fallen for over about three weeks time (that one was a small beagle mix). But, on the day we went to pick up the other dog, the "foster family" who had been caring for that dog had decided they were keeping him, so we had to begin choosing again.

We saw this guy and he was perfect and, even though he seemed scared of me, he took up with my wife and daughter instantly. (I nicknamed him "The Lady's Man") So, we chose this "full sized" chihuahua and never looked back. Admittedly, I often feel that I might never have a normal relationship with him, but we are both working on it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on July 04, 2015, 02:05:28 PM

Started the day with a nice thought :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 05, 2015, 01:40:08 AM

Coffee. :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 05, 2015, 02:30:27 PM

Found a nice handle for a hewing axe I am restoring

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on July 05, 2015, 05:05:55 PM

A character I like in a show I'm watching got into a dangerous situation and actually lived through it.

Also a friend who was looking for more players for a custom D and D game he made found one player and two potential players.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on July 05, 2015, 08:39:33 PM

Decided to get icecream at this expensive ice cream shop. Didn't have enough for a sundae, but counted my cash and had enough to get myself a scoop of Mocha chocolate chip....got up to the counter and they said "you're taken care of"...I said "really!?" and they said "yup, you're good". I was sooo happy, and gave them a $2 tip.

:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 05, 2015, 11:08:14 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on July 05, 2015, 08:39:33 PM

Decided to get icecream at this expensive ice cream shop. Didn't have enough for a sundae, but counted my cash and had enough to get myself a scoop of Mocha chocolate chip....got up to the counter and they said "you're taken care of"...I said "really!?" and they said "yup, you're good". I was sooo happy, and gave them a $2 tip.

:)

Did you ask who covered you?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on July 06, 2015, 11:36:34 AM

Quote from: Jack on July 05, 2015, 11:08:14 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on July 05, 2015, 08:39:33 PM

Decided to get icecream at this expensive ice cream shop. Didn't have enough for a sundae, but counted my cash and had enough to get myself a scoop of Mocha chocolate chip....got up to the counter and they said "you're taken care of"...I said "really!?" and they said "yup, you're good". I was sooo happy, and gave them a $2 tip.

:)

Did you ask who covered you?

At the time I assumed it was the staff...only later did I wonder if another customer covered me. I would have thanked them if I knew...  :-[

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 06, 2015, 12:26:27 PM

Buying shoes with the ladies was a piece of cake.
Very nice.
Even managed to get two pairs for the one who always has real problems finding good fitting shoes, and we got both pairs at maximum summer-sale discount too. (Last two pairs in her size, so no way it would have gotten any better).
Other kid found the shoes she had been dreaming about for over a year, not at a discount, but they are good shoes and will last her a long time. So, we all are content.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on July 06, 2015, 05:55:17 PM

Replaced my busted shower head with a new fancy one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 07, 2015, 12:40:37 PM

I had just over $100 in materials left over after I finished an addition I was working on that I can return for credit

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 07, 2015, 02:39:35 PM

Drove along Loch Ness.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on July 07, 2015, 03:49:59 PM

Quote from: odeon on July 07, 2015, 02:39:35 PM

Drove along Loch Ness.

See anything in the water?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 07, 2015, 03:54:04 PM

Started harvesting cherry tomatoes off my tomato plants!    8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 07, 2015, 05:12:04 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on July 06, 2015, 11:36:34 AM

Quote from: Jack on July 05, 2015, 11:08:14 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on July 05, 2015, 08:39:33 PM

Decided to get icecream at this expensive ice cream shop. Didn't have enough for a sundae, but counted my cash and had enough to get myself a scoop of Mocha chocolate chip....got up to the counter and they said "you're taken care of"...I said "really!?" and they said "yup, you're good". I was sooo happy, and gave them a $2 tip.

:)

Did you ask who covered you?

At the time I assumed it was the staff...only later did I wonder if another customer covered me. I would have thanked them if I knew...  :-[

Have heard about people paying for the next person in line at drive throughs; may have been a random act of kindness like that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on July 07, 2015, 06:26:43 PM

Quote from: Hubert on July 07, 2015, 03:49:59 PM

Quote from: odeon on July 07, 2015, 02:39:35 PM

Drove along Loch Ness.

See anything in the water?

(http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0070/7032/files/darth_wat_grande.jpg?113129)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 08, 2015, 02:22:12 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on July 06, 2015, 11:36:34 AM

Quote from: Jack on July 05, 2015, 11:08:14 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on July 05, 2015, 08:39:33 PM

Decided to get icecream at this expensive ice cream shop. Didn't have enough for a sundae, but counted my cash and had enough to get myself a scoop of Mocha chocolate chip....got up to the counter and they said "you're taken care of"...I said "really!?" and they said "yup, you're good". I was sooo happy, and gave them a $2 tip.

:)

Did you ask who covered you?

At the time I assumed it was the staff...only later did I wonder if another customer covered me. I would have thanked them if I knew...  :-[

Maybe someone was flirting with you.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 08, 2015, 12:38:59 PM

Well, it's official, my full stride walking speed is a blistering 6 mph. How do I know this you ask? I was walking home from bringing Carla her coffee and there is one of those radar signs that tell you your speed as your driving. So, it apparently is sensitive enough to pick up the speed of a man walking down the sidewalk right next to it and no cars to distract it. Because as soon as one did come by, it registered the cars speed. But, for a good 10 seconds or so, it registered 6 mph. Now I know how fast I walk at full stride! I had a good laugh out loud at that!     :green:   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 08, 2015, 02:44:19 PM

Quote from: Hubert on July 07, 2015, 03:49:59 PM

Quote from: odeon on July 07, 2015, 02:39:35 PM

Drove along Loch Ness.

See anything in the water?

Windsurfers. No Nessie, though. :(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 09, 2015, 04:41:06 AM

I had an exceptional nights sleep last night

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on July 09, 2015, 12:46:19 PM

Took my Education Law final for four hours this morning.  Now I get a full five weeks off!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 09, 2015, 01:03:39 PM

Quote from: Hubert on July 09, 2015, 12:46:19 PM

Took my Education Law final for four hours this morning.  Now I get a full five weeks off!

Time to get away and relax.  Or at least have some fun!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 09, 2015, 01:04:24 PM

Got rid of more stuff!     8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on July 09, 2015, 03:02:23 PM

Quote from: rock hound on July 09, 2015, 01:03:39 PM

Quote from: Hubert on July 09, 2015, 12:46:19 PM

Took my Education Law final for four hours this morning.  Now I get a full five weeks off!

Time to get away and relax.  Or at least have some fun!

FISHING!!!!!

(needs a smiley)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 09, 2015, 03:39:59 PM

Well done! :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 09, 2015, 03:51:38 PM

Quote from: Hubert on July 09, 2015, 03:02:23 PM

Quote from: rock hound on July 09, 2015, 01:03:39 PM

Quote from: Hubert on July 09, 2015, 12:46:19 PM

Took my Education Law final for four hours this morning.  Now I get a full five weeks off!

Time to get away and relax.  Or at least have some fun!

FISHING!!!!!

(needs a smiley)

 :fish:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on July 09, 2015, 04:52:49 PM

Quote from: rock hound on July 09, 2015, 03:51:38 PM

Quote from: Hubert on July 09, 2015, 03:02:23 PM

Quote from: rock hound on July 09, 2015, 01:03:39 PM

Quote from: Hubert on July 09, 2015, 12:46:19 PM

Took my Education Law final for four hours this morning.  Now I get a full five weeks off!

Time to get away and relax.  Or at least have some fun!

FISHING!!!!!

(needs a smiley)

 :fish:

Thanks :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on July 10, 2015, 09:00:43 AM

Finally sold my damn boat!!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on July 10, 2015, 09:02:05 AM

And got a nice congratulatory letter from the mayor.






All of this stuff happened yesterday of course.  I treat this as the "Post something good that happened yesterday" thread, since I do most of my posting in the AM.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 10, 2015, 09:12:19 AM

Kudo's   :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 11, 2015, 08:47:57 PM

Payperview fight night party with chilicheese fries and cherrycoke.   :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 12, 2015, 10:40:59 AM

Pancakes at the diner

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on July 12, 2015, 10:59:14 AM

Found my expensive colored contacts I thought I lost I am also deep cleaning my room like a boss.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 12, 2015, 01:33:37 PM

I am back home.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 12, 2015, 04:25:32 PM

Finished the ruthless culling of lumber from the local theatre workshop. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 12, 2015, 06:22:17 PM

Home. Pleasure that will last another five and a half hours.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 13, 2015, 12:18:57 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on July 14, 2015, 09:31:52 AM

(http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/docs/CJ4CQIkVEAEaAnw.png-large.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 14, 2015, 10:43:49 AM

Awesome!!!!!!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 14, 2015, 11:02:40 PM

Got rid of a box of stuff in my room. I am doing what Buttplug is doing. After two years in this house, I am getting sick of the boxes in my room. Plus we have an inspection on the 30th.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 15, 2015, 12:22:06 AM

Awesome Pluto image, Hubert. +

Another good thing is that the little probe phoned back home, which means that the flyby was successful.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on July 15, 2015, 08:56:58 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 15, 2015, 12:22:06 AM

Awesome Pluto image, Hubert. +

Another good thing is that the little probe phoned back home, which means that the flyby was successful.

Now it just needs to not hit anything of suffer a major malfunction for a year and a half.   :popcorn:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 15, 2015, 09:31:56 AM

Carla is back home from a 3 day solo camping trip.  She's written lots of poetry and enjoyed some serious me time!   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on July 15, 2015, 02:46:47 PM

Maybe Pluto needs its own thread?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on July 15, 2015, 02:47:26 PM

There was cake.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on July 15, 2015, 03:39:36 PM

The ginger got his hair pulled by the girl in my group who wears diapers. I like her even better now. She's adorable. Non verbal never pulls my hair though has grabbed my hoodie. She makes raspberries when she's happy. He gets on my nerves with his loud stemming never stopping my god I could choke him. He sounds like a billy goat sometimes and plays and invisible instrument. I don't mind it until it gets really loud and persistent then I get ragey. I have earplugs and music to block the noise somewhat.

 :soapbox:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 15, 2015, 05:54:38 PM

Quote from: Hubert on July 15, 2015, 02:46:47 PM

Maybe Pluto needs its own thread?

Probably.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 15, 2015, 10:02:22 PM

I got a $20 tip :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 16, 2015, 12:04:23 AM

Quote from: Jack on July 15, 2015, 05:54:38 PM

Quote from: Hubert on July 15, 2015, 02:46:47 PM

Maybe Pluto needs its own thread?

Probably.

Definitely.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 16, 2015, 01:39:17 AM

Quote from: Buttplug on July 15, 2015, 03:39:36 PM

The ginger got his hair pulled by the girl in my group who wears diapers. I like her even better now. She's adorable. Non verbal never pulls my hair though has grabbed my hoodie. She makes raspberries when she's happy. He gets on my nerves with his loud stemming never stopping my god I could choke him. He sounds like a billy goat sometimes and plays and invisible instrument. I don't mind it until it gets really loud and persistent then I get ragey. I have earplugs and music to block the noise somewhat.

 :soapbox:

Where do you go to experience this?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 16, 2015, 06:19:26 AM

Sorry, can not, but the day is young.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 16, 2015, 08:04:38 AM

Praise the Nimon, google finally started putting topic reply notifications from I2 back into the Inbox instead of the spam box!  Will wonders never cease!   :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on July 16, 2015, 10:13:26 AM

exchange rate at 1.29 US to 1.00 CDN for the third day in a row.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on July 16, 2015, 01:10:25 PM

Quote from: renaeden on July 16, 2015, 01:39:17 AM

Quote from: Buttplug on July 15, 2015, 03:39:36 PM

The ginger got his hair pulled by the girl in my group who wears diapers. I like her even better now. She's adorable. Non verbal never pulls my hair though has grabbed my hoodie. She makes raspberries when she's happy. He gets on my nerves with his loud stemming never stopping my god I could choke him. He sounds like a billy goat sometimes and plays and invisible instrument. I don't mind it until it gets really loud and persistent got  then I get ragey. I have earplugs and music to block the noise somewhat.

 :soapbox:

Where do you go to experience this?

Potato palace is what my friend has dubbed it. They teach me social skills I'm going to get a job. It sounds like an asylum so I feel agitated there. I take off my earplugs to get used to being overstimulated since it could help me in a high stress job. The milk drinking psycho likes to scream all the time and steals milk from the fridge so I have to hide it. Her scream is so horrible sounding unlike a regular scream. She makes this scraping noise in the back of her throat it's horrible. This one guy made a shit mess in the girls bathroom it was gross a pube was sticking out of one of his shit smears. The Dora the explorer looking bitch used to pull my hair but she hasn't come back she has attacked too many clients. Much poor hygiene.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 16, 2015, 02:47:11 PM

The PR's wrist plate removal is scheduled for Aug 4.

She ordered her birthday cake today.  Sponge Bob.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 16, 2015, 03:27:42 PM

Quote from: Buttplug on July 16, 2015, 01:10:25 PM

Quote from: renaeden on July 16, 2015, 01:39:17 AM

Quote from: Buttplug on July 15, 2015, 03:39:36 PM

The ginger got his hair pulled by the girl in my group who wears diapers. I like her even better now. She's adorable. Non verbal never pulls my hair though has grabbed my hoodie. She makes raspberries when she's happy. He gets on my nerves with his loud stemming never stopping my god I could choke him. He sounds like a billy goat sometimes and plays and invisible instrument. I don't mind it until it gets really loud and persistent got  then I get ragey. I have earplugs and music to block the noise somewhat.

 :soapbox:

Where do you go to experience this?

Potato palace is what my friend has dubbed it. They teach me social skills I'm going to get a job. It sounds like an asylum so I feel agitated there. I take off my earplugs to get used to being overstimulated since it could help me in a high stress job. The milk drinking psycho likes to scream all the time and steals milk from the fridge so I have to hide it. Her scream is so horrible sounding unlike a regular scream. She makes this scraping noise in the back of her throat it's horrible. This one guy made a shit mess in the girls bathroom it was gross a pube was sticking out of one of his shit smears. The Dora the explorer looking bitch used to pull my hair but she hasn't come back she has attacked too many clients. Much poor hygiene.

Do they have a follow up place to refine your skills in a less spazzy environment? Being a trainee in a more regular workplace or something like that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 17, 2015, 12:09:27 AM

^Yeah, this.

You seem too high functioning to learn anything in a place like that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 17, 2015, 12:17:44 AM

Coffee happened. Don't know what I'd do without it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on July 19, 2015, 08:43:52 PM

Didn't die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on July 20, 2015, 09:25:24 AM

My truck started misfiring on at least one cylinder.  Wait, no, that's something awful that happened today :(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 20, 2015, 06:57:40 PM

Got home, got settled and indulged in a couple of shots of Brandy! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 21, 2015, 01:42:20 AM

Yesterday I had a great day with my mother.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 21, 2015, 02:30:33 AM

"Microsoft windows" phone fisher said "SHUT UP!!!" to me.  :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 21, 2015, 01:43:31 PM

Nice outdoor meal with oldest.

It is pleasant to be home with just her for a few days. Before that, I was alone with the youngest for a week, also nice.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 21, 2015, 01:52:00 PM

I got a contract to do work on some apartments I bid on

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 21, 2015, 02:39:33 PM

Plumber fixed a bathtub drain that was stuck closed, installed a fancy shower head, changed the hoses on the washing machine, replaced the P trap of the washing machine (a leak) and solved the mystery of the leaking outside faucet (PA didn't have the hose screwed in tightly enough).

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on July 21, 2015, 05:22:13 PM

Discovered I'm being a paranoid idiot again. One thing they don't tell you about being a pessimist is that when something good does happen, you're either relieved or pleasantly surprised.

I don't envy optimists, I pity them. They must get disappointed quite a bit if they always assume the best is going to happen. I don't assume the worst thing is going to happen, I just try to prepare myself in case something bad does happen.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 21, 2015, 06:00:53 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on July 21, 2015, 05:22:13 PM

Discovered I'm being a paranoid idiot again. One thing they don't tell you about being a pessimist is that when something good does happen, you're either relieved or pleasantly surprised.

I don't envy optimists, I pity them. They must get disappointed quite a bit if they always assume the best is going to happen. I don't assume the worst thing is going to happen, I just try to prepare myself in case something bad does happen.

Personal outlook on life has a lot to do with how people live their life, and there's such a thing as self-fulfilling prophecy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 21, 2015, 07:24:45 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on July 21, 2015, 05:22:13 PM

I don't assume the worst thing is going to happen

Some crummy pessimist you are.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on July 21, 2015, 09:53:32 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 21, 2015, 07:24:45 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on July 21, 2015, 05:22:13 PM

I don't assume the worst thing is going to happen

Some crummy pessimist you are.  :zoinks:

I don't have to take that from you! You're a gopher, you don't have a soul!  :MLA: :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 22, 2015, 06:05:00 PM

Work went faster and easier that planed

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 22, 2015, 10:56:12 PM

^Days like that are welcomed. :)

I got my Irlen glasses today in the post. I had to sign for them so lucky I was already up and near the front door. The lenses on my glasses are slightly more blue than my previous ones.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on July 24, 2015, 11:58:43 AM

Thrown off my routine by waking up to skunk smell in the morning. So no stimulants, so very distratible, so instead of watching Bob the Builder I ended up grading papers so now I won't have to do it this weekend.

The plan was to do it Saturday night while Py played computer games. Now during that time I will likely do my compact puzzler Neuschwanstein Castle puzzle. The pieces are 1.5 x 1 cm. Tweezers are packed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on July 24, 2015, 12:41:33 PM

Quote from: WolFish on July 24, 2015, 11:58:43 AM

Thrown off my routine by waking up to skunk smell in the morning.

I woke up at 4:30 this morning to a giant steaming pile of Labrador shit at the foot of my bed.  I feel your pain.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 24, 2015, 02:27:17 PM

Referred to myself in third person at work; the response was favorable.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 24, 2015, 05:52:18 PM

The carpenter on the house I was working on called another one of his customers and had me set up an appointment to look at their house and got the owner of the house I was working on to have me do more work there.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on July 25, 2015, 04:43:07 AM

Went for another walk. It wasn't as long as I intended it to be though, that hilly goat track along the headlands kinda killed my momentum :sweat:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 25, 2015, 04:55:35 AM

Finally got some sleep.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 25, 2015, 08:56:00 AM

Went to a good yoga class this morning!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 25, 2015, 09:01:02 AM

I got a few good things at tag sales,  some for me some for resale

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on July 28, 2015, 01:00:58 AM

Built a screen that fit the window perfectly.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on July 28, 2015, 11:35:06 AM

I was born on this day  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 28, 2015, 11:40:35 AM

Quote from: Hubert on July 28, 2015, 11:35:06 AM

I was born on this day  :viking:

Happy Anniversary of the day the world was graced with your presence!    :birthday:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 28, 2015, 03:59:50 PM

Quote from: Hubert on July 28, 2015, 11:35:06 AM

I was born on this day  :viking:

:party:

Congrats!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 28, 2015, 04:29:55 PM

Parts didn't die.

Hubert is ageing well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 28, 2015, 04:30:46 PM

Quote from: Hubert on July 28, 2015, 11:35:06 AM

I was born on this day  :viking:

 :birthday:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 28, 2015, 04:36:07 PM

The guy at the house I was working on gave me a very nice aluminum  louver for use with a whole house fan,  I had been looking for one to put in my shed workshop

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on July 28, 2015, 05:44:53 PM

Didn't die

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 28, 2015, 08:39:49 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on July 28, 2015, 05:44:53 PM

Didn't die

I like your new avatar.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 28, 2015, 10:45:28 PM

WoW!!
First thread I see and I have something to add.

You have to understand that I am still recovering from a devastating hip replacement surgery. My old bones are still trying to grow back into some semblance of where they should be, as well as my trying AND trying to develop many muscles that began to form before one begins to walk, which had become inactive as my injury  encouraged atrophy in certain areas. So I am still a bit infirm, compared to where I should be.

Anyway, I do a kind of "compromised" "old man" "yoga"  Thing everyday, trying to get my body back into some kind of shape where I can feel  "normal" again. Today, as is usual, a bunch of things cracked and crunched - used to this, I am.

This  evening, some kind of thing happened as my shoulder AND FFS, MY JAW (All "popped" at the same time) all found some kind of alignment that was apparently NEEDED.
I am not kidding; not only do I feel better, from head to toe, but I can "hear"  BETTER.

:shrug:

Not sure what happened, but this is real.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on July 29, 2015, 09:58:25 AM

Thanks all :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 30, 2015, 12:30:23 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 30, 2015, 10:09:03 AM

Lapsang Souchong tea happened!    :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 30, 2015, 04:32:41 PM

Quote from: Hubert on July 28, 2015, 11:35:06 AM

I was born on this day  :viking:

Well, happy birthday to you.  :santa: :congrats:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 30, 2015, 04:38:53 PM

Got home again after extended BD celebration.

Managed someone's full blown panic frenzy back to a calm state too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 30, 2015, 04:39:01 PM

Quote from: Hubert on July 28, 2015, 11:35:06 AM

I was born on this day  :viking:

Happy Birthday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on July 30, 2015, 04:51:29 PM

Thanks :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on July 30, 2015, 07:15:58 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 28, 2015, 08:39:49 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on July 28, 2015, 05:44:53 PM

Didn't die

I like your new avatar.  :orly:

https://www.reverbnation.com/kingcake/song/2177547-nikola-tesla

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 30, 2015, 07:45:09 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on July 30, 2015, 07:15:58 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 28, 2015, 08:39:49 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on July 28, 2015, 05:44:53 PM

Didn't die

I like your new avatar.  :orly:

https://www.reverbnation.com/kingcake/song/2177547-nikola-tesla

Gotta admit, that is a very cool avatar!    8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 31, 2015, 01:16:54 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on July 30, 2015, 07:15:58 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 28, 2015, 08:39:49 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on July 28, 2015, 05:44:53 PM

Didn't die

I like your new avatar.  :orly:

https://www.reverbnation.com/kingcake/song/2177547-nikola-tesla

That's awful.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 31, 2015, 08:44:25 AM

Had a good workout at the gym.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 31, 2015, 01:55:48 PM

Got some good stuff at an estate sale this morning

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on August 01, 2015, 11:59:18 AM

found a firefox profile infected with adware but nonetheless - it has all my bookmarks. now i don't have to start from scratch

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 01, 2015, 04:41:22 PM

The PR had a friend over for a couple of hours.  Something that would not have happened  in the old messy  house.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on August 01, 2015, 06:48:15 PM

Went to a friend's 20th. Rather than go to a club or a bar with shitty music we decided instead to do something a bit more quiet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 02, 2015, 02:51:33 AM

Quote from: WolFish on August 01, 2015, 11:59:18 AM

found a firefox profile infected with adware but nonetheless - it has all my bookmarks. now i don't have to start from scratch

If you use FF, then you can synch your bookmarks and a lot of other settings. It's useful if you don't overdo it and synch too much, since every machine being synched will get the same FF settings.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 02, 2015, 09:12:44 AM

Went to a much needed yoga class.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on August 03, 2015, 05:39:33 AM

I've been in charge of IT at work since the lady that usually does it all is off to the USA for a few weeks. We had my first major issue today but I think I handled and solved it well 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 03, 2015, 08:14:11 AM

Business is picking up considerably

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 03, 2015, 06:05:14 PM

Quote from: Parts on August 03, 2015, 08:14:11 AM

Business is picking up considerably

Great news!! 

Break a leg!!  (that is a show business reference, meaning, "Good Luck," but the superstition is that one does not want to jinx someone, so you say, "Break a leg!"  in order to wish them well)

 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 03, 2015, 06:42:23 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on August 03, 2015, 06:05:14 PM

Quote from: Parts on August 03, 2015, 08:14:11 AM

Business is picking up considerably

Great news!! 

Break a leg!!  (that is a show business reference, meaning, "Good Luck," but the superstition is that one does not want to jinx someone, so you say, "Break a leg!"  in order to wish them well)

 :thumbup:

Thanks :) got yet another call after I posted this too and had to reschedule things yet again

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 04, 2015, 12:16:13 AM

 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 04, 2015, 12:47:15 PM

Finally got my lazy ass moving, completing some boring tasks that were very long overdue.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 04, 2015, 12:48:12 PM

Also nice, youngest got past the worst of her severe cold. (With fever and everything, but no flu.)

Alas, now my oldest has it. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 04, 2015, 04:35:01 PM

The PR's surgery went well.  Although there was a delay (from 8 o'clock until 1:30) she is home and resting well.  I admire her cheerful attitude during most of the whole affair.  (See the one quick bitch thread)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 04, 2015, 04:43:12 PM

gmail finally is sending my topic reply notifications to my inbox....I expect this to last for a short time! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 04, 2015, 06:06:48 PM

Quote from: rock hound on August 04, 2015, 04:43:12 PM

gmail finally is sending my topic reply notifications to my inbox....I expect this to last for a short time!

I only turned mine on last time to check to see if it worked now I can't seem to get them to stop, I turn it off and a couple days later it's back on for some reason. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 05, 2015, 12:22:45 AM

SMF is a bit flaky that way.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on August 06, 2015, 12:28:51 AM

Got my hosting company to cut my yearly fee in half.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 06, 2015, 09:48:04 AM

Still geting my topic reply notifications in the proper box!   Maybe there is hope! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 07, 2015, 12:23:42 AM

Coffee happened. Really needed today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 09, 2015, 01:01:01 PM

A nice little afternoon session without neighborus interruptus and his power lawn tools.   8)   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on August 09, 2015, 02:55:25 PM

Neighbor gifted me with a new Dooney & Bourke bag for helping her mother out when she was away in Palm Beach visiting her son.

This is probably the most expensive/genuine handbag that I've ever had.

I feel special...even though I normally don't care about stuff like that.  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 09, 2015, 03:09:33 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on August 09, 2015, 02:55:25 PM

Neighbor gifted me with a new Dooney & Bourke bag for helping her mother out when she was away in Palm Beach visiting her son.

This is probably the most expensive/genuine handbag that I've ever had.

I feel special...even though I normally don't care about stuff like that.  :autism:

Hey, sometimes it's things like that, that can make your day.

Today, I found a really nice copper bracelet with a kind of brand name on it and a sort of registration number on the inside.  Did not look cheap.  Brought it home and showed the missus, who liked it and asked for it!  Done, done and done!  Now she wants to google the name and see what pops up.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 11, 2015, 08:04:36 PM

Met with old friends at the conference, plus some I only know by name.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on August 11, 2015, 10:50:59 PM

Had a very nice sleep in.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 12, 2015, 08:06:21 AM

It's a beautiful warm  sunny day after the torrential rain of yesterday

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 13, 2015, 02:45:39 PM

The PR's post-op visit to the orthopaedist was a success.  Soft cast removed, staples removed, bone is completely healed (wrist fused), her fingers have a gentle curve to them rather than a clenched fist.  Resume all normal activities except swimming. 

 :worship: :bonban: :dog: :doggie: :raining: :oranna: :party: :party: :party: :celebrate: :crowd: :hadron: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :lutra: :headbang: :rock: :dancers: :happydance: :dance: :oneliner: :rollercoaster: :dwave: :fun dance: :babyban: :lemur: :coolyo: :lep: :qv:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 13, 2015, 03:39:38 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 13, 2015, 02:45:39 PM

The PR's post-op visit to the orthopaedist was a success.  Soft cast removed, staples removed, bone is completely healed (wrist fused), her fingers have a gentle curve to them rather than a clenched fist.  Resume all normal activities except swimming. 

 :worship: :bonban: :dog: :doggie: :raining: :oranna: :party: :party: :party: :celebrate: :crowd: :hadron: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :lutra: :headbang: :rock: :dancers: :happydance: :dance: :oneliner: :rollercoaster: :dwave: :fun dance: :babyban: :lemur: :coolyo: :lep: :qv:

NICE!!!!!

Congratulations to the PR.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 13, 2015, 05:13:57 PM

The new hole saw system I bought worked much better than I had ever expected  I might change over to using them all the time if they hold up

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 13, 2015, 09:28:22 PM

Had a really good time with my fellow geeks. Wondering how many of these guys are on the spectrum.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 14, 2015, 02:13:56 AM

I saw a meteor

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 14, 2015, 01:56:19 PM

Meteors are cool. 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on August 22, 2015, 08:00:06 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 14, 2015, 01:56:19 PM

Meteors are cool. 8)

Except when they're falling towards you.  :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 22, 2015, 09:36:15 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 22, 2015, 08:00:06 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 14, 2015, 01:56:19 PM

Meteors are cool. 8)

Except when they're falling towards you.  :GA:

I was walking down a country road from work late at night, and one exploded in the atmosphere some miles from me.  Not a sound, but the flash lit up the forest all around me.  It was awesome to witness!   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 22, 2015, 12:54:09 PM

Not sure right now. Fed up with people.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 22, 2015, 01:30:24 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 22, 2015, 12:54:09 PM

Not sure right now. Fed up with people.

And with myself. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 22, 2015, 07:22:05 PM

Quote from: rock hound on August 22, 2015, 09:36:15 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 22, 2015, 08:00:06 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 14, 2015, 01:56:19 PM

Meteors are cool. 8)

Except when they're falling towards you.  :GA:

I was walking down a country road from work late at night, and one exploded in the atmosphere some miles from me.  Not a sound, but the flash lit up the forest all around me.  It was awesome to witness!   8)

Me and sugarbutt saw a tree fall today. I don't know if it can be considered as awesome as seeing a meteor. I used to watch the annual summer meteor showers every year with mom, but I've never seen a tree fall naturally on it's own. It was incredible, big giant dead tree finally had enough, crack and ground shaking thump!  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 23, 2015, 02:04:39 AM

Coffee happened. Teh awesome. 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 23, 2015, 10:10:32 AM

My Doctor Who license plate holders arrived......."My other car is a TARDIS."   :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 23, 2015, 11:03:01 AM

Hasn't happened yet, but I am going to the store to get food to cook over the new portable grill I bought. (can't seem to locate the "what have you bought lately thread").

Its corn season!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on August 23, 2015, 01:52:03 PM

In the D&D game I'm in every Sunday, my character became the chieftain of a clan after killing their leader by "walloping" him with a sword.  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 23, 2015, 02:48:01 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 23, 2015, 01:52:03 PM

In the D&D game I'm in every Sunday, my character became the chieftain of a clan after killing their leader by "walloping" him with a sword.  :viking:

Hail to the Chieftain!!!!    :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on August 23, 2015, 04:00:41 PM

Quote from: rock hound on August 23, 2015, 02:48:01 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on August 23, 2015, 01:52:03 PM

In the D&D game I'm in every Sunday, my character became the chieftain of a clan after killing their leader by "walloping" him with a sword.  :viking:

Hail to the Chieftain!!!!    :viking:

"Titanius the great walloper" is his name his clan have given him. Before killing the chieftain he killed three guys in one turn (used action surge and had been blessed with an extra move by our Cleric) by again, walloping them with a big ass Elven sword.  :viking:

Got very good rolls.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 23, 2015, 06:50:22 PM

I did rather well at the flea market today :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on August 31, 2015, 05:32:14 AM

Got the ball majorly rolling on refinancing my house.
Will be :hotrodder: in a new car hopefully before my birthday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 31, 2015, 12:49:16 PM

Met with a friend for a quick lunch.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on August 31, 2015, 05:08:13 PM

Got inspired.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 31, 2015, 11:53:39 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on September 01, 2015, 09:48:50 AM

Stuff

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 01, 2015, 03:22:42 PM

Got the new Camry registered!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 01, 2015, 10:04:55 PM

Quote from: Hubert on September 01, 2015, 09:48:50 AM

Stuff

What sort of stuff?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 02, 2015, 12:04:16 AM

Got up.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 02, 2015, 12:37:41 PM

Met one of Carla's Uncle's and his wife in Hampton NH, for the first time. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 03, 2015, 01:00:20 AM

Found out one of my recent STAR WARS action figure purchases is going for $90!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on September 03, 2015, 11:42:19 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 01, 2015, 10:04:55 PM

Quote from: Hubert on September 01, 2015, 09:48:50 AM

Stuff

What sort of stuff?  :orly:

I forgot

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 03, 2015, 03:23:38 PM

Did 3 nice grocery store stops.  No great bargains, but pantry items for the coming months.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 03, 2015, 09:16:50 PM

Quote from: Hubert on September 03, 2015, 11:42:19 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 01, 2015, 10:04:55 PM

Quote from: Hubert on September 01, 2015, 09:48:50 AM

Stuff

What sort of stuff?  :orly:

I forgot

That doesn't sound like something good.  >:(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on September 04, 2015, 02:07:55 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 03, 2015, 09:16:50 PM

Quote from: Hubert on September 03, 2015, 11:42:19 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 01, 2015, 10:04:55 PM

Quote from: Hubert on September 01, 2015, 09:48:50 AM

Stuff

What sort of stuff?  :orly:

I forgot

That doesn't sound like something good.  >:(

It probably wasn't

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 04, 2015, 02:16:48 PM

Quote from: Hubert on September 04, 2015, 02:07:55 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 03, 2015, 09:16:50 PM

Quote from: Hubert on September 03, 2015, 11:42:19 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 01, 2015, 10:04:55 PM

Quote from: Hubert on September 01, 2015, 09:48:50 AM

Stuff

What sort of stuff?  :orly:

I forgot

That doesn't sound like something good.  >:(

It probably wasn't

Then it's good that you forgot about it :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on September 08, 2015, 08:52:24 AM

Got two separate calls asking me to come in to interview for very prestigious (if not high-paying) jobs.  I haven't interviewed on that side of the table in almost 10 years  :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 08, 2015, 11:31:53 AM

Quote from: Hubert on September 08, 2015, 08:52:24 AM

Got two separate calls asking me to come in to interview for very prestigious (if not high-paying) jobs.  I haven't interviewed on that side of the table in almost 10 years  :-\

Good luck. Knowing what it is like on both sides of the table can be helpful.

Have you been head-hunted? Or are the invitations reactions on an application of yours?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 08, 2015, 12:19:15 PM

Good luck!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on September 08, 2015, 04:39:30 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 08, 2015, 11:31:53 AM

Quote from: Hubert on September 08, 2015, 08:52:24 AM

Got two separate calls asking me to come in to interview for very prestigious (if not high-paying) jobs.  I haven't interviewed on that side of the table in almost 10 years  :-\

Good luck. Knowing what it is like on both sides of the table can be helpful.

Have you been head-hunted? Or are the invitations reactions on an application of yours?

I am out there applying everywhere :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 08, 2015, 11:36:11 PM

Good luck! :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 08, 2015, 11:36:40 PM

Coffee. Coffee. Coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 09, 2015, 12:16:53 AM

That is what I will be making myself now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 09, 2015, 12:18:19 AM

The good that happened?
Ariadne arrived.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 09, 2015, 10:10:34 AM

Finally getting on top of chores/errands that have been piling up. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 09, 2015, 01:34:08 PM

Passed the final electrical inspection for the house.  Only the total final to go.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 11, 2015, 06:30:14 PM

Took DS out to dinner at our favourite diner.  :cbc:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on September 12, 2015, 08:24:38 AM

Went to my nieces 5th birthday party :party:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 12, 2015, 09:06:03 AM

Sold windows.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 12, 2015, 10:46:21 AM

Had a 3 hour nap  :yawn:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 13, 2015, 12:30:01 AM

^So did I!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 13, 2015, 01:34:08 AM

Quote from: renaeden on September 13, 2015, 12:30:01 AM

^So did I!

I love  good naps.  :2thumbsup:

Current good thing is that the house is quiet and dark, everyone else is asleep. Just me in the family room with candles lit on the mantle and the sound of rain. It's peaceful.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on September 13, 2015, 08:27:58 AM

I went for my walk today and tried to get a park at the same spot as last time only to find there was a random show & shine car show on. When I finished my walk I wandered down to it and had my first up close encounter with a recent model Camaro 8) (a rarity here since they have to be imported and converted to RHD). There were a few Corvettes there too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 13, 2015, 12:02:31 PM

Started a journal of expenses, good and less-than-good things I have done and thoughts.  Am forcing myself to accept less than perfection in keeping this.  Based on my track record this should last until Tuesday.   :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 13, 2015, 12:38:07 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 13, 2015, 12:02:31 PM

Started a journal of expenses, good and less-than-good things I have done and thoughts.  Am forcing myself to accept less than perfection in keeping this.  Based on my track record this should last until Tuesday.   :dunno:

You could start again on Thursday.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 13, 2015, 01:48:22 PM

Lunch was so good! Curry chicken with aloo gobi and naan. :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 13, 2015, 02:27:07 PM

Not today, but last night.

I had a major meltdown, part of which was thinking I wasn't holding up my share of the housework.  PA told me in no uncertain terms that I had done a lot in dealing with the insurance company, contractors, furnishing the house, etc.  He said with me doing all the grocery shopping, running errands, taking care of the PR, and cooking that I shouldn't be doing any more of the housework that I do now and that even that may be a bit too much.

To hell with 17 virgins after I die,  I've found heaven in him.   :qv:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 13, 2015, 02:36:41 PM

 :grouphug:

He's right. You kept all of you sane as could be through a year long ordeal. In the mean time dealt with health issues of the PR. And you kept going. Probably not everyday as happy and bright as a ray of light, but you did it. You brought in your sense of humour. You organised your house getting rebuilt and ready to live in.
You are an amazing woman. And anyone telling you that you do not do enough, is wrong.
(In this case, it was you thinking it was not enough. But hey, as good as you are, even you are not flawless, your judgement on yourself was way too harsh.)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 13, 2015, 02:47:18 PM

I agree with Hyke. And if should you ever doubt yourself again, let me know and I will send my two bests over the lick some sense into you. ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 16, 2015, 12:27:35 PM

I spy a  :cbc:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 16, 2015, 01:47:08 PM

It's quiet and I got a lot done.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 16, 2015, 02:35:14 PM

Spent an hour at Foyle's, browsing books.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 16, 2015, 03:01:42 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 16, 2015, 02:35:14 PM

Spent an hour at Foyle's, browsing books.

Your new job comes with great side effects.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 16, 2015, 07:18:49 PM

The PR overcame a fear she's had for 6 years and approached someone to apologize for her behaviour.

Her fear of this guy has kept her from participating in many functions.  Her village is about 400 people and she's got to learn to get along with them all or she's going to be missing a lot of fun.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 16, 2015, 07:47:51 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 16, 2015, 07:18:49 PM

The PR overcame a fear she's had for 6 years and approached someone to apologize for her behaviour.

Her fear of this guy has kept her from participating in many functions.  Her village is about 400 people and she's got to learn to get along with them all or she's going to be missing a lot of fun.

Well done to the PR. That's not an easy thing to do.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 17, 2015, 03:45:31 AM

I went to my GP, blood pressure 110/80 and I have lost 5kgs.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 17, 2015, 07:24:56 AM

Finally slept through the night

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 17, 2015, 08:37:20 AM

Working was really pleasant today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on September 17, 2015, 09:44:02 AM

Schadenfreude

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on September 17, 2015, 01:04:57 PM

I finally got an interview with Epic Aircraft.

I tried to apply online and the response was crickets, that's not something I'm used to.

I kept an eye on their site and noticed that they were hosting a "career day" where you could show up with a resume and talk to some of the hiring managers.

When I sat down and talked face to face with these people, I got the usual expected response, they damn near did backflips in their seats and were noticeably excited to have me in front of them.

Several departments wanted me to work for them but it looks like I'm going to end up starting out in quality control doing various inspections on parts, sub-assemblies and the fuselage.

I just hope I make it past any drug screens they may have since recreational pot is legal here in Oregon.  :stoned:

 8)      8)      8) 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 17, 2015, 02:46:50 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 16, 2015, 03:01:42 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 16, 2015, 02:35:14 PM

Spent an hour at Foyle's, browsing books.

Your new job comes with great side effects.

It does indeed. Some people see the sights, I visit the bookstores.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 17, 2015, 02:47:56 PM

Welcome back, Scrap.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 17, 2015, 03:39:10 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 17, 2015, 02:46:50 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 16, 2015, 03:01:42 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 16, 2015, 02:35:14 PM

Spent an hour at Foyle's, browsing books.

Your new job comes with great side effects.

It does indeed. Some people see the sights, I visit the bookstores.

The bookstores are the  main sights.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 17, 2015, 04:04:19 PM

Congrats, Scrap  8)

Something good here - Dinner turned out really well. I made cheese cappelletti and served a greek salad on the side.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 17, 2015, 06:59:48 PM

The Fourth Doctor will be on TV on Sunday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 17, 2015, 08:14:45 PM

Quote from: Pappy on September 17, 2015, 01:04:57 PM

I finally got an interview with Epic Aircraft.

I tried to apply online and the response was crickets, that's not something I'm used to.

I kept an eye on their site and noticed that they were hosting a "career day" where you could show up with a resume and talk to some of the hiring managers.

When I sat down and talked face to face with these people, I got the usual expected response, they damn near did backflips in their seats and were noticeably excited to have me in front of them.

Several departments wanted me to work for them but it looks like I'm going to end up starting out in quality control doing various inspections on parts, sub-assemblies and the fuselage.

I just hope I make it past any drug screens they may have since recreational pot is legal here in Oregon.  :stoned:

 8)      8)      8)

I did not know that you had moved to Oregon. I am still floating around here in Indiana.

I have spent much of the summer teaching my (now sixteen year old) son how to shoot both handguns and rifles. He is not worth crap at shooting a handgun, but not so bad with my 10.22 Ruger, Mini 14 Ruger or my .270 Win Remington 700 bolt action. He shot my 1100 Remington 12 Ga once and said, "Nope Nope. Nope!" A bit too much for him, I suppose. When I was six after spending all day shooting a single shot .410 my grandfather put a double barrel 12 Ga on my shoulder and told me that it was about the same but a little stronger. I landed on my ass and everyone had a big laugh.
I am not doing that to him. We are going at his speed.

Hey, good luck with the interviews!! 

.. or break a leg if such applies.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on September 17, 2015, 08:18:00 PM

Ate ice cream with a brownie and syrup

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on September 18, 2015, 05:38:26 AM

Quote from: Pappy on September 17, 2015, 01:04:57 PM

I finally got an interview with Epic Aircraft.

I tried to apply online and the response was crickets, that's not something I'm used to.

I kept an eye on their site and noticed that they were hosting a "career day" where you could show up with a resume and talk to some of the hiring managers.

When I sat down and talked face to face with these people, I got the usual expected response, they damn near did backflips in their seats and were noticeably excited to have me in front of them.

Several departments wanted me to work for them but it looks like I'm going to end up starting out in quality control doing various inspections on parts, sub-assemblies and the fuselage.

I just hope I make it past any drug screens they may have since recreational pot is legal here in Oregon.  :stoned:

 8)      8)      8)

Welcome back, and good luck.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 18, 2015, 06:07:24 AM

Hi Pappy, I think it is really cool that you are getting a job in a field you are interested in. Or obsessed with? ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 18, 2015, 09:39:09 AM

Quote from: Jack on September 18, 2015, 05:38:26 AM

Quote from: Pappy on September 17, 2015, 01:04:57 PM

I finally got an interview with Epic Aircraft.

I tried to apply online and the response was crickets, that's not something I'm used to.

I kept an eye on their site and noticed that they were hosting a "career day" where you could show up with a resume and talk to some of the hiring managers.

When I sat down and talked face to face with these people, I got the usual expected response, they damn near did backflips in their seats and were noticeably excited to have me in front of them.

Several departments wanted me to work for them but it looks like I'm going to end up starting out in quality control doing various inspections on parts, sub-assemblies and the fuselage.

I just hope I make it past any drug screens they may have since recreational pot is legal here in Oregon.  :stoned:

 8)      8)      8)

Welcome back, and good luck.

When will you hear more, Scrap?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 18, 2015, 02:22:24 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 17, 2015, 03:39:10 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 17, 2015, 02:46:50 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 16, 2015, 03:01:42 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 16, 2015, 02:35:14 PM

Spent an hour at Foyle's, browsing books.

Your new job comes with great side effects.

It does indeed. Some people see the sights, I visit the bookstores.

The bookstores are the  main sights.

QFT

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 18, 2015, 05:16:07 PM

Dinner turned out awesome. Garlic lemon chicken with reed potatoes, peppers and onions.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 18, 2015, 07:50:12 PM

Returned home!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 18, 2015, 09:21:18 PM

Found the new Force F/X Kylo Ren lightsaber. :vibe:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 18, 2015, 09:36:08 PM

Oh...and I saved this little guy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 18, 2015, 09:37:53 PM

Their new home (my thumb for scale)...

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 19, 2015, 03:23:06 AM

Wow.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 19, 2015, 04:05:12 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on September 18, 2015, 05:16:07 PM

Dinner turned out awesome. Garlic lemon chicken with reed potatoes, peppers and onions.

What are reed potatoes?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 19, 2015, 04:07:55 AM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on September 18, 2015, 09:37:53 PM

Their new home (my thumb for scale)...

What an awesome coloured froglet.
Is it a young one, migrating to a place where it will mature?

Few times a year we have lots of migrating toads and frogs. Big ones for mating, and later little ones crawling from the ponds and ditches on their way to their on shore habitat. We don't have them as bright green as you have.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 19, 2015, 10:09:12 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 19, 2015, 04:05:12 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on September 18, 2015, 05:16:07 PM

Dinner turned out awesome. Garlic lemon chicken with reed potatoes, peppers and onions.

What are reed potatoes?

Typo, I meant red potatoes

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 20, 2015, 02:17:18 AM

Coffee happened.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 20, 2015, 02:41:43 AM

I slept in, and not even Sirius got me out of bed in the night.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 20, 2015, 09:56:26 AM

Quote from: Pappy on September 17, 2015, 01:04:57 PM

I finally got an interview with Epic Aircraft.

Hi, Pappy.  :eyelash:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 20, 2015, 10:07:20 AM

Went to Yoga class.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 20, 2015, 10:26:26 AM

Not today, but yesterday

I cooked and packaged 2 big bunches of broccoli and one pack of mushrooms.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 20, 2015, 01:42:41 PM

I was surrounded by dog lovers and their dogs. Best company to be had. Didn't bring my two beasts because I would have needed another adult to help hold them back once I discovered the birds of prey show. Seriously, who does that when there's an entire convention centre filled with dogs?  :zombiefuck:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 20, 2015, 06:00:33 PM

enjoyed some quiet time with the missus! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 21, 2015, 04:53:23 PM

I had an incredible meeting today. Feeling much better about things.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 22, 2015, 12:14:08 AM

 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 22, 2015, 06:03:41 AM

Excited. To be getting a new bed. Sure it isn't for another two weeks but I look forward to it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 22, 2015, 09:07:34 AM

Hearing the rain fall endlessly too.

Ooops, this should be in another thread.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 22, 2015, 10:23:40 AM

Got all of the laundry done  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on September 22, 2015, 06:29:38 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on September 17, 2015, 04:04:19 PM

Congrats, Scrap  8)

Thanks Miss ki... um, erm, Phoenix.   ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on September 22, 2015, 06:35:14 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 17, 2015, 08:14:45 PM

I did not know that you had moved to Oregon. I am still floating around here in Indiana.

Yeah, I got sick of all the BS in the Kalifornia People's Republic

Quote

I have spent much of the summer teaching my (now sixteen year old) son how to shoot both handguns and rifles. He is not worth crap at shooting a handgun, but not so bad with my 10.22 Ruger, Mini 14 Ruger or my .270 Win Remington 700 bolt action. He shot my 1100 Remington 12 Ga once and said, "Nope Nope. Nope!" A bit too much for him, I suppose. When I was six after spending all day shooting a single shot .410 my grandfather put a double barrel 12 Ga on my shoulder and told me that it was about the same but a little stronger. I landed on my ass and everyone had a big laugh.
I am not doing that to him. We are going at his speed.

Awesome! this country needs more responsible and well trained gun owners. Kalifornia is trying to put an end to gun ownership, but up here in Oregon, they still appreciate the 2nd amendement.

From what everyone tells me, the hunting up here is awesome. I can't legally hunt until next season because you have to be a resident for at least 6 months. The fishing is 1st rate too.

Quote

Hey, good luck with the interviews!! 

.. or break a leg if such applies.

Thanks DD. I already interviewed with them and things were very encouraging. They said I'd get final word by either end of this week or beginning of next week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on September 22, 2015, 06:36:15 PM

Quote from: renaeden on September 18, 2015, 06:07:24 AM

Hi Pappy, I think it is really cool that you are getting a job in a field you are interested in. Or obsessed with? ;)

Thanks Ren.   :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on September 22, 2015, 06:38:26 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 18, 2015, 09:39:09 AM

Quote from: Jack on September 18, 2015, 05:38:26 AM

Quote from: Pappy on September 17, 2015, 01:04:57 PM

I finally got an interview with Epic Aircraft.

I tried to apply online and the response was crickets, that's not something I'm used to.

I kept an eye on their site and noticed that they were hosting a "career day" where you could show up with a resume and talk to some of the hiring managers.

When I sat down and talked face to face with these people, I got the usual expected response, they damn near did backflips in their seats and were noticeably excited to have me in front of them.

Several departments wanted me to work for them but it looks like I'm going to end up starting out in quality control doing various inspections on parts, sub-assemblies and the fuselage.

I just hope I make it past any drug screens they may have since recreational pot is legal here in Oregon.  :stoned:

 8)      8)      8)

Welcome back, and good luck.

When will you hear more, Scrap?

End of this week or beginning of next. I interviewed on Friday and they spent well over an hour with me which is a good sign I take it??   ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 22, 2015, 06:50:14 PM

Quote from: Pappy on September 22, 2015, 06:38:26 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 18, 2015, 09:39:09 AM

Quote from: Jack on September 18, 2015, 05:38:26 AM

Quote from: Pappy on September 17, 2015, 01:04:57 PM

I finally got an interview with Epic Aircraft.

I tried to apply online and the response was crickets, that's not something I'm used to.

I kept an eye on their site and noticed that they were hosting a "career day" where you could show up with a resume and talk to some of the hiring managers.

When I sat down and talked face to face with these people, I got the usual expected response, they damn near did backflips in their seats and were noticeably excited to have me in front of them.

Several departments wanted me to work for them but it looks like I'm going to end up starting out in quality control doing various inspections on parts, sub-assemblies and the fuselage.

I just hope I make it past any drug screens they may have since recreational pot is legal here in Oregon.  :stoned:

 8)      8)      8)

Welcome back, and good luck.

When will you hear more, Scrap?

End of this week or beginning of next. I interviewed on Friday and they spent well over an hour with me which is a good sign I take it??   ;)

Good luck!   :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 23, 2015, 12:44:57 AM

That's pretty awesome, Scrap. I hope you get the job.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 23, 2015, 02:00:32 AM

An interview that long does look like a good sign indeed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 23, 2015, 11:59:52 AM

Got some necessary things taken care of. Less to stress over now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 23, 2015, 01:58:06 PM

Got a good massage that I desperately needed! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 23, 2015, 04:58:58 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 18, 2015, 02:22:24 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 17, 2015, 03:39:10 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 17, 2015, 02:46:50 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 16, 2015, 03:01:42 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 16, 2015, 02:35:14 PM

Spent an hour at Foyle's, browsing books.

Your new job comes with great side effects.

It does indeed. Some people see the sights, I visit the bookstores.

The bookstores are the  main sights.

QFT

/adding another truth, me.

LP or vinyl stores the world over would be a quest worth the time.

I will not say, "Trust me,"  but you really should.

I have found so much desirable vinyl over these past years, I am almost beside myself.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 23, 2015, 05:27:11 PM

I feel troubled about posting this in this particular thread, but many will see this as a positive influence of the current market.


I am intrigued (maybe not - possibly devastatingly depressed - BUT, I see a trend from which we not be able to recover) by the fact that streaming music has risen so much in such a short time.

Notice how physical media sales are quickly vanishing from the market numbers. While some of us have noticed the trend in recent years, these numbers are quite depressing to me.
I have to assume that the eventuality exists that streaming media will soon replace physical media as a main source for most peoples' music and video needs.

Link to RIAA numbers Here: (http://riaa.com/media/238E8AC7-3810-A95C-44DC-B6DEB46A3C6E.pdf)

 :'(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 23, 2015, 07:32:51 PM

Amazing meeting. Lots of networking. Now my brain is tired.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 24, 2015, 12:35:58 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 23, 2015, 04:58:58 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 18, 2015, 02:22:24 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 17, 2015, 03:39:10 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 17, 2015, 02:46:50 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 16, 2015, 03:01:42 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 16, 2015, 02:35:14 PM

Spent an hour at Foyle's, browsing books.

Your new job comes with great side effects.

It does indeed. Some people see the sights, I visit the bookstores.

The bookstores are the  main sights.

QFT

/adding another truth, me.

LP or vinyl stores the world over would be a quest worth the time.

I will not say, "Trust me,"  but you really should.

I have found so much desirable vinyl over these past years, I am almost beside myself.

Oh yes. I need something adequate to play them with, though. My old Sony is no longer up to it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 24, 2015, 12:37:11 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 23, 2015, 05:27:11 PM

I feel troubled about posting this in this particular thread, but many will see this as a positive influence of the current market.


I am intrigued (maybe not - possibly devastatingly depressed - BUT, I see a trend from which we not be able to recover) by the fact that streaming music has risen so much in such a short time.

Notice how physical media sales are quickly vanishing from the market numbers. While some of us have noticed the trend in recent years, these numbers are quite depressing to me.
I have to assume that the eventuality exists that streaming media will soon replace physical media as a main source for most peoples' music and video needs.

Link to RIAA numbers Here: (http://riaa.com/media/238E8AC7-3810-A95C-44DC-B6DEB46A3C6E.pdf)

 :'(

:'(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 24, 2015, 03:26:28 AM

Had a few people from my walking group admire my puzzle piece tattoo. I said it was for autism awareness.

Made me realise that I was dxed with autism 11 years ago. Wow.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 24, 2015, 10:40:45 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 24, 2015, 12:37:11 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 23, 2015, 05:27:11 PM

I feel troubled about posting this in this particular thread, but many will see this as a positive influence of the current market.


I am intrigued (maybe not - possibly devastatingly depressed - BUT, I see a trend from which we not be able to recover) by the fact that streaming music has risen so much in such a short time.

Notice how physical media sales are quickly vanishing from the market numbers. While some of us have noticed the trend in recent years, these numbers are quite depressing to me.
I have to assume that the eventuality exists that streaming media will soon replace physical media as a main source for most peoples' music and video needs.

Link to RIAA numbers Here: (http://riaa.com/media/238E8AC7-3810-A95C-44DC-B6DEB46A3C6E.pdf)

 :'(

:'(

True that.

It is becoming big business in second hand shops now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 24, 2015, 11:57:55 AM

Really good appt this morning. But now my brain is full and I'm completely exhausted.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 24, 2015, 02:19:50 PM

Cooked dinner with excellent results.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 24, 2015, 02:33:20 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 23, 2015, 05:27:11 PM

I feel troubled about posting this in this particular thread, but many will see this as a positive influence of the current market.


I am intrigued (maybe not - possibly devastatingly depressed - BUT, I see a trend from which we not be able to recover) by the fact that streaming music has risen so much in such a short time.

Notice how physical media sales are quickly vanishing from the market numbers. While some of us have noticed the trend in recent years, these numbers are quite depressing to me.
I have to assume that the eventuality exists that streaming media will soon replace physical media as a main source for most peoples' music and video needs.

Link to RIAA numbers Here: (http://riaa.com/media/238E8AC7-3810-A95C-44DC-B6DEB46A3C6E.pdf)

 :'(

Without physical copies you are at the mercy of those providing the content which is something I find  troubling

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 24, 2015, 03:33:30 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 24, 2015, 02:33:20 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 23, 2015, 05:27:11 PM

I feel troubled about posting this in this particular thread, but many will see this as a positive influence of the current market.


I am intrigued (maybe not - possibly devastatingly depressed - BUT, I see a trend from which we not be able to recover) by the fact that streaming music has risen so much in such a short time.

Notice how physical media sales are quickly vanishing from the market numbers. While some of us have noticed the trend in recent years, these numbers are quite depressing to me.
I have to assume that the eventuality exists that streaming media will soon replace physical media as a main source for most peoples' music and video needs.

Link to RIAA numbers Here: (http://riaa.com/media/238E8AC7-3810-A95C-44DC-B6DEB46A3C6E.pdf)

 :'(

Without physical copies you are at the mercy of those providing the content which is something I find  troubling

City close by, a big shop (part of a chain) selling records and CD's disappeared.
But, the past two years, also two more specialised shops appeared.

Maybe the tide is turning a bit.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 24, 2015, 05:52:04 PM

Promised the youngest I would bbq steak for her for dinner, which I did. It was a nice filling meal in an otherwise crazy busy day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 24, 2015, 11:56:15 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 24, 2015, 03:33:30 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 24, 2015, 02:33:20 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 23, 2015, 05:27:11 PM

I feel troubled about posting this in this particular thread, but many will see this as a positive influence of the current market.


I am intrigued (maybe not - possibly devastatingly depressed - BUT, I see a trend from which we not be able to recover) by the fact that streaming music has risen so much in such a short time.

Notice how physical media sales are quickly vanishing from the market numbers. While some of us have noticed the trend in recent years, these numbers are quite depressing to me.
I have to assume that the eventuality exists that streaming media will soon replace physical media as a main source for most peoples' music and video needs.

Link to RIAA numbers Here: (http://riaa.com/media/238E8AC7-3810-A95C-44DC-B6DEB46A3C6E.pdf)

 :'(

Without physical copies you are at the mercy of those providing the content which is something I find  troubling

City close by, a big shop (part of a chain) selling records and CD's disappeared.
But, the past two years, also two more specialised shops appeared.

Maybe the tide is turning a bit.

I know of no new ones, but there are a few that I visit regularly. I'd by more vinyl if I ha a decent player, though; for now, I buy CDs.

It's the same with ebooks. I don't mind them per se--after all, it's possible to read them--but they can't compete with a physical copy that you can hold in your hands and leaf through.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on September 25, 2015, 03:54:59 PM

I found a new way to entertain myself  :spitscreen:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 25, 2015, 04:14:24 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 24, 2015, 02:33:20 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 23, 2015, 05:27:11 PM

I feel troubled about posting this in this particular thread, but many will see this as a positive influence of the current market.


I am intrigued (maybe not - possibly devastatingly depressed - BUT, I see a trend from which we not be able to recover) by the fact that streaming music has risen so much in such a short time.

Notice how physical media sales are quickly vanishing from the market numbers. While some of us have noticed the trend in recent years, these numbers are quite depressing to me.
I have to assume that the eventuality exists that streaming media will soon replace physical media as a main source for most peoples' music and video needs.

Link to RIAA numbers Here: (http://riaa.com/media/238E8AC7-3810-A95C-44DC-B6DEB46A3C6E.pdf)

 :'(

Without physical copies you are at the mercy of those providing the content which is something I find  troubling

That right there screams at the essence of the problem.

If you have nothing more than a subscription to a streaming service, what do you do when some local horror shuts down your delivery system for hours or days at a time?

I like my subscriptions, but I would not want to try to subsist without my hard copy media.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 25, 2015, 04:30:45 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 24, 2015, 11:56:15 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 24, 2015, 03:33:30 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 24, 2015, 02:33:20 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 23, 2015, 05:27:11 PM

I feel troubled about posting this in this particular thread, but many will see this as a positive influence of the current market.


I am intrigued (maybe not - possibly devastatingly depressed - BUT, I see a trend from which we not be able to recover) by the fact that streaming music has risen so much in such a short time.

Notice how physical media sales are quickly vanishing from the market numbers. While some of us have noticed the trend in recent years, these numbers are quite depressing to me.
I have to assume that the eventuality exists that streaming media will soon replace physical media as a main source for most peoples' music and video needs.

Link to RIAA numbers Here: (http://riaa.com/media/238E8AC7-3810-A95C-44DC-B6DEB46A3C6E.pdf)

 :'(

Without physical copies you are at the mercy of those providing the content which is something I find  troubling

City close by, a big shop (part of a chain) selling records and CD's disappeared.
But, the past two years, also two more specialised shops appeared.

Maybe the tide is turning a bit.

I know of no new ones, but there are a few that I visit regularly. I'd by more vinyl if I ha a decent player, though; for now, I buy CDs.

It's the same with ebooks. I don't mind them per se--after all, it's possible to read them--but they can't compete with a physical copy that you can hold in your hands and leaf through.

How about buy vinyl when you can find classics in great shape, because they are becoming rare. Then as time moves on, you will be even more motivated to invest in some sort of decent turntable.

Honestly, most any modern $500 table/cartridge combo using a median quality preamp will generally blow away a typical mid-fi quality CD set up.

If you have a truly hi definition speaker and amplifier system, I would spend more money on the preamp/phono stage. If your budget can approach the thousand dollar range for a turntable (I have a fairly mid level Music Hall that I invested about half that on, many years ago) and approach half that for a cartridge (I actually have a number of cartridges, each one has its own strengths. Choose a decent one and do your best to set it up properly. You will be amazed!), you will never regret it.

What you might come to regret is that keeping LPs pristine just before play can become its own level of insanity. Just clean them thoroughly when you buy them, (especially brand new ones), store them carefully and dust and De-electrostatic them before playing. Everything will be fine.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 25, 2015, 06:25:54 PM

Realized and accepted that some people are merde tete's and not worth my time!   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 25, 2015, 10:44:11 PM

I do not recognize your reference.

I can remember as child philatelist, tete (as in tete beche means a specific type of printing that made each face of a stamp opposite to another, thus head to tail) refers to the head and merde looks a lot like Spanish/Latin  mierda, which refers to excrement.

If you are saying that some people are shit heads, then we have found at least one point upon which we can agree.
 :indeed:


... not worth your time part was a "given."

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 25, 2015, 11:04:41 PM

... upon another note, I am gleaning a bounty from the garden these past weeks. Tomatoes are really finishing, since the evenings have been so chilly. The mother plants are beginning to pout and not set or even try to keep fruit. These are some of the last for the year.

Peppers both hot and sweet are still rockin' though.

This represents about a day's worth of each, but the tomatoes are about done.
The peppers are very sweet, but also VERY hot. Leaving these jalapenos in the sun long enough to become fully ripened makes them monsters, but I love it! They are fabulous!
A couple of pics:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 26, 2015, 02:38:34 PM

Went with Carla to Portland Maine and took a class for Basic Life Support/CPR and I just received my certificate!   8)  Now after all the travel, I am going to enjoy some wine before cooking supper!    :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 26, 2015, 02:42:08 PM

And on another note, just received a volcano book I ordered from the UK Geological Society of London.   :asthing:  I love how it comes in a big burlap type bag with the emblem of the ROYAL MAIL on it!   :zoinks:  Now I have two of the bags and I haven't a clue what to do with them!    :apondering:  But the book is well worth the quandary!    :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 27, 2015, 03:48:51 AM

Someone gave me a pretty bag with absolutely delightful loose Lady Grey tea.

Unwrapping it made my nose really happy. Drinking it was a feast for the whole bovine.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 27, 2015, 04:04:11 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 25, 2015, 04:30:45 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 24, 2015, 11:56:15 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 24, 2015, 03:33:30 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 24, 2015, 02:33:20 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 23, 2015, 05:27:11 PM

I feel troubled about posting this in this particular thread, but many will see this as a positive influence of the current market.


I am intrigued (maybe not - possibly devastatingly depressed - BUT, I see a trend from which we not be able to recover) by the fact that streaming music has risen so much in such a short time.

Notice how physical media sales are quickly vanishing from the market numbers. While some of us have noticed the trend in recent years, these numbers are quite depressing to me.
I have to assume that the eventuality exists that streaming media will soon replace physical media as a main source for most peoples' music and video needs.

Link to RIAA numbers Here: (http://riaa.com/media/238E8AC7-3810-A95C-44DC-B6DEB46A3C6E.pdf)

 :'(

Without physical copies you are at the mercy of those providing the content which is something I find  troubling

City close by, a big shop (part of a chain) selling records and CD's disappeared.
But, the past two years, also two more specialised shops appeared.

Maybe the tide is turning a bit.

I know of no new ones, but there are a few that I visit regularly. I'd by more vinyl if I ha a decent player, though; for now, I buy CDs.

It's the same with ebooks. I don't mind them per se--after all, it's possible to read them--but they can't compete with a physical copy that you can hold in your hands and leaf through.

How about buy vinyl when you can find classics in great shape, because they are becoming rare. Then as time moves on, you will be even more motivated to invest in some sort of decent turntable.

Honestly, most any modern $500 table/cartridge combo using a median quality preamp will generally blow away a typical mid-fi quality CD set up.

If you have a truly hi definition speaker and amplifier system, I would spend more money on the preamp/phono stage. If your budget can approach the thousand dollar range for a turntable (I have a fairly mid level Music Hall that I invested about half that on, many years ago) and approach half that for a cartridge (I actually have a number of cartridges, each one has its own strengths. Choose a decent one and do your best to set it up properly. You will be amazed!), you will never regret it.

What you might come to regret is that keeping LPs pristine just before play can become its own level of insanity. Just clean them thoroughly when you buy them, (especially brand new ones), store them carefully and dust and De-electrostatic them before playing. Everything will be fine.

I have a whole bunch of rare collectibles that I don't ever want to play, especially not with the subpar Sony I own. It's a special kind of insanity, I agree. I used to by copies to play while keeping the collectibles pristine, and these days, some of those copies are FLAC files.

I'm not terribly pleased with my current amp setup. The speakers--Dali--are OK and properly played in, with small room characteristics I really like, but I would like a proper pre-amp setup rather than the midrange do-it-all Denon I have. Some day...

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 27, 2015, 03:57:45 PM

Thank god I'm surrounded by funny people. They save you when you're in the middle of someone else's drama.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 27, 2015, 08:37:07 PM

I just got done watching the lunar eclipse. The clouds almost ruined the grand finale, but yeah cloud breaks saved the day.  :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 27, 2015, 10:59:48 PM

I missed the eclipse. I decided to get some sleep instead.

Coffee happened, though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 28, 2015, 04:21:31 AM

Saw a bit of the eclipse this morning. The info I had read said it would be completely red till 6 am. No such luck, but did see most of it in the earth's shade at 5:30 this morning. Not completely any more.

Got kids out of bed. And got both of them in bed again too.

Had really hoped for a quiet day. Rerouted my mood by warping my loom and starting a tartan. First time. So used dead cheap yarn from the thriftshop, but I really like the effect.

Fed, medicated and heated kids.
Also fed cats and cleaned up cat-vomit. Sirius was the culprit, for a change.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 28, 2015, 06:13:12 AM

It's rainy and I have candles and a good book.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 28, 2015, 07:00:40 AM

Wow, did I post the above in the good thread?

Oh well.

Warping the loom and starting a tartan was fun.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 28, 2015, 09:11:11 AM

My right knee finally feels better.  My right bruised ribs, not so much....made for interesting modifications in yoga class this morning.  OY

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on September 28, 2015, 11:49:59 AM

Last night Py's minecraft buddies told her about the eclipse and we saw the whole thing through about 2.5 hours.  I couldn't figure out my pentax in time, but I got fuzzy pics with my comp camera. fought with the fancy new tripod too, but luckily my Star-D was in the corner awaiting a decision about whether to donate it. Set it up in seconds and got even better pics with the comp camera. NOT donating it.

And this morning I heard back from the chair of the department who finally is taking the plagiarism seriously. She had been hemming around the issue, but last night I sent her a link to a site where there were five final papers for five courses in her department for people to copy. There were papers from other units as well. Guess she had an "oh, crap" moment. She escalated it to the dean right away.

Last, but not least, I am home from my mother's house and enjoying a nice cup of tea.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 28, 2015, 02:06:39 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 27, 2015, 10:59:48 PM

I missed the eclipse. I decided to get some sleep instead.

Coffee happened, though.

It all happened here from around ten PM to a little after twelve when the clouds rolled in.  I took about four hundred pics. Tripod, four hundred mm lens. NOT great though, due to light pollution here in the city. Every pic has a great deal of scattered light in the image from all the haze lighting up.

Wish I had had a way to get about fifty miles or so from city lights!
 :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 28, 2015, 02:47:19 PM

Quote from: WolFish on September 28, 2015, 11:49:59 AM

Last night Py's minecraft buddies told her about the eclipse and we saw the whole thing through about 2.5 hours.  I couldn't figure out my pentax in time, but I got fuzzy pics with my comp camera. fought with the fancy new tripod too, but luckily my Star-D was in the corner awaiting a decision about whether to donate it. Set it up in seconds and got even better pics with the comp camera. NOT donating it.

And this morning I heard back from the chair of the department who finally is taking the plagiarism seriously. She had been hemming around the issue, but last night I sent her a link to a site where there were five final papers for five courses in her department for people to copy. There were papers from other units as well. Guess she had an "oh, crap" moment. She escalated it to the dean right away.

Last, but not least, I am home from my mother's house and enjoying a nice cup of tea.

Welcome home, Wolfie.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 28, 2015, 03:17:50 PM

My sister gave me a recipe for chicken curry that I'm going to try in the crockpot tomorrow. I love good comfort food.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 28, 2015, 09:34:27 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 27, 2015, 10:59:48 PM

I missed the eclipse. I decided to get some sleep instead.

What sort of an excuse for a geek are you?  >:(  I remember watching the last one with my mom when I was a kid.  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 28, 2015, 11:17:38 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 28, 2015, 09:34:27 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 27, 2015, 10:59:48 PM

I missed the eclipse. I decided to get some sleep instead.

What sort of an excuse for a geek are you?  >:(  I remember watching the last one with my mom when I was a kid.  :viking:

A tired one. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 28, 2015, 11:47:40 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 28, 2015, 11:17:38 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 28, 2015, 09:34:27 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 27, 2015, 10:59:48 PM

I missed the eclipse. I decided to get some sleep instead.

What sort of an excuse for a geek are you?  >:(  I remember watching the last one with my mom when I was a kid.  :viking:

A tired one. :P

It was a badly timed eclipse. :M
Aimed at the convenience of a different part of the world.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 29, 2015, 11:13:47 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 28, 2015, 11:47:40 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 28, 2015, 11:17:38 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 28, 2015, 09:34:27 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 27, 2015, 10:59:48 PM

I missed the eclipse. I decided to get some sleep instead.

What sort of an excuse for a geek are you?  >:(  I remember watching the last one with my mom when I was a kid.  :viking:

A tired one. :P

It was a badly timed eclipse. :M
Aimed at the convenience of a different part of the world.

I've seen eclipses before. Not one like this, admittedly, but still... I guess my geek status has been revoked now. :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 30, 2015, 01:26:47 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 29, 2015, 11:13:47 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 28, 2015, 11:47:40 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 28, 2015, 11:17:38 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 28, 2015, 09:34:27 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 27, 2015, 10:59:48 PM

I missed the eclipse. I decided to get some sleep instead.

What sort of an excuse for a geek are you?  >:(  I remember watching the last one with my mom when I was a kid.  :viking:

A tired one. :P

It was a badly timed eclipse. :M
Aimed at the convenience of a different part of the world.

I've seen eclipses before. Not one like this, admittedly, but still... I guess my geek status has been revoked now. :M

I've seen a little bit of this one. Yes, it was much bigger than the eclipses I have seen before. No, I could not give up my whole night to watch all of it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 30, 2015, 01:29:17 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 29, 2015, 11:13:47 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 28, 2015, 11:47:40 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 28, 2015, 11:17:38 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 28, 2015, 09:34:27 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 27, 2015, 10:59:48 PM

I missed the eclipse. I decided to get some sleep instead.

What sort of an excuse for a geek are you?  >:(  I remember watching the last one with my mom when I was a kid.  :viking:

A tired one. :P

It was a badly timed eclipse. :M
Aimed at the convenience of a different part of the world.

I've seen eclipses before. Not one like this, admittedly, but still... I guess my geek status has been revoked now. :M

Nah!

Try to explain your screen name to someone. That will help you regain some geek cred.
 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 01, 2015, 12:29:39 AM

 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 01, 2015, 07:59:57 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 25, 2015, 11:04:41 PM

... upon another note, I am gleaning a bounty from the garden these past weeks. Tomatoes are really finishing, since the evenings have been so chilly. The mother plants are beginning to pout and not set or even try to keep fruit. These are some of the last for the year.

Peppers both hot and sweet are still rockin' though.

This represents about a day's worth of each, but the tomatoes are about done.
The peppers are very sweet, but also VERY hot. Leaving these jalapenos in the sun long enough to become fully ripened makes them monsters, but I love it! They are fabulous!
A couple of pics:

Those look so good.

I had no tomatoes this year. Maybe next year again. My peppers did OK. They started really early, because I had some potted plants hibernate indoors last winter.
Did bring a pot in in time this year for another winter with indoor peppers.
They will take really long to ripen indoors, but they will. And they'll start blossoming early in spring again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 01, 2015, 08:04:25 AM

It hasn't happened yet, but it will later today....having all of my kids home. I'm happiest when the whole gang is together.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on October 01, 2015, 04:32:07 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 29, 2015, 11:13:47 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 28, 2015, 11:47:40 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 28, 2015, 11:17:38 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 28, 2015, 09:34:27 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 27, 2015, 10:59:48 PM

I missed the eclipse. I decided to get some sleep instead.

What sort of an excuse for a geek are you?  >:(  I remember watching the last one with my mom when I was a kid.  :viking:

A tired one. :P

It was a badly timed eclipse. :M
Aimed at the convenience of a different part of the world.

I've seen eclipses before. Not one like this, admittedly, but still... I guess my geek status has been revoked now. :M

Maybe your geeky offspring will drag you from your deathbed to watch the next one.  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 01, 2015, 04:37:22 PM

Time with my girlie.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 02, 2015, 12:24:27 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on October 01, 2015, 04:32:07 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 29, 2015, 11:13:47 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on September 28, 2015, 11:47:40 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 28, 2015, 11:17:38 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 28, 2015, 09:34:27 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 27, 2015, 10:59:48 PM

I missed the eclipse. I decided to get some sleep instead.

What sort of an excuse for a geek are you?  >:(  I remember watching the last one with my mom when I was a kid.  :viking:

A tired one. :P

It was a badly timed eclipse. :M
Aimed at the convenience of a different part of the world.

I've seen eclipses before. Not one like this, admittedly, but still... I guess my geek status has been revoked now. :M

Maybe your geeky offspring will drag you from your deathbed to watch the next one.  :viking:

Unless you think I'm about to go soon, I feel the need to point out that eclipses are a bit more common than that. The next one coinciding with a lunar perigee will be in a few decades, though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on October 02, 2015, 08:42:18 AM

Found out the leak in our new car was not a leak, but a lot of condensation from the air conditioner unit.  Thought it might be the windshield wiper fluid, but, they pressurized the whole system and found nothing.  <phew>

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on October 02, 2015, 05:44:09 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 02, 2015, 12:24:27 AM

The next one coinciding with a lunar perigee will be in a few decades, though.

Yeah, that's what I meant, sleepyhead.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on October 02, 2015, 06:03:55 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 20, 2015, 09:56:26 AM

Quote from: Pappy on September 17, 2015, 01:04:57 PM

I finally got an interview with Epic Aircraft.

Hi, Pappy.  :eyelash:

Why is Pappy changed to banana?  >:(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 03, 2015, 02:07:27 AM

Quote from: rock hound on October 02, 2015, 08:42:18 AM

Found out the leak in our new car was not a leak, but a lot of condensation from the air conditioner unit.  Thought it might be the windshield wiper fluid, but, they pressurized the whole system and found nothing.  <phew>

Had a similar scare once. The puddle felt huge to me, too big to be caused by condensation.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 03, 2015, 02:08:33 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on October 02, 2015, 06:03:55 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 20, 2015, 09:56:26 AM

Quote from: Pappy on September 17, 2015, 01:04:57 PM

I finally got an interview with Epic Aircraft.

Hi, Pappy.  :eyelash:

Why is Pappy changed to banana?  >:(

:-\

Somebody's playing with the word filters.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 03, 2015, 07:32:13 AM

The crockpot happened. I love that thing. I can throw in a bunch of good stuff at 9:30am and know that dinner is taking care of itself.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on October 03, 2015, 07:53:46 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 03, 2015, 07:32:13 AM

The crockpot happened. I love that thing. I can throw in a bunch of good stuff at 9:30am and know that dinner is taking care of itself.  :thumbup:

Crockpots are great in their ease and the slow cooked flavor, but don't care for smelling food all day. The last time using the crockpot, it cooked outside on the patio. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 03, 2015, 08:47:21 AM

Quote from: Jack on October 03, 2015, 07:53:46 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 03, 2015, 07:32:13 AM

The crockpot happened. I love that thing. I can throw in a bunch of good stuff at 9:30am and know that dinner is taking care of itself.  :thumbup:

Crockpots are great in their ease and the slow cooked flavor, but don't care for smelling food all day. The last time using the crockpot, it cooked outside on the patio. :laugh:

:lol1:

That ended up being why I changed tonights menu. I was going to make Indian Curry but I don't want to smell that all day so I changed it to a roast with potatoes and carrots which I don't mind the smell of.

If I let it cook outside my dogs would have a field day. They would figure it was self serve snacking :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on October 03, 2015, 04:36:14 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 03, 2015, 02:08:33 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on October 02, 2015, 06:03:55 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 20, 2015, 09:56:26 AM

Quote from: Pappy on September 17, 2015, 01:04:57 PM

I finally got an interview with Epic Aircraft.

Hi, Pappy.  :eyelash:

Why is Pappy changed to banana?  >:(

:-\

Somebody's playing with the word filters.

I don't see why Pappy is being singled out, he's hardly been posting here.  >:(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on October 03, 2015, 05:14:51 PM

Spending time with my baby bro. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 03, 2015, 09:55:52 PM

Good to see you sg. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 04, 2015, 02:49:31 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on October 03, 2015, 04:36:14 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 03, 2015, 02:08:33 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on October 02, 2015, 06:03:55 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 20, 2015, 09:56:26 AM

Quote from: Pappy on September 17, 2015, 01:04:57 PM

I finally got an interview with Epic Aircraft.

Hi, Pappy.  :eyelash:

Why is Pappy changed to banana?  >:(

:-\

Somebody's playing with the word filters.

I don't see why Pappy is being singled out, he's hardly been posting here.  >:(

Must be someone seriously loving Pappy. Is Scrap filtered too?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 04, 2015, 02:50:12 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 04, 2015, 02:49:31 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on October 03, 2015, 04:36:14 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 03, 2015, 02:08:33 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on October 02, 2015, 06:03:55 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 20, 2015, 09:56:26 AM

Quote from: Pappy on September 17, 2015, 01:04:57 PM

I finally got an interview with Epic Aircraft.

Hi, Pappy.  :eyelash:

Why is Pappy changed to banana?  >:(

:-\

Somebody's playing with the word filters.

I don't see why Pappy is being singled out, he's hardly been posting here.  >:(

Must be someone seriously loving Pappy. Is Scrap filtered too?

Yup, Scrap is filtered too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 04, 2015, 07:17:12 AM

This was yesterday but it was blustery and cold and I didn't have to go anywhere. Girlie and I hung out on the couch in our PJ's under a pile of blankets (and sometimes under a pile of dogs) and watched movies, knitted and read books. Perfect down day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on October 04, 2015, 09:19:35 PM

Walker's pure butter shortbread - gluten free.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 04, 2015, 11:32:51 PM

Coffee happened. On my second cup and slowly waking up. :yawn:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 05, 2015, 03:07:42 PM

Pizza. Pizza happened today. :pizza:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on October 06, 2015, 08:31:53 AM

Networking at a resource fair currently. Nobody is here yet... So I have time to post white!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on October 06, 2015, 08:32:35 AM

I meant, I have time to post whore!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 06, 2015, 08:51:16 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on October 06, 2015, 08:32:35 AM

I meant, I have time to post whore!!

Do it, post in all colours of the rainbow and beyond.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 06, 2015, 09:08:56 AM

The groceries are done. That means I have everything I need to make curry.  :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on October 06, 2015, 09:45:06 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 06, 2015, 09:08:56 AM

The groceries are done. That means I have everything I need to make curry.  :headbang2:

*drools*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 06, 2015, 10:31:10 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on October 06, 2015, 09:45:06 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 06, 2015, 09:08:56 AM

The groceries are done. That means I have everything I need to make curry.  :headbang2:

*drools*

I have a super easy recipe for curry in the slow cooker if you're interested. I love that kind of cooking. Throw all of the ingredients in and then leave it for the day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on October 06, 2015, 12:00:16 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 06, 2015, 10:31:10 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on October 06, 2015, 09:45:06 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 06, 2015, 09:08:56 AM

The groceries are done. That means I have everything I need to make curry.  :headbang2:

*drools*

I have a super easy recipe for curry in the slow cooker if you're interested. I love that kind of cooking. Throw all of the ingredients in and then leave it for the day.

Nah, that's okay. I'm not much of a cook...just the basics. Plus I don't have a slow cooker.... But if you wanted to come cook for me :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 07, 2015, 09:20:25 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on October 06, 2015, 12:00:16 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 06, 2015, 10:31:10 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on October 06, 2015, 09:45:06 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 06, 2015, 09:08:56 AM

The groceries are done. That means I have everything I need to make curry.  :headbang2:

*drools*

I have a super easy recipe for curry in the slow cooker if you're interested. I love that kind of cooking. Throw all of the ingredients in and then leave it for the day.

Nah, that's okay. I'm not much of a cook...just the basics. Plus I don't have a slow cooker.... But if you wanted to come cook for me :P

Dinner's at 5 tomorrow :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 07, 2015, 03:17:40 PM

I got a check in the mail not a big one but still a good thing

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on October 07, 2015, 04:56:25 PM

Job interview went well

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 07, 2015, 08:04:47 PM

Good day with the oldest.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on October 10, 2015, 06:22:58 AM

Quote from: Buttplug on October 07, 2015, 04:56:25 PM

Job interview went well

Good luck.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on October 12, 2015, 06:04:23 PM

We got home from a long and stressful sojourn to assist the inlaws move from NY to KY.  I need a drink!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 15, 2015, 04:21:37 PM

PA told me that of all the women he had dated, he married the right one.   :pinkbeat: :lovelove:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 15, 2015, 05:12:32 PM

^  :thumbup:

Played tag with the youngest until we were a breathless pile of giggles

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on October 16, 2015, 12:24:32 PM

Gave my very last presentation  :MLA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 16, 2015, 05:19:03 PM

I hung out with a patagonian cavy who kept wanting me to pet his head and he licked my fingers. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 17, 2015, 05:46:40 AM

Quote from: Hubert on October 16, 2015, 12:24:32 PM

Gave my very last presentation  :MLA:

Yay! Aren't you glad it's over?

Went to my friend's house for a very nice lunch and drinks to celebrate finishing uni.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 17, 2015, 12:48:48 PM

Found some good stuff today at tag sales today

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on October 17, 2015, 05:14:30 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 16, 2015, 05:19:03 PM

I hung out with a patagonian cavy who kept wanting me to pet his head and he licked my fingers. :laugh:

This sounded a little kinky until I hit google.  :LOL:

(http://images.northrup.org/picture/xl/animals/capybara-walking.jpg)

Almost looks like a cross between a small deer and a rabbit.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 17, 2015, 05:28:12 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on October 17, 2015, 05:14:30 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 16, 2015, 05:19:03 PM

I hung out with a patagonian cavy who kept wanting me to pet his head and he licked my fingers. :laugh:

This sounded a little kinky until I hit google.  :LOL:

(http://images.northrup.org/picture/xl/animals/capybara-walking.jpg)

Almost looks like a cross between a small deer and a rabbit.

Sorry to disappoint you with something not nearly as racy as it appeared once the search engine showed you the real deal  :lol1: They have ridiculously skinny legs. They crack me up. I have a friend who owns a rescue farm and these fellows needed to be rescued. Most are quite skittish, but this fella in particular was quite social.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 18, 2015, 05:04:52 PM

Did better than expected at the flea market

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 18, 2015, 11:58:15 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on October 19, 2015, 02:43:14 AM

It's cold.
It snowed yesterday but very little left today.

So not Florida.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 19, 2015, 10:45:24 AM

I voted today.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 19, 2015, 02:45:51 PM

I made a good dinner and it's almost done cooking. Italian Wedding soup and garlic bread.  :nerdy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on October 19, 2015, 06:36:26 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 19, 2015, 10:45:24 AM

I voted today.  :thumbup:

Me too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 19, 2015, 08:51:33 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on October 19, 2015, 06:36:26 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 19, 2015, 10:45:24 AM

I voted today.  :thumbup:

Me too.

Saturday is my day.  I know I'll vote because I'm a poll commissioner (6:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m).

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 20, 2015, 12:25:39 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 19, 2015, 08:51:33 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on October 19, 2015, 06:36:26 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 19, 2015, 10:45:24 AM

I voted today.  :thumbup:

Me too.

Saturday is my day.  I know I'll vote because I'm a poll commissioner (6:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m).

What vote is this?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 20, 2015, 07:33:52 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 20, 2015, 12:25:39 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 19, 2015, 08:51:33 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on October 19, 2015, 06:36:26 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 19, 2015, 10:45:24 AM

I voted today.  :thumbup:

Me too.

Saturday is my day.  I know I'll vote because I'm a poll commissioner (6:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m).

What vote is this?

State (governor, lieutenant governor, department officials), local (parish president, councilmen, sheriff, etc.) and 4 state constitutional amendments.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on October 20, 2015, 08:59:27 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 20, 2015, 07:33:52 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 20, 2015, 12:25:39 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 19, 2015, 08:51:33 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on October 19, 2015, 06:36:26 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 19, 2015, 10:45:24 AM

I voted today.  :thumbup:

Me too.

Saturday is my day.  I know I'll vote because I'm a poll commissioner (6:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m).

What vote is this?

State (governor, lieutenant governor, department officials), local (parish president, councilmen, sheriff, etc.) and 4 state constitutional amendments.

The "something good" being that Jindal isn't on the ballot :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 20, 2015, 10:15:28 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 20, 2015, 12:25:39 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 19, 2015, 08:51:33 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on October 19, 2015, 06:36:26 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 19, 2015, 10:45:24 AM

I voted today.  :thumbup:

Me too.

Saturday is my day.  I know I'll vote because I'm a poll commissioner (6:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m).

What vote is this?

In my country, it's for a new Prime Minister. He was ousted last night (thankfully, after 10 long years) and the country sent a very strong message that they are done with the Conservative Party for now. The first set of results came from the east coast because their polls close first and the entire Atlantic, was read (Liberal). So anyone from any party who wasn't Liberal, every single one of them lost their seat. It was incredible to watch. That set the tone of the rest of the night. Although the further west you go, the more Conservative the country is until you get to British Columbia.

So now we have a new Prime Minister with an entirely new agenda. The last Prime Minister created a two tier citizenship which was awful. Basically if you weren't born here, you're second class. That's not what Canada has ever been about. Time to do some damage control.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on October 20, 2015, 10:22:38 AM

Is Quebec still trying to leave?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 20, 2015, 04:03:02 PM

Got an extra $50 from a happy homeowner :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 20, 2015, 04:05:56 PM

Quote from: Hubert on October 20, 2015, 10:22:38 AM

Is Quebec still trying to leave?

Depends on who you ask. A lot of Francophones still want to but it isn't the majority. Back in '95 it was a close race between yes we want to leave, and no we don't want to leave. But "no" won out. There are parts of Quebec where English speaking people are clearly not welcomed and in some places immigrants as well. Quebec is a beautiful place, especially Quebec city (it's like traveling to old world Europe, one of my favourite places in the world and they're extremely welcoming there) but Quebec as a whole is always this weird quirky all on its own and nothing like Canada sort of place.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 20, 2015, 05:16:09 PM

Quote from: Hubert on October 20, 2015, 08:59:27 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 20, 2015, 07:33:52 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 20, 2015, 12:25:39 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 19, 2015, 08:51:33 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on October 19, 2015, 06:36:26 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 19, 2015, 10:45:24 AM

I voted today.  :thumbup:

Me too.

Saturday is my day.  I know I'll vote because I'm a poll commissioner (6:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m).

What vote is this?

State (governor, lieutenant governor, department officials), local (parish president, councilmen, sheriff, etc.) and 4 state constitutional amendments.

The "something good" being that Jindal isn't on the ballot :)

 :thumbup:  :thumbup:  :thumbup:  :thumbup:  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on October 21, 2015, 10:47:55 AM

Got a pooter at the library to check my gmail!   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on October 21, 2015, 01:25:52 PM

Spent about half my day either working in the garden or clearing out things in the garage. (I plan to park my wife's Lincoln in the garage when it snows this winter)

I got a lot of garden clean up done. After three days in a row of sub-freezing temps at night, the garden looks like hell. All the greens are fine and I protected the hot peppers sufficiently, but trimming the shrubs and perennials to get things ready for winter can be a chore. Dividing the labor over several days is my way of continuing to to garden at my age.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on October 21, 2015, 04:04:05 PM

Back To The Future marathon on TV.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on October 21, 2015, 06:43:45 PM

I had energy! First time in what feels like weeks. Stupid fall viruses.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 21, 2015, 07:51:59 PM

The oldest had an awesome time at group. A bunch of aspies and video games always equals a good night. He brought his SNES and games which ended up being a huge hit.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on October 21, 2015, 08:04:02 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on October 21, 2015, 06:43:45 PM

I had energy!

:GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 22, 2015, 12:27:33 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 20, 2015, 10:15:28 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 20, 2015, 12:25:39 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 19, 2015, 08:51:33 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on October 19, 2015, 06:36:26 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 19, 2015, 10:45:24 AM

I voted today.  :thumbup:

Me too.

Saturday is my day.  I know I'll vote because I'm a poll commissioner (6:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m).

What vote is this?

In my country, it's for a new Prime Minister. He was ousted last night (thankfully, after 10 long years) and the country sent a very strong message that they are done with the Conservative Party for now. The first set of results came from the east coast because their polls close first and the entire Atlantic, was read (Liberal). So anyone from any party who wasn't Liberal, every single one of them lost their seat. It was incredible to watch. That set the tone of the rest of the night. Although the further west you go, the more Conservative the country is until you get to British Columbia.

So now we have a new Prime Minister with an entirely new agenda. The last Prime Minister created a two tier citizenship which was awful. Basically if you weren't born here, you're second class. That's not what Canada has ever been about. Time to do some damage control.

This I knew. What I didn't was what QV's vote was about. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on October 22, 2015, 05:43:54 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on October 21, 2015, 06:43:45 PM

I had energy! First time in what feels like weeks. Stupid fall viruses.

Good sign!

Hope you get back to you real self, soon.

I am considering taking a flu shot.
It is a "free"  covered benefit for all employees, regardless of whether or not they are enrolled in the "Wellness"  benefit program.

I have done this twice before, once around the turn of this century and once just a month before I went into surgery to have my hip replacement done (trust me - one must be clearly desperate to do this).

The two times I took the vaccine, I did NOT get a cold or flu for the entire year.

It is tempting to take a third one. What do you think?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on October 22, 2015, 06:20:23 PM

I've always ignored the flu vaccine because I figured the flu's not that bad and it's one more troublesome thing to do on a list that's usually too long.

I should probably change my mind and do it now. Especially since there's such a high risk to WolFish from me catching things, and people seem to get sick worse and for longer here than they did down south. Plus I'm older. Not that old! But enough that I'm not shaking things off quite as fast.

You however. You're not living close to anyone with a vulnerable immune system (that I know of!) but it sounds like it would be beneficial for you yourself. So, sure, go for it.

I feel like crap again today, but it was a long exhausting day at work with way the fuck too much talking, and I probably just need rest.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 22, 2015, 06:24:29 PM

Although I'm sick as a dog, my head is full of good info from todays sessions. Although sitting for the better part of 7 hours listening to someone speak nearly did me in. So happy to be back in my room where it's quiet again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on October 22, 2015, 08:23:50 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on October 22, 2015, 06:20:23 PM

I've always ignored the flu vaccine because I figured the flu's not that bad and it's one more troublesome thing to do on a list that's usually too long.

I should probably change my mind and do it now. Especially since there's such a high risk to WolFish from me catching things, and people seem to get sick worse and for longer here than they did down south. Plus I'm older. Not that old! But enough that I'm not shaking things off quite as fast.

You however. You're not living close to anyone with a vulnerable immune system (that I know of!) but it sounds like it would be beneficial for you yourself. So, sure, go for it.

I feel like crap again today, but it was a long exhausting day at work with way the fuck too much talking, and I probably just need rest.

" the flu is not that bad"  ... really?  I do not take it lightly.  BUT, everyone in our household is "healthy as a horse,"  as they say.
Myself as well, except for my blood pressure which is controlled with medication. My  doc is always amazed at how "perfect"  my blood work is.


Realize that you are talking to someone who if you can remember (maybe eight years ago in one of my early "sharing" posts) had traveled deep into Mexico and Central America, came home sick with a horrid summer flu, sick as a fucking dying dawg, infected my fiance and three weeks later she died in the hospital of complications related to influenza and pneumonia. As far as anyone knew, there was nothing compromised regarding her immune system. She just got too sick from a flu and did not survive. I did. A truly rough time for me.
The flu CAN be vary BAD!

I know how those Talking days can be, though. Even if you were not just getting over something, you would still need some extended rest and maybe a dose or two of Phuckitol!
 ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on October 22, 2015, 10:18:52 PM

Yeah maybe the flu is that bad. The kind of infections I get have tended to be skin related rather than gastrointestinal.

I had forgotten how that happened.

I could definitely use some Phukitol.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 23, 2015, 03:51:50 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on October 22, 2015, 05:43:54 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on October 21, 2015, 06:43:45 PM

I had energy! First time in what feels like weeks. Stupid fall viruses.

Good sign!

Hope you get back to you real self, soon.

I am considering taking a flu shot.
It is a "free"  covered benefit for all employees, regardless of whether or not they are enrolled in the "Wellness"  benefit program.

I have done this twice before, once around the turn of this century and once just a month before I went into surgery to have my hip replacement done (trust me - one must be clearly desperate to do this).

The two times I took the vaccine, I did NOT get a cold or flu for the entire year.

It is tempting to take a third one. What do you think?

Offered for free, and backbone of a family needing a strong backbone? Go for it. Most of the times I find flu not that bad. But sometimes it is extremely demanding. (For me about once every 13 years) The older you get, the harder it is to beat a bad case of the flu. And you simply don't have the luxury of taking weeks and weeks on end to recuperate.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on October 23, 2015, 05:26:40 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on October 22, 2015, 08:23:50 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on October 22, 2015, 06:20:23 PM

I've always ignored the flu vaccine because I figured the flu's not that bad and it's one more troublesome thing to do on a list that's usually too long.

I should probably change my mind and do it now. Especially since there's such a high risk to WolFish from me catching things, and people seem to get sick worse and for longer here than they did down south. Plus I'm older. Not that old! But enough that I'm not shaking things off quite as fast.

You however. You're not living close to anyone with a vulnerable immune system (that I know of!) but it sounds like it would be beneficial for you yourself. So, sure, go for it.

I feel like crap again today, but it was a long exhausting day at work with way the fuck too much talking, and I probably just need rest.

" the flu is not that bad"  ... really?  I do not take it lightly.  BUT, everyone in our household is "healthy as a horse,"  as they say.
Myself as well, except for my blood pressure which is controlled with medication. My  doc is always amazed at how "perfect"  my blood work is.


Realize that you are talking to someone who if you can remember (maybe eight years ago in one of my early "sharing" posts) had traveled deep into Mexico and Central America, came home sick with a horrid summer flu, sick as a fucking dying dawg, infected my fiance and three weeks later she died in the hospital of complications related to influenza and pneumonia. As far as anyone knew, there was nothing compromised regarding her immune system. She just got too sick from a flu and did not survive. I did. A truly rough time for me.
The flu CAN be vary BAD!

I know how those Talking days can be, though. Even if you were not just getting over something, you would still need some extended rest and maybe a dose or two of Phuckitol!
 ;)

My two cents:
If it worked and you didn't get the flu, do it again.
I did not get a flu shot because I was in Florida in December, and it was the first thing I caught when I got here. I thought it was allergies so I didn't see a doctor. I spent two days in the emergency department with the flu and pneumonia and then three or four weeks recovering. When I was in MA and working in the ER, I did get a flu shot and never caught a thing.

This season I started early - caught something Py brought home and am still getting over it. My immune system isn't that good right now.

It is a gamble because sometimes the shot can make you sick. But if they offer it to me here, I am going to consider it. My sister had cancer, but she died of pneumonia. Not pretty.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 23, 2015, 06:58:31 AM

The second time I had the flu I thought I was dying. I had gone to work that morning completely fine. I had to be driven home. That's how quick it was. I didn't go to the doctor until I needed a time off work certificate because there was no infection. All I could do was have bed rest and drink plenty of fluids.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 23, 2015, 06:11:27 PM

My daughter is at a sleep over and their is quiet at the house

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 24, 2015, 05:56:52 PM

Got a refund check from my workman's comp insurance for almost a thousand dollars and out of no where I got a call from someone who owed me money a long time today wanting to settle up :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 24, 2015, 06:40:33 PM

Quote from: Parts on October 23, 2015, 06:11:27 PM

My daughter is at a sleep over and their is quiet at the house

One of mine is doing that now. And there is quiet at the house. It is so quiet that other kid and I stayed up way too long, enjoying the silence.

 :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 24, 2015, 07:23:26 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 24, 2015, 06:40:33 PM

Quote from: Parts on October 23, 2015, 06:11:27 PM

My daughter is at a sleep over and their is quiet at the house

One of mine is doing that now. And there is quiet at the house. It is so quiet that other kid and I stayed up way too long, enjoying the silence.

 :green:

:plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 24, 2015, 07:26:25 PM

Sleeping in my own bed. Good to go away, good to come back.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 28, 2015, 01:45:57 AM

A friendly bus-driver, this morning.

Kid freaked out, because there was a touring car, instead of the regular bus. It would drive the same route, but no way she was getting in. Saw the line bus coming, and hoped it would stop. It was allowed to skip the bus-stop, because there was this other bus, doing the same route, already.

Not only did the bus stop, he also waited and did not hurry slow and confused kid at all. He just grinned and said it was OK.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 28, 2015, 01:47:17 AM

Other good things; fresh walnuts.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 28, 2015, 04:02:57 AM

I saw my uni supervisor for the last time, though we will keep in touch via email. She was thrilled with the present I gave her and she gave me a few tips on how to improve my writing. I still have to do a graduation check with the Info people at uni because I am a point short. I got told that they should waive that though. Also got told that the graduation ceremony won't be until March or April next year. That is a long wait.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 28, 2015, 10:36:04 AM

Long waits can be horrible.

Load of stress from the shoulders of oldest. She now has a massive headache as a reaction. :P

Not due to mentor finally answering questions btw. But due to math teacher telling her some stuff she needed to know.

Still some stress left. But, it is a lot better now.

Made it more pleasant at home too. Past few weeks have been  :GA:  :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: non stop.

We're going to have a semi in between celebration here tonight.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 28, 2015, 03:28:30 PM

I had a good day at work.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on October 28, 2015, 07:20:49 PM

So did I. In fact I came to this thread to post those exact same words.  :hide:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 29, 2015, 12:44:20 AM

I hope I'll use those words at the end of this day.

So far, I fed one kid and got her on her way to school.
Catered for the other in bed. She looks and feels horrible. So, a sick day is in order. (Yesterday a teacher wanted to send her home already, because she looked like crap)

Also catered cats, including excessive door opening and closing.

Almost am on my way to work.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 29, 2015, 01:02:04 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on October 28, 2015, 07:20:49 PM

So did I. In fact I came to this thread to post those exact same words.  :hide:

:tinfoil:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 29, 2015, 08:50:56 AM

Now those words are mine.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on October 29, 2015, 01:31:12 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on October 28, 2015, 01:45:57 AM

A friendly bus-driver, this morning.

Kid freaked out, because there was a touring car, instead of the regular bus. It would drive the same route, but no way she was getting in. Saw the line bus coming, and hoped it would stop. It was allowed to skip the bus-stop, because there was this other bus, doing the same route, already.

Not only did the bus stop, he also waited and did not hurry slow and confused kid at all. He just grinned and said it was OK.

cool bus drivers are awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on October 29, 2015, 01:35:40 PM

Eggnog

Can't find it here so far and my first attempt would knock my socks off if I just smelled it.

BUT

The eggnog that I froze in January in Florida, that came up in March on the Autotrain and then by car over the Adirondacks and survived -19C freezing in the car, is good. I froze two batches of it out of the quart container and the first one was rancid. I had frozen three others in cups earlier on and all three are good. About 8 ounces of pleasure, to be enjoyed this weekend (though I already had some sips).

I'm a happy boy.
Life is good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 29, 2015, 05:15:09 PM

Fixed an elusive bug for my former employer. It's going to cost them quite a lot. ;D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on October 30, 2015, 04:47:53 PM

Rocked an interview.  One guy actually said the words "I really like you" five separate times.   :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 30, 2015, 04:57:23 PM

Quote from: Hubert on October 30, 2015, 04:47:53 PM

Rocked an interview.  One guy actually said the words "I really like you" five separate times.   :hyke:

Cool!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 30, 2015, 05:59:00 PM

I got paid CASH

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 31, 2015, 04:00:43 AM

Quote from: Hubert on October 30, 2015, 04:47:53 PM

Rocked an interview.  One guy actually said the words "I really like you" five separate times.   :hyke:

Are you sure he doesn't simply like you? :eyelash:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on November 01, 2015, 11:52:42 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 31, 2015, 04:00:43 AM

Quote from: Hubert on October 30, 2015, 04:47:53 PM

Rocked an interview.  One guy actually said the words "I really like you" five separate times.   :hyke:

Are you sure he doesn't simply like you? :eyelash:

Whatever it takes these days.  The legal job market still hasn't recovered from the recession.  :squit:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on November 01, 2015, 06:47:21 PM

Just got back from a well deserved and earned trip to Florida.  Didn't do much except sit on a beach and watch sunsets into the Gulf of Mexico.  Long walks in warmth and sunshine.  Visited with a couple of friends.  Finally feeling human and less stressed over my inlaws moving and other things.   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on November 01, 2015, 09:34:20 PM

Sounds thoroughly enjoyable.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on November 01, 2015, 09:54:34 PM

It was!    8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 02, 2015, 04:15:22 AM

Feewing birfdai speshul  :cheer:

A lady at work gave me a nice cactus plant and I bought my first iPod as a present to myself (I'll need it for my new car coming anyway)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 03, 2015, 01:28:15 AM

Quote from: Hubert on November 01, 2015, 11:52:42 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 31, 2015, 04:00:43 AM

Quote from: Hubert on October 30, 2015, 04:47:53 PM

Rocked an interview.  One guy actually said the words "I really like you" five separate times.   :hyke:

Are you sure he doesn't simply like you? :eyelash:

Whatever it takes these days.  The legal job market still hasn't recovered from the recession.  :squit:

Fingers crossed. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 03, 2015, 01:31:05 AM

One kid good enough to go back to school. Did not even have to wake her, she woke herself. And was "hungry" and in very good spirits.

During breakfast she was astonished that after one apple and one slice of bread she was completely full. But that is what happens after eating very little for a few days.

Usually she does not leave the house without eating four slices of bread. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 03, 2015, 01:32:10 AM

Coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 03, 2015, 02:18:17 AM

Quote from: Marion Crane on November 02, 2015, 04:15:22 AM

Feewing birfdai speshul  :cheer:

A lady at work gave me a nice cactus plant and I bought my first iPod as a present to myself (I'll need it for my new car coming anyway)

New car *exciting*

I wrote birthday wishes in another thread.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on November 03, 2015, 10:37:11 AM

Got the oil changed on my van. It was overdue and my usual mechanic is having construction done to the service bays so it took me awhile to find someone else in the meantime. Just glad it's done now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on November 03, 2015, 05:45:16 PM

Finished a big project; looking forward to staring at it tomorrow. Something good for tomorrow too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 04, 2015, 03:58:25 AM

Quote from: Jack on November 03, 2015, 05:45:16 PM

Finished a big project; looking forward to staring at it tomorrow. Something good for tomorrow too.

Is it a hobby project or work project?

I bought another Fall Out Boy CD to play in the car. The gym plays their music a lot and it has sucked me in to liking it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on November 04, 2015, 04:07:17 AM

Quote from: renaeden on November 04, 2015, 03:58:25 AM

Is it a hobby project or work project?

Work. Will fine tooth comb over the details today auditing for any errors.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 04, 2015, 08:46:46 AM

I just had to take the grits I cooked earlier in the week out of the refrigerator and heat them up.  Vern's wife = hot, fast and cheap.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 04, 2015, 12:04:37 PM

My daughter passed the theoretical driver's exam. The driving test is tomorrow.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 04, 2015, 12:16:10 PM

^
 :congrats:


I again broke my personal record on the rowing machine during sports this morning.
(Would not be able to do that right now)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 06, 2015, 01:40:07 AM

My daughter also also passed her driving test. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 06, 2015, 02:11:45 AM

 :congrats: again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 06, 2015, 02:12:24 AM

Changing dentist appointment was easy. And we get to go to our favourite dentist too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on November 06, 2015, 11:58:59 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 06, 2015, 01:40:07 AM

My daughter also also passed her driving test. :)

 :hotrodder:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 06, 2015, 12:18:43 PM

Spending less than €8 a day on living costs past week. Only visiting our local (read more expensive) shops.
Ate healthy and pleasant every day. Did not plunder my freezer a lot either. Only took out a remnant of broad beans and some pumpkin/lentil soup.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on November 06, 2015, 01:44:00 PM

Quote from: Jack on November 03, 2015, 05:45:16 PM

Finished a big project; looking forward to staring at it tomorrow. Something good for tomorrow too.

Finished staring.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 06, 2015, 01:48:32 PM

Quote from: Jack on November 06, 2015, 01:44:00 PM

Quote from: Jack on November 03, 2015, 05:45:16 PM

Finished a big project; looking forward to staring at it tomorrow. Something good for tomorrow too.

Finished staring.

Was it a satisfying stare?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on November 06, 2015, 02:06:29 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on November 06, 2015, 01:48:32 PM

Quote from: Jack on November 06, 2015, 01:44:00 PM

Quote from: Jack on November 03, 2015, 05:45:16 PM

Finished a big project; looking forward to staring at it tomorrow. Something good for tomorrow too.

Finished staring.

Was it a satisfying stare?

Indeed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on November 06, 2015, 04:27:13 PM

Not that many WWII veterans left alive, you know.
Not today or last night, but the night before, a living, over one hundred year old WWII veteran arrived at the air port while my wife was there to pick up some UPS International Air packages. An announcement came over the public address system to call everyone's attention to the fact that an OLD WWII vet was entering the building and the announcement immediately started an impromptu cheering line for him.
 
I think they thought this might just be a few dozen people, but it turned out to be a more important thing for those traveling than had been expected.

Within minutes the entire walkway and then the lobby, basically the entire airport was filled with people on every wall clapping and cheering for this aged hero in travel. My wife stayed as long as she could, but he was slowed by the crowd and the airline ended up holding the plane for him.

My wife said when she left the airport she was barely holding back tears and finding it difficult to breathe, she was so moved emotionally.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 07, 2015, 03:04:47 AM

Quote from: Hubert on November 06, 2015, 11:58:59 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 06, 2015, 01:40:07 AM

My daughter also also passed her driving test. :)

 :hotrodder:

And now starts the age of borrowing mum's car.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 07, 2015, 03:48:12 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 07, 2015, 03:04:47 AM

Quote from: Hubert on November 06, 2015, 11:58:59 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 06, 2015, 01:40:07 AM

My daughter also also passed her driving test. :)

 :hotrodder:

And now starts the age of borrowing mum's car.

Not your car? ;)

Good on her btw.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 07, 2015, 06:17:33 AM

^ I was gonna say. Driving lessons in the Jag? :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 08, 2015, 12:20:47 AM

Quote from: Marion Crane on November 07, 2015, 06:17:33 AM

^ I was gonna say. Driving lessons in the Jag? :laugh:

She, like her brother, has had one lesson in the Jag. She loved it.

But the Jag's insurance prohibits anyone below the age of 24 to drive the car. :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 08, 2015, 12:22:03 AM

Quote from: renaeden on November 07, 2015, 03:48:12 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 07, 2015, 03:04:47 AM

Quote from: Hubert on November 06, 2015, 11:58:59 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 06, 2015, 01:40:07 AM

My daughter also also passed her driving test. :)

 :hotrodder:

And now starts the age of borrowing mum's car.

Not your car? ;)

Good on her btw.

:)

I'm really proud of her. It's weird, though. She feels all grown up now, because of that license.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 08, 2015, 03:55:22 AM

^Yeah, it is a new level of independence. She can go out for a drive by herself and that is totally new.

Good thing is I got to catch up with a friend who is an ADHD coach and very interesting to talk to. She said my topic at uni of ADHD and internet addiction could be a PhD subject since there is so little written about it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 11, 2015, 02:24:11 AM

Called housing cooperation, because the resevoir of my toilet took almost 15 minutes to refill after flushing.
A man came in today, and fixed it in a few minutes, changing a membrane. On his way out, he noticed my doorbell was broken too. So, he fixed that, to my amazement, I had been told that was my task.
When he had fixed it, he saw that the spot the doorbell was on was bound to lead to another broken doorbell really soon. (Had told him that that was why the former, bulky thing had broken) So, he took it off again, and placed it somewhere else on the door. Then he called the painter to make an appointment for painting my door and fix the visible holes that are now in it.

My new doorbell is mechanic and very shiny. X mas starts early in my hallway this year.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on November 11, 2015, 05:32:16 PM

I made it out of Walmart alive.  :zombiefuck:

Some strange dude kept running into me near the Christmas stuff...an older woman gave me a death glare for a good 5 minutes, not sure what that was about...another was swigging out of a huge bottle of grape juice in the pasta aisle...and the door greeter looked like she just wanted someone to shoot her and put her our of her misery.

You can tell the holidays are approaching.

Hopefully I'm stocked up enough where I only have to run out to get the bare essentials.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on November 11, 2015, 05:45:52 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on November 11, 2015, 05:32:16 PM

I made it out of Walmart alive.  :zombiefuck:

Some strange dude kept running into me near the Christmas stuff...an older woman gave me a death glare for a good 5 minutes, not sure what that was about...another was swigging out of a huge bottle of grape juice in the pasta aisle...and the door greeter looked like she just wanted someone to shoot her and put her our of her misery.

You can tell the holidays are approaching.

Hopefully I'm stocked up enough where I only have to run out to get the bare essentials.

Am weird about shopping online, but have done all holiday shopping for the last few years. It's wonderful; may never turn back.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on November 12, 2015, 04:38:08 AM

Quote from: Jack on November 11, 2015, 05:45:52 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on November 11, 2015, 05:32:16 PM

I made it out of Walmart alive.  :zombiefuck:

Some strange dude kept running into me near the Christmas stuff...an older woman gave me a death glare for a good 5 minutes, not sure what that was about...another was swigging out of a huge bottle of grape juice in the pasta aisle...and the door greeter looked like she just wanted someone to shoot her and put her our of her misery.

You can tell the holidays are approaching.

Hopefully I'm stocked up enough where I only have to run out to get the bare essentials.

Am weird about shopping online, but have done all holiday shopping for the last few years. It's wonderful; may never turn back.

My wife, who I love dearly (do not mistake my attempt at typing), did not even know what "online" meant, let alone try to get her to go there/here not that long ago.

I bought her a Microsoft Surface Pro tablet for Christmas a couple of years ago and she finally got used to it. Now she orders shit every week, including shoes, underwear, t-shirts, coats, school supplies, etc. Everything you can imagine!
I ask her sometimes when I see her intently working with her tablet, "What are you doing?"
She says, "Just doing some window shopping."

My point: even a dinosaur can do online shopping, if presented with proper tools.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 12, 2015, 08:16:29 AM

Have today off

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on November 12, 2015, 09:23:14 AM

Went to a decent yoga class.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on November 12, 2015, 03:43:07 PM

I had energy today.

We sent off the immigration paperwork on tuesday and had bibimbap to celebrate. between the digestive issues that followed and other things including lack of sleep, I should be exhausted. But in spite of all that I went on multiple errands yesterday and didn't have to rest today.

Energy is good.

Now for grading  :chores:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 12, 2015, 03:44:48 PM

Energy is awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on November 12, 2015, 05:27:24 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on November 12, 2015, 04:38:08 AM

Quote from: Jack on November 11, 2015, 05:45:52 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on November 11, 2015, 05:32:16 PM

I made it out of Walmart alive.  :zombiefuck:

Some strange dude kept running into me near the Christmas stuff...an older woman gave me a death glare for a good 5 minutes, not sure what that was about...another was swigging out of a huge bottle of grape juice in the pasta aisle...and the door greeter looked like she just wanted someone to shoot her and put her our of her misery.

You can tell the holidays are approaching.

Hopefully I'm stocked up enough where I only have to run out to get the bare essentials.

Am weird about shopping online, but have done all holiday shopping for the last few years. It's wonderful; may never turn back.

My wife, who I love dearly (do not mistake my attempt at typing), did not even know what "online" meant, let alone try to get her to go there/here not that long ago.

I bought her a Microsoft Surface Pro tablet for Christmas a couple of years ago and she finally got used to it. Now she orders shit every week, including shoes, underwear, t-shirts, coats, school supplies, etc. Everything you can imagine!
I ask her sometimes when I see her intently working with her tablet, "What are you doing?"
She says, "Just doing some window shopping."

My point: even a dinosaur can do online shopping, if presented with proper tools.

Not sure what your point has to do with my personal unfounded issue with shopping online. Not archaic, just paranoid, even though preferring to avoid the store.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 13, 2015, 10:44:37 AM

Online for the first time in a while. No interwebz in my flat in London. I thought renting a flat would be better but nooooo.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 13, 2015, 04:14:33 PM

Finished up work on an attic and materials came in under budget by about $200 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on November 14, 2015, 07:56:23 AM

Found my holiday music and copied it onto the computer.

It snowed!

Holiday shopping on a budget has reminded me that I am a creative person....

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 14, 2015, 08:45:48 AM

Quote from: WolFish on November 14, 2015, 07:56:23 AM

Found my holiday music and copied it onto the computer.

It snowed!

Holiday shopping on a budget has reminded me that I am a creative person....

SNOW!!!

When it is too much, send some here please. Have not seen decent snow in years, and I do so miss it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on November 14, 2015, 09:50:08 AM

SNOW??

 :runaway:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 14, 2015, 10:19:00 AM

Yes, a few weeks of reducing the world to black and white clear lines and soft angles. Love the light it brings, and the simplicity it brings.
Also like walking in it.

Do not need massive amounts. 20 cm would be awesome, 50 I would love, but the nation would think a national disaster had hit.
 :nerdy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 16, 2015, 01:52:24 AM

10 cm and they think it's a national disaster here. ::) I'd rather be without.

My good thing for today: I got to sleep in my own bed for the first time in a week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 16, 2015, 06:32:02 AM

At two centimetres they take it very serious here, at five centimetres they claim it to be a national disaster. But only at a layer of 50 cm and a fair bit of wind will they call in the army to drop food and stuff. So only then they treat it as a disaster.

(For those thinking that is absurd, our country does not have the infrastructure, nor the material, to deal well with amounts of snow like that longer than a few days. It's too rare a thing to be prepared for by default.)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on November 16, 2015, 09:00:22 AM

I remember sitting in my apartment in Albany NY many years ago watching a snowstorm that got all the way down to Atlanta. Everything was closed in Albany because we had 52 inches over a couple of days. In Atlanta they got 3 inches and everything was closed. There was a news reporter standing in the middle of an empty road with a bewildered look on his face and saying that they didn't have any snow removal equipment so they would just have to let it melt. At his feet there were little swirls of snow on a partly bare ground.

i've only had one bad experience with snow - totaled my care after trying to avoid a sideswiping driver. but i still love it. next time i am driving in snow i will be better prepared. that time i was an idiot and listened to a tire guy who sold me "touring tires" instead of my usual snow tires.

here it's a requirement to have snow tires on your car by december 15, which makes a good thing because we will get to go to plattsburgh earlier and i can order things i need (like printer carts) and get them sooner. one printer cart is $60 here - that's what i paid for the printer.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 16, 2015, 10:16:49 AM

A new insulation and weatherization supply house opened up less than a mile from my house and the prices I got over the phone today were less than what I am paying now

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Post by: rock hound on November 16, 2015, 12:22:05 PM

Got a glass goblet that I have been hunting for years.  Found it on the internets and it's happy dance time.     :soph: :tigger:

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Post by: Jack on November 16, 2015, 05:33:45 PM

Crystal chandelier.

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Post by: odeon on November 17, 2015, 01:58:16 AM

Coffee happened. :orly:

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Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 21, 2015, 04:38:13 AM

That iTunes purchase that didn't work last night worked today. Now I'm listening to Killing Joke's album, Hosannas from the Basement of Hell :headbang2:

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Post by: odeon on November 22, 2015, 04:13:08 AM

Got the chipped tooth fixed.

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Post by: WolFish on November 22, 2015, 12:38:24 PM

we didn't get the printer carts in plattsburgh because i forgot to order them, so it's a good thing we're going back in two weeks
but
we got some shoes on clearance. now wolfish has interview shoes and sneakers.

best part of the trip was finding GF bread that smells and tastes like bread.

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Post by: Parts on November 23, 2015, 06:47:58 PM

Broke two drill bits at work the good in that being it happened  while sitting on a roof not when I was working off the ladder

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Post by: 'andersom' on November 27, 2015, 11:02:08 AM

The weekend has started. I can sleep in tomorrow.  :hyke:

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Post by: odeon on November 28, 2015, 03:47:48 AM

Coffee.

And that's about it. What a miserable morning.

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Post by: odeon on November 28, 2015, 03:53:24 AM

Can I just mention a good thing that happened yesterday? I joined the programme committee of a conference.

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Post by: 'andersom' on November 28, 2015, 07:21:39 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 28, 2015, 03:47:48 AM

Coffee.

And that's about it. What a miserable morning.

Wow, you had coffee, before I could drag myself out of bed.

The good of the day, I slept in. I overdid it though. :P

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Post by: Jack on November 28, 2015, 07:44:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 28, 2015, 03:53:24 AM

Can I just mention a good thing that happened yesterday? I joined the programme committee of a conference.

Congratulations.

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Post by: rock hound on November 28, 2015, 10:33:15 AM

Went to a yoga class that was just what I needed!

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Post by: Queen Victoria on November 28, 2015, 06:50:24 PM

Saw the Peanuts movie.  They had PIGPEN!!!!!!!!  The forgotten character.  Nice  movie, not great, but nice.

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Post by: Trigger 11 on December 01, 2015, 12:18:24 AM

No puss in the blood drained from my knee!

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Post by: odeon on December 01, 2015, 01:39:56 AM

Quote from: Jack on November 28, 2015, 07:44:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 28, 2015, 03:53:24 AM

Can I just mention a good thing that happened yesterday? I joined the programme committee of a conference.

Congratulations.

Thanks. :)

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Post by: 'andersom' on December 01, 2015, 02:36:57 AM

I finished an email and phone call I kept procrastinating.

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Post by: WolFish on December 01, 2015, 04:23:16 AM

found clothes to fit the incredibly shrinking guy.
found a couple of stores i had been searching for and one had a ton of gluten free stuff

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 01, 2015, 09:39:07 AM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on December 01, 2015, 12:18:24 AM

No puss in the blood drained from my knee!

my mind saw puss and went to puss in boots.

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Post by: 'andersom' on December 01, 2015, 10:55:18 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 01, 2015, 09:39:07 AM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on December 01, 2015, 12:18:24 AM

No puss in the blood drained from my knee!

my mind saw puss and went to puss in boots.

foot rot?

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Post by: 'andersom' on December 01, 2015, 10:55:45 AM

Some things got cleared today.

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Post by: MLA on December 01, 2015, 12:36:20 PM

The reason pus is always spelled with one s is because otherwise people will try and adjectivize it with unintended consequences ;)

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Post by: Queen Victoria on December 01, 2015, 01:50:50 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 01, 2015, 10:55:18 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 01, 2015, 09:39:07 AM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on December 01, 2015, 12:18:24 AM

No puss in the blood drained from my knee!

my mind saw puss and went to puss in boots.

foot rot?

Nah, the Shrek character.

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Post by: rock hound on December 01, 2015, 02:20:40 PM

Started putting the christmas ornaments up!    :P

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Post by: DirtDawg on December 01, 2015, 06:50:22 PM

I was home by just after One PM today.

Of course, going in at Three AM, takes a bit of the  "shine"  out of that particular smile.

It has been this way for two weeks, now.

Probably, be around more after this season has ended, some time in January.

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Post by: odeon on December 02, 2015, 01:10:28 AM

Coffee.

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Post by: WolFish on December 02, 2015, 01:45:43 AM

salad and enough sleep

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Post by: Parts on December 07, 2015, 09:31:55 PM

Finished up at the farm and was paid in cash plus I got an extra $200 bonus

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Post by: Charlotte Quin on December 10, 2015, 06:44:27 AM

Realized today maybe my car dealer DOES want to tell me things :orly:. And he said he will help me get my personalized numberplates.

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Post by: MLA on December 11, 2015, 09:56:51 AM

No exams  :hyke:

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Post by: odeon on December 12, 2015, 05:09:14 AM

I slept through most of the morning.

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Post by: 'andersom' on December 12, 2015, 05:47:27 PM

Very nice cake, and great game of scrabble.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2015, 06:29:25 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on December 12, 2015, 05:47:27 PM

Very nice cake, and great game of scrabble.

Scrabble.  I love playing it.  My best (and most embarrassing) moment was when my first rack of a game was ANOREXIA.  Bingo on the first word.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on December 15, 2015, 04:24:29 AM

He said ok. We are going out for drinks on thursday and it may or may not be a date. I'll decipher that part on the day :laugh: (probably won't be, or we'll be too awkward to acknowledge it is)

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Post by: odeon on December 15, 2015, 11:36:30 PM

Coffee just happened. I think I will survive.

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Post by: renaeden on December 15, 2015, 11:43:54 PM

Quote from: Marion Crane on December 15, 2015, 04:24:29 AM

He said ok. We are going out for drinks on thursday and it may or may not be a date. I'll decipher that part on the day :laugh: (probably won't be, or we'll be too awkward to acknowledge it is)

Cool! Glad you got an affirmative. :)

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Post by: 'andersom' on December 16, 2015, 02:15:34 AM

Second cup of tea tasted good.

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Post by: odeon on December 17, 2015, 01:37:17 AM

Second cup is nice. About to get it now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on December 17, 2015, 07:01:17 AM

Quote from: renaeden on December 15, 2015, 11:43:54 PM

Quote from: Marion Crane on December 15, 2015, 04:24:29 AM

He said ok. We are going out for drinks on thursday and it may or may not be a date. I'll decipher that part on the day :laugh: (probably won't be, or we'll be too awkward to acknowledge it is)

Cool! Glad you got an affirmative. :)

Well it wasn't a "date" but he did pay for my dinner, and he was :blah: :blah: :blah: :blah: all night. Still, I wish I at least got a hug or something at the end :(. There's still tomorrow at the work xmas party I suppose.

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Post by: MLA on December 17, 2015, 12:05:57 PM

Quote from: Marion Crane on December 17, 2015, 07:01:17 AM

Quote from: renaeden on December 15, 2015, 11:43:54 PM

Quote from: Marion Crane on December 15, 2015, 04:24:29 AM

He said ok. We are going out for drinks on thursday and it may or may not be a date. I'll decipher that part on the day :laugh: (probably won't be, or we'll be too awkward to acknowledge it is)

Cool! Glad you got an affirmative. :)

Well it wasn't a "date" but he did pay for my dinner, and he was :blah: :blah: :blah: :blah: all night. Still, I wish I at least got a hug or something at the end :(. There's still tomorrow at the work xmas party I suppose.

Have you made it clear what you are looking for?

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 17, 2015, 05:37:58 PM

  I am back on my computer at last.  It took awhile, but still.  :spitscreen:

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Post by: Trigger 11 on December 17, 2015, 09:56:40 PM

STAR WARS

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Post by: odeon on December 18, 2015, 01:51:53 AM

Nothing yet. I have a migraine in the making.

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Post by: 'andersom' on December 18, 2015, 01:58:22 AM

 :hug:

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Post by: Parts on December 18, 2015, 06:24:26 PM

The day before yesterday I began feeling ill,  yesterday I stayed home sick and spent most of the day sleeping,  this morning I woke up feeling great and full of energy and it's lasted all day with not even a hint of feeling sick

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Post by: MLA on December 19, 2015, 07:34:05 PM

Juris Doctor conferred.

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Post by: odeon on December 20, 2015, 04:08:04 AM

Coffee.

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Post by: renaeden on December 20, 2015, 04:30:07 AM

I easily found a parking spot and the shops were not packed.

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Post by: Parts on December 20, 2015, 03:39:43 PM

Got gas for just $2.019 a gallon

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Post by: 'andersom' on December 20, 2015, 04:48:34 PM

My cup of tea was delicious. Got it as a present a while ago, loose leaf lady grey. Very nice brand.

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Post by: 'andersom' on December 20, 2015, 04:57:18 PM

First bit of Christmas decorations is starting to look neat. Some simple lights behind the curtain in the front room. Gives filtered light dots through the curtain inside, and brighter light dots outside. And kid thought it would be a nice idea to fill back window with painted snowflakes. So all three of us had a go at some flakes. They all look different. But with three spazzes, it will take some time to fill that window. The flakes are pretty intricate, so no quick decoration job. Will take at least one more day to finish it. Especially because the painting works best after sunset.
At least there will be no rush to take it down after Christmas. It counts as winter decoration too. :D

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Post by: Jack on December 20, 2015, 05:41:42 PM

Great project.

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Post by: odeon on December 21, 2015, 01:34:07 AM

I thought the coffee machine was broken but it was just a single coffee bean stuck in the wrong place.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 22, 2015, 07:12:15 PM

  I ran a file-restoration procedure on my balky computer... so far, I'm enjoying great speed! :crossed:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 23, 2015, 03:23:55 AM

BBC America  is running a Dr. Who marathon through Christmas!  Yea!

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Post by: 'andersom' on December 23, 2015, 08:19:44 AM

Unleashed my inner restlessness at the gym. New personal record on the rowing machine, and feeling good after getting the unease out of my system.

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Post by: Bastet on December 24, 2015, 07:00:00 PM

Tuna patties

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 24, 2015, 07:45:44 PM

  I got another day closer to my three-day weekend.  :thumbup:

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Post by: odeon on December 25, 2015, 04:22:15 AM

It's Christmas and I don't have to do anything I don't want to.

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Post by: Bastet on December 25, 2015, 05:20:36 PM

Cake

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Post by: Queen Victoria on December 25, 2015, 05:59:50 PM

Christmas Dinner at the Chinese place -

boiled shrimp and sushi.

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Post by: odeon on December 26, 2015, 03:54:07 AM

Coffee saved my life.

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Post by: renaeden on December 26, 2015, 06:17:00 AM

I had pavlova for dessert today. Mmmm.

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Post by: rock hound on December 26, 2015, 06:44:32 AM

Xmas is over

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Post by: Parts on December 26, 2015, 10:43:05 AM

Home Depot raised their insulation prices,  meaning I can now sell and install insulation for about what they charge just for the materials.  That's a big incentive for do it your selfers to hire me instead

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Post by: 'andersom' on December 26, 2015, 10:51:57 AM

Soon there will be a cheese fondue happening right in my house.

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Post by: odeon on December 27, 2015, 03:56:44 AM

Another day off.  :2thumbsup:

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Post by: 'andersom' on December 27, 2015, 05:32:58 AM

Eclair dropped by, two days in a row. And she posted.  :thumbup:

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Post by: odeon on December 28, 2015, 02:23:02 AM

One more day off today. Except I need to work some to be able to take some of the day off on New Year's Eve.

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Post by: Parts on December 28, 2015, 06:15:26 PM

Got two more calls from contractors wanting to schedule work I bid on

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Post by: Queen Victoria on December 28, 2015, 09:43:52 PM

Don't know if I mentioned it, but the car wouldn't start yesterday.  The auto club mechanic came out and banged the starter (since the battery was fine.)  I drove to the repair shop and left it overnight.  It started several times fine for the shop.  They showed me where the starter was and how to bang it if it acts up again.  It will  probably need to be replaced, but they're trying to save me about $300.

 PA usually complains when I take it to any repair shop because he doesn't trust any of them.  He was mildly surprised that there was no charge and they tried to save us a repair bill right now.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 31, 2015, 10:08:23 AM

  Yesterday's ice is melting, which means I should be able to open my mailbox anytime now.  :laugh:

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Post by: renaeden on January 09, 2016, 09:25:06 PM

Kayleigh's friend works at the Salvation Army op shop and he got me two t-shirts, a plain black v-neck one and an Assassin's Creed one. Very happy and thankful.

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Post by: odeon on January 10, 2016, 12:42:21 AM

Coffee saved me today. And probably the rest of my family. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 10, 2016, 12:45:18 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 10, 2016, 12:42:21 AM

Coffee saved me today. And probably the rest of my family. :P

    So, :loup: + :coffee: =  :moomin: ?

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Post by: odeon on January 13, 2016, 03:15:51 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 10, 2016, 12:45:18 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 10, 2016, 12:42:21 AM

Coffee saved me today. And probably the rest of my family. :P

    So, :loup: + :coffee: =  :moomin: ?

You're not wrong. :zoinks:

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Post by: odeon on January 13, 2016, 03:17:24 PM

Met with some American colleagues. Nice people but very different from the Brits I'm used to.

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Post by: Gopher Gary on January 13, 2016, 08:22:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 13, 2016, 03:17:24 PM

Met with some American colleagues. Nice people but very different from the Brits I'm used to.

How were they different?  :orly:

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 14, 2016, 12:53:21 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 13, 2016, 03:17:24 PM

Met with some American colleagues. Nice people but very different from the Brits I'm used to.

  Different as in "better," of course.  Fuck yeah!  :hyke:

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Post by: Jack on January 14, 2016, 06:24:30 PM

The forum is busy enough to not read it all.

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Post by: rock hound on January 14, 2016, 07:23:13 PM

Turning my wife onto HP Lovecraft!    :trollskull:

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Post by: Queen Victoria on January 14, 2016, 07:33:25 PM

Quote from: rock hound on January 14, 2016, 07:23:13 PM

Turning my wife onto HP Lovecraft!    :trollskull:

He is a genius of suspense.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 15, 2016, 05:25:57 AM

Quote from: rock hound on January 14, 2016, 07:23:13 PM

Turning my wife onto HP Lovecraft!    :trollskull:

  At first I thought you wrote "Turning my wife into HP Lovecraft."
  And I was like wtf?!  Then I realized my error. :lol2:  He may have had acromegaly btw.

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Post by: odeon on January 15, 2016, 09:49:03 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on January 13, 2016, 08:22:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 13, 2016, 03:17:24 PM

Met with some American colleagues. Nice people but very different from the Brits I'm used to.

How were they different?  :orly:

They are very open and forthcoming, in a professional way. A Brit will--maybe--talk about the weather when forced to, and offer an awkward hello until spoken to again. The Brits know irony, though, and puns, and weird references to obscure things.

If you have to talk to someone entirely new to you, an American will probably be a better choice. If you manage to get past the introductions and the unspoken codes, a Brit is probably funnier.

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Post by: odeon on January 15, 2016, 09:49:49 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 14, 2016, 12:53:21 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 13, 2016, 03:17:24 PM

Met with some American colleagues. Nice people but very different from the Brits I'm used to.

  Different as in "better," of course.  Fuck yeah!  :hyke:

Different. I like them both. :)

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Post by: odeon on January 15, 2016, 09:50:19 AM

Quote from: rock hound on January 14, 2016, 07:23:13 PM

Turning my wife onto HP Lovecraft!    :trollskull:

Kinky. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on January 16, 2016, 11:57:30 AM

Final set of grades came out and my transcript was updated to "Graduated".  It's official and final now.

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Post by: rock hound on January 16, 2016, 12:07:23 PM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on January 16, 2016, 11:57:30 AM

Final set of grades came out and my transcript was updated to "Graduated".  It's official and final now.

 :2thumbsup: :plus:

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 18, 2016, 06:35:16 AM

  This actually happened a few days ago, but anyway, I learned that :heart: Bryan Cranston :heart:
   has received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his work in Trumbo.  I'm pretty stoked.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on January 18, 2016, 08:05:12 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 15, 2016, 09:49:03 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on January 13, 2016, 08:22:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 13, 2016, 03:17:24 PM

Met with some American colleagues. Nice people but very different from the Brits I'm used to.

How were they different?  :orly:

They are very open and forthcoming, in a professional way. A Brit will--maybe--talk about the weather when forced to, and offer an awkward hello until spoken to again. The Brits know irony, though, and puns, and weird references to obscure things.

If you have to talk to someone entirely new to you, an American will probably be a better choice. If you manage to get past the introductions and the unspoken codes, a Brit is probably funnier.

Brits sound like a bunch of spazzes, so the spazzes must be extra special spazzy to stand out above that.  :zoinks:

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Post by: 'andersom' on January 19, 2016, 03:56:14 AM

Second time since December 18th that I am home alone. Both kids in school. YAY!!!!

Got an appointment in an hour, but still, this is really good.

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Post by: FourAceDeal on January 19, 2016, 08:00:56 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on January 18, 2016, 08:05:12 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 15, 2016, 09:49:03 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on January 13, 2016, 08:22:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 13, 2016, 03:17:24 PM

Met with some American colleagues. Nice people but very different from the Brits I'm used to.

How were they different?  :orly:

They are very open and forthcoming, in a professional way. A Brit will--maybe--talk about the weather when forced to, and offer an awkward hello until spoken to again. The Brits know irony, though, and puns, and weird references to obscure things.

If you have to talk to someone entirely new to you, an American will probably be a better choice. If you manage to get past the introductions and the unspoken codes, a Brit is probably funnier.

Brits sound like a bunch of spazzes, so the spazzes must be extra special spazzy to stand out above that.  :zoinks:

Brits not talk about the weather?  Wah?  We have more ways to describe rain than Innuits have to describe snow. 

And yes we have our fair share of s**zzes.  Although section 4, subsection 32g of the unspoken code states that you can no longer use the word s**z.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 19, 2016, 08:26:35 AM

Quote from: FourAceDeal on January 19, 2016, 08:00:56 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on January 18, 2016, 08:05:12 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 15, 2016, 09:49:03 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on January 13, 2016, 08:22:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 13, 2016, 03:17:24 PM

Met with some American colleagues. Nice people but very different from the Brits I'm used to.

How were they different?  :orly:

They are very open and forthcoming, in a professional way. A Brit will--maybe--talk about the weather when forced to, and offer an awkward hello until spoken to again. The Brits know irony, though, and puns, and weird references to obscure things.

If you have to talk to someone entirely new to you, an American will probably be a better choice. If you manage to get past the introductions and the unspoken codes, a Brit is probably funnier.

Brits sound like a bunch of spazzes, so the spazzes must be extra special spazzy to stand out above that.  :zoinks:

Brits not talk about the weather?  Wah?  We have more ways to describe rain than Innuits have to describe snow. 

And yes we have our fair share of s**zzes.  Although section 4, subsection 32g of the unspoken code states that you can no longer use the word s**z.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6isXNVdguI8

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 19, 2016, 11:34:23 AM

an excellently creamed and sugared cup of coffee

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 19, 2016, 12:35:25 PM

Figured out way to get some doors on a set for the next play at the community theatre.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on January 19, 2016, 06:11:02 PM

Quote from: FourAceDeal on January 19, 2016, 08:00:56 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on January 18, 2016, 08:05:12 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 15, 2016, 09:49:03 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on January 13, 2016, 08:22:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 13, 2016, 03:17:24 PM

Met with some American colleagues. Nice people but very different from the Brits I'm used to.

How were they different?  :orly:

They are very open and forthcoming, in a professional way. A Brit will--maybe--talk about the weather when forced to, and offer an awkward hello until spoken to again. The Brits know irony, though, and puns, and weird references to obscure things.

If you have to talk to someone entirely new to you, an American will probably be a better choice. If you manage to get past the introductions and the unspoken codes, a Brit is probably funnier.

Brits sound like a bunch of spazzes, so the spazzes must be extra special spazzy to stand out above that.  :zoinks:

Brits not talk about the weather?  Wah?  We have more ways to describe rain than Innuits have to describe snow. 

And yes we have our fair share of s**zzes.  Although section 4, subsection 32g of the unspoken code states that you can no longer use the word s**z.

Yeah, like I said, freaking spazzes.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 19, 2016, 10:31:24 PM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on January 16, 2016, 11:57:30 AM

Final set of grades came out and my transcript was updated to "Graduated".  It's official and final now.

On my info page on the uni site it says, "Bachelor of Psychology (B1104). Completed." Yay for us!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on January 19, 2016, 10:35:46 PM

Quote from: renaeden on January 19, 2016, 10:31:24 PM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on January 16, 2016, 11:57:30 AM

Final set of grades came out and my transcript was updated to "Graduated".  It's official and final now.

On my info page on the uni site it says, "Bachelor of Psychology (B1104). Completed." Yay for us!

I'm jealous because I aint in the hug. :violin:

:woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 20, 2016, 01:25:00 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 20, 2016, 11:13:01 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on January 19, 2016, 10:35:46 PM

Quote from: renaeden on January 19, 2016, 10:31:24 PM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on January 16, 2016, 11:57:30 AM

Final set of grades came out and my transcript was updated to "Graduated".  It's official and final now.

On my info page on the uni site it says, "Bachelor of Psychology (B1104). Completed." Yay for us!

I'm jealous because I aint in the hug. :violin:

:woohoo:

  Come over here, you fat fuzzy furball.  :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 20, 2016, 11:13:59 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 20, 2016, 01:25:00 AM

Coffee happened.

  :coffee: is happening here too. It's the start of every other good thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on January 20, 2016, 08:22:30 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 20, 2016, 11:13:01 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on January 19, 2016, 10:35:46 PM

Quote from: renaeden on January 19, 2016, 10:31:24 PM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on January 16, 2016, 11:57:30 AM

Final set of grades came out and my transcript was updated to "Graduated".  It's official and final now.

On my info page on the uni site it says, "Bachelor of Psychology (B1104). Completed." Yay for us!

I'm jealous because I aint in the hug. :violin:

:woohoo:

  Come over here, you fat fuzzy furball.  :hug:

Aw, shucks.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 22, 2016, 01:19:35 AM

They'll send someone to have a look at the failed boiler, today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 23, 2016, 08:51:54 AM

Oldest kid feeling good enough to head out today. Will see her back tomorrow.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on January 23, 2016, 12:39:12 PM

I woke up and came here.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 25, 2016, 10:43:13 PM

I had a sleep in.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 26, 2016, 06:50:48 AM

  I dropped a crumb on the floor last night, which I only know because it was there this
  morning.  Which gives me hope that the mice have died or otherwise vacated the premises.


  But I also have to get stricter about that sort of thing, sweep after eating maybe!  :sweep:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 26, 2016, 09:09:01 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 26, 2016, 06:50:48 AM

  I dropped a crumb on the floor last night, which I only know because it was there this
  morning.  Which gives me hope that the mice have died or otherwise vacated the premises.


  But I also have to get stricter about that sort of thing, sweep after eating maybe!  :sweep:

Or eat over the sink

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 26, 2016, 11:12:18 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 26, 2016, 09:09:01 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 26, 2016, 06:50:48 AM

  I dropped a crumb on the floor last night, which I only know because it was there this
  morning.  Which gives me hope that the mice have died or otherwise vacated the premises.


  But I also have to get stricter about that sort of thing, sweep after eating maybe!  :sweep:

Or eat over the sink

Or only have liquid food. With a straw. :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 26, 2016, 02:14:11 PM

picked up some good markdowns at the grocery store - bags of salad, pre-made sandwiches (PR's dinner), hot dogs, ham, bologna, bacon.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 26, 2016, 03:32:14 PM

Kid sat up and ate out of free will. Not much, but still.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 26, 2016, 04:30:46 PM

I got my new driver's licenses and it's REAL ID compliant

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 26, 2016, 05:21:29 PM

I survived!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 27, 2016, 07:08:39 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 26, 2016, 09:09:01 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 26, 2016, 06:50:48 AM

  I dropped a crumb on the floor last night, which I only know because it was there this
  morning.  Which gives me hope that the mice have died or otherwise vacated the premises.


  But I also have to get stricter about that sort of thing, sweep after eating maybe!  :sweep:

Or eat over the sink

  I can't do that.  There's no TV in the kitchen.  :tv:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 27, 2016, 07:10:33 AM

  I slept really well and had vivid, lifelike dreams which I remembered when I awoke.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 27, 2016, 10:25:06 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 27, 2016, 07:10:33 AM

  I slept really well and had vivid, lifelike dreams which I remembered when I awoke.  8)

How can you be sure that you really did wake up?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 27, 2016, 11:07:08 AM

Had a meeting with the company's chief architects and they both listened to what I had to say and were ready to change things.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 27, 2016, 05:51:52 PM

Had about $150 worth of materials left over that I can return for credit when I finished the house I was working on

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on January 27, 2016, 05:57:45 PM

My wife finally left the house for the first time in ten days.  Some of you may have heard that she almost died on me last Sunday.  She is coming around nicely though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 27, 2016, 06:10:52 PM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on January 27, 2016, 05:57:45 PM

My wife finally left the house for the first time in ten days.  Some of you may have heard that she almost died on me last Sunday.  She is coming around nicely though.

What happened?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on January 27, 2016, 06:49:48 PM

Received assignment for tomorrow's meeting break-out session. Break-out group title is fact based decision making. That was funny.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 28, 2016, 12:57:46 AM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on January 27, 2016, 05:57:45 PM

My wife finally left the house for the first time in ten days.  Some of you may have heard that she almost died on me last Sunday.  She is coming around nicely though.

:o

What happened?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 28, 2016, 05:14:40 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on January 27, 2016, 10:25:06 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 27, 2016, 07:10:33 AM

  I slept really well and had vivid, lifelike dreams which I remembered when I awoke.  8)

How can you be sure that you really did wake up?

  By reading my posts on here?  They're real, right?  Or am I dreaming them too?  :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 28, 2016, 06:50:09 AM

  This fucking song is now available on Youtube.  Years ago I could only find this weird mp3.  :woohoo:

           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqhmBxlVhFA

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 28, 2016, 08:02:34 AM

I went to Tafe and sorted my payment plan out properly after making a mistake with it last week. Then I went to the orientation for IT students. That was uneventful until I got my timetable. I am puzzled because I will be going 4 days a week. How is that part-time?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on January 28, 2016, 10:03:04 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on January 27, 2016, 06:10:52 PM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on January 27, 2016, 05:57:45 PM

My wife finally left the house for the first time in ten days.  Some of you may have heard that she almost died on me last Sunday.  She is coming around nicely though.

What happened?

Emergency surgery and blood transfusions to correct internal hemorrhaging.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 28, 2016, 11:01:48 AM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on January 28, 2016, 10:03:04 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on January 27, 2016, 06:10:52 PM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on January 27, 2016, 05:57:45 PM

My wife finally left the house for the first time in ten days.  Some of you may have heard that she almost died on me last Sunday.  She is coming around nicely though.

What happened?

Emergency surgery and blood transfusions to correct internal hemorrhaging.

Scary. Do they know what caused the internal haemorrhage?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 28, 2016, 11:15:51 AM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on January 28, 2016, 10:03:04 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on January 27, 2016, 06:10:52 PM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on January 27, 2016, 05:57:45 PM

My wife finally left the house for the first time in ten days.  Some of you may have heard that she almost died on me last Sunday.  She is coming around nicely though.

What happened?

Emergency surgery and blood transfusions to correct internal hemorrhaging.

Sending good thoughts!   Hope all is well!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 28, 2016, 05:54:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 27, 2016, 11:07:08 AM

Had a meeting with the company's chief architects and they both listened to what I had to say and were ready to change things.

  That's awesome.  Here's hoping they follow through!   :beer:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 28, 2016, 06:01:35 PM

Quote from: Jack on January 27, 2016, 06:49:48 PM

Received assignment for tomorrow's meeting break-out session. Break-out group title is fact based decision making. That was funny.

  If you break out, you know we'll find you, and lock you back up.  :police: :police:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 28, 2016, 06:31:19 PM

No fair upping your post count by posting the same post twice.

 That's   :deadhorse2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on January 28, 2016, 11:09:30 PM

Got a lot done on my script at work.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 29, 2016, 01:19:48 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 28, 2016, 05:54:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 27, 2016, 11:07:08 AM

Had a meeting with the company's chief architects and they both listened to what I had to say and were ready to change things.

  That's awesome.  Here's hoping they follow through!   :beer:

We'll see.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 29, 2016, 04:56:40 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 28, 2016, 06:31:19 PM

No fair upping your post count by posting the same post twice.

 That's   :deadhorse2:

  Not my fault.  I got a connection-error message and thought the first attempt was lost.  :M :angel:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 29, 2016, 05:22:36 AM

  44,000 posts, bitches!  Onward and upward!   :fuckyeahdance:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 29, 2016, 07:11:23 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 29, 2016, 05:22:36 AM

  44,000 posts, bitches!  Onward and upward!   :fuckyeahdance:

What will happen when you get 100,000 more?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 29, 2016, 08:15:29 AM

She will usurp the throne and rule as a benevolent despot for eternity!    :cbc:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 29, 2016, 10:17:17 AM

Quote from: rock hound on January 29, 2016, 08:15:29 AM

She will usurp the throne and rule as a benevolent despot for eternity!    :cbc:

Like Hell she will.

We are not amused.    :qv:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 29, 2016, 12:18:36 PM

44,000 is not bad. It's pretty good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on January 29, 2016, 02:05:45 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 29, 2016, 12:18:36 PM

44,000 is not bad. It's pretty good.

You left us with no "units" for which to decipher your glee.

In Magnum pressure cartridges for pistol, that pressure in CUP represents a fairly hot maximum load.

 :fuckyeahdance:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on January 29, 2016, 02:27:01 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on January 29, 2016, 02:05:45 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 29, 2016, 12:18:36 PM

44,000 is not bad. It's pretty good.

You left us with no "units" for which to decipher your glee.

In Magnum pressure cartridges for pistol, that pressure in CUP represents a fairly hot maximum load.

 :fuckyeahdance:

Fairly Hot Maximum Load is a great name for a metal band

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on January 29, 2016, 02:30:03 PM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on January 29, 2016, 02:27:01 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on January 29, 2016, 02:05:45 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 29, 2016, 12:18:36 PM

44,000 is not bad. It's pretty good.

You left us with no "units" for which to decipher your glee.

In Magnum pressure cartridges for pistol, that pressure in CUP represents a fairly hot maximum load.

 :fuckyeahdance:

Fairly Hot Maximum Load is a great name for a metal band

True, but I saw a "B"  movie title the other day that beats that one.

How about a metal band called Blunt Force Trauma!


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3520290/

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 29, 2016, 03:14:53 PM

Blunt Force Trauma is an awesome name for a band.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on January 29, 2016, 03:56:39 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 29, 2016, 12:18:36 PM

44,000 is not bad. It's pretty good.

Sorry to be such a dimwit.
I get it now.

I actually thought you were on the verge of posting classified state secrets and we were all going to be investigated at length. "Units" was the first thing missing that hit my   so-called "mind."
 :zoinks:





 :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 30, 2016, 05:35:17 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 29, 2016, 03:14:53 PM

Blunt Force Trauma is an awesome name for a band.

  My favorite band names ever:  Stabbing Westward, and No Lesson Learned.

  The former being the creators of this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NZsCYOM4j0

  and the latter being the name of a band a teenage co-worker belonged to in high school. 
  Too bad they never got anywhere.  That name would have looked great on a T-shirt.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 30, 2016, 11:32:29 AM

It's not too late to make the t-shirts.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 30, 2016, 03:09:10 PM

I had a rather large (3 figures to the left of the decimal point) gift card that expires tomorrow.  Bought a pricey item that I'll return later so I can use the money at that store.  That left me with a little under $2 on it.  Bought tomatoes and have the sum of 6 cents left.  Maybe I can book a cruise.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 31, 2016, 05:55:17 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 30, 2016, 11:32:29 AM

It's not too late to make the t-shirts.

True.  I'll probably never see that guy again, therefore no risk of being sued for copyright infringement.  >:D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 31, 2016, 06:12:23 AM

Check with our resident lawyer first.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 31, 2016, 06:13:42 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 31, 2016, 06:12:23 AM

Check with our resident lawyer first.

  I think he's going to be too busy for awhile.  :chores:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 31, 2016, 06:18:22 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 31, 2016, 06:13:42 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 31, 2016, 06:12:23 AM

Check with our resident lawyer first.

  I think he's going to be too busy for awhile.  :chores:

Or just do it. :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 31, 2016, 06:20:05 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 31, 2016, 06:18:22 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on January 31, 2016, 06:13:42 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 31, 2016, 06:12:23 AM

Check with our resident lawyer first.

  I think he's going to be too busy for awhile.  :chores:

Or just do it. :orly:

  I'll probably get arrested at work!     :police: :cbc: :police:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 31, 2016, 06:49:08 AM

Why? Did you plan to make t-shirts for your colleagues, too?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 31, 2016, 06:57:51 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 31, 2016, 06:49:08 AM

Why? Did you plan to make t-shirts for your colleagues, too?

  I was thinking farther ahead, that if the band had gotten famous, we'd be seeing that great name on
   merchandise and say, "I know one of those guys!"  Never actually planned on making the shirts myself.  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 31, 2016, 10:05:47 AM

They brought me pizza! :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 31, 2016, 12:42:59 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 31, 2016, 10:05:47 AM

They brought me pizza! :woohoo:
[/quote :popcorn:

But no coffee   :bigcry:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 31, 2016, 07:11:01 PM

Just got back from a Jeff Dunham comedy show!   Pretty good even with all the crowded conditions of the venue!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 01, 2016, 03:00:43 AM

Had coffee this morning. It saved my life.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 01, 2016, 05:44:23 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 01, 2016, 03:00:43 AM

Had coffee this morning. It saved my life.

  That's what it does.  It saves lives.  Ours, and those of the people around us! :coffee:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 01, 2016, 07:00:48 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 01, 2016, 05:44:23 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 01, 2016, 03:00:43 AM

Had coffee this morning. It saved my life.

  That's what it does.  It saves lives.  Ours, and those of the people around us! :coffee:

Some people never realise how close they come to the end. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 01, 2016, 04:55:39 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 01, 2016, 07:00:48 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 01, 2016, 05:44:23 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 01, 2016, 03:00:43 AM

Had coffee this morning. It saved my life.

  That's what it does.  It saves lives.  Ours, and those of the people around us! :coffee:

Some people never realise how close they come to the end. :zoinks:

  The festival people shouldn't screw around.  You should be provided with all the :coffee: you want!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 01, 2016, 05:56:06 PM

  I just realized/decided that the laundry can wait till Wednesday, my day off.  I love it!  :nicegear:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on February 02, 2016, 03:05:16 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 01, 2016, 05:56:06 PM

  I just realized/decided that the laundry can wait till Wednesday, my day off.  I love it!  :nicegear:

But then you won't have the day off, because of the laundry.  :nerdy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 02, 2016, 03:15:59 AM

Learnt about databases (omg, complicated) and personal computer security today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 02, 2016, 06:10:05 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 01, 2016, 04:55:39 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 01, 2016, 07:00:48 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 01, 2016, 05:44:23 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 01, 2016, 03:00:43 AM

Had coffee this morning. It saved my life.

  That's what it does.  It saves lives.  Ours, and those of the people around us! :coffee:

Some people never realise how close they come to the end. :zoinks:

  The festival people shouldn't screw around.  You should be provided with all the :coffee: you want!

Yeah, they should, but they are too artsy fartsy to care.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 02, 2016, 07:14:32 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on February 02, 2016, 03:05:16 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 01, 2016, 05:56:06 PM

  I just realized/decided that the laundry can wait till Wednesday, my day off.  I love it!  :nicegear:

But then you won't have the day off, because of the laundry.  :nerdy:

  But a day of laundry and housecleaning sounds great.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 03, 2016, 03:44:01 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 02, 2016, 07:14:32 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on February 02, 2016, 03:05:16 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 01, 2016, 05:56:06 PM

  I just realized/decided that the laundry can wait till Wednesday, my day off.  I love it!  :nicegear:

But then you won't have the day off, because of the laundry.  :nerdy:

  But a day of laundry and housecleaning sounds great.  8)

You have to come to my house for your next day off. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on February 03, 2016, 04:33:48 AM

Could not load the driver onto my W7 machine - the support site led me on a merry chase and finally said the software was not compatible.

Went upstairs to continue the search, plugged the MP3 player into my W7 notebook and the driver installed automatically. It's an iRiver T30, the only one I have that plays OGG files.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 03, 2016, 03:48:07 PM

  I had a lot of fun postwhoring on here, despite being alone for most of the day.  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on February 03, 2016, 03:57:10 PM

I bought booze!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 03, 2016, 04:00:54 PM

Quote from: rock hound on February 03, 2016, 03:57:10 PM

I bought booze!

  Top shelf   :scotch:  or screwtop?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on February 03, 2016, 04:02:37 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 03, 2016, 04:00:54 PM

Quote from: rock hound on February 03, 2016, 03:57:10 PM

I bought booze!

  Top shelf   :scotch:  or screwtop?

Screwtop rye whiskey and brandy and cream sherry all taste good to me..............just not at the same time!    ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 03, 2016, 04:45:55 PM

  Despite my procrastination, the laundry machines in the basement were available!  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 05, 2016, 04:13:17 PM

I reached out to a friend for some guidance.  She's in grad school to become a substance addiction counselor.  We have a bit in common, but her ADD is worse than mine.  We'll be keeping in closer touch to see me through the next few crises.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on February 06, 2016, 02:25:38 AM

Ate dinner out with Py and finally met my match - an addictive dish that I can't reproduce.

It's rare for me to go to a restaurant where the food is better than anything I could make at home.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on February 06, 2016, 06:08:36 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 05, 2016, 04:13:17 PM

I reached out to a friend for some guidance.  She's in grad school to become a substance addiction counselor.  We have a bit in common, but her ADD is worse than mine.  We'll be keeping in closer touch to see me through the next few crises.

 :grouphug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 06, 2016, 07:27:19 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 05, 2016, 04:13:17 PM

I reached out to a friend for some guidance.  She's in grad school to become a substance addiction counselor.  We have a bit in common, but her ADD is worse than mine.  We'll be keeping in closer touch to see me through the next few crises.

  *wobbles in :cbc: :tea:   with tea for the newest member of the Royal Court!*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 12, 2016, 02:14:14 PM

Renegotiated terms on a building I will be working on and was able to  double the labor :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 12, 2016, 05:23:53 PM

  The laundry I thought would take two loads to complete ... fit into one load.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on February 13, 2016, 01:11:32 PM

Not actually today, but I've been offline for a few days-

Went to one of the city center head shops, and because I'd just spent something in the region ~£250 the girl working the checkout decided to throw in a couple of packs of pipe/bong screens and some methoxphenidine, about a gram, give or take.[

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 13, 2016, 02:50:11 PM

Had a really nice meetup at a Prague restaurant with a lot of people in my field. Beer, food and puns. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on February 13, 2016, 10:33:12 PM

Found a box of dihydrocodeine tablets lying around in my room whilst doing some decluttering, no idea how long those have been sitting around for, but there shouldn't be anything wrong with 'em.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 14, 2016, 06:12:54 AM

Quote from: Lestat on February 13, 2016, 10:33:12 PM

Found a box of dihydrocodeine tablets lying around in my room whilst doing some decluttering, no idea how long those have been sitting around for, but there shouldn't be anything wrong with 'em.

  I wish I found snacks in my place as often as you find drugs in yours.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 14, 2016, 09:41:57 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 14, 2016, 06:12:54 AM

Quote from: Lestat on February 13, 2016, 10:33:12 PM

Found a box of dihydrocodeine tablets lying around in my room whilst doing some decluttering, no idea how long those have been sitting around for, but there shouldn't be anything wrong with 'em.

  I wish I found snacks in my place as often as you find drugs in yours.  :laugh:

But, but, you'd have to share them with Mickey and Minnie and family.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on February 14, 2016, 02:08:10 PM

I spent the night at a friends house and she made me breakfast this morning.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 14, 2016, 06:44:57 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 14, 2016, 09:41:57 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 14, 2016, 06:12:54 AM

Quote from: Lestat on February 13, 2016, 10:33:12 PM

Found a box of dihydrocodeine tablets lying around in my room whilst doing some decluttering, no idea how long those have been sitting around for, but there shouldn't be anything wrong with 'em.

  I wish I found snacks in my place as often as you find drugs in yours.  :laugh:

But, but, you'd have to share them with Mickey and Minnie and family.

  My snacks are on lockdown!  Ain't sharing with nobody.  SJW

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 14, 2016, 09:52:34 PM

There were some good things to ponder tonight at the AA meeting.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 15, 2016, 01:56:55 PM

Had a very good day at the office. I have to say I really like working with these people.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on February 15, 2016, 03:05:33 PM

Those DHCs hit the spot, and let me rest easy for a change, eased the pain in my hips, with a bit of a nice warm glow all over inside too, although I only had around 30 pills it still proved enough to help ease me to sleep, although not of course equal to my usual fare in that department, I'm certainly not about to allow them to go to waste :)

What else good today?

Splashed out on a big chinese takeaway, 20p change from 20 quid.

When I went to collect my prescription refills this morning, I checked my bank account because I wanted some chow and some nasal decongestants, to make sure I had enough money my card wouldn't be turned down, thought I was pretty short right now actually, but the cashpoint told me my balance was almost a grand and a half, AFTER withdrawing £200.

Now THAT was a most delightful surprise, means I can afford to buy some more diethyl ether, THF, methylene chloride, some carbon tet, xylene, toluene, benzene and solvent-wise, I think I may just treat myself to a few liters of DMF and acetonitrile (methyl cyanide) too.

Fair few other things on that shopping list.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 28, 2016, 06:45:55 PM

  I pulled out my fridge to look underneath for mouse activity.  Still nothing.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on February 28, 2016, 07:11:07 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 15, 2016, 01:56:55 PM

Had a very good day at the office. I have to say I really like working with these people.

Well that's a good change.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 28, 2016, 07:13:47 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on February 28, 2016, 07:11:07 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 15, 2016, 01:56:55 PM

Had a very good day at the office. I have to say I really like working with these people.

Well that's a good change.

  Indeed.  I remember much frustration over the former child boss.  :toy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on February 28, 2016, 11:52:02 PM

Finished grading early enough to do some writing, play Civ, and even feel like there was time to do things.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 29, 2016, 01:17:52 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on February 28, 2016, 07:13:47 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on February 28, 2016, 07:11:07 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 15, 2016, 01:56:55 PM

Had a very good day at the office. I have to say I really like working with these people.

Well that's a good change.

  Indeed.  I remember much frustration over the former child boss.  :toy:

I'm glad I made the change.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on March 03, 2016, 04:01:31 AM

My finally came!! :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 03, 2016, 04:39:16 AM

Quote from: Marion Crane on March 03, 2016, 04:01:31 AM

My finally came!! :hyke:

Was it a good orgasm?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 03, 2016, 11:50:18 AM

Not sure how good this is, but my wife bought a funny tee shirt from Amazon Prime.

On the front:

"Since I have not received my acceptance letter from Hogwarts, I am leaving The Shire to become a Jedi"

On the back is a Hobbit engaging in dangerous business walking out his door, carrying a walking stick down a road, struggling to keep his feet, not knowing where he might be swept off to.

My favorite teeshirt so far!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 04, 2016, 05:08:57 PM

Heh. I want one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 05, 2016, 04:50:51 AM

Walking out of the kitchen, with a fresh full cup of coffee, I had to sneeze. There was no escape.
Did not spill a drop of my coffee.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 05, 2016, 09:02:27 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 05, 2016, 04:50:51 AM

Walking out of the kitchen, with a fresh full cup of coffee, I had to sneeze. There was no escape.
Did not spill a drop of my coffee.  :2thumbsup:

  Saving the coffee makes a great start to the day!  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 05, 2016, 10:26:53 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 05, 2016, 09:02:27 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 05, 2016, 04:50:51 AM

Walking out of the kitchen, with a fresh full cup of coffee, I had to sneeze. There was no escape.
Did not spill a drop of my coffee.  :2thumbsup:

  Saving the coffee makes a great start to the day!  :2thumbsup:

And another narrow escape today.

Walked home, after getting groceries. Two carrier bags full in my hands. Suddenly I saw something fall down. I could not stop my motion anymore, certainly not of the heavy carrier bag. And then the dollop of white hit the pavement. Very narrow (an inch, maybe) escape from having bird poo on my newly bought stuff.

This is my lucky day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 05, 2016, 10:29:26 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 05, 2016, 10:26:53 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 05, 2016, 09:02:27 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 05, 2016, 04:50:51 AM

Walking out of the kitchen, with a fresh full cup of coffee, I had to sneeze. There was no escape.
Did not spill a drop of my coffee.  :2thumbsup:

  Saving the coffee makes a great start to the day!  :2thumbsup:

And another narrow escape today.

Walked home, after getting groceries. Two carrier bags full in my hands. Suddenly I saw something fall down. I could not stop my motion anymore, certainly not of the heavy carrier bag. And then the dollop of white hit the pavement. Very narrow (an inch, maybe) escape from having bird poo on my newly bought stuff.

This is my lucky day.

  You might want to buy a lottery ticket today!  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 05, 2016, 10:32:43 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 05, 2016, 10:29:26 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 05, 2016, 10:26:53 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 05, 2016, 09:02:27 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 05, 2016, 04:50:51 AM

Walking out of the kitchen, with a fresh full cup of coffee, I had to sneeze. There was no escape.
Did not spill a drop of my coffee.  :2thumbsup:

  Saving the coffee makes a great start to the day!  :2thumbsup:

And another narrow escape today.

Walked home, after getting groceries. Two carrier bags full in my hands. Suddenly I saw something fall down. I could not stop my motion anymore, certainly not of the heavy carrier bag. And then the dollop of white hit the pavement. Very narrow (an inch, maybe) escape from having bird poo on my newly bought stuff.

This is my lucky day.

  You might want to buy a lottery ticket today!  :orly:

The shop where I can get that just closed.

Maybe another narrow escape, preventing me from spending money in vain.

But who knows, I might win on my automated lottery thing.  :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 05, 2016, 01:27:10 PM

It hasn't happened yet, but I'm going to a birthday dinner at one of those awesome oriental restaurants where they put on a big fancy show cooking the food right at the table.  :orly: Then after that it's fight night party time, so the house will be filled with the stench of testosterone and chili-cheese nachos. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 05, 2016, 01:31:51 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 05, 2016, 01:27:10 PM

It hasn't happened yet, but I'm going to a birthday dinner at one of those awesome oriental restaurants where they put on a big fancy show cooking the food right at the table.  :orly: Then after that it's fight night party time, so the house will be filled with the stench of testosterone and chili-cheese nachos. :woohoo:

  That sounds like a lot of food for one night.  Better take some Prilosec. :trollface:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 05, 2016, 01:43:40 PM

The dinner party is an early dinner.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 05, 2016, 01:46:58 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 05, 2016, 01:43:40 PM

The dinner party is an early dinner.  :orly:

  Cheesy nachos late at night can cause ... complications.    :happypuke:  :trollface:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 05, 2016, 03:27:51 PM

My wife and daughter went to Philadelphia to visit friends and I have the house to myself till tomorrow night

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 05, 2016, 10:15:37 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 05, 2016, 01:46:58 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 05, 2016, 01:43:40 PM

The dinner party is an early dinner.  :orly:

  Cheesy nachos late at night can cause ... complications.    :happypuke:  :trollface:

I'm hoping the chili gives me gas.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 05, 2016, 10:23:08 PM

Quote from: Parts on March 05, 2016, 03:27:51 PM

My wife and daughter went to Philadelphia to visit friends and I have the house to myself till tomorrow night

You and the dog and all the cats!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 06, 2016, 02:51:39 AM

I had coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 06, 2016, 03:50:07 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 05, 2016, 10:15:37 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 05, 2016, 01:46:58 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 05, 2016, 01:43:40 PM

The dinner party is an early dinner.  :orly:

  Cheesy nachos late at night can cause ... complications.    :happypuke:  :trollface:

I'm hoping the chili gives me gas.  :zoinks:

  And how will Sugarbutt feel about that?  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 06, 2016, 10:05:31 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 06, 2016, 03:50:07 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 05, 2016, 10:15:37 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 05, 2016, 01:46:58 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 05, 2016, 01:43:40 PM

The dinner party is an early dinner.  :orly:

  Cheesy nachos late at night can cause ... complications.    :happypuke:  :trollface:

I'm hoping the chili gives me gas.  :zoinks:

  And how will Sugarbutt feel about that?  :zoinks:

We're both friendly and we share stuff.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 06, 2016, 10:29:30 AM

Listened to some good tunes on the satellite radio in my car! :headphones: :nicegear:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 06, 2016, 12:02:40 PM

Quote from: rock hound on March 06, 2016, 10:29:30 AM

Listened to some good tunes on the satellite radio in my car! :headphones: :nicegear:

  I'm listening on my computer!  Getting my mojo back with this peppy tune!  :2thumbsup:

              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf79lOZ7inw

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 06, 2016, 12:10:32 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 06, 2016, 12:02:40 PM

Quote from: rock hound on March 06, 2016, 10:29:30 AM

Listened to some good tunes on the satellite radio in my car! :headphones: :nicegear:

  I'm listening on my computer!  Getting my mojo back with this peppy tune!  :2thumbsup:

              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf79lOZ7inw

That's a good one!  We have SIRIUSXM on computer as well.   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 06, 2016, 12:14:09 PM

  I do like music channels on TV, I listen at my boss's house when dogsitting, but now that
  I've retired from dogsitting, I should check my own TV and see if I'm even subscribed.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 06, 2016, 12:47:58 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 06, 2016, 12:14:09 PM

  I do like music channels on TV, I listen at my boss's house when dogsitting, but now that
  I've retired from dogsitting, I should check my own TV and see if I'm even subscribed.  :orly:

Comcast/Xfinity has music channels up here in the Seacoast NH region.  And we love it.  Carla puts on Alt. Rock to do her morning exercises to.  Ours are in the 500 range of channels.   One place that I volunteered at, the number channels were in the 900 range of channels.  Depends upon your cable company. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on March 08, 2016, 02:56:20 PM

numbers finally went up. 9.3 as opposed to the 7.3 to 7.8  that it's been for the past few months. i have arrived at marginal.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 08, 2016, 04:25:49 PM

Quote from: WolFish on March 08, 2016, 02:56:20 PM

numbers finally went up. 9.3 as opposed to the 7.3 to 7.8  that it's been for the past few months. i have arrived at marginal.

:plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on March 08, 2016, 04:28:57 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 08, 2016, 04:25:49 PM

Quote from: WolFish on March 08, 2016, 02:56:20 PM

numbers finally went up. 9.3 as opposed to the 7.3 to 7.8  that it's been for the past few months. i have arrived at marginal.

:plus:

thanks. it was hard work, eating a lot of things i would not ordinarily eat. lots of beef and liver and beets. also had to carefully measure how much exercise so to build instead of lose heme. 12.1 is at the low end of normal for hemoglobin, but at this point i am not considered to be in danger anymore.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on March 09, 2016, 06:54:29 AM

Told mum about the car. She's happy for me but just worried if I can afford it or not.

After getting 450km out of a 71L tank of fuel and filling it up again for the first time I'm not so sure myself :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 09, 2016, 06:55:29 AM

Quote from: WolFish on March 08, 2016, 04:28:57 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 08, 2016, 04:25:49 PM

Quote from: WolFish on March 08, 2016, 02:56:20 PM

numbers finally went up. 9.3 as opposed to the 7.3 to 7.8  that it's been for the past few months. i have arrived at marginal.

:plus:

thanks. it was hard work, eating a lot of things i would not ordinarily eat. lots of beef and liver and beets. also had to carefully measure how much exercise so to build instead of lose heme. 12.1 is at the low end of normal for hemoglobin, but at this point i am not considered to be in danger anymore.

  Excellent!  If steak is not enough, eat larger game.  :mastodon:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on March 09, 2016, 08:41:35 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 09, 2016, 06:55:29 AM

Quote from: WolFish on March 08, 2016, 04:28:57 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 08, 2016, 04:25:49 PM

Quote from: WolFish on March 08, 2016, 02:56:20 PM

numbers finally went up. 9.3 as opposed to the 7.3 to 7.8  that it's been for the past few months. i have arrived at marginal.

:plus:

thanks. it was hard work, eating a lot of things i would not ordinarily eat. lots of beef and liver and beets. also had to carefully measure how much exercise so to build instead of lose heme. 12.1 is at the low end of normal for hemoglobin, but at this point i am not considered to be in danger anymore.

  Excellent!  If steak is not enough, eat larger game.  :mastodon:

they do have bison here but it's expensive. We could go to Nunavit where there might be some frozen mammoth, but i would use up a lot of calories digging it up. and then of course the science police would not let me eat it. Py doesn't allow anything over 3 days old.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on March 09, 2016, 08:45:13 AM

set the computer upright (it's been on its side as long as i have used it) and now the hard drive works.
of course i am making a backup.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 09, 2016, 09:01:15 AM

Quote from: WolFish on March 09, 2016, 08:41:35 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 09, 2016, 06:55:29 AM

Quote from: WolFish on March 08, 2016, 04:28:57 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 08, 2016, 04:25:49 PM

Quote from: WolFish on March 08, 2016, 02:56:20 PM

numbers finally went up. 9.3 as opposed to the 7.3 to 7.8  that it's been for the past few months. i have arrived at marginal.

:plus:

thanks. it was hard work, eating a lot of things i would not ordinarily eat. lots of beef and liver and beets. also had to carefully measure how much exercise so to build instead of lose heme. 12.1 is at the low end of normal for hemoglobin, but at this point i am not considered to be in danger anymore.

  Excellent!  If steak is not enough, eat larger game.  :mastodon:

they do have bison here but it's expensive. We could go to Nunavit where there might be some frozen mammoth, but i would use up a lot of calories digging it up. and then of course the science police would not let me eat it. Py doesn't allow anything over 3 days old.

:lol1:Best reason for not eating mammoth.

Though, properly frozen, shouldn't it be OK?  :nerdy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 09, 2016, 09:08:14 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 09, 2016, 09:01:15 AM

Quote from: WolFish on March 09, 2016, 08:41:35 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 09, 2016, 06:55:29 AM

Quote from: WolFish on March 08, 2016, 04:28:57 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 08, 2016, 04:25:49 PM

Quote from: WolFish on March 08, 2016, 02:56:20 PM

numbers finally went up. 9.3 as opposed to the 7.3 to 7.8  that it's been for the past few months. i have arrived at marginal.

:plus:

thanks. it was hard work, eating a lot of things i would not ordinarily eat. lots of beef and liver and beets. also had to carefully measure how much exercise so to build instead of lose heme. 12.1 is at the low end of normal for hemoglobin, but at this point i am not considered to be in danger anymore.

  Excellent!  If steak is not enough, eat larger game.  :mastodon:

they do have bison here but it's expensive. We could go to Nunavit where there might be some frozen mammoth, but i would use up a lot of calories digging it up. and then of course the science police would not let me eat it. Py doesn't allow anything over 3 days old.

:lol1:Best reason for not eating mammoth.

Though, properly frozen, shouldn't it be OK?  :nerdy:

I remember reading something about explorers trying to eat mammoth meat that had been frozen for thousands of years.  If I remember correctly the stench was horrible and only their sled dogs could eat it.  Talk about the ultimate in freezer burn!   :o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 09, 2016, 09:58:21 AM

Quote from: rock hound on March 09, 2016, 09:08:14 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 09, 2016, 09:01:15 AM

Quote from: WolFish on March 09, 2016, 08:41:35 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 09, 2016, 06:55:29 AM

Quote from: WolFish on March 08, 2016, 04:28:57 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 08, 2016, 04:25:49 PM

Quote from: WolFish on March 08, 2016, 02:56:20 PM

numbers finally went up. 9.3 as opposed to the 7.3 to 7.8  that it's been for the past few months. i have arrived at marginal.

:plus:

thanks. it was hard work, eating a lot of things i would not ordinarily eat. lots of beef and liver and beets. also had to carefully measure how much exercise so to build instead of lose heme. 12.1 is at the low end of normal for hemoglobin, but at this point i am not considered to be in danger anymore.

  Excellent!  If steak is not enough, eat larger game.  :mastodon:

they do have bison here but it's expensive. We could go to Nunavit where there might be some frozen mammoth, but i would use up a lot of calories digging it up. and then of course the science police would not let me eat it. Py doesn't allow anything over 3 days old.

:lol1:Best reason for not eating mammoth.

Though, properly frozen, shouldn't it be OK?  :nerdy:

I remember reading something about explorers trying to eat mammoth meat that had been frozen for thousands of years.  If I remember correctly the stench was horrible and only their sled dogs could eat it.  Talk about the ultimate in freezer burn!   :o

Frozen to a crisp.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 09, 2016, 01:09:06 PM

Made a delicious and satisfying creamy wild rice soup with some chopped up chicken meat!!    8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 09, 2016, 02:37:53 PM

I had coffee. :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 10, 2016, 10:14:29 AM

  I've been studying Bryan Cranston's bald skull in Breaking Bad reruns.
  I think he has persistent frontal suture/metopic suture/THE RIDGE.
  Just like meeeeee.  :heart:

   (http://www.ew.com/sites/default/files/i/2010/07/08/breaking-bad-Bryan-Cranston_320.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 10, 2016, 03:40:06 PM

Met with friends at the pub.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 13, 2016, 10:28:40 AM

Shopped and did some lifting, felt no discomfort in the abdominal region where the surgeon went.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on March 13, 2016, 08:02:20 PM

Didn't die, which is always good  :zoinks:

That seems to be what I post in here for the most part, which brings me to a rather glum thought. When I go, hopefully like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h94TFALQ3W8

There's a chance that this site will still exist, as there will always be spazzes like us in the world  :autism:

There'll be a day where I come back and visit the site as a spoopy internet ghost :boo: and post the words "didn't get exorcised" or some shit. Whatever spoopy internet ghosts post on the internet.

Or maybe I'll never die. Maybe I'll be one of those cunts who gets their brain uploaded into a robotic body... and then ends up destroying or enslaving humanity as part of an inevitable cyborg/robot uprising.

It's already begun: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/artificial-intelligence-system-found-to-be-as-clever-as-a-young-child-after-taking-verbal-iq-test-a6684811.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11712513/Robot-kills-man-at-Volkswagen-plant-in-Germany.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcNXq5DUZnk

It's always been a dream of many men and women that one day, humanity will live in harmony. Despite differences of race, gender, sexuality, disability, religion, nationality and whatnot humanity will live side by side....

In concentration camps run by our robotic overlords :borg:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 13, 2016, 08:13:44 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 13, 2016, 08:02:20 PM

"didn't get exorcised" or some shit.

 :lol1:   :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on March 13, 2016, 08:18:21 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 13, 2016, 08:13:44 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 13, 2016, 08:02:20 PM

"didn't get exorcised" or some shit.

 :lol1:   :plus:

Spoopy ghost me :boo: makes posts on the internet and tickles people. Scary robot me is basically Hitler :hitler: and current me is a cross between the 11th Doctor, Hodor from Game of Thrones, a really tall Leprechaun and Raj from The Big Bang Theory.  :autism:

For the sake of argument, we'll name current me the super duper autism one.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 13, 2016, 08:23:21 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 13, 2016, 08:18:21 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 13, 2016, 08:13:44 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 13, 2016, 08:02:20 PM

"didn't get exorcised" or some shit.

 :lol1:   :plus:

Spoopy ghost me :boo: makes posts on the internet and tickles people. Scary robot me is basically Hitler :hitler: and current me is a cross between the 11th Doctor, Hodor from Game of Thrones, a really tall Leprechaun and Raj from The Big Bang Theory.  :autism:

For the sake of argument, we'll name current me the super duper autism one.  :asthing:

Scary robot me has a name too, so that makes complete sense to freaky gopher me.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on March 13, 2016, 08:44:07 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 13, 2016, 08:23:21 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 13, 2016, 08:18:21 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 13, 2016, 08:13:44 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 13, 2016, 08:02:20 PM

"didn't get exorcised" or some shit.

 :lol1:   :plus:

Spoopy ghost me :boo: makes posts on the internet and tickles people. Scary robot me is basically Hitler :hitler: and current me is a cross between the 11th Doctor, Hodor from Game of Thrones, a really tall Leprechaun and Raj from The Big Bang Theory.  :autism:

For the sake of argument, we'll name current me the super duper autism one.  :asthing:

Scary robot me has a name too, so that makes complete sense to freaky gopher me.  :2thumbsup:

The best way to solve this is a Doctor Who episode where the two possible future mes travel back in time, with the Scary robot me using Skynet technology and the Spoopy Ghost me using Spoopy Ghost powers and each one is trying to make sure that I get to that future...Or some shit.

Hey, it'd be a better episode than In the Forest of the Night. That was the worst episode in series 8, which in itself wasn't a very good season at all.

Series 9 on the other hand...Bugger me sideways. What a great season:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvGND1i6Dj0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG_ZrvyQEHM

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on March 13, 2016, 11:18:49 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 13, 2016, 08:44:07 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 13, 2016, 08:23:21 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 13, 2016, 08:18:21 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 13, 2016, 08:13:44 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 13, 2016, 08:02:20 PM

"didn't get exorcised" or some shit.

 :lol1:   :plus:

Spoopy ghost me :boo: makes posts on the internet and tickles people. Scary robot me is basically Hitler :hitler: and current me is a cross between the 11th Doctor, Hodor from Game of Thrones, a really tall Leprechaun and Raj from The Big Bang Theory.  :autism:

For the sake of argument, we'll name current me the super duper autism one.  :asthing:

Scary robot me has a name too, so that makes complete sense to freaky gopher me.  :2thumbsup:

The best way to solve this is a Doctor Who episode where the two possible future mes travel back in time, with the Scary robot me using Skynet technology and the Spoopy Ghost me using Spoopy Ghost powers and each one is trying to make sure that I get to that future...Or some shit.

Hey, it'd be a better episode than In the Forest of the Night. That was the worst episode in series 8, which in itself wasn't a very good season at all.

Series 9 on the other hand...Bugger me sideways. What a great season:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvGND1i6Dj0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG_ZrvyQEHM

I do not like the new doctor. I watched about three episodes and I was completely put off by him. David Tenant was awesome and Matt Smith was great. Clara is good. Rory is the Man and Riversong is my waifu.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on March 14, 2016, 12:13:10 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on March 13, 2016, 11:18:49 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 13, 2016, 08:44:07 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 13, 2016, 08:23:21 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 13, 2016, 08:18:21 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 13, 2016, 08:13:44 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 13, 2016, 08:02:20 PM

"didn't get exorcised" or some shit.

 :lol1:   :plus:

Spoopy ghost me :boo: makes posts on the internet and tickles people. Scary robot me is basically Hitler :hitler: and current me is a cross between the 11th Doctor, Hodor from Game of Thrones, a really tall Leprechaun and Raj from The Big Bang Theory.  :autism:

For the sake of argument, we'll name current me the super duper autism one.  :asthing:

Scary robot me has a name too, so that makes complete sense to freaky gopher me.  :2thumbsup:

The best way to solve this is a Doctor Who episode where the two possible future mes travel back in time, with the Scary robot me using Skynet technology and the Spoopy Ghost me using Spoopy Ghost powers and each one is trying to make sure that I get to that future...Or some shit.

Hey, it'd be a better episode than In the Forest of the Night. That was the worst episode in series 8, which in itself wasn't a very good season at all.

Series 9 on the other hand...Bugger me sideways. What a great season:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvGND1i6Dj0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG_ZrvyQEHM

I do not like the new doctor. I watched about three episodes and I was completely put off by him. David Tenant was awesome and Matt Smith was great. Clara is good. Rory is the Man and Riversong is my waifu.

Season eight is what put a lot of people off Capaldi's Doctor. Many have dubbed season eight "The Clara Oswald show" as all of the focus was on her, with The Doctor taking a backseat to, well his own show. As a result of this a lot of people wrote him in different ways depending on the episode as Clara was the focus. In some of these episodes he behaved a bit like a prick.

He shines a lot more in season 9 as the balance between Doctor and companion is restored. I went from disliking, or even hating Clara to actually liking her as a character. As well as The Doctor himself, of course.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 14, 2016, 02:40:06 AM

Some_Bloke didn't die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 14, 2016, 12:59:40 PM

Some_Bloke didn't die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on March 14, 2016, 05:15:30 PM

Not only did I not die, but I'm now in a new D&D campaign...This one's cyberpunk-styled.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 14, 2016, 05:37:22 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 14, 2016, 05:15:30 PM

Not only did I not die, but I'm now in a new D&D campaign...This one's cyberpunk-styled.

  :thumbup:    Anyone's campaign but Trump's.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on March 15, 2016, 05:43:07 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on March 14, 2016, 05:37:22 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 14, 2016, 05:15:30 PM

Not only did I not die, but I'm now in a new D&D campaign...This one's cyberpunk-styled.

  :thumbup:    Anyone's campaign but Trump's.

Well a future where Donald Trump is the President could lead to a D&D campaign. A Cyberpunk dystopian future or a nuclear wasteland.
There's D&D for everything. Even one where dinosaurs are in the wild west.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 15, 2016, 06:09:14 AM

  This morning's potential OCD freakout was self-limiting.  Nice.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 16, 2016, 05:55:28 AM

The surgery went well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 16, 2016, 06:09:09 AM

Good to hear!    8)
                             

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 16, 2016, 06:22:15 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 16, 2016, 05:55:28 AM

The surgery went well.

Good. When are you supposed to enjoy the beneficial effects of what they did?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 16, 2016, 06:29:50 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 16, 2016, 06:22:15 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 16, 2016, 05:55:28 AM

The surgery went well.

Good. When are you supposed to enjoy the beneficial effects of what they did?

I think the surgeon told me but I don't remember. I'll have to ask my wife when she comes back home.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 16, 2016, 08:57:44 PM

PA and I celebrated our 31st wedding anniversary.  If we make it to our 50th (hopefully) he'll be 93 I'll be 84.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 16, 2016, 10:03:19 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on March 16, 2016, 08:57:44 PM

PA and I celebrated our 31st wedding anniversary.  If we make it to our 50th (hopefully) he'll be 93 I'll be 84.

Happy Anniversary!! :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 16, 2016, 10:27:06 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on March 16, 2016, 08:57:44 PM

PA and I celebrated our 31st wedding anniversary.  If we make it to our 50th (hopefully) he'll be 93 I'll be 84.

  Mazel tov, many more.   :beergrin:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on March 17, 2016, 04:24:29 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on March 16, 2016, 08:57:44 PM

PA and I celebrated our 31st wedding anniversary.  If we make it to our 50th (hopefully) he'll be 93 I'll be 84.

congratulations

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on March 17, 2016, 04:25:10 AM

it is no longer yesterday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 17, 2016, 10:32:49 AM

thank you all for the congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 17, 2016, 01:10:59 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on March 16, 2016, 08:57:44 PM

PA and I celebrated our 31st wedding anniversary.  If we make it to our 50th (hopefully) he'll be 93 I'll be 84.

Congrats!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 17, 2016, 03:33:49 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on March 16, 2016, 08:57:44 PM

PA and I celebrated our 31st wedding anniversary.  If we make it to our 50th (hopefully) he'll be 93 I'll be 84.

Congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 18, 2016, 01:01:21 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on March 18, 2016, 07:03:18 PM

Didn't die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 18, 2016, 08:42:39 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 18, 2016, 07:03:18 PM

Didn't die.

 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on March 18, 2016, 09:23:35 PM

One school shows no sign of sending me to my favorite conference - Technology, College and Community - but the other one (for the first time) bought the faculty access pass!

Woohoo!

It's actually one of the biggest perks of teaching.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Natalia Evans on March 21, 2016, 02:15:27 PM

My daughter got out of her high chair all by herself before I could get her out.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on March 21, 2016, 06:49:32 PM

Didn't die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 21, 2016, 06:54:20 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 21, 2016, 06:49:32 PM

Didn't die.

 :eyelash:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on March 21, 2016, 06:56:14 PM

Got muh shit done

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on March 21, 2016, 07:01:00 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 21, 2016, 06:54:20 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 21, 2016, 06:49:32 PM

Didn't die.

 :eyelash:

I imagine every time I post this The Grim Reaper himself is watching me from an armchair in disapproval for some reason.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 21, 2016, 07:08:49 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 21, 2016, 07:01:00 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 21, 2016, 06:54:20 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 21, 2016, 06:49:32 PM

Didn't die.

 :eyelash:

I imagine every time I post this The Grim Reaper himself is watching me from an armchair in disapproval for some reason.

I'm imagining him naked wearing red high heel shoes.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on March 21, 2016, 07:22:31 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 21, 2016, 07:08:49 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 21, 2016, 07:01:00 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 21, 2016, 06:54:20 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 21, 2016, 06:49:32 PM

Didn't die.

 :eyelash:

I imagine every time I post this The Grim Reaper himself is watching me from an armchair in disapproval for some reason.

I'm imagining him naked wearing red high heel shoes.  :zoinks:

Then beating him at Twister should be even easier than it was for Bill and Ted.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 21, 2016, 07:51:54 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 21, 2016, 07:22:31 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 21, 2016, 07:08:49 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 21, 2016, 07:01:00 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 21, 2016, 06:54:20 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 21, 2016, 06:49:32 PM

Didn't die.

 :eyelash:

I imagine every time I post this The Grim Reaper himself is watching me from an armchair in disapproval for some reason.

I'm imagining him naked wearing red high heel shoes.  :zoinks:

Then beating him at Twister should be even easier than it was for Bill and Ted.

I think naked high heel twister can only be fair if all parties involved are outfitted equally, so now I'm imagining you naked wearing red high heels too.  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on March 22, 2016, 08:05:09 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 21, 2016, 07:51:54 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 21, 2016, 07:22:31 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 21, 2016, 07:08:49 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 21, 2016, 07:01:00 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 21, 2016, 06:54:20 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 21, 2016, 06:49:32 PM

Didn't die.

 :eyelash:

I imagine every time I post this The Grim Reaper himself is watching me from an armchair in disapproval for some reason.

I'm imagining him naked wearing red high heel shoes.  :zoinks:

Then beating him at Twister should be even easier than it was for Bill and Ted.

I think naked high heel twister can only be fair if all parties involved are outfitted equally, so now I'm imagining you naked wearing red high heels too.  :lol1:

Technically I'm not naked if I'm wearing red high heels.  :eyelash:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 22, 2016, 03:21:23 PM

A check that I have been waiting for came in the mail

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on March 22, 2016, 05:03:01 PM

Didn't die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 22, 2016, 06:44:41 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on March 22, 2016, 05:03:01 PM

Didn't die.

:woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 23, 2016, 06:19:03 AM

  My pounding headache is gone.  I think it was the aspirin that did it.  The caffeine also helps.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on March 23, 2016, 12:59:55 PM

Didn't die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 23, 2016, 01:32:41 PM

Looks like our house rental hunting is bearing good fruit!   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'Butterflies' on March 23, 2016, 02:03:40 PM

My neighbour came around and shared his homemade grape palinka with me. I had never tried grape before. Rather awesome :green:

He is going to the Olympic games with his work, and he wants to practice his English. I had to tell him I mightn't be much help with English, but I'll help him be able to speak to Scottish people :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 23, 2016, 08:20:24 PM

Quote from: Butterflies on March 23, 2016, 02:03:40 PM

My neighbour came around and shared his homemade grape palinka with me. I had never tried grape before. Rather awesome :green:

He is going to the Olympic games with his work, and he wants to practice his English. I had to tell him I mightn't be much help with English, but I'll help him be able to speak to Scottish people :laugh:

I think he wants to see your kumquat.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 24, 2016, 09:45:54 AM

  This actually happened yesterday, the landlord finally texted to tell me that the dryer is safe to use.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 24, 2016, 10:31:38 AM

Going to sign a lease on the new home!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 24, 2016, 10:32:59 AM

Quote from: rock hound on March 24, 2016, 10:31:38 AM

Going to sign a lease on the new home!

  I hope you will feel right at home there!   :book: :tea:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 24, 2016, 12:52:58 PM

Met with a friend earlier. Nice to chat for a while. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'Butterflies' on March 24, 2016, 01:44:45 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 23, 2016, 08:20:24 PM

Quote from: Butterflies on March 23, 2016, 02:03:40 PM

My neighbour came around and shared his homemade grape palinka with me. I had never tried grape before. Rather awesome :green:

He is going to the Olympic games with his work, and he wants to practice his English. I had to tell him I mightn't be much help with English, but I'll help him be able to speak to Scottish people :laugh:

I think he wants to see your kumquat.  :zoinks:

 :zombiefuck:

I think he's around 60 :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 24, 2016, 02:02:25 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2016, 10:32:59 AM

Quote from: rock hound on March 24, 2016, 10:31:38 AM

Going to sign a lease on the new home!

  I hope you will feel right at home there!   :book: :tea:

Once we get moved in and settled!   It will!   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 24, 2016, 02:37:12 PM

Quote from: Butterflies on March 24, 2016, 01:44:45 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 23, 2016, 08:20:24 PM

Quote from: Butterflies on March 23, 2016, 02:03:40 PM

My neighbour came around and shared his homemade grape palinka with me. I had never tried grape before. Rather awesome :green:

He is going to the Olympic games with his work, and he wants to practice his English. I had to tell him I mightn't be much help with English, but I'll help him be able to speak to Scottish people :laugh:

I think he wants to see your kumquat.  :zoinks:

 :zombiefuck:

I think he's around 60 :viking:

Age doesn't make him blind to kumquats.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 24, 2016, 02:37:47 PM

Quote from: rock hound on March 24, 2016, 02:02:25 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2016, 10:32:59 AM

Quote from: rock hound on March 24, 2016, 10:31:38 AM

Going to sign a lease on the new home!

  I hope you will feel right at home there!   :book: :tea:

Once we get moved in and settled!   It will!   8)

When will you get the keys?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 24, 2016, 06:30:26 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 24, 2016, 02:37:47 PM

Quote from: rock hound on March 24, 2016, 02:02:25 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2016, 10:32:59 AM

Quote from: rock hound on March 24, 2016, 10:31:38 AM

Going to sign a lease on the new home!

  I hope you will feel right at home there!   :book: :tea:

Once we get moved in and settled!   It will!   8)

When will you get the keys?

Got them, just need to make copies for Carla and Amber!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 24, 2016, 06:33:53 PM

Quote from: rock hound on March 24, 2016, 06:30:26 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 24, 2016, 02:37:47 PM

Quote from: rock hound on March 24, 2016, 02:02:25 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2016, 10:32:59 AM

Quote from: rock hound on March 24, 2016, 10:31:38 AM

Going to sign a lease on the new home!

  I hope you will feel right at home there!   :book: :tea:

Once we get moved in and settled!   It will!   8)

When will you get the keys?

Got them, just need to make copies for Carla and Amber!

Does the house need a lot of work, paint, wallpaper and flooring wise?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 24, 2016, 06:53:38 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 24, 2016, 06:33:53 PM

Quote from: rock hound on March 24, 2016, 06:30:26 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on March 24, 2016, 02:37:47 PM

Quote from: rock hound on March 24, 2016, 02:02:25 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on March 24, 2016, 10:32:59 AM

Quote from: rock hound on March 24, 2016, 10:31:38 AM

Going to sign a lease on the new home!

  I hope you will feel right at home there!   :book: :tea:

Once we get moved in and settled!   It will!   8)

When will you get the keys?

Got them, just need to make copies for Carla and Amber!

Does the house need a lot of work, paint, wallpaper and flooring wise?

None at all, the landlords repainted and refinished most of it after the last tenant!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 24, 2016, 07:11:23 PM

Quote from: Butterflies on March 24, 2016, 01:44:45 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 23, 2016, 08:20:24 PM

Quote from: Butterflies on March 23, 2016, 02:03:40 PM

My neighbour came around and shared his homemade grape palinka with me. I had never tried grape before. Rather awesome :green:

He is going to the Olympic games with his work, and he wants to practice his English. I had to tell him I mightn't be much help with English, but I'll help him be able to speak to Scottish people :laugh:

I think he wants to see your kumquat.  :zoinks:

 :zombiefuck:

I think he's around 60 :viking:

In that case, I'm certain he wants to see your kumquat.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 02, 2016, 07:21:29 AM

  I found this video, which is my favorite of many versions of this song.
  There are a few skipped notes, oddly, but it happens early on
  and doesn't distract me too much.  8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q94FGYCmQss
 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on April 02, 2016, 03:38:54 PM

D&D was fun.  :viking:

In D&D I mostly play assholes, yet in most role-playing videogames such as Mass Effect or Fallout I play the hero and try to do the right thing. Maybe it's just a lot more fun in D&D to play the asshole, or perhaps it's a part of me being let loose. The part that wants nothing more than to be a dastardly supervillain and take over the world.  :mischief:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on April 06, 2016, 05:50:45 AM

Got one tub toy and one ATV in my kinder surprise.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 06, 2016, 05:51:38 AM

  I woke up feeling rested and optimistic.  I hope I can keep that feeling going.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 06, 2016, 10:22:07 AM

Finally got through to a customer that I have been playing phone tag with

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 07, 2016, 06:21:32 AM

  The coffee got rid of the pounding headache  :headhurts:  I'd had for hours.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on April 07, 2016, 09:07:53 AM

Didn't die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 08, 2016, 08:43:23 AM

Surprised early visit from the computer/TV cable hook up man.  All connected and it all seems so much better than our last cable company!   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 09, 2016, 02:38:23 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on April 14, 2016, 11:02:20 AM

Bar exam results have published.  I am officially a lawyer now.  God help us all.

 :MLA: :MLA: :MLA: :MLA: :MLA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 14, 2016, 11:31:07 AM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on April 14, 2016, 11:02:20 AM

Bar exam results have published.  I am officially a lawyer now.  God help us all.

 :MLA: :MLA: :MLA: :MLA: :MLA:

May God have mercy on your soul!    :MLA:

I plead insanity!    :headhurts:   

 :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 14, 2016, 12:04:55 PM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on April 14, 2016, 11:02:20 AM

Bar exam results have published.  I am officially a lawyer now.  God help us all.

 :MLA: :MLA: :MLA: :MLA: :MLA:

Well done, mate! :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 14, 2016, 12:18:03 PM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on April 14, 2016, 11:02:20 AM

Bar exam results have published.  I am officially a lawyer now.  God help us all.

 :MLA: :MLA: :MLA: :MLA: :MLA:

And to think that you owe it all to asking us if you should go to law school.  (And a little bit of smarts and hard work on your part.)

FANTASTIC. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 14, 2016, 03:51:18 PM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on April 14, 2016, 11:02:20 AM

Bar exam results have published.  I am officially a lawyer now.  God help us all.

 :MLA: :MLA: :MLA: :MLA: :MLA:

How does it feel?  :zoinks:


Nah, CONGRATULATIONS!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on April 14, 2016, 04:01:23 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 14, 2016, 03:51:18 PM

How does it feel?  :zoinks:

It's a weight off my shoulders.  Considering I already had the job lined up it would have been humiliating if I had to back out.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 14, 2016, 04:04:05 PM

Congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on April 15, 2016, 01:07:00 AM

Congratulations

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 15, 2016, 05:45:19 AM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on April 14, 2016, 11:02:20 AM

Bar exam results have published.  I am officially a lawyer now.  God help us all.

 :MLA: :MLA: :MLA: :MLA: :MLA:

        DUDE.   :respect:   EPIC.


  How great do you feel right now?  Are you celebrating?  :Rock:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 15, 2016, 05:47:05 AM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on April 14, 2016, 04:01:23 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on April 14, 2016, 03:51:18 PM

How does it feel?  :zoinks:

It's a weight off my shoulders.  Considering I already had the job lined up it would have been humiliating if I had to back out.

  I knew you wouldn't let that happen.  Now go enjoy a drink and a smoke in  your office!  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 15, 2016, 07:18:47 AM

:plus: for you, Hubert! You've worked so hard for this, you deserve good things as a result!
:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 15, 2016, 11:37:34 AM

Yeah, we need more lawyers. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on April 15, 2016, 12:53:57 PM

Thanks all :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 15, 2016, 12:57:16 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1BxGded604

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on April 15, 2016, 01:00:17 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 15, 2016, 12:57:16 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1BxGded604

I actually wrote an article entitled Lawyers, Guns & Money.  Based off the song of course :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 15, 2016, 01:12:45 PM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on April 15, 2016, 01:00:17 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 15, 2016, 12:57:16 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1BxGded604

I actually wrote an article entitled Lawyers, Guns & Money.  Based off the song of course :)

 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 15, 2016, 01:21:49 PM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on April 15, 2016, 01:00:17 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 15, 2016, 12:57:16 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1BxGded604

I actually wrote an article entitled Lawyers, Guns & Money.  Based off the song of course :)

What did you end up titling the false abuse accusation paper?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on April 16, 2016, 02:52:08 AM

getting Opera working again was easier than I thought it would be.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 16, 2016, 03:01:08 AM

The browser? Some would say that would be a first. :trollface:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on April 16, 2016, 07:38:30 AM

My new blower worked mostly ok at drying the car. Was definitely quicker than a chamois lets put it that way!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 16, 2016, 07:38:40 AM

  My new phone charger works beautifully.  Didn't think to buy a new plug, almost bought an
  Apple charger by mistake.  Bless the geek at Best Buy for steering me right.  Success!  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on April 16, 2016, 09:27:24 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 16, 2016, 03:01:08 AM

The browser? Some would say that would be a first. :trollface:

It uses a lot less memory out of the box so I keep it for when I get frustrated with Mozilla and Iron. Some poor sod on the forums there was using it on 60 computers in his business when the glitch occurred. Lol, the keyboard stopped working. I guess not so funny if it's your business using it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on April 16, 2016, 04:53:07 PM

Went to my first auction in 10+ years.

They started selling stuff by the whole table full for $1.00 and .50 at the end to clear things out.

You know this went badly don't you?

Spent only $8.00 and my porch is covered with crap to go through.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 16, 2016, 05:35:22 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on April 16, 2016, 04:53:07 PM

Went to my first auction in 10+ years.

They started selling stuff by the whole table full for $1.00 and .50 at the end to clear things out.

You know this went badly don't you?

Spent only $8.00 and my porch is covered with crap to go through.

  The mighty truck :icequeen: is great, but it enables the shopping.
   I think you need to start driving a smaller car to the sales, for your own good.






 

     Like, really small.  (http://orig01.deviantart.net/8757/f/2012/059/d/c/clown_car_by_mirz123-d4r98d8.gif)  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 16, 2016, 06:13:11 PM

Got to add another country to my list of places I have met people from,  today is was Togo

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 16, 2016, 06:25:57 PM

  After decades of trying to push myself into a conventional monogamous romantic pairing in which
  I would of course have to be the guy's everything, and in which of course I would be devastated if
  either of us ever had feelings for someone else ... I finally recognized that I am free.
 
  I'm not cut out for that degree of responsibility for another person, and living at that pitch of jealousy
  would be toxic for me.  Besides which, I've been celibate forever and I don't know what kind of partner
  I would be, even on my best day.  But I finally accept myself as I am, which means I can finally get
  out of my own way and enjoy my time on the planet, with all the natural benefits of being the way I am.
  Which means I may or may not have a friend-with-benefits at some point, or I may just continue on as a
  celibate dreamer basking in the warmth of attractive men till I die.

   But I won't consider myself a failure.  Nie wieder.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 16, 2016, 08:06:21 PM

I live!    :finger:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on April 16, 2016, 09:57:06 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 16, 2016, 06:25:57 PM

  After decades of trying to push myself into a conventional monogamous romantic pairing in which
  I would of course have to be the guy's everything, and in which of course I would be devastated if
  either of us ever had feelings for someone else ... I finally recognized that I am free.
 
  I'm not cut out for that degree of responsibility for another person, and living at that pitch of jealousy
  would be toxic for me.  Besides which, I've been celibate forever and I don't know what kind of partner
  I would be, even on my best day.  But I finally accept myself as I am, which means I can finally get
  out of my own way and enjoy my time on the planet, with all the natural benefits of being the way I am.
  Which means I may or may not have a friend-with-benefits at some point, or I may just continue on as a
  celibate dreamer basking in the warmth of attractive men till I die.

   But I won't consider myself a failure.  Nie wieder.  :)

Just before I met Py I said something very similar, mainly that I was going to stay single for the rest of my life.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 17, 2016, 02:43:57 AM

Coffee happened.

And soon it will happen again.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on April 17, 2016, 06:04:43 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 16, 2016, 06:25:57 PM

  After decades of trying to push myself into a conventional monogamous romantic pairing in which
  I would of course have to be the guy's everything, and in which of course I would be devastated if
  either of us ever had feelings for someone else ... I finally recognized that I am free.
 
  I'm not cut out for that degree of responsibility for another person, and living at that pitch of jealousy
  would be toxic for me.  Besides which, I've been celibate forever and I don't know what kind of partner
  I would be, even on my best day.  But I finally accept myself as I am, which means I can finally get
  out of my own way and enjoy my time on the planet, with all the natural benefits of being the way I am.
  Which means I may or may not have a friend-with-benefits at some point, or I may just continue on as a
  celibate dreamer basking in the warmth of attractive men till I die.

   But I won't consider myself a failure.  Nie wieder.  :)

You are living the good life weeble. Trust me. :hug:

Start living it to the fullest and celebrate your freedom.  :asthing:

The next time you see that cute old couple holding hands don't go "awww how cute" ....realize the reality of the situation like I have....

One of them obviously has dementia and it's more acceptable to hold hands than it is to have them wear a leash.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 17, 2016, 06:37:52 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on April 17, 2016, 06:04:43 AM

You are living the good life weeble. Trust me. :hug:

Start living it to the fullest and celebrate your freedom.  :asthing:

The next time you see that cute old couple holding hands don't go "awww how cute" ....realize the reality of the situation like I have....

One of them obviously has dementia and it's more acceptable to hold hands than it is to have them wear a leash.

    :evilplus:  This made me smile.  And in the dementia ward some of them actually were led around by
          belts that the staff wore and hooked onto them, tethers I guess you'd call them, so ... yeah.  :rofl:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 21, 2016, 01:54:21 PM

Won $71 by getting 4 of the 6 numbers in the Ct lottery

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on April 21, 2016, 03:38:27 PM

Quote from: Jack on April 15, 2016, 01:21:49 PM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on April 15, 2016, 01:00:17 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 15, 2016, 12:57:16 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1BxGded604

I actually wrote an article entitled Lawyers, Guns & Money.  Based off the song of course :)

What did you end up titling the false abuse accusation paper?

??? 

I don't remember that one.

I had the one on why white collar criminals shouldn't be sentenced to prison time, but I won't publish the name of that here as it has a unique name and is available on Google Scholar.

There was the one on why a history of spousal abuse doesn't necessarily make you more likely to abuse your children and therefore shouldn't play as big a role in the "best interests of the child" standard in custody cases.  That was named "How Proper Categorization of Domestic Violence Can Improve Understanding and Ensure More Positive Outcomes".  It wasn't publication quality, just something I whipped out for a quick A.  This might be what you were thinking of.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 21, 2016, 04:01:46 PM

Lawyers, odeon? does the world hell need more.

The world needs more lawyers like baby daycare centers need more sado-masochistic necropaedophile hatchet killers :P

Nice win parts. Don't play any lotteries myself though, for that matter, I very, very very seldom ever, or indeed HAVE ever gambled. The only two times I can actually remember, are two short sessions playing on a pub 'fruit machine', one time on nothing at all, other than the daily meds I can't stop abruptly without causing some form of withdrawal or rebound of the system targeted. The other was a short time after the administration of a solid IV dose of ethylphenidate (I do MEAN ethyl, not methylphenidate here, it isn't a typo, the ethyl ester of ritalinic acid) because I wished to study how psychostimulants affected my/general capacity to exercise impulse control (result-it did seem to make me more impulsive, and liable to spend some more, to a middling sort of extent, although not so dramatically as to result in a massive increase in total spend, the individual sums of money wagered PER single spin of the  reels however tended to be greater, up until the
predetermined sum was reached.

Didn't really do it to win, or expect to for that matter. It was more, using the fruit machine as a tool to conduct the measurements. Set a limit of £20 each time, 20 for the control measurement to determine a baseline and
the same again, another 20 for the use of the machine whilst under the influence of the stimulant (I respond, it should be said, in the typical manner most people do to  NE/DA releasers/reuptake inhibitors, that is, I don't to the best of my knowledge have AD(h)D, tendencies and a wandering mind certainly, but I exhibit the typical sort of effect and dose-response curve that others without AD(h)D would and do)


Did get a few pounds back, but not much.

Other than that, I have never bought a lottery ticket, played the football pools, if I knew a damn thing about football to begin with, I try to avoid sport as far a possible. Gambled on races, or card games. Did play cards for matches and cigarettes when I got wrongly nicked and remanded, but that was just something nearly everybody did to pass the time, or to bum a few smokes if having none, but something else to wager.

And as a kid, some fairground attractions similar to the gameshow 'tipping point', where small change is input and output, a few 10, 20 pence coins in other low value fruit machines as a kid, the very rare pound coin. Really though gambling has absolutely NO attraction for me whatsoever, never has done. If I make somebody a wager, its because I already KNOW the outcome before hand, and am simply perfectly fine with letting whoever go and lose to me. If someone is willing to play the sucker to me, I won't stop them. (I would, situation depending, if it were someone I really cared about. General day to day people though, if they want to cut their own purse strings, and hand me the contents? thats not robbery, thats voluntarily pissing money or goods down the drain :P)

For example, I remember when I was still in primary school, some adult challenged my saying that I had a good knowledge of botany, and was more or less implying that I was a liar. They were foolish enough to go and start pointing to a load of plants growing nearby, and telling me that, more or less, I was full of it, if I claimed, not being far out of preschool, to be sufficiently knowledgeable on the subject to be able to identify them.

They were dumb enough to put up first a few pounds, and then after, 'bet you £10 you don't really know much', or words to that effect.

I left them with a considerably lighter, emptier wallet, a smug grin on my face and them looking like an arse. Made my school day that did. Serves 'em right for being condescending because of
a factor not within my control and thus no 'fault' of mine, namely, age. I just didn't appreciate the disrespect shown, when I myself had never given a reason to make anybody think, fairly, of me that
I was less competent than I was, and am.

Can't remember their name, or face now, but I definitely do not remember their ever taking me for a fool, or braggart again. Nor, sadly, did they ever present such an opportunity for self-enrichment again :P When you just about come up to adult knee height, or a bit above, then almost fifteen pounds is a LOT of money, when your typical income starts at about 50 pence a week in allowance. Barely enough even then to buy a chocolate bar. So I was quite simply beside myself with delight. I can't remember most of what I actually spent
it on, for the most part, although I do remember buying myself a 'beano' comic, and at least one fresh, ripe mango, which have always been a favourite of mine. Still are.


Dementia is such an awful, awful set of conditions. I've seen what its done to my mom. And while I'm not about to and kill her off, thats only because of the potential for legal implications and lack of knowledge of the family financial situation in respect of how it would change if, and indeed when she dies (I doubt she has all that long, now, shes got a lot worse over the past year or two, keeps choking on her food and drink, now everything liquid has to be thickened with some sort of powdered polymer intended for those with dysphagia)

Might not sound nice, but I wish her dead. If she didn't wake up this morning, or if she dropped dead of a sudden stroke, and never saw it coming, I would not be cut up about it, quite the opposite.
Although that isn't in the least, out of malice, or envy of some possession, or want of money (she hasn't got any money to envy, and couldn't get out of her wheelchair or leave the house to spend it if she had), but because I've had to watch the combination of MS and I think Pick's, some sort of frontal lobe affecting dementia anyway, slowly eat away at what made her who she was.

And I don't want that for her. If it were ME that it was destroying, I would pull the trigger on myself, absofuckinglutely, its not me wishing anything for her, that I would not also apply the very same to myself. She has been turned from, well, a human being into a gutted burnt out shell of a person. Wheelchair bound, incontinent, almost mute, although not quite, she can still indicate she wishes to be wheeled into the kitchen for another fag, although shes got such shit memory, or the vestiges thereof, now, that we can wheel her back into the lounge, back to the TV, and a minute or two later sometimes she often demands another wheeling and another cancer-stick, because she can't remember that she has already just had one moments previous. Aggressive and obnoxious towards
the carers who come for her in the morning. I am actually quite surprised they haven't turned round and refused to deal with her in future, I would, if somebody behaved the way she does to them, assuming they were business, not related. And totally irrational, when things weren't so bad, I did offer what aid I had the ability to render, and she would barely even listen to me speak of what I might have been able to do, let alone accept the offers (such as to buy her some piracetam/aniracetam/or even share my own, very pricy, pramiracetam, which I can barely afford for myself. As well as offering to buy the stuff and synthesize her an AMPAkine, tried to explain in very simplistic terms what they were for, supporting memory and helping guard against neurological damage) IIRC, one of the replies was 'fuck off', otherwise, I was pretty much ignored totally, despite awareness of my being there and what I had offered, at the time.

She barely eats either, I end up eating most of the large majority of her meals, after she leaves them, having taken only a few halfhearted mouthfuls.

But for the being always inside the house, a sudden, massive bolt of lightening and instant fatality, with no time to suffer, would be a good thing to happen, although of course, impossible.


Its good to see that recent research has been making some massive advances in the treatment of at least the  beta-amyloid and Tau-dependent, alzheimer's type. But even if it was/is alzheimer's, chances are that even rushed through the usual clinical trial stages, any actual treatment born of the research and its drugs, will take far too long to be available from the script pad of a GP, and of course I haven't a damn hope of convincing her to try something that comes from my own hand, even if it IS the exact same as would have been provided by a medical establishment source.




By 'history of spousal abuse' do you mean, on the part of those who perpetrate the abuse, or the people who are on the receiving end of it FROM the abuser?
if its the former, then I'm afraid the sympathy well is bone-dry when it comes to them. Some wife/husband beating piece of shit loses custody of their children to the other half of the abusive relationship (the abused, I mean), GOOD. Unless they are worse. But generally, I truly haven't the time of day for such worthless, less-than-human garbage as thinks it alright
to beat on their partners. If someone strikes a partner in self defense who were in the middle of committing their own violent attack in order to prevent being harmed, disarm of a weapon,or to prevent them targeting the kids, then that is different. But those who simply want to hurt their partners can go fuck off and die.


And if you happen to be the sort of verminous little pond life that simply gets off on domestic violence, then de facto, they don't have a problem with doing just that. If they are willing to batter ONE family member, what on earth is to stop them doing it, or make it less likely they will do, to children present? they are similarly vulnerable, more so. And everybody knows bullies target those they believe to be weaker than they are. Just like kids. Just like an oppressed spouse that an abuser manages to cow into submission. That kind of filth thrives on, and rules by fear. Just the kind of turd that gets out of their depth if they have to float in anything deeper than the kiddy paddling pond section of the shallow end of the gene pool.

Less gene pool, more 'toilet bowl U-bend' IMO

They suffer by losing their children, as well as having their spouse turn on them and take them to court/or remove them, Permanently.Boo hoo, thats too fuckin' bad for them. Just don't come crying on MY shoulder, unless you want its attached elbow driven into your face, fucking shitbags.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 21, 2016, 04:16:58 PM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on April 21, 2016, 03:38:27 PM

I don't remember that one.

http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,18726.msg1077939/topicseen.html#msg1077939

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on April 21, 2016, 04:53:24 PM

Quote from: Jack on April 21, 2016, 04:16:58 PM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on April 21, 2016, 03:38:27 PM

I don't remember that one.

http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,18726.msg1077939/topicseen.html#msg1077939

Yeah, that was the second one described above.  Bitches Be Trippin was probably a better title

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 21, 2016, 04:56:10 PM

Indeed. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 22, 2016, 12:24:44 AM

Quote from: Lestat on April 21, 2016, 04:01:46 PM

Lawyers, odeon? does the world hell need more.

Based on the fact that their unemployment figures are rather low, probably yes.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on April 22, 2016, 05:17:43 AM

Didn't die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 22, 2016, 10:00:19 AM

Grub is about to be 'up', as the saying goes.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 22, 2016, 05:03:32 PM

The not-so-new-anymore system is finally feeding to the data warehouse; very excited about the new tables and used them for the first time today. Though their relationships aren't easily recognizable so made me feel like a n00b.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 22, 2016, 05:38:21 PM

Custard donuts, raspberries, banana milkshake and morphine sulfate all happened. The last three are about to happen again.

And in the x-com, terror from the deep game I've got going on my laptop, managed to, after fighting a protracted and bloody campaign, managed to take down the fucker without a fatal casualty on my part, but not only that, but a facility crewed by some of the toughest, nastiest little bastards of all the alien races making war against the player, and at that, armed to the teeth, even more heavily than usual, since I'm playing it on a far higher difficulty setting than ever before.  But managed to, once I'd located its controlling nerve center,  which had 3 of the real hardcase critters, which after a displayed message about one panicking and dropping their weapons (although they still have enough melee capacity in claws alone to destroy a battle tank, let alone take out a combat diver in light armor, not ones to get close to, plenty of them if unarmed, can't fight, but these bastards are about 6 feet tall, with three pairs of limbs, the top two sets ending in vicious claws are every scrap
as dangerous totally unarmed, as they are with a firearm and grenades. The only difference is they then have to actually get close enough to the squad members to use them, without having a big rifle or cannon let off in the face :P

Three of the little fuckers where tucked away outside of any line of fire, and the missions to destroy base facilities end once the control center is destroyed, OR all aliens are either incapacitated or dead. Managed to arrange and time things perfectly, by blowing the walls out of their hiding spot and rushing the troops in through the gaps, tazering and firing stun grenades to take the high-ranking, and very important to capture commanders, all three of them, out of the picture, sent another couple of guys in to grab their unconscious bodies to avoid killing them with the end mission turn, the same as the turn I captured those buggers, the last in the facility,  and drag them to 'safety', safety applying in the form of being moved out of the range of the grenade then dumped on top of their computer control system thing and bugger off again. Scoring for both the captures/extermination of the base crew AND the control center rather than one or the other.

They are PISSED now though it seems, launching a lot of terrorist attacks on civilian populations, cruise liners, ports, cities, etc. presumably in reprisal for my raiding them and wiping out a major
center of their activities. Took some fucking doing though, I'd been fighting the same facility and its occupants for about four (real-world time) days and nights.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 22, 2016, 09:32:23 PM

Just found some oxy on my bedroom floor, I'd been busy preparing my evening morphine dose, but had ran out of oxy days ago (I get the two morphine scripts for knee/hip pain, while
the oxy is for those occasions when the other two alone aren't enough to bring relief, for days that are especially, out of the ordinary-kind of suck. I'd run out of those, or so i believed.
I did actually KNOW that I dropped some oxy, but had forgotten it even existed.

And just for an easier time of it, I managed to find a vein I'd never even SEEN before, in perfect condition, located in my right forearm, and managed to actually get in there flawlessly, with very little pain at all from the needle tip, and not a drop extravasated. A lot nicer when that happens, compared to having to try more than once, changing points etc, not this time, bullseye!

And oh my! that absolutely took my breath away for a moment. I'm not a chew toy, so I am not MEANT to sqquueak  haha.


I do love it when everything goes all easily and smoothly like that rather than having to use a fingertip to stroke the arm, hand, etc. and feel for a target, trying to hit more than once or twice because I can't tell if I can't see, and can only feel a little part  of the whole. *slouches back down on his duvet  feeling all warm and fuzzy inside :junkie:* Mmmm that was  lovely, and my hips arem't bellowing in pain any more, that was exactly what I needed right then. That and some coke, and even better, the coke I have in the fridge is cherry too, nice and cold. The other thing that hasn't quite yet but needs to happen is a post-shot smoke. Not an electronic one, a real, satisfying, actual, bona fide cancer stick. Which whilst smoking tobacco usually isn't really much to write home  about at all, but after the administration of an  opioid, smoking becomes really pleasurable, but this at least appears to be true of actual tobacco with it's MAOI content and other trace bits and pieces that modify the effects of the nicotine quite significantly, as nicotine on its own, with no other substance used with it, isolated ni
cotine and nothing but, bar the likes of propylene glycol, glycerine flavours and possibly colorings from an e-fag, or measured doses of the liquid itself (carefully mind you, it only takes somewhere between 40 and 60mg of nicotine to kill a full grown adult, and it is just as toxic by skin contact as it can be if ingested), on its own though, it actually isn't particularly
addictive or even all that reinforcing. I assume these factors are the ones dictating that   fact.

Found a carrier bag in my room, was about to throw it out, until I felt a little weight, and objects inside. Turns out there was a wee stash of giant sour fizzy bubblegum bottles in there. Ten pence chews that are sold loose in newsagents quite often, half pink half blue, bubblegum flavoured, and covered in crystals of, I'm guessing something like citric, maleic, or tartaric, etc. acids. Some sour organic acid suitable for human eating anyway. Love those. Anyone who's ever had giant 'cola bottles', cola flavoured ten penny chews a few inches long and about 1 1/2 '' wide, chewy, translucent brownish? these are the same thing, exactly, only with bubblegum instead of cola flavor, two colors and the sprinkling of really quite sour something or other in the way of a coating. One of my favourite sweets. Didn't find a HUGE lot of them, 6-8 or so, still, I'm quite pleased at finding any at all. In the past with a different shopkeep, a real friendly, decent, non-paki guy. Indian dude and his english wife or partner, but not a muhammasturbating towelheaded dune-coon and just
outright asked him up front how much he pays per trade sized tub of those bubblegum bottles, found out, and made him an offer on the lot, new tub, telling him if he  cuts  me a good  deal on price reduction, rather than 10p each, I'd buy the whole tub, then and there. Managed to get them for a few pounds over the market price, for big, dirty great tubs of the bubblegum bottle chews, they are usually meant to be ten pence per single chew. Can't remember how much we settled on now, and sadly he went out of business, couldn't make it profitable because the govt keep stealing shopkeeper's incomes in taxes where tobacco is concerned. Until he made just two pence profit a pack of smokes, the rest, bar 6-7pence is sponged and stolen off them by the govt, because of the way they act like they can simply tax, and tax and tax (I.e rob blind), and ever increase the taxes too, bastard fucking cunts
are never satisfied, once they have increased it, they keep doing so, and get greedier and greedier and greedier.

Targeting Big Tobacco I wouldn't have a problem with, but when its a shopkeeper who depend on tobacco to draw in customers who then buy other items, on his pension, HE
doesn't deserve to be squeezed until not another penny nor another drop of blood exists to squeeze. Makes me really angry the way tobacco is taxed, not because of the price I'd pay if I want baccy, but because of how it targeted so disproportionately the shopkeepers running a hardworking honest business, trying to make ends meet, yet get crushed out of business. Big Tobacco, I really, really cannot find within myself so much as a scrap of sympathy, they can go fuck a pig. But people like you or I, or those owning the shops, the poorest gets
squeezed dry and are made to suffer all the more. The less well off, the more punishment they are forced, with threats equating to kidnap, robbery and physical assault upon their  persons and properties both, if they refuse or cannot cough up, because the bastards have taken everything and theres no more, the well has run dry. Disgusting treatment, just fucked up disgusting.


Lol shit, I can't keep my eyelids from falling and closing my eyes evetsssss

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 23, 2016, 02:23:07 AM

Coffee, maybe. It's been a rotten day so far, otherwise.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 23, 2016, 06:01:19 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 23, 2016, 02:23:07 AM

Coffee, maybe. It's been a rotten day so far, otherwise.

  Coffee :coffee: will always be here for us!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 23, 2016, 12:16:51 PM

I like tea better myself. I do enjoy good coffee, especially turkish coffee. But I've had none of that since the big tub I brought back from my holiday in the early 2000s there ran out. Really nice, rich, strong aromatic dark coffee, although it packs quite a kick. Some of the stuff I had in turkey, as authentic as it can get, and freshly made in front of you,  that was what I call coffee, although I'm surprised some of it didn't melt the spoon it can get that strong!

The only drinkable coffee I have here, takes a fair bit of fiddling about to do, because my cafetiere/french press broke years ago, and I never remembered or got round to buying another. So I just toss the coffee powder in a pan or bowl, add the hot water, then filter the brew at the buchner funnel into one of my (carefully cleansed) lab flasks, pulling it through with a bit of vacuum before serving. A lot of messing around so I usually just make tea. Which is fine enough, i've got my nice stash of different assorted varieties. Quite liking a black tea/oolong mix with rose to flavour it lately. Really fragrant and it tastes great. That and a white tea, I think white teas are my favourite kind actually, they have a really delicate, fragrant flavour which is very refreshing.

As far as coffee goes, it has to be the real stuff for me, I don't at all care for that instant swill, like my parents drink. That doesn't NEED to go through somebody first to be reasonably mistaken for urine. Its like that before it ever touches the lips of a consumer:P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 24, 2016, 03:16:57 AM

Nothing yet. :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on April 25, 2016, 12:43:18 AM

Several of my research methods students had an awesome discussion about whether to use a true experimental design vs a quasi-experimental design. It was a college level discussion and they came up with ideas even I had not considered and I have been using this question for almost a year.

I got good students! It's rare that I get so many in a single class. There are five or six of them in a class of 22 - attrition has reduced that number to 15 so they really stand out now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 25, 2016, 03:50:11 AM

whats a quasi-experimental desing?

And you tried that sci-hub.io paywall-nuker webtool for getting papers from journals by spoofing the access tokens?


As for good stuff, found a very small amount of  a synthetic cannabinoid,  N-cumyl-(1-5-fluoropentyl)-indazole-3-carboxamide only mgs but fuck me it seems more than its weight suggests, instead its probably be the single most potent Cb1 receptor agonist im aware of, being active at a mere 25-50ug ish itss even more potent than HUY-210, althouth that has a very prolonged half life in  plasma but this is very rapidly cleared, within perhaps 20-25m at most. Almost reminds me of surgical general anaesthetics
like propofol, remifentanil, alfentanil perhaps is closest although its no opioid that i know of, i mean for the super rapid onset and rapid inactivation  kinetics combined with
analgesic effects mediated through cannabinoid receptors, and its being rather effective as a rapid KO and sleep inducer.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 25, 2016, 05:51:29 AM

  Quality sleep with vivid dreams, despite the frequent awakenings, and I feel rested.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 25, 2016, 10:51:51 AM

Hmm. Coffee, maybe?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 25, 2016, 08:37:56 PM

Got my prescription refills,  and there had been what seemed a traineee filling it, being mentored by the senior pharmacist. Asking them a question which got the younger  one seeming to listen in.
But LOL, he dropped the ball. For I found additional pain meds, two 60mg XR morphines, meant to be given 30mg ones, but these were stuffed right down flat at the very back of the box behind the information sheet of paper that comes with  boxes of meds, must  have been overlooked. Got a few more oxy tens (IR) too than meant to. Now, JUST now . this very moment, found  two unsmoked smokes,  which will do just nicely, to go with my morphine, which actually I haven't had any of today, I've just used my 'free' oxy, well, I say 'free', strictly speaking ALL my meds are free for me on the NHS, as I qualify for free prescriptions, luckily, else it would beggar me within months what with how scripts are  charged for those who do pay, per medication, not per script form, which I think iniquitous at best.


Pepperoni pizza is about to happen, and a big bowl of egg fried rice already just did, and my mom had left most of hers, as usual, but this time, unusually she didn't even eat some of her big king prawns.Left  a fair few, which of course, I threw on top of my egg fried rice, splattered with chili pepper hot sauce, soaked the rice in dark soy, reheated and ate. Now doing myself a pizza, after having the egg fried. Donuts happened. Sweet and sour chunky applesauce filled donuts. And I happened, to THEM, most of the bag full.  Those lasted less than a minute and a half until I'd scoffed every last little crumb, plus the yummy donut-sugar that you get in the bottom of a bag of sugarcoated donut varieties tipped out of the bag down my neck :)

Love the apple kind, my favourite or one  very close to it. Custard ones being second in line probably, but sour apple ones are refreshing not just sweet. And its just so easy to scarf the lot.

So pizza is happening, rice pudding already has (about 4 cans, and two cans of preserved grapefruit in grapefruit juice. After I've had my pizza I'm going to have now what would have been my first morph of the day, in the morning, although I just, didn't get around to actually TAKING it, I prepared my shot, plus my 'freebie' extra 60mg caps of XR morphia. They, plus another gram of morph have been sitting, stewing in their extraction war  alongside a handful of oxy 10s, rather than not waiting so long, its going to be strong as all fucking fucked fuck with fucking fucksauce :)

Looking forward to that. And the fantastic night's sleep I have coming my way tonight.


And perhaps sweetest of all today. I found this band that I really, really am a fan of, while using another pc, the harddrive failed big time. lost me years of so much irreplacable research data from the lab, pictures and photos of loved ones, music, and I was thinking I'd have to trawl youtube manually for female fronted italian funeral/doom bands.

Remembered the name of one title of one song. Couldn't remember the band name, but I managed to find the band name through the song, lucky, as they are really, really badly underknown, underrated , but I've liked em since I first discovered them.

Even vast, and under the name even more vast later in their time.
The vocalist is really good, and to boot, a proper stunner, great voice, and drop dead gorgeous too.
.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=licu6di83Xc 'Dawning Gloom'


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRc4AITDcvg   'Never hear me'



Been trying to remember and track them down for a couple of years at least now. And  for some reason 'dawning gloom' came to mind  while getting given a lift to my docs surgery and then to the chemists to call in my handful of scripts, the title just popped into my head randomly. Took about 2 years but still. Glad I've found em again.


And engaging in  a little bit of my hobby, before hitting the bed. To blow off some fury really. After being provoked by some absolutely shocking degrees of abject, utter, cretinous , brain-donor-reject stupidity, and arrogant poisonous condecension. To an extent that really would have richly deserved it had they actually GOT the smack in the mouth they were cruising for, after so rudely trying to shove their self-righteous, holier-than-thou, opinionated pack of moronic garbage down my throat.

Right as I was about to go to bed. To come  out with a torrent of utter fucking bollocks to aggravate the shite out of me and get me angry.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 26, 2016, 11:18:19 AM

Oh nice!

Sorbet is happening right now. Or I'm happening to IT. Got a big bag of custard filled donuts, well, a smaller and smaller bag now, but there was most of a bag to begin with. Got two cartons of white grapefruit juice with the bits and pulp in them, the way I like my citrus juices, they are so better with the bits in there.


MMmmm scrummy! raspberry sorbet, one of my favourite kinds, if that elderflower and lime  boozy frozen cider sorbet isn't to be had. That, and mango sorbet, ommfg, mango sorbet, is one of my favourites too, esp. with lots of sliced up fresh, juicy ripe gooey , squishy soft mango flesh scattered over  a tub full.

Finished the first of the two raspberry ones that I have/had. Saving the other one for later, as my old man just saved me some of his ham and mushroom pizza. So about to nom pizza with a bit of oxy sprinkled over the toppings.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 26, 2016, 12:30:13 PM

The snow stopped falling! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 26, 2016, 04:19:58 PM

Weather here is just windy and cold at the moment.  Thought  I was going to have to leave the house and travel into the city center, but not only could I really, really not be fucking well bothered, to wriggle out of my comfy, warm, soft dressing robe, OR go that far, walking or otherwise, I didn't need to in the end.  Thought I needed to go and get more rigs, trade in the used ones for disposal, for my pain meds, as well as been meaning to pop into a certain pharmacy in the city center next time I'm near there, because I've found their little secret! they have big bottles of those really old-fashioned stick rock candies. Coltsfoot, and liquorice rock, they are like, round in profile, around maybe 4.5-5'' long, slightly flared at the end presumably from being cut on the factory lines after being extruded from molds as a paste and let harden.

 (coltsfoot, for the unfamiliar with it, is a herbaceous plant with slightly leathery, and thick green leaves, very low-profiled plant that keeps close to the ground, and produces yellow flowers, although one never sees a flowering plant produce leaves, (Tussilago farfara ...or farfaro, can't remember, is the binomial, Tussilago coming from the latin words meaning 'cough' and 'I ease', its long been used as a herbal treatment for coughs, and this unique british candy, which I've always liked since I was little. As well as, if I am REALLY lucky, occasionally I can find cinder toffee there in big slabs/blocks, and if ever I can find any, I often just buy the entire stock, because its hard to find now, but again, is a firm favourite, comes in big pillow-shaped long rectangular blocks, smooth on the exterior but with a honeycombed, foam-like structure inside, although its tough, not soft like foam, and really, really more-ish.)

Got quite a few different kinds of old fashioned, semi-fossilized varieties of brit-sweets that are hard to locate or not very common now that I like, plus a really old fashioned kind of cough mixture called ''gee's linctus'', thats flavoured with aniseed/liquorice and chilli pepper, the active ingredients being squill and opium tincture, that amazingly is actually still to this day over the counter. FINDING some, is the hard part, but once found, although only one bottle can be sold to a customer at a time per shop that gives a shit, although most do. Found out accidentally a neat trick with it too taking advantage of the high sugar content, a while ago I had been taking an antibiotic that would make someone really quite sick if they ingested even small amounts of alcohol, and theres around 10-15% in the stuff IIRC.
I already had the cough syrup, but could not of course allow it to pass my lips with the antibiotic, so I poured it out into a pan and proceeded to boil off the alcohol, or thats what I meant to do. What actually happened was I forgot about it, and when I did go to check on it, it had foamed right up in the pan, and when poured out into a blob, set into chilli and liquorice/anise-flavoured opium spiked chewy toffee candy  that turned out to taste fantastic, would have even if it hadn't the opium, which I've ended up having a preference for, in comparison to morphine/codeine on their own or together thanks to all the minor things poppy plants make. Wasn't right popular with the folks for the pan afterwards, which was NOT easy to clean haha, the stuff set into something so tough and resilient it bent knives if one were hammered through it and an attempt to split or cut it was made. And too soft to shatter with a hammer too. Right in between the two states more or less, so it stuck around tenaciously, other than the actual main amount of it, which of course I ate.

Now I want to make it again, deliberately, although this time I'll use an empty rice pudding or custard tin with the paper label torn off, and a pair of pliers or big artery forceps to hold it over the stove's gas rings so as not to nearly ruin the pan, as I did with the one I used to use for my oil heating baths and made the faux pas of making do a few times with cooking oil, the nutriment-cooking variety that is, and it eventually polymerized into something resembling poorly-set epoxy resin; and the pan couldn't just be treated with the usual solution to that kind of gunk, caustic potash or caustic soda, because alkali metal hydroxides eat through aluminium, dissolving it into blackened sludgy sodium or potassium aluminate goo. Was old though, no handle even and thrown out by my old man, so I could give it a new lease of life on the mag stirplate one of my two hotplates, as Al is of course nonmagnetic, and the pan thin enough to not interfere with coupling to stirbars. As well as being thin aluminium meaning it heated up fast  But after repeated heating to the oils boiling point and cooling back down again after I'd finished work for the day, or finished using it for whatever project/s I have going at any one time etc the result was nasty part-polymerized, so still slightly viscous, but mostly, like a block of slightly softened plastic :P

Consignment to the scrapheap was the easiest option by far. No irreplaceable loss, or much more than an irritation temporarily but I'd sooner have kept my oilbath as it was, and refilled it with highboiling, inert (to most things) nonsmoking silicone oil rather than have to toss it out.




Something good for today: Been sleeping well, and oddly, despite being in a lot of physical pain from my poor, pained, sore, partly skinless feet, for some reason I've been able to use a lot less morphine/oxy. Still only used the one blister strip of it from this week's box, aside from the extras that were both twice the strength of the ones I'm prescribed and shouldn't have been that many to begin with; but the result is still lower than usual without any obvious reason why. The first strip too, that was ALL used for one shot, so I don't understand why I have needed so much less than I would otherwise, since it all went in at one go. Anyhow I've even been sleeping well regardless, its as though my tolerance has somehow dropped without my having actually done anything to force it down OR wait for it to decline. Very strange although not unappreciated.

I did still just wake up from a deep, deep nod though, and I'd not had much at all. I can tell its materially less in quantity, that I've been taking this week, though because when I allow the last dose
taken at some time to begin to mostly wear off, but not QUITE go into a withdrawal, not waiting that long, just until its almost totally up and evaporated, but so I am in no discomfort, there is a rather
odd state between totally doped on an opioid analgesic and on the other end, frank, brutal, unmitigated positively-cryogenic-turkey withdrawal from hell, where the rebound begins but produces no physical pain, discomfort and no psychological anxiety, overstimulation, overloading, hyperacusis of senses etc, and it applies only to while sleeping. In that the result is INTENSE, absolutely fucking nuts intense and vivid dreaming, sometimes lucid, where the dream state just doesn't seem to quit. Sleep is a bit shallow doing it usually as it IS pretty much the equivalent of tweaking the tail of the sleeping tiger (I.e allowing it to progress into a horrid withdrawal state) and jumping over the bars of his cage before el tigre' turns round and bites one.

I've never experienced anything like it, save the effect the mild herbal sleep aid,valerian root that one can buy at a health food shop, or grow the plant for, that too produces odd hyperintense bouts of dreaming, lucidly a lot of the time, but with valerian, that effect exhibits a profound and extremely rapid tachyphylaxis response and as such is nullified utterly the third night in a row of taking valerian. Some activity that way the second consecutive night a dose is taken, but on the third, whilst it retains its gentle relaxant sleep aid effects, theres so little effect on dreaming either positive or negative that one may as well have taken a few spoonfuls of tap water instead.

But with the provoked opiate rebound into pre-withdrawal, fuckme circleways, diagonally from behind with a corkscrew and call me the virgin bloody mary, it doesn't STOP when one falls asleep, and on waking and going back to sleep, its still going on just the same, such intense vivid dreaming I've had to just get myself out of bed and on top of it to read or surf the net/play videogames; or else go and apologise to the metaphorical caged tiger, bringing him a serving of what he roars for if ignored promptly to get him to zip it shut and keep quiet. Thats how intense it can be, one after the other after the other after the other, like a boxer throwing punches in the ring, or in the gym, one shockingly in-your-FACE, motherfucker! dream after another with not a moment of respite between them, intense enough to need the pain meds to actually feel like I AM sleeping, instead of more like after dropping a couple of pretty strong blotters of 'cid, or being on special K, or if the intent isn't to stop the phenomenon completely, but if the dreams are anxious ones at all, then a sleeping pill is helpful sometimes.

It can be a lot of fun, though.  Even if it often does somewhat resemble being run through a psychic blender, and poured into a spin-dryer/washing machine and getting flung round like a rag doll in a moderately-sized tornado! it can be a bit of a shocker though if my pain meds are taken just as usual and simply mostly wear off, leaving it to happen unplanned, when one suddenly ends up asleep, but feeling like one's whatever-bits-responsible-for-dreams just got plugged into the house mains electric supply with a bare, unfuzed wire! That can leave me shaking all over like a leaf in the wind on waking, not because of physical discomfort, but thanks to the all-night-long (or all day, considering I'm pretty much partly nocturnal) sensory buffeting.

I wonder, thinking about it, I have been taking cimetidine for my guts , a related drug to the active in tagamet, ranitidine, but I chose the former for its enzymatic inhibition of hepatic morphine/oxy-metabolic degradation pathways, was on ranitidine rx, but explained that trick to my doc, and he agreed to let me have the cimetidine instead, so as to squeeze more mileage from my pain relief, without actually taking more analgesics or a larger dose of the 4 already in use [2 kinds of morphine preparation, one of oxycodone, and the NSAID diclofenac as a topical gel for my achy bastardly joints, not counting the occasional, periodic corticosteroid shots into the knee and hip joint cavities, as that can be got away with being done about every 2-3 months or so.

I take that usually, but what has been different this week, or the last few days anyway, is I've been feasting on grapefruit, in different products. Canned white grapefruit in its own juice, as well as drinking
lots of boxed not-from-concentrate fresh GFJ. Absolutely love  the stuff, I like the bitterness along with its sweetness, which I find really refreshing. There are however, various flavonoid compounds in grapefruit and other citrus, but especially in grapefruits that bind and block the same cytochrome P450 pathways in the liver that cimetidine does. I bet its that, now, thinking about it (I just realized because of turning round to grab the box of GFJ I'm keeping on my bedside for when I get thirsty...*ahh thats good...gulp...gulp...*contented belch*)

I actually ended up on monday, just using some oxy to keep the pain off etc. and had actually let the morphine shot I'd prepared on getting back home from the docs and the pharmacy sit on the bedside shelf in front of me all day and night. I was most surprised at that, and couldn't figure it out, normally that would have been straight upstairs, prepare, aim, fire, sit back and enjoy, within minutes, perhaps taking the time to make a rollup, or take a piss first but thats about it, as far as waiting would go.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on April 27, 2016, 02:42:09 PM

Didn't die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on April 27, 2016, 03:26:56 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 26, 2016, 12:30:13 PM

The snow stopped falling!

i'm jealous. it's cold but sunny here.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 27, 2016, 09:52:32 PM

Due for quite a lot of it here on the way apparently, with thunder and lightening. We had some rain earlier, but a hail shower too. I like those, to listen to the noise as it hits the ground.

I LOVE a good storm though, an honest-to-Zeus hammer and tongs thunderbolt-blasting proper storm, I just love to lie on my bed and for once open the windows and curtains of my room so I can hear and watch it better. Or to stand outside at the kitchen door with a rollup, or better a nice big fat juicy doob, and just listen to, watch and feel the storm, drinking it all in. And I like the change  in the way the air feels as well,  not sure WHAT it feels like, I haven't another frame of reference, not the fresh clean scent left behind after, clearing away oppressive, muggy and humid hot weather, but during the storm itself
 when I can feel it in my old bones.




Today just gone has been a day of good things, lots of good things. Got paid, a bit over 300 quid.

Bought a bottle of rum, midshipman's dark navy rum, which is quite a nice one to my tastes. And then had pointed out to me by the shopkeeper that there were a load of bottles of 'bishops finger' brown ale for sale that were out of or short dated, so he'd marked them all the way down to 49p a bottle, plus the same price on some short dated Guinness, not the usual stuff though some newer variant of it.
Can't remember the name, not tried it yet, but bought two bottles to give it a taste and see if I like it. Several cans of Grolsch, ice-ffffff fffffffucckking...ffrreezing ccoooold out of the shop fridge, absolutely icy they keep their fridge beers, just the way the good lord intended when in the bible he said 'and let man go and get absolutely shitfaced, by all means, just save me some, and Thou Shallt Keep Thine beer cold, and drinketh ye it notte until ye beans art thouroughly chilled and thy beer made tasty'

Come unto me, didn't jesus say. Come unto me and I will make thee a refresher of men, when he saw the apostle Peter, taking a fishing trip, and of course with no fridge on his boat, a warm case down by his feet :autism:

Or did I misread that bit...don't think I did...





I found out whats up with my mag stirrer hotplate too, which is good. Motor had seized up, and it needs oiling now. Not got anything specially intended for motors, but I don't see any reason why my vac pump oil shouldn't do, going to try splattering on a few drops of that in the appropriate places, because my other plate suffered a switch failure, although that was a cheap chinese import, and didn't have/doesn't have magnetic stirring either. Glad the failure of my mag plate is so minor and repairable, because I didn't want to have to order two new hotplates. Or one 
of them, either. Always nice to save a few bob. The pump oil is really high-boiling silicone oil so should be perfect for a high demand application like the mag stirrer, as they can take an awful lot of load on them (or at least they often DO take it,weather or not its good for them), doing something for potentially days and nights without cease and without my sleeping either. No rest for the wicked; but, it appears, none for me either.

Was given a new mobile phone too, well secondhand but new to me, and new in that I had gone without a phone for way too long after my last one carked it.



Bought a big carrier bag full of candy too, two bags of Basset's jellybabies, a big bag full of 10p giant fizzy sour bubblegum bottle chews, the corner shop's entire stock of 4-pack chocolate choc chip muffins, the grocer pointed them out that they were reduced to next to fuck all, so I just picked up the shelf and took the lot. Two bottles of marked down orange and mango squash, some marked down cartons of lychee juice, not cordial or pop just squeezed lychee juice, if you haven't tried it before, its worth it, wonderful smell and absolutely delish. Splashed out on a  pouch of amber leaf rolling baccy for a change, found about a pound and 60 in change.

The other day, finally remembered the name of the band I'd been trying to track down for ages again, even vast (changed later to even more vast)

Playing the game on my laptop, X-com-terror from the deep (I REALLY want and intend to buy now, the two newer ones, the bureau, and X-com 2), TFTD is far older though, IIRC from 1994. But it still kicks ass. Managed to have my research teams both come up with some REALLY heavy personal armor for the my troopers, that actually lets them stand a fighting chance, and even reasonable potential to shrug off some directed energy weapon type heavy cannon fire, that up until now was resulting in a lot of casualties from sniper tactics, as the alien ultrasonic weaponry is unwholesomely powerful, and the result even in heavy armor was usually a one-hit instant kill, with just occasionally, a soldier surviving with a slowly fatal wound that could be patched up with a portable battlefield medical kit and kept alive. 95% of the time though the heavy weapons the bastards pack just made mincemeat out of the target, be it my squads, blue-on-blue fire, shooting their own in the back that is, and the likes of walls, hills, doors, metal walls of cargo and cruise ships, whatever is in the way. And got some new superior firepower in the form of some hovercraft-like tank chassis after reverse engineering the propulsion and guidance systems  of their hybrid sub/atmospheric flight capable undersea/airborne craft, and mounting things on it such as heavy sonic cannons, or even guided missile systems mounting tactical fusion warheads, which are in development  *grins evilly*. Managed to raid several of their regular type bases,
and from one of them, tazer and kidnap three high-ranking base commanders, to torture for information vital to my winning the war against the enemy. Other than that, there are some of another kind of base, much more limited in number, where they have some critical communications network control systems housed. Took one down, albeit with a lot of mess and dead. Now
located another. Working on that. Although its looking ugly, because the place is heavily infested with the worst of the worst kinds of nasty ass fucking bugs, ones that ignore armor altogether and whos attack not only is 100% fatality rate, but which first turns your guys into mindless, lobotomized parasite-hosts that turn against your people and try taking them out, letting them live is a bad idea, but killing them at the wrong time is even worse, because then the thing inside the man bursts out, splitting him open and slithering out like a hovering tentacled, beaked brain, discarding a coat, to try and infect more of the squad, exponentially creating more and more of the bastards, unless the kill is made either by an incendiary round, or high explosives are used alongside conventional weapons, a grenade first at the squadmate's feet then a few rounds in the head. So when the thing inside peels him off like a meat suit they find themselves looking straight down into a grenade hah...surprise, fucker!:D

Before the new toys for the troops, the only solution to fighting those particular bugs was to send in the tanks, as there is nothing in a remote-operated drone tank to parasitize, nor  does the critter have all that great an ability to penetrate the heavy armor on them. That, or be really, really careful, and lucky in no tiny measure, and make sure your men put them down with sustained and accurate heavy weapons and sniper fire from a long distance, and make damn sure they never live to get close enough to cause trouble.


And last but not least, getting nicely into the book I'm reading:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 28, 2016, 12:26:15 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 29, 2016, 03:28:52 AM

Wake 'n bake.

Woke up, after a good restful kip, after falling asleep on the sofa; to a very enjoyable repast of chocolate choc-chip muffins, mint with dark chocolate chip icecream,  with fine little grains of crunchy dark chocolate sprinkled densely all throughout the icecream too, a can of cold grolsch from the fridge, and a 2 liter carton of lychee juice. And a custard filled donut to finish off with.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 29, 2016, 02:15:22 PM

Saw a friend and fellow flea market vendor who I haven't seen in a few months  at an estate sale and had a nice talk.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 30, 2016, 03:54:34 AM

Was contacted by the European head of a company interested in my services.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 30, 2016, 04:35:19 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 30, 2016, 03:54:34 AM

Was contacted by the European head of a company interested in my services.

  That's excellent!  Would it be a full-time position, or just consulting on the side?  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 30, 2016, 07:33:29 AM

Good customerservices on the phone!!!

Yes, they do exist. Had placed an order for a phone for one of the kids. Would get a call in 1 to 5 working days. Did get no call. Could not get through calling myself for a couple of days. Finally succeeded. Did the lady tell that they had just sent me an email that the order could not be followed through because that phone wasn't available anymore. Told her I found that odd, because online, I could still place the same order. Then she noticed that 30 shops still had it in store. She told me she'd call back ASAP. And she did, she ordered it from another store.

She deserves a medal. Most of the time those phone sellers are not interested in their customers at all is my experience. She did a bit extra. Come Wednesday or Friday I can pick it up.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 30, 2016, 03:03:28 PM

Beats the usual offering, hyke. My old man recently told me about having to ring up customer services about his router, can't remember the exact details. But basically the meat of it was a chinese person on the other end who could barely be understood, and had no idea whatsoever what even 'reboot the router' meant, let alone the actual problem. No idea if they were based IN china, or if they were simply chinese and living here, but they were complete and utter tech eejits that probably couldn't safely be trusted to press the 'on' switch, or stick a plug in a wall socket. Let alone fucking tech support. They needed to receive, not give it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 30, 2016, 04:33:23 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on April 30, 2016, 04:35:19 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 30, 2016, 03:54:34 AM

Was contacted by the European head of a company interested in my services.

  That's excellent!  Would it be a full-time position, or just consulting on the side?  :)

My guess would be a full-time position, but I don't know yet. I'll have a chat with them sometime next week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on May 01, 2016, 08:17:42 PM

Didn't die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 05, 2016, 03:35:19 PM

I got a call about going to look at a 76 unit apartment complex that is having problems with noise between units. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 06, 2016, 10:01:24 AM

  I detected the bone fragment in the chicken in my mouth before biting down full force and breaking a tooth!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 06, 2016, 10:35:56 AM

Had a very productive meeting with some people. Productive meetings are rare.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 06, 2016, 11:07:29 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 06, 2016, 10:35:56 AM

Had a very productive meeting with some people. Productive meetings are rare.

  The usual, bullshit meeting:

    :trump: :aff: :chores: :hitler: :MLA: :soapbox: :kapkao: :fp: :trollface: :blah:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on May 06, 2016, 11:19:17 AM

Finally reached the clearing at the end of the path.  Took a couple of oaths and joined the league of licensed attorneys.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 06, 2016, 11:48:48 AM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on May 06, 2016, 11:19:17 AM

Finally reached the clearing at the end of the path.  Took a couple of oaths and joined the league of licensed attorneys.

  Dude.  Have a   :scotch:   and a cigar in your office.  Your office!  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 06, 2016, 06:24:28 PM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on May 06, 2016, 11:19:17 AM

Finally reached the clearing at the end of the path.  Took a couple of oaths and joined the league of licensed attorneys.

 :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 06, 2016, 07:40:51 PM

Understanding and compassionate gynecologist for The PR.  (He delivered her almost 27 years ago.)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 07, 2016, 05:22:03 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 06, 2016, 07:40:51 PM

Understanding and compassionate gynecologist for The PR.  (He delivered her almost 27 years ago.)

  Glad for her and for you too.  :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 07, 2016, 06:00:43 AM

  I woke up feeling relatively rested and I think I can kick this weekend in the ass!  :pirate:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 07, 2016, 01:54:37 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 06, 2016, 11:07:29 AM

  The usual, bullshit meeting:

    :trump: :aff: :chores: :hitler: :MLA: :soapbox: :kapkao: :fp: :trollface: :blah:

Yup.

Actually I think it would be more like:

:trump: :chores:  :fp: :blah: :blah: :fp: :aff: :soapbox: :trollface: :fp: :fp:  :blah:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 07, 2016, 04:47:12 PM

I washed and hung 2 loads of clothe.  this is good because our washing machine will not stop filling and won't wash.  I'm doing the laundry by hand. 

I'm taking more of the household chores away from the machines.  That way I can get exercise without paying for it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 08, 2016, 03:03:21 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 07, 2016, 01:54:37 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 06, 2016, 11:07:29 AM

  The usual, bullshit meeting:

    :trump: :aff: :chores: :hitler: :MLA: :soapbox: :kapkao: :fp: :trollface: :blah:

Yup.

Actually I think it would be more like:

:trump: :chores:  :fp: :blah: :blah: :fp: :aff: :soapbox: :trollface: :fp: :fp:  :blah:

Yes, this is pretty much it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 08, 2016, 04:55:06 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 07, 2016, 01:54:37 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 06, 2016, 11:07:29 AM

  The usual, bullshit meeting:

    :trump: :aff: :chores: :hitler: :MLA: :soapbox: :kapkao: :fp: :trollface: :blah:

Yup.

Actually I think it would be more like:

:trump: :chores:  :fp: :blah: :blah: :fp: :aff: :soapbox: :trollface: :fp: :fp:  :blah:

  Yes, I imagine by the end it would be almost entirely facepalms.

  :trump: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp: :fp:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 08, 2016, 04:56:51 AM

  I woke up rested and feeling ready to rock!  :headbang:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 08, 2016, 01:40:52 PM

A fridge full of frosty beers, some fresh raspberries and strawberries. Got lots of steak and shiitake mushrooms in there, which the rich, dark brown ale and porter-style beers I found going for a knockdown price recently, are a perfect accompaniment to.

Otherwise just lazing around, smoking a few bongs, playing a videogame I've been working at for a while now, and belting out music (a mixture of katatonia, mushroomhead, mudvayne, even vast, draconian and industrial stuff, like ASP, rammstein, combichrist, while finishing off a bag of apple sauce filled donuts. Or was doing until a minute or so ago :P

My diisopropyl ether is here too now. Just need to find a source of dry ice or liquid nitrogen now. Although I'll try the anhydrous ammonia in situ idea for amodified birch- benckeser reduction (typically an electride, generated in anhydrous liquified ammonia, using an alkali or alkaline earth metal, usually lithium or sodium but plenty others have been tried, Ca, Mg, Ba, K, etc., but Ive been hankerin' to test it out on a substrate or two and either pregenerate the electride by gassing cooled ether with ammonia until saturated, and solvating the substrates to be tested in the NH3/DIPE prior to adding lithium metal, or gas the DIPE, form the saturated etherial solution of ammonia, then add substrate after adding the Li and waiting for the electride itself to form. Never seen a picture of it other than seeing it in solution before, but recently saw a snap someone took of some of the lithium/sodium electride, lithium I think, that they somehow isolated.

Looked fucking amazing, a metal, but it flows like mercury, or like caesium, and has a very similar intense gold color to caesium. And like both it (very low melting point) and to NaK alloy (sodium-potassium alloy. Its liquid, and intensely reactive, with far greater violence than sodium or potassium on their own, and like caesium, the golden liquid electride metal explodes with great violence if it touches water

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 09, 2016, 12:20:20 AM

Coffee happened. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on May 14, 2016, 12:34:38 AM

maple cotton candy

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 14, 2016, 01:30:27 AM

More coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 14, 2016, 10:32:02 AM

Managed to find the chlormethiazole I had to go to the docs for more of yesterday. Only because I needed a bottle,and picked one of the empty med bottles out of the waste-paper bin in my room. I'd been
searching all the short little glass pots it USUALLY comes in, not realizing I'd been given it last monday in a long, taller one instead, and that bottle was in the bin, complete with about 5 capsules inside.

Meant of course I got several spare that I could use throughout today and yesterday night to make sure I did not reawaken after going to sleep:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 14, 2016, 01:02:32 PM

I upgraded my internet to 75mbs and added about two hundred more channels to my cable line up. We were using the most minmal it took to get internet cable.

I also added a security system using our recently expanded wi-fi on all windows and doors to be monitored as a part of the upgrade.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 14, 2016, 01:26:49 PM

Had this year's first garage cinema shows.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 14, 2016, 01:40:31 PM

  Power was restored at work shortly before lunch, after a two-hour outage.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 14, 2016, 01:42:07 PM

I'm fairly intoxicated but also fairly happy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 14, 2016, 01:44:08 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 14, 2016, 01:42:07 PM

I'm fairly intoxicated but also fairly happy.

  Are you drinking  :beer:  or something stronger?  :scotch:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 14, 2016, 01:45:37 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 14, 2016, 01:44:08 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 14, 2016, 01:42:07 PM

I'm fairly intoxicated but also fairly happy.

  Are you drinking  :beer:  or something stronger?  :scotch:

Beer. Thinking I should have a whisky.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 14, 2016, 01:54:13 PM

Try three whiskeys followed by a beer chaser.

Highly recommended from past experience, but I am happy because my bread is almost ready.
 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 14, 2016, 01:57:43 PM

I think I'll just try a whisky. I have 16-yo Lagavulin.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 14, 2016, 01:58:39 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 14, 2016, 01:54:13 PM

Try three whiskeys followed by a beer chaser.

Highly recommended from past experience, but I am happy because my bread is almost ready.
 :thumbup:

  Bread and butter, Jack and a beer back!  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 14, 2016, 08:01:26 PM

How on earth can you even get that kind of shit past your nose, odeon?

Disgusting.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on May 15, 2016, 02:01:05 PM

Didn't die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 15, 2016, 05:12:13 PM

Quote from: Lestat on May 14, 2016, 08:01:26 PM

How on earth can you even get that kind of shit past your nose, odeon?

Disgusting.

He doesn't drink with his nose, silly.  He drinks with his toes.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 16, 2016, 12:37:30 AM

Quote from: Lestat on May 14, 2016, 08:01:26 PM

How on earth can you even get that kind of shit past your nose, odeon?

Disgusting.

The Lagavulin is one of the great pleasures in life but it's not for everyone. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 16, 2016, 12:37:55 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 15, 2016, 05:12:13 PM

Quote from: Lestat on May 14, 2016, 08:01:26 PM

How on earth can you even get that kind of shit past your nose, odeon?

Disgusting.

He doesn't drink with his nose, silly.  He drinks with his toes.

:shark:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on May 16, 2016, 10:28:02 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 16, 2016, 12:37:30 AM

Quote from: Lestat on May 14, 2016, 08:01:26 PM

How on earth can you even get that kind of shit past your nose, odeon?

Disgusting.

The Lagavulin is one of the great pleasures in life but it's not for everyone. :)

Indeed.  More for us  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 16, 2016, 10:35:16 AM

Quote from: Hubert, Esq. on May 16, 2016, 10:28:02 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 16, 2016, 12:37:30 AM

Quote from: Lestat on May 14, 2016, 08:01:26 PM

How on earth can you even get that kind of shit past your nose, odeon?

Disgusting.

The Lagavulin is one of the great pleasures in life but it's not for everyone. :)

Indeed.  More for us  :zoinks:

I have others, too, but Lagavulin is my current favourite.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on May 16, 2016, 12:00:26 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 14, 2016, 01:57:43 PM

I think I'll just try a whisky. I have 16-yo Lagavulin.

The one thing that sucks about Oregon is that you have to buy liquor from a state licensed store and it's more expensive than Cali.

Last time I bought 16 year Lagavulin in Cali, I think I paid ~$60 for it. Here in Oregon it's almost $100!! :yikes:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 16, 2016, 12:50:29 PM

Quote from: Lestat on May 14, 2016, 08:01:26 PM

How on earth can you even get that kind of shit past your nose, odeon?

Disgusting.

Odeon might not have any nerves connected to his nose.

I have known a few. My seventeen year old son is one. He can not ever smell anything. He has no sinus issues with which to contend, either. He just has no olfactory sense what so ever.

I actually do have a sense of smell, but I like the fragrances emitted by fine bourbons and whiskeys.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on May 16, 2016, 03:47:05 PM

one of the yahoo mechanics across the way tried to pull down the no parking sign near our house.
this so that they can block my driveway without getting a ticket

in so doing, they broke a gate that leads to the railroad tracks. now the gate swings freely and given the wind for the past few days, they cannot park cars there since now the gate will swing and seriously bash them. There is nothing to which the gate can be secured, save some brush put there by the railroad track crews. The gate stays in place for about two minutes and then swings into the road. that's enough time for me to get the car out. the open gate doesn't block traffic, just the driveway.

if they call the city to repair it, the broken sign will be noticed and replaced.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 16, 2016, 11:51:42 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 16, 2016, 12:50:29 PM

Quote from: Lestat on May 14, 2016, 08:01:26 PM

How on earth can you even get that kind of shit past your nose, odeon?

Disgusting.

Odeon might not have any nerves connected to his nose.

I have known a few. My seventeen year old son is one. He can not ever smell anything. He has no sinus issues with which to contend, either. He just has no olfactory sense what so ever.

I actually do have a sense of smell, but I like the fragrances emitted by fine bourbons and whiskeys.

Thanks, but my nose is fine. I can fully enjoy the complex aroma of an aged single malt.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 16, 2016, 11:53:40 PM

Quote from: WolFish on May 16, 2016, 03:47:05 PM

one of the yahoo mechanics across the way tried to pull down the no parking sign near our house.
this so that they can block my driveway without getting a ticket

in so doing, they broke a gate that leads to the railroad tracks. now the gate swings freely and given the wind for the past few days, they cannot park cars there since now the gate will swing and seriously bash them. There is nothing to which the gate can be secured, save some brush put there by the railroad track crews. The gate stays in place for about two minutes and then swings into the road. that's enough time for me to get the car out. the open gate doesn't block traffic, just the driveway.

if they call the city to repair it, the broken sign will be noticed and replaced.

:laugh:

They'll find a way, though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 17, 2016, 12:03:12 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 16, 2016, 11:51:42 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 16, 2016, 12:50:29 PM

Quote from: Lestat on May 14, 2016, 08:01:26 PM

How on earth can you even get that kind of shit past your nose, odeon?

Disgusting.

Odeon might not have any nerves connected to his nose.

I have known a few. My seventeen year old son is one. He can not ever smell anything. He has no sinus issues with which to contend, either. He just has no olfactory sense what so ever.

I actually do have a sense of smell, but I like the fragrances emitted by fine bourbons and whiskeys.

Thanks, but my nose is fine. I can fully enjoy the complex aroma of an aged single malt.

Glad to hear it.  I like aged single malts, too. I no longer partake, however. A choice I might revisit in due time.

After years of close contact with him, I am sure that my young son will never enjoy the pleasure. He can not smell anything.
 :'(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 17, 2016, 12:08:28 AM

On another note, this was actually two weekends ago.

I took some fairly close nature interest shots while out walking in the woods.

Some pics:

First is a wild rose just greening up.

The others are native magnolia just opening, but I caught buds in three stages of development.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on May 17, 2016, 10:05:37 AM

@DD
nice.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 17, 2016, 12:39:19 PM

Indeed. Pretty cool images.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 17, 2016, 12:53:47 PM

The red is beautiful in the pictures.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 17, 2016, 05:12:31 PM

The PR bowled her highest game yet.  A 165.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 18, 2016, 12:31:28 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 17, 2016, 05:12:31 PM

The PR bowled her highest game yet.  A 165.

Yay for the PR.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 18, 2016, 05:17:13 AM

  I managed to make two desserts at work in addition to getting my other work done.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 18, 2016, 05:54:47 AM

  A delicious breakfast is happening right now!  First I had half a sandwich from work (tuna salad
  that I made, loaded with dried onion that rehydrated and filled the tuna with flavor), now I'm eating a
  super-rich chocolate brownie with fudge frosting from the bakery department at my local store.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 18, 2016, 10:15:58 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 18, 2016, 05:54:47 AM

  A delicious breakfast is happening right now!  First I had half a sandwich from work (tuna salad
  that I made, loaded with dried onion that rehydrated and filled the tuna with flavor), now I'm eating a
  super-rich chocolate brownie with fudge frosting from the bakery department at my local store.  :2thumbsup:

A bowling partner of the PR cooks her own b'fast when she stays with her Dad.  The last one was 2 sauteed onions and a cup of coffee.  Hey, she was happy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 18, 2016, 01:04:47 PM

I am glad you guys enjoyed my pics.

I have a few more when I get time to re-size them down to postable.  My twenty four megapixel camera produces fairly large images.

"A Night At The Odeon" would feature our  own illlustrious Odeon giving birth to a full grown cow if I began atttempting to post full size images.

 :lol1:

That, I would NEVER do. Although, if someposted pics of Odeon having a cow, I would laugh and then offer empathy toward him and plusses to the poster.
 :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 18, 2016, 01:08:59 PM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 17, 2016, 12:53:47 PM

The red is beautiful in the pictures.

The reason I chose that image instead of about one hundred others possibilitiies is that one shows the variation of colors more clearly.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 19, 2016, 12:23:57 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 18, 2016, 01:04:47 PM

I am glad you guys enjoyed my pics.

I have a few more when I get time to re-size them down to postable.  My twenty four megapixel camera produces fairly large images.

"A Night At The Odeon" would feature our  own illlustrious Odeon giving birth to a full grown cow if I began atttempting to post full size images.

 :lol1:

That, I would NEVER do. Although, if someposted pics of Odeon having a cow, I would laugh and then offer empathy toward him and plusses to the poster.
 :tard:

If you do find and post one, I'll LOL and plus you.:laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 19, 2016, 02:31:08 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 18, 2016, 01:04:47 PM

I am glad you guys enjoyed my pics.

I have a few more when I get time to re-size them down to postable.  My twenty four megapixel camera produces fairly large images.

"A Night At The Odeon" would feature our  own illlustrious Odeon giving birth to a full grown cow if I began atttempting to post full size images.

 :lol1:

That, I would NEVER do. Although, if someposted pics of Odeon having a cow, I would laugh and then offer empathy toward him and plusses to the poster.
 :tard:

Odeon is my daddy?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 19, 2016, 06:33:03 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on May 19, 2016, 02:31:08 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 18, 2016, 01:04:47 PM

I am glad you guys enjoyed my pics.

I have a few more when I get time to re-size them down to postable.  My twenty four megapixel camera produces fairly large images.

"A Night At The Odeon" would feature our  own illlustrious Odeon giving birth to a full grown cow if I began atttempting to post full size images.

 :lol1:

That, I would NEVER do. Although, if someposted pics of Odeon having a cow, I would laugh and then offer empathy toward him and plusses to the poster.
 :tard:

Odeon is my daddy?

  We were hoping to have this discussion when you were older, but ... sit down, dear.  :prude: :apondering:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 19, 2016, 01:59:30 PM

:P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 19, 2016, 02:21:49 PM

Pasiphae (of classical greek mythology) managed it, (sort of)

My feel good of the day : lazing about in bed all day playing fallout 2 , and just now found a couple of bowls full of smoke and a dose of morphine that I found under my laptop, not shooting that though  as I haven't a clue where its been and its been in solution and kept toasty by the CPU heat, perfect breeding ground for things that one wouldn't want introduced into a cut.

got two rhubarb pies  for when I get hungry later

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on May 20, 2016, 08:03:52 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 17, 2016, 05:12:31 PM

The PR bowled her highest game yet.  A 165.

awesome! i could only hope to bowl so well.



i got a raise. it amounts to taxes, but it still feels good. the other school has given no raises and i have been there just as long.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 20, 2016, 06:10:58 PM

Congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 21, 2016, 07:27:21 AM

What, just fried onions? I bet shes either single or celibate.....probably both.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 21, 2016, 10:30:01 AM

Quote from: Lestat on May 21, 2016, 07:27:21 AM

What, just fried onions? I bet shes either single or celibate.....probably both.

Actually Little Kelsey (there are 2 Kelseys in bowling) is both single and celibate, but not by choice. 

She's developmentally disabled, is deaf (has a choclear implant now) and her hips are fused so that she can only walk below the knees (hard to explain.  She throws her legs to the outside to walk.)  She lives with her grandmother (Mom died a couple of years ago) who lets her do NOTHING.  Thinks she's not capable of anything.  Her Dad has her on Friday nights until 3 o'clock Saturday.  He recognizes her abilities and gives her more freedom than Gran.  Hence the onion b'fast that she cooked.

It's a touchy situation.  But we all try to make the best of the situation. She's now really interacting with Big Kelsey and Nellie.

Oddly enough, we enjoy Gran and Don (Dad).

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 21, 2016, 01:38:34 PM

Well I take it back. Although the fried onion joke centered on the implication of not by choice.  I'd personally have to wait for several half-lives to decay before, well.. for I cannot even be in the same kitchen when my old man is frying onions.  Reminds me of a particular bit of sulfur chem I once accidentally inflicted upon myself that left a wake of the most eyewatering- toenail-curling followed me round for days. A bit different but between the two they remind me of a third, namely durian fruit and its a sort of menage a trois of mental associations that makes me heave. I can EAT cooked onion if I really have to, as long as I can't sense the texture I try to just crush the juices out and add that.

As for the relative's attitude, thats something that really does make me steaming pissed off. I think those with MR, physical issues, both, or indeed one of each to make a pair, as in some of my past relationships (thinking of the knee and hips mainly, although for the most part its difficult because pain gets in the way rather than a mechanical impediment to movement although I can't straighten the leg if its lifted, that doesn't really get in the way that much for there are not all that many reasons to do it. And my legs do something really odd if I stretch myself out fully, cat-fashion to work out sore muscles/joints, it makes my legs start to shake violently, the entire waist down does, looks like I'm having a tonic-clonic full blown seizure, when it happens almost although theres nothing more dramatically wrong at the time then needing to uncoil and unwind tense muscles.

Pains me to see people who perhaps, are the very least deserving of all people of such shit being heaped on them. Nothing infuriated me more as a really young kid than being patronized. Being deaf must be pretty shit, I bet she was delighted (and confused possibly if deaf by birth) when it was turned on (the implant) I speak ASL sign (rusty atm as i've not used it in a couple of years, learned it from an american who came from the US, met via AFF when it was still up (damn those were the days) but who I had to kick out (literally speaking, crazy bitch went gfor me with a bloody samurai sword. a repro, but still, not something I really wantto go round wearing internally. I prefer my body piercings to take the form of voluntary transactions, and damned if somebody I invite here out of the goodness of my heart, is going to make me feel so unsafe in my own cunting home that I slept with a revolver under my pillow. Fucking psychotic little bitch from hell. EVERYONE I know, both my exes, kassiane, anyone else that ever got on skype with her around that I am aware of, although I am uncertain in CBCs case. Wouldn't blame her if she did though,, because she wasn't just a nutcase, but a damn dangerous nutcase and a snake to boot, got others to do her dirty work through lies and backstabbing as her main MO.


Still, I don't get HOW, someone can just sit down and bite into a whole fried onion/chopped ones asa meal, good god thats beyond the vilest, most jimmy-savile-esque estimations of horrid. My old man told me (think it was him) about someone he knew that would just peel the papery skin off and munch them like we might an apple, raw and...fragrant...as they get. (irony intended) I think I could use that image to make myself yak if I wanted to by thinking about it in detail. Not that it'd put me off someone if I did care about them, just as long as they warn me to vacate the cooking space, or if sharing food prep, if they would just be kind enough to let me run upstairs and grab my mask. (only fair, if I keep anything organic and featuring sulfur, selenium (worse,much worse) or tellurium (I've read some real horror stories, and would sooner avoid anything to do with it, ever, because its truly imfamous for rendering people walking stench-based implements of olfactory chemical warfare, through absorption of even traces, which come back out and are reputedly in some cases so utterly foul books touched by the fingers of people so afflicted have had to be retired. And I believe it too after that terrible sulfur experience (not the element, I like the smell of sulfur itself, but what I did prompted the formation and excretion slowly and for ages, of a truly harrowing stench...especially when its being secreted in your nasal fluid too!) Assuming it wouldn't simply have poisoned me even the selenium version might have had me tying a noose and staring longingly at it for a week or so, and I had to burn the clothing I wore, for some of it couldn't go in the outside bin. All I could keep were my shoes, because those were tough enough to be exposed to things the other clothing would not have survived. Even my leather belt needed to be burnt.  I didn't like the smell of onions to begin with, but like durian, the sulfur species though that stank of a mixture of rotting onions, bad eggs/H2S, hints of SO2 and decayed garlic and christ wept did it carry for a long way. Even isocyanides, at least the least stinky and low volatility examples have been less gut-wrenchingly nasty. Plus I hate veg, so I don't use very much when I do use it to cook. Dried is preferable as the isothiocyanates in them are volatile and decline as such, with age (unlike people, which start off nasty, get better in the middle and then start getting nastier again eventually.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 21, 2016, 02:00:52 PM

Quote from: Lestat on May 21, 2016, 01:38:34 PM

Well I take it back. Although the fried onion joke centered on the implication of not by choice.  I'd personally have to wait for several half-lives to decay before, well.. for I cannot even be in the same kitchen when my old man is frying onions.  Reminds me of a particular bit of sulfur chem I once accidentally inflicted upon myself that left a wake of the most eyewatering- toenail-curling followed me round for days. A bit different but between the two they remind me of a third, namely durian fruit and its a sort of menage a trois of mental associations that makes me heave. I can EAT cooked onion if I really have to, as long as I can't sense the texture I try to just crush the juices out and add that.

As for the relative's attitude, thats something that really does make me steaming pissed off. I think those with MR, physical issues, both, or indeed one of each to make a pair, as in some of my past relationships (thinking of the knee and hips mainly, although for the most part its difficult because pain gets in the way rather than a mechanical impediment to movement although I can't straighten the leg if its lifted, that doesn't really get in the way that much for there are not all that many reasons to do it. And my legs do something really odd if I stretch myself out fully, cat-fashion to work out sore muscles/joints, it makes my legs start to shake violently, the entire waist down does, looks like I'm having a tonic-clonic full blown seizure, when it happens almost although theres nothing more dramatically wrong at the time then needing to uncoil and unwind tense muscles.

I'm fond of onions.  So it's best there is an ocean between us.  My sister and her ex-husband had a difficult marriage.  He hated garlic and she hated all seafood.  They wouldn't kiss if the other had eaten the offending food that day.  I knew that marriage was doomed.

IIRC you like cinnamon.  I'll send you my cinnamon if you'll send me your alliums.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 21, 2016, 08:20:29 PM

  My swollen parotid gland is responding well to home care, especially salt water rinses.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on May 22, 2016, 10:25:07 PM

Hey, didn't die.  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 22, 2016, 10:27:25 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on May 22, 2016, 10:25:07 PM

Hey, didn't die.  :autism:

  Me neither.  And I did a good job at work.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 23, 2016, 01:00:24 PM

Not today, as is usual with me, but, yesterday, I was at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Final Qualifying Round for TeH Indianapolis 500!!

It was actually very cool. I saw cars go two hundred forty miles per hour down the (tailwind enhanced back stretch. Many of them hit 238 or so but three drivers hit the elusive 240 mark on the straightaway.) Remember twice in history they have hit these speeds and the cars were slowed down to keep the game more safe.

But every time they slow them down with "rules" the engineers just improve the cars and get there again. This happened all week long in practice, but qualifying at Indy is not so simple as going fast; you have to do it twice now to get in the first three rows AND you can still be left out of the field at the end of the day with a really fast car, if you can not average four laps at a competitive average.

:yikes:

I missed the warm ups and practice set up runs during the morning, because of work, but I got into my seat by two PM and things were already going hot!

Every racing fan should be here. They added nearly fifty thousand seats this year and STILL sold out tickets.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on May 23, 2016, 01:34:16 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 23, 2016, 01:00:24 PM

Not today, as is usual with me, but, yesterday, I was at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Final Qualifying Round for TeH Indianapolis 500!!

It was actually very cool. I saw cars go two hundred forty miles per hour down the (tailwind enhanced back stretch. Many of them hit 238 or so but three drivers hit the elusive 240 mark on the straightaway.) Remember twice in history they have hit these speeds and the cars were slowed down to keep the game more safe.

But every time they slow them down with "rules" the engineers just improve the cars and get there again. This happened all week long in practice, but qualifying at Indy is not so simple as going fast; you have to do it twice now to get in the first three rows AND you can still be left out of the field at the end of the day with a really fast car, if you can not average four laps at a competitive average.

:yikes:

I missed the warm ups and practice set up runs during the morning, because of work, but I got into my seat by two PM and things were already going hot!

Every racing fan should be here. They added nearly fifty thousand seats this year and STILL sold out tickets.

Are they still racing "spec" cars??

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 23, 2016, 05:08:50 PM

Quote from: Pappy on May 23, 2016, 01:34:16 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 23, 2016, 01:00:24 PM

Not today, as is usual with me, but, yesterday, I was at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Final Qualifying Round for TeH Indianapolis 500!!

It was actually very cool. I saw cars go two hundred forty miles per hour down the (tailwind enhanced back stretch. Many of them hit 238 or so but three drivers hit the elusive 240 mark on the straightaway.) Remember twice in history they have hit these speeds and the cars were slowed down to keep the game more safe.

But every time they slow them down with "rules" the engineers just improve the cars and get there again. This happened all week long in practice, but qualifying at Indy is not so simple as going fast; you have to do it twice now to get in the first three rows AND you can still be left out of the field at the end of the day with a really fast car, if you can not average four laps at a competitive average.

:yikes:

I missed the warm ups and practice set up runs during the morning, because of work, but I got into my seat by two PM and things were already going hot!

Every racing fan should be here. They added nearly fifty thousand seats this year and STILL sold out tickets.

Are they still racing "spec" cars??

Do you mean like NASCAR? (Which I also follow, lightly).  Giant  set of rules that everyone follows?

If you mean this; http://www.indycar.com/Fan-Info/INDYCAR-101/The-Car-Dallara/IndyCar-Series-Chassis-Specifications (http://www.indycar.com/Fan-Info/INDYCAR-101/The-Car-Dallara/IndyCar-Series-Chassis-Specifications)   ......  then, yes. Ever since the beginning of "The Indy Car Series"  there have been specs to follow. A lot of people bitched about it way back then and some dropped out of the event, but all in all, it is more competitive than ever, since there can never be a clear winner. It comes down to the teams, execution at every step, etc.

The race has become more than just one guy showing up with a turbine engine (a long time ago, btw) and everyone else mainly just watching. UNfortunately, in the final laps, the turbine car lost a transmission and coasted to a stop, not finishing.

It is still great fun to watch!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 24, 2016, 12:22:34 PM

  I found this video,
   which identified songs I love so I can look them up on Youtube.  8)

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzOh9cTbX60

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on May 24, 2016, 01:45:41 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 24, 2016, 12:22:34 PM

  I found this video,
   which identified songs I love so I can look them up on Youtube.  8)

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzOh9cTbX60

That's very helpful, thank you.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 24, 2016, 01:59:30 PM

  You're welcome!  Here's Part 2!  8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v1i9U_Or0U

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on May 24, 2016, 11:53:37 PM

five plagiarists from my last class enrolled in my next class, argh!

all of them dropped today.
could have something to do with the fact that i made radical changes in the assignments. these are students who went through to week 3 in a five week class, which means they had all the materials. it would have been easy to upload the assignments to a pay per tutoring site and have everything done by the time the new class started. unless of course the instructor is me and changes them every time he teaches the class.

not only does this relieve me of having to police them, it also means that instead of 19 in my class I now have 14. Of those, one has already identified himself as having bought the course. their posts usually start out with: "This chapter was very interesting. I learned [summary of some part of the chapter]. It was very informative.
These posts actually qualify as plagiarism since no one ever cites and references the textbook. But I don't say that, I just mark them unsatisfactory because they violate the instructor policies which say no summaries without original scholarship.

Those who bought the course will drop when they see the week 3 quiz, or they will tank on it and get perhaps 2 out of 5 points. Note that there is no restriction on looking the answers up in the textbook which is free.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 29, 2016, 08:06:39 PM

  I colored my hair today, and I did a good job of it too.  I bought a box of permanent color
  in "brown/black" and followed the instructions, and my hair is now several shades darker brown than
  its natural chestnut color ... now it's a dark ash brown, almost black in some lights.  It's soft too.  I love it.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on May 29, 2016, 09:45:24 PM

I remember what your hair looks like from photos. What you have done would be quite a change!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 29, 2016, 11:08:12 PM

Quote from: renaeden on May 29, 2016, 09:45:24 PM

I remember what your hair looks like from photos. What you have done would be quite a change!

  It is, yet it looks like the color my hair should have been all along.  It's a good match.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 30, 2016, 08:42:30 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 29, 2016, 11:08:12 PM

Quote from: renaeden on May 29, 2016, 09:45:24 PM

I remember what your hair looks like from photos. What you have done would be quite a change!

  It is, yet it looks like the color my hair should have been all along.  It's a good match.  8)

Portrait, please.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 30, 2016, 10:35:39 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 30, 2016, 08:42:30 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 29, 2016, 11:08:12 PM

Quote from: renaeden on May 29, 2016, 09:45:24 PM

I remember what your hair looks like from photos. What you have done would be quite a change!

  It is, yet it looks like the color my hair should have been all along.  It's a good match.  8)

Portrait, please.

Pretty please  :puppy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on May 30, 2016, 10:46:41 AM

Hey, didn't die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 30, 2016, 11:13:17 AM

Are you sure? Would you know? :tinfoil:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on May 30, 2016, 11:49:24 AM

iced tea

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 30, 2016, 01:31:56 PM

Had the day off and spent it recovering from the race.

Fucking amazing race in general, but a ROOKIE won the race. It was the first time since 2001 that a first timer won. Now he had help, car owner was Michael Andretti (famous name here at Indy) and the team owner was Brian Herta (famous name, old experienced driver here at Indy). That is quite a bit of help!

Great race!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 30, 2016, 01:40:27 PM

I had rented a flat that is a 15-minute walk from the tube station but due to repairs they gave me one that is a 5-minute walk from it instead. My feet are thankful.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 30, 2016, 03:37:21 PM

while sorting out stuff and organizing I found some things lost a long time

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 30, 2016, 03:40:02 PM

Quote from: Parts on May 30, 2016, 03:37:21 PM

while sorting out stuff and organizing I found some things lost a long time

  I love it when that happens.  I wish it happened more often.  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 30, 2016, 08:52:41 PM

I made a really fabulous pork loin for dinner.
It was a co-operational effort with my dear wife. I started the loin on the grille outside, seared it quickly, then removed it from the direct heat and smoked it slowly using maple wood that I cut down last summer. After about and hour of smoke, I wrapped it up in foil and brought it inside to finish cooking in the oven at low heat for about another hour.

Toward the end of cooking I made some fresh grilled corn on the cob with the last of the coals, while my wife made mashed potatoes and used some of the juice from the pork to make gravy atop the stove. When I took the loin out to rest before we sliced it, she put some crescent rolls into the oven.

It was a wonderful meal.
 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 31, 2016, 04:53:29 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 30, 2016, 08:52:41 PM

I made a really fabulous pork loin for dinner.
It was a co-operational effort with my dear wife. I started the loin on the grille outside, seared it quickly, then removed it from the direct heat and smoked it slowly using maple wood that I cut down last summer. After about and hour of smoke, I wrapped it up in foil and brought it inside to finish cooking in the oven at low heat for about another hour.

Toward the end of cooking I made some fresh grilled corn on the cob with the last of the coals, while my wife made mashed potatoes and used some of the juice from the pork to make gravy atop the stove. When I took the loin out to rest before we sliced it, she put some crescent rolls into the oven.

It was a wonderful meal.
 :2thumbsup:

    Were there any leftovers?  :puppy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 01, 2016, 02:08:23 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on May 31, 2016, 04:53:29 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 30, 2016, 08:52:41 PM

I made a really fabulous pork loin for dinner.
It was a co-operational effort with my dear wife. I started the loin on the grille outside, seared it quickly, then removed it from the direct heat and smoked it slowly using maple wood that I cut down last summer. After about and hour of smoke, I wrapped it up in foil and brought it inside to finish cooking in the oven at low heat for about another hour.

Toward the end of cooking I made some fresh grilled corn on the cob with the last of the coals, while my wife made mashed potatoes and used some of the juice from the pork to make gravy atop the stove. When I took the loin out to rest before we sliced it, she put some crescent rolls into the oven.

It was a wonderful meal.
 :2thumbsup:

    Were there any leftovers?  :puppy:

Well, it was a nine pound loin roast. We ravaged on it quite a bit and there was little of the "fixin's' " left, but yesterday my wife and daughter  "pulled"  all the meat into slivers and put it in a pan with MUCH barbeque sauce and simmered it again for a bit, making the way for "loose meat"  sandwiches which we had for lunch. The left overs from that meal I finished for lunch today. (EDIT: Oops, I forgot to add that last meal to the total of human meals we had from that fabulous loin. I had it after I came from work and it "balanced" the total of the loin)

So, If we are counting:  A fifteen dollar pork loin fed our family a great feast (four human meals- one of whom reminds us of Chewbacca and he eats like a wookie might- my adorable son, maybe add twelve dollars for all the fixin's) and the left overs from that piece of meat fed us again (four more human meals, maybe another six bucks for those fixin's  half a bottle of BBQ sauce, a quarter thing of deli bought potato salad and some buns) and the remaining fed the two adults one more time using the other left overs as well (two more human meals).  So with thirty three bucks, rounded up to be conservative, we fed ourselves ten human meals of very high quality EATS.

I do not think there is any way to even approach that with fast food. You would have to give up quality to begin, for instance.
Of course I should probably add the cost of maintaining a working kitchen to that score, but I would keep my kitchen clean and ready and my pantry full of "bounty" anyway, even if I WAS trying to impress with cost savings of doing it all for yourself.

 :cbc:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 01, 2016, 07:08:31 PM

Rum raisin ice cream

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on June 02, 2016, 01:57:01 PM

yesterday i found free wood hangers on the way home. really good because plastic coat hangers suck. today i found another four leaf clover. this was in a supermarket parking lot with a lot less clover. wanted to see if the strategy worked. found only one.

but also on the way there i found dozens of snails and maybe have a video of one eating. also got to eat lunch with py (we had indian, not escargot).

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on June 02, 2016, 10:44:17 PM

pineapple, kiwi and raspberries

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 02, 2016, 10:58:33 PM

Quote from: WolFish on June 02, 2016, 10:44:17 PM

pineapple, kiwi and raspberries

Those colors make like a fruity version of succotash.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 03, 2016, 05:41:34 AM

I did well on my Occupational Health and Safety test. Got the results today. And I have passed all my assignments so far.

And technically it was yesterday.....but I passed my router installation and security test too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 03, 2016, 05:43:31 AM

Quote from: renaeden on June 03, 2016, 05:41:34 AM

I did well on my Occupational Health and Safety test. Got the results today. And I have passed all my assignments so far.

And technically it was yesterday.....but I passed my router installation and security test too.

  You're inspiring me!  I want to take tests and get certifications too!  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 03, 2016, 05:56:03 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 03, 2016, 05:43:31 AM

Quote from: renaeden on June 03, 2016, 05:41:34 AM

I did well on my Occupational Health and Safety test. Got the results today. And I have passed all my assignments so far.

And technically it was yesterday.....but I passed my router installation and security test too.

You're inspiring me!  I want to take tests and get certifications too!  :viking:

It's been not too bad! I have had a lot of assignments but they have all been pretty small and so I have been able to do them without too much fuss.

Do they do night classes where you are?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 03, 2016, 05:58:29 AM

Quote from: renaeden on June 03, 2016, 05:56:03 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 03, 2016, 05:43:31 AM

Quote from: renaeden on June 03, 2016, 05:41:34 AM

I did well on my Occupational Health and Safety test. Got the results today. And I have passed all my assignments so far.

And technically it was yesterday.....but I passed my router installation and security test too.

You're inspiring me!  I want to take tests and get certifications too!  :viking:

It's been not too bad! I have had a lot of assignments but they have all been pretty small and so I have been able to do them without too much fuss.

Do they do night classes where you are?

  Yes, there is a community college near my neighborhood.  I'd have to figure out what to study.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on June 03, 2016, 08:21:29 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 02, 2016, 10:58:33 PM

Quote from: WolFish on June 02, 2016, 10:44:17 PM

pineapple, kiwi and raspberries

Those colors make like a fruity version of succotash.  :orly:

hadn't thought of that. it's impossible to get fresh lima beans here so i have had to eat canned. at least the corn was fresh. lol, i seriously washed them and hoped for the best. It wasn't bad.

the fruit succotash was delicious, however. kiwis here cost a dollar a pound so we always have them. the pineapple is inexpensive as well. the high price is around $4 but they have been around 3 this week. making more for breakfast. last night i realized it was too much sugar for tea.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on June 03, 2016, 08:24:29 AM

Quote from: renaeden on June 03, 2016, 05:41:34 AM

I did well on my Occupational Health and Safety test. Got the results today. And I have passed all my assignments so far.

And technically it was yesterday.....but I passed my router installation and security test too.

congrats - can you come over to our house? our router bridge failed and given canadian prices, we might afford a plane ticket better than a repair person. (j/k - i did the bridge)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 03, 2016, 02:36:32 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 01, 2016, 07:08:31 PM

Rum raisin ice cream

That's called 'boerenjongensijs' in Dutch. Love it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 03, 2016, 06:08:05 PM

Made one (of many) dreaded phone call today.  BINGO.  The person actually knew how the system works and what I need to do.

This about getting services for The PR.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 03, 2016, 10:07:35 PM

Quote from: WolFish on June 03, 2016, 08:24:29 AM

Quote from: renaeden on June 03, 2016, 05:41:34 AM

I did well on my Occupational Health and Safety test. Got the results today. And I have passed all my assignments so far.

And technically it was yesterday.....but I passed my router installation and security test too.

congrats - can you come over to our house? our router bridge failed and given canadian prices, we might afford a plane ticket better than a repair person. (j/k - i did the bridge)

Would you believe it (this wasn't tested) but I left the time zone setting alone. My teacher spotted it. It was set to Canada.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 03, 2016, 10:09:49 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 03, 2016, 05:58:29 AM

Quote from: renaeden on June 03, 2016, 05:56:03 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 03, 2016, 05:43:31 AM

Quote from: renaeden on June 03, 2016, 05:41:34 AM

I did well on my Occupational Health and Safety test. Got the results today. And I have passed all my assignments so far.

And technically it was yesterday.....but I passed my router installation and security test too.

You're inspiring me!  I want to take tests and get certifications too!  :viking:

It's been not too bad! I have had a lot of assignments but they have all been pretty small and so I have been able to do them without too much fuss.

Do they do night classes where you are?

Yes, there is a community college near my neighborhood.  I'd have to figure out what to study.  :orly:

Do IT! It can be pretty fun and interesting. It is so varied.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on June 03, 2016, 10:40:11 PM

Quote from: renaeden on June 03, 2016, 10:07:35 PM

Quote from: WolFish on June 03, 2016, 08:24:29 AM

Quote from: renaeden on June 03, 2016, 05:41:34 AM

I did well on my Occupational Health and Safety test. Got the results today. And I have passed all my assignments so far.

And technically it was yesterday.....but I passed my router installation and security test too.

congrats - can you come over to our house? our router bridge failed and given canadian prices, we might afford a plane ticket better than a repair person. (j/k - i did the bridge)

Would you believe it (this wasn't tested) but I left the time zone setting alone. My teacher spotted it. It was set to Canada.

see? you were meant to come.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 03, 2016, 10:53:21 PM

If/when I do my Intensity member visiting, you're definitely on the list. I would love to go to Canada. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on June 04, 2016, 12:25:47 AM

somehow my class is down to ten people from 19. five of the ones who dropped were plagiarizers from my last class, but the other four were new to me.

Of the ten who are left only four submitted the first assignment. that is always a bad sign. if all of them drop i will have very few students left.

usually students drop when they realize that the course they bought doesn't match mine. generally this happens in week 3, where there is a quiz that i revise for each class iteration. the weird thing is, it's an open book test. given the search function in their readings, they don't even have to know the answer.

it will be easy going with so few papers to grade.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 05, 2016, 03:40:50 PM

How come so many students buy the wrong course? Aren't the directions what to get clear? Or am I missing something here?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on June 05, 2016, 08:03:47 PM

it was sunny all day

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 05, 2016, 10:20:36 PM

  White chocolate raspberry truffle ice cream, by Haagen-Dazs.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on June 06, 2016, 05:28:10 AM

Jump starting my old car worked. I had to clean the terminals first though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on June 06, 2016, 10:43:53 AM

Quote from: hykeaswell on June 05, 2016, 03:40:50 PM

How come so many students buy the wrong course? Aren't the directions what to get clear? Or am I missing something here?

when i say they buy the course i mean they are buying the answers - to all the discussion questions and assignments. this way, for as little as $20US they can just post things and not have to read anything or do any work to pass the course.

when you teach you are given a default course with all the discussion questions and assignments built in so if you don't change anything you can just go in and do your minimum responses and grade papers and get about $1200 for very little work. "Tutoring" sites get this list and create responses that students can buy. none of these strategies work with my classes since i change all the assignments with each iteration and write my own discussion questions. In my research methods class the questions look very similar until the week 3 quiz. that's the point at which many of the plagiarists drop the class.

this time around i had five plagiarists from my previous class who may have grabbed the materials and gone to another kind of "tutoring" site which has people who look at your questions and create responses. this costs more - sometimes it can be $20 for a single question. however if they compared what they bought with what's in this iteration of my class they would find significant differences. all five of the plagiarists dropped the class within a day of start.

later four more dropped so that i now have 10 out of 19 in the class. i am a little worried about what will happen in week 3 - i have identified two other plagiarists, one of whom i have already confronted. it's hard to maintain sufficient discussion with so few students.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 06, 2016, 12:38:20 PM

Saturday, sorry, not today, I made two large racks of ribs on my outdoor grille. NOW, Saturday it rained all day, off and on, but basically all fucking day.

I cleared out an area just under the eve of my garage where I could drag my grille inside to tend it while it was raining, then set it back outside all covered up and smoking like a grille from hell (I used oak this time, lots of flavorful smoke!).

I made it work!
I still spotted four people who were driving by in the rain looking at me and turning their hands up and shrugging as if to say, "WTF, Dumbass? It's raining!"

All those "wide eyed looks" only amused me. I made RIBS!!  We had a feast.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on June 17, 2016, 10:45:57 AM

left my hammertone mug open without  the lid in the kitchen for an hour while i was distracted with other things. when i came back the ice had melted only a little. iced tea is really cold in it.
new favorite mug. might buy the 64 oz insulated growler to replace the bubba keg that smells funny now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 18, 2016, 07:40:30 PM

Started out badly found nothing at any of the sales I went to but then stopped at one on my way home and hit the jackpot.  Bought two breaker bars, four vises, two kerosene blower heaters, a small drill press and a weird old nut cracker for $30. One of the vises is a Parker which will sell for between $60-80

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 19, 2016, 06:11:01 PM

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA964yIv2cY  :rofl:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 19, 2016, 09:52:07 PM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 19, 2016, 06:11:01 PM

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA964yIv2cY  :rofl:

the bad news is that Hell sent him back.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 20, 2016, 12:40:35 AM

:rofl:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on June 20, 2016, 01:43:32 PM

not fried or dehydrated today.
it's 32C and it's only 330pm. might get to 33. Weather report says it feels like 35. Supposed to be a dip in the temperature around 5; that's when I'll go home and start work on my baby swampy. air conditioner prices range from $369 to $1,000CDN and that's more than i want to pay for something i might end up abandoning or donating.

or maybe i'll just invent something new.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 20, 2016, 02:43:58 PM

Donated blood.  Got a coupon for a free pint of ice cream (Baskin-Robbins) and a T-shirt in my size for a change.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 20, 2016, 09:03:12 PM

  I had two teeth fixed today without the usual long wait.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on June 22, 2016, 03:37:58 AM

i got into a certificate program at my job.
it may mean an easier time looking for a job in montreal somewhere down the line.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 22, 2016, 03:55:59 AM

Quote from: WolFish on June 22, 2016, 03:37:58 AM

i got into a certificate program at my job.
it may mean an easier time looking for a job in montreal somewhere down the line.

That is a good thing indeed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 22, 2016, 03:50:16 PM

My brother came to visit. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 22, 2016, 07:33:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 22, 2016, 03:50:16 PM

My brother came to visit. :)

  Brother Moomins hanging around the fjord!  :moomin: :moomin:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 22, 2016, 07:36:05 PM

  We had tapioca for dessert today at work, and it was a really delicious batch.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 22, 2016, 07:37:28 PM

  One of my friends at work has begun watching Breaking Bad.  I'm so thrilled. :heisenberg: :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on June 23, 2016, 05:34:07 AM

The client's wage audit at work wasn't as dreadful as expected.

They're good talkers, no wonder they've gotten away with not paying us and the tax office for years :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 23, 2016, 08:14:50 AM

Found a place that sells The Puck (http://lansky.com/index.php/products/dual-grit-sharpener/) axe sharpening stones locally for about what you pay online when you include shipping

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 23, 2016, 09:18:47 AM

Quote from: couldbecousin on June 22, 2016, 07:33:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 22, 2016, 03:50:16 PM

My brother came to visit. :)

  Brother Moomins hanging around the fjord!  :moomin: :moomin:

We had fun. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 24, 2016, 08:04:00 AM

^Did you have beers?

I gave a presentation today at college and it went reasonably well. Also, it was my last day until July 18th.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 24, 2016, 04:19:50 PM

Quote from: renaeden on June 24, 2016, 08:04:00 AM

^Did you have beers?

I gave a presentation today at college and it went reasonably well. Also, it was my last day until July 18th.

We had beer, yes. :)

We spent the evening talking and chatting and making stupid jokes. I love my brother.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 24, 2016, 04:24:24 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 24, 2016, 04:19:50 PM

Quote from: renaeden on June 24, 2016, 08:04:00 AM

^Did you have beers?

I gave a presentation today at college and it went reasonably well. Also, it was my last day until July 18th.

We had beer, yes. :)

We spent the evening talking and chatting and making stupid jokes. I love my brother.

That is awesome!

Wish I could see my brother again soon.
It just does not seem likely any time soon.
 :'(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 24, 2016, 04:43:38 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on June 24, 2016, 04:24:24 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 24, 2016, 04:19:50 PM

Quote from: renaeden on June 24, 2016, 08:04:00 AM

^Did you have beers?

I gave a presentation today at college and it went reasonably well. Also, it was my last day until July 18th.

We had beer, yes. :)

We spent the evening talking and chatting and making stupid jokes. I love my brother.

That is awesome!

Wish I could see my brother again soon.
It just does not seem likely any time soon.
 :'(

Yes, it was absolutely awesome. It's good to know that no matter what, there is someone who knows who I am and what I am about, and I'm pretty sure it goes both ways. There are no words to express how I feel about my brother.

If you have a relation to your brother anywhere close to mine, I know it's going to be all right. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 26, 2016, 02:08:58 PM

Had what seemed like it was going to be a real shitty day at the flea market turn out to be the best one this year so far

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 26, 2016, 05:53:44 PM

  My favorite-ever Columbo rerun is about to air, finally!  :tv:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on June 26, 2016, 08:12:10 PM

went to Plattsburgh and finally my bank card was there but also a radio that when i installed and turned it on was tuned to an English speaking station with current music. eliminated a layer of stress.
also shakespeare in the park in montreal is in english. they are doing julius ceasar with a cast of all women.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 30, 2016, 10:20:13 AM

  My headache  :headhurts:  went away after a combination of coffee and ibuprofen kicked in.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 30, 2016, 04:00:52 PM

Spent the evening talking with a friend.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 30, 2016, 08:28:31 PM

Finally got this ridiculous late tax form uploaded to the relevant accountants.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 30, 2016, 09:34:48 PM

Also, got a fire painted on my arm.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on June 30, 2016, 10:58:57 PM

got through 4.5 hours at company picnic and amusement park with minimal distress and limited dehydration.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 01, 2016, 01:25:24 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 30, 2016, 09:34:48 PM

Also, got a fire painted on my arm.

That sounds interesting, would like to see a pic of it. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 01, 2016, 06:11:22 PM

I'll put one in the Elders forum.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on July 05, 2016, 11:18:51 AM

got a shot of good chemicals from doing something smart, using problem solving skills i had forgotten i had. too much focused on struggling with organizing to remember that i have compensatory skills.

feels a heck of a lot better than yesterday. success chemicals rock.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on July 09, 2016, 12:23:41 AM

my comic made the top 10 on pixton

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 10, 2016, 11:32:12 AM

I finished up at the restaurant I have been working on.  I was working above where the drop ceilings were and everything was so dirty I came home filthy everyday so I am very happy it's done

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 12, 2016, 07:26:28 PM

The house I worked on today was easier than I had thought it would be

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on July 12, 2016, 07:27:29 PM

got a handwritten letter today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 12, 2016, 09:19:03 PM

Al and odeon concluded their vigorous discussions.


Oh, wait, I just woke up.  Stupid dream.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 13, 2016, 01:27:36 AM

Went to Disability Services Commission to sign papers about my plan with them and as soon as I went in the door, the secretary had the papers ready. No waiting around.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 13, 2016, 01:03:21 PM

Less than three hours to go. That's good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on July 13, 2016, 07:19:13 PM

the gopher is back

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 14, 2016, 10:19:01 AM

Quote from: WolFish on July 13, 2016, 07:19:13 PM

the gopher is back

This.

And also, siesta. :yawn:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 14, 2016, 02:05:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on July 14, 2016, 10:19:01 AM

Quote from: WolFish on July 13, 2016, 07:19:13 PM

the gopher is back

This.

And also, siesta. :yawn:

adapting to the culture there?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 14, 2016, 03:18:36 PM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 14, 2016, 02:05:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on July 14, 2016, 10:19:01 AM

Quote from: WolFish on July 13, 2016, 07:19:13 PM

the gopher is back

This.

And also, siesta. :yawn:

adapting to the culture there?

It's difficult not to. It's too hot in the afternoon so everything closes down and opens again later in the evening, when the temperatures are tolerable again. It was nice to spend the afternoon reading and then napping. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on July 14, 2016, 05:31:23 PM

Didn't die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 14, 2016, 05:33:11 PM

Got gas at just $1.999 a gallon cheapest price in the state

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 14, 2016, 09:16:18 PM

Didn't die in a fiery ball of crashed plane. The turbulence wasn't even near as bad as they said it would be.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 15, 2016, 05:19:12 AM

I can think of a couple of exceptions but mostly, turbulence is harmless.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 15, 2016, 06:41:23 AM

I guess they're just being hyperconscious of safety to please the passengers. They had us circle for an hour, waiting for weather patterns to dissipate, and made the flight attendants take their seats for "moderate turbulence" and then it was just a few bumps.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on July 15, 2016, 10:44:57 AM

I've flown through thunderstorms in a 737 that tossed the plane around pretty good.

Turbulence has to get pretty bad before it causes issues.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on July 15, 2016, 11:00:25 AM

i have been on a puddle jumper in sort of bad turbulence. it was kind of like a ride on a wooden roller coaster combined with driving over the worst streets in montreal. teeth jarring bumps and other nice vestibular stimulations. might should have had my seatbelt tighter. we escaped to better weather so it didn't last long.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 19, 2016, 05:51:14 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on July 15, 2016, 06:41:23 AM

I guess they're just being hyperconscious of safety to please the passengers. They had us circle for an hour, waiting for weather patterns to dissipate, and made the flight attendants take their seats for "moderate turbulence" and then it was just a few bumps.

I hate the circling. I've spent hours above Heathrow, waiting to land, and the circling is always far bumpier than the actual landing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 21, 2016, 05:43:05 AM

I have been on a plane to Japan that was flying on the front of a typhoon. Pretty bad turbulence. People were screaming, I thought it was funny.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 21, 2016, 06:17:11 AM

Quote from: renaeden on July 21, 2016, 05:43:05 AM

I have been on a plane to Japan that was flying on the front of a typhoon. Pretty bad turbulence. People were screaming, I thought it was funny.

  I'm so gleeful about this post.  Renaeden's hidden evil side!  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 21, 2016, 12:36:27 PM

I bet she'd be fun to fly with. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 22, 2016, 01:17:54 PM

SPRINGS!!!  I guy I know is closing up building supply warehouse and he gave me the spring assortment cabinets from an old hardware store and they are almost full. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 22, 2016, 05:30:29 PM

A man lost two buttons from his shirt and put them in his pants pocket. But the pocket had a hole, so the buttons fell into his shoe. Unfortunately, the shoe sole also had a hole, so he lost the buttons. As pockets with holes, holes without buttons, and shoe soles with holes are useless, the man ripped the buttonholes off of his shirt and the pocket from his pants and tossed them in the trash along with the soles of his shoes.

A police officer who was observing the man asked him for some identification. The man gave the officer a document that showed he was an ordained minister of the gospel. When the officer began to escort him to a mental institution, the minister protested violently, asking why he was receiving such unjust treatment.

“Look, we both know it’s the best place for you now,” the officer replied. “Anyone claiming to be a preacher who doesn’t save souls or wear holy clothes has probably lost his buttons.”

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 22, 2016, 05:41:15 PM

Quote from: Parts on July 22, 2016, 01:17:54 PM

SPRINGS!!!  I guy I know is closing up building supply warehouse and he gave me the spring assortment cabinets from an old hardware store and they are almost full.

What are you going to do with all those springs?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 22, 2016, 06:33:51 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 22, 2016, 05:41:15 PM

Quote from: Parts on July 22, 2016, 01:17:54 PM

SPRINGS!!!  I guy I know is closing up building supply warehouse and he gave me the spring assortment cabinets from an old hardware store and they are almost full.

What are you going to do with all those springs?  :orly:

Well I am called Parts for a reason :green:  I fix and modify lots of things so I have a large collection of all types of hardware, fasteners and spare parts of all types that way I can avoid going to the store it saves time and money.  I have multiple parts cabinets and shelving units filled with bins to hold it all.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 22, 2016, 07:07:23 PM

I was trying to find a picture of some cool art made from springs, but instead I found these awesome photos of art some guy made with snow shoes.  :orly:

(http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/snow-circle-drawings-with-snowshoes-snoja-hinrichsen-steampboat-springs-rabbit-ears-pass-1.jpg?w=800&h=600)

(http://netdna.walyou.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/02/snow-circles-1.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 22, 2016, 07:10:02 PM

@ GG - looks like fine embroidery

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 22, 2016, 07:16:40 PM

I think I love it!!  :GA:


(http://www.sonja-hinrichsen.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Snow-Drawings-Catamount01-970x514.jpg)


(http://i.imgur.com/yGrp4Br.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on July 23, 2016, 02:02:26 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 22, 2016, 07:07:23 PM

I was trying to find a picture of some cool art made from springs, but instead I found these awesome photos of art some guy made with snow shoes.  :orly:

(http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/snow-circle-drawings-with-snowshoes-snoja-hinrichsen-steampboat-springs-rabbit-ears-pass-1.jpg?w=800&h=600)

(http://netdna.walyou.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/02/snow-circles-1.jpg)

That is pretty bloody clever

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 23, 2016, 02:10:46 AM

That's awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 23, 2016, 02:11:11 AM

Coffee happened this morning, saving me from evil.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 23, 2016, 09:08:29 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 22, 2016, 05:41:15 PM

Quote from: Parts on July 22, 2016, 01:17:54 PM

SPRINGS!!!  I guy I know is closing up building supply warehouse and he gave me the spring assortment cabinets from an old hardware store and they are almost full.

What are you going to do with all those springs?  :orly:

  He's going to rig the garden with tiny gopher catapults.  Adios, little varmint! :trollskull:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 23, 2016, 09:50:45 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on July 23, 2016, 02:02:26 AM

That is pretty bloody clever

Quote from: odeon on July 23, 2016, 02:10:46 AM

That's awesome.

There's an artist out there who does a lot of them, but his all look very geometrically perfect and pre-planned. I like the free spirited looking ones much better.  :thumbup:

(http://i1.wp.com/sqhap.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cover2-01-01.png?resize=1180%2C600)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 23, 2016, 10:06:29 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 23, 2016, 09:08:29 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 22, 2016, 05:41:15 PM

Quote from: Parts on July 22, 2016, 01:17:54 PM

SPRINGS!!!  I guy I know is closing up building supply warehouse and he gave me the spring assortment cabinets from an old hardware store and they are almost full.

What are you going to do with all those springs?  :orly:

  He's going to rig the garden with tiny gopher catapults.  Adios, little varmint! :trollskull:

I think I'd like that.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 27, 2016, 02:03:36 PM

Picked two pints of wild blackberries along the river where I walk the dog

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 27, 2016, 07:05:34 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 23, 2016, 10:06:29 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 23, 2016, 09:08:29 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 22, 2016, 05:41:15 PM

Quote from: Parts on July 22, 2016, 01:17:54 PM

SPRINGS!!!  I guy I know is closing up building supply warehouse and he gave me the spring assortment cabinets from an old hardware store and they are almost full.

What are you going to do with all those springs?  :orly:

  He's going to rig the garden with tiny gopher catapults.  Adios, little varmint! :trollskull:

I think I'd like that.  :zoinks:

Kinky.  :squiddy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 27, 2016, 07:46:40 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on July 27, 2016, 07:05:34 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 23, 2016, 10:06:29 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 23, 2016, 09:08:29 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 22, 2016, 05:41:15 PM

Quote from: Parts on July 22, 2016, 01:17:54 PM

SPRINGS!!!  I guy I know is closing up building supply warehouse and he gave me the spring assortment cabinets from an old hardware store and they are almost full.

What are you going to do with all those springs?  :orly:

  He's going to rig the garden with tiny gopher catapults.  Adios, little varmint! :trollskull:

I think I'd like that.  :zoinks:

Kinky.  :squiddy:

Want to ride with me in my catapult, Pyraxis?   :eyelash:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 27, 2016, 09:03:40 PM

I'll ride you all the way down.  :eyebrows:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 28, 2016, 10:55:02 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 23, 2016, 02:11:11 AM

Coffee happened this morning, saving me from evil.

  Jesus screwed up when he dictated the Lord's Prayer. 
  He gave the wrong entity credit for delivering us.  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 28, 2016, 10:57:53 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 28, 2016, 10:55:02 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 23, 2016, 02:11:11 AM

Coffee happened this morning, saving me from evil.

  Jesus screwed up when he dictated the Lord's Prayer.  He gave the wrong entity for delivering us.  :M

 :LMAO:


Not his fault, he was born a few centuries too early to know. He had to make do with wine.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 28, 2016, 10:59:29 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 28, 2016, 10:57:53 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 28, 2016, 10:55:02 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 23, 2016, 02:11:11 AM

Coffee happened this morning, saving me from evil.

  Jesus screwed up when he dictated the Lord's Prayer.  He gave the wrong entity for delivering us.  :M

 :LMAO:


Not his fault, he was born a few centuries too early to know. He had to make do with wine.

  If he were truly God, he would have foreseen the discovery of coffee.  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 28, 2016, 11:04:25 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 28, 2016, 10:59:29 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 28, 2016, 10:57:53 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 28, 2016, 10:55:02 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 23, 2016, 02:11:11 AM

Coffee happened this morning, saving me from evil.

  Jesus screwed up when he dictated the Lord's Prayer.  He gave the wrong entity for delivering us.  :M

 :LMAO:


Not his fault, he was born a few centuries too early to know. He had to make do with wine.

  If he were truly God, he would have foreseen the discovery of coffee.  :M

Should he have told people to wait just a few more centuries to find their solace?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 28, 2016, 11:06:58 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 28, 2016, 11:04:25 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 28, 2016, 10:59:29 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 28, 2016, 10:57:53 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 28, 2016, 10:55:02 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 23, 2016, 02:11:11 AM

Coffee happened this morning, saving me from evil.

  Jesus screwed up when he dictated the Lord's Prayer.  He gave the wrong entity for delivering us.  :M

 :LMAO:


Not his fault, he was born a few centuries too early to know. He had to make do with wine.

  If he were truly God, he would have foreseen the discovery of coffee.  :M

Should he have told people to wait just a few more centuries to find their solace?

  He should have changed water to coffee at that wedding, instead of wine.  :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 28, 2016, 11:08:39 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 28, 2016, 11:06:58 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 28, 2016, 11:04:25 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 28, 2016, 10:59:29 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 28, 2016, 10:57:53 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 28, 2016, 10:55:02 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 23, 2016, 02:11:11 AM

Coffee happened this morning, saving me from evil.

  Jesus screwed up when he dictated the Lord's Prayer.  He gave the wrong entity for delivering us.  :M

 :LMAO:


Not his fault, he was born a few centuries too early to know. He had to make do with wine.

  If he were truly God, he would have foreseen the discovery of coffee.  :M

Should he have told people to wait just a few more centuries to find their solace?

  He should have changed water to coffee at that wedding, instead of wine.  :M

His family was already on the brink to bring him to their version of an asylum. That would have gotten him stoned.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 28, 2016, 11:10:41 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 28, 2016, 11:08:39 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 28, 2016, 11:06:58 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 28, 2016, 11:04:25 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 28, 2016, 10:59:29 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 28, 2016, 10:57:53 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 28, 2016, 10:55:02 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 23, 2016, 02:11:11 AM

Coffee happened this morning, saving me from evil.

  Jesus screwed up when he dictated the Lord's Prayer.  He gave the wrong entity for delivering us.  :M

 :LMAO:


Not his fault, he was born a few centuries too early to know. He had to make do with wine.

  If he were truly God, he would have foreseen the discovery of coffee.  :M

Should he have told people to wait just a few more centuries to find their solace?

  He should have changed water to coffee at that wedding, instead of wine.  :M

His family was already on the brink to bring him to their version of an asylum. That would have gotten him stoned.

  If he were truly God, stones would not have harmed him.  :M :trollface:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 28, 2016, 12:20:35 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 28, 2016, 11:10:41 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 28, 2016, 11:08:39 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 28, 2016, 11:06:58 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 28, 2016, 11:04:25 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 28, 2016, 10:59:29 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 28, 2016, 10:57:53 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 28, 2016, 10:55:02 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 23, 2016, 02:11:11 AM

Coffee happened this morning, saving me from evil.

  Jesus screwed up when he dictated the Lord's Prayer.  He gave the wrong entity for delivering us.  :M

 :LMAO:


Not his fault, he was born a few centuries too early to know. He had to make do with wine.

  If he were truly God, he would have foreseen the discovery of coffee.  :M

Should he have told people to wait just a few more centuries to find their solace?

  He should have changed water to coffee at that wedding, instead of wine.  :M

His family was already on the brink to bring him to their version of an asylum. That would have gotten him stoned.

  If he were truly God, stones would not have harmed him.  :M :trollface:

It would. Because truly human.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 28, 2016, 02:00:27 PM

Texted with my daughter. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 29, 2016, 05:25:38 AM

Found that I was ahead of the rest of the class in my Word work.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 29, 2016, 06:33:40 PM

My air conditioner on my car (the Traverse that I mostly drive these days, since my son will not take the time to get his driving license and claim the car we bought for him) went down on the hottest day of the year so far. FUCK!!

While that sucks, the huge positive is that it was one faulty high pressure line leading to the condenser inside the cabin that sprang (sprang, springed, Had/Have  sprung, sprangled ?   :dunno:  I am lost. I do not know how to be ignorant and knowing at the same time.  :lol1:)  a huge leak. It went from a little weak one day, not working very well to not cooling at all the next morning.

Anyway, the good part is that it only cost just over two hundred bucks to repair by a qualified mechanic at the proper dealership.

:woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 29, 2016, 08:26:57 PM

Got unofficial word that The PR has been certified for 25 hours a week of day habilitation.  That means a sheltered environment with frequent day trips and some freedom for me and PA.

She also has her 8 hours a month of one-on-one personal care attendant award.  That will be used as two 4 hours periods a month for the PCA to take her to movies,  and a trip to McDonalds afterwards or whatever we can think of.

This only took about 6 years folks.  She's still about 5 or so years from full services, but we'll take what we can get, when we can get it, however we can get it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 29, 2016, 11:07:26 PM

^That is excellent. When will it start?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 29, 2016, 11:29:55 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 29, 2016, 08:26:57 PM

Got unofficial word that The PR has been certified for 25 hours a week of day habilitation.  That means a sheltered environment with frequent day trips and some freedom for me and PA.

She also has her 8 hours a month of one-on-one personal care attendant award.  That will be used as two 4 hours periods a month for the PCA to take her to movies,  and a trip to McDonalds afterwards or whatever we can think of.

This only took about 6 years folks.  She's still about 5 or so years from full services, but we'll take what we can get, when we can get it, however we can get it.

Glad to hear it. I wish you'd get the full services, but as you said, whatever you can get is good. :)

For me, coffee happened and saved my morning. It saved my surroundings, too. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 30, 2016, 12:33:41 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 29, 2016, 08:26:57 PM

Got unofficial word that The PR has been certified for 25 hours a week of day habilitation.  That means a sheltered environment with frequent day trips and some freedom for me and PA.

She also has her 8 hours a month of one-on-one personal care attendant award.  That will be used as two 4 hours periods a month for the PCA to take her to movies,  and a trip to McDonalds afterwards or whatever we can think of.

This only took about 6 years folks.  She's still about 5 or so years from full services, but we'll take what we can get, when we can get it, however we can get it.

Six years! BUt, as Odeon mentioned, take it and run.  Sounds like a positive!

We have had so "little help" during "especially needful" times  that I tend to feel vomity (I do not think that is a word, but it should be) at times.   

Hope it goes well.


Honestly, my son has tried to get a job for over two years, now.
He gets an instant interview, just from an online form, but when they meet him ... no deal.

It becomes painful after twenty or so.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 30, 2016, 09:49:23 AM

Thank you all for your thanks and good wishes. 

It will start as soon as we get the official word, probably next week.  Services start on Monday, but we'll probably wait one week to get things in a row (haircut, snacks, clothes, lunchbox, etc.)

She's put the wished for puppy aside (she was able to buy one on her birthday), so I've told her if she goes to the ARC (Association of Retarded Citizens) she can get a puppy after a year.  She postponed the acquisition because it's hurricane season and she didn't want to have to worry about the puppy if we evacuated.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 31, 2016, 04:24:21 PM

I got on the waiting list May 18.

It's now official.  I'm number 8 in line to read The Cursed Child from the library.  YEA!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 31, 2016, 07:03:02 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on July 27, 2016, 09:03:40 PM

I'll ride you all the way down.  :eyebrows:

 :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 31, 2016, 07:34:29 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on July 30, 2016, 12:33:41 AM

Honestly, my son has tried to get a job for over two years, now.
He gets an instant interview, just from an online form, but when they meet him ... no deal.

It becomes painful after twenty or so.

Yes, I know this one. Feeling sorry for our kids. They deserve better

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 31, 2016, 08:19:08 PM

'association of retarded citizens'

'sblood, they can fucking pick names.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on August 01, 2016, 05:06:16 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 31, 2016, 04:24:21 PM

I got on the waiting list May 18.

It's now official.  I'm number 8 in line to read The Cursed Child from the library.  YEA!

I have read about a third of it so far. Very good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 01, 2016, 12:42:01 PM

Quote from: Lestat on July 31, 2016, 08:19:08 PM

'association of retarded citizens'

'sblood, they can fucking pick names.

It's usually shortened to the ARC. 

This post has been modified to remove some unpleasant and unacceptable whining. I edited it rather than deleted it because I know deleting it messes up something or another and creates problems for odeon.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 01, 2016, 01:03:45 PM

Had the day off and nobody has been home so I got tons of work done around the house and yard

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 01, 2016, 05:09:01 PM

Got some peace of mind from my doctor!   <phew>

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 01, 2016, 07:46:01 PM

Picked up The Cursed Child and read it.  Moves at a pretty good clip, some nice plot twists, predictable ending.

I feel so unbelievably lucky to have gotten it from the library the first day.  I reserved it May 18.  No idea how long the hold list is.  But it must be enormous.  Instead of being able to keep it for 21 days, it's only a 7 day checkout.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on August 02, 2016, 06:00:26 AM

I managed to take a computer apart and mostly put it back together. I needed a bit of help with the power supply cord ends, I forgot where some of them went. Best thing was that it worked when I switched it on afterwards.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 02, 2016, 06:47:06 PM

Nice! I'm still nervous about doing that without a certified geek present.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 02, 2016, 06:47:33 PM

Made some good progress in the project I'm doing at work.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 03, 2016, 09:19:01 AM

Just checked the fridge to see what I'm going to have for my prebreakfast, to take out a couple of packs of cheese slices while I wait for my old man to come back from his shopping trip and bring me my canned grapefruit and cartons of grapefruit juice, and found that I did indeed have one beer left, a bottle of guinness pale, brewer's project, plus a can of 'KA' black grape pop, that I had totally forgotten I'd bought. Love that stuff, its got a really distinctive scent to it that I KNOW I have smelled before somewhere but try as I might I cannot place it at all.   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 03, 2016, 11:32:48 AM

Took a nice walk, picked up recyclables and trash on the stretch of road I have adopted to keep clean.   Drinking and driving, as American as apple pie and assault rifles.  As the New Hampshire state motto goes, "Live free or Die", or in this case "Live Free AND DIE and make sure you take somebody else with you! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 03, 2016, 05:47:38 PM

Quote from: renaeden on August 02, 2016, 06:00:26 AM

I managed to take a computer apart and mostly put it back together. I needed a bit of help with the power supply cord ends, I forgot where some of them went. Best thing was that it worked when I switched it on afterwards.

 :plus:

Well done!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 03, 2016, 05:49:10 PM

My paper was well received. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on August 03, 2016, 06:03:42 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2016, 05:49:10 PM

My paper was well received. :)

Well done to you too! Do you get nervous at all?
:plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 03, 2016, 06:12:24 PM

Quote from: renaeden on August 03, 2016, 06:03:42 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2016, 05:49:10 PM

My paper was well received. :)

Well done to you too! Do you get nervous at all?
:plus:

I was a bit of a wreck immediately before, but once I got going I calmed down. Nerves are a good thing, though. They make you sharper.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on August 03, 2016, 06:17:46 PM

My voice goes funny when I present which I don't like at all!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 03, 2016, 06:26:27 PM

You need to practise, then practise again and finally practise some more. It helps, I promise you. If you know what you are presenting, there is one less thing to worry about and you can act more confident on stage--yes, it's an act. Always remember that everyone in the audience listens to you while thinking "glad it isn't me", even the ones who are natural presenters.

And make sure you include laughs and pauses. Make sure that if your presentation is over 10 minutes, deliberately slow down, make a diversion of sorts, and pause after nine or so--this is something that experienced presenters know through experience, but I'm sure there is psychology to support it.

If you know about drama structure, apply that to your presentation--regardless of what people say, you are performing for an audience and your first goal is to entertain. Only then can you inform.

And finally, try to enjoy the experience. It's kind of cool to have the attention of 300 people for half an hour. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on August 03, 2016, 08:16:26 PM

That's great advice, thank you. I always try to include humour in my talks because when people laugh, I relax more, if that makes sense.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 03, 2016, 09:21:48 PM

No problem. :)

I like presenting and I hate it. I tend to wonder why I bother, right before, considering it's really stressful, and then I go through it and it's a great experience.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 04, 2016, 12:41:20 PM

Got my doc to increase my chlormethiazole by 1x192mg capsule per day, so I am taking it 3x/d, for seizure control, and hes now considering my repeated begging for memantine.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 04, 2016, 01:24:00 PM

Smashed some old useless hard drives....very therapeutic! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 04, 2016, 01:29:15 PM

Got any use for the magnets? if you don't then Lestat would have, if you'd be willing to part with them.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 04, 2016, 01:30:31 PM

I'll see what I find in the debris!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 04, 2016, 04:00:08 PM

Quote from: Lestat on August 04, 2016, 01:29:15 PM

Got any use for the magnets? if you don't then Lestat would have, if you'd be willing to part with them.

To be honest with you, I am a bit of a magnet freak collector...however......I would be more than willing to send them to you.  But, I have to research this.  If memory serves, the United States Postal Service has a bit of a problem with sending STRONG magnets thru the mail here.  And I must admit they are VERY strong.  I'll let you know what I find out.   If anybody out there has advice or greater knowledge, I would love to hear it.  I couldn't even separate them from their metal supports.   :o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 04, 2016, 05:34:30 PM

Got some nice feedback following my talk yesterday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 04, 2016, 11:04:27 PM

Well no need to separate them from their backing plate. Actually I'm after the rare earth metals that are used to make the things, because theres something I've been wanting to try, called  adiabatic nuclear demagnetization, this is where certain metal alloys that exhibit a very high magnetocaloric effect, or paramagnetic mineral salts can be introduced to a reasonably powerful magnetic field (IIRC the lower threshold is somewhere in the region of 2 Tesla, allowed to heat up, cooled down whilst in the magnetic field, and then moved to an adiabatic environment, then slowly demagnetized.

The result is a powerful cooling effect. It seems paradoxical, but it works  by taking advantage of entropy level limitations, whilst removing entropy from the system and disallowing it to increase, so when the magnetic flux ceases and the magnetocaloric alloy/paramagnetic salt is isolated from the rest of the environment, it cools down, and very strongly too. With sufficient magnetic flux strength and proper cooling, the system is capable of reaching temperatures a fraction of a degree kelvin above absolute zero. Now don't get me wrong, I'd not be at all unhappy with a simply decent cryostat, but being able to produce my own liquid nitrogen, liquid oxygen via fractional distillation of air, and liquify pre-dried chlorine gas for storage in cylinders, so as to allow me to simply turn on a tap when I want Cl2 rather than fuck about with gas generators, electrolysis etc. and have to run the result through drying tubes, as well as store anhydrous ammonia and liqufied SO2, nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide, nitrous oxide and N2O4..

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 05, 2016, 11:30:58 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 31, 2016, 07:03:02 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on July 27, 2016, 09:03:40 PM

I'll ride you all the way down.  :eyebrows:

 :orly:

One thing I love about gophers is that always find the "lower" ground. ;)

OF course, they also make amazing target practice. Not to waste the produce of such action, one can use them to bait coyotes, which can lead to a ransom paid in dollars for dispatching those dangerous critters.
 :lol1:

(Que the Metallica tune, "Sad But True" just to ease and/or enjoy the pain.)


Sorry, GG, but my life sucks mostly as well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 06, 2016, 06:46:55 PM

Had a nice afternoon in Washington DC.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on August 09, 2016, 04:04:58 AM

Took a computer apart and put it back together by myself.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 09, 2016, 12:47:05 PM

Quote from: renaeden on August 09, 2016, 04:04:58 AM

Took a computer apart and put it back together by myself.

What kind of computer?

Laptops are fun to take apart. Just sayin'. ;D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 09, 2016, 05:14:05 PM

The PR had her first outing with her PCA (Personal Care Attendant).  The PCA will take her to bowling on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month.  I had to go the first time to see that things went smoothly, which they did.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 10, 2016, 02:34:59 PM

I'm glad things worked out. We've had a few assistants that didn't.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 10, 2016, 10:49:12 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2016, 05:49:10 PM

My paper was well received. :)

  Excellent!  In what language did you present it?  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 10, 2016, 10:51:04 PM

Quote from: renaeden on August 03, 2016, 06:17:46 PM

My voice goes funny when I present which I don't like at all!

  My voice is funny.  I wonder if it's part of what got me picked on in school.  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 10, 2016, 10:53:16 PM

  With the second cook on vacation, I have a bit more responsibility at work, and I'm doing OK.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on August 11, 2016, 02:48:36 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 09, 2016, 12:47:05 PM

Quote from: renaeden on August 09, 2016, 04:04:58 AM

Took a computer apart and put it back together by myself.

What kind of computer?

Laptops are fun to take apart. Just sayin'. ;D

A big old Dell one. It's about 10 years old.

I would like to take apart a laptop but wouldn't like to have to put it together again. Too fiddly and small.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 11, 2016, 06:30:28 AM

Yay! my replacement I2 is on the way, to replace that stolen from me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 11, 2016, 08:18:37 AM

Went to yoga class.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 11, 2016, 12:51:53 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on August 10, 2016, 10:49:12 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2016, 05:49:10 PM

My paper was well received. :)

  Excellent!  In what language did you present it?  8)

English. It would have been odd to do it in some other language, considering this was in Washington DC. Well, Bethesda, but close enough.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 11, 2016, 03:28:40 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 11, 2016, 12:51:53 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on August 10, 2016, 10:49:12 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2016, 05:49:10 PM

My paper was well received. :)

  Excellent!  In what language did you present it?  8)

English. It would have been odd to do it in some other language, considering this was in Washington DC. Well, Bethesda, but close enough.

I think double speak is the official language there.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 11, 2016, 04:24:11 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 11, 2016, 03:28:40 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 11, 2016, 12:51:53 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on August 10, 2016, 10:49:12 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2016, 05:49:10 PM

My paper was well received. :)

  Excellent!  In what language did you present it?  8)

English. It would have been odd to do it in some other language, considering this was in Washington DC. Well, Bethesda, but close enough.

I think double speak is the official language there.

:laugh: I just plussed you, unfortunately. I owe you one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 11, 2016, 07:54:29 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 11, 2016, 03:28:40 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 11, 2016, 12:51:53 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on August 10, 2016, 10:49:12 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 03, 2016, 05:49:10 PM

My paper was well received. :)

  Excellent!  In what language did you present it?  8)

English. It would have been odd to do it in some other language, considering this was in Washington DC. Well, Bethesda, but close enough.

I think double speak is the official language there.

 :lol1: :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on August 12, 2016, 08:46:05 AM

checked the outlet before going to the hardware store. she had a cheater plug and a two prong plug in there so i just got one extra and the appliance extension cord.

came back, unplugged everything only to find that it's a grounded outlet. should have unplugged everything before starting. :hahaha:

air conditioner is running. i'm going to live.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 12, 2016, 04:38:03 PM

I am back home. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 12, 2016, 06:06:35 PM

I got out of work with my sanity intact!   :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 12, 2016, 07:35:41 PM

Quote from: rock hound on August 12, 2016, 06:06:35 PM

I got out of work with my sanity intact!   :GA:

  Me too!  Ten days down, three to go!   :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 12, 2016, 07:38:21 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on August 12, 2016, 07:35:41 PM

Quote from: rock hound on August 12, 2016, 06:06:35 PM

I got out of work with my sanity intact!   :GA:

  Me too!  Ten days down, three to go!   :GA:

Trust me, I feel your pain!    :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 12, 2016, 07:39:59 PM

Quote from: rock hound on August 12, 2016, 07:38:21 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on August 12, 2016, 07:35:41 PM

Quote from: rock hound on August 12, 2016, 06:06:35 PM

I got out of work with my sanity intact!   :GA:

  Me too!  Ten days down, three to go!   :GA:

Trust me, I feel your pain!    :GA:

  We got this!  We're gonna make it!    :GA: :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on August 14, 2016, 08:51:41 AM

I came home from my trip away. Sydney is definitely not a place I'd wanna live in.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 14, 2016, 10:35:50 AM

My daughter just came home with chocolate.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 14, 2016, 12:40:10 PM

First Birch-Benkeser reduction went not just alright but is looking like its going to kick ass and chew bubblegum.

Question is, do I quench it now, being lazy and claim my hard-worked for yield, or do I wait a few hours for further admixture of substrate to reduce. I COULD discharge the reduction by adding water or acid, and work it up. OR I could go grab some more substrate and whack it in there. BUT I haven't recrystallized the spare substrate. I kept some back lest this reaction not succeed, afterall, first time, walk before one runs, no?

I'd sooner not spend the time to be honest. I added a few hundred mg more substrate (original wt. almost 8g) and will leave it an hour or so then quench, methinks. I'd sooner spend the time to properly recrystallize the substrate until it is not just white, but of glass-like seethrough clarity when a single crystal be viewed before a bright light source.  And get cleaner end product. Although this is a fairly tolerant reaction from my reading. Now I want to get a dry ice or liquid nitrogen condenser so I can speed things up. And experiment with molten alkali metals or molten lithium-calcium alloy as well as bugger around and see what I can do with strontium adsorbed onto silica gels, same as for the Ca-Li alloy, or other alkali metals, absorbed onto silica gel and then strongly heated apparently they can be rendered air tolerant yet highly active Birch reductant reagents, apparently calcium on fine silica gel can get a birch done in five minutes flat and at much higher yield than using lithium, sodium or potassium and one simply packs a vigreaux and elutes through it like a chromatography column, or something close to a setup like that.

Like it in principle at any rate. This took me hours, interluded by a walk in the woods. Cleaning up a lake of diethylene diglycol, and the kitchen extractor fan almost choking on ammoniacal fumes. That did lead to a funny moment. Having to tell my old man to keep out of the kitchen.

Old man: 'how will I know when its safe to go back in'

me-oh YOU'LL KNOW alright...you'll know..

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 14, 2016, 01:41:03 PM

Managed to do a wee bit of organizing/cleaning out in the pantry.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 14, 2016, 06:46:06 PM

I got home with sanity intact! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 14, 2016, 06:48:43 PM

It was a beautiful evening. Perfect temperature outside for a summer night.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 14, 2016, 07:48:05 PM

The ammoniacal stench is clearing, slowly.  Yeech. Always hated the smell of NH3 more than most things in there.

The worst offenders are for me, ammonia, chlorine gas, hypochlorites and methyl ethyl ketone/methyl isobutyl ketone, of the commonplace everyday sort of things. Oddly, whilst I loathe the stench of chlorine, the smell itself not just the choking nature of it, I find iodine quite pleasant.  Looks nice too. Ordered some recently, cheaply, came from eastern europe, and unlike the usual flake form, this is in huge chunks.  It ALMOST looks like it could be cut and faceted and set like a gemstone, but not quite, of course, since it would evaporate in short order, not to mention stain tissue. Picking such a chunk (about an inch long by 2/3rd wide by about a cm thick.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 15, 2016, 12:21:55 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on August 15, 2016, 05:30:22 AM

Quote from: Marion Crane on August 14, 2016, 08:51:41 AM

I came home from my trip away. Sydney is definitely not a place I'd wanna live in.

Welcome back. :)

What's wrong with Sydney (never been there before)?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on August 15, 2016, 08:17:37 AM

^ Thanks

It's decent enough in the touristy spots (Darling Harbour, Opera House, Bondi, The Rocks etc). The rest is just eerie and stress inducing.
I quickly grew tired of catching the train everywhere, not to mention that some of the tunnels and stations were kinda creepy (especially St James)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 15, 2016, 04:47:14 PM

I can look froward to three days off!    :yawn:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on August 15, 2016, 05:11:50 PM

it was a temperature where the air conditioner did not have to be on.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 16, 2016, 06:21:17 AM

Quote from: rock hound on August 15, 2016, 04:47:14 PM

I can look froward to three days off!    :yawn:

  I'm beginning my two days off.  Enjoy!  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 16, 2016, 10:37:19 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on August 16, 2016, 06:21:17 AM

Quote from: rock hound on August 15, 2016, 04:47:14 PM

I can look froward to three days off!    :yawn:

  I'm beginning my two days off.  Enjoy!  :2thumbsup:

I will!   8)

Got the laundry done, deposited my work check in our account, hung up on a robo call telemarketer!    :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 16, 2016, 09:19:33 PM

Fucking hate phone spammers. Dickheads, really sad, greedy, pathetic dickholes.

The biggest pisstake is when they complain 'buuuuutt...buut I'm JUST doing my job!'

Because they should have thought about the reception they would get, before calling me, and indeed before taking a 'job' like that working for the kind of spam-peddling filth that employ them. If they can't take the heat, then they should take their faces away from the fire before someone jams it in there with a foot on the back of their neck, so to speak.

Because when the telemasturbator is a living entity (I won't sully the terms 'person' or 'human being' by befouling them with such an association) and I get called up, day after day after day, fuckwit after dipshit after pestilent bag of dogshit after cretin. Then, well, lets just say I get very fed up of it. Have even had the bastards call up at near 8am before. And when I get cranky because of such liberties being taken then I'm not inclined to be particularly pleasantly disposed to them. My general response is to tear strips off the bugger calling, and rip them to shreds.

Although occasionally I change tack and play things a little more subtly, and just have them wait, repeatedly failing to take down their phone number accurately and read out the wrong one, play it thick as shit, putting on a slight arab accent and affecting crap english (not of use if the caller sounds like a towelhead of course), especially useful if the caller sounds as though they are coming from a southeast asian country and already has an obvious linguistic disconnect between english and whatever they natively speak, so things get doubly confusing for them, but I let them think they are likely to get a sale. And keep them hanging for as long as possible, to rack up big phone bills for them :D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 16, 2016, 09:26:39 PM

Quote from: Lestat on August 16, 2016, 09:19:33 PM

Fucking hate phone spammers. Dickheads, really sad, greedy, pathetic dickholes.

The biggest pisstake is when they complain 'buuuuutt...buut I'm JUST doing my job!'

Because they should have thought about the reception they would get, before calling me, and indeed before taking a 'job' like that working for the kind of spam-peddling filth that employ them. If they can't take the heat, then they should take their faces away from the fire before someone jams it in there with a foot on the back of their neck, so to speak.

Because when the telemasturbator is a living entity (I won't sully the terms 'person' or 'human being' by befouling them with such an association) and I get called up, day after day after day, fuckwit after dipshit after pestilent bag of dogshit after cretin. Then, well, lets just say I get very fed up of it. Have even had the bastards call up at near 8am before. And when I get cranky because of such liberties being taken then I'm not inclined to be particularly pleasantly disposed to them. My general response is to tear strips off the bugger calling, and rip them to shreds.

Although occasionally I change tack and play things a little more subtly, and just have them wait, repeatedly failing to take down their phone number accurately and read out the wrong one, play it thick as shit, putting on a slight arab accent and affecting crap english (not of use if the caller sounds like a towelhead of course), especially useful if the caller sounds as though they are coming from a southeast asian country and already has an obvious linguistic disconnect between english and whatever they natively speak, so things get doubly confusing for them, but I let them think they are likely to get a sale. And keep them hanging for as long as possible, to rack up big phone bills for them :D

I like the way you think!    >:D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 17, 2016, 12:25:13 AM

Coffee happened. :)

I don't understand how people who don't drink coffee get by without killing anyone.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on August 17, 2016, 12:58:10 AM

We drink lots of tea.

packed up to go home today. everything fit with room to spare, and i won't be violating any canadian sensitivities by bringing things they don't like over the border. the things they dislike most are meat, fruit, plants and drugs.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 17, 2016, 05:15:03 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 17, 2016, 12:25:13 AM

Coffee happened. :)

I don't understand how people who don't drink coffee get by without killing anyone.

  Coffee is happening here right now. :coffee:   Don't know how I went my first 31 years without.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 17, 2016, 05:56:06 AM

A package just arrived in the mail for me:)

LETTERS I can't say as I am too enthusiastic about, because they can as easily be something I don't wish to hear as something I do. More so possibly.

But parcels are good. People don't send bad news or demands in boxes.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 17, 2016, 11:25:27 AM

My favourite dog is visiting. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 17, 2016, 12:40:08 PM

Feeling pretty good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 17, 2016, 01:20:09 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 17, 2016, 11:25:27 AM

My favourite dog is visiting. :)

  Whose dog, and what breed?  :doggie:  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 18, 2016, 12:07:40 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on August 17, 2016, 01:20:09 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 17, 2016, 11:25:27 AM

My favourite dog is visiting. :)

  Whose dog, and what breed?  :doggie:  :)

My sister-in-law's, a Bichon Havanese. Like this one:

(http://www.havanesebeth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_2733.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 18, 2016, 01:07:58 AM

I'm not a dog person, I'm really not. All that slobber, that simple-headed slavishness even to abusive 'owners' (ugh, I fucking despise pieces of shit who abuse animals, thats one thing that will reliably press my black-rage-button. With a lump hammer. Until said button has been pressed so far down that it pops right out the other side. Its one reason that sadly, I could never work in most research laboratories, other than my own or those of fellow bees), the need to be walked on a lead rather than taking themselves for a walk, the leaving everywhere pissed and beshitten (and don't even get me started about their stopping to bag their turd up and then not bothering taking it home, or even dumping it in a red bin, but hanging the bags from the low-to-medium hanging branches/twigs of bushes, hedges and trees; the inconsiderate furry bastards) And then theres the SOCIAL. Ew. And the noise, with them barking at all hours, especially irritating in the summertime when its been scorching hot at night so I've had the windows left open to let out some heat.

I'm through and through, a cat person. And why can be excellently put in a nutshell by the expression 'dogs have owners, cats have staff':D and cats are cute too; although I've had all manner of other kinds of pets. From various wounded and rescued birds (wounded that is by things or events other than myself, I didn't mean that I did it to capture them, I didn't and wouldn't either, although I'd hope everyone here knows that of me by now) to lizards to leeches, widow spiders, even a baby hedgehog that I found one winter, too young to have survived hibernation, poor tiny thing was emaciated and freezing cold, barely let out a squeak when I scooped the little wee mite up, took off my shirt and made sure the little one was all wrapped up warm whilst I carried the little hedgehog-parcel back to my place and got some food and water ready, and rigged up a nest-box lined with soft and comfortable materials. I forget what I used for bedding and breakfast the first time chow-time came* although IIRC it was dog food once I could go and get some.

*(for the hedgehog, I mean..although it was quite some time ago so I haven't the faintest what *I* ate either. Although  I am pretty sure it wasn't dog food:P
For some reason, I don't find it particularly appealing)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 18, 2016, 05:15:07 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 18, 2016, 12:07:40 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on August 17, 2016, 01:20:09 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 17, 2016, 11:25:27 AM

My favourite dog is visiting. :)

  Whose dog, and what breed?  :doggie:  :)

My sister-in-law's, a Bichon Havanese. Like this one:

(http://www.havanesebeth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_2733.jpg)

  What a sweet little face, I can see why this is your fave.  :) :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on August 18, 2016, 10:46:53 AM

completely safe to eat french fries and shrimp
plus with all that went on, i found i had taken only one kinder egg to ny. the other two i had intended to bring got lost somehow. when i got home i realized i never opened it. it's being marked special.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 18, 2016, 11:11:04 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on August 18, 2016, 05:15:07 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 18, 2016, 12:07:40 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on August 17, 2016, 01:20:09 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 17, 2016, 11:25:27 AM

My favourite dog is visiting. :)

  Whose dog, and what breed?  :doggie:  :)

My sister-in-law's, a Bichon Havanese. Like this one:

(http://www.havanesebeth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_2733.jpg)

  What a sweet little face, I can see why this is your fave.  :) :heart:

And she's got a huge personality. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 18, 2016, 12:06:44 PM

My back stopped aching!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 18, 2016, 01:23:34 PM

Had a really great nap

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 18, 2016, 04:10:33 PM

Lol, parts. So did I. Just woke up, been asleep a few hours; my morphine sent me to sleep, and I had a very very restful nap and woke up 4-5 hours later or thereabouts, feeling most refreshed and relaxed. No nasty ass sleep-seizures.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 18, 2016, 07:06:40 PM

Got things done at work much faster than I expected. Didn't have to stay late.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 18, 2016, 11:43:52 PM

Coffee happened. :coffee:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 19, 2016, 05:08:44 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 18, 2016, 11:11:04 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on August 18, 2016, 05:15:07 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 18, 2016, 12:07:40 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on August 17, 2016, 01:20:09 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 17, 2016, 11:25:27 AM

My favourite dog is visiting. :)

  Whose dog, and what breed?  :doggie:  :)

My sister-in-law's, a Bichon Havanese. Like this one:

(http://www.havanesebeth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_2733.jpg)

  What a sweet little face, I can see why this is your fave.  :) :heart:

And she's got a huge personality. :)

  Little dogs often do.  I hope you enjoyed the visit.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 19, 2016, 11:08:32 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on August 19, 2016, 05:08:44 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 18, 2016, 11:11:04 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on August 18, 2016, 05:15:07 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 18, 2016, 12:07:40 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on August 17, 2016, 01:20:09 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 17, 2016, 11:25:27 AM

My favourite dog is visiting. :)

  Whose dog, and what breed?  :doggie:  :)

My sister-in-law's, a Bichon Havanese. Like this one:

(http://www.havanesebeth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_2733.jpg)

  What a sweet little face, I can see why this is your fave.  :) :heart:

And she's got a huge personality. :)

  Little dogs often do.  I hope you enjoyed the visit.  :)

She was with us two whole days. :)

I really want a dog.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 19, 2016, 09:12:12 PM

My patience is reaching it's limits.....and that is a good thing!   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 20, 2016, 11:32:01 AM

Quote from: rock hound on August 19, 2016, 09:12:12 PM

My patience is reaching it's limits.....and that is a good thing!

  :agreed:   Sometimes you have to get angry to make changes!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 20, 2016, 02:09:56 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on August 20, 2016, 11:32:01 AM

Quote from: rock hound on August 19, 2016, 09:12:12 PM

My patience is reaching it's limits.....and that is a good thing!

  :agreed:   Sometimes you have to get angry to make changes!

Yep, this is make or break week for me and a certain situation.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 20, 2016, 03:22:18 PM

Good luck with whatever it is, then. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 20, 2016, 04:17:00 PM

We shall see, I work for fools and I work helping fools!  :poo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 20, 2016, 05:46:17 PM

Quote from: rock hound on August 20, 2016, 04:17:00 PM

We shall see, I work for fools and I work helping fools!  :poo:

  Fools abound, in every corner of the universe!  We must strive to maintain our serenity!  :meditate:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 20, 2016, 07:33:41 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on August 20, 2016, 05:46:17 PM

Quote from: rock hound on August 20, 2016, 04:17:00 PM

We shall see, I work for fools and I work helping fools!  :poo:

  Fools abound, in every corner of the universe!  We must strive to maintain our serenity!  :meditate:

After my yoga class I felt some clarity about the situation.........that's why this "make or break" week.  Either I make it work or break it off and cut my losses!   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 26, 2016, 03:35:38 AM

When aiming the goodly generous (indeed rather extravagantly generous) 5ml rig loaded with a preeeety damned concentrated solution of dipropionylmorphine, the fine needle I used (31ga) slid right in and hit the aimed for vein first time without more than a slight pinprick sensation in terms of pain. And owing to the small needle bore, it means the solution must go in slowly, a bit inconvenient really unless one's hands are steady, but it also means that the contents are delivered slowly and steadily, so with an opioid of considerable strength indeed, that can mean that the rush, once sufficient is administered to cause it in the first instance,  is sustained by what is in essence, a short-lived infusion, in practical terms at least, so its sustained for quite some time.

Lovely, so far in my entire collective experience with any opioids, DPM is, with one other also containing it, the absolute rolls-royce of MOR-agonist opiates.
Wonderful smooth, long lasting, warm and fuzzly, relaxing as hell, fantastic legs, good muscle relaxant properties, makes a given quantity of morphine sulfate spread out a lot longer without spreading thin on the ground, and turns a pretty good opiate into a truly delightful one:)

Lol, I almost nodded off earlier into my bowl of golden grahams haha.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 26, 2016, 08:37:16 AM

Went to yoga.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 26, 2016, 08:39:21 AM

Two days in a row to the ARC for The PR.  Yesterday she found someone she went to school with.  All is beautiful

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 26, 2016, 11:18:18 AM

Got to reschedule some work till next week freeing up my weekend

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 26, 2016, 11:59:42 AM

Firing up the glassware and making with some chem.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 28, 2016, 08:34:11 AM

http://www.calculators.org/math/chemistry.php

Just found this site. Being dyscalculic, if I wasn't autie as hell, then I doubt it would have come naturally to me. But such as the luck of the draw is, this is what I got born with for a hobby.  But the math side is a MAJOR headache, literally, it leaves my head pounding after and during sometimes.  Now I just have to input the likes of molar mass, concentration desired in solution and volume and get what I want with a click of a button. NICE. I like it.

The boiling xylene might have something to do with it but the vents are on full whack. Extractor is on. So I don't think so, especially as I've been checking on that every so often and spending a lot of time in the lounge rather than at the workspace. Check every  few to make sure not overdone and burnt.

The math this sorted is the best though, started some chlormethiazole and accidentally fucked up placement of a decimal point and got ten times the concentrations required for the starting compound mass, in terms of quantity of bisulfite needing added. Plus some accidental metal contamination resulting in an oily green crap I don't even want in my stills, for it might bake on and be a total swine to remove. I think I'll scrap that and start again. Not too difficult anyhow, although with a slight modification, namely rather than waiting for the desired crystals of the intermediate vitamin B1 cleavage fragment to precipitate out of water solution at room temp. An  ice/diethylene glycol/calcium chloride bath will be used after its had a bit of time to react, in order to shock-freeze the solution, then slow warming to melting point or careful exposure to the cryo bath will be used in order to hurry things up and get nice fine easily filterable, cleanable crystals ready to be dried from methanol evaporation and then chlorinated with thionyl chloride. Which will be it. Job done. Hydrolyse residual SOCl2, collect the target compound and recrystallize from HCl gas-solution in methanol.or just don't bother even trying to salt it and precipitate the base as an oil by adding water.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 28, 2016, 05:21:16 PM

Had a good day at the flea market

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 28, 2016, 05:25:42 PM

Made fried rice for dinner and WolFish loved it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 28, 2016, 05:46:40 PM

Bought a big slab of fillet steak for less than a fiver. Yum, I KNOW what I am having for breakfast.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 28, 2016, 07:06:32 PM

Survived a hellish day at work!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 28, 2016, 07:15:43 PM

My 5-(2-hydroxyethan-2-yl)-4-methyl-1,3-thiazole is almost ready. Filtering now, then drying, dissolving the freebase in solvent then reacting with thionyl chloride.

Washing with water to remove residual bisulfite (prepared it via cleavage of vitamin B1 using metabisulfite) and then after drying, chlorination with the SOCl2. Nice, clean, byproducts gaseous so easy to strip out. And finally, strip product from solvent and clean it.

It is then chlormethiazole, the antiquated, but excellent and most hangover-free sedative hypnotic. makes benzos look like candy, don't drink on it (will kill you easily) and it is infinitely more effective than for example, valium or shite z-drugs.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 28, 2016, 07:16:25 PM

Quote from: rock hound on August 28, 2016, 07:06:32 PM

Survived a hellish day at work!

  Celebrate with some fine wine!  :wine:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 28, 2016, 07:24:15 PM

Celebrating  a nice relaxed days labwork well done, with a mug of ice cold russian standard wodka. Slugged down in one gulp and washed down with a mouthful of coke (not sugar free crap either, renaeden;))

And finding this song, by ASP. Love it!

https://youtu.be/sifM_9DIVbI

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 28, 2016, 07:58:23 PM

I just love the way the mandolin goes so well with the synth and the both the vocals and the vocal rhythm. Unusual to see a mandolin in a metal band, violin sometimes but not mandolin. Going to play it once more and then go stick some steeleye span on, its got me in the mood. That and the hefty belt of wodka I just had. Good shit that russian standard. Expensive, but its SO much smoother than the vile likes of smirnoff. Ew. This  burns yes but its smooth going down the hatch after the initial shockwave of epithelium and mucus membrane being met by the insult of spirituous liquor. I rarely engage in its consumption these days. Indeed seldom indeed are days that I CAN taste but a mouthful of spirit and avoid being KO'ed flat out, because of my taking chlormethiazole as seizure prophylaxis.

It inhibits alcohol dehydrogenase. Quite potently at that. So a tiny quantity (read, a couple of two-finger measures of average proof spirit is enough to make one feel hit pretty hard and pissed as a fart) currently, given the fact my script is limited in quantity and insufficient to totally control seizures. So I take it thrice daily for prophylaxis but this BARELY controls things. BARELY. And insufficently at that. I'd like to change to something  like an ultramicrodosed phenobabarbital for my night time dose because phenobarb has a LOOOOOOOOOONG duration of action, and a steady-state plasma level builds up over days of initial onset and it would help prevent me seizing in my sleep.  Because it wouldn't wear off, and I could easily start back on the pram' to combat the memory-fucking effects of the barbs. The barbiturates of course being long-trapping antagonists at AMPA receptors  with one HELL of a long washout time to return to baseline in electrophysiological studies at least. The inverse of AMPAkines, which I am extremely keen to start on, but first I am trying to get a memantine script (its a NMDA antagonist, but not just a simple ligand of ligand-gated ion channel, its an antagonist of NMDARs but voltage-gated, which means that it only blocks excessive glutamatergic activity, rather than baseline.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 28, 2016, 08:30:18 PM

Quote from: Lestat on August 28, 2016, 07:24:15 PM

And finding this song, by ASP. Love it!

https://youtu.be/sifM_9DIVbI

Niiice.  :plus:

That doesn't seem to be the full version though, I looked up the lyrics and translation, and it fades out on the last verse before the end.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 28, 2016, 08:35:54 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on August 28, 2016, 07:16:25 PM

Quote from: rock hound on August 28, 2016, 07:06:32 PM

Survived a hellish day at work!

  Celebrate with some fine wine!  :wine:

 A small amount of Brandy also does the trick.  Wine too late at night keeps me awake!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 28, 2016, 09:03:03 PM

Take it you liekiee then raxis? I have literally been playing that track on repeat. So often and so loud that my old man has been bitching me out non stop, and every moment I so much as go for a bong or to take a slash interfering with volume setting. Trying to demand I turn it down to such a volume I cannot hear it.

I got a liking for the band ASP after buying their album schwartzes schmetterling one day whilst out on a hefty belter of IV ethylphenidate (NO not ritalin, the ethyl homolog, not bad I daresay and decided to update my CD music collection. Makes me think of the large hawkmoth flying around thats trapped in the place but needs rescuing. Yet I as yet cannot. I can't catch the wee devil. So at the time, I had enough to burn a bit on a few CDs, so I did, looked for some katatonia stuff I wanted, found it, but found this as well amongst the new new stuff. Or at least, schwartzes schmetterling, hasn't got this on it. But this, I like. Been belting it out on manual repeat, interspersed with porcelain and the tramps, some disturbed,  some of the rock-ier steeleye span tracks (you might well not get this lot if you aren't a brit)

That and the songs 'leftovers' and 'gasoline' by PATC, as well as some jack off jill (check em that bitch fucking owns) lollirot is a class track by them. And some kittie. Pretty much my background entertainment whilst I've beavered away in the lab all day (and night, bar a few hours...really been throwing myself into my work these days, it helps keep me from being depressed for want of..certain changes in life.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 28, 2016, 10:51:17 PM

Yep, I like melodic fantasy metal. Or whatever the official name for this stuff is. I played that track on repeat for a little while tonight. Not too loud though because WolFish is not as keen on it as I am and he was in the other room working.

My other musical obsession tonight was Hanggai - Baifang. Is that your tastes?

https://youtu.be/nNJ_FtYbTtc

I don't know Schwartz Schmetterling. There's a Japanese group called Schwartz Stein that I like but that's an entirely different thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 29, 2016, 01:00:30 AM

black butterfly (meaning of schwartz schmetteling) is by ASP again, they use the 'schwartze schmetterling' motif over and over in their stuff. Look on their youtube tracks and you will see a ghostly black butterfly repeatedly. That is the literal translation of the words, I do not know what it means to them personally.
But strikes me as ephemeral. That much seems clear.

Just listening to your link, after going w/ the laptop to the temp. lab and sticking it on (my old man HATES the sound from this box's speakers even on a level i can barely, barely describe as audible. Unfortunately I do not speak...mongolian? is it?  The ethnic look of the performers, going from the facies and eye canting seems mongolian. Correct or otherwise?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 29, 2016, 10:17:12 PM

Yeah, it's Mongolian.

I don't speak it, but I don't speak German either and I like the music. Actually I like a lot of foreign music. It's good for when I'm working, when understanding words in lyrics would get in the way. So I pick stuff for tone and melody and sound.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 30, 2016, 12:04:42 AM

I need to check this when I'm fully awake and can handle sounds.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 30, 2016, 04:48:42 AM

Be warned, that ASP track, has a way of worming its way into your head and not leaving any time soon. Still hasn't.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on August 30, 2016, 05:58:22 AM

Thanks Lestat, that's a good song and the good thing that happened today was that I listened to it. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 30, 2016, 09:12:57 AM

No worries ren. Just listening to that a few moments ago for about the third or fourth time in a row, while I rolled and am smoking my rollie.

Now got this on- Porcelain and the Tramps-my leftovers.
https://youtu.be/I3OW5sNPEF8

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 31, 2016, 02:19:26 PM

Just found a 200ml bottle of tincture of opium, which I had completely and totally forgotten about.

And knocked it back in one shot, washed down with a little chocolate fudge brownie milkshake, because it has a habit of stinging moderately strongly, due to its having an alcohol content of 22%.

Found this song:
(ASP-Sweet Gwendoline)  Don't forget the video, its top notch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT-yN5dd1Es

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 02, 2016, 04:17:26 PM

I got a nice 1.5x2 foot piece of half inch iron plate I am going to use as a work surface on my bench

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 02, 2016, 09:26:14 PM

Son turned 13! I have TWO teenagers and all three minions are in double-digits after youngest turned 10 last week.

 :facepalm:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2016, 02:05:18 AM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on September 02, 2016, 09:26:14 PM

Son turned 13! I have TWO teenagers and all three minions are in double-digits after youngest turned 10 last week.

 :facepalm:

It's a horrifying moment, I know. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 03, 2016, 06:06:18 AM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on September 02, 2016, 09:26:14 PM

Son turned 13! I have TWO teenagers and all three minions are in double-digits after youngest turned 10 last week.

 :facepalm:

  Now they're old enough to be a help :sweep: around the house and yard!   :multitask:


   
   The oldest can guard the house against unwanted visitors!  :odeon:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2016, 06:37:32 AM

Gothenburg is hosting the finishing line of the Tall Ships Race this year, so we went to the see some of the ships in the harbour.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 03, 2016, 06:42:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 03, 2016, 06:37:32 AM

Gothenburg is hosting the finishing line of the Tall Ships Race this year, so we went to the see some of the ships in the harbour.

  I'm in the lead! Yarrrr! :pirate: :pirateship:  :boatfish:  :fish2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on September 03, 2016, 07:14:14 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 03, 2016, 06:37:32 AM

Gothenburg is hosting the finishing line of the Tall Ships Race this year, so we went to the see some of the ships in the harbour.

That does sound good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2016, 07:19:04 AM

Quote from: Jack on September 03, 2016, 07:14:14 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 03, 2016, 06:37:32 AM

Gothenburg is hosting the finishing line of the Tall Ships Race this year, so we went to the see some of the ships in the harbour.

That does sound good.

It was awesome. I love tall ships.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 03, 2016, 07:45:00 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 03, 2016, 06:06:18 AM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on September 02, 2016, 09:26:14 PM

Son turned 13! I have TWO teenagers and all three minions are in double-digits after youngest turned 10 last week.

 :facepalm:

  Now they're old enough to be a help :sweep: around the house and yard!   :multitask:


   
   The oldest can guard the house against unwanted visitors!  :odeon:

You crack me up. Only the youngest will do anything. The oldest just sits in her room on her iPod Touch all day or sleeps. Next year she will have to take care of herself in college, but somehow I am guessing she will dupe her roomate(s) into taking care of her. She has no life skills.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 03, 2016, 08:44:12 AM

Yoga happened!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 03, 2016, 09:09:02 AM

Lol trigger, just buy them each a shotgun/carve them a pointy stick. Anyone can do the job with the former.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2016, 03:34:24 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 03, 2016, 08:44:12 AM

Yoga happened!

What kind of Yoga do you practice?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 03, 2016, 09:11:11 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 03, 2016, 03:34:24 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 03, 2016, 08:44:12 AM

Yoga happened!

What kind of Yoga do you practice?

It's a mix, between Ashtanga and restorative and one other type that I can never get the name right.  I have at least three different teachers at the studio that I go to and their styles are all unique.  Which I kind of like, since certain other teachers are all "clones" of their trainer who happens to be the owner.   And as a friend said, she also teaches yoga and works with the body chakra's....the owner doesn't "do a thing for me".  His style is quite repetitive and never varies in his classes.  I like a mix of styles and after my hernia surgery, my body responds to certain styles like restorative, than others.  That's probably more info than you needed, but, I hope it explains well. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 03, 2016, 09:12:05 PM

A hot shower after a hellish and filthy day at work! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 04, 2016, 01:33:26 AM

Quote from: rock hound on September 03, 2016, 09:11:11 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 03, 2016, 03:34:24 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 03, 2016, 08:44:12 AM

Yoga happened!

What kind of Yoga do you practice?

It's a mix, between Ashtanga and restorative and one other type that I can never get the name right.  I have at least three different teachers at the studio that I go to and their styles are all unique.  Which I kind of like, since certain other teachers are all "clones" of their trainer who happens to be the owner.   And as a friend said, she also teaches yoga and works with the body chakra's....the owner doesn't "do a thing for me".  His style is quite repetitive and never varies in his classes.  I like a mix of styles and after my hernia surgery, my body responds to certain styles like restorative, than others.  That's probably more info than you needed, but, I hope it explains well.

It does, thanks.

I'm told I should try Yoga Nidra to bring down my stress levels.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on September 04, 2016, 04:42:16 AM

Finished my first oil change.

I actually started it yesterday but I came to removing the oil filter and found it was in there extremely tight. Naturally this stumbling block didn't present itself till late afternoon when the auto parts stores were closed, so I had to wait until this morning to buy a proper oil filter socket wrench attachment.
Silly me for presuming the dealer wouldn't have near soldered the damn thing in there.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 04, 2016, 04:52:55 AM

Quote from: Marion Crane on September 04, 2016, 04:42:16 AM

Finished my first oil change.

I actually started it yesterday but I came to removing the oil filter and found it was in there extremely tight. Naturally this stumbling block didn't present itself till late afternoon when the auto parts stores were closed, so I had to wait until this morning to buy a proper oil filter socket wrench attachment.
Silly me for presuming the dealer wouldn't have near soldered the damn thing in there.

  You're going to become a car expert, one tiny mishap at a time!   :fixin:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on September 04, 2016, 04:53:33 AM

Father's Day in Australia. My daughter made me my first play list. (I keep thinking of more songs LOL) and I have just come back from a nice meal at an Indian Restaurant with her.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 04, 2016, 04:53:44 AM

  Coffee and grilled cheese are happening right now.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 04, 2016, 05:42:18 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 04, 2016, 01:33:26 AM

Quote from: rock hound on September 03, 2016, 09:11:11 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 03, 2016, 03:34:24 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 03, 2016, 08:44:12 AM

Yoga happened!

What kind of Yoga do you practice?

It's a mix, between Ashtanga and restorative and one other type that I can never get the name right.  I have at least three different teachers at the studio that I go to and their styles are all unique.  Which I kind of like, since certain other teachers are all "clones" of their trainer who happens to be the owner.   And as a friend said, she also teaches yoga and works with the body chakra's....the owner doesn't "do a thing for me".  His style is quite repetitive and never varies in his classes.  I like a mix of styles and after my hernia surgery, my body responds to certain styles like restorative, than others.  That's probably more info than you needed, but, I hope it explains well.

It does, thanks.

I'm told I should try Yoga Nidra to bring down my stress levels.

Ah, Yoga Nidra, as well as Kripalu are the other ones that my teachers bring to my classes.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on September 04, 2016, 06:18:29 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on September 04, 2016, 04:53:33 AM

Father's Day in Australia. My daughter made me my first play list. (I keep thinking of more songs LOL) and I have just come back from a nice meal at an Indian Restaurant with her.

Happy Father's Day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 04, 2016, 07:43:09 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 04, 2016, 04:53:44 AM

  Coffee and grilled cheese are happening right now.  :2thumbsup:

Grilled cheese is code for sex in some places, soooooo...

 :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 04, 2016, 08:11:56 AM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on September 04, 2016, 07:43:09 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 04, 2016, 04:53:44 AM

  Coffee and grilled cheese are happening right now.  :2thumbsup:

Grilled cheese is code for sex in some places, soooooo...

 :headbang2:

  In my place, it's code for a cheese sandwich fried in butter.  :M :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 04, 2016, 08:13:28 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 04, 2016, 08:11:56 AM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on September 04, 2016, 07:43:09 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 04, 2016, 04:53:44 AM

  Coffee and grilled cheese are happening right now.  :2thumbsup:

Grilled cheese is code for sex in some places, soooooo...

 :headbang2:

  In my place, it's code for a cheese sandwich fried in butter.  :M :P

Well...not in Boston.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 04, 2016, 08:21:40 AM

  There's more to Massachusetts than Boston.  :lol2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 04, 2016, 08:22:47 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 04, 2016, 08:21:40 AM

  There's more to Massachusetts than Boston.  :lol2:

South Weymouth and Salem!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on September 06, 2016, 12:20:32 PM

Quote from: Marion Crane on September 04, 2016, 04:42:16 AM

Finished my first oil change.

I actually started it yesterday but I came to removing the oil filter and found it was in there extremely tight. Naturally this stumbling block didn't present itself till late afternoon when the auto parts stores were closed, so I had to wait until this morning to buy a proper oil filter socket wrench attachment.
Silly me for presuming the dealer wouldn't have near soldered the damn thing in there.

Can't you just get a standard oil filter wrench in there??

That's what I've used on all my vehicles including my motorcycles.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 07, 2016, 06:45:23 PM

Someone sent me this awesome video.  :2thumbsup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJTLzmmADuk

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 07, 2016, 06:49:19 PM

Survived with my sanity intact.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 07, 2016, 07:18:45 PM

  My toilet seat has been loose for several weeks.  Tonight I examined where it attaches to the bowl,
  and I discovered plastic screws that had gotten really loose.  I found where they were screwed in below
  the rim of the seat and tightened them, and now the seat is back to its proper condition.  Easy peasy.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 07, 2016, 07:51:50 PM

MYLAR COMC BOOK BAGS WORK!!!

Only six trade paperbacks were damaged out of about 700 comics and trade paperbacks. Two copies of the same one were never bagged :facepalm2: and a three-pack set that came in its own hard paperboard collector case that couldn't be bagged with any normal comic book bag were exposed to water. The three comic book boxes were utterly soaked, so I am amazed and grateful.

Been dealing with that and clearing out the carpet fragments that were under the comics and a bunch of plastic containers with all of my college memorabilia, pro sports collectibles from games I attended, and my band swag (including audio and video recordings, set lists, signed albums, etc.), which were thankfully unaffected as that stuff can't be replaced.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 07, 2016, 08:16:09 PM

explored something a bit different and out of the usual fields for me (just starting to get into opioid chem)

The 3,6-dibenzoyl ester of morphine. Not as potent as dipropionylmorphine, and significantly slower onset via IV route, seems longer lasting though than morphine or heroin. But not a great rush on injection of the product.

Next up: desomorphine and tetrahydrodesomorphine.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 07, 2016, 08:25:31 PM

Following both neck surgueries I stayed overnight and the next day in the hospital and was on a Morphine drip. It was very disappointing. Didn't help pain (surgical or chronic pre-existing) and didn't even get loopy.

Boo!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 07, 2016, 09:55:12 PM

Music happened...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyIGhnjX0go

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 09, 2016, 09:21:00 AM

Yesterday, I was picking up a prescription, did it at a place that has a pet store within a reasonable distance to the pharmacy I picked up the script (antiseizure meds) from, so I walked down there thinking to buy myself a new aquarium pump in order to use it for recirculating coolants through my lab condensers.

The only one in my price range was a weak as shit aeration pump, the kind of thing you attach a diffuser stone to and bubble air through the fish's water. Very weak and absolutely useless for my needs the guy explained, after I asked him if he had anything cheaper. We are on fairly good terms actually, myself and the owner as well as with his cat, who scrammed from the customers giving him attention straight up to come and see me, purring, rubbing up against me and rolling over demanding his belly scratched as fast as his three legs would carry him.

After I asked if he had any cheaper ones, that were more powerful, he said no he hadn't, why what do you need a more powerful pump for. So I explained, and he said that the one I'd been looking at would struggle like all hell (my wording) to pump water (or, of course anything else for that matter, let alone more viscous fluids like the diethylene glycol/acetone mixture in a salted ice bath with alcohol poured over the ice that I like to use in my cryo baths. So he started to show me another pump, a better one, more powerful, but I explained I didn't have enough, and turned to go. But he asked me how much I had, told him, and I was somewhat short of being able to afford it. But he said he'd do it for me for a cut price, taking what I did have in full payment, although I was a fair bit short of being able to afford it. Gave me a good discount on it, and we spent a fair bit of time talking.

The type he sold me, was a pump strong enough for recirculating water in garden ponds and fountains.  Adjustable flow rate, capable of circulating 100 liters of coolant (well, water is what is intended, I on the other hand, have other ideas entirely about what it is going to be pumping and why, mind you) per hour at a height of 3/4 meter, or at a quarter of a meter, twice that. 150l at a half meter in height. That should do perfectly, I just need to get some rubber tubing that will fit it or hack a rubber bung to a dual-sized opening to mate my condenser hose barbs to a larger garden hose.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 09, 2016, 11:05:28 AM

At the airport, on my way home. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 09, 2016, 11:15:07 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 09, 2016, 11:05:28 AM

At the airport, on my way home. :)

  Home to fjords and meatballs!   :plane:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 09, 2016, 11:16:13 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 09, 2016, 11:15:07 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 09, 2016, 11:05:28 AM

At the airport, on my way home. :)

  Home to fjords and meatballs!   :plane:

I hate to disappoint but there are no fjords where I live.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 09, 2016, 11:53:03 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 09, 2016, 11:16:13 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 09, 2016, 11:15:07 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 09, 2016, 11:05:28 AM

At the airport, on my way home. :)

  Home to fjords and meatballs!   :plane:

I hate to disappoint but there are no fjords where I live.

  Buy some at IKEA and assemble them at home.  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 09, 2016, 12:26:16 PM

My wife is coming home!    :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 09, 2016, 03:55:33 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 09, 2016, 11:53:03 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 09, 2016, 11:16:13 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 09, 2016, 11:15:07 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 09, 2016, 11:05:28 AM

At the airport, on my way home. :)

  Home to fjords and meatballs!   :plane:

I hate to disappoint but there are no fjords where I live.

  Buy some at IKEA and assemble them at home.  :P

Are you pining for the fjords?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 09, 2016, 03:57:27 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 09, 2016, 03:55:33 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 09, 2016, 11:53:03 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 09, 2016, 11:16:13 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 09, 2016, 11:15:07 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 09, 2016, 11:05:28 AM

At the airport, on my way home. :)

  Home to fjords and meatballs!   :plane:

I hate to disappoint but there are no fjords where I live.

  Buy some at IKEA and assemble them at home.  :P

Are you pining for the fjords?

  Alas, I've never even seen a real live fjord.  :emosad:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 09, 2016, 03:58:29 PM

They are not made by IKEA. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 09, 2016, 03:59:42 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 09, 2016, 03:58:29 PM

They are not made by IKEA. :P

  Why not?  Everything else in your country is. :trollface:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 09, 2016, 04:03:50 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 09, 2016, 03:59:42 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 09, 2016, 03:58:29 PM

They are not made by IKEA. :P

  Why not?  Everything else in your country is. :trollface:

That would explain a lot.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 09, 2016, 10:41:32 PM

There appears to be light at the end of the tunnel with my car. GM Dealer took apart airbag and steering column and determined the SIR Coil was destoyed, which is why the airbag light is stuck on. Car can't pass inspection with the airbag light on. They can have it done Monday morning, but another $600. However, the first place that did the Rack & Pinion over torqued the steering column, which destroyed the SIR Coil, so after going back and forth with the first place, and then them calling the GM Dealer, they reluctantly agreed to pay for it. I was prepared to threaten legal action. After all, they let me drive off with a car that was dangerous to drive. I hate confontation and am at the end of my rope on the car, especially given the added stress over the basement water damage and all the missed work, which I am starting to get grief over and is just one more stress inducer.

So if the GM Dealer has the car done Monday morning and I get it to the Monday appointment with the first place to redo the Rack & Pinion and maybe, just maybe, I will have my car back Monday evening, but Tuesday at the latest. Just hoping this really fixes it and they don't fuck it up again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 10, 2016, 10:44:17 AM

I'm not sure how good this is, but Dell is paying back my money rather than fixing the 4k screen of my laptop.

I don't want to be looking for a new laptop right now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 10, 2016, 08:05:13 PM

Had an awesome delicious sushi dinner out with WolFish, with green tea ice cream for dessert.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 11, 2016, 06:50:09 PM

Got a nice message from Walkie here.  Glad to see her back!   I missed her!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 11, 2016, 07:27:55 PM

Broke down all of the ruined furniture so I can take it to the dump and hopefully recycle most of it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 11, 2016, 09:09:25 PM

Walkie's back!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 11, 2016, 10:03:23 PM

#DoYourJob

Done...23-21!!!

#OnToMiami

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2016, 11:48:32 PM

Lots of activity here. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 12, 2016, 06:06:49 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 11, 2016, 11:48:32 PM

Lots of activity here. :)

  The Old Ones have come back to us!  :worship: :cthulhu: :cthulhu: :cthulhu:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 12, 2016, 08:35:11 AM

The PR is settling into ARC very nicely.  She wakes me up each morning so she can go.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Natalia Evans on September 12, 2016, 11:51:36 AM

My son started his first day of kindergarten and he was pretty happy to be there and had no problems when I left.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 12, 2016, 11:55:50 AM

Everybody has their cars registered.....next stop inspection time!   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on September 12, 2016, 12:20:38 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 11, 2016, 06:50:09 PM

Got a nice message from Walkie here.  Glad to see her back!   I missed her!

Awww. And  I nearly missed this post .  Do you do hugs? You totally derserve one. :hug:

-walkie :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on September 12, 2016, 12:27:11 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on September 11, 2016, 09:09:25 PM

Walkie's back!

And another one!

There's a thread for this kind of thing , you know  :LOL: And I duly posted there, and got loads of welcomes.

I'm beginning to feel like a celebrity.  :autism:

-walkie

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 12, 2016, 12:28:42 PM

Got a haircut!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 12, 2016, 01:23:10 PM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on September 12, 2016, 12:20:38 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 11, 2016, 06:50:09 PM

Got a nice message from Walkie here.  Glad to see her back!   I missed her!

Awww. And  I nearly missed this post .  Do you do hugs? You totally derserve one. :hug:

-walkie :)

 :hug:  Hugs back!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 12, 2016, 01:26:57 PM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on September 12, 2016, 12:20:38 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 11, 2016, 06:50:09 PM

Got a nice message from Walkie here.  Glad to see her back!   I missed her!

Awww. And  I nearly missed this post .  Do you do hugs? You totally derserve one. :hug:

-walkie :)

Also, 13 more posts and you get to join the Elder Forum......   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on September 12, 2016, 01:37:44 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 12, 2016, 01:26:57 PM

Also, 13 more posts and you get to join the Elder Forum......   8)

shhhhhh, i was gonna surprise them all by finally taking up my rightful place, like Aragorn returning to Gondor or summat.

you notice the title Elder under my name?  there's a tedious story behind that ,which i'd rather not trawl through yet again, at least not until  13 posts later.


-Walkie

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 12, 2016, 04:28:27 PM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on September 12, 2016, 01:37:44 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 12, 2016, 01:26:57 PM

Also, 13 more posts and you get to join the Elder Forum......   8)

shhhhhh, i was gonna surprise them all by finally taking up my rightful place, like Aragorn returning to Gondor or summat.

you notice the title Elder under my name?  there's a tedious story behind that ,which i'd rather not trawl through yet again, at least not until  13 posts later.


-Walkie

Ah, Walkies, my apologies......I must have been distracted by the drama llama!    :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on September 12, 2016, 06:21:34 PM

Qualified to be put forward for my next band at work by my manager.  :thumbup:

Also spotting a few old faces here... has someone been rattling letterboxes?  :poke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on September 12, 2016, 06:39:26 PM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on September 12, 2016, 06:21:34 PM

Qualified to be put forward for my next band at work by my manager.  :thumbup:

Not sure what that means, but congratulations. Raise?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 12, 2016, 06:45:34 PM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on September 12, 2016, 06:21:34 PM

Qualified to be put forward for my next band at work by my manager.  :thumbup:

Also spotting a few old faces here... has someone been rattling letterboxes?  :poke:

Yep, some of us old timers are rattling around!    :2thumbsup: for the work!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 12, 2016, 07:04:41 PM

I cleaned off the poker table, one of the last items to clean that as salvageable. I have no friends so never use it and should just give it away or donate it. My sister and I support a local animal sanctuary and I could donate it to their thrift store.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on September 12, 2016, 08:08:42 PM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on September 12, 2016, 06:21:34 PM

Qualified to be put forward for my next band at work by my manager.  :thumbup:

Also spotting a few old faces here... has someone been rattling letterboxes?  :poke:

ditto re. Jack's comment  :S

Also re. Jack:   Yep, and Jack was the one to rattle the letterboxes, as usual. She's turning out to be surprisingly valuable, for an upstart youngster , hmm?


-Walkie  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 12, 2016, 09:29:45 PM

Indeed.  :green: :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 12, 2016, 11:57:00 PM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on September 12, 2016, 06:21:34 PM

Qualified to be put forward for my next band at work by my manager.  :thumbup:

Also spotting a few old faces here... has someone been rattling letterboxes?  :poke:

Congrats! :)

And yeah, Jack's been busy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 13, 2016, 09:40:45 AM

Ooooohhhhhh SWEET!

After having myself a nice big slug of a mixture of 3,6-dipropionylmorphine, morphine sulfate and oxycodone, just finished doing my shot, came downstairs to the kitchen to roll a smoke and what happened...but a surprise thunderstorm.

Standing in the kitchen enjoying my rollup with the door open and it suddenly starts pissing it down outside, now I'm just standing here to smoke, enjoying listening to it. I LOVE thunderstorms, and find the sound of the rain beating down is making me all sleepy and relaxed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 13, 2016, 10:56:44 AM

Having an informal chat about a new job tomorrow.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 13, 2016, 11:53:50 AM

  This actually happened yesterday, but anyway ... I got a call from the cardiologist's office telling me
  the results of my recent CT scan with contrast.  My ascending aorta and lung nodule are stable in size.
   So evidently my ascending aorta is just naturally a little fat  :laugh:  and the nodule is benign.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on September 13, 2016, 12:17:37 PM

Great news , Weeble!      :2thumbsup:   :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 13, 2016, 12:18:05 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 13, 2016, 11:53:50 AM

  This actually happened yesterday, but anyway ... I got a call from the cardiologist's office telling me
  the results of my recent CT scan with contrast.  My ascending aorta and lung nodule are stable in size.
   So evidently my ascending aorta is just naturally a little fat  :laugh:  and the nodule is benign.  8)

It's a perfectly natural weeble aorta, then. Glad you're OK. :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 13, 2016, 05:11:41 PM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on September 13, 2016, 12:17:37 PM

Great news , Weeble!      :2thumbsup:   :hyke:

  Thank you!  Nice to know I can continue my semi-active lifestyle!  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 13, 2016, 05:13:49 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 13, 2016, 12:18:05 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 13, 2016, 11:53:50 AM

  This actually happened yesterday, but anyway ... I got a call from the cardiologist's office telling me
  the results of my recent CT scan with contrast.  My ascending aorta and lung nodule are stable in size.
   So evidently my ascending aorta is just naturally a little fat  :laugh:  and the nodule is benign.  8)

It's a perfectly natural weeble aorta, then. Glad you're OK. :hug:

  Thank you!  Yes, it's a little big around the middle :cbc: like the rest of me!  :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 13, 2016, 06:25:44 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 13, 2016, 10:56:44 AM

Having an informal chat about a new job tomorrow.

Good luck.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 14, 2016, 04:57:44 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on September 13, 2016, 06:25:44 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 13, 2016, 10:56:44 AM

Having an informal chat about a new job tomorrow.

Good luck.

Thanks. :)

The chat went well, I think. Supposedly they'll get back to me very soon.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on September 15, 2016, 06:34:17 PM

Quote from: Jack on September 12, 2016, 06:39:26 PM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on September 12, 2016, 06:21:34 PM

Qualified to be put forward for my next band at work by my manager.  :thumbup:

Not sure what that means, but congratulations. Raise?

Eventually, I have some hoops to jump through first. I got my status upgrade through yesterday so basically my authority as an underwriter has been increased. I'm on another training course next week, which will add another skill to my competences when signed off - at that point in a couple of months the raise should materialise.  :chores:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 15, 2016, 06:43:48 PM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on September 15, 2016, 06:34:17 PM

Quote from: Jack on September 12, 2016, 06:39:26 PM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on September 12, 2016, 06:21:34 PM

Qualified to be put forward for my next band at work by my manager.  :thumbup:

Not sure what that means, but congratulations. Raise?

Eventually, I have some hoops to jump through first. I got my status upgrade through yesterday so basically my authority as an underwriter has been increased. I'm on another training course next week, which will add another skill to my competences when signed off - at that point in a couple of months the raise should materialise.  :chores:

Great news is always good to hear about!  Congratulations, Dunc!   :plus:  Your hard work is paying off!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on September 15, 2016, 06:56:14 PM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on September 15, 2016, 06:34:17 PM

Quote from: Jack on September 12, 2016, 06:39:26 PM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on September 12, 2016, 06:21:34 PM

Qualified to be put forward for my next band at work by my manager.  :thumbup:

Not sure what that means, but congratulations. Raise?

Eventually, I have some hoops to jump through first. I got my status upgrade through yesterday so basically my authority as an underwriter has been increased. I'm on another training course next week, which will add another skill to my competences when signed off - at that point in a couple of months the raise should materialise.  :chores:

That's awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 17, 2016, 04:41:52 PM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on September 15, 2016, 06:34:17 PM

Quote from: Jack on September 12, 2016, 06:39:26 PM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on September 12, 2016, 06:21:34 PM

Qualified to be put forward for my next band at work by my manager.  :thumbup:

Not sure what that means, but congratulations. Raise?

Eventually, I have some hoops to jump through first. I got my status upgrade through yesterday so basically my authority as an underwriter has been increased. I'm on another training course next week, which will add another skill to my competences when signed off - at that point in a couple of months the raise should materialise.  :chores:

  I love the idea of having a job in which one can take courses, earn certifications, and move up levels!  :chores:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 17, 2016, 08:08:52 PM

Daughter scored her first career goal!!! She was pretty excited and I lifted her up off the pitch. :headbang2: :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 17, 2016, 08:09:23 PM

What's a career goal? I'm guessing this is not about a paycheck.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 17, 2016, 08:34:32 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on September 17, 2016, 08:09:23 PM

What's a career goal? I'm guessing this is not about a paycheck.

  I'm guessing, first goal of her soccer career.  Well done, young minion!  :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on September 17, 2016, 08:46:11 PM

Pyraxis and i pissed each other off then made up :)

nonono, not like that , ya bunch of snickering kiddies. She's taken, and i'm an over-the-hill hetero FFS. but it's always really nice to make up with a friend.

Meantime, 've missed nearly all the action here though cos i'm crap at multitasking. whereas she's been pyraxing all over the place.  how unfair is that?

Anyways shhhhhhh, you didn't see me in this thread , did you? Pyraxis told me to go to bed

( nonononono, not like that.......


tired but happy,

-Walkie

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Graelwyn on September 17, 2016, 09:01:16 PM

I suppose finally cleaning my microwave might count, as well as changing my bedding.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 17, 2016, 09:13:26 PM

Reminded me graelwyn, I need to get around to a thorough scrubbing clean, and then doing some modifications to one of the two microwaves, once I can walk again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 17, 2016, 09:24:26 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 17, 2016, 08:34:32 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on September 17, 2016, 08:09:23 PM

What's a career goal? I'm guessing this is not about a paycheck.

  I'm guessing, first goal of her soccer career.  Well done, young minion!  :arrr:

Yes...football!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on September 17, 2016, 09:29:26 PM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on September 17, 2016, 09:24:26 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 17, 2016, 08:34:32 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on September 17, 2016, 08:09:23 PM

What's a career goal? I'm guessing this is not about a paycheck.

  I'm guessing, first goal of her soccer career.  Well done, young minion!  :arrr:

Yes...football!

Well, bugger me! Who'd guess that an aspie might be right to take this goal thing  literally    :D.   We're like stopped clocks, hmm? (right twice a day)
Congrats to the sprog!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Graelwyn on September 17, 2016, 09:30:14 PM

Quote from: Lestat on September 17, 2016, 09:13:26 PM

Reminded me graelwyn, I need to get around to a thorough scrubbing clean, and then doing some modifications to one of the two microwaves, once I can walk again.

Glad I reminded you. I had been putting it off for months and just doing my best to ignore all the muck coating the inside of mine. It only took about 5 minutes to clean.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 18, 2016, 04:51:02 PM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on September 02, 2016, 09:26:14 PM

Son turned 13! I have TWO teenagers and all three minions are in double-digits after youngest turned 10 last week.

 :facepalm:

I'm late to the party. Congratulations.

And you aged too, in the past weeks?

Time for lots of cake to eat the worries away.  :cake: :cake: :cake:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 18, 2016, 04:59:09 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 13, 2016, 05:13:49 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 13, 2016, 12:18:05 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 13, 2016, 11:53:50 AM

  This actually happened yesterday, but anyway ... I got a call from the cardiologist's office telling me
  the results of my recent CT scan with contrast.  My ascending aorta and lung nodule are stable in size.
   So evidently my ascending aorta is just naturally a little fat  :laugh:  and the nodule is benign.  8)

It's a perfectly natural weeble aorta, then. Glad you're OK. :hug:

  Thank you!  Yes, it's a little big around the middle :cbc: like the rest of me!  :hug:

Great. Wobble on, the force is strong in you, and the air and blood supplies are stable.

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Post by: 'andersom' on September 18, 2016, 05:01:21 PM

Thee days in a row with temperatures below 30ºC.

Was about time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 20, 2016, 04:29:09 AM

Not often that I post in this thread.

Two good things happened today. First, I passed my mid-semester Cisco exam. Second, I passed the practical test (the whole pull a computer apart and put it back together thing). Even better was that I did it before over half the class. I am so used to being the slowest at everything so this was a nice surprise.

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Post by: Jack on September 20, 2016, 04:35:35 AM

Congratulations.

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Post by: Pyraxis on September 20, 2016, 04:48:36 AM

Nicely done!

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Post by: renaeden on September 20, 2016, 05:21:56 AM

Thank you both. :)

I also got to go home early :thumbup:

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 20, 2016, 06:13:37 AM

Quote from: renaeden on September 20, 2016, 05:21:56 AM

Thank you both. :)

I also got to go home early :thumbup:

  You are truly mastering the nuts and bolts of the computer!  :fixin: I got this!

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Post by: odeon on September 20, 2016, 12:32:19 PM

Well done, Ren. Congrats!

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Post by: Walkie on September 20, 2016, 02:34:45 PM

likewise, Ren, congrats!

Oooo, maybe i'll find something that i can do faster than everybody else, yet (the only thing that occurs to me is falling downstairs :D) 

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Post by: 'andersom' on September 20, 2016, 04:14:44 PM

Congrats, Ren.

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Post by: renaeden on September 21, 2016, 03:03:26 AM

Thank you all.:)

You made me laugh, Walkie. Recently I fell down the last few steps at the train station. That was pretty fast.

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Post by: Lestat on September 21, 2016, 04:58:01 AM

Well done hun :) go you.

Andfor what its worth I hope to see you in here more. (and falling down steps less too, its not good for one. Been there, done that. Had a really bad seizure and I was near the top of the house stairs at the time. I evidently went straight to hospital, do not pass go, DO collect a face full of scars.

Luckily the worst scars are perfectly aligned with the grooves beside the mouth that people have, that run down at a slight angle from the cheekbones. Would have made a real mess otherwise.

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Post by: Walkie on September 21, 2016, 05:41:18 AM

[EDIT: oops!  ummm... I think i did an aspie thing here, and butted in inappropriately  :hide:
:great big hole in the ground opens and swallows da fuckwit up: (nah, that one doesn't work, dammit)

it's just that i fall down stairs and post erratically and, yeah, i instantly recoginised myself, ofc , but on re-reading it looks clear you were talking to Ren.

what i mean is: sorry for being a fuckwit  :hide: ]

Quote from: Lestat on September 21, 2016, 04:58:01 AM

Well done hun :) go you.

Andfor what its worth I hope to see you in here more. (and falling down steps less too, its not good for one. Been there, done that. Had a really bad seizure and I was near the top of the house stairs at the time. I evidently went straight to hospital, do not pass go, DO collect a face full of scars.

Luckily the worst scars are perfectly aligned with the grooves beside the mouth that people have, that run down at a slight angle from the cheekbones. Would have made a real mess otherwise.

ouch ! and  ouch! and ouch! 

No wories about me on that score,  I fixed it.  I no longer climb stairs, not long flights anyway.   This resolution being due to a recent-ish development (or detraction) in the ongoing widdershin learning curve /hardware malfunction that i'm pleased to call my life.   That is, I now have seizures , triggerered by exercise. Since climbing stairs is hefty exercise, i figured it would probably be a tiny bit presumptous of me to rely upon the angels bearing me up.

 :apondering: Correction: i've always had seizures triggered by exercise, but I know about thenm now, and so does my neurologist, as well as anyone who's walked with me much. They are somewhat more dramatic than they used to be., and a whole lot more likely to throw me off my feet than they used to be.  So hey! I'm now being a tiny bit sensible (ooh! another new thing. life is full of surprises, huh?)

Quote from: Lestat on September 21, 2016, 04:58:01 AM

Andfor what its worth I hope to see you in here more.

I feel impelled to re-tard that . (That's my sudden idea for a spazz  equiv.  of re-tweet) because it's worth a lot. Thanks :)

and  plus to yourself for saying so

-Walkie

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 21, 2016, 05:43:41 AM

  At the end of a particularly lousy night's sleep, I finally got a couple of good hours.  :zzz:

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Post by: Walkie on September 21, 2016, 06:53:17 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 21, 2016, 05:43:41 AM

  At the end of a particularly lousy night's sleep, I finally got a couple of good hours.  :zzz:

after a healthy break in the middle?
(No, no, middle of sleep , i meant. Stop looking at your tummy like that)

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Post by: rock hound on September 21, 2016, 09:02:16 AM

Yoga happened!   8)

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Post by: Graelwyn on September 21, 2016, 03:20:04 PM

Did my first boxing fitness class in like a year and a half.
It was a struggle but I made it through.

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Post by: Parts on September 21, 2016, 10:04:44 PM

I got a nice Wilton bullet vise

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 21, 2016, 10:21:40 PM

Quote from: DrunkardsWalk on September 21, 2016, 06:53:17 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 21, 2016, 05:43:41 AM

  At the end of a particularly lousy night's sleep, I finally got a couple of good hours.  :zzz:

after a healthy break in the middle?
(No, no, middle of sleep , i meant. Stop looking at your tummy like that)

  Tummy's fine.  I'm so stout lately, I look like the Michelin Tire Man.  :P


   Wasn't even a break, more like a whole restless night. 
   I am a side sleeper, and I couldn't get settled on either side.  :zombiefuck:

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Post by: Queen Victoria on September 22, 2016, 04:53:11 AM

Quote from: Parts on September 21, 2016, 10:04:44 PM

I got a nice Wilton bullet vise

I thought Wilton only made cake decorating stuff.

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Post by: Parts on September 22, 2016, 05:12:26 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 22, 2016, 04:53:11 AM

Quote from: Parts on September 21, 2016, 10:04:44 PM

I got a nice Wilton bullet vise

I thought Wilton only made cake decorating stuff.

And I thought they only made vises :2thumbsup:  The vises they make are very high quality with equally high prices,  I got this one for doing a favor for a friend

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Post by: Trigger 11 on September 23, 2016, 07:32:00 PM

My end-of-year employee review went very well. Should get a monetary raise. I have them all fooled, I guess. :mischief:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Graelwyn on September 23, 2016, 07:34:17 PM

Bought some new clothes...well my mum bought me new clothes that I chose, including some gym shorts which I badly needed. And sweatshirts... I live in sweatshirts in the colder seasons.

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Post by: Jack on September 23, 2016, 07:39:58 PM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on September 23, 2016, 07:32:00 PM

My end-of-year employee review went very well. Should get a monetary raise. I have them all fooled, I guess. :mischief:

Congratulations.

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Post by: Walkie on September 23, 2016, 08:37:51 PM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on September 23, 2016, 07:32:00 PM

My end-of-year employee review went very well. Should get a monetary raise. I have them all fooled, I guess. :mischief:

Congratulations :)

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Post by: Walkie on September 23, 2016, 08:40:43 PM

Quote from: Graelwyn on September 23, 2016, 07:34:17 PM

Bought some new clothes...well my mum bought me new clothes that I chose, including some gym shorts which I badly needed. And sweatshirts... I live in sweatshirts in the colder seasons.

During the colder seasons, I pretty much live in multiple layers of clothing, topped with  an extra large jacket , with the heating  full on, indoors.  I sometimes throw in a fleece hoodie too :D (yes , as well as the exrtra large jacket. that;'s why it has to be extra large)

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Post by: odeon on September 24, 2016, 03:22:08 AM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on September 23, 2016, 07:32:00 PM

My end-of-year employee review went very well. Should get a monetary raise. I have them all fooled, I guess. :mischief:

We'll tell them. :zoinks:

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Post by: Trigger 11 on September 24, 2016, 11:42:05 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 24, 2016, 03:22:08 AM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on September 23, 2016, 07:32:00 PM

My end-of-year employee review went very well. Should get a monetary raise. I have them all fooled, I guess. :mischief:

We'll tell them. :zoinks:

https://youtu.be/WWaLxFIVX1s

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Post by: Trigger 11 on September 24, 2016, 11:43:45 AM

Youngest minion scored her SECOND CAREER GOAL today and the mother of her friend who passed it to her got it on video. :headbang2:

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Post by: odeon on September 25, 2016, 02:14:19 AM

Coffee happened. And I'm about to have a second cup.

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Post by: Walkie on September 25, 2016, 03:19:58 PM

can't find the "Post Something funny..."  thread. This'll do. It's both funny and good :)

My son Damon is actually doing washing up ATM .
He's looking round the kitchen , asking where the washing up Liquid is. Then we spot it, parked in front of the microwave.
"What the heck is it doing there"?", he asks.
My immediate, unthinking response is:
"Don't ask me. I must have put it there"
We both burst out laughing.
"That answer makes no sense from anyone but you" he observes.
 *hugs, still laughing.*

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Post by: Queen Victoria on September 25, 2016, 06:06:12 PM

Three loads of laundry and lunch at my g'friend's house.

Our washer is on the fritz.

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Post by: Pyraxis on September 25, 2016, 09:09:16 PM

Huge delicious Mexican dinner after a very long day.

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Post by: renaeden on September 26, 2016, 10:28:18 PM

I went to Medibank Private (private health insurance people) with two receipts: one for my glasses frames and one for my Irlen lenses. The lady I saw was very grumpy last time but this time she was really nice. I should get the full amount for my frames, not too sure on the lenses though. Looking forward to getting some money next week. :)

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Post by: odeon on September 27, 2016, 12:49:58 AM

Coffee happened. I had to go up at stupid o'clock so coffee saved you all.

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Post by: Walkie on September 27, 2016, 04:21:07 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on September 25, 2016, 09:09:16 PM

Huge delicious Mexican dinner after a very long day.

Yayyy. You totally deserved that :)

(I shan't enquire what was in it, or else I might be onbliged to be a sniffiy veggie hehe)

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Post by: Queen Victoria on September 27, 2016, 07:48:57 AM

The PR is back at the ARC Center.  Oatmeal and peanut butter for b'fast.

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Post by: Parts on September 30, 2016, 03:28:27 PM

I left the head lights on my van on for three and a half hours today by accident and it started without having to jump start it

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Post by: Al Swearegen on September 30, 2016, 06:17:05 PM

Going rollerskating with my daughter

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 09, 2016, 08:09:36 AM

  I found this just-the-right-length edit of this fun song.  8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9bk2MrMGaA

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on October 12, 2016, 02:53:01 PM

At the clinic they gave me some kind of medicine that made me sleepy and loopy and I dropped my wallet on the bus.

The bus drivers had changed but they kept the wallet on the bus. I got it back an hour after I had dropped it.

edit: The $50 I keep in there was still there too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 12, 2016, 09:59:46 PM

Quote from: WolFish on October 12, 2016, 02:53:01 PM

At the clinic they gave me some kind of medicine that made me sleepy and loopy and I dropped my wallet on the bus.

The bus drivers had changed but they kept the wallet on the bus. I got it back an hour after I had dropped it.

edit: The $50 I keep in there was still there too.

  Dude, I'm glad.  You deserve a break!  Sometimes people are honest.  8)

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Post by: Lestat on October 13, 2016, 01:53:34 AM

Grumpy-try using rollerskates instead, first. Your daughter will thank you for it.

Wolfy-you mean that it made you sleept:P;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on October 13, 2016, 01:58:03 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on October 12, 2016, 09:59:46 PM

Quote from: WolFish on October 12, 2016, 02:53:01 PM

At the clinic they gave me some kind of medicine that made me sleepy and loopy and I dropped my wallet on the bus.

The bus drivers had changed but they kept the wallet on the bus. I got it back an hour after I had dropped it.

edit: The $50 I keep in there was still there too.

  Dude, I'm glad.  You deserve a break!  Sometimes people are honest.  8)

Yeah, i kind of believe in karma, and before i got on the bus there was a wheelchair stuck in the handicap entrance. there were hospital employees eating lunch and joking about it. meanwhile there were people trying to get in with wheelchairs. I held the door open until other people got the idea.

i don't do things to get karma. i do things because they are needed. but i like it when there is apparent karma and i like putting positive energy into the world. Sometimes you get it back.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on October 13, 2016, 02:03:03 AM

Quote from: Lestat on October 13, 2016, 01:53:34 AM

Grumpy-try using rollerskates instead, first. Your daughter will thank you for it.

Wolfy-you mean that it made you sleept:P;)

sleepy for a bit then kind of out of it until i got the adrenaline from realizing i dropped the wallet on the bus.

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Post by: Lord of the Ales on October 13, 2016, 06:32:40 PM

My new belt finally turned up that I ordered three weeks ago - I've been alternating between two knackered ones that keeping popping through the holes for months. A small thing but I'll take it.

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Post by: odeon on October 14, 2016, 12:02:10 AM

Coffee happened. You are all safe for now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 14, 2016, 04:22:39 AM

  I reworked my first ugly painting and found some potential in it.  :thumbup:

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Post by: Lestat on October 14, 2016, 06:35:38 AM

Finding a freshly baked french loaf brought back home, still warm, tearing off about a foot of it, from the soft and chewy middle, after someone already had first tear at it and got the heel (one of them), then after munching a little, grabbing a seam running from end to end then pealing it back like a length of tape to get at the soft, chewy core in the center, then unpeeling it in one piece before demolishing it in about 2 seconds flat:P yum.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 14, 2016, 11:15:27 AM

Got a problem resolved about whether I'm working the Presidential election.  My letter said yes, the Commissioner in Charge's list said I was an alternate.

I'm working it.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 15, 2016, 02:48:15 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 14, 2016, 11:15:27 AM

Got a problem resolved about whether I'm working the Presidential election.  My letter said yes, the Commissioner in Charge's list said I was an alternate.

I'm working it.

    Work it, girl!  :cheer:

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Post by: odeon on October 15, 2016, 03:04:05 AM

Coffee happened. :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on October 16, 2016, 06:35:03 PM

My mother in law went home.  :odeon:

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Post by: Pyraxis on October 16, 2016, 09:13:35 PM

Got to talk to an old friend on Skype.  :)

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Post by: rock hound on October 23, 2016, 07:04:22 PM

Got home safely, unpacked and finally got the back log of internet stuff deleted!   

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Post by: Trigger 11 on October 23, 2016, 07:06:32 PM

Patriots won while I worked in the basement getting it put back together some after the flood.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 24, 2016, 05:03:39 AM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on October 23, 2016, 07:06:32 PM

Patriots won while I worked in the basement getting it put back together some after the flood.

  How badly were you flooded?  I'm about to go into the basement laundry room in my building now.  :orly:

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Post by: rock hound on October 24, 2016, 08:56:57 AM

Went to yoga

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Post by: Queen Victoria on October 24, 2016, 10:25:35 AM

The apple-cranberry tea is actually quite good.  Not too much of the cranberry bitterness.  I might buy some more.

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Post by: Trigger 11 on October 24, 2016, 12:03:49 PM

Got some work done in the basement as part of the reorganization and clean up from the AC flood. Granted this was accomplished between 0000 and 0145, which counts as today. On the flip side, I failed to sleep.

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Post by: Pyraxis on October 25, 2016, 07:20:53 PM

I got way more done than I expected, despite not enough sleep.

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Post by: odeon on October 26, 2016, 12:10:30 AM

Nothing good yet. :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 26, 2016, 09:22:28 AM

Made just over $500 in two hours :headbang2:  I wish all the jobs I did were this easy

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Post by: DirtDawg on October 26, 2016, 03:14:09 PM

My work supervisor complimented my efforts.

I just spent all last week doing a massive re-set to my media display area, moving sixteen hundred facings of product, removing the divisions of movie genre and placing everything in alpha order, eliminating the 3-D section and incorporating it ALL into the alpha line up, changing all signage to a color-coordinated scheme, punctuating the alpha line up with thirteen (yes, not one or five, but THIRTEEN!!!!) special feature areas for promotional items.

Anyway, after a visit to a few other stores, my boss admitted that I was further along with the new corporate plan than most other stores. It is no where near finished here, but apparently, I am doing well, at least better than most.
 :headbang2:

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Post by: WolFish on October 30, 2016, 05:20:32 AM

congrats.

i slept through the night for the first time in about a week. all it took was opening a window. i needed to service some of the air filters but didn't realize that only one was running. it made for bad allergy issues. will have 2 of them back on by the end of today so things will get better.

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Post by: odeon on October 30, 2016, 11:51:28 AM

Having a beer after a long day where everything went wrong.

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Post by: rock hound on October 30, 2016, 08:22:47 PM

I got out of work early and got home for a hot shower and wine before Carla went to bed!   Good end of day conversation with the the wife.... 8)

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Post by: Queen Victoria on October 30, 2016, 10:02:09 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 30, 2016, 11:51:28 AM

Having a beer after a long day where everything went wrong.

Not everything.  The plane didn't crash.

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Post by: odeon on October 31, 2016, 01:21:54 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 30, 2016, 10:02:09 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 30, 2016, 11:51:28 AM

Having a beer after a long day where everything went wrong.

Not everything.  The plane didn't crash.

You're right. That would have been really annoying. :P

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Post by: 'andersom' on November 01, 2016, 03:10:03 AM

Quote from: odeon on October 31, 2016, 01:21:54 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on October 30, 2016, 10:02:09 PM

Quote from: odeon on October 30, 2016, 11:51:28 AM

Having a beer after a long day where everything went wrong.

Not everything.  The plane didn't crash.

You're right. That would have been really annoying. :P

If you still had made it to that beer, it would have been a hell of an adventure. A thing to tell about for decades.

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Post by: odeon on November 01, 2016, 11:59:53 AM

I prefer things this way, thank you very much.

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Post by: renaeden on November 01, 2016, 09:01:16 PM

I had pizza for breakfast.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on November 01, 2016, 11:22:51 PM

Quote from: renaeden on November 01, 2016, 09:01:16 PM

I had pizza for breakfast.

Cold pizza and hot tea - my yummy

Gin in pineapple juice

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 02, 2016, 06:00:26 AM

Crush boi bought me pizza for lunch :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 02, 2016, 09:51:50 AM

Quote from: Marion Crane on November 02, 2016, 06:00:26 AM

Crush boi bought me pizza for lunch :hyke:

Details, please.  (About the pizza, not Crush Boi)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 02, 2016, 01:13:28 PM

Spent most of the day planning for my next project, which went surprisingly well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on November 03, 2016, 05:39:26 AM

Coffee...coffee is good. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 03, 2016, 06:00:38 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 02, 2016, 09:51:50 AM

Quote from: Marion Crane on November 02, 2016, 06:00:26 AM

Crush boi bought me pizza for lunch :hyke:

Details, please.  (About the pizza, not Crush Boi)

One was loaded meatlovers, the other was lamb & bacon (I think), and the third was chicken and camembert.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 03, 2016, 06:22:42 AM

Quote from: Marion Crane on November 03, 2016, 06:00:38 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 02, 2016, 09:51:50 AM

Quote from: Marion Crane on November 02, 2016, 06:00:26 AM

Crush boi bought me pizza for lunch :hyke:

Details, please.  (About the pizza, not Crush Boi)

One was loaded meatlovers, the other was lamb & bacon (I think), and the third was chicken and camembert.

  That's some gourmet deliciousness right there!  :pizza: :cheer:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 03, 2016, 08:28:26 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on November 03, 2016, 06:22:42 AM

Quote from: Marion Crane on November 03, 2016, 06:00:38 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 02, 2016, 09:51:50 AM

Quote from: Marion Crane on November 02, 2016, 06:00:26 AM

Crush boi bought me pizza for lunch :hyke:

Details, please.  (About the pizza, not Crush Boi)

One was loaded meatlovers, the other was lamb & bacon (I think), and the third was chicken and camembert.

  That's some gourmet deliciousness right there!  :pizza: :cheer:

the line for leftovers begins behind me.

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Post by: DirtDawg on November 04, 2016, 04:43:20 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 03, 2016, 08:28:26 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on November 03, 2016, 06:22:42 AM

Quote from: Marion Crane on November 03, 2016, 06:00:38 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 02, 2016, 09:51:50 AM

Quote from: Marion Crane on November 02, 2016, 06:00:26 AM

Crush boi bought me pizza for lunch :hyke:

Details, please.  (About the pizza, not Crush Boi)

One was loaded meatlovers, the other was lamb & bacon (I think), and the third was chicken and camembert.

  That's some gourmet deliciousness right there!  :pizza: :cheer:

the line for leftovers begins behind me.

My wife made a really awesome "stuffed/rolled meatloaf"  the other day. It was an incredibly successful experiment. She was introduced to the recipe from watching something on Food Network. 

You basically make your favorite standard flavored meatloaf, but instead of loafing it just yet, you press it out gently and cover the whole thing with various cheeses (she used small chunks of Parmesan, ricotta, mozzarella and asiago), then roll it together and form a loaf that fits into your loaf pan. This makes a really pretty spiral of cheese inside the meatloaf when it is done.

Just before you place the loaf into the pan, you line the pan with a pound of bacon, leaving the ends hanging over so that once the loaf is placed in the pan, the bacon can be looped over, covering the entire meatloaf.

It was amazing!

I did not expect leftovers, but it is so rich, you could only eat so much. There were leftovers, but not any more; they went quick.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 05, 2016, 06:00:40 AM

  ^ There will be leftover meatloaf.  You will give it to me.  :puppy:

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Post by: Queen Victoria on November 05, 2016, 07:29:22 AM

DirtDawg - Sounds and smells lovely.

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Post by: odeon on November 05, 2016, 08:17:50 AM

I approve of meatloaf. :orly:

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Post by: Pyraxis on November 05, 2016, 10:14:01 AM

WolFish makes excellent meatloaf.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on November 05, 2016, 03:32:09 PM

Meatloaf sounds naughty, so I approve of the repetitive here saying meatloaf.  :zoinks:

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Post by: Icequeen on November 05, 2016, 04:07:03 PM

Bacon wrapped, cheese stuffed, meatloaf.

Sounds like a heart attack waiting to happen. :LOL:

I so want to try that. :autism:

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Post by: odeon on November 05, 2016, 05:29:13 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on November 05, 2016, 04:07:03 PM

Bacon wrapped, cheese stuffed, meatloaf.

Sounds like a heart attack waiting to happen. :LOL:

I so want to try that. :autism:

And oh god I approve of meatloaf and bacon.

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Post by: Gopher Gary on November 05, 2016, 06:37:40 PM

Meatloaf and pork.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 06, 2016, 07:34:59 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on November 05, 2016, 03:32:09 PM

Meatloaf sounds naughty, so I approve of the repetitive here saying meatloaf.  :zoinks:

  Gopher loaf sounds pretty good too.  :hahaha: :trollskull:

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Post by: Lestat on November 06, 2016, 08:39:58 AM

Got confirmation on my purchases on ebay.

Looking to spend the last few quid I've got (about £16-17) until tomorrow. Could do with some calcium metal, or alternatively, some barium or strontium.

And if I can find it, I REALLY want a native tellurium crystal on something like sylvanite, as a collection piece, for mounting on the wall of the lab. Native tellurium looks fucking awesome.

Alternatively, I need some sodium borohydride, and some concentrated nitric acid.

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Post by: Parts on November 10, 2016, 05:25:26 PM

While drilling holes in the top of a wall the $35 drill bit came out of the drill and fell down 8 feet into the wall.  I went out to the van and got a magnet and some string  and  fished it out on the first try

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Post by: odeon on November 11, 2016, 01:08:28 AM

Coffee happened. :yawn:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 11, 2016, 03:55:56 AM

I made mini quiches and they are delicious. :)

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 11, 2016, 05:44:55 AM

Quote from: renaeden on November 11, 2016, 03:55:56 AM

I made mini quiches and they are delicious. :)

  *peers hopefully through renaeden's kitchen window*  :puppy:

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Post by: Lestat on November 11, 2016, 08:24:20 AM

Nicely done, Parts.

So far today, I woke up after a looooooong sleep, induced by my antiseizure main med, plus the stuff I am temporarily taking for anxiety, nitrazepam, I took the latter first as I HAD to get meds in me to stop the seizure in its tracks, which it did.

Primary effect of nitrazepam,  a benzodiazepine, is sedative-hypnotic, rather strongly swerving towards the hypnotic. And in conjunction with my primary antiseizure drug the result was rapidly and quite beyond my power to resist, being sedated, so I had a good long refreshing sleep to gain ascendancy over what the one, only and totally fucking hawt kassiane S, the rettdevil herself, calls 'post-ictal shitty. I took the nitrazepam quickly as could be, had to go rearrange my entire primary medkit after tipping everything  out and hitting the bugger (seizure, not kass that is :autism:) with the nitrazepam, who alone I can resist the strong, strong drive to sleep. But with one tablet (5mg) and one 192mg chlormethiazole cap there is quite simply not a chance in hell that there is the slightest potential for remaining awake. I didn't even get  up out of my seat, just fell asleep sat in a comfy armchair. Woke at a round 1-half 1 PM and am still feeling the nitrazepam so strongly I am gripping with my legs into my 'seat' (a guitar amp actually with a cushion stuck under me arse lol)

Woke up again much later and found that the postman had left me  a wee bit of treasure in a nicely sized and weighty cardboard box parcel. More on that can or rather in a moment will soon be posted in Lestat's Lab:)

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Post by: rock hound on November 11, 2016, 10:06:42 AM

Yoga

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Post by: odeon on November 11, 2016, 11:19:58 AM

Work ended.

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Post by: Lestat on November 11, 2016, 11:30:08 AM

And the parcel turned out to be...a large bag of very, very very VERY fine aluminium powder (particle size 30microns and less.) That will be useful for all manner of reductions, metallurgy experiments  and the like:)

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Post by: rock hound on November 11, 2016, 12:15:28 PM

My GeoScience books arrived!   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 11, 2016, 05:10:43 PM

Finished up working on a pain in the ass house and got paid

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 11, 2016, 10:47:28 PM

That I am not this blogger.  I roared at paragraph 4.

You know those times when you think, “This day absolutely CANNOT get any worse” because you just voted for someone that you suspect might take our country to heck in a handbasket, but if You Know Who wins, you are fairly certain the country will go there in a rocket?

And then while you’re reviewing your vote your daughter texts you from basketball practice that she is having the same severe allergic reaction that put her in the ER last week and then she sends you a pic of her face that looks exactly like the one of Will Smith in the movie “Hitch” so you tell the voter volunteer and she asks if you want to ditch the voting booth and you say, “NO! I need to get this vote to count!” So you press enter quickly and pray that you voted for the right one and literally RUN out of the polling place and jump in the van, and it’s not until you’re halfway down the block that you realize you’ve been hearing a menacing SCRRRRRRRRRAPING sound, so you pull over and get out to quickly walk to the back and see a couple of volunteers (including an elder from church) chasing your vehicle because you have run over a barricade and have been dragging it down the street. The elder asks if there is a problem, and you say, “I HAVE A LOT OF PROBLEMS!” as you run back to the van apologizing.

Then on your way to get the girl to the ER you call a friend to pick up the other teen from babysitting and she tells you your security gate is stuck in the closed position and she can see that the new neighbor who bought some property from the widow and was recently arrested for possession of meth (I can’t make this stuff up) is having a fight with his girlfriend in the middle of the road. So she climbs over the gate (sorry, Cintheya!) to make sure your kids at home are okay and you send up a silent prayer that all meth addicts stay clear of your home.

And when you get to the ER the doctor that is assigned to you has only one arm, and I’m not saying anything about doctors with only one arm except that it seems like it would make some procedures pretty difficult, so you find yourself (once again) praying that there will be no need for CPR this day and then you spend the better part of the next hour imagining what it would take for a one armed doctor to do CPR.

The good news is we are home now, the gate opened, and all is well.

And I can just pay that traffic ticket tomorrow…

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Post by: renaeden on November 12, 2016, 01:30:01 AM

I am VERY happy that it wasn't you, QV.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 12, 2016, 06:13:17 AM

  I learned more about the way my paintings need to evolve, about the way I work.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 12, 2016, 07:48:10 AM

For once I'm not going to bed ridiculously bloated.

Carbs be gone! :headbang2:

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Post by: Trigger 11 on November 12, 2016, 08:07:46 AM

I had a very good dream, which is the closest I can ever get to getting some...so that was awesome.

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Post by: odeon on November 12, 2016, 05:27:30 PM

Went to see the musical "Hair" with my family. The ensemble was awesome.

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Post by: rock hound on November 12, 2016, 08:37:12 PM

I had the day off and made supper for the family.....turkey pita pockets with a secret sauce and chive added.   

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Post by: Queen Victoria on November 13, 2016, 01:04:12 AM

Watched the play, Gypsy with Imelda Staunton.  Glad I taped it for The PR to watch when she comes home.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 13, 2016, 05:43:37 AM

Quote from: rock hound on November 12, 2016, 08:37:12 PM

I had the day off and made supper for the family.....turkey pita pockets with a secret sauce and chive added.

  Those sound really delicious.  I want a pita pocket.  :puppy:

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 13, 2016, 05:46:13 AM

  I learned even more about how not to paint.  :tard: :laugh:

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Post by: renaeden on November 15, 2016, 04:55:35 AM

I found my phone after some panic about not knowing where it was. It was in an unusual spot - behind my books in the main part of my bag. Must have just chucked it there when class started.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 18, 2016, 11:17:24 AM

The Princess Royal is HOME! !

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Post by: renaeden on November 18, 2016, 08:34:03 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 18, 2016, 11:17:24 AM

The Princess Royal is HOME! !

Awesome. Hope she is feeling better now.

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Post by: 'andersom' on November 19, 2016, 03:07:21 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 18, 2016, 11:17:24 AM

The Princess Royal is HOME! !

Welcome Home, Princess Royal.

Happy for you, QV.

Wishing the best to both of you.

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Post by: Lestat on November 19, 2016, 04:43:03 AM

Yup, welcome back PR:) glad your feeling better.

Good to hear it QV

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 19, 2016, 10:59:57 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 18, 2016, 11:17:24 AM

The Princess Royal is HOME! !

  Happy day in the Palace.  I hope you are both doing well.  :hug:

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Post by: Icequeen on November 19, 2016, 11:36:17 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 18, 2016, 11:17:24 AM

The Princess Royal is HOME! !

Awesome. Welcome home PR!! :asthing: :asthing: :asthing:

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Post by: Lestat on November 19, 2016, 03:17:08 PM

I second IQ and CBC:)

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Post by: Queen Victoria on November 19, 2016, 05:28:55 PM

Thanks, everyone.  She is definitely beyond the moon to be home.  The hospital sent her home with a survey to be completed.  Needless to say I'm sure she won't turn in an unbiased response.  Fake food, no bathtubs, cold room, etc.  And the nurses were cruel (i.e. didn't coddle her.)

She starts five day a week intensive outpatient  therapy on Monday.  They pick her up and return her.  B'fast and lunch is provided.  She'll be gone from 9 a.m. until a little after 1 p.m.  Not sure how long she'll need to go, but it's only a 3 minute drive from the house if anything happens.  So, we still get a bit of time away from each other during the day.

She's still childish, but there is an awareness of consequences now. 

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Post by: odeon on November 20, 2016, 01:06:53 AM

It sounds like she is doing better. I'm glad. :)

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Post by: Walkie on November 20, 2016, 02:47:27 PM

They built a new "sainsbury's Local" at the bottom of my road, for the infernal students, not for me, ofc. But I noticed today, it's now open, so i had a look in. They have stuff that I actually eat on those shelves: gluten-free rice puffs, soya milk, fresh fruit and veg that really are fresh( not just called "fresh" because no-one had the foresight to freeze them  before they start to rot). OK, nothing exciting, but actual staples! woot! I no longer need to overstock on everything fir fear of runnning  out....though, hang on,  that might be wise, anyway , given their prices.

Anyway, I feel almost as if I've re-entered the human race, walking into a "corner shop" (OK it;'s a bit oversized, but that's what it is)  and finding things I can actually eat :) I'm no longer this weird alien creatuire who can't just nip to  the shop for a carton of milk, just like everybody else.

:apondering:

OK, well maybe I'm still some sort of weird alien creature, but let's pretend that I'm not for a bit, cos it gets a bit tedious sometimes.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on November 20, 2016, 03:09:33 PM

Fantastic Beasts, a homecoming treat for The PR.

Not quite as good as a HP movie, but definitely worth seeing again.

First time seeing a movie in 3D.  Impressed.

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Post by: rock hound on November 20, 2016, 08:47:47 PM

Getting out of work......

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on November 21, 2016, 10:44:14 PM

A bite of roast beef.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 22, 2016, 05:50:48 AM

  I figured out where I've been going wrong in my painting, and how to do better.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 22, 2016, 09:04:00 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on November 22, 2016, 05:50:48 AM

  I figured out where I've been going wrong in my painting, and how to do better.  8)

You have both ears?

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Post by: Lestat on November 22, 2016, 01:24:24 PM

Pharmacy managed to get a rush order in for me and now I've a big box of tetracaine solution drops, a local anaesthetic that when combined with a corticosteroid, is helping allay the furious stinging in my eye,  and horrible sensitivity to bright lights or even low level light like that from this pc screen, as is a large slug of morphine. Plus my doc gave me some real, genuine pain relief over what I am already taking, got some more oxy my way.  The pharmacy hadn't got the tetracaine in stock though and said they would deliver it tomorrow. But they also said they would at least try for today, and managed it. Just brought the box of frp[d filled local amps round before.

And came up with a bit of a wee nifty trick to take the strain off me peep-hole. Blackout-lenses on welding goggles.

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Post by: Jack on November 22, 2016, 03:36:34 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on November 22, 2016, 05:50:48 AM

  I figured out where I've been going wrong in my painting, and how to do better.  8)

That's awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 22, 2016, 04:47:36 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 22, 2016, 09:04:00 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on November 22, 2016, 05:50:48 AM

  I figured out where I've been going wrong in my painting, and how to do better.  8)

You have both ears?

 :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 23, 2016, 07:34:24 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 22, 2016, 09:04:00 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on November 22, 2016, 05:50:48 AM

  I figured out where I've been going wrong in my painting, and how to do better.  8)

You have both ears?

  I think I need more caffeine.  I don't understand the question.  :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 23, 2016, 08:09:57 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on November 23, 2016, 07:34:24 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 22, 2016, 09:04:00 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on November 22, 2016, 05:50:48 AM

  I figured out where I've been going wrong in my painting, and how to do better.  8)

You have both ears?

  I think I need more caffeine.  I don't understand the question.  :tard:

Go listen to Don McLean.

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Post by: rock hound on November 23, 2016, 08:18:47 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on November 23, 2016, 08:09:57 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on November 23, 2016, 07:34:24 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 22, 2016, 09:04:00 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on November 22, 2016, 05:50:48 AM

  I figured out where I've been going wrong in my painting, and how to do better.  8)

You have both ears?

  I think I need more caffeine.  I don't understand the question.  :tard:

Go listen to Don McLean.

It's a Van Gogh reference.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 23, 2016, 08:28:25 AM

Quote from: rock hound on November 23, 2016, 08:18:47 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on November 23, 2016, 08:09:57 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on November 23, 2016, 07:34:24 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 22, 2016, 09:04:00 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on November 22, 2016, 05:50:48 AM

  I figured out where I've been going wrong in my painting, and how to do better.  8)

You have both ears?

  I think I need more caffeine.  I don't understand the question.  :tard:

Go listen to Don McLean.

It's a Van Gogh reference.

I know. He was Dutch.
Wanted to give CBC a musical clue, she likes music.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on November 23, 2016, 08:37:36 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on November 23, 2016, 08:28:25 AM

Quote from: rock hound on November 23, 2016, 08:18:47 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on November 23, 2016, 08:09:57 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on November 23, 2016, 07:34:24 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 22, 2016, 09:04:00 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on November 22, 2016, 05:50:48 AM

  I figured out where I've been going wrong in my painting, and how to do better.  8)

You have both ears?

  I think I need more caffeine.  I don't understand the question.  :tard:

Go listen to Don McLean.

It's a Van Gogh reference.

I know. He was Dutch.
Wanted to give CBC a musical clue, she likes music.

Not sure that Starry Starry night, mentions his lack of one ear.   :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 23, 2016, 08:41:20 AM

Doesn't, but it was a clue leading to Vincent.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 23, 2016, 07:47:15 PM

Went to the dentist and she said I had a boring mouth. :green: Nothing needed doing.

Just have to go back in 6 months for a clean.

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Post by: odeon on November 24, 2016, 12:58:24 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ-6TCPdbl0

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Post by: Lestat on November 24, 2016, 04:58:00 AM

ISn't everybody entitled to a few childish moments QV?

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Post by: Fun With Matches on November 24, 2016, 06:24:19 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 24, 2016, 12:58:24 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ-6TCPdbl0

That used to be my favourite film when I was a kid. I loved the dentist! It took me years later to figure out he was Steve Martin.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 24, 2016, 11:31:42 AM

Quote from: Lestat on November 24, 2016, 04:58:00 AM

ISn't everybody entitled to a few childish moments QV?

\

?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on November 24, 2016, 03:18:31 PM

I mean, we are none of us immune. Nobody is perfect. Well apart from me of course, but few can aspire to that level of perfection.

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Post by: rock hound on November 24, 2016, 03:20:48 PM

Carla and I did our annual Thanksgiving hike!    8)  And it was good!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 24, 2016, 03:33:16 PM

Quote from: justcurious on November 24, 2016, 06:24:19 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 24, 2016, 12:58:24 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ-6TCPdbl0

That used to be my favourite film when I was a kid. I loved the dentist! It took me years later to figure out he was Steve Martin.

I still love it. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on November 24, 2016, 04:26:58 PM

 :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 24, 2016, 06:42:28 PM

Quote from: rock hound on November 24, 2016, 03:20:48 PM

Carla and I did our annual Thanksgiving hike!    8)  And it was good!

  Before feasting, or after?  :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on November 24, 2016, 08:08:17 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on November 24, 2016, 06:42:28 PM

Quote from: rock hound on November 24, 2016, 03:20:48 PM

Carla and I did our annual Thanksgiving hike!    8)  And it was good!

  Before feasting, or after?  :arrr:

Before!     :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 24, 2016, 10:27:24 PM

Not good, but pleasant.  Saw Trolls today.  I gave it a 7 or 8 out of 10.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 25, 2016, 01:43:31 AM

I finished the semester's work for two classes.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on November 25, 2016, 01:16:01 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 24, 2016, 10:27:24 PM

Saw Trolls today..

Me too. And I didn't have to leave my home, my PC, nor even this board.

That said, I suspect  that your trolls were a tad more entertaining.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 25, 2016, 01:57:11 PM

Quote from: Walkie on November 25, 2016, 01:16:01 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 24, 2016, 10:27:24 PM

Saw Trolls today..

Me too. And I didn't have to leave my home, my PC, nor even this board.

That said, I suspect  that your trolls were a tad more entertaining.

Yeah, they were kind of cute.  My favorite character wasn't one of the trolls, but Bridgit, the scullery maid.


The Good Thing today?  A BF who brought me paper towels, Sprite, Lysol and BRAT food.  After I had made a run to the grocery for other illness necessities and didn't dare leave The PR alone.  (Didn't forget those items, just didn't need them before the grocery run)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on November 26, 2016, 05:05:48 PM

Music...specifically, a version of "Rhapsody in Blue" on satellite radio.  Played by Herbie Hancock and Lon-Lon, a chinese classical pianist.   It had the basic stuff that makes me happy, but, a few variations that had me going, "WOW".    8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on November 27, 2016, 12:00:28 AM

Thanksgiving dinner, which we had two days late so that I could be home from work and help with the cooking. Delicious gluten-free dinner rolls made from scratch, hot out of the oven.

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Post by: WolFish on November 27, 2016, 02:37:51 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on November 27, 2016, 12:00:28 AM

Delicious gluten-free dinner rolls made from scratch, hot out of the oven.

Even though I didn't have everything the recipe called for, they still came out great. My first try using modified tapioca starch. I might make something else next week if I have time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 27, 2016, 03:41:37 AM

Holidays happen when people are around, not when the calendar says so.  Glad ya'll had good food and a good time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 28, 2016, 06:50:24 PM

Took The PR to her doctor, who was our doctor, and will be my doctor again after I switch insurance companies.  We've been with him for almost 20 years.

He walked in and said "Hug time", asked me about PA's death (he'd phoned me when he found out PA had died since he was listed as his doctor of record at that hospital), hugged The PR.

Best part:  he doesn't take Medicaid (for people with no insurance or as back-up to Medicare), but he'll see The PR for whatever Medicare will pay.  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that man, Dr. Kiran G. Zaveri.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 29, 2016, 04:10:09 AM

Having a good GP makes a lot of difference. Glad you have a great one. :)

Today I passed my first Cisco A+ Exam. I have the second (and last) one next week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on November 29, 2016, 09:14:18 AM

Quote from: renaeden on November 29, 2016, 04:10:09 AM

Having a good GP makes a lot of difference. Glad you have a great one. :)

Today I passed my first Cisco A+ Exam. I have the second (and last) one next week.

Congratulations! :woohoo:

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Post by: Queen Victoria on November 29, 2016, 09:41:13 AM

Quote from: WolFish on November 29, 2016, 09:14:18 AM

Quote from: renaeden on November 29, 2016, 04:10:09 AM

Having a good GP makes a lot of difference. Glad you have a great one. :)

Today I passed my first Cisco A+ Exam. I have the second (and last) one next week.

Congratulations! :woohoo:

I echo Wolfie's howl

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 29, 2016, 03:31:13 PM

Quote from: renaeden on November 29, 2016, 04:10:09 AM

Having a good GP makes a lot of difference. Glad you have a great one. :)

Today I passed my first Cisco A+ Exam. I have the second (and last) one next week.

Well done!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on November 29, 2016, 07:56:54 PM

Quote from: renaeden on November 29, 2016, 04:10:09 AM

Today I passed my first Cisco A+ Exam. I have the second (and last) one next week.

Congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 29, 2016, 08:46:57 PM

Thanks all.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 30, 2016, 06:28:51 AM

Congrats, Ren.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 30, 2016, 06:30:49 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on November 30, 2016, 06:28:51 AM

Congrats, Ren.

  Congratulations from me too!  You're going to have a great tech-geek future!  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 01, 2016, 12:59:57 PM

Nice one ren:)

And I may not have met your/PR's doctor, QV, but  I like him already. my main GP is something like that, although we of course have the NHS here. But unlike many others I've known, he is actually a kindly man, with a good manner as well as simply being employed to stitch up broken bits of people. A lot of them seem to concern themselves only with the welfare of the body itself, and don't particularly care for the suffering or lack thereof, of what lives in it, too many will leave the inhabitant of said body to its misery when they can easily do something to alleviate it, this guy won't. Was the only one who actually went and made sure I had some adequate pain relief after my hurting my eye. One of them outright accused me of either faking/lying in order to get something to abuse (when mind you, I'd had the eye examined in detail by specialists and the damage confirmed with their own two working eyes, or doing the damage myself (I.e deliberately) for the same reason. Stupid fucking bitch, incompetent cow too, once scripted me co-amoxiclav seconds to a minute or two after asking if I had any allergies and being told that I was allergic to penicillin and other beta-lactam antibiotics. And another one I managed to, after a long and persistent effort, drag a few oxy 10s out of him, but bitched at me for coming back after my regular GP told me instead of using oral analgesia to deal with the eye using topical local anaesthetic drops, which I knew to  be precisely the wrong way to go about it (overuse can damage the eye), and then after seeing the eye people again to confirm that from their own mouths, coming back the day after my regular GP, not having the correct information to go on to base his decision on not to then provide further oral opioid analgesia coverage, bitched me out for coming when that regular doc said no, but that decision being made based upon faulty, if well-meaning information. As soon as that regular GP, the decent guy, KNEW that, he changed his mind straight away.

If a decision is made meaning well but based upon faulty information, and is thus the wrong decision, then it should be re-evaluated should it not?

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Post by: Queen Victoria on December 01, 2016, 02:58:39 PM

Quote from: Lestat on December 01, 2016, 12:59:57 PM

Nice one ren:)

And I may not have met your/PR's doctor, QV, but  I like him already. my main GP is something like that, although we of course have the NHS here. But unlike many others I've known, he is actually a kindly man, with a good manner as well as simply being employed to stitch up broken bits of people. A lot of them seem to concern themselves only with the welfare of the body itself, and don't particularly care for the suffering or lack thereof, of what lives in it, too many will leave the inhabitant of said body to its misery when they can easily do something to alleviate it, this guy won't. Was the only one who actually went and made sure I had some adequate pain relief after my hurting my eye. One of them outright accused me of either faking/lying in order to get something to abuse (when mind you, I'd had the eye examined in detail by specialists and the damage confirmed with their own two working eyes, or doing the damage myself (I.e deliberately) for the same reason. Stupid fucking bitch, incompetent cow too, once scripted me co-amoxiclav seconds to a minute or two after asking if I had any allergies and being told that I was allergic to penicillin and other beta-lactam antibiotics. And another one I managed to, after a long and persistent effort, drag a few oxy 10s out of him, but bitched at me for coming back after my regular GP told me instead of using oral analgesia to deal with the eye using topical local anaesthetic drops, which I knew to  be precisely the wrong way to go about it (overuse can damage the eye), and then after seeing the eye people again to confirm that from their own mouths, coming back the day after my regular GP, not having the correct information to go on to base his decision on not to then provide further oral opioid analgesia coverage, bitched me out for coming when that regular doc said no, but that decision being made based upon faulty, if well-meaning information. As soon as that regular GP, the decent guy, KNEW that, he changed his mind straight away.

If a decision is made meaning well but based upon faulty information, and is thus the wrong decision, then it should be re-evaluated should it not?

Dr. Zaveri sent his wife and children to Houston during Hurricane Katrina and he stayed at the hospital.  Of course, no electricity, street flooding, etc.  After the street flooding he spent 3 days at the triage station dealing with the evacuees from New Orleans.  Went to his office and cleaned out the drug samples to use there.  After that he went to the airport to help there, but because he wasn't on the approved doctor list, they couldn't use him.  Finally, after a week, he got to Houston and his family.

P.S.  His wife, Dimple, is our eye doctor.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on December 01, 2016, 03:09:18 PM

Found a very nice Dooney & Bourke bag at the thrift shop for $1.00...it's not been to hell and back and it's not a knock-off. 8)

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Post by: Lestat on December 01, 2016, 04:25:08 PM

Sounds like the kind of dr the world needs more of QV.

More medics like that and less of the stone-faced twats, rude insensitive arseholes like the optician that kept digging her damned fingernails into my eyes to pry my eyelids open, and having a go at me for not looking where she wanted during the slit-lamp examination and having to rest and clear my eyes often. Especially after I had to explain to her that one of the eyedrops I'm using at the moment paralyses the muscles that move the eye and adjust the lens&pupil size.

Did at least manage to swipe a load of local anaesthetic eyedrops the moment the little bitch left the room. Didn't give a damn about my being in pain either. And with the slit-lamp exam, it basically involves shining an intense light into the eye whilst the dr on the other end of it looks through a magnifier, and she expected me not to rest my eyes in between examining different parts? because for fucks fucking sake, even now, and its healing somewhat, I have to wear an eye-patch stuffed with paper towel to block the light from the computer screen, even in a darkened room where that is the only light source, and wear a pair of welding goggles over the top of the  paper towel-stuffed eye patch, as well as both use some of the local drops that the bitch so kindly...donated....and my regular GP has been making sure I have enough pain coverage to get through this, thankfully.

The fact your one is going that for the PR, well it makes me like him already:D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 02, 2016, 04:30:57 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 01, 2016, 02:58:39 PM

Dr. Zaveri sent his wife and children to Houston during Hurricane Katrina and he stayed at the hospital.  Of course, no electricity, street flooding, etc.  After the street flooding he spent 3 days at the triage station dealing with the evacuees from New Orleans.  Went to his office and cleaned out the drug samples to use there.  After that he went to the airport to help there, but because he wasn't on the approved doctor list, they couldn't use him.  Finally, after a week, he got to Houston and his family.

P.S.  His wife, Dimple, is our eye doctor.

  He sounds like an excellent citizen!  He's one of George Bush's "thousand points of light." *  :thumbup:

    * Not a Bush fan, just thinking the phrase fits here.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 02, 2016, 03:09:38 PM

Thousand points of light? that was more likely his brain cells short circuiting.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on December 02, 2016, 03:55:12 PM

I had the day off!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 02, 2016, 04:02:54 PM

My burnt eye is becoming somewhat less irritated.


(http://s15.postimg.org/w8ph1p78r/DSCN0914.jpg) Arrrhhh matey...this be helping too 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 02, 2016, 04:06:26 PM

Sounds like you and PR got lucky. Too many doctors these days can be utter dicks, incompetent, or both.

And if he's done that for PR, he's definitely in my good books:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 02, 2016, 05:45:42 PM

Quote from: Lestat on December 02, 2016, 04:02:54 PM

My burnt eye is becoming somewhat less irritated.


(http://s15.postimg.org/w8ph1p78r/DSCN0914.jpg) Arrrhhh matey...this be helping too 8)

Is that a sword or are you happy to see us?

Looking good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on December 02, 2016, 05:53:54 PM

Did you cut your hair? 
I thought it was longer.

Still gorgeous though.  ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 03, 2016, 03:32:06 AM

Back home after a week in London. Slept in my own bed. :)

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 03, 2016, 12:34:34 PM

Quote from: Lestat on December 02, 2016, 03:09:38 PM

Thousand points of light? that was more likely his brain cells short circuiting.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene  :nerd!:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 03, 2016, 12:35:43 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 03, 2016, 03:32:06 AM

Back home after a week in London. Slept in my own bed. :)

  Nothing like your own bed.  :snooze:  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 03, 2016, 03:21:31 PM

No I didn't mean phosphenes CBC, I was thinking since there are so few of said brain cells and spaced so far apart, that there would be arcing between them, shorting out and burning away what miserably few brain cells bush has left. He might LOOK like a chimp, but I wouldn't credit him with anywhere near that level of intellectual capacity. Your average flatworm could probably beat him in a chess match. At least until bush throws the board to the floor and starts bawling and screaming when he starts to lose.

And QV, you two decide that for yourselves. Its definitely a sword, but thats not to say I'm not....pleased to see yous:autism:

And thanks QV. I just hope I am as appealing to both of you:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 03, 2016, 05:31:46 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on December 03, 2016, 12:35:43 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 03, 2016, 03:32:06 AM

Back home after a week in London. Slept in my own bed. :)

  Nothing like your own bed.  :snooze:  :)

It's good to be back home. And a bit odd.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 03, 2016, 06:19:27 PM

Quote from: Lestat on December 03, 2016, 03:21:31 PM

No I didn't mean phosphenes CBC, I was thinking since there are so few of said brain cells and spaced so far apart, that there would be arcing between them, shorting out and burning away what miserably few brain cells bush has left. He might LOOK like a chimp, but I wouldn't credit him with anywhere near that level of intellectual capacity. Your average flatworm could probably beat him in a chess match. At least until bush throws the board to the floor and starts bawling and screaming when he starts to lose.

And QV, you two decide that for yourselves. Its definitely a sword, but thats not to say I'm not....pleased to see yous:autism:

And thanks QV. I just hope I am as appealing to both of you:)

It's just that it's blunt at the business end.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on December 04, 2016, 12:02:04 AM

roast pork with chili cranberry sauce
fried rice
christmas tree

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 04, 2016, 08:18:47 AM

Its the angle of the photo QV, looks like it came out looking flat, it isn't. In ninja-to blades the tip is angled, rather than having the curved edge like the tip of katana and most other swords.

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Post by: renaeden on December 04, 2016, 10:30:16 PM

We finally got our nbn back (or I should say fttp. Fibre to the premises). Something wrong with one of the cables. We were without internet since Friday morning.

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Post by: Gopher Gary on December 04, 2016, 10:41:17 PM

My mens put up the outdoor Christmas lights. :woohoo:

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Post by: odeon on December 05, 2016, 01:36:05 AM

I won an auction at eBay.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 05, 2016, 05:23:40 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on December 04, 2016, 10:41:17 PM

My mens put up the outdoor Christmas lights. :woohoo:

  Why didn't you make your bitches do it?  :hahaha: :trollskull:

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Post by: Gopher Gary on December 05, 2016, 06:07:03 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on December 05, 2016, 05:23:40 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on December 04, 2016, 10:41:17 PM

My mens put up the outdoor Christmas lights. :woohoo:

  Why didn't you make your bitches do it?  :hahaha: :trollskull:

Who do you think my bitches really are?  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 05, 2016, 06:08:48 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on December 05, 2016, 06:07:03 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on December 05, 2016, 05:23:40 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on December 04, 2016, 10:41:17 PM

My mens put up the outdoor Christmas lights. :woohoo:

  Why didn't you make your bitches do it?  :hahaha: :trollskull:

Who do you think my bitches really are?  :zoinks:

  Oh snap!  You really are a little brat!  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 05, 2016, 06:09:34 AM

  Finally there's snow on the ground!   :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 05, 2016, 10:02:57 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on December 05, 2016, 06:09:34 AM

  Finally there's snow on the ground!   :woohoo:

That's NOT a good thing.  >:(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 05, 2016, 10:47:03 AM

I went to the pet store today, because after first going to a couple of DIY/hardware places to look for some flexible plastic tubing, in various different sizes (for the lab, of course, what else?:P:)), I not only got lucky once but twice, the first time in a minor way, just because I had the foresight to bring both one of my bog standard liebig condensers to test-match the coolant input/output fittings against, but also my new Dimroth condenser just because I thought it looked slightly different size-wise, wasn't sure, so I just brought the Dimroth down from the lab and a condenser picked at random from a big box of various different flasks, condensers, distillation adapters, separatory funnels, thermometers and other various tools of the alchymyst's trade that I don't keep in there as its too big for the lab, could fit it just wouldn't have enough space for everything else if I did move all its contents in, and instead bring things over as and when I am going to be needing them.

Tested the size of the tubing types on offer and found that everything I needed, I could get, and cheaply too.

The second bit of good luck, a much much bigger and better one, was that I had the choice, seeing as I was being given a lift in my old man's car, to go to the store I went to, or another, bigger garden center/pet stuff megastore type place due to parking considerations. I decided to check the prices of both, but the smaller place first, as it is closer.

In the end I didn't go to the others as I not only found everything I wanted, but the owner of the pet shop, realizing that my requirements demand a greater degree of precision than just stuff for bubbling some air into fish tanks, told me that someone had brought in a big hefty and powerful air pump that came from a hospital, and asked to give it to the shopkeeper in exchange for a few quid worth of store credit against a few fish, which they agreed to, but when they went to try it out, they found they couldn't use it as it produces way too much noise and vibration to be good for the fish and on seeing me testing the sizes of the tubing for fit against the two of my condensers I brought, put two and two together and guessed that I would have many purposes to which I'd turn it, and offered the pump to me for the price of the store credit they gave the person who brought it in.

Total cost to me (for the pump, not counting all the tubing, a couple of siphons, a really long, coarse bristled brush on a long flexible piece of springy wire, can't remember what those were intended for originally but for me, it'd be just perfect for scrubbing crud out of condensers, or scouring the inside of flasks and other awkwardly shaped pieces of my kit, since of course I like my kit to be squeaky clean unless there is something actually happening inside of it.

Picked up a handful of other bits and pieces, but thats the most of it, and that big pump. Cost of the latter? a fiver :D

And overall that worked out to £4 actual cost, since my old man  parked in just the right place so that there was a dropped pound coin on the carpark floor lying right there in perfect view of where I'd be looking as I got out of the door.

And one last bit of luck for my day, is that I happened by chance, needing some ethylene glycol (antifreeze) for cryo bath freezing mixtures (antifreeze, works great in mixtures with other things poured over ice or other coolants) but just so happened, when I went into the little household maintenance supplies to spot that they sell concentrated sulfuric acid, which some lying or dumb (or both) git at a B&Q had told me a while back when I went to buy more that they no longer stocked it, as it has been 'banned', and now only hydrochloric (which is pretty useless for actually unblocking drains) based drain cleaner and NaOH were sold for that purpose. And spotted a nice 5l plastic jug of benzyl alcohol, which I'd been contemplating placing an order with one of my suppliers for anyhow (not necessarily 5l, but benzyl alcohol at any rate SOME of the stuff) and at a knocked down price. Nabbed that too, and bought them out of their stock of conc. H2SO4 :)

All in all, a most pleasing day so far.  If I'd have gone to the other garden/pet store first and they had the flexible plastic tubing that I needed, which they likely would have, I'd never have ended up going to the other, smaller one, or the DIY place and definitely wouldn't have gotten that happy-xmas pump at the more or less gift price the guy sold it me for. (or got to see their not-for-sale live-in feline, who as usual seemed delighted to see me and came bounding over to see me as fast as his three legs would carry him. Little devil is an adorable wee greyscale-silvery coloured moggy and seems to love me to bits, since every time I'm in that store if that cat is in, he'll be over to me in no time, brushing around my feet, nuzzling up to me, purring like a motor boat engine and rolling over so I'll scratch his belly for him. He seems to ignore a lot of other people in there and come straight to me so I'll make a big fuss over him :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on December 05, 2016, 11:36:18 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on December 05, 2016, 06:09:34 AM

  Finally there's snow on the ground!   :woohoo:

To present an opposing point of view.

 >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(

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Post by: Lestat on December 05, 2016, 12:53:20 PM

*lestat comes over with a big tub of salt in either hand*


I loathe the cold, I really, really really fucking hate, despise and shit all over the cold and the cold's mother respectively. Not sure why but I have an abnormally low tolerance for it, even things like getting from the house to the garden shed I have to wrap up in my dressing gown, a hoodie and several layers of coats then dart out of the door like a mouse scurrying with a nice big juicy snack, freshly pilfered from somebody's larder.

Morphine shot happened, lines of oxy happened, filthy rotten thumping all-night-long left eyeball-ache stopping pounding away happened moments after.

Snickers bar and ambrosia tinned custard milkshake happened, just emptied the bottle of milkshake into a jug, tipped in a can of custard and whipped it half to death with a fork until it was blended up nice and smooth (I CBF with getting out, plugging in, using and least of all, CLEANING the damn thing afterwards)

It was mighty tasty, and I've still got some left too, about 2 3rds to 3/4 liter left for me to wash down the beef curry I intend to munch for supper.                                                                                                           b

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 06, 2016, 07:56:05 AM

Quote from: odeon on December 05, 2016, 10:02:57 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on December 05, 2016, 06:09:34 AM

  Finally there's snow on the ground!   :woohoo:

That's NOT a good thing.  >:(

  Can't have Christmas without snow!   :santa:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 06, 2016, 07:56:58 AM

Quote from: rock hound on December 05, 2016, 11:36:18 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on December 05, 2016, 06:09:34 AM

  Finally there's snow on the ground!   :woohoo:

To present an opposing point of view.

 >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(

  My brother agrees with you.  He treasures every mild, snowless day of late fall and early winter.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 06, 2016, 07:59:50 AM

Quote from: Lestat on December 05, 2016, 10:47:03 AM

I went to the pet store today

  I read those words and I reacted like  :zombiefuck: :tinfoil: :hide:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 06, 2016, 08:54:49 AM

To my going to a pet shop?

Of all the places, why that reaction there? its a handy place for various supplies, such as activated carbon (used in water filters) water pumps for circulating coolant in condensers, air pumps, elemental sulfur in the form of solid sticks, intended apparently for whatever reason to be put in the water bowls of dogs in hot weather, and as such, this roll sulfur is much cleaner and of superior purity to the agricultural kind that is found in sulfur candles for fumigating places, dusting plants  and suchlike, as well as carrying methylene blue, a useful stain for samples needing to be viewed under my microscope. And there are the occasional other useful bits and pieces of that kind to be had here and there too.

And I'm on quite good seeming terms with the guy that owns the place, he's given me discounts in the past when I've come up a bit short of having enough money to buy whatever item it is that I've needed, and of course, there was that big beefy pump too that he sold me at just its cost to him. making no money on it, just recouping his losses.

Plenty useful things to be had from pet shops at times, got that new stiff-bristled brush mounted on the end of a really long flexible braided wire that is perfect for unblocking condensers, absolutely MADE for the job, almost. Beats the shit out of pushing a rag one way and then the other using a straightened out piece of coathanger wire, plus of course, getting all the tubing I need and at a good price too.

If you were thinking 'lab animals' couldbe, then you can banish that thought in all haste along with any others like it that are connected to me. Because I don't DO animal testing, I absolutely, utterly and completely loathe the very thought of being the perpetrator of such evil. Whilst I know why big pharma etc. do it, that doesn't mean, even though I cannot stop it, that I either support it, or would EVER allow someone who experimented on animals to use my lab. And I don't only mean that I'd not permit the use of animals in there, although I won't ever do so, I just wouldn't let someone who did it anywhere else use the place either. I have never once, nor will I ever make use of animal research subjects.

The only time anything other than human has been knowingly brought in there, is when The Bitch From Hell had it as her bedroom, and at which point it wasn't a lab at the time, since The Bitch needed somewhere to sleep whilst It was my housemate, she stole a kitten (two, one a much younger one and one a young teenage-to-adult cat), the fucking creep. I didn't know where from, and there wasn't much I could do in any case other than make sure they were cared for.

But when the lab is what it is meant to be, not the festering nidus inhabited by some inbred,  vaguely anthropoid mammalian borderline Bitch From Hell tick-impersonator I'd never even let animals enter the room, as I wouldn't want them breathing any gases or fumes, or rolling on the floor and coming into contact with any possibly present harmful chemicals or any sharp objects.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 07, 2016, 06:33:18 AM

  It was just a kind of "record scratch" moment of cognitive dissonance.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on December 09, 2016, 01:55:35 AM

it snowed all afternoon here.
the good news is that now that i am on the national health insurance, if i slip on the ice and/or snow, the e.r. will see me without my having to pay up front.

also curry goat happened today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 09, 2016, 05:35:22 AM

Quote from: WolFish on December 09, 2016, 01:55:35 AM

it snowed all afternoon here.
the good news is that now that i am on the national health insurance, if i slip on the ice and/or snow, the e.r. will see me without my having to pay up front.

also curry goat happened today.

  How long did you have to live in Canada to get insurance?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on December 09, 2016, 07:03:17 AM

Got a well deserved good nights sleep!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on December 09, 2016, 08:05:17 PM

The last gift arrived in the mail. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 09, 2016, 08:33:48 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on December 09, 2016, 05:35:22 AM

Quote from: WolFish on December 09, 2016, 01:55:35 AM

it snowed all afternoon here.
the good news is that now that i am on the national health insurance, if i slip on the ice and/or snow, the e.r. will see me without my having to pay up front.

also curry goat happened today.

  How long did you have to live in Canada to get insurance?  :orly:

It's been 21 months.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 10, 2016, 09:31:29 PM

GF had The PR for the night so I could get up early and work the election.  She took The PR and her daughter bowling.  The PR scored a double in one game.  Both girls scored turkeys (3 strikes in a row).   GF's husband pays $25 for turkeys.  He said he's about to go broke if this keeps up.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 11, 2016, 12:45:49 AM

It was snowing and it was in the low twenties Fahrenheit, but I started my outdoor grill and made steaks for dinner.
 :viking:

MLM!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 11, 2016, 05:42:49 AM

  This actually happened yesterday ... that headache went away by the time I went to work.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 11, 2016, 06:29:54 AM

Mum rang me and as always we talked for ages. I really miss being able to go and see her whenever I like. She has gone from being 10 minutes away to two hours by car. But she will be at my sister's place next weekend and that's only 5 minutes away for me. Can't wait to see the parents.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 11, 2016, 03:07:26 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on December 11, 2016, 12:45:49 AM

It was snowing and it was in the low twenties Fahrenheit, but I started my outdoor grill and made steaks for dinner.
 :viking:

MLM!

That's BRAVE. :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on December 11, 2016, 03:41:30 PM

 :wine: happened today! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 12, 2016, 06:30:29 AM

  :snowing: happened, it's about time we got a decent snowfall!  :snowman:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on December 12, 2016, 08:34:07 AM

I want snow on Xmas day. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 12, 2016, 08:49:08 AM

So do I. ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on December 12, 2016, 09:52:08 AM

I managed to get Amber's SIRIUSXM radio signal refreshed after it inexplicably went into default mode!   For the second time this year!  :facepalm2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2016, 10:25:17 AM

Quote from: justcurious on December 12, 2016, 08:34:07 AM

I want snow on Xmas day. :)

It snowed on Christmas Day in New Orleans.  Next August, Hurricane Katrina hit.  I think I'll pass.  Or else move if it snows on that day,

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on December 12, 2016, 11:06:06 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2016, 10:25:17 AM

Quote from: justcurious on December 12, 2016, 08:34:07 AM

I want snow on Xmas day. :)

It snowed on Christmas Day in New Orleans.  Next August, Hurricane Katrina hit.  I think I'll pass.  Or else move if it snows on that day,

An odd correlation. Were you affected badly by Katrina?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2016, 02:32:38 PM

Quote from: justcurious on December 12, 2016, 11:06:06 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2016, 10:25:17 AM

Quote from: justcurious on December 12, 2016, 08:34:07 AM

I want snow on Xmas day. :)

It snowed on Christmas Day in New Orleans.  Next August, Hurricane Katrina hit.  I think I'll pass.  Or else move if it snows on that day,

An odd correlation. Were you affected badly by Katrina?

Thankfully, no.  The parish didn't open for 4 weeks after the storm.  When we got home the water had only come half-way up our lawn, nothing blown about in the carport, no damage to the house.  When we got back the ice cubes in the freezer hadn't melted, so we had power most of the time. 

The poor cats, however, were fortunately (or unfortunately) locked outside the house.  If they'd been in there, they would probably not have made it.  We weren't planning on being gone that long and hadn't left that much water.  They turned semi-feral and PA wouldn't let them back in the house. 

For another 3 weeks or so, it was sort of living in a war zone or near a military base.  Helicopters, MRE's, soldiers about.  Quite different.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on December 12, 2016, 03:03:42 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2016, 02:32:38 PM

Quote from: justcurious on December 12, 2016, 11:06:06 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2016, 10:25:17 AM

Quote from: justcurious on December 12, 2016, 08:34:07 AM

I want snow on Xmas day. :)

It snowed on Christmas Day in New Orleans.  Next August, Hurricane Katrina hit.  I think I'll pass.  Or else move if it snows on that day,

An odd correlation. Were you affected badly by Katrina?

Thankfully, no.  The parish didn't open for 4 weeks after the storm.  When we got home the water had only come half-way up our lawn, nothing blown about in the carport, no damage to the house.  When we got back the ice cubes in the freezer hadn't melted, so we had power most of the time. 

The poor cats, however, were fortunately (or unfortunately) locked outside the house.  If they'd been in there, they would probably not have made it.  We weren't planning on being gone that long and hadn't left that much water.  They turned semi-feral and PA wouldn't let them back in the house. 

For another 3 weeks or so, it was sort of living in a war zone or near a military base.  Helicopters, MRE's, soldiers about.  Quite different.

Wow, your family and the cats had a lucky escape then. Even better that the house wasn't affected. How long were you gone for?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 12, 2016, 06:30:18 PM

I backed the trailer into a very tight driveway on a busy street  on the first try

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2016, 06:48:19 PM

Quote from: justcurious on December 12, 2016, 03:03:42 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2016, 02:32:38 PM

Quote from: justcurious on December 12, 2016, 11:06:06 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2016, 10:25:17 AM

Quote from: justcurious on December 12, 2016, 08:34:07 AM

I want snow on Xmas day. :)

It snowed on Christmas Day in New Orleans.  Next August, Hurricane Katrina hit.  I think I'll pass.  Or else move if it snows on that day,

An odd correlation. Were you affected badly by Katrina?

Thankfully, no.  The parish didn't open for 4 weeks after the storm.  When we got home the water had only come half-way up our lawn, nothing blown about in the carport, no damage to the house.  When we got back the ice cubes in the freezer hadn't melted, so we had power most of the time. 

The poor cats, however, were fortunately (or unfortunately) locked outside the house.  If they'd been in there, they would probably not have made it.  We weren't planning on being gone that long and hadn't left that much water.  They turned semi-feral and PA wouldn't let them back in the house. 

For another 3 weeks or so, it was sort of living in a war zone or near a military base.  Helicopters, MRE's, soldiers about.  Quite different.

Wow, your family and the cats had a lucky escape then. Even better that the house wasn't affected. How long were you gone for?

Four weeks in Beaumont and College Station Texas.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 14, 2016, 01:15:21 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 11, 2016, 03:07:26 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on December 11, 2016, 12:45:49 AM

It was snowing and it was in the low twenties Fahrenheit, but I started my outdoor grill and made steaks for dinner.
 :viking:

MLM!

That's BRAVE. :viking:

I plan to do so again tonight.  It may reach low teens or single digits Fahrenheit before dawn  (it was zero degrees Fahrenheit this morning), but with a fire going and my jacket on, it's burger time tonight.

OK, showing off a little. We had an incredibly extended "Indian Summer"  this year with high temperatures in the upper sixties Fahrenheit during late November  (FFS  :zombiefuck:) and the kids are really freaked about the sudden onslaught of mid January weather this week. I intend a demonstration of the power of fire over the cold along with a lesson in survival techniques. I will start the fire with a butane-less Bic lighter - only produces a spark - and a small wad of steel wool igniting small shards of wood, then ... I know it works. I have done this for real.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 14, 2016, 03:02:54 PM

It's nearing the end of the Finnish barbecue season. :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 14, 2016, 05:02:36 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 14, 2016, 03:02:54 PM

It's nearing the end of the Finnish barbecue season. :M

Do not know about Finns, but ...

Fire is going. My daughter put tje spark to it. I kept the spark alive until it started the slivers of oak and the bigger slivers of oak and it is almost ready to cook on.

Not so bad on temperature as yet. It is only fourteen degrees Fahrenheit and the sun has been down for more than an hour.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 15, 2016, 01:17:58 AM

That's pretty awesome, actually. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on December 18, 2016, 03:35:50 PM

Didn't die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on December 18, 2016, 03:53:41 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on December 18, 2016, 03:35:50 PM

Didn't die.

Good to see you again!    :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on December 18, 2016, 04:54:11 PM

Quote from: renaeden on December 12, 2016, 08:49:08 AM

So do I. ;)

It snows in hell??  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on December 18, 2016, 04:54:44 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on December 18, 2016, 03:35:50 PM

Didn't die.

Keep trying.   :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on December 18, 2016, 04:57:10 PM

 :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 23, 2016, 01:31:55 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on December 23, 2016, 12:43:07 PM

Quote from: Pappy on December 18, 2016, 04:54:44 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on December 18, 2016, 03:35:50 PM

Didn't die.

Keep trying.   :M

Keep positive!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on December 27, 2016, 07:10:08 AM

Didn't die

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on December 27, 2016, 09:34:16 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on December 27, 2016, 07:10:08 AM

Didn't die

*Hugs* Maybe tomorrow.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 27, 2016, 05:07:26 PM

  The nice tech guy at Best Buy installed my new security software!   :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on December 27, 2016, 05:12:01 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on December 27, 2016, 05:07:26 PM

  The nice tech guy at Best Buy installed my new security software!   :woohoo:

That's awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 27, 2016, 05:17:48 PM

Quote from: Jack on December 27, 2016, 05:12:01 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on December 27, 2016, 05:07:26 PM

  The nice tech guy at Best Buy installed my new security software!   :woohoo:

That's awesome.

  It ended up being a really pleasant afternoon, and I learned what to do if my security settings
   act up again.  Thanked the Geek for his work.  He has good customer-service skills.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on December 27, 2016, 06:22:28 PM

Al and Odeon called a ceasefire and shook hands.

...wait, that was just dream , wasn't it?  Damn, damn , damn, damn.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 27, 2016, 09:54:30 PM

 :hahaha:

Family just vacated the premises. Aside from having to get up at bumfuck to drive them to the airport, I am done done done.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 27, 2016, 11:15:30 PM

^Now it's time to rest rest rest. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 28, 2016, 12:52:20 AM

:yawn: Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on December 28, 2016, 01:23:31 AM

 Wad initially going to watch Assassins Creed with a mate and have drinks afterwards. It was going to be my shout. His son broke his arm , so hw cant front. I still see the movie and save a bundle

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 28, 2016, 03:28:28 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on December 28, 2016, 01:23:31 AM

Wad initially going to watch Assassins Creed with a mate and have drinks afterwards. It was going to be my shout. His son broke his arm , so hw cant front. I still see the movie and save a bundle

Tell us what Assassin's Creed is like? I'm wondering whether to go and see it or not.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 01, 2017, 06:11:53 AM

  My ears just unblocked.  I didn't even realize they were blocked!  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 01, 2017, 10:53:09 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on January 01, 2017, 06:11:53 AM

My ears just unblocked.  I didn't even realize they were blocked!  :laugh:

That happens to me sometimes when I blow my nose.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 02, 2017, 09:52:23 AM

Went to yoga class.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 02, 2017, 11:22:56 AM

  My headache has subsided.  Not entirely gone, but almost.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on January 02, 2017, 12:55:35 PM

Didn't die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on January 02, 2017, 07:29:43 PM

Was very productive at work.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 03, 2017, 01:07:55 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 03, 2017, 08:38:00 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 03, 2017, 01:07:55 AM

Coffee happened.

  Coffee's happening here now too. :coffee:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 03, 2017, 10:03:59 AM

Tea is going to happen soon!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 03, 2017, 10:13:09 AM

The water is boiling. Tea will be happening very soon.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on January 03, 2017, 10:22:27 AM

I had two cappuccinos today, served with biscotti. I had to give the biscotti to my mum.

Fun fact: Biscotti = plural of a biscotto.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on January 03, 2017, 07:20:04 PM

Didn't die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 03, 2017, 09:48:19 PM

Blech, it's too hot to have hot drinks. It's time for frozen Coke.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 04, 2017, 01:06:03 AM

Got to have my coffee anyway. It's not too hot here.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Grey Area on January 05, 2017, 03:44:29 PM

I saw this: http://tumblr.becausebirds.com/post/155451137360/new-chicken-band-bout-to-drop-the-hottest-mixtape

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on January 05, 2017, 05:14:54 PM

Didn't die.  :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 05, 2017, 07:03:08 PM

I made a decision.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 06, 2017, 07:29:51 PM

Two thousand dozen with this one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on January 06, 2017, 07:48:17 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 06, 2017, 07:29:51 PM

Two thousand dozen with this one.

What does that mean?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 06, 2017, 11:12:55 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on January 06, 2017, 07:48:17 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 06, 2017, 07:29:51 PM

Two thousand dozen with this one.

What does that mean?  :orly:

24,000 posts.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 06, 2017, 11:15:12 PM

This was Thursday, but I had my haircut. I thought it was going to be difficult to explain to the hairdresser but it wasn't, she knew exactly what I wanted. Someone also made me the best cup of tea I've had in a long time. Delicious.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 07, 2017, 07:55:54 AM

Quote from: renaeden on January 06, 2017, 11:15:12 PM

This was Thursday, but I had my haircut. I thought it was going to be difficult to explain to the hairdresser but it wasn't, she knew exactly what I wanted. Someone also made me the best cup of tea I've had in a long time. Delicious.

  Sounds as if everything went your way.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 07, 2017, 07:57:52 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on January 07, 2017, 07:55:54 AM

Quote from: renaeden on January 06, 2017, 11:15:12 PM

This was Thursday, but I had my haircut. I thought it was going to be difficult to explain to the hairdresser but it wasn't, she knew exactly what I wanted. Someone also made me the best cup of tea I've had in a long time. Delicious.

Sounds as if everything went your way.  :)

Yep. Overall, it was a very good day. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 07, 2017, 07:58:19 AM

  I stayed calmly upright during a wave of nausea and I did not throw up my meds.  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 07, 2017, 07:59:14 AM

Do you know what caused the nausea?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 07, 2017, 08:02:59 AM

Quote from: renaeden on January 07, 2017, 07:59:14 AM

Do you know what caused the nausea?

  It's related to the acid reflux.  Sometimes the gelatin coating on certain medications upsets my stomach.  :zombiefuck:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 07, 2017, 08:07:32 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on January 07, 2017, 08:02:59 AM

Quote from: renaeden on January 07, 2017, 07:59:14 AM

Do you know what caused the nausea?

It's related to the acid reflux.  Sometimes the gelatin coating on certain medications upsets my stomach.  :zombiefuck:

Yeah, I have had reflux that bad before too. Usually it's a while after eating. One of the culprits is bread I think.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on January 07, 2017, 06:06:07 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 06, 2017, 11:12:55 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on January 06, 2017, 07:48:17 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 06, 2017, 07:29:51 PM

Two thousand dozen with this one.

What does that mean?  :orly:

24,000 posts.

 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 07, 2017, 08:31:10 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on January 07, 2017, 06:06:07 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 06, 2017, 11:12:55 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on January 06, 2017, 07:48:17 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 06, 2017, 07:29:51 PM

Two thousand dozen with this one.

What does that mean?  :orly:

24,000 posts.

 :2thumbsup:

Thank you

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 07, 2017, 08:36:24 PM

Amber is slowly recovering from either a bout of food poisoning or a run in with the norovirus.  Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration, stomach pain.....more likely the latter.  Finally ate some solid food without problems tonight.    OY  The experiences of the offspring bring back vivid memories for me......but, she is getting better!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 08, 2017, 05:29:11 AM

Quote from: rock hound on January 07, 2017, 08:36:24 PM

Amber is slowly recovering from either a bout of food poisoning or a run in with the norovirus.  Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration, stomach pain.....more likely the latter.  Finally ate some solid food without problems tonight.    OY  The experiences of the offspring bring back vivid memories for me......but, she is getting better!

  I hope she will sleep well.  Sleep is a healer.  :zzz:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 08, 2017, 07:18:47 AM

I sent some get well karma.

Today was my niece's 25th birthday. I got her a Spotlight gift card. My family all met on the foreshore to celebrate. It was my parents that I wanted to see the most as they live far away and I don't see them often.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 08, 2017, 09:12:46 AM

Amber felt well enough to go to work today.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 09, 2017, 07:19:05 AM

Quote from: rock hound on January 08, 2017, 09:12:46 AM

Amber felt well enough to go to work today.   8)

  Go Amber!  Kick ass and make bank!  :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 09, 2017, 07:19:59 AM

  My headache is gone, thanks to the ibuprofen softgels.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 09, 2017, 12:27:10 PM

There's a Tube strike but I got back to the flat without too much trouble.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on January 09, 2017, 08:56:45 PM

I was out from work the second half of last week, and there was an important meeting they delayed twice so I could make it. I'm better now, but I lost my voice and it's not back yet. That's not the good part, the good part is that I got to conduct my part of the meeting entirely over text chat. Accidental assistive communications!  :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 09, 2017, 11:16:33 PM

Isn't it weird how you can lose your voice but still feel perfectly fine otherwise?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 10, 2017, 03:22:52 AM

My old man (although this was yesterday) decided to start making up his own e-juice, and got a couple of bottles of flavourings that I'd appreciate, as well as the american red tobacco flavour he sticks with, which I don't like.

Basically he got a bottle each of pure nicotine (fucking dangerous to handle, IMO, since the stuff itself won't come out of the little dropper plug-cap (like you get on essential oil bottles) its too viscous to come out at any proper rate, and some each of propylene glycol and glycerine, that way the proportions can be varied and flavours customized so one hasn't to rely on off the shelf offerings, some of which are pleasant, others, such as one he keeps getting sent free, is unusable because it is absolutely vile. Stinks and tastes worse than it smells. The only way to use that stuff, is (and he just won't touch it) if I apply a few drops of the diluted, vile tasting stuff transdermally).

The nicotine bottle, you need to lever out the dropper and use a long pipette (got plenty of those) and then mix with appropriate flavour, glycerine and propylene glycol to end up with e-liquid of chosen strength and taste. Now it means I can both make my liquid stronger than the commercial ready made offerings, he only uses I think 16mg/ml, I like mine at about 36mg/ml. And it is REALLY difficult to find anything like that, typically strongest I can find off the shelf is 24mg/ml.

The really good part though, is being able to dispense altogether with the glycerine. Decided to do that and use only propylene glycol/flavour concentrate/nicotine freebase because as it happens, I did an experiment as a kid, which involved chemical dehydration of glycerine by means of destructive distillation from anhydrous sodium or potassium bisulfate. Which dehydrates it into prop-2-ene-al, or to give it its common name, acrolein. Which is most unpleasant stuff, highly toxic, and I figured, since when the e-liquids available off the shelf get used with a powerful battery or a variable voltage/wattage one and the coil inside overheads the e-liquid, you get some really awful, caustic, choking fumes instead of pleasant flavour, and doing it just once or twice by accident means dumping the contents of the tank, and I clean it out too using something like dry isopropanol or methanol (not of course undenatured EtOH, since it is too valuable to waste, and if I were to buy mine from this country rather than eastern europe, I'd get brutally taxed half to death, never mind I (for the most part) don't plan to drink it, at least not without turning it into diethyl ether by distillation from fuming sulfuric acid [yes, obviously one doesn't drink it mixed with 98-99% H2SO4. At least, thats something you'd only be capable of doing once before dying slowly and horribly:P])

So I figured the glycerine is probably undergoing thermal cracking and dehydration to the enal, in the heating element of the e-cig. I'd know that godawful teargas for its stench and choking, burning vicious nature anywhere, after encountering it once.

And I am pretty sure that having glycerine in those e-liquids is NOT a good thing, and since people turn to them often as an alternative to carcinogenic tobacco...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrolein

Read THAT and tell me you want to breathe it in. I'd be shocked if over time, in fact, the acrolein produced by overheating of glycerine in e-liquids isn't carcinogenic as hell. And if you'd encountered even one milliliter of pure acrolein, you'd never, ever want to encounter it again. Not without either a GOOD quality gas mask on and full face protection. Wouldn't want the stuff coming anywhere near my skin either. I made the mistake, after the experiment that involved it as a nipper, of pouring a surplus 0.5-1ml or so down the sink and flushing it with water. Turned the tap the wrong way, and hot, not cold water came out. The result was....painful to say the least, from the virulent cloud of..well teargas is accurate enough a description, only unlike most teargases, riot control agents aren't intended to be so damn toxic. The likes of pepper spray are mostly harmless, and military grade riot agents/tear gases/choking type chemical warfare agents are somewhat nastier, but not THAT nasty.

So I made up some e-liquid with propylene glycol as the diluent for the nicotine only, flavour, and no glycerine at all, and the resulting product is worlds better. No horrid choking fumes, even when I use the e-cig at its highest output settings. Previously I had to quickly press the on switch, on-off, on-off lather, rinse repeat to avoid overheating the glycerine content and resulting in acrolein production. Especially nasty if you don't notice the tank needs a refill  and there is only a tiny amount of liquid left, which burns and leaves you coughing and choking and tearing up.

Now all I need do, to produce a product which should be ideal for my liking, is to replicate the reinforcing effect present in tobacco smoke, due to traces of MAOI (monoamine oxidase inhibitor) beta-carboline alkaloids, such as traces of harmine and hamaline, which as it happens, are, along with tetrahydroharmine, present in yage vine, which is used for making the psychedelic drug n,n-DMT (dimethyltryptamine) active orally, where otherwise, like serotonin, due to its close similarity (serotonin lacks the methyl groups on the sidechain amino nitrogen and has a hydroxyl moiety present on the 5' carbon of the phenyl half of the indole ring) so MAO-a chews up DMT and spits it out.

Ayahuasca is a traditional brew from the amazon basin region used as a ritual hallucinogen, and whilst individual recipes are as varied as the curanderos who prepare it, every shaman having his own proprietary blend of plants and admixtures more or less, the core is a beta-carboline MAO(a)I to prevent the degradation of the DMT, again sourced from various other plants. All I need do, is obtain a little yage vine, not difficult, in fact I might even be able to obtain a living cutting from a yage plant from someone I talk to if I offer suitable inducements for a rooted, little live plant, and in the meantime, buy a section of the vine of souls, and do an extraction, then add a little of the resulting beta-carboline MAOI mixture, so that the e-liquid then becomes, pharmacologically speaking, much closer and more reinforcing, like tobacco is. And ergo much more enjoyable. Since e-liquids use synthetic nicotine, the MAOIs aren't present and compared to smoking tobacco it is..well...distinctly 'missing' something. So not quite a proper substitute for the real thing.

Just a bit of better living through chemistry, and a little botanical alchemy for a project the next time I'm thirsting for something to do in the lab and haven't the time for anything truly interesting, but which will have a most useful result :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 10, 2017, 11:09:21 AM

Computers are curious beasts, fun, enlightening, and such.  Then again down right frustrating and weird.  This morning I couldn't sign out of my gmail.  For some weird reason, I clicked a bunch of icons that looked promising, rebooted the beast. nothing worked.   Decided to go back to bed and get some more sleep and deal with it later.  So on the off chance that it was a wireless mouse battery problem, changed the batteries and clicked on some more icons.....nothing.  So I call the computer technician who built our more recent beast update and while I am calling......you guessed it......I was able to log out from gmail.   :facepalm2:

Now it's working fine!   :apondering:  Why, I'll never know!    :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 10, 2017, 01:29:12 PM

Isn't it obvious? it was waiting and listening in along the phone lines for the words 'hello, how may I help you' :P

Although, if there was any connection between the broadband and the (non-VOIP) actual phone line signal used to talk, and give infuriating spammers a jolly good effort at stirring a metaphorical turd into their coffee pot for their next coffee break, then I would guess that, were there in actual fact any connection between the two, that would have to be due to the filter on the line that separates the phone carrier from the broadband signal. Not suggesting that is the case mind you, it is most probably not.

Just struck me as funny, a computer going tits up, just so it can listen in on the tech support call to decide to start working again.

And then probably saying 'fuck it, lets annoy this little meatcreature some more now they are off the phone':P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 10, 2017, 01:37:06 PM

My something good, is having JUST enough money left to spend upon two reagents of which I am in need for a project.  Thought I'd not enough, doing the conversions from euros, rechecked it and I did have enough, down to the last £0.87 left over in change.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 10, 2017, 03:21:58 PM

Got a free extra coffee this morning when another regular didn't want coffee today and they had already made his when he walked in the door

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 10, 2017, 03:59:28 PM

Found a bag candies I thought I'd eaten already, completely full and un-opened.

Got in in time to leave a test tube under my pillow so the reagent fairy will come and dispense...well...reagents. Surprisingly enough. Thankfully the source responded very promptly, which is always good, as tomorrow I may well not have had the money, not because I'd have spent it, I wouldn't. But because my bank are complete and utter incompetent twats. Stupid bastards are incapable of handling a standing order, and despite multiple attempts to stop it, they have been trying to pay out money for a standing order they were told to cancel, because they had been taking money weekly, or trying to, and not monthly. Despite being given, in writing, the precise ffrst several dates, writetn in letters and figures both. Despite phone calls. Chances are the stupid twunts would have done exactly the same thing over again. Its just as well that the person it is going to is family, and returns what has repeatedly been wrongly taken out. But it wouldn't have been checkable in time since I therefore require their cooperation. And they would, much like, it seems, the monkeys running the shithouse of the zoo that is my bank with such a crap effort that I could probably trust a five year old child with a shotgun to stand guard over my money, stuffed under my mattress with a greater success rate.

But, due to the prompt response of the summoned reagent fairy, in before it could go out to somewhere it never should have been attempted to have been sent in the first place.

Got compensation out of them last time, 'voluntarily', that is to say, with some coercion over the phone and throwing a right wobbler at them. This time, I think it time, well, next time that is, since there won't BE a this time, the £££ is already gone before the bank monkeys could turn it into shit and fling it at the walls.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on January 11, 2017, 06:55:54 AM

My post count is....

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/danny0023/over9000_zpsh1edoy4k.jpg)

 :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 11, 2017, 06:56:58 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on January 11, 2017, 06:55:54 AM

My post count is....

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/danny0023/over9000_zpsh1edoy4k.jpg)

 :zoinks:

  GO GO GO !!!!!!!!!!!  :icequeen:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 11, 2017, 07:08:45 AM

Just finally, I hope, gotten the hell rid of the shit kitchen hotplate I'd temporarily had to make  do with. Got my magnetic stirrer/hotplate repaired. All that remains now, is to test it.

Could be the perfect opportunity to get that chloroform distilled finally.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 11, 2017, 06:16:55 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on January 11, 2017, 06:55:54 AM

My post count is....

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/danny0023/over9000_zpsh1edoy4k.jpg)

 :zoinks:

:hamsterwheel:

Yes, you can! :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on January 17, 2017, 05:40:41 AM

Got my car back, with the foglight/DRL all fixed up. They even obeyed my orders not to wash it, so it's swirl free paintwork remains swirl free.
Did my uni exam and went pretty well in it I think.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 17, 2017, 05:42:37 AM

Quote from: Marion Crane on January 17, 2017, 05:40:41 AM

Got my car back, with the foglight/DRL all fixed up. They even obeyed my orders not to wash it, so it's swirl free paintwork remains swirl free.
Did my uni exam and went pretty well in it I think.

Good day all round. :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on January 17, 2017, 05:52:14 AM

Now I can go get the car's rear diff issue diagnosed. Then after that, aftermarket wheel time 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on January 17, 2017, 12:32:33 PM

I got a free coffee. I gave a tip of 40p, was that too cheap? I mean, the coffee is normally about £3 I think.

I am now an incessant poster. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 17, 2017, 01:32:25 PM

You should also be an Elder once admin. gets around to it!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on January 17, 2017, 02:06:42 PM

^ Do I have to reach 1000 posts first?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 17, 2017, 06:34:54 PM

Quote from: justcurious on January 17, 2017, 02:06:42 PM

^ Do I have to reach 1000 posts first?

No, the threshold is 500 posts, unless Das Fuehruer has decreed otherwise.   ::)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 17, 2017, 08:22:52 PM

It is done. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 17, 2017, 08:25:37 PM

Quote from: justcurious on January 17, 2017, 02:06:42 PM

^ Do I have to reach 1000 posts first?

You are now an Elder, renaeden is on the ball!    8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on January 17, 2017, 08:32:51 PM

Yay! :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 17, 2017, 08:59:40 PM

Your rocker and false teeth cup are in the mail.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 18, 2017, 01:25:10 AM

Quote from: rock hound on January 17, 2017, 06:34:54 PM

Quote from: justcurious on January 17, 2017, 02:06:42 PM

^ Do I have to reach 1000 posts first?

No, the threshold is 500 posts, unless Das Fuehruer has decreed otherwise.   ::)

That's Ozy for you, folks. Don't we just love his passive-aggressive grumpiness? :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on January 18, 2017, 02:28:02 PM

Didn't die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 18, 2017, 02:36:27 PM

Started the culling of my geoscience/volcano oriented periodicals.  Repetitive articles, outdated info, and a plastic bin that weighs more than me.   Time to recycle or send them to a good home!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 18, 2017, 02:46:24 PM

I got a $100 tip,  so did my helper :headbang2:  Even after we filled up one of their kitchen cabinets with insulation twice(There was a hole in the wall behind it and we were blowing insulation in the walls from outside)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 18, 2017, 05:31:43 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on January 18, 2017, 02:28:02 PM

Died, but didn't know it.

Fixed

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on January 18, 2017, 08:36:00 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 18, 2017, 05:31:43 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on January 18, 2017, 02:28:02 PM

Died, but didn't know it.

Fixed

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Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 19, 2017, 02:19:10 AM

Got through my scale and clean at the dentist without bleeding. My mouth is still feeling a bit tender but that's ok.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 19, 2017, 05:09:02 AM

Quote from: renaeden on January 19, 2017, 02:19:10 AM

Got through my scale and clean at the dentist without bleeding. My mouth is still feeling a bit tender but that's ok.

  Good for you!  Stay on top of that!  It's worthy the effort.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 20, 2017, 04:25:02 AM

Found out my butyric anhydride and cinnamyl chloride are due to arrive soon, as soon as one other reagent gets to the supplier through their contacts (they have to go through someone who knows someone that works at sigma-aldrich, it does mean I can order well nigh anything at all I want, but theres a couple of weeks delay between their sending it me and my first placing the order. Could have had the anhydride and the halide sooner, but I decided I'd sooner wait a little longer and save £30 in shipping (flat rate, not sure what weight up to, or if it excludes things that would pose a danger if packed with other reagents incompatible with the first thing or things, and thus need separate shipping, but the means of obtaining such has been so far very reasonable to me with shipping, allowing me to order, wait two weeks and then as the original order arrived with them, allowed me to place another order included under the same shipping)

Presumably there is a limit on the flat rate part, as after all one could hardly send say, ten tons of items for the same price as they could a gram, or a few kg. Can't wait to get going with my project though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 20, 2017, 05:09:30 AM

  I woke up around 4 a.m. and realized I'd slept about 7 hours straight, which I hardly ever do.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 20, 2017, 05:42:49 AM

Yesterday I went to bed about halfway through the night, woke briefly to go make a dr appointment, managed to get probably the last onne, arriving a few minutes after they opened surgery at 8am, with the dr I needed to see, one left at half 6 in the evening. Went right back to sleep, until my appt, then online briefly, thence right back to sleep afterwards, got back took a couple of two kinds of sleeping pill, a benzo (nitrazepam) thats decently hypnotic and long acting, so with the other, a barbiturate-binding site agonist, although not one of the barbs, to serve as induction, along with some strong muscle relaxants and a small dose of morphine, plus a few oxy up the nose, and a small dose of morphine (the rest was being saved for something more interesting) and as soon as said more interesting thing is done, I'll be going back to sleep all day and night again)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on January 20, 2017, 07:17:54 AM

Went to the dentist. My teeth are perfectly clean as usual. Never had any fillings or anything done to my teeth, except years ago when I had braces, and once when the end of a tooth was sanded down slightly cos I'd chipped it a little.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 20, 2017, 07:40:48 AM

Hey, I just went to the dentist yesterday! I had a scale and clean which isn't the most pleasant experience but I got through it.

Last time I went for a checkup, they told me my teeth were boring because there was nothing wrong with them. At nearly 40 I think I'm doing ok with two fillings and a cap.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on January 20, 2017, 07:49:32 AM

I'd imagine a scale and clean feels kinda horrible. My teeth have been sensitive ever since I had braces so maybe that's why I feel that way. I'm not sure how I worded the above came out...but I meant braces and the sanding of one tooth was the only thing I'd had done to my teeth (except for the removable of teeth for the braces), not that I had fillings done then, I don't any fillings.

I'm not sure how many fillings an average person has...how many do they have? I assume two fillings and a cap is a great thing.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 20, 2017, 08:38:44 AM

A scale and clean isn't very nice, especially if you have sensitive teeth, I would imagine. It's the gums that suffer. But it only takes about 10 minutes and then it's over.

I had braces in my mid-twenties. I got them because I was working at the time and I could afford them. One of the best things I ever did. Made me feel so much more confident about smiling and talking to others.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on January 20, 2017, 08:40:30 AM

Quote from: renaeden on January 20, 2017, 08:38:44 AM

A scale and clean isn't very nice, especially if you have sensitive teeth, I would imagine. It's the gums that suffer. But it only takes about 10 minutes and then it's over.

I had braces in my mid-twenties. I got them because I was working at the time and I could afford them. One of the best things I ever did. Made me feel so much more confident about smiling and talking to others.

What do they do exactly, when they scale and clean?

What were wrong with your teeth?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 20, 2017, 08:50:58 AM

It seems to be different every time I go. But this time she (the dentist) picked at every tooth with a hook-type of thing, then used a very pointed high pressure instrument to clean around the gum line of all my teeth. Then she flossed all the gaps. Then she polished with some gritty stuff that tasted like mint. Then I rinsed and all was done. :)

I had a very noticeable buck tooth and my bottom teeth were really crooked. What about you? We're you glad to have braces? I certainly was!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on January 20, 2017, 09:18:14 AM

Quote from: renaeden on January 20, 2017, 08:50:58 AM

It seems to be different every time I go. But this time she (the dentist) picked at every tooth with a hook-type of thing, then used a very pointed high pressure instrument to clean around the gum line of all my teeth. Then she flossed all the gaps. Then she polished with some gritty stuff that tasted like mint. Then I rinsed and all was done. :)

I had a very noticeable buck tooth and my bottom teeth were really crooked. What about you? We're you glad to have braces? I certainly was!

I was very glad to have braces, it was painful though. I couldn't even chew for a few days everytime they inserted a thicker wire. It took me an hour each day of brushing my teeth, having to reach every tiny spot. I had to clean each tooth individually, all around each segment of the brace. I remember every time after eating I had to go to the bathroom to use a toothpick to get all the pieces of food out.

That wax they gave me was never enough, I always had sores on my gums and used about half a pack of wax a go, then it would all come off again whenever I ate, so had to apply more wax. I liked the flavoured/scented wax you could buy though.

But yeh, was very glad to have them as otherwise if I hadn't had treatment, I would've ended up with overcrowded Dracula teeth, like this:

(http://www.scoteseorthodontics.com/img/malocclusion/10-crowded.jpg)

Only problem was, due to the cheapness of the local hospital, they decided to speed up treatment by removing an extra tooth, when it was unnecessary. So my teeth aren't perfectly centered. Nobody except someone with an eye for detail, or a dentist would notice though. I'm not just kidding myself, it really is hard to notice.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 20, 2017, 09:39:14 AM

Wow, those sure are overcrowded. Mine weren't, thankfully, so I didn't need any teeth removed except two top wisdom teeth which the surgeon took out while I had jaw surgery. That was the other thing I had done. I had a significant overbite and the solution was surgery after a year of having braces. They split my bottom jaw on both sides and moved it forward then put metal clips in to hold it there. I can still feel with my fingers where it was split.

I was in ICU for 24 hours afterwards because my jaw was wired shut and there were tubes down both nostrils. The nurse kept having to suction  down one nostril to my throat whenever there was excess saliva. Which happened often. That was unpleasant. But I was never in any pain, just a bit uncomfortable. Then I found out what pressing the IV button did. Gave me morphine which made me pleasantly sleepy. I was in hospital for 3 days total. I had a splint (a piece of moulded plastic) attached to my top teeth which was to guide the bottom teeth into the correct position. I also had tight rubber bands keeping my jaw mostly closed so I couldn't eat normally. My mum looked after me and pureed my food. McDonald's chocolate thickshakes were also something I had a fair few of. Two weeks later the splint and rubber bands came out and I had my braces in for another year after that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on January 20, 2017, 09:58:18 AM

Freaking Hell, my experience sounds like nothing compared to that! That sounds horrific. I'm glad you didn't experience any pain, very surprising you didn't. Didn't know you could press a button for a shot of morphine like that, I thought a nurse had to do it.

I had a bunch of teeth removed in total, maybe 10 in the space of 4 years? It included baby teeth though, maybe up to 6 adult teeth. I still have them, except a baby tooth I threw away at school. Could take a photo of the ones I've kept, but it might gross people out.

I remember when I had 3 or 4 teeth to be removed in one procedure, I asked to be put under general anesthetic. They put this numbing cream on my hand and a big clear plaster on it (for the needle to be inserted) so I squidged all the cream about underneath, that was fun. I also remember just before I went to sleep, I saw a bunch of coloured blobs then everything went blank. When I woke up they offered me a ham sandwich and jelly/jello, and nothing else. It annoyed my mum at the time cos I was raised a vegetarian. The ham sandwich was delicious though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 20, 2017, 09:02:14 PM

Yeah, in some instances you get a pain medication button, so that when you feel pain, you push the button and then get morphine (or other pain med) through the IV.

From surgery to the time of getting the splint out, I was never in any pain. When I got home from hospital, I stopped taking the pain pills straight away because they just made me feel sick to my stomach. I was fine without them.

Having teeth removed sounds traumatic to me though! I had two wisdom teeth removed during jaw surgery but if they hadn't told me they did it, I wouldn't have known.

I would like a ham sandwich now. ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 21, 2017, 03:41:52 AM

Stop talking about ham sandwiches. I want one now.  >:(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 21, 2017, 07:12:37 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 21, 2017, 03:41:52 AM

Stop talking about ham sandwiches. I want one now.  >:(

  I just had a peanut butter and grape jelly Uncrustable^TM.  :fuckyeahdance:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on January 21, 2017, 07:27:10 AM

I've had a PB&J Ryvita before. It was delicious. Never tried grape jam, it's not really a thing over here. Marmalade and strawberry jam are the most popular.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 21, 2017, 07:31:07 AM

Quote from: justcurious on January 21, 2017, 07:27:10 AM

I've had a PB&J Ryvita before. It was delicious. Never tried grape jam, it's not really a thing over here. Marmalade and strawberry jam are the most popular.

  Grape jam is delicious.  One taste and you'll be hooked!  >:D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on January 21, 2017, 07:31:57 AM

Quote from: renaeden on January 20, 2017, 09:02:14 PM

Yeah, in some instances you get a pain medication button, so that when you feel pain, you push the button and then get morphine (or other pain med) through the IV.

I wonder how many times you can press it.  :orly:

Quote

From surgery to the time of getting the splint out, I was never in any pain. When I got home from hospital, I stopped taking the pain pills straight away because they just made me feel sick to my stomach. I was fine without them.

Having teeth removed sounds traumatic to me though! I had two wisdom teeth removed during jaw surgery but if they hadn't told me they did it, I wouldn't have known.

I would like a ham sandwich now. ;)

I don't get how you didn't experience any pain, that's pretty lucky. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on January 21, 2017, 07:33:57 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on January 21, 2017, 07:31:07 AM

Quote from: justcurious on January 21, 2017, 07:27:10 AM

I've had a PB&J Ryvita before. It was delicious. Never tried grape jam, it's not really a thing over here. Marmalade and strawberry jam are the most popular.

  Grape jam is delicious.  One taste and you'll be hooked!  >:D

They don't sell it at all here. They do PB&J together though, in a swirl. I prefer pure peanut butter, it's far tastier, oily, and there's no horrible palm oil or any other crap in it.

I wonder if there is anywhere that does grape jam, at all. I've never seen it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on January 21, 2017, 11:28:59 PM

Elderberry jelly is the best. In the USA you can get it at a bizarrely named store chain called Christmas Tree Shops.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 22, 2017, 03:00:34 AM

^That is a bizarre store chain name.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on January 22, 2017, 03:48:53 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on January 21, 2017, 11:28:59 PM

Elderberry jelly is the best. In the USA you can get it at a bizarrely named store chain called Christmas Tree Shops.

They did Elderflower jam here, but I didn't buy it as I would've eaten it straight out of the jar.  :-[

I think rose petal jam is the best, it tastes amazing and I love the texture of the rose petals.

Those wild hibiscus flowers in syrup taste amazing too, though it's better when it's put into a drink as otherwise the flavour is too concentrated for me. I love the texture of the flowers too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 22, 2017, 04:14:07 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on January 21, 2017, 11:28:59 PM

Elderberry jelly is the best. In the USA you can get it at a bizarrely named store chain called Christmas Tree Shops.

* Puts making elderberry jelly on her long term to do  list, been way too long since I had that. *

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 22, 2017, 06:28:55 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 22, 2017, 03:00:34 AM

^That is a bizarre store chain name.

  It's an excellent store, filled with wonderful things.  :santa: :M

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 27, 2017, 05:02:31 PM

Got a call on a large house I bid on  a couple weeks ago telling me it was ready,  it was a bit of a surprise seeing that they never got back to me to tell me I even had the job

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 27, 2017, 07:37:13 PM

Got home safely and timely from our annual indulgence trip to Boston!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 28, 2017, 12:08:23 PM

  Coffee made my headache go away.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 30, 2017, 09:29:20 AM

I was home alone for a while, twice today.

And I did absolutely nothing, but hanging around while being on my own.

 :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 30, 2017, 10:10:21 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on January 30, 2017, 09:29:20 AM

I was home alone for a while, twice today.

And I did absolutely nothing, but hanging around while being on my own.

 :hyke:

Solitude is glorious.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 30, 2017, 10:45:52 AM

Yoga happened today! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on January 30, 2017, 11:31:02 AM

The backhoe arrived to dig up the septic line today.

Water company was supposed to mark the water lines but they have no clue where they are (the home builder ran them back in the 80's...no documentation).

Might be an interesting day. 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 30, 2017, 12:48:18 PM

Ooooh, have you made sure the batteries of camera and phone are fully charged? This could be the beginning of your fame and wealth on YouTube.

Or just a thing to cause some great laughter on I2.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 30, 2017, 12:54:19 PM

Luna was allowed to wash Lorre today. Not completely, but there was a start.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on February 17, 2017, 08:28:15 PM

Had to be at multiple places today. One office had a large black lab as part of the staff.

He saw me, and boom...big sloppy dog kisses happened.   :lol1:

 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on February 18, 2017, 02:53:25 PM

I hoarded some more toilet paper and water.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on February 19, 2017, 12:11:16 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on February 18, 2017, 02:53:25 PM

I hoarded some more toilet paper and water.  :orly:

is there something you're not telling us?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: WolFish on February 19, 2017, 12:12:29 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on January 30, 2017, 12:54:19 PM

Luna was allowed to wash Lorre today. Not completely, but there was a start.

that sounds like a very good start.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 19, 2017, 05:21:18 AM

Quote from: WolFish on February 19, 2017, 12:11:16 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on February 18, 2017, 02:53:25 PM

I hoarded some more toilet paper and water.  :orly:

is there something you're not telling us?

  I think we're about due for the first Hoarders episode filmed in a gopher hole. :gopher: :trollface:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on February 19, 2017, 06:29:58 AM

Quote from: WolFish on February 19, 2017, 12:11:16 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on February 18, 2017, 02:53:25 PM

I hoarded some more toilet paper and water.  :orly:

is there something you're not telling us?

I don't think so.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on February 19, 2017, 06:34:37 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on February 19, 2017, 05:21:18 AM

Quote from: WolFish on February 19, 2017, 12:11:16 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on February 18, 2017, 02:53:25 PM

I hoarded some more toilet paper and water.  :orly:

is there something you're not telling us?

  I think we're about due for the first Hoarders episode filmed in a gopher hole. :gopher: :trollface:

 

I was going to wait and see how long it takes for Sugarbutt to notice it, but I don't know where I should put the water, so I asked him to make a space somewhere for me to hoard it.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 19, 2017, 06:16:39 PM

New modem to replace one that died Friday night.  (The PR spilled Pepsi in it.)  Now we have TV, phone and Internet again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 19, 2017, 07:34:49 PM

  While waiting in the checkout line at the supermarket, I realized I'd forgotten the cheese I needed. 
  I had enough time to fast-walk to the dairy aisle and pick it up before the cashier got to my stuff.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on February 19, 2017, 09:59:54 PM

This whole weekend was good. Got to go climbing and exhaust myself, got to work on writing with WolFish, got to eat a big bowl of popcorn and tacos and a roast chicken thigh.

 :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 20, 2017, 12:09:20 AM

This was yesterday but I finally solved a problem I had with installing a database.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 20, 2017, 03:00:16 AM

I had one of my networking classes today and I didn't even once have to ask the teacher for help. Last week was a nightmare in that regard.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on March 03, 2017, 07:00:21 PM

The girl sent daffodils.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 03, 2017, 07:59:41 PM

It was yesterday, but Jack won free box seats to a Yankee spring training game and they came with club access so we got fancy free food and drinks too. We had a great time and Sugarbutt said he felt like royalty, even though I made him use his wheelchair.  :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 03, 2017, 09:30:29 PM

I saw a hilarious blooper reel at work.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on March 03, 2017, 10:41:31 PM

I made it through the day.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 03, 2017, 10:42:59 PM

Always a plus.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 04, 2017, 06:55:23 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on March 03, 2017, 09:30:29 PM

I saw a hilarious blooper reel at work.

  My typical work day IS a hilarious blooper reel.  That's why they keep me around.  :M :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 06, 2017, 06:32:52 AM

  I found this radio edit of this great song. 
   It's the perfect version, just the right length.  :2thumbsup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9bk2MrMGaA

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on March 09, 2017, 04:17:31 PM

Playing fallout II, its set me back several (in game) months of play, but I reloaded a special encounter in the desert wilderness, where there is a bridge, and a bridge-keeper, dressed in a robe, kind of grim reaper guy type, you have to answer 3 questions, get the third wrong and he releases a mad mutated two-headed cow that runs up to you, explodes, instant death.

Only I saved the game before talking to the guy but the save was bugged. Still, managed to take a targeted shot, and blast his kneecaps out with a combat auto-shotgun, before blinding him with a shot right in the eyes. He released the cow, but by then managed to make the player character run away in front of where the guy was trying to crawl away, and when the cow approached, start combat again and take it out with a direct shotgun blast straight to the eyes, one hit, dead meat.

And blocking the slowly escaping bridgekeeper's path, just kept there, occasionally more cow-bombs were released but took down each one with a shot in the eyes, or a headshot, preventing the otherwise instant death. One cow originally got me, but managed to survive, barely, with just a few health points. So I went and kept firing into this guy's undamaged leg, blowing out BOTH his kneecaps, and whilst he was on the floor, rammed a souped-up high voltage shock baton into his eyesockets, at first doing massive damage, the second, killing him instantly. In order to steal his clothing. Have a travelling companion formerly wearing old metal plate armor, turns out the robe the bridge keeper wears, or rather, wore, is rather special, being lightweight and equal to advanced combat armor. Making me able to give my much better set of mark II metal armor to the companion, as well as equipping him with an advanced assault rifle, the in game version of the real-world heckler and koch G11, firing a high velocity, high damage caseless round.

Basically outright murder, but oh well, its a lot lighter than combat armor too, which in any case I'd only get much later in the game. A robe that even resists laser and plasma weaponry, or flamethrowers and worse.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on March 10, 2017, 02:43:29 PM

Now that robe thing has taken some 30-40-50lb off my carry weight, since i don't need any of the metal plate armors or even advanced combar armor. A murder was necessary both of the owner, first blasting both his kneecaps out with a combat automatic shotgun and then getting in front of the direction he was trying to crawl away, slamming him to the floor and putting repeated stabs in the eyes with my turbocharged shock-baton whilst any of those mad cow bombs couldn't get to me due to me no longer being on the bridge, going the wrong way, and if they did pose any threat, just taking them out with shots to the eyes with said combat shotgun, which typically killed them instantly. I am glad I saved my game around that encounter, albeit it should have saved  before answering his  questions, but it tried to and didn't for whatever reason, so murder was the only way to get that unique cloak-armor item. Its light and resistant as hell to hollowpoints, to armor-piercing ammunition, flamethrower discharges, even laser, electric and plasma bolts, yet its a fraction of the weight of even advanced combat armor. Which is really handy especially late on in the game when you are carrying a fuckton of ammunition for various weapons, from everything to sniper rifles, heavy machineguns that take high-velocity sniper rifle bullets and fires them in automatic-fire bursts (which needless to say does one fucking hell of a lot of damage, often as not blasting their arms and chest open, blowing off their heads and leaving just a pair of legs, and a waist with a spine poking out of the top. If you just out and out murder the bridge-keeper you are meant to lose a bit of karma, but in this case for some reason it didn't happen, so I was free to shred him like a piece of meat in a blender with a burst from my combat auto-shotgun after first blowing both his arms and kneecaps out :D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 10, 2017, 04:36:03 PM

Met with a friend. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on March 11, 2017, 06:44:17 AM

Got a lot more fallout II playing 'work' to be done on my game in progress now I reloaded from that long-time earlier save. But at least now I have something better than near enough the best available protection bar hardened powered exoskeleton-type armor or power armor. Which IIRC (not the powered armor because it enhances strength afaik, long time since I've played the game, but certainly the robe 'found' during the special encounter after first making sure the grim reaper guy wearing it could only move a hex or maybe two at a time by blasting his kneecaps out with the full-auto combat shotgun I was carrying, and crippling the mutated cow with explosives strapped to it so it would run and hide, but not die and thus prevent more being sent my way, that way, was a crafty way of being able to close in on reaper-features and blast him in the eyes, blinding him, and then blowing away the other kneecap, flooring him, and executing him in cold blood by means of first getting a high-damage critical hit with a conventional whacking with the sidearm i was carrying at the time, a modified, turbo-charged shock baton, then again a critical hit, this time lethally, rammed through his eyeball straight into his brain. Zap, splat, dead. Yoink, nice, extremely effective armor with resistance to everything, from explosives to conventional, to armor-piercing, even plasma weaponry. Doesn't have the almost complete resistance to laser weaponry that polished-up metallic armor of advanced models of the latter have, but few use laser weapons to begin with, and only late in the game, although I already have a laser pistol, stolen from the leader of a gang, pickpocketed from his private locker should I wish to use it. long range, fairly high damage and with a good critical will slice somebody into two pieces. Got to do some traveling and fighting to re-acquire the flamethrower, squad-support heavy .223 armor-piercing machinegun and 5mm heavy minigun I was carrying, but the heavy machinegun, or alternately, an even heavier .223 cal machinegun/autocannon type weapon can be stolen from the same guy outside the same heavy weapons shop I can pinch the heavy machinegun from. The heavy version though empties the magazine in just three bursts whilst the  one larger still does so in two pulls of the trigger. And its especially good for those occasions where the likes of highwaymen try and jack you up traveling through the wastelands, because it'll shred an entire group of enemies and leave them with just half a torso with part of a spine poking out and a great big hole through what was left of their chests en-masse. The downside is its heavy and uses a lot of ammunition. The weight is easily offset though by the fact I have a pair, so far of companions that I can use to carry surplus kit and arm and armor them also, and am carrying not far off a thousand rounds of .223 armor-piercing rounds. This thing makes a MESS if used on just a single target. Forget a dead body, it splatters them limb from limb and sprays insides, outside. Of course, quite fatal. Even heavily-armored targets take heavy damage from a non-critical shot, and a critical can often as not, still do massive damage, if not an instant kill if you get lucky.

Just had such a random stickup happen. By a bunch of thug types stupid enough to take me on with a couple of shotguns and leather jackets. No imagine needed to picture the result. By  the time ONE of them managed to close (my companion having my previous weapon, a H&K G11 caseless-round assault rifle helping make mincemeat of those stupid enough to try and attack with KNIVES (lol) I just switched to that rather lethal souped-up shock prod and rammed it first in the nadgers and then through the eyesocket whilst the were on the ground struggling to breathe.

Very few enemies seem to get the chance to get more than perhaps one shot/burst off after being drilled by this big fucking great handheld cannon of a machinegun with its heavy caliber armor-piercing ammo. It fires the same rounds intended for use in a high-velocity sniper rifle, only something like bursts of 25 at a time :pwned:

And its rather neat using the same rounds as the conventional sniper rifle (late in game apparently there is another sniper-function weapon, although IIRC capable of full auto, but thats a 2mm railgun-like weapon) Because it means I can carry a long-ranged extremely accurate sniper rifle as a sidearm to pick off and/or cripple enemies at long range before they ever get close, walk up whilst they try to crawl away then just shred them to meatpaste at point blank range with a burst from this autocannon-thing. Although the next robber to carry one, I'll swap it for one of the miniguns or laser cannon-miniguns and as soon as possible swap the sniper rifle for a plasma rifle and have one of the weapons vendor shops in cities upgrade it to a higher yielding, more accurate 'turbo' plasma rifle.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 11, 2017, 07:19:59 AM

Finally slept more than five hours.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 15, 2017, 02:43:20 PM

Wrote a pretty cool conversion script.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 15, 2017, 04:42:48 PM

Bamboozled The PR.  I usually give her $1 to buy a drink at therapy.  She's been reluctant to go, so I offered her $2 to go.  But I only gave her the $2.  So............

In case you think I'm cruel here is what I spend on her "fun" money each month.

Bowling games $80
Refreshments at bowling $16
Breakfast soda $30
Soda at therapy (until now) $12
Allowance $40.
Whatever else she cons out of me at the store and for fast food.

Her expenses have to come out of her disability check, which is slightly above subsistence according to the government.  So, it's not really a bamboozle, just a budgetary realignment.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 15, 2017, 05:37:22 PM

Kind of a clever way to hammer home a point.

Hope it works.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 15, 2017, 05:44:38 PM

Quote from: Lestat on March 11, 2017, 06:44:17 AM

Got a lot more fallout II playing 'work' to be done on my game in progress now I reloaded from that long-time earlier save. But at least now I have something better than near enough the best available protection bar hardened powered exoskeleton-type armor or power armor. Which IIRC (not the powered armor because it enhances strength afaik, long time since I've played the game, but certainly the robe 'found' during the special encounter after first making sure the grim reaper guy wearing it could only move a hex or maybe two at a time by blasting his kneecaps out with the full-auto combat shotgun I was carrying, and crippling the mutated cow with explosives strapped to it so it would run and hide, but not die and thus prevent more being sent my way, that way, was a crafty way of being able to close in on reaper-features and blast him in the eyes, blinding him, and then blowing away the other kneecap, flooring him, and executing him in cold blood by means of first getting a high-damage critical hit with a conventional whacking with the sidearm i was carrying at the time, a modified, turbo-charged shock baton, then again a critical hit, this time lethally, rammed through his eyeball straight into his brain. Zap, splat, dead. Yoink, nice, extremely effective armor with resistance to everything, from explosives to conventional, to armor-piercing, even plasma weaponry. Doesn't have the almost complete resistance to laser weaponry that polished-up metallic armor of advanced models of the latter have, but few use laser weapons to begin with, and only late in the game, although I already have a laser pistol, stolen from the leader of a gang, pickpocketed from his private locker should I wish to use it. long range, fairly high damage and with a good critical will slice somebody into two pieces. Got to do some traveling and fighting to re-acquire the flamethrower, squad-support heavy .223 armor-piercing machinegun and 5mm heavy minigun I was carrying, but the heavy machinegun, or alternately, an even heavier .223 cal machinegun/autocannon type weapon can be stolen from the same guy outside the same heavy weapons shop I can pinch the heavy machinegun from. The heavy version though empties the magazine in just three bursts whilst the  one larger still does so in two pulls of the trigger. And its especially good for those occasions where the likes of highwaymen try and jack you up traveling through the wastelands, because it'll shred an entire group of enemies and leave them with just half a torso with part of a spine poking out and a great big hole through what was left of their chests en-masse. The downside is its heavy and uses a lot of ammunition. The weight is easily offset though by the fact I have a pair, so far of companions that I can use to carry surplus kit and arm and armor them also, and am carrying not far off a thousand rounds of .223 armor-piercing rounds. This thing makes a MESS if used on just a single target. Forget a dead body, it splatters them limb from limb and sprays insides, outside. Of course, quite fatal. Even heavily-armored targets take heavy damage from a non-critical shot, and a critical can often as not, still do massive damage, if not an instant kill if you get lucky.

Just had such a random stickup happen. By a bunch of thug types stupid enough to take me on with a couple of shotguns and leather jackets. No imagine needed to picture the result. By  the time ONE of them managed to close (my companion having my previous weapon, a H&K G11 caseless-round assault rifle helping make mincemeat of those stupid enough to try and attack with KNIVES (lol) I just switched to that rather lethal souped-up shock prod and rammed it first in the nadgers and then through the eyesocket whilst the were on the ground struggling to breathe.

Very few enemies seem to get the chance to get more than perhaps one shot/burst off after being drilled by this big fucking great handheld cannon of a machinegun with its heavy caliber armor-piercing ammo. It fires the same rounds intended for use in a high-velocity sniper rifle, only something like bursts of 25 at a time :pwned:

And its rather neat using the same rounds as the conventional sniper rifle (late in game apparently there is another sniper-function weapon, although IIRC capable of full auto, but thats a 2mm railgun-like weapon) Because it means I can carry a long-ranged extremely accurate sniper rifle as a sidearm to pick off and/or cripple enemies at long range before they ever get close, walk up whilst they try to crawl away then just shred them to meatpaste at point blank range with a burst from this autocannon-thing. Although the next robber to carry one, I'll swap it for one of the miniguns or laser cannon-miniguns and as soon as possible swap the sniper rifle for a plasma rifle and have one of the weapons vendor shops in cities upgrade it to a higher yielding, more accurate 'turbo' plasma rifle.

My son is trying to get me into World Of Tanks.  Played it a few times. I Hate driving with a keyboard but after a few games, I found that I was just as good at driving the tanks with the keyboard as my son was, even after him playing for a few weeks.

He is eighteen. I will take any bonding experience I can fathom (where no one bleeds) at this point.
 :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 15, 2017, 10:20:43 PM

What does he like about World of Tanks? I haven't played it but I thought it skirted the edge of pay-to-win bullcrap.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on March 16, 2017, 06:19:05 AM

The peroxide populist did not gain first place in the elections.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on March 16, 2017, 09:48:36 AM

I found these clips of atmospheric nuclear detonations:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/16/us/lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory-nuclear-test-footage (http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/16/us/lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory-nuclear-test-footage)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 16, 2017, 11:29:18 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on March 15, 2017, 04:42:48 PM

Bamboozled The PR.  I usually give her $1 to buy a drink at therapy.  She's been reluctant to go, so I offered her $2 to go.  But I only gave her the $2.  So............

In case you think I'm cruel here is what I spend on her "fun" money each month.

Bowling games $80
Refreshments at bowling $16
Breakfast soda $30
Soda at therapy (until now) $12
Allowance $40.
Whatever else she cons out of me at the store and for fast food.

Her expenses have to come out of her disability check, which is slightly above subsistence according to the government.  So, it's not really a bamboozle, just a budgetary realignment.

Two days in a row!   :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 18, 2017, 02:19:16 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on March 15, 2017, 10:20:43 PM

What does he like about World of Tanks? I haven't played it but I thought it skirted the edge of pay-to-win bullcrap.

Well, we play the free version and gain points for succcesses which are redeemed for upgrades to weaponry and better, faster tanks.
He is a beginning player of games, only been playing games for a little over a year.
We have never tried the pay versions.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 18, 2017, 06:51:11 PM

 :thumbup: Glad to hear the free version is actually fun.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 19, 2017, 12:46:36 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 19, 2017, 01:46:13 AM

This reminds me of you, odeon:
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p209/renaeden/FB_IMG_1487908090642_zpscdyiznpg.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 19, 2017, 04:30:17 AM

It's a lovely poem. +

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on March 19, 2017, 12:06:52 PM

Interesting vids of the nukes. Wish there was sound, so I could have gotten a better impression of the speed of the resultant shockwave, by timing the difference between the distance the shock front travels and the arrival of the sound. But no sound and the videos were in 3s segments.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 20, 2017, 01:21:42 AM

Quote from: renaeden on March 19, 2017, 01:46:13 AM

This reminds me of you, odeon:
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p209/renaeden/FB_IMG_1487908090642_zpscdyiznpg.jpg)
[/quote

I would like to quote this. :coffee:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 20, 2017, 09:56:10 AM

Quote from: Lestat on March 19, 2017, 12:06:52 PM

Interesting vids of the nukes. Wish there was sound, so I could have gotten a better impression of the speed of the resultant shockwave, by timing the difference between the distance the shock front travels and the arrival of the sound. But no sound and the videos were in 3s segments.

Good grief!  You're channeling PA.  I can just hear him calculating that.  And I'm not kidding.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on March 20, 2017, 10:05:46 AM

Cool Meowsy. The spherical one was most impressive to me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on March 20, 2017, 03:52:33 PM

I'll take that as a compliment QV. And tenfold so since he is responsible for the existence of the PR.

I'd have been interested in seeing how the yield as well as bomb configuration (Teller-Ulam vs uranium 'gun' type pit detonations, tampers, and I'd have loved to see and hear some hydrogen bomb rather than just fission weapons going off. )

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 20, 2017, 06:21:17 PM

Quote from: renaeden on March 19, 2017, 01:46:13 AM

This reminds me of you, odeon:
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p209/renaeden/FB_IMG_1487908090642_zpscdyiznpg.jpg)

 :lol1:   :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 21, 2017, 12:45:31 AM

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/f9/24/ee/f924eea743f23f0a8b473df0391958ac.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on March 21, 2017, 04:37:39 AM

Chemistry happened. A very satisfying synthesis I have only done once before, and that on a much smaller, test scale, just to familiarize myself with the reagent I am preparing. Found myself doing a lot of inorganic lately, which is quite a change for me and it feels...oddly refreshing, if that makes sense. A breath of fresh air (albeit through a gas mask scrubbing noxious vapor and toxic gases:P)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 21, 2017, 04:58:06 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 20, 2017, 06:21:17 PM

Quote from: renaeden on March 19, 2017, 01:46:13 AM

This reminds me of you, odeon:
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p209/renaeden/FB_IMG_1487908090642_zpscdyiznpg.jpg)

 :lol1:   :plus:

  I took a picture of this on my phone and sent it to my sister, who loved it. :coffee:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on March 21, 2017, 09:38:53 AM

Quote from: Lestat on March 20, 2017, 03:52:33 PM

I'll take that as a compliment QV. And tenfold so since he is responsible for the existence of the PR.

I'd have been interested in seeing how the yield as well as bomb configuration (Teller-Ulam vs uranium 'gun' type pit detonations, tampers, and I'd have loved to see and hear some hydrogen bomb rather than just fission weapons going off. )

Each video was named after the "shot", and each shot has its own Wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hardtack_I#Nutmeg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hardtack_I#Nutmeg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Teapot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Teapot)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dominic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dominic)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Upshot%E2%80%93Knothole (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Upshot%E2%80%93Knothole)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 21, 2017, 10:09:35 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on March 21, 2017, 04:58:06 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 20, 2017, 06:21:17 PM

Quote from: renaeden on March 19, 2017, 01:46:13 AM

This reminds me of you, odeon:
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p209/renaeden/FB_IMG_1487908090642_zpscdyiznpg.jpg)

 :lol1:   :plus:

  I took a picture of this on my phone and sent it to my sister, who loved it. :coffee:

I sent it to my wife.

One of her favorite nightshirts has on the front:

ACCIO COFFEE!

Harry Potter fans will get it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 22, 2017, 12:35:01 AM

(http://i0.wp.com/blog.beangenius.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/owl-memes.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 22, 2017, 05:17:22 AM

  This actually happened a few days ago ... I got a text from a work buddy who's left us for another job,
   and he's finally taken my advice to watch Breaking Bad, and is now happily binge-watching! :heisenberg:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 23, 2017, 12:24:29 AM

(https://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/folder566/62780566.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 23, 2017, 10:15:58 AM

After refusal to go to therapy yesterday, The PR went today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on March 23, 2017, 04:28:43 PM

36 hours or so until I take my family on an 8-day pacific coast vacation :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 24, 2017, 12:21:23 AM

Quote from: Meowsy McDermott on March 23, 2017, 04:28:43 PM

36 hours or so until I take my family on an 8-day pacific coast vacation :)

Nice. :) Have a safe journey.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 24, 2017, 04:33:12 AM

Quote from: Meowsy McDermott on March 23, 2017, 04:28:43 PM

36 hours or so until I take my family on an 8-day pacific coast vacation :)

I would like to be part of your family.;)

Wishing you all a safe trip.

Today, everything went pretty much according to plan. Except Centrelink. But I have already complained about them. Liam's vet visit went well, he had his antihistamine injection and some strange pink ointment put on his neck almost-wound. We have to take him back to the vet in a month's time to see whether or not something else will work better for him (a treatment that's usually for dogs).

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on March 24, 2017, 05:10:50 AM

Quote from: renaeden on March 24, 2017, 04:33:12 AM

Quote from: Meowsy McDermott on March 23, 2017, 04:28:43 PM

36 hours or so until I take my family on an 8-day pacific coast vacation :)

I would like to be part of your family.;)

Wishing you all a safe trip.

Today, everything went pretty much according to plan. Except Centrelink. But I have already complained about them. Liam's vet visit went well, he had his antihistamine injection and some strange pink ointment put on his neck almost-wound. We have to take him back to the vet in a month's time to see whether or not something else will work better for him (a treatment that's usually for dogs).

I hope your doggie gets better.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 24, 2017, 05:27:33 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on March 23, 2017, 10:15:58 AM

After refusal to go to therapy yesterday, The PR went today.

  Good.  It hurts in the moment, but it helps in the long run. :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 24, 2017, 05:29:39 AM

Quote from: Meowsy McDermott on March 23, 2017, 04:28:43 PM

36 hours or so until I take my family on an 8-day pacific coast vacation :)

  Hope you all have fun.  :cheer: :bonnet: :bonnet:  :fish2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 24, 2017, 09:56:12 PM

Quote from: justcurious on March 24, 2017, 05:10:50 AM

Quote from: renaeden on March 24, 2017, 04:33:12 AM

Quote from: Meowsy McDermott on March 23, 2017, 04:28:43 PM

36 hours or so until I take my family on an 8-day pacific coast vacation :)

I would like to be part of your family.;)

Wishing you all a safe trip.

Today, everything went pretty much according to plan. Except Centrelink. But I have already complained about them. Liam's vet visit went well, he had his antihistamine injection and some strange pink ointment put on his neck almost-wound. We have to take him back to the vet in a month's time to see whether or not something else will work better for him (a treatment that's usually for dogs).

I hope your doggie gets better.

Teehee, Liam is a cat. Thank you. He is a lot more settled today because he's not scratching and/or constantly grooming.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on March 25, 2017, 07:01:20 AM

Quote from: renaeden on March 24, 2017, 09:56:12 PM

Quote from: justcurious on March 24, 2017, 05:10:50 AM

Quote from: renaeden on March 24, 2017, 04:33:12 AM

Quote from: Meowsy McDermott on March 23, 2017, 04:28:43 PM

36 hours or so until I take my family on an 8-day pacific coast vacation :)

I would like to be part of your family.;)

Wishing you all a safe trip.

Today, everything went pretty much according to plan. Except Centrelink. But I have already complained about them. Liam's vet visit went well, he had his antihistamine injection and some strange pink ointment put on his neck almost-wound. We have to take him back to the vet in a month's time to see whether or not something else will work better for him (a treatment that's usually for dogs).

I hope your doggie gets better.

Teehee, Liam is a cat. Thank you. He is a lot more settled today because he's not scratching and/or constantly grooming.

Oh. I assumed dog because you said the treatment was usually for dogs! I'm glad he is more settled.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on March 25, 2017, 02:54:33 PM

I had to go out to some pet stores and buy a couple of things-I needed some one-way gas valves and when I found somewhere selling them, it was 1x for £1.60-1.70 or so, but could get two per pack for £2. Got myself a new water pump, much more powerful than the one I already have, and this one has two outlet settings so now I can run three condensers etc. at once. Or run two and use the smaller pump to drain almost-full coolant baths once the ice has melted.

Came across a fair few potentially useful things whilst I was at it, some multi-way hose connectors, tungsten in paste/putty form, finely divided and suspended in some sort of polymer, hopefully I'll be able to vaporize off the organic matter with a torch and sinter the tungsten, or else react it with a mixture of phosphoric acid and peroxide to dissolve the metal and form a salt I can use for plating resistant coatings onto things. Such as the graphite electrodes I'm currently shopping for, as well as more all-glass syringes, and some crucibles big enough for what I have in mind for them that include lids.

Found a neat little glass U-tube trap in one of the pet stores. No idea what they intended it for, but its also got a tap hole for a hose on one side, as well as at both ends, would be perfect for some electrolysis uses such as generating Cl2 from brine:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 25, 2017, 10:44:24 PM

Quote from: justcurious on March 25, 2017, 07:01:20 AM

Quote from: renaeden on March 24, 2017, 09:56:12 PM

Quote from: justcurious on March 24, 2017, 05:10:50 AM

Quote from: renaeden on March 24, 2017, 04:33:12 AM

Quote from: Meowsy McDermott on March 23, 2017, 04:28:43 PM

36 hours or so until I take my family on an 8-day pacific coast vacation :)

I would like to be part of your family.;)

Wishing you all a safe trip.

Today, everything went pretty much according to plan. Except Centrelink. But I have already complained about them. Liam's vet visit went well, he had his antihistamine injection and some strange pink ointment put on his neck almost-wound. We have to take him back to the vet in a month's time to see whether or not something else will work better for him (a treatment that's usually for dogs).

I hope your doggie gets better.

Teehee, Liam is a cat. Thank you. He is a lot more settled today because he's not scratching and/or constantly grooming.

Oh. I assumed dog because you said the treatment was usually for dogs! I'm glad he is more settled.

That's ok. The treatment he may be given is usually for dogs but since he is a cat, he will be given a low dose. I think it is some kind of antihistamine but not one that makes him hungry and prone to diabetes if taken for a long time like Depredil is.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 31, 2017, 07:44:16 PM

Center ice hockey tickets :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 01, 2017, 01:47:15 AM

Not today. The neighbours sold or gave away their dog. The neighbours are nice enough, the dog was a friendly big black labrador. But my neighbours are no people fit for a dog. They could not handle him. He'd be barking all the time. Eating everything in the house. Their reaction to him was never clear enough. They'd ask him in an insecure way, with sigh, if he would please stop. I felt sorry for the dog.

Kid next door does not seem to miss him. I hope the dog got a home where he can be what he is, an adorable labrador with people who are clear and good with dogs.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on April 01, 2017, 06:36:55 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on April 01, 2017, 01:47:15 AM

Not today. The neighbours sold or gave away their dog. The neighbours are nice enough, the dog was a friendly big black labrador. But my neighbours are no people fit for a dog. They could not handle him. He'd be barking all the time. Eating everything in the house. Their reaction to him was never clear enough. They'd ask him in an insecure way, with sigh, if he would please stop. I felt sorry for the dog.

Kid next door does not seem to miss him. I hope the dog got a home where he can be what he is, an adorable labrador with people who are clear and good with dogs.

I don't get that with people either, they expect the dog to understand their language better than their tone of voice. Tone of voice says everything. Then, I would probably be just as ignorant had I not read up on body language and tone of voice. What category would tone of voice be under? I guess that would be speech. :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on April 02, 2017, 09:01:13 PM

Hockey, cherry coke, water, and toilet paper.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 02, 2017, 11:43:11 PM

Had a good Networking class where we completed an online worksheet about....networking, what else? ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 05, 2017, 03:08:52 PM

My kick-ass project manager talked some sense into the IT department, forcing them to get a new laptop to me by Friday.  :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 05, 2017, 04:48:42 PM

I happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 05, 2017, 09:11:17 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 05, 2017, 03:08:52 PM

My kick-ass project manager talked some sense into the IT department, forcing them to get a new laptop to me by Friday.  :headbang2:

Awesome. I'd like one too. ;)

Quote from: Lestat on April 05, 2017, 04:48:42 PM

I happened.

That is indeed something good. :)

Today I got to sleep in. Really needed it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 06, 2017, 05:18:47 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 05, 2017, 03:08:52 PM

My kick-ass project manager talked some sense into the IT department, forcing them to get a new laptop to me by Friday.  :headbang2:

  Good management makes everything better!   :whipped:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: MLA on April 06, 2017, 10:40:46 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 05, 2017, 03:08:52 PM

My kick-ass project manager talked some sense into the IT department, forcing them to get a new laptop to me by Friday.  :headbang2:

I got a new laptop the day before I left on vacation as well.  A Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon.  Not sure how it compares to the market, but seems generations better than what I had been using.  2.5 lbs and 16 mm thick.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 06, 2017, 02:01:48 PM

I don't know how she did it but the new laptop is being readied and I had a chat with one of the IT guys earlier today on what software I need on it. She's one of the most efficient project managers I've ever had. Plus, she can be very scary.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 07, 2017, 04:43:19 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 06, 2017, 02:01:48 PM

I don't know how she did it but the new laptop is being readied and I had a chat with one of the IT guys earlier today on what software I need on it. She's one of the most efficient project managers I've ever had. Plus, she can be very scary.

  A litle intimidation goes a long way!   :chores:  :chores:  :bloody:  :chores:  :chores:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 07, 2017, 04:45:42 AM

  This actually happened yesterday, but ... I was really on my game at work.  I got so much done!
   So efficiently, and in my best detail-oriented style.  I approve of the way I worked yesterday.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 08, 2017, 02:02:02 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on April 07, 2017, 04:43:19 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 06, 2017, 02:01:48 PM

I don't know how she did it but the new laptop is being readied and I had a chat with one of the IT guys earlier today on what software I need on it. She's one of the most efficient project managers I've ever had. Plus, she can be very scary.

  A litle intimidation goes a long way!   :chores:  :chores:  :bloody:  :chores:  :chores:

I don't know how she does it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 08, 2017, 06:11:37 AM

  I had a leftover half-sandwich that made a great breakfast.  Chicken salad with dried cranberries.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 08, 2017, 09:21:16 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on April 08, 2017, 06:11:37 AM

  I had a leftover half-sandwich that made a great breakfast.  Chicken salad with dried cranberries.  :2thumbsup:

That sounds lovely.  Made chicken salad Thursday.  The PR had some last night on a sandwich.  I'll have some at lunch.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on April 08, 2017, 08:16:53 PM

Sugarbutt and I tried a Chinese buffet restaurant we've never been to before, and it was awesome.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 09, 2017, 02:40:29 AM

Coffee happened and saved you all.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 09, 2017, 05:03:37 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 09, 2017, 02:40:29 AM

Coffee happened and saved you all.

  Coffee is happening right now in my apartment.  It will make the day possible! :pirate:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 09, 2017, 06:00:34 AM

Usually only drink coffee at work, but this morning is a coffee morning here too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 09, 2017, 11:58:01 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on April 09, 2017, 05:03:37 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 09, 2017, 02:40:29 AM

Coffee happened and saved you all.

  Coffee is happening right now in my apartment.  It will make the day possible! :pirate:

Drinking coffee now, too. Countless lives to be saved.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 10, 2017, 11:19:30 AM

You are a paragon of morality.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 10, 2017, 10:04:26 PM

Made good progress on getting paperwork put in one place, but still have some ways to go
Cleaned out 2 garbage bags of trash from The PR's room.  That was from one 2 square foot area and under her twin bed
Put out the trash and the garbage can
Did a bit of piddling other stuff

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 11, 2017, 12:29:18 AM

Finished and submitted my paper last night.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 11, 2017, 05:23:11 AM

  I slept rather well and I feel rested.  This will make the day better.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 12, 2017, 12:20:19 PM

These arrived in the mail for me today:
Some carbon crucibles, with close-fitting lids.

(https://postimg.org/image/vfd9nmas5/)

Going to try drilling a hole through the lid of one, carefully, and attaching a length of glass tubing, through which an electrode can be passed, along with a current of inert gas (this would require drilling a second hole and another, thin bore length of tubing to allow the inert gas to escape)  and when I get back the power supply working, use that setup for, along with something like a bit of tungsten putty, or fireclay to give a proper seal of the lid to the crucible, the glass tubing for the electrode acting like a grommet to insulate the cathode from the anode, and using the crucible itself directly as cathode. The anodes get attacked quite viciously using many materials available, as would glass, but in the idea I have, the glass itself is never actually going to be in contact with the highly corrosive melt, but just poke through the hole (s) as an insulator, guide for the anode to be poked through, and to have a T-shaped connection, with the inert gas feed being mated to the sidearm of the T, and anode being passed through the wider glass tube. The other one being a narrow one, not quite a capillary tube, but one with a very fine bore, connected to a non-return valve to prevent air getting through, for use in electrolysis of molten salts and sodium, potassium metal etc. production.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 13, 2017, 10:45:36 PM

Dang, can't see the picture.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 14, 2017, 01:38:28 AM

Got a reasonable amount of sleep.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 14, 2017, 10:24:45 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 14, 2017, 01:38:28 AM

Got a reasonable amount of sleep.

I'm following in your footsteps.  Actually got between 9 and 10 hours of sleep.  Only woke up when The PR brought me my coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 14, 2017, 11:14:41 AM

Been trying to get an early start on my garden, but I am plagued by marauding rabbit gangs. This shit is new this year.

Tried to use fences made of chicken wire. Rabbits can dig up posts and get by a fence. So ...

Sat out hunting this morning before daybreak, got two of them with my pellet rifle. I gutted them, skinned them and barbecued them for our animals.
I boned the carcasses and gave them just the meat. I have about a rabbit and a half to give them in the coming days.

The dog and cat did not seem interested in the rabbits raw, but the cat ate the liver and lungs raw. Dog was beside himself with anxiousness, but would not eat until I cooked it a bit. 
I am now their hero again.

 :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 14, 2017, 12:28:14 PM

After repeatedly washing and decanting the salts and excess caustic potash with water, and letting the oxides settle, finally, my manganese oxides are ready for thermiting with magnesium dust in order to liberate the Mn as metal. I'll be using a scrappy old crucible for that, that, given they are carbon, and it too can reduce manganese dioxide (which most if not all Mn oxides revert to upon heating above 1000 'C I've given the inside of it a thin layer of zinc metal, sprayed on in a highly volatile solvent (dimethyl ether, a gas at RT) then baked on solid with a blowtorch) there is a small gap betwen the top and side, a little hole in the crucible right at the top, where it has been used for electrolysis of fused alkali metal hydroxides, in this one, since I've used the side of the carbon crucible to strike a pilot arc in order to begin localized melting of the hydroxide prior to moving the anode away, into the then molten hydroxide to start the electrolysis.

This is actually, in this case, handy, since it will allow me to direct a flow of inert gas in there once the Mn-based thermite has ignited and prevent reoxidation of the (very, very hot) manganese, which otherwise likely as not would be pretty rapid) I plated it with the Zn in order to prevent the crucible itself from contributing as a reducing agent and ending up further damaged or disintegrated by reducing the oxide-magnesium mixture in there), the zinc will I hope act as a sacrificial layer, forming a protective zinc oxide layer that can be dissolved away with something like dilute HCl or spirit vinegar afterwards)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 15, 2017, 12:51:31 AM

Coffee happened. Slowly waking up.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 15, 2017, 03:55:47 AM

Finally got some of the manganese oxide dried out, after decanting most of the water, having washed it with a crapload of water to get rid of the residual potassium sulfate and caustic potash. Whilst it looked like a fair quantity, theres an awful lot less when its been cleaned up and baked dry. Left it on top of the grill, with the grill tray out of the way so as not to set the residual grease in there on fire (filled the house with smoke a time or two or three forgetting to do that before. No harm done, just fire alarm needed the reset button poking and the windows opening because the place stank of bacon and sausages etc. only burnt to a crisp.

Cleaning another batch of ore refined from batteries at the moment, I think I'll end up gutting quite a few more before I'm done, digesting the manganese dioxide in sulfuric acid and precipitating with base once the carbon has settled out, then conducting a thermite reaction to liberate the metal, using something like a strip of lithium metal poked into  the top to set it off, (like a fuse, blowtorching the end to light it and have it set off the magnesium/manganese hydroxide-oxide refined product, hopefully to be left with a lump of manganese in the crucible. Don't have enough yet, to fill one with the thermite mixture. But working on that.


And my carbon rods arrived today in the mail too (for electrodes, once I get a working power supply again)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 15, 2017, 06:57:34 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 15, 2017, 12:51:31 AM

Coffee happened. Slowly waking up.

  Coffee is happening here too, along with great music.  :notes: :coffee:  :notes:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 15, 2017, 08:37:18 AM

Quote from: Lestat on April 15, 2017, 03:55:47 AM

Finally got some of the manganese oxide dried out, after decanting most of the water, having washed it with a crapload of water to get rid of the residual potassium sulfate and caustic potash. Whilst it looked like a fair quantity, theres an awful lot less when its been cleaned up and baked dry. Left it on top of the grill, with the grill tray out of the way so as not to set the residual grease in there on fire (filled the house with smoke a time or two or three forgetting to do that before. No harm done, just fire alarm needed the reset button poking and the windows opening because the place stank of bacon and sausages etc. only burnt to a crisp.

Cleaning another batch of ore refined from batteries at the moment, I think I'll end up gutting quite a few more before I'm done, digesting the manganese dioxide in sulfuric acid and precipitating with base once the carbon has settled out, then conducting a thermite reaction to liberate the metal, using something like a strip of lithium metal poked into  the top to set it off, (like a fuse, blowtorching the end to light it and have it set off the magnesium/manganese hydroxide-oxide refined product, hopefully to be left with a lump of manganese in the crucible. Don't have enough yet, to fill one with the thermite mixture. But working on that.


And my carbon rods arrived today in the mail too (for electrodes, once I get a working power supply again)

I've come to realize that I don't have the patience to be a chemist, or scientist, or author or.........  I guess I'll just have to be me and just do my "whatever" thing, which is READ.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 15, 2017, 09:37:28 AM

Got the fixin's for "Steve's Seafood Casserole" Easter feast.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 15, 2017, 09:52:10 AM

Quote from: rock hound on April 15, 2017, 09:37:28 AM

Got the fixin's for "Steve's Seafood Casserole" Easter feast.

  I love casseroles, I am a feast beast!  :devour:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 15, 2017, 10:58:27 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on April 15, 2017, 09:52:10 AM

Quote from: rock hound on April 15, 2017, 09:37:28 AM

Got the fixin's for "Steve's Seafood Casserole" Easter feast.

  I love casseroles, I am a feast beast!  :devour:

I came up with the recipe for it years ago, after much experimentation and tweaking of technique.  I certainly wouldn't do very well on "Chopped".   :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 15, 2017, 12:36:35 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 15, 2017, 09:37:28 AM

Got the fixin's for "Steve's Seafood Casserole" Easter feast.

Sounds fabulous! We know the general vicinity in which you live and the intrigue abounds.
Willing to share a few of the highlights?

:drool:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 15, 2017, 02:06:14 PM

My daughter's very first job was today.

She "attempted" to babysit a toddler. She finally gave up on trying to nap while he was sleeping in the same bed.
She found this i'meem thing that read something like ...

Sleeping with a toddler is like wrestling with a drunk octopus, searching his pockets for his car keys,

Seems about right if I remember correctly.
 :clap:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 15, 2017, 09:32:16 PM

Got to see the latest installment of "Samurai Jack".......it just keeps getting more and more intriguing.  Well done story line!   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 16, 2017, 10:48:36 AM

Finally got my ebay order done. The cart is fucked up somehow. I had to take two days trying, and then eventually say fuck it, and buy each individual item wanted singly.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 16, 2017, 08:17:41 PM

Helped WolFish make a delicious pot roast for Easter with potatoes, carrots, little whole onions and gravy. The good part was the eating of it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 16, 2017, 08:22:07 PM

Two bags of trash were put outside for placing by the kerb on Monday evening.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 17, 2017, 05:31:42 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 16, 2017, 08:17:41 PM

Helped WolFish make a delicious pot roast for Easter with potatoes, carrots, little whole onions and gravy. The good part was the eating of it.

  That sounds delicious.  Any left?  :puppy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 17, 2017, 09:46:03 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 16, 2017, 08:17:41 PM

Helped WolFish make a delicious pot roast for Easter with potatoes, carrots, little whole onions and gravy. The good part was the eating of it.

Sounds fabulous!  We had a ham with roasted potatoes, carrots and kale from last years garden efforts (I blanch and freeze. We have two twenty five cubic foot freezers in our garage for just such or the odd hunting or fishing trip that proves fruitful)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 17, 2017, 02:15:57 PM

Enjoyed a delicious fried clam lunch with fresh coleslaw, Carla enjoyed a delicious lobster stew at Bob's Clam Shack in Kittery ME.  The place was crowded, since Maine and Massachusetts celebrate "Patriot's Day" today and kids are off from school in those states.  Then it will be leftover seafood casserole tonight.  It was the best one I've made yet!   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 17, 2017, 05:32:55 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 17, 2017, 02:15:57 PM

Enjoyed a delicious fried clam lunch with fresh coleslaw, Carla enjoyed a delicious lobster stew at Bob's Clam Shack in Kittery ME.  The place was crowded, since Maine and Massachusetts celebrate "Patriot's Day" today and kids are off from school in those states.  Then it will be leftover seafood casserole tonight.  It was the best one I've made yet!   8)

  :boatfish:   Warm weather is great weather for fresh food from the sea!   :fish2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 17, 2017, 06:06:25 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on April 17, 2017, 05:32:55 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 17, 2017, 02:15:57 PM

Enjoyed a delicious fried clam lunch with fresh coleslaw, Carla enjoyed a delicious lobster stew at Bob's Clam Shack in Kittery ME.  The place was crowded, since Maine and Massachusetts celebrate "Patriot's Day" today and kids are off from school in those states.  Then it will be leftover seafood casserole tonight.  It was the best one I've made yet!   8)

  :boatfish:   Warm weather is great weather for fresh food from the sea!   :fish2:

The clams were pretty fresh and with bellies....where the flavor is.  The tartar sauce was also really good.  Normally I eat clams with ketchup......but, lately I prefer tartar sauce. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 17, 2017, 06:08:58 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 17, 2017, 06:06:25 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on April 17, 2017, 05:32:55 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 17, 2017, 02:15:57 PM

Enjoyed a delicious fried clam lunch with fresh coleslaw, Carla enjoyed a delicious lobster stew at Bob's Clam Shack in Kittery ME.  The place was crowded, since Maine and Massachusetts celebrate "Patriot's Day" today and kids are off from school in those states.  Then it will be leftover seafood casserole tonight.  It was the best one I've made yet!   8)

  :boatfish:   Warm weather is great weather for fresh food from the sea!   :fish2:

The clams were pretty fresh and with bellies....where the flavor is.  The tartar sauce was also really good.  Normally I eat clams with ketchup......but, lately I prefer tartar sauce.

  I like to use tartar sauce when I make tuna salad at home, it makes it pop! :pow:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 17, 2017, 06:25:23 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on April 17, 2017, 05:31:42 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 16, 2017, 08:17:41 PM

Helped WolFish make a delicious pot roast for Easter with potatoes, carrots, little whole onions and gravy. The good part was the eating of it.

  That sounds delicious.  Any left?  :puppy:

Why yes actually, what'll you give us for it?  :angel:

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 17, 2017, 09:46:03 AM

Sounds fabulous!  We had a ham with roasted potatoes, carrots and kale from last years garden efforts (I blanch and freeze. We have two twenty five cubic foot freezers in our garage for just such or the odd hunting or fishing trip that proves fruitful)

*drools* The veggies in ours weren't from the garden. My onions did really poorly this year for some reason and didn't develop, even though last year we got a row of little ones. Not sure about next year since we are househunting and probably won't be able to get things into the ground in time. Fingers crossed we can find a space for a better garden though, with higher quality soil. The soil in our little patch at this place is tainted by exhaust from the railway that runs on the other side of the fence, and the row of bushes along the fence have roots growing through part of the area the vegetables might grow.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 17, 2017, 06:41:29 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 17, 2017, 06:25:23 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on April 17, 2017, 05:31:42 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 16, 2017, 08:17:41 PM

Helped WolFish make a delicious pot roast for Easter with potatoes, carrots, little whole onions and gravy. The good part was the eating of it.

  That sounds delicious.  Any left?  :puppy:

Why yes actually, what'll you give us for it?  :angel:

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 17, 2017, 09:46:03 AM

Sounds fabulous!  We had a ham with roasted potatoes, carrots and kale from last years garden efforts (I blanch and freeze. We have two twenty five cubic foot freezers in our garage for just such or the odd hunting or fishing trip that proves fruitful)

*drools* The veggies in ours weren't from the garden. My onions did really poorly this year for some reason and didn't develop, even though last year we got a row of little ones. Not sure about next year since we are househunting and probably won't be able to get things into the ground in time. Fingers crossed we can find a space for a better garden though, with higher quality soil. The soil in our little patch at this place is tainted by exhaust from the railway that runs on the other side of the fence, and the row of bushes along the fence have roots growing through part of the area the vegetables might grow.

OY, that must be harsh near a rail line.    Especially, in the area of Montreal......the start of planting season must be around early June?  Where we live is around mid-may (seacoast NH).  Our chives, which I transplanted is already sprouting, despite a foot of snow 2 weeks ago.  Even the mint and thyme is showing signs of life.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 17, 2017, 07:05:18 PM

It can be sooner than that. The tulips are coming up about now and people are starting to turn over the soil in the community gardens. But I'm not an expert by any means.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 17, 2017, 07:20:38 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 17, 2017, 07:05:18 PM

It can be sooner than that. The tulips are coming up about now and people are starting to turn over the soil in the community gardens. But I'm not an expert by any means.

  I haz monies.  :puppy:  :dollar:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 17, 2017, 07:35:35 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 17, 2017, 07:05:18 PM

It can be sooner than that. The tulips are coming up about now and people are starting to turn over the soil in the community gardens. But I'm not an expert by any means.

I'm no expert either.  Mid continent temps can be more predictable more than seacoast temps.  I just learn as I go wherever I live.  Around here the climate can vary by just a few miles.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 17, 2017, 07:40:14 PM

  I got through the work day, got the shopping done, and I am home relaxing.  :nicegear:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 17, 2017, 08:08:02 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on April 17, 2017, 07:20:38 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 17, 2017, 07:05:18 PM

It can be sooner than that. The tulips are coming up about now and people are starting to turn over the soil in the community gardens. But I'm not an expert by any means.

  I haz monies.  :puppy:  :dollar:

I shall send the deliveryman immediately.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 18, 2017, 04:35:19 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 17, 2017, 08:08:02 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on April 17, 2017, 07:20:38 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 17, 2017, 07:05:18 PM

It can be sooner than that. The tulips are coming up about now and people are starting to turn over the soil in the community gardens. But I'm not an expert by any means.

  I haz monies.  :puppy:  :dollar:

I shall send the deliveryman immediately.

  Oh bless you!  :puppy:  pot roast pot roast pot roast

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 18, 2017, 12:10:14 PM

Finally got my front passenger side tire checked out and fixed.  It's been having a very slow leak, which while it didn't go flat, did trigger the low pressure sensor.  And during warm days it held pressure well, it was only when it got cold.  I thought it might be pothole related, but, turned out to be some kind of staple as reported by the technician.  Fortunately, it didn't cost me anything.  Thank you "Town Fair Tire" in Somersworth NH.    8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 18, 2017, 02:55:05 PM

  I read an article online discussing the ways people sabotage their success.  One excellent point made
  was that we often resolve to take up some new pursuit without fully acknowledging that we will
  have to lose a part of our current selves in order to make that dream come true.  The author (David Wong
  of Cracked.com) pointed out that few of us have actual "free time"; even our downtime is generally spent
  doing something we enjoy, even if it's unproductive.  So my reluctance to engage more actively with the
  world makes more sense to me: in doing so, I'll have to give up some of the freewheeling lazy time
  that I find so rejuvenating.  I'm not just being lazy; I'm resisting change because it could deprive
  me of something (unstructured time) that I feel a need for.  Can I do it?  I dunno.  :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on April 18, 2017, 06:46:12 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on April 18, 2017, 02:55:05 PM

  I read an article online discussing the ways people sabotage their success.  One excellent point made
  was that we often resolve to take up some new pursuit without fully acknowledging that we will
  have to lose a part of our current selves in order to make that dream come true.  The author (David Wong
  of Cracked.com) pointed out that few of us have actual "free time"; even our downtime is generally spent
  doing something we enjoy, even if it's unproductive.  So my reluctance to engage more actively with the
  world makes more sense to me: in doing so, I'll have to give up some of the freewheeling lazy time
  that I find so rejuvenating.  I'm not just being lazy; I'm resisting change because it could deprive
  me of something (unstructured time) that I feel a need for.  Can I do it?  I dunno.  :dunno:

I like that.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 18, 2017, 11:49:11 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 19, 2017, 04:50:23 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on April 18, 2017, 06:46:12 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on April 18, 2017, 02:55:05 PM

  I read an article online discussing the ways people sabotage their success.  One excellent point made
  was that we often resolve to take up some new pursuit without fully acknowledging that we will
  have to lose a part of our current selves in order to make that dream come true.  The author (David Wong
  of Cracked.com) pointed out that few of us have actual "free time"; even our downtime is generally spent
  doing something we enjoy, even if it's unproductive.  So my reluctance to engage more actively with the
  world makes more sense to me: in doing so, I'll have to give up some of the freewheeling lazy time
  that I find so rejuvenating.  I'm not just being lazy; I'm resisting change because it could deprive
  me of something (unstructured time) that I feel a need for.  Can I do it?  I dunno.  :dunno:

I like that.  :orly:

  Me too.  It's nice to see someone acknowledge the losses involved in accomplishing something.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on April 19, 2017, 06:23:00 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on April 19, 2017, 04:50:23 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on April 18, 2017, 06:46:12 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on April 18, 2017, 02:55:05 PM

  I read an article online discussing the ways people sabotage their success.  One excellent point made
  was that we often resolve to take up some new pursuit without fully acknowledging that we will
  have to lose a part of our current selves in order to make that dream come true.  The author (David Wong
  of Cracked.com) pointed out that few of us have actual "free time"; even our downtime is generally spent
  doing something we enjoy, even if it's unproductive.  So my reluctance to engage more actively with the
  world makes more sense to me: in doing so, I'll have to give up some of the freewheeling lazy time
  that I find so rejuvenating.  I'm not just being lazy; I'm resisting change because it could deprive
  me of something (unstructured time) that I feel a need for.  Can I do it?  I dunno.  :dunno:

I like that.  :orly:

  Me too.  It's nice to see someone acknowledge the losses involved in accomplishing something.  8)

Me three.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 19, 2017, 09:10:02 AM

After getting a crappy yield from my second attempt at silicon based thermites (that is, using a more reactive metal to free silicon from its oxides not using silicon as the component of greater reactivity) the doobell rang, and just as I was about to go in and phone the pharmacy over some meds owed, but that they hadn't got in stock at the time,  someone came round to drop some oxy off.

That'l' do nicely to assuage somewhat the frustration, to say nothing of the frustration of having to waste an entire e-cig (dead) battery worth of lithium metal (I'm sure as shit not opening my inert gas filled hermetically sealed 25g dry-bag of quality lithium just to initiate a thermite, thats being saved for when its needed, and the entire lot is to be used in one go preferably so I don't have to muck about with storage. and for a far worthier cause. I've just the thing in mind actually, although it will wait, until I'm good and ready for it to do otherwise.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 21, 2017, 04:10:57 AM

  This actually happened last night at work ... I was cutting salad vegetables with a big knife  :fatchef:
  and the knife slipped and tapped one of my fingers, but it didn't even break the skin!  I was wearing
  multiple layers of vinyl gloves as usual, and our knives aren't the sharpest, so ... lucky break for me.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 21, 2017, 04:12:46 AM

  Another good thing: 400mg of ibuprofen quieted the joint pain so I could sleep.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 21, 2017, 03:11:45 PM

Watch the ibuprofen. It's not good for your innards.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 21, 2017, 04:32:38 PM

I'm now taking 2 acetaminophen, 2 benadryl and 2 melatonin to get to sleep at night.  I have noooooooooo trouble sleeping in the day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on April 21, 2017, 10:14:34 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 21, 2017, 03:11:45 PM

Watch the ibuprofen. It's not good for your innards.

Seconded.

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 21, 2017, 04:32:38 PM

I'm now taking 2 acetaminophen, 2 benadryl and 2 melatonin to get to sleep at night.  I have noooooooooo trouble sleeping in the day.

I'd be lucky to be still breathing in the morning.  :LOL:

Seriously, if you get a respiratory bug, you're better off just not sleeping until it goes away. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 22, 2017, 01:34:52 AM

Got up and had my first coffee for the day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 22, 2017, 07:24:14 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 21, 2017, 03:11:45 PM

Watch the ibuprofen. It's not good for your innards.

  I know.  :-\  I'm actually thinking my new-ish work shoes might be throwing off my gait
  to the point of causing me pain throughout my legs.  Might need to buy a pair like I used to wear.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 22, 2017, 08:41:22 AM

Not wrong about (many of) the NSAIDs, you would probably be better off using topically applied versions, ibuprofen, diclofenac, felbinac etc. as gel/cream applied to the area itself that way it doesn't pose as much risk to the stomach.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 22, 2017, 09:08:51 AM

Quote from: Lestat on April 22, 2017, 08:41:22 AM

Not wrong about (many of) the NSAIDs, you would probably be better off using topically applied versions, ibuprofen, diclofenac, felbinac etc. as gel/cream applied to the area itself that way it doesn't pose as much risk to the stomach.

  I actually was thinking about that last night, something topical.  Also, better shoes.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 22, 2017, 09:40:27 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on April 21, 2017, 10:14:34 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 21, 2017, 03:11:45 PM

Watch the ibuprofen. It's not good for your innards.

Seconded.

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 21, 2017, 04:32:38 PM

I'm now taking 2 acetaminophen, 2 benadryl and 2 melatonin to get to sleep at night.  I have noooooooooo trouble sleeping in the day.

I'd be lucky to be still breathing in the morning.  :LOL:

Seriously, if you get a respiratory bug, you're better off just not sleeping until it goes away.

I usually don't get respiratory bugs, so I should be okay. 

The pills are used because a) I'm a night owl, b) most of the area seems to function in the day and c) I need to be awake during daylight hours to be I'm a good mother to The PR.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 25, 2017, 06:10:55 AM

  Apparently I fell asleep with my left leg extended properly, because this morning I got up
   without having to hold onto the back of my chair.  I just got out of bed like a normal person.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 25, 2017, 06:12:55 AM

  Also, last night I trimmed down the edges of the cut on my finger, and bandaged it with antibiotic
  ointment, and this morning it's filled in a bit.  Pretty soon it'll be all healed.  I love trimming my cuts.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on April 25, 2017, 06:22:36 AM

How do you trim a cut without making it bleed?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 25, 2017, 06:23:43 AM

Quote from: Fun with matches on April 25, 2017, 06:22:36 AM

How do you trim a cut without making it bleed?

  If you only trim the very outer edges, there will be little or no bleeding.  :nurse:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 25, 2017, 01:25:27 PM

Delivered some paperwork
Washed 4 tops

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 25, 2017, 06:04:30 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 25, 2017, 01:25:27 PM

Washed 4 tops

  Did you spin them dry?  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 25, 2017, 08:05:54 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on April 25, 2017, 06:04:30 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 25, 2017, 01:25:27 PM

Washed 4 tops

  Did you spin them dry?  :zoinks:

No, I wrung them out and hung them on the carport.  They'll be dry by tomorrow morn.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 26, 2017, 12:07:05 AM

Coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 26, 2017, 10:43:13 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 25, 2017, 08:05:54 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on April 25, 2017, 06:04:30 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 25, 2017, 01:25:27 PM

Washed 4 tops

  Did you spin them dry?  :zoinks:

No, I wrung them out and hung them on the carport.  They'll be dry by tomorrow morn.

And they were.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 26, 2017, 10:52:14 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 26, 2017, 10:43:13 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 25, 2017, 08:05:54 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on April 25, 2017, 06:04:30 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 25, 2017, 01:25:27 PM

Washed 4 tops

  Did you spin them dry?  :zoinks:

No, I wrung them out and hung them on the carport.  They'll be dry by tomorrow morn.

And they were.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pte1nZdEg8Q  :tard: :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 28, 2017, 04:29:45 AM

Coffee break, and now lunch break for the men with their pneumatically devices. An oasis of silence.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 28, 2017, 05:15:06 AM

  Two days wearing slippers made most of my leg pain go away.  I'm now certain the shoes are the
    problem, with their narrow soles that destabilize my big wide flat feet.  I need new shoes!  :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 28, 2017, 09:47:56 AM

Solved a bunch of bugs in a conversion script. I'm sure there will be more but these were tricky.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on April 28, 2017, 08:46:18 PM

Hey, didn't die.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 28, 2017, 10:11:51 PM

Found a nice oak desk curbside that needs only a little touch up work.  Looked up the maker, Widdicomb Furniture Company, and was surprised how much their stuff sells for.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on April 28, 2017, 11:22:35 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on April 28, 2017, 08:46:18 PM

Hey, didn't die.  :asthing:

 :eyelash:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 29, 2017, 06:24:17 AM

  Last night's humidity seems to have dissipated somewhat.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on April 29, 2017, 07:15:13 AM

I got 700 words of my 3000 word assignment done :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 29, 2017, 07:57:32 AM

Some top notch speed happened :D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 29, 2017, 11:35:52 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on April 29, 2017, 07:15:13 AM

I got 700 words of my 3000 word assignment done :P

Excellent. I remember all too easily what that's like. You're doing good. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 30, 2017, 04:49:08 AM

  Coffee and some good tunes revived me for the work day! :coffee:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on April 30, 2017, 06:35:51 PM

Didn't die and Got Play of the Game a few times in Overwatch.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 30, 2017, 07:18:21 PM

The PR bowled a turkey tonight.

I washed and hung some laundry, some of it's dry already.

Worked a bit on one of my goals

Paid the storage unit.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 30, 2017, 11:58:11 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 30, 2017, 07:18:21 PM

The PR bowled a turkey tonight.

I washed and hung some laundry, some of it's dry already.

Worked a bit on one of my goals

Paid the storage unit.

  The PR is becoming a bowler to be feared, and you are taking care of business at the Palace! :pirate:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 01, 2017, 03:30:28 PM

On a positive. productive streak now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 01, 2017, 11:58:40 PM

Finished reviewing the papers I had been assigned.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 02, 2017, 10:15:52 AM

  My legs feel better today.  The lace-up shoes do seem to stabilize my feet during the day, leading to
  somewhat less pain at night and less limping the following morning.  Hauling my trash down the
  stairs was surprisingly easy today.  So, no more slip-on shoes at work for the time being!  :fatchef:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on May 05, 2017, 07:48:42 AM

Found out today that I don't have to go to the other office anymore :fuckyeahdance:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 05, 2017, 09:10:38 AM

For the first time in xxx months I cooked on the stove.  Granted it was only scrambled eggs, but I did cook.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 05, 2017, 09:23:00 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 05, 2017, 09:10:38 AM

For the first time in xxx months I cooked on the stove.  Granted it was only scrambled eggs, but I did cook.

Lots of good things start with breaking an egg or two.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 05, 2017, 08:26:27 PM

The PR bowled a double.  Not really a best day for her.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 06, 2017, 08:45:37 AM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on May 05, 2017, 07:48:42 AM

Found out today that I don't have to go to the other office anymore :fuckyeahdance:

  Hell yeah!  Wave a fond farewell!  :fingers:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on May 06, 2017, 09:01:01 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on May 06, 2017, 08:45:37 AM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on May 05, 2017, 07:48:42 AM

Found out today that I don't have to go to the other office anymore :fuckyeahdance:

  Hell yeah!  Wave a fond farewell!  :fingers:

Hellz yeah lol. The boss man over there with...whatever his problem is...has randomly decided to spit on our working relationship, so the partners said I don't have to go over anymore. 5 days/week in the main office it is. I will miss seeing people like crush boi but I guess we'll keep corresponding and do stuff together some weekends.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 06, 2017, 09:11:51 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 05, 2017, 09:10:38 AM

For the first time in xxx months I cooked on the stove.  Granted it was only scrambled eggs, but I did cook.

  Scrambled eggs are one of the few things I ever bother to cook at home.  Just delicious.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on May 06, 2017, 09:31:40 AM

The thing is you don't even need to use the stove. You can cook them in the microwave, 30 seconds at a time and stirring in between until done.
And you don't end up with a pot with all burnt egg stuck inside it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 06, 2017, 10:00:04 AM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on May 06, 2017, 09:31:40 AM

The thing is you don't even need to use the stove. You can cook them in the microwave, 30 seconds at a time and stirring in between until done.
And you don't end up with a pot with all burnt egg stuck inside it.

  I should try that!  I LOVE scrambled eggs, and I love easy things.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 07, 2017, 08:42:16 AM

Found a Mantis tiller curbside,  I got it to start but not stay on so it's fixable

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 07, 2017, 08:45:23 AM

  This actually happened yesterday, but ... I found a magazine in the supermarket with a diet plan
   that sounds easy to follow and effective at keeping the dieter feeling full.  We'll see how it works.  :sumo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 07, 2017, 09:28:32 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on May 07, 2017, 08:45:23 AM

  This actually happened yesterday, but ... I found a magazine in the supermarket with a diet plan
   that sounds easy to follow and effective at keeping the dieter feeling full.  We'll see how it works.  :sumo:

Diets in magazines hardly ever work. You've got a big chance to go up and down like a jojo with those diets.

Less  high  calory  snacking.  More vegetables and fibres in your main meals. Training yourself to drink plain water in stead of juice. That wil make a difference. 

As will an extra daily stroll.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on May 07, 2017, 09:34:29 AM

Two years in this house and our first Huntsman spider. It is very cold outside. He is warm here. Little fella he is only two inches long. I have named him Harry. it makes me smile.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 07, 2017, 09:35:24 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on May 07, 2017, 09:28:32 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on May 07, 2017, 08:45:23 AM

  This actually happened yesterday, but ... I found a magazine in the supermarket with a diet plan
   that sounds easy to follow and effective at keeping the dieter feeling full.  We'll see how it works.  :sumo:

Diets in magazines hardly ever work. You've got a big chance to go up and down like a jojo with those diets.

Less  high  calory  snacking.  More vegetables and fibres in your main meals. Training yourself to drink plain water in stead of juice. That wil make a difference. 

As will an extra daily stroll.

  Now that my new shoes are reducing the leg pain, I should be able to walk to and from work.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 07, 2017, 09:39:21 AM

Have seen people lose quite some weight with one "magazine diet" though. It was a meal planner, including precise recipes for weeks. Just follow the program get a very full feeling and lose weight. Everyone I knew using that lost weight indeed. Fairly healthy, with  fresh veggies and fruit. But also with desserts and snacks.

I never tried it. Too little vegetarian options. And I dislike weighing or watching everthing I eat. If I want to lose weighing, I need to change habits. I know that does work indeed, for me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 07, 2017, 09:40:38 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on May 07, 2017, 09:34:29 AM

Two years in this house and our first Huntsman spider. It is very cold outside. He is warm here. Little fella he is only two inches long. I have named him Harry. it makes me smile.

Waiting for the "when Harry met Barry".

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 07, 2017, 09:42:25 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on May 07, 2017, 09:39:21 AM

Have seen people lose quite some weight with one "magazine diet" though. It was a meal planner, including precise recipes for weeks. Just follow the program get a very full feeling and lose Wright. Everyone I knew using that lost weight indeed. Fairly healthy, with  fresh veggies and fruit. But also with desserts and snacks.

I never tried it. Too little vegetarian options. And I dislike weighing or watching everthing I eat. If I want to lose weighing, I need to change habits. I know that does work indeed, for me.

  This plan looks pretty adaptable, it's just guidelines.  I need to be consistent and BRAVE!  :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 07, 2017, 09:43:33 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on May 07, 2017, 09:35:24 AM

  Now that my new shoes are reducing the leg pain, I should be able to walk to and from work.  8)

Walking to and from work is a great way to unwind too. Especially when wearing good shoes.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on May 08, 2017, 02:38:29 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on May 07, 2017, 09:40:38 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on May 07, 2017, 09:34:29 AM

Two years in this house and our first Huntsman spider. It is very cold outside. He is warm here. Little fella he is only two inches long. I have named him Harry. it makes me smile.

Waiting for the "when Harry met Barry".

It is really funny you say that. At times in the old house I would have a couple of Huntsmen running around at the same time. One would invariably be called Harry and the other Barry or Larry. They DO occasionally "run into each other", it REALLY freaks them out. They both panic and run away in opposite directions and get jittery.

But I am actually hoping that I get a few lady and male Huntsman Spiders in so I can breed them up and send them to CouldbeCousin. I think she would love them.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 08, 2017, 05:34:33 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on May 08, 2017, 02:38:29 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on May 07, 2017, 09:40:38 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on May 07, 2017, 09:34:29 AM

Two years in this house and our first Huntsman spider. It is very cold outside. He is warm here. Little fella he is only two inches long. I have named him Harry. it makes me smile.

Waiting for the "when Harry met Barry".

It is really funny you say that. At times in the old house I would have a couple of Huntsmen running around at the same time. One would invariably be called Harry and the other Barry or Larry. They DO occasionally "run into each other", it REALLY freaks them out. They both panic and run away in opposite directions and get jittery.

But I am actually hoping that I get a few lady and male Huntsman Spiders in so I can breed them up and send them to CouldbeCousin. I think she would love them.

  I've seen Huntsmen.  I'm amused that they freak each other out!  :hide: :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 08, 2017, 05:37:54 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on May 08, 2017, 02:38:29 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on May 07, 2017, 09:40:38 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on May 07, 2017, 09:34:29 AM

Two years in this house and our first Huntsman spider. It is very cold outside. He is warm here. Little fella he is only two inches long. I have named him Harry. it makes me smile.

Waiting for the "when Harry met Barry".

It is really funny you say that. At times in the old house I would have a couple of Huntsmen running around at the same time. One would invariably be called Harry and the other Barry or Larry. They DO occasionally "run into each other", it REALLY freaks them out. They both panic and run away in opposite directions and get jittery.

But I am actually hoping that I get a few lady and male Huntsman Spiders in so I can breed them up and send them to CouldbeCousin. I think she would love them.

  I live in a pretty fortunate part of the country, I've never encountered a Black Widow or
  brown recluse (two of our most venomous species).  About the worst I see is a yellow sac spider,
  the kind we generically refer to as a house spider.  They generally don't bother me, never bite me.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 08, 2017, 05:48:18 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on May 08, 2017, 05:34:33 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on May 08, 2017, 02:38:29 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on May 07, 2017, 09:40:38 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on May 07, 2017, 09:34:29 AM

Two years in this house and our first Huntsman spider. It is very cold outside. He is warm here. Little fella he is only two inches long. I have named him Harry. it makes me smile.

Waiting for the "when Harry met Barry".

It is really funny you say that. At times in the old house I would have a couple of Huntsmen running around at the same time. One would invariably be called Harry and the other Barry or Larry. They DO occasionally "run into each other", it REALLY freaks them out. They both panic and run away in opposite directions and get jittery.

But I am actually hoping that I get a few lady and male Huntsman Spiders in so I can breed them up and send them to CouldbeCousin. I think she would love them.

  I've seen Huntsmen.  I'm amused that they freak each other out!  :hide: :laugh:

  I should clarify here ... I've seen Huntsmen on the internet and one memorable time on TV.
  The show was set in Australia, and a Huntsman crawled onto the host as he was driving.  He handled it
  fine, laughed it off.  If I'd been driving that car, it would've ended up flattened against the nearest wall.  :o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on May 08, 2017, 06:00:14 AM

Huntsmen are not venomous though. They CAN bite but are not overly aggressive. I really like them. In really bad heat, they get a bit toey and I put them out. The same with when they grow too large. Generally they are kind of docile and pretty cool. They hang out on the wall and I give them a "Hey Harry" as I walk past. They don't move and don't really freak out. Low maintenance pets.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 08, 2017, 06:02:22 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on May 08, 2017, 06:00:14 AM

Huntsmen are not venomous though. They CAN bite but are not overly aggressive. I really like them. In really bad heat, they get a bit toey and I put them out. The same with when they grow too large. Generally they are kind of docile and pretty cool. They hang out on the wall and I give them a "Hey Harry" as I walk past. They don't move and don't really freak out. Low maintenance pets.

  What does "toey" mean?  And how large is too large?  :hide:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 08, 2017, 12:43:32 PM

My brother got a job offer that he accepted.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 08, 2017, 12:45:17 PM

Al-yes, they are venomous. ALMOST all spiders are venomous. There are a very, very few that are not. Almost without exception, all spiders are venomous, commonly enough either the venom is impotent against humans, or the fangs of the spider are too small or delicate to deliver it through human skin.

The uloboridae (which wrap their prey in silk, then secrete digestive enzymes over it whilst its still alive), a group of miniscule predatory spiders, the liphiistidae are non-venomous, these are medium to large spiders with mygalomorph type fang morphology, and are not venomous, relying on their size and physical power plus large chelicera to physically overpower their prey, quite possibly the most primitive group of all spiders, forming a sister lineage to the araneomorphs and mygalomorphs (spiders which have fangs operating in a sideways-oriented pincer-like manner, and those which have downward-pointing, stabbing fangs, such as Loxosceles, Phoneutria and Latrodectus (the recluse spiders, brazilian wandering spiders and widows) as well as common orb-weaver spiders are araneomorphs, whilst the likes of mouse spiders, funnelwebs and wishbone spiders are mygalomorphs. The sea-spiders are another matter altogether, having stabbing stylets, like a mosquito or true bug (E.g assassin bugs) whilst originally thought to be at least a member of the order Chelicerata (spiders, scorpions, harvestmen, mites, pseudoscorpions, whipscorpions, camel 'spiders' (Solifugids), they may in fact not be, and be a sister group to all other arthropods, a relic of the Ediacaran biota, having similarities to the likes of Anomalocaris, not found within any other living creature. Peculiar creatures with a much reduced body plan, so much so, that they keep parts of their digestive tracts within their legs, of all places)

The mesothelids are spiders, of a kind, but basal, very primitive creatures, with a feature found on no other spider lineage-a segmented abdomen, covered with segmented plates, suggesting that they are a sister group to the spiders and scorpions in evolutionary terms, having diverged when both spiders and scorpions were separating as distinct groups during the evolution of both.

And there is a single known species of vegetarian spider, believe it or not. Whilst occasionally it does eat animal life, in the form of ant larvae, it feeds almost exclusively on the protein-rich nutrient packages certain acacia species provide for symbiotic ant colonies, which themselves protect the acacia trees by attacking and killing invading insect species which would otherwise attack the acacias. The trees in turn, provide little orange-yellow packets of protein specifically intended as nutrients for the ant larvae as motivation, and the ants have evolved to depend upon these. The spider feeds on these packages too, being agile enough to evade the vicious ants, as its one of the jumping spiders. Thus far, it is the only known vegetarian spider.

There are one, maybe two other orders of spider similar to the Uloborids, in that they are tiny (a few mm at most) and lack venom, but otherwise all true spiders, bar these, the Uloboridae and the Mesothelids (Liphiistidae) are venomous. Being harmful to humans is another kettle of fish entirely.

As for todays good happening at chateaux de Lestat, my old man just bought me a small fridge so I can keep my volatile solvents in it, got it cheap for just £30. Strictly speaking, he wants it to keep maggots in for his fishing, but said I can use it, and told me before I even had chance to observe the fact, that most likely, I'll be the one who by far and away gets the most use out of it. Just the sort of thing I need to keep solvents that have a propensity to escape through containers, and are difficult to contain. Things like diethyl, diisopropyl ether, THF, methylene chloride, chloroform, carbon disulfide, that kind of thing. As it happened, I'd been debating whether to spend today's pay portion allocated to lab supplies on a fridge, for just that purpose (minus the maggots) or a new heating mantle w/ magnetic stirring plus some new three necked flasks. Could do with some more of those, plus now I don't need to buy a fridge (this even has a freezer, so I can run a dedicated coolant line through it circulating something like an antifreeze/alcohol mixture, or a freon-type refrigerant to run through my condenser lines plumbed through the freezer portion. Really chuffed about that. Means I can buy myself the new fritted vacuum filter funnel I wanted too. Oh boy, that'll free up quite a bit of money, for me to spend all on goodies for the lab :)

Just plotting and scheming as to exactly what I want. I've got several hundred quid to do an update for this two week period :) I can't wait to go shopping :D

First on the list I think is some potassium or sodium bromide, preferably NaBr, since the atomic weight of sodium is less than that of potassium and its a convenient storage medium (plus sometimes reagent in its own right) for the otherwise very difficult to contain bromine, which must hold one of the championship titles for most bastardly reagents of all to store, it seeps through pretty much everything and anything bar glass given the slightest of chances. So I prefer to store it as a bromide salt, needing only to pass chlorine gas through a solution of it, which replaces the bromide anion with chloride, precipitating out bromine, which is insoluble in water, bar to a very small extent (enough to color water, producing 'bromine water', which itself is useful as a titration reagent for the presence of alkenes, one can determine whether a product has an alkene double bond, to which bromine adds, forming an alkyl bromide, a dilute solution of Br2 in water decolorizes in the presence of alkenes, due to this reaction, and it can be, if the weight of the original compound is known, used to determine how many double bonds there are, or if they are present at all.

Presumably it also adds to alkynes, although I've never actually looked that up. Other than that, I'd like very much to improve my ultra-microscale setup (for working at the scale of ~5ml or less, smallest flasks I currently have are 10ml. Could do with a good quality vacuum manifold and pressure regulator rather than relying solely on pinch-clamps, plus some more clamp stands. Although for that, all I'll do is visit a scrap metal merchant and bag a few dirt cheap blocks of iron or steel, drill holes in them and tap them on the lathe, plus pare down some stainless, preferably chrome plated steel bar on one end and cut a screw thread to match. That kind of thing, being designed specifically to be weighty and secure stuff has to be heavy and as such would be murder on the shipping. And why pay for what you can likely pick up the starting materials for a fiver or less in scrap steel and cut the threads yourself in less than a half hours work.

Definitely really pleased about that fridge w/freezer. Nice, very nice (unless you happen to be a maggot. Then again, can't be as bad as having a hook stuck up your arse then a fish sucking your guts out :P)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 08, 2017, 04:03:36 PM

More laundry done
Printed financial stuff from the computer
cooked/at at home 3 meals

About to wash The PR's bowling ball (by hand, not in the machine)
More laundry
Put trash and garbage out

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on May 08, 2017, 04:46:09 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on May 08, 2017, 06:02:22 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on May 08, 2017, 06:00:14 AM

Huntsmen are not venomous though. They CAN bite but are not overly aggressive. I really like them. In really bad heat, they get a bit toey and I put them out. The same with when they grow too large. Generally they are kind of docile and pretty cool. They hang out on the wall and I give them a "Hey Harry" as I walk past. They don't move and don't really freak out. Low maintenance pets.

  What does "toey" mean?  And how large is too large?  :hide:

Too large?

(http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/sites/sbs.com.au.yourlanguage/files/spidersss_0.jpg)

And Toey is a bit of a coverall term and means agitated but can mean aggressive and wanting to fight or horny and pursuing sex or stressed out and wanting to bolt.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 08, 2017, 10:49:52 PM

Gravity? What gravity?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 09, 2017, 12:08:22 AM

QV-well putting her bowling ball in a washing machine sounds like if done it would just be a recipe for tearing the washer to bits.

Neither bowling balls, nor her royal adorableness should be put in washing machines:P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on May 09, 2017, 12:51:10 AM

Quote from: Lestat on May 09, 2017, 12:08:22 AM

QV-well putting her bowling ball in a washing machine sounds like if done it would just be a recipe for tearing the washer to bits.

Neither bowling balls, nor her royal adorableness should be put in washing machines:P

Years ago when I bowled regularly, they had a ball polisher which cost $1 to use. I used it when my bowling ball got grease on it from the mechanisms at the end of the lanes. I remember it doing a pretty good job.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 09, 2017, 03:32:28 AM

The way you worded that...there are SO many jokes that could be made there that I don't even have to make one. They make themselves.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 09, 2017, 05:58:56 AM

Quote from: Lestat on May 08, 2017, 12:45:17 PM

Al-yes, they are venomous. ALMOST all spiders are venomous. There are a very, very few that are not. Almost without exception, all spiders are venomous, commonly enough either the venom is impotent against humans, or the fangs of the spider are too small or delicate to deliver it through human skin.

The uloboridae (which wrap their prey in silk, then secrete digestive enzymes over it whilst its still alive), a group of miniscule predatory spiders, the liphiistidae are non-venomous, these are medium to large spiders with mygalomorph type fang morphology, and are not venomous, relying on their size and physical power plus large chelicera to physically overpower their prey, quite possibly the most primitive group of all spiders, forming a sister lineage to the araneomorphs and mygalomorphs (spiders which have fangs operating in a sideways-oriented pincer-like manner, and those which have downward-pointing, stabbing fangs, such as Loxosceles, Phoneutria and Latrodectus (the recluse spiders, brazilian wandering spiders and widows) as well as common orb-weaver spiders are araneomorphs, whilst the likes of mouse spiders, funnelwebs and wishbone spiders are mygalomorphs. The sea-spiders are another matter altogether, having stabbing stylets, like a mosquito or true bug (E.g assassin bugs) whilst originally thought to be at least a member of the order Chelicerata (spiders, scorpions, harvestmen, mites, pseudoscorpions, whipscorpions, camel 'spiders' (Solifugids), they may in fact not be, and be a sister group to all other arthropods, a relic of the Ediacaran biota, having similarities to the likes of Anomalocaris, not found within any other living creature. Peculiar creatures with a much reduced body plan, so much so, that they keep parts of their digestive tracts within their legs, of all places)

The mesothelids are spiders, of a kind, but basal, very primitive creatures, with a feature found on no other spider lineage-a segmented abdomen, covered with segmented plates, suggesting that they are a sister group to the spiders and scorpions in evolutionary terms, having diverged when both spiders and scorpions were separating as distinct groups during the evolution of both.

And there is a single known species of vegetarian spider, believe it or not. Whilst occasionally it does eat animal life, in the form of ant larvae, it feeds almost exclusively on the protein-rich nutrient packages certain acacia species provide for symbiotic ant colonies, which themselves protect the acacia trees by attacking and killing invading insect species which would otherwise attack the acacias. The trees in turn, provide little orange-yellow packets of protein specifically intended as nutrients for the ant larvae as motivation, and the ants have evolved to depend upon these. The spider feeds on these packages too, being agile enough to evade the vicious ants, as its one of the jumping spiders. Thus far, it is the only known vegetarian spider.

There are one, maybe two other orders of spider similar to the Uloborids, in that they are tiny (a few mm at most) and lack venom, but otherwise all true spiders, bar these, the Uloboridae and the Mesothelids (Liphiistidae) are venomous. Being harmful to humans is another kettle of fish entirely.

As for todays good happening at chateaux de Lestat, my old man just bought me a small fridge so I can keep my volatile solvents in it, got it cheap for just £30. Strictly speaking, he wants it to keep maggots in for his fishing, but said I can use it, and told me before I even had chance to observe the fact, that most likely, I'll be the one who by far and away gets the most use out of it. Just the sort of thing I need to keep solvents that have a propensity to escape through containers, and are difficult to contain. Things like diethyl, diisopropyl ether, THF, methylene chloride, chloroform, carbon disulfide, that kind of thing. As it happened, I'd been debating whether to spend today's pay portion allocated to lab supplies on a fridge, for just that purpose (minus the maggots) or a new heating mantle w/ magnetic stirring plus some new three necked flasks. Could do with some more of those, plus now I don't need to buy a fridge (this even has a freezer, so I can run a dedicated coolant line through it circulating something like an antifreeze/alcohol mixture, or a freon-type refrigerant to run through my condenser lines plumbed through the freezer portion. Really chuffed about that. Means I can buy myself the new fritted vacuum filter funnel I wanted too. Oh boy, that'll free up quite a bit of money, for me to spend all on goodies for the lab :)

Just plotting and scheming as to exactly what I want. I've got several hundred quid to do an update for this two week period :) I can't wait to go shopping :D

First on the list I think is some potassium or sodium bromide, preferably NaBr, since the atomic weight of sodium is less than that of potassium and its a convenient storage medium (plus sometimes reagent in its own right) for the otherwise very difficult to contain bromine, which must hold one of the championship titles for most bastardly reagents of all to store, it seeps through pretty much everything and anything bar glass given the slightest of chances. So I prefer to store it as a bromide salt, needing only to pass chlorine gas through a solution of it, which replaces the bromide anion with chloride, precipitating out bromine, which is insoluble in water, bar to a very small extent (enough to color water, producing 'bromine water', which itself is useful as a titration reagent for the presence of alkenes, one can determine whether a product has an alkene double bond, to which bromine adds, forming an alkyl bromide, a dilute solution of Br2 in water decolorizes in the presence of alkenes, due to this reaction, and it can be, if the weight of the original compound is known, used to determine how many double bonds there are, or if they are present at all.

Presumably it also adds to alkynes, although I've never actually looked that up. Other than that, I'd like very much to improve my ultra-microscale setup (for working at the scale of ~5ml or less, smallest flasks I currently have are 10ml. Could do with a good quality vacuum manifold and pressure regulator rather than relying solely on pinch-clamps, plus some more clamp stands. Although for that, all I'll do is visit a scrap metal merchant and bag a few dirt cheap blocks of iron or steel, drill holes in them and tap them on the lathe, plus pare down some stainless, preferably chrome plated steel bar on one end and cut a screw thread to match. That kind of thing, being designed specifically to be weighty and secure stuff has to be heavy and as such would be murder on the shipping. And why pay for what you can likely pick up the starting materials for a fiver or less in scrap steel and cut the threads yourself in less than a half hours work.

Definitely really pleased about that fridge w/freezer. Nice, very nice (unless you happen to be a maggot. Then again, can't be as bad as having a hook stuck up your arse then a fish sucking your guts out :P)

  I don't know what your educational credentials are, but I think about 100 or so years ago,
  you would have been teaching at university level.  Laura Ingalls Wilder sat for exams administered by
  members of her local school board and became qualified to teach school at age 15.  I could see
  Mr. Lestat teaching in some schoolhouse, or in some eldritch castle-like structure in Victorian times.  :toporly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 09, 2017, 12:18:03 PM

Special ed, secondary level, went to two secondaries, one for LFA/kanner's and the other for AS.

An eldritch castle sounds good, as long as the electrical supply isn't correspondingly victorian. Other than that, and  mainstream (awful) primary school that is it, I'm self-taught, I don't see how I could get into uni with the grades I got. out of all academic areas I have a really bad time with math. Always have done, and whilst I;m not completely acalculic, I;m not very far off it. I j ust about scraped by getting a gastroscopy done, and a camera stuck down my throat.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 09, 2017, 03:52:53 PM

Quote from: renaeden on May 09, 2017, 12:51:10 AM

Quote from: Lestat on May 09, 2017, 12:08:22 AM

QV-well putting her bowling ball in a washing machine sounds like if done it would just be a recipe for tearing the washer to bits.

Neither bowling balls, nor her royal adorableness should be put in washing machines:P

Years ago when I bowled regularly, they had a ball polisher which cost $1 to use. I used it when my bowling ball got grease on it from the mechanisms at the end of the lanes. I remember it doing a pretty good job.

the bowling shop has cleaned her ball once, for free.  But it opens at 6 and she usually leaves by 5:30.  So, hand washing it is.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 09, 2017, 06:37:50 PM

I got a metal detector for my birthday and it arrived today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on May 09, 2017, 06:52:10 PM

Quote from: Parts on May 09, 2017, 06:37:50 PM

I got a metal detector for my birthday and it arrived today.

What did you get?? 

Did you get a sand scoop for the beach?

I need a pin-pointer....and have been considering an upgrade.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 09, 2017, 10:02:25 PM

I made a spontaneous decision to have my hair cut short(er).  Basically the stylist took a hair trimmer to the back and sides leaving the top long enough for sweepy bangs.  Think a man's haircut with a feminine edge.

Feels different. Hair this short reacts to breezes differently than my longer usual 2 inch hair length.  And I don't have the hair "cushion" I had before.  Pretty sure I'll continue to like it after I adjust some more to it.

No pics because I don't know how to internet them.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 10, 2017, 01:34:33 AM

Awesome! It was about time that you had it short again.

I need to get myself a haircut soon. The stuff on my head is annoying me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 10, 2017, 04:45:00 AM

Quote from: Lestat on May 09, 2017, 12:18:03 PM

Special ed, secondary level, went to two secondaries, one for LFA/kanner's and the other for AS.

An eldritch castle sounds good, as long as the electrical supply isn't correspondingly victorian. Other than that, and  mainstream (awful) primary school that is it, I'm self-taught, I don't see how I could get into uni with the grades I got. out of all academic areas I have a really bad time with math. Always have done, and whilst I;m not completely acalculic, I;m not very far off it. I j ust about scraped by getting a gastroscopy done, and a camera stuck down my throat.

  Where does the gastroscopy fit into the rest of the story?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 10, 2017, 04:46:39 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 09, 2017, 10:02:25 PM

I made a spontaneous decision to have my hair cut short(er).  Basically the stylist took a hair trimmer to the back and sides leaving the top long enough for sweepy bangs.  Think a man's haircut with a feminine edge.

Feels different. Hair this short reacts to breezes differently than my longer usual 2 inch hair length.  And I don't have the hair "cushion" I had before.  Pretty sure I'll continue to like it after I adjust some more to it.

No pics because I don't know how to internet them.

  I'll bet it looks badass, with or without a crown on top! :queenie:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 10, 2017, 04:48:19 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on May 10, 2017, 01:34:33 AM

Awesome! It was about time that you had it short again.

I need to get myself a haircut soon. The stuff on my head is annoying me.

  My hair is my stim, it must remain long enough to twist into knots.  :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 10, 2017, 05:54:13 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on May 09, 2017, 06:52:10 PM

Quote from: Parts on May 09, 2017, 06:37:50 PM

I got a metal detector for my birthday and it arrived today.

What did you get?? 

Did you get a sand scoop for the beach?

I need a pin-pointer....and have been considering an upgrade.

A Fisher F44,  I had a sand scoop that I had gotten with a bunch of other stuff a long time ago. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on May 10, 2017, 07:03:03 AM

Quote from: Parts on May 10, 2017, 05:54:13 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on May 09, 2017, 06:52:10 PM

Quote from: Parts on May 09, 2017, 06:37:50 PM

I got a metal detector for my birthday and it arrived today.

What did you get?? 

Did you get a sand scoop for the beach?

I need a pin-pointer....and have been considering an upgrade.

A Fisher F44,  I had a sand scoop that I had gotten with a bunch of other stuff a long time ago.

That's a nice one. You are loved.  ;)

Need to get the wife outfitted so that you two can hunt together.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on May 10, 2017, 08:42:46 AM

Didn't die.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 10, 2017, 05:22:17 PM

A greatly needed nap

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 10, 2017, 05:25:24 PM

  One of my favorite people returned here.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 10, 2017, 05:53:48 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on May 10, 2017, 05:25:24 PM

  One of my favorite people returned here.  :)

:cbc:  :cfm:

(and YAY my boots are still here!!!!)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 10, 2017, 05:54:41 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on May 10, 2017, 05:53:48 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on May 10, 2017, 05:25:24 PM

  One of my favorite people returned here.  :)

:cbc:  :cfm:

(and YAY my boots are still here!!!!)

  I tried to wear them but I couldn't get them past my cankles.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on May 10, 2017, 07:34:40 PM

Yeah!!! The Phoenix has returned!!!  :asthing: :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 10, 2017, 08:57:24 PM

This is indeed a good thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 11, 2017, 07:46:39 AM

You guys know how to make a lady feel loved.  :grouphug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 16, 2017, 08:18:50 PM

I ordered some stuff online to hoard and it came in the mail today so I hoarded it.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 16, 2017, 08:37:58 PM

Was it toilet paper?




If it was, can you spare a roll?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 16, 2017, 09:06:27 PM

No, I have an allotted space for my toilet paper hoard and it's full at the moment, so I have to chill out for a while until we use some more.  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 16, 2017, 11:47:56 PM

Coffee happened. :yawn:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 17, 2017, 09:55:11 AM

Pizza is happening in 30 minutes and that's always a good thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 17, 2017, 11:42:13 AM

Dropped off a small load of donatables at the the thrift store.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 17, 2017, 11:51:33 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on May 17, 2017, 09:55:11 AM

Pizza is happening in 30 minutes and that's always a good thing.

Pizza happened here, too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 17, 2017, 01:06:23 PM

Any of that pizza going begging miss K? I'm out of food bar a bowl of oatmeal, two pot noodles left and a plate of barley sugars.
I'll happily share the latter with you, if eating sweeties isn't considered cannibalism for you:autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 17, 2017, 04:26:48 PM

Unbelievable good fortune today.

The PR is going down the first week in June to mental health therapy to 2 days a week from 3.

After 7 years on the waiting list she's been accepted at Magnolia Community Services.  "Founded in 1935, Magnolia Community Services is a private 501(c)3 non-profit organization providing supports to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We offer support and services in twenty group homes, supported community living, vocational/day habilitation and wellness programs, and supported employment." She'll go there 3 days a week until she finishes her therapy.  Then she'll go 5 days a week year round.

She'll be eligible to have her name placed on the waiting list (years long again) for a group home placement. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 17, 2017, 05:12:42 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 17, 2017, 04:26:48 PM

Unbelievable good fortune today.

The PR is going down the first week in June to mental health therapy to 2 days a week from 3.

After 7 years on the waiting list she's been accepted at Magnolia Community Services.  "Founded in 1935, Magnolia Community Services is a private 501(c)3 non-profit organization providing supports to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We offer support and services in twenty group homes, supported community living, vocational/day habilitation and wellness programs, and supported employment." She'll go there 3 days a week until she finishes her therapy.  Then she'll go 5 days a week year round.

She'll be eligible to have her name placed on the waiting list (years long again) for a group home placement.

That's such amazing news. It will be a huge relief to you knowing the wheels are in motion for her to have alternative living arrangements.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 17, 2017, 08:43:16 PM

Congratulations to the PR!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 17, 2017, 09:45:33 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on May 17, 2017, 09:55:11 AM

Pizza is happening in 30 minutes and that's always a good thing.

  *waits patiently outside the Phoenix's kitchen window*  :puppy: :pizza:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 17, 2017, 11:28:42 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 17, 2017, 04:26:48 PM

Unbelievable good fortune today.

The PR is going down the first week in June to mental health therapy to 2 days a week from 3.

After 7 years on the waiting list she's been accepted at Magnolia Community Services.  "Founded in 1935, Magnolia Community Services is a private 501(c)3 non-profit organization providing supports to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We offer support and services in twenty group homes, supported community living, vocational/day habilitation and wellness programs, and supported employment." She'll go there 3 days a week until she finishes her therapy.  Then she'll go 5 days a week year round.

She'll be eligible to have her name placed on the waiting list (years long again) for a group home placement. 

Do happy for both of you. A short time reliëf, bit much more a long term reliëf.

Massive hug from this side of the world for both of you.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 17, 2017, 11:51:22 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 17, 2017, 04:26:48 PM

Unbelievable good fortune today.

The PR is going down the first week in June to mental health therapy to 2 days a week from 3.

After 7 years on the waiting list she's been accepted at Magnolia Community Services.  "Founded in 1935, Magnolia Community Services is a private 501(c)3 non-profit organization providing supports to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We offer support and services in twenty group homes, supported community living, vocational/day habilitation and wellness programs, and supported employment." She'll go there 3 days a week until she finishes her therapy.  Then she'll go 5 days a week year round.

She'll be eligible to have her name placed on the waiting list (years long again) for a group home placement. 

That's really great news for you both. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on May 18, 2017, 03:31:33 AM

That's wonderful news.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 18, 2017, 05:28:47 AM

Put together some bread machine bread (way better than it sounds. I have this shit DOWN!). Will be ready by noon.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 18, 2017, 05:39:10 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 18, 2017, 05:28:47 AM

Put together some bread machine bread (way better than it sounds. I have this shit DOWN!). Will be ready by noon.

I cannot wait until I move so I can pull out my breadmaker and start using it again. It's SO good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 18, 2017, 09:02:54 AM

Thank you all for the good wishes.

After I finish clearing and cleaning (mid-June self-imposed deadline) I will use the bread machine and slow cooker I've never used, but want to.

Finally kicking depression in the butt.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 19, 2017, 01:18:18 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on May 17, 2017, 04:26:48 PM

Unbelievable good fortune today.

The PR is going down the first week in June to mental health therapy to 2 days a week from 3.

After 7 years on the waiting list she's been accepted at Magnolia Community Services.  "Founded in 1935, Magnolia Community Services is a private 501(c)3 non-profit organization providing supports to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We offer support and services in twenty group homes, supported community living, vocational/day habilitation and wellness programs, and supported employment." She'll go there 3 days a week until she finishes her therapy.  Then she'll go 5 days a week year round.

She'll be eligible to have her name placed on the waiting list (years long again) for a group home placement.

  That's wonderful. :hug:  Good for you for getting her name on the list when you did.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 19, 2017, 07:05:03 AM

Thats fucking brilliant QV. So happy for her, I hope she really loves it where she goes :)

*sends hugs for both of you*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on May 19, 2017, 08:48:36 AM

Didn't die.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 19, 2017, 09:28:59 AM

Received the vacuum filtration flask I'd been waiting for in the mail. Went into the house and saw a large box with my name on it, wasn't sure what it was (chinese customs declarations being often full of shit), opened it up and discovered that it was the 2.5 liter filtation flask I bought. Not used it yet though,                                                                                             

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 19, 2017, 02:29:07 PM

Changed from ATT to Direct TV for TV, Internet and phone.  Still at the bottom of the learning curve of the new system.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 19, 2017, 03:00:01 PM

Took the well puppy to daycare to play with her friends and kept the injured pup at home to spoil her.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on May 20, 2017, 01:07:02 AM

My sister gave me my birthday present. A grey hoodie with the psi symbol on the front. And it fits perfectly. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 20, 2017, 01:54:56 AM

Coffee happened and saved the Western Civilisation.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on May 20, 2017, 03:31:01 AM

Today I met a nice friendly runaway doggie. He came running into the dance hall and almost tripped everyone over lol. I eventually caught him by the collar and another lady called the number on his tag. He only lived just down the road. I think he was a staffy (American or English I couldn't tell). He had a humongous head and wrinkles at the nose. He got my jeans dirty and made me smell of dog for the rest of the afternoon. :dog:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 20, 2017, 05:21:05 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on May 19, 2017, 03:00:01 PM

Took the well puppy to daycare to play with her friends and kept the injured pup at home to spoil her.

  Your pups :doggie: :doggie:  are so lucky.  The human pups too.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 20, 2017, 01:23:41 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on May 20, 2017, 03:31:01 AM

Today I met a nice friendly runaway doggie. He came running into the dance hall and almost tripped everyone over lol. I eventually caught him by the collar and another lady called the number on his tag. He only lived just down the road. I think he was a staffy (American or English I couldn't tell). He had a humongous head and wrinkles at the nose. He got my jeans dirty and made me smell of dog for the rest of the afternoon. :dog:

You'd fit right in with the Royal Family.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 21, 2017, 05:08:49 AM

  I rediscovered this great song!  :oranna:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmXQFwlD7vk

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 22, 2017, 06:37:47 AM

Nice quiet morning with the family and pups

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on May 22, 2017, 08:47:38 AM

Didn't die  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 22, 2017, 09:47:08 AM

the movie Hairspray

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on May 22, 2017, 10:27:54 AM

Which version? I have the one with Ricki Lake.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 22, 2017, 01:38:54 PM

Quote from: Fun with matches on May 22, 2017, 10:27:54 AM

Which version? I have the one with Ricki Lake.

No, the one with Travolta.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 22, 2017, 03:48:18 PM

Quote from: renaeden on May 20, 2017, 01:07:02 AM

My sister gave me my birthday present. A grey hoodie with the psi symbol on the front. And it fits perfectly. :)

Happy Birthday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 22, 2017, 04:19:38 PM

Cleared out the last of the freezer's old contents, packaged some food to put in there, made phone calls, mailed important documents, grocery shopped

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 22, 2017, 08:18:36 PM

The purchasers visit is done and now my house is super clean. If anyone would like to look in every room and every closet, please come over quick because I don't know how long it will stay this sparkly. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 22, 2017, 09:53:17 PM

  Today, almost by accident, I discovered that I can minimize the pain in my left leg by holding it very
   straight while walking, like a peg leg.  :arrr:   This trick got me through the rest of the work day pretty well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2017, 11:24:40 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 23, 2017, 05:47:36 AM

  My left knee was worse this morning, and I thought I'd really screwed it up with my peg-leg walk at work.  :laugh:
   But after a rough start this morning, I've gotten it working well enough so I can do what I need to do.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 23, 2017, 11:30:23 AM

Wear an eye patch and you can become a pirate! :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 23, 2017, 02:25:50 PM

Productive afternoon appointment

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on May 24, 2017, 03:09:07 AM

Quote from: Jack on May 22, 2017, 03:48:18 PM

Quote from: renaeden on May 20, 2017, 01:07:02 AM

My sister gave me my birthday present. A grey hoodie with the psi symbol on the front. And it fits perfectly. :)

Happy Birthday.

My birthday was in February but thanks Jack!:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 24, 2017, 05:00:38 AM

Quote from: renaeden on May 24, 2017, 03:09:07 AM

Quote from: Jack on May 22, 2017, 03:48:18 PM

Quote from: renaeden on May 20, 2017, 01:07:02 AM

My sister gave me my birthday present. A grey hoodie with the psi symbol on the front. And it fits perfectly. :)

Happy Birthday.

My birthday was in February but thanks Jack!:)

That's a really late birthday present.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 24, 2017, 05:20:06 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 23, 2017, 11:30:23 AM

Wear an eye patch and you can become a pirate! :arrr:

  Walking like a pirate seems to have worked like physical therapy.  Left leg is much better today!  :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 24, 2017, 12:11:30 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on May 24, 2017, 05:20:06 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 23, 2017, 11:30:23 AM

Wear an eye patch and you can become a pirate! :arrr:

  Walking like a pirate seems to have worked like physical therapy.  Left leg is much better today!  :arrr:

But you need an eye patch to heal completely! :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 24, 2017, 12:15:29 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 24, 2017, 12:11:30 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on May 24, 2017, 05:20:06 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 23, 2017, 11:30:23 AM

Wear an eye patch and you can become a pirate! :arrr:

  Walking like a pirate seems to have worked like physical therapy.  Left leg is much better today!  :arrr:

But you need an eye patch to heal completely! :arrr:

  I can't afford to lose my depth perception at a time when my balance is compromised.  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 24, 2017, 12:17:13 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on May 24, 2017, 12:15:29 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 24, 2017, 12:11:30 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on May 24, 2017, 05:20:06 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 23, 2017, 11:30:23 AM

Wear an eye patch and you can become a pirate! :arrr:

  Walking like a pirate seems to have worked like physical therapy.  Left leg is much better today!  :arrr:

But you need an eye patch to heal completely! :arrr:

  I can't afford to lose my depth perception at a time when my balance is compromised.  :P

It's far more important to wobble like a pirate! :arrr:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 24, 2017, 12:22:19 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 24, 2017, 12:17:13 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on May 24, 2017, 12:15:29 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 24, 2017, 12:11:30 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on May 24, 2017, 05:20:06 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 23, 2017, 11:30:23 AM

Wear an eye patch and you can become a pirate! :arrr:

  Walking like a pirate seems to have worked like physical therapy.  Left leg is much better today!  :arrr:

But you need an eye patch to heal completely! :arrr:

  I can't afford to lose my depth perception at a time when my balance is compromised.  :P

It's far more important to wobble like a pirate! :arrr:

  Can't afford to wobble when I'm carrying a big knife!  :fatchef:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 24, 2017, 12:23:18 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on May 24, 2017, 12:22:19 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 24, 2017, 12:17:13 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on May 24, 2017, 12:15:29 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 24, 2017, 12:11:30 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on May 24, 2017, 05:20:06 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 23, 2017, 11:30:23 AM

Wear an eye patch and you can become a pirate! :arrr:

  Walking like a pirate seems to have worked like physical therapy.  Left leg is much better today!  :arrr:

But you need an eye patch to heal completely! :arrr:

  I can't afford to lose my depth perception at a time when my balance is compromised.  :P

It's far more important to wobble like a pirate! :arrr:

  Can't afford to wobble when I'm carrying a big knife!  :fatchef:

Don't worry, nobody is going to get hurt. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on May 24, 2017, 06:25:56 PM

Didn't die.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 24, 2017, 06:49:35 PM

Last big appointment is done with favourable results

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 24, 2017, 07:15:46 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on May 24, 2017, 06:25:56 PM

Didn't die.  :asthing:

OMG me neither!! :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 24, 2017, 07:19:29 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on May 24, 2017, 07:15:46 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on May 24, 2017, 06:25:56 PM

Didn't die.  :asthing:

OMG me neither!! :GA:

  Today ain't over yet. :gopher: :litigious:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 24, 2017, 07:30:09 PM

You missed me again.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 24, 2017, 07:58:15 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on May 24, 2017, 07:30:09 PM

You missed me again.  :zoinks:

  I only shoot at you because I love to watch you scramble.  :-*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on May 25, 2017, 12:58:31 AM

Slept in, because it was soooo silent outside.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 25, 2017, 05:57:41 AM

Woke up feeling like I finally got some sleep last night.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on May 25, 2017, 07:09:59 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on May 24, 2017, 07:19:29 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on May 24, 2017, 07:15:46 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on May 24, 2017, 06:25:56 PM

Didn't die.  :asthing:

OMG me neither!! :GA:

  Today ain't over yet. :gopher: :litigious:

It's High Noon somewhere:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCBER0j9ubM

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 25, 2017, 09:08:51 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on May 24, 2017, 07:15:46 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on May 24, 2017, 06:25:56 PM

Didn't die.  :asthing:

OMG me neither!! :GA:

How do you know?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 26, 2017, 02:30:11 PM

*Groceries are done and put away
*Naps make me happy
*Wings and salad for dinner

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on May 26, 2017, 06:33:49 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 25, 2017, 09:08:51 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on May 24, 2017, 07:15:46 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on May 24, 2017, 06:25:56 PM

Didn't die.  :asthing:

OMG me neither!! :GA:

How do you know?

Posting now as I'm still not dead.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 27, 2017, 02:00:12 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on May 26, 2017, 06:33:49 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 25, 2017, 09:08:51 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on May 24, 2017, 07:15:46 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on May 24, 2017, 06:25:56 PM

Didn't die.  :asthing:

OMG me neither!! :GA:

How do you know?

Posting now as I'm still not dead.  :asthing:

That doesn't answer my question. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 27, 2017, 04:06:25 AM

  Yesterday I bought an Ace^TM knee brace and wore it for a couple of hours (though a size Large,
  it's still a bit tight on my doughy leg, so I took it off).  Slept well, woke up able to stretch the leg,
  then I got up out of bed without pain for the first time in weeks.  I think the bandage compressed
  whatever was loose and pushed it back in place.  I'm taking the brace to work in case I need it.  :)
  I'm also waiting for a referral to an orthopedic specialist, and I will try to get this brace in size XL.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 28, 2017, 01:07:39 AM

Coffee happened, saving the day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 28, 2017, 06:51:40 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 28, 2017, 01:07:39 AM

Coffee happened, saving the day.

  Coffee is currently saving my day too! :coffee:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 28, 2017, 08:07:47 AM

Everyone woke up happy and quiet today. That's a nice start to the day.  :yawn:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 28, 2017, 06:46:56 PM

Had blueberry pancakes for breakfast.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 30, 2017, 07:07:22 AM

My zinc powder finally came :)

That'll save me some much pricier and harder to get hold of reagents that are somewhat more hazardous to handle (namely borohydride, which generally entails quite a lot of highly flammable hydrogen gas evolution during its use, and boride catalysts that I'm not entirely sure whether or not they have the potential to give off some pretty deadly borane/diborane gas (which is not only toxic as hell but diborane spontaneously ignites on contact with air) on contact with acids (as you can guess, probably, I've been keeping to strongly basic workup for that particular catalyst, and intend on just basifying and vacuum distilling the product off without ever converting it to a salt before the product is thoroughly stripped of nickel boride.

Although I certainly am keeping it under investigation for various uses since it does seem to have rather a lot of useful potential. But for the task at hand, I'll likely keep it as a research project scale since now I can use zinc dust and hydrochloric acid to achieve my aim.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 30, 2017, 09:01:46 AM

The orthodontist was able to fit in the oldest tomorrow morning to fix one of his bottom braces.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 30, 2017, 10:25:22 AM

Was told that my burnt eyeball has been healing pretty well for the kind of injury I sustained during my trip to the eye hospital for it to be monitored.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on June 01, 2017, 06:01:35 AM

I went to the other office tonight and collected all my stuff I had left over there. Crush boi was working back late and he opened the door to let me in :viking:

Boss guy will be all  :tard: :GA: :bigcry: when he noticed my stuff gone.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 02, 2017, 03:15:11 AM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on June 01, 2017, 06:01:35 AM

I went to the other office tonight and collected all my stuff I had left over there. Crush boi was working back late and he opened the door to let me in :viking:

Boss guy will be all  :tard: :GA: :bigcry: when he noticed my stuff gone.

  Buh-bye, dysfunctional boss guy!  >:D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 02, 2017, 03:20:15 AM

  I figured out why my leg pain was getting worse when I was lying down.  It's the computer chair!
  I have been using an old office chair from work, and I realized last night that the edge of the seat was
  pressing against the backs of my legs and causing pain there and all the way down to my left foot.
  I'm using another chair now and eventually will get a new one fiited for me.  I wouldn't have realized this
  except for the fact that my recent loss of 10 pounds makes me feel better during the work day, so I could
  see that the pain was actually starting up anew when I sat in the chair.  I slept better last night.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 02, 2017, 03:52:14 AM

  Also, the recent patches of eczema on the backs of my hands have cleared up.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on June 02, 2017, 06:13:59 AM

Didn't die  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 02, 2017, 10:58:42 AM

Groceries are done for the week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 03, 2017, 03:54:04 AM

I went to my friend's house to watch Where the Wild Things Are, not a bad movie. We had pizza and ice cream.

I brought her a pair of pants with a button detached and she sewed it back on for me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on June 03, 2017, 03:25:58 PM

Didn't die  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 04, 2017, 08:20:19 AM

Hanging out with my niece yesterday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 08, 2017, 02:56:24 PM

I got a partial payment on an account that is 90 days past due

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 08, 2017, 02:59:26 PM

It hasn't happened yet, but it will soon...dinner with one of my best friends at our favourite restaurant tonight. Korean BBQ.  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 08, 2017, 09:59:47 PM

I had an awesome day until about 6:30 pm

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on June 09, 2017, 03:47:04 AM

A cardboard box arrived today, and a well-packed little something arrived today, namely a 100g brick of sodium metal, covered in mineral oil, vacuum-sealed into an inner plastic sheath, itself packaged within an atmosphere of some inert gas or other, doubtless either dry argon or nitrogen.

Had to write various warnings on it, which I shouldn't, to make sure if some dumb cop breaks in to the place in further harassment, they aren't dumb enough to open either layer of packaging, not realizing that its going to burst into flames and probably hit them in the face if they did that. Not because I give a damn for their welfare if they are going to try to persecute me,  but because I do not wish my lab damaged, and I certainly wouldn't want a fire started. Which would probably get water thrown on it, and make an even bigger mess as a direct result.

(https://anonimag.es/i/Na673f7.md.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 09, 2017, 08:38:33 PM

Quote from: Lestat on June 09, 2017, 03:47:04 AM

A cardboard box arrived today, and a well-packed little something arrived today, namely a 100g brick of sodium metal, covered in mineral oil, vacuum-sealed into an inner plastic sheath, itself packaged within an atmosphere of some inert gas or other, doubtless either dry argon or nitrogen.

Had to write various warnings on it, which I shouldn't, to make sure if some dumb cop breaks in to the place in further harassment, they aren't dumb enough to open either layer of packaging, not realizing that its going to burst into flames and probably hit them in the face if they did that. Not because I give a damn for their welfare if they are going to try to persecute me,  but because I do not wish my lab damaged, and I certainly wouldn't want a fire started. Which would probably get water thrown on it, and make an even bigger mess as a direct result.

(https://anonimag.es/i/Na673f7.md.jpg)

That's a big hunk at least twice the size of the ones I remember from chemistry class

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on June 10, 2017, 09:46:32 AM

I coloured my hair (black again). I think this might be the least mess I've ever made while doing it too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 10, 2017, 10:15:03 AM

Helped my neighbours trick their daughter into testing a car that they're thinking of buying for her. She thinks it's for me and has no idea it's for her. She hasn't a frickin clue :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on June 10, 2017, 03:21:18 PM

Just learned a neat way to prepare sodium, potassium, caesium, etc. without recourse to fiddly, touchy design of electrolytic cells. It involves using magnesium powder, and the hydroxide of the metal, in a reaction similar to thermites. Basically mix together, initiate with a sparkler or length of magnesium ribbon and before it ignites (done in a steel can) slap a weighty slab of stone over the top to prevent it being vaporised away. Forms an aggregate of MgO and the alkali metal, that can be ground up in a blender under inert gas, and then boiled in 1,4-dioxane (prepared from ethylene glycol, dehydrated and cyclized to the ether using concentrated sulfuric acid (drain cleaner works) and distilled (bp-101 'C) I might try it tomorrow with some KOH and some NaOH (mainly because I do need some sodium, but have plenty hydroxide and fine magnesium dust, that would save me from having to open the hermetically sealed package of the bought stuff.

And Parts-yeah not too bad for about $20-25 or so, photo doesn't really show how thick it is, its about 3 inch thick or so. Definitely something I'll be storing rather carefully.

There's a video buy a guy called nurdrage on youtube that shows making the alkali metal/MgO aggregate, the dioxane, and this thermite-like reaction and the aggregate looks ugly, but pretty reactive stuff, yet when broken up to powder in his blender, and then refluxed in dioxane, the dioxane is the perfect solvent for it, and it breaks the crap off and allows the Na to coalesce into great big globs, guy gets some so large that he has to cut them up with a blade inside the flask, or remelt it and divide it to get the stuff out. Mg dust is cheap and I've got about a pound of the stuff. Think I'll give the dioxane synth a whirl any day now, and use it to prepare some potassium using Nurdrage's method.

Kid could do it, especially compared to the likes of building a Down's cell or Castner cell.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 19, 2017, 02:16:04 AM

I was told by a lecturer (who also sorts out timetables) that I don't have to complete the Excel/Access class because I already have enough credit to finish Certificate 3.

Phew, because I hadn't finished the Access database, nor had I started the documentation for it. Which would have been quite a lot of work. All due this week.

And I don't have to do it. Yay!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on June 19, 2017, 12:52:46 PM

Yesterday late afternoon-evening, I had what I thought was a major crisis on my hands. I was right in the middle of a vacuum distillation, and at that of a high-boiling compound that is BARELY suitable for distillation at atmospheric pressure, needing over 250 'C to distill at 1atm, it could be done, but is known to result in a far less pure result for the compound in question with significant degradation taking place.

I'd tried distillation using a water aspirator venturi-type vacuum (basically consists of a short length of glass tube, or in some cases metal, which attaches to the water input, and is surrounded by a bulb of glass or metal having a T-connection hose-barb sticking out of the side, to which the system to be placed under vacuum is connected by means of suitable tubing, preferably with a flask and distillation head situated in between to serve as a water trap in case of suckback due to vacuum loss which would otherwise, if the venturi isn't isolated from the water flow first before opening the system back up to atmospheric pressure again the vacuum in the system will pull water in from the flow into the flask. Having a second flask placed between the receiving flask used to catch the distillate and the venturi, connected by a distillation head and claisen adapter, etc.  serves as a reservoir to contain any suckback and give the user of the aspirator time to disconnect the water flow  before turning it off. The top glass tube connects to this bulb, and tapers into a cone with a thin narrow opening forcing the water into a narrower jet at higher pressure, which then is forced through a narrowing of the long glass stem, the bottom end of which being open is connected to the exit hose through which the water is discharged, and the pressure differential created when the water is fired through the section of the lower stem (which comes out of the bottom of the bulb and begins just  below the conical water outlet situated inside it, with a small air gap through which the hose barb for the vacuum connection to system to be evacuated, end of the conical taper from the water inlet, and the narrowing of the bore of the exit tube (which widens afterwards, with a bit more than an inch or so of narrow region, kind of like a wasp-waist in profile) so they are able to communicate in terms of pressure change, I.e an open system (with the exception that its closed at the far end, of whatever glassware arrangement is being used, so as to form a vacuum), which takes place by the venturi effect as the water rushes through the narrowed bore at high pressure and expands afterwards when it reaches the end of it at the exit portion of the tube.

Its intended for applications involving stripping low-boiling solvents, or when higher vacuum would cause a compound to boil off TOO low (in temperature), where a mechanical, more powerful vac pump is overkill.

But, after stripping the DCM off what I was distilling at aspirator vacuum level negative pressure (DCM-dichloromethane, methylene chloride, CH2Cl2, a volatile chlorinated hydrocarbon solvent similar in nature to chloroform although it boils at a much lower temperature, around 36 'C IIRC.) heating using a steam bath, after the dichlor was stripped, I switched over to using my rotary vane pump, a mains-powered mechanical pump capable of creating much lower pressure than is the venturi because the substance to be distilled, once freed of solvent, bar a ml or two of lower-boiling fore-run which was stripped and discarded, the distillation flask was heated by a bath of ethylene glycol which boils at just under degrees 'C and the rotary vane pump vacuum applied.

Unfortunately, the weather was searing, baking, roasting hot. A real scorcher of a bastardly day, to the extent it was making me feel a bit dizzy and shaky. I'd just given my vac pump (the rotary vane one, the venturi doesn't use any) a fresh oil change, completely drained it and refilled the oil reservoir with nice clean fresh stuff, turned it on, and left my product to distill. Unfortunately somewhere along the vac line there seems to have been a leak and I couldn't for the life of me resolve it. So will have to redo it using alternative pieces of glassware in case its the grind of the joints  themselves, since I'd clamped everything up, applied some strong, stainless steel keck clips to hold everything in place, after applying some quality Dow-Corning high vacuum grease to all joint interfaces between glass pieces (I.e 1 liter distillation flask, an air bleed (basically fine capillary tubing, which can be pulled from a glass pasteur pipette  held in a blowtorch flame, which connects to the outside and lets a tiny stream of bubbles in, the end being dipped into the distillate, this stops the substance being distilled from undergoing severe bumping under vacuum, since boiling stones don't work. For air sensitive substances, a nitrogen feed can be connected, running at low positive pressure, just a slight flow, or an argon tank if reactive with nitrogen, like lithium metal is for example although reactivity with N2 is very uncommon. Glass stoppers, since the distillation flask was of the kind having more than one neck. One neck connected to the capillary bleed tube, the other to a distillation adapter and thermometer inlet, with thermometer in place. Temperature set, condenser rigged up to one of my water pumps and the water pump turned on, and vacuum applied.

The problem, was, IMO, the heat. Because I'd left it for a while to distill over, and came back to check on the progress of the distillation, but instead of coming over as desired it was failing to distill, so I disconnected the vac pump, turned the pump itself off, and made a few adjustments. Then reattached the vac line to the receiver flask and turned on the vacuum. Or rather, I tried to turn it on. it wouldn't start. Could tell that the motor itself, or at least the circuitry hadn't burnt out, since it was making a humming noise plus slight vibration, the mechanism trying to work. But it wouldn't start up at all, even with a bit more oil being poured into the reservoir. The pump itself, on further inspection was so furiously, searing hot that it was barely touchable with bare fingers on any of the metal parts and the exhaust port felt like the muzzle of a flamethower after use by a small army of compulsive pyromaniacs.

So, I had no choice. I had to leave the compound in the distillation flask with only a few drops of distillate collected.

I thought to myself, 'oh shit, I've really had it here, my vacuum pump just kicked the bucket and I'm going to have to buy a new one. But in the morning, after going to bed, albeit a fairly hot and sweaty overly stuffy night I did manage to sleep shallowly with the aid of a few strong sleeping pills (15mg nitrazepam in total, 3x5mg tabs plus some adrenal blocking agents of the autoreceptor agonist type, clonidine and one of its relatives, tizanidine, a muscle relaxer and a bloody strong one at that)

Woke up early in the morning, about 7-7:30am and more or less bolted out from under the covers to see whether it would be called upon for me to administer the last rites to my vac pump...pressed the 'on' switch briefly.....and couldn't help but crack a broad grin from ear to ear, practically beaming with delight when I heard the familiar low, loud buzzing hum of the motor spinning up to full speed. The vacuum pump works!!!! :D I won't be forced to buy a new one (although I'm going to be getting a new one anyway, going to buy a few heating mantles of different sizes and build my own magnetic stirrer around them, so I've got them of sizes suitable for heating all my different flask  sizes, all the way upwards from tiny 5ml microscale kit to full size synthesis-scale glass.) first, and now I can afford to save up for a spare, and more powerful vacuum pump, and not have to blow away a sizeable portion of my money on it. I could afford to buy one right now, I've a few hundred pounds to  spend on glassware and will be getting another £80-something to £90-something tomorrow too, for my disability spazz pay/mobility assistance  allowance due to my fucked up joints, so I'll get myself the heating mantle size most useful for me first, and gradually move up and down in sizes until every one is covered. And of course build the magnetic stirrers to go beneath them. Plus now I can buy myself some more glassware.  I want some new distillation adapters, some size reduction adapters to enable me to connect 24/40 or other 24/XYZ taper size glassware joints to smaller bored glassware pieces. Another Vigreaux column would be nice. Couple of spare thermometers (already have one on order), and I'd quite like some calcium metal, more magnetic stirbars, rubber septa for transferring highly air-sensitive and/or pyrophoric reagents via nitrogen-purged syringe and cannula through rubber seals fitted to glass joints into systems kept under vacuum or under argon/nitrogen/helium atmospheres that would otherwise degrade, be destroyed or burst into flames on contact with oxygen or water vapor traces in the air. A new vacuum pressure gauge and manifold allowing me to run multiple vac lines independently of each other would be lovely, and I need a new 1l, 3-neck flask in 24/40 taper plus a couple of small separatory funnels . Would like some pyridine, a few liters of diethyl ether, some tetrahydrofuran (an etherial solvent, a cyclic ether) and both some lithium aluminium hydride (aka 'LAH' in chemist shorthand, LiAlH4, a fairly powerful hydride type reducing agent and although expensive, some Red-Al (Sodium bis(2-methoxyethoxy)aluminumhydride ). Another hydride reducing agent, pretty pricey and unfortunately, in atom-economy terms also expensive due to having to use some 7 molar equivalents of Red-Al (another name for it, being Vitride, both commercial brand type names) per functional group on a molecule to be reduced, but with the advantage of being quite a gentle, yet powerful reducing agent and very clean in doing its work. Takes a lot, expensive, but a very good reagent in practical terms for the uses at which it is suitable for, it does its job quickly, cleanly, effectively and gently, whilst unlike the cheaper (although still not exactly growing on trees, and for most hobbyists very difficult to purchase, although thankfully I am not amongst those who cannot do so, if I've the money to spend, I can get it if I want any) LAH, Sodium bis(2-methoxyethoxy)aluminumhydride/Red-Al/Vitride is not pyrophoric, whilst lithium aluminium hydride is violently reactive with water, reacts nastily with air too, being very pyrophoric and moisture sensitive, needing handling under inert gas atmospheres, in solvents freshly dried, preferably in THF or other ethers after they have just been freshly distilled off of sodium metal under a current of scrupulously dried inert gas, nitrogen, helium or argon and used in glassware that has been baked out in the oven or flame-dried immediately before use. Otherwise it has a nasty tendency to spontaneously ignite on contact with atmospheric water vapor/O2 or traces of water in solvents used or inert gas streams And that is the last thing any chemist wants to have happen, a product torched, equipment potentially damaged, a visit to the burns ward after a few liters of ether or THF etc. just burst into flames with something similar to a fire in metal dusts in the middle of said highly volatile, flammable solvents. Red-Al ain't cheap, but it is much safer to handle and gentle on substrates to be reduced. LAH always strikes me as the chemical equivalent of a rottweiler straining at its leash, growling evilly just waiting for the opportunity to bite a chemist on the nackers. (I.e set something or someone on fire) and vitride more of  a show dog, some fancy bloodline pedigree fucking show dog that does tricks and wins expensive prize ribbons but demands its dinner served to it on a gold-rimmed plate with its name inscribed on whilst sat at the family dining table and a napkin around its neck, tied just-so:P (whereas the tamer, but rougher sodium borohydride is a useful, benign working dog that is well behaved, but certainly no pedigree. A mutt, but a good natured, hard working mutt, with STAB (sodium triacetoxyborohydride) being somewhere in the middle of prize winning and working mutt, whilst cyanoborohydride is more of a pedigree with a deep desire to rip your face off nonetheless (releases cyanide gas in acidic conditions and is, in terms of reduction ability, quite selective, although at the same time, pretty sensitive to PH. So a pedigree face-eating rottweiler, although at least that I'm aware of, not one that spontaneously bursts into flames.:P)

Yes, I admit, I get some weird mental imagery when it comes to my hobby sometimes, I really do. And the synaesthesia is even weirder. Ever smelled green, rounded and wide for example? or greenish white, thin and mobile with corners? thats what chloroform and dichloromethane respectively smell like to me.They smell of colored shapes with specific ways of moving, as do other elements and chemical compounds.  Its strange as fuck a sensory modality  and way tu feel the world but I'd not trade it, without, it would be just the same as losing the sense of touch, or other main sense mode and I'd definitely miss it.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 19, 2017, 02:35:57 PM

My friends. I keep my circle small but they really come through for me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on June 19, 2017, 02:50:10 PM

:) Which is exactly what you deserve. I'm the same way, in that I'd much sooner have a few very valued, close friends than a horde of lesser friends if that makes sense. A few people really worth having  a deep friendship with that you can trust with anything is worth manyfold that number of shallower, associations or even average general friends.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 21, 2017, 05:04:17 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on June 10, 2017, 10:15:03 AM

Helped my neighbours trick their daughter into testing a car that they're thinking of buying for her. She thinks it's for me and has no idea it's for her. She hasn't a frickin clue :laugh:

  I'm sure your innocent face made the trick work all the better. :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 21, 2017, 05:05:16 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on June 19, 2017, 02:35:57 PM

My friends. I keep my circle small but they really come through for me.

  We are honored and privileged to have you as a friend. :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 21, 2017, 05:08:47 PM

Quote from: Lestat on June 19, 2017, 02:50:10 PM

:) Which is exactly what you deserve. I'm the same way, in that I'd much sooner have a few very valued, close friends than a horde of lesser friends if that makes sense. A few people really worth having  a deep friendship with that you can trust with anything is worth manyfold that number of shallower, associations or even average general friends.

Exactly!!

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on June 21, 2017, 05:05:16 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on June 19, 2017, 02:35:57 PM

My friends. I keep my circle small but they really come through for me.

  We are honored and privileged to have you as a friend. :hug:

You're one of my closest. You know so much about me I pray you never write a book. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 21, 2017, 05:12:33 PM

  My colonoscopy went very well today, thanks to kind and efficient staff and my sister :heart: who
  drove me to and from the appointment.  I was comfortably unconscious, the IV port was easily placed
  thanks to my big veins, my "excellent" prep was noted on my chart  :roses:  and my test was normal.
  No polyps were found.  So I won't have to go back for years (either five or ten, I don't remember).  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 21, 2017, 05:29:11 PM

Will you be posting pictures of your colonoscopy?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 21, 2017, 05:31:34 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 21, 2017, 05:29:11 PM

Will you be posting pictures of your colonoscopy?  :orly:

  No.  Just imagine the rosy pink interior of a seashell, that's how it looked.  :M :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 21, 2017, 06:14:04 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on June 21, 2017, 05:08:47 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on June 21, 2017, 05:05:16 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on June 19, 2017, 02:35:57 PM

My friends. I keep my circle small but they really come through for me.

  We are honored and privileged to have you as a friend. :hug:

You're one of my closest. You know so much about me I pray you never write a book. :laugh:

  I wouldn't do that to you for a billion dollars. :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 22, 2017, 12:04:02 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on June 21, 2017, 05:31:34 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 21, 2017, 05:29:11 PM

Will you be posting pictures of your colonoscopy?  :orly:

  No.  Just imagine the rosy pink interior of a seashell, that's how it looked.  :M :P

How about a video? :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 22, 2017, 03:59:11 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 22, 2017, 12:04:02 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on June 21, 2017, 05:31:34 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 21, 2017, 05:29:11 PM

Will you be posting pictures of your colonoscopy?  :orly:

  No.  Just imagine the rosy pink interior of a seashell, that's how it looked.  :M :P

How about a video? :P

  I doubt they bothered to make one, since my colon turned out to be ... normal.  :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 22, 2017, 04:03:21 AM

^You're normal! Well, that part of you anyway. ;)

I found my birth certificate today. For some reason my Local Area Coordinator wants it tomorrow. It took me quite some time to find it because it wasn't in any of my paperwork drawers. It was in one of those document books that have those clear pages.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 22, 2017, 06:12:04 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on June 22, 2017, 03:59:11 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 22, 2017, 12:04:02 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on June 21, 2017, 05:31:34 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 21, 2017, 05:29:11 PM

Will you be posting pictures of your colonoscopy?  :orly:

  No.  Just imagine the rosy pink interior of a seashell, that's how it looked.  :M :P

How about a video? :P

  I doubt they bothered to make one, since my colon turned out to be ... normal.  :tard:

Wow we now have another thing in common. My colonoscopy turned out "normal"  as well.

After the second opinion, that doctor used the words,  "Unremarkable."
I did not know whether to cry or bitch slap him with my man purse. Unremarkable? WTF!
 :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 22, 2017, 09:39:32 AM

Quote from: renaeden on June 22, 2017, 04:03:21 AM

^You're normal! Well, that part of you anyway. ;)

  Go figure!  I thank my good genes.  Now to maintain normalcy till the next test!  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 22, 2017, 09:40:50 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on June 22, 2017, 06:12:04 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on June 22, 2017, 03:59:11 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 22, 2017, 12:04:02 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on June 21, 2017, 05:31:34 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 21, 2017, 05:29:11 PM

Will you be posting pictures of your colonoscopy?  :orly:

  No.  Just imagine the rosy pink interior of a seashell, that's how it looked.  :M :P

How about a video? :P

  I doubt they bothered to make one, since my colon turned out to be ... normal.  :tard:

Wow we now have another thing in common. My colonoscopy turned out "normal"  as well.

After the second opinion, that doctor used the words,  "Unremarkable."
I did not know whether to cry or bitch slap him with my man purse. Unremarkable? WTF!
 :asthing:

  Haha, yes, did he at least acknowledge your diligent prep, as mine did?  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 22, 2017, 09:41:41 AM

Am I the only f*cking person who says and writes "normalicy"?  I know it's wrong but I just keep on doing it.  Giant mental struggle and pause before I say it correctly.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 22, 2017, 09:43:50 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 22, 2017, 09:41:41 AM

Am I the only f*cking person who says and writes "normalicy"?  I know it's wrong but I just keep on doing it.  Giant mental struggle and pause before I say it correctly.

  You're just splitting the difference between "normalcy" and "normality."  As a Queen may do.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on June 22, 2017, 10:02:11 AM

*points and stares*

*shouts 'ey, we got a normie here, AFTER HER!* :P:P:P

And CBC is right miss K, it is a great honor indeed to be able to call you friend, just to know you in fact. Your special in multiple senses ;):D all of them good of course. You know, when you left I2 for so long, it just wasn't the same, and I often found myself thinking of you, and realized how dearly I missed you. Was a real kick in the guts when I saw that you weren't here anymore, like..feeling..all hollowed out inside as if a portion of my innards had just been removed by an oversized melon baller. I don't even know quite how to word how happy I was when I realized who 'phoenix' was, when I realized it was you having re-graced this place with your presence once more. I2 was the poorer for your absence, it really was. At least, it was to me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 22, 2017, 11:31:39 AM

Made a big decision to walk away from "perfection."  I've been needing a washer and dryer for over 15 months.  Kept putting it off because I wanted to make the "right" decision.  Just bit fear in the ass and bought them on-line from Home Depot (big hardware/building supplies/appliance/garden/etc.) chain.  Got the brand I wanted and just went full steam ahead.

Perfection will kill you if you let it.  At the very least it will seriously mess up your life.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 22, 2017, 11:46:13 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 22, 2017, 11:31:39 AM

Made a big decision to walk away from "perfection."  I've been needing a washer and dryer for over 15 months.  Kept putting it off because I wanted to make the "right" decision.  Just bit fear in the ass and bought them on-line from Home Depot (big hardware/building supplies/appliance/garden/etc.) chain.  Got the brand I wanted and just went full steam ahead.

Perfection will kill you if you let it.  At the very least it will seriously mess up your life.

  Definitely the right call.  Perfectionism will eat up all your time if you let it.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on June 22, 2017, 12:52:06 PM

Had to pay my old man the rent today, and whilst I had enough, had most of it on me in my wallet, but another 180 in the bank, of which I had to pay him 40 from that too. But I got a real shock when I went to check my receipt to see exactly how much was left. Because there had appeared another £265.something or other (that was left, after paying him the additional 40. And I have no idea why. Quite delighted about that. That means I should be able to afford both the heating mantle(s, even) that I need, or one with built in mag stirrer (elsewise I can build the stirrer portion myself, its just a matter of sticking a sparkless motor and variable controller for it in a box that will tolerate the heat and not block the magnetic field, and attaching some powerful permanent magnets (or even do it with electromagnets if needs be, but some powerful AlNiCo ones would be ideal since they have IIRC one of the highest Curie points of the high powered magnet alloys. The Curie point is the temperature at which permanent magnets become susceptible to demagnetization. And AlNiCo based ones are particularly resistant to it. Which of course is ideal for applications such as magnetic stirrers which are going to regularly and repeatedly be exposed to high temperatures like stirrer-hotplates/heating mantles with mag stirring since of course they are there right under a heat source that may well get cranked up to a few hundred degrees 'C.


Woke up today to find that some mail had arrived for me, and that my Thiele tube had arrived.
(a piece of scientific glassware used for analysis of the melting point of compounds, small samples of the substance to be tested are placed in a thin capillary tube made of glass, strapped to a thermometer after first being fused shut in a flame (the capillary tubes are made of soda-lime glass and very thin walled with a narrow internal bore as well, so this is easily done) and then oil is poured into the thiele tube and the side armature is heated (looks like a triangular section, the hollow ends being attached to the body at top and bottom) to create convection currents which efficiently and evenly distribute the heat and at not too fast a rate, so as to permit observing the moment the sample begins to melt, and when it does so fully giving the MP range. Impurities almost always depress the melting point of the substance being tested so it helps, especially used alongside other techniques to test the purity of substances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiele_tube                     

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 24, 2017, 04:50:19 PM

Nice day to walk the pups

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 24, 2017, 06:06:42 PM

Whilst clearing out the house found:

The original of PA's will
My "I promise I'll ask you to marry me one day" ring
My engagement ring
PA's college graduation ring
PA's wedding ring

The will was the most important, but finding the rings (in 2 different places) made me happy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on June 25, 2017, 03:09:55 AM

:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 27, 2017, 06:22:51 PM

Everyone's meds are refilled and good for a few months. Nice to have that out of the way.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 28, 2017, 12:38:39 PM

Untied some knots and successfully removed netting on an antique fan without damaging it so I can put it back on once the fan is fixed

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on June 28, 2017, 12:41:17 PM

Untying knots is cool.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 28, 2017, 08:52:40 PM

Was told by one of my teachers at college that I passed Certificate III in IT. Now onto Certificate IV in Programming.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 28, 2017, 08:53:23 PM

Quote from: renaeden on June 28, 2017, 08:52:40 PM

Was told by one of my teachers at college that I passed Certificate III in IT. Now onto Certificate IV in Programming.

Congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 28, 2017, 08:55:50 PM

Quote from: Jack on June 28, 2017, 08:53:23 PM

Quote from: renaeden on June 28, 2017, 08:52:40 PM

Was told by one of my teachers at college that I passed Certificate III in IT. Now onto Certificate IV in Programming.

Congratulations.

Thanks, Jack. :) I will be learning Java first.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 29, 2017, 04:15:22 PM

Quote from: renaeden on June 28, 2017, 08:55:50 PM

Quote from: Jack on June 28, 2017, 08:53:23 PM

Quote from: renaeden on June 28, 2017, 08:52:40 PM

Was told by one of my teachers at college that I passed Certificate III in IT. Now onto Certificate IV in Programming.

Congratulations.

Thanks, Jack. :) I will be learning Java first.

Java is an awful, awful language. Don't do it. :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 29, 2017, 08:51:15 PM

After 12 hours on the go outside of the house, it was very productive.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 30, 2017, 06:55:52 AM

Quote from: renaeden on June 28, 2017, 08:52:40 PM

Was told by one of my teachers at college that I passed Certificate III in IT. Now onto Certificate IV in Programming.

 :party:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 01, 2017, 06:49:50 AM

Thank you, Pyraxis. :) When I start later this month, I might start a thread about it.

Quote from: odeon on June 29, 2017, 04:15:22 PM

Quote from: renaeden on June 28, 2017, 08:55:50 PM

Quote from: Jack on June 28, 2017, 08:53:23 PM

Quote from: renaeden on June 28, 2017, 08:52:40 PM

Was told by one of my teachers at college that I passed Certificate III in IT. Now onto Certificate IV in Programming.

Congratulations.

Thanks, Jack. :) I will be learning Java first.

Java is an awful, awful language. Don't do it. :GA:

Why? It's either that or C#.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 01, 2017, 11:25:53 AM

Sugarbutt's hobby group came over for a few hours, so he's happy because everyone had a good time. I said my hellos, prepared nachos for them, and then hid from them while eating some of their nachos.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on July 01, 2017, 11:28:46 AM

Who is Sugarbutt?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 01, 2017, 11:36:12 AM

He's my man.  :orly: Ironically he can't have sugar.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 01, 2017, 12:09:06 PM

Don't know anything about C# specifically, but I do know C and C++ are versatile languages. A lot of hacker tools are written in it. I'd guess C# would be a lot more useful than javascript in terms of scope as to what can be implemented.

And hey, at least you haven't got to learn 0x86 ASM.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 01, 2017, 12:22:28 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 01, 2017, 11:25:53 AM

Sugarbutt's hobby group came over for a few hours, so he's happy because everyone had a good time. I said my hellos, prepared nachos for them, and then hid from them while eating some of their nachos.  :zoinks:

That sounds like the best plan. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on July 01, 2017, 01:48:27 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 01, 2017, 11:36:12 AM

He's my man.  :orly: Ironically he can't have sugar.  :zoinks:

 :laugh: Funny because it's cruel.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on July 01, 2017, 02:04:17 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 01, 2017, 11:25:53 AM

Sugarbutt's hobby group came over for a few hours, so he's happy because everyone had a good time. I said my hellos, prepared nachos for them, and then hid from them while eating some of their nachos.  :zoinks:

OK, I know who is now, thanks to FWM, but what's his hobby?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 01, 2017, 04:33:17 PM

Grateful for the long weekend.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 01, 2017, 06:04:11 PM

Quote from: Fun with matches on July 01, 2017, 01:48:27 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 01, 2017, 11:36:12 AM

He's my man.  :orly: Ironically he can't have sugar.  :zoinks:

 :laugh: Funny because it's cruel.

Nah, it's not cruel. I call him Sugarbutt because that ass is sweet and white.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on July 01, 2017, 06:09:23 PM

You got rid of the story about him being ginger. Why?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 01, 2017, 06:35:18 PM

Quote from: Fun with matches on July 01, 2017, 06:09:23 PM

You got rid of the story about him being ginger. Why?

Because I wanted to say a lot more about his hobby, why it's meaningful to him and how it came to be, but sometimes I feel awkward telling personal things about my family, because it's their story to tell and not mine, and that moment of awkwardness made me feel weird about the other story too.  :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 02, 2017, 03:32:08 AM

Quote from: renaeden on July 01, 2017, 06:49:50 AM

Thank you, Pyraxis. :) When I start later this month, I might start a thread about it.

Quote from: odeon on June 29, 2017, 04:15:22 PM

Quote from: renaeden on June 28, 2017, 08:55:50 PM

Quote from: Jack on June 28, 2017, 08:53:23 PM

Quote from: renaeden on June 28, 2017, 08:52:40 PM

Was told by one of my teachers at college that I passed Certificate III in IT. Now onto Certificate IV in Programming.

Congratulations.

Thanks, Jack. :) I will be learning Java first.

Java is an awful, awful language. Don't do it. :GA:

Why? It's either that or C#.

Given a choice between those two, I would actually pick Java. I don't like either one, though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on July 02, 2017, 04:26:00 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 01, 2017, 06:35:18 PM

Quote from: Fun with matches on July 01, 2017, 06:09:23 PM

You got rid of the story about him being ginger. Why?

Because I wanted to say a lot more about his hobby, why it's meaningful to him and how it came to be, but sometimes I feel awkward telling personal things about my family, because it's their story to tell and not mine, and that moment of awkwardness made me feel weird about the other story too.  :dunno:

That's OK. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 03, 2017, 06:06:24 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 02, 2017, 03:32:08 AM

Quote from: renaeden on July 01, 2017, 06:49:50 AM

Thank you, Pyraxis. :) When I start later this month, I might start a thread about it.

Quote from: odeon on June 29, 2017, 04:15:22 PM

Quote from: renaeden on June 28, 2017, 08:55:50 PM

Quote from: Jack on June 28, 2017, 08:53:23 PM

Quote from: renaeden on June 28, 2017, 08:52:40 PM

Was told by one of my teachers at college that I passed Certificate III in IT. Now onto Certificate IV in Programming.

Congratulations.

Thanks, Jack. :) I will be learning Java first.

Java is an awful, awful language. Don't do it. :GA:

Why? It's either that or C#.

Given a choice between those two, I would actually pick Java. I don't like either one, though.

I'm just hoping I won't be crap at it!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 04, 2017, 05:24:52 AM

Got a massive bunch of rhubarb from a neighbour. Love that stuff.

Officially it should not be harvested after the longest day, to give the plants time to recover. But it will be good to eat, and the plants will be fine I guess.

Think I will have to make rhubarb marmalade, it's really a lot.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 04, 2017, 06:26:38 AM

Yesterdays good thing was that monkeygirl came home. Todays good thing hasn't happened yet because it's still too early.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: lutra on July 04, 2017, 07:56:01 AM

Made it happen myself but I'm glad it did. Um, mounted a ladder and painted this house's outside cladding (the pine woodwork). Well, not all of it is ready at present, think I've got about 3/4 done now, but I'm happy I got this far. Look pretty nice, I must say.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 04, 2017, 06:08:18 PM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 04, 2017, 05:24:52 AM

Got a massive bunch of rhubarb from a neighbour. Love that stuff.

Officially it should not be harvested after the longest day, to give the plants time to recover. But it will be good to eat, and the plants will be fine I guess.

Think I will have to make rhubarb marmalade, it's really a lot.

Ever made rhubarb crumble? It's something my mother made a lot when I was growing up, because we had a big monster plant that had overtaken one corner of her garden. Rhubarb and berries of some kind underneath, lots of sugar and goop, and a crumbly pastry topping sprinkled with cinnamon, baked till it's crispy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 04, 2017, 11:55:01 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on July 04, 2017, 06:08:18 PM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 04, 2017, 05:24:52 AM

Got a massive bunch of rhubarb from a neighbour. Love that stuff.

Officially it should not be harvested after the longest day, to give the plants time to recover. But it will be good to eat, and the plants will be fine I guess.

Think I will have to make rhubarb marmalade, it's really a lot.

Ever made rhubarb crumble? It's something my mother made a lot when I was growing up, because we had a big monster plant that had overtaken one corner of her garden. Rhubarb and berries of some kind underneath, lots of sugar and goop, and a crumbly pastry topping sprinkled with cinnamon, baked till it's crispy.

I've got berries, I've got rhubarb, I know how to make a crumble dough. Think I'll be finding out about sugar and goop later today. Guess the goop will happen because of the sugar and the rhubarb.

Thank you. I'm going to have a great desert today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 04, 2017, 11:57:44 PM

Quote from: renaeden on July 03, 2017, 06:06:24 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 02, 2017, 03:32:08 AM

Quote from: renaeden on July 01, 2017, 06:49:50 AM

Thank you, Pyraxis. :) When I start later this month, I might start a thread about it.

Quote from: odeon on June 29, 2017, 04:15:22 PM

Quote from: renaeden on June 28, 2017, 08:55:50 PM

Quote from: Jack on June 28, 2017, 08:53:23 PM

Quote from: renaeden on June 28, 2017, 08:52:40 PM

Was told by one of my teachers at college that I passed Certificate III in IT. Now onto Certificate IV in Programming.

Congratulations.

Thanks, Jack. :) I will be learning Java first.

Java is an awful, awful language. Don't do it. :GA:

Why? It's either that or C#.

Given a choice between those two, I would actually pick Java. I don't like either one, though.

I'm just hoping I won't be crap at it!

I'm sure you won't. Just keep your code simple and readable, and refactor often.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on July 05, 2017, 02:11:47 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on July 04, 2017, 06:08:18 PM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 04, 2017, 05:24:52 AM

Got a massive bunch of rhubarb from a neighbour. Love that stuff.

Officially it should not be harvested after the longest day, to give the plants time to recover. But it will be good to eat, and the plants will be fine I guess.

Think I will have to make rhubarb marmalade, it's really a lot.

Ever made rhubarb crumble? It's something my mother made a lot when I was growing up, because we had a big monster plant that had overtaken one corner of her garden. Rhubarb and berries of some kind underneath, lots of sugar and goop, and a crumbly pastry topping sprinkled with cinnamon, baked till it's crispy.

That sounds really good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 05, 2017, 02:45:23 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 04, 2017, 11:55:01 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on July 04, 2017, 06:08:18 PM

Ever made rhubarb crumble? It's something my mother made a lot when I was growing up, because we had a big monster plant that had overtaken one corner of her garden. Rhubarb and berries of some kind underneath, lots of sugar and goop, and a crumbly pastry topping sprinkled with cinnamon, baked till it's crispy.

I've got berries, I've got rhubarb, I know how to make a crumble dough. Think I'll be finding out about sugar and goop later today. Guess the goop will happen because of the sugar and the rhubarb.

Thank you. I'm going to have a great desert today.

Here, I managed to dredge up the recipe from the depths of my computer.

Quote from: Pyraxis' mum

Fruit Crumble

3 cups rhubarb, ½ cup white sugar, 1 tbsp water OR
1 cup gooseberries or other sour fruit, 2 cups apple, ½ cup sugar OR
1 cup blueberries or other sweet fruit, 2 cups apple, 1/3 cup sugar

1 ½ cups flour (GF: ¾ cup rice flour, ¾ cup oat flour)
¼ cup white sugar
¼ cup brown sugar
3 oz margarine

Put first set of ingredients in pan. Sprinkle flour mixture over the top. Bake at 375F for 40 min.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 05, 2017, 04:06:28 AM

Finally, my two new magnetic stirrer/hotplates arrived :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 05, 2017, 06:12:13 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on July 05, 2017, 02:45:23 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 04, 2017, 11:55:01 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on July 04, 2017, 06:08:18 PM

Ever made rhubarb crumble? It's something my mother made a lot when I was growing up, because we had a big monster plant that had overtaken one corner of her garden. Rhubarb and berries of some kind underneath, lots of sugar and goop, and a crumbly pastry topping sprinkled with cinnamon, baked till it's crispy.

I've got berries, I've got rhubarb, I know how to make a crumble dough. Think I'll be finding out about sugar and goop later today. Guess the goop will happen because of the sugar and the rhubarb.

Thank you. I'm going to have a great desert today.

Here, I managed to dredge up the recipe from the depths of my computer.

Quote from: Pyraxis' mum

Fruit Crumble

3 cups rhubarb, ½ cup white sugar, 1 tbsp water OR
1 cup gooseberries or other sour fruit, 2 cups apple, ½ cup sugar OR
1 cup blueberries or other sweet fruit, 2 cups apple, 1/3 cup sugar

1 ½ cups flour (GF: ¾ cup rice flour, ¾ cup oat flour)
¼ cup white sugar
¼ cup brown sugar
3 oz margarine

Put first set of ingredients in pan. Sprinkle flour mixture over the top. Bake at 375F for 40 min.

Thank you. Had been thinking about what to add, and had decided apples had to be part of it too. The recipe looks great.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 05, 2017, 09:26:56 AM

Quote from: Lestat on July 05, 2017, 04:06:28 AM

Finally, my two new magnetic stirrer/hotplates arrived :)

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble
Fire burn and stirrers bubble.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 05, 2017, 11:02:10 AM

Hehe.

They are for the US power supply, so I'm going to need to get a transformer to step down the voltage for both since we use 230-240V supply here. The one is 25 watt which is scalable to being made, whilst the other is something like a 700 watt output, so I need to buy a big transformer for that to use them. Can't wait for my heating mantle to arrive though (with magnetic stirrer too)

My current hotplate/stirrer has a bit of a nuisance trait now, after one of the several acts of necromancy performed, and graves its been dug out of (seriously, thing has cheated the reaper of his due quite a few times now, vanishing from the very onrush of his scythe at the last millisecond), only thing is now its wired up to a frankenstein-ey external power controller but the two functions, stirring and heating are dependent on the same controller, so I can't run the stirrer alone with the heat totally off. Which means overhead stirring with a drill having a DIY-ed stirring rod clamped in the chuck for when I wish to stir things which need to be sat in a cryogen bath of some sort whilst reacting. Keeping something at dry ice temperatures or close to that sort of cold, turning a hotplate on would be rather counterproductive:P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 05, 2017, 12:34:53 PM

All of the appointments booked for this week are done.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 10, 2017, 08:52:34 AM

In the meantime, since I need to get a couple of transformers to step down the voltage from 240V to 120V so I can run those stirrer and hotplates, and I'll have to wait for the heating mantle I ordered to arrive, I ordered yet another hotplate/stirrer, this time that hopefully should be coming to me quickly since its coming from not too far away, germany.

It is SO frustrating not having a hotplate/stirrer available, and being forced away from the benchtop almost completely. Although I am at least managing to re-do the work that was recently destroyed along with some expensive equipment that will be difficult to replace (see elder's, and it stays there too), by using a microwave-catalyzed route to what I have been working on. and will manage the one distillation I need to do on it by either cooling it down in an ice bath first and vacuum distilling off the methanol cold, so the reactants don't carry over, or else or using a boiling water bath because the methanol is the only component of the mixture that has to come off, and its also the only part that boils under 100 degrees so a boiling water bath cannot rise any hotter than that.

Got to say though, I really like the microwave based synthesis, its really effective, and its damnable fast too. The usual route to the compound I'm making involves heating the two reagents used with the catalyst needed together in a flask on a steam bath at about 60 to 70 degrees for, quantity dependent, anything from 2 to 6 hours. But in a microwave? 10 minutes to half an hour, pulsed irradiation taking it up to 60-70 then immediately taking it out and putting it in a cold water bath, then after that total irradiation time, putting it in the freezer then after a few hours, whilst still freezing cold, one last nuke up to 60 degrees and allowed to slowly cool to room temperature, back into freezer, preferably, if available, adding a little seed crystal of the compound in question if the rxn has been done before and a flake or two is available to assist crystallization.       

The methanol addition was an experiment, to assist in regulating the boiling point of the rxn mixture as the microwave can get it very hot very quickly.  but turns out the compound is extremely soluble in even the small amount of MeOH added, although the rxn will proceed just the same. The MeOH however will need to be distilled off before I can freeze-precipitate out my replacement first step in re-doing the work twice trashed by that fucking faggot shit-eating dirt ape.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 10, 2017, 03:05:45 PM

Although I abhor packing, I love unpacking. It's nice finding a place for everything.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 10, 2017, 05:38:44 PM

^And you can take your time doing it, too.

We have our inspection today and I have to say that Kayleigh surprised me in how she knuckled down and did her share. With really bad allergies too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 10, 2017, 05:40:26 PM

^ Exactly! Far less pressure.

I'm so glad that Kayleigh jumped in. I don't like when so much falls onto you alone.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 10, 2017, 05:44:22 PM

We both did a lot. Her room looks excellent compared to how it was before. She's crashed out on her bed now. Can't blame her with all the sneezing she was doing. Dust.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 10, 2017, 05:45:07 PM

Then you can both relax.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 10, 2017, 06:11:36 PM

From a fellow allergy sufferer, get some of those cheap drugstore masks.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 10, 2017, 08:23:50 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on July 10, 2017, 03:05:45 PM

Although I abhor packing, I love unpacking. It's nice finding a place for everything.

Can't stand either. Packing usually has time constraints, but unpacking also has to be done swiftly to get everything into order as soon as possible. Two weeks after moving here, some local do-gooders stopped by to invite us to church, and were amazed we were completely settled in. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 10, 2017, 08:44:09 PM

Quote from: Jack on July 10, 2017, 08:23:50 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on July 10, 2017, 03:05:45 PM

Although I abhor packing, I love unpacking. It's nice finding a place for everything.

Can't stand either. Packing usually has time constraints, but unpacking also has to be done swiftly to get everything into order as soon as possible. Two weeks after moving here, some local do-gooders stopped by to invite us to church, and were amazed we were completely settled in. :laugh:

I think my hobbling is preventing me from being obsessive. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 10, 2017, 08:53:05 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on July 10, 2017, 08:44:09 PM

Quote from: Jack on July 10, 2017, 08:23:50 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on July 10, 2017, 03:05:45 PM

Although I abhor packing, I love unpacking. It's nice finding a place for everything.

Can't stand either. Packing usually has time constraints, but unpacking also has to be done swiftly to get everything into order as soon as possible. Two weeks after moving here, some local do-gooders stopped by to invite us to church, and were amazed we were completely settled in. :laugh:

I think my hobbling is preventing me from being obsessive. :laugh:

Probably. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 10, 2017, 08:55:42 PM

Quote from: Jack on July 10, 2017, 08:53:05 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on July 10, 2017, 08:44:09 PM

Quote from: Jack on July 10, 2017, 08:23:50 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on July 10, 2017, 03:05:45 PM

Although I abhor packing, I love unpacking. It's nice finding a place for everything.

Can't stand either. Packing usually has time constraints, but unpacking also has to be done swiftly to get everything into order as soon as possible. Two weeks after moving here, some local do-gooders stopped by to invite us to church, and were amazed we were completely settled in. :laugh:

I think my hobbling is preventing me from being obsessive. :laugh:

Probably. :laugh:

One of the dogs pulled a muscle in her shoulder and is limping on the same side as me. We look like two fools when following each other down the hallway. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 11, 2017, 12:02:37 AM

 :lol1:

And they say dogs take after their owners.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 11, 2017, 01:45:12 PM

Well one can hardly compare the exquisite and delightful, beautiful miss K to a dog, it just does not work. Sorry, but..just...no. If it weren't for the fact she has them for pets, the name 'misskitty' and the word 'dog' should, quite simply, never occur on the same internet, let alone the same post, thread or forum.

She is far, far too goddamned well stunning for that. Truly exquisite indeed, thats our one (and regrettably only) miss K.

Hows your leg feeling now hun? remember what I said. Another window opens mondays and is usually about as long as I can prolong it to a wed/thurs.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 11, 2017, 02:52:45 PM

No, Odeon is right. The pupster and I are quite alike :laugh: Legs are the same. Bit less swelling but still massive. Haven't stayed off of it much though. Too much to do. After the weekend is done I should be far more free to take care of it like it needs to be taken care of.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 11, 2017, 03:13:48 PM

You better missy. Or I'll have something to say about that.

*flexes his claws*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 11, 2017, 11:29:38 PM

Coffee happened and saved you all.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 12, 2017, 04:12:18 PM

Quote from: odeon on July 11, 2017, 11:29:38 PM

Coffee happened and saved you all.

 :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 12, 2017, 06:41:44 PM

Nap in a nice hotel room. And my mother drove there from the airport so I didn't have to.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 12, 2017, 07:16:24 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 01, 2017, 11:25:53 AM

Sugarbutt's hobby group came over for a few hours, so he's happy because everyone had a good time. I said my hellos, prepared nachos for them, and then hid from them while eating some of their nachos.  :zoinks:

  You're such a good little hostess.  >:D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 14, 2017, 05:32:45 PM

Lorre found out how to turn up the volume of his purring. It is audible now, without the need to bury my ear in his fur.

His purring has a nice ring to it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 14, 2017, 05:39:48 PM

Watching one of my dogs run full tilt in the backyard. I love the look of Leos when they run.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 14, 2017, 06:00:52 PM

My mother and I found a little Greek hole-in-the-wall restaurant with gluten-free wraps for the sandwiches and gluten-free falafel. Also the waitress was clearly fluent in Greek herself and pronouncing everything in a way that sounded correct, if far too fast for me to follow, but it was neat to hear.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 14, 2017, 07:21:05 PM

The PR bowled today.  She had 2 doubles and a turkey, as well as some impressive spares.  The other bowlers also did quite well, one scored a turkey too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 14, 2017, 07:24:17 PM

The youngest is a natural at dog training. Loved watching her work with rescues today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on July 14, 2017, 08:23:01 PM

Golden tortoise beetle

(http://www.insectidentification.org/imgs/insects/golden-tortoise-beetle.jpg)

My morning glories are growing like crazy and a couple of these are eating the leaves again this year.

Stick around and eat up guys...I like shiny stuff.  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 15, 2017, 11:22:03 PM

Nothing yet. :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 16, 2017, 10:31:02 AM

  The text from my bank announcing the cancellation of my debit card was well timed.
   If I'd been in the store with a cart full of stuff when the card was cancelled,
   I would have been embarrassed.  :-[   Good thing I procrastinated too!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 16, 2017, 10:31:53 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on July 14, 2017, 06:00:52 PM

My mother and I found a little Greek hole-in-the-wall restaurant with gluten-free wraps for the sandwiches and gluten-free falafel. Also the waitress was clearly fluent in Greek herself and pronouncing everything in a way that sounded correct, if far too fast for me to follow, but it was neat to hear.

  Do you speak Greek?  How much?  :toporly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 16, 2017, 12:08:31 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on July 05, 2017, 02:45:23 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 04, 2017, 11:55:01 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on July 04, 2017, 06:08:18 PM

Ever made rhubarb crumble? It's something my mother made a lot when I was growing up, because we had a big monster plant that had overtaken one corner of her garden. Rhubarb and berries of some kind underneath, lots of sugar and goop, and a crumbly pastry topping sprinkled with cinnamon, baked till it's crispy.

I've got berries, I've got rhubarb, I know how to make a crumble dough. Think I'll be finding out about sugar and goop later today. Guess the goop will happen because of the sugar and the rhubarb.

Thank you. I'm going to have a great desert today.

Here, I managed to dredge up the recipe from the depths of my computer.

Quote from: Pyraxis' mum

Fruit Crumble

3 cups rhubarb, ½ cup white sugar, 1 tbsp water OR
1 cup gooseberries or other sour fruit, 2 cups apple, ½ cup sugar OR
1 cup blueberries or other sweet fruit, 2 cups apple, 1/3 cup sugar

1 ½ cups flour (GF: ¾ cup rice flour, ¾ cup oat flour)
¼ cup white sugar
¼ cup brown sugar
3 oz margarine

Put first set of ingredients in pan. Sprinkle flour mixture over the top. Bake at 375F for 40 min.

Thanks to you and your mother. I will be making it again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 16, 2017, 12:49:48 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 16, 2017, 10:31:53 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on July 14, 2017, 06:00:52 PM

My mother and I found a little Greek hole-in-the-wall restaurant with gluten-free wraps for the sandwiches and gluten-free falafel. Also the waitress was clearly fluent in Greek herself and pronouncing everything in a way that sounded correct, if far too fast for me to follow, but it was neat to hear.

  Do you speak Greek?  How much?  :toporly:

None whatsoever. By far too fast I meant I was asking what things on the menu were gluten free, and she started reeling off names of things, and I couldn't even match them to the written words fast enough to figure out what was what. It just sounded legit.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 16, 2017, 01:25:18 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 16, 2017, 10:31:02 AM

  The text from my bank announcing the cancellation of my debit card was well timed.
   If I'd been in the store with a cart full of stuff when the card was cancelled,
   I would have been embarrassed.  :-[   Good thing I procrastinated too!

I had mine declined at a thrift store.  The card company had caught a $1 charge from the far north midwest.  They replaced the card the next day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 16, 2017, 04:09:31 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 16, 2017, 01:25:18 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 16, 2017, 10:31:02 AM

  The text from my bank announcing the cancellation of my debit card was well timed.
   If I'd been in the store with a cart full of stuff when the card was cancelled,
   I would have been embarrassed.  :-[   Good thing I procrastinated too!

I had mine declined at a thrift store.  The card company had caught a $1 charge from the far north midwest.  They replaced the card the next day.

  The thieving bastard in my case had tried to charge a similarly ridiculous tiny amount.  The service rep
   told me that's typical ... the thief tries a small "purchase" first.  I'll get my new card in a couple of days.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 16, 2017, 08:51:18 PM

Finally found an area rug I love and got a big one and a runner.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 17, 2017, 10:08:02 AM

Thats a really quite beautiful beetle. When I was young and she was still alive, whenever I'd go up to yorkshire to stay with my grandmother Ifather's side) I'd always end up going off on entomology hikes and go up into the woods and roam the hills for hours too, picking mushrooms. Sometimes the mushrooms were so damn prolific that it wasn't a tray I had to bring, but big black bin liner sacks I'd get so many delicious delicacies, masses of real good'uns, like Cep/Penny Bun (Boletus edulis) one of the most widely traded and commercialized fungi in the world, and for good reason. Fresh, rather than made into canned soup etc. fried in butter...absolutely delicious, I'd get all kinds of waxcaps, like the scarlet hood, and Hygrocybe pucinnea (sp?) as well as Camararophyllus pratensis, a big bugger for a waxcap, known as the meadow waxcap for its habit of growing..well...probably doesn't need much explanation there now does it?:P(  and those are really good eating when fried up in butter with a wee bit of salt. If I was really lucky I'd find puffballs. And the meadows were often full of Psilocybe semilanceata, aka the liberty cap. A small brownish, quite pale tan mushroom, with distinctive tall, very thin stem (1mm or so) and a prominent; nipple shaped protrusion from the very top of the cap and with dark violety-black spore print.

These are one of the two strongest magic mushrooms that you can find in the UK , the other really super-strong one being Psilocybe cyanescens which are just nutty potent although not as  common. Thats how I had my first ever shroom experience, snunk some in to this away-trip (pun seen afterwards but quite intended) with my first LFA school, can't remember how old I was, but not   a great deal past 9yp or so at the oldest. We went for about a week to a hostel in yorkshire (and lol I added a few more libs to the wee mint tin I had the dried ones ready) and took them during a midnight feast that I, and all the other autie kids had with treats we had all brought to share. Nobody could know, and whilst I wish I had enough to share with everybody, I only had enough mushrooms for a single dose. So I took them after just popping out of view for a moment,  swallowed the lot and returned.

Interestingly enough, after that experience, which was pretty great, especially with my getting to spend some time with these two girls, kate and laura, one w/ either AS or given this hand-wringing thing she did all the time possibly a mindly expressed case of Rett syndrome, and laura, LFA. Was always good friends with both of them although me and laura did occasionally for whatever reason fight like a bag of cats with their balls tied together. Still we were good friends most of the time, and I was really close to kate. Both of them were real stunners. Odd things are-laura still could pass for about 11, although I still have as much of a thing for her now as I did when I was in school with her. (its high time I call up another friend of mine who went to a different school she went to as well and find out her address again, go pay another visit. Her folks are really nice people too. Hopefully they won't have any problem with my asking laura out to dinner on a date, because I've been completely crazy about her since I first set eyes on her about 20 years ago, maybe more, she's just such a sweetie, dead pretty, has the cutest voice, lovely lass and just impossible to dislike)

And the other oddball thing was after my first time with the mushrooms I started becoming MUCH more socially aware, much less of most, although not all of the negative potential effects of being lfa. Essentially my functioning level at that age underwent a dramatic, drastic level of increase to a degree high enough for me to actively realize and notice it taking place, over the next few weeks or so.afterwards.

I can't help, given the timing, rapidity and degree of it, but think it due to the effects of the psilocybin/psilocin. And wonder whether for young lfa kids, it should be offered, with everything about it explained to them, in at least a pilot study and for autie kids, lfa especially, who consented to a psilocybin/psilocin experience, always done in an environment comfortable and familiar to them, where they are happiest naturally, with all the sensory toys and gadgets they could shake a stick at, any music they want, to give them just that. And of course compare functioning levels over time, with one or more experiences with it, with those kids who don't want to at that time, as well as compare with use at different ages. My gut tells me that younger, whilst developing actively, may well be better. I think it was for me, comparing the first time with others I've had in my late 20s, 30 etc or my teens. I think youth, or more accurately, the development that occurs during that time, is a key factor, certainly I do for my own self.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 17, 2017, 04:19:06 PM

Good dental checkup and cleaning.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 17, 2017, 06:11:19 PM

Bought a dishwasher  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 17, 2017, 06:33:36 PM

I should mention that the dentist lives across the street from us and his office is less than a 2 minute drive away.  He's the one that called the diner to let me know the house was on fire.  He also fed our cat the 6 months we were away from home.  I like Kevin as a dentist and a regular guy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on July 17, 2017, 07:07:15 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on July 17, 2017, 06:11:19 PM

Bought a dishwasher  :thumbup:

Please tell me what that's like or post dishwasher porn. I've wanted one for ages, it means giving up a cabinet or finding a parking place for it though. I really don't have the space.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 18, 2017, 12:44:18 AM

I have never lived anywhere that's had a dishwasher.

Good thing: I wasn't the last one in my class to finish a systems analyst task.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 18, 2017, 06:21:55 AM

I've also always been without a dishwasher, Ren.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 18, 2017, 09:11:04 AM

Some apartments I've lived in had dishwashers, but I never used them.  Believe it or not PA liked doing dishes, so I had a human one for 30 years.  Ran like a charm on hugs and kisses.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on July 18, 2017, 09:17:10 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 18, 2017, 06:21:55 AM

I've also always been without a dishwasher, Ren.

My mom had a portable when I was around 6. She said it used too much water...and when it peed all over the kitchen from a loose hose it got sold (it used to slowly walk away from the sink on certain cycles and required supervision).

I thought it was magic for the couple months that we had it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on July 18, 2017, 09:19:04 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 18, 2017, 09:11:04 AM

Some apartments I've lived in had dishwashers, but I never used them.  Believe it or not PA liked doing dishes, so I had a human one for 30 years.  Ran like a charm on hugs and kisses.

Lucky lady.

I tried that here, doesn't work.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 18, 2017, 12:05:19 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 17, 2017, 07:07:15 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on July 17, 2017, 06:11:19 PM

Bought a dishwasher  :thumbup:

Please tell me what that's like or post dishwasher porn. I've wanted one for ages, it means giving up a cabinet or finding a parking place for it though. I really don't have the space.

I will totally post dishwasher porn once it's installed later this week. If I forget, nudge me! We don't have a large kitchen. I will show you in the pics once it's in.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 18, 2017, 07:42:16 PM

The end of it.  Definitely will go to sleep hugging an (hopefully) empty bottle of blackberry wine.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 19, 2017, 12:12:14 AM

  I noticed two little indentations on either side of my waist.  My stomach fat is slowly burning off.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 19, 2017, 05:35:06 AM

Had to leave at 6:15am to take SO to work. He had a travel mug of hot chocolate waiting for me. Nice way to start the day 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on July 19, 2017, 06:32:31 AM

SO has to use the truck until his ride is fixed on Monday.

It came home intact last night. Only 5 more days to go.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 19, 2017, 10:54:13 AM

Dishwasher porn? how far can you fit one up there?

Can only imagine that would stretch a perfect figure such as yours way too much. *has some rather mischevious mental images of miss K and a vibrating dishwasher, all draped in rose petals with pretty scented candles set around her shapely paws :P*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 19, 2017, 04:05:01 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 19, 2017, 12:12:14 AM

  I noticed two little indentations on either side of my waist.  My stomach fat is slowly burning off.  :2thumbsup:

That's awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 19, 2017, 04:27:35 PM

Quote from: Jack on July 19, 2017, 04:05:01 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 19, 2017, 12:12:14 AM

  I noticed two little indentations on either side of my waist.  My stomach fat is slowly burning off.  :2thumbsup:

That's awesome.

  Thank you.  I'm really pleased.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 19, 2017, 06:57:16 PM

Congratulations.  But what will that do to your classic weeble shape?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 19, 2017, 07:19:18 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 19, 2017, 06:57:16 PM

Congratulations.  But what will that do to your classic weeble shape?

  Maybe I'll be a Weeble with a waist?  :cbc:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 19, 2017, 08:07:11 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 19, 2017, 12:12:14 AM

  I noticed two little indentations on either side of my waist.  My stomach fat is slowly burning off.  :2thumbsup:

Maybe your hips just got bigger.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 19, 2017, 09:14:20 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 19, 2017, 07:19:18 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 19, 2017, 06:57:16 PM

Congratulations.  But what will that do to your classic weeble shape?

  Maybe I'll be a Weeble with a waist?  :cbc:

Oh, a waisted/wasted weeble?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 20, 2017, 10:04:03 AM

Hired a pool guy to come and service the pool and they were able to show up on short notice which was a huge help. There's hope the pool may be up and running by the party this weekend.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 22, 2017, 12:24:03 PM

Twenty minutes of silence.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 22, 2017, 12:29:19 PM

Quote from: odeon on July 22, 2017, 12:24:03 PM

Twenty minutes of silence.

You have no idea how much I envy you.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 22, 2017, 12:34:42 PM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 22, 2017, 12:29:19 PM

Quote from: odeon on July 22, 2017, 12:24:03 PM

Twenty minutes of silence.

You have no idea how much I envy you.

I think I just might have an inkling.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 22, 2017, 03:52:13 PM

I finished my antibiotics

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 22, 2017, 05:57:22 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 19, 2017, 09:14:20 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 19, 2017, 07:19:18 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 19, 2017, 06:57:16 PM

Congratulations.  But what will that do to your classic weeble shape?

  Maybe I'll be a Weeble with a waist?  :cbc:

Oh, a waisted/wasted weeble?

  This Weeble does not get wasted.  :angel:  :fiveshots:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 22, 2017, 05:59:10 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 19, 2017, 08:07:11 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 19, 2017, 12:12:14 AM

  I noticed two little indentations on either side of my waist.  My stomach fat is slowly burning off.  :2thumbsup:

Maybe your hips just got bigger.  :zoinks:

  You really are itching to end up on a sandwich roll in some hick diner, aren't you?  >:D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 22, 2017, 07:00:12 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 22, 2017, 05:59:10 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 19, 2017, 08:07:11 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 19, 2017, 12:12:14 AM

  I noticed two little indentations on either side of my waist.  My stomach fat is slowly burning off.  :2thumbsup:

Maybe your hips just got bigger.  :zoinks:

  You really are itching to end up on a sandwich roll in some hick diner, aren't you?  >:D

Do you even know any hicks?  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 22, 2017, 09:12:17 PM

surprise party for my FIL went very well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 23, 2017, 11:46:37 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 24, 2017, 07:31:32 AM

These arrived today in the mailL

(https://s2.postimg.org/s6q7tg5o9/3_way_still_heads.jpg)


And there is a first time for everything my dear weebly one.                     

And either a lemon meringue cheesecake pie-tart or a chocolate trifle, or possibly both is about to happen imminently after I finish my cigar. Plus theres a big hunk of roast beef in the fridge begging to be scarfed down. Just woke up too from a pleasant, deep sleep after having barely any and shitty shallow sleep after my pain meds wore off last knight, hours before my refill was due. Picked that up and the pain meds/anticonvulsant combination put me right to sleep, face first on the keyboard:P                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 24, 2017, 09:40:55 AM

Also, well done my weebly weeblesome friend :)

And oooohhh goodie. I just looked in the fridge and there was a second lemon meringue cheesecake bake in the food-fridge (there are two fridges in the house, one for food, and the occasional nontoxic this and that that needs to cool temporarily, the other for storing all my volatile solvents, and nasty ass stuff like iodine monochloride,  acetonitrile (methyl cyanide), bromine, and other toxic and or corrosive (or both) items, that need keeping cold like my iodine (it may be a solid, but like the other halogens is a highly reactive element and also quite volatile, over time. The first time I ever encountered it in the pure elemental state was after my first spesh school did the one and ONLY chemistry demo in my entire time at the school, a miserable dropping of tincture of iodine onto a potato to make the starch turn blue-black. And the teacher kept it right the other end of the  classroom away and let us nowhere near it, So I raised as much money as possible that day after getting home and bought up  as much of the stuff as possible, spent all night carefully fractionally distilling it  ending up with a gram or two of iodine as the pure, resublimed element in tiny little fluff-like crystals.

Pleased as hell with myself, couldn't wait to get home the next day and start experimenting, only to be fucking gutted to find out how volatile it was and that it had quite literally evaporated into thin air, not more than a brown stain left where it had formerly sat. After all the non-school part of the day, all evening and all night w/o sleep fractionally distilling the stuff until I      actually had sat in front of me some highly pure, re-sublimated I2 and expected it to just stay there.  And as I  know now,                                                  now iodine is a bugger of an escape artist so my iodine always stays in the fridge unless it is actually being used.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 30, 2017, 09:23:52 AM

It was good to be at my mum's new place yesterday. Nice to see everyone. Nice to come home again too.
Also awsome that hospital had given my brother permission to be away for the afternoon, to visit his mum. He apped he was allowed to spend this afternoon home too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 30, 2017, 09:34:50 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 22, 2017, 07:00:12 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 22, 2017, 05:59:10 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 19, 2017, 08:07:11 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 19, 2017, 12:12:14 AM

  I noticed two little indentations on either side of my waist.  My stomach fat is slowly burning off.  :2thumbsup:

Maybe your hips just got bigger.  :zoinks:

  You really are itching to end up on a sandwich roll in some hick diner, aren't you?  >:D

Do you even know any hicks?  :zoinks:

  Just your scruffy, hole-dwelling, toilet-paper-hoarding little ass. :gopher: :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 30, 2017, 09:37:52 AM

  Thank you, Lestat.  8)

  In other news, I have finally gotten it through my head that I need to take large enough doses of ibuprofen,
  often enough, to keep the pain under control till I get in to see my doctor.  It helps to have a regular schedule. 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 30, 2017, 11:38:39 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 30, 2017, 09:37:52 AM

  Thank you, Lestat.  8)

  In other news, I have finally gotten it through my head that I need to take large enough doses of ibuprofen,
  often enough, to keep the pain under control till I get in to see my doctor.  It helps to have a regular schedule. 8)

Yes, better to keep a steady stream of meds vs waiting for the pain to build up and then it takes longer to get it under control

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 30, 2017, 12:56:35 PM

God watch it, especially if you got trouble w/ acid reflux, and IIRC you posted as such. NSAIDs can and will if given the chance fuck your stomach an asshole at end you weren't born equipped through both of them.  Topical application might well alleviate the risk, I'd not chance it by mouth with my stomach issues (like right now I'm holding back a pukefest as I woke up with the other day)

If your immune system isn't impaired (as in serious clinical effects) then corticosteroid shots into the affected joint might well help, although in case of serious, known and symptomatic immunodeficiency should probably be avoided. nonsteroidal antiinflammatories again have their issues, as do opioids (probably best for intermittent, acute pain, least side effects on an acute situation-specific basis, whilst worst or not far off for chronic long term problems (dependency/tolerance and in certain cases tachyphylaxis)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 30, 2017, 01:12:57 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on July 30, 2017, 11:38:39 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 30, 2017, 09:37:52 AM

  Thank you, Lestat.  8)

  In other news, I have finally gotten it through my head that I need to take large enough doses of ibuprofen,
  often enough, to keep the pain under control till I get in to see my doctor.  It helps to have a regular schedule. 8)

Yes, better to keep a steady stream of meds vs waiting for the pain to build up and then it takes longer to get it under control

  Took me long enough to figure it out.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 30, 2017, 01:16:29 PM

Quote from: Lestat on July 30, 2017, 12:56:35 PM

God watch it, especially if you got trouble w/ acid reflux, and IIRC you posted as such. NSAIDs can and will if given the chance fuck your stomach an asshole at end you weren't born equipped through both of them.  Topical application might well alleviate the risk, I'd not chance it by mouth with my stomach issues (like right now I'm holding back a pukefest as I woke up with the other day)

If your immune system isn't impaired (as in serious clinical effects) then corticosteroid shots into the affected joint might well help, although in case of serious, known and symptomatic immunodeficiency should probably be avoided. nonsteroidal antiinflammatories again have their issues, as do opioids (probably best for intermittent, acute pain, least side effects on an acute situation-specific basis, whilst worst or not far off for chronic long term problems (dependency/tolerance and in certain cases tachyphylaxis)

  Yes, I have posted in the recent past about reflux, but since I've changed my diet and lost 30 or so pounds,
  I seldom have a problem with it anymore.  I'm only taking the ibuprofen at this level until I can get
  further medical attention for my shoulder, maybe physical therapy.  At this point I don't know what's going on
  with it, only that the amount of pain I've been in this past week has made it difficult to sleep or work.  :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 30, 2017, 01:24:20 PM

Just finished writing the first draft of my presentation. Now I need to rehearse and probably shorten it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 30, 2017, 04:51:55 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 30, 2017, 09:34:50 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 22, 2017, 07:00:12 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 22, 2017, 05:59:10 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 19, 2017, 08:07:11 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 19, 2017, 12:12:14 AM

  I noticed two little indentations on either side of my waist.  My stomach fat is slowly burning off.  :2thumbsup:

Maybe your hips just got bigger.  :zoinks:

  You really are itching to end up on a sandwich roll in some hick diner, aren't you?  >:D

Do you even know any hicks?  :zoinks:

  Just your scruffy, hole-dwelling, toilet-paper-hoarding little ass. :gopher: :hahaha:

I'm not really a hick, I just grew up around them so I was affected.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 30, 2017, 05:08:27 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 30, 2017, 04:51:55 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 30, 2017, 09:34:50 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 22, 2017, 07:00:12 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 22, 2017, 05:59:10 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 19, 2017, 08:07:11 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 19, 2017, 12:12:14 AM

  I noticed two little indentations on either side of my waist.  My stomach fat is slowly burning off.  :2thumbsup:

Maybe your hips just got bigger.  :zoinks:

  You really are itching to end up on a sandwich roll in some hick diner, aren't you?  >:D

Do you even know any hicks?  :zoinks:

  Just your scruffy, hole-dwelling, toilet-paper-hoarding little ass. :gopher: :hahaha:

I'm not really a hick, I just grew up around them so I was infected.  :zoinks:

Fixed  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on July 30, 2017, 05:10:56 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on July 30, 2017, 05:08:27 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 30, 2017, 04:51:55 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 30, 2017, 09:34:50 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 22, 2017, 07:00:12 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 22, 2017, 05:59:10 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 19, 2017, 08:07:11 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on July 19, 2017, 12:12:14 AM

  I noticed two little indentations on either side of my waist.  My stomach fat is slowly burning off.  :2thumbsup:

Maybe your hips just got bigger.  :zoinks:

  You really are itching to end up on a sandwich roll in some hick diner, aren't you?  >:D

Do you even know any hicks?  :zoinks:

  Just your scruffy, hole-dwelling, toilet-paper-hoarding little ass. :gopher: :hahaha:

I'm not really a hick, I just grew up around them so I was infected.  :zoinks:

Fixed  :orly:

  No, they were infected!  Damn dirty varmint! :gopher: :litigious:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: lutra on July 31, 2017, 06:09:58 AM

Mother and youngest sister went for a check-up appointment (in a hospital in Rotterdam) this morning. CT-scan, physical examination and blood tests were done and they all, for both ladies, came out well. That's good news.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 31, 2017, 10:09:02 AM

Quote from: lutra on July 31, 2017, 06:09:58 AM

Mother and youngest sister went for a check-up appointment (in a hospital in Rotterdam) this morning. CT-scan, physical examination and blood tests were done and they all, for both ladies, came out well. That's good news.

Knowing nothing about Rotterdam, I decided to google it. Apparently they have a "Crazy Sexy Cool" dance festival :laugh: Very cool architecture though.

Oh, and glad all is well with the women in the family. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 31, 2017, 10:18:40 AM

After a miserable night, feeling really nauseated and being repeatedly, violently sick to pont of almost collapsing several times and doing it at least twice, picked up a refill script for my meds that thankfully contains several average an da few really heavy-duty antisickness meds, plus a big bottle of gaviscon to settle my stomac down, my paim

Thinking that I might, either today or tomorrow go out for my first mushroom-hunt of the season and see what I can find slice up and throw in a pan of salty butter and sizzle me up a free feast of gourmet treats, also had word that the fly agaric mushroom is out fruiting currently at this time of year and that means a longer trip to a local woodland I've liked to haunt since I was about 4-5 and just starting my mushroom hunting hobby to pick those off the golf course attached to part of it and search for the only occasionally to be found, although not rare, yet very special mushroom Macrolepiota procera, the parasol mushrom with its characteristic double ring, long tall stem and caps that can if your lucky get to the size of a plate and which are of the most excellent flavour, truly of all the wild mushroom species I've ever tasted (and I must have eaten hundreds of different kinds at the very least parasols are one of the finest of the fine, the absolute cream of the crop in a foray during which they are found. I am DETERMINED next time I find one or more to obtain spores, and start culturing it on agar plates in petri dishes to create infected spawn with which to infect decaying plant matter upon which these saprobic incarnations of deliciousness feed. Same goes for giant puffballs, if I set eyes on any of those this year spores are definitely going into my collection for cultures. The fly agaric being the famed white-warted, bright red capped and otherwise white Amanita muscaria, famed as a magic mushroom of the norse berserkirs, and as I've found out through careful experimenting after of course first reading up as required, smaller quantities of this poisonous, albeit mildly so, mushroom can be cured and saved for the rest of the year when they do not grow, so as to have a supply for all year round and used either medicinally, as a sleep aid, for inducing dreams, innuring oneself against pain and especially against discomfort caused by cold weather, even biting, bitterly freezing blizzards won't even be noticeable after a mug of honeyed fly Amanita tea, made from the cured, dried mushrooms (I once walked out into a howling, shrieking gale, in the middle winter to go several miles to a shop, on foot wearing nothing above the waist but my lip piercing (which I don't take out), my silver tigers-eye ring before that was stolen and a thin, skintight leather jumpsuit style jacket, left open and flying in the wind, no top, despite the bitter cold and the storm kicking off like fury I didn't even feel the cold. In fact I opened the jacket because it was a little warm with it zipped up.

Planted some pieces of giant puffball in the grass of the lawn of the house last year, don't know if such a simple approach will result in a 'take' and fruitbodies, but I hope so, because not only can they grow absolutely massive (a meter and a half in diameter or more, and weighing as much as a grown man) but, being big enough to feed several families for a fair while if wished they too are to be fed, they are, like parasols, possessed of a truly excellent savoury flavor, being easy to cook to perfection by frying them like steak, cut into big thick slices small enough to fit on a dinnerplate, then once done, quickly dipping them in eggy bread batter with a bit of salt and pepper then flash-frying to batter them, if desired, given a wee bit of cured dried fly agaric cap, and one of the mushrooms parasitic on fly agaric mycelium, a bolete, Chalciporus piperatus, having pores instead of gills, reddish in color on the pores although light tan most of the color and growing with fly agaric under silver birch trees, with a common yellowing towards the very base of the stem, relatively small sized, from a couple of inches across the cap to the size of an open hand and usually quite a short stem, no more than perhaps a half cm thick, a bit narrower but not by much, usually, and usually a couple of inches in height, as the epithet of the species 'piperatus' may hint, they have a fiery hot bite to them, different to chilli pepper or black pepper, and once cleaned, may be dried and stored then ground up in a spice grinder (dried fungi can be real shitters to powder in a mortar and pestle properly, and an electric spice grinder with its rapidly spinning blades on the other hand will grind them to dust in no time.

The fly agaric and peppery bolete go together excellently, since the former acts to cause the taste sensation 'umami' via traces of toxin left in the cured mushroom which activate glutamate receptors on the taste buds of the tongue responsible for sensing meaty, savoury flavours, and  this mushroom, once cured (by careful drying of the caps, ideally with the gills sliced off close to the cap or scooped out with a spoon since they contain a lot of water and make the mushroom caps harder to dry, and placing them back (upper surface) facing the layer of aluminium foil then placed over baking trays and left in the oven with it on its lowest possible setting overnight with the door wedged slightly open for water vapor to escape and turning the mushrooms every so often, basting them in any juices they sweat out helps up the quality of the flavour and flavour enhancing effects. Works wonders with meat, especially, or anything savory, works like nature's own MSG, the traces of the compound responsible, a neurotoxin called ibotenic acid left behind after the heat causes this unstable compound, as well as the drying itself, to break down giving off CO2 and leaving behind the psychotropic intoxicant compound within the mushroom, muscimol, there are traces of a cholinergic agonist neurotoxin, a quaternary ammonium compound called muscarine which acts as a peripheral nervous system-selective (being a quat, and charged, it can't cross the blood-brain barrier so is restricted to the PNS only) muscarinic acetylcholine receptor agonist (indeed the receptor itself was named for its binding of this ligand), its toxic, causing nausea, shaking/twitching, vomiting, sweating, tearing, tiny, tiny constricted pupils and blurred vision and diarrhea in large quantities, or in larger still amounts death, by the bradycardic effects it has, slowing the heart rate to a stop. Happily despite the name 'muscaria' and the toxin first being found in this mushroom the quantities present are absolutely miniscule to the point where maybe with a large psychoactive dose one might notice symptoms (buscopan, a peripherally restricted muscarinic AChR antagonist sold OTC for IBS counteracts this perfectly and cannot  cause central symptoms such as anticholinergic delerium due to its being a quaternary ammonium compound itself and unable to pass into the brain) 

There are mushrooms which do contain dangerous quantities of muscarine, notably the genus Inocybe, the little brown mushroom's little brown mushroom genus, buggers to identify to species level often, and known as the fibercaps. Notorious for the fact that of all the members of the genus at least known in the EU not a single one is considered to be edible. They are ALL either pretty poisonous, deadly, or the edibility of them simply is not known. A few such as I.patouillardii, the red-stainer innocybe or deadly fibercap, as well as I.napipes for example are particularly virulent and contain enough muscarine to kill, have and sometimes do it as well. The red-stainer in particular, is a nasty piece of work, although thankfully muscarine poisoning is easy to treat unlike many fungal toxins and if brought to hospital the victim is likely to survive. It isn't common, but its fair sized for an innocybe, ruddy brownish reddy color like many of the genus but with the distinctive characteristic that its flesh turns red when cut after a little while. It isn't common particularly, although I have collected the species a couple of times but never found them in great numbers, usually a patch of  a handful or so fthem. Some Clitocybes also contain it, in lethal levels (C.rivulosa, and C.dealbata, both white, grassland species and considered potentially deadly and unfortunately capable of resembling to the undiscerning eye a good edible, Marasmius oreades, the fairy ring champignon in some of its appearances. But unlike the latter, a tasty edible mushroom the other two, Clitocybe species are hghly toxic. Although not all Clitocybes are poisonous there are some that are reputed to be quite good. I've never found any of the ones meant to be particularly delicious though unfortunately. And there is one. C.nebularis, the clouded agaric which was formerly regarded as edible and indeed IIRC sold at roman markets, but now known that not all can eat it. Some people are more sensitive than others to the clouded agaric, and it'll make them sick, although not fatally so, some people eat it and seem to be able to get away with it. Personally its one I choose not to invite to my dinner table.

And I've also got to monitor a certain local field where some most unusual pored, Boletus type fungi, I think something in the new genus Rubroboletus, created to separate out many of the red-bored, luridly colored and usually blue-bruising (rapidly when cut in many cases near instantly and much darker than the gilled Psilocybes often light blue staining due to psilocybin/psilocin forming byproducts in the mushrooms, a much lighter blue and doesn't appear so quickly either)

These things have whopping big fat squat features, bright blood-red pores from all the way through newly developed and unopened caps when sectioned through to old age, usually a tan to ruddy brown with pale white hints abd traces of yellow, they blue instantaneously when cut into with a knife and are undoubtedly mycorrhizal, I found them in association with a mixed oak and hawthorn thicket growing at the edge in shortish grass. And the stem is short, squat, fat and rounded, shaped very much like a turnip, often wider than it is tall, with a narrowing at each end and a strong, very noticeable in older ones, distinct and potent stench of decaying flesh. The spore color is typical for a bolete, light tobacco brown to tan tobacco brown color but I need a new specimen to collect some spores from on a microscope slide and enough little patches of them to get a good look under the lens of my lab microscope because if these, and they have regrown here for several years, grow again this year and are what I believe them to be, Boletus satanas, the Devil' Bolete, despite bring highly poisonous and potentially fatal (although in some places reportedly they are eaten after thorough special cooking methods, regardless of their foul stench (a single small mushroom had to be thrown out of the house after the accompanying stench of putrescence too obnoxious to remain in the same room, and their being nothing at all about any appearance or character that says 'eat of me, for I am good food'. Since the poisonous principle has found to be a pretty potently cytotoxic glycosylated protein, it is easily believable that the protein is denatured by the very thorough cooking employed. I'd not try them though for sure, regardless of whether the toxin, called bolesatine is or is not destroyed, since they have bollocks all to reccomend them for the table and less still for being appetizing. The important thing, is the rarity of them. This patch, they grow in large numbers but across the UK and in much of the EU they are critically endangered to near extinct and very, very very rare. I've only ever seen B.satanas once anywhere else in 31 years. And so too are their relatives within Rubroboletus, such as R.luridus, R.rhodoxanthus and their allies are also very very rare, and like the Devil's bolete are on the red list as critically endangered, so some careful microscopy work to determine appearance, size, shape of spores, presence or absence of clamp-connections in the cap tissue, the appearance of the basidia as well as macroscopic tests employing chemicals of various kinds, from phenol, to a mixture of potassium iodide, elemental iodine and chloral hydrate, the latter I'd have to make rather than buy as its also a controlled drug, being an antiquated and now little-used sedative-hypnotic with little much to reccomend it. Tastes funky and it repeats on you giving you camphoraceous belches for ages, as well as being toxic in chronic use and also well known for upsetting sensitive stomachs. Despite this its banned for OTC sale, but I can make it, or a close analog of it and test it on various fungi with known sensitivity to Melzer's, either by making chloral hydrate via a photocatalytic chlorination of ethanol, or making a derivative called chlorbutol, or chlorobutanol by first preparing chloroform the haloform reaction from acetone and hypochlorite bleach with base such as potassium hydroxide added, and then after distillation of the chloroform, reaction of some chloroform with more acetone, catalyzed by base to give the target compound, chlorobutanol, 1,1,1-Trichloro-2-methylpropan-2-ol which would be quicker than the photocatalytic route to chloral hydrate but at the same time I'd rather use the original recipe for the original Melzer's reagent especially when testing the spores of a potentially critically endangered species.  As well as other reagents such as ferric chloride applied to the tissue, silver nitrate, phenol, KOH (10-15 percent) hydrochloric acid with mashed cap sample on high lignin-paper or wood pulp (Meixner reagent, tests for presence of amatoxins although functions via detection of the indolic funtion present as the central tryptophan residue in the lethal amatoxin cyclopeptides (these are the poisons found in the notorious 'death cap', Amanita phalloides, as well as A.virosa, A.bisporigera and A.exitialis, the death caps and destroying angels, as well as in some Galerina species, some smaller members of the Lepiota genus, a couple of Conocybes and another LBM that like the conocybes and those damnable Galerinas can very closely resemble some kinds of Psilocybin mushroom, especially Galerinas and Psilocybe cyanescens. And unfortunately, the Meixner reagent cannot be used to distinguish one from the other since both the core of the toxic amatoxin peptides, which brutally and slowly, hideously destroy the liver, attack kidneys,  heart, fuck with blood electrolyte balance and potentially cause the brain to swell, by inhibiting RNA polymerase type II as well as binding to actin, one of the components of the cytoskeleton of human cells making amatoxins most unpleasant and very effective, if slow, agonizing and cruel mushroom poisons, responsible for at least 80 probably 90% of all fatal wild mushroom poisonings world-wide in regions where fungi producing them exist. The tryptophan residue is responsible for the reaction, unfortunately psilocybin and psilocin, baeocystin etc. are all indoles too, being tryptamine derivatives (tryptamine is the indolethylamine compound that comes from decarboxylation and loss of tryptophan the essential dietary amino acid via loss of CO2. And with the precious Psilocybe cyanescens, a most potent magic mushroom species (so strong indeed that a large pick once 'got' two of us, me and a former [later found to be a total psychotic superbitch from the foullest pit in hell] housemate of mine, we'd gone to macdonalds since she wished to eat there, and I had, on the way back spotted something small and brown and wavy colored with blue tinges to the stem base and cap surface and made an instant on the spot field-ID of P.cyanescens. They were too. All but a single one. A single deadly galerina lurking within the rest, which, owing to my dilligence, in sporeprinting each and every mushroom cap, with the stem sliced off and placed directly beside the cap from which it had been cut from, and waiting, doing this for two packed-full to bursting 'happy meal' boxes we'd begged from the manager of the mac-Ds for the purpose of transporting our harvest of what I'd just recognized, and late at night having no other way than without the boxes to have taken my shirt off in the rain and tied it into a bag.

Anyway, we started cleaning them of plant debris and bits of soil etc. And this time I KNOW she wasn't lying, since I was sat perhaps two feet from her directly opposite her, whilst we each tended to half the pile, one by one cleaning and slicing and placing on the trays to spore print. After about an hour or a bit less, of cleaning these mucky little pups, and having to do the spore print to exclude dangerous lookalikes (one single Galerina is a lot smaller than a death cap Amanita or destroying angel, of which a single bite is enough to kill an adult, so doesn't contain enough amatoxins to kill the unfortunate eater of such a venomous little wolf in sheep's clothing, but it would still make somebody very ill and do some potentially permanent liver damage)

We each noticed we were feeling kind of..light weighted, floaty and prone to bursting out in laughter. Then we each looked at each other's pupils and found our eyes like dinnerplates. The P.cyanescens (aka wavy caps) were moist, from it being a damp evening and enough psilocybin and psilocin had to have been absorbed from the prolonged skin contact between our hands and the damp mushroooms' juices, what with them being carefully picked and wipe clean of dirt and wood-chip bits to have delivered what ended up being a fairly active dose, without ever so much as one mushroom being eaten, until my analyses were done, and the one monstrous little impostor, a Galerina autumnalis, a small, brown mushroom that looks unassuming, grows on dead wood, like Psilocybe cyanescens, and can look a LOT like either it, or an edible called Kuhneromyces mutabilis, the latter so closely that it is better by far to simply label the latter deadly poisonous and not even think about eating it simply because its too likely to end up with the wrong mushroom being eaten and the people eating it dying horribly and slowly over a week to two weeks in some of the grimmest ways thinkable. Thankfully in the case of P.cyanescens though the Psilocybes have a violet-black spore print whilst Galerina and Conocybe have rust-brown to cigar-brown spores and a microscope is not needed to distinguish the two (although I have one, and a very good one at that, not cheap, but a professional-grade piece of kit intended for cytology/cell pathology labs and forensics.) and a simple color check is enough to instantly distinguish the two apart if one knows of the difference. And, of course, having brought myself up on hunting down and munching on wild mushrooms as gourmet treats that are free for all, unless in restaurants where one pays top whack for them, like the chanterelle, or porcini mushrooms, both of which are obscenely pricy when sold, but both of which, one bag of dried sliced porcini aside, or even once a truly whopping great harvest of the truly delicious, and rare, very special mushroom indeed, the morel, Morchella elata, one of the black morels in that case that came springing out of a batch of wood chip mulch my mom put down on the garden years back at our last home. The end of the year...there were so many it was difficult to even eat them, most had to be dried and preserved, and anyone thats had morels will testify they are one of the most delicious foods you can eat, if you are lucky enough to find them in a gourmet restaurant and be able to pay for them, or luckier still and find but a few. Let alone have them turn up free in woodchip mulch as an infestation-level of gluttonous indulgence for weeks. If I'd had a means to sell them at that age, the amount I picked from the garden alone, never mind where they escaped too into the local area for a year or so (and sadly vanished after) then I could have made a couple of thousand at least, to say nothing of culturing spawn and growing more. Has to be one of my very finest hours in all my lifetime-worth of mushroom-foraging, that, the monster crop of uber-potent Psilocybe cyanescens, a couple of pounds of them dried, of which 1 gram would hit you enough to know it, and 2 would do so HARD, and 3 or more...there are few words for what that does to somebody. At least few that could be pronounced by human language or heard by living ear. Just a few of those things would kick your ass if not respected properly.

And to date my other finest moment is walking through a certain forest and finding it FULL of Lactarius deliciosus, the saffron milk-cap, which is uncommon to rare, although frequent enough for it not to be irresponsible to pick and eat them, simply locally not common at all, sadly. Absolutely packed, finding bunches of them springing up every foot or two, way more than could be eaten by two men (me and my old man who had come out with me and after being shown them, and instructed in what to look for and what to pick, employed by myself to assist in harvesting those I had not the means to carry alone. Shopping bags full, at the end), many of them we froze for later eating, although roasting plenty of them under the grill or on a spike over the gas flame.

Those, the saffron milkys, they have been prized since roman times and are thought to be the first ever mushroom to be depicted in a mosaic or other similar art painting specifically. Valuable then, and much sought for, and probably hunted down avidly by anybody in the know since people first started to recognize what they could eat and what was particularly good. And they are. They really are delish, alright fried but best IMO roasted, spiked on the end of a fork or knife up the stem and held over a gas burner or even just on the spot, stabbed with a penknife or on a sharpened twig and roasted right then and there, and damned well good enough that its worth, once finding a place for them, getting there by just beginnings of first light and hunting them by torchlight if needs be to make sure you get some  before everybody else who knows what they have found spreads the word and down come the hungry hordes with their field-guides, cameras, hand-lenses and for the most advanced and avid mycophiles, the occasional chemical reagent test kit. And of course the ubiquitous note-books and pen/pencils for keeping your personal records of where and when to hunt what.

But..should my suspicions about those boletes be correct or it even be in the same family, despite them being no good for food whatsoever, this will be one hell of a discovery (and it being near one of my mushroom-foraging walks anyway will compensate me doubtlessly with at least some fly agarics and brown birch Lecciniums, L.scabrum, or if I am luckier, Boletus edulis, the cep/porcini/penny bun, which I found there last year and enjoyed mightily once dark had fallen too much for me to walk down by the canal bank and not risk falling in, let alone SEEING anything fungoid, so I'll very likely return with both something to eat, then samples once identified as best I can with my microscope, my books, the net and my chemical arsenal of reagents aplenty then I will be contacting kew gardens about this, in order to establish conservation efforts as are done for ex. for really rare endangered orchids.

 And likely as not, having spotted them in plentiful number, also the very poisonous, but in culture with mutagenesis applied and much strain sellection and breeding to obtain a suitable strain to produce proper quantities to harvest, lysergic acid derivatives, ergots, Claviceps species, the one I find is C.purpurea in my patch for ergot, its parasitic on grasses, taking over the seed-heads and making them develop into a bloated resting structure, purplish black in color and banana shaped, up to an inch long and whilst its one of the most difficult, demanding and long term investments of time money, research and energy as well as much repetition of growing, mutating, cloning etc. of mycology projects, since they are some REALLY finnicky fungi. it IS possible to culture it in fermentation tanks/bioreactors, of course needing to be custom built by the biotechnician/s responsible for the overseer position of the project. Involved, difficult but possible to produce several grams per liter even of ergot alkaloids capableof being used for (after some equally demanding purification techniques, chromatography and investing in something like a spectrophotometer working in the IR or UV/VIS ranges then some even more demanding chemistry eventually the lysergic acid amide type  or 6-norlysergic acid amide derivative ergoloid psychedelics can be born. That, would be a true badge of pride in scientific achievement to take it all the way from a wild-type ergot sclerotia through the mutagenesis and selection steps, potentially thousands of cultures and cross-cultures and medium experimentation or more, before you get something with the potential for actual culture use for production. A single gram would be...well one hell of an achievement. And something I could truly take pride in forever.

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Post by: Phoenix on July 31, 2017, 10:51:22 AM

Came across some sentimental items from a long time ago while unpacking that belonged to my grandfather

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Post by: lutra on July 31, 2017, 11:14:40 AM

Thanks Miss Phoenix.. am glad too. C is an awful awful disease. It always is a bit nervy when the two ladies go there. For all of us.... but but but it's good news.

And yeah, Rotterdam is kinda cool (and hip).. probably the most modern of cities we have here. Had a job there once.. approx. 85 years ago.. don't miss it (the large city neither).

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Post by: Phoenix on July 31, 2017, 11:18:40 AM

Quote from: lutra on July 31, 2017, 11:14:40 AM

Thanks Miss Phoenix.. am glad too. C is an awful awful disease. It always is a bit nervy when the two ladies go there. For all of us.... but but but it's good news.

And yeah, Rotterdam is kinda cool (and hip).. probably the most modern of cities we have here. Had a job there once.. approx. 85 years ago.. don't miss it (the large city neither).

It really is. It has affected several people on my mothers side of the family (all women) and it's my biggest fear.

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Post by: lutra on July 31, 2017, 11:39:42 AM

Yeah, can imagine that. Sorry to hear. Um, it's also on my mother's side of the family, I'm afraid. There's even a chance I'm a carrier of the BRCA 1 mutated gene but the chance for men 'to go' there is considerably smaller, I thought. Hope I won't, of course..

Well, hope you stay healthy as well (ofc.).

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 31, 2017, 03:17:00 PM

If, by chance, I have inherited a gene to cause that mutation in my body, I'm also hoping I inherited my Aunt's stubborn nature. She beat it 5 different times, in 5 different locations in her body.  :viking:

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Post by: Lestat on July 31, 2017, 03:29:54 PM

You are one stubborn, fiery motherfucker miss K. It is one of your most admirable traits in my estimation. Look at the way you fed the former SO his own balls and made him pronounce them the best pencil-dick sausage he ever had stuffed in his face of them all :P

You rock (and flap probably.) another admirable trait xD. But give in? I don't see that in you, not easily.  Weak, is something you are not.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on August 07, 2017, 05:28:34 PM

Received a promotion today.

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Post by: 'andersom' on August 07, 2017, 05:38:19 PM

Congratulations.

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Post by: Lestat on August 07, 2017, 06:23:39 PM

The new mag stir-plate stirbars came today, plus my 95% non-denatured ethanol and another much awaited chemical, which will remain un-named. As did some calcium silicide (for some experiments towards producing some chloro- or bromosilanes or silicon tetrahalides for use in synthesis of phenylsilane, as well as a tris-(divinyl)tetramethyldisiloxane based organoplatinum complex that if I do it myself starting from platinum metal, producing the chloroplatinic acid I need myself will work out an awful lot cheaper per gram than if I were to buy the same stuff (for some reason even the phenylsilane is horribly expensive. The catalyst...its about half a grand for 25g, and there are minimum orders. So hopefully I can undercut commercial suppliers on the hydrosilylation catalyst by making it myself. Precious metal compounds usually are more expensive than the metals themselves. I can start from platinum metal by using aqua regia (a mixture of concentrated nitric acid and hydrochloric acid that generates nitrosyl chloride, enabling it to dissolve, when hot, platinum in fine dust form where neither nitric acid or hydrochloric acid attack platinum in the least. IIRC I've still got some Pt dust around somewhere that I can use too for a test quantity. Not sure how much I've got, a gram or maybe two at most, but still, most of the weight of the catalyst is in the organosilane part. So I should be able to get at least a gram to test it with, and it is re-usable for multiple reactions. And even if it loses catalytic activity after many uses, I can still burn it to ashes in a crucible, remove the organic residues with something like piranha acid (concentrated sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide, so named for being bloody vicious, nasty ass shit, and a very powerful oxidizer capable of oxidizing inorganic carbon to carbon dioxide gas, and reprocess the residues to recover the platinum content.

(with precious metal catalysts like platinum or palladium on charcoal, lindlar catalyst, wilkinson's, adams, karstedt's etc. they retain catalytic effects for mamy uses as long as certain elements like sulfur or lead are not there which can poison Pt, Pd, iridium and other precious metals of the Pt group, but the element is still in there and they can still be reprocessed for the precious metal content for use in re-making the catalysts after purification, or at the very worst, if something were to make it unsaveable as a catalyst then at least saved up and sold on for scrap with which to buy more, fresh Pt.

Been contemplating something as well, to make a few extra £, namely buying up silver at scrap prices, and dissolving it in concentrated nitric acid, to make silver nitrate, which per gram can be sold for more than silver itself. And nitrates aren't expensive, already got a few pounds of sodium nitrate, and all thats needed is to distill a mixture of sodium or potassium nitrate with concentrated sulfuric acid, which is much less volatile, to produce concentrated nitric acid of either grade (there are two products, white and red fuming nitric acid, with conc. HNO3. The white is just highly concentrated nitric, the red is fuming nitric acid which has had additional NO2 added to it, similar to how fuming sulfuric acid has a stronger variant, with some different properties, oleum, which is a solution of sulfuric anhydride (sulfur trioxide) in 100% sulfuric acid (damn nasty stuff but it does have its uses)

My 2-pyrrollidone came as well. Plus that other, unnamed reagent, that I was down to my last 100ml or less. Got me a fresh liter of that (and the person that sold it me included a note from them offering me a few pounds off per liter from my next purchase if we take it via bank transfer and private email)

Of course I'll have to test the product first, for boiling point, specific gravity, run at least paper chromatography to test for impurities and use it in a reaction successfully too before I do anything of the kind. Guy does have 99-100% public reviews positive though.  So as long as a good working relationship is established, getting money off for what amounts to me as a gain, in privacy terms is a pretty good twofer.

Got some proper sleep today after barely getting a couple of hours of restless, crappy sleep last night.

But all that is tempered harshly by the loss of someone I really cared for:(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 07, 2017, 06:29:04 PM

Quote from: Jack on August 07, 2017, 05:28:34 PM

Received a promotion today.

Congrats Jack!

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Post by: Gopher Gary on August 07, 2017, 08:14:13 PM

Does this mean I get a bigger allowance?  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 07, 2017, 10:58:27 PM

Comgratulations Jack.  Do we have to call you Boss now?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 08, 2017, 02:40:35 AM

The quiet of the house when you're the only one up despite it being stupid o'clock in the morning

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Post by: 'andersom' on August 08, 2017, 02:59:36 AM

Quiet in the house is almost always good, when other inhabitants are past the age of mischievous kids.

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Post by: Fun With Matches on August 08, 2017, 08:50:03 AM

Congratulations Jack.

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Post by: lutra on August 08, 2017, 09:56:09 AM

Yes, congratulations, Jack..

 :plus:

(nah)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Grey Area on August 08, 2017, 10:36:37 AM

Showtime just put the first two episodes of the new Twin Peaks series on YouTube. I feel like my head is going to explode. I hope they upload the rest of it.

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Post by: Grey Area on August 08, 2017, 10:37:56 AM

OH FUCK THAT the cunts made it unavailable in my country. Fuck Showtime.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 08, 2017, 03:19:10 PM

Quote from: Jack on August 07, 2017, 05:28:34 PM

Received a promotion today.

Woot! :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 08, 2017, 04:31:20 PM

Grey area, try TORbrowser. Its firefox based, with TOR integrated, as well as NoScript, for security (can be disabled when needed, certain sites, such as academic sites don't like TOR though, due to its supporting of anonymity so firefox and inprivate browsing can be used for them when needed. TORbrowser works fine with youtube though, if you get a country-based IP block all you need do is change TOR circuit, and it'll have you round the block in seconds, by routing your connection through multiple proxy nodes, and an exit node in another country. You can effectively appear to be from wherever you want. Country blocks are just fucking stupid, and ineffective at that, so TOR will both improve your privacy, and let you step round IP blocks with just two mouse clicks. One to open the menu and then one click to change TOR circuit, and done, no more block.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on August 08, 2017, 06:48:41 PM

Thanks for the congrats, everyone.

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 07, 2017, 10:58:27 PM

Do we have to call you Boss now?

Goodness, no. Jack isn't a leader, and being held responsible/accountable for others wouldn't be a good thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on August 10, 2017, 03:16:33 AM

Good on you, Jack.  :) Does it mean more hours?

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Post by: Jack on August 10, 2017, 05:11:29 AM

Quote from: renaeden on August 10, 2017, 03:16:33 AM

Good on you, Jack.  :) Does it mean more hours?

It's hard to say; maybe not. Work extra when it's needed anyway during times of heavy workload, which currently is those times. It does mean more responsibility, but had already recently taken on the added responsibility. The new project is a bit of a learning curve at the moment, so it's difficult to know how time consuming it will really be once settled into a process and doing it becomes second nature.

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Post by: Lestat on August 10, 2017, 03:10:05 PM

The three big packs of pre-cut filter papers for the smaller of my Buchner funnels arrived, as did  the two new vacuum adapters I bought (this kind is different from a still-head with a vacuum takeoff, or a big filtration flask w/ vac barb etc. in that its just a ground glass joint, leading to a vacuum hose fitting, with a teflon stopcock in between for regulating the vacuum.

And the papers fit just about right. Just opened the first pack and put the first one into the funnel in question so I can filter the crystals of something I'm cleaning up, after first dissolving in a minimal quantity of boiling dry isopropyl alcohol, and then crashing the product out (its insoluble in H2O) by filtration of the product to get rid of any insolubles, addition of just-above freezing temperature water, diluting the tiny volume of hot solvent used and dropping the temperature, to crash out the desired product plus other soluble impurities remaining (the main ones, one is water soluble, unlike the product, whilst the other can be gotten rid of by crashing it into saturated sodium bisulfite solution to form an adduct that can be filtered off, and then the product recovered from the bisulfite solution by extracting into a hot portion of a suitable solvent which won't dissolve the adduct.

The isopropanol is just beginning to boil in an erlenmeyer flask, placed in a hot water bath on the hotplate. Time to get the goggles on and get to work:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Grey Area on August 10, 2017, 05:08:28 PM

Quote from: Lestat on August 08, 2017, 04:31:20 PM

Grey area, try TORbrowser. Its firefox based, with TOR integrated, as well as NoScript, for security (can be disabled when needed, certain sites, such as academic sites don't like TOR though, due to its supporting of anonymity so firefox and inprivate browsing can be used for them when needed. TORbrowser works fine with youtube though, if you get a country-based IP block all you need do is change TOR circuit, and it'll have you round the block in seconds, by routing your connection through multiple proxy nodes, and an exit node in another country. You can effectively appear to be from wherever you want. Country blocks are just fucking stupid, and ineffective at that, so TOR will both improve your privacy, and let you step round IP blocks with just two mouse clicks. One to open the menu and then one click to change TOR circuit, and done, no more block.

If the TOR network is still as slow as it was a couple of years ago when I last tried it, the videos would probably still be buffering by the time the DVD set is released. Is it faster now?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 10, 2017, 05:26:16 PM

In my experience yes, and its certainly quick enough (using TORbrowser at least, with the latest few versions its been fine at least) to watch youtube videos (Only issue is occasionally youtube detects 'large volumes of traffic coming from your IP' and wants the user to try some crappy and badly working captcha. If that happens then just change TOR circuit and that issue will be bypassed. The TOR network is always growing, when people decide to start running a new node)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 10, 2017, 10:16:02 PM

Rainbow after a dust and wind storm, catching the light of a setting sun and glowing about 70% orange.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 12, 2017, 07:23:33 PM

Productive day. Feeling thankful for my SO.

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Post by: 'andersom' on August 27, 2017, 01:01:29 AM

Silent morning. Sparrows chirping in the backyard. Cats checking out front of the house, magpie in the distance.

No drilling, no mechanical sanding, no tearing down of illegal side buildings, not even the barking ot howling of a dog.

Even the highway in the distance is not bringing its usual buzz.

Far far away a church bell tells that it is 9 am, but it's hardly audible.

Nice start of the day.

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Post by: Pyraxis on August 27, 2017, 04:27:36 PM

My mother bought me a lawnmower for my birthday and I mowed a lawn for the first time ever.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 27, 2017, 06:24:35 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on August 27, 2017, 04:27:36 PM

My mother bought me a lawnmower for my birthday and I mowed a lawn for the first time ever.

Great gift.  Piece of advice?  Until you get used to mowing take an aspirirn or similar and some water before you start mowing.  They'll be in your system working while you're making aches and pains.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 27, 2017, 07:19:59 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on August 27, 2017, 04:27:36 PM

My mother bought me a lawnmower for my birthday and I mowed a lawn for the first time ever.

I'm and only child so I had to do the mowing. I hate mowers and weedeaters because the vibrations make my fingers swell and itch something awful.  >:(

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Post by: Pyraxis on August 27, 2017, 09:26:19 PM

Good call, QV.

My mother is nuts and actually likes mowing. Something about the smell of freshly cut grass. She says it's relaxing. The result was she never made my brother or I do it when we were teenagers.

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Post by: 'andersom' on August 28, 2017, 12:53:43 AM

My dad loved mowing too. He mowed way more than his own bit of turf. Lawns of his sons in the same village got done by him aswell. He would go mowing to my youngest brother, and come back mowing. Thus maintaing a public path. After that he'd do a fair bit of another path.

He did get himself a machine that was not too brutal vibration wise.

My 82 year old mum can do her lawn without a problem with that machine.

Hope the joy of the scent of freshly cut gras may grow on you Pk.

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Post by: odeon on August 28, 2017, 02:52:10 AM

My joints tend to hurt when I mow the lawn so I let the kids do it.

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Post by: renaeden on August 29, 2017, 02:35:23 AM

I've never mowed a lawn in my life. Good on you, Pyraxis.

I have used a whipper snipper though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 29, 2017, 03:45:58 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 28, 2017, 02:52:10 AM

My joints tend to hurt when I mow the lawn so I let the kids do it.

  That's what they're there for.  :M :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 29, 2017, 08:23:24 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 28, 2017, 02:52:10 AM

My joints tend to hurt when I mow the lawn so I let the kids do it.

My bitches not only do the mowing, but my laundry and dishes too.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 30, 2017, 01:11:17 AM

She LIKES the stench of freshly cut grass raxy? jesus H. She must be stark raving mental, that stinks something truly heinous IMO. That stink knocks me sick just thinking about it. If it weren't for the fact I'm fairly numb right now due to my pain meds being in full swing, and antiseizure meds having a calming/sedating effect at the same time, I just KNOW my insides would have twitched and writhed in abject hatred of my brain, thinking about that stink. Its revolting.

As for my something good...well in my current jagged alliance 2 game (plus the expansion pack), a bunch of really big, ugly crustacean/insectoid critters with both the ability to gob out jets of corrosive, acidic fog/slime at long range and an attitude nasty enough to go with the rest of their character, as well as being tough sons of bitches (I.e have had a fair few of them take multiple point-blank blasts of 00 buckshot from a pump-action combat shotgun right in the face from a few steps away, AFTER first being hit with a 40mm teargas grenade, stun grenades, either hand-thrown or from either of the two 40mm grenade launchers my squads are carrying, and even being hit with conventional high-explosive grenades and keep on charging headlong after my squads, found a tactic that works well.

Have the troops hide behind walls really close by, after a spotter locates the target and flushes it out with a CS gas grenade, so that as many men/women as possible are at close to point blank range before surprising it and getting in their first, interrupting their charge, ideally by its being met by a shotgun blast or two, or better yet, a full-auto burst of hollowpoint rounds from a silenced mac-10 machinepistol or silenced MP5 9mm again using hollowpoint rounds, whilst a couple of the best marksmen keep it occupied with armor-piercing fire from a trio of big hefty sniper rifles that pack some pretty impressive stopping power.

Firing mustard gas grenades into groups whilst harassing them with concentrated fire from the sniper rifle teams works well for crowd disposal, but unfortunately, these bastards are coming in not ones and twos (even that needs several turns from a near 20-man mercenary squad, or at least several members of the assault team jumping out from behind corners and each emptying half a full clip of .45 cal hollowpoints from their mac-10s (a boxy little machinepistol, similar to an uzi, but more physically compact. Not accurate for long range fighting, either in game or IRL, but compact, lightweight, fast rate of fire and at close range a full auto burst of HP rounds to the head from 2-3 troops will generally bring one of the creatures down). The swarms where there are 6-7 of them or so are really not pleasant to deal with though. Glad I stocked up on gas grenades (albeit, no more mustard gas available atm, that stuff wreaks absolute havoc on the bastards, especially if they are forced to back into a corner, and somebody tosses in a gas grenade after them and retreats, leaving them to choke to death in pretty quick order)

Something's telling me, that since there are what appear to be male and females both, and have seen at least one young one (little shits have dug a tunnel entrance up under and into a mine my mercenary rebel strike teams liberated from the despotic government in the country the game is set in, and it was my main mine too. Need money badly, to keep the troops. No money? no mercs, bar a few that join out of loyalty to the cause. The majority are crack troops fighting for their paycheck, right now, doing literally just that, the miners won't work down there when the creatures are present, and the mine was bringing in something like 80k a week. One of three I control. Or in this case am fighting to re-take.

But adult male and females, a young larvae....that tends to make me think their is something like a queen creature down there somewhere that keeps breeding the bastards. Taken a near 18-man strike team down there, three full squads packing everything from 9mm pistols and .38 cal revolvers as emergency backup pieces to shotguns, 5.56mm assault rifles of various kinds, a H&K G11 (advanced german assault rifle that was IRL designed to be compact, lightweight, fast firing and unlike most firearms, uses caseless ammunition) Its hard to get hold of in-game, only managed to find one enemy soldier with one after trading a hole in the face in exchange for his rifle, along with chucking some mustard gas grenades down into a courtyard the little sod was hiding out in. Now MY troops are all tooled up, Accurate sniper rifles using heavier bullets than the assault rifles, that pack a lot of stopping power, for support, along with a 60mm mortar, two pump-action grenade launchers loaded with CS gas type grenades, concussion grenades for stunning an enemy or firing into rooms prior to sending in the teams running hell for leather and mowing down enemy soldiers hiding inside, hand grenades of various sizes and 'flavours', fragmentation, micro-size close range grenades, various gas grenades, and white phosphorus rounds for the grenade launcher, and handheld varieties both, all but the rearmost troops (who I haven't enough to equip with yet) wearing chemical/biowarfare gear that allows them to operate right up close even after deploying chemical weaponry (although only the heavy, specially treated body armor provides any protection against the HE grenades etc.)

Seems like I'm getting closer and closer to wherever any big, bad ugly mother of all bioengineered arthropod shock-troops might have her/his/their lair. And when THAT happens, its DEFINITELU going to get ugly, fast.  The really young larvae don't attack, and can basically, if the adults are extirpated first, be taken apart piece by piece by one soldier with a combat knife and a penchant for doing a lot of stabbing, since they are defenseless. Those, will leave until last. Whilst any king and/or queen is going down first, along with any adults in close proximity enough to target the troops. Given how nasty the adults are, any queen/king/both is going to have to be dealt with quickly, and with everything my troops can manage to bring to the table.

Not sure whats worse than krill, only genetically messed with until they spit acid, pack massive claws that can rip through body armor, and need heavy-duty armor, hardened, along with ceramic plate inserts to stop them, kevlar kecks and advanced head armor to stand a chance of stopping them, along with gas masks to prevent their acidic spit from killing the troops quickly, rather than inflicting minor wounds that can be dealt with quickly using portable first aid kits and chemical-resistant overwear for the front-line shock-troops and anybody else that be outfitted with anything bought, scrounged, or the previous owner shot dead for :P

But if its worse than that..I'm not so sure I want to meet this thing. And when I do, I'm DEFINITELY going to load one of the 40mm grenade launchers with a full-force TNT-packed HE shell ready to pop the bastard in the eyes (if its got any), the ones found so far are blind but locate prey and targets by scent. Still, accurate enough, at least until the gas weapons start being let off. Even the smoke grenades help, whilst non-lethal choking type riot-agent filled grenades really seem effective. What I'd not give for just 2-3 mustard gas grenades left though ready for any over-spawn critter/s that seem bound to be on the way. At least when facing either normal, human soldiery, or even the genetically enhanced bioweapon-ized big cats, those mustard grenades can spread a cloud of blister agent for meters, and do massive damage that will easily incapacitate an unprotected enemy and prevent them from fleeing the cloud, killing them in moments. (IRL, mustard gases are slower to act than this but obviously one cannot wait hours of realtime in-game for an enemy to be taken out by chemical warfare agents.  So some liberties had to be taken obviously in coding the game by its writers) Still, stuff is bloody nasty, deadly effective, can permanently cripple a soldier if they survive, leaving them fit only to be ordered to drop their weapons, take their armour off, drop their supplies, be given a drink from a canteen of water and their contract ended, and life insurance collected on (in this case, when buying insurance (optional) for mercs on the squads, life insurance is paid out on them returning alive, not on death, so best thing to do is strip them of everything they have, and terminate their contract, leave them to walk out on their own and try find the airport my troops and millitia control)

Not very kind, but better fire them when they are seconds from death and keep their kit, claim back as much medical deposit and insurance as possible than have them die officially on contract. Even if it means terminating their employment in the middle of a firefight, after first tossing a grenade or two, loosing off a burst or two of auto-fire from an assault rifle before they are made to drop their stuff and do one. At least I give them a last slug from the water supplies before sending them to hike back to the nearest safe airspace and get evacuated to hospital. Or patch them up so they don't bleed out on the way (its cheaper that way, that way you get a partial refund on the medical deposit, since they need treatment but are, at the point of their contract being revoked, still not in a wooden box, although they get first-aid only, stop any imminently fatal bleeds, gas wounds etc. from offing the poor bugger, given any weapon or scrappy old armor lying around that'd only make a nuisance of itself were it to be carried by the troops, any old pistols etc. or short range, unsilenced small caliber handguns that aren't much use)

Typically the moment one is fired, another one is hired to take their place and have to go to a rendezvous point in my airspace to link up with the team, taken to the cargo-dropping area to be tooled up and armored, loaded up with at least a main battle rifle OR sniper rifle (although some of the strongest and best marksmen are carrying both, a full-auto mid-range .45, silenced, the stealthiest troops wearing the best camo often given things like combat knives, throwing knives, brass knuckles or a machete or crowbar for up-close-and-personal dirty work.) and sidearm for close defence, last resort, whilst each squad gets at least one guy with a pump-action combat shotgun and one trooper carrying a 40mm grenade launcher, plus one or two guys LOADED with various hand-thrown grenades and demolition charges (whilst I try and make sure every trooper is outfitted with at least two each of smoke grenades, tactical choking agent gas grenades and an explosive grenade or two. IF I can get hold of them, then as many mustard gas rounds as possible get brought along by every man who can get hold of any, and the most able troops outfitted with the most of those, since they aren't common, probably because of how damn effective they are at wiping out entire enemy squads within moments of a 3-man team with a sniper, assault rifle gunner, and spotter w/heavy weapons and grenades sneaking up onto a roof and tossing down some blister agent rounds into the midst of the enemy.

Think its time now that I'm about to meet big-and-ugly whatever it is, crawling down there in my silver mines that fill the paychecks of my troops. Time to raise hell.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 30, 2017, 01:48:27 PM

A check I have been waiting for arrived in the mail

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 30, 2017, 10:22:21 PM

Heh, I was right. Queen Bitch was there alright. Big, real ugly bastard. Really big and REALLY ugly.  Thankfully immobile, and there was cover, so conserving movement time, just about possible to line two guys up just out of sight and have them duck out, and cut loose with a combination of sniper rifle, an M16 and for good measure, one of the 40mm grenade launchers.

And fairly major-league gain from killing the bugger too, the stuff that made it as tough as it was, turns out to be the perfect stuff for hardening armor, applied to as many of the best pieces of armor as possible, its a major-league upgrade.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on August 31, 2017, 02:53:38 AM

I found presents for my sister (birthday) and my stepdad (Fathers Day) with just one trip to the shops.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on August 31, 2017, 02:56:02 AM

Yay  for the lawnmower , Pyraxis!

We Brits have tiny little patches of grass , if that, unless we're wealthy, so it's tiny little mowers or strimmers for us. I've used a push-along mechanical mower, mowing parents' lawn when i weas a kid. Then I moved into a flat, then a bedsit, then moved in  with a keen gardener, so didn;'t have to care at all about lawns until I after I left him and  moved into a little , privately rented terraced house with my son., eith obligatory tiny patch of grass out back, and Strimmer provided for keeping it trim. Eek! Given my innate clumsiness, I'm pretty sure I'm a danger to myself (and others if they come near) with a strimmer, but I used it anyway, just as often as absolutely necessary to stop the garden turning into a jungle.  The couple who owned the house were away for three years, and intended to move back in, hence the provision of a Strimmer. Most private rentals just give you a weedy patch of grass, no means to cut it,  and a very short-term lease (meaning it;'s kinda pointless providing yourself with things like lawnmowers, even supposing you can afford it Oh! and contract that says you must maintain the garden. I'm pretty sure that's  why the Great Unwashed in Britain are notorious for letting their gardens go to back to the jungle. That and clinical depression, of couse.  But in my block (surveyed from an upstairs window)  you can easily tell the occasional bits of Social Housing apart from the much more numerous private rentals, because the  people in the social housdng take care of their gardens, by-and-large, whereas the private tenants make zero effort...aside from myself.

That first terraced house was the best I've lived in, by a long chalk, because it had been equipped by people who had actually lived there and who intended to live there again. Since then it's been a series of investment properties, with the landlords providing any old crap in the way of white goods, heating etc, some of it horribly inconvenient, much of it costing a fortune to runl and always a "lawn" (or rather weedy patch of grass) and never a lawnmower, nor even a shed to keep one in.   On both of my more recent properties , I dug the "lawn" up and replaced it with herbs and cottage -garden style perennials, once I felt settled enough, and energetic enough to tackler the job. I al;so did a ridiculous amount of landscaping in my last place (must post photos)  given that I didn't have a secure tenancy, because you can't go on living like you;re just passing through forever, can you?  Well , you can, but it increasingly gets you down , to be surrounded by other peoples crap all the timel, especially when your efforts to find a better, more-or-less affordable place keep drawing blanks.

Anyways, so i wound up developing as belated interset in gardening, basically because i was bored with pullling up the weeds, and sick of my junky surroundings, But you know what Aspies are like, don't you? We're almost incapable of doing things by halves. I read a big stack of gardening books, and got a few ideas...

But back to that scent of freshly-mown grass/ Hmm , yeah, i do kinda like it. and if you think it's disgusting, Lestat , you should live or work near a farm I had the misfortune of working at a warehouse outside the city limits, once, just a stones' throw from a farm; and when the wind blew in the wrong direction, the scent of silage assaulted your nostrils as you entered, left  or went ouside for a break. I used to feel ill for the whole of the rest of the night whenever that happened.  Wolfie  said it might be gluten molecules in the silage, because just the scent from a bakery made him ill.  I dunno about that. The smell is surely utterly nauseating, anyway.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on August 31, 2017, 04:36:24 AM

I do have a strimmer, but I hate it so much. The sound is horrendous. Rather use hedge clippers for the long grass at the side of the stampsized patch of turf that is my lawn. For the rest my trusty pushmower.

I'm one of the very few in the street gardening unmotorised. Neighbour girl does that too, but almost every bit is paved at her side of the fence. I have way more hedge than grass, but will clip it by hand.

Neglected my garden big time, the past few years. It needs a proper digging through, lots of compost, manure and plenty of tlc. Did not have the time nor the energy, for a couple of years. Do have plans though.

Should start getting myself a decent very narrow spade to get through the hard soil.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on August 31, 2017, 07:18:35 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on August 31, 2017, 04:36:24 AM

I do have a strimmer, but I hate it so much. The sound is horrendous. Rather use hedge clippers for the long grass at the side of the stampsized patch of turf that is my lawn. For the rest my trusty pushmower.

I'm one of the very few in the street gardening unmotorised. Neighbour girl does that too, but almost every bit is paved at her side of the fence. I have way more hedge than grass, but will clip it by hand.

Neglected my garden big time, the past few years. It needs a proper digging through, lots of compost, manure and plenty of tlc. Did not have the time nor the energy, for a couple of years. Do have plans though.

Should start getting myself a decent very narrow spade to get through the hard soil.

How about a very  strong fork to loosen it? or else wait for it to rain.

I was using shears to cut the entire stamp-sized patch of grass at the back of  this place, before I dug it up. It was exhausting, but there just wan't an option.  Even if f I had gone out and got myself a mower, there was still no shed to keep it in.  It 's bad enpugh keeping small-ish garden tools at the back=-end of my cramped galley kitchem, without trying to find space  indoors for a mower too! I think i was supposed to just leave it, and give my landlady a good excuse for keeping my bond when I go. (She'll almost certainly find an excuse anyway. they always do. But if it's an excuse that doesn't hold any water, then I intend to bloody well fight to get it back)

To take this thread even further off-topic, that reminded me ofcva great example of how my brain fails to function, under a barrage of personal questions,. I was at a Tribunal hearing, regarding my Disability benefits and was asked " Do you have a lawn?" . Ity disn't occur to me to ask in what way that question was supposed to be relavant (though, I disd briefly wonder, and 2-3 years later, i still don't see how it could be relevant, unless they imagined  my garden was considerably bigger than it is). I just aswered it , briefly and factually.

"No, I dug it up"

I noticeed them looking at each other. Then , after a pause they just proceeeded to the nexct (unrelated) question.

I was feling quite proud of myself for recalling the relevant info on demand. However...

several days later, it stuck me that I probably ought to have added  that my digging up the lawn happened several years ago,  that this  act long predated the claim in question (therefore completely irrelevant)  and that I did it because I was struggling to keep the lawn trim. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 01, 2017, 11:15:16 PM

I keep reading strimmer and thinking it's a typo for trimmer.

I was thinking about putting in a hedge, but that's a long way down the road. Sooner is the concept of putting a ring of bricks flush with the soil level around the outside of each raised rim of bricks edging a flowerbed, with the idea of not having to bother with edge trimming at all.

Tiny steps first, my mother and I got a pot of orange marigolds and tonight I planted them in the little raised planter along the front steps.

She's been compulsively weeding what bits of flowerbed there are. I need to take my phone out there and take photos of all the plants that are actually supposed to be there, so I don't get them confused with weeds later.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 02, 2017, 03:05:38 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 02, 2017, 04:05:13 PM

"Strimmer" probably is a word where "string" and "trimmer" blended together.

Apparently it's being used as a word since the 70's of last century.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on September 02, 2017, 06:00:48 PM

Monday is a holiday, so that means three whole days when no one will give me anything new to do. Will use that time to pull my proverbial ass out of the fire.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 02, 2017, 06:33:27 PM

Pretty sure there is nothing sweeter than hearing the SO going to find a whimpering pup who is in pain, and talking quietly to her to make her feel better. From what I'm hearing now, I think he took the cushions off the couch so she can lay on them on the floor. And he says she has ME wrapped around her paw? :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2017, 01:35:09 AM

Coffee happened and saved the world.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 03, 2017, 08:07:41 AM

A story by Odeon. The End.  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2017, 12:15:14 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on September 03, 2017, 08:07:41 AM

A story by Odeon. The End.  :lol1:

Based on a true story. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 04, 2017, 08:01:26 PM

I called one of my Aunts. We've always been extremely close even though we don't talk frequently. It was good to catch up with her.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 05, 2017, 02:28:09 PM

Got a call back and the go ahead on some work I bid last week

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 06, 2017, 11:32:50 AM

  I got ambitious about self-improvement.  I really needed a boost out of my rut!  :situp:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 06, 2017, 03:37:03 PM

 Took The PR in for a hair cut.  About 4 or 5 inches was taken off.  It's a little past shoulder length now.  I just couldn't manage shampooing hair that long.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 06, 2017, 04:24:43 PM

Found two silver dimes in with my change

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 07, 2017, 11:36:59 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 08, 2017, 05:54:30 AM

Kayleigh made soft tacos. Delicious. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 09, 2017, 07:45:56 PM

Found two silver quarters and two silver dimes with my metal detector in my back yard

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 09, 2017, 08:28:41 PM

The SO's parents came by to help build a wall bed for monkeyboy and then we had a bbq. I really like his parents so it was nice to have them here.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 10, 2017, 01:48:37 AM

The dog was all over me when I woke up, happy to see me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 10, 2017, 06:37:45 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 10, 2017, 01:48:37 AM

The dog was all over me when I woke up, happy to see me.

Is she confusing you with a sire?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 10, 2017, 04:01:12 PM

Found another silver quarter and a regular dime in the yard today

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 10, 2017, 10:56:38 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 10, 2017, 06:37:45 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 10, 2017, 01:48:37 AM

The dog was all over me when I woke up, happy to see me.

Is she confusing you with a sire?

That's a reasonable alternative explanation. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 11, 2017, 03:23:25 PM

Best friend took half a day off work to be with pup and monkey boy so I could be at the hospital with the SO. She showed up with a 6 pack of Diet Coke to put in my fridge, dinner that she'll be making with leftovers for SO and I tonight and all the ingredients for a crockpot dinner tomorrow so I don't have to cook. She's amazing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on September 11, 2017, 04:26:58 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 10, 2017, 04:01:12 PM

Found another silver quarter and a regular dime in the yard today

 

How is that metal detector?

All I ever find is nails in my yard here.  :laugh:

The other house was a lot better for detecting. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 11, 2017, 04:32:18 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on September 11, 2017, 04:26:58 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 10, 2017, 04:01:12 PM

Found another silver quarter and a regular dime in the yard today

 

How is that metal detector?

All I ever find is nails in my yard here.  :laugh:

The other house was a lot better for detecting.

Its good but it takes a lot of practice to find things effectively.  Still no pin pointer but ordering one soon.  My yard is full of all kinds of stuff mostly junk

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 11, 2017, 05:39:14 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on September 11, 2017, 04:26:58 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 10, 2017, 04:01:12 PM

Found another silver quarter and a regular dime in the yard today

 

How is that metal detector?

All I ever find is nails in my yard here.  :laugh:

The other house was a lot better for detecting. 

I live in a place that has be inhabited for fucking ages.

All my metal detector ever finds is rusty old toys. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on September 11, 2017, 05:49:56 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 11, 2017, 04:32:18 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on September 11, 2017, 04:26:58 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 10, 2017, 04:01:12 PM

Found another silver quarter and a regular dime in the yard today

 

How is that metal detector?

All I ever find is nails in my yard here.  :laugh:

The other house was a lot better for detecting.

Its good but it takes a lot of practice to find things effectively.  Still no pin pointer but ordering one soon.  My yard is full of all kinds of stuff mostly junk

I was thinking about trying a sniper coil on mine. One park I hunt is 98% trash...although I did find a lot of change/junk jewelry in the mulch on the tot lots there.

I seldom get a chance to get out though anymore.

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 11, 2017, 05:39:14 PM

I live in a place that has be inhabited for fucking ages.

All my metal detector ever finds is rusty old toys. 

Old house netted a lot of change, massive amounts of foil, silver quarters, 1 mercury dime, 1 Chinese coin, religious medals, and a gold wedding band (eyeball find that one while transplanting a bush)...plus a crapload of marbles while planting flowers.

I wish they had something to detect marbles. I loved finding those. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 12, 2017, 04:51:13 AM

You'd want a ground penetrating radar for nonmetallic objects.


And what is a mercury dime? made of amalgam of some kind? surely they'd never use Hg in coinage??? obviously of course it could not be used in pure form given it is a liquid metal with a freezing point low enough that it would cause cryogenic type tissue burns just touching it.

And religious medals? reminds me of the time  I found, whilst looking for copper or lead scrap in a dumpster, a motherlode of silver scraps, some silver artefacts, one of them an antique page-turner for books made of a non-sharp, long, round-tipped piece of either ivory or whalebone with a hefty silver endcap and inlaid with silver lettering, the lettering itself being of sufficient silver content to need parts which penetrate right through one end and out of the other to be fastened in. Also the best find, was solid silver, a religious medallion that weighs over an oz, total weight-32g, seeming (when weighed on my less sensitive scale, accurate to 1g, I dare not weigh something that heavy on my sensitive lab scale, since that is calibrated for milligrams, and I wouldn't want to overload it and damage it, since it is a precision instrument, accurate to 0.001g, nor have to bother with waiting for it to equilibriate to the temperature of the room, make sure all sources of drafts are absent etc.) to (on the kitchen digital scale) to hover between 32 and 33g. I'll post pics as soon as I've sanitized them of both EXIF and GPS metadata for personal privacy reasons (photos taken with digital cameras or with phone cameras, especially newer ones almost always to always include all manner of private information, such as make and model of camera, time taken, shutter speed, flash on or off, date/time, even GPS coordinates that allow anybody to read the information and locate you to within GPS satellite accuracy precision, and pinpoint your location even within your home, called metadata, and most of it is EXIF, whilst there is also often separate GPS coordinates recorded inside the photo, although there are common tools to strip these nasty little bits of big brother out and throw them in the fire so to speak.)

Soon as I've stripped out the metadata I'll upload photos of this. I think its not just an old antique, but VERY old, from the style, most likely from the middle east, arabic silversmithing work.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 12, 2017, 04:57:40 AM

(https://srv3.imgonline.com.ua/result_img/imgonline-com-ua-dexifTq2P3fb5OOQV.jpg)

Rear face, the lettering reads as follows:

Upper left templar-style flared cross: 'jerusalem'
Lower '' '' cross  'silver'
Lower right '' cross :  '900'

Front face:

(https://www.imgonline.com.ua/result_img/imgonline-com-ua-dexif6aSsYpXsxvjO.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 12, 2017, 05:25:53 AM

Found as stated, whilst dumpster-diving hoping for copper pipe, lead sheeting or piping, copper wire, any valuable scrap metal (IMO if its been thrown in a skip, for the trash, then its completely fair game to dumpster-dive and take whatever is in there. I'd expect and be fine with people taking things I threw in a skip if I'd ever hired a skip and thrown things away in it.

I was hoping for enough money in scrap metal for maybe a meal, or a pack of decent cigars, maybe even one proper cigar, or for thrown out technology that may have thought to be broken but in fact just in need of a replacement part. Got a computer that way once, and a microwave. The MW works fine, just needed the timer resetting. I use it as a lab MW now, so I can do syntheses and experiments that involve toxic reagents, rather than limit myself to totally nontoxic, nonhazardous reagents and solvents in the household MW. Or if something is toxic, then it had to be TOTALLY nonvolatile at any reasonable temperature (and with MW synths of any kind one must continuously monitor the temperature since MW heating is totally different in its physics from regular heating by application of a flame. Perhaps most similar to induction heating. But unlike say, applying heat via heating a container full of whatever is to be heated either with or without solvent over a burner, or on a hotplate, microwaves induce heating on the molecular level by excitation of the magnetic dipole moments of atoms as I understand it, and the heating rate is very nonlinear. That is to say, a length of irradiation at a given output wattage of MW energy that would raise a sample of a given size starting at room temperature (lets take RT to = 20 degrees 'C) to for example 50 degrees over X number of seconds, may if starting rather than from RT, but from 40 'C raise the temperature over an irradiation time of X seconds to not the expected 70 'C but to 80, or if the temperature started from be 50 'C then after X seconds the temperature might spike up to 120-130 even with the same output wattage and irradiation time.

So you've GOT TO watch the temperature like a hawk, unless using specially made laboratory microwaves (they exist, MW chem is developing all the time and getting to be used quite often, and its often MASSIVELY, drastically more effective and faster than conventional heating. For example, for a specific synthesis that requires a temperature of 60-70 'C as effective temp. range for conducting the reaction and is done over 6 to sometimes 8 hours on a steam bath, keeping it at that temperature all the time, you get a lot of time taken up out of your precious work time, and also a lot more byproducts in the specific rxn I think of here, although will not name for certain reasons. Somebody clued me into it, and I went and started to pioneer the use of it and have developed it into something of an art taking proper full form amongst a certain brotherhood of chemists of certain inclinations and have developed enough skill at it to teach others now:)

It in the microwave form, takes not 6 hours AT 60-70 'C, but a PEAK temperature of this range, done in pulses, cooling it down in a cold water bath until it again reaches room temperature, and irradiation time of at first burst, just under one minute, thereafter done in bursts of maybe 20 seconds, 30s, examining the thermometer by taking the vessel out of the microwave every ten-fifteen seconds or so and rather than heating at the peak temp for all the time, using it as a maximum value and using total irradiation time as the important guiding factor. And rather than 6-7 hours, lots of byproducts as dirty reddish mother liquors, a solid block of not far from quantitative yield, in 20 minutes of irradiation time (900 watts output power) using pulsed irradiation and intermittent cooling, allowing the peak temperature to be reached once, and then kept lower throughout, before finally rather than a cooling bath, putting the borosilicate glass flask into the freezer after taking the thermometer out temporarily, scratching with a glass rod (NOT the thermometer, thats bad lab practice and they are too delicate which is why its bad practice, a solid or hollow glass rod works just fine, followed by one final burst of irradiation from freezer cold temperatures to 60-70 degrees 'C.)

I've been meaning to experiment further with starting from sub-zero temperatures, to see if it can be irradiated longer and the last traces of precursor reacted. But put this way, 6-7 hours down to 20 minutes, near quantitative yield in the microwave, compares with, on the steam bath or hotplate to lots of byproducts, and an entire cup full of dirty looking red mother liquor from which multiple crops of crystals have to be freeze precipitated out and recrystallized in addition to the conventional cleaning workup, catalyst removal etc. The cleaning out of catalyst must be done with the microwave reaction too, but rather than a cup full (at the scale the rxn was done at in this particular case) of mother liquor, unreacted chemicals and byproducts, there, in the flask, upon freezing, was one solid block of product, with less than a teaspoonful of solid adduct formed from one of the precursors, and maybe 10ml to 15-20ml if that, after sucking dry over the vacuum line in the buchner funnel.

And most of that could be recycled too.
And rather than dirty, dark red product, it was the pure, sparkly yellow crystals expected from a high-quality product. Even before recrystallization. And no vacuum distillation of the intermediate required!

In short, microwave chemistry can seriously kick the fuck out of a megaton of arses:autism:

In fact, that reaction has NEVER ONCE been re-done using conventional heating methods. Never. And it won't, not when a microwave is available.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on September 12, 2017, 07:26:06 AM

I only just realised yesterday evening that the dealership never handed back my service logbook with my keys on friday, so I called and emailed them today to ask them to post it to me (assuming they misplaced it at the counter or something, or worse, lost it completely). Turns out they put it neatly in the faux leather folio in my glovebox...y'know, where it belongs. My expectations of them were so low that I got pleasantly surprised :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on September 12, 2017, 09:40:43 AM

Didn't die.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 12, 2017, 09:45:11 AM

^

Throwing a party because S_B is alive and kicking.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 12, 2017, 09:46:17 AM

One of the big hurdles of September has been taken.

Two more to go.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 12, 2017, 01:45:53 PM

Had lots of fun at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 12, 2017, 07:37:07 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 12, 2017, 01:45:53 PM

Had lots of fun at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

Did you buy me my car?  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 12, 2017, 09:12:15 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 12, 2017, 07:37:07 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 12, 2017, 01:45:53 PM

Had lots of fun at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

Did you buy me my car?  :zoinks:

He's doing it on the Eternal Pay Plan.  This week you get a key chain, next week you get a windshield wiper, ditto for the next week. Fourth week mirrors,  You get the idea.  Parts and Lestat will construct it, Lutra will paint it, Just be patient.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 12, 2017, 09:15:23 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 12, 2017, 09:12:15 PM

This week you get a key chain,

:woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 12, 2017, 09:41:45 PM

Since, miss victoria, you volunteered me, who is paying for the materials and my time calibrating, setting up and working on the metal lathe and industrial drill-press, not you I hope for your money should go on you, and making the PR happy.

But the materials and pay for my time on the lathe, and working with the sandpaper, giving metal hubcaps acidbath patina finishes, electroplating them, acid-etching and anodizing them to give them proper style? huh? who is going to be paying my materials costs for  my work. Because I don't do things by halfarsed measures. I'm a fucking kanner's autie and we don't do things half-cocked :P

Parts? I think I could work with him. And I DO have access freely to the machine shop in the shed. (seriously, its one WELL equipped toolshed. Everything from a drill press, to hand drills to power drills handheld type, router cutters, mitre saws, angle grinders, oscilloscopes, computer terminal with access to the house mainframe from there. facilities for tapping and die-cutting internal and external screw threads on the metalworking capstan lathe, blowtorch, much hotter fueled brazing torch (also serves often enough for melting the contents of my crucibles, or subjecting them to intense heat) inert atmosphere work if required.


Dibs on any secondhand catalytic converters though and any unfired airbag charges that would be replaced I want the sodium azide out of the old ones :P (not like Parts would be safe handling azides directly where he could come into contact with them, they are nearly as toxic, and similarly capable of a fast and permanent put-down as cyanides. Oh and they explode. Think of them as exploding cyanides and you've got it about right with azides. Well alkali metal azides like the airbag charges deflagrate rather than detonate, its heavy metal azides and things like copper azide you need be careful as fuck with for explosion reasons. Sodium azide is primarily a toxicity hazard unless seriously mistreated or deliberately set off.)

I REALLY want a catalytic converter from a car or other vehicle though for vapor/gas phase catalytic hydrogenation reductions, or liquid phase ones after some..custom modifications and hacks of my own. And hell even a really fouled up one could be leached with aqua regia etc. to get the platinum/palladium content back out. (shhhhhhh V, no telling Parts that there is platinum (or/ possibly with) palladium in cat converters. I want some for use in catalytic reductions with hydrogen gas under pressure, and/or, support type and quality and surface area dependent, for the purpose of reclaiming the platinum content or/and palladium content for the lab. I don't have very much platinum, and only 1g of palladium (II) chloride which is of catalyst grade and as such earmarked specifically for making palladium based catalysts, such as Pd/C (palladium on activated charcoal) or things like variations on Adams' and Lindlar's catalysts) and other such goodies as everybody in their right mind wouldn't want to be left without if possible not to be, like tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium or tetrakis(triphenylphosphine-platinum/iridium/ruthenium, rhodium, rhenium, osmium, platinum group metal neato triphenylphosphine or triphenylarsine (the arsenic analog of triphenylphosphine of course, is triphenylarsine) complexes for catalytic 'stuff'

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 12, 2017, 10:48:16 PM

Quote from: Lestat on September 12, 2017, 09:41:45 PM

who is paying for the materials and my time

Contributing to my cause is its own reward.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 13, 2017, 03:45:44 AM

Not unless I get the catalytic converter and the airbag charges it ain't.   Some people are charitable geniuses. I am not a charity.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 13, 2017, 10:13:12 AM

@Lestat - It will take a long time before odeon accumulates enough parts to even start construction.  He gets sidetracked buying sound stuff, computer stuff, toys for the dog, etc.  Gopher Gary is going to be walking for a loooooooooooong time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 13, 2017, 11:22:04 AM

@Lestat Mercury dimes came before the dime current design.



 (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/1943D_Mercury_Dime_obverse.jpg/220px-1943D_Mercury_Dime_obverse.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 13, 2017, 12:39:36 PM

Wednesday b'fast with girlfriend

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 13, 2017, 01:08:35 PM

Ironic or what, those mercury dimes. For a heavily xtianized country, claiming 'in god we trust' and meaning the judaeo-xtian god of the Abrahamic religions, to proudly display the latinized form of the Hermes archetype originally from hellenic polytheistic graecian peoples

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 13, 2017, 04:44:41 PM

Quote from: Lestat on September 13, 2017, 03:45:44 AM

Not unless I get the catalytic converter and the airbag charges it ain't.   Some people are charitable geniuses. I am not a charity.

Well, I am a charity, and My Majesty already said you're doing it.  :zoinks:

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 13, 2017, 10:13:12 AM

Gopher Gary is going to be walking for a loooooooooooong time.

My bitches will drive me around while I wait for Lestat to build my new car.  :zoinks:



My good thing today is, the power is back on. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 14, 2017, 12:13:58 PM

Was up and down most of the night so napped when the pup did and slept so deeply it felt like a full nights rest.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on September 14, 2017, 05:52:51 PM

Replacement part finally came for the fridge.

SO: Are you going to need help putting that on? (I.E. do I need to call my brother?)

Got my tools out and he flew out of here.  :laugh:

Yeah...filtered water again.  :asthing:

Think I'm going to bring the tools out tomorrow and bluff :apondering:...repair took 10 minutes and I got a couple hours of home alone time.

...and SO got a new work ride finally. 1996 Buick Park Avenue.
Spent 20 minutes in it just playing with the all the buttons. :autism:
Spent another 10 minutes in aspie hell trying to hide behind a light post at Walmart when he couldn't get the alarm to shut off.

The guy with the Buick blaring it's horn in front of the store?

Nope.

Never saw him before in my life.

Never.:hide:   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 14, 2017, 05:58:28 PM

  My hoarded new underwear finally fits my rapidly disappearing ass!  :underwear:  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 14, 2017, 07:18:18 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on September 14, 2017, 05:52:51 PM

Spent another 10 minutes in aspie hell trying to hide behind a light post at Walmart when he couldn't get the alarm to shut off.

The guy with the Buick blaring it's horn in front of the store?

Nope.

Never saw him before in my life.

Never.:hide:

 :lol1: Reminds me of the time WolFish and I were driving home down our one way street and somebody had it blocked. I honked at them... and honked, and honked, while frantically prying at the steering wheel while it wouldn't shut off. I finally had to get out with the horn still blaring to explain to them what had happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 14, 2017, 07:35:06 PM

Last year monkeyboy and I went to the farewell tour of one of my all time favourite bands The Tragically Hip. He grew up listening to them through me and is a huge fan. It was the most amazing thing to share that with him. The lead singer has terminal brain cancer and they are an iconic Canadian band so it's crazy thing where it's like the entire country mourned his diagnosis and needed to say farewell. They're huge here. Anyway, they did a documentary of the tour and I surprised monkeyboy with tickets to go see it. Just came home and I'm on a musical high. It was amazing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 15, 2017, 12:32:23 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 13, 2017, 11:22:04 AM

@Lestat Mercury dimes came before the dime current design.



 (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/1943D_Mercury_Dime_obverse.jpg/220px-1943D_Mercury_Dime_obverse.jpg)

Previous ones were kind of cool, too. Barber dimes. They had Indian Head cents, Barber dimes and Buffalo nickles at the same time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 15, 2017, 05:27:33 PM

Driving country roads with my dog in the backseat, her head hanging out the window, me listening to my favourite band and her grinning ear to ear with her eyes closed, feeling the wind on her face.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 15, 2017, 05:58:45 PM

At the command of Her Highness, The PR, I am to inform the populace of this establishment, she bowled a hambone (4 strikes in a row)!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 15, 2017, 06:00:20 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 15, 2017, 05:58:45 PM

At the command of Her Highness, The PR, I am to inform the populace of this establishment, she bowled a hambone (4 strikes in a row)!

:woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 15, 2017, 07:45:15 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 15, 2017, 05:58:45 PM

At the command of Her Highness, The PR, I am to inform the populace of this establishment, she bowled a hambone (4 strikes in a row)!

:hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 15, 2017, 08:38:43 PM

Wow, I never managed that when I was bowling regularly. Go PR! :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 16, 2017, 01:23:46 AM

 :cheer: :kitten: :cheer:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 16, 2017, 01:55:43 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 12, 2017, 09:12:15 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 12, 2017, 07:37:07 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 12, 2017, 01:45:53 PM

Had lots of fun at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

Did you buy me my car?  :zoinks:

He's doing it on the Eternal Pay Plan.  This week you get a key chain, next week you get a windshield wiper, ditto for the next week. Fourth week mirrors,  You get the idea.  Parts and Lestat will construct it, Lutra will paint it, Just be patient.

And the car will be ready in 85 years or so. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 16, 2017, 01:57:26 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 13, 2017, 10:13:12 AM

@Lestat - It will take a long time before odeon accumulates enough parts to even start construction.  He gets sidetracked buying sound stuff, computer stuff, toys for the dog, etc.  Gopher Gary is going to be walking for a loooooooooooong time.

Yeah. Expect to start construction in 2035.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 16, 2017, 01:59:04 AM

My good thing for today is that I'm finally back home. It's been a loooooong week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on September 16, 2017, 05:39:33 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 15, 2017, 05:58:45 PM

At the command of Her Highness, The PR, I am to inform the populace of this establishment, she bowled a hambone (4 strikes in a row)!

WELL DONE!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 17, 2017, 03:44:34 AM

Quote from: Fun with matches on September 16, 2017, 05:39:33 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 15, 2017, 05:58:45 PM

At the command of Her Highness, The PR, I am to inform the populace of this establishment, she bowled a hambone (4 strikes in a row)!

WELL DONE!  :thumbup:

 :indeed: :agreed:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on September 17, 2017, 04:58:17 AM

CONGRATULATIONS,  PR!  :congrats:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 17, 2017, 08:49:21 AM

The PR's cockles have been warmed.  She says thank you to everyone.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 17, 2017, 10:49:25 AM

The grocery store was in much better shape today, so I was able to buy most of the stuff I wanted to.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 17, 2017, 10:52:19 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 16, 2017, 01:55:43 AM

And the car will be ready in 85 years or so. :zoinks:

Nothing inspires an optimistic gopher like hope for the future.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 17, 2017, 06:32:28 PM

Went to the annual leo walk. Could only take the healthy pup but there were 40 Leos in attendance to walk the beach together which was amazing!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 17, 2017, 11:30:14 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 17, 2017, 10:52:19 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 16, 2017, 01:55:43 AM

And the car will be ready in 85 years or so. :zoinks:

Nothing inspires an optimistic gopher like hope for the future.  :zoinks:

Betting you won't be allowed to drive it by then. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on September 18, 2017, 01:38:16 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 17, 2017, 11:30:14 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 17, 2017, 10:52:19 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 16, 2017, 01:55:43 AM

And the car will be ready in 85 years or so. :zoinks:

Nothing inspires an optimistic gopher like hope for the future.  :zoinks:

Betting you won't be allowed to drive it by then. :zoinks:

Hehe. Odeon thinks that the gopher is presently allowed to drive  :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 18, 2017, 05:29:43 AM

Some_Bloke didn't die.  ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 18, 2017, 06:21:57 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 17, 2017, 08:49:21 AM

The PR's cockles have been warmed.  She says thank you to everyone.

  She's a really good bowler.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 18, 2017, 06:22:52 AM

  My new can opener is very easy to use, unlike some I've had before.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 18, 2017, 08:26:26 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 18, 2017, 06:21:57 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 17, 2017, 08:49:21 AM

The PR's cockles have been warmed.  She says thank you to everyone.

  She's a really good bowler.  :)

She does use bumpers, but the ball will only hit the bumpers a time or two a game.  All her hambone throws were "clean."

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 18, 2017, 07:31:30 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 17, 2017, 11:30:14 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 17, 2017, 10:52:19 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 16, 2017, 01:55:43 AM

And the car will be ready in 85 years or so. :zoinks:

Nothing inspires an optimistic gopher like hope for the future.  :zoinks:

Betting you won't be allowed to drive it by then. :zoinks:

I'll be allowed to drive slow on the driveway.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 19, 2017, 10:10:16 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 18, 2017, 06:22:52 AM

  My new can opener is very easy to use, unlike some I've had before.  :thumbup:

I have 2 can openers, one "good" and one very, very basic.  I couldn't find either one, so I was forced to try to open a can of beans with a church key opener.  It's a fricking miracle I didn't cut my arm off.  Managed to get the beans out, but it was a struggle.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 19, 2017, 11:47:27 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 18, 2017, 07:31:30 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 17, 2017, 11:30:14 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 17, 2017, 10:52:19 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 16, 2017, 01:55:43 AM

And the car will be ready in 85 years or so. :zoinks:

Nothing inspires an optimistic gopher like hope for the future.  :zoinks:

Betting you won't be allowed to drive it by then. :zoinks:

I'll be allowed to drive slow on the driveway.  :zoinks:

You're an excellent driver. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on September 19, 2017, 04:24:50 PM

Found out that the reason why everything was taking forever regarding my job application was due to yet another person (my tutor, who was providing a reference) being off sick, but they're back at work now so I should get called in within the next few days and get started.

Also, didn't die.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 20, 2017, 06:29:48 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 19, 2017, 10:10:16 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 18, 2017, 06:22:52 AM

  My new can opener is very easy to use, unlike some I've had before.  :thumbup:

I have 2 can openers, one "good" and one very, very basic.  I couldn't find either one, so I was forced to try to open a can of beans with a church key opener.  It's a fricking miracle I didn't cut my arm off.  Managed to get the beans out, but it was a struggle.

  I'll bet the beans tasted that much better because you did battle to get them!  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on September 20, 2017, 07:06:05 AM

Pain in right shoulder seems to be back to normal level . Alleluja!
(meaning it's just bad enough in the morning  to make getting out of bed a bit difficult, but wearing off towards barely noticeable as day progresses)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 20, 2017, 01:49:32 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 18, 2017, 06:22:52 AM

  My new can opener is very easy to use, unlike some I've had before.  :thumbup:

What brand and where did you get it?  I have one that I find easy to use that is mounted on the wall but it seems I am the only one who has mastered it,  so I get called to the kitchen every time a can needs to be opened.  It would be nice to have one that my wife and daughter could use with out all the yelling and cursing that occurs when they try the one we have before they call me out to open the can

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 20, 2017, 03:54:51 PM

I found that can openers must be dried while open (gears not touching each other).  Otherwise they don't seem to cut after a while.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 20, 2017, 05:47:41 PM

I laughed a lot today

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 20, 2017, 06:25:24 PM

Just found some solubility data that until now I've had a lot of trouble finding out for something that needs cleaning up, and it looks like I've finally found out what I needed to know but got no answers to questions posed and everywhere online, the production of the compound is easily found if needed but its almost as if its just assumed implicitly that people know what the result is soluble in.

Now to go and find my lab logbooks and start some testing and taking notes, after going to grab a few cans of different solvents and making measurements before and after washing using my sensitive lab scales (accurate down to 1mg) and after drying off the wash solution, testing  and looking for any weight differentials.

Thinking anhydrous methanol, ethanol, isopropyl alcohol, light naphtha, tetrahydrofuran and dichloromethane to begin with. Just going to take my breakthrough pain meds supplement since I'll be on my feet for a fair while, have a quick smoke before anything flammable comes out, grab my face shield, gloves and goggles, before buggering off with notebooks, pen and jugs of solvent in hand.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 21, 2017, 02:12:36 PM

I had a DR appointment earlier. And it went completely unlike the previous disaster with the negligent moron and total bitch of a locum, (who didn't even bother to examine an infection, just told me 'oh its fine', got that dealt with, plus finally got a seizure 'rescue pack' issued. More or less an additional lot of doses of the same stuff I use as prevention, but so I've got enough now to actually stop them without leaving me short. That GP saw the sense in it so quickly I hardly finished telling her what I was on about before she'd done it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 21, 2017, 02:56:06 PM

 The PR is setting up my new cellphone.  Yea!

(Just a simple pre-paid with Tracfone, who we've been with forever)

Edited to add:  she meant that she would oversee the charging.  I am to set it up myself.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 21, 2017, 03:02:51 PM

Bug seems to be leaving the building, without getting to me.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 21, 2017, 03:30:41 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 21, 2017, 02:56:06 PM

The PR is setting up my new cellphone.  Yea!

(Just a simple pre-paid with Tracfone, who we've been with forever)

Edited to add:  she meant that she would oversee the charging.  I am to set it up myself.

Supervising the charging is serious business too.

What kind of phone did you get? Will the setting up be a lot of work?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 21, 2017, 06:37:28 PM

It's been a year since PA passed away.  I've managed to hold it together and The PR hasn't said anything which is good.  She's focused on a cold (allergy).  If she feels guilty about not remembering what today is I plan on telling her that he's here, there, everywhere, every time.  We just have to call him up in our hearts.

My sister posted the sweetest and most truthful thing about him: 

Louis was a good soul. I miss his laugh the most and the twinkle in his eyes right before he started laughing.

Pardon me while I go have a teary moment.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 21, 2017, 06:48:53 PM

 :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on September 21, 2017, 08:19:12 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 20, 2017, 01:49:32 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 18, 2017, 06:22:52 AM

  My new can opener is very easy to use, unlike some I've had before.  :thumbup:

What brand and where did you get it?  I have one that I find easy to use that is mounted on the wall but it seems I am the only one who has mastered it,  so I get called to the kitchen every time a can needs to be opened.  It would be nice to have one that my wife and daughter could use with out all the yelling and cursing that occurs when they try the one we have before they call me out to open the can

Curious as well.

I have a manual one, kind of want an electric...but probably going to get another just like it.

Damn thing is easy to turn and has lasted 10 years. It's just starting to fuck up now and then.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 21, 2017, 08:31:36 PM

*sends big hugs to QV and for the PR*

Hope you feel better soon PR *squeezes warmly* get well soon hun. Sorry to hear you are feeling shitty hun.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on September 21, 2017, 10:58:57 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 21, 2017, 06:37:28 PM

It's been a year since PA passed away.  I've managed to hold it together and The PR hasn't said anything which is good.  She's focused on a cold (allergy).  If she feels guilty about not remembering what today is I plan on telling her that he's here, there, everywhere, every time.  We just have to call him up in our hearts.

My sister posted the sweetest and most truthful thing about him: 

Louis was a good soul. I miss his laugh the most and the twinkle in his eyes right before he started laughing.

Pardon me while I go have a teary moment.

:hug:

I never remember the anniversery of my Dad's death. Couldn't even tell you the date.  I consider dates to be arbitrary and meaningless .
I still recall his birthday, though, more by accident than design, but that's a better way to remember, a better milestone to mark, come to think.

No reason for the PR to feel guilty.  No reason at all.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 21, 2017, 11:11:53 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 21, 2017, 06:37:28 PM

It's been a year since PA passed away.  I've managed to hold it together and The PR hasn't said anything which is good.  She's focused on a cold (allergy).  If she feels guilty about not remembering what today is I plan on telling her that he's here, there, everywhere, every time.  We just have to call him up in our hearts.

My sister posted the sweetest and most truthful thing about him: 

Louis was a good soul. I miss his laugh the most and the twinkle in his eyes right before he started laughing.

Pardon me while I go have a teary moment.

:hug:

Thinking of you and PR.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 21, 2017, 11:20:45 PM

Pizza happened today and that's always a good thing. Found a place that actually delivers to my house (I live in the country) so that was even better!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 22, 2017, 09:12:35 AM

Thank you for the messages.  The PR was focused on her "cold to end all colds" yesterday, so we had a relatively good day. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 22, 2017, 02:59:21 PM

What do you mean WE had a relatively good day. You mean YOU had a relatively good day, because PR was sick, feeling like utter shit and thus distracted from the anniversary of her loved one's tragic end. That is a good day for YOU, QV, for the PR, it is without a doubt a fucking rotten day, feeling miserable and in pain.

To me that is NOT a good day. Its your taking her not being massively grieved over PA's death, through being too sick and miserable to concentrate on the fact.
There is, whilst I know it is not malicious in origin, and I know you love her, an element of nasty selfishness buried within those sentiments.

Get well soon PR, dear, sweet PR, I hope you feel better soon honey *tucks you in nice and warmly, with a fan beside you in case the fever makes you feel overheated. All my love, Lestat. *sends loving hugs and squeezes, lots of honey&lemon drinks, paracetamol, ibuprofen and laudanum*
Feel better soon, sweetie :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on September 22, 2017, 03:11:04 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 22, 2017, 09:12:35 AM

Thank you for the messages.  The PR was focused on her "cold to end all colds" yesterday, so we had a relatively good day.

:hug:

Pa would be really proud of you both.

My Mom will be gone 6 years in a couple of days. My Dad 22 years right after Thanksgiving.

It's hard to wrap my head around how fast the time has gone.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 22, 2017, 03:20:58 PM

I really cannot help but feel, despite classing QV as one of the members here I care most for, out of just a handful of members, but feel strongly that for one party to derive pleasure due to events changing, and the cause for those events changing or being different, coming from, at basic level, the suffering of another, disgust at this.

Especially for somebody I like as much as I do the PR. She deserves more respect at the most fundamental level than for 'a good day' for another arising from the effects of suffering upon the PR. Her misery is NOT something from which another's joy should ever arisel

All my love, PR *sends a tender, comforting hug, some nasal decongestant spray, jar of hot chocolate and my loving, deepest wish for you to feel better really soon hun*

QV, don't take offense from this, but it had to be said. I find that quite offensive, that ANYBODY would derive a good day from her being stuck in sickness and misery. It strikes me as disrespectful in the extreme, and also, quite selfish.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 22, 2017, 03:45:49 PM

Found a 1940 penny in my yard

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on September 22, 2017, 04:51:02 PM

Quote from: Lestat on September 22, 2017, 03:20:58 PM

I really cannot help but feel, despite classing QV as one of the members here I care most for, out of just a handful of members, but feel strongly that for one party to derive pleasure due to events changing, and the cause for those events changing or being different, coming from, at basic level, the suffering of another, disgust at this.

Especially for somebody I like as much as I do the PR. She deserves more respect at the most fundamental level than for 'a good day' for another arising from the effects of suffering upon the PR. Her misery is NOT something from which another's joy should ever arisel

All my love, PR *sends a tender, comforting hug, some nasal decongestant spray, jar of hot chocolate and my loving, deepest wish for you to feel better really soon hun*

QV, don't take offense from this, but it had to be said. I find that quite offensive, that ANYBODY would derive a good day from her being stuck in sickness and misery. It strikes me as disrespectful in the extreme, and also, quite selfish.

I really doubt she derived any pleasure from it Lestat. :hug:

It's just the lesser of two evils.
You can make a cold better...you can make someone soup, bring them fuzzy blankets...and as a parent you WANT to make it better.

But loss is something you really can't make better.

My son was very close to his grandmother, and on the first anniversary of her death I would have been grateful for a cold or even the roof to blow off the house instead of him being up for nights crying. 

I'm an aspie, I suck at dealing with my own emotions, and probably did a piss poor job at helping him deal with his. A cold would have been something I could have fixed...and dealt with my own grief after he fell asleep stuffed with chicken soup.
 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 22, 2017, 04:56:59 PM

I agree wholeheartedly with IQ.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 22, 2017, 05:02:14 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on September 21, 2017, 08:19:12 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 20, 2017, 01:49:32 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 18, 2017, 06:22:52 AM

  My new can opener is very easy to use, unlike some I've had before.  :thumbup:

What brand and where did you get it?  I have one that I find easy to use that is mounted on the wall but it seems I am the only one who has mastered it,  so I get called to the kitchen every time a can needs to be opened.  It would be nice to have one that my wife and daughter could use with out all the yelling and cursing that occurs when they try the one we have before they call me out to open the can

Curious as well.

I have a manual one, kind of want an electric...but probably going to get another just like it.

Damn thing is easy to turn and has lasted 10 years. It's just starting to fuck up now and then.

My Leifheit can opener broke after thirty years. Till then it almost always worked flawless. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on September 22, 2017, 05:05:25 PM

Some cute trans guy messaged me on my OkCupid account. Of course, the convo died after a while but I'm just happy enough I got compliments.

Reading more of the profile that wasn't just about nerd stuff and...It turns out the guy is pretty kinky so I might have dodged a bullet on that one anyway.  :GA:

edit- Also, didn't die.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on September 22, 2017, 05:36:17 PM

Got my new laptop from work.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 22, 2017, 06:27:04 PM

Lestat, I sent you a p.m.

P.S.  The PR is now asleep with the TV on.  Shades of PA.  And I am off to bed.  Neither of us slept well last night.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 22, 2017, 08:49:34 PM

My momma's back! :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 23, 2017, 12:36:14 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 22, 2017, 08:49:34 PM

My momma's back! :woohoo:

Awwwww, happy gopher cuddles.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on September 23, 2017, 07:03:19 AM

Nothing original to say:
Hugs and hankies to QV and PT (good idea, Hyke)
totally agree with IQ.  Hope Lestat apologises profusely once the penny's dropped!
Good to see S_B feeling positive!

must drop a bit of karma.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 23, 2017, 07:11:44 AM

Quote from: Walkie on September 20, 2017, 07:06:05 AM

Pain in right shoulder seems to be back to normal level . Alleluja!
(meaning it's just bad enough in the morning  to make getting out of bed a bit difficult, but wearing off towards barely noticeable as day progresses)

  I've recently had pain in my right shoulder as well (tendinitis), and I know what a bitch it can be.
   Glad you're experiencing some relief, I hope it continues.  Did you injure it, or is this chronic?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 23, 2017, 07:15:41 AM

Quote from: Parts on September 20, 2017, 01:49:32 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 18, 2017, 06:22:52 AM

  My new can opener is very easy to use, unlike some I've had before.  :thumbup:

What brand and where did you get it?  I have one that I find easy to use that is mounted on the wall but it seems I am the only one who has mastered it,  so I get called to the kitchen every time a can needs to be opened.  It would be nice to have one that my wife and daughter could use with out all the yelling and cursing that occurs when they try the one we have before they call me out to open the can

  Can't find the cardboard it came with, but I think it is from the supermarket line of products.  But ...
   I may have spoken too soon.  It works fine once I get it to grab the edge of the can, but I am having
   trouble with that now.  So many can openers seem not to want to do what they're made to do.  :CanofWorms:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 23, 2017, 07:16:30 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 20, 2017, 03:54:51 PM

I found that can openers must be dried while open (gears not touching each other).  Otherwise they don't seem to cut after a while.

  I had not thought of that!  I will remember it from now on!  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 23, 2017, 07:17:28 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on September 20, 2017, 05:47:41 PM

I laughed a lot today

  A day with at least one good laugh is a day well lived. :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 23, 2017, 07:18:41 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 21, 2017, 06:37:28 PM

It's been a year since PA passed away.  I've managed to hold it together and The PR hasn't said anything which is good.  She's focused on a cold (allergy).  If she feels guilty about not remembering what today is I plan on telling her that he's here, there, everywhere, every time.  We just have to call him up in our hearts.

My sister posted the sweetest and most truthful thing about him: 

Louis was a good soul. I miss his laugh the most and the twinkle in his eyes right before he started laughing.

Pardon me while I go have a teary moment.

  May that twinkle stay ever in your hearts. :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 23, 2017, 07:19:33 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on September 21, 2017, 08:19:12 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 20, 2017, 01:49:32 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 18, 2017, 06:22:52 AM

  My new can opener is very easy to use, unlike some I've had before.  :thumbup:

What brand and where did you get it?  I have one that I find easy to use that is mounted on the wall but it seems I am the only one who has mastered it,  so I get called to the kitchen every time a can needs to be opened.  It would be nice to have one that my wife and daughter could use with out all the yelling and cursing that occurs when they try the one we have before they call me out to open the can

Curious as well.

I have a manual one, kind of want an electric...but probably going to get another just like it.

Damn thing is easy to turn and has lasted 10 years. It's just starting to fuck up now and then.

  I spoke too soon, it's beginning not to want to grip the edge of the can.  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 23, 2017, 07:21:08 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on September 21, 2017, 11:20:45 PM

Pizza happened today and that's always a good thing. Found a place that actually delivers to my house (I live in the country) so that was even better!

  Pizza In The Country could be a great album name!    :Rock:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 23, 2017, 07:22:58 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 22, 2017, 08:49:34 PM

My momma's back! :woohoo:

  What did she say about your hoarded burrow?  :gopher: :gopher: :tp: :tp: :tp: :tp: :tp:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 23, 2017, 07:24:02 AM

  The chemical I poured down the bathtub drain seems finally to have dissolved the clog!  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 23, 2017, 07:38:37 AM

The ones I'm microwaving seem to be reacting nicely, and the color of the reaction is indicative of a quite pure clean product being formed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 23, 2017, 09:57:58 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 23, 2017, 07:22:58 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 22, 2017, 08:49:34 PM

My momma's back! :woohoo:

  What did she say about your hoarded burrow?  :gopher: :gopher: :tp: :tp: :tp: :tp: :tp:

I'm an inconspicuous hoarder, so it's not really noticeable.  :dunno: I'm pretty sure I inherited the toilet paper thing from her anyway.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 23, 2017, 10:02:01 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 23, 2017, 09:57:58 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 23, 2017, 07:22:58 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 22, 2017, 08:49:34 PM

My momma's back! :woohoo:

  What did she say about your hoarded burrow?  :gopher: :gopher: :tp: :tp: :tp: :tp: :tp:

I'm an inconspicuous hoarder, so it's not really noticeable.  :dunno: I'm pretty sure I inherited the toilet paper thing from her anyway.  :zoinks:

  I'm sure she's proud of her little fuzzy offspring!  :gopher: :heart: :gopher:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on September 23, 2017, 02:27:26 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 23, 2017, 07:19:33 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on September 21, 2017, 08:19:12 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 20, 2017, 01:49:32 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on September 18, 2017, 06:22:52 AM

  My new can opener is very easy to use, unlike some I've had before.  :thumbup:

What brand and where did you get it?  I have one that I find easy to use that is mounted on the wall but it seems I am the only one who has mastered it,  so I get called to the kitchen every time a can needs to be opened.  It would be nice to have one that my wife and daughter could use with out all the yelling and cursing that occurs when they try the one we have before they call me out to open the can

Curious as well.

I have a manual one, kind of want an electric...but probably going to get another just like it.

Damn thing is easy to turn and has lasted 10 years. It's just starting to fuck up now and then.

  I spoke too soon, it's beginning not to want to grip the edge of the can.  :autism:

Well I guess I'm sticking to the kind I have then.  :laugh:

I have a Zyliss, it just rolls around along the edge and separates it.

It was a learning curve on how to use it at first, and it doesn't like some cans, like those tapered salmon cans. I keep a generic backup hanging around just in case for those.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 23, 2017, 02:31:03 PM

  It's working well enough to open my cans of tuna, so I'll be OK for awhile.  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 23, 2017, 03:27:12 PM

Chopped up the chicken breasts from the deli chicken and made chicken salad.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 23, 2017, 04:19:28 PM

I PM'ed QV, and we each know exactly what the other means and meant.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 23, 2017, 05:28:37 PM

The house is silent, the dishes are done, my sudden and pretty strong TN attack from this morning is back to a dull distant sensation in my jaws. There is a last cup of tea for me.

And I am actually looking forward to go to bed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on September 23, 2017, 08:33:01 PM

I am going bowling with my daughter. She flies to Brisbane on Tuesday and so I have the place to myself for a bit.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 24, 2017, 03:04:00 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on September 23, 2017, 08:33:01 PM

I am going bowling with my daughter. She flies to Brisbane on Tuesday and so I have the place to myself for a bit.

That's literally flying out of the nest. What has Brisbane got what your place has not?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 24, 2017, 03:06:16 AM

Youngsters sleeping in gives me the idea I've got the house for myself.
 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on September 24, 2017, 04:03:41 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 21, 2017, 06:37:28 PM

It's been a year since PA passed away.  I've managed to hold it together and The PR hasn't said anything which is good.  She's focused on a cold (allergy).  If she feels guilty about not remembering what today is I plan on telling her that he's here, there, everywhere, every time.  We just have to call him up in our hearts.

My sister posted the sweetest and most truthful thing about him: 

Louis was a good soul. I miss his laugh the most and the twinkle in his eyes right before he started laughing.

Pardon me while I go have a teary moment.

:( Big hugs Queen Victoria.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on September 24, 2017, 08:12:00 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on September 24, 2017, 03:06:16 AM

Youngsters sleeping in gives me the idea I've got the house for myself.

Run wild, run free...just don't wake them up. ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 24, 2017, 08:19:20 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on September 24, 2017, 08:12:00 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on September 24, 2017, 03:06:16 AM

Youngsters sleeping in gives me the idea I've got the house for myself.

Run wild, run free...just don't wake them up. ;)

Indeed, I've been running silently. And after that spent time on the couch with Luna.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 24, 2017, 08:26:18 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on September 23, 2017, 08:33:01 PM

I am going bowling with my daughter. She flies to Brisbane on Tuesday and so I have the place to myself for a bit.

Details please.  Who won?  How many strikes?  Did you wear a bowling shirt?  How was the beer?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 24, 2017, 11:19:55 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on September 24, 2017, 08:26:18 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on September 23, 2017, 08:33:01 PM

I am going bowling with my daughter. She flies to Brisbane on Tuesday and so I have the place to myself for a bit.

Details please.  Who won?  How many strikes?  Did you wear a bowling shirt?  How was the beer?

Those are important details indeed.

* Wonders if bowling with daughters would be a good idea. *

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 24, 2017, 03:14:18 PM

Took The PR on a long drive (and brought her back.) 

We went to Lake Pontchartrain - watched the waves break on the seawall, saw a brown pelican, a sailing competition, and enjoyed the breeze

Drove through my old university.  It's changed enormously in the past few years.  No central road system (ring road only), more buildings, lovely landscaping.  Pointed out the building where PA and I met, talked some about it's history.  BTW it's on Lake Pontchartrain.

Drove past the apartment building we were living in when The PR was born.

We were gone almost 2 hours.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 24, 2017, 03:36:22 PM

Sweet memory lane trip. Hope it was calming for both of you.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on September 24, 2017, 06:36:11 PM

Quote from: 'andersom' on September 24, 2017, 03:04:00 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on September 23, 2017, 08:33:01 PM

I am going bowling with my daughter. She flies to Brisbane on Tuesday and so I have the place to myself for a bit.

That's literally flying out of the nest. What has Brisbane got what your place has not?

Boyfriend's Family is there for one week's holiday

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 25, 2017, 10:28:36 PM

That house has a good history. For two reasons. You getting with PA, and the world beginning the process of getting its PR-content, as woefully under-filled as it is. (I.e there ought to be more PRs. Lots more. Including one living next door to me (hopefully one who is fine with heavy metal music, likes it loud, is pretty much nocturnal, is autistic, as hot as the original and is unlikely to be spooked in any way by the sight of a guy wearing combats, a black leather trenchcoat, along with black, elbow-length gloves over the outside, goggles, a gas mask and a full face metal-lined blast shield over the top at 5 or 6 o'clock in the morning doing things with hotplate-stirrers, compressed gas tanks and a portable collapsible bench supporting various equipment, chemicals, flasks of reacting chemicals and potentially one or more blowtorches.

Quite likely also accompanied by both odd smells, clouds of chlorine gas or other such entities, potentially showers of sparks/gouts of flame, hissing/spitting noises and varyingly frequent loud crack sounds, of electrical origin or otherwise and more metal music, of varying genres, along with the occasional bout of luminescence and/or luminescent actual glowing greenish fire.

A major 'thing' for kanner's autie guys who frequently wear full-length trenchcoats and combats, whilst inhabiting safety gear of the above nature and who perform various experiments and syntheses both which can be discussed freely and those of a much more unspeakable nature would be great too:autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 26, 2017, 09:31:59 AM

Quote from: Lestat on September 25, 2017, 10:28:36 PM

That house has a good history. For two reasons. You getting with PA, and the world beginning the process of getting its PR-content, as woefully under-filled as it is. (I.e there ought to be more PRs. Lots more. Including one living next door to me (hopefully one who is fine with heavy metal music, likes it loud, is pretty much nocturnal, is autistic, as hot as the original and is unlikely to be spooked in any way by the sight of a guy wearing combats, a black leather trenchcoat, along with black, elbow-length gloves over the outside, goggles, a gas mask and a full face metal-lined blast shield over the top at 5 or 6 o'clock in the morning doing things with hotplate-stirrers, compressed gas tanks and a portable collapsible bench supporting various equipment, chemicals, flasks of reacting chemicals and potentially one or more blowtorches.

Quite likely also accompanied by both odd smells, clouds of chlorine gas or other such entities, potentially showers of sparks/gouts of flame, hissing/spitting noises and varyingly frequent loud crack sounds, of electrical origin or otherwise and more metal music, of varying genres, along with the occasional bout of luminescence and/or luminescent actual glowing greenish fire.

A major 'thing' for kanner's autie guys who frequently wear full-length trenchcoats and combats, whilst inhabiting safety gear of the above nature and who perform various experiments and syntheses both which can be discussed freely and those of a much more unspeakable nature would be great too:autism:

Sorry to disappoint you.  The PR is more into Twilight  (:puke:)    , Disney princesses, teenage actresses in teenage TV shows and Nick Carter.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on September 26, 2017, 11:34:59 AM

It stopped raining :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 26, 2017, 06:45:44 PM

Really great, long conversation with one of my oldest friends.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 26, 2017, 07:00:55 PM

I rather like the rain, walkie. The sound especially for some reason. Although for ambient sound I have to say, thunderstorms with plenty of lightening bolts and hail at the same time, so it can be heard coming down to the ground, and especially bouncing off the glass of the windows and doors. Bugger me if I know why I like that combination as much as I do and so specifically, but I do:)

I could compromize QV..a pair of fire extinguishers and gas masks for the pair of us (or three if you enjoy fireworks and have an open mind as to the term 'take COV....', a piezo-ignition gas torch, I'll take the weight on my back, build the rest to be lightweight, she aims, pulls the trigger and we BOTH go see 'twilight', whilst I modify one of the extinguishers to take a compressor and modified one-way valve, prepare the contents of each tank (if anyone has any sense after a warning is loudly shouted by both of us, at least one front-row seat better be left free, or two if we don't share during the first episode of that twinkling nancyboy slag's busily twinkling in the sun and getting the crap knocked out of him by a pack of oversized wolves that at least  actually don't require a shirt-mounted set of nametags proclaimning 'hexenwulfen' to be told apart from the bloodthirsty (allegedly) undead that are too prissy to bite anybody:P

and of course we share the advance, a pair of sidarms of a caliber and style to suit)-with large UV torches in place and silver bullets (JHP with a holy water filling for unispecies general-purpose supernatural critter-disposal??:autism:) of rail-mounted flashlights split 50-50), we both work on the menu to suit us both (well really, what auties/aspies wouldn't, assuming one size doesn't fit all) and some creativity on my part that isn't too fussy about  a nitrogen-pressurized tank for the more...ahem..volatile half of the mixture and a stable compressible oxidizer that stores fine as a cryogenic gas in the presence of liquid oxygen, or perhaps an alternative oxidizer

Would take me a while to come up with the right blend that behaves itself under pressure with the right fuel mixed in with a suitable oxidizing gaseous propellant, complimentary hypergolic fuel as a binary mixture and doubtless a fair number of smoking craters somewhere about 3/4 of an hour on a bike during my part of the design) or alternatively compressed air-fuel mix, single tanked design and getting...creative...with three marx generators, some heavy-duty insulating exterior materials, a LONG barrel and a pair of flashlamp-pumped lasers.....

I'm sure we could find a means to combine the two and in a way satisfying to those at large, at least the ones that are moving forward as opposed to hurrying in the opposite direction She might want to find suitable earplugs or earmuffs, depending on how loud the fuel mixture roars and how loud the spark gap discharges are, whilst I'd be quite happy with some of those headphones that are shaped like earmuffs rather than the kind that droop from a couple of separate wires, and for some reason cannot fit in my ears. Unless going with full-face gas masks that ought to dim the ambient noise level during operation of the..well I'm not so convinced either of us would class it as a fire extinguisher or extinguishers anymore. The potential blowtorch part though, I think yes. Mostly. In a manner of speaking. Same effect, same direction of travel for the ignited fuel...same effect on whoever the bugger is that comitted something with a bathtub full of glitter and glue that were it done with a human or animal would certainly be considered grounds for....not quite sure but neither of us would want to find out, much less experience what it would be grounds for.

We'd certainly make a hot pair. Or at least a hot one. (and better looking and more stylish as a girl-guy flamethrower team:D) Could work a treat on reheating our cinema popcorn, if we bring a sized-to-fit-four metal bucket with a tight fitting lid. (bound to have one overcooked lot the first time around)

Doing the trick where sunlight just makes the buggers twinkle would be hilarious, I reckon if given the right presentation and set, it could be satisfying AND funny as shit for both of us, keep us both in our fill of the popcorn flavour of each of our choices and enough cold drinks to A-slake our thirsts and B-put the first lot of popcorn out if needs be *smiles sweetly*

*lestat goes in and out between the toolshed and the lab for a while and takes occasional journeys by bike, whilst carrying a rather top-heavy backpack and returning with a much lighter one, and as inconspicuously as possible makes the journeys back take varying routes and takes pains not to be for any length of time in the distance between dwelling and..errm...testing grounds....................... (Her ladyship would be more than welcome to come and help trigger the tests at suitable distance for it to be conducive for the pair of us to remain...well..a pair, rather than a siamese dodecet :P) :popcorn:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 27, 2017, 06:27:38 AM

  The :coffee: banished my headache.  Good thing, since I can't find my ibuprofen!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 27, 2017, 09:11:58 AM

Lestat - Just let me commandeer a hot air balloon from the festival this weekend and as soon as the winds are optimal I'll be right over.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 27, 2017, 03:44:18 PM

Met with a friend. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on September 28, 2017, 05:25:30 AM

We move tomorrow and we're almost done with packing stuff and the like. In fact, we're completely done with packing and all that's left is to dump all the crap we've (me especially) managed to collect over ten years.

Also, didn't die.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 28, 2017, 08:49:22 AM

Good luck with the move! Just recently did it myself and now I'm swearing never again :laugh:

I wrote a lot this morning which was definitely needed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 28, 2017, 02:56:35 PM

I hate moving so good luck

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 28, 2017, 02:58:24 PM

  I found some tasty apples  :apple: :apple: :apple:  to fill the void left by the lack of Pink Lady apples!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 28, 2017, 08:34:36 PM

My sister and I bought tickets to go to a concert together. So excited. We haven't done that in 15 years.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 28, 2017, 10:48:00 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on September 28, 2017, 05:25:30 AM

We move tomorrow and we're almost done with packing stuff and the like. In fact, we're completely done with packing and all that's left is to dump all the crap we've (me especially) managed to collect over ten years.

Also, didn't die.  :asthing:

Are you moving far from your current place? Last move I made was 5 minutes' drive to the new place and it still stressed me out.

Also, glad you didn't die. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on September 29, 2017, 08:00:34 AM

if you're anything like yer average spazz, S_B , then dumping all the crap you've collected over 10 years is an awesome achievement  :plus:
good luck with the move!
and hey! also glad you didn't die! (  :apondering: why did i never think to say that til Ren did.? I think Ren deserves a plus for that)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on September 29, 2017, 08:03:55 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on September 28, 2017, 08:34:36 PM

My sister and I bought tickets to go to a concert together. So excited. We haven't done that in 15 years.

Ooh! hope you have a great time! what band/artist/ orchestra ? (you are sooo annoyingly nonspecific)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 29, 2017, 12:32:32 PM

PA's niece's half-sister and her partner just finished the adoption of their first foster child.  Brother and sister (not related to first foster) is in the works.   :party:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 29, 2017, 12:49:59 PM

Congratulations with the expansion of the family.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 29, 2017, 05:15:26 PM

Quote from: Walkie on September 29, 2017, 08:03:55 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on September 28, 2017, 08:34:36 PM

My sister and I bought tickets to go to a concert together. So excited. We haven't done that in 15 years.

Ooh! hope you have a great time! what band/artist/ orchestra ? (you are sooo annoyingly nonspecific)

Bowie. His band is touring to do a celebration.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on September 29, 2017, 06:54:37 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on September 29, 2017, 05:15:26 PM

Quote from: Walkie on September 29, 2017, 08:03:55 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on September 28, 2017, 08:34:36 PM

My sister and I bought tickets to go to a concert together. So excited. We haven't done that in 15 years.

Ooh! hope you have a great time! what band/artist/ orchestra ? (you are sooo annoyingly nonspecific)

Bowie. His band is touring to do a celebration.

ooh. That should be good....but also pretty sad .  I  imagine there's quite a long wait til the actual gig,. Hmm. So, plenty of time to enjoy  looking  forward to it!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 29, 2017, 10:52:35 PM

Went climbing! With some people I met through work. Haven't been since with WolFish. So fucking good to get back on the wall.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 30, 2017, 01:03:10 AM

I'm home again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: skyblue1 on September 30, 2017, 04:49:38 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 30, 2017, 01:03:10 AM

I'm home again.

The sun came up

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 30, 2017, 07:35:40 AM

Quote from: skyblue1 on September 30, 2017, 04:49:38 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 30, 2017, 01:03:10 AM

I'm home again.

The sun came up

That's something good. Skyblue is online. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on September 30, 2017, 09:21:22 AM

Weaved a bit.

And my body is moving on music of the Pogues.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 01, 2017, 10:58:44 AM

Quote from: Walkie on September 29, 2017, 06:54:37 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on September 29, 2017, 05:15:26 PM

Quote from: Walkie on September 29, 2017, 08:03:55 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on September 28, 2017, 08:34:36 PM

My sister and I bought tickets to go to a concert together. So excited. We haven't done that in 15 years.

Ooh! hope you have a great time! what band/artist/ orchestra ? (you are sooo annoyingly nonspecific)

Bowie. His band is touring to do a celebration.

ooh. That should be good....but also pretty sad .  I  imagine there's quite a long wait til the actual gig,. Hmm. So, plenty of time to enjoy  looking  forward to it!

140 sleeps but whose counting  :lol1: I'm soooo excited. This is huge for my sister. She's a massive Bowie fan and has been her whole life. My mother was too so we grew up listening to his music a lot. This is her Christmas/Birthday present from me. The last time we did something like this together was 15 years ago when we went to a massive benefit concert and we saw  Have Love Will Travel Revue (Dan Aykroyd and James Belushi), Sam Roberts, Kathleen Edwards, La Chicane, The Tea Party, The Flaming Lips, Sass Jordan, The Isley Brothers, Blue Rodeo, Justin Timberlake, The Guess Who, Rush, AC/DC, and The Rolling Stones. It was one of the best times I've ever had with her. So happy to do it again. We live in different countries and with both of us having crazy schedules, we don't see each other a lot but we're close despite the distance.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 01, 2017, 11:01:09 AM

Second window came out a lot easier than the first one

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 01, 2017, 11:02:14 AM

Quote from: Parts on October 01, 2017, 11:01:09 AM

Second window came out a lot easier than the first one

Will you be getting triple glazing now?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 01, 2017, 04:49:29 PM

Quote from: 'andersom' on October 01, 2017, 11:02:14 AM

Quote from: Parts on October 01, 2017, 11:01:09 AM

Second window came out a lot easier than the first one

Will you be getting triple glazing now?

No they are a bit to expensive.  We want to sell the house and move to someplace with fewer neighbors and a barn so we went with good but not the best.  They are  double glazed argon filled   low E glass with vinyl frames.   I got them just above cost and still it was $1650 for 9 windows.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 01, 2017, 11:55:06 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 02, 2017, 01:07:10 AM

Quote from: Parts on October 01, 2017, 04:49:29 PM

Quote from: 'andersom' on October 01, 2017, 11:02:14 AM

Quote from: Parts on October 01, 2017, 11:01:09 AM

Second window came out a lot easier than the first one

Will you be getting triple glazing now?

No they are a bit to expensive.  We want to sell the house and move to someplace with fewer neighbors and a barn so we went with good but not the best.  They are  double glazed argon filled   low E glass with vinyl frames.   I got them just above cost and still it was $1650 for 9 windows.

That stuff is really expensive indeed.

While you wait to get the house old, it will be more comfortable, and you'll hear less from the neighbours.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 02, 2017, 04:06:09 AM

Whats the purpose of the argon fill? just to ward off attack from free radicals etc. formed via photolytic processes, or some specific thermal properties?

I really wish it were practical for me to get myself a full-sized tank or two (plus tanks of chlorine gas, anhydrous ammonia, hydrogen bromide, HCl gas, and hydrogen, those are probably what would be the other first couple on my wish-list), but unfortunately the companies rent the tanks out, and my usage pattern is 'as and when'. so it'd mean a massive amount of downtime when the tanks aren't being used. As a result I tend to go via welding stores and go for 'takeout' size cylinders. Although they don't do the likes of chlorine, ammonia, and at least the local ones don't do H2, although I was somewhat hoping originally that they'd have hydrogen, for use in oxyhydrogen cutting torches etc. (I've a far different range of uses mind you, catalytic reduction via hydrogenation over various high surface area platinum-group metals or nickel catalysts is very, very  clean as a reduction method, but it does need high pressure for many catalysts and processes, not all but a lot of them you really do need both a compressed cylinder of H2, and a pressure vessell commonly referred to as a 'parr bottle' or 'pressure bomb' (bearing no relations to actual bombs, of the sort that fr.ex a bomber aircraft would drop on a target, barring maybe facetiousness regarding critical failures of equipment, the likes of a highly flammable gas and potentially pyrophoric catalyst [some of the Raney nickels, and the Rieke metals are fine enough to bust into flames pretty easily, especially Rieke metals] being stuffed in a bottle together) 

The equipment is expensive as hell to buy, out of my price range, so I'd have to do some custom work and make my own, likely using disposable bottles (like my ever growing collection of empty argon cylinders) due to hydrogen embrittlement risk, and structural failure. H2 penetrates many metals and renders them more brittle), otherwise the bare bones of such a DIY job, are means to replace the tank, if it isn't given a glass liner (which I can manage easily enough), pressure gauges, a stand for it, and mechanical rocking arms that swirl the reaction mixture around in a way that ensures maximum contact with the hydrogen, plus of course means to access the inside of the thing to insert and remove contents. If building one though I'll personally add in as a safety precaution, a goodly thickness of welded metal mesh, like a sleeve to go over it that can be removed for access, to restrain fragmentation in case of a critical failure.

Good news so far-got some excellent and most interesting information regarding a certain synthetic opioid  I have interests in, including a report of a human voluntarily selfadministering the compound and reporting on things such as dosage, route of administration, duration of action, secondary effects and more besides.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on October 04, 2017, 03:06:35 PM

So yesterday:

1) Got my uniform and my first shifts, plus a bunch of other stuff to do with work.
2) Ran a tabletop horror game for Freshers night at the D&D group I go to and people fucking loved it. I also enjoyed running it quite a lot, I haven't had that much fun running a tabletop game in a long-ass time.
3) Also, didn't die.  :asthing:

Today:

1) Got even more shifts and am on a service that texts me available shifts and I pretty much reply if I want 'em. Got sixteen requests today alone, some for this week and some for next week but I'm sticking with what I've got. (if I don't reply within a set time they send it on to the next person in the system)
2) Didn't die.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 04, 2017, 08:33:51 PM

Went on a ghost tour with some friends. That was fun.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 04, 2017, 08:49:13 PM

Ghost tour?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 07, 2017, 09:38:19 PM

It was last night, but anyway -
Kayleigh and I went to a friend's place which he had just moved into. It had the steepest driveway I have ever driven up.

We played Cards Against Humanity for ages and I won, heheh. We took a trip to Bunnings to buy a plunger for our friend's toilet, which he had put cat poo down and it blocked it. While we were at Bunnings, we all went to their toilets.

The plunger didn't do the job unfortunately. By the time Kayleigh and I got home, we were busting.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 08, 2017, 04:58:07 PM

Quote from: Lestat on October 04, 2017, 08:49:13 PM

Ghost tour?

They walk around town at night by lantern and they talk about the history of the town, odd deaths, ghost sightings and hauntings etc. It was a fun night out.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 08, 2017, 04:58:40 PM

Quote from: renaeden on October 07, 2017, 09:38:19 PM

It was last night, but anyway -
Kayleigh and I went to a friend's place which he had just moved into. It had the steepest driveway I have ever driven up.

We played Cards Against Humanity for ages and I won, heheh. We took a trip to Bunnings to buy a plunger for our friend's toilet, which he had put cat poo down and it blocked it. While we were at Bunnings, we all went to their toilets.

The plunger didn't do the job unfortunately. By the time Kayleigh and I got home, we were busting.

 :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on October 08, 2017, 05:13:44 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 08, 2017, 04:58:07 PM

Quote from: Lestat on October 04, 2017, 08:49:13 PM

Ghost tour?

They walk around town at night by lantern and they talk about the history of the town, odd deaths, ghost sightings and hauntings etc. It was a fun night out.

I want to do an overnight at the asylum.

http://trans-alleghenylunaticasylum.com/main/hauntings.html

Unfortunately everyone is chickenshit here, it's not real cheap, and you need a min of ten people.

A few of the counselors at the boy's school go every year. They said it's pretty creepy.

I wanna go. :roar:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on October 08, 2017, 06:30:39 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on October 08, 2017, 05:13:44 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 08, 2017, 04:58:07 PM

Quote from: Lestat on October 04, 2017, 08:49:13 PM

Ghost tour?

They walk around town at night by lantern and they talk about the history of the town, odd deaths, ghost sightings and hauntings etc. It was a fun night out.

I want to do an overnight at the asylum.

http://trans-alleghenylunaticasylum.com/main/hauntings.html

Unfortunately everyone is chickenshit here, it's not real cheap, and you need a min of ten people.

A few of the counselors at the boy's school go every year. They said it's pretty creepy.

I wanna go. :roar:

Would definitely go with you. A few years ago, got completely tied up for months looking at photos of abandoned places. Bodaccea started it, by posting a website from a small group of urban explorers who traveled internationally. It was a huge site with lots of location, but maybe they got in trouble because it's gone now. Looked at every image on that website and also read every word because they were very interesting, then after that it spun off into my searching for images elsewhere. It took a while to get over being fixated, but still look every now and then. Plus, architecture has been a life-long interest and the outside of that building alone is worth a day's worth of staring, even if never allowed to enter.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on October 08, 2017, 09:09:54 PM

Quote from: Jack on October 08, 2017, 06:30:39 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on October 08, 2017, 05:13:44 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 08, 2017, 04:58:07 PM

Quote from: Lestat on October 04, 2017, 08:49:13 PM

Ghost tour?

They walk around town at night by lantern and they talk about the history of the town, odd deaths, ghost sightings and hauntings etc. It was a fun night out.

I want to do an overnight at the asylum.

http://trans-alleghenylunaticasylum.com/main/hauntings.html

Unfortunately everyone is chickenshit here, it's not real cheap, and you need a min of ten people.

A few of the counselors at the boy's school go every year. They said it's pretty creepy.

I wanna go. :roar:

Would definitely go with you. A few years ago, got completely tied up for months looking at photos of abandoned places. Bodaccea started it, by posting a website from a small group of urban explorers who traveled internationally. It was a huge site with lots of location, but maybe they got in trouble because it's gone now. Looked at every image on that website and also read every word because they were very interesting, then after that it spun off into my searching for images elsewhere. It took a while to get over being fixated, but still look every now and then. Plus, architecture has been a life-long interest and the outside of that building alone is worth a day's worth of staring, even if never allowed to enter.

Been fixated for years myself on that.

http://opacity.us/

https://www.abandonedamerica.us/

http://picssr.com/photos/equinox27/interesting?nsid=50788895@N00

*feeds your fixation...

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on October 08, 2017, 09:27:42 PM

:laugh: Thanks.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on October 09, 2017, 12:27:32 AM

I made a turkey.  :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 09, 2017, 02:10:53 AM

Old abandoned buildings are interesting to explore a lot of the time.

Been in plenty. One time even found a hoard of cigarette cards, those aren't made anymore, complete set bar 1. Weirdest thing, in the same place, was that there was a stash of old ass videogame floppy disks, found of all places, under the floorboards. IMO if I can get the last one of those cards from somewhere the full set would be worth a fair bit to a collector, and old ones too, all vintage car designs.

Same place had lead piping leading to a copper boiler. Needless to say it took a while, but eventually the pipes, etc. made an exit, leaving me the richer for it.

And the old floppy disk games were good ones too, the original system shock, terminator-future shock and others.

Another place...weird. Looked like it had been abandoned in a real hurry. Fire damage to the lower floors, once in there, found out I was not the first, somebody had left a chunk of hash behind and some valium. Won't even go into the rest of it too much, there was creepy shit going on in there. Ever heard a 13 year old female suddenly start talking in the voice of an old male? that shouldn't even be physically possible, the vocal cords are too different, for a young girl to start speaking in a gravelly old man's voice. And then get tossed through the air...glad that place got knocked down.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 09, 2017, 03:33:06 AM

Pleasant doctor, this morning. And no wuss, she had the guts to cut without sedation.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 09, 2017, 04:46:15 AM

The doctor shouldn't have to be sedated to perform a procedure :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 09, 2017, 05:34:38 AM

 :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 09, 2017, 05:42:50 AM

Spotted a rotavap (rotary evaporator) on ebay for just under £900, and free shipping. Shit yes!

I've wanted a rotavap for SO long, but thats a piece of labware I've always thought would be out of my financial reach. Come tomorrow I'll be all over that like flies flocking to a stink-horn fungus :D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 09, 2017, 09:59:01 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on October 08, 2017, 09:09:54 PM

Quote from: Jack on October 08, 2017, 06:30:39 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on October 08, 2017, 05:13:44 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 08, 2017, 04:58:07 PM

Quote from: Lestat on October 04, 2017, 08:49:13 PM

Ghost tour?

They walk around town at night by lantern and they talk about the history of the town, odd deaths, ghost sightings and hauntings etc. It was a fun night out.

I want to do an overnight at the asylum.

http://trans-alleghenylunaticasylum.com/main/hauntings.html

Unfortunately everyone is chickenshit here, it's not real cheap, and you need a min of ten people.

A few of the counselors at the boy's school go every year. They said it's pretty creepy.

I wanna go. :roar:

Would definitely go with you. A few years ago, got completely tied up for months looking at photos of abandoned places. Bodaccea started it, by posting a website from a small group of urban explorers who traveled internationally. It was a huge site with lots of location, but maybe they got in trouble because it's gone now. Looked at every image on that website and also read every word because they were very interesting, then after that it spun off into my searching for images elsewhere. It took a while to get over being fixated, but still look every now and then. Plus, architecture has been a life-long interest and the outside of that building alone is worth a day's worth of staring, even if never allowed to enter.

Been fixated for years myself on that.

http://opacity.us/

https://www.abandonedamerica.us/

http://picssr.com/photos/equinox27/interesting?nsid=50788895@N00

*feeds your fixation...

Same! Here's another one. This one is local to me: https://www.ontarioabandonedplaces.com/ They have a good FB page as well.

After the ghost tour they brought in a local Paranormal group to do a reading in the basement of the old town hall which in the 1800's was the jail. That was cool too.

The only super freaky thing for me was when we were walking by this building that engraves tombstones. Since it was built in the early 1800's it's only ever been that exact business. So he was talking of some sightings and whatnot and I got nosy and wandered to the side of the building to look in the back shop window and there was a tombstone with monkeygirls first and middle name engraved on it. It was a stone for a little girl who had died in 1993 at the age of 5. That definitely freaked me out. :laugh: You don't look in a window expecting to see most of your child's name on a gravestone.  :hide:

I love love love exploring abandoned buildings.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 09, 2017, 12:21:21 PM

Thats funky.

Although I don't see the point of  an organized tour that forbids actual entry to the buildings.

I prefer to go in alone, or with one, maybe two others. Abandoned buildings only of course, I'm no burglar. But derelict properties and abandoned ones, then in I go. Ideally its just me, although I'll work with a partner to serve as assistant, and have their fair share of course, in the loot; if there is way too much to carry.

Although I'm not above a solo run and making several trips, such as if I find the likes of what was in that old place I found the old floppy disk horde and cigarette cards. There, they had an entire undamaged copper boiler, place obviously abandoned for some time, as they had a central water tank that was made of lead, along with a fair bit of the pipework being lead. Some copper, some of it Pb so with it having Pb pipes at all, that was not a modern building at all.

For me, essential  equipment for such urban exploration is a bergen, some long coils of rope, a hacksaw, pliers w/ wirecutters a crowbar and a dead-blow hammer. Set of screwdrivers and a sturdy folding knife don't go amiss either. And REALLY handy, is one of those circular pipe-cutters, I've got two actually, one that flips open and then clamps round larger pipes, and one sized for smaller pipes that screws the circular blades of the cutter together until they meet, then just twist and slice straight through, each of them weighing very little, and the smallest of the two only a few grams, and either slices through the copper pipes in a few twists round. Screwdrivers and a Glass cutter.

(an old tungsten carbide cutting tool unusable for its original purpose as it has a chip in the carbide tip, but perfectly servicable as a glass cutter, although meant for use in the lathe [we've quite the machine shop for the contents of a garden shed here, a capstan turret metal lathe, old, pre-WWII but perfectly functional and accurate to fractions of a millimeter, perfectly capable of drilling a hole, tapping a thread, and cutting a matching external thread with a die-head in a piece of steel or other metal, a drill-press, bench-mounted router cutters, a couple of double-wheeled bench grinders, tank-fed gas torche and all manner of other bits and pieces. That isn't my lab, thats just the garden shed, plus my old man has his own hobby-room, for electronics stuff, electrically isolated benchtop, a couple of shelves loaded with oscilloscopes, plus another oscilloscope on a pedestal and stacks of containers of electrical components, stuff for making PCBs etc.)

So we each have our little private hideaways really. (although admittedly now I need far more space than can be hosted in the lab, I now have to store a lot of my equipment in crates in the lounge, three hotplates in the kitchen, another two upstairs (those two need some alterations, voltage input adjustments to allow it to use UK rather than US power supplies) and a fridge in what used to be my mothers bedroom when she was still alive. Now it serves to host the hazat fridge for storing things that I can't afford to have leak, and for storing volatiles with low boiling points.

And then theres the microscope in my bedroom and a microwave I found a while back in a supermarket car-park that had obviously been forgotten [I DID wait, and for quite some time, nobody came for it, and I waited long enough to make sure that nobody was going to either, nobody else either noticed, or if they did, have the brass neck enough to walk over, pick it up and walk off with it on their shoulder :p that now serves as my lab microwave]

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 11, 2017, 04:23:32 PM

The PR has reminded me that I neglected to inform the membership that she bowled

a turkey (3 strikes in a row)
and 2 doubles

yesterday in four games.  Average score was 154.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 11, 2017, 04:45:54 PM

Well done hun! *applause*

As for me, although its expensive, I just found a VERY unusual and nice couple of element samples that'd be real hard to get otherwise.

A site that has a block of nice, shiny clean and unoxidized uranium, sometimes have thorium in stock, and the real rare one, they have a strip of gold, plated in technetium metal (as 99Tc) Uranium compounds and thorium compounds are sometimes available online, but I have NEVER seen technetium offered for sale. Its plated as a layer onto gold, for display purposes, in a hermetically sealed glass ampoule. Technetium being the first of any of the elements in the periodic table which was produced synthetically by man rather than occuring naturally.  All isotopes are radioactive, alpha-emitters mainly. And technetium as the form of the nuclear isomer 99mTc is used in radiological medicine, being prepared using continually productive 'technetium cows' which contain a quantity of a radioactive molybdenum isotope that steadily decays, leaving 99mTc as the daughter isotope, with specialized kits for rapid in-situ extraction, preparation and conjugation to suitable delivery vehicles.

Thats another thing to add to my list, Tc being one of the few elements I'll buy for the element collection, since making it would be impractical, and a lot LOT safer to buy a readymade sample. And that, plated onto a strip of gold so it can be viewed properly, sealed into the glass vial is absolutely perfect for an element collection display. Same goes for the nice samples of uranium metal they have. And one other I'll buy rather than make, is the display ampoules containing a sample of elemental fluorine gas, I could make it, but it is both EXTREMELY dangerous, being both very toxic, forming the also highly, highly unpleasant HF, sets things on fire on contact, reacts with glass unless scrupulously anhydrous and dilute, in which form samples are offered through a site  I got tipped off about. And I'd sooner not refine the uranium from the likes of uranyl acetate or uranium nitrate myself for safety reasons, so those few, and especially the perfect sample of technetium 99, those I'm willing to buy rather than obtain some compound of the elements and isolate them myself, which is a large part of the fun in getting a collection together of that sort.

Finding 99Tc like that is like finding a fucking unicorn its so rare as to be near unheard of!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 11, 2017, 09:46:11 PM

^ I have been injected with technetium, when I had a SPECT scan.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 11, 2017, 10:39:04 PM

Why did you have the scan done? viewing blood flow to the lungs  due to your asthma ren?

This is the item itself: http://onyxmet.com/?route=product/product&filter_name=technetium&product_id=2497

Not going to buy it right yet. But given the great scarcity of such top-quality samples of radioactive elements and how hard they can be to obtain for hobby chemists, I do think as soon as I've got me the rotavap and the IR or UV-VIS (IR preferably, of some sort) spectrophotometer, then I'll pounce on one of those, just incase it isn't available for long, because I'm very unlikely to be able to find a sample  of technetium from anywhere else like that, I've never seen anything of that sort sold before, only the likes of needle-sources for cloud chambers, tipped with things like Tc or polonium (usually as 210Po), never samples intended for display pieces like that before prepared so as to give a good view, typically that sort of thing if available at all consists of a metal needle with a tip that has been given a plating of a metal doped with a tiny amount, a few microcuries typically, of something like 99Tc or 210Po for use in experiments like building cloud chambers as particle detectors for ionizing radiation, and for use as known-activity sources for calibrating/testing geiger counters. To see a display piece like this is really, really rare. In fact, at least in the case of technetium I've never seen the like before.

So I'd quite like to get one while they are around, lest regulations change etc. and they become unobtainable later on.

And for a pic:

[img]http://onyxmet.com/image/cache/data/2017%202/Technetium-cr-800x800.JPG[/img[

Pretty obvious why I want to get something like that, no? items of that sort just don't turn up often, if they ever do so at all, visible samples are pretty much nonexistent, aside from uranium perhaps, and maybe thorium. Th and U compounds are available quite easily, but for a display piece, its the elements themselves I'm after. Like a piece of depleted uranium (238U) and of thorium metal, each sealed in glass vials like will be used for all the samples once I've  gotten the materials to build a really nice periodic table wall-mounted case for them all, something I can make as a real sweet work of art in and of  itself :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on October 12, 2017, 09:28:39 AM

Saw some cute dogs today.

Also, didn't die.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 12, 2017, 10:41:38 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on October 12, 2017, 09:28:39 AM

Saw some cute dogs today.

Also, didn't die.  :asthing:

  What kind of dogs?  :doggie:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 12, 2017, 11:22:51 AM

Got one of those good 'Community Chest' cards in real life yesterday it was rather unexpected :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 12, 2017, 04:37:53 PM

One of those whatnow?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 12, 2017, 06:47:37 PM

Quote from: Lestat on October 09, 2017, 12:21:21 PM

Thats funky.

Although I don't see the point of  an organized tour that forbids actual entry to the buildings.

I prefer to go in alone, or with one, maybe two others. Abandoned buildings only of course, I'm no burglar. But derelict properties and abandoned ones, then in I go. Ideally its just me, although I'll work with a partner to serve as assistant, and have their fair share of course, in the loot; if there is way too much to carry.

Although I'm not above a solo run and making several trips, such as if I find the likes of what was in that old place I found the old floppy disk horde and cigarette cards. There, they had an entire undamaged copper boiler, place obviously abandoned for some time, as they had a central water tank that was made of lead, along with a fair bit of the pipework being lead. Some copper, some of it Pb so with it having Pb pipes at all, that was not a modern building at all.

For me, essential  equipment for such urban exploration is a bergen, some long coils of rope, a hacksaw, pliers w/ wirecutters a crowbar and a dead-blow hammer. Set of screwdrivers and a sturdy folding knife don't go amiss either. And REALLY handy, is one of those circular pipe-cutters, I've got two actually, one that flips open and then clamps round larger pipes, and one sized for smaller pipes that screws the circular blades of the cutter together until they meet, then just twist and slice straight through, each of them weighing very little, and the smallest of the two only a few grams, and either slices through the copper pipes in a few twists round. Screwdrivers and a Glass cutter.

(an old tungsten carbide cutting tool unusable for its original purpose as it has a chip in the carbide tip, but perfectly servicable as a glass cutter, although meant for use in the lathe [we've quite the machine shop for the contents of a garden shed here, a capstan turret metal lathe, old, pre-WWII but perfectly functional and accurate to fractions of a millimeter, perfectly capable of drilling a hole, tapping a thread, and cutting a matching external thread with a die-head in a piece of steel or other metal, a drill-press, bench-mounted router cutters, a couple of double-wheeled bench grinders, tank-fed gas torche and all manner of other bits and pieces. That isn't my lab, thats just the garden shed, plus my old man has his own hobby-room, for electronics stuff, electrically isolated benchtop, a couple of shelves loaded with oscilloscopes, plus another oscilloscope on a pedestal and stacks of containers of electrical components, stuff for making PCBs etc.)

So we each have our little private hideaways really. (although admittedly now I need far more space than can be hosted in the lab, I now have to store a lot of my equipment in crates in the lounge, three hotplates in the kitchen, another two upstairs (those two need some alterations, voltage input adjustments to allow it to use UK rather than US power supplies) and a fridge in what used to be my mothers bedroom when she was still alive. Now it serves to host the hazat fridge for storing things that I can't afford to have leak, and for storing volatiles with low boiling points.

And then theres the microscope in my bedroom and a microwave I found a while back in a supermarket car-park that had obviously been forgotten [I DID wait, and for quite some time, nobody came for it, and I waited long enough to make sure that nobody was going to either, nobody else either noticed, or if they did, have the brass neck enough to walk over, pick it up and walk off with it on their shoulder :p that now serves as my lab microwave]

I take nothing but pictures if I'm exploring abandoned houses. I like leaving everything exactly as it was found.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 12, 2017, 07:57:47 PM

Here its typically abandoned places in run-down areas, and if I didn't, somebody else certainly would. I figure it may as well be me, if somebody is (and trust me on it, they will and all too often already have done). If there are treasures to be had, especially, plenty of the folk that'd go in to strip the wiring, the pipes and such would probably not recognize the value in antiques, like the cigarette card collection. Scrap metal, yes but not in things like those.)

And finding that collection of vintage videogames on floppy disks was neat. Although I can't help but wonder how on earth something like a huge heap of old videogame disks, of all things, comes to be stashed under the floorboards of an abandoned building. That was pretty weird. Some titles I had played demos etc. of and wanted too, and some old, old old stuff but still top-notch, like the original system-shock. (early-mid '90s). That game still kicks arse. And hey if I'm taking those with me, why leave behind many kilos of copper and lead? Just a very few kg of copper (spot prices last time I traded any in) brought me £20-25 for a handful of kilos, lead isn't worth as much but its still a good earner. An entire copper house main boiler and thick lead water tank, plus the pipes under the floorboards, the wiring out of the walls etc.? thats a small fortune, a couple of hundred at least, for a few hours work with a hacksaw and some pipe cutters (although given the low MP of lead, iand how soft it is, it fouls sawblades and lead is easier to dissect into portions that could be put into as little space in the bergen worn to carry out the goodies using a nice, quiet propane torch. Couple of hundred quid for just a few hours work, most of it being going back and forth ferrying out your finds in portions, as its  a lot of weight, especially if you happen to have discovered a big stash of lead, since its so dense and heavy. Half an hour to cut it up if your fast, maybe 3/4 hour taking more time on it, and you've just paid a month's rent, and quite possibly had 100-150 quid left over in change for yourself. I was even luckier that time I found the place with the disks, the cigarette cards, the lead water tank and plumbing and copper pipes and master boiler, since I was in my mid teens at the time and I didn't have any costs save the overheads due to the running costs of my lab.

So the entire pile of loot was all mine, that is, the payment for it was, to go out and stock up on tubs of potassium permanganate, sodium chlorate, concentrated hydrochloric/phosphoric/sulfuric/formic acids, sulfur, solvents and all manner of other good things :)

Place wasn't a tourist attraction, it was a medieval-looking shite hole on an estate that was probably worse than the derelict property. It was resources to somebody, and that somebody, I decided, ought to be me. I found the place, so I get to loot it. Fair is fair, no? nobody was  coming back for their run down shithole, it wasn't burgling somebody's home (which I wouldn't do of course) and sure as shit stinks it was no pretty little tourist attraction. Only people touring places like that aren't ghost hunters, they're scrap metal hunters, and they don't do it in groups (I've they have any choice in the matter) or hang round snapping pretty pictures.

So since nobody would suffer from my going in for it, nobody loses out other than by virtue solely of not being the first to find the building, no people are being stolen from, it is fair game. And especially considering I had very little by way of disposable income at that age, several hundred pounds was an awful lot of money at the time, still nowt to sniff at.

Piles of cash for very little effort are always good :D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 12, 2017, 08:38:34 PM

Quote from: Lestat on October 11, 2017, 10:39:04 PM

Why did you have the scan done? viewing blood flow to the lungs due to your asthma ren?

It was in 2004, long ago. I would say that the technology has changed and improved a lot since then. The SPECT scan was done on my brain, testing for ADHD. Beforehand, I had to do a concentration task on a computer while they injected the technetium. I had to press the spacebar on the keyboard every time a letter came up on the screen except for when an x would show up. Was supposed to press nothing then.

After the task finished, I (with technetium inside me) had the scan. It took ages but showed blood flow decreased below normal to the frontal lobes when they should have lit up like a beacon given that I was concentrating on something. There was other stuff besides but I can't recall that now. I would have to dig out my report.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 12, 2017, 09:26:13 PM

I'd be interested to read them if you are fine with posting the inner workings of your squishy parts.

How long did it go on for? Interesting summary btw. I didn't know that they used 99mTc to test for AD(H)D. Actually I find it somewhat surprising that 'they' are willing to use radiopharmaceutical methods for a purpose of that kind (not belittling you for having AD(H):D btw ren, although you probably knew that already:)
I show some traits of ADD (no 'H') myself, and I'd be interested in getting it tested if there is a definitive assay. Although I do not see it actually happening; reason for that being that getting ANYTHING from doctors here is like pulling out teeth. Your own. Sideways out of your arsehole with a rusty pair of toenail clippers.
And no, I am not in the slightest about to try and build my own SPECT scanner and use some of that technetium to create a radioligand probe. Hell if I'm ending up like alexander litvinenko (alpha radiation isn't very penetrating, in any but the most energetic particles, but if it gets inside you then the effects are fucking ugly, and a powerful alpha emitter, like that technetium 99 source I linked to, would fry somebody extra crispy if delivered internally, the fact that its actually visible guarantees that much, and especially in a form that could distribute throughout the body. Wouldn't be pretty, and it wouldn't be quick either)

For a collection though, that is a real sweet find, and one I'm definitely going to be keeping my eyes on with a view to snagging it; and doing so as soon as I've gotten me the piece of labware I am currently scoping out; and have saved up enough money again to bag my prize, because a piece like that is NOT likely to come up very often on any market available to hobbyists. Might just grab myself a piece of uranium while I'm at it, although the Tc will have first priority, since uranium (and the thorium they sometimes have) do sometimes come up here and there for sale. Although I'd really like to see crop up would be some promethium, as the metal, such as a plating on a gold surface as with the Tc. Promethium-based phosphor-radioisotope mixture paints are sometimes around, used similarly to radium paint, but I've never found any of the metal to be had, yet. That I reckon will prove to be one of the most damn difficult of all the elements to obtain [it too, like Tc has no stable isotopes,  and its only produced in reactors in small quantities. So getting ahold of any will prove tricky. A framed collection wouldn't look right without it though, having a gaping hole smack bang in the middle of the lanthanide series]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 13, 2017, 08:26:27 AM

Announced today:  Parliament has granted The PR a 2% increase in her pension starting in January.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 13, 2017, 09:49:18 AM

^Good news indeed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 13, 2017, 09:58:49 AM

Every little bit helps

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 13, 2017, 12:30:17 PM

2? how very generous of them.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 13, 2017, 01:57:10 PM

Quote from: Lestat on October 13, 2017, 12:30:17 PM

2? how very generous of them.

It's a lot more than interest rates on savings accounts nowadays.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 13, 2017, 03:53:00 PM

Quote from: Lestat on October 12, 2017, 04:37:53 PM

One of those whatnow?

Community Chest cards   from the game Monopoly some are good some are not.  I got one of the the unexpected money ones :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 13, 2017, 05:02:36 PM

Bought an old compass today along with an antique shovel and a big sledge hammer for $5.  I just got around to really looking at it and it is WW2 German marching compass which go for  $60 or so.   :headbang2: 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 14, 2017, 01:15:12 AM

Yeah true for the most part hyke.

I am going to move bank as soon as its practical, they treat people like shit. After enquiring what my current interest rate was, I got 'oh you don't get interest'

Sorry fuckers but that and deliberately tricking somebody out of account features they were getting with the promise of things never delivered, along with some other distinctly unsavoury practices (to say the least), moving from those halifax pricks the moment its practical.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on October 14, 2017, 01:41:54 AM

 :-*

Quote from: Lestat on October 14, 2017, 01:15:12 AM

Yeah true for the most part hyke.

I am going to move bank as soon as its practical, they treat people like shit. After enquiring what my current interest rate was, I got 'oh you don't get interest'

Sorry fuckers but that and deliberately tricking somebody out of account features they were getting with the promise of things never delivered, along with some other distinctly unsavoury practices (to say the least), moving from those halifax pricks the moment its practical.

Wonder if you will find a better bank. Some Swiss banks are even pondering on negative interest now.  :zombiefuck:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on October 14, 2017, 05:22:25 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on October 13, 2017, 01:57:10 PM

Quote from: Lestat on October 13, 2017, 12:30:17 PM

2? how very generous of them.

It's a lot more than interest rates on savings accounts nowadays.

  Damn right.  My father's parents got 3% interest on their savings account during the Depression.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on October 15, 2017, 10:26:11 AM

Shared a lasagna with my dog.
Also, didn't die.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 15, 2017, 11:51:17 AM

Went for a long walk with the pup.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 16, 2017, 02:40:47 AM

Theres at least one that offers something like 3%, and IIRC gives you £100 for switching banks to them. And no matter what, I can't get much worse than these bastards, they are liars and penny-pinching cunts. Christ, I've even been lied to (three, maybe four times) about them sending out a new checkbook. I don't use checks very often at all, but I needed (and still do) a new checkbook for the odd foreign place that doesn't have paypal or visa debit facilities, such as one  ethnobotanicals store specializing in african Ubulawu supplies and since I can't login to one of my payment-processor go-throughs I can't order from them until I get a new checkbook.

And the reason for needing a new one is..unusual to say the least. Something melted through a dresser, through the top and carried on burning through the checkbook until not one was usable and they had been turned to dust. I don't know what or when exactly but whatever it was goes through several inches of wood and keeps on going, like the acidic blood of the creatures in the 'alien' series of movies/books and the moment the checkbook was picked up it partially disintegrated, and the rest was all powdery and puffed-up.

Every time its been 'we'll send you a new one right away' and never have I got one, I'm still without one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on October 16, 2017, 06:31:32 AM

I made about £500 from switching banks. Then I spent it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 16, 2017, 07:07:51 AM

You are in the UK right FWM? got any tips on making that much? because that could go an awful long way to going straight from my getting the rotavap I've got my eyes on, to the spectrophotometer without much saving, and for that matter, that much would pay for the 99Tc display piece I've seen and want in on before anybody else gets there in on it and leave me a couple of hundred to spare :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on October 16, 2017, 08:54:40 AM

I switched about three times, each bank offering about £125-£200 each time. First Direct wouldn't accept me.  >:( My credit score is perfect. But then, I've rarely borrowed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on October 16, 2017, 08:59:19 AM

Yes I'm in the UK.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 16, 2017, 10:07:17 AM

A cinema tech friend of mine texted me, wondering if I still wanted a Dolby CP45 processor. He had one in his boot.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 16, 2017, 10:30:12 AM

Ah, I had assumed that they would be wise to that and refuse to hand over the gift-money for joining if one were to say, join one, close it the day after and move on to the next. Its just the sort of thing, although not benefitting them given that it is, per person a one-time offer, they would do out of spite.

And banks seem to specialize in spite to the point of making it a fine art. Telling somebody to use the checks they have first before issuing a new checkbook (after the many promises of sending a new book out in the mail straight away) that the fact that some unknown corrosive burnt through a half inch of wooden dresser shelf before continuing on to hit about 1/3 of the surface area of the checkbook and reducing the parts contacted to swollen, whitish-grey material which crumbled away to powder when touched was not a good enough reason to give a new checkbook and to use the ones left [whatever it was that did the damage left only parts of checks, those areas which were missed by whatever disintegrated the shelf above and did a fair job of eating into the one the checkbook was on after chewing that up, and no shop or internet vendor on earth is going to accept a few fragments of check and a pinch of irritating, burning off-white dust in payment, so 'use them up' is hardly advice that can be followed, is it now. Granted it isn't a particularly common reason to need a new one, but all the same, destroyed is destroyed, its the end rather than the means that matters, no?)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 16, 2017, 05:35:18 PM

Got paid cash for the job I just finished

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on October 16, 2017, 05:48:45 PM

Quote from: Parts on October 16, 2017, 05:35:18 PM

Got paid cash for the job I just finished

May I have some cash?  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 17, 2017, 12:11:43 AM

Quote from: Lestat on October 16, 2017, 02:40:47 AM

Theres at least one that offers something like 3%, and IIRC gives you £100 for switching banks to them. And no matter what, I can't get much worse than these bastards, they are liars and penny-pinching cunts. Christ, I've even been lied to (three, maybe four times) about them sending out a new checkbook. I don't use checks very often at all, but I needed (and still do) a new checkbook for the odd foreign place that doesn't have paypal or visa debit facilities, such as one  ethnobotanicals store specializing in african Ubulawu supplies and since I can't login to one of my payment-processor go-throughs I can't order from them until I get a new checkbook.

And the reason for needing a new one is..unusual to say the least. Something melted through a dresser, through the top and carried on burning through the checkbook until not one was usable and they had been turned to dust. I don't know what or when exactly but whatever it was goes through several inches of wood and keeps on going, like the acidic blood of the creatures in the 'alien' series of movies/books and the moment the checkbook was picked up it partially disintegrated, and the rest was all powdery and puffed-up.

Every time its been 'we'll send you a new one right away' and never have I got one, I'm still without one.

I have a cheque account but I have never used a cheque book. All just cash and EFTPOS. My pension goes straight into my account each fortnight and I pay most of my bills on the internet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 17, 2017, 12:54:26 AM

Aside from food shopping then most of my spending is online.  I very rarely used checks, its solely for such places as its the only practical way to pay (since my shite eating bunch of fucktards that call themselves the staff of my socalled 'bank' refuses to do bank transfers, within this country or to anywhere else).

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 22, 2017, 05:06:29 PM

My street hosted a get together so we could meet everyone. Never expected this, living in the country but it turned out being so much fun. Some of the original home owners/farmers came out and they're all nearing 100. A good mix of ages. From young familes, to middle aged, to elderly. Good food, good drinks, good time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 23, 2017, 02:13:09 AM

Found a site that deals in nootropics, and I've been wanting to restart a nootropic stack. Tried a few of the 'racetams with helpful results on my now awful memory loss and lack of energy, piracetam, aniracetam and the best of the lot, that I've tried so far, pramiracetam, although its expensive. Thinking I might order some modafinil or one of its analogs, noopept looks interesting, and I'd really like to (at separate times) compare selank and semax, a pair of peptidic nootropics that work via modulation of the stress hormone response (one is a modified portion of ACTH, the other a modified tuftsin derivative, can't be taken orally seeing as they are peptides, but work either via nasal spray, or better, subcutaneous injection) and the really interesting thing is they offer a few real unusual nootropics, such as the AMPAkine IDRA-21 and NSI-189

http://www.smarternootropics.com/nsi-189/

Wouldn't mind restocking some pramiracetam, and giving coluracetam and phenylpiracetam a try too.

Typically, I'll use an amphetamine of some kind (in therapeutic doses, or somewhat above, not enough to get smashed, just enough when something must be done and I can't find the energy to move (sometimes Its so bad I can't summon the energy and drive to go and get a drink even, until in the ravenings of thirst, and even then, have drunk neat, undiluted lime cordial just because I can't physically get up, and that was close by)

But it isn't that sort of thing I want really. I don't just want either a recreational and reinforcing drug to serve the purpose, but something that'll actually help fix the deficit itself rather than just giving me a shove in the right direction on a temporary basis. And FINALLY found a source of memantine, I've tried it before and the stuff worked like magic, made all the memory, attentional, motivation etc. energy problems just disappear.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on October 26, 2017, 05:10:23 AM

Didn't die.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 26, 2017, 06:54:26 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on October 26, 2017, 05:10:23 AM

Didn't die.  :asthing:

Well done sir, well done!  ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 26, 2017, 10:06:06 AM

Finally got a good start on a 9th step amends to PA this morning.  Problem was I was half asleep, so I don't remember all of it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 26, 2017, 05:13:11 PM

One of the pups visited monkeygirls school today. She was a huge hit with both kids and staff.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on October 26, 2017, 10:47:00 PM

What is a 9th step amends?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 27, 2017, 12:17:18 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on October 26, 2017, 10:47:00 PM

What is a 9th step amends?

In Twelve Step groups the eight step is
"Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all."

Step Nine is
"Made direct amends wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 27, 2017, 02:11:50 PM

I love it when the bus drops the girlie off after school and I can hear her singing to herself as she comes up the driveway :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on November 03, 2017, 06:17:00 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on October 27, 2017, 02:11:50 PM

I love it when the bus drops the girlie off after school and I can hear her singing to herself as she comes up the driveway :heart:

Enjoy that...for some day she will get her first full time job and walk up the driveway cussing. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on November 03, 2017, 09:05:24 AM

Bacon omelette and fresh fruit for breakfast.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on November 03, 2017, 01:41:06 PM

Got some further data on a certain chemical rxn, enough, finally to get to work on it once star trek voyager and then a retro sci-fi show called 'lost in space' are finished. Time to finally conquer the bugger that's bested me until now :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 04, 2017, 01:42:05 PM

Found some more interesting things at a tag sale

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 04, 2017, 01:43:40 PM

What did you find?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 04, 2017, 03:43:07 PM

An old hatchet with a hand made handle, a couple Ford Deluxe emblems from the 40s, a couple Starrett micrometers, among other things

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on November 04, 2017, 05:07:21 PM

Quote from: Parts on November 04, 2017, 03:43:07 PM

An old hatchet with a hand made handle, a couple Ford Deluxe emblems from the 40s, a couple Starrett micrometers, among other things

Nice. I seldom even see micrometers anymore around here.

Did find a nice gold ring at the rummage sale here that missed the eyes of the staff, but not a whole lot else.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on November 04, 2017, 07:31:30 PM

I slept 14 hours last night because I was sick. But still, that's amazing and I'll take it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on November 06, 2017, 12:21:21 PM

Hope your feeling better hun. Get well soon :)

As for me-courier driver offering to carry my package into my house, eve though it is very heavy and came not in a packet or box but a big wooden crate that was nailed together and fixed up with steel brackets round each edge and big metal tabs that needed a screwdriver and pliers to get the thing open and for me to get my brand new rotavap out. And as well, accidentally wrote off the over £70 in taxes I 'owed' to the government and their ever-greedy coffers, leaving me a very generous amount of money towards the new vacuum pump, manifold, cryo-trap and vacuum gauges for both direct measurement of pump output and also a separate vacuum gauge to be set up between every port on the manifold and the vacuum regulator stopcocks I'll be using to regulate the vacuum, so I can thus have it set up so I can connect up multiple separate systems and have them each maintained at different negative pressure gradients, according to my needs; or to perform tasks such as doing more than one vacuum distillation at once, using the manifold run a cow each ( a 'cow' as used in vacuum distillations is a piece of glassware which accommodates several receiver flasks and the part that does so can be rotated around like the cylinder of a revolver, ad the flask that is receiving distillate swapped instantly in order to switch the fraction currently being cut, all without interrupting the distillation or taking down and rearranging vacuum parts, cleaning grease off things and regreasing parts etc., all a lot of effort whilst the parts are still damn hot, distillate is still trickling drops out of the condenser etc. So taking a flask off to attach another in order to collect another fraction cut at a different temperature means the entire thing is removed from being under vacuum, which in many cases would be disastrous, such as air-reactive compounds or those that react dangerously with water. The 'cow' allows a chemist using it to preattach the flasks and just rotate them round whilst the system is still maintained under vacuum and no other interference is necessary to change flasks over and collect multiple different cuts during a fractional distillation done under vacuum.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 12, 2017, 04:24:50 PM

I got two nice grinder stands from a house I worked on about a month ago the guy just wanted them gone.  One is cast iron and weighs about 100lbs the other I beams and one inch steel plate and weighs a little less.   Not sure what I'll do with them yet though

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on November 15, 2017, 06:41:00 PM

just getting round to making a new email address, via an encrypted email provider.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 26, 2017, 04:24:06 AM

Finally got home after my week long roadtrip to my nan's in QLD  :hotrodder:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 26, 2017, 10:36:43 AM

Not today, but last night The PR and I spent a delightful hour or so romping with a perfect pit bull named Piggy.  We were licked to death, rolled around with her, rubbed her.  She belongs to my friend's son and DIL.  They were in for the holidays.  We came home worn out and Piggy was still napping 3 hours after we left.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on November 26, 2017, 11:52:48 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on November 26, 2017, 10:36:43 AM

Not today, but last night The PR and I spent a delightful hour or so romping with a perfect pit bull named Piggy.  We were licked to death, rolled around with her, rubbed her.  She belongs to my friend's son and DIL.  They were in for the holidays.  We came home worn out and Piggy was still napping 3 hours after we left.

Old neighbors had a pit that used to jump the fence, & sneak up on me while I was in the garden. Weeding one minute, pinnned on the ground the next being licked to death.

I miss that dog so much. :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on November 27, 2017, 12:06:41 PM

Thats unusual. A pittbull that isn't an evil cunt. Licked to death? before or after it got bored of trying to rip your face off?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on November 27, 2017, 02:43:58 PM

Quote from: Lestat on November 27, 2017, 12:06:41 PM

Thats unusual. A pittbull that isn't an evil cunt. Licked to death? before or after it got bored of trying to rip your face off?

Depends a lot on how they're bred, trained, and the owner. BIL has had them all his life, and every single one was friendly, sweet, and very lovable.

FIL had a boxer he trained to guard the house and attack, because he can be a dick. Couldn't turn your eyes on the dog for a second...it even bit him.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on November 27, 2017, 05:19:55 PM

I've never been within the same few hundred meters or so of one that wasn't the offspring of the devil.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 20, 2017, 06:14:29 PM

Round about good thing

PA's niece's step-sister and her partner adopted foster siblings today.  That makes 3 foster children 3 and under they've adopted this year.  It will be a very good Christmas for their family.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on December 21, 2017, 12:20:15 PM

I get extra filling tomorrow in the next Mexican chicken baguette that I buy, because they ran out of chilli cheese for the one today. Going to ask for extra jalapenos, onions and chipotle sauce. Never fajita dressing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 21, 2017, 04:50:09 PM

Took The PR to the doctor this afternoon.  He did an awesome thing.  He's going to pay for her to go to a fitness center for a year.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 21, 2017, 11:01:50 PM

Family are visiting, and they helped me get a Christmas tree.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on December 22, 2017, 06:22:53 AM

I noticed that Calandale's karma is steadily creeping up towards zero.  That's bloody amazing! That's unprecedented. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 22, 2017, 09:14:27 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 21, 2017, 11:01:50 PM

Family are visiting, and they helped me get a Christmas tree.

 :santa:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on December 22, 2017, 10:17:07 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 21, 2017, 11:01:50 PM

Family are visiting, and they helped me get a Christmas tree.

Family visiting makes it into "Something Good" ????
Wow! That's even better!  :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 22, 2017, 10:18:55 AM

No no, the Christmas tree was the something good. I was just being fair and acknowledging it was the family that facilitated it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on December 22, 2017, 10:37:55 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 22, 2017, 10:18:55 AM

No no, the Christmas tree was the something good. I was just being fair and acknowledging it was the family that facilitated it.

 :plus: for being fair even when nobody's watching,

How autistic is that? I'm bloody proud of you!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 22, 2017, 04:32:06 PM

Quote from: Walkie on December 22, 2017, 06:22:53 AM

I noticed that Calandale's karma is steadily creeping up towards zero.  That's bloody amazing! That's unprecedented.

He's lost his touch. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on December 22, 2017, 09:53:18 PM

Stopped in the thrift store and found an old Seth Thomas mantle clock.

It ticks, came with the key for winding, needs new hands and chimes 12 times at 10:00.

I love it. :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 23, 2017, 02:59:52 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 23, 2017, 07:56:41 AM

Had pizza for dinner at my friend's house. Played a few rounds of Uno.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Calandale on December 23, 2017, 08:03:20 AM

A chicky I don't think I want showed up for the dance, and then probably went home with someone.


On the other side though, I got assurances that my defensor aspect was appreciated last week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on December 27, 2017, 06:58:15 PM

Quote from: Calandale on December 23, 2017, 08:03:20 AM

A chicky I don't think I want showed up for the dance, and then probably went home with someone.


On the other side though, I got assurances that my defensor aspect was appreciated last week.

What's a defensor aspect?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 27, 2017, 07:40:33 PM

Gym

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 30, 2017, 09:18:41 AM

PR go with you? Hope you both had a good time. She try the duct tape or seatbelt foot strap idea?

As for something good...I revisited the site of the mission I just completed (the first) in fallout-tactics, after reading about some valuable loot I knew I hadn't recovered...checked a crate by a roadblock formerly manned by a bunch of raiders, now busy rotting on the floor, riddled with 9mm, .45 caliber SMG and pistol rounds, and full of buckshot after having a trooper crawl right under to the sandbags they were behind, only to stand up suddenly, blast one guy at a range of a couple of feet with both barrels of a shotgun.

Went back, and recovered a tactical medical kit, along with a pair of (quite uncommon, and to buy, very expensive, especially when just starting out) incendiary antipersonnel grenades, that whilst not so effective against armored targets in heavy gear, against lightly armored or unarmored targets, those things are very, very effective and not unlikely to instantly incinerate several hostile targets at once if tossed into a crowd. Went back and stabbed a few mutant two-headed cows to death with my main 'personal' (as opposed to squad members) character using a pair of punch-daggers for some experience points towards leveling up her character. (named 'kassi' in honor of a certain smokin' gorgeous, super-intelligent, delightful autistic activist lady :D)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 30, 2017, 09:52:46 AM

And more goodies. Doing a  bit of exploration, found some civillians, unarmed, a couple of them carrying stimpaks, and two of them carrying almost 50 shotgun shells. And my squad members are each packing at least either a pump action, or double-barrel shotgun for close-up head-removal ambushes, can never have too many shotgun shells when there are heads needing blowing off.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on December 30, 2017, 10:31:40 AM

Quote from: Lestat on December 30, 2017, 09:52:46 AM

And more goodies. Doing a  bit of exploration, found some civillians, unarmed, a couple of them carrying stimpaks, and two of them carrying almost 50 shotgun shells. And my squad members are each packing at least either a pump action, or double-barrel shotgun for close-up head-removal ambushes, can never have too many shotgun shells when there are heads needing blowing off.

I bet some NT is gonna stumble on this post and press their Autism panic button.  :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 30, 2017, 11:31:58 AM

What? jut because OMFG! an autistic killed somebody in a violent VIDEO GAME, shot them full of SMG bursts before loosing off two guys' shotguns right to their eyes and head? (in the fallout game series, they are set in a post-apocalyptic world, after a nuclear war that nearly wiped earth clean of life, and they are all set in whats left, with people trying to rebuild the world, many living like cavemen, others with firearms etc., raiders, slavers, and better people, at least people with better ideals [the brotherhood of steel] who formed a group dedicated to preserving technology of the old world, pre-war, and developing new tech, to rebuild civilization] with everything up to high-tech power armor, laser and plasma weaponry.

Along with of course, mutated wildlife from the radiation like gigantic spider-hunting wasps, scorpions the size of from a dog (small rad-scorpions) to something more like a cow sized monstrosity (your average radscorpion), farmers herding 'brahmin', radiation-mutated double-headed cows, and all manner of other monstrosities that generally speaking, the best response to is a machinegun burst between the eyes)

And you can either fire un-aimed (well aimed AT, but not targeting anything special) at any enemy, the smaller the target and longer the range, the poorer the training at the time with the class of weapons (smallarms, such as 'normal' pistols, submachineguns, assault rifles, shotguns, sniper rifles etc.), melee weapons (your meat cleavers, broken glass bottles, your various sharp pointy stabby types of objects, your baseball bats with metal spikes sticking out of them etc. All nice and quiet, although short-ranged, but ideal for squad troops with high sneaking/stealth skill, to creep up behind sentries and silently end them, or knock them unconscious with a bat, cattle-prod up-graded to deliver a lethal charge, then quickly grab them and stab them once they are out cold on the dirt, to avoid alerting other enemies nearby but out of line-of-sight), heavy weapons (flamethrowers, miniguns, .50 caliber autocannons, rocket launchers, etc.) and energy weapons such as gauss rifles, electromagnetic pulse weaponry, laser and plasma weapons) as well as thrown weaponry like fragmentation grenades, incendiary grenades, moltov cocktails, toxic gas, and EMP grenades [the last doing, like EMP pistols/rifles, no damage to human, mutant or mutated wildlife type enemies, if its made of meat, they do no harm, but against robotic foes, EMP weapons are truly lethal, even better than acid-throwers and acid grenades [exactly what they sound like. The first being similar to a flamethrower, but fires a gout of acid to do terrible damage to robotic enemies, whilst also wreaking bloody havoc upon things made of meat. Not particularly a pleasant weapon, but one that IS very effective indeed. Does what it says on the tin, really. 'acid thrower'. It throws acid. No further explanation required:autism:]

But...I am autistic, not a moron. Whilst NTs don't realize it. There IS a difference. And I might do really gory, nasty things to characters in videogames, but just because I've say, played grand theft auto, it doesn't mean I go round carjacking people.
(well, once, many, many many years ago, but only once, and I wasn't the one who started it. All a bit of a clusterfuck of an incident that one, but it had to be done), but doesn't mean I run around raping and killing prostitutes, shooting people for fun, running pedestrians over with cars to see how many I can kill in one splatter and how long of a blood-trail I can leave behind when I've squished them.

As for fallout-tactics, I keep running into packs of civillians, that can be stealthily stolen from, and they often seem to carry 50-70 odd 12-gauge shells and some stimpacks, that are more than worth relieving them of, since when not discovered there are no consequences.

But do I steal from people? no. Not unless the person has stolen from me and I am merely re-taking that which is stolen, and helping myself to a few things formerly belonging to the thief. If someone tries to mug me, sure, I'll break his fucking arms and go through his pockets, take any weed, smokes, phones, shoes they have. But I don't BEGIN the thefts. I only steal from those who have first stolen from me. I'm obviously going to take back what is mine, but if they see it as alright to go round pinching things from people, then its obviously OK with them, so they oughtn't to have a problem when I take their things, since they don't have any issues doing it to me.

I'm not an immoral person as such. I just have my own morals. I don't hurt people unless I am defending myself or standing up for somebody who is attacked and taking a beating etc., or abusing animals. The exception to that rule being sex offenders. In that case, I did once meet a child rapist, unfortunately, and I stamped the little creepazoid into meatpaste and took a pool-que to his head. Otherwise, I am kind to others, I consider their feelings, and for a friend I will go to the ends of the earth. I won't START fights, animal or child/women abusers excepted, but if one is started by another who intends to hurt me or those I care for, then of course, I don't have the slightest problem with putting an attacker in hospital or worse. If they had but walked on by, and left me unmolested, I would not even have spoken a single word to the person, but pull out a knife on me, and they are likely to find it buried in something soft and squishy that they really wish it hadn't been stuck in.

In life, I go by 'treat people as I wish to be treated, and treat people as they treat me. So be good to me, I am good to you, be indifferent or do not interact with me, and you are treated thus, attempt to bring me harm, and you are harmed. A faithful friend is rewarded with unswerving faithful friendship unless they do something that means they no longer deserve it. A lover/partner, I will stand for no matter WHAT, and give of me, every little scrap that exists. If I'm with someone, I am THEIR'S and theirs alone.

On the whole, I'd say that I'm a pretty good person, generally speaking, overall. I might ignore lex legis that does not suit me, but only when there is not a victim. (E.g, smoking weed, kind of thing, where nobody's rights are infringed upon by my doing so) or doing things alchymical which others might not approve of. But if the worst that can happen to another is their disapproval, as a consequence of my actions, and they are not friends, family, loved ones etc. but random buggers, they can just be kept firmly in the dark, and stay that way. Disapproval, hate of, dislike for an action is not good enough for me not to do something, people can hate it all they like, but I'll not force them either to ingest anything I might make, or participate in activities involving such things. So they are free to go about their business in all ways, just so long as they do not interfere in my own.

I'm generally considerate, caring, to a lover, loving, faithful, not a stingy person/miser, sure, there is a side of me perfectly capable of doing some very unpleasant things to people. But that side only comes out when it must, when the recipient has earned it, Someone pokes me, I'll poke  them. Somebody pokes me harder, I'll poke them harder back. Someone goes to seriously hurt me, and they ought to think again before they act, and do otherwise than try. Because then, that side of me will come out. And it really hasn't got any moral qualms. On the other hand, the threshold for that vicious side being let off its very tight leash has the bar set high, and somebody must have genuinely earned what they get. Earn it, though, and whoever it is will quickly wish they hadn't earned it. The leash is tight, alright, but if it gets let off that leash then the nastier side of me isn't going to hold back.

If that ever means I need to chop somebody into little tiny pieces, dissolve them in acid, take a long, long, long hike, neutralize the acid to avoid polluting the environment and flush them away in several rivers then so be it. But nobody is going to end up murdered by me. I'd only ever commit pesticide. If you get what I mean. The moral there, is people can avoid my committing pesticide upon their person by avoiding being a pest.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on December 30, 2017, 11:39:40 AM

Quote from: Lestat on December 30, 2017, 09:52:46 AM

And more goodies. Doing a  bit of exploration, found some civillians, unarmed, a couple of them carrying stimpaks, and two of them carrying almost 50 shotgun shells. And my squad members are each packing at least either a pump action, or double-barrel shotgun for close-up head-removal ambushes, can never have too many shotgun shells when there are heads needing blowing off.

:heart: New Vegas.

My fav always was the sniper rifle and pushy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 30, 2017, 03:02:12 PM

Good thing is that it's a day off.... bad thing is I have to work tomorrow night :(

I just don't want to do cart pushing again.... I get freaked out by icy roads, yet then again not enough moisture to make the ice. So I shouldn't bitch about it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 30, 2017, 05:09:58 PM

Pushy? haven't ever played new vegas. Don't suppose you'd temporarily host a copy I could torrent, could you?

Did like the sniper rifle in fallout 2 though, at least until I'd gotten hold of a gauss rifle and gauss pistol, with sniper-oriented perks and the finesse trait. Even bum-rushed by about 7 thugs in power armor with pulse pistols (very high damage, very short range), I remember taking out two first in the first turn, one wielding a plasma rifle, which was dangerous, even in upgraded power armor, and one with a laser rifle, both of those two got put straight down for a dirt nap by a critical-hit gauss rifle round straight through the eye-lenses of their power armor, bursting their heads like a ripe tomato being stomped on, the rest tried closing in, and the next turn, killed three of them, maybe four, having extra AP, and firing taking less AP perks, leaving only one guy to ever get the chance to move, before he, too, ended up joing his fellow thugs after I put three gauss pistol bolts in him.

Put the entire squad down before a single one had managed to land a shot on me, without even taking a single step. Just a series of whiiiine-----SPLOORSSSHH-click' noises and clouds of torso meat-fog and spare chunks of spinal column  (well they hadn't really got any use for a spine, had they, after their heads had been reduced to something with the texture of marmalade-squishy, gooey and sticky; with little shreds of stuff in it. After that, then you haven't really got much use for vertebrae:autism:)

 IIRC one did have some sort of minigun, but I'd no space to carry it on any party members due to the weight of the thing, and their being weighed down just below encumbrance level, more or less to the point, with spare rocket launcher ammunition, plasma rifles, a flamethrower and enough of a selection box of different grenades to please every kid on xmas on a modestly sized continent; everything from molotov cocktails to plasma grenades, lest I ever run out of tools for splattering and slaughtering power-armored henchmen and gigantic scorpions. So he just got taken out as an afterthought, until ready to reload and kasplorsh (yes, 'kasplorsh IS a word. It describes perfectly what happens when a railgun slug hits a power-armored henchman's face at very close range, hitting him right in the eye, in addition to making a fairly good description of whats left of their head looks like as well)

It IS a word, no doubt about it. Not one for a very nice thing, but its definitely a word. And one that is absolutely perfect for what it describes.  Often associated with games like 'doom 3', the fallout series, shadow warrior, duke nukem where high-powered projectiles are used, especially against lower powered foes. Almost certain to be accompanied by a ribcage being turned into a decorative wall-hanging.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 31, 2017, 10:54:30 PM

Just had the funniest moment EVER in fallout-tactics. Sneaking behind some sandbags on the way into storming a raider camp, some shithead saw the trooper crawling, and came out running up close, only problem for him (well first problem at least) was he was wielding a spear. Couldn't get close enough to my guy, who promptly went from crawling into a crouched position, took aim and loosed off both barrels of his shotgun right into the spearman's stomach. Split the guy into pieces and sent his corpse, or what was left of it flying backwards with a final 'OOF' sort of noise, after my squad member emptied his shotgun from a step away, turning the wouldbe spearman into meatpaste, taking him out with a single blast. Click-BOOM-OOF-dead guy.

Managed to have two chicks with bolt-action hunting rifles take out a machinegunner from long range too. Took a few turns, but slowly wore him down until one of the two finally put one through his head. Good thing too, as nobody wants to bum-rush a machinegunner, at least not unless its from behind, with the intent of blowing him to hell in a single shot or SMG burst,

The double-barreled shotgun might do a tiny bit less damage per shot than the pump action, the latter holds multiple rounds, the double-barreled one only holds two, but for fighting in close quarters, like in corridors etc, having one guy standing, taking point, with a double-barreled shotgun and a submachinegun as secondary weapon, with my (currently squad of three in total) other two troops carrying an SMG, one carrying a pump-action 12-gauge as secondary, with the last, the one with best long-range shooting skills kitted out with a hunting rifle, until I recover that dead enemy's machinegun at least, and as backup, either a .45 pistol or something like an uzi machinepistol or a H&K MP5 for dealing with anybody trying to get in close or sneak up behind my sniper guy. Lets just say that using these tactics, whilst I've had two soldiers need to use stimpaks and one almost killed by a sniper, used a more advanced, highly effective super-stimpak to bring him back from the brink of death and still have time to put a rifle shot in some twat who thought taking on three heavily armed, trained soldiers with just a metal pipe and a comrade with another close-combat weapon, a knife or something similar, from BEHIND A WALL....there is really only one way that could end. Namely with the two of my guys (well girls) dropping to the floor, switching from long range rifle to pump-action shotguns and SMGs.....for those two idiots it was never going to end very well from the get go :autism:

They must have been NT, to be THAT thick.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on January 01, 2018, 06:52:20 AM

Quote from: Lestat on December 30, 2017, 11:31:58 AM

What? jut because OMFG! an autistic killed somebody in a violent VIDEO GAME,

Yep. They're not gonna trouble to read the context and suss that it's just a video game,  are they?  :LOL:
heck, nor even we do, half the time. What chance a prejudice-ridden NT?
You're forgetting that NT's lack imagination and take every damned thing literally.
Oh! Wait! that's us , isn't it?  :apondering:
Funny that. I swear I keep seeing  NTs displaying those exact characteristics all the time.   :zombiefuck:   OMFG, the whole wotrd has been mis-diagnosed as normal.  :zombiefuck:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 01, 2018, 02:32:08 PM

Yes, it is quite ironic is it not. That NTs call US weird, freaks *insert similar term here* etc. yet they are ruled by emotion, they cannot control it,  and seem incapable of overruling emotion when it exerts itself forcefully and remaining detached, in order to evaluate a situation and then selecting a decision based upon logic. 

It makes me sick. And to then turn round and accuse US of the failings that they themselves possess is nothing more than the height of hypocrisy.

As far as videogames....jesus, I've been playing them since you had to shut down MS-DOS with the 'ship' command on a 386 and possibly even earlier. I remember computers where floppy drives were the usual, CD drives and mice came later and even then were exceptional, and the floppy disks were about 8-10'' wide and actually were floppy. Playing games like terminator-future shock, the original system shock, even martello tower and nethack (although I'd still play nethack since it is essentially replayable for an infinite number of times, although admittedly I specialize in wizard characters due to their combination of defensive spells, 'other' effects and ranged, highly effective destructive spells), as well as x-com UFO defense (not the reboot, haven't played that yet), the original one from the very early 1990s, platform scrollers as a kid like 'jill of the jungle' 'cosmo's cosmic adventure' and the original 2 duke nukem games, as well as x-com terror from the deep.

The kind of thing you could run in many cases on a few tens of kilobytes of memory, and the more demanding taking a couple of megabytes of RAM.

Just got a hankering a while ago for going retro, and downloading duke nukem 3d, atomic edition (where the shrinker cannon exists in the other games, in the atomic edition pack includes a secondary, entirely new weapon, similar in looks to the shrinker, but using red crystals as charges, its a microwave cannon, and funny as shit, since when you kill with it, the enemies start to bloat and enlarge, paralyzed and unable to fire further, until they burst in a shower of gibs)

I've actually wanted to build a microwave cannon, based on either a coaxial or reflex triode virtual cathode oscillator and pumped by a helluva powerful marx generator, hooked up to a waveguide, so as to fire a point-sharp focused ultra-high energy, but brief (effectively reducing the time of the discharge, allows more wattage to be drawn from each discharge, in effect condensing it into a smaller space and increasing the total power per shot). But have I any intention to go around vaporising people in splatters of blood? no. At least, I'd not do so unless somebody were present and armed, intent on taking my life or doing me serious harm. In that case, sure, I'd set the thing to maximum power and pull the trigger until the fuel cells powering the capacitor banks ran drier than a taliban nun's cunt flaps.

I don't harm people who don't first attempt to do so to me, unless I intervene to defend somebody being attacked in the street etc. Or to act against those who have done things truly, truly abhorrent and so render themselves valid targets for any and all harm done to them. Otherwise I conduct myself as a gentleman and one of civilization and I do not betray my honor. Only if another violates these principles, will I conduct myself otherwise. But I will neither turn the other cheek and allow people to inflict violence upon my person, nor will I stand by while somebody who is weaker and cannot fent off an assailant. Otherwise, Even pissed as a fart, I'm not the nasty, rowdy type of drunk, I'm the type that if really, really drunk, will go and find the nearest soft and comfortable place to lie down and go to sleep. Yeah, I admit, I'll slur my words if really pissed before I end up going to piss out as much fluid as possible from the alcohol consumed to avoid waking up bursting, then just lie down and sleep.

I believe in kindness and respect to those who have shown themselves to deserve it, and for those remaining yet unknown in regard of that status, I will show such until or unless the other acts in a manner which removes that status.

Attack people? no, not without an excellent justification, but defend myself or others? I don't hold back and will leave an aggressor in intensive care. Fair? IMO that is as fair as I can get.

And returning to videogames...I've been playing them since I was a preteen, and I must, quite literally have made hundreds of thousands of kills, in many cases involving internal organs bursting into meat-clouds, vaporising critters, knifing, stamping on heads and groins and eyes....yet have I ever actually KILLED an actual person?

The answer to that cannot be given in detail, but suffice as to say I was once in a situation where I could not first remove myself from the proximity of the 'person', and they had stated as much that they were going to rape me and probably beat the fucking shit out of me after, as well as previously proving their bad character by assaulting me physically without provocation. Shithead basically took an instant dislike to me, not unlikely because I am autistic, and being a classic autie, it kinda shows. Said shithead disappeared mysteriously never to be seen again. I couldn't have beat him in a fight. But he had no knowledge of chemical or biowarfare. So autistic brain before meathead brawn. Wouldhavebeen rapist never stood a chance. Made the threat one day and was no longer present by the following morning.

Vomiting blood if I recall.

But a PERSON, no, I've never killed a person. The equivalent of removing a mosquito about to bite is another matter. But I don't go round killing people, regardless of the vast number of videogame-based gratuitously violent and brutal deaths I've inflicted on VIDEOGAME entities, if I were to be unable to distinguish between reality and the fictional environment of a videogame then by now, given the probable kills in the hundreds of thousands to millions in the latter, I would by now be a mass murder, would I not?

Sure, I've done a few bad things in the 31 years I've existed, but none of them involved killing a homo-sapiens who was a person. About the worst is a carjacking, that I was involved in, after what can only be described as an absolute clusterfuck, and somebody ELSE did the carjacking, and more or less dragged me into the vehicle, took me to his place, when I had got out of hospital, still badly injured and essentially gave me a place to lie down on his sofa, and took care of my pain using methadone and heroin, as well as sharing his weed with me, to help me sleep when things got too bad (I'd been torn up pretty badly, to the point he literally had to hold the foil of H to my face, and put a straw in my mouth). He did the carjacking, I could barely stagger at the point of hospital discharge, and he saw my predicament and rescued me essentially, since the hospital had literally left me to WALK home, a journey of about a half to 3/4 hour by car, I remember him ripping the door open of the car, dragging the guy out and throwing him on the ground, next thing I new I was at the guy's home, with him feeding me, giving me fluid to drink, and nursing me back to health. Even gave me his smokes.

Kind guy, for a stranger to go so far for somebody who has never before set eyes on the one they act for. Quite extreme in fact. Although I pretty much would say I bear little responsibility for the carjacking, being barely conscious, and having to be picked up and PUT into the stolen car, I couldn't have either jacked the car or driven it had I been able to.  Very glad he did what he did, I'd probably have collapsed somewhere on trying to return home. Kind guy, an H user, on methadone, and yet willing to share, generously, what he had to ensure I was not in pain, even helped me crawl on all fours to the bog when I needed it.

A rare person indeed who would go that far to rescue someone in need and nurse them back to health with their own precious resources. Made sure I was not only pain free, but high as a kite and not giving two shits about any pain, to a total stranger. Granted not very nice to the guy he yanked out of and threw from the car, to get to his place, but to me, he treated me not only with kindness, but never once made any move to take advantage of me or do me harm, or take from me in any way. Guy must have been an angel in disguise. Albeit a fallen one that kind of stopped half-way down on his way to earth, given that his conduct wasn't TOTALLY angelic.

And another time, after two (might have been three, I forget, I was focusing on the two closest to me and presenting an immediate threat), they both got a load of chloroacetone in the face (a really rather nasty teargas-like substance), kicked and afterwards, I ran for it. Again, though, they started it, and had they not, I would have walked on by minding my own business.

Really ironic, that NTs take shit so literally. That is the very height of piss-taking.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 02, 2018, 03:23:51 AM

Coffee happened and the planet was saved for now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 02, 2018, 08:47:15 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 02, 2018, 03:23:51 AM

Coffee happened and the planet was saved for now.

If you have a couple of   :beer:  the Solar System will be saved as well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 02, 2018, 08:27:52 PM

No idea of odeon has any of those, but I just downed four or five, plus had a shot of morphine, and put a couple of oxy caps up the nose, along with swallowing, aside from my cimetidine (stomach med) and chlormethiazole about to go down the hatch, does that count?

If not SAVE the world...it at least significantly lowers the potential for the likes of things being sent into orbit that aren't meant to be sent there, massive EPMFGs being built, or laser/microwave/radiofrequency/SASER/more conventional sonic, or gauss weapons being built and used for purposes other than entertainment. (well, the kind of things that would entertain most people).

And there is a lot less potential for things capable of several-meter-long electrical spark discharges being built and (mis)used for doing things to tomatoes, eggs, melons and other things that explode in a really quite fucking hilarious way when such a high-capacitance, several-hundred to thousands of kV and upwards is put through such an object. Its funny, it really is funny as hell. But cleaning up afterwards isn't.

Its likely about as amusing as my mother found out her prized vase was gone when I was a little kid, along with hearing a rather loud blasting noise, and possibly eventually saw what was left of that vase, with two neater-shaped holes drilled through it, attached to a pair of electrodes coupled to wires and a mains plug socket with the fuse replaced by a lead slug, along with the house circuit-breakers suddenly cutting out the power supply to the whole house, coupled with a pattern of moments-ago-molten anhydrous caustic soda and parts of a dismembered pair of batteries, a soldering iron and a couple of bits of copper wire.

(Well I WAS only a young pre-teen at the time, I didn't KNOW that AC power cannot be used for electrolysis. I was intending to make a (highly and permanently) modified  vase, full of sodium metal..only the result was, when the power socket 'on' switch was prodded with a very, very very long stick and me dodging the fuck behind the corner faster than a special forces soldier can swear:LOL1:

(yes, again, I confess, I did do a few rather unorthodox things with the lab, when my bench was located; at my first real home in my bedroom) that many little children wouldn't perhaps have done with theirs. Just put that down to autistic creativity and my spazz school not teaching science. (seriously, their idea of 'science class' was coloring in picture 'worksheets'. I'm classically autie, not cunting well brainless. LOL, if I'd have brought even one item from my own lab into that school for 'show and tell', I would have been expelled sure as dog turds attract bluebottles. Coloring in fucking worksheets...what an absolute, unforgivable INSULT! there is so much I can take, but not THAT fucking much)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 03, 2018, 02:48:09 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 02, 2018, 08:47:15 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 02, 2018, 03:23:51 AM

Coffee happened and the planet was saved for now.

If you have a couple of   :beer:  the Solar System will be saved as well.

I do have a couple of them in the fridge. Do you suppose the solar system is worth saving? :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 03, 2018, 12:39:49 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 03, 2018, 02:48:09 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 02, 2018, 08:47:15 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 02, 2018, 03:23:51 AM

Coffee happened and the planet was saved for now.

If you have a couple of   :beer:  the Solar System will be saved as well.

I do have a couple of them in the fridge. Do you suppose the solar system is worth saving? :orly:

If I'm in it, it is.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 03, 2018, 02:13:58 PM

The PR is in it too.  So am I. So is 'raxy, and so is kassiane S, so fuck yes it is.

And hey, no need odeon. No beer for you. I had a bunch, so the world is saved. You can go without safely now :LOL;

Also, got a dr appt now after phone consultation in advance about the memantine, got to go in though, about the ripped-out toenail.

Early morning, the nurse is gonna dress (at the docs insistence) the nailless toe), but then I meet with the doc himself immediately after. Although its considered a massive dose, it is what I always start at, 150mg a day as 50mg 3x/d, after first 50mg twice a day for one day, 100mg/d for the second day, then to 150 as 50 TDS. Usually its between 5 and 20mg/d, but whenever I've done a cycle I've done it that way and respond extremely well, and I know what I'm doing with it, having quite a lot of experience of personally using it, with how my body reacts to it at what dosages.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 03, 2018, 04:58:52 PM

Drinking one now. :beergrin:

Figured QV needed saving.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 03, 2018, 06:04:42 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 03, 2018, 04:58:52 PM

Drinking one now. :beergrin:

Figured QV needed saving.

(Sorry about mis-spelling your name in the karma.  I saw it just as I posted it.)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on January 04, 2018, 08:47:41 AM

Well, it was yesterday, but found a used bookstore within walking distance that carries a lot of my old favorites. I already have most of them of course, but it bodes well for future browsing. Also they buy and trade, so I can bring over things for dehoarding.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 05, 2018, 12:39:36 AM

Also yesterday, but I got an almost-job offer that most likely will turn into a real one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 05, 2018, 10:19:06 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 05, 2018, 12:39:36 AM

Also yesterday, but I got an almost-job offer that most likely will turn into a real one.

 :clap:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 05, 2018, 12:59:14 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 05, 2018, 10:19:06 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 05, 2018, 12:39:36 AM

Also yesterday, but I got an almost-job offer that most likely will turn into a real one.

 :clap:

Keeping my fingers crossed. It would be an excellent opportunity.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on January 05, 2018, 01:54:33 PM

Woot, hope it works out!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 05, 2018, 04:59:30 PM

Went and saw a dog we want to adopt at a shelter and turned in the application

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on January 05, 2018, 05:01:58 PM

Quote from: Parts on January 05, 2018, 04:59:30 PM

Went and saw a dog we want to adopt at a shelter and turned in the application

That's awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 05, 2018, 05:27:23 PM

Good luck, Parts. And good on you for picking up a rescue animal, they need it the most. And fuck supporting puppy farmers. Fuck them right in the ass with a bag full of stonefish.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 06, 2018, 04:36:28 AM

Quote from: Jack on January 05, 2018, 05:01:58 PM

Quote from: Parts on January 05, 2018, 04:59:30 PM

Went and saw a dog we want to adopt at a shelter and turned in the application

That's awesome.

Agreed. Good luck, parts.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 06, 2018, 01:30:30 PM

The lab beakers my old man got me after realizing that, even if I AM hard on spoons, I don't need about 100 of the fucking things to measure out chemicals. He'd got me an excellent-quality pocket knife also, but seeing the look on my face at finding the spoons...he realized he'd really, really screwed that one up.  And whilst letting me still keep the spoons, he went and got me a load of lab beakers. Ranging from 150ml all the way down to some tiny, tiny tiny little 5ml beakers. Those are so little...they actually manage to look cute and adorable. They are beakers...but they are so tiny...its just 'awwwwww' :AUTISM:

Yeah, only a spazz could think like that way,























































































































The three orders of lab-beakers my old man bought me for xmas arrived. From IIRC 250ml right down to 5ml. I'll make good use of those. And especially having 5,10,20-25ml ones will be really handy, since I'm currently building up an ultramicroscale glassware set, from 5ml flasks upwards. At least that is the smallest I have already, second biggest being 10ml flasks.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 06, 2018, 10:32:21 PM

Your dad sounds all right despite the spoons. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 07, 2018, 05:00:47 PM

Thanks, hoping the dog stuff gets approved not sure why it wouldn't but the wait is making me nuts 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 07, 2018, 07:58:23 PM

Quote from: Parts on January 07, 2018, 05:00:47 PM

Thanks, hoping the dog stuff gets approved not sure why it wouldn't but the wait is making me nuts

Can't see them not giving you the dog but I know it sucks having to wait.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 08, 2018, 04:22:40 AM

Yeah usually he is. The spoons were a good-intentioned effort, just fell way short of the mark. Accidents happen, and he did, as soon as he realized that they were....well...I've gotten better things for xmas to say the least...he DID go and buy me those beakers as a 'replacement', although didn't ask for the spoons back, just got the beakers as well. I'll use the spoons eventually, afterall, it isn't as if I want to use the household spoons (I previously just took a couple of those and dedicated them to that sort of use only, permanently, never to touch food again, at least not food served to anybody I don't really, really have it in for :tard:

And its pretty obvious, nobody would eat at the table with those, at least one of them is badly, badly corroded. After being used to scoop up sodium metal from crucible of molten caustic being subjected to electrolysis under inert gas, and while caustic soda isn't too bad in solution, when its molten, at several hundred degrees 'C, its another beast entirely.  It eats things. And it eats people too given a chance. There are pretty few and far between items that can withstand molten caustic alkalis, and conductive substances are even rarer, that don't get torn to pieces. I often use graphite, or nickel, since the attack is quite slow, for such electrolyses, but the electrodes are considered to be disposable items. Use 'em, lose 'em, or find some purpose for a pointy little stub, such as for initiating electric arcs.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 08, 2018, 05:33:17 PM

That went well for what could have been a 1-hit kill on the entire team if things went wrong. found out there was a guy, just one, packing 5 grenades, he chucked one, missed and had it bounce back on him, not a direct hit but enough to cause a lot of damage in fallout-tactics, which was instantly followed up by a single shot from an AK assault rifle and then a double-barreled shotgun blast (fallout tactics game)

Neat thing was recovering so many grenades which I then split among the team. The enemy grenadier never expected THAT. Thing bounced off a beam or something in a barn and came back at his ass, while I had a guy cap him with an AK-47 round then quickly pull out his shotgun and loose off both barrels into his chest after the AK round winded him. After that shotgun blast he wasn't getting up again. Ever. At least what was left of him wouldn't be getting up without the assistance of somebody else carrying a spoon and a plastic rubbish sack :autism:

He tried to toss a fragmentation grenade through a window once my chosen shooter had crawled on his belly up to the part of the barn with a waist-high 'gate' (doesn't open), but something was in the way, which the grenade hit and came back at him, knocking him about pretty damn hard, after that a single AK round winded him, and allowed my shooter to whip out his shotgun and give the little bleeder both barrels up close before he could react with another grenade, which left me plenty of grenades to loot from his corpse, or what was, at one point, before he hit the ground, something resembling one. Now its more....well think of the phrase 'the red mist came down and the man lost all control'....in this case the red mist just burst into a localized cloud and subsequently condensed on the floor :D

Those AP grenades are going to come in handy though. I did have one in the squad's arsenal, along with something like 5 napalm grenades, since one even close blast, although the range is limited (15 hexes, its an isometric game) at maximum for a grenade of any kind, even a moderate miss will hurt the recipient like fuck, a near miss might well still kill a few people and a direct hit in a group is likely going to leave behind just a pile of glorpy meaty pinkish grey-red stuff thats a nuisance to sort through afterwards when looting the corpses for guns, ammo, grenades, stimpaks, other drugs and misc. stuff of use or resale value,,,,,,

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on January 09, 2018, 02:11:02 AM

Still not dead.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on January 09, 2018, 07:50:07 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on January 09, 2018, 02:11:02 AM

Still not dead.  :asthing:

still glad about that :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 09, 2018, 07:56:42 AM

Walkie happened :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on January 09, 2018, 08:36:49 AM

^ Blergh.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on January 09, 2018, 10:40:57 AM

^
trying to decide if i really want to know what the heck  i did to prompt the previous two posts   :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on January 09, 2018, 10:50:59 AM

^ It’s not you, it’s just that Lestat slobbers over every female he finds remotely attractive, and there’s so many of them, and it’s kinda slimey. Nothing to do with you!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on January 09, 2018, 10:57:03 AM

Quote from: Fun with matches on January 09, 2018, 10:50:59 AM

^ It’s not you, it’s just that Lestat slobbers over every female he finds remotely attractive, and there’s so many of them, and it’s kinda slimey. Nothing to do with you!

point.  that's certainly one of his least endearing qualities *sigh*  (sorry, Lestat, but FWM speaks the truth, here)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 09, 2018, 11:06:53 AM

You did nothing. I was simply finding it a good thing you are here. Wasn't hitting on you walkie. Just, a 'glad to see you and good day'. And don't you call me slimey FWM.

And in any case, I reckon people have me wrong. Yeah I guess I can find someone attractive. But I'll die without ever having taken another mate. Of that I have been certain for..shit, around when I was 20. I am almost completely certain. I'll not say never. But I am as certain as I can be, of it being the case.

And I just, well it warmed my heart to hear that while you had been miserable from the cold, that finally there was the potential for a smile on your face walkie. Because to think of you being miserable is a miserable thing in and of itself. Because you are someone I would call my friend, and those I would are few. It warms what is left of me to know a friend is no longer feeling bad, if they were to begin with. And what is left...walkie, you know how much, you know what only one other here knows, as far as how much there is left.

I take what comfort there is for the scraps, in seeing those I care about feel joy. For there is and will be none for me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 09, 2018, 11:33:15 AM

Just had a rather good deed done for me tonight actually too.

I'd been to the doctor to pick up an antibiotic rx, and needed to buy some food too, for the fridge had in it nought but two steaks and a block of stilton cheese. Albeit some of my favourite food, and I had about half a bottle of coke left. So some shopping had to be done. I did have a lift waiting for me in the carpark behind the store, but I'm on crutches if I have to go out of the house atm, because I can't put two shoes  on, can't wear a shoe on the foot that  I had the toenail torn out from (for the record, its every bit as shit as it sounds like it would be.)

The lady from the counter who took my food and drink purchase at the till, plus the two packs of cigars I bought, she offered of her own accord, indeed quite insisted, after asking had I far to go, and finding out I had to get to the car park, to take the three or four heavy bags of produce and carry them for me. Even waited whilst I had to draw out some money I owed my old man, and carried it all for me, because I was on crutches and finding it really difficult. Got the door for me and everything.

Plus, I found a small baggie of a certain something that had been dropped in the street, and quickly pocketed that, too, while I was leaving the car to get to the pharmacy and get my antibiotics. So a bit of luck, and a really, really kind lady, leaving the shop and taking my bags of food to the car for me. Really grateful for that. Did try to say thanks with a donut of her choice (I got several types) but she wouldn't even take it. Just my gratitude for her help.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on January 09, 2018, 11:35:53 AM

Would you speak to a bloke like that? How about odeon or Al? See it’s not just friendly, it’s because they’re women. It’s slimey because you’re extra nice to (multiple) women and overly praise them just because they are women, and even when they are taken. Blergh.

And someone like Walkie might mention something relatively minor like they’re cold, then no longer. Then you go on to say something like, “It warmed my heart that you had been miserable from the cold”. Blergh blergh blergh blergh.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 09, 2018, 11:37:49 AM

Plus just got home in time for star trek-TOS followed by TNG to be coming on in about 25 min, after the end of this horror movie.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on January 09, 2018, 12:28:09 PM

heck, this is getting further and further from "Post something good..."


To be fair to Lestat, the "slobbery" stuff was actually in another thread (which i would guess FWM read first)

But to be fair to FWM , and to reinforce her point,  I did find that slobbery post embarassing, and was at a loss for a reply.

To be fair to Lestat , again,  I would not be the least bit surprised to find that his RL behaviour is a lot more judiciouous  than his posting style suggests. And I do believe that he has a good heart.
 
To be fair to FWM , "blergh" kinda hit the nail on the head, IMO.

And to be fair to Lestat: well, it would not be action of a real friend  to keep such thoufghts to oneself, IMO, and let him carry on pissing people off, all unawares.

To further be fair to Lestat: I don;'t think we can reasonab;y  demand that you like men and women equally. Most people do have a bias, after all.  I, for instance,  generally get on better with men, because they're more staight-talking than women. (though i also get on with Aspie women for the same reason) .  And i've had mates who get along with women better than men, for non-creepy if utterly mysterious reasons . I think we can only ask that Lestat  try not express that bias  in too creepy a fashion!

To further fair to Lestat: he does like to use hyberboplic language, doesn't he? and not only of female friends but male friends too (wolfie springs to mind) and enemies off both sexes , or no sex at all; well,  just about everything on this planet, basically. So it has to be viewed in that context, IMO.

To be further fair to FWM: she's a spazz. I'm a spazz . we're all spazzes here; and spazzes do tend to associate hyperbole (of the gushing, affectionate  kind) with NT insincerity and hypocrisy, because that's what it usually  indicates.   Therefore the rising of the hackles is a naturally conditioned response to it.

To be further fair to Lestat: he is also a spazz, and not given to hypocrisy, so I think that's not an apptoriate response  in this case.  But that's bound to be the response he gets nonetheless.

Conclusion? sorry, guys,  there is no conclusion, just a bunch of conflicting observations .

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on January 09, 2018, 12:43:24 PM

Quote from: Fun with matches on January 09, 2018, 11:35:53 AM

And someone like Walkie might mention something relatively minor like they’re cold, then no longer. Then you go on to say something like, “It warmed my heart that you had been miserable from the cold”. Blergh blergh blergh blergh.

Point taken (as you see, above) but actually it wasn't relatively minor.  My post about it, plaintive though it was,  was understated. My bleedin' life revovles around the imperative to keep myselfwarm, these days.  Given my metabolic issues, that level of cold  might have have done a lot worse than fuck with my brain (as it did). It could have killed me. So I don't think the sympathy etc. was misplaced. On the other hand, i've no reason to think that Lestat got how serious it was, any more than you did.  :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on January 09, 2018, 07:47:55 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on January 09, 2018, 02:11:02 AM

Still not dead.  :asthing:

You're not trying hard enough.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on January 09, 2018, 11:25:53 PM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on January 09, 2018, 02:11:02 AM

Still not dead.  :asthing:

Welcome back.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on January 10, 2018, 01:45:11 AM

Quote from: Some_Bloke on January 09, 2018, 02:11:02 AM

Still not dead.  :asthing:

Me neither.

Good to see you.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 10, 2018, 11:46:03 AM

B'fast with g'friend

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on January 11, 2018, 01:38:11 AM

Getting closer to freedom!!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 11, 2018, 10:05:56 PM

The PR had a good day bowling.  In her four games she had:

One Chicken (3 spares in a row)
Four spares in a row - no slang term for this
Two Doubles (2 strikes in a row)
One Turkey  (3 strikes in a row)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 11, 2018, 10:23:55 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 11, 2018, 10:05:56 PM

The PR had a good day bowling.  In her four games she had:

One Chicken (3 spares in a row)
Four spares in a row - no slang term for this
Two Doubles (2 strikes in a row)
One Turkey  (3 strikes in a row)

She's bloody excellent at bowling, bumpers or not.

I was told by the chiropractor that I don't have to come back for a week. That suits me as I'm a little bit awkward with the touchy feely.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 15, 2018, 10:03:55 PM

I second that. The PR is a gal with class AND talent AND looks. Definitely a good combination no matter in who it arises. Good game, PR, and consider this a formal and happily given 'well fucking done your royal highness' with a big smile too :)

I've a distinct feeling if we bowled competitively, she'd eat me alive and spit out the bones after snapping the ends off them and sucking out the marrow. then using the bits to flick bowling balls.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 15, 2018, 11:24:23 PM

Thanks both of you.  The PR laughed at Lestat's post.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 16, 2018, 10:00:51 AM

You got no idea how happy you have just made me, QV. You just made my week :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 17, 2018, 12:32:28 AM

Had a 'random encounter' in fallout-tactics, similar to the random encounters of the previous games. This one, meeting a farmer with his (rather emaciated-looking) brahmin herd (two-headed post-nuclear-fallout mutated cows) and found him to be a trader. Stole a toolbox, some leather armor, some .45 caliber pistol ammunition, two different kinds of combat drugs (buffout, basically super-advanced combat-oriented fast acting, although highly addictive steroids, and some methamphetamine-impregnated chewing gum, the former increasing, temporarily, strength and resistance to being harmed, the latter jacking up reaction timing, perception etc. and for a short time, making one much, much faster and more agile etc., again highly addictive, so I save either for specific tasks requiring a strength, agility etc. level over and above what the squad member best suited already to the task is capable of normally, or for those really NASTY fight moments where its something that can mean the difference between which party walks away from the fight, and which party ends up as corpses to get looted and left for the crows to peck the eyeballs from as a juicy, protein-rich nutritious snack, some stimpacks, and a super stimpack as well, and then traded him the squad's crap-weight items that were looted from lower end enemies, raiders etc. like spears and such, that were dead weight and only carried to be sold, for cash and shotgun shells.

Best bit though was managing to swipe the tool-kit, they aren't common afaik, as well as some quite rare .50 cal ammunition (not itself uncommon, but the big boxed up ammo pack this guy had on him isn't just any .50 cal rounds. Its a belt of depleted uranium penetrator heavy duty armor-piercing rounds, the kind of thing you want loaded when you want to wipe out an entire squad of armored enemies with a minigun burst, or to sneak up close to a guy wearing powered armor and give him a gut-full of flaming uranium (uranium metal actually has somewhat pyrophoric tendencies, not in bulk as pieces of it, but fine powder can ignite IIRC, and with depleted uranium rounds, the way they work is, aside from uranium being dense and heavy and hard as hell, it ignites from the friction upon penetrating armor, and unlike the similarly used dense metal, tungsten, which flattens out and mushrooms, depleted uranium doesn't, its self-sharpening, the friction when it punches through armor plate both setting the round ablaze, as a kind of incendiary, and sharpening the tip continuously as it passes through the armor to a sharp point. Nasty sort of ammo, but damned effective, its got the rather unpleasant habit, of when used in tank-killer calibers, big artillery shells etc. of igniting and bouncing around the inside of the tank, cooking the crew alive as well as tearing them to pieces).

In FOT, I Don't have a weapon this early on that can fire those, but they are really uncommon ammo, and this guy was a hapless doofus in regards of how easy it was to pinch his stuff. I could even have swiped stuff and sold it back to him then swiped it again :P) So what use has a farmer of two headed mutant cattle (might have two heads but they are still cattle with stupid cattle brains in each head) for depleted uranium autocannon/minigun ammunition? none. My squad on the other hand is to be going into the nastiest sorts of places on the face of the post-nuclear-holocaust planet and in some of the places in such places were they will be least welcomed, by the most vicious, most fucked up and least pleased to see you in any other context than their next meal inhabitants.

In other words PRECISELY the sort of places that a squad of heavily armored brotherhood of steel squaddies are going to want to let fly with heavy caliber armor-piercing rounds forged in hell:autism:

If a 12-foot-tall mutated jackson's chameleon, once a little color changing lizard, now a desert-dwelling gigantic monster with claws as long as a man's forearm, fast, and stealth artistes as much as they are now hard-case sons of lizard-bitches, generally known ingame as 'deathclaws' is going to start traveling in packs, and capable of ripping a man wearing heavy armor in half with its brute strength....yup, thats just the sort of occasion that you're going to want a grunt with an autocannon and powered exoskeleton combat armor, packing a chainblade or turbo-charged electroshock baton as a sidearm for if it ever manages to get in close and you survive long enough to draw said weapon.....because if you do then jamming it into the eyes of a deathclaw and turning its brain to mulch with a few hundred thousand volts or a combat-built handheld chainsaw blade with extra-large, hardened steel cutting teeth is probably the only change you are going to get, unless you have a really good sniper or two capable of making eyeball shots to blind a deathclaw, of not ending up ripped in half like a phonebook.

And thats dealing with one of them. Not a pack of them. Thats one reason (deathclaw pack) that I've been saving the antitank mines I managed to liberate during an early mission, after disarming the boobytraps in question. As these things, I've never come up against one in fallout-tactics, but in fallout I and II I have and the things are bloody monsters, capable of shrugging off minigun bursts, ignoring shotgun blasts to the face, even sometimes flamethrowers, plasma rifle shots or non-critical hits from a gauss pistol or rifle. and carrying on to rip you in half as if you were toilet paper, armor or not. Mean bastards in the first two games, and the trend seems to be just getting meaner by the sequel.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 17, 2018, 08:27:51 AM

The dentist cancelled The PR's appointment today.  Most everything is covered in ice.  Right now it's 20 degrees on our street.  The good news is that we have a Weather Underground station on our block.  (I know because our street is only one block long.)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 17, 2018, 01:05:31 PM

Her Ladyship is not in pain, is she? I really hope not. Dental pain especially is among the worst of all. That would sadden my heart deeply to think of her in pain, as her smile, does the opposite.

Thank you, walkie. And I find your response in your point of it being unfair to me NOT to point out my faults or failings, for a true friend, they ought to do so.

And Walkie-I was not aware, as you say quite to the extent of it, although I was strongly under the impression you were highly susceptible to cold or excess heat. I was, I hope, not being selfish, in myself taking comfort in the fact that you had found comfort yourself. I did not intend to 'steal' your comfyness. Only to celebrate the fact that one I consider a friend, and one I trust (rare, very rare, you are someone I do trust to quite the extent I do. What that extent is, you know, walkie, so I'll not say it here, and not that I would anyway, certainly not to defend myself against anything whatsoever, or for that matter either to make a point or illustrate a concept, would I mention the name of the one you know that relates to, walkie, to others in general or worse, en masse)

I just wanted you to know I was happy for your happiness, that your  finally being warm and comfortable warmed ME up, because the friend who was being harmed by the cold, was now, once again, warm. For you are a being of value to me. I need no other reason than that I care about your wellbeing, I care also for your joy or lack of it, I care for your health, mental or physical or both.

Please, nobody think that my thought processes here, were of selfish nature. Rather, they were and indeed are still, empathic in nature. I am more so  than most aspies, and quite unusually so for a Kanner's/classic autie.

And to answer the question would I say the same thing to a male friend? yes and no. No, in that there would be a difference in the sense of fr.ex gender-specific pronouns or adverbs, but yes in the sense that if I care for a person I care for them. It does not mean I want to fuck them, it does not mean I fancy them, it does not mean I am attracted to them. Nor does it (in the case of females) automatically either, rule out finding a female attractive. (however, with the exception of a certain few individuals, a very, very, very rare handful, and I mean literally a handfull, if that, of all the people I know, on and off I2, in most cases if asked I would turn most people down. Almost always. For that, I have my reasons, and will not be making them plain to others. Again for that, I have my reasons. Well, reason, singular. Walkie knows what it is, actually, as does one other, and only one other, here, and one other living person, perhaps two, with a third who unwelcomly, knows what I know in that specific context, and who was later found to be a vile, traitorous, borderline bitch from hell and general noxious creature in every possible manner.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 17, 2018, 03:28:54 PM

nope, just a six month checkup.  finally above freezing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on January 17, 2018, 07:32:35 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 17, 2018, 03:28:54 PM

nope, just a six month checkup.  finally above freezing.

Isn't this season weird?

You've probably had more snow down there than we have in Central Oregon.   :dunno:

We only had snow once, less than an inch just before Xmas that melted away on a couple of days.

Last year we had 4+ feet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 17, 2018, 08:42:38 PM

Fuck, that is a relief QV. I'd hate to think the PR were to have to suffer dental pain (well any pain but especially dental...it really is the worst, I've had run-ins with it before, and here they give you nothing besides a local for the pain even when your in a dentist's chair, nitrous oxide IF you can swing it, I have to get stuff done under a general if its dental work, but even for the worst causes of the worst dental pain, they CAN give you pain relief, the are allowed to but they won't. And I've had to go in, and the previous night, even intravenous morphine can somehow poorly affect dental pain, and even at doses which would be considered massive for my tolerance level.)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 17, 2018, 09:32:11 PM

Speaking of dental work, I'm booked in for a scale and clean next week. Not looking forward to it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 22, 2018, 08:37:35 AM

Will be glad for you when thats over ren.

As for me, just got a crate in the mail, by way of  china, packed chock full of lab glassware:)

Got, so far (theres a fair load more on the way):v glass-fritted Buchner funnels (350ml filter funnel, frit pore size 3; three of those) 1x500ml again a type 3 frit, plus a 150ml/no.3 frit. All of the type that have ground glass joints and integral vacuum hose-barb vac-takeoff built in, rather than the other kind of Buchner funnel, of which I have two are not nearly so good, as they use rubber adapters which stack inside each other like russian dolls. And the use of filter paper is unavoidable, the likes of celite would just start to fall through the base, which has many small-medium sized holes a coupleof mm across drilled into them, and no inbuilt vacuum takeoff.

The vacuum port is built into the filter flask itself, as a sidearm, I've only got the one of those types of erlenmeyer conical, flat-bottom flask but on the other hand its a big one; IIRC around 3-4 liters, well, a big one when we're talking modest size ranges, 5-10 liters, rather than the real big buggers that can hold 30-50 liters etc; although as of yet I haven't got any glass like that.

Also bought some more small erlenmeyers, the kind with a ground glass joint in the neck, and without a vacuum barb. I much prefer these, since there is a huge problem with filter paper being essential-strong corrosives burn it to ashes. That doesn't happen with a glass frit, used to support celite or silica gel powder, which is easily made using sulfuric acid and potassium or sodium silicate solution, washing out the sodium or potassium sulfate with hydrochloric acid, leaving behind a precipitate of silica gel as, at first, a gelatinous paste, which is washed several times with conc. HCl. then repeatedly allowed to settle, and washed free of hydrochloric acid until testing neutral with PH paper.

Got a 2 liter, 2x 1 liter and a small one, just 500ml.

(Erlenmeyer flasks are the conical shaped kind with a single neck opening, often used in conjunction with a buchner funnel for either gravity or much faster and more efficiently, with a buchner connected to a vacuum pump, for vacuum filtration, either method pulls the liquid fraction through a filter, allowing one to separate a solid suspended in a liquid into the solid and liquid portions)

Also the sellers threw in a little handheld trigger-action vacuum pump plus vacuum gauge along with quite a few keck clips and several lengths of rubber tubing coiled up inside the buchners.

And....just this very moment gotten another package. I don't know what it is yet, and certainly wasna'e expecting owt at this time of..almost evening. Lab equipment or chemicals I should imagine, but I'm not sure what, just opening it now.

Ahhh....nice. Very nice, very, very nice. 4 bottles of diisopropylaminoethanol. All that needs is halogenation of the alcoholic -OH followed by amination, and due to the steric hindrance provided by the two isopropyl groups along with the highly non-nucleophilic nature of the tertiary amine intended product, there should not be overalkylation to give a quarternary ammonium, and instead, give diisopropylethylamine, otherwise known as Hunig's base, a quite strong, and very usefully, very, very non-nucleophilic organic amine base.

Plus a bottle of..something else. Although now I need some barium carbonate or bicarbonate. Although thats handy enough, as I already have my eyes on some barium metal. I know of a place that will sell me some reagent grade stuff, although it has a surface oxide layer, the metal stored under argon. I can just react it with first water to produce barium hydroxide and subsequently gas it with one of my CO2 tanks to produce barium carbonate.

I could use either the lead or calcium salts, and direct flame pyrolysis and condensation to get to the intermediate for my target compound from the bottle of the substance other than the diisopropylaminoethanol, but the yield would be a lot lower, probably half that if I were to employ the barium hemi-salt and carbanion formation cross-coupling decarboxylative ketonization process I've in mind. That might give me yields in the 90% range, rather than probably somewhere between mid-high 30s to maybe 45-50% IF I am lucky. And I'm not sure whether the lead salt or the calcium salt would give the higher yield out of the two. But with a barium hemi-salt I ought to be able to get a far better yield, by at least an order of magnitude.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 22, 2018, 08:32:22 PM

Oh...and I completely forgot, I also bought (and they arrived), a pair of cows too. Although I had to contact the seller after one of the cows arrived with a broken vacuum takeoff. The first of the two was fine, but the other had the vac hose barb in little pieces. Going to see what my (rudimentary...although I have wanted to get me some formal glass blowing training since I was a kid), I'd LOVE to be a professional glass blower for a job. I'd never WORK a day in my life, just come in to my place of employment and make the equipment required by those needing items made or repaired. I wouldn't be lazy, don't take me that way, but I really wouldn't ever work a day in my life, even if I was employed for 70 years (chances are I'd be dead after that, at the most, since I', 31 now), since work is something one generally thinks of along the lines of 'I wish my shift would hurry up and I could clock off already' rather than 'come on, let me do some overtime, or at least let me bring in some supplies of my own and use the facilities, I've a couple of repairs I need done and a few new pieces I have to make' :D

Now the guy owes me a new cow, plus someone else owes me a replacement vacuum pressure gauge.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 23, 2018, 02:07:03 AM

I still do, FWM. I have what I could guess one could call rudimentary skills and knowledge, getting more of the latter from reading, to the extent that now I can effect simple repairs  on some, less complex borosilicate glass items.

I blow my own vaporizer pipes too, and make custom ones for myself, (the kind of pipe not used for smoking tobacco or weed, but made of glass and heated from below, without direct contact with the flame. I've come up with a design of my own that allows for a weak, partial vacuum to be created when inhaling, so as to lower the boiling point of whatever compound is in there waiting to be vaporized and inhaled, and thus allow both greater efficiency (plus a more or less closed design allows for un-inhaled vapor to recondense inside the pipe allowing for it to build up and for free tokes later after uses, along with a bong-like choke/carb hole to allow sudden big tokes), built from a modified borosilicate test tube, blown out into a bulb-shaped end with a small hole put into the end, facing inwards, so as to give a rounded outside, a carb right near the top, just before a wasp-waist created with a bass guitar string, biggest and heaviest gauge that one can get, dusted with powdered graphite to prevent the glass when near molten sticking to the metal (carbon tools are used for manipulating molten or tacky and softened glass most of the time since glass doesn't stick to graphite or solid amorphous carbon, graphite dust etc.), with the end threaded through the eye, used like a noose, to slowly tighten in a circular fashion, later being cut off if its impossible to loosen whilst hot or cold, and slowly put a round stranglehold on the red-hot, but malleable borosilicate tube near the open end, round a similarly very hot piece of hollow boro glass tubing to serve as a stem, with, after creation of the near finished article, the finishing touch of a pair of 'legs, one set of two pokey-down wraparound ends made from simply bending round a half-coil of boro glass rod of equal length at either end, that way, one can thus set down a very hot pipe onto a table, etc. without the heat of the pipe burning the table. At least assuming whatever is inside doesn't prevent one from having the coordination to do so.

I once even experimented (brief success) with modifying a blowtorch into an oxypropane flame torch, by means of adapting the holes near the back to a set of tubes leading to a chamber connected to a tank of dilute hydrogen peroxide decomposed catalytically with a bit of manganese dioxide taken from a zinc-carbon battery, to fuel the torch instead of air, vastly increasing the heat of the torch flame, whilst burning the gas fuel with pure oxygen from the decomposition of the H2O2.)

Not the most practical setup, but it was experimental, designed it for working borosilicate glass,which is far less susceptible to thermal shock (I.e shattering or developing internal stresses that could cause it to shatter later on mild stress, thermal or physical), such as a transition from very hot to cold, regular soda-lime glass is a lot easier to melt, or soften but a lot more susceptible to thermal shock. And its not suitable for any lab glass that is going to undergo heating any more than a fair bit of warming. Boro glass on the other hand does need a LOT more heat to work easily or properly than does soda-lime glass.

I've never found anywhere I could get lessons though. I'd love to find a proper teacher. But I have garnered a bit of knowledge from .PDF ebooks on the subject, and from practical experimentation, and going for repairs or improvisations of glassware thats either otherwise fucked, or for scrap for making other stuff.

Best thing I ever made was a liebig condenser, although that is now broken, deliberately most likely, when the pigs raided my place. (a liebig is the type with a simple hollow inner glass tube, connected to an outer glass jacket which has an inlet and outlet on the outer jacket, the two melding into one at either end into male/female ground-glass joint-pieces (these I salvaged from appropriate sized broken glassware)

It worked just as a bought liebig would do too, assuming equal length, quite usable for reflux, and whilst it was broken, it was not of my doing. And probably deliberately so, given the porcine vendetta against me (which I am now in the process of taking to the IPCC:))

Not what one could call fancy, but it was functional. And equivalent to a liebig that wasn't homemade.  The coolant feeds were the hardest part and somewhat nonstandard in size, I had to improvise and make do with what I had to work with, be it cannibalized or just hanging around.  And it is quite fun, there is something I find rather satisfying about glassworking, just as I do with (in particular, outside of chemistry and related sciences) engineering work using the lathe. (old metalworking lathe, from way before the ages of modern CNC machinery, almost certainly pre-WWII by quite some time. Cut-off tool bite depth and the other north-south (as imagined on a piece of paper, north being upwards-driven) tool depth along with the horizontal axis capstan tools (its a capstan lathe, a rotary turret mounting several different tools of choice that can be swapped in and out, and moved by a separate control, in both cases, by hand, with big metal levers, the workpiece held in a rotating motor inside a chuck, different chuck sizes for different workpieces), but within the tolerance-sizes of the lathe itself, as big a workpiece as it can hold a chuck for (I forget, its all measured in old ass fractions of an inch) can be worked, and the tool bite-depth set by manually turning sets of bolts on a rotating wheel mounting several very long screw threaded  steel rods, the bolts act as stops to prevent the lever action going any further than how you set it for, so its still pretty accurate (easily accurate enough to set up to make a matching nut and bolt and set the depth of the die heads and screw thread taps to be chosen, or use a shallow knurler tool to set a desired depth of a grip for a wheel-headed screw etc. and have the matching pair, once set up for the process, churned out repeatedly, in a robot-esque push-shave off material, , cock-back tool on turret to the correct (next one along typically and most practically) pre-setup tool for the next stage of the task), do whatever the tool does with it using another big metal handle, then pull the other handle finally, when all is said and done, to cut the finished piece off. I've done it semiprofessionally in the past, and made..well I won't say how much for legal reasons of course, although the items themselves are legal enough, buggered if I want a bill for anything, unless I'm the one specifying the contents of the bills...but the items, could churn out hundreds of brass and steel parts in a couple of hours, then weld the metal parts together, after slipping on a piece of rubber tubing on part of the item in question, and mounting the parts in a heat-shield jig, and finally, after dabbing on a bit of flux paste, welding them together with a silver alloy, forget most of what was in it now, the other part I remember was cadmium, partly because the alloy rods used aren't easy to get due to the cadmium content, and partly because Cd is fucking horrible stuff, its related to lead, but far more toxic. (which is why cadmium is being as harshly phased out or banned in as many types of consumer product as possible, due to its high toxicity, just  like mercury is banned in batteries now, nickel/cadmium cells are either banned or being banned, not sure if you can still get them here. I know I hoard them if ever I see any, for reclamation of the cadmium content, and certainly won't 'recycle' them in the sense that most battery free-to-junk-for-recycle places would consider recycling (I.e the same context as I would consider lithium batteries containing lithium metal rather than Li-ion polymer battery shite, or would recycle mercury containing, silver oxide containing, or the extra-special two-for-one bargain lithium-thionyl chloride cells. [although admittedly, batteries in general never tend, in my case, to see any other recycle point than a pair of pliers, wire cutters, a hacksaw, possibly a drill and in the case of Li-batteries a pot full of petrol to dunk them in before they have a chance to catch fire or spark/glow red hot, and special purpose setups for draining SOCl2 out of Li-thionyl chloride cells with the aim of reclaiming both the lithium metal and the SOCl2 intact, and considering the brutal corrosive nature and water/atmospheric moisture-sensitivity of SOCl2 (SOCl2 did me a somewhat serious injury the first time I ever encountered any, when I was a little kid and before I knew about SOCl2 being used in some types of Li-battery. Just knew there was elemental lithium inside and went at it to gut it, and got SOCl2 over my leather-gloved hand. Removing the skin and tissue down to bare muscle and connective tissue after the stuff devoured both the leather of the gloves and made a nasty looking mess of the stainless steel spikes on the back of the hand of the glove that got hit. Carried on going and made a real fucking nasty mess of the hand everywhere contacted. I'm lucky in that the gloves were thick leather, and only a portion of the SOCl2 escaped, and what did escape, part of that was destroyed in its consumption of the leather and steel, and part still hydrolyzed to nasty acidic fumes in the moisture present in the air (the rest being hydrolyzed as it reacted with me, leaving hydrochloric acid to soak into my exposed flesh and a satanic-stinking anal belch of sulfur dioxide gas venting into the air. )

Although I'm still glad I found the things, as they were pretty large, physically and I got quite a lot of them at the time, and managed to reclaim almost all the SOCl2 from all but that single initial battery that wounded me and flayed my hand, what was left of the skin coming off my palm and fingers along with the remnants of the glove. But, thionyl chloride was, at the time a resource (its a very useful, very very fast-reacting chlorinating reagent, and difficult and dangerous to make, along with requiring very careful handling to be used safely and as a kid I simply could not obtain it, either by effort and skill, or much less actually purchase, it could only be drained from certain battery types that are not over the counter, and then distilled and redistilled to purify it, in a scrupulously dry set of glassware, using inert greases for the joints, and under dry gases inert to the SOCl2 itself)

Stinks like the devil, toxic as hell but manna from heaven for anybody wanting to chlorinate a fairly wide range of things chlorinatable (if that wasn't a word to begin with it is now :LOL1:...although unfortunately that includes people, and gives off toxic gases as it reacts, although the fact that the reaction byproducts are gaseous at room temperature is actually a blessing, once one gets past the acidic, corrosive, stinking and gas-mask-requiring nature of handling the stuff; it reacts very rapidly indeed (including, less welcomely, autistic child-bits :tard:))

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on January 23, 2018, 04:03:15 AM

I got the swirls on my car fixed by a detailer. I give him about a 90%; he couldn't fix the scratches on the chrome door trim and I think there's still some marks on top of the bootlid. Whatever, the car doesn't look like a smash repairer's dodgy job anymore. And he threw in a coat of sealant/wax for free!

I inadvertently lead them to assume another smash repairer damaged the paint, but oh well that one deserves bad word of mouth just as much as the one who actually did it lol.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 23, 2018, 05:25:30 AM

Normally, I'd be pissed if I just got woken up during my day's sleep by almost anyone.

But in this case no...it was the mailman, and I DO so like mysterious packages from obscure places with customs forms written in chinese, (which I don't speak or write or even fart in)

This one is a long box, with a long thing wrapped in lots of bubble-wrap. Hm...I don't know WHAT this is going to be. But, I always like packages from china. Because they can only EVER mean, since I do not know a single chinese person, something either made of borosilicate glass or something in either a glass bottle (or just rarely, that must be stored in a bottle made of teflon), thats either a liquid or powder, or else a canister of some kind of compressed gas not to be had from any welding store.

In this case...what have we here now. Well well....lookie here...its a one-piece flask-to-flask distillation  device w/ no upper connector/adapter for a thermometer on one end, although the still pot end has one, but I don't need to use two such adapters for the receiver end as well now. Should buy myself a couple of spares of these. Just what I wanted, actually :) The rubber bushings on dedicated still pot thermometer adapters are forever wearing out. I need to get some all-teflon ones, or at least some fluoropolymer O-rings and caps, because of the...well...brutality would be putting it mildly indeed, on the O-rings of the thermometer adapters I end up buying in almost bulk bloody quantities, since sometimes the O-rings are literally throwaway/disintegrate away, which is not acceptable during a vacuum distillation.

And normal rubber ones at least do NOT take happily to fr.ex distillation of >99% concentration, very hot, and scary corrosive nitric acid from a nitrate and boiled down to concentrate it sulfuric bog cleaner (not volatile at nitric acid distillation heats, but the mixture of even un-concentrated 98% H2SO4 and HNO3 is really unfriendly stuff when it acts upon many organics, and it doesn't do rubber O-rings any good at all. Its even less pleasant when that already extremely concentrated sulfuric acid is boiled down to prepare 99.fuck knows what to almost 100% H2SO4. And mixtures of H2SO4 and HNO3 when concentrated are known as 'mixed nitrating acid' and is damn good at oxidizing things, and even better at nitrating things. For tasks like that, this adapter can take a simple glass stopper in place of a thermometer, as long as there is some outlet to avoid pressure buildup (I would NOT want to be caught in a flask-shattering 'explosion' created by pressure buildup inside the glass, if it contained fuming nitric acid and concentrated H2SO4, both at nutty degrees of concentration and at a couple of hundred degrees 'C potentially.....jesus....that probably wouldn't stop burning me until it had burned through one side of my torso and both out the other and in a southerly direction, exiting via the new foot-wide dick-hole and matching second, third, fourth or possibly even fifth arse sphincter, growing even hotter still as the sulfuric reacted with its typical VERY exothermic dissolution in contact with H2O. about the only question would be 'are the remains of any cellulose clothing I'm wearing (I.e cotton fiber or other natural fiber based) going to explode, is the heat going to be enough to let off the now-guncotton (nitrocellulose) shirt I'd be wearing bits of and blow my smoking, charcoal remains into little bits of Lestat-shrapnel, blasted around the room amidst a cloud of superheated acidic smoke and human charcoal briquettes which before the blast shockwave, had the unnaturally internal organ-like shapes only a lot smaller, stinking of SOx and NOx fumes, and saturated in searing hot mixed nitrating acid. A fate I would very much prefer to avoid at all costs (when I want nitric acid, I find the easiest way is to buy a nitrate salt and distill it with as concentrated a concentration of sulfuric acid that I wish the HNO3 distillate to be of. )

Although of course, there are many, many other uses besides distillation of nitric acid that I'll have for this handy wee tool.

Here she is:

(https://s17.postimg.org/q1cawrjan/still_adapter.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 23, 2018, 05:35:55 AM

Although it can't compete for sheer number of nice surprises from china with the first of yesterday's two.

(and just in case I got hungry a few hours later, I got another one yesterday :P) Mmmm....packages from china are always welcome :D

(https://s17.postimg.org/ees6vdvwv/big_blue_surprise.jpg)

And yes, I was hungry for more after a few hours after opening that, with its treasure-trove of glass tucked up safely in lots of wrapping within. If that makes me a card carrying spazztard then I'm damn well proud to be a card carrying spazztard :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 23, 2018, 05:45:03 AM

Lestat is now a happy Lestat, (even if he WAS woken up during daylight and now has to go back to sleep again, when normally he'd make 'Steptoe' from the eponymous 'steptoe and son' TV sitcom series look like the child of jesus and a female angel instead of a REALLY horrid, stinky, foulmouthed and generally way beyond the pale of repulsive in every way shape and form miserly rag-and-bone-man whom not even his own son doesn't near enough want to drop dead and rot in hell just for being the vile creature he is, and never even MIND the snark that'd otherwise be brewing in Lestat's head ready for letting loose and shriveling the toenails and teeth out of some poor bastard's face (the former having been first implanted firmly in the latter by the aid of a swiftly delivered and well-targeted combat-boot of about size 11-12 :P) just prior to said shriveling. (I learned from the best of the best when it comes to snarking off, someone who it is quite an honor to have such a privilege as being a student in the blackest of the black arts of the 'Dim-Mak' of snark') ehehehee. And she is GOOD at that, to the extent that its a real talent of hers.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 23, 2018, 07:44:09 AM

Another crate from china just arrived for yours truly.

Containing, packing, styrofoam blocks etc. aside, in the roughly half-meter wide and just over a foot wide crate itself, THIS wee beauty (just imagine those last three words said in Scotty's voice, from star trek, TOS, when he's about to explode with delight over both the way he's got the warp nacelles finely tuned and his secret bottle of several-centuries-old non-replicated ancient scotch), along with the following summary:

She's a 5-liter, 4-necked round flask with a slightly flattened bottom which enables it to stand on its own if it has to, not that I'd leave it like that. Borosilicate glass of course, that is as good as unsaid about any and all of my lab glass. Joint size/taper of the necks, all 24/40, brand new. Cost me just a snippet under £100, early 90-s IIRC, but really, she's priceless. Lovely, just lovely to look upon, isn't she?

I just cannae' wait to do my first reaction in her:)

(https://s17.postimg.org/vypd514wf/4_neck_5_liter_reaction_flask_with_extra_squeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 24, 2018, 09:34:23 AM

Kindle has the complete works of Lovecraft (1343 pages) for free today, Jan 24.  Regularly 24.99.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 24, 2018, 04:12:48 PM

 :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 24, 2018, 06:09:00 PM

And....another package from china arrived for me again today (first so-far at any rate, not to say there might not be more to come later, although I don't know. I am expecting a short-path head for vacuum-distillations of the short-path variety though sooner or later, sooner hopefully) though.

This time, a trio of glass powder-funnels. Which are exactly what they sound like. Fairly shallow, but wide, mouthed small glass funnels intended to be inserted into a stopper to be put into a socket joint in a piece of glassware such as a flask and intended for funneling powders into the vessel in question)

I had expected the stems to be a little shorter perhaps, and perhaps wider, but there is no problem with them. Just the kind of tool I didn't have and did want. (Plastic funnels are no use, unless made out of teflon of course, since there are so many things one might pour into a funnel that would tear plastics to pieces and leave you with a blob of goo where a funnel used to be, potentially even contaminating one's work in the process, so these glass ones are just what I needed)

The only question is that the only piece of equipment which might arrive today or will there be more goodies for lil' ol' me yet to arrive today.

I do so like it when the postmen and/or couriers arrive at my doorstep. I cannot claim as I know they feel the same way about bringing things to me, but I at least am glad they do :D If I was a postal  driver/courier driver of any description I might well very much NOT like that part of my rounds, at least not until any and all packages addressed to me had been taken off the van and deposited well away from it, especially if marked in chinese or some form of cyrillic writing or other, a postman-version of me, I'd be in an extra hurry to get my post OUT of my van, but as things are I'm definitely glad to see them arrive and to allow them any sigh of relief at having some so; I won't begrudge them that when afterall they have brought me little presents which would burst into flames on contact with anything other than a rigorougly dry inert gas-purged handling chamber to be able to open some of those containers:LOL:

I'd not like to be my postman lol. Actually I'd not like to be a postman at all, the early-morning hours no matter how rotten, filthy and wet and icy cold the weather might get, or how foul the people post is to be delivered to might be. Come to think of it being a postal worker must suck ARSE. Has to be the vilest, most rancid, awful job anybody has ever had to do on the face of the earth.

Although I am grateful for their work, thats true enough, I just would NOT want to be one. But especially mine, what with the combination of having to deliver flammables, pyrophoric flammables, acids, strong bases along with large crates containing very delicate, and at times expensive electronics, or delicate and pricy glass items more than they deliver anything else, ever, at least if its for me. I've had to sign for and take in those things, and some of those packages are bloody heavy, I think the rotavap had to be the worst, for both of us, a bit over a grand in electronics, in a big, heavy metal tower, a bit shorter than the tower section of a desktop computer, loaded with expensive electronics and very delicately balanced weight-wise, for rotating a special kind of flask, itself balanced for the purpose in a vacuum distillation, along with a heating bath that connects up to the main tower part that spins up the still flask in the heating bath so it covers the inside in a thin layer that evaporates faster than a regular vacuum-distillation, along with its flasks and a matched rotavap condenser, a lot taller, and fatter than a regular coil condenser, which means its correspondingly much, much more delicate, and heavy too. (and theres meant to be another heavy piece coming, a weighted base with threaded holes tapped into it, which serves to mount a rod which is used to attach the clamps that hold the condenser)

Entire thing, minus the base I still need delivered, (and an allen key, but I can let that go if I have to, there are plenty of them available in the workshop (or what would otherwise be a garden shed, and makes a totem nod towards being a garden shed with a hedge trimmer, a garden fork, a rake and a couple of spades in one corner, so as not to take up space needed by the lathe or the drill press)..I reckon I can forgive them forgetting an allen key. plus crate, took it out of me carrying it inside, as the wooden crate itself, empty isn't light either)

Lol I bet in 20 years time, if its the same postie, I'll be able to recognize him due to a hunch-back and walking with a kind of waddling gait, throwing his legs out either side, with his arms permanently hanging down like a gorilla, only with a bad case of the shakes (at least, he'd have  the shakes if he speaks mandarin...and possibly come along his route in one of those NBC suits one  sees biologist-types and military-types wearing in movies featuring horrible alien flesheating-virus-plagues and a gas mask underneath just for good measure)

QV-don't have a kindle, I keep all my ebooks on computer hard drives and flash drives etc., read them on the computer, but NICE. I love H.P.Lovecraft (no not that way, get your royal mind outa the gutter missy :P)

Already got hardcopy books of if not all then certainly most of his stuff. Whats your favourite of his? I reckon mine might be 'the dream-quest of unknown Kadath'. Or its certainly one of them. Hm...and whats the betting Lovecraft himself was on the autistic spectrum? very, very shy, retiring, awkward around women wasn't he? and of course, very creative indeed.

He certainly fits the profile for HFA, don't you think?

And didn't he actually discard a lot of his unpublished work whilst writing, because he felt it wasn't perfect enough? that'd seem to me like a potential spectrum trait. Lovecraft, IMO has HFA written all over him (in a suitably infernal script, penned by a dead hand in an evil language....hm...yeah thats it...maybe the Autism Speaks of his day did a campaign against him! he sure wrote enough about THEM......)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 24, 2018, 06:46:24 PM

Hard to believe I read Lovecraft in the late 1960's.  Somehow lost the books in some move or another.  I'm looking forward to reading them on my Kindle app on the computer.  Whenever I get my computer set up. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 24, 2018, 07:02:28 PM

Why not give the PR a taste too when you get them, make a copy for her, once you read Lovecraft you never look back (especially when there might be a shoggoth oozing its amoeboid way across the ceiling behind you, and REALLY hungry after thawing out in the arctic for the first time in millenia:D)

She'll be hooked :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 25, 2018, 09:44:13 AM

Nope.  That would scare the pants off her.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 25, 2018, 09:44:25 AM

coffee

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 25, 2018, 01:18:16 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 24, 2018, 06:46:24 PM

Hard to believe I read Lovecraft in the late 1960's.  Somehow lost the books in some move or another.  I'm looking forward to reading them on my Kindle app on the computer.  Whenever I get my computer set up.

Me too, now. It's been a long time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on January 28, 2018, 04:55:56 AM

Finally returned from a random long weekend camping trip to Mt Kosciuszko.
It's good to be home! I mean, the scenery was great but the 20km hike to the summit and back was torture.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on January 28, 2018, 03:20:10 PM

How long did that take?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 29, 2018, 05:37:39 PM

Lovecraft is meant to scare the piss out of people. If he did warm and fwuffy it wouln't be Lovecraft. It'd have been a drunkenly-penned halfarsed literary answer to a coathanger-abortion on his part.

It'd be shit if he had written crap in that sort of way. It'd be him vomiting into a garbage can.
Also not all his stuff is THAT terrifying.

As for the something good..got paid, found out I had almost a grand in the bank and did about £200-something in food shopping (albeit am somewhat annoyed I forgot to get the cigars I was after, but oh well those I can get tomorrow). Got lots of treats, including a pair of beef rump-steaks custom cut to a nice big fat thick juicy size, along with 3 packs of shiitake mushrooms to fry and serve with them, along with a mixed pack of king oyster fungus, shiimeiji and enokitake that I'll fry up with my special great-flavoured, flavour enhancing for meat too (similar to MSG does so) and part-time suitcase nuke small enough to fit into a pocket-sized spice bottle, stuff IS a bit fiery I'll admit, and especially when just starting to cook the meat after its been marinaded in various hot sauces and dusted with my fly agaric mushroom-based specialiy blend that its a good idea to keep out of the kitchen if you aren't the cook, and that cooks should wear a mask and surgical gloves.

Bought some little key lime cheesecake pies, creme brulees in little glass pots (same goes for the key lime pies. The glass dishes will make for useful crystallization/recrytallization dishes once I've eaten the contents), cartons of pear apple and lychee juice, and of grapefruit juice (the latter will help keep my liver CYP-P450-3A4 or/and P450-2D6 enzymes suppressed, along with a few of my meds that will do so, and some over the counter supplies aimed at the same, a big selection of milkshakes, some regular toffee and some cookie-dough milk and some really thick 'frijj' milkshakes in cookiedough, irish coffee and fudge brownie milkshakes,  got a few of those since those were on sale for 50p a bottle), pizzas, asian pairs, pomegranates, an ice melon, couple of bunches of bananas, a big (2.5kg I think) tub of protein shake powder, to help compensate for my fairly low-protein diet given I often don't feel hunger until its really straining at the leash, or realize I've not eaten. Stocking up as I hadn't eaten more than a couple of bowls of cereal in a week, maybe two weeks, plenty slices of roast beef and many, many other tasty things....two 12-lpack boxes of mixed varieties of krispy kreme donuts, jellybeans-the posho many flavor kinds and lots of other good stuff.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 30, 2018, 03:01:28 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on January 30, 2018, 05:31:26 AM

Me too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 30, 2018, 04:59:35 PM

Donuts happened :D

Lots and lots and lots of krispy-kreme donuts of loads of different kinds. Bought 24 yesterday, a really big selection, and most of them are all gone now.

Got a pair of steaks in the fridge, good quality beef rump steaks, had them cut to personal preference rather than take the display pieces at the butchers, so they are nice and thick and juicy looking. Cost about £20something for the two. Plus bought three big tubs of shiitake mushrooms to fry and serve with them, as well as some shiimeiji, some enokitake and king oyster mushroom (might be Pleurotus eryngii, not totally sure. Was tempted almost to get some vase chanterelle but the Cantharellus varieties on offer at the supermarket were below my standards really and  when I buy or pick mushrooms I go for the best. I've been picking since i was age 4, and lets just say starting from that age, and getting as old an old fart as I am now, I've had quite some time to become a picky little bugger when it comes to selecting the prime, fresh and juicy specimens of the most delectable little treats to be hunted from the wilds, and when it comes to buying them in a shop, I am REALLY fussy about them being good enough. Bits falling off, or scrappy looking Cantharellus tubaeformis sold as true chanterelles...that is just not good enough. They didn't even look like good quality C.tubaeformis.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on January 30, 2018, 05:39:21 PM

I went and looked at some property for sale.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 31, 2018, 02:46:09 AM

Did you buy it?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on January 31, 2018, 08:17:45 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on January 28, 2018, 03:20:10 PM

How long did that take?

We left a bit before 11am and got back to Charlotte Pass at...I can't remember if it was 6 or 7pm.
I held proceedings up with my need for frequent rest stops :autism:.
I'm also nicely seared from the unfiltered UV rays at 8000ft.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on February 15, 2018, 03:51:36 AM

My uni marks were sent through a day early. Credit 73%, yeah baby  :fun dance:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 15, 2018, 04:03:40 AM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on February 15, 2018, 03:51:36 AM

My uni marks were sent through a day early. Credit 73%, yeah baby  :fun dance:

That's really well done, a good grade!

:plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on February 15, 2018, 05:58:01 AM

How long roughly does it take for the uni's system to update? because it still says I haven't completed the course requirements ??? (which would make me see red if it's true!!)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 15, 2018, 06:07:03 AM

Yeah, you're meant to be graduating aren't you?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on February 15, 2018, 07:14:17 AM

Meant to be is probably the best way to say it, yes.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on February 15, 2018, 05:18:20 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on February 15, 2018, 03:51:36 AM

My uni marks were sent through a day early. Credit 73%, yeah baby  :fun dance:

Congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 15, 2018, 11:39:07 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on February 15, 2018, 03:51:36 AM

My uni marks were sent through a day early. Credit 73%, yeah baby  :fun dance:

Wait, wouldn't 73% be a Distinction?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 18, 2018, 06:26:30 PM

I have been working on getting Filburt to ring a bell on the door when he wants to go outside and he seems to be finally getting used to it

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on February 18, 2018, 07:59:59 PM

I hoarded a bunch of stuff, I gave twenty bucks to a begger, and I shared my virus with my community.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 19, 2018, 02:54:41 AM

My psychiatrist appointment went well and I had a delicious tomato sandwich for lunch. Now back to the low calorie stuff for dinner - chicken soup.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 19, 2018, 03:11:09 AM

Quote from: Parts on February 18, 2018, 06:26:30 PM

I have been working on getting Filburt to ring a bell on the door when he wants to go outside and he seems to be finally getting used to it

Awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on February 19, 2018, 09:57:25 AM

Tomato sandwich? EW. Thats vile. Tomato most things are an offense against nature. I can drink tomato or beef and tomato soup, as  long as there aren't chunks of anything but meat in it, and tomato paste/canned liquefied tomato as a base for a chili con carne [or chili con carnage if my dad cooks it, since he doesn't use fly agaric or peppery boletus or even shiitake mushrooms in it, but Agaricus button mushrooms. Which IMO are essential ingredients for a good chili, it being borderline possible to make chili without peppery boletus if its impossible to find any the previous year and they aren't currently both in season and fruiting somewhere you can find them and just cut them up fine and use them fresh, but no shiitake and no fly Amanita? its carnage and  heresy, not chili)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 19, 2018, 11:24:36 AM

@ Lestat

Fried green tomatoes are fantastic
A tomato sandwich is fantastic
A warm tomato with only salt on it is fantastic

I will gladly eat the tomatoes you don't want.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on February 19, 2018, 12:14:38 PM

Presumably, given that the rest of the plant contains the toxic glycoalkaloid solanine, there would be traces in tomato fruit, especially in green ones (in the nightshade family, its very common for, in cases where the mature fruit can be eaten, the immature ones to be toxic, and the toxicity to decrease with maturity. Presumably that means traces in tomato ripe fruit.

And considering how many tomatoes I don't want, I don't want you killed by solanine poisoning. (or anything else for that matter)

Thats a LOT of tomatoes. I don't even like the smell of the things. Although in those certain specific instances I can tolerate them (tomato soup if I'm hungry, especially if its come out of a packet of dried stuff, beef+tomato pot noodles I actually like, and I consider canned tomato without nasty chunky bits in it plus some sun-dried tomato paste stirred in as a vital part of chili con carne, or even the thing my old man cooks that he thinks is chili con carne and looks like it but with the wrong mushrooms and none of the right mushrooms in it. I can eat the stuff alright, and it'll fill a hole, but its not a finely tuned fungal smorgasbord of sensory treats. Not like a mycologist's chili with his own personal special spice mix of exotic seeds, seed-cases, dried fungi, fresh fungi and dried and powdered fruits, leaves, roots and some sea-salt.

(plus, mine can, aside from the spice mix and the basic ingredients that go into every chili I'd cook, vary and give a seasonal change, plus vary according to the luck I happen to have whilst foraging, different extra mushrooms over and above the peppery boletus and the big sacks of fly agaric that I know full well where to find in plenty in several different forests and pathways and gardens I've gotten permission to pick the mushrooms from the homeowner who is happy just to see them gone and not popping up in his lawn..even though there are fly agarics, peppery boletus and even ceps on a good year popping up.

 And the fly agaric/peppery bolete I dry so I can store them for the year to come until more harvest is ready to be picked, and in the case of the fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) because I have to cure them in order to decompose a neurotoxin that they contain to render them suitable for culinary use. Not difficult, just takes the knowledge of how they need to be used to be safe and eventually one kinda gets a bit of a more seasoned hand, turning detoxification into best preservation, development and continuance of the best, sweetest, most honeyed and most strongly umami scent and flavor plus ability to draw out the umami in other foodstuffs that the fly agaric is cooked with, developing the skill to apply some simple kitchen biochemistry into the art of turning good food into food you've got to keep a knife in hand whilst cooking to avoid the entire street storming the house in order to rob one of one's crock-pot of stew :autism:

(I always cook the ceps fresh as they are picked though, ideally as fresh as picking, taking home, cleaning off the dirt and leaves, cutting off the very base of the stem where it came out of the ground, then chucking them into the frying pan with some butter and a little pinch of ground sea-salt, if I want dried ones I can buy them, as 'porcini', sliced up and dried, ready to be rehydrated and cooked in something, since they retain their powerfully mushroomy sweet scent for a long, long time, even after processes like pressure-cooking for use in commercial mushroom soup, better than most mushrooms do by far, and drying doesn't get rid of it either. But when found fresh, they are still all the tastier for being nice and fresh and juicy.

So, considering I can pick dried sliced ones  up from the supermarket, albeit porcini aren't cheap, I can't buy fresh ones (they are one of the world's most commercially important, and massively harvested wild fungi, in a large part due to the fact they are mycorrhizal, forming symbiotic associations with trees, which are difficult to replicate, I don't know if its been done with ceps. But they need deciduous trees, oak typically to grow. So not ideal for farming, and the sheer volume precludes small-scale but extremely high value farming as with truffles, there is an awful damn lot of commercial requirement for ceps in bulk and the value is...they aren't CHEAP to buy retail, dried, but you can't buy fresh ones from supermarkets. Somewhere that had a farmer's market type stallholding for artisanal produce, perhaps, but dependent upon luck of course. And in limited supply, as with any wild mushrooms, and thats not considering the fact that people that find them often don't sell them but they end up straight in the kitchen of the person with the luck to find them and disappear without ever seeing a buyer. They do have monetary worth but not the great price commanded by truffles, so, I've never sold a single cep in my entire life. Every last one has disappeared down either my gullet, or shared with my old man as quick as I can get them out of the leaf litter, under a tap and into the frying pan.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 19, 2018, 04:25:20 PM

Rode 1.5 miles on the bike and did 20 upper arm and 20 upper back thingies on the machine.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on February 19, 2018, 07:16:06 PM

Went to DQ to get a blizzard. That's always a good thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on February 20, 2018, 12:37:00 AM

Ooohh :D its a misskitteh! thats always a good thing, when you decide to grace us again.

As for me, some good music to enjoy it to, but sitting back with a cold can of coke, after taking my pain meds and accidentally ending up with quite a rush off what was MEANT to be an IM shot of morphine for my hip pain and the what is probably plantar fasciitis that has been screaming blue murder all tonight and managing to outdo the hip pain, which takes quite some doing, even though I've been giving that foot quite a few helpings of NSAID gel, maximum rx-strength diclofenac gel, and through sheer chance the IM dose, wasn't. I obviously penetrated a deep vein situated within my calf muscle that I never could have actually aimed for deliberately and hadn't any idea that it was there, by rather than going in at an angle as with a usually done IV as typically done on people, this quite definitely must have penetrated to just the right depth and at exactly the right position to deliver the morphine IM into the vein.

I noticed that it felt like the plunger felt a little..kinda smooth in the way it depressed under my thumb, as if the contents were emptying a lot faster and easier than an IM shot does. But not really calling anything to attention until it was all in and about 10 seconds later, my cheeks, the bridge of my nose, the palms of my hands and soles of my feet began to feel really warm, and strongly prickling, like I'd been nettle-stung, due to histamine release, and knew right away what had just happened since that happens only with IV, and not SC or IM injections. Localized histamine release, yes, but not that you feel all over your body.

Then started itching all over, whilst a huge surging euphoric rush developed and took off like a rocket from the just short of 200mg IV morphine that I'd just accidentally given myself. Well not accidentally given myself, just given by a completely unintended route, that would have been impossible to actually intend and perform without an ultrasound machine to find a vein that deep and guide the needle tip, but that is rather enjoyable. An 'oops' but a good 'oops'

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on February 20, 2018, 12:40:02 AM

And how have you been Miss K? its been a while, how the devil are you doing? its good to see you here again, I'd missed you. Actually it was just last night that I was thinking about you and wondering where you had been all this time. Hope all is going good for you and the wee monkeys :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on February 20, 2018, 01:56:28 AM

Just had a lovely surprise.

Opened my wallet to put my debit card back inside it, as it had been in a coat pocket, and I found £21.60 that I didn't know I had. I like surprises like that :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on February 20, 2018, 03:00:37 AM

Now I'm just wondering when my bad luck is going to kick in and send the day arse over tit. Just popped into the local shop after success getting a doctor appointment (was meant to be waiting yesterday for a call, repeatedly phoned the surgery and the doctor didn't bloody ring me, surgery shut and I still didn't get a call, despite a high priority, including needing seizure meds that I didn't have done on my repeat as they should have been)

And my chance cash find meant I could  get the things I wanted from the shop on the way back, more good luck in itself finding what I did there, without having to spend any of the £666 on my card. And they seem to have just started selling two really good looking (tried one of the two so far) fruit juices on liter cartons, nice and cold from the chiller cabinets, one being cherimoya (otherwise known as a custard-apple, and really tasty indeed fresh, never had the juice before now and its still damn good, with pineapple and ginger root juices) and the other being a lychee, guava and lime juice blend, and grabbed myself a couple of packs of cigars as well and a box of matches, just enough to get everything I wanted, plus about 20p left over, and no breaking into my savings, just using the chance money find.

Also, found a cache of copper pipe and blocks of compacted up lead sheet. All old and somewhat corroded, but still worth the same (well if anything, it'll add slightly to the scrap value, due to the oxygen adding a little bit more molecular weight to the total) Just need to find a convenient time to put it all in a bag, stick that in a backpack and cycle up to the nearest scrapyard, after folding in a few rocks inside the lead sheet, or casting it around some stones to make it weigh more, and packing the copper piping with wet soil. (more weight=more money. A little mischievous but it does look old enough to have gotten that way naturally) Looks like there might be £10-15 or so there before any additional weighting, maybe £20-25 after if I do it carefully enough to get away with as much as possible.

And whatever I get for it scrap value, I can put towards offsetting the cost of a new heating mantle, ideally building the controller circuitry myself, and using it to electrically heat some nichrome or kanthal resistance wire and have both options for thermostatic temperature control, or choosing to use a thermocouple probe, since I've a new quadruple-necked 5-liter flask and am after a pair of 4-necked ten-liter round bottom flasks. The 5 liter one, in 24/40 joint size/taper cost me almost £100, but, whilst perfectly good for reflux and regular distillation, it has a slightly flat bottom to it, which means that its unsuitable for vacuum distillation (uneven means it is an implosion risk, although safe still to use for suction filtration using a water aspirator or hand pump and buchner funnels etc.

But I want a matched pair of 4-necked 10 liter RBFs, that I can use both as reaction vessels for reflux etc. and for vacuum distillation using powered pumps and high vacuum applications like setting up a Schlenk-line (a rather complex setup of glassware parts for when you absolutely NEED to have the entire system under hard vacuum, completely purged with dried inert gas after being baked out in an oven, then purged and placed under vacuum, along with all transfers of reagents conducted from sealed, septum-capped bottles using cannula needles and glass syringes, again baked out and purged with dried inert gas, to avoid things catching fire, or else for handling things that aren't pyrophoric but are extremely moisture- or oxygen-sensitive)

And just the flasks will be expensive, not checked prices yet but I'd expect a minimum of £150 for one, not sure what a matched pair would cost me but it'll not be cheap although for buying two from one buyer I ought to get a discount. And it'll mean getting bigger heating/magnetic stirrer setups too, which to buy would be hundreds more at that kind of size for a heating mantle, but I could build one for much, much cheaper, with nichrome/kanthal wire and asbestos wrapping for insulation to protect my flasks. Both for large-volume reactions needing high dilution of reagents that I want to conduct on a more than few gram scale in some cases, etc., plant extractions needing a lot of weight of plant material using E.g steam distillation, and for things like recovering and recycling solvents, doing big bulk distillations on my used solvents to freshen them up where suitable for recycling so I don't need to buy more. Always better if I can just distill the used stuff a few times, as needs be to render it clean and ready for re-use than having to spend more money. (especially since I'm going to need a lot of £££ to pay for the flasks, plus a replacement alembic when I can find one in fused quartz for high temperature applications such as distilling white phosphorus off of heated red P, and one that has at least one or two ground glass joints in 24/40 in the back. And fused quartz-ware isn't cheap)

But so far so good. Although I still need to find somewhere to buy some carbon disulfide from, since I really, really do not want to have to make it. It'll be a pain in the arse at the very most optimistic.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 20, 2018, 10:32:39 AM

Not today but yesterday:

I had put things in my wrist wallet since The PR and I were going to the gym and a quick grocery shopping.  Later that evening I went to go somewhere, and no wallet.  Turn the two rooms it could have been in upside down three times, looked in car twice, went back to the grocery store.  No luck. 

No wallet = no money for the rest of the month, no debit card (could be easily replaced), no drivers license (me) or identification card (The PR), about $70 in gift cards.  Damn.

Decided to calm down after freaking out.  Drank a peach flavoured beer I had on hand (odeon, piss on the peach beer) and watched some TV.  As I was getting up I glanced down and there was the wallet.

Note to self:  PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 21, 2018, 05:38:41 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 20, 2018, 10:32:39 AM

Not today but yesterday:

I had put things in my wrist wallet since The PR and I were going to the gym and a quick grocery shopping.  Later that evening I went to go somewhere, and no wallet.  Turn the two rooms it could have been in upside down three times, looked in car twice, went back to the grocery store.  No luck. 

No wallet = no money for the rest of the month, no debit card (could be easily replaced), no drivers license (me) or identification card (The PR), about $70 in gift cards.  Damn.

Decided to calm down after freaking out.  Drank a peach flavoured beer I had on hand (odeon, piss on the peach beer) and watched some TV.  As I was getting up I glanced down and there was the wallet.

Note to self:  PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

That's just the sort of thing I'd do. Last thing I lost was my watch. And that's not the first time I've lost a watch.

@Lestat

I don't like any type of mushrooms.

Don't like beer either.

:zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on February 21, 2018, 09:10:21 AM

Thats because I haven't had the good fortune to have a chance to cook for you Ren. I could  show you a thing or two about mushrooms that'd change your mind in a hurry :) Not the limp, pallid tasteless shite you find in a supermarket, but freshly plucked from the ground and  hacked off of tree trunks/out of bark.

And its ironic that somebody that used to work in a mushroom farm, doesn't like them. Although you could say the same for me, aside from a few specialty kinds I don't like the ones that come out of a supermarket either. I could eat them, if I had  to, but I'd sooner not. The things I do with the kinds I  do eat, its not even close to similar aside from that some of them have gills and/or a stalk too, sometimes both; and that they replicate through spores. I can be quite creative, and whip up something really tasty if there is anything out there to be picked. But the things from the shop, excluding shiitake and some specialty kinds, its like chewing a flavourless blob of cartilage. Hell I've swallowed them and had them come right out the other end unchanged before,  other than being even less appetizing.

As for the beer, all the more for me then, I'd be happy to pour you something more to your liking. But how can anyone not like beer :P on the right time it can be liquid sanity :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 21, 2018, 12:06:37 PM

@ renaeden - I don't like fresh mushrooms, but enjoy cooked ones.  They are a cheap addition to spaghetti as is eggplant.  When I find canned mushrooms cheap I stock up on them.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on February 21, 2018, 05:23:50 PM

Fresh (uncooked) mushrooms? ew. Although that doesn't really affect me anyway since most mushrooms shouldn't be eaten uncooked. And especially not wild ones, even when you do know what they are.

There are a HUGE number of excellent, excellent wild mushrooms that are wonderful, but should never be eaten without proper cooking. Even some commercial ones, must never be eaten raw, the morels a a perfect example, they can cause poisoning if they are not properly cooked.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 21, 2018, 05:41:19 PM

Raw mushrooms are sometimes added to salads if it's the main course.  I will eat freshly cooked mushrooms, but I'll admit to being a Philistine and preferring my mushrooms out of a can and as a minor part of a dish.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on February 21, 2018, 05:51:33 PM

I'll stick to shiitake from the shops, for the few mushrooms I do eat from the shops, as well as enokitake, shjiimeiji, king  oyster and honshiimeiji.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 21, 2018, 10:14:28 PM

You have more variety of mushrooms at your shops than we do here.

Before I worked at the mushroom farm I didn't like mushrooms and nothing changed when I worked there. At one stage it was my job to empty the bins. This was before the truck we emptied into had modifications so the forklift could do it. I had to get into the back of the truck and hammer out the bottoms of the bins. Fresh choggs (the word for mushroom stalk ends) smelt ok but when a bin was left for a few days so that steam was coming out of it, well that was quite horrible. Slimy.

I've also seen a few mushroom diseases (in my supervisor's office there were a few books on the subject) and treated some as well, notable treatments being the use of salt and plastic to isolate disease and also some weird smelling stuff called Octave mixed with water I used to water the mushrooms. I can't remember the types of diseases though, their names. One common one was called, in layman's terms, blotch. It was orange and used to be found where mushrooms stick together and were too moist. It spread too. Treatment was high doses of chlorine once the beds were stripped after first or second flushes because it helped dry things out more.

I wish I was like my mum, she will eat any type of mushroom, raw, cooked, tinned.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 21, 2018, 11:13:22 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on February 22, 2018, 09:53:26 AM

Here in the shops we mostly get various Agaricus, button mushrooms, chestnut mushrooms, portobello mushrooms, all the same old shit different day. Common is to find oyster (Pleurotus ostreatus) and shiitake (Lentinus edodes), and some places you can find shiimeiji, enokitake, honshimeiji, 'king oyster mushroom' which I think are Pleurotus eryngii, they look like it, and when really lucky what they sell, dishonestly as chanterelles, but in fact, aren't, they are Craterellus tubaeformis or C.lutescens. Not nearly so desirable or expensive in the mushroom trading world. And those aren't usually very good specimens either. Fucking cheapskates. They do taste alright but not anything special and  certainly not as good as anything that's been freshly harvested either. The 'chanterelles' are never good quality.

Although I admit, spending the day looking, does have a way of working up quite an appetite by the time I've gotten home.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on February 23, 2018, 01:41:24 AM

I like the huge edible mushrooms. The ones that are almost as big as a saucer. We found a box of them at the markets one time for $20. Must have been 5 kilos.

Even just sliced and cooked in butter, and eaten with bacon and eggs, they are really good.

I will eat them raw in a salad but usually don't bother as they don't seem to have much flavour that way. 

I've got some photos somewhere of a wild mushroom I found a couple of years ago. It was literally the area of a large dinner plate on top, and thick as well. Must have weighed a couple of kilos for just the one mushroom. I wasn't tempted to eat it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 23, 2018, 02:49:29 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 23, 2018, 02:51:46 AM

Quote from: Minister of silly walks on February 23, 2018, 01:41:24 AM

I like the huge edible mushrooms. The ones that are almost as big as a saucer. We found a box of them at the markets one time for $20. Must have been 5 kilos.

Even just sliced and cooked in butter, and eaten with bacon and eggs, they are really good.

I will eat them raw in a salad but usually don't bother as they don't seem to have much flavour that way. 

I've got some photos somewhere of a wild mushroom I found a couple of years ago. It was literally the area of a large dinner plate on top, and thick as well. Must have weighed a couple of kilos for just the one mushroom. I wasn't tempted to eat it.

Was it definitely a mushroom and not a toadstool? ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 23, 2018, 02:56:27 AM

 :zombiefuck:

Not sure I should ask.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on February 23, 2018, 05:53:41 AM

There isn't any difference Ren. 'toadstool' just comes from the german 'todes stuhl' or 'death's seat'. And there is no botanical separate class, its just a colloquial term that people use.

And there certainly are edible kinds that can grow that big (or bigger in some cases, giant puffball for instance can end up weighing as much as either of us, and a meter and a half in diameter, although it doesn't have the traditional 'mushroom' shape. Just a big white, usually irregular shaped ball of tasty.) I've found plenty that are absolutely huge, though when it comes to normal mushrooms. Parasols in particular have a tendency to grow huge caps [Macrolepiota procera] and fried in salted butter they are truly delicious. And some of the wild Agaricus especially, relatives of the common shop button mushrooms, some of them, like A.macrosporus can grow REALLY big. Not just wide but squat and generally hefty, thick things, as well as the one known as the prince, A.augustus, can grow to over 20 inches in diameter (although the prince has a much thinner, taller stem than A.macrosporus.)  I've found A.macrosporus before, having a faint, delicate taste and smell of aniseed under its typically 'mushroomy' smell and taste, and they have been really heavy, stocky things that need to be sliced to be cooked properly because they are otherwise too thick and hefty to cook through and through easily.

And some of the edible boletes can grow to be a really considerable size, as can some Suillus, a relative genus to the boletes  proper, like the slippery jack, those can easily grow to be of a size that would take a side-plate to hold one large cap. (very tasty too, I love slippery jacks, once the slime layer on the cap is peeled away, and they are cooked in garlic butter and given a squeeze of lemon before eating, one of my  favourites actually), Boletus/Xerocomus badius, the bay bolete, can grow to a similarly huge size, and again is very good eating.

Found plenty of saffron milkcaps last year too that were almost the size of a side-plate, (Lactarius deliciosus, the 'milk cap' name for the Lactarius genus comes from the fact that when the flesh is broken or cut, then there is the exudation of a milky, sap-like liquid, that varies both in color, and in some kinds, the way, if any, that after exposure to air, the milk changes color, in the case of the saffron milk-cap, the entire thing is bright orange, and so is the milk, aside from when bruised, a slight greenish tinge develops, although that is more prominent in the quite similar, although more bitter and whilst still good eating, not quite so desirable L.deterrimus), and L.deliciosus more than lives up to its species epithet, meaning 'delicious', no surprise there. Very good fried, even better roasted and given a topping of mozzarella cheese over the gills with a little salt and sprinkling of black pepper, then grilled to melt the cheese until it bubbles up and goes nice and golden brown on the top. They aren't too common, but I do have one spot for them in a pine and mixed deciduous forest that tends every year to fruit L.deliciosus very prolifically indeed, along with plenty of various boletes, and both slippery jack and the similar, and just as tasty larch bolete/larch Suillus. Ceps, and bay boletes too, tend to fruit in abundance. And for some reason right near the car park, I almost always find just one, sometimes two individuals of Lepiota brunneo-incarnata, a quite rare species, although not one to be eaten, as it is full of the same deadly amatoxins as the notorious death cap (Amanita phalloides) and destroying angel (A.virosa, plus some of its relatives within the subsection Phalloidea of the genus Amanita, the group which contain those deadly white-spored Amanita species that produce amatoxins, and worldwide cause 90% of fatalities associated with people eating the wrong mushroom. Nasty little bastards that slowly destroy the liver via inhibition of RNA polymerase III and binding to the actin fibers that make up a large portion of the cytoskeleton, as well as targeting kidneys, fucking with the electrolyte levels in the blood and sometimes damaging the heart, usually if not treated both very quickly and aggressively, resulting in a very, very unpleasant and drawn out death for the poor unfortunate bastard to have eaten them, with even a single bite of a death cap or its relatives being quite enough to kill the biter.

But for some reason, although its usually just the one single fruit-body, or just occasionally I'll see two of them, I tend to find  these rare Lepiotas just on the entrance to the forest proper at the end of the car-park/start of the forest paths. Year after year, trip after trip, they seem to be there, close to where I'd have seen it the last year I went. Needless to say, those are most certainly staying off the menu of the mushrooms and wild bilberries I eat from there, not like theres any shortage of very good wild edibles from that particular forest. Big shopping bags laden with saffron milk-caps alone, and thats without even considering the large haul of boletes I find most trips I take to the place.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 27, 2018, 07:19:19 PM

While The PR didn't bowl any strikes today she managed to bowl 6 spares in a row.  Not sure how rare that is, but I'm impressed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on February 27, 2018, 09:28:56 PM

It's probably rarer than her NOT scoring strikes. Reading you post about PR's bowling outings, and doing a sort of unofficial averaging, haven't actually crunched any numbers for it, but it seems like she bowls turkeys more often than anything else. That girl is damn good!

Do congratulate her on my behalf, won't you, QV? Attagirl PR :)

As for me, got a really good deal on some CBD oil, which it seems holland&barrett recently started stocking. about a quarter, maybe slightly less, of the usual price per bottle.

And if I'm not very much mistaken, CBD looks like it ought to undergo a rearrangement and cyclization to a mixture of delta-8 and delta-9-THC under acidic conditions. Or possibly selectively depending on the specific conditions. Just..curious..intriguing... Now I can't help but wonder about the PH of the oil preparation....

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on February 28, 2018, 06:04:32 AM

Had a dr appt. Looks like we are making more progress with him getting the approval (my GP that is) from specialists in order to give me the off-label prescription for memantine. Hoping I might hear from my GP next week even. I  hope that means I finally get to start it next week, that would be fucking sweet, since I've been trying to get him to do this for me for probably more than five years now.

Used the spare time to pick up an antiseizure drug rescue pack as well since I was there in his office.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 28, 2018, 08:55:50 AM

Asked for a recommendation from a former boss and got a *glowing* one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 28, 2018, 12:00:37 PM

 :2thumbsup:

Wait.  Glowing as in good or glowing as in radioactive?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 01, 2018, 01:15:37 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 28, 2018, 12:00:37 PM

:2thumbsup:

Wait.  Glowing as in good or glowing as in radioactive?

As in good.

Never had a radioactive recommendation yet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on March 01, 2018, 09:33:31 AM

Why, do you need one? Can get you thorium easily enough, uranium (depleted, or yellowcake, enrichment the responsibility of the buyer if required), technetium-99 and probably some tritium. As well as needle-sources  of polonium 210 and several other radioisotopes for the likes of cloud chambers, geiger counter calibration, the occasional assassination of KGB officers)

Plus beryllium for nucleosynthesis processes requiring a neutron-gun. Contact via PM, nobody of sweaty arab descent need apply.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 02, 2018, 02:19:23 AM

Quote from: Lestat on March 01, 2018, 09:33:31 AM

Why, do you need one? Can get you thorium easily enough, uranium (depleted, or yellowcake, enrichment the responsibility of the buyer if required), technetium-99 and probably some tritium. As well as needle-sources  of polonium 210 and several other radioisotopes for the likes of cloud chambers, geiger counter calibration, the occasional assassination of KGB officers)

Plus beryllium for nucleosynthesis processes requiring a neutron-gun. Contact via PM, nobody of sweaty arab descent need apply.

:zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 02, 2018, 10:44:41 AM

Changed the batteries in the wireless keyboard.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 05, 2018, 11:47:24 AM

As you folk already know, when something good happens to, for or around me I generally revel in the moments and the time around the happening. Then I post something later and not on the day "OF" the fabulousness.

Last Tuesday we got a rescue dog from a local shelter. He is a Dachshund and Collie mix, small (twenty two pounds) long haired, absolutely gorgeous and we all love him, already!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 05, 2018, 12:10:51 PM

I'll post a pic in a few days. He is so cute.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on March 05, 2018, 03:27:57 PM

Not much. My carefully laid plans went to hell in a handbasket. My foot had been a bit sore for perhaps 2-3 weeks, but not overly so. But over the last two days, it seems to have flared up as an infection and hurts like hell, top of my foot, so thankfully I can at least rest it, but unfortunately it doesn't seem sensitive to erythromycin, and there are a somewhat restricted amount of suitable antibiotics I can take, since I'm allergic (dangerously so) to penicillins and logically although not certainly, to other beta-lactams [crossreaction of penicillin allergy to carbapenems certainly happens but the rate isn't 100%]

Can't take clindamycin or clarithromycin, not allergic to them but I do react badly to both, they tear my guts a new hole, either of them causes me intense GI pains. And fluoroquinolones are out for sure, the likes of ciprofloxacin and its allies are contraindicated with tizanidine, an adrenolytic drug that I can't just suddenly stop since while not addictive, it can cause a physical rebound if one does just stop it, especially at  high doses, and I've been on not too far off the highest prescribable dose, as a myorelaxant, and the result would be a combination of severe anxiety and panic reaction, severe muscle spasm, which is what I'm taking it for to begin with, sleeplessness and potentially dangerous hypertensive crisis and tachycardia.

Also the fluoroquinolones are GABAa antagonists, not a great idea to use when one is seizure-prone and taking GABAa agonist drugs especially.

And to top it off they have a nasty potential for causing spontaneous, unprovoked tendon rupture, which can easily cripple someone long-term, and IIRC also have some potential for neurological issues. And I already have tendinitis of at least one of my knees, so to hell with that.

Might try a tetracycline, when I call my doctor tomorrow, I at least know I'm not allergic to tetracyclines, to nitroimidazoles or to chloramphenicol, or to gentamycin, although the latter is rather nasty generally speaking, as well as ototoxic (neurotoxic to the neurons innervating the ear), although I've been treated with it once before, I'd rather avoid it if I can, and the tetracyclines are most likely the safest option, followed by the nitroimidazoles such as metronidazole.

I did have planned a distillation and drying  of some diethyl and diisopropyl ethers, but I need to be able to stand to do it, and for what I need the ether for, its rather a hazardous preparation of a reagent that isn't likely to be particularly friendly either, going through the unstable, moisture-sensitive phosphorus triiodide, a volatile, water-reactive, corrosive, toxic, stinking fuming liquid with a habit of turning into a volcano of noxious fumes if one gives it a chance.

The reagent I need it to prepare, a  phosphorus subiodide with some unusual properties ought to be more tractable, and it is stable, although still reactive towards water, its a solid, although I expect it to be volatile.

Guess I'll use the time to get the other things I need for the later stages of my experiment (carbon disulfide, possibly also some sodium triacetoxyborohydride or cyanoborohydride, although if I go with STAB, I might well be able to utilize sodium borohydride, generating STAB in-situ by dissolving the substrate I have in mind in anhydrous glacial acetic acid and then adding NaBH4, forming triacetoxyborohydride in-situ. Although I can easily buy the triacetoxyborohydride if I need to. It might not even be necessary, I haven't quite decided on the reducing agent that I need in the synthesis I have in mind. )

So I think I'll use the time it'll take me with a course of a suitable antibiotic, to rest and heal up, as well as buy myself some needed supplies, plus a new vacuum pump, and get some research done for the reduction step of the...experiment..I have in mind. I think it'll work though. Plus  I'll get myself some boron trifluoride (yeech!!), as BF3:Et2O, the diethyl ether lewis adduct complex of boron trifluoride, which for the (separate project altogether) experiment I need, worse luck, boron trifluoride for, seemingly the etherate complex will be suitable also, and its a solid, IIRC, supplied as  a solution in anhydrous diethyl ether (its violently water-reactive, and extremely poisonous, never worked with either boron trifluoride or BF3 etherate before, but unlike the etherate lewis adduct, boron trifluoride itself is gaseous, so more difficult to handle by far, as well as a lot more difficult to control the addition of it to the substrate. Whilst the etherate can be handled as an ethereal solution under inert gas and drying tubes along with suitable bodily protection and respiratory equipment.

At least, unlike many fluorine-based  reagents though, at least it doen't end up releasing hydrofluoric acid or HF gas, and it does have the saving grace  that it doesn't eat glass either. And during hydrolysis, releases tetrafluoroboric acid,  and the tetrafluoroborate ion can be useful for stabilizing some otherwise rather evasive or unstable cations. And I'm always one for, wherever possible in my lab projects, engineering and tweaking things so as to have whatever I'm doing, whenever byproducts are formed, afford ones that are themselves useful for other things.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on March 05, 2018, 06:51:58 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on March 05, 2018, 11:47:24 AM

As you folk already know, when something good happens to, for or around me I generally revel in the moments and the time around the happening. Then I post something later and not on the day "OF" the fabulousness.

Last Tuesday we got a rescue dog from a local shelter. He is a Dachshund and Collie mix, small (twenty two pounds) long haired, absolutely gorgeous and we all love him, already!

That's awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 05, 2018, 07:27:46 PM

I grew up with dachshunds.  They're unique.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 05, 2018, 08:21:35 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on March 05, 2018, 07:27:46 PM

I grew up with dachshunds.  They're unique.

They are indeed. My parents used to own one when I was very little.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 06, 2018, 02:17:38 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on March 05, 2018, 11:47:24 AM

As you folk already know, when something good happens to, for or around me I generally revel in the moments and the time around the happening. Then I post something later and not on the day "OF" the fabulousness.

Last Tuesday we got a rescue dog from a local shelter. He is a Dachshund and Collie mix, small (twenty two pounds) long haired, absolutely gorgeous and we all love him, already!

That's great! Congrats!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on March 06, 2018, 09:29:40 AM

That's awesome DD.

My neighbors above have a little wiener dog, he comes down on patrol and yaps at me when I'm in the garden.

Cute as hell. :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on March 07, 2018, 07:00:22 PM

Those yippy little anklebiter dogs are little shits as far as  dogs go a lot of the time.

Nothing but 'yarkyarkyarkyarkyark!!!'yarkyarkyark!' all fucking night long, or going off on one when someone walks past them on the street. I've seen and heard  plenty of that kind that did that to the point where *I* wanted to get down on all fours, bark insanely in their furry little mush and then bite THEM.

Little anklebiting horrors:P

Something (relatively speaking) good  that happened  to me was my doctor made a housecall out of hours  to see me, about the really fucking painful infection on the arch of my foot, and  agreed to give me some more pain meds to help cover it, as well as put me on an effective, broad-spectrum antibiotic.

Plus  I was  able to finally, although most certainly not without first both taking a LARGE shot of morphine sulfate, and snorting quite a few capsules of oxycodone IR (to have it act rapidly enough to be in time for the task to be undertaken) and spending a while waiting for them to kick in fully, steeling myself for what I was going to have to do-its a lot less acutely painful now a lot of the pressure has been released, after I drove the blade of a knife into the swelling and sliced it open, then after wrapping a lot of tissue paper around, squeezing HARD, along with tensing my foot muscles up tight as I could several times in succession.

Yes, it fucking hurt like a total cunting bastard, even after my having coated the point of my blade in 20% benzocaine (a local anaesthetic) to help take the edge off, but stabbed it in all the same, after gritting my teeth, swearing a few times in advance to make up for the moments of time after the job being done in between finishing doing it, and being able to breathe again and  start cursing and swearing properly,  then hit it with the handle of another knife to drive it in like a hammer, opened it up a bit more with a corkscrew on the pocket knife, by twisting it in the wound to open it up better.

Drained it very substantially and let off a lot of pressure, and the pain has faded away something bloody miraculous. Although immediately after I did sterilize my hands, knife etc. in absolute alcohol, before sterilizing a patch of upper  leg and giving myself another jab of morphine. And not a small one either. Because even with the pain meds  already in me beforehand, it still managed to hurt like a complete bastard.

But now, its feeling a lot better than it was, and I'll be getting some more pain meds to cover the increase I had to use tomorrow, the doc was  understanding enough about WHY, after he'd actually seen both the wound during his housecall, (pre-drainage), the swelling and effect that it had on my walking  (I.e forget it, it just isn't going to happen right now):)


So, whilst its  not what you'd call a good  thing as such, its still a fucking relief, especially after stabbing myself in the foot and twisting that corkscrew in there&yanking it out again. Having to apply pressure on the wound after to drain it was the worst part though, the most painful by far, especially with how  much inflammation the infection caused. Figured though 'fuck it, this is GOING to hurt, and it isn't going to be shy about letting me know about it either. So I decided no half-arsed measures, just  apply as much pressure as  I could from several sides at once and force the drainage. Its a  lot smaller now, and as such a lot less  painful.

More than I can say for the actual incision and drainage myself though. I'd have used a surgical scalpel rather than a  pocket knife blade (good sharp knife  or not), but unfortunately all my blades are in the lab. And obviously *I* can't just get up and walk up there; and even though he hasn't got any physical issues standing etc. I can't very well ask him to go poke about in a bunch of drawers full of delicate glass, and  various highly toxic, in many cases water- air- or both-reactive compounds, some  of them corrosive, if not most of them, and at least a few that'll catch fire spontaneously on contact with air.

And besides, the glass and electronics/powered glassware bits and  pieces, all in all, I'm not actually sure how much I spent on the lab in total, but some items are worth over a grand per piece, some even a grand  and a half, even a microscope that cost near to £300-350 or so), and some of my flasks,  worth £95 or  so for just one piece, for the pricier kinds, heating baths, magnetic stirrer-hotplates, hotplates, standalone  stirrers, rotovap, power supplies, and of course all the money that went into buying my chemicals. About 80 euros per kg  (got a discount as I bought 2) of  red phosphorus for example, lots  of difficult to get acid anhydrides and acyl halides, alkyl halides and other such stuff, as well as all the solvents, both commonplace and exotic.

Some of those, like a couple of the more highly exotic and unusual acid anhydrides and alkyl halides cost a couple of hundred quid for just a few hundred ml.

So I really can't send HIM up there with all the delicate, expensive equipment, metals that might get away from their confinement under oil or inert gases that could take his head off. And cost me more perfectly good money to have to spend on more chemicals, or potentially glassware that ended up blasted to little tiny pieces  after a chemically inept person who isn't a chemist and hasn't got very many chemistry-shaped  bones in his body inadvertently created something violently reactive and good at removing bodyparts.

And  as a result, it had to be the pocketknife, using a small blade but still not with a razor shape point to it, the edge is very sharp but not the point itself. Oww. And  then some. But at least it did  get the job done thoroughly.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on March 20, 2018, 05:10:43 PM

FINALLY! in my fallout-tactics game, I can buy both 9mm and .44 hollowpoint rounds at the base quartermasters supply store. I was down to .44 revolvers and .44 desert eagles loaded with partial mags, after running a mission against a faction of tribal bandit types, a bunch of loonatics called 'beastlords' who use various monstrosities and creatures from the irradiated wasteland as battle assistants.

Lightly armored though. Just had to do a hostage-rescue mission, where the bastards had taken over and fortified a town, including a prison/army garrison strongpoint, after sneaking in through an underground tunnel, and having several side missions as well, such as rescuing a brothel full of prostitutes from these cannibal raiders and their little pet horrors. And if alerted, the alarms would sound and they would start killing hostages. Did have a modest supply of .44 hollowpoint ammo for the revolvers and desert eagle pistols, and a single well-aimed round from one of either would often do much better than even a burst at close-ish range from an AK-47 assault rifle, the expanding ammunition being also more accurate and capable of aimed shots, rather than using burst fire or shotguns, for risk of hitting hostages.

Plus a room where the beastlords had one of their high ranking commanders with a remote detonator for a whole load of plastique and a remote explosive charge all close to a ton of hostages and next to the critical town generators. Sent my stealthiest squad member in and disarmed one of the remote bombs, after having two squad members go in down the stairs from the top, killing the lights, and sneaking up close, whilst the other two knocked out the commander and a couple of assault rifle gunners behind sandbag cover. Two turns, putting .44 dum-dum bullets into the commander first, right through the eyes from a .44 revolver, killing two other gunners, did lose one hostage, but in the first combat round wiped out all but two or so of the enemy with sneaky up-close aimed shots to the head and eyes, a single shot usually sufficing to put them down for good. Several hostage situations, at least five in that mission, and was down to the remaining hollowpoint ammo in my squad's sidearms, but managed to stock up on a hundred or so plus a couple of hundred 9mm hollowpoint rounds, for use in MP5 submachinegun sidearms and one other wielding a sten gun again loaded with 9mm HP rounds. One shot is devastating from either, but on burst fire, its damn rare that any human survives it. And for those who are wearing heavy armor, I have both 9mm armor-piercing and .44 magnum AP rounds. They do less damage than either HP or standard ball ammo but they do their job well on targets too heavily armored for HP rounds and that ball ammo doesn't do much damage to. Although I save both the AP and HP rounds for the most part, and when fighting your average desert raiders, mutated scorpions etc. burst fire and ball rounds, or the occasional shotgun blast when they try to close in.

Brought in a HUGE haul of weaponry from that last one, got to go back and pick up the rest, to sell back at base, because there was way more than the squad could carry. Still, wiped the place clean, now its just a matter of scavenging the remaining 7.62  semi-auto hunting rifles which are quite heavy, the odd submachine pistol of inferior quality to those my squad use, so good enough ot sell but not weapons my squad are about to adopt. Did capture a couple of rifles chambered in 30.06, which are single shot only but have excellent range, and a LOT of stopping power. Can't buy more ammo for them yet, so have to rely on capturing it from killed enemy.  Been using those for sniping hostage takers with deadly accuracy while the lighter armed troops with 9mm SMGs and .44 magnum revolvers or .44 desert eagles loaded with hollowpoints for accurate takedowns without harming the hostages.  Did a good job of it too. Now just need to go back and retrieve the remaining gear on the bodies of the hostage takers for sale now I've ditched the weight of so much loot it was slowing the team down after completing the mission.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 22, 2018, 07:16:01 PM

The car won't be as expensive to fix as I thought. There was a lead loose that caused the running rough. Weird that it happened as soon as I put petrol in.

It's getting 2 engine mounts today and the other 2 in two weeks. That's the only way I can afford it. $480. I saved more than that so I'll have some leftover.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 23, 2018, 12:22:35 AM

Glad to hear that it wasn't anything worse than that. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 23, 2018, 12:39:58 AM

Thanks :)

Cars are money pits.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 23, 2018, 04:53:33 PM

Finished the errands with minimal baby tears.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 25, 2018, 09:28:57 PM

Someone at work is trying to start a makers' club, and suggested maybe I could host a small group of people for knitting/crochet/crafts/etc. I really hope it happens, because that is the kind of socializing that I might actually enjoy instead of being brainfuckery.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 25, 2018, 09:47:44 PM

I used to go to a group for people with mental health issues and we would do craft and painting activities. It was a nice way to get to know people in a quiet atmosphere. Plus we got to make stuff.

Hope you get a group going, it can be fun.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on March 25, 2018, 10:18:05 PM

I need to pick up my meds refill this morning. And as usual, I was withdrawing, because the fuckers give me JUST less than the minimum to avoid it. Then, looking for something dropped on the floor, what did I find, but most of a strip of oxycodone IR 10mg caps. I'm not exactly feeling top notch, but I'm certainly feeling a LOT better. Doing an extraction of some OTC dihydrocodeine/paracetamol tablets, and once thats done and the DHC is separated from the paracetamol and taken I'll be fine. Not sure if I want to spend the time getting some sleep, because I'm fucking tired, or if I want to spend it reducing the double bond of some 1-phenyl-2-beta-nitropropene to bring it one step away from amphetamine. Or else I could make it into phenylacetone, which can be reductively aminated to amphetamine, meth or N-ethylamphetamine.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 05, 2018, 02:37:08 AM

The last piece of TonyChocolonely is mine. Rosemary orange. Sooooo good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 05, 2018, 06:05:09 AM

The last piece of what?!?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 05, 2018, 06:51:11 AM

This link (http://well-travelledvegan.com/tonys-chocolonely/) shoes it best.

Slave free chocolate with excellent taste. The dark chocolate with rosemary and orange is my absolute favourite.

The chocolate is so rich in flavour, without it being heavy, that I can stop after taking just one piece. That rarely happens with me, when I like a flavour. This flavour I absolutely love, without getting any binge urges.

Top quality chocolate.

It's not cheap. But when two daughters and I can do weeks with just one bar, while all really loving it, it's a bargain.

You should try it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 05, 2018, 10:47:24 AM

Sold in the US.  Will have to look for it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 05, 2018, 12:04:38 PM

They sell it through a website here.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 05, 2018, 03:26:25 PM

Two more packs of beef bologna at $1 a pound.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 06, 2018, 12:02:24 AM

I'm glad for private health insurance as my chiropractor appointment was half price.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 06, 2018, 05:32:18 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on April 05, 2018, 06:51:11 AM

This link (http://well-travelledvegan.com/tonys-chocolonely/) shoes it best.

Slave free chocolate with excellent taste. The dark chocolate with rosemary and orange is my absolute favourite.

The chocolate is so rich in flavour, without it being heavy, that I can stop after taking just one piece. That rarely happens with me, when I like a flavour. This flavour I absolutely love, without getting any binge urges.

Top quality chocolate.

It's not cheap. But when two daughters and I can do weeks with just one bar, while all really loving it, it's a bargain.

You should try it.

Turns out that our local supermarket carries it so I've tried it now. Yummy!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on April 06, 2018, 03:58:26 PM

Oh dear lord, they have chocolate with mulled WINE!!! FFS why didn't you mention this sooner hyke?

(https://i.imgur.com/4CMWIX0.jpg)

They have it on Amazon.
We all know what my next Amazon add on will be now don't we?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 06, 2018, 04:30:50 PM

I had not seen that flavour yet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 07, 2018, 12:02:22 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on December 22, 2017, 09:53:18 PM

Stopped in the thrift store and found an old Seth Thomas mantle clock.

It ticks, came with the key for winding, needs new hands and chimes 12 times at 10:00.

I love it. :autism:

  It's the Charlie-In-The-Box of clocks.  :tard: :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on April 07, 2018, 07:35:40 AM

Came back from my overnight trip to my graduation.

And graduated today, of course. I screwed up my cap doffing when acknowledging the uni chancellor lol :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 07, 2018, 08:21:43 AM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on April 07, 2018, 07:35:40 AM

Came back from my overnight trip to my graduation.

And graduated today, of course. I screwed up my cap doffing when acknowledging the uni chancellor lol :laugh:

Congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 07, 2018, 08:42:57 AM

  Just brushed and flossed, and my gums are healing beautifully from yesterday's dental work.
   Either I have unusual insensitivity to pain, or this dentist is a genius at avoiding nerve endings.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 07, 2018, 09:15:36 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on April 07, 2018, 07:35:40 AM

Came back from my overnight trip to my graduation.

And graduated today, of course. I screwed up my cap doffing when acknowledging the uni chancellor lol :laugh:

Bloody great job, Charlotte!

:plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 07, 2018, 09:56:09 PM

Congratulations!  :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 07, 2018, 11:19:10 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on April 07, 2018, 07:35:40 AM

Came back from my overnight trip to my graduation.

And graduated today, of course. I screwed up my cap doffing when acknowledging the uni chancellor lol :laugh:

  So you now have an accounting degree?   :chores:   Excellent!  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 08, 2018, 12:54:28 AM

That's awesome. Congrats!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 08, 2018, 02:43:28 AM

Congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on April 08, 2018, 06:28:56 AM

Thanks Everybuggy :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 08, 2018, 06:42:31 AM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on April 08, 2018, 06:28:56 AM

Thanks Everybuggy :2thumbsup:

  Go forth and make lots of money!  :dollar: :dollar: :dollar:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 09, 2018, 05:31:18 AM

  The antihistamines have gotten my allergy attack under control so I can return to work!  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 09, 2018, 10:40:19 AM

The allergy season is underway here, too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 09, 2018, 12:51:53 PM

Cleaned my windows on the outside.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 09, 2018, 07:25:10 PM

Went for a walk to the used bookstore. Sold three books, got three new ones.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 09, 2018, 09:19:27 PM

In my fallout-tactics game, just went up against super-mutants in my first mission. Have fought them before, in twos and threes in the wastelands, only in traveling to the mission insertion point though.

Managed to take a 5 man team (well two of them are women, and one of them is a sodding great big, incredibly stealthy lizard with claws as long as a man's arm and horns that are nastier still. Too big to handle even heavy weapons like rocket launchers or machineguns, but can throw grenades and do it well (she's carrying 50+ frag grenades, plus a handful each of stun grenades, napalm grenades, a fair few molotov cocktails plus 5-6 plasma grenades, the latter having a tendency to inflict massive damage on even the toughest enemies and not even blow them to pieces, but to liquefy them and reduce them to a smoking slick of irradiated slime with a single hit.

And had the mission go well, no fatalities on the squad, which is good because I've been training them intensively, and although it was one tough damn shootout, did wipe out the mutants down to a used-to-be man. Recovered a pair of sniper rifles, 5-6 or so browning .50 cal heavy autocannon (damn monsters rival even 'mother' the deathclaw close combat lizard brute squad member in strength, and carry weapons most would use mounted on an APC or fire from a tank or other vehicle mount)

Recovered ~40something heavy machineguns of two different types, M60s and SAWs, and after extensive and careful demining operations, recovered at least 24 antitank mines plus some lighter antipersonnel-mid-range antivehicle mines. ATM there is only one squad member who can both use guns and is strong enough to wield the .50 browning, but damn is she ever dangerous packing the thing, one burst is enough to pulverize an entire squad of fairly tough enemy troops. And thats using the regular armor-piercing ammunition. For the really nasty customers, although they are scarce in terms of availability, for getting out of a tight spot, got a few hundred depleted uranium rounds as well that are more than capable of chewing heavily armored troops into meatpaste, or robotic enemies to scrap metal. Now got to run two more missions against these mutant monstrosities, but at least now, with the .50 cal (and the chick packing it is carrying a sniper rifle and an automatic shotgun as sidearms, plus if anything gets up close and personal and survives that lot plus a barrage of grenades, she still has a weapon called a 'ripper' thats more or less a handheld chainsaw version of a combat knife. Does more or less what it says on the tin, and rips things and people to little pieces.)

Recovered 5-6 rocket launchers too plus a good many HE rockets to fire. All the troops capable of using one are packing a  rocket launcher, plus the deathclaw is carrying a LOT of extra munitions of all shapes and sizes.

So this time around, the little fuckers are after a rematch. But with the extra hardware the squad swiped off the last lot, they are in for a LOT more than they bargained for. But best of all, I got some intel from a certain resident monarch that is worth our combined weight plus that of our families all added together in platinum. She's really made my week and put a huge smile on my face.

Thanks QV *hugs* means more than you'll ever know.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 12, 2018, 02:42:13 PM

  I had an appointment today to have the sutures taken out of the right side of my mouth, and the
   dental assistant who did the snipping said everything looks really good so far.  In fact, I've healed so well
   that my gums grew over the sutures in a few places!  Looks as if I'll get through this treatment well.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 12, 2018, 08:41:21 PM

^What's next for you? Is it the other side? You certainly are BRAVE. When I had my surgery, I was under anaesthetic and so blissfully unaware.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on April 12, 2018, 09:21:19 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on April 12, 2018, 02:42:13 PM

  I had an appointment today to have the sutures taken out of the right side of my mouth, and the
   dental assistant who did the snipping said everything looks really good so far.  In fact, I've healed so well
   that my gums grew over the sutures in a few places!  Looks as if I'll get through this treatment well.  8)

Will you be sharing photos of your toothless gob?  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 13, 2018, 04:45:24 AM

Quote from: renaeden on April 12, 2018, 08:41:21 PM

^What's next for you? Is it the other side? You certainly are BRAVE. When I had my surgery, I was under anaesthetic and so blissfully unaware.

  Awww thank you.  :hug:   Yes, next month we will do the extractions and implants on the other side.
   It's going to be a long process, but at least it's underway.  When it's all done I will smile constantly.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 13, 2018, 04:46:21 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on April 12, 2018, 09:21:19 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on April 12, 2018, 02:42:13 PM

  I had an appointment today to have the sutures taken out of the right side of my mouth, and the
   dental assistant who did the snipping said everything looks really good so far.  In fact, I've healed so well
   that my gums grew over the sutures in a few places!  Looks as if I'll get through this treatment well.  8)

Will you be sharing photos of your toothless gob?  :zoinks:

  I should, just to give you nightmares.  :gopher: :trollskull:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 13, 2018, 05:01:57 AM

You need to go with the Tuco option:

(http://aemstatic-ww2.azureedge.net/content/dam/diq/online-articles/2013/08/TucoBreakingBad.jpg)

:zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 13, 2018, 05:13:29 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 13, 2018, 05:01:57 AM

You need to go with the Tuco option:

(http://aemstatic-ww2.azureedge.net/content/dam/diq/online-articles/2013/08/TucoBreakingBad.jpg)

:zoinks:

  Haha, hell no!  I am getting my new crowns a whiter shade than I currently have, however.  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 13, 2018, 11:49:09 AM

Think of all the people you can scare.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on April 16, 2018, 09:59:00 AM

I went to a clinic a week or two ago as I never got checked out after...Stuff happened  :CanofWorms: and my tests came back clean just recently.

It was a free (although temporary) and no questions asked clinic was on offer to students at the local university so I pretended to be one in order to get in. It worked (as they didn't ask for a student card or ID) and all they did was make me pee in a cup and take some bloods. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be and everything's fine. 

Also, I didn't die.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 16, 2018, 01:28:24 PM

Well, I embarked on, albeit a failed, search for over the counter xylene, whilst also searching down some needed resources. Also, spent some 70 pounds on canisters for my gas mask.

Did find  one paint thinner which contained some xylene,  but only as a mixture of shite, that I'd have had to separately vacuum distill in 7-8 fraction cuts. But sod that. I'm just going to go online and buy some pure xylene. I had some toluene but not sure if I can use it for my needs, its on of the few reasons that one actually might want one rather than the other, for almost anything, toluene or xylene can be used interchangeably, but in this case I want xylene because of its higher boiling point, so I can heat something in refluxing xylene, which has a higher boiling point than toluene or benzene.

Specifically, for thermolytic degradation of triphenylphosphonium bromide. Didn't find the xylene, but whilst walking into a woodwork shop looking for cellulose thinners which might have been xylene
but, sadly, it seems these days the fucking things are actually advertising 'xylene free' as a selling point, as  if its desirable.

Not to me it isn't. But in the woodwork shop selling the crap thinners which were acetone, ethyl acetate and methanol instead of the wanted xylenes (it has three isomers, ortho-xylene, meta- and para-xylene each with somewhat different boiling points.) I found some other product which is composed of a mixture of N-methylpyrollidone, and triethylamine! THAT is neat. OTC triethylamine. It'll need some purification, but it certainly is a find. Got a tub of about a liter of the stuff. If thats all thats in it, with no crap, that can just be separated by distilling out the triethylamine or forming a bisulfite adduct of the NMP then stripping the NMP.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 16, 2018, 02:31:42 PM

Cats are assholes.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 16, 2018, 02:32:45 PM

And both the lady smock and the red berries are blooming.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 16, 2018, 07:49:13 PM

HERESY! HERESY! BURN  THE  INFIDEL UNBELIEVER! *points at hyke and screams in his best rough, circa 1400s or thereabouts peasant voice impression 'WIIIIIITTCH! WIIIIIITTTCH!'*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on April 22, 2018, 06:18:44 AM

I returned from my week long outback adventure  :desert:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 22, 2018, 09:28:32 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on April 22, 2018, 06:18:44 AM

I returned from my week long outback adventure  :desert:

You posted that as a good thing. Was your holiday not too good?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on April 22, 2018, 10:57:12 PM

Quote from: renaeden on April 22, 2018, 09:28:32 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on April 22, 2018, 06:18:44 AM

I returned from my week long outback adventure  :desert:

You posted that as a good thing. Was your holiday not too good?

It was a long drive yesterday, about 13 hours from Nyngan to home, so it was good to have that end. I just wasn't arsed to find somewhere to stay overnight again so I decided to drive all the way home in one go.

The holiday was nice enough. I went to Lightning Ridge to see dad for a few days then I took a long detour home via Bourke, Cobar, Nyngan, Dubbo, Orange, Bathurst, Lithgow, then over the blue mountains. Two extremes of scenery in one weekend  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 22, 2018, 11:22:50 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 23, 2018, 03:31:59 AM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on April 22, 2018, 10:57:12 PM

Quote from: renaeden on April 22, 2018, 09:28:32 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on April 22, 2018, 06:18:44 AM

I returned from my week long outback adventure  :desert:

You posted that as a good thing. Was your holiday not too good?

It was a long drive yesterday, about 13 hours from Nyngan to home, so it was good to have that end. I just wasn't arsed to find somewhere to stay overnight again so I decided to drive all the way home in one go.

The holiday was nice enough. I went to Lightning Ridge to see dad for a few days then I took a long detour home via Bourke, Cobar, Nyngan, Dubbo, Orange, Bathurst, Lithgow, then over the blue mountains. Two extremes of scenery in one weekend  8)

Some of those places I haven't heard of. The only parts of eastern Australia I have seen are Brisbane and Toowoomba. Would like to see NSW.

That sounds like a heck of a drive. Good thing you have a comfortable car. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 23, 2018, 03:58:33 AM

'check of a drive'....bloody hell you ozzies talk funny :D

Although it is somewhere I'd love to visit. Always wanted to get myself a pet mouse-spider after the damn filth murdered my pet widows, the sick fucks (MICROWAVED for fucks cunting sake...how sick can you GET just to hurt someone!), all my pet brown and black widows, dead, deliberately killed and when it was blatantly obvious the environment couldn't be used for hiding contraband, all of a couple of centimeters deep, yet moved a floor downstairs and microwaved to death, hundreds of them :()

That's be the damn day, some filthy porker stuck full of highly potent spider toxins (mouse spider venom is similar in nature to Atrax or Hadronyche, the funnelwebs, for non-ozzies out there), and I should think that  they don't have too much of a threshold before getting PISSED, compared to widows, any Latrodectus, they pack a powerful bite, although very unlikely to prove fatal, they are very, very shy, and scuttle off to the furthest part of their web if they are hacked off rather than go for it in a fury, at least, unless its a female guarding egg sacs, then they can get pretty pissy, been there, felt like I've been run over by a tank by that. Female nipped me on the hand whilst feeding her, and fuck me, its not pleasant one bit.  But a mouse or funnelweb spider, would have been a whole other kettle of fish compared, I felt like absolute hammered shit when I got bitten by one of my widows, but thats what it did, hurt like hell, like being beaten all over with a baseball bat would, barely able to walk so far as to go piss, but I never actually felt in fear for my life itself. Nerve-gas-lite would be a better description. Not THAT lite, but all the same, not something to make a healthy adult fear they would not wake up the next day)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 23, 2018, 06:41:56 AM

Was meant to be 'heck' not 'check'. My kindle auto corrected. I have to watch that sometimes. Thanks for spotting that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 23, 2018, 07:19:08 AM

No worries m'dear. And of course I spotted it, whaddya take me for? neurotypical? :autism:

(no, I'm not accusing you of being one, just my sense of humor :) )

And things like that are just another reason to have a generously sized reserve of oaths and curses held back :spazz:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 23, 2018, 08:21:10 AM

While getting my rent out of the cashpoint, it seems like they accidentally doled out an extra £5. Because I didn't have one in my wallet when I left, but I came back with a £5 note, that I didn't withdraw.

More than makes up for having to go with own brand plain, although high cocoa dark chocolate, rather than the nice, salted kind I wanted. The shop had it, and I almost bought some by mistake, but as I was reaching for it, I saw that it was Lindt's brand, and recoiled as if it were a bar of angry pitvipers.

Because damned if I'm putting money into the coffers of AutSqueaks, or any piece of shit that supports the bastards, so I refuse to buy Lindt produce, and if ever gifted any, I quietly and discreetly (to the one giving) take it to the shop for a refund, and use the money for something else, or dark chocolate that doesn't come from those filthy  little curebie-lovers. Not sure if they are continuing that vile donation drive, but I won't ever buy from them again.

I'm not complaining about a free fiver note though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 23, 2018, 03:34:47 PM

In my fallout-tactics game, just ran up against a nasty surprise, a big bugger of a super-mutant, carrying an M2 .50 caliber autocannon as if it was just a pistol or hunting knife, would have ripped my soldier to shreds, but she was really quick off the mark, and put a pair of bursts from her own autocannon straight through it, riddling it with bullets and taking it out before it had a chance to open up with the dirty great chaingun it was carrying. Then another comes out running from behind a corner at long range, and she really earned her keep as one of my heavy weapons specialists, putting an expert crack-shot in with the autocannon again, one burst from long range felled it in it's tracks. Definitely one of my more useful soldiers, not the largest carrying capacity, so is relatively lightly equipped, although wearing a mark II metal armor suit, carrying an autocannon, an RPG with several rounds for it, as well as dual-wielding a SAW 7.62mm machinegun, .50 cal M2 browning autocannon, some medical equipment and combat drugs which are standard-issue for the squad as a whole, and in case she ever runs out of ammo, since the .50 cal rounds are really heavy, and both it and the machinegun rip through shells as fast as they do through those on the business-end of them, she's packing a .44 desert eagle, with a selection of standard ball rounds, some hollowpoint and armor-piercing rounds for it, and as a last ditch, a close combat warhammer like weapon thats basically a small sledgehammer, enhanced with some sort of powered kinetic impact delivery system for the moments its all going to go to the dogs and some skulls need to be cracked open and a few hand grenades.

At the moment her main down-side is that she isn't really very good with smaller weapons, so that desert eagle is for close up engagements, as a sidearm, especially when using the likes of her rocket launcher, or grenades, since thats not what you'd call something you want going up in your own face from firing at a target too close. But the things she can do with that heavy autocannon are damn impressive, that long-range kill she just pulled off was fantastic. The mutant up close, she'd barely had time for the smoke to stop coming from the barrel after the quick kill, but the other one that came charging round a corner from a long way off, the way she just grabbed the M2 and put the fucker down in one perfectly aimed hail of hellfire was fucking brilliant. Spotted it, and about half a second later, it was reduced to minced worm-chow with a side dish of depleted uranium :D

Might be no sniper with average weaponry, but when it comes to heavy weapons that most people would think to mount on an APC or a tank, like her autocannon, or things like rocket launchers, flamethrowers, grenade launchers, better watch the hell out, because she is damn fast on her feet and quick to put a burst of .50 cal shells into anything or anyone looking for trouble. Anyone that can get the drop on those formerly human super-mutants or wipe out an entire squad of lesser mortals with one pull of the trigger is definitely an asset to the team. I SO have to get her a minigun...oh boy, then she'll be trouble.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 23, 2018, 04:13:40 PM

I finally joined the whatever generation.  The PR and I are sitting 10 feet apart and we're messaging each other on Facebook.  Old dog learns new tricks.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 23, 2018, 11:22:26 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on April 23, 2018, 04:13:40 PM

I finally joined the whatever generation.  The PR and I are sitting 10 feet apart and we're messaging each other on Facebook.  Old dog learns new tricks.

We're all proud of you. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 28, 2018, 02:52:34 PM

LOL QV and PR (and do pass my best wishes to the PR, I send my warm regards to her, even if you are passing them on from ten feet away on facebook :P  )

As for my something good....a certain project of mine is going well  so far. And otherwise, I slept in last night, after a couple of different sleeping pills (which work to strongly potentiate each other in their cases), and the very moment I wriggled out from under the light-weight coat I had over my head to keep the daylight out, and pushed up the  blindfold over my eyes under the coat, I heard the doorbell ring, and see my old man chuck a package towards me (thankfully it wasn't chemicals, or glassware, he should likely know better by now than to throw anything I've got coming in the mail, the consequences could be dire indeed!)

The several hundred  physeptone tablets I'd ordered from a certain someone just yesterday, that someone had overnighted them to me to make sure they arrived early today, so I can free myself of the chemical shackles imposed by my doctors with the pain meds I'm on, break the physical dependency by a taper using just the methadone I bought (after having just a handful of days of R&R, trying out various combinations) and then, be free to take my pain meds only when I've little choice due to pain.

That way, I'm finally going to be free, and  not at the GP's beck and call, so to speak, since  if I chose to, I could  simply walk away. I do and probably always will need pain control though, so I'll still be picking up the meds. I  just...it's going to be really, really, REALLY nice to have that control back, to make the decision 'yes, I need to take some pain relief today' or 'no, I'm not having such a bad day' and if the latter, not have a truly filthy, rotten, awful, incapacitating day inflicted on me due to the lack of taking the rx'd pain meds.

Doubtless my GP wouldn't approve if he found  out, he'd probably be fucking furious, but then again, he isn't going to see anything, nor hear a word about my doing a self-decided and  directed methadone taper, free from obligation to turn up daily at some addiction clinic (because I'm not an addict, and  I will NOT tolerate being stigmatized. I am physically dependent, due to being scripted opiates, but that will happen to anybody and everybody  who needs long-term opioid pain management, they come with a  price-tag, and that, is it), but the compulsive element is not there.

I just need to break the physical withdrawal related chain, and then I'll be free to manage my pain as I see fit, when I see fit, and not have to use the meds daily, several times a day, and not suffer if some doctor stuffs up, or there's a bank holiday and I'm a few hours late in taking my dose.

But bugger me if I'm going to turn up a clinic in early morning, every morning etc. and be forced into dependency to that, be  piss tested etc., I'm not going to be treated like  a fucking criminal just because I decide to free myself from a form of bondage.

So, this has come both at just the right time (when I'd be low on meds to begin with) and in a sufficient quantity to accomplish the above  goal.

And currently, if it wasn't for the certain somebody, overnighting them to me, priority shipping at no extra charge, and for an excellent total price, less than a pound a tablet, a fair bit less, I'd  be feeling pretty scratty and irritable about now.

But instead, I'm relaxing on the sofa, with a nice  warm glow, chilling out, playing fallout-tactics and with a glass of cherry wine on the table beside me, itching slightly due to the methadone, but not unpleasantly, more, that kind of itch its really satisfying to scratch.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 28, 2018, 03:29:00 PM

Came across this simple recipe for raisin wine.

Ingredients
2 lbs. raisins
1 lb. sugar
1 lemon
6 quarts boiling water
Directions
Place the raisins, sugar, and the lemon in a large stone or ceramic jar.
Add 6 quarts of boiling water and stir every day for a week, covering with a towel.
Then strain and bottle. Let sit for another 10 to 12 days.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 28, 2018, 04:05:46 PM

That sounds perfectly abominable, QV. I HATE wine. I make an exception only for cherry wine, it does ALMOST taste too much like wine for me to like, its got that acetic overtone that wine has which I so dislike (along with everything else about regular wine or champagne) but the stuff I'm supping on now doesn't, very much, its only slight. This cherry wine, I do actually quite like. Somehow  only just, but I do, I like it well enough, but it weirdly has some sort of way of sitting on the fence between 'quite like it' and 'fucking loathsome', but without being disgusting in a shade of grey. Its nice but almost nasty, but still nice, if that makes any sense at all, which it probably doesn't.

Kicking back with a cigar, about to pour myself another glass, and perhaps another 20-30mg more methadone, haven't decided yet; just about to turn the TV over to family guy and american dad, after that noxious gobbet of minge cheese keith lemon is off the screen with the utter abject GARBAGE called 'celebrity juice'

It really boggles my mind as to why ANYONE would consent to appear on that show, it is the vilest, most pathetic, boorish, repugnant, vacuous piece of  putrescent dog waste on TV, presented by an empty-headed, vulgar, moronic ginger cunt who should be tied to a post and barbecued with a flamethrower, slowly, from the toes and fingers heading up and inwards. He is a truly disgusting creature.

Why some otherwise  intelligent seeming (for a celebrity) individuals  would  allow themselves to be on set with that filthy creature, I really don't get it. I couldn't stand five minutes in the same room before I thumped him one  for the crime of existing and breathing my air. And god help the cunt if he started leching over me, because  he'd need god, as I'd be sending keith lemon up to meet him, express delivery, one way ticket. Well, as long  as you don't count the downward, more southerly migration shortly after.

Whattacunt. It'll be another good thing for my day when he's fucked off and the show is over. Bloody bleeding shitting christ on a bike I hope he fucking dies.

In fact, the methadone question has  just been decided. Going for it, because otherwise, I am going to get one serious headache, from the elevated blood pressure just from having to look at the piece of fermented ordure he has covering his skull. Come on, die already, do the world a favour. Bastard. Bastad, bastard and double bastarding bastard with bastard-sauce on top. Served with a spirit, distilled from the bastardly fruit of the fucking bastard tree.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 29, 2018, 01:19:04 AM

Coffee happened. :yawn:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 29, 2018, 03:06:50 AM

Munching a morning double cheeseburger, with some bitter indian tonic water to wash it down for my breakfast.  I'm still feeling the effects of the methadone from yesterday, although I feel neither urge nor physiological need  to take another tablet as of yet. Feel very alert and...well like everything is just right, neither undershot nor overshot, which was/is  a huge problem with the morphine and oxycodone I get on prescription-too little and I'd still be in a fuckton of pain, too much and I'd either be off my arse or out cold, and its difficult to walk the fine line  between them, especially with incompetent (in that particular area) doctors who have prejudices against opioid use and patients, to, both here  and in the  US, a disgusting extent. In the US, its absolutely shocking.

But, all said, only meds I've needed today are adrenolytic agents.

Feeling good, feeling active,and lively happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 29, 2018, 03:28:27 AM

Went to an autism group meet up in the city, the conversation in my corner was mostly about sleep problems (of which I have none, though I have experienced sleep paralysis so that was fun to talk about) and whether autism should be included as a condition on drivers' licences. I said no to that but yes to ADHD. It was a very spirited conversation.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 29, 2018, 06:18:41 AM

Ren, personally I don't think its practical to include it, or not. Its one of those things thats unsolvable IMO. SOME auties/aspies would be a danger on the roads, some wouldn't. But actually assessing it in any way beyond the driving test with instructors and practice sessions, would just make it massively more difficult, and probably more expensive for those on the spectrum to drive than it would be for NTs. There is no ideal solution, there is only the practical one 'no it shouldn't', well, yes it should but it can't be made to without fucking things up altogether so we are going to have to ignore it'

Not exactly elegant, but it'll have to work. And just be hammered into shape  if it gets  a few dents here  and there.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 29, 2018, 06:47:29 AM

I said maybe it would have to be decided on a case-by-case basis. But how expensive and also possibly annoying to the autistic, would that be?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 29, 2018, 07:55:38 AM

Thats why I said its probably unfixable. It'd end up costing autie/aspies more, pissing them off big time for two, take up their time for three, and what next?  the autistic version of L plates? something like 'R-plates'? with a big red 'R' for 'retard'?

Fuck that shit. As far as I'm concerned, its just going to have to be up to the individual and the instructor. Because otherwise its just going to end up being discriminatory, and  besides, some people  will need the  driving license for ID  and there could be a lot of forseeable reasons why people would not wish to reveal their being autistic until say, they've gotten the job.     

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: mdagli1 on April 29, 2018, 09:12:59 AM

I told the DVLA that I was being drugged for my arseburgers and they let me drive... It's not like I'm going to go round bonneting preggies for a free ride.
And btw, I got my benifits back. So I now have 3 incomes. Threating to kill myself seems to work wonders when it matters the most, so there you go.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on April 29, 2018, 08:27:53 PM

What you need to do, is follow through with it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: mdagli1 on April 29, 2018, 08:49:08 PM

Make me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on May 03, 2018, 05:45:58 AM

My ISP is prompting me to sign up for an NBN plan by sending me a free router.

Freebies  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on May 09, 2018, 12:45:41 AM

Hope you get fibre to the premises, Charlotte.

Good thing today was I made the effort to get up early and meet with a local mental health group for a walk around the foreshore.

They do this on Wednesdays and Fridays so I'll try to join them, it's good exercise for me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 09, 2018, 12:31:04 PM

Had a good talk with my manager.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 09, 2018, 04:29:13 PM

See the bitch thread.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 24, 2018, 03:37:21 PM

Quote from: Jack on August 07, 2017, 05:28:34 PM

Received a promotion today.

And another one today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 24, 2018, 06:18:32 PM

Does this mean I can buy Stanley Cup Tickets?  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 24, 2018, 07:18:42 PM

Finally dried up my room from the rain fall 3 to 4 days ago! *Breathe Sigh of Relief Here*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 24, 2018, 09:52:23 PM

Congrats Jack!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on May 25, 2018, 05:36:57 AM

Quote from: renaeden on May 09, 2018, 12:45:41 AM

Hope you get fibre to the premises, Charlotte.

Nope FTTN sadly, but I can do a 100m sprint from my front door to where the node is though (providing the copper cable from the node runs past my place first, which I think it does). I'm hesitant to sign up so far in case there's too much home phone and internet downtime while the switch over is in progress. I gotta switch over before march next year when they cut ADSL2 off for good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 25, 2018, 09:53:04 AM

Surprisingly, some good actually came of a certain pharmacist being a stuffy, pain in the arse little zealot.

Had to go to hospital the other day after blacking out, falling backwards and bashing my head and neck, hard, on a stone floor. Got a script for some dihydrocodeine (a weakish-to-mid strength painkiller.)

The stupid pharmacist I took it to wouldn't fill it, just because the doctor in the hospital had mispelled a letter in the name of the med (still bloody well obvious what it was) and then corrected it, so I had to, even after having the pharmacist phone them up and verify the details and that they did in fact write the script. Had the fucking cheek to accuse me of prescription fraud, even after the doctor confirmed that he'd written it!

So I ended up having to go back to the hospital and get another script. Filled it, but, as it would happen,
I got left with the original form. Took it to another pharmacy today, and the owner wasn't an overzealous prick, and they filled it without problems. So because of the first pharmacy owner being a snotty little tossweasel, I actually managed to get the script twice over instead of once, meaning I got 112 tablets instead of 56. Which suits me just fine, considering I actually needed gram+ weights of dihydrocodeine for a special little project of mine.

Not fraud, of course, since I was actually given a second script, with the first one being valid, just the pharmacist in that particular place being up his own arse hole and refusing to fill it because of the corrected spelling error (and despite doctors and their notorious handwriting, the damn thing was perfectly readable with the first one), and with the place I took that to accepting it no problem, not bad, getting a two for one bonus lot :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 25, 2018, 02:13:45 PM

It actually wasn't a good thing, just a funny yet tragic coincidence for a pair of Squirrels who were found dead on my parent's front porch.

Main reason why, They were Yoshi's hunting prizes -_-

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Calandale on May 25, 2018, 02:30:20 PM

Are those full grown squirrells?


If so, what is Yoshi? A Lynx?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 25, 2018, 06:12:05 PM

Well, it is a mix of good and bad.

Anyone ever heard of Noblesville, Indiana?

Today a shooter came into a Middle School in central Indiana with two guns and started shooting in the class of a heroic science teacher. This guy, Heroic Science Teacher, managed to knock the weapons out of the "Seventh Grade"  (FFS!!) shooter's hands, taking three shots himself but managed to still subdue the llittle bastard, probably saving many lives and injuries.
He is OK, Bad kid is in custody, one thirteen year old girl is in critical condition. Not sure if this will make national news, since no one died, but it really should.

Lots more to say but I am tired from being in the sun all day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 25, 2018, 07:35:09 PM

Bought some good stuff at tag sales including 6 Snap-on wrenches for a quarter each, a bunch of hatchets and a Zenith Transoceanic radio which was in rough  shape but still good

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 25, 2018, 09:29:46 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 25, 2018, 06:12:05 PM

Well, it is a mix of good and bad.

Anyone ever heard of Noblesville, Indiana?

Today a shooter came into a Middle School in central Indiana with two guns and started shooting in the class of a heroic science teacher. This guy, Heroic Science Teacher, managed to knock the weapons out of the "Seventh Grade"  (FFS!!) shooter's hands, taking three shots himself but managed to still subdue the llittle bastard, probably saving many lives and injuries.
He is OK, Bad kid is in custody, one thirteen year old girl is in critical condition. Not sure if this will make national news, since no one died, but it really should.

Lots more to say but I am tired from being in the sun all day.

I used to live within a couple hours of there.

I was at a dinner with some Canucks recently and the topic came up of arming teachers in schools. The group was horrified at this inconceivable possibility. One woman, a high school teacher herself, said she would sooner walk out of her job than be armed, and the others at the table vehemently agreed with her. I asked her why, with my best attempt at zero inflection, and her mouth dropped open that such a question could even be voiced. Finally when she found words, she said the students would feel completely unsafe if teachers had guns.

...

To save the situation I had to say that I had spent considerable time in the USA around gun culture. I wasn't sure how to begin to explain that it might feel safer if teachers did carry.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 26, 2018, 03:33:07 AM

I'm back home. Woot.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 26, 2018, 01:11:10 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 24, 2018, 09:52:23 PM

Congrats Jack!

Thanks. Not sure what to make of it yet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 26, 2018, 08:17:59 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 25, 2018, 09:29:46 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 25, 2018, 06:12:05 PM

Well, it is a mix of good and bad.

Anyone ever heard of Noblesville, Indiana?

Today a shooter came into a Middle School in central Indiana with two guns and started shooting in the class of a heroic science teacher. This guy, Heroic Science Teacher, managed to knock the weapons out of the "Seventh Grade"  (FFS!!) shooter's hands, taking three shots himself but managed to still subdue the llittle bastard, probably saving many lives and injuries.
He is OK, Bad kid is in custody, one thirteen year old girl is in critical condition. Not sure if this will make national news, since no one died, but it really should.

Lots more to say but I am tired from being in the sun all day.

I used to live within a couple hours of there.

I was at a dinner with some Canucks recently and the topic came up of arming teachers in schools. The group was horrified at this inconceivable possibility. One woman, a high school teacher herself, said she would sooner walk out of her job than be armed, and the others at the table vehemently agreed with her. I asked her why, with my best attempt at zero inflection, and her mouth dropped open that such a question could even be voiced. Finally when she found words, she said the students would feel completely unsafe if teachers had guns.

...

To save the situation I had to say that I had spent considerable time in the USA around gun culture. I wasn't sure how to begin to explain that it might feel safer if teachers did carry.

Our governor was flying home on the first ever direct flight from Paris to Indianapolis when he received some sort of in flight notification that his landing will not be about all happy, all good, international hand shake and stuff, but one of his major (peaceful) central counties (One country north of the state capitol) has suffered the same as dozens of other places in this country.

No more happy times, you now have to land and address a state that has just "entered"  into teh modern times.
The song from R.E.M. comes to mind:

Sorry about the advertisement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY)

Without trying to put too fine of a point on it all, my daughter still goes to the High School where they moved all the middle school kids in order to secure the Middle School. As the day developed, there was also a threat of a shooter at the high school and the entire district went to what we call a "Code Red"  meaning active shooter situation, somewhere.

These kids went into "defense mode"  and barricaded the classroom doors, turned off all the lights, hid in closets, etc, etc.   ...

I am impressed with the readiness of this school district. I had heard a bit about this readiness prep. This place was "almost" ready for something like this, even though no one ever expected this to happen here.

Then the "hero school teacher"  jumped into service to help protect his students.

I feel bad for this teacher. He just reacted and got shoot three times but the press has turned him into a kind of hero. Yes he is a kind of hero, but apparently does not want to be thought of that way.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 26, 2018, 08:34:26 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 25, 2018, 09:29:46 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 25, 2018, 06:12:05 PM

Well, it is a mix of good and bad.

Anyone ever heard of Noblesville, Indiana?

Today a shooter came into a Middle School in central Indiana with two guns and started shooting in the class of a heroic science teacher. This guy, Heroic Science Teacher, managed to knock the weapons out of the "Seventh Grade"  (FFS!!) shooter's hands, taking three shots himself but managed to still subdue the llittle bastard, probably saving many lives and injuries.
He is OK, Bad kid is in custody, one thirteen year old girl is in critical condition. Not sure if this will make national news, since no one died, but it really should.

Lots more to say but I am tired from being in the sun all day.

I used to live within a couple hours of there.

I was at a dinner with some Canucks recently and the topic came up of arming teachers in schools. The group was horrified at this inconceivable possibility. One woman, a high school teacher herself, said she would sooner walk out of her job than be armed, and the others at the table vehemently agreed with her. I asked her why, with my best attempt at zero inflection, and her mouth dropped open that such a question could even be voiced. Finally when she found words, she said the students would feel completely unsafe if teachers had guns.

...

To save the situation I had to say that I had spent considerable time in the USA around gun culture. I wasn't sure how to begin to explain that it might feel safer if teachers did carry.

Not sure where this discussion is going, but  (the big part, not yours and mine)  obviously teachers have carried weapons in the past. Kids felt safe. Kids WERE safer than today. No one wants to shoot another human being, let alone a child, but to save other lives put in danger by a child with a weapon or make it two weapons in this particular case? Many questions yet to be answered.

If you lived in Florida, you were around a mass of very safe (compared to what it could be if the average citizen was not armed) and peace loving, gun totin' folk.

Due to geography, this is a dangerous land. Do not approach without being prepared.  It is like rain in the forecast, bring an umbrella or a damn good hat.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 26, 2018, 09:40:52 PM

Wasn't really trying to guide a discussion anywhere, just say what was on my mind.

Glad to hear that the schools in the area did well on their readiness preparation.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 26, 2018, 09:58:45 PM

Quote from: Calandale on May 25, 2018, 02:30:20 PM

Are those full grown squirrells?


If so, what is Yoshi? A Lynx?

No he is a 1 year old Brown Tabby.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on May 27, 2018, 06:26:21 PM

 Nothng so far.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on May 28, 2018, 06:38:52 AM

Due to its being a bank holiday, I ended up getting my meds several hours later than I usually would have. I lucked out though, in not getting sick, after the stupid fucks at the doctors surgery I went to forced me to have the rx post-dated for today, not allowing me to pick them up in advance on friday to ensure I wouldn't end up ill because of it. Assholes wouldn't alter it, which IMO just isn't right of them. Pricks.

But I lucked out, as, even though my usual supplier couldn't get me any methadone this week,  I'd fallen and smashed the back of my skull and my spine on a stone floor, hard, just blacked out due to low blood pressure and fallen backwards onto my head and neck, went to the ER due to the location of the impact and the fact I was unable to turn my head, to ensure nothing was broken. Was only hoping for an X-ray or CT scan (they did a CT), but they both dosed me with an opioid painkiller while I was sat in the hospital, and then sent me off with a script for a 56-count box of dihydrocodeine 30mg tablets, no paracetamol contamination too, only for the late opening pharmacy to refuse to fill it because the doctor prescribing in the hospital had mispelled 'dihydrocodeine' as 'dihydrAcodeine' and then corrected his mistake, signing it etc, and even when the pharmacist had called the hospital, spoken to the doctor and confirmed everything he still had the nerve to accuse me of fraud (the pharmacist did, that is), the cheeky little fuckwit. So I went back and got another copy.

There obviously wasn't anything so wrong with the first script, which I got left with, they didn't ask for it back,  because I took it elsewhere, after getting the new rx, a couple of days later, and got a second box of 56x30mg DHC, the pharmacist at the other place didn't have an obsessive-compulsive anal streak and filled it without question. So I essentially got two boxes for one intended issuing of the script. Worked for me, since it prevented me from going into withdrawal due to the bank holiday opening delay. I would have preferred it had I been able to get some methadone as I usually do to tide me over the weekend what with the doc surgery giving me a pain med script that is a couple of days insufficient to serve me a full seven day plus another 8 hours during the night, but, as it happened, I was kept from being ill with a withdrawal forced on me because of the doctors stubbornness and the stick she keeps sideways up her arse, using some of the dihydrocodeine to stave off withdrawal, whilst I just went to sleep, knocked out with tizanidine, a muscle relaxant that works by blocking noradrenaline release; slept in until it was time to pick the meds up.

Also, got  two free 'frijj' thick milkshakes, one cookie dough and one fudge brownie flavoured one, plus three free pepperoni pizzas. Not going to complain.

Also, whilst I was expecting the doctor surgery to have fucked things up given their track record of fuckups and fuckovers, they actually DID fax the prescription through to be picked up this morning. I was actually surprised when the pharmacy filled it and handed the meds over in a bag. Shocked, even. But no, they actually did what they were supposed to without buggering everything up, not counting their refusal to not post-date the script for pickup last friday. Wouldn't have been pleasant at all, had I not had the extra 'double' prescription for the dihydrocodeine after keeping the original form from when I cracked my head on the floor though, what with my methadone contact not having any spare for sale.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on May 28, 2018, 11:00:24 PM

Finished preparing a draft presentation.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 28, 2018, 11:31:22 PM

Coffee happened. Not nearly enough but...

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on May 29, 2018, 05:17:52 AM

I woke up? Although, these days I'd prefer not to ever...

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on May 29, 2018, 08:33:40 AM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on May 29, 2018, 05:17:52 AM

I woke up? Although, these days I'd prefer not to ever...

:hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 05, 2018, 11:04:23 AM

Not to me but for my sister.

She bought a house in a small Texas town with her share of our parent's estate.  It is an older house, built in the late 1920's.  Long story short, she has no money and her water pipe/line broke sometime before 2009.  She's been without running water since then - no bath, toilet, kitchen, etc.  She's tried to find someone or an agency to repair it. She tried to repair it herself, actually digging up the water line to the house.

She's had a problem with a neighbor that I think she resolved with a small amount of money coming to her.  Well, SHE FINALLY FOUND SOMEONE TO FIX IT AT A PRICE SHE COULD AFFORD.

SO NOW, AFTER 8 YEARS SHE HAS WATER!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on June 05, 2018, 11:54:58 AM

Hey, hang in there trig, we are all rooting for your health.

And damn QV...its near shocking isn't it to even think about having no running water in the first world, or even a second and a bit world country like the USA isn't it?

I can't imagine that...the only running water being recirculated water that would be flowing through a condenser, and either cooled with bought dry ice or liquid nitrogen, or preparing blocks of ice in advance to cool things down just to operate my condensers and using chemical freezing mixtures to cool my flasks.

Shit, that'd be such a nuisance. Although I'd still not let it get in the way of as Sg calls it..my witchcraft :D Because if there is one thing for sure, you can't keep an autie chemist down, and away from his lab :heisenberg:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on June 05, 2018, 12:53:04 PM

Played music in the park with a friend. was fun

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on June 05, 2018, 05:05:46 PM

Sounds good. I'd probably be scouting the area for anything either edible or psychedelic and mushroom shaped, poking up from the grass.

As for my something good...lets just say it was light tan, with a few larger more compact chunks in a fine, dusty powder, and placed in a little glass pipe with a needle-like taper to the tip, not lit, but gently heated from below, rolling and rotating the pipe, as a little dark 'beetle' scurries up and down, as if fleeing the flame, and producing roiling clouds of slightly bitter, aromatic vapour, filling my lungs and exiting out of my nose, or else a little dab placed on foil and again carefully heated with a small flame, to avoid burning it instead of vaporizing it.

A little gift from mother nature, or at least, a semisynthetic derivative of the Papaver somniferum, derived from its processed, cleaned and chemically modified latex. Quite nice stuff, too.  And from a source who could guarantee it free of fentanyl or its multitude of vastly overpotent, dangerous, cold, clinical, sterile feeling, euphoria-less analogs. Just good honest horse.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 07, 2018, 07:46:04 PM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on May 28, 2018, 11:00:24 PM

Finished preparing a draft presentation.

What's your presentation about?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on June 07, 2018, 07:52:51 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 05, 2018, 11:04:23 AM

Not to me but for my sister....

SO NOW, AFTER 8 YEARS SHE HAS WATER!

Bravo!

And how are you QV? Still like your coffee dark?

(i hope it was you who liked your coffee dark, or else that will make no sense)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 08, 2018, 10:08:41 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on June 07, 2018, 07:52:51 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 05, 2018, 11:04:23 AM

Not to me but for my sister....

SO NOW, AFTER 8 YEARS SHE HAS WATER!

Bravo!

And how are you QV? Still like your coffee dark?

(i hope it was you who liked your coffee dark, or else that will make no sense)

If you're referring to a conversation I had with my dad?  He would see an attractive mixed race woman and say, "That's how I like my coffee.  With a lot of cream in it."  Went on for YEARS.  Finally as a college student I saw a really, really good looking coal black man and blurted out, "That's how I like my coffee.  Strong and black."  Dad never used that line again.

If you mean coffee bean coffee: some cream, no sweetener unless it's flavoured creamer.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on June 08, 2018, 10:55:05 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 08, 2018, 10:08:41 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on June 07, 2018, 07:52:51 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 05, 2018, 11:04:23 AM

Not to me but for my sister....

SO NOW, AFTER 8 YEARS SHE HAS WATER!

Bravo!

And how are you QV? Still like your coffee dark?

(i hope it was you who liked your coffee dark, or else that will make no sense)

If you're referring to a conversation I had with my dad?  He would see an attractive mixed race woman and say, "That's how I like my coffee.  With a lot of cream in it."  Went on for YEARS.  Finally as a college student I saw a really, really good looking coal black man and blurted out, "That's how I like my coffee.  Strong and black."  Dad never used that line again.

If you mean coffee bean coffee: some cream, no sweetener unless it's flavoured creamer.

Yup thats the conversation, strong and black XD

My Lady, and Dear Queen. I started drinking coffee back in 2015, and then about 2 years later I had an extremely high fever and was able to quit and never touched it again. The caffeine dependence was bothering me...I would remain unable to wake myself up out of haziness without a cup. I drink tea now, but I limit the caffeinated black tea in mornings, and drink a lot of herbal teas, allowing my brain to do the job of waking up. Afternoons or late morning a cup of black tea suits very well. No cream for me, but a generous spoonful of honey.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 08, 2018, 12:40:49 PM

@sg1008 - I've been drinking coffee since I was about 2 years old.  Milk coffee actually, full steam ahead by age 6.  Now my first cup usually has to be flavoured creamer, the rest regular creamer.  (The dry stuff, the liquid goes off before I can use it up.).  Coffee or tea (black, sweetened) with meals depending on how I feel.  I need to learn to make iced tea this summer.  Funny how you never learn to make some things. 

BTW - tea keeps me warmer longer than coffee in the winter.  Coffee and tea cool me off equally in the summer.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on June 08, 2018, 04:48:42 PM

Interesting. I find I prefer (of warm tea), peppermint and black (sometimes combined) in winter. but in summer i prefer spiced and black, or jasmine tea. in summer, peppermint tastes better iced.

I have a buddy who makes moon tea- like sun tea, except you leave it overnight during full moon. another friend makes iced nettle tea. she seems to boil the dried nettles in a pot, let it cool, and then strains it into a large glass jar. then refrigerates it, or serves it with ice. its really refreshing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on June 15, 2018, 08:01:18 PM

Made some boring bloke cry.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 16, 2018, 01:15:53 AM

Coffee. There's nothing quite like a cup of coffee in the morning.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Tequila on June 16, 2018, 05:34:34 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 16, 2018, 01:15:53 AM

Coffee. There's nothing quite like a cup of coffee in the morning.

Tea drinkers would disagree.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on June 16, 2018, 07:25:51 AM

Quote from: Tequila on June 16, 2018, 05:34:34 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 16, 2018, 01:15:53 AM

Coffee. There's nothing quite like a cup of coffee in the morning.

Tea drinkers would disagree.

In Soviet Russia, vodka drinks us for breakfast, you crumpet muncher!  :comrade:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 16, 2018, 07:41:55 AM

Quote from: Go Piss Up A Rope on June 16, 2018, 07:25:51 AM

Quote from: Tequila on June 16, 2018, 05:34:34 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 16, 2018, 01:15:53 AM

Coffee. There's nothing quite like a cup of coffee in the morning.

Tea drinkers would disagree.

In Soviet Russia, vodka drinks us for breakfast, you crumpet muncher!  :comrade:

I drink tequila because it's always mexico somewhere.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Tequila on June 16, 2018, 07:43:10 AM

Quote from: Go Piss Up A Rope on June 16, 2018, 07:25:51 AM

Quote from: Tequila on June 16, 2018, 05:34:34 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 16, 2018, 01:15:53 AM

Coffee. There's nothing quite like a cup of coffee in the morning.

Tea drinkers would disagree.

In Soviet Russia, vodka drinks us for breakfast, you crumpet muncher!  :comrade:

Vodka is their wine.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 16, 2018, 09:07:16 AM

I pass up drinking anything with tequila or vodka in it.  Vodka has an odor I don't like (Yes, I know it's tasteless/odorless) and tequila feels oily.

You can have my share.  However, you touch my blackberry wine supply and you die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: mdagli1 on June 16, 2018, 09:25:14 AM

Set up a NVR with my X3 elite windows 10 mobile. Seriously, iphone people are knobs and the androids are noobs. Only I have a desktop in my hand.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on June 16, 2018, 01:02:54 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 16, 2018, 09:07:16 AM

I pass up drinking anything with tequila or vodka in it.  Vodka has an odor I don't like (Yes, I know it's tasteless/odorless) and tequila feels oily.

You can have my share.  However, you touch my blackberry wine supply and you die.

Did someone say blackberry wine?  :zoinks:

Really isn't one hard liquor I like...and I only can choke down tea if it tastes like lemonade or I'm sick. I've tried so many (boy loves tea)...peppermint is about the best...but it all tastes like grass clippings steeped in water to me. I've given up coffee a few times...but it always lures me back. It's not even the taste, more like that warm security blanket feeling that clears the fog.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 16, 2018, 04:03:54 PM

Quote from: mdagli1 on June 16, 2018, 09:25:14 AM

Set up a NVR with my X3 elite windows 10 mobile. Seriously, iphone people are knobs and the androids are noobs. Only I have a desktop in my hand.

How many cameras does your system have? What are they recording?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: mdagli1 on June 16, 2018, 04:19:37 PM

Just the one right now, and it's pointed at the ceiling. Now that I know it's working reliably, just need to install it somewhere useful...
And stop trying to be a smart arse Gary, I've seen you eat your own hairy shit from it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 16, 2018, 04:25:34 PM

Quote from: mdagli1 on June 16, 2018, 04:19:37 PM

Just the one right now, and it's pointed at the ceiling. Now that I know it's working reliably, just need to install it somewhere useful...
And stop trying to be a smart arse Gary, I've seen you eat your own hairy shit from it.

Will you be allowing others remote access to view your camera? I could suggest somewhere useful to point it.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 16, 2018, 04:40:32 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on June 16, 2018, 01:02:54 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on June 16, 2018, 09:07:16 AM

I pass up drinking anything with tequila or vodka in it.  Vodka has an odor I don't like (Yes, I know it's tasteless/odorless) and tequila feels oily.

You can have my share.  However, you touch my blackberry wine supply and you die.

Did someone say blackberry wine?  :zoinks:

Really isn't one hard liquor I like...and I only can choke down tea if it tastes like lemonade or I'm sick. I've tried so many (boy loves tea)...peppermint is about the best...but it all tastes like grass clippings steeped in water to me. I've given up coffee a few times...but it always lures me back. It's not even the taste, more like that warm security blanket feeling that clears the fog.

Sometimes I drink plain brewing temperature water.  Never did y\that until last winter's cold spell.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 16, 2018, 04:43:14 PM

Stopped by a Rite-Aid Drug Store that is being closed.  Not too much left, but I got $8O worth of stuff for $24.
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Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on June 16, 2018, 06:03:12 PM

I had a nice little victory today, I'd run out of my pain meds because the damn doctors don't give me sufficient to last the last day to two days of a week, so for the last day/two days and last night, I'd either withdraw, buy something, or else (again purchased) round up a whole load of the weak as hell OTC version of dihydrocodeine/paracetamol, remove the paracetamol and work a little magic on the DHC to convert it to 6-monoacetyldihydromorphine, a highly potent (and the most euphoric I have ever tried, including dipropionylmorphine) and effective opioid, in a yield of  up to about 95%.

The 6-monopropionyl ester has yet to be tested, although its high up there on the mental to-do list.

As for the victory, I'd have been feeling like road kill by now, because the wee package that I had next-day-ed to me, it went to the wrong house by mistake, the sender got the house number wrong, but fortunately they were out of the house, and the mail man left one of those 'you got mail' cards.
Went to pick it up, showing ID, giving them the tracking number, but despite the monumentally tiny odds of two unrelated individuals having the exact same first and last name, living just across the street and a fraudster thieving a package in the post dept. by knowing the many-digit and letter tracking number, must be many thousands to one.

Old fart refused to hand it over after I explained my predicament, despite having photo ID, thought my 8th was going to end up undeliverable and that about £130 would end up right down the drain, but I went back early in the morning, and another guy was on shift, and he was decent about it and got me my nice big chunk of some rather naughty remedy to said predicament, one big chunk, straight off the key, well almost only one large block, there were a few chunks in there plus a bit of powder too.

Just as my eyes were starting to water, my nose run, and everything aching, the decent postal worker of the two handed me my parcel, and minutes later, I was home, and feeling better, with that damnable joint and bursitis pain no longer howling and screaming at my doing..well..anything, including sitting or lying down on either side, my front or my back.

Just about to have a wee toot now, before lighting a cigar, munching on a bar of turkish delight, and a load of fizzy sour bubblegum chewy candies, not quite sure whether I'll eat the turkish delight first, or have my cigar, although I am leaning strongly towards chowing down that turkish delight, maybe even two bars.

And for afters, I've two big, icing-slathered (and with some sort of tasty red strips on the top of the icing too) red velvet cakes, with guava juice to wash it down, plus a big bag of assorted candies and a load of those really moreish processed crap sliced cheese packs)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 19, 2018, 11:59:08 PM

I had a big mug of coffee flavoured with caramel this morning. It's things like this that makes winter my favourite season.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on June 20, 2018, 08:23:33 AM

Just got out of having to wear those really close fitting unbreathable surgical nitrile gloves for my chem project, after finding my looser fitting, elbow length rubber gloves. Not perfect but they don't get so awful horrid and sweaty after being worn for ages. Which the surgical gloves do, its nasty.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: mdagli1 on June 20, 2018, 02:22:42 PM

I made out with myself. Om nom nom nom

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on June 20, 2018, 06:03:46 PM

Bad advice mate, shouldn't have told mcdanglyfag to do that. You don't really want a world with ANOTHER mcpencildick in it do you? little fucker is pathetic enough now, without having to add a danglefag 2.0, and at that, one that A-has one parent, which is both it's mother AND father, and when 'daddy' is actually mommy number II, because the parent is a little bitch. AND has to go through the terrible twos and threes etc. do you?

Because that sounds like the perfect recipe for a family so dysfunctional that if josef fritzl appeared as a family guy character, keeping donald trump in his basement as a fucktoy, he'd look like a positive paragon of normalcy and stability in comparison.

And hey, too many kids are being born to NT parents and turning out NT themselves as a result, you don't want to add another little kid which will only end up born half cooked as the consequence of such a self-mating.

Besides, the world really already has way more than its fair share of squalling, squawking, whiny little NT lumps of coagulated putrescent afterbirth and bile hanging around. We need a huge shipment of barrels full of industrial-strength pesticide already, without adding another slack jawed, empty headed pencil-dicked, bitter and twisted spineless loser to the ever growing heap of primate-esque vapid, shitspeaking dross.

Although I will say this much for mcdanglefag, I think he really is the cream of society.

Because cream floats to the top, and just like that, so to does the kind of shit that just won't seem to flush, float :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: mdagli1 on June 20, 2018, 06:40:23 PM

How often do you 2 masterbate? Sounds like a real bromance in the making, with yourselves of course.


Maybe you should stop hurting yourselves and actually get a life? Battered autistic babies deserve every bit of grief that they receive. Learn from it

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on June 20, 2018, 07:49:52 PM

I may have fixed my fridge thanks to several members' help. Will monitor for a few days and see if it backs up again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 21, 2018, 05:26:35 AM

Elsewhere I posted that my mum hadn't texted me from hospital where she had her knee replacement done.

Well this afternoon she called me and seemed pretty cheerful though in some pain. She doesn't like taking pain medication, much the same as me. A knee replacement operation is pretty brutal and Mum said there is a lot of swelling. She will be on crutches for some time and has been given exercises to do.

I am just so happy that she's ok. Best thing to happen for quite some time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on June 22, 2018, 04:11:47 PM

Got my ticket for New Order!!! :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on June 23, 2018, 11:18:22 AM

Thats the band that used to be joy division, no? great band IMO.

As for me, a certain little something came for me, right at the moment that it was required to avert a tight spot of unpleasant nature.

And another good one, been playing fallout tactics today, and while on the way to a mission, with the squad driving an APC (itself unarmed, but tough as nails, not particularly fast, but if anything hostile gets in the way, it has no problem at all just driving straight over them and squishing them :autism:)

Was facing off against mutants, if you haven't played the game, thing real big, uglier than they are big, tough as hell, dumber than all three put together and the result multiplied by itself, and as vicious as the day is long, plus with a rather nasty habit of carrying very heavy weaponry, using squad-level machineguns and .50 cal autocannons one-handed, the way a man might fire a .22 airpistol.

My squad was to say the least, well armed, however, a mixture of sniper rifles for long-range work, FN-FAL assault rifles, one with a sniper rifle and an automatic combat shotgun loaded with what are essentially, shells packed with a shitload of finned darts, that shred meat (usually on two legs...occasionally on four or no legs mind you) as if going through tissue paper, kind of like grapeshot, as fired from oldschool sailing warships, one with a sniper rifle and slugs, the rest carrying either sniper rifle and mid-weight machineguns, one with a browning .50 cal autocannon in one hand and a lighter 7.62mm SAW machinegun in the other, as my heavy weapons specialist, although plenty of them know what they are doing with heavy weaponry and energy weapons, plus one, rather...unusual recruit. Unusual in that she isn't human, she's (this is a post-nuclear holocaust game, like the rest of the fallout (from where the name comes, no surprise there) series) a deathclaw. Think mutated chameleon, only bigger, much, much bigger, big enough to tower over even the biggest human, stealthy as hell, REALLY fast and good at getting the drop on unsuspecting enemies and tearing them to little pieces with claws as long as a man's arm before they ever realize she's there; and with a carry-weight of about 350 pounds of equipment. Can't use armor or firearms, although there are a few weapons that count as 'unarmed', such as one called a power-fist, basically a big hefty metal gauntlet bristling with spikes and carrying an electrical charge, good for splattering enemies into little meat-chunks, rather than leaving corpses, and being a melee focused character, she is very accurate with it, its close range only, but when she gets there, and she does it damned quick, she has a 95% chance of, with an aimed blow, smacking the foe right in the eyes, which surprisingly enough, does horrific damage with that electrified, spiked metal giant fist, if it doesn't kill them outright with a single blow, not unusual considering its being delivered by a monstrous great mutated lizard, that, were she given tracks rather than feet would probably qualify for a mediumweight tank.

No guns, but serves very well as a pack mule, able to carry enough additional equipment for the entire 6 person squad, and can use grenades better than any of them.

Thought I'd wiped out the lot of the mutants, parking the APC behind a rock formation as cover, and opening up on them with the lot, leaving not much more than a pile of wet pink chunky stuff behind.

Had my tech specialist type get out to repair some minor damage to the APC, only to have another big, stupid vicious great bastard charge out from a gap between the rocks that I'd been using to snipe from whilst avoiding return fire, drive a little bit out past one rock, passing the gap, letting the squad loose hell from the APC and parking behind the other rock formation, lather, rinse, repeat, leave big pile of corpses no matter which way the buggers came.

Thought the fight over. It wasn't. One left. Packing an antitank rocket launcher and armor-piercing rounds for it. Straight through the crack, although the snipers put a hail of rounds into it, and the trooper with the shotgun let off a burst of fire at close range, it was 'mother', the big buggering lizard rescued in another mission, who joined out of gratitude for saving her and her young, who saved the day, and the arses of the squad and the APC (not that the latter is much use without living drivers), I'd sent her out to loot the dead, until the last mutant thug ran out to take a near point blank range potshot with the rocket launcher at the APC from a few feet away (I did say they weren't very bright :LOL1:)

And stunned somewhat by being riddled with bullets, although not killed, the big lizard squad member made good use of those lightening quick reactions and chucked a grenade, reducing the wounded mutant to squishy bits before it got a shot off. Leaving another corpse to loot, with the rocket launcher (the squad already has several members carrying them, though, and plenty of regular HE, armor-piercing and armor-piercing sabot rounds, but another plus 5-6 of them and additional rounds in the APC, all stolen from the bodies of those stupid enough to get close enough to try and use them, one more just means one more to sell back at base, and the armor-piercing rocket ammunition is somewhat uncommon, so those, I'll hang onto for dealing with heavily armored targets that pose enough danger to need to take out straight away.

All in all, nicely done, got quite a few of the enemy squad with some clever shots, aiming into a crowd that the actual target, would only have a few percent chance to actually hit them, whilst the ones behind, a guaranteed miss, using the miss, to spray the ones I technically COULD have hit but almost certainly wouldn't with bullets, killed quite a lot of them with trick-shots like that, and that last one would have done a LOT of damage, especially close up like that, albeit with little chance that it would have survived pulling the trigger at that range. (when I said 'stupid', that really doesn't come close.)

And aside from the lizard-warrior charging a group of the mutants packing machineguns (can't wear armor, she is just too damn big, but she doesn't really need to, since she is a real hard-case, and won't be killed by anything less than a full squad all burst-firing heavy weapons or the more powerful energy weapons, even accidentally running her over with the APC a couple of times only stunned her and pinned her to the floor until the driver of the APC moved over her to let her up!), she did need a little medical attention after charging into the group of machinegun-wielding mutant soldiers, along with using a rapid acting personal medical pack, but not before ripping the closest one apart, hand to hand (or hand to electrified, spiked metal giant fist) and getting nasty with frag and napalm grenades. Did look a little sore afterwards, but nothing the squad's best medic couldn't patch up right away.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on June 23, 2018, 08:21:50 PM

Deutschland scored on a set play at 90+5' to beat Sweden 2-1.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on June 23, 2018, 10:00:07 PM

That fallout-tactics heavy weapons specialist chick that I have on the squad on the current game I'm playing, seems like even when I'm NOT trying to pull something fancy, she's getting in the habit of trick shots. Just spent a while setting three of the squad, plus her, up to bushwhack some big ugly mutated git with a browning M2 autocannon, capable of doing a LOT of damage, or killing a heavily armored squad member outright. Never got the chance to use the surprise attack I had set up, because I had her try for a shot, with an M2 of her own, and when not weighed down, she is pretty damn fast, got the one I was aiming for, not difficult, a close up meatgrinder of a shot, and she ended up taking out another, way, way, way across the map, whilst my grenadier/big buggering great lizard critter was sneaking up on the other side of the fence to the second enemy, meaning to either off him, or flush him out where it'd be easier to leave him full of holes, or else have him run close enough to the corner where someone was waiting in ambush with a flamethrower and make BBQ out of him. Only the time was sort of wasted, by the fact that the heavy weapons specialist not only hit, but made mincemeat out of the second enemy, taking them both out with one shot, when at the range she pulled that one off, even my best sniper wouldn't have stood a chance, and she is very, very talented in that area. Being the one I use when I want to pull off a shot right to the eye of an enemy (literally, you can aim for different bodyparts to different effect in fallout games, to the eyes, especially a critical hit, is about as devastating as you can get, no surprise there) and do it at long range. But this one particular squaddie, the heavy-weapons specialist, in just this one mission she isn't just picking them off, but racking up a bodycount measured by the heap, rather than the corpse, to the point they are hard to loot, because the cursor has to be over the body..or bits of one, and they all end up kind of mixed up, as if they'd been run through a blender.

Now if that won't give a soldier PTSD afterwards, rummaging around in a pile of squishy pink and greyish yellow...bits of things...for extra ammunition, grenades  etc. I don't know what will. I should imagine the sight of somebody, mutated or otherwise, trying it on with a crowbar and ending up with it, along with his head, arms, legs and assorted bits of armor in place of his internal organs must be somewhat traumatic for the average soldier :spazz: This one just seems to get worse and more messy. I suppose they should be thankful I'm only having her use her .50 caliber autocannon and 7.62mm machinegun, rather than the rocket launcher and minigun she has for...erm..I'd say sidearms, but I don't think they qualify. For that, she's got a .50 desert eagle and a sledgehammer. And it seems like she got out of the bed on the wrong side today, and she's pissed. Wiping out entire squads and scarcely taking a scratch.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 24, 2018, 12:31:07 AM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on June 23, 2018, 08:21:50 PM

Deutschland scored on a set play at 90+5' to beat Sweden 2-1.

Not a good thing. >:(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on June 24, 2018, 08:32:16 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 24, 2018, 12:31:07 AM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on June 23, 2018, 08:21:50 PM

Deutschland scored on a set play at 90+5' to beat Sweden 2-1.

Not a good thing. >:(

It was for me!!! :headbang2: :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 24, 2018, 03:41:45 PM

Why?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on June 24, 2018, 04:45:05 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 24, 2018, 03:41:45 PM

Why?

I'm German!!!

My name is 15 letters long and about as German as you can get.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 24, 2018, 11:21:04 PM

Didn't know that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on June 25, 2018, 03:21:14 PM

Just discovered a couple of useful and interesting things about a catalyst I have at times being making use of in a specific type of microwave irradiation-mediated reaction, to absolutely fantastic effect, something I came up with myself, in terms of pioneering it's use. What I hadn't realized is that its sort of a binary mixture, with 5-10% of another compound in it, that I hadn't realized was there and which certainly could be very important in the activity of this particular catalyst being so high, with such great efficiency at doing the job I need it to do, albeit with a little modification of my own. It might not be, or it might even be mostly responsible for the efficacy with which it performs its task.

The reaction yields are massively, massively, vastly improved compared to the often-used catalysts for the job, and while I didn't come up with the idea of using a MW to irradiate the reaction mixture, someone else did that, but I did begin to use it and tinker with it until I got it working really well; to the point where I turned a job that took six or seven full hours just for the heating, using a steam or hot water bath.

The MW method with my catalyst, it gives far better yields of a product of much better purity, and cuts the time it takes to finish up from 6-7 hours, nay, slashes it, right down to as low as 15 to 20 minutes, although still experimenting with reaction timing (the time mentioned there is total irradiation time keeping at peak temperature for the needs of the reaction), with manual control, measuring temperature with a non-mercury or galinstan thermometer due to the Hg or gallium-indium-tin alloy being metallic, and in a microwave, that isn't a good thing, and least of all when the reaction mixture contains a highly flammable nitro-compound as solvent and reactant, along with another flammable substance, NOT something that should have something sparking and arcing inside it. So an alcohol type is to be used, since digital thermocouples, etc. would end up extra-crispy because of the microwave irradiation.

And after setting the time, pulsing the MW, taking regular temperature readings with bursts of 10s or so, depending on how far one is in to the reaction itself, even on a molar scale, with a large volume of reactants its done and ready to be crystallized, purified and recrystallized. Just with cooling as and  when needed, particularly after the first irradiation cycle, and once the irradiation cycles are complete, it is to be placed in a cold water bath then an iced water bath before transfer to the freezer for crystallization, if a cosolvent hasn't been used to make the catalyst more tractable in handling, if so then that has to be distilled out first under vacuum with the reaction mixture at room temperature or just above it.

Yields though are fantastic, through the damn roof in fact (no, not the flask and the microwave being launched through the ceiling )

Now, some specific research is needed to determine which specific portion of the catalyst is contributing what, by buying several chemicals in their pure form, and using different ratios and also testing components alone, plus with my modification to them, and comparing yields under otherwise identical conditions  and timings, with, and without co-solvent. Particularly interested in one that makes up somewhere between 5-10% of the total, until the modification is performed on it and  addition of any co-solvent.

So I can really nail it down and figure out precisely  what conditions will be in a  fully optimized reaction. And  also tests on scaling vs time, to determine how time affects yield with runs of different quantities of reactants (which themselves, bar the catalyst and any co-solvent for the reaction,  are almost always either run at a 1:1 scale, or with a slight excess of one of the reactants to serve as  a slight addition of  solvent, mainly for the purpose of ensuring that the other reactant is fully consumed and made best use of, with the rest of it being recovered by vacuum distillation and fractionation of the mixture, or rather, any liquors left post-reaction, because the reactant used in slight excess is very valuable indeed, and most difficult to get hold of safely, because it is watched like a hawk by various agencies that I most certainly will not suffer to have knowledge of my obtaining any. So naturally, I have to be rather careful with who and where I do business to get it. Could make it, but it would need some quite a lot of silver based chemicals, which when used for something like a molar scale, even though the Ag content is recovered of course, that means expensive. And the need for an alkyl iodide, means that its expensive even more, with the iodine being needed quite large which, due to the high molecular weight, as iodine is a quite heavy element, means the cost is made greater. Have been wondering if I could use the silver salt of tosic acid (p-toluenesulfonic acid), which too is a great leaving group, even better than the iodide anion, and tosic acid or tosic anhydride would make it cheaper, and possibly more effective, if it works. Although I've always just been able to buy it from sources I have who take discretion as the watch word by which to live, a most admirable thing among chemical suppliers.

Anyhow, have been having wonderful results with this catalyst, now I need to do some research into it to see how exactly it is working, given the new things learned about it having a previously unknown component in it at 5-10%, well I know how, I just need to perform the research into which bits are contributing what, so that I can get the reaction AND the catalyst fully, 100% optimized and brought to the absolute pinnacle of perfection with the substrates I am using it on. And once that is done, begin testing it on others, to see how well it works with various substrates (one being an arylalkyl carbonyl compound), having different substitutions on different positions on the phenyl ring), introducing various different electron-withdrawing and electron donating as well as electronically neutral groups at different regions of the phenyl ring, to see how alterations in electronegativity/electropositivity affect the yields with my catalyst, and how these modifications, such as introducing the likes of nitro, cyano, halogen, trifluoro/difluoromethyl and trifluoro/difluoromethoxy groups, pentafluorosulfanyl and if practical/safe, thiocyanato group and cyanate groups, although I'll need to make sure there is no potential for a compound  which covalently bonds to receptors it binds to, which means that the ligands in question would be irreversible, the compounds permanently bonded to the receptors targeted within the synapse, forcing the body to internalize and destroy them, and grow new ones before their functionality is restored.

Which needless to say, is NOT something I wish to have happen to any of my neurons. Don't know about the rest of you but I like them to work properly, without having any of them acylated, alkylated or get anything else permanently 'glued' on/into them until the receptors affected can be withdrawn inside the cell, destroyed and the brain grow new ones in replacement. Which takes time, and of course, having an entire system inactivated is bound to throw things out of whack, which is something I don't much relish the prospect of.

I like  being normal and completely in whack :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on June 25, 2018, 10:42:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 24, 2018, 11:21:04 PM

Didn't know that.

Mostly German with some Irish and a dab of Scottish and English, but the last name is unmistakeable for its origins.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 25, 2018, 11:04:48 PM

Quote from: Trigger 11 on June 25, 2018, 10:42:04 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 24, 2018, 11:21:04 PM

Didn't know that.

Mostly German with some Irish and a dab of Scottish and English, but the last name is unmistakeable for its origins.

How many generations?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 25, 2018, 11:11:07 PM

Had a good talk with my mental health case worker today about getting some employment people to help me find a job.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 29, 2018, 06:56:28 PM

Found out Filburt is not scared of fireworks.   This time of year Marley was always cowering, Filburt on the other hand was startled at first then curious as to who was making all the noise

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 29, 2018, 08:35:33 PM

I don't recall if our dog was frightened of fireworks, but our 15 y/o cat just chills out.  Maybe she's used to them popping 12 to 15 times during baseball season, New Years and July 4.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 16, 2018, 05:07:44 AM

Today I found out that I passed the ISTQB software testing course. Quite happy about it because I found it very difficult.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on July 16, 2018, 05:16:23 AM

Quote from: renaeden on July 16, 2018, 05:07:44 AM

Today I found out that I passed the ISTQB software testing course. Quite happy about it because I found it very difficult.

Well done.

I got praise from the boss, which was unexpected.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 16, 2018, 10:17:12 AM

Go you Renster! go you! :) proud of ya. And you should be too.

I got paid today, getting paid again tomorrow, will have a few hundred quid after expenses, think I'll treat myself to a few things for the lab. I wouldn't mind some carbon disulfide, and I'm running a bit low on dichloromethane. Out of chloroform.

And one other nice thing, although the quantity is showing more extraction pulls need doing, a certain over the counter nasal decongestant, carefully hoarded over a long period of time, after basing the syrup to about PH 11, extraction by means of addition of separate, multiple portions of hot toluene and magnetically stirring to vortex the two phases together, then letting them separate, and using a large separatory funnel to partition off the toluene phase, before dessicating it over quicklime and distilling the tolly off for re-use, acidification of a portion of 0.5ml or so with toluene containing dry hydrogen chloride gas dropwise immediately showed the evolution of turbidity as fine crystals formed in the dry environment, and the main first extraction has deposited what looks to be a good several grams of said nasal decongestant as it's freebase, quite clean looking too, although more extractions, and a recrystallization has been performed, the product salted, washed of any stray organics, (I admit, I am rather pernicketty about my products being purified to a high standard)

Just got to get the rest of the freebase out of the syrup. And of course redistill the toluene for recycling and reuse, so I can get more monetary mileage out of a given bottle of solvent, as I do with almost all my solvents. And redry it each pull with a fresh portion of quicklime, before finally, powdering the spent, hydrated quicklime, and with dry solvent, extract it again with a last portion of hot toluene to free any trapped product.

Because oh me oh my, my poor blocked nose :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 16, 2018, 11:48:34 AM

MMmmm now THAT was nice. I just went out to dump a couple of empty drink cans in the recycle, and despite the roasting weather, it just started raining. So I decided to go stand outside to smoke a cigar, just letting the cooling rain wash over me. Was cooking in the heat, and it just spontaneously decided to start with a lovely cold rain, not too heavy, just right to stand out there with my shirt off with my cigar, cooling off. That felt damn good after the heat we've had of late.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 16, 2018, 12:46:03 PM

I'm watching star trek-TNG, and I an most of the way through the battered cod fillet supper that I cooked up about 20 minutes ago, a sprinkling of salt and it is just perfect. Lurvely. Absolutely done to perfection in the oven. Now munching away, along with a mug of cold fruit punch. Just the thing for tonight, the right sort of hot dinner for this hot weather, not too heavy, not spicy, but light, melt in the mouth and full of flavour :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 16, 2018, 02:15:21 PM

The relevant person finally sent me one of WolFish's W2's from last year, which frees up the accountant to get the taxes filed. One more step in the estate paperwork.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 16, 2018, 02:50:20 PM

Glad it is getting done hun. I still think about wolfy too, albeit not in the same way you would 'raxy, hell, every year, its guaranteed, on my b/day, I'll remember him all the stronger, for it was the wolfmeister who started my official I2 birfdey thread. My respect for him is still immense. And I'm so happy for you that the wolfcub has allowed him to pass on his legacy to you, to the world, and of course, to the little fuzzbucket himself, although sorrowful he will not meet his old man in person. Still, I am confident that despite that, he will have the best start in life, with a mom of such a high caliber as yourself 'raxy :)

*sends warm well wishes*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 16, 2018, 03:06:58 PM

Quote from: renaeden on July 16, 2018, 05:07:44 AM

Today I found out that I passed the ISTQB software testing course. Quite happy about it because I found it very difficult.

Well done! Congrats! :party:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 16, 2018, 04:24:30 PM

Quote from: renaeden on July 16, 2018, 05:07:44 AM

Today I found out that I passed the ISTQB software testing course. Quite happy about it because I found it very difficult.

Congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 17, 2018, 04:51:12 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 16, 2018, 03:06:58 PM

Quote from: renaeden on July 16, 2018, 05:07:44 AM

Today I found out that I passed the ISTQB software testing course. Quite happy about it because I found it very difficult.

Well done! Congrats! :party:

Quote from: Jack on July 16, 2018, 04:24:30 PM

Congratulations.

Thanks very much :)
I am so glad not to have to study right now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 17, 2018, 05:29:57 AM

You've definitely earned yourself a round of cold beer Ren :) Well done. bet your looking forward to being able to put your feet up  now. And do give yourself a pat on the back from me for a job well done *pats on back for job well done*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on July 17, 2018, 05:40:33 AM

I have been recognised and selected to go into a specialist team for specialised assistance on two products.
One of those products I am VERY very good with. The other I am VERY very shit with. I was a very easy inclusion into the team because of my high level of competence in the one product, but it is going to be very challenging because I am really bad in the other. The timing is good and the potential to develop and focus, opens up more substantially. The product I am good with is a new product and going to eventually outstrip the other in terms of importance and growth. I am hoping they further specialise and I will have a path there.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 17, 2018, 05:59:23 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on July 17, 2018, 05:40:33 AM

I have been recognised and selected to go into a specialist team for specialised assistance on two products.
One of those products I am VERY very good with. The other I am VERY very shit with. I was a very easy inclusion into the team because of my high level of competence in the one product, but it is going to be very challenging because I am really bad in the other. The timing is good and the potential to develop and focus, opens up more substantially. The product I am good with is a new product and going to eventually outstrip the other in terms of importance and growth. I am hoping they further specialise and I will have a path there.

Congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on July 17, 2018, 06:14:00 AM

Quote from: Jack on July 17, 2018, 05:59:23 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on July 17, 2018, 05:40:33 AM

I have been recognised and selected to go into a specialist team for specialised assistance on two products.
One of those products I am VERY very good with. The other I am VERY very shit with. I was a very easy inclusion into the team because of my high level of competence in the one product, but it is going to be very challenging because I am really bad in the other. The timing is good and the potential to develop and focus, opens up more substantially. The product I am good with is a new product and going to eventually outstrip the other in terms of importance and growth. I am hoping they further specialise and I will have a path there.

Congratulations.

Thanks Jack.

I had a nice chat with the Manager today who will be my ex-Manager in a couple of weeks. She said she did not want to get rid of me (and us) and that she found it difficult to put anyone forward, because of sentiment. That was nice. She also said I was an obvious choice for the new team.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 17, 2018, 06:18:38 AM

I've been paid this week, and twice rather than once, getting my monthly mobility allowance payment as well. Now I can finally buy myself the small size fritted Buchner funnels I wanted, plus some SOCl2 and lithium aluminium hydride.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on July 17, 2018, 06:23:08 AM

Quote from: Lestat on July 17, 2018, 06:18:38 AM

I've been paid this week, and twice rather than once, getting my monthly mobility allowance payment as well. Now I can finally buy myself the small size fritted Buchner funnels I wanted, plus some SOCl2 and lithium aluminium hydride.

Very good mate.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 17, 2018, 07:50:44 AM

The vet called to say that the dog's tests were normal. No weird parasites or germs.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 17, 2018, 07:59:33 AM

Yup, and just as well I've been brushing up on my inert atmosphere technique. LiAlH4 has teeth, and it isn't shy about using them. Incredibly water-sensitive, air sensitive and generally with a bad attitude. Bursts into flame, and gives off massive clouds of instantly-evolved explosive hydrogen gas on contact with solvent that hasn't been super-thoroughly dried.

Usually used in either THF (tetrahydrofuran) or occasionally in diethyl ether, although I'll be using THF for my reductions with it, as THF is superior for the job with LAH, forms a complex which helps solubilize the LAH. Needs the solvent to be pre-dried with conventional dessicants, in a flask dried immediately before use with flame, or in an oven, and distilled after pre-drying from sodium metal pieces, after boiling it over the sodium, distilled under a current of dry nitrogen, argon or helium and used with a protective inert gas flow, without any trace of moisture of air present, otherwise it bursts into flame. Not pretty in a flammable solvent such as a liter of refluxing THF or ether.

Might even treat myself to some Red-Al, if I an afford it, Sodium bis(2-methoxyethoxy)aluminium hydride, it'd a lot more expensive than LAH, and one needs quite a lot of equivalents per mol. of substrate to be reduced, given its high molar mass compared to LiAlH4 (LAH, or Lith-Al for short), but its available as solutions in toluene, can reduce anything that LAH does AFAIK, and unlike LAH it isn't pyrophoric. I've never worked with Red-Al before, but it really does sound a pleasure to work with, like sodium borohydride is. NaBH4 won't reduce nitro groups to amines though sadly, which is one of the great things about LAH, but its so tame, it can even be used in aqueous solution in some reactions. Got a big bottle of borohydride, though, and haven't regretted it. Nice, stable, calm stuff, not pyrophoric at all, can be handled in the open air, no inert gas line needed, although it would be nice if it could reduce those pesky aliphatic nitro groups. For the phenylnitropropenes like P2NP, it can be used in a two step reduction to amphetamines however, first reducing the double bond of the nitroalkene, before extraction of the nitroalkene and reduction of the nitro group using iron dust in glacial acetic acid with a tad of ferric chloride added to coordinate as a lewis acid/base pair to the nitro group, and allow a greater ease of reduction. If done on the nitropropenes without reduction of the double bond, it gives the ketone instead, P2P/phenylacetone, which can be reductively aminated by forming an imine with an alkylamine such as methylamine, ethylamine for methylated or N-ethyl amphetamines respectively, using molecular sieves to protect the imine by abstraction of the water formed so the imine isn't hydrolyzed, then borohydride can reduce the imine to the amine.

Or else P2P ketoxime can be used for primary amine amphetamines, via the Bouveault-Blanc reduction, using a solution of the ketoxime in absolute anhydrous ethanol, under inert gas, whilst little chips of sodium metal are added, to reduce the ketoxime to the primary amine (amphetamine itself, in that case)

So even though it won't reduce the nitroalkene to the aminoalkane directly, borohydride still has its uses there, and for psychedelic phenethylamines/psychedelic ring-substituted amphetamines too.

Glad the dog is well odeon.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 22, 2018, 07:26:28 PM

I have had a microwave (not the same one) since about 1984.  Thirty-four years later I actually cooked something from a raw state in it.  I've always used it to heat TV dinners or reheat coffee.  The world did not end when I cooked in succession 4 big chicken breast halves. The world did not end folks.  It did not end.

Next on my to do list:  learn how to wash dishes instead of throwing them out after using.   :eyebrows:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 22, 2018, 07:53:51 PM

Early for a commercial MW oven isn't it QV? I love 'em for what they can be coaxed to pull off. A six to seven hour reflux on a steam bath in GAA (glacial acetic acid, basically 100% vinegar rather than 5% and some malty crap) and using excess nitroalkane, giving a less pure product in lower yield?

900 watt microwave can allow the same reaction to proceed in far better yield and quality in as little as fifteen fucking minutes, albeit being careful and pulsing intermittent heating-cooling cycles, then one last ice-salt or dry ice bath, or stick it in the freezer in a flask and the product just crashes out in a massive block, solventless, near quantitative yield. Microwave chemistry is as yet underutilized in hobbyist chemistry, but DAMN, a microwave based solventless Knoevanagel/Henry condensation between benzaldehyledes and nitroalkanes to give phenylnitroalkenes of rather high use and value, its absolute gold dust for cooking in that sense too. Even seen one guy who adapted his oven to hack the turntable to hold a flask, and drilled a hole through the top, wired in coolant lines so he had on-line temperature control rather than doing it via pulsed irradiation-cooling cycles (temperature can skyerocket in no time, ten seconds is enough at 900W to cause a liter of nitro/benz mixture to reflux if its already warm from a cycle, and this is run at a lower temperature, gives better quality products, delicate touch and keeping it to 60 'C can give as best a yield as I've EVER had with this reaction. Bung it in the microwave in an open flask, a bowl to hold it and a container of something suitable to serve as a heatsink for finer temp control, plus a bog roll plug to stop the otherwise nonvolatile but irritating solid fuming off teargas esque vapor, and its fucking golden. Literally, the product is meant to be a golden, beautiful yellow, like say, dinitrophenol, yellow is a colour common to nitro-group containing compounds, Hell even Sasha Shulgin, may his soul rest in piece, pretty much the founder of research into novel psychoactive serotonergic phenethylamines and amphetamine counterparts, reports many pumpkin-orange nitrostyrenes and nitropropenes using a normal heat source, and this guy, recently departed, and I have a hunch with plenty autie traits the way he writes his memoires on the field, TIHKAL, PIHKAL and the shulgin index, as well as SPIQ (the simple plant isoquinolines reference guide), he has  to be, and damn, he is a pro, or was, before his death from age and slowly failing health, the kind of guy who has had the means to trick his lab out with 1HNMR, IR spec, GC-MS and UV specs, and the likes of using something like liquified cryogenic chlorine gas, or reactions with hydrogen cyanide and do it regularly without being towed out in a body bag, HE reports that orange byproduct, in knoevanagels  for making beta-nitrostyrenes and phenylnitroprop-2-enes

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on July 22, 2018, 08:07:15 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 22, 2018, 07:26:28 PM

I've always used it to heat TV dinners or reheat coffee.

Same here, with the addition of making burning popcorn and drying herbs.

You go.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on July 22, 2018, 09:01:29 PM

Microwaves are extremely good for steaming vegetables or chicken. Steamed is the best way to eat a lot of vegetables (broccoli, for example).

I had leftover frittata for lunch today. That was good. I'm going to keep bringing my lunch to work, too bloody expensive to buy lunch in the food courts and take-aways around here and too many tummy upsets as well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on July 22, 2018, 09:27:05 PM

Quote from: Minister of silly walks on July 22, 2018, 09:01:29 PM

Microwaves are extremely good for steaming vegetables or chicken. Steamed is the best way to eat a lot of vegetables (broccoli, for example).

I had leftover frittata for lunch today. That was good. I'm going to keep bringing my lunch to work, too bloody expensive to buy lunch in the food courts and take-aways around here and too many tummy upsets as well.

We love veggies, used to steam most of them in my rice cooker...then someone finally convinced me to try an instant pot. Spaghetti squash in 10 minutes, about 15 if you count the time it takes to come up to pressure.

I can cook a whole chicken from frozen in it and it's falling off the bone.

Damn thing is a boss.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 22, 2018, 10:04:21 PM

I reckon I finally managed to get the bloody slaved for ketone I had as a current for synthesis. Base treatment and on long standing, for several frustrating hours, the ketone, and the caustic lye broth its in, has finally salted out and the latter separated to give an aqueous and organic phase, a clear biphasic jar full (it was only at 'uncomfortable to a hand hold' temperature, so in this case, for simply mixing two fluids and swirling, soda-lime glass was fine and quick to hand

 So I think when I've got the sleep and refreshment to finally go ahead with the hour or so long oximation and workup plus another five minutes for the final, actual reduction of ketoxime to primary amine via either zinc/ammonium formate in methanol, or Bouveault-Blanc style reduction with sodium in rigorously dried anhydrous primary low weight alcohol, methanol/ethanol adapted to use methanol rather than ethanol for a sample first, to see if methanol has any contributing pro or con solvent effects on the yield or reaction`I think I'll save up for a new vac  pump, and distill the ketone in vacuo under inert gas instead of this fiddly basic work up, at least if acidic workup doesn't prove superior for bisulfite adducts of this ketone,

 and I might well prepare it directly from the nitroalkene, via reduction of nitroalkene to nitroalkane with a borohydride reduction, nitroalkane to ketone, just filter out iron dust and acid, after heating the nitroalkane to 80 'C-85 'C in glacial acetic acid as solvent, using chloroform or dichlor for the extratant solvent, and direct oximation after vac distillation, this bisulfite adduct is being a royal bellend, but at least its finally salted out something organic, presumably the ketone. Right now though I'm so exhausted I'm having to take breaks every few minutes. So fuck it for the time being. Ugh. At least its separating into a biphasic layer though. And the diethyl ether

 .....well thst workd, judyd not planned on...shite, that was anlooked-for b;essing, ain disguisw, starting to put me under...at ,east I'm not now finding myself getting up for a few minutes and returning to lie down for half an hour to an hour, and finding myself growling at the bloody business of extracting a ketone from it's bisulfite adduct. Don't think the EtoEt got to me earlier, and impaired me, I was long before I needed it for anything. But bugger me, thats a change for the better.

Never found myself in quite THAT bad of a mood before from a chemistry task, I still feel overloaded as hell, but in a detatched state, where I really don't find it problematic to ignore. I reckon NMDA antagonists might have a potential for dealing with autie overloading actually, I've always found memantine, a voltage-specific channel blocker at the NMDAR ion channrl cenrrl pore region, lacked dissociative effects unless very heavily dosed compared with say, more typical channel blockers such as phencyclidine, ketamine but that it seemed to stay quiet in that respect but it still killed off the primitive fear response in response to excess but not normal level fear-responses. as if it were selectively targeting the overloading, which it actually does, on the level of the NMDA-ergic glutamatergic synapse, but not, in memantine's case, normal signalling; so the benefits are there without the impairment save at very high doses of this particular NMDAr blocker.

Ooohhfuck th at narcotizing effect really did destress me for a while, wearing off now I'm out of the workspace, b ut bloody christ's own nails was I one bugger of an overloated state, but declining with the ethers effects vut ohboy, its getting to me alright.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on July 23, 2018, 05:28:14 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 22, 2018, 09:27:05 PM

Quote from: Minister of silly walks on July 22, 2018, 09:01:29 PM

Microwaves are extremely good for steaming vegetables or chicken. Steamed is the best way to eat a lot of vegetables (broccoli, for example).

I had leftover frittata for lunch today. That was good. I'm going to keep bringing my lunch to work, too bloody expensive to buy lunch in the food courts and take-aways around here and too many tummy upsets as well.

We love veggies, used to steam most of them in my rice cooker...then someone finally convinced me to try an instant pot. Spaghetti squash in 10 minutes, about 15 if you count the time it takes to come up to pressure.

I can cook a whole chicken from frozen in it and it's falling off the bone.

Damn thing is a boss.

Bet you do great redneck roadkill cookout

(https://www.chowstatic.com/uploads/8/6/8/446868_bacon_turtle.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on July 23, 2018, 11:12:38 AM

(https://i.imgur.com/DhkLtmw.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 23, 2018, 09:42:11 PM

I dunno, I think those bacon hotdog whatsits look kind of good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 24, 2018, 12:38:35 AM

Yeah, I'd try one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on July 24, 2018, 01:07:21 AM

Those turtles look like they're made out of the meat from a burger, with cooked bacon on top, and sausages for legs and head.

If Icequeen was really cooking those I'd be happy to get an invite.

I wonder what Al's having for dinner?

https://www.pinterest.com.au/lizzysvintage/bogan-food/?lp=true

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on July 24, 2018, 03:54:26 AM

Quote from: Minister of silly walks on July 24, 2018, 01:07:21 AM

Those turtles look like they're made out of the meat from a burger, with cooked bacon on top, and sausages for legs and head.

If Icequeen was really cooking those I'd be happy to get an invite.

I wonder what Al's having for dinner?

https://www.pinterest.com.au/lizzysvintage/bogan-food/?lp=true

Chicken curry. Thanks for asking. I think you would eat roadkill with IceQueen with indifference.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on July 24, 2018, 04:01:50 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 24, 2018, 12:38:35 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 23, 2018, 11:12:38 AM

(https://i.imgur.com/DhkLtmw.jpg)

Yeah, I'd try one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 24, 2018, 04:21:24 AM

Al. Dishonest since the internet began.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on July 24, 2018, 05:34:47 AM

Quote from: odeon on July 24, 2018, 04:21:24 AM

Al. Dishonest since the internet began.

You did not like my joke?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 24, 2018, 05:40:11 AM

It describes you perfectly.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on July 24, 2018, 05:43:15 AM

Dihonest use of quote function. I really shouldn't be surprised. It reeks of desperation.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on July 24, 2018, 05:50:59 AM

Did you feel that Odeon? MOSW is the Odeon buttplug of the Aspie Elite.
Odeon is as dishonest as they go, and if I can make a shitty joke at Odeon for my own pleasure I don't much care about the faux moral outrage. Tell me how you feel about my nickname for you MOSW. Odeon perhaps you can tell me how you feel about my signature.......or perhaps blowup dolls.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on July 24, 2018, 06:02:26 AM

Tell me more about how you love being McDangly's bitch.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on July 24, 2018, 06:18:32 AM

Quote from: Minister of silly walks on July 24, 2018, 06:02:26 AM

Tell me more about how you love being McDangly's bitch.

(https://i.imgflip.com/2ellwa.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on July 24, 2018, 07:37:32 AM

There, there Al. They're making those dolls more and more realistic every day. So there still is hope you won't wind up spending your golden years bitter and alone.

https://www.realdoll.com/

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on July 24, 2018, 07:44:55 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 23, 2018, 11:12:38 AM

(https://i.imgur.com/DhkLtmw.jpg)

So being that YOU posted this, which do YOU identify with ? The top representation as the lonely person needing relief from loneliness that only a sex doll can bring? Or the sex doll to relief the lonely?

I am neither lonely nor overly moved by your want for me to fuck sex dolls. Why do you like to imagine me sexually though? Is there others here you like to fantasise sexually about? Why not spill? Let the nasty thoughts spill forth. We won't judge

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on July 24, 2018, 07:52:34 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 24, 2018, 07:37:32 AM

There, there Al. They're making those dolls more and more realistic every day. So there still is hope you won't wind up spending your golden years bitter and alone.

https://www.realdoll.com/

BTW just between you, me and everyone here, I knew you were lying when you said

Quote from: Icequeen on July 18, 2018, 10:17:41 AM

Play your trolling game Al and throw your little tantrum. This will be my last written reply to you. I will not fuck up this board participating in your little shit show.

that you were lying. You were lying right? (Kind of a quandary now huh) You could NOT reply because you had promised not to make any written reply BUT then again you are a dumb Redneck Hick who is too dishonest and stupid to keep the promise and already broke said promise by posting

Quote

There, there Al. They're making those dolls more and more realistic every day. So there still is hope you won't wind up spending your golden years bitter and alone.

https://www.realdoll.com/

That is a reply and specifically to me. You are dishonest and an idiot.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on July 24, 2018, 08:11:04 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on July 24, 2018, 07:52:34 AM

That is a reply and specifically to me. You are dishonest and an idiot.

Maybe so, but I'm entitled to change my mind...and I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but I'm a happy one, a little crazy, warm and cozy, loved by my family, and very content.

Go onward now and spread your bitterness and anger. 
The clock's always ticking.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 24, 2018, 11:03:38 AM

I just went into the kitchen to dispose of a little surplus poured-out ether/acetone mixture that I didn't want hanging around to be able to peroxidize, and I happened to find an oxycodone IR capsule in a piece of blisterpack I didn't know  I had. A quick line of that, just the thing for while the scifi spread comes on the horror channel on TV and star trek TOS/TNG are coming on, while I go make up a nice cold jug of iced bubblegum pop.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 24, 2018, 04:39:11 PM

Something good? Al's still butthurt and there's no way he can not respond to this post. He's my bitch.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on July 24, 2018, 06:14:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on July 24, 2018, 04:39:11 PM

Something good? Al's still butthurt and there's no way he can not respond to this post. He's my bitch.

You're going to have to detach Al from my leg first if you want him as your bitch.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 25, 2018, 02:59:43 AM

 :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on July 25, 2018, 12:53:57 PM

Step aside both of you I think I'm making that roadkill cake that looks like a dead possum. The guys at bar will probably love it.  :zoinks:
 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 25, 2018, 01:51:39 PM

Never understood disgusting looking cakes.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on July 25, 2018, 02:42:59 PM

You bake cakes using roadkilled possums? only on I2, would I actually EXPECT to see posts on an online forum about people scraping up small deceased mammals, scrubbing off any rubber stains from the tyre tracks and then baking the motherfuckers into a cake.

As for me, I'm just going to have a cigar whilst my evening morphine and a top up of oxy goes to work, and after I'm done smoking that, going to get dressed up in the protective gear and go attend to the workup of the project I  had  a real terrible few days and nights with feeling like crap but despite being SO worn out, absolutely run my motors on red hot, grinding my tyres into the dirt for days on end, and nights, because I just couldn't fucking sleep, I knew I desperately needed to but my autonomic nervous system was determined as fuck to say 'NO!', as far as sleep, or even a little rest goes.

But, now I've had several days catching up with a LOT of sleep, first thing I did when I got my meds refill was 'remember the tranqs, Lestat, don't even think about holding back either'

Now at least I can finally get back to my project.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on July 25, 2018, 03:21:10 PM

Quote from: Minister of silly walks on July 24, 2018, 06:14:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on July 24, 2018, 04:39:11 PM

Something good? Al's still butthurt and there's no way he can not respond to this post. He's my bitch.

You're going to have to detach Al from my leg first if you want him as your bitch.

You fantasising again?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on July 25, 2018, 03:22:56 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 24, 2018, 08:11:04 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on July 24, 2018, 07:52:34 AM

That is a reply and specifically to me. You are dishonest and an idiot.

Maybe so, but I'm entitled to change my mind...and I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but I'm a happy one, a little crazy, warm and cozy, loved by my family, and very content.

Go onward now and spread your bitterness and anger. 
The clock's always ticking.

Of bourse you are a redneck hick. But I don't own you like I own my bitch Odeon

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 25, 2018, 04:59:05 PM

Got my car back.  Tune-up, fixed a broken pipe at the top of the radiator, sort of repaired the A/C compressor with spare parts he had on hand and put freon in it.  Out the door for $250. 

I'm going to put away $ for a new radiator just in case.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on July 25, 2018, 06:27:05 PM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on July 25, 2018, 03:22:56 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 24, 2018, 08:11:04 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on July 24, 2018, 07:52:34 AM

That is a reply and specifically to me. You are dishonest and an idiot.

Maybe so, but I'm entitled to change my mind...and I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but I'm a happy one, a little crazy, warm and cozy, loved by my family, and very content.

Go onward now and spread your bitterness and anger. 
The clock's always ticking.

Of bourse you are a redneck hick. But I don't own you like I own my bitch Odeon

Thank fucking heavens you don't moonlight as a tattoo artist.

(https://i.imgur.com/b2ZAdVn.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 26, 2018, 12:29:33 AM

The spelling would be the least of his problems.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on July 26, 2018, 04:19:41 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 25, 2018, 12:53:57 PM

Step aside both of you I think I'm making that roadkill cake that looks like a dead possum. The guys at bar will probably love it.  :zoinks:

Redneck Bar, am I right? Your local?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on July 26, 2018, 05:50:27 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 25, 2018, 06:27:05 PM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on July 25, 2018, 03:22:56 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 24, 2018, 08:11:04 AM

Quote from: Al Swearengen on July 24, 2018, 07:52:34 AM

That is a reply and specifically to me. You are dishonest and an idiot.

Maybe so, but I'm entitled to change my mind...and I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but I'm a happy one, a little crazy, warm and cozy, loved by my family, and very content.

Go onward now and spread your bitterness and anger. 
The clock's always ticking.

Of bourse you are a redneck hick. But I don't own you like I own my bitch Odeon

Thank fucking heavens you don't moonlight as a tattoo artist.

(https://i.imgur.com/b2ZAdVn.jpg)

No I do not make tattoos a part of my life
nor big trucks
nor chewy tobacco
nor banjos
nor hoedowns

That would be your space, and I will let your talk crap about these things as much as you like

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on July 26, 2018, 07:08:05 AM

Well at least this "stupid" redneck knows how to use spellcheck.

 :razz:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 26, 2018, 12:11:48 PM

I had a ridiculously big truck, once.
I always chew on my cigars, but simply Chewing Tobacco is repulsive.
I own three banjos, two of which are valuable classic Gibson brand. Very ornate. Can'y play them.
Hoedowns generally suck, but I love attending a weekend bluegrass festival.
Never had a tat, never will.
I own more guns than most sane people would consider and enough ammo to arm half the city.
I fly The American Flag in my front yard.
I grow produce in a small suburban yard.


I hereby claim my redneck status for all time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on July 26, 2018, 01:38:58 PM

I have an F-150 4x4
Own lots of guns and I reload for everything I own except the .22LR's of course.
No tatoos
No banjos
No chewing tobacco
No country music although bluegrass is OK.

I would consider myself to be rural punk rock as opposed to redneck.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on July 26, 2018, 06:07:56 PM

Al isn't a redneck.

More of a bogan really.

https://thingsboganslike.com

Why does #263 seem wildly appropriate?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 26, 2018, 06:55:07 PM

Quote from: Alex DeLarge on July 26, 2018, 01:38:58 PM

I have an F-150 4x4
Own lots of guns and I reload for everything I own except the .22LR's of course.
No tatoos
No banjos
No chewing tobacco
No country music although bluegrass is OK.

I would consider myself to be rural punk rock as opposed to redneck.

I like rural punk rock. Now I love rock of all eras.

I grew up in Texas.
You are either a hippy, sandal wearing communist (had a few "friends" there back in those days), a mexican (notice deliberate use of lower case, meaning no connection to Mexico proper - I had many "friends" there as well, still do, even married one once) or a redneck, which generally means a cowboy (guilty - roped and branded cattle when I was young, tried to "herd them"  at times - that is more difficult than it sounds) goat roper (we never rope goats - they are smart enough to take voice commands) pig scalder (Yes, after hunanely dispatching "Porky's life" and removing the entrails you threw the pig of the month into a vat of boiling water for about three minutes to make it easier to shave/scrape all the fur off).

So, yeah, I still claim my status as a redneck, cowboy, goat roper, pig scalder, Texacan, pepper eatin' gun totin' (never really yodeled, but I can call coyotes to within range) dove hunting, disobedient, flag waving, red blooded ...

I could go on a bit, but the point is made.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on July 26, 2018, 07:39:31 PM

My truck only aspires to be a big truck, although it can drink like one some days.

Something about the smell of that wintergreen tobacco that's popular around here I've never got used to. :P

No banjos, although there's always hope...used to play the viola (classical)...eons ago.

Never been to a hoedown, but I did make the Fayette County Fair for "Cigarette" (The Clarks).

1 tattoo...it was a girl's night out dare...I treasure the memory, no regrets. 1 of us got a honey bee, another decided on a butterfly, and the other choose a black widow spider.

The personal armory is well-stocked.

 
I also grow produce in a small rural yard...and the neighbors down the road (and up) both have chickens (free range).


Raised in a snobby section of NY, married/divorced/re-adopted into a whole family of rednecks. Wouldn't change it for the world.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 26, 2018, 09:23:59 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 26, 2018, 07:39:31 PM

My truck only aspires to be a big truck, although it can drink like one some days.

Something about the smell of that wintergreen tobacco that's popular around here I've never got used to. :P

No banjos, although there's always hope...used to play the viola (classical)...eons ago.

Never been to a hoedown, but I did make the Fayette County Fair for "Cigarette" (The Clarks).

1 tattoo...it was a girl's night out dare...I treasure the memory, no regrets. 1 of us got a honey bee, another decided on a butterfly, and the other choose a black widow spider.

The personal armory is well-stocked.

 
I also grow produce in a small rural yard...and the neighbors down the road (and up) both have chickens (free range).


Raised in a snobby section of NY, married/divorced/re-adopted into a whole family of rednecks. Wouldn't change it for the world.

All that is well and good and I can applaud most of what you typed, BUT   ---  you described all your girl friends dare tats, BUT NOT YOURS!!! :-\

Inquiring minds and all.
 :eyelash:
 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on July 26, 2018, 10:00:13 PM

What's that show where they try to "fix" really bad tattoos by incorporating them into a better tattoo?

I only watched it the once. This tall, masculine looking dude with a deep voice walks in and shows them his tattoo. They said "what are you doing with a tramp stamp?". And he said "I used to be a chick!".

I wanna be a redneck too. When I (briefly) lived in the US it seemed like the rednecks were having by far the most fun. We even went camping one time and there were lesbian rednecks staying in the next tent.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 26, 2018, 10:54:58 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on July 26, 2018, 09:23:59 PM

All that is well and good and I can applaud most of what you typed, BUT   ---  you described all your girl friends dare tats, BUT NOT YOURS!!! :-\

Inquiring minds and all.
 :eyelash:

Are you sure?  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 27, 2018, 04:48:58 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on July 26, 2018, 10:54:58 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on July 26, 2018, 09:23:59 PM

All that is well and good and I can applaud most of what you typed, BUT   ---  you described all your girl friends dare tats, BUT NOT YOURS!!! :-\

Inquiring minds and all.
 :eyelash:

Are you sure?  :zoinks:

No, maybe hers was mentioned and did not catch it in her typing.

... or am I sure that I want to know?

Hell yeah!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 27, 2018, 06:15:42 AM

Something good...
I received my software testing certificate in the mail today. It was a bit damp and bent but I aired it and put it in my certificate book so it's flat now. It's a pretty fancy certificate, I'm happy with it. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on July 27, 2018, 06:30:01 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 26, 2018, 07:08:05 AM

Well at least this "stupid" redneck knows how to use spellcheck.

 :razz:

Mostly type short replies on my mobile. No spellcheck there and I am in a hurry when I post from my mobile. Not that it bothers me either way. I am Dyslexic and if I make errors, I am unlikely to see them in the first place. So Why would I care if I make spelling errors?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on July 27, 2018, 08:19:37 AM

Got a commendation today and a lot of fuss was made.
I had not realised that the "client" was the area manager a couple of nights ago and represents the head of the biggest dealer group that deals with the new platform, when I helped him out a couple of nights ago. Everyone is kind of scrambling because the project was rushed through without training support or networks or processes in place.
I like the platform and get it and most don't.

It was nice.

However I know too that it is one of two platforms I will be concentrating on going forward and I REALLY don't get the other one.
I am also outpacing most people on my knowledge on the platform but in time that gap will decrease.
I am probably well placed to capitalise on this but have not the social capacity to do anything with this.
I also have set a higher expectation on performance now
There is a colleague who is also about my knowledge and experience and she is competing against me for attention and I think her nose is a little out of joint I got the recognition because she has been putting in a lot of work and not getting much attention for it.

So it was good but not the be all and end all

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on July 27, 2018, 10:23:57 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on July 26, 2018, 09:23:59 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 26, 2018, 07:39:31 PM

My truck only aspires to be a big truck, although it can drink like one some days.

Something about the smell of that wintergreen tobacco that's popular around here I've never got used to. :P

No banjos, although there's always hope...used to play the viola (classical)...eons ago.

Never been to a hoedown, but I did make the Fayette County Fair for "Cigarette" (The Clarks).

1 tattoo...it was a girl's night out dare...I treasure the memory, no regrets. 1 of us got a honey bee, another decided on a butterfly, and the other choose a black widow spider.

The personal armory is well-stocked.

 
I also grow produce in a small rural yard...and the neighbors down the road (and up) both have chickens (free range).


Raised in a snobby section of NY, married/divorced/re-adopted into a whole family of rednecks. Wouldn't change it for the world.

All that is well and good and I can applaud most of what you typed, BUT   ---  you described all your girl friends dare tats, BUT NOT YOURS!!! :-\

Inquiring minds and all.
 :eyelash:

There were only the three of us...and I've never been the normal one.  ;)
 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 27, 2018, 11:30:08 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 27, 2018, 10:23:57 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on July 26, 2018, 09:23:59 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 26, 2018, 07:39:31 PM

My truck only aspires to be a big truck, although it can drink like one some days.

Something about the smell of that wintergreen tobacco that's popular around here I've never got used to. :P

No banjos, although there's always hope...used to play the viola (classical)...eons ago.

Never been to a hoedown, but I did make the Fayette County Fair for "Cigarette" (The Clarks).

1 tattoo...it was a girl's night out dare...I treasure the memory, no regrets. 1 of us got a honey bee, another decided on a butterfly, and the other choose a black widow spider.

The personal armory is well-stocked.

 
I also grow produce in a small rural yard...and the neighbors down the road (and up) both have chickens (free range).


Raised in a snobby section of NY, married/divorced/re-adopted into a whole family of rednecks. Wouldn't change it for the world.

All that is well and good and I can applaud most of what you typed, BUT   ---  you described all your girl friends dare tats, BUT NOT YOURS!!! :-\

Inquiring minds and all.
 :eyelash:

There were only the three of us...and I've never been the normal one.  ;)
 

Did the others face their fears in the tattoos too?  :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 27, 2018, 11:36:57 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 27, 2018, 10:23:57 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on July 26, 2018, 09:23:59 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 26, 2018, 07:39:31 PM

My truck only aspires to be a big truck, although it can drink like one some days.

Something about the smell of that wintergreen tobacco that's popular around here I've never got used to. :P

No banjos, although there's always hope...used to play the viola (classical)...eons ago.

Never been to a hoedown, but I did make the Fayette County Fair for "Cigarette" (The Clarks).

1 tattoo...it was a girl's night out dare...I treasure the memory, no regrets. 1 of us got a honey bee, another decided on a butterfly, and the other choose a black widow spider.

The personal armory is well-stocked.

 
I also grow produce in a small rural yard...and the neighbors down the road (and up) both have chickens (free range).


Raised in a snobby section of NY, married/divorced/re-adopted into a whole family of rednecks. Wouldn't change it for the world.

All that is well and good and I can applaud most of what you typed, BUT   ---  you described all your girl friends dare tats, BUT NOT YOURS!!! :-\

Inquiring minds and all.
 :eyelash:

There were only the three of us...and I've never been the normal one.  ;)
 

See, I am still not getting it. Was yours the bee, the butterfly or the spider?  We  HAVE to know!!!
 :popcorn:










You know I am just playing. I really do not care unless you are going to show me, then I really, really, really do not care. I just wanna see!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on July 27, 2018, 11:54:20 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 27, 2018, 11:30:08 AM

Did the others face their fears in the tattoos too?  :headbang2:

Just me. I've never been a fan of spiders, but that, and forcing myself to read more about them, watch them in the garden, helped a great deal.

Now if I could only talk my BIL into getting a tattoo of a snake... :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 27, 2018, 12:14:21 PM

I have had the thought that a man should have a snake tat and a woman should have a mongoose tat.

Seems fitting.  Mongoose almost always captures the snake.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 27, 2018, 04:48:51 PM

Good view of the lunar eclipse. Nice spot outside the village. No people, just kid and me. Some very nice shooting stars too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 27, 2018, 05:01:12 PM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 27, 2018, 04:48:51 PM

Good view of the lunar eclipse. Nice spot outside the village. No people, just kid and me. Some very nice shooting stars too.

As far as I have found, those of us in the "Western Hemisphere"  are not so privileged as to have an opportunity to witness the longest lasting lunar eclipse of the century.

Have fun and maybe light a candle for us poor souls in the Western Hemisphere.

I am glad I am not the only one who looks up and wonders why we do so.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 27, 2018, 05:08:23 PM

It was an awesome sight and we took our time watching it. First full eclipse for my 17 year old. The chances before there was no clear sky. Conditions now were perfect.

Cats and bats on our walk back home.

Life is good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 27, 2018, 05:23:24 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on July 27, 2018, 05:01:12 PM

I am glad I am not the only one who looks up and wonders why we do so.

It's a pity that you couldn't see it. Here we could see the last half of the eclipse. The moon rose red.

I've been looking up as long as I can remember. With my dad, or on my own when I couldn't sleep as a kid. I had the luck to grow up in a place where the nights were still really dark. No curtains, I could see stars from my bed. But for the best view I had to get up and go to the other side of the house.

I wonder if people nowadays look up less because it's hard to find a dark space.

When I was a teen I had friends who would look up too. I've been stargazing with my kids from a young age on.
Today we walked to find the best place to watch the moon. We encountered quite a few people. But none of them looked up.

Why we look up doesn't puzzle me. Why people don't look up, that amazes me. And I think it's kinda sad.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 27, 2018, 05:59:51 PM

An excellent point!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on July 27, 2018, 08:16:10 PM

I picked up a very strong indication that IceQueen's tattoo was the black widow spider.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 27, 2018, 11:27:44 PM

Was able to see some of the lunar eclipse. Awesome!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on July 28, 2018, 09:08:16 AM

No eclipse for us here.  :(

The sunset wasn't bad though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on July 28, 2018, 10:52:08 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 27, 2018, 05:23:24 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on July 27, 2018, 05:01:12 PM

I am glad I am not the only one who looks up and wonders why we do so.

It's a pity that you couldn't see it. Here we could see the last half of the eclipse. The moon rose red.

I've been looking up as long as I can remember. With my dad, or on my own when I couldn't sleep as a kid. I had the luck to grow up in a place where the nights were still really dark. No curtains, I could see stars from my bed. But for the best view I had to get up and go to the other side of the house.

I wonder if people nowadays look up less because it's hard to find a dark space.

When I was a teen I had friends who would look up too. I've been stargazing with my kids from a young age on.
Today we walked to find the best place to watch the moon. We encountered quite a few people. But none of them looked up.

Why we look up doesn't puzzle me. Why people don't look up, that amazes me. And I think it's kinda sad.

Do you mean stargazing or looking up by itself? I look up a lot. It’s handy I guess, once I saw this gull crapping from above and I got out of the way just in time and it crapped on someone else instead. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 28, 2018, 10:59:10 AM

Probably look up more than I realize. Mom has always found it hilarious when I recall places by describing the ceiling. Even as a kid couldn't understand why that's funny. Some places have very interesting ceilings.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on July 28, 2018, 11:12:47 AM

Quote from: Jack on July 28, 2018, 10:59:10 AM

Probably look up more than I realize. Mom has always found it hilarious when I recall places by describing the ceiling. Even as a kid couldn't understand why that's funny. Some places have very interesting ceilings.

I probably know every ceiling flaw in a 10 mile radius.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on July 28, 2018, 11:29:54 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 28, 2018, 11:12:47 AM

Quote from: Jack on July 28, 2018, 10:59:10 AM

Probably look up more than I realize. Mom has always found it hilarious when I recall places by describing the ceiling. Even as a kid couldn't understand why that's funny. Some places have very interesting ceilings.

I probably know every ceiling flaw in a 10 mile radius.  :laugh:

I notice in places like Starbucks and some restaurant chains their ceilings are usually very industrial and awful looking. A lot of places have rubbish ceilings that they don’t bother paying attention to. Like big pipes going across them. I don’t get why they make everything else look nice but pay no attention to their ceilings.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 28, 2018, 03:42:59 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 28, 2018, 11:12:47 AM

Quote from: Jack on July 28, 2018, 10:59:10 AM

Probably look up more than I realize. Mom has always found it hilarious when I recall places by describing the ceiling. Even as a kid couldn't understand why that's funny. Some places have very interesting ceilings.

I probably know every ceiling flaw in a 10 mile radius.  :laugh:

:laugh:

Quote from: givvassapaand on July 28, 2018, 11:29:54 AM

I notice in places like Starbucks and some restaurant chains their ceilings are usually very industrial and awful looking. A lot of places have rubbish ceilings that they don’t bother paying attention to. Like big pipes going across them. I don’t get why they make everything else look nice but pay no attention to their ceilings.

Personally like that aesthetic. If ever having the opportunity to build dream home, it will have no ceiling with exposed conduit and ductwork.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 28, 2018, 03:53:53 PM

I'm thinking about all yalls meat spaces.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on July 28, 2018, 04:24:13 PM

Quote from: Jack on July 28, 2018, 03:42:59 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 28, 2018, 11:12:47 AM

Quote from: Jack on July 28, 2018, 10:59:10 AM

Probably look up more than I realize. Mom has always found it hilarious when I recall places by describing the ceiling. Even as a kid couldn't understand why that's funny. Some places have very interesting ceilings.

I probably know every ceiling flaw in a 10 mile radius.  :laugh:

:laugh:

Quote from: givvassapaand on July 28, 2018, 11:29:54 AM

I notice in places like Starbucks and some restaurant chains their ceilings are usually very industrial and awful looking. A lot of places have rubbish ceilings that they don’t bother paying attention to. Like big pipes going across them. I don’t get why they make everything else look nice but pay no attention to their ceilings.

Personally like that aesthetic. If ever having the opportunity to build dream home, it will have no ceiling with exposed conduit and ductwork.

Sorry, did I read that wrong, or did you contradict yourself?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on July 28, 2018, 04:26:23 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 28, 2018, 03:53:53 PM

I'm thinking about all yalls meat spaces.  :zoinks:

 :gopher: :litigious: Rodent!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 28, 2018, 04:33:50 PM

Quote from: givvassapaand on July 28, 2018, 04:24:13 PM

did you contradict yourself?

Don't believe so, no.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on July 28, 2018, 04:50:02 PM

I like both looking up and down. I like to see interesting details, patterns and structures.

When done right visible wiring and plumbing can be really cool to look at. Can look like crap too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on July 28, 2018, 06:03:20 PM

Quote from: Jack on July 28, 2018, 03:42:59 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 28, 2018, 11:12:47 AM

Quote from: Jack on July 28, 2018, 10:59:10 AM

Probably look up more than I realize. Mom has always found it hilarious when I recall places by describing the ceiling. Even as a kid couldn't understand why that's funny. Some places have very interesting ceilings.

I probably know every ceiling flaw in a 10 mile radius.  :laugh:

:laugh:

Quote from: givvassapaand on July 28, 2018, 11:29:54 AM

I notice in places like Starbucks and some restaurant chains their ceilings are usually very industrial and awful looking. A lot of places have rubbish ceilings that they don’t bother paying attention to. Like big pipes going across them. I don’t get why they make everything else look nice but pay no attention to their ceilings.

Personally like that aesthetic. If ever having the opportunity to build dream home, it will have no ceiling with exposed conduit and ductwork.

The industrial look.

I like it too when the joists and exposed floorboards are painted and the plumbing and wires are neatly spaced and lined up. I think it can make an area look a lot bigger if it's done right.

Wouldn't mind it in the downstairs here instead of the fugly drop ceiling. But there is a ton of insulation between the joists, and I really need that for sound and warmth.

(https://i.imgur.com/jVcZ3SF.jpg)

 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 28, 2018, 07:38:10 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on July 28, 2018, 06:03:20 PM

I like it too when the joists and exposed floorboards are painted and the plumbing and wires are neatly spaced and lined up. I think it can make an area look a lot bigger if it's done right.

It doesn't even have to be neat to look good. Have been in a couple of places where everything overhead was painted out white so it all blended together. Have been obsessed with raw concrete structures for a few years; the exposed infrastructure is a good look in combination with that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 05, 2018, 07:34:35 PM

Quote from: 'andersom' on July 28, 2018, 04:50:02 PM

I like both looking up and down. I like to see interesting details, patterns and structures.

When done right visible wiring and plumbing can be really cool to look at. Can look like crap too.

Says the amazing gal who employs an upside down Jersey as an avatar.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 05, 2018, 08:49:28 PM

I've always had a liking for oxidized lead, or thallium, the take on a dark, lead-ish (for want of a better term) hue, that really is quite attractive, once it has had time to oxidize and form a surface layer, rather than look like shiny, freshly cast  metal. That dark color and soft texture combined, there is just something nice about it, despite the toxicity. The way old lead bends like wire, so soft, almost like cutting sodium with a knife, and that dark, almost  decaying hue, its great looking despite the toxicity of either lead or thallium.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 12, 2018, 08:52:59 PM

Just  had one of my Claisen adapters (basically a bend with two female joints pointing upwards and one male joint, essentially turns a single necked flask into a two necked flask,) get blocked by a plug of NaOH I just can't get out. Thought I was screwed, but managed to find another claisen head in the lab after searching all the big boxes and crates of glassware I have around in -places where the lab hasn't the space for them until they are needed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 12, 2018, 10:10:54 PM

Looks like my ammonium formate is done, now I just need to boil down the solution to get the solid weighable ammonium formate. Once that is done, I'll weigh my ketone, work out the stoichiometry for reaction of the ketoxime (from the ketone, hydroxylamine and a base) and finally, reduce the ketoxime to the amine with zinc dust/ammonium formate, a process said to take just 6 minutes.

Nice, I hope they are right, because I've been working on this 'phet for two days, days that proved stressful and generally nasty. But, I'm nearly there. Started with 20g P2NP, haven't weighed the phenylacetone/P2P or its oxime yet. Still got to make the oxime. Perhaps I can do both at once, boil down the formate solution  and prepare the oxime from the ketone.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on August 12, 2018, 10:16:09 PM

The stirplate I was using earlier that shocked me, it's stopped zapping me if touched. Time to boil down that formate.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on September 04, 2018, 06:54:05 AM

I won division 7 in Oz Lotto not once, not twice, but three times! $50 in total :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on September 04, 2018, 12:33:12 PM

My uncle, who I've not seen in a while, brought my old man some supplies since he couldn't go out to do it himself, he can't drive with his foot in the orthotic boot he uses to keep his achilles tendon in line with the snapped bit so it'll heal eventually. (although tendons  only have at most about 1 to 3x the blood supply of muscle and skin tissues). He brought an apple with him that had literally fallen straight off his tree, my old man wasn't going to eat it, so left it for me, which I'm rather pleased about, because I couldn't help but quietly look at it and think 'that looks REALLY tasty....'

Said he'd bring me some more if he remembers the next time he comes, which again I'll appreciate. Just eating it now and its crunchy and jucier and sweeter and tangier than any from the shops. Literally must be at the perfect time of ripeness as it just dropped off the tree.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 08, 2018, 08:05:59 AM

Quite randomly, on my way back from picking some prescriptions  up from the pharmacy in the local village (there are nearer ones, but the rest open at 9am at the earliest, this one is both a late night and early morning place, which opens at 8am, same  as  the clinic I'd  go to to pick the prescription forms themselves up, so it makes sense to set out just before 8am, to time  my arrival to when the surgery opens, pick them up and carry on to the early/late pharmacy) ended up with, free, half a joint. Had asked for a spare smoke, and assumed what I was given, was a rollup.

It wasn't. I thought, before lighting it, that I  could smell a funny odour (with it in my trouser pocket at the time),  that wasn't from any of the flasks of  chemicals in the  kitchen, that have had to have a home where  there was no room in the  lab, but, seeing as I  hadn't a lighter or matches while I was out, and it was windy anyway, I'd had to wait until I was home for a quick morning smoke.  Lit it, and found out it was no rollup, but a doobie instead!.

A most pleasant surprise, especially after walking several miles there and back in the cold and  the wind, and while I usually use an e-cig, it doesn't hit the same spot so to speak, with nicotine alone  as the active constituent of the liquid (I.e not counting propylene glycol, flavouring, any colourings in the flavouring and other minor ingredients  in them), as tobacco does, although I've cut down an awful lot compared to what I used to smoke. I still appreciate a cigar in the morning with my first morphine shot.  Something about the pair really goes together like golden syrup on top of hot porridge, or lemon balm as a strong, hot  decoction, still steaming, when making a cup of  lady grey tea, or white teas, used  instead of water. They just 'work' if that makes sense.

But  a joint, even better, by a  long way!. And a  joint when you think you are going  to be having an ordinary rollup? better  still :autism:

That put quite a smile on my face. A very nice surprise indeed, all the more so for  my not expecting it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on October 25, 2018, 04:29:43 AM

The dealership said they will replace my car's water pump AND A/C blower motor :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on October 25, 2018, 06:49:07 AM

 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on October 25, 2018, 08:43:02 AM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on October 25, 2018, 04:29:43 AM

The dealership said they will replace my car's water pump AND A/C blower motor :asthing:

How did you get the car to the dealership??

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on October 25, 2018, 03:42:37 PM

A sausage sandwich is happening.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 25, 2018, 08:57:13 PM

Marked down groceries.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on October 25, 2018, 10:16:19 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on September 04, 2018, 06:54:05 AM

I won division 7 in Oz Lotto not once, not twice, but three times! $50 in total :viking:

Well done. I won less than 10 bucks and reinvested it in Powerball (8 games for $9.60) and completely forgot about it. Then got an email this morning telling me I'd won about $70, division 6.

Of course it's been reinvested into my early retirement and endless holiday plan.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on October 26, 2018, 06:32:40 AM

Quote from: Teh Ducks! on October 25, 2018, 08:43:02 AM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on October 25, 2018, 04:29:43 AM

The dealership said they will replace my car's water pump AND A/C blower motor :asthing:

How did you get the car to the dealership??

 :dunno: Drove. Still isn't leaking coolant yet. But it went really well on the highway anyway. Must be the air velocity at 110km/hr working to keep it cool.
Gotta do it again to get down there on the 5th for the actual repairs but it'll be fine I reckon, I'm confident.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on October 26, 2018, 03:02:55 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on October 26, 2018, 06:32:40 AM

Still isn't leaking coolant yet. But it went really well on the highway anyway. Must be the air velocity at 110km/hr working to keep it cool.

When I was working with Alan Johnson, we did some support work with several World of Outlaws Sprint Car racers. Many of them didn't run water pumps in their cars and relied on natural heat convection to circulate water in the engine. Of course they ran their engines on alcohol which burns much cooler than gasoline so you could make 850 HP and still not overheat.

Quote

Gotta do it again to get down there on the 5th for the actual repairs but it'll be fine I reckon, I'm confident.

I hope so too, good luck, keep your fingers crossed!!   :crossed:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 26, 2018, 07:50:04 PM

A wee bit more house clearing and 2 loads of laundry washed, one dried.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on November 10, 2018, 05:48:35 PM

SO found a parts car for $100 to scavenge for the bug. It's a few years older so not everything is the same, but still a lot I can pull and recoup the $100++ with the rest.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 10, 2018, 06:14:55 PM

The iron level in my blood was high enough for me to donate blood today.  I hadn't been able to donate for the past year.  Don't know why it was low in the past.  But all is good now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 11, 2018, 04:21:34 PM

Pancakes at the diner

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 11, 2018, 05:42:35 PM

Quote from: Parts on November 11, 2018, 04:21:34 PM

Pancakes at the diner

Pancakes is gooooood.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 12, 2018, 01:05:42 AM

Coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on November 12, 2018, 06:29:07 PM

Tracking progress. My package has finally cleared customs and is in route to my destination. :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 13, 2018, 08:50:45 PM

Finally found some materials I need for a job without having to special order a pallet of it when all I need is a few pieces

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 14, 2018, 12:55:51 AM

My book arrived in the mail.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 14, 2018, 12:05:05 PM

^One of the books I ordered arrived yesterday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on November 17, 2018, 09:24:50 AM

Coffee...and the snow is melting.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 17, 2018, 11:41:01 PM

  I washed dishes at work and unknowingly broke a saucer when I lowered a stack of dishes into the sink
   to pre-soak.  I put my hands in that sink, blindly, unable to see through the greasy suds, dozens of times,
   to take stuff out, finally finding the shards of the saucer after the sink was drained.  I could easily have
   cut the hell out of my hands and had a bloody mess to deal with, not to mention an OCD freakout ...


   ... but, I didn't.  It was extraordinarily lucky.   :worship:  :heisenberg: 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on November 22, 2018, 08:50:52 PM

Got to go climbing today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 23, 2018, 01:09:37 PM

No work tomorrow. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 23, 2018, 06:24:55 PM

Finished work on both houses I was working on today

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 24, 2018, 01:01:42 PM

Got a small band saw as a bonus from a house I was working on

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 26, 2018, 04:56:01 AM

I will be connected to high speed NBN internet soon! Aussie Broadband lifted their stop-sell and started processing my order today :hyke:

And mum called tonight to tell me that she's contemplating moving to Bundy to look after my nan. If she goes I'm sure as hell not staying in town. Freedom!!
Where should I move to? :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on November 26, 2018, 09:46:00 AM

I got my deck furniture secured and tarped over and battened down for the winter. I used my grille one last time just before the rain started (been smoking meat for two days, actually) and smoked a lot of meat. Now it is clean, oiled up and covered for the winter.

My massive wood pile is still partly uncovered, though. Most of it is tarped over with stakes going into the ground through the grommets.

My wife has re-arranged the flow of the kitchen and I put up shelves to support her efforts.

Great day!  Time for some rest.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on November 26, 2018, 09:47:19 AM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on November 26, 2018, 04:56:01 AM

I will be connected to high speed NBN internet soon! Aussie Broadband lifted their stop-sell and started processing my order today :hyke:

And mum called tonight to tell me that she's contemplating moving to Bundy to look after my nan. If she goes I'm sure as hell not staying in town. Freedom!!
Where should I move to? :orly:

The beach or at least some place close to water.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on November 26, 2018, 05:09:54 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on November 26, 2018, 04:56:01 AM

If she goes I'm sure as hell not staying in town. Freedom!!
Where should I move to? :orly:

Central Oregon.   :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on November 26, 2018, 05:25:14 PM

Bundy is close to water and pretty warm all year 'round.

I have to live in a city because of work. If I had enough to retire now and I could choose somewhere in Australia to live it would be either the South Coast of NSW (somewhere like Batemans Bay or Merimbula) or the north coast of NSW (somewhere near Forster, or Coffs Harbour, or similar). Clean, kinda reminiscent of how I imagine Australia was like when I was a kid.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on November 27, 2018, 01:46:39 AM

I just had my way pointed, quite by chance, while I was just generally reading and soaking up chemistry-oriented information, being a typical spazz and indulging one of my speshul interests, towards what from the title, I'm just about to begin reading it, looks to be a VERY interesting paper indeed.

Specifically, it's about a precious metal type reduction catalyst that is derived from a divalent ruthenium-organic complex.
For performing catalytic reduction of ketones and imines. The really interesting bit, that's nothing new in and of itself, reduction of either ketones or imines, but this catalyst is chiral, and it can be prepared as one or other isomer, rather than a racemic mixture, and in the case of the chirally resolved catalyst, it is capable of enantioselective reduction of chiral ketones and imines to give one or other sought isomer!

Thats fucking golden. Ruthenium ain't cheap, but it's one  of the less expensive platinum group metals, AFAIK something like 1/5th the price of palladium. And such catalysts are reusable, so are always recovered and recycled.

I think this warrants a lot more study...oh yes, does this  ever!


Edit--OOOOOOoohhhh....asymmetric catalytic transfer hydrogenation! oh shit yes..

This I have to try out.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/tcr.201600084

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on November 27, 2018, 09:40:42 AM

Quote from: Teh Ducks! on November 26, 2018, 05:09:54 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on November 26, 2018, 04:56:01 AM

If she goes I'm sure as hell not staying in town. Freedom!!
Where should I move to? :orly:

Central Oregon.   :zoinks:

Horny bastard!

I know you want to, but you can't have ALL the women.
 :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 27, 2018, 07:52:46 PM

Charlotte, you should move to the West. ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 03, 2018, 01:40:14 PM

Sitting back, after a couple of lines of oxycodone (40mg total), an energy drink of some unheard of brand, that was discounted to 25p a can, but tastes exactly like red bull, bought the lot, as they were so cheap, plus the relaxing effects of my antiseizure med, sprawled over the comfy leather couch, watching star trek-enterprise and sucking back a nice chily bottle of peroni (a rather pricy lager, but with, to my tastes, an excellent flavour, and just popping back to grab another bottle from the fridge and either a few bags of various candies, or maybe a tub of honeycomb ice cream, a double raspberry or almond magnum ice cream (although I have to wrap the plastic round that wooden handle they have as the touch is a textural sensory abomination, that crawls right through my teeth and claws behind my eyeballs...ugh)

Or else an ice pop, I've got orange, cola and bubblegum flavour. I think I might just start with a bubblegum one, another cheapo red bull knockoff, and one of the 30-pack of cans of coke I got discount from a local corner shop, who, as I'd bought a lot of food and drink and condiments such as honey, marmalade, nutella and brown sugar with which to top my morning bowl of porridge, over 100 quid worth of nosh, sweets, beer, coke, knockoff energy drinks, ice creams, ice lollies, cakes and cigars, they saw I was walking still using a crutch, and with heavy bags of shopping, the lady at the counter told her other half to give me a ride home for free in his truck with the shopping so I'd not be weighed down and struggle to drag it all back, with the likes of heavy cans of rice pudding, glass jars, beers and loads of coke, etc.

Even volunteered to take me right to my doorstep, and pretty much insisted on grabbing most of my shopping bags and taking them into the house for me, after packing them for me at the counter of the shop, again on their insistance, before she sent her other half with his truck, to stick my stuff in the boot, and then the free ride straight my place.

Really kind of them, and saved me a lot of heavy lifting. Not a really far walk, but the weight of the items could bust the bags, I'd two strong ones of my own with me but the other merchandise had to go in the ones they use, that are thinner, and can break in the time it takes.

As it was, I only had to lift anything from the shop's door to the owner's husband's truck boot, hop in, and then take it from my porch to the kitchen to get the frozen stuff into the freezer and the beer and coke etc. to the fridge.

Not, as said, a long distance walk by any means, even with my leg as it is, although it is recovering well, using only one crutch and only when going out, now, if I expect to require support of weight, but with 6 or 7 bags full of bottles, tins, cans and other bits and pieces, still a considerable trek as it ends up, due to the weight of about 150 quid worth of food, drink, candy, and both a four-pack of peroni and a six pack of budweiser, bottled, not canned. The bud is just average, but cheaper, the peroni is the icing on the cake, since I like it so much compared to other lagers. Nice and frosty from the fridge, just perfect to flop onto the couch in a warm lounge, watching enterprise, with a bit of oxy to pep things up and take the edge off the caffeine (I'm not a big fan of caffeine as stimulants go, I prefer more selective DARI (dopamine reuptake inhibitor) type stimulants, or triple reuptake inhibitors favouring primarily DAT blockade, then SERT inhibition or 5HT releaser effect, and low levels as possible of noradrenergic stimulation, which adds to jitteriness, and I block it with clonidine.

But, only other stimulant to be easily available without making a phonecall and having some coke mailed, would be amphetamine, methamphetamine, or N-ethylamphetamine, depending on which one might choose to be prepared from a single polyfunctional precursor plus various other techniques to reductively aminate it, or directly reduce the nitroalkene precursor to the primary, unfunctionalized amphetamine itself, in all cases bar one for sure, involving a biosynthetic route using Brebibacterium linens, derived from limburger stinky cheese and a bioreactor, that can produce enantiopure D-amphetamines from benzaldehydes at up to 10g/liter, as well as a chirally selective ruthenium based catalyst for reductive aminations, that  can produce, selectively either dextrorotatory (the desirable isomer of amphetamine) or laevorotarory enantiopure amphetamines in reductive amination of phenylacetone, the ketone produced by subjection of that nitropropene precursor, P2NP to an acidic dissolving iron reduction in either glacial acetic acid with added catalytic ferric chloride, or in concentrated refluxing hydrochloric acid, and then either formation of an imine and reduction with borohydride or cyanoborohydride, formed by reacting potassium cyanide with sodium borohydride IIRC, good for imine reductions to amines, This ruthenium catalyst would be tricksy to prepare, a complex molecule, but reusable, and just as well for ruthenium is a precious metal of the platinum group. But depending on the isomer of the chiral ruthenium catalyst used for catalytic hydrogenation reductions, will be very clean, selective, and able to provide enantioselective reductions that would far be superior to most reductions, other than perhaps the enzymatic reductive amination using Brevibacterium linens in a fermentation bioreactor.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 03, 2018, 03:41:49 PM

Got paid CASH

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 03, 2018, 04:11:34 PM

Quote from: Parts on December 03, 2018, 03:41:49 PM

Got paid CASH

 :party:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 03, 2018, 04:12:29 PM

shoved some things around in the dining room.  Found a large bag of dark clothes.  Winter here I come.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on December 03, 2018, 06:41:18 PM

My thyroid tumor is Non Cancerous

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on December 03, 2018, 06:58:43 PM

Quote from: Jesse on December 03, 2018, 06:41:18 PM

My thyroid tumor is Non Cancerous

:woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on December 03, 2018, 07:07:22 PM

Quote from: Parts on December 03, 2018, 03:41:49 PM

Got paid CASH

I could use some cash.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on December 03, 2018, 07:11:28 PM

Thank you Gopher Gary

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 03, 2018, 08:51:53 PM

Quote from: Jesse on December 03, 2018, 06:41:18 PM

My thyroid tumor is Non Cancerous

Excellent, Jesse. News I wanted to read. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 04, 2018, 02:58:29 AM

Got paid the every other fortnightly second lot of money, for my official govt. subsidy to make sure I keep sure to stay a proud Kanner's autie and do not slack off and fall from grace into the morass of the NT normie herd haha.

Helps pay the rent, helps buy food, helps buy chemicals and glassware I desire and need.

And, last but not least:

A Renster happened. Rensters are a most lovely species, both in mind and in physical beauty.

And our resident  member of the genus is a very foxy indeed example, with a delightful autie death-glare and arch-looking delivery of same over her custom lenses, which I might add, suit the I2 holotype of the species wonderfully. Bright, intelligent and overall, what we here, would call a jolly good egg all round (this idiom doesn't imply similarity to an egg shape, it simply means 'a damn good sort of person'). You might put yourself down as short and fat, but  to me Ren, you do NOT look fat hun. You have a body that in your posted pics, is most pleasing to look upon.

You could so  spike my pint with a handfull of roofies (you might want to ask rough sensitivity to strong and similar benzos like the nitrazepam I'm used to as I have a script for it so I could help advise you how strong a dose to sneakily hide in my pint of bitter) tie me up in a basement and molest me and I'd not go to the filth even if I was raped repeatedly, and even if I was a filthy little grassing snitch, which I am !!!NOT!!!.

Fat? bugger off wi'tha' young lady!

It's not often at all that you talk bollocks Ren, but there, I have actually seen you, talk complete and utter fucking shit in saying that of yourself. You are a good egg, but a GORGEOUS good egg too :) I'm somewhat surprised you don' t need to strap a combat shotgun to your back every time you go out just to fend off undesired advances who cannae' help but see that smile and find out it's attached to our favourite Renster, and think 'phwoar, damn, she could be my SISTER and I'd still fancy her!'

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 04, 2018, 05:57:13 AM

Something good that happened to me today... reading the above post. You certainly know how to cheer a girl up, Lestat. :)

Since you have a new phone with a camera, can we expect a few photos of you?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 04, 2018, 06:44:42 AM

This is bordering on "Bitchin' about things" in reality.
I took my daughter shopping at a Hobby Lobby store yesterday. The place was packed with older, heavily perfumed Christmas shoppers, but I made her a promise.
 :GA:

The good part is that it is DONE as I had promised her!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 04, 2018, 07:58:14 AM

Quote from: Jesse on December 03, 2018, 06:41:18 PM

My thyroid tumor is Non Cancerous

That's great news!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 04, 2018, 10:19:28 AM

Quote from: Jesse on December 03, 2018, 06:41:18 PM

My thyroid tumor is Non Cancerous

Great news. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 04, 2018, 11:01:48 AM

Well something good happened to me, too, then Ren. Finding out I put a smile on your face, put one on mine.

I've still got quite a bit of metadata-stripping from already taken pics to do, but sure, I can do some photo shots if you'd like me to?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on December 04, 2018, 12:50:09 PM

Thanks Renaeden, Odeon and  her majesty

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 04, 2018, 04:58:23 PM

I'm damn relieved myself, +'ed you when I read of it being benign. I hope I did, I certainly meant to.

As, I know there is a wide distance between the various members, but the core of us, there are people that if we lost them, due to death, it would be like a death in the family. People like your good self, Ren, CBC, Walkie, Al, Bastet/ducky, I'd be fucking gutted if such non-genetically related family died.

Essentially, sort of, I've got blood relatives, autie/aspie/Rett's speshul spazz family, plus a clandestine chemist set of brothers and sisters.

And it fucking blows to have it happen. I lost a bee sister dear to me, we were kind of..ahem...sweet on each other, lass from albania, real talented clandestine chemist, as well as a really, REALLY talented artist.

She took her own life earlier this year, after a lot of misery from some serious illness, she had this really idiosyncratic  way of talking, not sure if it is entirely due to her native linguistic differences, but came off as spazzy too somewhat, not sure if she was spesh, but she WAS special TO me, we'd corresponded a lot via PM in the forum we shared, and just days before she took her own life, my friend, clandestine chemist CLOSE family, not just a more distant brotherhood, of nevertheless respected colleagues in CC, this girl was different, oh man, even so affectionate towards me to call me 'daddy' at times, real sweet, smart girl.And days before one of  her normie blood family made a quick few posts on our board, to tell us that she had taken her own life,  she'd taken the time and effort to draw me, personally, a special artwork picture of the two of us, her, topless, me, same, and carrying pieces of glassware on our hands together.

To find  out she'd fucking died, quite honestly, broke my heart. I still miss her, and she won't ever bee forgotten. She was a bee, a fine bee, and a fine artist too, I'm honoured she and I shared close cells on the same honeycomb as we did. And  her parting gift...I'll never forget her. I just wish I could  have known, that I could have said something, talked her out of it, because she didn't let on at all beforehand.

When I read the arc-hives of  old posts and threads, every time I see her, and her idiosyncratic communication style, it brings it all back, like a punch in the stomach, knowing  I'll never hear from her again, never see another beautiful work of art drawn by her, or share behind the scenes close moments in PM, discussing the arts of the arcane, the verboten, like a pair of  bees coming together in the shadows to swap knowledge of the best ways to ensure nectar and pollen turns to honey.

Hell, she WAS a real honey herself, sweet girl, and yes, I'd have eaten her too.

('honey' among bees is a bit of a dialect-ism, meaning products sought for and realized from whatever things are required to create such sought after constructs, without a specific individual product being hard and fast as a definition)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 04, 2018, 07:50:22 PM

Quote from: Lestat on December 04, 2018, 11:01:48 AM

Well something good happened to me, too, then Ren. Finding out I put a smile on your face, put one on mine.

I've still got quite a bit of metadata-stripping from already taken pics to do, but sure, I can do some photo shots if you'd like me to?

For sure. There's not much of you in the threads. Last one was of your eyes looking surprised/shocked behind your mask.

I haven't known of anyone doing metadata stripping from pictures before.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on December 04, 2018, 08:34:10 PM

That's great news Jesse.

But please make sure that you get whatever treatment is needed on it. Even non-cancerous tumours can cause problems.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 04, 2018, 09:16:44 PM

Yeah, especially with glandular squelchy bits. Sometimes they can be nonmalignant and still secrete hormones inappropriately. Others don't, and are otherwise harmless when benign and not large. Apparently adrenal adenomas are pretty common, and often discovered by total chance, when non-malignant and not composed of secretory tissue releasing too much cortisol, or the horrid sounding phaeochromocytomas, which pour massive  amounts of adrenaline into one's system, turning people into strung out nervous (or aggressive when startled if already disposed to it in any degree potentially), heart-racing, trembling fucked up sleepless wrecks with blood pressure you could use to launch torpedoes with.

Goddamn, I'd hate to have a phaeochromocytoma.


And Ren-seriously?!?

You kidding me? damn hun...do you actually realize what many cameras and phones add in terms of exif data, and even GPS coordinates?

For me, that is WAY too intrusive to be permissible. Could literally, actually tie me to the region of meatspace the photos were taken, and if it were something sensitive, then lead people to my doorstep. I'm not having anybody, unofficial or worse, from some pack of porkers, or some gits with a three letter acryonym know where the pictures were taken, what they were taken with, when they were taken, the camera settings used, and getting my door booted in because of it.

It's basic OpSec, to scrub pictures for metadata. Plenty free tools to do so available online for different file formats, and for removing data like that embedded in .jpg, .gif, .pdf, and a host of other formats. It's not something useful to a lot of people to have in there, and IMO only detrimental to privacy
and to my ability to sleep soundly at daybreak when the sun comes up and I go to sofa. Err..well I'd have said 'bed' but...no, it's a sofa. With an eye-shade mask on over a dark clean T-shirt top that I stick my head in the reverse direction down inside it through the neck hole and then double it up, and pull down my sleep mask over the top, leaving my eyes/head wrapped up in nice darkness to sleep at day, with just my nose sticking out and my mouth.

As for metadata, free tools downloadable as well as hosted online that one can just use without DLing anything but the finished file, cleansed and assigned a temporary name until you see fit to rename it as  you want it, both for cleaning such filthy, squealing, nasty hidden mouths before they can shout into the ears of people that ought not to be hearing such information, and indeed to look through the metadata yourself, and even alter it to suit one's whims as per whatever purpose one may have to do such a thing.

I strip EVERYTHING I upload here, or on chem forums, or anywhere else, with the exception of pointing a forum to the likes of a snarky cat picture joke hosted elsewhere online. If I've taken it myself, I've burned the hidden data out of it first. I  have good reason to, as  well as liking my privacy to remain my own, and  for what I share, to be what I knowingly decide I am going to share, without anything hidden and giving out my home address for example.

And as a chemist, well, there are so many chemical reagents, that although not illegal to possess, the filth would LOVE  to know who DOES possess them. 2kg of red phosphorus? got that, just as  one example, well, minus the portions  I've used for any experiments or syntheses, but still plenty of it, AFAIK it isn't actually illegal to own red phosphorus, but it's very popular with the methamphetamine cook (and not chemist) crowd, who use it in the Nagai  reduction of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine to meth in conjunction with iodine in elemental form. I happen to have a  fair  size tub of iodine in the reagent fridge (it's fairly volatile so it gets to live in the chemical fridge so it doesn't go and sublime away, or  diffuse through the plastic of the container  it arrived in when purchased).

Doesn't mean I'm using that red phosphorus and that iodine to cook up loads of cold medicine extracts, but you bet, either one, although ESPECIALLY the phossy, would  get attention I don't want to lead back to my doorstep if someone were to decide to look and if there was GPS satellite tracking information encoded into a picture showing it. Because pork have a major hard-on for  red phosphorus just because of such things.

Not that it's the only way to make meth (not in a million years), or even to reduce pseudoephedrine or ephedrine to meth, but it is one way, using the Nagai reduction, and it's a well known route, known and loved by millions of  safety match book striker pad-hoarding-and-extracting tweakers in the US, probably plenty in the UK, aus, and all over the show.

And besides, it's a general principle, I do not wish my home address, marked down in GPS coordinates, to be tied in to online usernames, much less so my various reagents can be ogled by dumb bastards pointing and screaming 'HERESY! BURN THE WARLOCK!', from some inquisition type chemophobic tool.

And even if I weren't a chemist, why would I wish to allow the inclusion of such data as  could literally, put me in a given place at a given time performing a given action, of ANY kind? it's just not on, IMO. Tagging that sort of thing in to metadata. It makes me sick, the very principle of it is abhorrent to me. As it should be to all who care about their own personal right to decide who they tell what about themselves.

Metadata, all that exif tagging and with many models, especially phone cameras and newer digicams, it is monstrous, GPS, exif crap, oh hell no!

So, every picture or other file, is examined forensically, by me, before somebody less benign and less inclined to guard my privacy jealously, can have a forensics team do so. And scrubbed cleaner than the pope's own arse ring after a constipated rabbit dropping turd.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 05, 2018, 07:34:45 AM

Quote from: Jesse on December 03, 2018, 06:41:18 PM

My thyroid tumor is Non Cancerous

This is great news, pal!!

Keep your motor running!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 05, 2018, 08:01:11 AM

So taking my son on his shopping spree, my daughter wanted to tag along (this means that he will need to go again to shop for her - she has a birthday shortly as well as Christmas things to shop for) seemed OK at first.

BUT the fucking line to check out was a nightmare after we had already been there way too long. Both kids were DONE and DONE with all this shit. We were in line for over twenty five minutes.

The good out of all this is that I got a very heavily thought out compliment from a complete stranger.

The lady in front of us waited and asked me if she could talk to me for a minute. WTF!?! I have offended someone and now I have to be gracious to some bitch I do not even know or care about.  BUT NO!!  She apologized and said how she tries not to interfere (here we go - WTF is this?!?) but just had to tell me that she also raised two autistic children and felt the need compliment me on how I handled them each individually and I said the exact right thing to each one every time they showed how over stimmed they were.

My jaw just continued to drop. I always think of the best thing to say a few minutes later after it is too late. Compliments? Wow! I figured all these people just wanted to be away from us, but she was listening and also told me how she wished she could have handled her kids as well in public (a troubling challenge) as I had.

It was a very strange encounter. I tried to thank her for her kind words, but reminded her that I had to go. She concluded by telling me that hers were in their thirties, living alone and doing fine and mine will be even better off with a parent like me.

I tend to think that my kids are doing OK with learning to deal with public exposure, but this "experienced" lady recognized us right away.
I guess I have a great deal more work to do and maybe getting them out into the horrors of public might be something we should work on.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 05, 2018, 08:46:07 PM

Did you tell her you are a spazz and all?

Or introduce her to/press gang her into, I2?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 05, 2018, 09:27:22 PM

No, sorry. I am just enough of a spazz case to REALLY need to get away from that.

Sitting here comfortably with my tea, I can think about it.
 :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 05, 2018, 09:46:55 PM

Tea? I feel like having some now. Thanks DirtDawg! :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 05, 2018, 09:59:32 PM

 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 05, 2018, 10:43:32 PM

Coffee just happened. Saved my morning.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on December 06, 2018, 05:21:54 AM

My NBN connection was activated. I'm currently flying through cyberspace at 96 Mbps. God bless that node less than 100m away!

And I've finally got my hands on a full size spare wheel for my car. It will get couriered to me in the next few days.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 06, 2018, 06:28:39 AM

That's just as good as FTTP! That's what we have. Our wi-fi is excellent too, even through a brick wall and wooden door I still have great reception.

And good about your car wheel too. They really should come with the car.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 07, 2018, 07:23:30 AM

Apparently, after eight years of waiting since they buried this massive bundle of Optical data cable one block over, we will soon have a choice as to our fast internet company.

We have had some satellite service available for a number of years as a way to compete with Comcast, but it was one tenth the speed available from a hard cable connnection. Now we may be able to have 75MB/sec speeds available from another company.
I have not done a speed test lately, but I am sure my Comcast service is faster than that.

Kind of a toss up as to whether 75 or 100 is that different for non business use. I'll run a connection speed test in a bit and post the results.

I would kind of like to tell Comcast to fuck off and die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 07, 2018, 07:40:23 AM

Speed test from ATT.

Still thinking about switching from Comcast

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 07, 2018, 12:12:59 PM

We've got 250 Mbps, in theory. Probably not that fast in real life but very, very stable.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 07, 2018, 12:27:42 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 07, 2018, 12:12:59 PM

We've got 250 Mbps, in theory. Probably not that fast in real life but very, very stable.

At home that is great.

Ours has been very stable for about three years, but with ATT ripping through all the existing data cables, splicing in and so forth. Ours goes out every day for half an hour or so.
Not acceptable for a business, but who gives a fuck about residential service.

I hesitate to even to talk about the twelve T3 lines at BBY. With that system it is not so much about actual quantity of data that can stream both ways as it is interlacing thousands of connections at the same time without dropping one.

But, Yeah. They need to update a few things again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 07, 2018, 03:52:09 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on December 07, 2018, 12:27:42 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 07, 2018, 12:12:59 PM

We've got 250 Mbps, in theory. Probably not that fast in real life but very, very stable.

At home that is great.

Ours has been very stable for about three years, but with ATT ripping through all the existing data cables, splicing in and so forth. Ours goes out every day for half an hour or so.
Not acceptable for a business, but who gives a fuck about residential service.

I hesitate to even to talk about the twelve T3 lines at BBY. With that system it is not so much about actual quantity of data that can stream both ways as it is interlacing thousands of connections at the same time without dropping one.

But, Yeah. They need to update a few things again.

Thankfully nobody ever has to dig anywhere near the fibre - our house is a bit off and nothing is going on around it, no big building projects, nothing.

My Linksys main router seems to be the main cause of trouble, actually. It doesn't play along brilliantly with the TV or the Chromecast, so a reboot is needed every now and then. Some caching issue, I'd expect. Maybe it's time to look for new firmware again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 07, 2018, 04:28:49 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 07, 2018, 03:52:09 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on December 07, 2018, 12:27:42 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 07, 2018, 12:12:59 PM

We've got 250 Mbps, in theory. Probably not that fast in real life but very, very stable.

At home that is great.

Ours has been very stable for about three years, but with ATT ripping through all the existing data cables, splicing in and so forth. Ours goes out every day for half an hour or so.
Not acceptable for a business, but who gives a fuck about residential service.

I hesitate to even to talk about the twelve T3 lines at BBY. With that system it is not so much about actual quantity of data that can stream both ways as it is interlacing thousands of connections at the same time without dropping one.

But, Yeah. They need to update a few things again.

Thankfully nobody ever has to dig anywhere near the fibre - our house is a bit off and nothing is going on around it, no big building projects, nothing.

My Linksys main router seems to be the main cause of trouble, actually. It doesn't play along brilliantly with the TV or the Chromecast, so a reboot is needed every now and then. Some caching issue, I'd expect. Maybe it's time to look for new firmware again.

Last time I bought a router it was the best things since tits, the cat's meow, etc. One step down from the best you could get. I think I even posted pics, stupidly.

Now it is way outdated and it is really not that old (maybe I am just that old - as we both know, computer things are out of date before they hit the market) but for all the home wi-fi things that many use today, this one barely holds up. I only have the typical twelve or so in house, hand held devices and four shelf devices drawing through this thing, plus three lazy desk tops, and one security camera.
(GAWD, now that I addded up some of it, I really need to upgrade my wi-fi system, don't I?)

I am just not ready to spend a buttload of bucks on a new router and related system components. I have already got the most recent updates to the firmware, unless something newer just popped.

I have a standing rule - turn it off when you put it on charge. Keeps a bit of the bandwidth available, in my dreams.

There is a railroad track near the road (in fact the road splits to accommodate the train that used travel through the town) so the main stuff is about twenty feet down with an enormous "person" hole that accesses the data cables. Below that is a huge drainage/flood control "concrete river" that diverts all the local rain and snow melt to the big river which is about half a mile away.
So, hopefully, no more digging for a while.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 08, 2018, 03:57:43 AM

I don't think I need a new router just yet either. I put a lot of thought into this setup and want to keep it, if possible. But you're right, these things are old before they ever hit the market.

There's a network printer I'd like to replace first, a Canon MFP. There's nothing wrong with the printer itself but the drivers are something of a mess and Canon doesn't address the core issues when releasing new ones. I need to get a proper HP printer again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on December 09, 2018, 06:05:40 PM

this didn't happen today, but might be news worthy.

Yesterday a chicken died.

:/

It was sickly, injured or something. Poor chicken. Too cold to even bury it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on December 11, 2018, 03:50:23 PM

Donated a bunch of my dad's boat photos to a really cool older guy that ran a small museum about 5 years back...found more cleaning out the attic last week in prep for more insulation being put down.

I've been trying to gear myself up to toss the lot for 5 days but couldn't.

Guess who randomly appeared at my door this afternoon?

He's closing down the museum and wanted a photo of my  dad to go with the previous lot (Carnegie museum is taking his collection). He was more than happy to take the rest off of my hands.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on December 11, 2018, 05:38:21 PM

Well, what a convenient coincidence Icequeen!

I misread the topic title yesterday. A dead chicken was not a "good" thing, just a thing that happened. Oops.

Well today I whittled a wand for a friend. It's nice carving things.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 11, 2018, 09:11:56 PM

I have a bunch of WWII photos taken by PA's uncle while he was building the Alaskan highway.  They're the usual distance, slightly blurry photos of the time with no identification.I also have the war insurance policy issued by the government that my Grandma Teenie (the JayWalker) bought.  Hopefully the World War 2 Museum here will take them. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 14, 2018, 09:17:04 PM

I made contact with WolFish's spazz nephew. That didn't happen today, what happened today is I bought him a Steam gift certificate, because he is a gamer, and I do not think there is anybody else in his family who would understand.

No I haven't invited him here. Yes, I might at some point.   :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on December 14, 2018, 11:22:55 PM

Goodness with those 250 and 192mbps speeds. But Australia is considered a third world country when it comes to our telecommunications infrastructure.
Theoretically they say I could have speeds up to 132mbps on my line but the ISP isn't offering NBN150 plans yet (that's how it's gonna go, as each of the POI's around the country get upgraded/expanded, we'll gradually be able to sign up for faster and faster plans)

Mobile 5G will come out next year and be faster than the NBN by times eleventy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 15, 2018, 05:04:27 AM

Mobile 5G is more about stability and bandwidth, though. End users might not benefit much in the short term.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on December 15, 2018, 08:03:09 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 14, 2018, 09:17:04 PM

I made contact with WolFish's spazz nephew. That didn't happen today, what happened today is I bought him a Steam gift certificate, because he is a gamer, and I do not think there is anybody else in his family who would understand.

No I haven't invited him here. Yes, I might at some point.   :autism:

I've thought about inviting my son here but it's kind of hard for a 20 year old guy to make his own mark when his mother has spent the last decade in here referring to him as monkeyboy  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 15, 2018, 08:06:31 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on December 15, 2018, 08:03:09 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 14, 2018, 09:17:04 PM

I made contact with WolFish's spazz nephew. That didn't happen today, what happened today is I bought him a Steam gift certificate, because he is a gamer, and I do not think there is anybody else in his family who would understand.

No I haven't invited him here. Yes, I might at some point.   :autism:

I've thought about inviting my son here but it's kind of hard for a 20 year old guy to make his own mark when his mother has spent the last decade in here referring to him as monkeyboy  :laugh:

  Too old he is to begin the training.  :yoda:  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on December 15, 2018, 08:29:37 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on December 15, 2018, 08:06:31 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on December 15, 2018, 08:03:09 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 14, 2018, 09:17:04 PM

I made contact with WolFish's spazz nephew. That didn't happen today, what happened today is I bought him a Steam gift certificate, because he is a gamer, and I do not think there is anybody else in his family who would understand.

No I haven't invited him here. Yes, I might at some point.   :autism:

I've thought about inviting my son here but it's kind of hard for a 20 year old guy to make his own mark when his mother has spent the last decade in here referring to him as monkeyboy  :laugh:

  Too old he is to begin the training.  :yoda:  :P

 :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 15, 2018, 08:32:48 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on December 15, 2018, 08:03:09 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 14, 2018, 09:17:04 PM

I made contact with WolFish's spazz nephew. That didn't happen today, what happened today is I bought him a Steam gift certificate, because he is a gamer, and I do not think there is anybody else in his family who would understand.

No I haven't invited him here. Yes, I might at some point.   :autism:

I've thought about inviting my son here but it's kind of hard for a 20 year old guy to make his own mark when his mother has spent the last decade in here referring to him as monkeyboy  :laugh:

Be honest.  What you're really afraid of is all the embarrassing things he'll tell us about you

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 15, 2018, 09:43:04 AM

Aye, lol.

Possible social anxiety?

I think it'd be a good idea, to invite him miss K, he's your son, and I doubt he'll give a flying fuck about the title 'monkeyboy' online so as not to give his real name out. And I'm sure he'd love to see you, spend time with you for the first time in ages. As for making his own mark, a visit to see you, isn't going to trash his life. You aren't a monster who abuses their kids, you are a good person. And if it weren't for the fact that I find you drop dead gorgeous, I'd have loved to have you for a mother (as it is, it'd be rather fucked up having a mother you can't look at and not think 'damn what a stunner', that, that would be sick and wrong :autism:)

Because I know you'd have been a good mother. I know you ARE one. I don't have the slightest, tiniest bit of reservation as to that being the case.

Why not have him over for xmas. A few shots, few beers, wine, whatever you two favour personally each, loosen up any such anxiety, share a few joints if its your and his thing, nice xmas dinner, exchange gifts, you know the theme, needn't be full of people, just you and your spawn, making merry and having a good time, curl up by the fire, catch up on shit that's gone down of late.

Go for it, my dear miss K, I have a feeling you'd not regret it.

If you like, I could even send you something for anxiety, if social anxiety is really problematic for you, just so you could have and enjoy such an xmas family reunion with your most valued. Wouldn't charge, would do it just so your happiness is ensured, if social anxiety is an obstacle to your joy, at such an occasion.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on December 15, 2018, 11:22:55 AM

Quote from: Lestat on December 15, 2018, 09:43:04 AM

Aye, lol.

Possible social anxiety?

I think it'd be a good idea, to invite him miss K, he's your son, and I doubt he'll give a flying fuck about the title 'monkeyboy' online so as not to give his real name out. And I'm sure he'd love to see you, spend time with you for the first time in ages. As for making his own mark, a visit to see you, isn't going to trash his life. You aren't a monster who abuses their kids, you are a good person. And if it weren't for the fact that I find you drop dead gorgeous, I'd have loved to have you for a mother (as it is, it'd be rather fucked up having a mother you can't look at and not think 'damn what a stunner', that, that would be sick and wrong :autism:)

Because I know you'd have been a good mother. I know you ARE one. I don't have the slightest, tiniest bit of reservation as to that being the case.

Why not have him over for xmas. A few shots, few beers, wine, whatever you two favour personally each, loosen up any such anxiety, share a few joints if its your and his thing, nice xmas dinner, exchange gifts, you know the theme, needn't be full of people, just you and your spawn, making merry and having a good time, curl up by the fire, catch up on shit that's gone down of late.

Go for it, my dear miss K, I have a feeling you'd not regret it.

If you like, I could even send you something for anxiety, if social anxiety is really problematic for you, just so you could have and enjoy such an xmas family reunion with your most valued. Wouldn't charge, would do it just so your happiness is ensured, if social anxiety is an obstacle to your joy, at such an occasion.

I'm so confused. He lives with me. So we see each other every day and we're very close. No social anxiety or having been away from each other or broken relationship or anything like that.  ???

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 15, 2018, 01:51:19 PM

Oh, right. I thought he'd moved away to a home of his own elsewhere.

I didn't realize he and you live together. Lucky git that he is. I just thought the earlier posts sounded like he'd been away for some time, and that you missed him.

Broken relationship? I can no more see you being a bad mom, than I can see donald trump being a human being fit to shit in the same sewer as diseased medical waste ends up in. Or my getting bad yields on a microwave irradiation-driven amphetamine precursor synthesis, with my personal favourite catalyst blend.

It's like expecting hitler crawl out of the grave in order to attend a synagogue, expecting you to be a bad parent. Or asking bears to stop shitting in the woods.

Sorry, not gonna happen. You, miss K, are a good lass, that I know, I can tell, it just...well some people you can just KNOW. A cutie too ^_^

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 15, 2018, 02:51:09 PM

Phoenix - another thought on how to handle the "monkey boy" predicament.  Tell him the computer automatically corrected 'Tarzan' to "Monkey Boy."

(This post is not meant to be racist or demeaning in any way.  It's just a crappy joke.)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on December 15, 2018, 09:26:59 PM

Quote from: Lestat on December 15, 2018, 01:51:19 PM

Oh, right. I thought he'd moved away to a home of his own elsewhere.

I didn't realize he and you live together. Lucky git that he is. I just thought the earlier posts sounded like he'd been away for some time, and that you missed him.

Broken relationship? I can no more see you being a bad mom, than I can see donald trump being a human being fit to shit in the same sewer as diseased medical waste ends up in. Or my getting bad yields on a microwave irradiation-driven amphetamine precursor synthesis, with my personal favourite catalyst blend.

It's like expecting hitler crawl out of the grave in order to attend a synagogue, expecting you to be a bad parent. Or asking bears to stop shitting in the woods.

Sorry, not gonna happen. You, miss K, are a good lass, that I know, I can tell, it just...well some people you can just KNOW. A cutie too ^_^

I think I know where you got confused. When I said invite him here...I mean to I2. Not home. He's already there. :laugh:

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 15, 2018, 02:51:09 PM

Phoenix - another thought on how to handle the "monkey boy" predicament.  Tell him the computer automatically corrected 'Tarzan' to "Monkey Boy."

(This post is not meant to be racist or demeaning in any way.  It's just a crappy joke.)

I suspect he already knows. I'm sure I must have told him. There's not much we don't tell each other anyway.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 15, 2018, 09:32:26 PM

Yeh daft pudding ^_^

*pokes playfully and buggers off*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on December 16, 2018, 08:57:56 AM

Sleeping pupper beside me, hot chocolate, and a book.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on December 16, 2018, 07:05:10 PM

My workmates are really kind. We shared stories about being weird and self-sabotaging, lol.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 16, 2018, 07:59:26 PM

Monkeyboy? We have word filters here. We could put them to a good use.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 16, 2018, 08:17:41 PM

While clearing the kitchen to put clutter up and out I found the food dehydrator my Mom gave me in 1999 and never used. I hoped I hadn't thrown it away after the fire.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 16, 2018, 11:29:02 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 16, 2018, 08:17:41 PM

While clearing the kitchen to put clutter up and out I found the food dehydrator my Mom gave me in 1999 and never used. I hoped I hadn't thrown it away after the fire.

Wow those can be very cool.
If it works you should try it on some things.

I have never had a manufactured one. I made one out of scrapped out old oven parts a few years back.  Used the burners, rheostats, shelves and built a wooden box with filtered fans in the bottom I scavenged from old amplifiers. It worked great, but I had a lot invested in making it and it was not as flexible as a good one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on December 17, 2018, 08:43:48 AM

Woke up in a good mood. Amazing what sleep can accomplish :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 17, 2018, 09:33:42 AM

Got my med refills, and first morphine dose of the day, about to have a cigar. Had meant to administer an intramuscular dose of the pain medication, as per usual, but, as once in a while, occasionally, and quite unpredictably happens, I'd hit a deep vein, far too deep, to aim for on purpose, but the needle tip penetrates at a right angle when it happens, not how an IV ought to be performed (they should be entering the vein at a shallow angle, aiming in the direction blood flows towards the heart), but of course, when that happens, I can't see it, and some muscles are easier  to shoot in than others and some areas on the same one offer more, or less resistance to the entry of the liquid, so it's hard to tell.

But when I got a sort of metallic, electrickey taste in my mouth, not ON my tongue, but tasted INSIDE my tongue, if that makes sense, and intense itching at the unintended IV site, plus  a strong elevation of my heart rate, much more forceful than usual, and an intense warm, snuggly, euphoric *MMmmmmmMMMMMM!* sort of all-over body and mental rush...I knew what had happened. Accidentally delivered 5ml of saturated morphine sulfate solution intravenously, causing it all to be absorbed within seconds, and take effect all at once.

Not unpleasant though, definitely not complaining. Just unintended. Unintentional, but very nice and quite enjoyable.

Sitting back, and smoking a cigar, as IV rushes from opiates go with tobacco like parasol mushrooms and a frying pan full of sizzling hot, salted butter, the hard stuff not the soft spreadable part veg oil muck. Not the same with pure inhaled nicotine vapour, not at all, the e-cig doesn't hit the spot. It's the only time I smoke tobacco any more, since getting an e-fag. Although I do think I might just have the answer to what makes the difference, between nicotine vapor, and tobacco smoking.  And it's something I could either replicate in the lab, and add the compounds to e-liquid, or, extract them from a plant known as the vine of the dead, the vine of souls, or yage' (the ' goes over the top of the letter 'e',  pronounced 'yah-ey', with a short 'h'). Or from a couple other plants, but from yage' is the better one IMO, unless going the synthetic route, but of the plant sources of monoamine oxidase inhibitor MAOIs that inhibit MAO-A, in a RIMA type way, like moclobemide does, yage' is  the better one to start with IMO.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 17, 2018, 10:36:09 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on December 16, 2018, 11:29:02 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 16, 2018, 08:17:41 PM

While clearing the kitchen to put clutter up and out I found the food dehydrator my Mom gave me in 1999 and never used. I hoped I hadn't thrown it away after the fire.

Wow those can be very cool.
If it works you should try it on some things.

I have never had a manufactured one. I made one out of scrapped out old oven parts a few years back.  Used the burners, rheostats, shelves and built a wooden box with filtered fans in the bottom I scavenged from old amplifiers. It worked great, but I had a lot invested in making it and it was not as flexible as a good one.

Definitely going to try some dehydrating in the new year.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on December 17, 2018, 11:47:12 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 17, 2018, 10:36:09 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on December 16, 2018, 11:29:02 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 16, 2018, 08:17:41 PM

While clearing the kitchen to put clutter up and out I found the food dehydrator my Mom gave me in 1999 and never used. I hoped I hadn't thrown it away after the fire.

Wow those can be very cool.
If it works you should try it on some things.

I have never had a manufactured one. I made one out of scrapped out old oven parts a few years back.  Used the burners, rheostats, shelves and built a wooden box with filtered fans in the bottom I scavenged from old amplifiers. It worked great, but I had a lot invested in making it and it was not as flexible as a good one.

Definitely going to try some dehydrating in the new year.

I've been contemplating buying one at some point. Cheaper to make my own beef jerky for myself and treats for the dogs.

Finally started working on my sisters present again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 17, 2018, 01:49:51 PM

now I just need to find the large electric roaster.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on December 17, 2018, 05:16:49 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on December 17, 2018, 11:47:12 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 17, 2018, 10:36:09 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on December 16, 2018, 11:29:02 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 16, 2018, 08:17:41 PM

While clearing the kitchen to put clutter up and out I found the food dehydrator my Mom gave me in 1999 and never used. I hoped I hadn't thrown it away after the fire.

Wow those can be very cool.
If it works you should try it on some things.

I have never had a manufactured one. I made one out of scrapped out old oven parts a few years back.  Used the burners, rheostats, shelves and built a wooden box with filtered fans in the bottom I scavenged from old amplifiers. It worked great, but I had a lot invested in making it and it was not as flexible as a good one.

Definitely going to try some dehydrating in the new year.

I've been contemplating buying one at some point. Cheaper to make my own beef jerky for myself and treats for the dogs.

Finally started working on my sisters present again.

I used to dry all my herbs in it...sage, oregano, parsley...catnip. The later one was how it met it's demise, crashing to the floor after I left it unsupervised to get a load of laundry from the dryer... and the fur kids went in for the attack.

Now I just dry the herbs & nip in the microwave...they can't tip that and it only takes a few minutes.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on December 17, 2018, 05:57:53 PM

Icequeen, I'm hoping to start a small garden this spring. I'll probably do container gardening rather than something in the ground.  If my track record holds up they'll die before harvest.

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Post by: Phoenix on December 17, 2018, 06:29:10 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on December 17, 2018, 05:16:49 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on December 17, 2018, 11:47:12 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 17, 2018, 10:36:09 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on December 16, 2018, 11:29:02 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 16, 2018, 08:17:41 PM

While clearing the kitchen to put clutter up and out I found the food dehydrator my Mom gave me in 1999 and never used. I hoped I hadn't thrown it away after the fire.

Wow those can be very cool.
If it works you should try it on some things.

I have never had a manufactured one. I made one out of scrapped out old oven parts a few years back.  Used the burners, rheostats, shelves and built a wooden box with filtered fans in the bottom I scavenged from old amplifiers. It worked great, but I had a lot invested in making it and it was not as flexible as a good one.

Definitely going to try some dehydrating in the new year.

I've been contemplating buying one at some point. Cheaper to make my own beef jerky for myself and treats for the dogs.

Finally started working on my sisters present again.

I used to dry all my herbs in it...sage, oregano, parsley...catnip. The later one was how it met it's demise, crashing to the floor after I left it unsupervised to get a load of laundry from the dryer... and the fur kids went in for the attack.

Now I just dry the herbs & nip in the microwave...they can't tip that and it only takes a few minutes.

:lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 18, 2018, 01:36:54 AM

I've  no food dehydrator. Although I doubt I'd use it for food.

I've had plenty use out of the microwave though, both food  and  otherwise. It can be used for pulling off some real wizardry when it comes  to Knoevanagel condensations....

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on December 18, 2018, 08:10:19 AM

Taking a break from social media happened and that has been a very good thing, indeed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on December 18, 2018, 12:54:40 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 17, 2018, 05:57:53 PM

Icequeen, I'm hoping to start a small garden this spring. I'll probably do container gardening rather than something in the ground.  If my track record holds up they'll die before harvest.

I put in 2 raised beds from dry stacked cinder block wall that started to topple and I replaced with locking block and have some containers as well. Fenced the whole mess off finally this spring.

Neighbor can grow literally anything in a container...I don't do as well.  :P With me it has a better survival chance when it's in the ground. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 18, 2018, 01:16:05 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 17, 2018, 05:57:53 PM

Icequeen, I'm hoping to start a small garden this spring. I'll probably do container gardening rather than something in the ground.  If my track record holds up they'll die before harvest.

Container gardening is a special science with some fine art and lots of attention thrown in. It is far more difficult than most people think.
Go ahead and start your pots (hint: make them much larger pots than you think you might need, some science there), check them twice a day in summer (attention). Keep them moist but not wet - fine line, some of that art.
Watch the leaves to know when they need more sun or less. Leaves curling up are in need of water. Leaves curling downward are hiding from the sun. Sciencey art and attention.

But, if you can manage the effort, clear away a small patch of sunny ground removing weeds and grass. Sprinkle evenly a couple of seed packs of marigold and/or zinnia seeds. These require almost no care except watering and make a very satisfying display with minimal effort.
Worth it in the south!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on December 18, 2018, 02:01:16 PM

Definitely coming to DD with my gardening questions whenever I get the chance to start one. I swear my home is where plants come to die. I can keep children and pets alive though for their natural life span so at least there's that  ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on December 19, 2018, 04:49:52 PM

I walked to the river (it's been unseasonably warm and sunny), and took my fiddle out and played tunes for the geese and ducks. I also fed them a few crumbs I had with me. The river was quite high, had to sit on a stump over looking the rapids...had the irrational fear I would drop my fiddle right in the water and it would float all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico!

That didn't happen, thankfully.

Made a goose friend with one who had a broken wing. Poor lil' dude.

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Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 20, 2018, 09:36:11 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on December 19, 2018, 04:49:52 PM

I walked to the river (it's been unseasonably warm and sunny), and took my fiddle out and played tunes for the geese and ducks. I also fed them a few crumbs I had with me. The river was quite high, had to sit on a stump over looking the rapids...had the irrational fear I would drop my fiddle right in the water and it would float all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico!

That didn't happen, thankfully.

Made a goose friend with one who had a broken wing. Poor lil' dude.

  Does anyone in your area do wildlife rehabilitation? 
  Maybe someone could pick up the goose and nurse it back to health? :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on December 20, 2018, 02:02:33 PM

The party that my dogs throw every time I come home from someplace. Even if it's just to go check the mail :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 20, 2018, 07:45:26 PM

Saw my case worker for the first time in over two weeks. We had a friendly talk and we'll see each other again in the New Year - the 4th January to be precise. Writing it here will help me remember.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 20, 2018, 10:00:59 PM

An acquaintance brought over two jam packed suitcases of clothes.  Close to 75 items. I plan to wear some as/is and learn to alter the rest into new items of wear.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on December 21, 2018, 07:23:59 AM

I'm restocked on hot chocolate again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 21, 2018, 07:25:48 AM

  I figured out some more reasons my paintings aren't quite where I want them to be.  I can improve.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 22, 2018, 02:00:26 AM

I got my hair cut in a totally different style to normal. The hairdresser tried to make me have my hair parted way more to my left than I usually would. She was successful until I got home and parted it the way my hair naturally falls.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 22, 2018, 05:50:30 AM

Quote from: renaeden on December 22, 2018, 02:00:26 AM

I got my hair cut in a totally different style to normal. The hairdresser tried to make me have my hair parted way more to my left than I usually would. She was successful until I got home and parted it the way my hair naturally falls.

  Decades ago I told my brother that he'd have better luck working with his fine, floppy hair if he
  figured out his natural part.  He thought I was full of it.  But I was right.  It's just uncomfortable to try
  to maintain a style that parts the hair against its natural inclination.  I hope your hair feels better now.  :)

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Post by: renaeden on December 22, 2018, 06:22:43 AM

It does feel better now, thanks. :)

Photos tomorrow!

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Post by: Lestat on December 23, 2018, 07:37:55 AM

'Tried to make'....now, here's where things start to go wrong. They have no business whatsoever doing any more than offering a suggestion for your appraisal and potential approval.

Otherwise, they are being paid, to go 'yes sir, no sir, three bags fucking full sir, would you like me to run out in the street stark bollock naked and  defaecate all over that flowerbed in the high street precinct those pensioners are sitting next to whilst shrieking verses from the bible in aramaic and  picking your nose with a fork handle, sir?'

They do what they are told to do. Its  what they are there to do, so they better do it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on December 25, 2018, 04:25:16 PM

Had good interactions on I^2. :]

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on December 25, 2018, 06:27:37 PM

I'd just about figured out how to make a proper (well as near as you can get being gluten-free, vegan etc) Christmas dinner for self and son in my  tiny new kitchen, but then neither of us had the energy to make it (bith recovering from a virus). Then i suddenly had an inspiration and made us a simple meal instead of beans, rice pasta and brocolli  with  vegan cheese melted over, it accompanied by baked sweet potatoes, topped with rosemary and freshly squeezed lime juice  . Which proved delicious .  We'll have the proper christmas stuff another day,

Another nice thing is that I've frecently found that I'm not allergic to chocolate after all. it's just that the accompanying fat makes me ill.  So i was able to follow that up, a bit later,  with two Booja Booja gluten-free chocolates truffles , which is pushing a little bit, but i'll probably be OK (* fingers crossed* ).   And now I certainly feel as if I've had a Christmas Dinner :).

oh! and my son loved the presents I bought him. Not just the usual assortment  of books and cjhocoates, I'd also bought him a really good sweater, on behalf of Mum  (who died earlier this year.  see my thread in Elders)  because she  had always bought him a really good (and always very tasteful, believe it or not) sweater, which particular present wowed him  every time. My sweater wowed him too :) and he agreed it was exactly  the sort of thing his Nan would have bought.

So that's a pretty damned satisfactory Christmas, in spite of illness, bereavements etc . Very quiet, but we like it that way :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 25, 2018, 06:38:01 PM

Mother watched the cub so I could get a long nap this morning.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on December 27, 2018, 07:24:47 AM

It's a quiet morning. Kids are still asleep. Sick puppy curled up beside me, other pup off having her morning nap and the boyfriend is out taking his car to the shop. So it's just me and a quiet house.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 27, 2018, 09:19:14 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on December 27, 2018, 07:24:47 AM

It's a quiet morning. Kids are still asleep. Sick puppy curled up beside me, other pup off having her morning nap and the boyfriend is out taking his car to the shop. So it's just me and a quiet house.

Isn't it amazing how poweful a silent house can be?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on December 27, 2018, 09:26:05 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on December 27, 2018, 09:19:14 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on December 27, 2018, 07:24:47 AM

It's a quiet morning. Kids are still asleep. Sick puppy curled up beside me, other pup off having her morning nap and the boyfriend is out taking his car to the shop. So it's just me and a quiet house.

Isn't it amazing how poweful a silent house can be?

It's one of my favourite things. Any time the boyfriend leaves the room he automatically turns off the tv because he knows I will anyway. That's the quickest way for my body to get balanced again, cut back on the overstimulation. I learned years ago not to power through it if I don't have to.

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Post by: Lestat on December 27, 2018, 02:25:57 PM

He sounds like just the kind of other half you deserve, miss K. Not to say I'd not love to be in his place, but I'm glad you've found someone who treats you this way, because you do deserve the best that can ever be.

Sorry to hear about one of your four-legged friends being sick. Wishing him (or her) a speedy recovery.

My something good, is that I just got handed a tray of ferrero roche or however you spell it, from my old man, he'd got it me for xmas, a little something extra on top of the new laptop, kinda like the way I got him a bottle of dark rum on top of the fishing book I got him after asking him if there was anything he'd specially like.

You know, those chocolates, the ones with a hazelnut in the center, surrounded by something akin to nutella, then a thin crispy shell, coated in chocolate speckled all over with little bits of smashed up hazelnut. Got me a big tray of those. Which I am, currently, munching my way right through, one after the other. Soon as one has been unwrapped and the contents crunched and squished in my mouth, the next gets popped in and munched down.

He'd forgotten about them on the day, was quite a nice surprise, just came up with them today right now. Eaten almost the entire tray, in all of a few minutes :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on December 27, 2018, 02:33:18 PM

Yes, he treats me so incredibly well. The kids and I are in good hands.

I love Ferrero Rocher. They're so good!

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Post by: Lestat on December 27, 2018, 04:37:32 PM

Yeah, they are just the sort of thing you can get a big buggering great tray of and start scarfing down one after another after another after another until they are all gone, each and every last one of them.

I offered my old man one of course, as he had been kind enough to get me them, he had one, and I just scoffed them after, one after the other. Sometimes popping them in my mouth several at once.

*throws one to miss K before the last disappears and offers some of the beers, nice cold ones from the fridge*

*squeezes the squeebly one*

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Post by: Queen Victoria on December 27, 2018, 05:26:21 PM

I'll send any FR ya'lls way.  Too much crunch in my mouth.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 27, 2018, 07:03:28 PM

Well you ever need to get rid of any, and assuming the PR doesn't want them (because she is a higher priority by far, compared), then I can dispose of them for you in an environmentally sound manner. Bulk quantities are no problem either. Be it boxes, trays, or truck-loads, I have connections that will help me dispose of bulk quantities of them.

And crunch? it's more of a quick crackling squash, then a gooey squishing and down the hatch in a warm, tasty, gooey blob of squashyness.

Definitely squeeblesome. Very, very squeeblesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on December 27, 2018, 07:42:16 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on December 27, 2018, 02:33:18 PM

I love Ferrero Rocher. They're so good!

Oh man...those are my favorites.

Hope you enjoyed them Lestat. :laugh:

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Post by: Lestat on December 27, 2018, 08:22:54 PM

TY IQ, I did indeed.

For all of 2-3 minutes it took me to devour the entire lot, minus the one my dad had when offered. Did offer to share a few more but he was fine with the one. But they didn't last long AT ALL. Opened, one shared, the rest gobbled down one after the other/handful after handful :D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on December 28, 2018, 01:27:45 PM

My friends. One doesn't realize how much heart they put into their friendships until they're in need of the same kind of support and it comes back to them ten fold.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 28, 2018, 04:45:01 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on December 28, 2018, 01:27:45 PM

My friends. One doesn't realize how much heart they put into their friendships until they're in need of the same kind of support and it comes back to them ten fold.

This is how you'll spot friends. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on December 28, 2018, 08:17:51 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 28, 2018, 04:45:01 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on December 28, 2018, 01:27:45 PM

My friends. One doesn't realize how much heart they put into their friendships until they're in need of the same kind of support and it comes back to them ten fold.

This is how you'll spot friends. :)

Truth. I have such a hard time seeing myself as others do.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 30, 2018, 08:50:06 AM

Hm...one thing I've noticed, is that the best people often have the worst self images.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 31, 2018, 06:13:45 PM

Cold beer straight from the fridge, along with a nice slab of tasty mature blue stilton cheese. Cigars to finish off, after a couple of lines of oxy.

Then feet up, kick my shoes off for a bit, while I watch family guy/american dad/bordertown if the latter is on too, before putting shoes back on again and getting back to work making with the alchemy :heisenberg:

Just taking a quick break because I dn't want to miss family guy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on December 31, 2018, 07:33:48 PM

Played the board game Pay Day with the family and laughed so hard. Monkeygirl whipped our butts.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on December 31, 2018, 08:15:38 PM

Perhaps with a non-relative holding the whip, that's something you could video and get rich off :autism:

(that said, given the nature of the internet, you'd probably get rich off it anyway these days) there's some twisted shit out there. Although now and then, there's a real gem of a find, like the autistic peanut butter girl clip I posted on xmas, Don't think adding to that sort of content would be a bad thing :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 31, 2018, 08:50:15 PM

OOPS!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 31, 2018, 11:25:09 PM

This happened yesterday, but when I went to my friend's place we played Cards Against Humanity. Me, my friend and her mum. Her mum beat me by one card. We had a pile of fun, that game is hilarious.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on January 01, 2019, 07:07:39 AM

Quote from: renaeden on December 31, 2018, 11:25:09 PM

This happened yesterday, but when I went to my friend's place we played Cards Against Humanity. Me, my friend and her mum. Her mum beat me by one card. We had a pile of fun, that game is hilarious.

I have that one. It never fails to be hysterically funny.

We played The Meme Game last night and it was okay. Definitely has the potential to be hilarious but one of the rules they had for the game sucked, so we're going to play it differently next time to up the funny factor.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 02, 2019, 12:56:29 AM

^Yeah, sometimes your own rules end up being way better.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on January 02, 2019, 08:18:53 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on December 31, 2018, 08:50:15 PM

OOPS!

The oops was because I posted in the wrong thread. Oops!

What I had intended to go here was my effort at making a cheese Danish pastry thingy. Now I used store bought dough which I layered into the pan with store bought creme cheese and a hard, bitter marmalade for filling. I made my own sugar based orange glazing though.
Should have pictured it, but it is gone, now. It was a hit!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on January 02, 2019, 08:42:30 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on January 02, 2019, 08:18:53 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on December 31, 2018, 08:50:15 PM

OOPS!

The oops was because I posted in the wrong thread. Oops!

What I had intended to go here was my effort at making a cheese Danish pastry thingy. Now I used store bought dough which I layered into the pan with store bought creme cheese and a hard, bitter marmalade for filling. I made my own sugar based orange glazing though.
Should have pictured it, but it is gone, now. It was a hit!

That sounds so good!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on January 02, 2019, 09:27:59 AM

All brag, here, but oh yeah. I want to make another one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on January 02, 2019, 12:02:53 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on January 02, 2019, 08:42:30 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on January 02, 2019, 08:18:53 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on December 31, 2018, 08:50:15 PM

OOPS!

The oops was because I posted in the wrong thread. Oops!

What I had intended to go here was my effort at making a cheese Danish pastry thingy. Now I used store bought dough which I layered into the pan with store bought creme cheese and a hard, bitter marmalade for filling. I made my own sugar based orange glazing though.
Should have pictured it, but it is gone, now. It was a hit!

That sounds so good!

I am out of hard marmalade now though.
I want to make another, but that good Orange Marmalade came from Trader Joe's. Local one closed down (yep, another business that is not doing so well) and the drive to the next nearest is many miles away and in an area known for the most murders in the city.

Probably just wait a bit and order online.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on January 02, 2019, 03:22:48 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on January 02, 2019, 12:02:53 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on January 02, 2019, 08:42:30 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on January 02, 2019, 08:18:53 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on December 31, 2018, 08:50:15 PM

OOPS!

The oops was because I posted in the wrong thread. Oops!

What I had intended to go here was my effort at making a cheese Danish pastry thingy. Now I used store bought dough which I layered into the pan with store bought creme cheese and a hard, bitter marmalade for filling. I made my own sugar based orange glazing though.
Should have pictured it, but it is gone, now. It was a hit!

That sounds so good!

I am out of hard marmalade now though.
I want to make another, but that good Orange Marmalade came from Trader Joe's. Local one closed down (yep, another business that is not doing so well) and the drive to the next nearest is many miles away and in an area known for the most murders in the city.

Probably just wait a bit and order online.

I agree. Dying isn't allowed to be part of your plans for 2019  :P

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Post by: Queen Victoria on January 02, 2019, 07:34:55 PM

Cooked up a chicken breast.  With the lovely stock I can have soup tomorrow:  stock, rice, corn and green beans.  All leftovers, easy peasy.

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Post by: Bastet on January 02, 2019, 09:45:15 PM

Ate homemade quiche.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 03, 2019, 05:01:59 PM

Got a check from a contractor I worked for over the summer who I had figured would never pay me :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 06, 2019, 06:43:30 PM

I found a dollar in the parking lot of Dunkin' Donuts
Even better just found my wedding ring which has been missing since 2008 in the back of the secretary desk in my living room a place that I had checked a bunch of times but never saw it :hyke: :hyke: :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 06, 2019, 06:45:59 PM

You're on a roll.  Congratulations Parts.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 06, 2019, 07:27:38 PM

Parts will be back in the good books for finding his wedding ring. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on January 08, 2019, 02:52:27 PM

I got more done on my sisters gift that I'm making but I realized that in order for me to get it done on time, I have to put in 43 more hours in the next 8 days. That means just over 5 hours a day and trying to find that kind of available time in between work and dogs and kids and appointments is going to be a monumental challenge.  :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 08, 2019, 03:23:43 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on January 08, 2019, 02:52:27 PM

I got more done on my sisters gift that I'm making but I realized that in order for me to get it done on time, I have to put in 43 more hours in the next 8 days. That means just over 5 hours a day and trying to find that kind of available time in between work and dogs and kids and appointments is going to be a monumental challenge.  :GA:

Really wondering what it is now!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on January 08, 2019, 05:41:23 PM

Quote from: renaeden on January 08, 2019, 03:23:43 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on January 08, 2019, 02:52:27 PM

I got more done on my sisters gift that I'm making but I realized that in order for me to get it done on time, I have to put in 43 more hours in the next 8 days. That means just over 5 hours a day and trying to find that kind of available time in between work and dogs and kids and appointments is going to be a monumental challenge.  :GA:

Really wondering what it is now!

It's called Diamond Painting and it's basically creating an elaborate picture using pixels (called drills). So you take one drill at a time (they're made from plastic but they're a bit sparkly and they're not flat) and place it on a glue board following the chart. The one I'm doing for my sister as 56,000 drills. It's taking me forever but it's a dragon inside a Christmas stocking and it's looking really cool. Once I get this next section done, I'll post a pic.

I actually find the whole process really relaxing but you can only sit for so long to do something. I find 2 hours is my absolute max so fitting 5 hours in a day is going to be a challenge even if I didn't have so much going on. Obviously I'll have to break it up but throwing a puppy into the mix makes finding the time rather challenging. lol

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 08, 2019, 06:34:45 PM

Called out of work on a snowy icy day.  Walmart don't give a shit about me, so I don't give a shit about walmart!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 08, 2019, 06:49:46 PM

Quote from: rock hound on January 08, 2019, 06:34:45 PM

Called out of work on a snowy icy day.  Walmart don't give a shit about me, so I don't give a shit about walmart!

  That's the right way to look at it.  As I've seen posted in various phrasings,
  don't kill yourself for a job that would replace you within a week if you died. 

   :fingers:  Walmart!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on January 08, 2019, 06:56:35 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on January 08, 2019, 05:41:23 PM

It's called Diamond Painting

Oh crap I'm kind of sorry I looked that up.

I used to be hooked on paint by number paintings...I have an paint by number app on my kindle that I literally can't put down some days.  :laugh:

That shit looks just like a paint by number with sparkle... :autism:

This could be bad.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on January 08, 2019, 07:05:43 PM

Omg I found Dragon patterns...omg, omg.  :GA: :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 08, 2019, 07:08:28 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on January 08, 2019, 06:56:35 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on January 08, 2019, 05:41:23 PM

It's called Diamond Painting

Oh crap I'm kind of sorry I looked that up.

I used to be hooked on paint by number paintings...I have an paint by number app on my kindle that I literally can't put down some days.  :laugh:

That shit looks just like a paint by number with sparkle... :autism:

This could be bad.

  Talk of crafty addictions reminds of a bumper sticker I saw years ago ...

  Pray for me, my wife is a tole painter!  :rofl:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 08, 2019, 09:38:43 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on January 08, 2019, 06:49:46 PM

Quote from: rock hound on January 08, 2019, 06:34:45 PM

Called out of work on a snowy icy day.  Walmart don't give a shit about me, so I don't give a shit about walmart!

  That's the right way to look at it.  As I've seen posted in various phrasings,
  don't kill yourself for a job that would replace you within a week if you died. 

   :fingers:  Walmart!

Hell, they would have my job posted before my corpse was cold!   :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 09, 2019, 02:25:55 AM

Quote from: rock hound on January 08, 2019, 09:38:43 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on January 08, 2019, 06:49:46 PM

Quote from: rock hound on January 08, 2019, 06:34:45 PM

Called out of work on a snowy icy day.  Walmart don't give a shit about me, so I don't give a shit about walmart!

  That's the right way to look at it.  As I've seen posted in various phrasings,
  don't kill yourself for a job that would replace you within a week if you died. 

   :fingers:  Walmart!

Hell, they would have my job posted before my corpse was cold!   :laugh:

Got told off massively, years ago, when doing that. On one of the rare days we did have proper snow. They threatened to sack me etc. (Not Walmart, we don't have that here.) I did not go.

Year after I left there, there was serious black ice. Two employees decided to come in anyway,after they had been told off. One now has the experience of losing his coworker sitting next to him in the car.

Sometimes I meet old colleagues. One even stil works at that firm. Rules have become more humane, apparently. But heck, it took the life of J to get them that sensible. J was one of the joyous co-workers. Nothing got her down, till this happened. She was quite exceptional.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 09, 2019, 02:27:58 AM

^

That post totally isn't on topic.

Good thing today so far. Food tasted good, despite me being in a very crappy state, probably a bug.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 09, 2019, 05:24:14 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on January 09, 2019, 02:25:55 AM

Quote from: rock hound on January 08, 2019, 09:38:43 PM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on January 08, 2019, 06:49:46 PM

Quote from: rock hound on January 08, 2019, 06:34:45 PM

Called out of work on a snowy icy day.  Walmart don't give a shit about me, so I don't give a shit about walmart!

  That's the right way to look at it.  As I've seen posted in various phrasings,
  don't kill yourself for a job that would replace you within a week if you died. 

   :fingers:  Walmart!

Hell, they would have my job posted before my corpse was cold!   :laugh:

Got told off massively, years ago, when doing that. On one of the rare days we did have proper snow. They threatened to sack me etc. (Not Walmart, we don't have that here.) I did not go.

Year after I left there, there was serious black ice. Two employees decided to come in anyway,after they had been told off. One now has the experience of losing his coworker sitting next to him in the car.

Sometimes I meet old colleagues. One even stil works at that firm. Rules have become more humane, apparently. But heck, it took the life of J to get them that sensible. J was one of the joyous co-workers. Nothing got her down, till this happened. She was quite exceptional.

  This hurts my heart.  I'm so sorry a wonderful life was lost --- that any life was lost! --- because
  of selfish management assholes.  Good for you for staying safe.  We can't lose you that way.  :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 09, 2019, 11:54:37 AM

Had a surprisingly good meeting today. I thought it would be an absolute disaster and result in all kinds of problems but the project manager foresaw all of my worries and actually made the meeting to be about all of those worries.

I'm stunned.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on January 09, 2019, 04:31:01 PM

Every appointment was on time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 09, 2019, 05:36:28 PM

The sun came out, the flurries stopped and the driveway hill is drive able for Carla to make it home! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on January 10, 2019, 10:46:28 AM

Not today, but yesterday ...

I went to the record shop down in the artsie part of Indy. Long drive, but usuallly  worth it.
I found several albums worth  a  few more plays, like a Roy Orbison - I bought five.
A Uriah Heep I did not yet have.

I spent too much.

Also went across the street and bought a Large bulldog style Petersen pipe.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on January 10, 2019, 05:22:51 PM

A friend of mine works in Marketing and sets up displays at various stores and one of her stores is my local Wal-Mart. She knows my shopping schedule so she tries to be at my store when she knows I'll be there so we can do a quick catch up. It's always a good thing for me. She makes me laugh.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lestat on January 14, 2019, 05:07:33 AM

Glad to hear it my dear, a happy smiling and laughing, joyful you is just the kind of you we want to see :)

As for me...my ammonium formate FINALLY arrived. Hmph...the eastern european lot are usually pretty sharp when it comes to getting their merchandise to their customers sharpish.

And I got paid today, which means I can finally afford to buy the 1-bromo-3,6-dimethyladamantane that I want. Although I'm going to see how much I can get out of how many different suppliers before I commit to buying the kg I want...see if I can't get that much for free xD. The chinese chemical merchant's version of the customer who fills himself up on the little bits of different kinds of hams, roast beef, roast lamb and cheese types on little pointed sticks from tiny cups, and then decides he isn't going to buy any afterall, since he just realized, those samples...he's quite full up, thank you very much...


Did have to add some information in english to the ammonium formate, translating the label, which was in lithuanian, and adding in some important notes to the label (such as the fact that it decomposes rather than reaches a true melting point, and at that temperature, turns into a mixture of hydrogen cyanide, ammonia and carbon monoxide. Not the friendliest selection of waste products in the world...)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on January 14, 2019, 07:11:03 AM

This happened last night but the boyfriend and I went out to do an ice cream fun for the family. We always do our best catching up and talking while driving.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 14, 2019, 07:39:59 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 09, 2019, 11:54:37 AM

Had a surprisingly good meeting today. I thought it would be an absolute disaster and result in all kinds of problems but the project manager foresaw all of my worries and actually made the meeting to be about all of those worries.

I'm stunned.

  That project manager has some serious people skills and theory-of-mind skills!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 14, 2019, 10:34:59 AM

I have a day off!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Tequila on January 14, 2019, 11:37:29 AM

That curry was alright.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 14, 2019, 11:45:11 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on January 14, 2019, 07:39:59 AM

Quote from: odeon on January 09, 2019, 11:54:37 AM

Had a surprisingly good meeting today. I thought it would be an absolute disaster and result in all kinds of problems but the project manager foresaw all of my worries and actually made the meeting to be about all of those worries.

I'm stunned.

  That project manager has some serious people skills and theory-of-mind skills!  :thumbup:

He's actually pretty damned good at what he does, yes. It's a rare thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on January 14, 2019, 11:48:38 AM

Got all of my errands done early and BF has the day off today because we both had medical appointments so we went together (hello middle age) and now I can enjoy the rest of the day knowing I got a lot out of the way already.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 14, 2019, 01:47:53 PM

Took meds, bathed, ate, started cooking a chicken, let the cat in.

To do:
start laundry
debone chicken
fix The PR's b'fast (pancakes)
clear some more clutter

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 15, 2019, 02:27:20 AM

Passed our house inspection. Kayleigh managed to make her room look decent. Only thing is, the housing person said the inspections will now be every 3 months instead of every 6 months.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on January 15, 2019, 03:10:13 AM

Quote from: renaeden on January 15, 2019, 02:27:20 AM

Passed our house inspection. Kayleigh managed to make her room look decent. Only thing is, the housing person said the inspections will now be every 3 months instead of every 6 months.

Why?

So glad we don't have a thing like house inspection here. The only thing they do now and then inspect is things that might need replacing or fixing. Most of the times just on the outside of the house. Inside I've only had them twice without me inviting them, in over 25 years.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 15, 2019, 04:40:19 AM

Some new thing they said. So they could stay up to date on everyone's maintenance. As it is, I reported that our oven's igniter doesn't work any more.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 15, 2019, 05:49:53 AM

Quote from: renaeden on January 15, 2019, 02:27:20 AM

Passed our house inspection. Kayleigh managed to make her room look decent. Only thing is, the housing person said the inspections will now be every 3 months instead of every 6 months.

  That might actually be a good thing.  Instead of letting everything build up for half a year, maybe
  Kayleigh will decide to stay on top of at least some of it, so there won't need to be a last-minute
  emergency marathon cleanup.  It's for the best!  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on January 15, 2019, 07:11:41 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on January 15, 2019, 05:49:53 AM

Quote from: renaeden on January 15, 2019, 02:27:20 AM

Passed our house inspection. Kayleigh managed to make her room look decent. Only thing is, the housing person said the inspections will now be every 3 months instead of every 6 months.

  That might actually be a good thing.  Instead of letting everything build up for half a year, maybe
  Kayleigh will decide to stay on top of at least some of it, so there won't need to be a last-minute
  emergency marathon cleanup.  It's for the best!  :viking:

I was thinking along the same lines but I would find that incredibly stressful knowing someone was coming through every 3 months. I don't even like people I know coming over :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 15, 2019, 07:54:12 PM

I was surprised because Kayleigh actually cleaned her room really well. I can actually walk in there now and see the floor. But yes, it was very last minute and we don't need that stress.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on January 15, 2019, 08:05:35 PM

Family dinner. Laughed a lot with the kids.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on February 12, 2019, 06:44:16 PM

I saved $4K in the past 2 months and put it into my savings account for now.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 12, 2019, 08:26:22 PM

Quote from: Sofa King Wasted on February 12, 2019, 06:44:16 PM

I saved $4K in the past 2 months and put it into my savings account for now.   8)

You don't need to do that. I can look after it for you. ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on February 20, 2019, 05:53:08 PM

Well I didn't have the disgusting guy who sat in the seat in front of me yesterday on the train. That was good.

Bloody heck. He sounded like he was trying to eat a bowl of lumpy custard through his nose. I got up and stood at the other end of the carriage, near the door (our trains on most existing lines are double deckers, so you walk in and there are stairs to go up or down).

And then I made the mistake of giving some advice to a guy, probably in his 30s, who needed to go to Bondi Junction to see a back specialist. Turned out he was a bit special, and he'd never caught the train before. He normally caught taxis, but he had lost some money.

He was nice and very friendly, very chatty. I'm old and more tolerant now, I guess when I was younger he would have driven me nutso, getting in my space etc. Didn't seem intellectually challenged, but obviously a bit different. He had injured his back playing with his puppy. He showed me pics, he has an old english sheepdog, beautiful dog.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on February 24, 2019, 07:28:16 AM

I acquired a free pushbike. A black cruiser type pavement bike.
Crushboi, myself and two of his friends went to the council abandoned car auction and the bike was in the back of one of the cars crushboi won for $20 (a Pajero, it even still runs!).

I will need to do a few things to fix the bike to make it rideable, like replace the chain and put brakes on it. I wanna turn it into a rat rod or chopper bike but I can't weld  :(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on February 24, 2019, 09:33:23 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on February 24, 2019, 07:28:16 AM

I will need to do a few things to fix the bike to make it rideable, like replace the chain and put brakes on it. I wanna turn it into a rat rod or chopper bike but I can't weld  :(

I'll weld it for you, but you have to buy me a plane ticket.   :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 24, 2019, 10:19:22 PM

I've seen chopper bikes, they look hard to steer.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 26, 2019, 05:02:43 PM

Had an electrician out to the house to do some work today and it went well

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on February 26, 2019, 07:33:56 PM

I only had about 6 minutes to catch the fast train to the city this morning, and it takes me 8 minutes to walk from where I usually park to the station.

So I started jogging. And I didn't even get 50 metres/yards before a nice Tongan man in an SUV stopped and offered me a lift.

The best part is that he didn't turn out to be a serial killer!!! :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on February 26, 2019, 09:02:29 PM

My mother is visiting. Reprieve!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on February 27, 2019, 10:06:49 AM

Found out about this happenstance a couple of days ago.
My "friend" is an overtly proud ingratuitous (asshole) barbequer of fine meats. He is proud of his "INDOORISH" grilling and meat smoking facility, which has carpeting, BTW, solid roof, windows (closeable to exclude all that damn wind we had) and last week end during fifty to sixty mile per hour winds This guy fires up his indoor (ventilated, obviously) smoker, wraps four pounds of bacon around two full pork loins and let it smoke.

It was a family thing, so no one was invited but his family.

This is not my pic or his, but an internet stolen pic used for illustration and to support my accusation of his ingratuitiveness (not a word, I know, BUT I just feel it should be).

I have challenged him on more than one occasion, but he just says I should come on by, there will be plenty.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 01, 2019, 08:20:49 PM

I make bread fairly often in a bread machine. I have very dependable recipe for a huge loaf of plain white bread, which is delicious.

Today I made an herb bread with all things ramped up with spices to go with the chicken I prepared in my rotisserie along with some rice and Brussel's sprouts.
Patting myself on the back still. It was fabulous!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 02, 2019, 03:19:59 AM

The week is finally over.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 02, 2019, 04:37:54 PM

Didn't get stuck in the snow on the way to work and finished the house I was working on

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 02, 2019, 05:02:30 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 02, 2019, 03:19:59 AM

The week is finally over.

We had a choir concert on Thursday. My daughter had her first solo performance on that day. It was snowing pretty hard when we arrived.
ON the same day, it was my son's twentieth birthday.  So not about him! All about her and her first solo performance, right?
Only barely.

Well, it was a special day.
:hair:


This week is not yet over, here.

I am ready for it to be over.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 03, 2019, 02:55:20 AM

I had an eureka moment and finally fixed a coding problem that has been plaguing me for days.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on March 12, 2019, 06:53:43 AM

I had a financial revelation! Apparently I don't need a deposit in order to buy a new house with a bridging loan! I can stop merely window shopping!!
I think I'm going to have a busy and exciting second half of the year :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on March 12, 2019, 10:01:07 AM

warm oatmeal with honey and butter....

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 12, 2019, 11:25:49 AM

Beer at the airport after a very long day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 29, 2019, 04:39:07 AM

My lithium level is usually a little bit too low. However, I got a letter from my GP saying that the level is now in the therapeutic range and the rest of the things tested were ok.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 30, 2019, 03:49:45 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 15, 2019, 10:28:32 PM

I had the day off work, the contractors were done by 10:30am, and I didn't have to pick up the cub from daycare until 5pm.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 15, 2019, 10:32:10 PM

Just over half a day to yourself! Excellent.

Liam (the cat) has deemed me worthy enough to bury himself under my quilt next to me. Now I need to get up but I don't want to disturb him.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 16, 2019, 11:53:12 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 17, 2019, 07:44:41 AM

It's my day off!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 17, 2019, 10:20:26 AM

Weekly b'fast with best friend.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 17, 2019, 07:58:12 PM

Two enormous bags of weeds done.
Replaced the seat on the Throne of Necessity.
Chastised the cat.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on April 17, 2019, 09:06:50 PM

That's a lot of weed, My Majesty.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 18, 2019, 01:26:26 AM

Slept better than in a while.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 18, 2019, 04:45:48 AM

^Are you feeling better?

New(ish) computer happened. Windows 10 and Office 365 installed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 18, 2019, 09:36:00 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on April 17, 2019, 09:06:50 PM

That's a lot of weed, My Majesty.  :zoinks:

I wish.  Would you believe that I'm probably the only member who's never smoked marijuana?  BUT the minute it's legal I'm gonna try it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 18, 2019, 11:09:02 AM

Quote from: renaeden on April 18, 2019, 04:45:48 AM

^Are you feeling better?

Yes, I think so. Thanks.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 18, 2019, 02:32:24 PM

Solved a minor annoying problem without having to go out again and buying what I thought was needed.  I love it when I get these little "AHA" moments.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 18, 2019, 02:39:03 PM

Threw/scattered some weed control crystals in between rain bands.  It needs to be watered in, so I'm letting the heavier rain coming do it for me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on April 20, 2019, 04:23:15 PM

Snuck downstairs and deposited some Easter Eggs after the kids went to sleep last night.

This is the first year where my daughter doesn't believe in the Easter Bunny. I think it's 2 years or maybe 3 for my son.

But they are still kids and it's still kinda magic to wake up in the morning and there's been a heap of chocolate eggs left in the lounge room for you.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 20, 2019, 04:25:59 PM

Worked a half day on an easy high profit job

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 20, 2019, 10:57:51 PM

Made an Easter Egg hunt for the cub. I'd been training him for the past couple weeks, letting him play with one of those plastic eggs that splits open, so he knew they opened and closed. But he'd never encountered one that rattles before.

Hiding the eggs, for a fourteen month old, meant cleaning up all his toys and then planting them like a breadcrumb trail smack in the middle of the empty passageways so he would stumble on them. But he found them all within the day, and learned pretty quick to hand them to a grownup to get what was inside, because he doesn't quite have the finger strength yet to pull them apart on his own.

They had these little yogurt mushies inside which are like candy to him.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 25, 2019, 09:09:04 AM

Coffee by the river while walking Filburt

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 25, 2019, 11:48:16 AM

Quote from: Parts on April 25, 2019, 09:09:04 AM

Coffee by the river while walking Filburt

 :coffee:   plus   :dog:  equals   :celebrate:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 26, 2019, 12:36:56 PM

Quote from: Parts on April 25, 2019, 09:09:04 AM

Coffee by the river while walking Filburt

Sounds nice. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 03, 2019, 07:17:41 PM

Found out some books I got for a dollar a piece sell for more than 40 each

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 24, 2019, 08:59:08 PM

Gave a presentation to 60-something people at work today and didn't do anything to fuck it up.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 26, 2019, 06:58:47 AM

Voted in the EU Parliament election.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 29, 2019, 11:10:19 AM

Got a bonus from the company. Completely unexpected. They said it was for my "extraordinary services" in the project I've been involved in for a year now. :o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 29, 2019, 06:18:37 PM

HOLY SHIT!!
Great job!   :2thumbsup: It is awesome to be appreciated by bosses.

Congratulations.
Enjoy it. Those tend to be few and far between.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 29, 2019, 09:02:48 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 29, 2019, 11:10:19 AM

Got a bonus from the company. Completely unexpected. They said it was for my "extraordinary services" in the project I've been involved in for a year now. :o

Congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 30, 2019, 10:53:28 AM

Thanks. I'm still stunned.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 30, 2019, 10:09:52 PM

That's awesome news, congrats.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 31, 2019, 12:54:46 PM

Still extremely stressed, tho. I would have thought differently.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 31, 2019, 03:34:30 PM

Returned home from our Kentucky trip. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on May 31, 2019, 07:56:41 PM

Quote from: rock hound on May 31, 2019, 03:34:30 PM

Returned home from our Kentucky trip.

 :viking:

What did you do there?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 31, 2019, 08:47:07 PM

Quote from: Trumpbert on May 31, 2019, 07:56:41 PM

Quote from: rock hound on May 31, 2019, 03:34:30 PM

Returned home from our Kentucky trip.

 :viking:

What did you do there?

Did some relaxing and visiting Carla's parents, who are now living in an assisted living facility.  We also had to help bring Carla's mom to her dermatologist who was evaluating her post lip tumor surgery.  It was cancerous, but, was encapsulated and removed completely.  They had just moved into the facility so there was some adjusting going on.  We did visit a vineyard for a wine tasting thingy.  Tried to walk as much as possible to enjoy the warm weather they had in KY. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on June 01, 2019, 08:04:24 PM

Quote from: rock hound on May 31, 2019, 08:47:07 PM

We did visit a vineyard for a wine tasting thingy.

Locally produced? What varieties do they grow there?

Quote

Tried to walk as much as possible to enjoy the warm weather they had in KY.

Is it still cold in the NE??

It was cold here until about a week and a half ago. I've had to go from heating the house in the morning to break the chill, to today where I had to get my AC unit out of storage to keep my room from getting hot by mid afternoon.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 01, 2019, 08:21:58 PM

Quote from: Trumpbert on June 01, 2019, 08:04:24 PM

Quote from: rock hound on May 31, 2019, 08:47:07 PM

We did visit a vineyard for a wine tasting thingy.

Locally produced? What varieties do they grow there?

Quote

Tried to walk as much as possible to enjoy the warm weather they had in KY.

Is it still cold in the NE??

It was cold here until about a week and a half ago. I've had to go from heating the house in the morning to break the chill, to today where I had to get my AC unit out of storage to keep my room from getting hot by mid afternoon.

Yes, the grapes are grown locally on site, but, they also have other vineyards that they get their grapes from.  As for varieties, I couldn't remember what they told me.  But, they did have a large variety of wines to taste.  They will give you a taste of 5 bottles for 7 dollars.  About a large shot size.  It goes from the driest to the sweetest.  I got a little bit of a buzz on, but, Carla was driving so it was all good.   As for NE, we started at 52 in the early AM and managed to get up to 75 by late afternoon with a rapid cool down before dark.  We're only due to get into the 60's tomorrow (Sunday).  The heat has kicked on a few times, but we haven't had to use the AC....yet!  We must have gotten pretty cool while we were away.  My Basil plants look a bit sickly, since they are especially vulnerable to the cold. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on June 01, 2019, 11:14:07 PM

Got a haircut... also Yoshi snuggled up to me again.

Good Cat ^_^

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2019, 05:24:19 AM

In London for the first time in months.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on June 06, 2019, 10:20:03 AM

^^^ Cheating on the Mrs. again?? Or did she wise up and divorce you??

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 06, 2019, 03:25:46 PM

Used the morning to peruse yard sales. I found a really nice old Kenwood receiver and an even better condition, small power Pioneer receiver.

The Kenwood is eighty five watts per channel and the Pioneer is thirty five watts per channel. I have only plugged them in and they both work. Not sure what to do with them but I was not walking away from these treasures, especially at the price. The seller just said that, "They don't do anything."  I think meaning no Bluetooth, no wi-fi, no aux input (actually they both do have something compatible with modern day aux) so these are useless.
Thank the gods still living for human stupidity.

The Kenwood was thirty bucks and the Pioneer was ten bucks. There was also a "set in" Garrard turntable (like from an old console or something) with no plinth or supporting structure, but I paid two bucks for that. It has a Shure cartridge. Can not remember the models of anything yet.

They also had a couple hundred albums, but they had been really picked through. I only found some old jazz and a Montrose album. Six LPs total.

So for forty eight (get my arithmetic right) bucks, I found some really cool old stuff.

BUT!!  The whole point of the day is that we took our daughter to a really fancy Japanese steak house with a buffet for her graduation meal/family sit down.

I ate too much!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on June 06, 2019, 06:25:29 PM

Quote from: Trumpbert on June 06, 2019, 10:20:03 AM

^^^ Cheating on the Mrs. again?? Or did she wise up and divorce you??

I’m curious, too. :D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 12, 2019, 11:35:32 AM

I heard a piece performed by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra on our local classical station.  Well played.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 13, 2019, 09:43:00 AM

Guess what, Scrap? You've pissed me off sufficiently to spend time in the sinbin. I've tried to leave you alone, hoping that you'd do the same, but that didn't work. You keep doing your best to piss me off and so I've had it with you.

Do you honestly want to continue pissing me off? Have a think and remember that as an admin, there's plenty of other things I can do, on and off this place.

Enjoy the sinbin. Fucking wanker.

Oh, and DFG - I didn't let you back in for this sort of thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 13, 2019, 09:43:27 AM

As for good things happening today, see my previous post.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on June 14, 2019, 03:20:43 PM

 Of course not! Having opinions you don’t agree with and unintentionally making you butthurt for no reason! Things like that!

You are overreacting to nothing. Seriously. Practice what you preach about “dealing with your butthurt.”

I’ve been curious as to your marital status for a while. I didn’t bother to ask because I figured you wouldn’t reply. I just admitted an internal thought in aspie fashion and you show us your sensitive side.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on June 14, 2019, 06:53:04 PM

On my day off I took my dog on a nice long walk by the river. Then I read some of my old statistics textbook and fumbled around in R (i dont know what Im doing in R). Then I went to the library to read a screenwriting textbook, but some kid pulled the fire alarm, so I left and continued reading in a cafe where i bought a ginger beer....yummm...... ^_^

how is everyone?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 15, 2019, 02:14:08 AM

Quote from: Bastet on June 14, 2019, 03:20:43 PM

Of course not! Having opinions you don’t agree with and unintentionally making you butthurt for no reason! Things like that!

You are overreacting to nothing. Seriously. Practice what you preach about “dealing with your butthurt.”

I’ve been curious as to your marital status for a while. I didn’t bother to ask because I figured you wouldn’t reply. I just admitted an internal thought in aspie fashion and you show us your sensitive side.

Fuck off.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 15, 2019, 02:20:15 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on June 14, 2019, 06:53:04 PM

how is everyone?

Overworked. Work's been demanding and I've been involved in organising a conference. No time for anything, it feels like.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 15, 2019, 11:21:17 AM

Got my kid's "new/old" car back yesterday from the body shop and put four new tires on it today.

WOW! As always, a brand new set of fresh tires is an amazing improvement.

Taking it in tomorrow to have the dealer go over it completely and make sure it is as ready as it can be for a teen driver.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on June 15, 2019, 03:17:35 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 15, 2019, 02:20:15 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on June 14, 2019, 06:53:04 PM

how is everyone?

Overworked. Work's been demanding and I've been involved in organising a conference. No time for anything, it feels like.

That sucks...hopefully 1) it pays off, and 2) the little breaks you do have can be filled with pleasurable reminisces of non-work things. Do you drink tea? Sometimes making a cup is a nice vacation for the temporally challenged.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 17, 2019, 09:07:51 AM

Well after dropping the car on a Sunday to the dealership shop, not expecting for them to even have time to look at it until this morning some time, they already called and suggested some work to be done.

They found a leaky brake line and so I asked them to replace all the brake lines, replace all the fluid and make sure the brakes are 100%.
After that and replacing the strut bushings and aligning the suspension, the total will be just under seven hundred bucks.
Sounds like a win to me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 17, 2019, 10:30:42 AM

I have the day off!   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 18, 2019, 11:13:17 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on June 15, 2019, 03:17:35 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 15, 2019, 02:20:15 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on June 14, 2019, 06:53:04 PM

how is everyone?

Overworked. Work's been demanding and I've been involved in organising a conference. No time for anything, it feels like.

That sucks...hopefully 1) it pays off, and 2) the little breaks you do have can be filled with pleasurable reminisces of non-work things. Do you drink tea? Sometimes making a cup is a nice vacation for the temporally challenged.

Thank you.

Both pay off but both are also taxing in the extreme. Hopefully things will start calming down by the end of this week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 18, 2019, 03:52:02 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on June 14, 2019, 06:53:04 PM

how is everyone?

Jack has been really good. Transferred to a new department at work, so now have a personal life back. It's taken a while to feel settled in the new role, due to unexpected limitations. Not sure if it's an issue of building trust, or my new boss being cautious about overworking me. Could be both, but either way, it slowly keeps getting better, and it's been months since I daydreamed about a catastrophe that prevents me from working. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on June 18, 2019, 07:04:44 PM

Quote from: Jack on June 18, 2019, 03:52:02 PM

Quote from: sg1008 on June 14, 2019, 06:53:04 PM

how is everyone?

Jack has been really good. Transferred to a new department at work, so now have a personal life back. It's taken a while to feel settled in the new role, due to unexpected limitations. Not sure if it's an issue of building trust, or my new boss being cautious about overworking me. Could be both, but either way, it slowly keeps getting better, and it's been months since I daydreamed about a catastrophe that prevents me from working. :laugh:

Hey thats excellent news! Glad it seems to be working out for you . :2thumbsup: Not daydreaming about catastrophes is a great sign. :]

My work has been good too. Its not very demanding on the intellectual side of things, but the company I have for coworkers is awesome. Everyone has a bit of nerdy social awkwardness to their character, and also tend to be very interesting. I think just about everyone is an artist, musician, or writer of some sort. Very creative bunch.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 19, 2019, 09:16:47 AM

Finally passed a milestone in the project I've been busy doing the last year or so.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on June 22, 2019, 12:49:57 AM

I sort of recommended I^2 to a probable-Aspie that I met on another forum . Yeah, i know, I know , i did include loads of  health warnings , but can't bring bring myself to recommend the Great Big Black Hole at the Centre of the Universe (AKA WP) could I? anyone wanna be ready with alternative recommendations?
 
EDIT: ummm...this is ""post something good that happened...""  isn't it?  i misread it as "post something that happened..."  :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Al Swearegen on June 22, 2019, 09:14:25 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 13, 2019, 09:43:00 AM

Guess what, Scrap? You've pissed me off sufficiently to spend time in the sinbin. I've tried to leave you alone, hoping that you'd do the same, but that didn't work. You keep doing your best to piss me off and so I've had it with you.

Do you honestly want to continue pissing me off? Have a think and remember that as an admin, there's plenty of other things I can do, on and off this place.

Enjoy the sinbin. Fucking wanker.

Oh, and DFG - I didn't let you back in for this sort of thing.

 :'(

Tinpot dictator cries rage into his keyboard, makes impotent threats and that he thinks people take seriously. Get over yourself.
Scrap should not have pointed out your immorality. Wasn't nice. Especially when you take such pains to present yourself as a moral and intellectual stalwart. Don't worry. We did not buy it anyhow.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on June 22, 2019, 10:28:18 AM

Quote from: Bastet on June 14, 2019, 03:20:43 PM

Of course not! Having opinions you don’t agree with and unintentionally making you butthurt for no reason! Things like that!

You are overreacting to nothing. Seriously. Practice what you preach about “dealing with your butthurt.”

I’ve been curious as to your marital status for a while. I didn’t bother to ask because I figured you wouldn’t reply. I just admitted an internal thought in aspie fashion and you show us your sensitive side.

I can very much see your POV , here, DFG.  But, the trouble is that you jumped in on Scrap's tail, didn't you?  You even quoted him.  And Scrap was not only being snide little bastard , he was knowingly resurrecting an issue which should never have been thrown into the public arena in the first place. It is odeon's (and everybody else's) prerogative to keep his private life private if he so wishes. But then somebody from I^2 went and committed  the criminal act of stalking Odeon, RL, as well as doxxing him online .
If we can't understand the implications of all that and show a bit of belated respect, then we're not just spazzes, we are fucking morons.    >:(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 22, 2019, 11:27:05 AM

Quote from: Walkie on June 22, 2019, 12:49:57 AM

anyone wanna be ready with alternative recommendations?

Ian's site appears to be still fairly active. https://www.autismforums.com/forums/

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 22, 2019, 02:21:16 PM

Who is Ian, has he ever been on the other sites? I've never heard of that site.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 22, 2019, 02:21:57 PM

Quote from: Walkie on June 22, 2019, 12:49:57 AM

EDIT: ummm...this is ""post something good that happened...""  isn't it?  i misread it as "post something that happened..."  :LOL:

Recommending new people is good!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 22, 2019, 02:23:23 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 22, 2019, 02:21:16 PM

Who is Ian, has he ever been on the other sites? I've never heard of that site.

SuperboyIan was once active on this site. His forum was previously called aspiecentral.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 22, 2019, 02:23:55 PM

Ohhh, gotcha. That's more familiar.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on June 22, 2019, 03:52:10 PM

Quote from: Jack on June 22, 2019, 11:27:05 AM

Quote from: Walkie on June 22, 2019, 12:49:57 AM

anyone wanna be ready with alternative recommendations?

Ian's site appears to be still fairly active. https://www.autismforums.com/forums/

phew! just stopped myself giving you one of those hated actual plusses. thanks :)
Here's one of those virtualler than virtual things:  :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on June 22, 2019, 07:07:17 PM

Lactose free ice cream.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 22, 2019, 08:05:21 PM

Quote from: Walkie on June 22, 2019, 03:52:10 PM

Quote from: Jack on June 22, 2019, 11:27:05 AM

Quote from: Walkie on June 22, 2019, 12:49:57 AM

anyone wanna be ready with alternative recommendations?

Ian's site appears to be still fairly active. https://www.autismforums.com/forums/

phew! just stopped myself giving you one of those hated actual plusses. thanks :)
Here's one of those virtualler than virtual things:  :plus:

Skyblue1's forum is also still up. http://www.autismfriendsnetwork.biz/index.php Doesn't look anymore active than this place, but there might be hidden boards so not sure.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 25, 2019, 07:16:35 AM

Oh, I'm sure Scrap will get to it and start his own.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 25, 2019, 08:58:17 PM

Started my regular 3 days off from work.  Planning the fasting blood draws, for my upcoming Doctor appt! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 28, 2019, 05:41:40 AM

Quote from: rock hound on June 25, 2019, 08:58:17 PM

Started my regular 3 days off from work.  Planning the fasting blood draws, for my upcoming Doctor appt!

I did something similar on Tuesday. Didn't take lithium so I could go and have a blood test for its level from Monday night when I did take it. If there's any problem, my doctor will either send me a letter or call me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 03, 2019, 07:34:46 PM

Had my Doctor's appt., got my prescriptions refilled, all lab tests were normal, heart and lungs in great shape.  Finished some errands and bought some comfort foods.  Cooked some Spanish Rice and shrimp for dinner and enjoyed by Carla and Amber.  Weather very warm, with comfortable humidity.  Busy day, but, stuff got done!   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Tequila on July 03, 2019, 08:49:29 PM

In future, cook the prawns in fish oil.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 04, 2019, 12:20:34 AM

Coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Tequila on July 04, 2019, 01:04:13 AM

Pork scratchings.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on July 04, 2019, 08:21:08 AM

:tea: + [honey]

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 04, 2019, 12:24:14 PM

Finally, finished some odd jobs that were bugging me to get them done.  And it was a hot, but, sunny day, but, I didn't mind doing them as my pint of Ben and Jerry's Vanilla Ice Cream is awaiting it as a treat for getting things done.  YUM :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 04, 2019, 08:54:16 PM

The first evening in ages that I don't have anything to do that can't be put off until the next day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on July 04, 2019, 09:36:13 PM

 Yayyy! enjoy it  :) you richly deserve it.
yes, you do.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Tequila on July 04, 2019, 09:39:48 PM

My morning cup of coffee. Only instant but it will do for now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on July 04, 2019, 09:47:38 PM

Pyraxis said:

Quote

You mean we might actually get a little new blood??

Ted Hughes said:

Quote

Sit on my finger, sing in my ear, O littleblood.

(here's the poem:https://ordinary-times.com/2010/09/26/a-poem-for-sunday-8/  (https://ordinary-times.com/2010/09/26/a-poem-for-sunday-8/))
aaaand...
we have a new member called Littlefinger

The significance of all the above?
Oh! Just that Walkie likes poetic resonance.

I have no idea who the heck this littlefinger actually is.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 04, 2019, 10:09:14 PM

Neither do I.  :LOL: But I'm not opposed to poetic resonance.

Got any poems that will encourage them to post?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on July 04, 2019, 10:39:44 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on July 04, 2019, 10:09:14 PM

Neither do I.  :LOL: But I'm not opposed to poetic resonance.

Got any poems that will encourage them to post?

Hmm. We could try "This be the Verse" by Philip Larkin
Or "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carrol
For some reason (Well. the reason's pretty obvious in the former case  :green: . It's the one that begins They fuck you up, your Mum and Dad..." ) Those two poems  really appeal to Spazzes , even to the point that at least  half of the spazzes whom  I've met in my lifetime know one or the other (or even both)  by heart . Seriously . (Guess which category i come into?  :green:)

Or we could try something like :

There was an old autie called Odeon
Who thought he might like a commodium
But his plans turned to crap
When a spazzer  called Scrap
said , I thought that you meant a commode, Ian.

(real name disguised, cos it doesn't rhyme)

 :apondering:  or maybe not.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 05, 2019, 12:17:38 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on July 04, 2019, 08:54:16 PM

The first evening in ages that I don't have anything to do that can't be put off until the next day.

Enjoy. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 07, 2019, 06:03:53 AM

Six of us played Fantasy AGE, a tabletop game similar to Dungeons and Dragons but more relaxed. I'm the only human. I play a guy named Marric whose main aim is to buy a boat. It's become a bit of humour among us.

We had lunch as well. I got to take vegan apple pies home.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on July 07, 2019, 12:38:31 PM

went out for lunch to commemorate the first anniversary of my Ex's death. Son couldn't be there (on holiday in Cornwall, ATM) 'so it was just me, Exs last partner , Ex's daughter and her partner.  Sounds ghastly, put like that,  doesn;'t it? but they are all really nice people with a quirky outlook on life,  whom i've very much come to regard as family and it great to get together with them. As things turned outm, the place we were going to eat at was closing two hours early today, so we went somewhere else instead, and - predictably- i just had to sip pineapple juice whilst  watching them eat, cos my diet is pretty much impossible these days.  NP, I'd purposely had a late breakfast, and my ex-stepdaughter (for want of better title) let me nick some steamed carrot (the only thing on offer that  I could actually eat) off her plate, We talked and talked and laughed and laughed , and when they dropped me off at my door it was nearly 7,00 pm, Couldn;t believe how the time had flown.   A really pleasant afternoon. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Tequila on July 07, 2019, 02:18:48 PM

Quote from: Walkie on July 07, 2019, 12:38:31 PM

went out for lunch to commemorate the first anniversary of my Ex's death. Son couldn't be there (on holiday in Cornwall, ATM) 'so it was just me, Exs last partner , Ex's daughter and her partner.  Sounds ghastly, put like that,  doesn;'t it? but they are all really nice people with a quirky outlook on life,  whom i've very much come to regard as family and it great to get together with them. As things turned outm, the place we were going to eat at was closing two hours early today, so we went somewhere else instead, and - predictably- i just had to sip pineapple juice whilst  watching them eat, cos my diet is pretty much impossible these days.  NP, I'd purposely had a late breakfast, and my ex-stepdaughter (for want of better title) let me nick some steamed carrot (the only thing on offer that  I could actually eat) off her plate, We talked and talked and laughed and laughed , and when they dropped me off at my door it was nearly 7,00 pm, Couldn;t believe how the time had flown.   A really pleasant afternoon. :)

Have gou got Henry Niles in there?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on July 07, 2019, 03:12:52 PM

Ran into a fiddler and banjo player on the bride walking home. I had run into them before, about a week ago and play some with them. Nice people. Really hot day to be out playing.

:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 07, 2019, 06:14:53 PM

A fiddler and banjo player walk into a bar. The bartender says, "This can only lead to treble".  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 07, 2019, 08:57:51 PM

Finished the weekend work torture, off tomorrow, work Tuesday and then a GLORIOUS week off.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on July 08, 2019, 03:16:54 PM

Had a burrito.

Despite feeling terrible, I got to see my coworkers who were doing well and a joy to see. :]

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 12, 2019, 05:09:16 PM

This week was mostly about getting our new whirlpool/hot tub set up and working. Over the past two days the delivery of all the pieces was finally done.

I gave up a bit of my back deck space to place it in a private area. Now it is running and heating up.

I can't wait until it is ready to go. I plan to leave it fairly cool, since it is summer, but this fall I will warm it up and enjoy it even more.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on July 12, 2019, 05:32:44 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on July 12, 2019, 05:09:16 PM

This week was mostly about getting our new whirlpool/hot tub set up and working. Over the past two days the delivery of all the pieces was finally done.

I gave up a bit of my back deck space to place it in a private area. Now it is running and heating up.

I can't wait until it is ready to go. I plan to leave it fairly cool, since it is summer, but this fall I will warm it up and enjoy it even more.

Sounds good. Are you planning on using any of those "bath bomb" thingies?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 13, 2019, 07:44:38 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on July 12, 2019, 05:32:44 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on July 12, 2019, 05:09:16 PM

This week was mostly about getting our new whirlpool/hot tub set up and working. Over the past two days the delivery of all the pieces was finally done.

I gave up a bit of my back deck space to place it in a private area. Now it is running and heating up.

I can't wait until it is ready to go. I plan to leave it fairly cool, since it is summer, but this fall I will warm it up and enjoy it even more.

Sounds good. Are you planning on using any of those "bath bomb" thingies?

If you mean what I think you mean, then no. There are plenty of bubbles and powerful jets to make things like that unnecessary.
Besides, I do not care for the "fragrant" (fucking stinky!!) varieties either.
I grow lavender, bee balm, lemon grass and various other herbal essentials, so I suppose I could make up my own custom "potpourri bags" to enjoy.

You gave me an idea.
 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on July 13, 2019, 01:20:28 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on July 13, 2019, 07:44:38 AM

Quote from: sg1008 on July 12, 2019, 05:32:44 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on July 12, 2019, 05:09:16 PM

This week was mostly about getting our new whirlpool/hot tub set up and working. Over the past two days the delivery of all the pieces was finally done.

I gave up a bit of my back deck space to place it in a private area. Now it is running and heating up.

I can't wait until it is ready to go. I plan to leave it fairly cool, since it is summer, but this fall I will warm it up and enjoy it even more.

Sounds good. Are you planning on using any of those "bath bomb" thingies?

If you mean what I think you mean, then no. There are plenty of bubbles and powerful jets to make things like that unnecessary.
Besides, I do not care for the "fragrant" (fucking stinky!!) varieties either.
I grow lavender, bee balm, lemon grass and various other herbal essentials, so I suppose I could make up my own custom "potpourri bags" to enjoy.

You gave me an idea.
 :thumbup:

Haha! Well, it sounds like you could have a very aromatic adventure ahead. Aroma therapy and warm jets...sounds awesome.
 :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 13, 2019, 03:32:27 PM

Back home after a two-day trip.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 21, 2019, 11:12:33 AM

Good, maybe, but FUNNY for sure.

I was drifting slowly through traffic downtown when a cool looking biker dude about my age ground his way up to my side door. I noticed he is checking out my car from head to toe. I am driving my Chevy Traverse, windows up, AC blasting cold air, stereo comforting, etc. It was ninety six degrees out there and this Harley rider is checking out my car.
Not really nervous yet, after all, I have my forty five on my hip and I do not see any more bikers around.
He suddenly gave me a big "Thumb up."  I returned the gesture, but at this point the dog became curious as to what was going on and jumped over the console and into the front seat, checking out the bike and looking very happy.

The biker dude immediately upon seeing the dog in the car grinned from ear to ear and gave me another Double Thumbs Up!
As not so cool as it is driving around in a Soccer Mom's grocery getter, AC on high, seemed a bit less suck town with the heat, but when he saw I had my dog with me, I was just fine with him.

 :2thumbsup:

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Post by: odeon on July 21, 2019, 02:45:04 PM

 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 29, 2019, 12:48:48 PM

Last year really sucked for my stone fruits and several perennnial plants, generally. We had a deep, very late freeeze dipping welll below zero degrees Fahrenheit in late February after the buds had already seen warmer temps and had begun to open and flower.  No fruit and several perennials plants barely survived.

This year was ugly as well, but in different ways, so lots of peaches from my really old trees and a few plums from my two year old trees. Perennials look great,
tropicals I love to grow look great, although keeping up with our NO-RAIN July has been a challlenge.

All in all, good.
But, today I made a peach pie!!
First of many, I intend. Can not wait to try it!

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Post by: Walkie on July 31, 2019, 03:41:13 PM

^^ dammit, that looks delicious.
can't eat pastry these days, but hey! can't eat pixels either, so just for once i'm at no particular disadvantage
so  :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on July 31, 2019, 04:03:48 PM

my good thing is also food -related, but let's start with last week, when my son's elder sister and her partner came round for the birthday.  Now, i've recently had to cut even more edibles out of my diet and i had loads of tinned,  frozen and packet  food just taking up precious space. so i passed a lot of it on to them.  They were really pleased and offered me some money, but i wouldn't take it. 

Now, my son's sister's partner (heck, is there no simple way to say that?) works at an organic garden, and today he dropped round with a box full of delicious-looking  organic veg for me, freshly picked from his workplace.  And he wouldn't take money for that either.  it was especially useful because i'd run out of greens, and the only shop that i can reastically walk to is utterly useless for thst sort of thing.  But even better than that, i was missing my son's company and it really cheered me up to have a vistor.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 31, 2019, 09:56:41 PM

Had a very good chat with the organiser of a conference I'm currently attending.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 01, 2019, 08:40:03 AM

Walkie, good things and deeds multiply. I'm glad for you.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: sg1008 on August 02, 2019, 07:57:26 AM

Coming here and finding good humoured posts. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 02, 2019, 03:24:06 PM

Someone gave me some special chocolate from Massachusetts 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 02, 2019, 07:23:53 PM

 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 07, 2019, 03:26:14 AM

Well, the good news is that my plane landed almost an hour early.

The bad news is that BA had a systems failure affecting Heathrow this morning so planes weren't allowed to leave and we didn't get a gate until after an hour at the runway.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 16, 2019, 08:09:51 PM

Found a Snap-on ratchet at a garage sale cheep

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 17, 2019, 11:52:29 PM

Coffee.

And finally, no rain.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 04, 2019, 09:21:15 PM

The Good:
We just today finished getting all new windows and doors in our house. That is no small thing! They are awesome. Something we have needed for several years. That included a sliding glass door for the rear deck access.
Very nice triple pane windows with "fake small pane break-ups" set inside each window making it look as if they were more old fashioned type. A very nice looking touch.
Does absolutely nothing for the working and sealing of the window, but it looks nice. It is the gas charged triple pane design that actually cost so much.

The Bad:
The rookie who was assisting the older fellow doing most of the work, after installing the inside trim around the glass door, popped out his air hose powering his air nailer from the compressor end first and lost control of the end of the hose and it smashed and BROKE out the inner pane on the glass door.
 :bigcry:

They were almost completely DONE!!


The Ugly:
Since all our windows and doors were all custom made (older house with all handmade everything), it will take another two weeks for the replacement panel to arrive. The door has three basic parts; the frame, the stationary glass panel and the sliding glass panel. It was the stationary panel that was broken.
Fortunately, only the inner panel was broken, so we are bug free without having to put up a plywood wall there.
Still, two weeks until finish!

I had them out to the house to start this process back in late May, after beginning my online research of all these local companies back in February. Finally it was coming together and being finished, I thought. Two more weeks!
THEN all is good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on September 05, 2019, 09:45:22 AM

awww heck, still i guess it was a bigger disaster for the guy who smashed the window than for yourself, DD.  He has cost the company a pretty penny. I  shouldn't be surprised if he loses his job ober that :(

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Post by: rock hound on September 05, 2019, 07:44:42 PM

I was shopping at walmart today, when an elderly lady, caught my attention at the check out line.  She said, "excuse me" near the battery display....so she said, "your a man, can you help me decide between these two type of batteries."  She had in her hands a package of eveready batteries and duracell batteries.  This was a no-brainer for me.  So we talked and I explained that from experience, NOT because I was a man......that I always used the Eveready batteries as the Duracell had a history, in my experience, of leaking and ruining the devices that I was using them in.  She was most grateful, and stated that she was leaning to the Eveready Batteries, and my opinion convinced her to stick with them.  It's simple experiences like these that make me happy and keep me going!  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 05, 2019, 09:25:59 PM

Quote from: Walkie on September 05, 2019, 09:45:22 AM

awww heck, still i guess it was a bigger disaster for the guy who smashed the window than for yourself, DD.  He has cost the company a pretty penny. I  shouldn't be surprised if he loses his job ober that :(

I am sure you are right. He was quite distraught over his mistake.
I immediately went over to "comfort" him and assure him that This Shit just happens sometimes and that he should not beat himself up over it too much.
The owner of the company called me later that evening to update me and "apologize" about the incident. I asked about the youngster and he just said that this type of thing has happened to every one of his employees over the years and such costs are a part of doing business. He said the kid always does great work and he will keep his job.

Sometimes shit just happens.
 :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 06, 2019, 01:57:24 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 06, 2019, 04:12:40 AM

Quote from: rock hound on September 05, 2019, 07:44:42 PM

I was shopping at walmart today, when an elderly lady, caught my attention at the check out line.  She said, "excuse me" near the battery display....so she said, "your a man, can you help me decide between these two type of batteries."  She had in her hands a package of eveready batteries and duracell batteries.  This was a no-brainer for me.  So we talked and I explained that from experience, NOT because I was a man......that I always used the Eveready batteries as the Duracell had a history, in my experience, of leaking and ruining the devices that I was using them in.  She was most grateful, and stated that she was leaning to the Eveready Batteries, and my opinion convinced her to stick with them.  It's simple experiences like these that make me happy and keep me going!  8)

Similar situations have happened to me. I know I'm only a volunteer but customers do appreciate it when I can help them. Had a long talk with a lady about what type of blanket she should buy for her dog. There was a choice of 2. She said her dog had a habit of tearing everything to pieces so I recommended the thicker blanket. The blanket was also a lot bigger than the other one. The lady was happy with that so she bought it.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on September 06, 2019, 12:27:33 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 05, 2019, 09:25:59 PM

Quote from: Walkie on September 05, 2019, 09:45:22 AM

awww heck, still i guess it was a bigger disaster for the guy who smashed the window than for yourself, DD.  He has cost the company a pretty penny. I  shouldn't be surprised if he loses his job ober that :(

I am sure you are right. He was quite distraught over his mistake.
I immediately went over to "comfort" him and assure him that This Shit just happens sometimes and that he should not beat himself up over it too much.
The owner of the company called me later that evening to update me and "apologize" about the incident. I asked about the youngster and he just said that this type of thing has happened to every one of his employees over the years and such costs are a part of doing business. He said the kid always does great work and he will keep his job.

Sometimes shit just happens.
 :dunno:

Good for you, DD :)  :plus:
And thank goodness for sensible bosses.  I knew a guy who worked as a machine setter for a small engineering firm. The boss used to cajole him into coming into work, even if he had the flu. showing him the books and pointing out exactly  how much money worker sickness was costing him. Well, my mate was sympathetic, cos it really is tough for small businesses to stay afloat . But then, when the inevitable finally happened, and he made the little error that ruined a really big job, guess what? Yeah, he got the sack.  He was sympathetic towards the bosses position on that too, saying yeah, he deserved it. But me, i'd be surprised if the boss ever found someone better.  What do you think?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 06, 2019, 01:43:28 PM

Went out to fetch the laundry off the drying lines and spotted at it's base the tiniest Garter snake I had ever seen.  As I am gathering the laundry, it's trying writhe away as fast as possible from me.  It's a coolish day and I was concerned that it was wasting valuable energy in it's attempts to get away.  So I avoided walking near it, yet kept my eye on it so I wouldn't walk on the poor thing.  As I finished it had disappeared and I hope it found a nice safe and warm niche to shelter in as it was doing it's hunting.  Lots of nice insects for it to prey on near our house.  And the patio bricks that it was on must have felt warm after a few hours of sunlight falling on them.  Stay safe, my little friend!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 06, 2019, 06:23:42 PM

Quote from: Walkie on September 06, 2019, 12:27:33 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 05, 2019, 09:25:59 PM

Quote from: Walkie on September 05, 2019, 09:45:22 AM

awww heck, still i guess it was a bigger disaster for the guy who smashed the window than for yourself, DD.  He has cost the company a pretty penny. I  shouldn't be surprised if he loses his job ober that :(

I am sure you are right. He was quite distraught over his mistake.
I immediately went over to "comfort" him and assure him that This Shit just happens sometimes and that he should not beat himself up over it too much.
The owner of the company called me later that evening to update me and "apologize" about the incident. I asked about the youngster and he just said that this type of thing has happened to every one of his employees over the years and such costs are a part of doing business. He said the kid always does great work and he will keep his job.

Sometimes shit just happens.
 :dunno:

Good for you, DD :)  :plus:
And thank goodness for sensible bosses.  I knew a guy who worked as a machine setter for a small engineering firm. The boss used to cajole him into coming into work, even if he had the flu. showing him the books and pointing out exactly  how much money worker sickness was costing him. Well, my mate was sympathetic, cos it really is tough for small businesses to stay afloat . But then, when the inevitable finally happened, and he made the little error that ruined a really big job, guess what? Yeah, he got the sack.  He was sympathetic towards the bosses position on that too, saying yeah, he deserved it. But me, i'd be surprised if the boss ever found someone better.  What do you think?

It is all too often that someone's integrity seems to allow escalating situations to devolve into something that eventually bites them in the ass. Seems as if your pal got some of that all over him.

I never imagined that this guy should have been fired or screwed over in any way. Yeah, he made a rookie mistake with a powerful tool and his learning process included breaking my brand new window. FUCKDAMNSHITHELLPISSCUNTFUCKFUCKFUCK and so on.
It could have been worse. He might have been hurt.
NEVER take the compressor end of a high pressure hose loose until you have spent or bled off the pressure some way.

Your buddy should not have been fucked over either.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 09, 2019, 07:09:53 AM

I was up fairly early this morning. It is apple season, just beginning.
I made a pie. Very juicy and it ran over a bit, but it seems to be setting up just fine.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2019, 03:13:39 AM

Coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 11, 2019, 08:35:21 AM

I have a day off!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 11, 2019, 02:01:23 PM

Actually yesterday, but...

I took apart an old broken box spring in order to separate the wood, metal, and fabric for recycling. I am OCD about stuff like this.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 15, 2019, 07:59:49 AM

At my HS reunion last night a bunch of girls that had crushes on me back in MS and/or HS came up to me throughout the evening and were quite friendly with hugs and whatnot. I knew of some of the crushes, but others I did not. The affection and blushing smiles were a nice boost to my quite battered ego.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 19, 2019, 03:26:59 PM

Got new glasses for the entire family.

Mine are still yet to be completed but everyone else has their new ones.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 19, 2019, 05:35:55 PM

I got a final payment on a job I finished over a month ago,  better late than never

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 20, 2019, 10:22:28 AM

Had a beer with my team leader.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on October 30, 2019, 11:26:16 AM

New escape proof dog crate arrived for the youngest pup who is our official houdini dog and can bust out of every type of crate so far. Wish I could leave her out like her sister but she still eats all the things.  ::)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 10, 2019, 01:51:27 PM

The standard we've been working on for the last three years is finally close to being finished. We adjourned the meeting today with no further meetings planned.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on November 11, 2019, 04:46:50 PM

Quote from: odeon on November 10, 2019, 01:51:27 PM

The standard we've been working on for the last three years is finally close to being finished. We adjourned the meeting today with no further meetings planned.

 :congrats:

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Post by: odeon on November 12, 2019, 10:04:55 AM

Thanks. :)

I hope I don't jinx it by posting about it. But I already did on FB, too, so I'll blame you all if it goes south.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on November 12, 2019, 05:11:52 PM

Be sure to tag me in the blame post so I know when to be appropriately sorry for the turmoil I caused  :hide: :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 13, 2019, 11:45:22 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on November 12, 2019, 05:11:52 PM

Be sure to tag me in the blame post so I know when to be appropriately sorry for the turmoil I caused  :hide: :lol1:

 :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on November 20, 2019, 09:53:04 AM

OMG I have power.

16 yr old kid sheared the power pole off across the street (he's okay, luckily)...we didn't have power from around 6:00 pm last night until 5:39 am this morning.

Glad we got that extra insulating done and the weather hasn't been too bad. Only got down to 61F last night in here, it was around 30F outside.

Hot coffee always tastes better after a power outage.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on November 20, 2019, 03:12:37 PM

Ugh. Long power outages suck. We get them here all the time because we live rural and there's a ton of old trees. The moment we get too much ice, they go down like dominoes but we can heat by woodstove which is a huge help.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 21, 2019, 04:05:48 PM

Power outages do suck. We had one that went on for a few days and we had to buy candles and flashlights and whatnot.

Though I'd argue problems with your water supply are worse. A few years ago, someone determined the water feed to us was contaminated with some shit and we had to boil everything for two months and get our drinking water from elsewhere.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 22, 2019, 06:41:37 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 21, 2019, 04:05:48 PM

Power outages do suck. We had one that went on for a few days and we had to buy candles and flashlights and whatnot.

Though I'd argue problems with your water supply are worse. A few years ago, someone determined the water feed to us was contaminated with some shit and we had to boil everything for two months and get our drinking water from elsewhere.

Geez, what a hassle. What about baths/showers?

The Thai lady I volunteer with asked me to her house on Sunday. I look forward to going but she has a very old silky terrier that I don't even want to touch. Unfortunately I'm fussy about the dogs I like and don't like. Cats - I like them all.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 22, 2019, 07:34:08 AM

I got the sump plug out, yeeeess! :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on November 22, 2019, 03:19:23 PM

All the time I spent with my favourite relatives after the funeral.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on November 22, 2019, 03:31:53 PM

A new rugby shirt that I purchased online arrived today.   My old (40+ y/o) shirt finally became to worn to wear.  It was the softest, most comfortable shirt I ever owned.  I bought it used at either a thrift store or a yard sale.  It's the shirt I am wearing in my FB profile pic.  There were only so many frayed seams and poked holes that I could reasonably sew up.  I tried the new one on and it feels good, I'll wear it to work this weekend.  Once I get the initial washing done. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 22, 2019, 05:14:22 PM

Quote from: renaeden on November 22, 2019, 06:41:37 AM

Quote from: odeon on November 21, 2019, 04:05:48 PM

Power outages do suck. We had one that went on for a few days and we had to buy candles and flashlights and whatnot.

Though I'd argue problems with your water supply are worse. A few years ago, someone determined the water feed to us was contaminated with some shit and we had to boil everything for two months and get our drinking water from elsewhere.

Geez, what a hassle. What about baths/showers?

That was OK. We were strongly advised not to drink the water, that's all.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on November 24, 2019, 08:30:45 AM

I don't have to travel anywhere and no more flights or hotel stays until January. *woot*

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Post by: Icequeen on November 24, 2019, 10:41:46 AM

We get water outages occasionally due to freezing.

We had a major snow storm around 10 years back that knocked everything out for weeks, they've been extra vigilant with the tree trimming ever since and upgraded a lot of water lines, power outages are getting rare now, and my lines going to the house from the road are underground.

Yep, I'd much rather not have power...anything too long of either  the Hampton Inn is 2.5 miles up the road.

Hot tub, breakfast buffet, cable tv, and high speed internet. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 25, 2019, 06:12:21 AM

It rained a bit. Some bushfire reprieve.

I mean some as in, the rain only seems to end the battle, not the war. The peat fire shall exist forever.

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Post by: rock hound on November 25, 2019, 11:54:22 AM

Carla made here delicious french toast and with a side of sausage patties...a yummy hearty breakfast.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 25, 2019, 04:33:34 PM

Both of my kids were wonderfully helpful and supportive today, and I'm really proud of them.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on November 25, 2019, 08:14:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on November 25, 2019, 04:33:34 PM

Both of my kids were wonderfully helpful and supportive today, and I'm really proud of them.

Sometimes that makes all the difference in a day  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 27, 2019, 12:27:22 AM

At the Salvos (second hand shop) we have to wear black shoes. I've been wearing my black (and a little bit of pink) sneakers there which have been ok but we're not really meant to wear sneakers. So on Monday I saw a pair of black shoes that were donated, my size and everything. Since they're for work, I was allowed to have them for free. That's one good thing.

When I tried them on, I found they were a bit too hard. Too hard to stand and walk around in for 8 hours. So today I was near a chemist. They had a selection of inner soles. I found a pair of women's gel ones. $20, not too bad. I made sure I kept the receipt. Got home, put the inner soles in the shoes and wow, they fit perfectly. Feel all right as well. Second good thing. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 27, 2019, 01:49:46 AM

The thought of reconnection... when really, it was all a dream  >:(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 30, 2019, 08:17:20 PM

Quote from: Genesis on November 27, 2019, 01:49:46 AM

The thought of reconnection... when really, it was all a dream  >:(

STOP BEING A WHINY BITCH!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 30, 2019, 08:22:29 PM

Quote from: Genesis on November 30, 2019, 08:17:20 PM

Quote from: Genesis on November 27, 2019, 01:49:46 AM

The thought of reconnection... when really, it was all a dream  >:(

STOP BEING A WHINY BITCH!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9vvzcS0fgI

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 30, 2019, 08:23:01 PM

Quote from: Genesis on November 30, 2019, 08:22:29 PM

Quote from: Genesis on November 30, 2019, 08:17:20 PM

Quote from: Genesis on November 27, 2019, 01:49:46 AM

The thought of reconnection... when really, it was all a dream  >:(

STOP BEING A WHINY BITCH!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9vvzcS0fgI

Fine  :yawn:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 01, 2019, 02:59:38 AM

:coffee:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 31, 2019, 06:23:49 PM

I managed to get the recycling bin out before the truck came.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on December 31, 2019, 10:59:18 PM

2019 is fucking over with!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 01, 2020, 03:34:34 AM

I'm happy that a new Decade is here.... I'm excited to see where it leads ^__^

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 01, 2020, 12:00:44 PM

It's 2020 and things should start rolling again soon.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on January 01, 2020, 02:08:24 PM

Dragged my fat arse to the gym this morning. I'm way more out of shape than I thought.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 02, 2020, 01:17:30 PM

The PR started in-patient therapy today.  I get 5 hours of alone time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on January 02, 2020, 01:53:18 PM

Alone time is wonderful.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on January 02, 2020, 02:11:37 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 02, 2020, 01:17:30 PM

The PR started in-patient therapy today.  I get 5 hours of alone time.

So beneficial for you both!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on January 04, 2020, 08:22:17 PM

SO sent me pictures of his buddy's van that is going to be going up for sale in the near future. We've got first dibs.

Dodge Ram conversion w/80,000 fully loaded w/the high top. Oh hell yeah. :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on January 05, 2020, 12:42:00 AM

While I was out at the shooting range with "friends" I received a huge pallet of wood from afar which contained all the materials I ordered to create my JBL Studio Monitors this coming year.
Honestly, I am hoping to get them finished in one year.

I was expecting it to be delivered to my home, but not until about three weeks from now.
FINE!!  This is awesome! My first peak shows exactly what I was hoping to use for my lifelong desired JBL thingies. Full size 3/4 inch thirteen ply plywood, marine grade.

I still can not start yet.  It is way too cold for glue to dry, but I can start cutting certain pieces!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on January 05, 2020, 03:30:21 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on January 04, 2020, 08:22:17 PM

SO sent me pictures of his buddy's van that is going to be going up for sale in the near future. We've got first dibs.

Dodge Ram conversion w/80,000 fully loaded w/the high top. Oh hell yeah. :autism:

Holy crap!!!! That's amazing

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 05, 2020, 06:12:57 PM

I'm able to function with my Walkie again! YAY!!!!!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on January 05, 2020, 09:41:57 PM

Okay that comment read really weird considering we have a member named Walkie.

What is "your" Walkie?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on January 05, 2020, 09:51:28 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on January 05, 2020, 09:41:57 PM

Okay that comment read really weird considering we have a member named Walkie.

What is "your" Walkie?

Yes it did. That's exactly what I thought when I read it  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 05, 2020, 10:37:55 PM

I left work at the right time and didn't give a damn.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on January 06, 2020, 01:15:48 PM

Seeing how excited my oldest gets when he's getting ready for a date

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on January 06, 2020, 07:05:30 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on January 05, 2020, 09:41:57 PM

Okay that comment read really weird considering we have a member named Walkie.

What is "your" Walkie?

Maybe it's something like My Majesty.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 06, 2020, 09:25:16 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on January 05, 2020, 09:41:57 PM

Okay that comment read really weird considering we have a member named Walkie.

What is "your" Walkie?

It's a radio to communicate with management or other co-workers to let them know when I'm nearby to help with a clean-up (I'm a janitor at Walmart in Chicago Area)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on January 06, 2020, 10:14:38 PM

Oh like a walkie talkie.   :facepalm2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 07, 2020, 12:00:09 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on January 06, 2020, 10:14:38 PM

Oh like a walkie talkie.   :facepalm2:

It is a walkie talkie... just a Motorola variety

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on January 07, 2020, 07:39:38 AM

Ah! Gotcha.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on January 29, 2020, 11:26:04 PM

My new CD player arrived. It's my Christmas present to myself. The old one is a tinny portable that was WolFish's for who knows how long before I started using it. It was starting to skip on just about anything that got put into it.

I am not the most sophisticated listener but I am happy to be hearing a depth of sound in CD's I've bought recently that I never heard with the old player.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 30, 2020, 04:53:08 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on January 29, 2020, 11:26:04 PM

My new CD player arrived. It's my Christmas present to myself. The old one is a tinny portable that was WolFish's for who knows how long before I started using it. It was starting to skip on just about anything that got put into it.

I am not the most sophisticated listener but I am happy to be hearing a depth of sound in CD's I've bought recently that I never heard with the old player.

My CD players tend to last about 2 years.  I'm just happy that they still make them and yes, the sound does seem to get better as I buy the new ones.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 30, 2020, 08:23:36 PM

All I did was stay home, mainly because "somewhat broke" at the moment... I did find a new comedy to watch though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on January 30, 2020, 10:08:55 PM

Quote from: rock hound on January 30, 2020, 04:53:08 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on January 29, 2020, 11:26:04 PM

My new CD player arrived. It's my Christmas present to myself. The old one is a tinny portable that was WolFish's for who knows how long before I started using it. It was starting to skip on just about anything that got put into it.

I am not the most sophisticated listener but I am happy to be hearing a depth of sound in CD's I've bought recently that I never heard with the old player.

My CD players tend to last about 2 years.  I'm just happy that they still make them and yes, the sound does seem to get better as I buy the new ones.

I think this one was a rare find... I really wanted a multi disc player so I could easily switch between kid music and my music, and it has 5 trays for around $200 (used). It's a bit slow and loud about cd switching but I'm happy with it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 03, 2020, 03:09:29 AM

I've almost completely moved my listening to lossless files on media servers.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on February 08, 2020, 03:49:26 AM

Car Impound Auction!!

Crush boi came away with a Ford Festiva with no clutch (it started though) and a Suzuki Ignis (wouldn't start).
Some more lawn ornaments to add to his strong collection of lawn ornaments :P

I found the Camry and the Barina there very tempting but I didn't bid. The Camry had all flight training manuals in the boot!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on February 09, 2020, 06:35:01 PM

Had time and energy to stitch.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on February 10, 2020, 04:29:12 AM

Flu symptoms are getting less.

This is a weird one. Not congested, no sore throat, but all the other flu stuff is there. Including knowing where all my muscles are located.  :P

Ciara still blows merrily around the house, way calmer than yesterday, but I do like her sound.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on February 10, 2020, 09:29:24 AM

I hope you're turning the proverbial corner

Today I don't have to go anywhere and I'm happy about it as tomorrow I'm combining two errands so today I can have the day off.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on February 19, 2020, 09:24:25 AM

Got some paperwork out of the way today

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 20, 2020, 02:51:45 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on February 20, 2020, 11:45:39 AM

I watched Nintendo's Live Stream of the new Animal Crossing game that they're releasing March 20th. I'm a sucker for that game and I'm excited about the new stuff

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on February 20, 2020, 01:44:35 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on February 20, 2020, 11:45:39 AM

I watched Nintendo's Live Stream of the new Animal Crossing game that they're releasing March 20th. I'm a sucker for that game and I'm excited about the new stuff

Oh hell, I wasted so many hours playing that one. Love it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on February 20, 2020, 02:05:53 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on February 20, 2020, 01:44:35 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on February 20, 2020, 11:45:39 AM

I watched Nintendo's Live Stream of the new Animal Crossing game that they're releasing March 20th. I'm a sucker for that game and I'm excited about the new stuff

Oh hell, I wasted so many hours playing that one. Love it.

Ha! You have no idea how much joy that brings me because I never would have figured you to be someone who had played the game and I have no idea why I think that.  :laugh:

I find picking the weeds extremely relaxing.  :laugh:

The new one they're bringing out for the switch looks like a lot of fun. I do admit that since the theme is to start from scratch on your own tropical island, I got a kick out of the fact that Nintendo did their live stream in the form of a travel brochure.

https://youtu.be/KcsiD3nNzA4

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 21, 2020, 02:16:31 AM

Found a version of a movie soundtrack I didn't know existed. I can't wait until it arrives.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on February 21, 2020, 09:57:09 AM

What soundtrack?? Movie soundtracks can be amazing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 22, 2020, 07:10:59 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on February 21, 2020, 09:57:09 AM

What soundtrack?? Movie soundtracks can be amazing.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind, one of my all-time favourite movies and movie soundtracks. This particular version is completely remastered and includes a lot of stuff not in any previous release. Woot.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on February 22, 2020, 07:53:20 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 22, 2020, 07:10:59 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on February 21, 2020, 09:57:09 AM

What soundtrack?? Movie soundtracks can be amazing.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind, one of my all-time favourite movies and movie soundtracks. This particular version is completely remastered and includes a lot of stuff not in any previous release. Woot.

Awesome. One of my favourite movies/soundtracks of all time is Pump Up The Volume. I looooove Leonard Cohen's Everybody Knows

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 23, 2020, 11:57:24 AM

^It's a great song. Listening to it right now - your fault.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on February 23, 2020, 03:44:10 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 23, 2020, 11:57:24 AM

^It's a great song. Listening to it right now - your fault.

I will happily take the blame for this one  :green: That song gives me goosebumps every single time

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on February 24, 2020, 08:06:53 PM

Did the workshop at work. It's actually the first of two sessions, I'm repeating it tomorrow for people who couldn't make it today. It went okay! I sent out feedback surveys and only got one back so far. The response was that it was really useful, and maybe slow down a bit in future workshops or provide screenshots people can refer back to. So I'm doing that.

 :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on February 25, 2020, 06:51:28 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on February 24, 2020, 08:06:53 PM

Did the workshop at work. It's actually the first of two sessions, I'm repeating it tomorrow for people who couldn't make it today. It went okay! I sent out feedback surveys and only got one back so far. The response was that it was really useful, and maybe slow down a bit in future workshops or provide screenshots people can refer back to. So I'm doing that.

 :)

That's really good feedback! Hope today goes equally well

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 26, 2020, 12:58:40 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on February 24, 2020, 08:06:53 PM

Did the workshop at work. It's actually the first of two sessions, I'm repeating it tomorrow for people who couldn't make it today. It went okay! I sent out feedback surveys and only got one back so far. The response was that it was really useful, and maybe slow down a bit in future workshops or provide screenshots people can refer back to. So I'm doing that.

 :)

Good luck with the second!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on February 26, 2020, 08:19:15 AM

It went well. I was even more relaxed this time, so I made fewer technical mistakes. The first time I was trying to roll with it and demonstrate the mentality of mistakes being inevitable and how to troubleshoot them instead of panicking, but the second time was just smoother, so I got to cover more of my prepared content.

Still got people saying it was a little hard to follow, and one said that the info could have been split up over two workshops. I was being as simple as I could!  :nerdy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on February 26, 2020, 08:56:15 AM

My vision is back to normal. That was 23 long days. Doesn't change anything going forward, still have the MRI to do.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on February 26, 2020, 11:20:47 AM

Sipping Lapsang Souchong tea from a large mug and scanning my FB page. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 27, 2020, 09:24:50 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on February 26, 2020, 08:56:15 AM

My vision is back to normal. That was 23 long days. Doesn't change anything going forward, still have the MRI to do.

It's great news nevertheless. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on February 27, 2020, 09:27:50 AM

Quote from: odeon on February 27, 2020, 09:24:50 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on February 26, 2020, 08:56:15 AM

My vision is back to normal. That was 23 long days. Doesn't change anything going forward, still have the MRI to do.

It's great news nevertheless. :)

I truly have not given my eyeballs the respect they deserve because one little thing goes wrong with them and my life implodes  :laugh: I didn't realize how much it was depressing me until it was back to normal and I was able to do so many more things I couldn't because of the lack of focus.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 27, 2020, 09:32:39 AM

Really happy for you.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on February 27, 2020, 11:35:58 AM

Ditto!

Also happy that we got 2 inches of rain rather than it equivalent in snow.  If memory serves, I believe the ratio is 1 inch of rain equals 6 inches of snow.  Correct me if I'm wrong.  But, it has done wonders to clear our hilly driveway and snow piles. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 28, 2020, 02:31:53 PM

The daughter's sleeping over. It's just so good to have everyone at home. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on February 28, 2020, 03:54:42 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 28, 2020, 02:31:53 PM

The daughter's sleeping over. It's just so good to have everyone at home. :)

Aww :heart: I'm always happiest when everyone is home

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 29, 2020, 03:04:53 AM

I understand that her leaving home is the way this works but a part of me would like to roll back the clock, just for a while longer.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on February 29, 2020, 02:42:36 PM

That's so incredibly valid, Odeon :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on February 29, 2020, 11:07:13 PM

Amber achieved her yellow belt in Kung-Fu class.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 01, 2020, 02:39:04 AM

Quote from: rock hound on February 29, 2020, 11:07:13 PM

Amber achieved her yellow belt in Kung-Fu class.

Congrats!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on March 01, 2020, 06:29:31 AM

Quote from: rock hound on February 29, 2020, 11:07:13 PM

Amber achieved her yellow belt in Kung-Fu class.

That's awesome

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on March 01, 2020, 09:46:52 AM

We have heat  :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 01, 2020, 04:40:57 PM

 :party:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 01, 2020, 07:55:24 PM

The highest ever for today is 57 degrees Fahrenheit... hopefully, by Yoshi's birthday, it will be much acceptable weather for me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 04, 2020, 03:22:23 AM

Kayleigh and I went to the Salvos shop in Baldivis. It's about half an hour's drive from where we live. We went because we have D&D friends that work there. It was great to see them. I bought a hoodie and Kayleigh got a blue and black patterned top. I even got staff discount.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on March 04, 2020, 09:04:34 AM

A birthday message I got from my bonus daughter. She's such an amazing young woman.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 05, 2020, 02:33:27 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on March 01, 2020, 09:46:52 AM

We have heat  :hyke:

:woohoo:

This is when your water pipes burst. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on March 05, 2020, 10:22:52 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 05, 2020, 02:33:27 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on March 01, 2020, 09:46:52 AM

We have heat  :hyke:

:woohoo:

This is when your water pipes burst. :zoinks:

:lol1:

Do not wish more drama on me!! I've got my fill of it  :hide: :tinfoil: :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 05, 2020, 12:58:25 PM

Going to go to my first yoga class in a long time later today!  :meditate:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 06, 2020, 12:46:21 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on March 05, 2020, 10:22:52 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 05, 2020, 02:33:27 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on March 01, 2020, 09:46:52 AM

We have heat  :hyke:

:woohoo:

This is when your water pipes burst. :zoinks:

:lol1:

Do not wish more drama on me!! I've got my fill of it  :hide: :tinfoil: :laugh:

May your life be dull and uneventful. :M ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on March 06, 2020, 07:47:10 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 06, 2020, 12:46:21 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on March 05, 2020, 10:22:52 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 05, 2020, 02:33:27 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on March 01, 2020, 09:46:52 AM

We have heat  :hyke:

:woohoo:

This is when your water pipes burst. :zoinks:

:lol1:

Do not wish more drama on me!! I've got my fill of it  :hide: :tinfoil: :laugh:

May your life be dull and uneventful. :M ;)

:hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 08, 2020, 03:34:25 AM

Coffee happened, this morning.

Also, I had stomach trouble yesterday but that seems to be better now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on March 09, 2020, 07:01:08 PM

A 2 hour nap with the dogs.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on March 13, 2020, 05:16:05 AM

I fluked upon another packet of bog roll  :zoinks: :tp:. At 9pm of all times of day!
Maybe Coles have started staggering out their shelf stocking instead of putting the whole heap out in the morning.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 13, 2020, 08:58:49 AM

A few stores in our area have announced limiting sales of toilet paper.  2 packs instead of a cart full.   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 13, 2020, 06:51:22 PM

It's ridiculous, how much TP do people think they're going to go through in a month? Even in China they've only been quarantined for two months and they still let people out for groceries.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 13, 2020, 07:25:02 PM

Amber was working at Staples today and her ex showed up to "buy" copy paper.  She felt awkward as she was the main cashier, and he in his arrogant manner said, "well, don't you have anything to say to me?"  And she replied "What has been said is said, I have a new boyfriend and he treats me nice."  Then she asked for an escort to her car.   8)

We will be monitoring this, as will she and she will speak to her store mgrs. to stay on top of this.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on March 14, 2020, 04:15:05 PM

^ He's such an ass  >:( Just leave the poor girl alone

The barn door is hung. Love the look. Just need to figure out what stain I want to use and pick out a handle.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 14, 2020, 05:00:27 PM

Didn't die

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 14, 2020, 05:29:40 PM

Quote from: Parts on March 14, 2020, 05:00:27 PM

Didn't die

SomeBloke used to say that. Now I miss him. :violin:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 14, 2020, 05:31:56 PM

Taking every precaution to avoid big crowds for awhile

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 14, 2020, 06:24:57 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on March 14, 2020, 04:15:05 PM

^ He's such an ass  >:( Just leave the poor girl alone

The barn door is hung. Love the look. Just need to figure out what stain I want to use and pick out a handle.

His arrogance is well known around town.  People that know him have told Amber and me that he acts like he is the smartest person in the room.  But, her answer was perfectly deflating.  And she will be vigilant. 

What color is the barn?  A reddish stain like the old barn style might look good.  As for the handle, a wrought iron looking one with a black color? 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on March 14, 2020, 07:51:05 PM

Quote from: rock hound on March 14, 2020, 06:24:57 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on March 14, 2020, 04:15:05 PM

^ He's such an ass  >:( Just leave the poor girl alone

The barn door is hung. Love the look. Just need to figure out what stain I want to use and pick out a handle.

His arrogance is well known around town.  People that know him have told Amber and me that he acts like he is the smartest person in the room.  But, her answer was perfectly deflating.  And she will be vigilant. 

What color is the barn?  A reddish stain like the old barn style might look good.  As for the handle, a wrought iron looking one with a black color?

Yes, hoping for a black iron type handle. Not sure on the stain yet but it might be a dark grey of some sort to match the wood in the room.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 14, 2020, 09:23:22 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 14, 2020, 05:29:40 PM

Quote from: Parts on March 14, 2020, 05:00:27 PM

Didn't die

SomeBloke used to say that. Now I miss him. :violin:

*her

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 14, 2020, 10:01:34 PM

Quote from: Genesis on March 14, 2020, 09:23:22 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 14, 2020, 05:29:40 PM

Quote from: Parts on March 14, 2020, 05:00:27 PM

Didn't die

SomeBloke used to say that. Now I miss him. :violin:

*her

I guess you know something I don't.  :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 15, 2020, 06:50:26 AM

Going to Yoga class and having a weekend off work!   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 15, 2020, 07:35:14 AM

Never mind, Yoga classes in person, cancelled as per recommendations.  They are working to set up classes on-line for the duration of the hysteria.  C'est la vie! 

It it a beautiful day out, so I will do walking meditation!   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 30, 2020, 06:35:21 AM

Almost alone in the house for a few hours, son is at work, my wife is at her school collecting materials for packets to be sent to students and my daughter rarely gets up before 1 when she has no school

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 30, 2020, 11:12:32 AM

Somewhat good, Carla had to cancel our travel plans to Boston next month for our anniversary.  BUT, we got a full refund from Amtrak and The B&B called Carla to say, we might as well not come down there.  Mass. is in lock down and it would be pointless to go down there and not be able to browse shops, eat out at our favorite restaurants and hike around.  It will be interesting to use our imaginations to come up with Plan B.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 30, 2020, 02:55:47 PM

My daughter came by. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on March 30, 2020, 05:08:36 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 30, 2020, 02:55:47 PM

My daughter came by. :)

Aww yay!

My current good thing is that the pup made it through surgery just fine and is groggy and miserable but happy to be curled up at my feet. It's going to take another 24-48 hours for the anesthetic to clear her system.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 30, 2020, 06:38:28 PM

Yay for healthy pup!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on March 30, 2020, 07:44:09 PM

Indeed. Quite an overwhelming day. Very relieved.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 30, 2020, 07:47:05 PM

Yay, for successful operation!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 31, 2020, 01:12:12 AM

My former employer contacted me for a consulting gig. Now wondering how much to charge for my services.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on March 31, 2020, 06:43:12 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 31, 2020, 01:12:12 AM

My former employer contacted me for a consulting gig. Now wondering how much to charge for my services.

Yay income!  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 01, 2020, 12:49:09 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on March 31, 2020, 06:43:12 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 31, 2020, 01:12:12 AM

My former employer contacted me for a consulting gig. Now wondering how much to charge for my services.

Yay income!  :P

Yes, and vindication. They let me go, you know.

It's better to be a contractor than an employee, though. I don't have to suffer through one-on-ones or care about office politics or ask permission to attend a conference. Not that the latter is an option anyway, for the time being. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 01, 2020, 08:33:39 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 01, 2020, 12:49:09 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on March 31, 2020, 06:43:12 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 31, 2020, 01:12:12 AM

My former employer contacted me for a consulting gig. Now wondering how much to charge for my services.

Yay income!  :P

Yes, and vindication. They let me go, you know.

It's better to be a contractor than an employee, though. I don't have to suffer through one-on-ones or care about office politics or ask permission to attend a conference. Not that the latter is an option anyway, for the time being. :P

I missed the former employer part. Even better!

Had an argument with someone yesterday but today everyone owned up to their parts in it which I appreciate.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on April 01, 2020, 02:19:33 PM

Quote from: Walkie on June 22, 2019, 10:28:18 AM

Quote from: Bastet on June 14, 2019, 03:20:43 PM

Of course not! Having opinions you don’t agree with and unintentionally making you butthurt for no reason! Things like that!

You are overreacting to nothing. Seriously. Practice what you preach about “dealing with your butthurt.”

I’ve been curious as to your marital status for a while. I didn’t bother to ask because I figured you wouldn’t reply. I just admitted an internal thought in aspie fashion and you show us your sensitive side.

I can very much see your POV , here, DFG.  But, the trouble is that you jumped in on Scrap's tail, didn't you?  You even quoted him.  And Scrap was not only being snide little bastard , he was knowingly resurrecting an issue which should never have been thrown into the public arena in the first place. It is odeon's (and everybody else's) prerogative to keep his private life private if he so wishes. But then somebody from I^2 went and committed  the criminal act of stalking Odeon, RL, as well as doxxing him online .
If we can't understand the implications of all that and show a bit of belated respect, then we're not just spazzes, we are fucking morons.    >:(

Odeon is very sensitive as of late. I didn’t do anything wrong. He’s butthurt and he knows it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Bastet on April 01, 2020, 02:21:22 PM

Quote from: Walkie on June 22, 2019, 10:28:18 AM

Quote from: Bastet on June 14, 2019, 03:20:43 PM

Of course not! Having opinions you don’t agree with and unintentionally making you butthurt for no reason! Things like that!

You are overreacting to nothing. Seriously. Practice what you preach about “dealing with your butthurt.”

I’ve been curious as to your marital status for a while. I didn’t bother to ask because I figured you wouldn’t reply. I just admitted an internal thought in aspie fashion and you show us your sensitive side.

I can very much see your POV , here, DFG.  But, the trouble is that you jumped in on Scrap's tail, didn't you?  You even quoted him.  And Scrap was not only being snide little bastard , he was knowingly resurrecting an issue which should never have been thrown into the public arena in the first place. It is odeon's (and everybody else's) prerogative to keep his private life private if he so wishes. But then somebody from I^2 went and committed  the criminal act of stalking Odeon, RL, as well as doxxing him online .
If we can't understand the implications of all that and show a bit of belated respect, then we're not just spazzes, we are fucking morons.    >:(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on April 01, 2020, 03:06:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 01, 2020, 12:49:09 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on March 31, 2020, 06:43:12 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 31, 2020, 01:12:12 AM

My former employer contacted me for a consulting gig. Now wondering how much to charge for my services.

Yay income!  :P

Yes, and vindication. They let me go, you know.

It's better to be a contractor than an employee, though. I don't have to suffer through one-on-ones or care about office politics or ask permission to attend a conference. Not that the latter is an option anyway, for the time being. :P

congratulations!  :green:
reminds me of my late friend, David (who briefly appeared here as Teddy Bear) . He worked in property management for years and year,s  for a pretty modest salary, being seriosly put upon by residents and Board of Directors  to rthe point that he barely had a life of his own (having been silly enough to purchase an apartment for himself on the very estate he was managing. Seemed like a good idea at the time). The extra out-of-hours work was not in his contract. He just happened to be a nice helpful sort. His flat was just a normal private flat,  not the ""manager''s office" (which was situated in a different block) but peope rarely respected the distinction.

Then, on fine day. the Directors decided they couldn't afford a full time manager any more, and drastically reduced his hours. He quit and got another job somewhere else. Not long therafter, they approached him with tail between their legs  and brought him back as a contactor; which effectively meant reduced hours,  better pay; and he steadfastly refused to go beyond the call of duty after that  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on April 01, 2020, 04:04:03 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on March 13, 2020, 06:51:22 PM

It's ridiculous, how much TP do people think they're going to go through in a month? Even in China they've only been quarantined for two months and they still let people out for groceries.

In China, generally speaking, they don't use toilet paper.

The toilet paper craze started, by my understanding, in Australia as a recommendation from the government that households keep a 14 day supply of essential items including food, toilet paper, and medicine. In case of mandatory self quarantine rather than lockdowns. I am in self quarantine, for example, and would be in trouble if the plod come to check on me and I was out buying toilet paper.

People saw toilet paper on the government list and some jumped to the stupid conclusion that a coronavirus would mean toilet paper supply issues. The shelves emptied and then more people started to panic.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on April 01, 2020, 04:21:38 PM

World, don't ever try to say that Australia never gave you anything.

We gave you an insane dunny paper stockpiling obsession. You can thank us later!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 01, 2020, 05:03:27 PM

Quote from: Minister of silly walks on April 01, 2020, 04:21:38 PM

World, don't ever try to say that Australia never gave you anything.

We gave you an insane dunny paper stockpiling obsession. You can thank us later!

I did hear that this insanity began in Australia.  I guess the herd mentality is world wide. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 01, 2020, 08:01:54 PM

I survived a half hour phone call with my psychologist.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on April 02, 2020, 12:23:55 AM

Quote from: Minister of silly walks on April 01, 2020, 04:21:38 PM

World, don't ever try to say that Australia never gave you anything.

We gave you an insane dunny paper stockpiling obsession. You can thank us later!

I wondered what "dunny paper"' is for a second or several.  i kinda imagined it as something like brown (dun) parcel paper  :LOL:  Seemed like the sort of sweet chillike obsession that some creative people (especially autistic ones) have.  came very close to googling the stuff, before the penny suddenly dropped.

Huh. Something much more normal and boring. Shoulda known. But anyways, this isn't a new thing.  Since stockpiling became a big issue, i keep getting flashbbacks a song called "Cheepnis"by Zappa and the Mothers c 1973 which contains the immortal words

"C'mon! everybody! let's go!
Get the distilled water! get the canned goods!
Get the toilet paper! you know we need it!

Go to da shelter
My baby, my baby
Go to da shelter
Go to da shelter"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckEP8KN2710

Going further back, my Granddad semi-reliably informed me that. in his day people had to use torn up newspapers instead.    They were that poor, ya see? i have since wondered what the heck people were supposed to do  if (like me, at rather too many junctures in my life) they were too poor to afford a daily newspaper  :LOL: Maybe things have changed in more ways than we know, but newspapers  are certainly a heckover lot more pricey than that quaint old dunny paper stuff, aren't they?

I also wonder  how they cleaned the newsprint off their bum?
 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 02, 2020, 12:32:04 AM

The Dunny Doctor (septic tank and toilet plumber around here) is doing a roaring trade with all the people who are putting things besides toilet paper and #1s and #2s down their toilets. Things like facial tissues and paper towels and thus having blockages.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 02, 2020, 12:52:37 AM

Quote from: renaeden on April 02, 2020, 12:32:04 AM

The Dunny Doctor (septic tank and toilet plumber around here) is doing a roaring trade with all the people who are putting things besides toilet paper and #1s and #2s down their toilets. Things like facial tissues and paper towels and thus having blockages.

"Dunny Doctor" :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 02, 2020, 12:52:58 AM

Quote from: Minister of silly walks on April 01, 2020, 04:21:38 PM

World, don't ever try to say that Australia never gave you anything.

We gave you an insane dunny paper stockpiling obsession. You can thank us later!

We'll think of something.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 02, 2020, 10:04:03 PM

I moved my spring onion sprouts into soil and one of them is very clearly growing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 03, 2020, 05:14:22 AM

Quote from: Minister of silly walks on April 01, 2020, 04:04:03 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on March 13, 2020, 06:51:22 PM

It's ridiculous, how much TP do people think they're going to go through in a month? Even in China they've only been quarantined for two months and they still let people out for groceries.

In China, generally speaking, they don't use toilet paper.

The toilet paper craze started, by my understanding, in Australia as a recommendation from the government that households keep a 14 day supply of essential items including food, toilet paper, and medicine. In case of mandatory self quarantine rather than lockdowns. I am in self quarantine, for example, and would be in trouble if the plod come to check on me and I was out buying toilet paper.

People saw toilet paper on the government list and some jumped to the stupid conclusion that a coronavirus would mean toilet paper supply issues. The shelves emptied and then more people started to panic.

  Yeah, over here (US), my local superemarket has trouble keeping paper goods in stock. 
   I have enough toilet paper for another week or so, but I'm getting nervous.  :tp: :tinfoil:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on April 03, 2020, 08:11:53 AM

I'm down to 3 double length rolls.

I don't know where my next supply of dunny roll will come from, I really don't.

My mum is lucky she can take advantage of the exclusive shopping times because she's a pensioner now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 03, 2020, 08:59:15 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 02, 2020, 10:04:03 PM

I moved my spring onion sprouts into soil and one of them is very clearly growing.

:woohoo:

I generally plant all of my store bought onion butts all year long and many of those have shown themselves emerging, but this time of year I usually have bought more small starter onions to fill in gaps, but I have not yet gone shopping for garden stuff.

You are already getting the jump on me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 03, 2020, 09:23:45 AM

Quote from: "couldbecousin" on April 03, 2020, 05:14:22 AM

Quote from: Minister of silly walks on April 01, 2020, 04:04:03 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on March 13, 2020, 06:51:22 PM

It's ridiculous, how much TP do people think they're going to go through in a month? Even in China they've only been quarantined for two months and they still let people out for groceries.

In China, generally speaking, they don't use toilet paper.

The toilet paper craze started, by my understanding, in Australia as a recommendation from the government that households keep a 14 day supply of essential items including food, toilet paper, and medicine. In case of mandatory self quarantine rather than lockdowns. I am in self quarantine, for example, and would be in trouble if the plod come to check on me and I was out buying toilet paper.

People saw toilet paper on the government list and some jumped to the stupid conclusion that a coronavirus would mean toilet paper supply issues. The shelves emptied and then more people started to panic.

  Yeah, over here (US), my local superemarket has trouble keeping paper goods in stock. 
   I have enough toilet paper for another week or so, but I'm getting nervous.  :tp: :tinfoil:

I have a decided advantage over many due to the fact that my son works at a large grocery store.
When I pick him up from work he tells me what the trucks are stocking during the night. Got there at 7AM a few days ago and they were about to open. There was a line  of customers.

I got in and they had eight pallets of toilet paper sitting in the paper aisle and they were not even bothering to put it on the shelves, just cut the plastic off the pallets and let it go. Limit  "two per customer," though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 03, 2020, 09:41:42 AM

Apparently people aren't hoarding TP as much as they're hoarding vitamin C.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 03, 2020, 12:04:14 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 03, 2020, 09:41:42 AM

Apparently people aren't hoarding TP as much as they're hoarding vitamin C.

Which is stupid in and of itself.  Zinc has also been in short supply.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 03, 2020, 02:42:01 PM

Why is that stupid?

Well depending on the amount, I mean. But stocking up in advance of quarantine on something that might actually help you get well seems smart.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 03, 2020, 02:44:16 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 03, 2020, 08:59:15 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 02, 2020, 10:04:03 PM

I moved my spring onion sprouts into soil and one of them is very clearly growing.

:woohoo:

I generally plant all of my store bought onion butts all year long and many of those have shown themselves emerging, but this time of year I usually have bought more small starter onions to fill in gaps, but I have not yet gone shopping for garden stuff.

You are already getting the jump on me.

I think you were right about the heat drying process damaging the roots of the yellow onions though. My yellow onion grew roots to about 1/4 inch and then stopped, and has looked the same since then. Will try buying organic next time and see if that works any better.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 03, 2020, 03:41:25 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 03, 2020, 02:42:01 PM

Why is that stupid?

Well depending on the amount, I mean. But stocking up in advance of quarantine on something that might actually help you get well seems smart.

Difficult for me to explain, but, here goes.......people seem to think that taking mega doses of Vitamin C is good for you.  Yes, Vitamin C is good for you.  It's something you get from many plant and fruit sources as well as a tablet.  Vitamin C is water soluble, which means that your body cannot accumulate it and your body just pisses it out.  Your a smart woman, you know that, but, the herd mentality is not much for intelligence.  And that is what I am talking about.  The herd mentality, and I have heard this from many people, "Take a lot of Vit. C and you will never be sick, etc, etc, ad nauseum."  And it will not help you get well with this coronavirus, it might strengthen your immune system temporarily.......but, it will not be the key to getting well.  That depends upon your own health and immune system.  Your in good shape, your son is vulnerable, the elderly are vulnerable, immuno-compromised people are vulnerable....and no amount of vit. C will help make them well if they get attacked by the coronavirus. 

Hoarding Vit. C is stupid in that regard.  It just makes it harder for people who could use it to NOT get it.  GET IT!  I hope I have met your challenge question.  If this is shit stirring..........

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 03, 2020, 03:57:54 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 03, 2020, 09:41:42 AM

Apparently people aren't hoarding TP as much as they're hoarding vitamin C.

There's a number of things that rank higher sales increases than toilet paper. Though toilet paper seems the only one that makes people scratch their heads.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 03, 2020, 05:02:15 PM

We're at the halfway point of finishing the Lego Hogwarts castle. It's so cool.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 03, 2020, 06:14:49 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 03, 2020, 03:41:25 PM

Difficult for me to explain, but, here goes.......people seem to think that taking mega doses of Vitamin C is good for you.  Yes, Vitamin C is good for you.  It's something you get from many plant and fruit sources as well as a tablet.  Vitamin C is water soluble, which means that your body cannot accumulate it and your body just pisses it out.  Your a smart woman, you know that, but, the herd mentality is not much for intelligence.  And that is what I am talking about.  The herd mentality, and I have heard this from many people, "Take a lot of Vit. C and you will never be sick, etc, etc, ad nauseum."  And it will not help you get well with this coronavirus, it might strengthen your immune system temporarily.......but, it will not be the key to getting well.  That depends upon your own health and immune system.  Your in good shape, your son is vulnerable, the elderly are vulnerable, immuno-compromised people are vulnerable....and no amount of vit. C will help make them well if they get attacked by the coronavirus. 

Hoarding Vit. C is stupid in that regard.  It just makes it harder for people who could use it to NOT get it.  GET IT!  I hope I have met your challenge question.  If this is shit stirring..........

Nah that makes sense, thank you. I've had really good experience with Air Shield, which even though I piss some of it out, if I take it right when I'm at risk of catching something from the cub, seems to give my immune system the kick it needs in that moment. I'm currently hoarding my three tubes of it I brought up from the USA, because the Canadian mega-vit-C powder just doesn't seem as effective. I'm not totally sure why.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on April 03, 2020, 07:39:53 PM

I am so very glad that my homeless son is forced by covid-19 to remain here for the forseeabe. never mind that most of  the contents of my wardrobe are permanently ranged abiout the living room , cos there isn't room in that tiny bedroom for two people;s clothing etc etc, nor is there another  closet to put stuff like that  in .  It is well worth all the  the inconvenience .

the day before yesterday, i asked him to take the rubbish out to the communal bins , and he answered "äfter it gets dark" (cos he's still intensely social -phobic) . Predictably, it still hadn;t been done, but then a few minutes back i was cussing to9 myself about some minor inconveniece at the kitchen end of the living room  , when he suddenly leapt to his feet, declaring "Yeah! I'll do it right now"

"Do what, right now? "i asked in puzzlement .

"Do this right now,"" he responded with a gleeful grin. and straightway performed an extremely silly dance that had me laughing my socks off. I swear it knocked the Pythons' silly walk into a cocked hat. Wish i had a video.

"Í dunnop what i'll do next, though""  he added, before strolling over to extract the bulging bin bag from the bin

Hmm,you can evidently get away with being  lazy as fuck round here. just  so long as you're cute, and funny  :LOL: . Which he indubitably  is, in occasional flashes , just  like the sun suddenly bursting through his black clouds of depresssion . And it's an absolute joy to behold :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on April 03, 2020, 07:47:09 PM

My youngest is that daft too. Always cheers us up.  :lol1: :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 03, 2020, 07:50:30 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 03, 2020, 06:14:49 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 03, 2020, 03:41:25 PM

Difficult for me to explain, but, here goes.......people seem to think that taking mega doses of Vitamin C is good for you.  Yes, Vitamin C is good for you.  It's something you get from many plant and fruit sources as well as a tablet.  Vitamin C is water soluble, which means that your body cannot accumulate it and your body just pisses it out.  Your a smart woman, you know that, but, the herd mentality is not much for intelligence.  And that is what I am talking about.  The herd mentality, and I have heard this from many people, "Take a lot of Vit. C and you will never be sick, etc, etc, ad nauseum."  And it will not help you get well with this coronavirus, it might strengthen your immune system temporarily.......but, it will not be the key to getting well.  That depends upon your own health and immune system.  Your in good shape, your son is vulnerable, the elderly are vulnerable, immuno-compromised people are vulnerable....and no amount of vit. C will help make them well if they get attacked by the coronavirus. 

Hoarding Vit. C is stupid in that regard.  It just makes it harder for people who could use it to NOT get it.  GET IT!  I hope I have met your challenge question.  If this is shit stirring..........

Nah that makes sense, thank you. I've had really good experience with Air Shield, which even though I piss some of it out, if I take it right when I'm at risk of catching something from the cub, seems to give my immune system the kick it needs in that moment. I'm currently hoarding my three tubes of it I brought up from the USA, because the Canadian mega-vit-C powder just doesn't seem as effective. I'm not totally sure why.

There is something called the "Placebo effect".  It's well documented, though, unfortunately, little studied.  If a person believes something works, really believes, it will work.  It's been documented with pain meds.  Positive thinking, as for the powder, could it be the taste, consistency, appearance that somehow turns you off?  I have seen "airshield" and have stocked it at walmart.  Zinc has also been touted to alleviate and shorten symptoms of the cold and flu.  It is another immune system booster.  The human mind is a wonderful and yet, terrible thing.  I believe that the mind is a powerful weapon against a lot of things, including disease.  Your a single, stressed and over worked mom.  Now in the middle of a pandemic crisis...  I'm trying not to degrade the hoarders, but, it is hard to do so.  Especially since Vit. C is such a go to thing.  I don't take it myself, since I love my large glass of low acid OJ in the morning.  And love my V8 juice at lunch.  Vit C there as well.  Pill swallowing is a problem for me. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on April 03, 2020, 07:53:52 PM

Have you tried this method Ozy? I can't just stick pills in my mouth and wash them down with a drink, never could, but taught all my kids how I do it - gobful of water/whatever, tip head back, drop pills in and swallow. Works for me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 03, 2020, 07:58:18 PM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on April 03, 2020, 07:53:52 PM

Have you tried this method Ozy? I can't just stick pills in my mouth and wash them down with a drink, never could, but taught all my kids how I do it - gobful of water/whatever, tip head back, drop pills in and swallow. Works for me.

As long as I get the pill to the back of my throat and chase it down with a swig of water, I am good.  Like your method in a different way of saying.  Oh, and I wait till I feel it go down.  I also have the same problem with some foods.  Steak for instance, my esophagus is a weird thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on April 03, 2020, 08:05:50 PM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on April 03, 2020, 07:47:09 PM

My youngest is that daft too. Always cheers us up.  :lol1: :plus:

glad you've got one, too :) Mine's 30 and showing no signs of "growing up" yet, thank goodness.

Btw, i think i forgot to give you a wecome back  :plus: (and if I didn't forget , no harm in two of ém)

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on April 03, 2020, 07:49:30 PM

Should probably go to bed instead of posting nonsense.  :dunno:

Hehe, were
 you reading my mind? I was just thinking: hmm, fancy that!  another Brit posting at 3 am.  You'd think this was an autie forum, eh?

I've got an excuse though  :green: But, bah! who needs excuses?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on April 03, 2020, 08:14:29 PM

excuses are for people who need them.  :lol1:

mine are 16 and 23, and can't see either of them growing up any time soon. Fuck, I'm not sure I qualify as an adult yet.

Cheers for the welcome back walkie  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 04, 2020, 01:46:41 AM

Quote from: rock hound on April 03, 2020, 03:41:25 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 03, 2020, 02:42:01 PM

Why is that stupid?

Well depending on the amount, I mean. But stocking up in advance of quarantine on something that might actually help you get well seems smart.

Difficult for me to explain, but, here goes.......people seem to think that taking mega doses of Vitamin C is good for you.  Yes, Vitamin C is good for you.  It's something you get from many plant and fruit sources as well as a tablet.  Vitamin C is water soluble, which means that your body cannot accumulate it and your body just pisses it out.  Your a smart woman, you know that, but, the herd mentality is not much for intelligence.  And that is what I am talking about.  The herd mentality, and I have heard this from many people, "Take a lot of Vit. C and you will never be sick, etc, etc, ad nauseum."  And it will not help you get well with this coronavirus, it might strengthen your immune system temporarily.......but, it will not be the key to getting well.  That depends upon your own health and immune system.  Your in good shape, your son is vulnerable, the elderly are vulnerable, immuno-compromised people are vulnerable....and no amount of vit. C will help make them well if they get attacked by the coronavirus. 

Hoarding Vit. C is stupid in that regard.  It just makes it harder for people who could use it to NOT get it.  GET IT!  I hope I have met your challenge question.  If this is shit stirring..........

Apparently there's a rumor flying around stating that vitamin C will cure covid-19.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on April 04, 2020, 04:41:18 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 04, 2020, 01:46:41 AM

Quote from: rock hound on April 03, 2020, 03:41:25 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 03, 2020, 02:42:01 PM

Why is that stupid?

Well depending on the amount, I mean. But stocking up in advance of quarantine on something that might actually help you get well seems smart.

Difficult for me to explain, but, here goes.......people seem to think that taking mega doses of Vitamin C is good for you.  Yes, Vitamin C is good for you.  It's something you get from many plant and fruit sources as well as a tablet.  Vitamin C is water soluble, which means that your body cannot accumulate it and your body just pisses it out.  Your a smart woman, you know that, but, the herd mentality is not much for intelligence.  And that is what I am talking about.  The herd mentality, and I have heard this from many people, "Take a lot of Vit. C and you will never be sick, etc, etc, ad nauseum."  And it will not help you get well with this coronavirus, it might strengthen your immune system temporarily.......but, it will not be the key to getting well.  That depends upon your own health and immune system.  Your in good shape, your son is vulnerable, the elderly are vulnerable, immuno-compromised people are vulnerable....and no amount of vit. C will help make them well if they get attacked by the coronavirus. 

Hoarding Vit. C is stupid in that regard.  It just makes it harder for people who could use it to NOT get it.  GET IT!  I hope I have met your challenge question.  If this is shit stirring..........

Apparently there's a rumor flying around stating that vitamin C will cure covid-19.

And drinking water with a tablespoon of baking soda too.


Yeah this is highly legit.  :nerdy: :tard: :tinfoil:

Massive amounts of vitamine C make your blood more acidic (before peeing the stuff out, duh). And lo and behold. Drinking a baking soda solution every day turns your blood more alkaline. Everyone knows viruses cannot stand  blood that is either too alkaline or too acidic.
The really smart people dissolve the baking soda not in water but in lemon juice. Then they get the best of both ways.

It's a pity festivals are cancelled. This asks for a stand selling snake oil.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 04, 2020, 07:22:22 AM

There's lots of money to be made. ;D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 04, 2020, 07:52:07 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 04, 2020, 01:46:41 AM

Quote from: rock hound on April 03, 2020, 03:41:25 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 03, 2020, 02:42:01 PM

Why is that stupid?

Well depending on the amount, I mean. But stocking up in advance of quarantine on something that might actually help you get well seems smart.

Difficult for me to explain, but, here goes.......people seem to think that taking mega doses of Vitamin C is good for you.  Yes, Vitamin C is good for you.  It's something you get from many plant and fruit sources as well as a tablet.  Vitamin C is water soluble, which means that your body cannot accumulate it and your body just pisses it out.  Your a smart woman, you know that, but, the herd mentality is not much for intelligence.  And that is what I am talking about.  The herd mentality, and I have heard this from many people, "Take a lot of Vit. C and you will never be sick, etc, etc, ad nauseum."  And it will not help you get well with this coronavirus, it might strengthen your immune system temporarily.......but, it will not be the key to getting well.  That depends upon your own health and immune system.  Your in good shape, your son is vulnerable, the elderly are vulnerable, immuno-compromised people are vulnerable....and no amount of vit. C will help make them well if they get attacked by the coronavirus. 

Hoarding Vit. C is stupid in that regard.  It just makes it harder for people who could use it to NOT get it.  GET IT!  I hope I have met your challenge question.  If this is shit stirring..........

Apparently there's a rumor flying around stating that vitamin C will cure covid-19.

There's a lot of scams out there, including the fundies of any religion. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 04, 2020, 07:54:06 AM

Quote from: 'andersom' on April 04, 2020, 04:41:18 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 04, 2020, 01:46:41 AM

Quote from: rock hound on April 03, 2020, 03:41:25 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 03, 2020, 02:42:01 PM

Why is that stupid?

Well depending on the amount, I mean. But stocking up in advance of quarantine on something that might actually help you get well seems smart.

Difficult for me to explain, but, here goes.......people seem to think that taking mega doses of Vitamin C is good for you.  Yes, Vitamin C is good for you.  It's something you get from many plant and fruit sources as well as a tablet.  Vitamin C is water soluble, which means that your body cannot accumulate it and your body just pisses it out.  Your a smart woman, you know that, but, the herd mentality is not much for intelligence.  And that is what I am talking about.  The herd mentality, and I have heard this from many people, "Take a lot of Vit. C and you will never be sick, etc, etc, ad nauseum."  And it will not help you get well with this coronavirus, it might strengthen your immune system temporarily.......but, it will not be the key to getting well.  That depends upon your own health and immune system.  Your in good shape, your son is vulnerable, the elderly are vulnerable, immuno-compromised people are vulnerable....and no amount of vit. C will help make them well if they get attacked by the coronavirus. 

Hoarding Vit. C is stupid in that regard.  It just makes it harder for people who could use it to NOT get it.  GET IT!  I hope I have met your challenge question.  If this is shit stirring..........

Apparently there's a rumor flying around stating that vitamin C will cure covid-19.

And drinking water with a tablespoon of baking soda too.


Yeah this is highly legit.  :nerdy: :tard: :tinfoil:

Massive amounts of vitamine C make your blood more acidic (before peeing the stuff out, duh). And lo and behold. Drinking a baking soda solution every day turns your blood more alkaline. Everyone knows viruses cannot stand  blood that is either too alkaline or too acidic.
The really smart people dissolve the baking soda not in water but in lemon juice. Then they get the best of both ways.

It's a pity festivals are cancelled. This asks for a stand selling snake oil.

Sounds like the premise for survival in the movie, "The Andromeda Strain".  by Michael Crichton.    It's from back in the 70's. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 04, 2020, 07:55:03 AM

I remember "The Andromeda Strain". Good film, actually.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 04, 2020, 07:57:03 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 04, 2020, 07:55:03 AM

I remember "The Andromeda Strain". Good film, actually.

For it's time, it had great special effects and it had great acting.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 04, 2020, 09:17:29 AM

  I FOUND TOILET PAPER.  :party:
 
 A work friend told me about a mini-market in our area, said it's very clean and
 always has  :tp:  in stock.  She was right on both counts. 
 The  :tp:  is in paper-wrapped individual paper wrapping.  I'd prefer plastic wrapped,
 but I'm letting the rolls sit out until any virus on the wrapping (hopefully) dies. 
 I'll definitely use that little store for quick errands and
 paper goods, in these times it's like El Dorado!  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 05, 2020, 02:14:20 AM

TP is returning to the shelves here. There's still no rice to be found anywhere, though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 05, 2020, 03:06:18 AM

I spoke to Mum over the phone and she told me my uncle has recovered. He and his wife both tested negative. So she never got it at all.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 05, 2020, 05:31:58 AM

Thank goodness for that

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 05, 2020, 12:57:01 PM

 :agreed:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 05, 2020, 01:00:15 PM

Put up and strung out the clothes drying thingy.  Hammock has been set up on the back porch.  Found some bendy wire that Carla can use for her homemade face masks, around the bridge of the nose area for a better fit.  Spent a lot of time outside.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 05, 2020, 02:45:25 PM

Baked chocolate chip cookies with the kids

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 07, 2020, 01:54:32 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 08, 2020, 12:29:36 PM

Found a drive through carwash open. My cars are clean.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 08, 2020, 01:07:42 PM

Daughter came to visit.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 08, 2020, 02:00:01 PM

HB is bringing home takeout so I don't have to cook and monkeygirl will be home soon

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on April 08, 2020, 05:47:11 PM

Relaxing in the evening and having a homemade cooked meal.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 08, 2020, 08:37:39 PM

With ya!

But ours was just a fire outside and a few hot dogs.

Loved every minute of it. :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 08, 2020, 08:51:24 PM

Had a great phone call with a dear friend of many years.  Remembering John Prine and the music of his we enjoyed together and shared. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY4HueJheFw

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 09, 2020, 04:56:24 AM

Picked up the Jag.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 09, 2020, 05:35:35 AM

We're surviving with the e-learning going on from the school board. Helped the youngest with her Geography classwork and have more to do today and then Drama assignment tomorrow.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 09, 2020, 11:46:24 AM

My brother called.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 09, 2020, 04:18:20 PM

Had a dance party with monkeygirl.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 09, 2020, 04:34:56 PM

We muted the tv and changed the channel when the orange faced shit gibbon came on for his nightly manure spreading.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 09, 2020, 10:17:39 PM

Had a really good day. Babysitter in the morning so I got some work done, she worked a minor miracle and got the cub down for a nap on time. In the afternoon we decorated Easter cookies together and went for a long walk in the first day of good weather in a while.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 10, 2020, 01:40:29 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on April 11, 2020, 10:06:19 AM

I got me second coat on the walls done. Now I just have to do a second coat with the edger even though I'll end up with a dark strip around the perimeter of the wall. There is already a bad one from where I tested the edger a few months ago, I did about a 3m wide strip just below the cornices. I suppose the paint oxidized darker since? :tard:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 11, 2020, 01:42:25 PM

I just got an email from my fourth grade teacher, one of my favorite teachers as a kid, wanting to catch up.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 11, 2020, 03:06:29 PM

^ I love that. Since becoming an adult I've become good friends with one of my high school English teachers that I really liked.

Today HB and I walked the dogs and I started on a new Lego project.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 11, 2020, 06:43:33 PM

It made my day. She used the excuse of returning some project of mine that she'd kept, but it's fun just to have a conversation with her as an adult. I told her I discovered I was on the autism spectrum and she said it explained so much.  :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 11, 2020, 06:53:17 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 11, 2020, 06:43:33 PM

It made my day. She used the excuse of returning some project of mine that she'd kept, but it's fun just to have a conversation with her as an adult. I told her I discovered I was on the autism spectrum and she said it explained so much.  :LOL:

:lol1: I got the same response from my English teacher. That moment when you think you flew under the radar but clearly did not.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 12, 2020, 03:46:01 AM

My mum rang me to wish me a Happy Easter. She said loads of people were coming into Collie for holidays or something. That is not a good thing since government advice is to stay home this Easter. I can't get to Collie anyway because they have borders manned by police and the army to stop people from the metro area going too far south.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on April 12, 2020, 10:04:20 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 11, 2020, 06:43:33 PM

It made my day. She used the excuse of returning some project of mine that she'd kept, but it's fun just to have a conversation with her as an adult. I told her I discovered I was on the autism spectrum and
she said it explained so much.  :LOL:

I'm so happy for you.

And also happy for me, cos i guess she  makes up for that Walkie character being so freaking unreliable lately   :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 12, 2020, 03:24:13 PM

 :grrr: That's not how it works.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 12, 2020, 05:51:49 PM

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

:nerdy:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on April 18, 2020, 08:49:31 PM

Managed to restore my garden to how it was supposed to be. A great accomplishment.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 18, 2020, 11:05:58 PM

Someone noted my pie throwing on Twitter... and I for one am truly honored

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 19, 2020, 01:24:38 AM

Coffee happened. Stay tuned for further improvements.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on April 19, 2020, 01:47:06 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 12, 2020, 03:24:13 PM

:grrr: That's not how it works.

ummmmmm.... :hide: , or maybe i shoud be  :viking: and unhide?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 19, 2020, 06:28:14 AM

That was just me stomping on perceived insecurity, because I've legit been missing you and sad all the health difficulties have been interfering with responding to messages and such. Besides, the teacher stopped responding to me after two messages, so I suspect she didn't want an in depth conversation.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 19, 2020, 07:23:21 AM

This was last night but thoroughly enjoyed the concert Lady Gaga organized with musicians around the world in support of front liners. Had a virtual watch party/chat with my sister and monkeygirl

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Post by: rock hound on April 19, 2020, 12:45:52 PM

Took a nice hike at a local Nature Preserve with Carla.  Sunny, light wind, 63 F  Saw only a couple there looking over a bay.  Heard a Loon on the Bay.  Pretty muddy in some spots, but, nothing too hard to walk thru.  At first we were the only people there, but, as the morning dragged on a few more cars were at the parking place.  So it was a good social distancing hike to take.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 19, 2020, 01:48:34 PM

90 min nap with the dogs :yawn:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 23, 2020, 02:50:26 PM

I saw a Blue Bird today on my walk to check the mail!!!!!!!!! 8) :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 23, 2020, 03:24:40 PM

We ordered pizza and it was perfectly made and usual delivery lady was back and she was excited to wave at us from her car after she left it on our porch. My dogs adore her.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 24, 2020, 05:43:06 AM

Got an assortment of drywall anchors from Amazon.
Interesting note inside:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 24, 2020, 07:40:37 AM

 :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on April 24, 2020, 01:41:23 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 24, 2020, 05:43:06 AM

Got an assortment of drywall anchors from Amazon.
Interesting note inside:

I'm guessing they came from China?  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on April 24, 2020, 02:34:19 PM

i sort of managed to cook a meal today. by which i mean i cooked some vegetables and some rice pasta to go with the sweet-and -sour sauce i made yesterday. so it goes. i never have the energy to cook a whole meal in one go, but now that i;m done i've got four large  prtions, so i'm happy with this minor achievement.  also managed to wash up and water my little clutch of pot plants outside (mint, chives, rosemary and clematis - yep, you're right,  can't eat the clematis, so that's a bit of an aberration, eh?)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 24, 2020, 05:36:32 PM

Discussed gardening plans with HB and ordered a quick knit loom to keep my hands and brain busy, and for monkeygirl as well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 24, 2020, 10:28:52 PM

Well this was yesterday... but I'm quickly becoming accustomed to being 1.5 metres away from everyone else when I go out. No more people nudging my back in lines for things. No more people bumping me with trolleys, prams or wheelchairs. No more people coming along and breathing down my neck when I'm looking at something I might buy. This is great. I hope it remains the done thing for a long time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 24, 2020, 11:10:05 PM

 :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on April 24, 2020, 11:39:06 PM

I'm still wondering how I'm supposed to socially distance in a grocery aisle filled with stock trolleys, pallets and half a dozen employees stacking shelves.

It's good that fellow customers have finally developed spatial awareness though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 25, 2020, 01:02:08 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 24, 2020, 05:43:06 AM

Got an assortment of drywall anchors from Amazon.
Interesting note inside:

Google Translate FTW!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 25, 2020, 02:32:26 PM

Pulled all my planters out of storage in the garage.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 25, 2020, 05:45:12 PM

Did curbside pickup for my craft stuff. I can't knit well in the normal way so going to try the loom and pegs. HB and I went to Dairy Queen drive thru to get Blizzards for the family.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 25, 2020, 08:52:11 PM

Dairy Queen? Blizzards? What is this? *said in DS9 Prophet voice*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 25, 2020, 09:15:33 PM

Lack of Sleeping in = Sleeping earlier than my usual?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 25, 2020, 09:18:54 PM

Quote from: Genesis on April 25, 2020, 09:15:33 PM

Lack of Sleeping in = Sleeping earlier than my usual?

I always go to bed roughly between 9pm - 9:30pm. It's part of my routine.

How about you?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 25, 2020, 11:05:24 PM

Quote from: renaeden on April 25, 2020, 09:18:54 PM

Quote from: Genesis on April 25, 2020, 09:15:33 PM

Lack of Sleeping in = Sleeping earlier than my usual?

I always go to bed roughly between 9pm - 9:30pm. It's part of my routine.

How about you?

I get to sleep around 12:30am to about 1am at the latest (especially since I have to go to work in the morning)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 25, 2020, 11:30:32 PM

Quote from: Genesis on April 25, 2020, 11:05:24 PM

Quote from: renaeden on April 25, 2020, 09:18:54 PM

Quote from: Genesis on April 25, 2020, 09:15:33 PM

Lack of Sleeping in = Sleeping earlier than my usual?

I always go to bed roughly between 9pm - 9:30pm. It's part of my routine.

How about you?

I get to sleep around 12:30am to about 1am at the latest (especially since I have to go to work in the morning)

I couldn't function the next day if I went to bed that late! But I'm old and you're a young 'un who can handle it. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 26, 2020, 02:00:25 AM

^I always go to bed after midnight and I'm older than you are. But my sleeping sucks, always did.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 26, 2020, 02:12:42 AM

I never knew you went to bed that late.

I probably sleep too much. But back when I was a forklift driver I used to have to get up at 5am to start work at 6am. So that meant I had to be in bed by 9pm. Since then I've always gone to bed around that time even though I don't have to get up at 5am.

Good thing to happen: I found some dried mango pieces (in a packet) in the pantry. I forgot they were there.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 26, 2020, 09:53:42 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 24, 2020, 07:40:37 AM

:lol1:

Found that one of my packages was successfully delivered to "Someplace,"  California. I live in Indiana, so I complained.

Email response was, "Sadly a making mistake occurred during your addressing. Immediately we will out ship again today."

 :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 26, 2020, 02:22:56 PM

Quote from: renaeden on April 25, 2020, 08:52:11 PM

Dairy Queen? Blizzards? What is this? *said in DS9 Prophet voice*

It's a frozen ice cream treat with things mixed into it like cookie dough, or brownie chunks etc and it's so thick that when they put it into the cup, they can tip it upside down and it won't fall out. So good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 26, 2020, 02:24:06 PM

I go to bed early as well. I'm in bed by 8pm so that I can read and lights out by 10:30pm. I have to be up before 7:30am every day and I'm a person who needs a lot of sleep.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 26, 2020, 07:06:53 PM

Quote from: renaeden on April 25, 2020, 08:52:11 PM

Dairy Queen? Blizzards? What is this? *said in DS9 Prophet voice*

If Australian McDonalds serve McFlurry, it's like that, except Dairy Queen probably offers more choices of stuff to put in it .

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 26, 2020, 07:33:27 PM

Quote from: Jack on April 26, 2020, 07:06:53 PM

Quote from: renaeden on April 25, 2020, 08:52:11 PM

Dairy Queen? Blizzards? What is this? *said in DS9 Prophet voice*

If Australian McDonalds serve McFlurry, it's like that, except Dairy Queen probably offers more choices of stuff to put in it .

But the Blizzard is a lot thicker.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 26, 2020, 07:42:01 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on April 26, 2020, 07:33:27 PM

Quote from: Jack on April 26, 2020, 07:06:53 PM

Quote from: renaeden on April 25, 2020, 08:52:11 PM

Dairy Queen? Blizzards? What is this? *said in DS9 Prophet voice*

If Australian McDonalds serve McFlurry, it's like that, except Dairy Queen probably offers more choices of stuff to put in it .

But the Blizzard is a lot thicker.

Is it? Both restaurants have soft serve icecream machines. As a teen worked in both a Dairy Queen and a Sonic. They both had soft serve ice cream machines and a Sonic blast was no different than a blizzard. Have never eaten icecream at a McDonalds, but it makes sense.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 26, 2020, 07:47:32 PM

Quote from: Jack on April 26, 2020, 07:42:01 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on April 26, 2020, 07:33:27 PM

Quote from: Jack on April 26, 2020, 07:06:53 PM

Quote from: renaeden on April 25, 2020, 08:52:11 PM

Dairy Queen? Blizzards? What is this? *said in DS9 Prophet voice*

If Australian McDonalds serve McFlurry, it's like that, except Dairy Queen probably offers more choices of stuff to put in it .

But the Blizzard is a lot thicker.

Is it? Both restaurants have soft serve icecream machines. As a teen worked in both a Dairy Queen and a Sonic. They both had soft serve ice cream machines and a Sonic blast was no different than a blizzard. Have never eaten icecream at a McDonalds, but it makes sense.

Compared to a McFlurry, I would say yes. I haven't had a Blast though because they don't have Sonic here.

(and now I'm giggling that I'm giving this much thought to this particular topic. Yes, definitely still in quarantine)  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 26, 2020, 07:56:36 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on April 26, 2020, 07:47:32 PM

Quote from: Jack on April 26, 2020, 07:42:01 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on April 26, 2020, 07:33:27 PM

Quote from: Jack on April 26, 2020, 07:06:53 PM

Quote from: renaeden on April 25, 2020, 08:52:11 PM

Dairy Queen? Blizzards? What is this? *said in DS9 Prophet voice*

If Australian McDonalds serve McFlurry, it's like that, except Dairy Queen probably offers more choices of stuff to put in it .

But the Blizzard is a lot thicker.

Is it? Both restaurants have soft serve icecream machines. As a teen worked in both a Dairy Queen and a Sonic. They both had soft serve ice cream machines and a Sonic blast was no different than a blizzard. Have never eaten icecream at a McDonalds, but it makes sense.

Compared to a McFlurry, I would say yes. I haven't had a Blast though because they don't have Sonic here.

(and now I'm giggling that I'm giving this much thought to this particular topic. Yes, definitely still in quarantine)  :laugh:

Personally hated the whole tip the cup thing, because during busy times when the machines were overworked there's no way that was happening. Also thought sonic was better because they serve theirs in styrofoam cup which slowed melting while eating. Now realizing it's been entirely too long since allowing myself to eat icecream. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 26, 2020, 08:13:09 PM

Quote from: Jack on April 26, 2020, 07:56:36 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on April 26, 2020, 07:47:32 PM

Quote from: Jack on April 26, 2020, 07:42:01 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on April 26, 2020, 07:33:27 PM

Quote from: Jack on April 26, 2020, 07:06:53 PM

Quote from: renaeden on April 25, 2020, 08:52:11 PM

Dairy Queen? Blizzards? What is this? *said in DS9 Prophet voice*

If Australian McDonalds serve McFlurry, it's like that, except Dairy Queen probably offers more choices of stuff to put in it .

But the Blizzard is a lot thicker.

Is it? Both restaurants have soft serve icecream machines. As a teen worked in both a Dairy Queen and a Sonic. They both had soft serve ice cream machines and a Sonic blast was no different than a blizzard. Have never eaten icecream at a McDonalds, but it makes sense.

Compared to a McFlurry, I would say yes. I haven't had a Blast though because they don't have Sonic here.

(and now I'm giggling that I'm giving this much thought to this particular topic. Yes, definitely still in quarantine)  :laugh:

Personally hated the whole tip the cup thing, because during busy times when the machines were overworked there's no way that was happening. Also thought sonic was better because they serve theirs in styrofoam cup which slowed melting while eating. Now realizing it's been entirely too long since allowing myself to eat icecream. :laugh:

:lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 26, 2020, 08:32:05 PM

Worked for nearly 5 hours at walmart due to mgmt. incompetence.  But it was good, since Carla and I had no place to go or see due to the pandemic.  I just had to make sure I did NOT go beyond 5 hours on the clock or I would have been written up for breaking state law.  Yeah, go figure that out.  I volunteer to work and get screwed for being a nice person.   ::)  It's happened once and walmart sucks.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 27, 2020, 01:40:14 AM

Why the 5-hour limit? :-\

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 27, 2020, 09:14:11 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 27, 2020, 01:40:14 AM

Why the 5-hour limit? :-\

It's a NH state labor law.  You must clock out at 5 hours and take a break for lunch or so.  I once went 2 minutes over by staying to help out beyond my normal work time.  I got written up for it.  It sounds ridiculous, but, I suppose the law goes back to a time when the company would work people without giving breaks at all.  So if I stay on the clock for more than 5 hours, walmart could get in trouble with the law.  So last night, I kept a wary eye on the clock.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 27, 2020, 11:03:36 AM

Looking on the plus side of cancelling our travel plans for the next few months..........we're saving a lot of money from staying at B&B's and eating out at restaurants.    :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 27, 2020, 12:02:10 PM

The picture that I posted of me with the kitten mask that Carla made for me is getting a lot of likes and positive comments from my friends there.  It's a lot more comfortable than the hardware store masks I was using at work or the ones that walmart tried to give me.   ::)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 27, 2020, 05:18:38 PM

A friend of mine made more masks for HB for work. Grateful.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 27, 2020, 06:36:12 PM

My brother stopped by to pick up some stuff for a job and we got to talk at a distance for awhile

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 27, 2020, 09:31:44 PM

The government has relaxed the people gathering rule from 2 people to 10 people.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 27, 2020, 09:39:17 PM

Quote from: renaeden on April 25, 2020, 11:30:32 PM

Quote from: Genesis on April 25, 2020, 11:05:24 PM

Quote from: renaeden on April 25, 2020, 09:18:54 PM

Quote from: Genesis on April 25, 2020, 09:15:33 PM

Lack of Sleeping in = Sleeping earlier than my usual?

I always go to bed roughly between 9pm - 9:30pm. It's part of my routine.

How about you?

I get to sleep around 12:30am to about 1am at the latest (especially since I have to go to work in the morning)

I couldn't function the next day if I went to bed that late! But I'm old and you're a young 'un who can handle it. :)

 :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 28, 2020, 01:12:13 AM

Quote from: renaeden on April 27, 2020, 09:31:44 PM

The government has relaxed the people gathering rule from 2 people to 10 people.

We have a 50-people limit. We're all going to die.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 28, 2020, 05:14:22 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 28, 2020, 01:12:13 AM

Quote from: renaeden on April 27, 2020, 09:31:44 PM

The government has relaxed the people gathering rule from 2 people to 10 people.

We have a 50-people limit. We're all going to die.

Saw a graph prepared by USA's federal Center For Disease Control comparing the rate of infection per capita in states that have "closed down" as opposed to those states with no social distancing guidelines.
Approximately a two percent difference.
So, yeah, we're all going to die.

I would have to get all dark and twisty to refer to this as good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 28, 2020, 05:37:04 AM

All of our restrictions are still in place. The province released the approach they will use when it comes to opening the province back up and what that could look like but said we're still not close to be able to do it yet. Although I've noticed that a week ago our rate of daily new cases (just in Ontario) was 8.7% and now it's down to 2.9%. But on the flip side, the daily deaths that were at 3.2% are now up to 6% increases a day but that was to be expected.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 28, 2020, 02:47:52 PM

We've got twice the mortality rate of our neighbouring countries and yet the government seems to think their strategy is OK.

And I just realised this doesn't fit the topic of this thread. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on April 28, 2020, 04:05:45 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 28, 2020, 02:47:52 PM

We've got twice the mortality rate of our neighbouring countries and yet the government seems to think their strategy is OK.

And I just realised this doesn't fit the topic of this thread. :P

:lol1:

Although on a serious note, I looked at a graph the other idea on the amount of deaths your country was having compared to your neighbours who put restrictions in place. You had a massive spike in comparison.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 29, 2020, 06:36:00 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on April 28, 2020, 04:05:45 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 28, 2020, 02:47:52 PM

We've got twice the mortality rate of our neighbouring countries and yet the government seems to think their strategy is OK.

And I just realised this doesn't fit the topic of this thread. :P

:lol1:

Although on a serious note, I looked at a graph the other idea on the amount of deaths your country was having compared to your neighbours who put restrictions in place. You had a massive spike in comparison.

The theory is that everyone else will have those deaths later, plus that they failed to properly take care of the elderly.

Also known as "we fucked up."

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on April 29, 2020, 07:08:00 AM

We had a slight easing in restrictions here. Apparently people are now allowed TWO visitors at home instead of one. Wowee!
And I heard about some shops opening back up.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 29, 2020, 07:15:56 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 28, 2020, 02:47:52 PM

And I just realised this doesn't fit the topic of this thread. :P

I ran into that same dilemmma with my last post.
 :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 29, 2020, 10:35:19 AM

I2 in a nutshell. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 29, 2020, 11:15:52 AM

Took a nice walk and listened to nature, as well as the occasional sounds of gunfire coming from a shooting range nearby.  But, probably somebody going a bit stir crazy as well and getting outside while they can.  Since another big storm system is heading our way.....AGAIN. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 29, 2020, 02:55:21 PM

Had a nice short nap that seemed so much longer than it was

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on April 29, 2020, 08:34:50 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on April 29, 2020, 07:08:00 AM

We had a slight easing in restrictions here. Apparently people are now allowed TWO visitors at home instead of one. Wowee!
And I heard about some shops opening back up.

My county is supposed to ease restrictions starting Monday. Believe it's going to 10 people.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 29, 2020, 10:26:58 PM

Got onions, shallots, carrot seeds and radish seeds in the ground.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 30, 2020, 01:05:48 PM

My daughter and her boyfriend visited.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 30, 2020, 03:43:50 PM

Chinese food :asthing:   The place we go to has been closed for over a month along with all the other places in the area but they opened back up the other day

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 30, 2020, 05:04:05 PM

Quote from: Parts on April 30, 2020, 03:43:50 PM

Chinese food :asthing:   The place we go to has been closed for over a month along with all the other places in the area but they opened back up the other day

As long as they stick to take out or delivery, then it's good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 30, 2020, 08:30:24 PM

Two books that I ordered came in.......my pile is growing!    :book:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 30, 2020, 11:26:16 PM

Had a good phone appointment with my psychologist.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 01, 2020, 09:21:16 AM

Finished working early and went for a walk with the dog instead.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 01, 2020, 05:29:20 PM

I have a really good life

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 01, 2020, 06:47:20 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 30, 2020, 05:04:05 PM

Quote from: Parts on April 30, 2020, 03:43:50 PM

Chinese food :asthing:   The place we go to has been closed for over a month along with all the other places in the area but they opened back up the other day

As long as they stick to take out or delivery, then it's good.

No eat in anywhere in Connecticut right now,   they leave it on the porch and ring the bell

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 02, 2020, 11:22:56 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on May 01, 2020, 05:29:20 PM

I have a really good life

Me too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 02, 2020, 12:14:38 PM

Took a very long walk with Carla on a country road.   Perfect day sunny 60's with a light breeze.   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 02, 2020, 01:57:13 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 02, 2020, 11:22:56 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on May 01, 2020, 05:29:20 PM

I have a really good life

Me too.

I smiled reading that and I shall not +1 you for it even if internally that's exactly what I'm doing  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 02, 2020, 08:51:20 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on May 02, 2020, 01:57:13 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 02, 2020, 11:22:56 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on May 01, 2020, 05:29:20 PM

I have a really good life

Me too.

I smiled reading that and I shall not +1 you for it even if internally that's exactly what I'm doing  :thumbup:

Yours made me smile too. Though tend to be a glass half full type, so possibly only have a warped perspective.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 03, 2020, 06:57:35 AM

Quote from: Jack on May 02, 2020, 08:51:20 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on May 02, 2020, 01:57:13 PM

Quote from: Jack on May 02, 2020, 11:22:56 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on May 01, 2020, 05:29:20 PM

I have a really good life

Me too.

I smiled reading that and I shall not +1 you for it even if internally that's exactly what I'm doing  :thumbup:

Yours made me smile too. Though tend to be a glass half full type, so possibly only have a warped perspective.

Lol. I'm the same

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 04, 2020, 08:40:59 AM

I tend to be the wrong glass type. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on May 04, 2020, 10:58:44 AM

I don't care what shape the glass is as long as I can put beer or whisky in it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 04, 2020, 10:59:45 AM

I got to sleep in. Thankful since I was up and down all night.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 04, 2020, 11:54:20 AM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on May 04, 2020, 10:58:44 AM

I don't care what shape the glass is as long as I can put beer or whisky in it.

Yep!   :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 05, 2020, 03:20:03 PM

Dog food. Have never been so happy or excited about dog food.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 05, 2020, 03:39:16 PM

I'm exhaling over here on your behalf. lol

Dinner tonight was easy but turned out really good

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on May 05, 2020, 10:00:20 PM

Didn't go on a walk because of the weather but instead sat inside and talked with 4 intelligent people I've never met before. We talked for about an hour about all sorts. Nice way to spend the morning.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on May 05, 2020, 11:48:47 PM

I am very much a "glass half empty" person.

I ate some really nice blue cheese for lunch. And I will be taking the puppy for a walk at around 5 pm when I'm supposed to finish working from home. Then I will do some shopping and if my daughter follows we can stop at 7-11 so she can buy a Slurpee.

For breakfast I had leftover cauliflower bake. It was really good, I make it with tasty cheese and bacon and sour cream. And cauliflower, of course. With the closure of restaurants I suspect that many people are putting a bit more effort into making "special" food at home.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 06, 2020, 07:19:49 AM

For the most part have left social media as of yesterday. I need to be less reachable to people for awhile.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 06, 2020, 09:27:21 AM

Quote from: Minister of silly walks on May 05, 2020, 11:48:47 PM

I am very much a "glass half empty" person.

I ate some really nice blue cheese for lunch. And I will be taking the puppy for a walk at around 5 pm when I'm supposed to finish working from home. Then I will do some shopping and if my daughter follows we can stop at 7-11 so she can buy a Slurpee.

For breakfast I had leftover cauliflower bake. It was really good, I make it with tasty cheese and bacon and sour cream. And cauliflower, of course. With the closure of restaurants I suspect that many people are putting a bit more effort into making "special" food at home.

We call it "comfort food" here.  But, "special" food works too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 06, 2020, 07:29:20 PM

Cake :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 06, 2020, 09:16:36 PM

Cake is a good thing.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 07, 2020, 02:00:54 AM

What kind of cake? :drool:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on May 07, 2020, 02:48:16 AM

Is it chocolate?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 07, 2020, 08:42:18 AM

Found out I didn't have to go to Portsmouth NH to begin the process of registering for Social Security.  And Carla found out that I don't need to apply for about another year and a half.  The Social Security office is closed for the duration of the pandemic.  I have till the end of the year to do the Medicare thingy..........oh joy!  Good thing I am married to an expert in that line.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 07, 2020, 08:52:27 AM

Last night Monkeygirl and I made pizza and watched Steel Magnolia's. I love those kinds of moments.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 07, 2020, 01:01:46 PM

I am at home in an empty house and playing music the cub doesn't like.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 07, 2020, 03:38:58 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 07, 2020, 01:01:46 PM

I am at home in an empty house and playing music the cub doesn't like.  :laugh:

:dance:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 07, 2020, 04:53:42 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 07, 2020, 01:01:46 PM

I am at home in an empty house and playing music the cub doesn't like.  :laugh:

That's awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 07, 2020, 04:54:24 PM

Everything was good. It was a really good day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 08, 2020, 11:49:26 AM

Played a decent round of golf.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 08, 2020, 08:33:09 PM

The classic chick flicks with monkeygirl continue. Last night was Notting Hill. Tonight was My Best Friend's Wedding.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 08, 2020, 09:01:04 PM

Long walk with the cub in the setting sun, and then he went right to sleep after dinner.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 09, 2020, 08:31:43 AM

Got an uniterrupted hour listening to music.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 09, 2020, 09:19:18 AM

The credit card machines where down at Lowes so I got to bypass the huge line because I had cash

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on May 09, 2020, 09:46:30 AM

It's a hot day out there and the walk so totally worth it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 09, 2020, 10:17:11 AM

Groceries for the week purchased and put away.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 09, 2020, 11:20:18 AM

A brilliant French (!) single-malt whisky happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 09, 2020, 10:29:59 PM

Had a nice chat with a customer about the no difference between a sleep med with 25 mg of diphenhydramine and a bottle of allergy medicine with 25 mg of diphenhydramine.   The big difference was the price, twice as high because it was billed as a sleep aid as opposed to the store brand anti-allergy med.   He looked at the labels and was a bit gob smacked, but, he appreciated my explanation and walked off with the bottle of the cheaper allergy med.     8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 09, 2020, 10:30:51 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 09, 2020, 11:20:18 AM

A brilliant French (!) single-malt whisky happened.

I never knew the french did that.  I usually stick to the Scottish single malts.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 10, 2020, 02:09:45 AM

Quote from: rock hound on May 09, 2020, 10:30:51 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 09, 2020, 11:20:18 AM

A brilliant French (!) single-malt whisky happened.

I never knew the french did that.  I usually stick to the Scottish single malts.

I didn't either, until a friend recommended it. This one. (https://www.whiskybase.com/whiskies/whisky/88536/g-rozelieures-single-malt-whisky) And here's the link to the distillery (https://www.whiskyrozelieures.com/en/). Something doesn't work on that page, though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on May 10, 2020, 06:17:11 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 10, 2020, 02:09:45 AM

Quote from: rock hound on May 09, 2020, 10:30:51 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 09, 2020, 11:20:18 AM

A brilliant French (!) single-malt whisky happened.

I never knew the french did that.  I usually stick to the Scottish single malts.

I didn't either, until a friend recommended it. This one. (https://www.whiskybase.com/whiskies/whisky/88536/g-rozelieures-single-malt-whisky) And here's the link to the distillery (https://www.whiskyrozelieures.com/en/). Something doesn't work on that page, though.

 :plus:

since, as most folk know , i'm teetotal, should perhaps explain that i used to drink.  way back in my youth, and single malt was once a favourite tipple off mine (when i could afford it, which was rarely , TBH)
I even continued to buy a bottle of the single malt  every Christmas (up to just  a few years ago) just so as i could offer a decent  drink to random visitors.   Then i developed the dreaded gluten intolerance  :zombiefuck: and cos i didn't drink, didn't need to think about which alcoholic beverages i had to avoid on that account... not until after one  Christmas Eve, when one such visitor praised my single malt to the high heavens and persuaded me to try just a little sip of it.

All I can (i.e. want to)  say is that i was ever so glad that the vistor had gone by the time the symptoms hit.  And you won't catch me repeating that mistake.

But now I'm wondering, do you  (surprisingly numerous) whisky fans on this forum not have an issue with gluten, then?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 10, 2020, 07:10:31 AM

I don't have any gluten issues, no. It would kill me if I did.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 10, 2020, 08:13:20 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 10, 2020, 02:09:45 AM

Quote from: rock hound on May 09, 2020, 10:30:51 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 09, 2020, 11:20:18 AM

A brilliant French (!) single-malt whisky happened.

I never knew the french did that.  I usually stick to the Scottish single malts.

I didn't either, until a friend recommended it. This one. (https://www.whiskybase.com/whiskies/whisky/88536/g-rozelieures-single-malt-whisky) And here's the link to the distillery (https://www.whiskyrozelieures.com/en/). Something doesn't work on that page, though.

Interesting, if I see it here I will give it a try!  And the page doesn't work for me either. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on May 10, 2020, 12:31:00 PM

Unfortunately, nothing much great happened today but I did cook a nice meal to cheer myself up a little.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 10, 2020, 03:11:41 PM

Took the day off. HB made breakfast and is about to BBQ dinner. I napped, read, helped the youngest with homework and watched part of a bad movie.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 12, 2020, 03:10:18 PM

Texting with my MIL today. I got very very lucky in the in-law department as they're similar to my family and have the same sense of humour so I like talking to them.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on May 12, 2020, 04:29:17 PM

Went for a walk around my area and then came across my old classmate back when I was school. It's amazing we live on the same road.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 12, 2020, 09:46:13 PM

I sold a rusty as hell weight set I found on the side of the road for $200 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 12, 2020, 10:01:11 PM

Holy crap! That's a good score for one day!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 13, 2020, 07:36:21 AM

My daughter sold her car.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on May 13, 2020, 10:16:10 AM

Worked outdoors on the patio. Will have to do that more often, at least the first half of the day before it warms up.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 13, 2020, 12:32:29 PM

Oldest and I had to run some errands so we loaded the dogs up into the van and did our running around. Had the windows down, it was sunny and nice out. Came home feeling refreshed and energized. Nice change from the snow and doldrums we had two days ago.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on May 14, 2020, 04:16:03 AM

I accidentally missed the bin collection this morning, called to let them know and they actually came back for it.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 14, 2020, 05:54:04 AM

Took an hour and a half off work.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 14, 2020, 06:47:50 AM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on May 14, 2020, 04:16:03 AM

I accidentally missed the bin collection this morning, called to let them know and they actually came back for it.  :orly:

Wow. That would never happen here. We'd get a "well you're SOL aren't ya"  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on May 14, 2020, 07:21:01 AM

Here too usually. Must be my day.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 14, 2020, 07:22:31 AM

You post actually reminded me that I had to take my own out this morning too  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on May 14, 2020, 07:23:56 AM

Just as well.  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on May 14, 2020, 09:26:47 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on May 14, 2020, 06:47:50 AM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on May 14, 2020, 04:16:03 AM

I accidentally missed the bin collection this morning, called to let them know and they actually came back for it.  :orly:

Wow. That would never happen here. We'd get a "well you're SOL aren't ya"  :P

wouldn't happen here either (about 100 miles down the road from Dunc)
He must sound like the kind of bloke you wouldn't want to mess with. Or something.   :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on May 14, 2020, 10:11:02 AM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on May 14, 2020, 07:21:01 AM

Here too usually. Must be my day.  :2thumbsup:

Just noticed this. I think I've got it! Covid-19 has led to staff shortages, due to self-isolation.  Sooooo they've had to train up new staff fast, with the result that they've just had to omit the "smug bastard" module of the training course  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on May 14, 2020, 11:25:42 AM

That must be it.  :agreed:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 14, 2020, 04:41:22 PM

Quote from: Walkie on May 14, 2020, 10:11:02 AM

I've got it! Covid-19

I read this as a complete sentence. :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 14, 2020, 05:31:29 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on May 14, 2020, 07:22:31 AM

You post actually reminded me that I had to take my own out this morning too  :asthing:

I just realized I don't even know what days the trash runs around here.  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on May 14, 2020, 05:41:48 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on May 14, 2020, 04:41:22 PM

Quote from: Walkie on May 14, 2020, 10:11:02 AM

I've got it! Covid-19

I read this as a complete sentence. :GA:

hehe . thanks gopher, you just retrospectively justified posting that under "something good..."

but here's something really good. BBC i-player is veritable treasure trove of good drama (as well as good documentaries..you name it!) Thanks to their awesome colection of box sets, I was able to re-watch the excellent second series of "Missing"along with my son (who hadn't yet seen it) . Just watched the final episode today :)

What's more, we had this not-especially-fascinating little discussion about how i keep thinking that Julien Baptiste's first name is Jean.  I think I'm getting him mixed up with John the Baptist.  Anyway , after a bit of discission about this, my son fell silent on this issue for several hours; and then suddenly, in all seriousness,  he  came out with "Yeah, I can see why you get him mixed up with John the Baptiste"

 :LOL:  obviously he's totally the right person to explain my confusion, isn't he?  I suppose I have a weird sense of humour,  but  it took me ten minutes to stop spluttering with laughter, and still, at random intervals that phrase sudden;y  comes back to mind, and i;m spluttering all over again . Son was laughing too, but I'm starting to annoy him now.  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 14, 2020, 05:52:13 PM

Quote from: Walkie on May 14, 2020, 05:41:48 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on May 14, 2020, 04:41:22 PM

Quote from: Walkie on May 14, 2020, 10:11:02 AM

I've got it! Covid-19

I read this as a complete sentence. :GA:

hehe . thanks gopher, you just retrospectively justified posting that under "something good..."

Yeah, I'm not the observant type.  :lol1:  Seriously though, it freaked me out.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 14, 2020, 06:14:45 PM

Quote from: Walkie on May 14, 2020, 05:41:48 PM

What's more, we had this not-especially-fascinating little discussion about how i keep thinking that Julien Baptiste's first name is Jean.  I think I'm getting him mixed up with John the Baptist.  Anyway , after a bit of discission about this, my son fell silent on this issue for several hours; and then suddenly, in all seriousness,  he  came out with "Yeah, I can see why you get him mixed up with John the Baptiste"

 :LOL:  obviously he's totally the right person to explain my confusion, isn't he?  I suppose I have a weird sense of humour,  but  it took me ten minutes to stop spluttering with laughter, and still, at random intervals that phrase sudden;y  comes back to mind, and i;m spluttering all over again . Son was laughing too, but I'm starting to annoy him now.  :green:

It's good to have people who get you like that.  :thumbup: One time a few years back the whole family was sitting at the dinner table. My mom was there too and something suddenly reminded me of a really persistent echolalia I had when I was about eight years old. I bent my head back and shouted it at the ceiling. My mom sat there dumbstruck, and I shot her a look like: Oh yeah, I just did that lol. We both busted up laughing hysterically, and no one else could ever understand why that was so funny, even if I tried to explain it.  :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 14, 2020, 06:42:12 PM

Had a fabulous social distancing lunch with one of my nearest and dearest. Haven't seen her in 4 months. We each got take out and sat in our own cars and gabbed while eating. Although at one point she kept looking up slight above my head and I could tell she was trying not to laugh. I finally asked her what the problem is and apparently I had a flock of seagulls sitting on my van. So I opened slowly opened up the sunroof (Just the inside covering, not the glass) and it took them a few seconds to notice me and when they did their eyes bugged out and they freaked out and took off.

2 mins later they returned.  :facepalm2: So then I yelled at them that if they're going to make me look like frickin Snow White, the LEAST they could do is show up at my house and clean it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on May 15, 2020, 04:13:40 AM

 :lol1:

They should probably clean the shit off your car roof first.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 15, 2020, 06:46:32 AM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on May 15, 2020, 04:13:40 AM

:lol1:

They should probably clean the shit off your car roof first.

Excellent place to start lol

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on May 15, 2020, 07:10:59 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on May 14, 2020, 06:42:12 PM

Had a fabulous social distancing lunch with one of my nearest and dearest. Haven't seen her in 4 months. We each got take out and sat in our own cars and gabbed while eating. Although at one point she kept looking up slight above my head and I could tell she was trying not to laugh. I finally asked her what the problem is and apparently I had a flock of seagulls sitting on my van. So I opened slowly opened up the sunroof (Just the inside covering, not the glass) and it took them a few seconds to notice me and when they did their eyes bugged out and they freaked out and took off.

2 mins later they returned.  :facepalm2: So then I yelled at them that if they're going to make me look like frickin Snow White, the LEAST they could do is show up at my house and clean it.

 :lol1:
that reminds of yesterday, when i strolled out of the building into the carpark, and there was this old boy , with a face like thunder, scraping the birdshit off  the  bonnet of his car.
"Somebody's put this here" he complained, in all seriousness. "No bird shits that much"

oh yeah? well the car was parked right under a tree and we have loads abd loads  of pretty sizable birds round here: seagulls, wood pigeons, rooks, magpies...

I don't know which of those drop great big splats of green stuff? but i find that a whole lot more feasible than the notion that some other impish neighbour has been going round collecting birdshit, or similar  in  a little bucket  and sploshing the contents over this guy's car when he wasn't looking. Either way , it's pretty clear that my neighbours are losing their sanity.  :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 15, 2020, 07:18:51 AM

Quote from: Walkie on May 15, 2020, 07:10:59 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on May 14, 2020, 06:42:12 PM

Had a fabulous social distancing lunch with one of my nearest and dearest. Haven't seen her in 4 months. We each got take out and sat in our own cars and gabbed while eating. Although at one point she kept looking up slight above my head and I could tell she was trying not to laugh. I finally asked her what the problem is and apparently I had a flock of seagulls sitting on my van. So I opened slowly opened up the sunroof (Just the inside covering, not the glass) and it took them a few seconds to notice me and when they did their eyes bugged out and they freaked out and took off.

2 mins later they returned.  :facepalm2: So then I yelled at them that if they're going to make me look like frickin Snow White, the LEAST they could do is show up at my house and clean it.

 :lol1:
that reminds of yesterday, when i strolled out of the building into the carpark, and there was this old boy , with a face like thunder, scraping the birdshit off  the  bonnet of his car.
"Somebody's put this here" he complained, in all seriousness. "No bird shits that much"

oh yeah? well the car was parked right under a tree and we have loads abd loads  of pretty sizable birds round here: seagulls, wood pigeons, rooks, magpies...

I don't know which of those drop great big splats of green stuff? but i find that a whole lot more feasible than the notion that some other impish neighbour has been going round collecting birdshit, or similar  in  a little bucket  and sploshing the contents over this guy's car when he wasn't looking. Either way , it's pretty clear that my neighbours are losing their sanity.  :LOL:

You should have told that Canadian geese shit every 7 mins so it's entirely possible :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on May 15, 2020, 08:19:56 AM

Actually, i think it might possibly have been albatross poop. Now that would be really unusual in the uk.

i say that because of a comical bit of bird behaviour i happened to witness the other day, There was this seemingly undersized crow perched on the the guttering across the road , right next to the biggest fucking seagull that  i ever saw in my life. The thing totally dwarfed the little crow, but  I was too taken up with watching their behavior to think about  how the hell a gulll could have grown that big, though i did notice that it's bill was curiously rounded, and vaguely surmised that it couldn;t really  be a gull, must be something else.

Anyway, the crow kept edging closer and closer to the "gull" until the gull chased it off with a show of agression'. But it didn't withdraw very far, and instantly resumed edging closer. Rinse and repeat through several iterations until suddenly the gull had enough and took off, flying over my rooftop (yep, in the generasl direction of the capark  :LOL:) with the little crow in pursuit.

Love or what?  :laugh:

Now, it suddenly strikes me that the "gull"could have been an abatross.  I just checked out some albatross images, and yeah: it looked just like one of those. Ooooh. Now that's more interesting than birdshit on cars , isn't it :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 15, 2020, 08:24:36 AM

Clearly the crow missed the memo on social distancing and the gull did not   ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on May 15, 2020, 08:51:34 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on May 15, 2020, 08:24:36 AM

Clearly the crow missed the memo on social distancing and the gull did not   ;)

:lol1:

but still...heck! the twitchers would have my guts for garters if word got out that i'd seen  a black-browed albatross  in the Midlands, of all places, and didn't take a pic, didn't call birdwatch . just laughed and laughed at the funny little crow that had fallen in love with it  :laugh:
still, without the pic , it didn't happen *phew*

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on May 15, 2020, 09:28:25 AM

An albatross in the midlands would definitely be unusual. We usually keep ours on a bungy cord so when they reach the yorkshire border it twangs them back  :lol1:

Weirdly, we do have wallabies on the moors though. I assume they're lost.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 15, 2020, 11:58:23 AM

Bought beer. ;D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on May 15, 2020, 02:15:41 PM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on May 15, 2020, 09:28:25 AM

An albatross in the midlands would definitely be unusual. We usually keep ours on a bungy cord so when they reach the yorkshire border it twangs them back  :lol1:

 :orly: That must be what Scotland were doing  do with their albatross. But they've let him off the leash now:

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-herald-on-sunday/20100613/282187942265005

Sorry , I just don't believe that you guys have more than one albatross; but if you twanged him back fast enough, i guess  he could look like a lot of albatrosses  :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on May 15, 2020, 02:23:11 PM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on May 15, 2020, 09:28:25 AM

Weirdly, we do have wallabies on the moors though. I assume they're lost.

Better let the Aussies know that boomerangs are not so reliable as bungee cords  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on May 16, 2020, 05:36:11 AM

 :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 18, 2020, 02:05:44 PM

I got a pipe that was jammed in the socket of a slick (really big framing chisel) out after trying off and on since I got it in October without damaging the slick

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 19, 2020, 12:39:59 AM

Coffee happened and saved you all.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 19, 2020, 07:20:30 AM

Quote from: odeon on May 19, 2020, 12:39:59 AM

Coffee happened and saved you all.

:laugh:

Hot chocolate on a chilly morning while I'm curled up in a blanket on the couch is currently happening and this makes me happy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on May 19, 2020, 07:45:50 AM

The sun is out and I'm happy either way.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 20, 2020, 05:58:29 AM

I decided to take Friday off. Tomorrow is bank holiday around here, and I figured extending it wouldn't hurt.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on May 20, 2020, 12:20:02 PM

I bought beer.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 20, 2020, 12:58:23 PM

Bought the fixings for Steve's Mighty Meaty Meatloaf to make tomorrow!   As requested by She Who Must Be Obeyed! :worship:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on May 20, 2020, 01:55:56 PM

It was such a hot beautiful day, even hotter than yesterday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 20, 2020, 05:19:01 PM

I have cheesecake in my fridge. That will be a good thing later tonight.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on May 20, 2020, 06:53:35 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on May 20, 2020, 05:19:01 PM

I have cheesecake in my fridge. That will be a good thing later tonight.

So would love to grab a cheesecake right now, got the late night cravings again.  :eyelash:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 20, 2020, 07:46:57 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on May 20, 2020, 05:19:01 PM

I have cheesecake in my fridge. That will be a good thing later tonight.

Now I have a craving for cheesecake..............ARGH!!!!    8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 21, 2020, 02:58:05 AM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on May 20, 2020, 12:20:02 PM

I bought beer.

OMG, great minds think alike. Me too!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 21, 2020, 01:24:24 PM

I had no idea the power behind posting about cheesecake in this place  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 21, 2020, 01:45:22 PM

Took a long walk in a different direction the I usually do.  Found a glass test tube like thingy with a plastic stopper intact.  Finally figured out that it was for a cigar package.  So I cleaned it up and will try to figure out what to do with it.  In all my years of walking I have found some neat stuff, fair amount of coinage, weird stuff and my favorite denim jacket.  All lying there by the roadside.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2020, 01:58:40 AM

Coffee happened. As for the rest, it's more about survival.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 22, 2020, 09:09:09 PM

Got to celebrate my friend's Mum's birthday on video chat tonight. That was really nice.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 23, 2020, 03:42:46 PM

Area around the pool is cleaned up and looking good. Really wish the cedar trees weren't so close though because they're messy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on May 23, 2020, 06:20:39 PM

A good household BBQ.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 25, 2020, 10:40:32 AM

The first tulips are blooming in the yard and the daffodils still look gorgeous.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on May 25, 2020, 11:51:09 AM

Found a replacement on ebay for Mel's favourite glass (I accidentally broke it last night  :zombiefuck: )

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 25, 2020, 12:22:21 PM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on May 25, 2020, 11:51:09 AM

Found a replacement on ebay for Mel's favourite glass (I accidentally broke it last night  :zombiefuck: )

Does Mel know that yet? :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on May 25, 2020, 10:06:48 PM

The organisation I go walking with have offered to help me with my NDIS plan. NDIS is an Australian thing and stands for National Disability Insurance Scheme. Apparently there's more I can access and have paid for than just a psychologist.

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Post by: Phoenix on May 26, 2020, 06:23:05 AM

That's excellent news, Ren!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on May 26, 2020, 08:02:06 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on May 25, 2020, 12:22:21 PM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on May 25, 2020, 11:51:09 AM

Found a replacement on ebay for Mel's favourite glass (I accidentally broke it last night  :zombiefuck: )

Does Mel know that yet? :laugh:

Yes.  :hide:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 26, 2020, 08:03:49 AM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on May 26, 2020, 08:02:06 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on May 25, 2020, 12:22:21 PM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on May 25, 2020, 11:51:09 AM

Found a replacement on ebay for Mel's favourite glass (I accidentally broke it last night  :zombiefuck: )

Does Mel know that yet? :laugh:

Yes.  :hide:

 :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 26, 2020, 12:03:41 PM

Picked up the main set of plants for our summer gardening, pole beans, cherry tomatoes, hot peppers, parsley, basil.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 26, 2020, 12:26:35 PM

So a few guys who always go out drinking after work were very surprised to see a young married guy, who normally has a beer or two and then off to wifey, still out at closing time.
A little worried to see him there so late they asked him if everything was OK? Was anything wrong? Troubles at home? Etc.

Nah, nothing like that. I'm just sanitizing, from the inside out!
 :fuckyeahdance:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 26, 2020, 01:59:52 PM

 :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on May 26, 2020, 09:16:17 PM

There was no walking on today but I met with another person who said she would walk with me if I wanted to. So we did and also got a coffee. A good morning, lucky it didn't rain on us.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 27, 2020, 04:58:56 PM

My books that I ordered came in   :book:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 27, 2020, 06:33:57 PM

Sold some more stuff on facebook marketplace

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 28, 2020, 04:38:25 PM

My son and I laughed together for a while, today.
It felt good!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 28, 2020, 04:43:40 PM

Went and did necessity shopping... right now I am putting stuff away, Yoshi is begging to come into the flat, yet all I can say to him is:

Quote

Hold on, there's not enough room for you to laydown on the bed yet... you silly feline

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on May 29, 2020, 05:01:22 PM

Went over to Leeds to see daughter and her fiance, it's his 21st today. Mel came as she hasn't been able to see her in three months, we had a masked meetup outside the flats for a bit. It was nice. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on May 30, 2020, 12:30:54 AM

Managed to spot that I wasn't getting all the meds that I ordered at the chemist. If I hadn't, I would have had to make the trip there and back again. So I saved myself some time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 31, 2020, 01:22:34 AM

Daughter slept over.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 31, 2020, 05:13:35 AM

Funny coincidence ...
My daughter is asleep on my couch right now.
First day my daughter and wife were both off work on the same day in months. They did a bunch of stuff and she crashed in front of our TV during the "Flash" series.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on May 31, 2020, 03:41:54 PM

Music happened

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 31, 2020, 04:59:43 PM

Amber encountered a BumbleBee in her bed recently.  Now she has a bee sting allergy, but, it didn't sting her and she knows how passive Bumblebees are, she didn't panic and caught it in a glass and released it outdoors.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 31, 2020, 05:28:50 PM

Good for her.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 01, 2020, 10:38:20 AM

Started work for a new client. Nice to have more than one at a time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 01, 2020, 10:39:54 AM

Muted the news cast as I waited for the weather report!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 01, 2020, 11:49:16 AM

I moved patio furniture from one side of the acreage to the other and set up a nice little sitting area in a place where it will be used more.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 01, 2020, 12:37:19 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on June 01, 2020, 11:49:16 AM

I moved patio furniture from one side of the acreage to the other and set up a nice little sitting area in a place where it will be used more.

Sounds like your setting up a little bower!   My adopted Mum-in-law in Alberta Canada has had one for many years.  Setup underneath the shelter of a massive evergreen tree.  And that's exactly what she called it, her bower.  I did try to make one at our house in Fryeburg Maine.  But, it took a little climbing up and down a steep incline and never amounted to much.  More like a tree cave.   :dunno:  Nice place for me to hide out from Jehovah's Witnesses!   :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 01, 2020, 12:53:12 PM

Carla and I took a walk in downtown Rochester NH to enjoy good weather and get in the fragrance of the Lilac Flowers before they are gone.  Rochesters city name is "The Lilac City" and there are a lot of them around.  Because of our normal trips to Kentucky at this time of year.  We miss a lot of it.  And I love Lilacs very much.  So with staycation in place we have been indulging our senses as compensation for not traveling.  Though I must admit, saving money on planes, buses, rental cars and B&B's and restaurants will also look good when I get the credit card bill.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 01, 2020, 01:34:06 PM

Quote from: rock hound on June 01, 2020, 12:37:19 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on June 01, 2020, 11:49:16 AM

I moved patio furniture from one side of the acreage to the other and set up a nice little sitting area in a place where it will be used more.

Sounds like your setting up a little bower!   My adopted Mum-in-law in Alberta Canada has had one for many years.  Setup underneath the shelter of a massive evergreen tree.  And that's exactly what she called it, her bower.  I did try to make one at our house in Fryeburg Maine.  But, it took a little climbing up and down a steep incline and never amounted to much.  More like a tree cave.   :dunno:  Nice place for me to hide out from Jehovah's Witnesses!   :P

I have the best memories of the bower at my grandparents home. It was under this massive old weeping willow. I'm not sure yet where I'll set this one up. I had originally thought the paved square right outside the glass sliding doors at the back of the house but due to the placement of the bbq, our view would be of a brick wall of the house which isn't what I was aiming for. :P The furniture is bigger than I expected now that I see it in the space.

But your post reminded me that under the big old birch tree could be an option. We have a fire pit table thing to set up as well. Just have to see if it's stable enough there. That could be a really pretty arrangement. Although HB would be pissed to constantly have to move the furniture every time we cut the lawn with the tractor. lol

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on June 01, 2020, 03:19:58 PM

I bought beer and am now drinking it. :beergrin:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 01, 2020, 03:20:14 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on June 01, 2020, 01:34:06 PM

Quote from: rock hound on June 01, 2020, 12:37:19 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on June 01, 2020, 11:49:16 AM

I moved patio furniture from one side of the acreage to the other and set up a nice little sitting area in a place where it will be used more.

Sounds like your setting up a little bower!   My adopted Mum-in-law in Alberta Canada has had one for many years.  Setup underneath the shelter of a massive evergreen tree.  And that's exactly what she called it, her bower.  I did try to make one at our house in Fryeburg Maine.  But, it took a little climbing up and down a steep incline and never amounted to much.  More like a tree cave.   :dunno:  Nice place for me to hide out from Jehovah's Witnesses!   :P

I have the best memories of the bower at my grandparents home. It was under this massive old weeping willow. I'm not sure yet where I'll set this one up. I had originally thought the paved square right outside the glass sliding doors at the back of the house but due to the placement of the bbq, our view would be of a brick wall of the house which isn't what I was aiming for. :P The furniture is bigger than I expected now that I see it in the space.

But your post reminded me that under the big old birch tree could be an option. We have a fire pit table thing to set up as well. Just have to see if it's stable enough there. That could be a really pretty arrangement. Although HB would be pissed to constantly have to move the furniture every time we cut the lawn with the tractor. lol

Willows are also great for Bowers.  As for HB, if he loves you, he will adapt.  It's a pain yes, but, worth the serenity long term. 

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Post by: rock hound on June 01, 2020, 03:22:34 PM

Took a walk down the driveway to get the mail.  Started walking down the steep part and was hit with the splendid fragrance of Honey Suckle and other flowering shrubs and trees.  When the Lilacs fade away, these will last a bit longer and make for a great walk!  <bliss>

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on June 01, 2020, 03:33:29 PM

 :thumbup: Noice. I like the jasmine best, but ours is dying slightly as I forgot to water the pots (our 'garden' is just pots on the pavement)

There's a bit of lilac round here but not much. My nana had a lilac tree in her garden when I was a kid so the smell always makes me think of Saturdays spent there every week getting up to daft shit with all my cousins - she was the matriarch of the clan so everyone piled round there while our mams were at work. She passed on a couple of years ago at 90, but one of my cousins still has the house with his partner and two young boys, the tree is sadly gone though. </nostalgia>  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 01, 2020, 05:15:13 PM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on June 01, 2020, 03:33:29 PM

:thumbup: Noice. I like the jasmine best, but ours is dying slightly as I forgot to water the pots (our 'garden' is just pots on the pavement)

There's a bit of lilac round here but not much. My nana had a lilac tree in her garden when I was a kid so the smell always makes me think of Saturdays spent there every week getting up to daft shit with all my cousins - she was the matriarch of the clan so everyone piled round there while our mams were at work. She passed on a couple of years ago at 90, but one of my cousins still has the house with his partner and two young boys, the tree is sadly gone though. </nostalgia>  :)

Sad to hear the tree is gone.  But, Jasmine or other natural fragrances are always welcome.  It's amazing that certain scents or tunes bring up pleasant memories.   Gotta love it!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 01, 2020, 07:50:35 PM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on June 01, 2020, 03:33:29 PM

:thumbup: Noice. I like the jasmine best, but ours is dying slightly as I forgot to water the pots (our 'garden' is just pots on the pavement)

There's a bit of lilac round here but not much. My nana had a lilac tree in her garden when I was a kid so the smell always makes me think of Saturdays spent there every week getting up to daft shit with all my cousins - she was the matriarch of the clan so everyone piled round there while our mams were at work. She passed on a couple of years ago at 90, but one of my cousins still has the house with his partner and two young boys, the tree is sadly gone though. </nostalgia>  :)

My grandmother had a lot of lilac in her yard,  I always loved that smell.   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 01, 2020, 07:53:21 PM

Facebook marketplace is serving me well my only regret is I may have to put facebook on my phone to keep up with the messages instead of just using my laptop

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 01, 2020, 10:13:46 PM

Quote from: Parts on June 01, 2020, 07:53:21 PM

Facebook marketplace is serving me well my only regret is I may have to put facebook on my phone to keep up with the messages instead of just using my laptop

My phone is the only device I look at Facebook on. There's not as many ads and if you do get some that piss you off, you can always block them permanently. All in all, it's not bad on the phone.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 02, 2020, 09:21:41 AM

Sold two things on marketplace today :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on June 02, 2020, 11:23:01 PM

It was more of what happened yesterday but, had a reunion with my colleagues, had a bit too much fun but of course had to also obey the 2 meter social distancing in the process. Was pretty awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 03, 2020, 02:59:19 AM

Coffee. I did my part for world peace.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on June 03, 2020, 07:41:53 AM

My budget to build just increased by $25k today!! :GA:
Thanks Government for you free cash!!
The catch is I have to sell my place, secure a block of land and sign a building contract by 31st Dec :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 03, 2020, 10:24:52 AM

Congrats!! (but no pressure or anything  :laugh: )

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 03, 2020, 02:00:19 PM

Took a walk down the hill to put out the garbage bins.  On the way back, a decent sized dragonfly landed on my left shoulder.  It's a warm day, so I'm sure it wasn't warmth it needed.  My t-shirt is yellow, so maybe that was it or it needed a wee rest.  The dragonfly stayed there for most of the trip back to my front door.  Then I went to my planter boxes and very gently shooed it off.  As it flew up, it saw a small fly and nabbed it in mid air, circled a bit and then flew off.  I said "good-bye my friend" and went inside. 

My t-shirt is one of my volcano ones and reads;  Pompeii was an inside job, followed by a stylized picture of an erupting Vesuvius, underneath it says; Impeach Emperor Titus  Investigate AD/79.    That is on the front and back of the shirt.  I've had some people do double takes reading it!   :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 03, 2020, 07:28:34 PM

Aww that's so sweet

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 06, 2020, 10:54:37 AM

Enjoying a really good strong Earl Grey tea.....hot.  It's produced by a company called "Teapigs" and I found it at a local farm stand/gourmet store in Dover NH.  The taste of the bergamot is not over powering like it is in other commercial Earl Grey teas, like twinings.  The black tea part is strong with that nice finish of the bergamot.    Sipping tea watching and listening to a storm, life is good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 06, 2020, 10:58:31 AM

Groceries done for the week and helped the oldest organize his kitchen space.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on June 06, 2020, 05:05:14 PM

Pay day, or should I say furlough pay. :) ended up treating the household to a takeaway.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on June 06, 2020, 08:21:32 PM

Them teapigs are expensive. Hope they're worth the extra  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 07, 2020, 02:51:49 AM

Coffee happened. I don't know where I'd be without it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 07, 2020, 05:09:16 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 07, 2020, 02:51:49 AM

Coffee happened. I don't know where I'd be without it.

QFT

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 07, 2020, 06:40:35 AM

The drive by protest was not over in our little town for over an hour.

As annoying as it is to have a parade of car horns at 6AM on a Sunday morning, I have to stand with this group's methods in addition to the gravity of the message. No one was burning things! Only shouts I heard were what was also written on most of the cars.

Now I generally HATE to hear a car horn in traffic. It is annoying, usually. So let us make annoying sounds to draw attention to something we want say.

I stood next to the street on the second pass a bit ago and I was nervous, I have to admit. I was also worried about how I might be seen, even as some of the neighbors began to walk to the street. Heavily bearded old white guys do not exude trust, to put it mildly. I decided to just wave with an open hand, universal sign of "no harm here."
About forty or so cars after I lost count and lots of damn noise.
But no one was throwing anything, nothing was being broken and no fire.

:clap:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 07, 2020, 08:31:01 AM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on June 06, 2020, 08:21:32 PM

Them teapigs are expensive. Hope they're worth the extra  :thumbup:

We don't drink a lot of them, but, it's nice to have a cup when the mood hits for something with taste and a little extra kick.  Our normal go to black tea is a big box of Twinings English or Irish breakfast.  Tea is a nice comfort drink for me and Carla. 

Of course loose leaf Lapsang Souchong is the stuff that gets me going in the morning!   :roar:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 07, 2020, 12:01:44 PM

As I was heading out on my daily walk and trash pickup of the side of the road.  I started to round the curve to go down the hill of our driveway, and saw a Fox crossing it.  Now Carla had told me she had seen it, so I wasn't surprised.  It looked healthy, most likely a young one on it's own and with that very bushy tail.  It saw me and ran off the way it was heading so it was good to see that it had a healthy wariness about it.  Might have established a den in our area, abundant critters for it to prey on, chipmunks, mice, moles, voles and insects ad birds.  Lots of undergrowth and boulders to dig a den underneath. 

On the funny side of my walk, I found an intact condom in it's intact wrapper!   Trojan Magnus,  :laugh:, why somebody would throw that on the side of the road is beyond me.  It made me chuckle nevertheless.   I never know what I am going to find or see on my excursions!   :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 07, 2020, 04:01:29 PM

Had beer. Felt better. The world is fucked up but a beer helps.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on June 07, 2020, 05:15:30 PM

 :agreed:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on June 07, 2020, 05:18:40 PM

The people lead at work wasn't annoying today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 07, 2020, 06:38:31 PM

Ordered Indian from a restaurant in the neighborhood I've never tried, and it was excellent. They even had GF chickpea flour rotis.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on June 07, 2020, 06:43:10 PM

I'm definitely the basement dweller with the red beard.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 07, 2020, 07:29:32 PM

Loaded the dog into the car and drove around for 30 mins when the sun was setting just so I could listen to music and have some space. Enjoyed it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 07, 2020, 08:18:48 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 07, 2020, 06:38:31 PM

Ordered Indian from a restaurant in the neighborhood I've never tried, and it was excellent. They even had GF chickpea flour rotis.

Sounds like a good mental health break!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 08, 2020, 01:45:19 PM

Hosted a webinar that went really well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 10, 2020, 08:37:53 AM

Restaurants here are still only allowed to provide curbside takeout and one of the local places realized they had too much stock on order so they teamed up with their suppliers and are providing a truck load sale on meat with a portion of the sales supporting a local women's shelter. So we loaded up. 20 AAA NY Strip 8 oz steaks, 28/5 oz chicken breasts, 90 chicken fingers and 96 jumbo hotdogs for $333. We priced it out per portion and all of it is a deal compared to what we would normally pay in store. :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 11, 2020, 09:16:53 PM

Saved a wee 3 week old baby bunny. Thankfully I got to this one before my dog.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on June 12, 2020, 02:11:19 PM

Fixed the dehumidifier I trash picked a few weeks back, it's been humming away for 3 days now. It's making a big difference downstairs. I'm grateful. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 12, 2020, 04:11:57 PM

Picked up the bulk order of meat. Really happy with it and with a little tetris skill actually managed to make it all fit in the freezer.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 13, 2020, 02:00:34 AM

Dog woke me up and licked me all over. Beats an alarm clock by miles.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 13, 2020, 04:17:24 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on June 12, 2020, 04:11:57 PM

Picked up the bulk order of meat. Really happy with it and with a little tetris skill actually managed to make it all fit in the freezer.

Tetris?  Cool. Probably not the best way to organize a freezer, but you get points for fitting it all in!
 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 13, 2020, 04:41:29 AM

Well, yesterday, while heading to a park for my son to walk the dog. A lengthy walk in a strange place is real treat for him, well both of them.
There was a church sale ending. I drove up to park and take a look and they said, "We're all done. A complete waste of time. No one came."
I asked if I could take a peek, they said they were loading up and to make it quick.
Nice and hospitable.
I quickly spotted a pile of boxes full of ironware for the kitchen, which I kind of collect.
I asked for a price and one said I could take them all for ten bucks. DAMN!

After a further glance, there were seventeen iron skillets of various sizes, all in rough shape (mainly rusty), two muffin pans, several miscellaneous lids, a bread pan and a mismatched Dutch oven bottom. None of the lids fit it. An incredible stash of old style cookware most modernites are not familiar with using and so it was trash to them.

They asked for ten and I gave them twenty five bucks, loaded up and then helped them finish clearing the lot to help offset the trouble I caused by stopping by. I did not feel welcome.
There were also a few tools. I found two hammers, a few screwdrivers and an "antique" wooden yardstick with some awesome graphics on it. All for twenty five dollars.

All the ironware passes the "ring test"  (no cracks). Today I begin the process of restoring them. Got to get the rust stopped, at least.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 13, 2020, 06:11:56 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on June 13, 2020, 04:17:24 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on June 12, 2020, 04:11:57 PM

Picked up the bulk order of meat. Really happy with it and with a little tetris skill actually managed to make it all fit in the freezer.

Tetris?  Cool. Probably not the best way to organize a freezer, but you get points for fitting it all in!
 :thumbup:

It's just a small 3.5 cubic foot secondary freezer. It's mostly full of dog food and marrow bones because I feed raw. But comes in handy when we need a little bit of extra space for the things that done fit in the fridge/freezer combo.

Pup was having issues with a med she's taking and hadn't pooped in days. Added a supplement to her diet and this morning we had magic. I don't know who was more happy about it, her or me. She was clearly relieved and happy dancing and I was grateful we wouldn't have to make another trip to the vet. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on June 13, 2020, 01:33:58 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on June 13, 2020, 04:41:29 AM

Well, yesterday, while heading to a park for my son to walk the dog. A lengthy walk in a strange place is real treat for him, well both of them.
There was a church sale ending. I drove up to park and take a look and they said, "We're all done. A complete waste of time. No one came."
I asked if I could take a peek, they said they were loading up and to make it quick.
Nice and hospitable.
I quickly spotted a pile of boxes full of ironware for the kitchen, which I kind of collect.
I asked for a price and one said I could take them all for ten bucks. DAMN!

After a further glance, there were seventeen iron skillets of various sizes, all in rough shape (mainly rusty), two muffin pans, several miscellaneous lids, a bread pan and a mismatched Dutch oven bottom. None of the lids fit it. An incredible stash of old style cookware most modernites are not familiar with using and so it was trash to them.

They asked for ten and I gave them twenty five bucks, loaded up and then helped them finish clearing the lot to help offset the trouble I caused by stopping by. I did not feel welcome.
There were also a few tools. I found two hammers, a few screwdrivers and an "antique" wooden yardstick with some awesome graphics on it. All for twenty five dollars.

All the ironware passes the "ring test"  (no cracks). Today I begin the process of restoring them. Got to get the rust stopped, at least.

Damn. Nice score.

I find it from time to time. As long as it's not cracked, you can bring it back normally.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on June 13, 2020, 01:53:19 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on June 13, 2020, 04:41:29 AM

Well, yesterday, while heading to a park for my son to walk the dog. A lengthy walk in a strange place is real treat for him, well both of them.
There was a church sale ending. I drove up to park and take a look and they said, "We're all done. A complete waste of time. No one came."
I asked if I could take a peek, they said they were loading up and to make it quick.
Nice and hospitable.
I quickly spotted a pile of boxes full of ironware for the kitchen, which I kind of collect.
I asked for a price and one said I could take them all for ten bucks. DAMN!

After a further glance, there were seventeen iron skillets of various sizes, all in rough shape (mainly rusty), two muffin pans, several miscellaneous lids, a bread pan and a mismatched Dutch oven bottom. None of the lids fit it. An incredible stash of old style cookware most modernites are not familiar with using and so it was trash to them.

They asked for ten and I gave them twenty five bucks, loaded up and then helped them finish clearing the lot to help offset the trouble I caused by stopping by. I did not feel welcome.
There were also a few tools. I found two hammers, a few screwdrivers and an "antique" wooden yardstick with some awesome graphics on it. All for twenty five dollars.

All the ironware passes the "ring test"  (no cracks). Today I begin the process of restoring them. Got to get the rust stopped, at least.

Ooooh! I;m envious! was looking out for an iron skillet recently but balked at the price .

Interested to know what the "ring test"is?  Tried googling it but only turned a dowsing techique (using wedding band on string) for divining the sex of a baby  :laugh:

PS have used iron skillet before, long ago,  but have tended leave cookware- and almost everything else-  behind when leaving partners  (it just desn't quite feel quite fair to strip the house bare , if I'm the one leaving, by own choice) , and then i struggle to replace  :laugh:  The past 20 years i've most;y been using cookware that my Mum passed on, not stuff i would have chosen for myself. but recent hoise move forced me to ditch  almost all of it and buy new,  cos  I had to go electric, so decided to provide myse;f with an induction hob. I now have two steel saucepans, a steel stockpot, and a large steel saute pan (Ï won't buy aything wth "non-stick surface)  That's the lot.  but then there's only room for a single hob  (so i can only use one pan at a time)  and precious little room for storing cookware, so i had better linit myself to just one more piece. i think iron skillett would be the  most useful addition -  am experimenting with making flatbread, cos i can't eat any of the ready-made breads, and have neither the oven nor the spoons for making trad bread); and i fgure a skillet would be great for that. Am still open to other suggestions, mind.  Just don't say "steamer"  I have tried a dozen designs of steamer and regularly scalded myself on the lot.  Am through with that!   (Am also still hoping to get a move to somewhere roomier  :laugh: but better not count on it.  needing to make own food from scratch isn't on the council's checklist for acceptable reasons for requiring more space, wouldn't you know it?  ::))

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 13, 2020, 05:45:31 PM

Quote from: Walkie on June 13, 2020, 01:53:19 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on June 13, 2020, 04:41:29 AM

All the ironware passes the "ring test"  (no cracks). Today I begin the process of restoring them. Got to get the rust stopped, at least.

Interested to know what the "ring test"is? 

The clue was in the message. Find a way to support it, like a stick or a pen or anything that will not dampen the sound too much, just hold it up somehow. Then just bang on it with another stick or even your knuckles.
If it is not cracked it will ring like a bell. Probably an off key tone, but a clear tone.
A cracked pan will not ring "right."  They will sound dull and they will not ring when you smack them. A pan that has no major cracks will sound like, bing or bong or ding or dong, but a bad one will just sound like a dull, non-resonant bump.
Many frying pans have large enough handles that you can even hold the hand grip in your hand and it will still ring, but not if it's cracked.

It is not one hundred percent, but it is a quick way to sort out bad pans at one of the sales where everyone is pushing and grabbing over you.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 13, 2020, 06:26:47 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on June 13, 2020, 05:45:31 PM

Quote from: Walkie on June 13, 2020, 01:53:19 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on June 13, 2020, 04:41:29 AM

All the ironware passes the "ring test"  (no cracks). Today I begin the process of restoring them. Got to get the rust stopped, at least.

Interested to know what the "ring test"is? 

The clue was in the message. Find a way to support it, like a stick or a pen or anything that will not dampen the sound too much, just hold it up somehow. Then just bang on it with another stick or even your knuckles.
If it is not cracked it will ring like a bell. Probably an off key tone, but a clear tone.
A cracked pan will not ring "right."  They will sound dull and they will not ring when you smack them. A pan that has no major cracks will sound like, bing or bong or ding or dong, but a bad one will just sound like a dull, non-resonant bump.
Many frying pans have large enough handles that you can even hold the hand grip in your hand and it will still ring, but not if it's cracked.

It is not one hundred percent, but it is a quick way to sort out bad pans at one of the sales where everyone is pushing and grabbing over you.

I just learned something new today. Very cool.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on June 13, 2020, 08:20:18 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on June 13, 2020, 05:45:31 PM

Quote from: Walkie on June 13, 2020, 01:53:19 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on June 13, 2020, 04:41:29 AM

All the ironware passes the "ring test"  (no cracks). Today I begin the process of restoring them. Got to get the rust stopped, at least.

Interested to know what the "ring test"is? 

The clue was in the message. Find a way to support it, like a stick or a pen or anything that will not dampen the sound too much, just hold it up somehow. Then just bang on it with another stick or even your knuckles.
If it is not cracked it will ring like a bell. Probably an off key tone, but a clear tone.
A cracked pan will not ring "right."  They will sound dull and they will not ring when you smack them. A pan that has no major cracks will sound like, bing or bong or ding or dong, but a bad one will just sound like a dull, non-resonant bump.
Many frying pans have large enough handles that you can even hold the hand grip in your hand and it will still ring, but not if it's cracked.

It is not one hundred percent, but it is a quick way to sort out bad pans at one of the sales where everyone is pushing and grabbing over you.

Ah thanks :) the clue was lost on me cos i much though i thought it over,  i was visualising rings and not audiblising them (or whatever the word is)  :LOL:

I just recalled another reason why i hesitated to buy one. I noticed almost all of the ones on sale had solid cast-iron handles with no insulation around them.   yeah, i know, i know what i can do about that, but then i kept a pan with a metal handle for at least 10 years , used it quite often, yet never managed to train myself out of auomatically  grasping the handle with bare hands. i guess i'm naturally hopeless  :LOL: .

 But, then again,  way back when I had the kitchen space and energy to cook properly, i often had guests say things like "Who would guess that such deliciousness could emerge from such chaos? "  :green: so it's not that i'm hopeless at cooking so much as hopeless at doing it (or anything  else, come to that)  in a tidy, orderly and safe fashion.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on June 13, 2020, 08:43:22 PM

Mom gave me the most "logical" motivational push to rewrite/revise my novel I've been working on since 2011

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 13, 2020, 10:07:51 PM

Got out of work intact, had a hot shower and now chilling to pooter time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 14, 2020, 06:07:51 AM

This was yesterday but watching the dog have her first swim of the season was a joy. She loves it so much. Even better if she has something to fetch and retrieve in the water.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 14, 2020, 06:22:12 AM

I love that!
I used to have a dog that would FLY toward the water, leap ten feet and dive in head first after "anything"  to chase.
Queenie (eighty pound Black Lab) was a treasure. I miss her.

Nacho, our last dog loved the water. He would come and jump in the tub at bath time. Most dogs balk at baths.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 14, 2020, 07:17:25 AM

If you're on either Instagram of FB you can type in @flowersnphoenix and see a video of her swimming and retrieving. She's my babygirl.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 15, 2020, 12:22:40 AM

Ours has been swimming most of the year. She was born into it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 15, 2020, 12:38:31 AM

Ours would love to if we had the year round weather for it. Although she equally loves her romps in the snow.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 15, 2020, 11:52:09 AM

Had my first swim of the season because the pool was finally warm enough. Only 20 mins because I had to get back inside for a video call but it was perfect.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on June 15, 2020, 05:11:33 PM

I bought beer, and am now halfway through it. :beer:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 18, 2020, 10:09:11 PM

Someone called me "young lady" today. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 19, 2020, 12:29:24 AM

I'd be offended if someone called me a young lady. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 19, 2020, 10:52:37 PM

It's just that I'm getting old but some people have told me that I look younger than my age. I'll take what I can get. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 20, 2020, 06:20:34 AM

And they're not wrong. You do look younger than your age in all the best ways  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 20, 2020, 11:25:01 AM

Placed an order at the liquor store ahead of time for in store pick up so I was able to bypass the line and go in and pick up my order.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 20, 2020, 01:42:52 PM

Quote from: renaeden on June 19, 2020, 10:52:37 PM

It's just that I'm getting old but some people have told me that I look younger than my age. I'll take what I can get. :)

I probably look my age, but I make up for that by not acting it.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 20, 2020, 04:32:39 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 20, 2020, 01:42:52 PM

Quote from: renaeden on June 19, 2020, 10:52:37 PM

It's just that I'm getting old but some people have told me that I look younger than my age. I'll take what I can get. :)

I probably look my age, but I make up for that by not acting it.  :zoinks:

I constantly forget my age. I've always felt younger. Until my back hurts and then I feel every bit of every year of my existence.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on June 20, 2020, 07:40:49 PM

Snap. I'm 44, 24 mentally, 74 first thing on a morning  :agreed:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on June 21, 2020, 12:58:31 AM

^ incidentally, "snap" has a very dfferent meaning for our friends across the pond.  it's a sort of mild oath over there.

In case Dunc confused any of you guys, i'll explain :  we have a kiddies card game over here, called "Snap"' where you shout out "snap"whenever you see two cards of identical value being played. It gets pretty boring before you're out of elementary school, yet still we Brits never, ever lose the habit of gleefully shouting out "snap", as appropriate.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 21, 2020, 01:59:12 AM

Coffee. I think I will live.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 21, 2020, 08:17:48 PM

Plums happened.  :orly: I bought them last thursday or friday, but I also bought berries so they had to be eaten first. I was leery of the plums because I've been burnt three times by really crappy nectarines this year so I've been avoiding the stone fruits, but man are the plums super good. After them plums will be watermelon, the first one of the season. I always feel like watermelons are a little like gambling, so I also got a pineapple in case the melon is a bust. Wish me luck.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on June 21, 2020, 09:31:45 PM

My shift at work didn't suck

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on June 22, 2020, 03:00:55 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 21, 2020, 08:17:48 PM

Plums happened.  :orly: I bought them last thursday or friday, but I also bought berries so they had to be eaten first. I was leery of the plums because I've been burnt three times by really crappy nectarines this year so I've been avoiding the stone fruits, but man are the plums super good. After them plums will be watermelon, the first one of the season. I always feel like watermelons are a little like gambling, so I also got a pineapple in case the melon is a bust. Wish me luck.  :zoinks:

good luck :)

I had strawberries, yesterday for the first time in a couple of years.  I'd decided it was too big a gamble ordering straws from the online supermsrkets; can't see what you're getting, and they are too often disappointing.  But this week i softened and ordered some anyway. And got sent a punnet of tiny,  super-fresh super-sweet strawberries, just exactly as described in the customer reviews. Ofc, you can't expect consistent quality with fresh produce. I wasn't expecting that, but that's what I got, and they are fricking delicious (I still have some in the fridge for today)  and only cost  a quid ( it being the height of the strawberry season; Bet i could get three punnets for that price at the local market).

I think i'll gamble on them next week, too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 22, 2020, 07:57:04 AM

Quote from: Walkie on June 22, 2020, 03:00:55 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 21, 2020, 08:17:48 PM

Plums happened.  :orly: I bought them last thursday or friday, but I also bought berries so they had to be eaten first. I was leery of the plums because I've been burnt three times by really crappy nectarines this year so I've been avoiding the stone fruits, but man are the plums super good. After them plums will be watermelon, the first one of the season. I always feel like watermelons are a little like gambling, so I also got a pineapple in case the melon is a bust. Wish me luck.  :zoinks:

good luck :)

I had strawberries, yesterday for the first time in a couple of years.  I'd decided it was too big a gamble ordering straws from the online supermsrkets; can't see what you're getting, and they are too often disappointing.  But this week i softened and ordered some anyway. And got sent a punnet of tiny,  super-fresh super-sweet strawberries, just exactly as described in the customer reviews. Ofc, you can't expect consistent quality with fresh produce. I wasn't expecting that, but that's what I got, and they are fricking delicious (I still have some in the fridge for today)  and only cost  a quid ( it being the height of the strawberry season; Bet i could get three punnets for that price at the local market).

I think i'll gamble on them next week, too.

Yeah the produce is what's kept me from ever trying online grocery shopping. The boy hardly eats vegetables, but he does like fresh fruit so I buy loads of it because that's the only way to get any produce into him. Even then he will let it go bad if it's not prepared, washed, cut, and ready to eat. I keep a large plastic container in the fridge which holds a half gallon and he eats so much fruit I have to refill it every two to three days. I call it his fruit bucket.  :zoinks: I eat a little of it too, even though it defeats Jack's low carb efforts.  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 22, 2020, 07:59:51 AM

Quote from: Walkie on June 21, 2020, 12:58:31 AM

^ incidentally, "snap" has a very dfferent meaning for our friends across the pond.  it's a sort of mild oath over there.

In case Dunc confused any of you guys, i'll explain :  we have a kiddies card game over here, called "Snap"' where you shout out "snap"whenever you see two cards of identical value being played. It gets pretty boring before you're out of elementary school, yet still we Brits never, ever lose the habit of gleefully shouting out "snap", as appropriate.

I don't know what you mean by "mild oath" over here but we know of the game Snap here as well so I knew what Dunc meant. Maybe it's different in the US?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 22, 2020, 08:04:48 AM

I think it's the same in the US. I've never heard of a context where it's an oath.   :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 22, 2020, 09:25:44 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 22, 2020, 08:04:48 AM

I think it's the same in the US. I've never heard of a context where it's an oath.   :dunno:

Maybe we're not part of a secret society?  :tinfoil:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on June 22, 2020, 01:02:25 PM

huh. either my US friends were winding me up about that  or... :apondering:
...they learned english from the Urban Dictionary?  (a few of their definitions fit)
oh! and being autistic, maybe they didn't join in with kids'card games? :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 22, 2020, 02:39:46 PM

I don't see where urban dictionary says that either.  :dunno: What sort of an oath were you told it is?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 22, 2020, 02:43:04 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on June 22, 2020, 09:25:44 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 22, 2020, 08:04:48 AM

I think it's the same in the US. I've never heard of a context where it's an oath.   :dunno:

Maybe we're not part of a secret society?  :tinfoil:

:tinfoil:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 22, 2020, 05:42:46 PM

I was doing my usual workout in the pool. 25 mins of aerobics followed by 20 laps. I noticed a chipmunk watching me doing the aerobics. He left and then he came back a few minutes later with snacks and ate them while he watched me  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 23, 2020, 09:53:16 AM

Phone chat with my Grandma. She's in a long term care home so we can't visit.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 23, 2020, 10:20:56 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on June 23, 2020, 09:53:16 AM

Phone chat with my Grandma. She's in a long term care home so we can't visit.

Tell grandma I said hi.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 23, 2020, 10:22:22 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on June 22, 2020, 05:42:46 PM

I was doing my usual workout in the pool. 25 mins of aerobics followed by 20 laps. I noticed a chipmunk watching me doing the aerobics. He left and then he came back a few minutes later with snacks and ate them while he watched me  :laugh:

I once had a neighbor who said the same bird perched outside his window every time he played his piano.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 23, 2020, 12:55:26 PM

Tell the chipmunk we said hi.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 23, 2020, 03:49:24 PM

 :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on June 24, 2020, 06:39:28 AM

After months of wondering if I'd ever see any in the shops, I happened upon a packet of disinfectant wet wipes.
I'm not sure if I really need them right now, but dammit I bought them!
And I got some bog rolls (the forecast is that a second wave of hoarding is about to happen).

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on June 24, 2020, 07:01:23 PM

The sunshine and the walks.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 25, 2020, 04:44:03 PM

My new hurricane phone came in the mail today.  :orly: I swear we used to have a corded phone for power outages, but it's been forever since I saw it and the last time it was needed we couldn't find it anywhere, and it's impossible to find something like that in the store during a hurricane. I love my new cheap phone and it makes me feel all 1980.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 25, 2020, 06:15:21 PM

Picked up our first produce box of the season. Rhubarb, frisee, carrots, cucumber, strawberries and red lettuce. I like that it makes me get creative (and healthy) with our meals and it challenges me to make new things.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 26, 2020, 12:03:57 AM

My newest client paid ahead of time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 26, 2020, 06:17:13 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 26, 2020, 12:03:57 AM

My newest client paid ahead of time.

Okay, that client can stay  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 26, 2020, 04:33:55 PM

Found the notebook I was missing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on June 26, 2020, 05:56:51 PM

Beer happened. And picked up some bargains in the Steam sale :lol:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 26, 2020, 06:49:54 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 26, 2020, 04:33:55 PM

Found the notebook I was missing.

Draw a picture of me in it.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 27, 2020, 05:01:00 AM

Saw my mum, stepdad, my sister and her grown up sons today. For the first time since Christmas. I've missed them all so much. We had lunch and dessert which was this decadent chocolate and coffee cake that mum made. I could only eat half a piece of it, the other half I brought home.

It was really good to see them all and I had the best day. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 27, 2020, 06:34:29 AM

^I'm really happy for you Ren. I haven't seen my parents or sister since January. I really miss them.

Last night our plan to drop off the massive boulder that HB carved with my in-laws names and 50th anniversary that we tried to drop in their garden incognito went hilariously wrong because HB has a frickin lead foot, we got there way too early (90 mins before sunset), and after driving by their house 4 times to try and figure out the best place in the garden to sneak it in (now in broad daylight) was impossible when we realized that my MIL was sitting in the front living room. Not only that, but in the chair closest to the window AND she had both windows open. We figured we couldn't make a 5th pass by the house without someone calling the police since they live in a small town. So we ended up calling her and telling them to stay inside their house for the next 10 mins, and no matter who or what they saw, don't come out. So HB lifted the 200 lb boulder, placed it in the garden and then they came out to see it. They were thrilled and we all had a good laugh. We ended up having an hour long chat from a distance. HB and I stayed in the car. It was definitely a fun evening.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 27, 2020, 11:00:37 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 26, 2020, 06:49:54 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 26, 2020, 04:33:55 PM

Found the notebook I was missing.

Draw a picture of me in it.  :zoinks:

Then I'd have to lose it again so I didn't have to look at it.  :razz:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 27, 2020, 02:32:30 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 27, 2020, 11:00:37 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 26, 2020, 06:49:54 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 26, 2020, 04:33:55 PM

Found the notebook I was missing.

Draw a picture of me in it.  :zoinks:

Then I'd have to lose it again so I didn't have to look at it.  :razz:

 :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 27, 2020, 04:36:22 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on June 26, 2020, 06:17:13 AM

Quote from: odeon on June 26, 2020, 12:03:57 AM

My newest client paid ahead of time.

Okay, that client can stay  :laugh:

Exactly. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on June 27, 2020, 08:03:55 PM

It was a really good day. Great work out in the pool. Errands are done for the week. Stocked up at the liquor store. HB bbq'd an amazing steak dinner. Can't complain.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 28, 2020, 02:05:14 AM

Coffee happened and saved us all.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 30, 2020, 06:43:56 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 27, 2020, 11:00:37 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 26, 2020, 06:49:54 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 26, 2020, 04:33:55 PM

Found the notebook I was missing.

Draw a picture of me in it.  :zoinks:

Then I'd have to lose it again so I didn't have to look at it.  :razz:

Or you could keep it in your purse so you can look at it no matter where you go.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on June 30, 2020, 08:13:52 PM

Hiding from my supervisor majority of the day

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on July 01, 2020, 01:57:20 AM

Comic supplies showed up a week early, so I was able to bag, board, and sort about 175 comics.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on July 01, 2020, 04:00:04 PM

I got beer, had a decent nap and listened to some good music. Happiness is in the small things.  :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 01, 2020, 04:08:42 PM

Got a call from someone that I bid work on their house and was told he would probably have to go with someone else due to availability.  Why is that good?  I fucked up and bid it way to low

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 01, 2020, 05:45:27 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 30, 2020, 06:43:56 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 27, 2020, 11:00:37 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on June 26, 2020, 06:49:54 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on June 26, 2020, 04:33:55 PM

Found the notebook I was missing.

Draw a picture of me in it.  :zoinks:

Then I'd have to lose it again so I didn't have to look at it.  :razz:

Or you could keep it in your purse so you can look at it no matter where you go.  :zoinks:

I don't own a purse.  :hahaha:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 02, 2020, 01:39:11 AM

Had a decent night's sleep.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on July 03, 2020, 04:21:54 AM

Last day of work before I start my 6 weeks off.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 03, 2020, 04:59:17 AM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on July 03, 2020, 04:21:54 AM

Last day of work before I start my 6 weeks off.

Six week vacation? All six weeks consecutively?
That would help sort out a few things here.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 03, 2020, 08:11:43 AM

Yeah, I wouldn't mind a little of that!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on July 03, 2020, 08:18:33 AM

It's some of my accrued long service leave. I'm gonna finish everything around the house.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 03, 2020, 02:53:26 PM

Had a good chat with a friend

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on July 03, 2020, 10:34:56 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on July 03, 2020, 04:21:54 AM

Last day of work before I start my 6 weeks off.

Wow! Jealous. Haven't had more than a week in 17 years.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 05, 2020, 02:37:24 AM

Coffee happened. But other than that, nothing to be joyous about.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 06, 2020, 05:08:03 PM

Got a present from my favorite uncle who died over 20 years ago.  My cousin found some souvenirs he had bought in New Mexico   and one had my name on it :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 06, 2020, 06:16:31 PM

There's a very elderly couple next door to us, and their family did a drive by birthday for the old man today. Their cars were all decorated with balloons, streamers and signs, and they were all honking and then singing happy birthday while playing birthday music. It was really sweet. Sugarbutt and I stepped out front to wave to them.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on July 06, 2020, 08:40:13 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 06, 2020, 06:16:31 PM

There's a very elderly couple next door to us, and their family did a drive by birthday for the old man today. Their cars were all decorated with balloons, streamers and signs, and they were all honking and then singing happy birthday while playing birthday music. It was really sweet. Sugarbutt and I stepped out front to wave to them.  :2thumbsup:

awwww

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 06, 2020, 11:53:22 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on July 07, 2020, 05:33:57 AM

Made myself do some overdue jobs. So I get to cross them off the list, I guess that's good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 07, 2020, 01:07:05 PM

I survived.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 07, 2020, 01:16:01 PM

Music happened and that's always a good thing

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 07, 2020, 01:20:25 PM

I finished up work on the house I started last week and even got a check

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 08, 2020, 03:13:19 AM

I got employed as someone's personal assistant on a part-time basis. It's someone I like and respect so working for them will make me feel useful.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 08, 2020, 06:49:41 AM

Quote from: renaeden on July 08, 2020, 03:13:19 AM

I got employed as someone's personal assistant on a part-time basis. It's someone I like and respect so working for them will make me feel useful.

Congratulations Renaeden!

Working for someone you respect is a rare thing. Hope it works out for you.
 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on July 08, 2020, 10:10:32 AM

Quote from: renaeden on July 08, 2020, 03:13:19 AM

I got employed as someone's personal assistant on a part-time basis. It's someone I like and respect so working for them will make me feel useful.

That's awesome. Congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 08, 2020, 02:32:35 PM

Congrats, Ren, that's great news. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on July 08, 2020, 09:17:44 PM

Absolutely nothing

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on July 08, 2020, 09:20:23 PM

Quote from: Genesis on July 08, 2020, 09:17:44 PM

Absolutely nothing

This

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 09, 2020, 12:18:49 AM

Many thanks, you three. :)

I'll be sorting through emails and be doing a lot of filing paperwork. They said their papers were in a huge pile so it should be fun. I've done this with paperwork before so I'm not scared. :D

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on July 09, 2020, 04:57:07 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on July 08, 2020, 06:49:41 AM

Quote from: renaeden on July 08, 2020, 03:13:19 AM

I got employed as someone's personal assistant on a part-time basis. It's someone I like and respect so working for them will make me feel useful.

Congratulations Renaeden!

Working for someone you respect is a rare thing. Hope it works out for you.
 :2thumbsup:

What DD said!
Congratz from me, too.    :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 09, 2020, 11:28:04 AM

Congrats Ren!!!

Picked up my produce box today. I got red leaf lettuce, sea kale, snow peas, garlic scapes, mango, and cherries. I love everything but the kale. Not sure how I'm going to use that one yet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on July 09, 2020, 04:14:13 PM

Got my tasks done.. just need to focus on making myself busy

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 09, 2020, 06:10:52 PM

I got a call back on another addition I bid on starting it Tuesday

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on July 09, 2020, 08:34:06 PM

The eagerness to revise/polish my manuscript.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 10, 2020, 03:18:35 AM

A recruiter emailed me about a 6-month contract in Zurich. Won't be onsite if it happens, of course, because of the Covid restrictions.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 10, 2020, 07:35:21 AM

Busted into my most recent $1,000 box of half dollar rolls and found a silver coin in the first roll.
 :2thumbsup:

Then as tired as I am from the night watch patrols, I was determined to find the next one. An hour and many rolls supplied from a big Chicago bank  (Big City banks are worthless and over gleaned at this point in time)  later, four in one roll!
 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 10, 2020, 11:29:47 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on July 10, 2020, 07:35:21 AM

Busted into my most recent $1,000 box of half dollar rolls and found a silver coin in the first roll.
 :2thumbsup:

Then as tired as I am from the night watch patrols, I was determined to find the next one. An hour and many rolls supplied from a big Chicago bank  (Big City banks are worthless and over gleaned at this point in time)  later, four in one roll!

 :plus:

I always wanted to try that but never seem to get around to it.  When I was a kid I did it with pennies looking for wheaties

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 10, 2020, 11:31:41 AM

Sold an electric motor on marketplace for $45 that I had gotten for free.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Dirty Big Yoke on July 10, 2020, 02:53:08 PM

Successfully didn't leave bed and now kebab is coming  :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 10, 2020, 05:23:36 PM

Just finished the radio interview. It went really well. My heart is full. Lots of tears but also lots of laughs.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on July 11, 2020, 07:11:54 PM

spent most of the day cooking. nothing that would take you guys all day, i hasten to add; it's just that i can't do much at a time before my co-ordination is shot to hell, and then i have to rest for an hour; so it's stop, start, stop , start for most of the day before i have anything like a meal prepared. so, i tend to snack on bits of it til done; and i don't often have the energy to start; so, it's good that i had the energy today.  But it gets better :

i made several large panfuls of new potatoes sauteed in a bit of olive oil, with smoked garlic, chives and parsley stirred in near  the end. an old favoutrite that i haven't cooked in ages. that's way more than i need to feed myself, but i planned to share with my son, and freeze the rest. I also made quite a big panful of another old favourite to go with this : fresh broad beans in a tomato,  mustard and basil sauce.  and then i threw in  a panful of plain brocolli.

i'd envisaged most of this lot getting frozen , but we both found it so delicious that we wound up eating it for supper as well as dinner, plus the odd snack in between. and now there's only a bit left to freeze. which is a tad disappointing. but it's just so rewarding when my cooking is appreciated, especially by my son, and that's such a rare event now..and, no,  I dont mean because my cooking is crap, but rather because both my diet and my energy are so ridiculously limited nowadays'.

so what if all i achieved today was the creation of a good meal or two?actually,  that's much better than last week when i pretty much slept and slept. and barely had the energy to raid the freezer. and i feel really happy about it  :). i just love sharing good food.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 11, 2020, 07:46:22 PM

I can totally appreciate what a big deal that was! Both the effort and being appreciated.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 13, 2020, 05:26:42 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on July 10, 2020, 05:23:36 PM

Just finished the radio interview. It went really well. My heart is full. Lots of tears but also lots of laughs.

Wipe the tears, keep the laughs.

Glad it went well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 13, 2020, 06:14:01 AM

Quote from: Parts on July 10, 2020, 11:29:47 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on July 10, 2020, 07:35:21 AM

Busted into my most recent $1,000 box of half dollar rolls and found a silver coin in the first roll.
 :2thumbsup:

Then as tired as I am from the night watch patrols, I was determined to find the next one. An hour and many rolls supplied from a big Chicago bank  (Big City banks are worthless and over gleaned at this point in time)  later, four in one roll!

 :plus:

I always wanted to try that but never seem to get around to it.  When I was a kid I did it with pennies looking for wheaties

I still look at pennies. Can't stop. I keep wheaties, any S (San Francisco) minted coins, and for a while I kept all that were 95% copper (pre 1981). Still common, now, but hardly the return of finding a silver coin.

For instance, with an investment of fifty cents, a 40% silver Kennedy is worth $6.45. A 95% copper cent is worth about $0.025 cents. Or aligning our decimal points better, a dollar in 40% silver is selling for around $12.90 at bullion dealers where a dollar in one cent coin is about $2.50 in copper melt down value. Still a decent return, but the bulk becomes a storage problem for long tern investment.
On a brighter note, your wheaties are selling for around ten bucks for a dollar's worth.
 :2thumbsup:


I have found that the "trick" to silver gleaning is to find a smallish local bank and "over order" a large quantity of coin rolls so that they have to clean out their own vaults of old stock and order more coin rolls from nearby banks to meet my order of fifty or one hundred rolls of half dollars.

No one uses half dollars much these days, so banks do not keep them on hand. I have to order them about a week in advance since bank branches usually only keep a few rolls of halves.
Then, disposing of the remaining non-silver clad coins is simply a matter of walking into a Walmart or Kroger store with a coin counting machine, dumping a box of loose coin and taking a voucher to a register or customer service for cash.

Banks usually charge a fee for taking loose coinage.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 13, 2020, 09:47:51 AM

Last night HB grilled both steak and chicken for me to have throughout the week in my salads. Just roasting veggies in the oven to add to it over the next few days.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 13, 2020, 11:29:05 AM

Hey, Parts, I forgot to mention that some larger banks transfer much of their coinage in $1,000 bags and roll them as needed at the branches.
I walked into what I thought was a smallish bank once and they had bags available but only two rolls.

Gave it a thought and decided to try something new and they wanted a fifty dollar deposit on each bag. They really wanted their bad ass, locking, riveted and sown, woven canvas, Kevlar bags back.
I only got two of them and it was mostly a bust. The bags were full of newer minted coins. Hardly anything minted before Y2K. I made about eighty bucks for my efforts and swore off of bags on the first try. To me it seems that all the larger banks get their rolls from those same bags.
Possibly short sighted if I was more serious, but to me, it is still just a "hobby"  that pays for itself and then some.

Lay down a sheet or blanket to stop bouncing and rolling. Glove up, mask up (use your respiration device), dig in, wash your hands and arms after. You'll be fine.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 13, 2020, 12:02:30 PM

Do they mind you doing it?  For them it seems like a lot of work moving that much coinage around for a non commercial customer.   Also there is according to the news a coin shortage is that affecting it.   They never look to kindly at me when I turn in coins as it is.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 13, 2020, 12:41:28 PM

Quote from: Parts on July 13, 2020, 12:02:30 PM

Do they mind you doing it?  For them it seems like a lot of work moving that much coinage around for a non commercial customer.   Also there is according to the news a coin shortage is that affecting it.   They never look to kindly at me when I turn in coins as it is.

They sometimes object lightly, but they can not simply refuse an order for legal tender and maintain a good standing with the charters followed by all banks, via the Reserve.
They use to not accept unrolled coins, then they stopped accepting hand rolled coins and now the banks just use their own machines. Most banks do not mind charging you to re-roll coins.
That is why I go to Kroger and dump the cast-offs. I did run into a Kroger that had a limit on the total dollar amount you could cash in at one time. Those counting machines are meant for turning peoples' personal change bins into money to spend in the store. Kind of hard to keep to that rule when you are limiting how much a customer can spend.
The lady told me to hang on a minute and she will reset the machine.
 :lol1:

There was no mention of a coin shortage at the bank when I first got going again about a month ago.

The people at my local bank know me and two of the workers there worked at Best Buy while I was there. I walk in and one them always asks how many rolls I need today.  She is joking, but goes into this big relief dramatization when I say I just need to make a transfer between accounts.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on July 13, 2020, 02:00:05 PM

Had another excellent tech who did my blood draw today. I always thank them for getting it on the first try. lol

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on July 13, 2020, 05:54:02 PM

I made it through another day and now I'm off work just for the whole day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on July 13, 2020, 10:39:40 PM

Picked up my work computer from the office and finished setting up my home office space. Between the shiny new work monitor, the old computer set up beside it and hooked up to my best speakers as a music station, and finally some non-messy desk space, I'm actually excited to "go to work" tomorrow.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 22, 2020, 10:53:30 PM

I've paid off my credit card. Took me over two years to do it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on July 31, 2020, 12:27:35 PM

People working on the house were done in less time than expected

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 31, 2020, 12:32:29 PM

Had a great Q&A session after my talk, which makes me believe that the talk was well-received. Online, it's the only way to tell.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on August 03, 2020, 12:43:56 PM

Yesterday.

Spent 4 hours floating down the Deschutes river in a kayak with a group of friends and acquaintances. We had 5 kayaks, 2 people in wet suits with fins and snorkels and everyone else in inner tubes. Also had 3 coolers with beer, drinks and snacks.

One of the guys in a wet suit found a full bottle of white wine at the bottom of the river. We popped the cork at the end of our trip and it had spoiled. It had been down there for several years obviously.

All in all, a pretty good time.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 03, 2020, 01:12:47 PM

Took the dog out for a drive before the storms roll in.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on August 03, 2020, 01:46:19 PM

 Tonight is perfect. I'm laying in bed, watching TV and eating junk snacks. Had a McDonalds earlier. No drama. It is the simple things in life one fully appreciates.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 04, 2020, 02:16:34 AM

Coffee happened. Sometimes it really is the simple things. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 04, 2020, 08:24:42 AM

Today was my last day at the lab. Happy to not have to submit to a small stabbing each week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 04, 2020, 02:34:31 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on August 04, 2020, 08:24:42 AM

Today was my last day at the lab. Happy to not have to submit to a small stabbing each week.

Glad to hear it. I hope all the blood work helps.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on August 04, 2020, 09:27:01 PM

My room looks stoonning.
Really pressing in the edge of the masking tape makes all the difference to prevent the paint on the trim feathering (which I never did in the other rooms, noob mistake. Lucky the paint colours don't contrast and the feathering is barely visible).

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on August 05, 2020, 01:24:29 AM

Earned some money just by doing filing and some computer work. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Dirty Big Yoke on August 05, 2020, 06:30:54 PM

Went to doctors and I'm now back on citalopram for my anxiety. It's got quite bad since the lockdown.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on August 08, 2020, 07:06:43 AM

My aunt posted a picture of my nanna on FB. 98 and still counting. She is so gonna make it to 100 years old :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 08, 2020, 07:29:31 PM

A gift of two giant vine ripened home grown tomatoes happened. :drool:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 08, 2020, 07:42:38 PM

FaceTimed with my daughter. Always a lot of fun

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 09, 2020, 12:53:38 AM

This was Friday, technically, but I haven't been online since. I got a job offer.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on August 09, 2020, 03:14:55 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 09, 2020, 12:53:38 AM

This was Friday, technically, but I haven't been online since. I got a job offer.

What doing?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 09, 2020, 06:21:53 AM

Quote from: renaeden on August 09, 2020, 03:14:55 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 09, 2020, 12:53:38 AM

This was Friday, technically, but I haven't been online since. I got a job offer.

What doing?

More of what I've been doing in the past. The company needs an expert, a go-to guy in my field.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on August 09, 2020, 06:29:25 AM

That's awesome. Congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 09, 2020, 06:29:57 AM

Thanks. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 09, 2020, 12:53:21 PM

Well yesterday,  my son and his wife had a baby girl now I am grandpa x3

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Conspiracy Nut on August 09, 2020, 01:44:24 PM

Today I watched the richie allen show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj-eehiFH0E

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 09, 2020, 06:43:54 PM

Quote from: Parts on August 09, 2020, 12:53:21 PM

Well yesterday,  my son and his wife had a baby girl now I am grandpa x3

Whoa, congratulations!

 :party:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 09, 2020, 06:49:56 PM

Odeon - did you decide to take it? I know you were pondering it

Parts - Congrats!!! :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on August 09, 2020, 08:23:00 PM

Quote from: Parts on August 09, 2020, 12:53:21 PM

Well yesterday,  my son and his wife had a baby girl now I am grandpa x3

That's awesome. Congratulations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 09, 2020, 09:08:44 PM

Apparently Walmart gave me a new speciality... I'm maintance in the produce section.... -__- oy vey

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 09, 2020, 09:27:45 PM

Quote from: Genesis on August 09, 2020, 09:08:44 PM

Apparently Walmart gave me a new speciality... I'm maintance in the produce section.... -__- oy vey

They just gave you a new job? Or is it a temporary fill in or something?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 09, 2020, 10:36:23 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 09, 2020, 09:27:45 PM

Quote from: Genesis on August 09, 2020, 09:08:44 PM

Apparently Walmart gave me a new speciality... I'm maintance in the produce section.... -__- oy vey

They just gave you a new job? Or is it a temporary fill in or something?  :orly:

Something like that... there is a rotation of janitors at the store, and each one has their own seperate tasks

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 10, 2020, 12:50:59 AM

Quote from: Parts on August 09, 2020, 12:53:21 PM

Well yesterday,  my son and his wife had a baby girl now I am grandpa x3

Congrats, grandpa!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 10, 2020, 12:51:43 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on August 09, 2020, 06:49:56 PM

Odeon - did you decide to take it? I know you were pondering it

Accepted their offer this morning.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 10, 2020, 08:53:20 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 10, 2020, 12:51:43 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on August 09, 2020, 06:49:56 PM

Odeon - did you decide to take it? I know you were pondering it

Accepted their offer this morning.

I hope it works out well and at least with them you don't have to hound them to pay up I'm assuming?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 10, 2020, 11:52:06 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on August 10, 2020, 08:53:20 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 10, 2020, 12:51:43 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on August 09, 2020, 06:49:56 PM

Odeon - did you decide to take it? I know you were pondering it

Accepted their offer this morning.

I hope it works out well and at least with them you don't have to hound them to pay up I'm assuming?

I've no idea, frankly.

The guys who didn't pay will face court.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: FourAceDeal on August 11, 2020, 12:44:22 PM

Found out that in 18 months my job will probably be going to some guy in Chennai.  Yay.  Mid 50s and scraping around for work.  What fun that will be.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Conspiracy Nut on August 11, 2020, 06:12:31 PM

I actually caught up with richie allen today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeHIvvuFwHQ

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 11, 2020, 06:33:25 PM

The surgeon told me today that I'm a really good mother and that the way I handled today, made their job so much easier and they were grateful. That meant a lot.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on August 11, 2020, 07:51:31 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on August 11, 2020, 06:33:25 PM

The surgeon told me today that I'm a really good mother and that the way I handled today, made their job so much easier and they were grateful. That meant a lot.

That's always nice to hear when you're helping your kid through something difficult. So much of the shit you have to handle with them makes you feel like you must be doing a shit job. It just isn't true, is it?  :hadron:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 11, 2020, 10:41:52 PM

The power came back on

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 12, 2020, 07:11:20 AM

Quote from: Lord of the Ales on August 11, 2020, 07:51:31 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on August 11, 2020, 06:33:25 PM

The surgeon told me today that I'm a really good mother and that the way I handled today, made their job so much easier and they were grateful. That meant a lot.

That's always nice to hear when you're helping your kid through something difficult. So much of the shit you have to handle with them makes you feel like you must be doing a shit job. It just isn't true, is it?  :hadron:

You're right. It's been so hard for so long that you lose sight that maybe you're not doing so bad after all.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on August 12, 2020, 01:33:56 PM

Quote from: FourAceDeal on August 11, 2020, 12:44:22 PM

Found out that in 18 months my job will probably be going to some guy in Chennai.  Yay.  Mid 50s and scraping around for work.  What fun that will be.

If worst comes to worst, you can always get a job with Deliveroo.

Nah, that was a really bad joke. Seriousyl, if worst comes to worst. don't let DWP minions persuafe you that it's pointless signing on if you don't qualify for benefits (too much savings, wife earning "enough " for both of you , whatever)  I got intimidated into going along with that,at one time (they were really huffy about me wasting their time) and now I don't qualify for a State pension either  :grrr: . I would have collected pension credits and thereby qualified, if only they hadnt pulled that one on me.

Good luck!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 12, 2020, 04:20:42 PM

I did the first appointment for this time off.... tomorrow is a simple phone follow-up with my shrink...

Oy vey -_-

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on August 12, 2020, 06:37:25 PM

Quote from: Walkie on August 12, 2020, 01:33:56 PM

Quote from: FourAceDeal on August 11, 2020, 12:44:22 PM

Found out that in 18 months my job will probably be going to some guy in Chennai.  Yay.  Mid 50s and scraping around for work.  What fun that will be.

If worst comes to worst, you can always get a job with Deliveroo.

Nah, that was a really bad joke. Seriousyl, if worst comes to worst. don't let DWP minions persuafe you that it's pointless signing on if you don't qualify for benefits (too much savings, wife earning "enough " for both of you , whatever)  I got intimidated into going along with that,at one time (they were really huffy about me wasting their time) and now I don't qualify for a State pension either  :grrr: . I would have collected pension credits and thereby qualified, if only they hadnt pulled that one on me.

Good luck!

The joke is, I actually did Deliveroo. :LOL: I was on a motorbike doing it though so of course, the orders kept coming to me. The only fun I got out of it was going around London. Being on benefits from my experience sucked, definitely one for sure I'll never do again and thankfully haven't gone back to the job centre.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on August 12, 2020, 10:46:54 PM

Quote from: FourAceDeal on August 11, 2020, 12:44:22 PM

Found out that in 18 months my job will probably be going to some guy in Chennai.  Yay.  Mid 50s and scraping around for work.  What fun that will be.

Mid 50s here as well, and I'm surprised that my job didn't go to Chennai last year. A bunch of guys of similar age and older have lost their jobs over the past year at my company, gone to Chennai.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 13, 2020, 12:35:11 AM

Quote from: Minister of silly walks on August 12, 2020, 10:46:54 PM

Quote from: FourAceDeal on August 11, 2020, 12:44:22 PM

Found out that in 18 months my job will probably be going to some guy in Chennai.  Yay.  Mid 50s and scraping around for work.  What fun that will be.

Mid 50s here as well, and I'm surprised that my job didn't go to Chennai last year. A bunch of guys of similar age and older have lost their jobs over the past year at my company, gone to Chennai.

I'm mid-50s, too, and while not that worried about my job going to Chennai, there are not that many people doing what I do and thus not that many jobs to begin with. Which is why I remain independent and most of my contracts are getting shorter.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on August 13, 2020, 08:50:36 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 13, 2020, 12:35:11 AM

Quote from: Minister of silly walks on August 12, 2020, 10:46:54 PM

Quote from: FourAceDeal on August 11, 2020, 12:44:22 PM

Found out that in 18 months my job will probably be going to some guy in Chennai.  Yay.  Mid 50s and scraping around for work.  What fun that will be.

Mid 50s here as well, and I'm surprised that my job didn't go to Chennai last year. A bunch of guys of similar age and older have lost their jobs over the past year at my company, gone to Chennai.

I'm mid-50s, too, and while not that worried about my job going to Chennai, there are not that many people doing what I do and thus not that many jobs to begin with. Which is why I remain independent and most of my contracts are getting shorter.

Maybe best option (financially) is relocate to India and be that guy in Chennai? lower salary, ofc,  but also lower cost of living. Or am I being naive?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 13, 2020, 10:05:03 AM

Quote from: Walkie on August 13, 2020, 08:50:36 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 13, 2020, 12:35:11 AM

Quote from: Minister of silly walks on August 12, 2020, 10:46:54 PM

Quote from: FourAceDeal on August 11, 2020, 12:44:22 PM

Found out that in 18 months my job will probably be going to some guy in Chennai.  Yay.  Mid 50s and scraping around for work.  What fun that will be.

Mid 50s here as well, and I'm surprised that my job didn't go to Chennai last year. A bunch of guys of similar age and older have lost their jobs over the past year at my company, gone to Chennai.

I'm mid-50s, too, and while not that worried about my job going to Chennai, there are not that many people doing what I do and thus not that many jobs to begin with. Which is why I remain independent and most of my contracts are getting shorter.

Maybe best option (financially) is relocate to India and be that guy in Chennai? lower salary, ofc,  but also lower cost of living. Or am I being naive?

Yes.

No money, no job security, poor living standards, democracy's down the drain... Do I need to go on?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 13, 2020, 12:30:33 PM

Picked up my produce box. Cabbage, green beans, ears of corn, red potatoes, tomatoes and a MASSIVE zucchini that is as long as my entire arm.  :o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Conspiracy Nut on August 13, 2020, 03:38:58 PM

lea rned a lot from todays richie allen
feel superior to all others
byte

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on August 13, 2020, 05:00:04 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on August 13, 2020, 12:30:33 PM

...and a MASSIVE zucchini that is as long as my entire arm.  :o

  :scratchhead:  wouldn't that be called a marrow?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on August 13, 2020, 06:08:52 PM

Quote from: Walkie on August 13, 2020, 08:50:36 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 13, 2020, 12:35:11 AM

Quote from: Minister of silly walks on August 12, 2020, 10:46:54 PM

Quote from: FourAceDeal on August 11, 2020, 12:44:22 PM

Found out that in 18 months my job will probably be going to some guy in Chennai.  Yay.  Mid 50s and scraping around for work.  What fun that will be.

Mid 50s here as well, and I'm surprised that my job didn't go to Chennai last year. A bunch of guys of similar age and older have lost their jobs over the past year at my company, gone to Chennai.

I'm mid-50s, too, and while not that worried about my job going to Chennai, there are not that many people doing what I do and thus not that many jobs to begin with. Which is why I remain independent and most of my contracts are getting shorter.

Maybe best option (financially) is relocate to India and be that guy in Chennai? lower salary, ofc,  but also lower cost of living. Or am I being naive?

Yes, that is naive. It's the kind of thing that libertarian fantasists and globalists like to say. I know that you are neither of those and that yours is a genuine question.

I have been to Chennai for work (3 weeks only). Nice food, interesting place. Ridiculously hot.

The problem with being a white person living in a place like that is that you can't live on a local salary and live local style. Almost everything you buy will have a "rich white person" markup, often several hundred percent.

There is also the issue of getting work permits etc. Unless you are sponsored by a company, you have no chance. And you won't get sponsored by a company unless you have unique skills. And even then, it's likely to only be for a year or 2 until you can be replaced by a locally trained person.

A young man at the company I'm with now, he was telling me a while back about his last job back home in India. He worked for a company that outsourced their international transfers software support and development to India. They sent an old French guy over to train up the locals, and 10 years later he was still there and even older. He would fall asleep at his desk, forget stuff, he sounded a bit like Joe Biden come to think of it. But nobody ever dared say anything negative to him because when the software crashed or when there was a functional issue, the old French guy was the only one who knew how to fix it. That's a very rare example of someone who was able to move to where the jobs were.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 14, 2020, 12:19:03 AM

I've seen huge IT contracts move to Chennai only to move back a few years later. They don't hire older French guys everywhere over there.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 14, 2020, 08:57:40 AM

Once upon a time someone tried to recruit me to India to train the locals. "We really want your expertise and experience!" I was a kid fresh out of my first six month industry contract job. I had no expertise.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Conspiracy Nut on August 14, 2020, 09:37:08 AM

Perfect.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 14, 2020, 04:22:42 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on August 14, 2020, 08:57:40 AM

Once upon a time someone tried to recruit me to India to train the locals. "We really want your expertise and experience!" I was a kid fresh out of my first six month industry contract job. I had no expertise.  :laugh:

:lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 15, 2020, 01:56:40 AM

I remember being asked to do that as part of a contract I had, once upon a time. I said no.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Dirty Big Yoke on August 17, 2020, 03:47:18 PM

Cleaned out the utility room, fixed wobbly washing machine and readjusted clothes line so I can finally reach it without a stool. Patio stank of cat piss (blame neighbours), so washed that down too.

Later cleared out some stuff I've been hoarding in the living room and then helped Emma organise a few things around the house.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on August 17, 2020, 05:58:05 PM

I can't think of anything good today other than going home.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 18, 2020, 08:00:17 AM

Going to take the kids to a local independent gaming store this morning. They're looking forward to it. And the oldest is treating us to our favourite coffee shop for drinks and treats while we're out.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 19, 2020, 12:15:58 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Conspiracy Nut on August 21, 2020, 08:04:42 AM

trump is getting more likely to win the election

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Dirty Big Yoke on August 21, 2020, 08:24:58 AM

Finally sorted out my own stuff for the washing machine - no more confusion as Emma gets wildly different detergents etc. She's used to being flexible, I'm not - I like doing it in a specific way that I understand.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Conspiracy Nut on August 21, 2020, 08:26:14 AM

using fruity smelling detergents on your smoking jacket is she?

dump her.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 23, 2020, 08:30:26 PM

Called my Grandma

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 23, 2020, 08:58:58 PM

Cool breeze off the river.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 24, 2020, 02:58:19 PM

The city came and took away all the fallen branches from the storm,  my pile was shoulder high all the way across my front yard 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Dirty Big Yoke on August 24, 2020, 04:23:07 PM

Went for a long walk, weather was actually pretty nice for once.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 24, 2020, 04:28:34 PM

Good talk with a friend

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 25, 2020, 04:24:58 PM

Something really good happened to someone I care about. :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 25, 2020, 08:48:36 PM

Met my oldest daughter for dinner. Few things make me happier than seeing my kids happy and healthy and filling me in on life. Technically, I'm her step mum but her bio Mum is toxic and problematic so she and I are really close.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 26, 2020, 09:16:33 AM

Finally got VPN access to the client.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 26, 2020, 09:40:25 AM

I get to stay in my pj's all day today! :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 26, 2020, 10:11:55 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on August 26, 2020, 09:40:25 AM

I get to stay in my pj's all day today! :woohoo:

 :eyebrows:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 26, 2020, 11:20:00 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 26, 2020, 10:11:55 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on August 26, 2020, 09:40:25 AM

I get to stay in my pj's all day today! :woohoo:

 :eyebrows:

:lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 26, 2020, 01:04:24 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on August 26, 2020, 09:40:25 AM

I get to stay in my pj's all day today! :woohoo:

Are you open to someone talking you out of that?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 26, 2020, 03:58:09 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on August 26, 2020, 01:04:24 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on August 26, 2020, 09:40:25 AM

I get to stay in my pj's all day today! :woohoo:

Are you open to someone talking you out of that?

Nooooo! I'm bitchy and overtired. Wrong day to try and talk me out of anything  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 26, 2020, 11:52:28 PM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 27, 2020, 12:25:42 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on August 26, 2020, 03:58:09 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on August 26, 2020, 01:04:24 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on August 26, 2020, 09:40:25 AM

I get to stay in my pj's all day today! :woohoo:

Are you open to someone talking you out of that?

Nooooo! I'm bitchy and overtired. Wrong day to try and talk me out of anything  :laugh:

My wifes's favorite T-shirt says  ...

NO
NOT TODAY

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 27, 2020, 05:06:36 PM

No one ever tries to talk me out of my PJs.  >:(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 27, 2020, 06:03:31 PM

^ Do you even wear clothes?  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on August 27, 2020, 08:32:29 PM

My favourite, paranoia inducing T-shirt says "I'm just like you, only smarter and better looking".

Sometimes I am wearing it and random people will point at me and giggle to their friend, or they smile at me or laugh. And I wonder WTF they are laughing at.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 28, 2020, 12:21:41 AM

I have a coffee mug that says "I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right".

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on August 28, 2020, 03:58:32 PM

Whisky happened. :glug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 28, 2020, 07:11:47 PM

Didn't have a rude spell today

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 28, 2020, 07:43:16 PM

After some tribulations and a last minute run to the store to get a bbq chimney, had a delicious steak dinner, and now have a fridge full of smoke flavoured meats for future dinners.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 28, 2020, 07:45:14 PM

^That sounds amazing!

My walk with the dog. I try to make myself unreachable for an hour. It's a nice break.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 28, 2020, 07:46:35 PM

Come get some.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on August 28, 2020, 07:53:11 PM

Quote from: Genesis on August 28, 2020, 07:11:47 PM

Didn't have a rude spell today

Abra-fucking-cadabra
Fixed  :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 28, 2020, 08:02:17 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on August 28, 2020, 07:46:35 PM

Come get some.  :zoinks:

I don't know why but when I read that, my brain suddenly decided to picture myself hopping into a Flintstone vehicle, moving as fast as my feet would take me, to get to the west coast.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on August 28, 2020, 09:59:09 PM

Bunnings finally got more of the round easy cutter brushes in stock.
It's only the 18mm one but that's ok.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on August 29, 2020, 07:36:41 PM

Quote from: Walkie on August 28, 2020, 07:53:11 PM

Quote from: Genesis on August 28, 2020, 07:11:47 PM

Didn't have a rude spell today

Abra-fucking-cadabra
Fixed  :green:

:oneliner:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 30, 2020, 10:18:34 AM

Pancakes :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 30, 2020, 01:59:01 PM

Had a good afternoon and evening in the company of friends and family.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on August 30, 2020, 03:28:22 PM

My migraine finally passed after 4 days and I rescued another baby bunny.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 02, 2020, 08:07:07 PM

Hen pecking the keyboard with my left hand because my dog is using my right arm as a pillow :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 02, 2020, 11:04:07 PM

Coffee happened. Survival is a good thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Dirty Big Yoke on September 03, 2020, 07:48:28 AM

I think I somehow pissed off Scrap. Not sure how.  :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 03, 2020, 12:24:30 PM

Oops.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on September 03, 2020, 04:58:32 PM

Quote from: wretchmachine on September 03, 2020, 07:48:28 AM

I think I somehow pissed off Scrap. Not sure how.  :LOL:

That needs a callout, so Jack can understand.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 04, 2020, 12:22:49 AM

We haven't had a callout in ages. I think we're all getting old. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Dirty Big Yoke on September 04, 2020, 03:14:59 AM

Quote from: Jack on September 03, 2020, 04:58:32 PM

Quote from: wretchmachine on September 03, 2020, 07:48:28 AM

I think I somehow pissed off Scrap. Not sure how.  :LOL:

That needs a callout, so Jack can understand.

The onus is on him for that. I don't understand either.

He's currently chipping away at my karma like it somehow matters.  :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Dirty Big Yoke on September 04, 2020, 03:33:23 AM

Actually, looking at previous callouts directed at him, he'll likely just be a coward and not respond at all.

Maybe I'll do one for fun.  :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 04, 2020, 04:55:14 AM

I woke up early, so I get to be lazy here first thing in the morning.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 04, 2020, 06:42:33 AM

This happened yesterday but I spent the day with my daughter. I'm fortunate in that we really enjoy being together. We laugh until we cry, we dig into the deep stuff that she won't talk about with other people, we go for long walks, listen to music. She's a really interesting, smart and compassionate young woman.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Dirty Big Yoke on September 04, 2020, 12:23:11 PM

Had a productive call with my manager on the situation at work, helped a lot in alleviating a lot of doubts.

Spent the rest of the day cleaning and relaxing in bed with a nice breeze going into the room. Was meant to go out to do photography, but I'll leave it for the weekend.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 04, 2020, 03:01:46 PM

Monkeygirl's glasses broke so took her into the shop I got to and they fixed them for free which was nice. It was only a missing screw (couldn't find it when the arm fell off) but nice of them regardless.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Dirty Big Yoke on September 04, 2020, 04:19:16 PM

Those screws are really tiny too - I had to fix Emma's glasses for the same reason a couple of years ago. Nearly was impossible to find.

Luckily I had screwdrivers that were small enough to do the job.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on September 04, 2020, 05:14:59 PM

Yeah it fell off in the car so it was basically impossible to find  :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on September 04, 2020, 09:38:09 PM

Got some much needed input for a work task; so excited it's keeping me awake and can't sleep, so went ahead and did some of it in hope of settling down. Monday is a holiday but screw it; probably going to make some magic while no one is looking.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 05, 2020, 12:14:31 AM

Finally got the go-ahead for a small project I was first approached about six months ago.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on September 05, 2020, 06:50:19 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 05, 2020, 12:14:31 AM

Finally got the go-ahead for a small project I was first approached about six months ago.

Did yours keep you up too? :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 05, 2020, 08:49:13 PM

Took the cub to a national park nearby that had a lake with a little beach and a playground, and he loved it. They had picnic tables with firepits, so maybe next time I could bring fire stuff and hot dogs and see how he went with it. I'm working up the courage to take him overnight camping alone, since I don't know when I'll get to see any friends who would otherwise go with us.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Walkie on September 05, 2020, 09:27:38 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on September 05, 2020, 08:49:13 PM

Took the cub to a national park nearby that had a lake with a little beach and a playground, and he loved it. They had picnic tables with firepits, so maybe next time I could bring fire stuff and hot dogs and see how he went with it. I'm working up the courage to take him overnight camping alone, since I don't know when I'll get to see any friends who would otherwise go with us.

:)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 06, 2020, 11:56:48 PM

Quote from: Jack on September 05, 2020, 06:50:19 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 05, 2020, 12:14:31 AM

Finally got the go-ahead for a small project I was first approached about six months ago.

Did yours keep you up too? :laugh:

They all do.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on September 07, 2020, 06:37:26 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 06, 2020, 11:56:48 PM

Quote from: Jack on September 05, 2020, 06:50:19 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 05, 2020, 12:14:31 AM

Finally got the go-ahead for a small project I was first approached about six months ago.

Did yours keep you up too? :laugh:

They all do.

That sounds about right.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 13, 2020, 05:08:53 AM

For the past few days I've been feeling rotten with a horrible cough and general weakness but today I've had a rest and feel much better. Just as well because I'm seeing my kind of elderly client tomorrow and don't want to pass on anything to him.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on October 23, 2020, 04:17:44 AM

My new cavity rollers came and I managed to fix my door.

Dad might have got a good gusty storm earlier this evening, if Walgett had 95kmh winds and 35mm of rain in a short time!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on October 23, 2020, 08:32:11 PM

Had a good week of doing nothing stressful and I think I'm about nearly 100%.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: FourAceDeal on October 24, 2020, 05:51:08 AM

Watched Leeds shit on the Villa, 3-0.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on October 24, 2020, 11:47:27 AM

Found a missing CD I thought was gone. It was in a Steven Universe DVD case. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on October 24, 2020, 03:42:16 PM

Grocery shopped for the rest of the month and stayed in budget and on the grocery list.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 25, 2020, 03:30:15 AM

Coffee happened. Also, coffee.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on October 25, 2020, 07:28:15 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on October 24, 2020, 11:47:27 AM

Found a missing CD I thought was gone. It was in a Steven Universe DVD case. :P

Are you now missing a DVD?  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on October 25, 2020, 07:29:55 PM

Got the perfect christmas gift for the boy. It wont be a surprise, but that's okay because he's really hard to shop and I'm excited to get something he really wants. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on October 25, 2020, 09:13:06 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on October 25, 2020, 07:28:15 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on October 24, 2020, 11:47:27 AM

Found a missing CD I thought was gone. It was in a Steven Universe DVD case. :P

Are you now missing a DVD?  :lol1:

I had two copies of the case. One of them has an actual Steven Universe DVD in it. I'm good with this result.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 26, 2020, 03:58:44 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on October 25, 2020, 09:13:06 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on October 25, 2020, 07:28:15 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on October 24, 2020, 11:47:27 AM

Found a missing CD I thought was gone. It was in a Steven Universe DVD case. :P

Are you now missing a DVD?  :lol1:

I had two copies of the case. One of them has an actual Steven Universe DVD in it. I'm good with this result.  :laugh:

So many questions.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on October 26, 2020, 04:26:12 PM

I think I got it for WolFish as a Christmas present once without realizing he already had a copy.  :laugh:

Then when I was unpacking here I found them in two different random boxes and filed them on the DVD shelf without opening them.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on October 26, 2020, 07:22:55 PM

A very happy Patience, that's what happened.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 28, 2020, 01:31:17 AM

Coffee saved my morning.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 28, 2020, 02:19:49 AM

I got to leave early from my client's place because he had double booked an appointment. I didn't mind, I'll still get paid the same.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 29, 2020, 09:00:26 AM

Internet has been fixed after an outage of more than a full day

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 30, 2020, 01:15:15 AM

Coffee saved me again. It's a miracle!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: SBI_Patience on October 31, 2020, 07:49:37 PM

Having a Saturday off, it very rarely happens these days.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 01, 2020, 03:12:26 AM

I'll just refer back to the coffee again since nothing else is good enough to mention here.

Maybe I should try posting here before I go to bed instead.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on November 01, 2020, 01:04:14 PM

Took a nice long solitary walk on a mild and quiet Sunday afternoon.  Very refreshing for my soul.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on November 01, 2020, 01:24:08 PM

The weather here today is unexpectedly gorgeous and I spent the morning outside with the cub.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on November 01, 2020, 03:52:09 PM

^ that made me smile.

I had a nap today. Feel better now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 03, 2020, 10:39:26 AM

Played with the dog.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 04, 2020, 04:59:05 PM

Well, Christmas has been pretty well sorted.  The bowling ball came today for The PR.  We're bringing it to the alley tonight.  Her gift to me was to get a pixie cut.  Turns out she loves it.  Now all that's needed is the meal.  Yes, we are weird.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on November 05, 2020, 05:54:04 AM

I'm imagining My Majesty in her adorable pixie cut.  :eyelash:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on November 06, 2020, 02:59:34 PM

Pomegranates were only a dollar at Aldi today, so I bought a crap ton of them. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 06, 2020, 09:45:38 PM

Had a good appointment with my psychologist. She suggested starting another bank account to put my savings in but that's way too complicated for me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 06, 2020, 10:58:45 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on November 06, 2020, 02:59:34 PM

Pomegranates were only a dollar at Aldi today, so I bought a crap ton of them. :woohoo:

That's the same with the Popcorn I like at my work... it's only a dollar and I get maybe 3 to 5 tubs at a time... because I've been doing a lot of Night Owl Features late on the nights I'm not going to work the next day (most of it has been Friday Nights)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on November 07, 2020, 05:16:19 AM

Quote from: Genesis on November 06, 2020, 10:58:45 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on November 06, 2020, 02:59:34 PM

Pomegranates were only a dollar at Aldi today, so I bought a crap ton of them. :woohoo:

That's the same with the Popcorn I like at my work... it's only a dollar and I get maybe 3 to 5 tubs at a time... because I've been doing a lot of Night Owl Features late on the nights I'm not going to work the next day (most of it has been Friday Nights)

They're twice that much in other stores, so I was just excited to see them so cheap. Pomegranates have a short season and they're pretty much the only exciting thing about fall fruit crops, so I always buy them no matter how much they cost.  :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on November 07, 2020, 11:37:35 AM

Trumpolini has LOST.  He lost in the electoral college with possibly more votes going to Biden as the remaining states continue counting.  He lost the popular vote as well.  The rats are abandoning ship.  Now it's only a question of how much damage will he do in his tantrums on his way out. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on November 07, 2020, 01:28:09 PM

Fuck yes.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 07, 2020, 01:47:01 PM

Yes!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on November 07, 2020, 06:26:47 PM

 :2thumbsup:  :party: :murica: :crowd:

Good riddance. Revolting, spoilt, overgrown orange baby.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 08, 2020, 03:26:51 AM

Great news for the entire globe.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 08, 2020, 08:19:20 AM

Quote from: renaeden on November 06, 2020, 09:45:38 PM

Had a good appointment with my psychologist. She suggested starting another bank account to put my savings in but that's way too complicated for me.

Are there still physical banks you could go to to open one and arrange an automatic monthly transfer from your regular bankaccount?

Or could you ask a friend to help you out?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 08, 2020, 08:09:06 PM

Quote from: 'andersom' on November 08, 2020, 08:19:20 AM

Quote from: renaeden on November 06, 2020, 09:45:38 PM

Had a good appointment with my psychologist. She suggested starting another bank account to put my savings in but that's way too complicated for me.

Are there still physical banks you could go to to open one and arrange an automatic monthly transfer from your regular bankaccount?

Or could you ask a friend to help you out?

Yep to the physical bank. It's how I organised to pay my credit card off.

I have a regular account and a credit card account. That feels enough for me. I've saved $2000 so far in my regular account. The goal is about $3500.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on November 08, 2020, 08:20:19 PM

Blocked a friend for being a trump cock sucker.  I thought as an RN she would be better than that.  Oh well. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 09, 2020, 04:22:48 AM

Quote from: rock hound on November 08, 2020, 08:20:19 PM

Blocked a friend for being a trump cock sucker.  I thought as an RN she would be better than that.  Oh well.

Curious, what is an RN?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 09, 2020, 07:36:04 AM

I'm guessing it means Registered Nurse.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on November 09, 2020, 08:46:18 AM

Yup.

It amazes me when supposedly educated healthcare workers fall for the crap.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on November 09, 2020, 10:05:06 AM

Quote from: renaeden on November 09, 2020, 07:36:04 AM

I'm guessing it means Registered Nurse.

Yep!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 09, 2020, 01:52:54 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on November 09, 2020, 08:46:18 AM

Yup.

It amazes me when supposedly educated healthcare workers fall for the crap.

It surprises me when people fall for the crap regardless. 70 million of them. Boggles the mind.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 09, 2020, 01:53:50 PM

Had a lovely long walk with the dog today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on November 09, 2020, 06:54:49 PM

Drank wine while having a candlelit bubble bath because I have the house to myself and it's finally quiet

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on November 09, 2020, 10:03:19 PM

Quote from: odeon on November 09, 2020, 01:52:54 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on November 09, 2020, 08:46:18 AM

Yup.

It amazes me when supposedly educated healthcare workers fall for the crap.

It surprises me when people fall for the crap regardless. 70 million of them. Boggles the mind.

Seriously.

I have 3 close neighbors that support him...one couple, a retired RN married to a Air Force veteran, and a retired schoolteacher.

The most common dominator I've seen around here is religion.

Most can score at least a 7 on the zealot scale even if they don't attend church.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 10, 2020, 04:32:50 PM

:zoinks: :zoinks:  :bigcry:  :autism:  :autism: 

                             :lies:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 13, 2020, 01:20:28 AM

Quote from: Icequeen on November 09, 2020, 10:03:19 PM

Quote from: odeon on November 09, 2020, 01:52:54 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on November 09, 2020, 08:46:18 AM

Yup.

It amazes me when supposedly educated healthcare workers fall for the crap.

It surprises me when people fall for the crap regardless. 70 million of them. Boggles the mind.

Seriously.

I have 3 close neighbors that support him...one couple, a retired RN married to a Air Force veteran, and a retired schoolteacher.

The most common dominator I've seen around here is religion.

Most can score at least a 7 on the zealot scale even if they don't attend church.

Another mind-boggling tidbit of information. But I guess systemic irrationality is what does it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: 'andersom' on November 13, 2020, 06:17:37 AM

Quote from: Phoenix on November 09, 2020, 06:54:49 PM

Drank wine while having a candlelit bubble bath because I have the house to myself and it's finally quiet

That's an almost unimaginable bliss on so many levels.

The wine bit, that's achievable here.
Candlelight too, now and then.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 14, 2020, 02:21:02 AM

Saturday and nothing planned.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on November 14, 2020, 08:09:13 PM

Finished all the Christmas wrapping. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on November 14, 2020, 08:14:30 PM

I took a long walk and picked up some roadside garbage and put it properly in the trash. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 15, 2020, 08:34:12 AM

My daughter visited.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on November 23, 2020, 03:48:32 PM

Had way too much to do, so workday went by very quickly.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on November 23, 2020, 06:27:31 PM

Apparently, the trump acolytes are surrendering to the inevitable and releasing the funds necessary for the transition to Biden.  While trumpolini hides out at his golf course and refusing to concede.  What a loser.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on November 23, 2020, 07:13:23 PM

^ And now he claims it was him who gave the GSA permission to follow through  :P

Today's good thing was waking up to so much snow. Always looks pretty out in the country.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on November 23, 2020, 09:51:12 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on November 23, 2020, 07:13:23 PM

^ And now he claims it was him who gave the GSA permission to follow through  :P

Yep, his ego demands that he tries to look good, but, in the end he looks like a petty sore loser.  Now he claims he will run again in 2024.  Legally he can do that...............but, it will be amusing to watch if he tries.   :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 24, 2020, 04:29:18 PM

Beer happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 24, 2020, 08:36:46 PM

I went to work

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 25, 2020, 12:46:06 AM

It's morning and so far nothing good's come out of it, coffee excepted.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 25, 2020, 01:20:54 AM

I finally got my bras in the mail and they fit very well.

Also got a form to fill out so I can get permission to install air conditioning.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 25, 2020, 03:32:11 PM

I got paid today... so money set aside is used for rent... everything else is just... yeah :-/

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Post by: rock hound on November 25, 2020, 06:01:10 PM

Managed a small walk.

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Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on November 26, 2020, 12:20:07 AM

Cooper: "Out of all the most common passwords in the world, you go with "12345" as the important one to unlock the Football?"

**awkward silence**

Cooper: "Sir how dull are you?"

OXMC: 私を荒らすのをやめろ!!

Cooper: "Sir... I'm not a Koi Fish in disguse, so stop with your paranoid phobia of those fish you overfed."

OXMC: 私はパイが好き！

Cooper: -_- "We all do sir..."

From the newsbox ^

I used Google Translate on the Japanese characters. Modern tech is pretty awesome.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 26, 2020, 04:16:56 AM

Taking a break from work, which is a good thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on November 26, 2020, 07:37:42 PM

Everything was really good today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on November 26, 2020, 11:08:03 PM

My accent wall is in!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on November 27, 2020, 12:42:24 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on November 26, 2020, 11:08:03 PM

My accent wall is in!

I had to look that up.

Here in Straya we used to call that a "feature wall", although I haven't even heard that term for a long time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 27, 2020, 01:02:09 AM

I had to guess what it was. I was right, though.

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Post by: Pyraxis on November 27, 2020, 08:23:33 AM

I think they're kinda trendy here?


(Not that I care; the rest of the room is bright orange and utterly untrendy, but when it's done I'm going to love it, and I'm the one that has to sleep in it.)

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Post by: renaeden on November 27, 2020, 04:22:02 PM

I'm not surprised that the rest of your room is orange. ;)

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Post by: Pyraxis on November 27, 2020, 06:03:35 PM

They have to come back tomorrow to finish putting the baseboard in and wiring the ethernet. I might take a photo after that.

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Post by: Phoenix on November 27, 2020, 08:16:18 PM

^ would love to see.

Wine is happening right now. A white vidal. That is good.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on November 27, 2020, 09:27:06 PM

Pumpkin pie is happening.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on November 27, 2020, 09:28:50 PM

Pumpkin pie is also good

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 28, 2020, 03:03:30 AM

I've never had pumpkin pie. Sounds like a nice thing to eat when it's cold.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 28, 2020, 03:16:38 AM

I got to sleep late.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on November 28, 2020, 10:38:34 AM

If you ever make it to Canada, Ren, I will happily make you one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 28, 2020, 09:59:53 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on November 28, 2020, 10:38:34 AM

If you ever make it to Canada, Ren, I will happily make you one.

I would love to visit Canada. Though it probably has temperatures I've never encountered before. ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 29, 2020, 03:56:28 PM

Visited a friend. :)

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Post by: Phoenix on November 29, 2020, 04:08:05 PM

Started a new book which makes me happy

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Post by: odeon on November 30, 2020, 01:52:25 PM

Daughter dropped by.

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Post by: Phoenix on November 30, 2020, 03:34:07 PM

The phone chat I had with my Mum which was emotional but cathartic, followed up by the phone chat with my daughter because she had me laughing per usual.

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Post by: rock hound on November 30, 2020, 07:49:46 PM

Thanks to Carla and Amber I found this short lived ad from Duluth Trading Company.  Lovecraftian at it's best.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtZPUaoKoY4&fbclid=IwAR0nWRJvYJWqiG6OKWIGhvlo3ne6fTA9TKRnE3_6Sb41au-WJ48AO14S92k

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 01, 2020, 04:37:02 PM

Isn't this sort of like a virtual thanksgiving dinner? Just wondering, based on what I've heard about the 'merican traditions.

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Post by: Gopher Gary on December 01, 2020, 05:03:09 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 01, 2020, 04:37:02 PM

Isn't this sort of like a virtual thanksgiving dinner? Just wondering, based on what I've heard about the 'merican traditions.

I'm having trouble guessing what you're talking about.  :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 01, 2020, 09:31:48 PM

Retirement Check Day :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Lord of the Ales on December 02, 2020, 07:58:14 PM

The boiler got fixed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on December 02, 2020, 08:47:41 PM

Started the xmas decorating.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on December 02, 2020, 08:59:55 PM

Quote from: renaeden on November 28, 2020, 03:03:30 AM

I've never had pumpkin pie. Sounds like a nice thing to eat when it's cold.

I've never had pumpkin pie either.

Americans don't usually eat pumpkin the way we do in Straya, like roasted or boiled or mashed or in scones etc.

They don't know what they are missing.

BUT they do eat pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving.

Brussels sprouts, though, is officially the most hated vegetable in America. They are my favourite vegetable, although my wife likes them even more than I do. I boil them in salty water until they are soft, and then serve them in melted butter, but my wife will just lightly boil them for a few minutes in unsalted water and then just eats them while they are still crunchy.

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Post by: rock hound on December 02, 2020, 09:50:00 PM

Quote from: Minister Of Silly Walks on December 02, 2020, 08:59:55 PM

Quote from: renaeden on November 28, 2020, 03:03:30 AM

I've never had pumpkin pie. Sounds like a nice thing to eat when it's cold.

I've never had pumpkin pie either.

Americans don't usually eat pumpkin the way we do in Straya, like roasted or boiled or mashed or in scones etc.

They don't know what they are missing.

BUT they do eat pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving.

Brussels sprouts, though, is officially the most hated vegetable in America. They are my favourite vegetable, although my wife likes them even more than I do. I boil them in salty water until they are soft, and then serve them in melted butter, but my wife will just lightly boil them for a few minutes in unsalted water and then just eats them while they are still crunchy.

I'm not a pumpkin pie fan, but for some reason it is a US thing.  As for brussel sprouts, well, never tried them and probably never will.  I am a major fussbudget.  And for the record, I refuse to eat pumpkin pie, never have, never will.   8)

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Post by: renaeden on December 02, 2020, 10:26:08 PM

I'd always thought that I disliked Brussels sprouts just because it was a kid thing, disliking all unfamiliar vegetables. So when I was in hospital a few years ago, they served up Brussels sprouts and I thought I'd give them a go. I ate all three of them and I didn't like them.

Kayleigh loves Brussels sprouts and will eat them any way.

I love roast pumpkin.

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Post by: Jack on December 03, 2020, 05:02:47 AM

Brussel sprouts are a favorite, though so is cabbage.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on December 03, 2020, 05:12:20 AM

Quote from: Minister Of Silly Walks on December 02, 2020, 08:59:55 PM

Americans don't usually eat pumpkin the way we do in Straya.

During the holidays it's pumpkin everything in the US, coffee, cakes, cookies, donuts, cereals, icecream, and so on. It seems if it's possible for a company to make their food or drink product pumpkin or pumpkin spice flavor, it's done.

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Post by: FourAceDeal on December 03, 2020, 05:19:05 AM

Quote from: Jack on December 03, 2020, 05:12:20 AM

Quote from: Minister Of Silly Walks on December 02, 2020, 08:59:55 PM

Americans don't usually eat pumpkin the way we do in Straya.

During the holidays it's pumpkin everything in the US, coffee, cakes, cookies, donuts, cereals, icecream, and so on. It seems if it's possible for a company to make their food or drink product pumpkin or pumpkin spice flavor, it's done.

Every now and then a Brit will try to eat pumpkin out of curiosity.  These experiments never go well and are never repeated.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on December 03, 2020, 05:33:50 AM

Quote from: FourAceDeal on December 03, 2020, 05:19:05 AM

Quote from: Jack on December 03, 2020, 05:12:20 AM

Quote from: Minister Of Silly Walks on December 02, 2020, 08:59:55 PM

Americans don't usually eat pumpkin the way we do in Straya.

During the holidays it's pumpkin everything in the US, coffee, cakes, cookies, donuts, cereals, icecream, and so on. It seems if it's possible for a company to make their food or drink product pumpkin or pumpkin spice flavor, it's done.

Every now and then a Brit will try to eat pumpkin out of curiosity.  These experiments never go well and are never repeated.

Don't care for pumpkin nor the offer of pumpkin everything, but even worse are holiday smells of cinnamon and evergreen. People use candles and potpourri to fill various spaces with the overwhelming smells of christmas.

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Post by: Pyraxis on December 03, 2020, 08:28:38 AM

The only good cinnamon smell is actual fresh baking in the oven.

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Post by: odeon on December 03, 2020, 09:13:29 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on December 01, 2020, 05:03:09 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 01, 2020, 04:37:02 PM

Isn't this sort of like a virtual thanksgiving dinner? Just wondering, based on what I've heard about the 'merican traditions.

I'm having trouble guessing what you're talking about.  :dunno:

Me too, now. I'm pretty sure I meant to quote the post I was replying to, but for the life of me I can't figure out what it was. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on December 03, 2020, 10:59:07 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 03, 2020, 08:28:38 AM

The only good cinnamon smell is actual fresh baking in the oven.

Have sensory issues with being overwhelmed by many smells, even good ones, as it's generally just too much smell. Husband likes all sorts of sweet and flowery scents, air fresheners and those wall plug smelly things. We compromise by agreeing on the ones that smell like laundry. Have a bad mental association with evergreen, so that's one completely intolerable.

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Post by: rock hound on December 03, 2020, 11:52:29 AM

Pumpkin Spice is here,
Pumpkin spice is there
Pumpkin spice for in your hair
Pumpkin spice is everywhere!

Pumpkin spice between your toes
Pumpkin spice for up your nose
Pumpkin spice everywhere goes
Pumpkin spice,  frankly BLOWS!

 :elvis:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 06, 2020, 02:40:07 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on December 08, 2020, 03:32:08 PM

Sugarbutt had some major wins today for a couple projects he's been doing. I appreciate Jack for thinking outside the box. I can't remember the last time I saw him so excited. I'm really happy for him.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on December 08, 2020, 04:59:03 PM

I like a lot of vegetables, and I should really eat a lot more of them instead of junk food. Brussels sprouts are a favourite.

Jack, I'd heard that Americans don't eat pumpkin except in pumpkin pie. It's maybe one of those funny urban myth things. If I'm cooking up a roast I will throw potatoes, pumpkin and orange sweet potato in the oven and the pumpkin is maybe my favourite out of those. Maybe Americans are just averse to eating boiled, mashed or roasted lumps of plain pumpkin.

In the Philippines they have a lot of purple sweet potato (ube) flavoured everything. Cake, ice cream, candy. At the airport you used to see Filipinos heading overseas (for work presumably) with boxes of ube ice cream packed in dry ice, not sure if they put them in cargo or carry on or what.

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Post by: SBI_Patience on December 08, 2020, 08:20:55 PM

Had a good dinner date, haven't had one of those in a while and a couple of good few days of rest. Now starting the week all over again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on December 08, 2020, 09:02:33 PM

Quote from: Minister Of Silly Walks on December 08, 2020, 04:59:03 PM

I like a lot of vegetables, and I should really eat a lot more of them instead of junk food. Brussels sprouts are a favourite.

Jack, I'd heard that Americans don't eat pumpkin except in pumpkin pie. It's maybe one of those funny urban myth things. If I'm cooking up a roast I will throw potatoes, pumpkin and orange sweet potato in the oven and the pumpkin is maybe my favourite out of those. Maybe Americans are just averse to eating boiled, mashed or roasted lumps of plain pumpkin.

In the Philippines they have a lot of purple sweet potato (ube) flavoured everything. Cake, ice cream, candy. At the airport you used to see Filipinos heading overseas (for work presumably) with boxes of ube ice cream packed in dry ice, not sure if they put them in cargo or carry on or what.

While pumpkin and pumpkin spice are highly marked flavors during the holidays, in home cooking it probably isn't commonly eaten plain as a vegetable, more generally used for sweet baked goods, pie, bread, muffins, cheesecake, pancakes, and what not.

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Post by: odeon on December 09, 2020, 05:13:54 AM

Honestly, I can't think of anything.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 09, 2020, 08:51:15 PM

The money that was taken from my account is slowly coming back...

Does that mean I get my new ATM card sometime soon(er) in the mail?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on December 10, 2020, 04:53:07 AM

Quote from: Genesis on December 09, 2020, 08:51:15 PM

The money that was taken from my account is slowly coming back...

Does that mean I get my new ATM card sometime soon(er) in the mail?

It usually takes about a week to arrive but I think they tell people up to two weeks. If waiting that long is a problem then the bank can issue a temporary one. My bank still hasn't opened their lobby so I'm not sure if something like that would make getting a temp card a problem.  :dunno:

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Post by: FourAceDeal on December 10, 2020, 04:57:48 AM

I'm getting a refund from my private healthcare fund.  Apparantly throughout 2020 British people haven't been going out and smashing their bodies up in accidents doing the usual dumb stuff so the private fund is oversubscribed this year.  I'm getting a refund of my annual payments in a couple of weeks just in time for Christmas.

Also, I have some tech on preorder from a earlier in the year that ended up not being supplied and that is getting refunded too.

There should be enough to pay for the food and drink over the Christmas week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 10, 2020, 06:24:27 AM

I bought air conditioning today, it's being delivered tomorrow. Only thing is, it won't be installed until the middle of January. Poo.

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Post by: Phoenix on December 10, 2020, 03:19:35 PM

So glad you're getting a/c, Ren! Wish it could be installed sooner though so you can start sleeping better. Being overheated is the worst.

Todays good news is that I don't have to cook. Getting take out from a local restaurant.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 10, 2020, 03:37:33 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on December 10, 2020, 04:53:07 AM

Quote from: Genesis on December 09, 2020, 08:51:15 PM

The money that was taken from my account is slowly coming back...

Does that mean I get my new ATM card sometime soon(er) in the mail?

It usually takes about a week to arrive but I think they tell people up to two weeks. If waiting that long is a problem then the bank can issue a temporary one. My bank still hasn't opened their lobby so I'm not sure if something like that would make getting a temp card a problem.  :dunno:

Depends on who the bank is... :-/

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 11, 2020, 01:10:17 AM

I guess the pills that brought my headache under control last night count as a good thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on December 11, 2020, 12:34:01 PM

Magic erasers. They truly are magical.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 11, 2020, 09:16:23 PM

Realizing I was being a pompous ass to some people.... do I regret it? Yes.... does it mean I'll stop feeling like shit? I'll get back to you on that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Phoenix on December 12, 2020, 11:02:41 AM

Santa drove by in an antique fire truck with a full firetruck escort ahead and behind. My head wasn't crazy about the sirens but it's fun for the kids in town. I appreciate the city being creative in reaching the kids during crazy times. Apparently it's also a food drive as well. Wish I had known ahead of time.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2020, 02:14:52 PM

Cheese grits.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on December 12, 2020, 02:20:28 PM

This was last night, but I introduced The PR to Victor Borge's youtube videos.  She roared through Phonetic Pronunciation and wanted to see more.  I had a good walk down memory lane.

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Post by: Pyraxis on December 12, 2020, 02:58:55 PM

Quote from: Phoenix on December 12, 2020, 11:02:41 AM

Santa drove by in an antique fire truck with a full firetruck escort ahead and behind. My head wasn't crazy about the sirens but it's fun for the kids in town. I appreciate the city being creative in reaching the kids during crazy times. Apparently it's also a food drive as well. Wish I had known ahead of time.

My work sponsored Zoom visits with Santa this year instead of their usual family holiday party. The cub even seemed to enjoy it. Last year he was terrified of Santa and wouldn't go near. It might be just his age, or it might be this year's setup was even better for him.

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Post by: Gopher Gary on December 13, 2020, 06:43:49 AM

The lawn is coming in very nicely.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 13, 2020, 10:55:22 AM

What is this 'lawn'? Is only snow.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on December 13, 2020, 04:45:58 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 13, 2020, 10:55:22 AM

What is this 'lawn'? Is only snow.

Funny. As lush and green as paradise is, grass is one of the more difficult things to grow. I remember when I was a kid, I used to scalp the crap out of the grass trying to kill it, but it would never die. I couldn't have imagined I'd be a person who tries to make grass grow.  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on December 13, 2020, 06:07:38 PM

This year our lawn is nice and green, this summer is warm and wet and is predicted to continue to be warm and wet. And that grass needs cutting every week, two at the most.

Some years we barely get any rain and there are water restrictions, so it's just a few hardy weeds and strands of brown grass on baked hard soil. Our soil is very sandy so it doesn't retain water very well at all.

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Post by: Gopher Gary on December 13, 2020, 07:29:27 PM

Summer is the rainy season here. Our lawn is always green in the summer, thanks to the weeds.  :lol1: The soil is sand and the vast majority of the yard is heavily shaded, so we're always grateful when the weeds start to take over after the winter rye dies. Basket grass weeds cover most of the yard in the summer. it's low growing and bright green, so while it's not grass at least it looks nice. Between the summer weeds and the winter seeds, there's probably a good couple of months gap twice per year when the yard looks like total crap.  :dunno:

(https://www.epls1.com/uploads/3/9/9/0/39907255/editor/basketgrass.jpg?1558119303)

Quote

Basketgrass is a common annual weed that often infests shady areas. It is very common under trees, where turfgrass has difficulty growing. Basketgrass grows mid-spring through fall, and dies in the winter. It reproduces by seeds. There is no practical way to manage Basketgrass using selective herbicides. Similarly to Crabgrass, Basketgrass can be successfully-managed by using baking soda.

https://www.epls1.com/whats-that-weed.html

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Post by: renaeden on December 13, 2020, 07:34:52 PM

Quote from: Minister Of Silly Walks on December 13, 2020, 06:07:38 PM

This year our lawn is nice and green, this summer is warm and wet and is predicted to continue to be warm and wet. And that grass needs cutting every week, two at the most.

Some years we barely get any rain and there are water restrictions, so it's just a few hardy weeds and strands of brown grass on baked hard soil. Our soil is very sandy so it doesn't retain water very well at all.

Yours is sandy? Why do they call us in the west "sandgropers"?

It actually rained here for about a minute yesterday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on December 13, 2020, 08:50:57 PM

Quote from: renaeden on December 13, 2020, 07:34:52 PM

Quote from: Minister Of Silly Walks on December 13, 2020, 06:07:38 PM

This year our lawn is nice and green, this summer is warm and wet and is predicted to continue to be warm and wet. And that grass needs cutting every week, two at the most.

Some years we barely get any rain and there are water restrictions, so it's just a few hardy weeds and strands of brown grass on baked hard soil. Our soil is very sandy so it doesn't retain water very well at all.

Yours is sandy? Why do they call us in the west "sandgropers"?

It actually rained here for about a minute yesterday.

Our soil is very sandy and there are big rocks if you dig down a couple of feet.

Big trees in our area have a habit of blowing over every time there is a strong wind. I had 3 Eucalyptus trees blow over in my backyard one time after a strong wind, they were about 15 or 20 metres tall. There's not much for the roots to hang onto.

Other parts of Sydney have better soil, or different problems. One of the areas I grew up in was mostly clay once you dug down a few inches.

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Post by: Parts on December 17, 2020, 09:45:50 AM

My neighbor who has a snow blower did some of my sidewalk and part of my driveway :hyke: 

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Post by: rock hound on December 17, 2020, 10:23:45 AM

I moved Amber's car just in time for the plow guy to do swipe #1.

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Post by: odeon on December 18, 2020, 05:04:40 AM

No meetings today. The one that remained was just cancelled. This means I can get some actual work done.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 26, 2020, 05:58:54 AM

Went to Aldi to pick up some ice and I scored the last bag of it. I also bought the second last tub of mango sorbet, came home and ate quite a bit of it.

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Post by: Charlotte Quin on December 26, 2020, 06:53:31 AM

After a boring two days with my mum and brother for xmas I had the day to myself. A bit of boxing day shopping followed by a cruise north to stalk some houses for sale.

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Post by: odeon on December 26, 2020, 04:23:31 PM

Didn't do much today either.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on December 30, 2020, 11:55:59 PM

A painter confirmed he's coming next week to paint my stairwell  :headbang2:

Then all I have left to do is the bathroom, finish the bits of trim I missed downstairs and in the garage, and then it's new flooring time.

I could have this place on the market within the next few months :orly:

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Post by: odeon on December 31, 2020, 03:57:13 AM

Got a Philips Hue temperature sensor to work in my Home Assistant setup after a couple of hours of troubleshooting.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 31, 2020, 04:18:20 PM

Does that mean your lightbulbs change color when it gets warm or cold?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 31, 2020, 05:19:55 PM

I'm just happy that I can cope, that or I'm happy for 3 nights and 2 days off.

Bring it 2021, I'm ready for the big fight!

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Post by: odeon on December 31, 2020, 07:06:58 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on December 31, 2020, 04:18:20 PM

Does that mean your lightbulbs change color when it gets warm or cold?

Well, not yet, but it's a great idea. I've been tinkering with smart home and IoT stuff the last few days and I'm nowhere near there. Earlier today, I got a Philips smart socket to work so I can turn it on and off, so why not?

Thinking this smart home thing is my new obsession. There's just so much you can do.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on January 01, 2021, 09:44:36 AM

My brother's (now ex) wife made him get rid of his phillips light bulb set when they moved overseas. She thought they were decadent and unnecessary. It just so happened that I got him a new set that Christmas. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 01, 2021, 03:50:40 PM

We bought some smart globes last year. If it's dark when coming home from work, I can turn the carport and front door lights on using my phone before I get there.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 06, 2021, 07:52:41 PM

Got a vet appointment for Saturday which is the best day because no work.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 09, 2021, 06:10:13 AM

Mollie and Kira are fine. The vet said it's most likely that Mollie is in the first stages of dementia given her meowing loudly for no reason. Her teeth are fine and she's in good health otherwise.

Kira did #1 and#2 inside his carrier on the way to the vet. Then he was panting. Basically a huge panic attack for him.  But he was ok with the vet.

They were both vaccinated and it cost me $180.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 09, 2021, 03:22:23 PM

Quote from: renaeden on January 09, 2021, 06:10:13 AM

Mollie and Kira are fine. The vet said it's most likely that Mollie is in the first stages of dementia given her meowing loudly for no reason. Her teeth are fine and she's in good health otherwise.

Kira did #1 and#2 inside his carrier on the way to the vet. Then he was panting. Basically a huge panic attack for him.  But he was ok with the vet.

They were both vaccinated and it cost me $180.

Interesting about Mollie.  At least once a day Martha will screech for a few seconds.  I had been thinking it is connected to food or water, but probably should keep an ear out to see what it could correlate to.

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Post by: renaeden on January 09, 2021, 07:58:38 PM

^ How old is Martha? Mollie is 16 this year.

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Post by: odeon on January 10, 2021, 03:49:31 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on January 01, 2021, 09:44:36 AM

My brother's (now ex) wife made him get rid of his phillips light bulb set when they moved overseas. She thought they were decadent and unnecessary. It just so happened that I got him a new set that Christmas. :zoinks:

;D

They are decadent and unnecessary, but that's the whole idea. It's fun.

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Post by: 'andersom' on January 10, 2021, 06:56:11 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 09, 2021, 03:22:23 PM

Quote from: renaeden on January 09, 2021, 06:10:13 AM

Mollie and Kira are fine. The vet said it's most likely that Mollie is in the first stages of dementia given her meowing loudly for no reason. Her teeth are fine and she's in good health otherwise.

Kira did #1 and#2 inside his carrier on the way to the vet. Then he was panting. Basically a huge panic attack for him.  But he was ok with the vet.

They were both vaccinated and it cost me $180.

Interesting about Mollie.  At least once a day Martha will screech for a few seconds.  I had been thinking it is connected to food or water, but probably should keep an ear out to see what it could correlate to.

Luna's behaviour is slowly changing. So a while ago i was wondering if these could be early signs of dementia.
Since a few months she's getting way more vocal. Not even close to a neighborhood cat a bit older than her though. He really goes louder than a peacock. (I grew up close to peacocks, ) it's amazing how much sound can come out of a cat. He has watery demented eyes too. But still knows his way around.
Luna is an estimated 16/17.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on January 10, 2021, 01:06:54 PM

Quote from: 'andersom' on January 10, 2021, 06:56:11 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on January 09, 2021, 03:22:23 PM

Quote from: renaeden on January 09, 2021, 06:10:13 AM

Mollie and Kira are fine. The vet said it's most likely that Mollie is in the first stages of dementia given her meowing loudly for no reason. Her teeth are fine and she's in good health otherwise.

Kira did #1 and#2 inside his carrier on the way to the vet. Then he was panting. Basically a huge panic attack for him.  But he was ok with the vet.

They were both vaccinated and it cost me $180.

Interesting about Mollie.  At least once a day Martha will screech for a few seconds.  I had been thinking it is connected to food or water, but probably should keep an ear out to see what it could correlate to.

Luna's behaviour is slowly changing. So a while ago i was wondering if these could be early signs of dementia.
Since a few months she's getting way more vocal. Not even close to a neighborhood cat a bit older than her though. He really goes louder than a peacock. (I grew up close to peacocks, ) it's amazing how much sound can come out of a cat. He has watery demented eyes too. But still knows his way around.
Luna is an estimated 16/17.

Martha's 18th is coming up Feb 26.  She was abandoned around Mardi Gras.  Since we adopted her and her sister we named them Martha Gras and Ashley Wednesday.  They were indoor cats from 2003 to 2005.  They were accidentally (and fortunately) locked out during Katrina until we returned.  Prince Albert wouldn't let them in the house because he didn't know if they'd caught anything.  By the time vets were open we just left them out since they seemed happy.  Ashley died about 2 years later.  After PA died in 2014 we brought Martha in.  So she had a little over 2 years indoors and about 9 years outdoors.  She's been an indoor cat for the last 4 years.  So she's been lucky even with the outside time.

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Post by: renaeden on January 12, 2021, 06:24:15 PM

Mollie was born on my bed in 2005. So that will make her 16 this year. As I wrote the previous sentence, she meowed loudly three times. She's lying under one of the dining room chairs.

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Post by: odeon on January 13, 2021, 11:41:16 AM

A respectable age. :)

In other news, my job title's changed. Monday, actually, but I haven't been around since Sunday. The pay is the same but I am a lead content architect now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 13, 2021, 09:59:46 PM

^That sounds important. :)

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Post by: Queen Victoria on January 13, 2021, 10:00:39 PM

Although we see each other twice a week when our daughters bowl, my deepest, dearest friend have not had our Wednesday morning b'fasts at McDonalds (closed since March.)  Today we had a b'fast full of pancakes, sausage, eggs and coffee at IHOP (International House of Pancakes).  Laughter was the best seasoning and sharing our burdens (which we can't do at the bowling alley) was so heart mending.  I think I'll see if we can do it every other week. 

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Post by: renaeden on January 14, 2021, 04:56:54 AM

That sounds worth scheduling. :)

I finished work early.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 14, 2021, 08:54:55 PM

A kind neighbor and a hired help cleaned up my back yard last weekend.  The weedy bushes were taking over.  The debris was picked up and The PR and I cleaned up the branches and leaves left from the pick-up.  Went through the house and put out some trash and garbage bags I'd been waiting for the "right" time to put out.  Mission accomplished.  Pick up is tomorrow, Friday.

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Post by: renaeden on January 15, 2021, 05:34:35 AM

Someone donated a new cat litter tray and some cat toys to the Salvos today so I bought them straight away. For those of you who don't know, we will be getting a kitten soon.

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Post by: odeon on January 15, 2021, 01:33:53 PM

Beer happened.

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Post by: odeon on January 15, 2021, 02:38:39 PM

Quote from: renaeden on January 13, 2021, 09:59:46 PM

^That sounds important. :)

I get the final say in the company's content management strategy. It's still ignored by the presales people but I can at least yell at them in review meetings. :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 15, 2021, 02:42:45 PM

Renewed my subscription to Archeology Magazine.  Even Carla loves to read it!   8)

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Post by: rock hound on January 20, 2021, 10:51:34 AM

And hast the orange faced shit gibbon departed
Oh, frabjuos day, calooh callay,
He chortled in his joy!

The WORST president in American history has left the building!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :trump: :elvis:

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Post by: Pyraxis on January 20, 2021, 08:50:07 PM

 :indeed:

The orange turd has been flushed.

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Post by: FourAceDeal on January 21, 2021, 03:20:15 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on January 20, 2021, 08:50:07 PM

:indeed:

The orange turd has been flushed.

Apparantly he's had a face-off style face transplant with Biden and is actually ruling from the Whitehosue in disguise. 

Wait?  What?  Q is lying to us again?  No way!

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Post by: Gopher Gary on January 30, 2021, 07:12:37 AM

My bitches and I were all up at 4 am this morning and we had a group hug.  :grouphug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 31, 2021, 04:15:50 AM

Coffee happened.

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Post by: Parts on January 31, 2021, 06:28:55 PM

Pancakes happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 01, 2021, 02:12:36 AM

Peaceful shopping happened.

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Post by: odeon on February 02, 2021, 01:03:09 AM

Coffee saved you all.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on February 02, 2021, 12:04:54 PM

The garbage and 4 trash bags I put out last night (at 11 pm) were picked up today. 

Referencing my post in What Are You Watching.

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Post by: Lord of the Ales on February 03, 2021, 07:39:25 PM

Saw my daughter (through an open window but still) for the first time in a month. She needed groceries so dad's delivery service was requested.  :lol1: And her lad has started a job now so they have more money coming in, which is also very good.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 06, 2021, 08:52:29 AM

Bought a 16-yo Lagavulin, always a good thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 06, 2021, 11:58:56 PM

One of the cats pooed horribly in the bath and Kayleigh cleaned it all up.

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Post by: Gopher Gary on February 07, 2021, 06:06:38 AM

Quote from: renaeden on February 06, 2021, 11:58:56 PM

One of the cats pooed horribly in the bath and Kayleigh cleaned it all up.

That's definitely the best place for something like that to happen.  :lol1:

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Post by: renaeden on February 07, 2021, 06:42:06 PM

^Either that or the toilet!

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Post by: Gopher Gary on February 07, 2021, 07:42:21 PM

 :lol1: :agreed:

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Post by: odeon on February 11, 2021, 01:04:09 AM

Coffee happened and saved you all.

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Post by: Gopher Gary on February 14, 2021, 01:53:27 PM

Sugarbutt loves his valentine gift. :heart:

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Post by: rock hound on February 14, 2021, 02:10:26 PM

Made myself a couple of mini pizzas using a split english muffin with cheddar and bacon bits.  Yummy!

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Post by: FourAceDeal on February 15, 2021, 03:48:30 AM

Quote from: rock hound on February 14, 2021, 02:10:26 PM

Made myself a couple of mini pizzas using a split english muffin with cheddar and bacon bits.  Yummy!

Fact of the day:  The English don't eat "English Muffins" and have no idea why they have been credited with it's invention.  To us, a "muffin" is like a bigger version of a cupcake and usually full of fruit or chocolate.

Question of the day:  What do the Dutch call a "Dutch Oven"?  Do they just say "Oven"?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on February 15, 2021, 11:40:30 AM

Quote from: FourAceDeal on February 15, 2021, 03:48:30 AM

Quote from: rock hound on February 14, 2021, 02:10:26 PM

Made myself a couple of mini pizzas using a split english muffin with cheddar and bacon bits.  Yummy!

Fact of the day:  The English don't eat "English Muffins" and have no idea why they have been credited with it's invention.  To us, a "muffin" is like a bigger version of a cupcake and usually full of fruit or chocolate.

Question of the day:  What do the Dutch call a "Dutch Oven"?  Do they just say "Oven"?

Fwiw, I remember seeing something about how certain foods got their names.  And they actually had no relation to the country or other to speak of.  Yeah, muffins and cupcakes here in the US are completely different from each other.  As you pointed out! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 15, 2021, 02:12:55 PM

Ya'll

Muffins can be sweet or savory.
 
Sweet muffins may have a topping like cinnamon sugar or some type of granulated sugar mixture sprinkled on top before baking. They may have dried berries, chocolate chips, etc in the batter before baking.

Savory muffins like cornbread muffins usually do not have a topping.

Cupcakes are sweet.  They occasionally have chocolate chips or something similar mixed in the batter.  They are always iced with a frosting usually made of powdered sugar and butter/margarine with some type of flavoring added in.

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Post by: renaeden on February 15, 2021, 07:18:43 PM

I was told that Caesar salad is actually named after the chef who first made the salad in a restaurant, not after Julius Caesar.

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Post by: FourAceDeal on February 16, 2021, 04:12:34 AM

Quote from: renaeden on February 15, 2021, 07:18:43 PM

I was told that Caesar salad is actually named after the chef who first made the salad in a restaurant, not after Julius Caesar.

It was named after Sir Digby Chicken-Ceaser.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jKr3Dq0uVw

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on February 16, 2021, 06:04:47 PM

I kept busy.... that's good...

right?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on February 18, 2021, 12:22:26 PM

rush limbaugh died, now he can spew his hate and mockery in hell!   8)

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Post by: Queen Victoria on February 18, 2021, 07:04:44 PM

Quote from: Genesis on February 16, 2021, 06:04:47 PM

I kept busy.... that's good...

right?

Busy or productive?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 18, 2021, 07:06:13 PM

Quote from: rock hound on February 18, 2021, 12:22:26 PM

rush limbaugh died, now he can spew his hate and mockery in hell!   8)

I developed a severe dislike of him when he made fun of Chelsea Clinton.  Even his apologizing didn't alter my opinion of him.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on February 18, 2021, 11:16:26 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 18, 2021, 07:04:44 PM

Quote from: Genesis on February 16, 2021, 06:04:47 PM

I kept busy.... that's good...

right?

Busy or productive?

Busy today

Productive tomorrow

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on February 20, 2021, 05:54:45 AM

I managed to get my bathroom mirror off the wall. It has spring loaded mounting clips. Very novel.

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Post by: odeon on February 20, 2021, 03:43:34 PM

Slept late.

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Post by: Queen Victoria on February 20, 2021, 07:45:48 PM

I did well in some tests.

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Post by: Genesis on February 20, 2021, 10:05:08 PM

We blocked the Cave Troll... for now... if Cave Troll misbehaves, they'll have to face Snuggles (me)

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Post by: renaeden on February 21, 2021, 05:47:06 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 20, 2021, 07:45:48 PM

I did well in some tests.

What kind of tests?

---

We had session 0 of Star Trek Adventures RPG. I had to change my character from a Benzite to a Bolian because one of the others chose Benzite for their character before I could claim it. But that's ok because Bolians have a cool ability - they can eat almost anything, including acids and decaying meat! I'll try to work that into the game somehow. They're also very social and friendly which is going to test me. My character is a Lieutenant JG science officer.

So we have a Bolian, a Benzite, a Cardassian, a Betazoid, a Ferengi and an Edosian (that's Kayleigh who is an Admiral and our Game Master).

We'll be aboard the USS Fontana. I tried to get Kayleigh to make the registry number NCC-80085 because it had to start with an 8, being a Luna class ship. She laughed but no-go. We were in the car going home when I suggested it so the others don't know (yet).

I had a good and fun day but I had a headache by the time I got home. Can't wait for the next session which is in a month's time.

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Post by: odeon on February 23, 2021, 01:13:55 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 23, 2021, 11:39:07 AM

Quote from: renaeden on February 21, 2021, 05:47:06 AM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 20, 2021, 07:45:48 PM

I did well in some tests.

What kind of tests?

---

We had session 0 of Star Trek Adventures RPG. I had to change my character from a Benzite to a Bolian because one of the others chose Benzite for their character before I could claim it. But that's ok because Bolians have a cool ability - they can eat almost anything, including acids and decaying meat! I'll try to work that into the game somehow. They're also very social and friendly which is going to test me. My character is a Lieutenant JG science officer.

So we have a Bolian, a Benzite, a Cardassian, a Betazoid, a Ferengi and an Edosian (that's Kayleigh who is an Admiral and our Game Master).

We'll be aboard the USS Fontana. I tried to get Kayleigh to make the registry number NCC-80085 because it had to start with an 8, being a Luna class ship. She laughed but no-go. We were in the car going home when I suggested it so the others don't know (yet).

I had a good and fun day but I had a headache by the time I got home. Can't wait for the next session which is in a month's time.

Medical tests

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Post by: Pyraxis on February 23, 2021, 01:27:01 PM

It was above freezing yesterday and the whole world smelt like spring.

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Post by: odeon on February 26, 2021, 12:10:22 PM

The work week finally ended.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on February 28, 2021, 01:05:27 PM

Husband gave some very nice compliments today on the cumulative effects of all the small organizational and home improvement projects done over the past several months.

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Post by: rock hound on February 28, 2021, 03:00:56 PM

Got a nice quiet walk in!  And am now having a little sherry while listening to Classic Rock on the Music Choice Channel.  And reading a good book about the Battle of Hastings!   8)

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Post by: odeon on March 04, 2021, 01:12:00 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 12, 2021, 05:25:57 AM

Scored a $50 Jeep polo shirt at the Salvos for free. I have to wear it when I volunteer there but I don't mind because then I won't have to wash my other shirts every week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on March 12, 2021, 11:10:19 AM

Quote from: renaeden on March 12, 2021, 05:25:57 AM

Scored a $50 Jeep polo shirt at the Salvos for free. I have to wear it when I volunteer there but I don't mind because then I won't have to wash my other shirts every week.

Whenever returning to the office happens, some new shirts will be needed. It was past due even a year ago. Have considered slowly acquiring polo shirts until then for that purpose, and switching to a more simple wardrobe.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on March 13, 2021, 04:50:39 AM

Quote from: renaeden on March 12, 2021, 05:25:57 AM

Scored a $50 Jeep polo shirt at the Salvos for free. I have to wear it when I volunteer there but I don't mind because then I won't have to wash my other shirts every week.

Let me know if you ever find a Chrysler one :zoinks:

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Post by: renaeden on March 13, 2021, 06:57:30 AM

I also have a Ping and a Ralph Lauren polo shirt. Not seen Chrysler (yet). :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 13, 2021, 08:12:11 PM

Cleaned the bird cages... birds are happy, got a haircut, now I'm going to go get ready to watch some Star Trek, maybe a movie... not sure which though.

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Post by: Jack on March 14, 2021, 05:45:49 PM

Husband was accepting to my removing all of the objects stored on top of the laundry room cabinets, all unused for years. Would prefer to see them go, but having them out of sight is good enough. Now the room has no visual clutter and it's like a breath of fresh air in there.

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Post by: odeon on March 18, 2021, 04:35:17 PM

Bought beer. :beer:

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Post by: Dirty Big Yoke on March 20, 2021, 02:57:48 AM

Packages arriving soon.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 20, 2021, 03:32:00 AM

Quote from: Dirty Big Yoke on March 20, 2021, 02:57:48 AM

Packages arriving soon.  8)

I get really excited about packages now too.  :lol1:  I remind myself of the kids when they were little. The UPS man was like Santa to them. Now I too rush around saying, THE UPS MAN IS HERE!! :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 20, 2021, 03:39:33 AM

I have a couple of packages arriving next week. :)

I got my Starfleet uniform that I ordered. Fits fine, just have to fold back the sleeves once.

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Post by: Charlotte Quin on March 20, 2021, 04:16:25 AM

My house didn't flood.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 20, 2021, 06:40:44 AM

Quote from: renaeden on March 20, 2021, 03:39:33 AM

I have a couple of packages arriving next week. :)

I got my Starfleet uniform that I ordered. Fits fine, just have to fold back the sleeves once.

Starfleet fucking roXX!!

I must see pics of you modeling it.

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Post by: odeon on March 22, 2021, 05:25:10 PM

:indeed:

Which Starfleet uniform, btw?

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Post by: renaeden on March 23, 2021, 01:00:19 AM

It's a Science one from the latest Picard era.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 23, 2021, 04:19:21 PM

Wow! I had no idea that something like that was available.

BTW, the new era shows have grown on me. I'm kinda hooked.




I'll bet you look great in it!!

 :mischief:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 24, 2021, 06:36:52 AM

There are heaps of different uniforms available on eBay. You can even buy Kirk's jacket from Star Trek Beyond. Very expensive though.

It's better to take a close look at the uniforms if you can. They vary in quality and price.

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Post by: odeon on March 24, 2021, 04:30:29 PM

I wish the film was better, tho. I'd still go with the classic yellow shirt from TOS.

We hosted Trek conventions at the cinema where I used to work, some years ago. The first we spent running all of the films over a weekend - I think this was before the last TNG film - and the Trekkies gathered in full Star Trek uniforms. This is when I realised that middle-aged men shouldn't wear Starfleet uniforms in public. Bill Shatner could barely pull it off, for goodness sake.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 31, 2021, 05:25:27 PM

Got my first shot of the vaccine and it took only about twenty minutes and that includes the fifteen minute observation period after you get it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 31, 2021, 07:38:40 PM

Quote from: Parts on March 31, 2021, 05:25:27 PM

Got my first shot of the vaccine and it took only about twenty minutes and that includes the fifteen minute observation period after you get it.

I consider the 15 minute obs. a joke.  Carla got her second shot and came home and developed chills and fever.  No big deal, as it gave me the info to expect the same.  I'll be ready!  The first shot is the easiest, April 23rd will be my second.....and I am ready!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 31, 2021, 09:38:42 PM

Quote from: rock hound on March 31, 2021, 07:38:40 PM

Quote from: Parts on March 31, 2021, 05:25:27 PM

Got my first shot of the vaccine and it took only about twenty minutes and that includes the fifteen minute observation period after you get it.

I consider the 15 minute obs. a joke.  Carla got her second shot and came home and developed chills and fever.  No big deal, as it gave me the info to expect the same.  I'll be ready!  The first shot is the easiest, April 23rd will be my second.....and I am ready!

It might be a joke but since I waited I got a coupon for 20% off my next purchase  at CVS :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 01, 2021, 08:25:28 AM

Quote from: Parts on March 31, 2021, 09:38:42 PM

Quote from: rock hound on March 31, 2021, 07:38:40 PM

Quote from: Parts on March 31, 2021, 05:25:27 PM

Got my first shot of the vaccine and it took only about twenty minutes and that includes the fifteen minute observation period after you get it.

I consider the 15 minute obs. a joke.  Carla got her second shot and came home and developed chills and fever.  No big deal, as it gave me the info to expect the same.  I'll be ready!  The first shot is the easiest, April 23rd will be my second.....and I am ready!

It might be a joke but since I waited I got a coupon for 20% off my next purchase  at CVS :2thumbsup:

Ok, thats not bad. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 03, 2021, 04:21:10 AM

Quote from: rock hound on March 31, 2021, 07:38:40 PM

Quote from: Parts on March 31, 2021, 05:25:27 PM

Got my first shot of the vaccine and it took only about twenty minutes and that includes the fifteen minute observation period after you get it.

I consider the 15 minute obs. a joke.  Carla got her second shot and came home and developed chills and fever.  No big deal, as it gave me the info to expect the same.  I'll be ready!  The first shot is the easiest, April 23rd will be my second.....and I am ready!

As I understand it the observation is to make sure that you don't get an anaphylactic shock, though. They don't really care about chills and fever.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 03, 2021, 07:28:28 AM

Quote from: odeon on April 03, 2021, 04:21:10 AM

Quote from: rock hound on March 31, 2021, 07:38:40 PM

Quote from: Parts on March 31, 2021, 05:25:27 PM

Got my first shot of the vaccine and it took only about twenty minutes and that includes the fifteen minute observation period after you get it.

I consider the 15 minute obs. a joke.  Carla got her second shot and came home and developed chills and fever.  No big deal, as it gave me the info to expect the same.  I'll be ready!  The first shot is the easiest, April 23rd will be my second.....and I am ready!

As I understand it the observation is to make sure that you don't get an anaphylactic shock, though. They don't really care about chills and fever.

I forgot about that!   But, usually anaphylaxis is pretty rapid onset.  Still fever and chills are easier to deal with.  Tylenol and extra hydration help. 

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Post by: odeon on April 05, 2021, 02:27:56 AM

Coffee happened.  :yawn:

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Post by: Parts on April 06, 2021, 07:52:15 PM

Got two tee shirts  from The Connecticut Air & Space Center (https://www.ctairandspace.org/) for helping them with their new building that will be open this summer.

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Post by: odeon on April 06, 2021, 11:56:18 PM

Looks like a cool place. I love their web site. If you click on the Corsair in the menu, the page that opens will have variants with different liveries fly in.

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Post by: Parts on April 07, 2021, 08:06:02 AM

It will be a much cooler place once their building opens currently everything is in several locations most of which you have to be 18 and sign something to enter due to the government owning the buildings and safety concerns due to it's industrial past 

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Post by: Queen Victoria on April 07, 2021, 11:03:08 PM

The PR got her second covid shot yesterday. Easy peasy.

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Post by: odeon on April 07, 2021, 11:54:53 PM

Coffee happened.

Our covid shots are likely months away still.

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Post by: Pyraxis on April 08, 2021, 11:56:26 AM

So are ours. Politics and distribution issues. Even those who qualify for the first one have to wait four months for the next.

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Post by: rock hound on April 08, 2021, 12:15:42 PM

Moving certainly provides the impetus to get rid of stuff.  Carla has done her part and Amber is slowly getting there.  Now I'm going thru the "art" I had hanging on the wall.  First it was the books, none of which I was never going to read again.  Garage stuff which is ongoing, planters, tools (I won't need any more).  As I get older and decrepit :P hauling stuff from one domicile to another gets more daunting.  I'm beginning to like simplicity and less clutter.   8)

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Post by: odeon on April 10, 2021, 04:20:12 PM

Did half a golf course - nine holes - with a friend. Nice. There was a sense of normalcy I've been missing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 17, 2021, 11:05:04 AM

Bought some tools at a tag sale that will sell for more than ten times what I paid for them :2thumbsup:

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Post by: Icequeen on April 17, 2021, 11:30:14 AM

Found a huge bin full of carefully wrapped Christmas decorations at the curb.
Oleg Cassini boxed crystal paperweight mixed in and a couple of nice clocks.

A 4 cycle trimmer pending evaluation I tossed on top of the growing pile of 2 cycles. Time for another "take all for parts" roundup post to marketplace soon.

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Post by: odeon on April 17, 2021, 03:07:53 PM

Had a beer.

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Post by: Gopher Gary on April 27, 2021, 06:51:05 PM

It finally shipped!! :GA: Last October I preordered something that was supposed to arrive in December. It was going to be the boy's big Christmas gift so I was bummed it didn't arrive. Since the first week of January I've been emailing the beginning of each month. January they told me it would be another month, February they told me it would be another month. March they told me it would be two weeks. First week of April they said two weeks again. I was going to give it one more week until May before asking for my money back, because I've long ago stopped believing it would ever happen but held out hope anyway because he really wants it.

It finally shipped!! :woohoo: When it gets here, I'm going to wrap it up in Christmas paper.  :lol1:

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Post by: Genesis on April 27, 2021, 07:18:18 PM

The new Kento Bento video came on today... only it was a two-parter (meaning the second part isn't ready until 3 weeks from now)

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Post by: Parts on April 28, 2021, 06:30:04 PM

Had a nice nap

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 30, 2021, 03:39:16 PM

It's Friday.

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Post by: rock hound on April 30, 2021, 04:17:25 PM

Got the keys to our new place!

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Post by: Icequeen on April 30, 2021, 05:19:59 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 30, 2021, 04:17:25 PM

Got the keys to our new place!

Congrats!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 30, 2021, 06:37:10 PM

I trolled the local Target by turning up the demo iPad's volume and leaving the 10-hour long version of Trollol out loud in the open.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on April 30, 2021, 06:51:31 PM

Quote from: Genesis on April 30, 2021, 06:37:10 PM

I trolled the local Target by turning up the demo iPad's volume and leaving the 10-hour long version of Trollol out loud in the open.

 :lol1:   :plus: Sorry I can't really plus you.

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Post by: Pyraxis on April 30, 2021, 07:13:32 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 30, 2021, 04:17:25 PM

Got the keys to our new place!

Yay!!!

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Post by: odeon on May 01, 2021, 03:09:58 AM

Quote from: rock hound on April 30, 2021, 04:17:25 PM

Got the keys to our new place!

Exciting, congrats!

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Post by: renaeden on May 04, 2021, 01:15:19 AM

I love it when both cats join me on my bed. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 04, 2021, 02:49:47 PM

The conference t-shirts arrived in the mail.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 07, 2021, 01:30:05 AM

 :needpics:  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 07, 2021, 09:10:38 PM

My friend is a second-degree black belt in Karate.... which therefore means one thing:

Don't piss her off

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 11, 2021, 03:18:15 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 07, 2021, 01:30:05 AM

:needpics:  :autism:

Of what?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 11, 2021, 05:04:17 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 11, 2021, 03:18:15 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 07, 2021, 01:30:05 AM

:needpics:  :autism:

Of what?

Probably the conference tshirts that arrived in the mail.   :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 11, 2021, 05:12:02 PM

Here's a gopher tshirt if that helps.  :zoinks:

(https://teeherivar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/201021CFD3332-1.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 13, 2021, 02:07:42 AM

Thinking we should use those instead.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 13, 2021, 02:08:04 AM

Coffee happened and saved this household.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 13, 2021, 07:57:28 AM

Got caught up on my sleep last night!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 17, 2021, 12:03:23 AM

Nothing of note so far.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 23, 2021, 03:17:15 PM

Got a lead on a clean out in Greenwich CT  the home of lots of old money

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Post by: rock hound on May 23, 2021, 07:52:51 PM

Got a couple of nice walks in.  Good for my soul!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on May 23, 2021, 08:54:45 PM

Quote from: Parts on May 23, 2021, 03:17:15 PM

Got a lead on a clean out in Greenwich CT  the home of lots of old money

Hope you get it. I want pics.  :lol1:

 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 23, 2021, 09:13:10 PM

It's not my fault... it's not my fault, it's not my fault, it's not my fault, it's not my fault.


DAMN IT!!

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Post by: odeon on May 29, 2021, 02:24:23 AM

Woke up without a migraine for the first time in a couple of days.

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Post by: Pyraxis on May 31, 2021, 09:56:49 PM

The purple irises are blooming.

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Post by: odeon on June 02, 2021, 12:49:33 PM

My daughter came to visit.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 02, 2021, 12:57:17 PM

Picked up two plastic shopping bags of trash from the roadway I have adopted.  Looks so much better now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 02, 2021, 02:45:35 PM

Getting Chinese food from a new place

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2021, 01:33:50 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 06, 2021, 09:54:29 AM

I fixed a loose hinge on our bedroom door that was allowing the door to stick.  The original screws were too small and short.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 06, 2021, 07:44:27 PM

Had help getting yard work done

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Post by: odeon on June 08, 2021, 11:46:43 AM

After nine months of agony trying to convince my client (and theirs) that my solution was the correct one, rather than the one advocated by our technology partner, I finally won by demonstrating my solution to the end client.

This is a contract worth millions of USD. I fucking rule.

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Post by: Pyraxis on June 08, 2021, 02:51:39 PM

Hell yeah. Kickass.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on June 08, 2021, 06:15:06 PM

Indeed. Congratulations.

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Post by: Pyraxis on June 09, 2021, 11:23:11 AM

Vaccine is got!!!!!!!!!

 :party: :murica: :dwave:



(first shot, anyway)

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Post by: odeon on June 10, 2021, 04:33:10 AM

Watch out for those 5G antennas.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on June 10, 2021, 03:03:34 PM

 :tinfoil:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 11, 2021, 09:36:06 AM

As a brain wave technologist, I often ask postoperative patients to smile to make sure their facial nerves are intact.
It always struck me as odd to be asking this question right after brain surgery, so a colleague suggested I ask patients to show me their teeth.
Armed with this new phrase, I said to my next patient, “Mr. Smith, show me your teeth.”
He shook his head. “The nurse has them.”

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Post by: rock hound on June 11, 2021, 01:11:29 PM

 :LOL:

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Post by: odeon on June 12, 2021, 05:17:34 PM

 :lol1:

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Post by: odeon on June 12, 2021, 05:18:52 PM

Talked to a friend until late.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 13, 2021, 11:45:50 AM

I'm doing my usual walk and picking up roadside trash.  Filled 2 plastic shopping bags along Hansonville Rd.  And a guy, slowed down and yelled out a big THANK YOU for doing so.  He tells me he also does it on his area of another road. 

Made me feel good about doing my part.  8)

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Post by: Parts on June 15, 2021, 07:17:37 PM

Finished the addition I was working on for a new customer and got paid without having to even ask

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Post by: FourAceDeal on June 16, 2021, 02:11:22 PM

Football.  Football happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on July 02, 2021, 06:17:43 AM

Oh. My. God. All the Harry Potter movies are now on Stan.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 03, 2021, 10:21:24 AM

Not today, but Wednesday.  I got a smaller (65 gallon) garbage can to replace the (95 gallon) garbage can I could barely handle. The 65 is still a bit of a struggle, but manageable. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on July 03, 2021, 04:56:49 PM

I'm definitely going to download the Kindle App on my iPad

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 03, 2021, 06:43:36 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 03, 2021, 10:21:24 AM

Not today, but Wednesday.  I got a smaller (65 gallon) garbage can to replace the (95 gallon) garbage can I could barely handle. The 65 is still a bit of a struggle, but manageable.

Does it have wheels?  :orly: We have a big garbage can with wheels and one for recycling too, but they're provided by the city and I don't know how many gallons they hold. :dunno:

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Post by: rock hound on July 03, 2021, 08:52:43 PM

Survived another night of Rochester NH walmart mgmt. incompetence.

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Post by: odeon on July 04, 2021, 11:39:12 AM

Was able to get a good night's sleep. Finally.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on July 04, 2021, 08:20:09 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 03, 2021, 06:43:36 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 03, 2021, 10:21:24 AM

Not today, but Wednesday.  I got a smaller (65 gallon) garbage can to replace the (95 gallon) garbage can I could barely handle. The 65 is still a bit of a struggle, but manageable.

Does it have wheels?  :orly: We have a big garbage can with wheels and one for recycling too, but they're provided by the city and I don't know how many gallons they hold. :dunno:

Both sizes are wheeled.  We have decent sized tubs for recycling.  Cans and tubs are provided by the parish.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on July 05, 2021, 04:06:32 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 04, 2021, 08:20:09 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on July 03, 2021, 06:43:36 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on July 03, 2021, 10:21:24 AM

Not today, but Wednesday.  I got a smaller (65 gallon) garbage can to replace the (95 gallon) garbage can I could barely handle. The 65 is still a bit of a struggle, but manageable.

Does it have wheels?  :orly: We have a big garbage can with wheels and one for recycling too, but they're provided by the city and I don't know how many gallons they hold. :dunno:

Both sizes are wheeled.  We have decent sized tubs for recycling.  Cans and tubs are provided by the parish.

I thought you meant you had to buy it. That's good the city provided a more managable trash can.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on July 05, 2021, 06:26:16 PM

ran into two people from my past... The Conspiracy Theorist, and the Guy that was nice to me in Middle School.

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Post by: DirtDawg on July 06, 2021, 10:32:05 PM

Kind of an involved back story, but we have a new family member - dog. Pomeranian cross, large for the breed, delightful personality.
Had her one day and we are all   CraZy about her.

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Post by: rock hound on July 07, 2021, 08:38:27 AM

 hearty breakfast and a mug of my lovely lapsang souchong tea to follow!   8)

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Post by: odeon on July 10, 2021, 03:03:45 AM

I'm not working today.  :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on July 20, 2021, 02:22:29 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on July 06, 2021, 10:32:05 PM

Kind of an involved back story, but we have a new family member - dog. Pomeranian cross, large for the breed, delightful personality.
Had her one day and we are all   CraZy about her.

I'd like to hear more about her. :)

Had a good session at the physio gym. About six people go there, including Kayleigh and me. I'd like to go more often than once a week but I probably wouldn't have enough time.

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Post by: Pyraxis on July 20, 2021, 11:01:54 AM

Canada border is reopening!!!

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Post by: DirtDawg on July 20, 2021, 12:04:05 PM

Quote from: renaeden on July 20, 2021, 02:22:29 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on July 06, 2021, 10:32:05 PM

Kind of an involved back story, but we have a new family member - dog. Pomeranian cross, large for the breed, delightful personality.
Had her one day and we are all   CraZy about her.

I'd like to hear more about her. :)

The backstory is not pleasant, but I will abbreviate the story, thusly ...

I heard her barking while I was on patrol with my Nightwatch buddies. It was very stormy and with a lot of lightning and thundering, no one could hear or see anything, but I could hear a dog barking. I am the Old Deaf Guy and yet I was the only one who could follow and find the dog barking. It was also 4th of July and fireworks had been going since dusk. It was a loud night.
I loved/hated every moment of it.

Now, the entire family, who knew the original owner of the dog, has "signed off" on us keeping the dog and she is ours now. She is a treasure. I'll have to post some pics. Haven't taken any yet. Probably the dab of Celt in me, not wanting to Jinx things by carving likenesses prematurely or using my cell phone to snap a pic, prematurely.

 :lol1:

She is so loving! Attends the entirety of the family, her new family in earnest, constantly. We're her new pack. I adore her and she deserves all our love.

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Post by: renaeden on July 23, 2021, 10:14:38 PM

That is so cool. Sounds like she's much happier now. What's her name?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 24, 2021, 02:05:27 AM

Coffee happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 02, 2021, 11:23:18 PM

That tree I planted a little while back might be starting to get past its transplant shock. I was worried for a while there, it lost maybe 2/3 of its leaves despite all the water and care I was giving it. But today it had the beginnings of new green shoots at the ends of those branches.

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Post by: odeon on August 04, 2021, 12:11:08 PM

Found ice cream in the freezer.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on August 05, 2021, 03:37:34 AM

Sometimes in life strange and improbable things happen, such as getting an offer for full asking price today.
My gazumping wishes came true!!  :roses:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 05, 2021, 12:29:19 PM

That's fantastic, congratulations!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 05, 2021, 01:30:20 PM

Made the appointment to get my Drivers license renewed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 06, 2021, 03:01:50 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on August 05, 2021, 03:37:34 AM

Sometimes in life strange and improbable things happen, such as getting an offer for full asking price today.
My gazumping wishes came true!!  :roses:

 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 06, 2021, 04:19:33 PM

People said nice things about my talk at the conference today, people whose opinions matter to me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 07, 2021, 06:46:16 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 06, 2021, 04:19:33 PM

People said nice things about my talk at the conference today, people whose opinions matter to me.

That always feels good for a while. Just enjoy it, if you can't use it.
 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on August 07, 2021, 09:04:49 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 06, 2021, 03:01:50 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on August 05, 2021, 03:37:34 AM

Sometimes in life strange and improbable things happen, such as getting an offer for full asking price today.
My gazumping wishes came true!!  :roses:

 :2thumbsup:

We haven't exchanged contracts just yet but hopefully Monday.
It's amazing what people are willing to spend too much money on lol.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 07, 2021, 10:53:05 AM

Took a very long walk with my purple homemade walking stick to the major highway.  Very peaceful, found a couple of things.  A small steel bar and one of those U shaped springy things you use to put in the door loop that you would use for a padlock.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on August 09, 2021, 06:56:12 AM

Finally exchanged contracts today.
Agent sent me a pic of the SOLD sticker on the sign out front. I guess there could have been a bit more ceremony involved in that for me :laugh:
Now I have 6 weeks to shop for somewhere to move.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 09, 2021, 09:40:42 AM

 :party: :beergrin: :cheer:

Dunno about you but I think shopping for a place to move is the fun part.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 09, 2021, 11:43:20 AM

Finally could eat a grilled hot dog WITHOUT it getting stuck in my esophagus.  "Steakhouse Syndrome" sucks big time!   >:(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 09, 2021, 03:21:29 PM

Epiglottis is a troubling thing to have stiffen up. It is suppose to remain flexible throughout ones life. Made out of basically the same cartilage as our ears, it bends and returns to original shape gazillions of times, every time you swallow.

Some have a kind of trouble where every thirty to ninety seconds, swallowing salival effluents can choke you and aspirating portions of your food is almost a constant thing while eating.
Welcome to the club. My dad had this, too. My brother has had surgery to correct his. Did not work well.

Hope you don't have to choke on a sneeze any time soon. That hurts! Trust me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 09, 2021, 07:59:20 PM

Somebody who said they would mail me a check actually did and without having me remind them a dozen times

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 10, 2021, 10:33:46 AM

Maybe not the first, but that is always good news.
 8)

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Post by: DirtDawg on August 10, 2021, 10:48:50 AM

We met with a mover today. We still do not have an "OFFER" from the city to compensate us for this major inconvenience.

I was hoping for some answer from the guy, but he explained that he will have to consult with the rest of his team before finalizing the estimate for moving our entire household to our new home.

Trying again and again to get some kind of clue as to what he expects for his estimate to look like caused him some possible, but quite predictable I suspect, anxiety.
He tried to settle my concerns some by telling me that in his business, they have three levels of difficulty/cost they use. A, B and C. My property and all its contents are clearly in the upper area of the B Grade move. Which means that my estimate for moving us will fall in the twenty two thousand to thirty five thousand dollar range.

Seems like a lot at first, but we are going to have to TRUST this company with all we have gathered around ourselves our entire lives.

I have already moved my gun safe and many of my BIG guns to my storage area, well secured, gated, cameras everywhere, kind of expensive for just storing an old car mostly, along with my JBL monitor project and all its goodies.

Sounds silly, but there is still quite a bit of room in that building and I am going to pack up most of our pictures and take them over there soon. Many of our pictures are very precious to us.
 :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on August 10, 2021, 06:19:59 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on August 10, 2021, 10:48:50 AM

I am going to pack up most of our pictures and take them over there soon. Many of our pictures are very precious to us.

Careful storing photos or art in areas which aren't temperature and humidity controlled.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 12, 2021, 10:40:47 AM

 Well, the overthinking task of renewing our Driver Licenses is OVER.  We scraped the needed documents together, made the online appointments, fretted whether we did enough to secure the REAL ID satisfying for the Gov. crap.  Fortunately, I trailblazed the way yesterday on a road drastically changed with a traffic circle and all that jazz.  Got mine done. <phew>  Today, Carla went thru her over thinking moments, but, since I knew the way and had the experience, I drove so she could focus on her stuff and try to relax before going in.  She goes in, I take a long walk to the General Sullivan bridge just to see the changes and explore and get out of the car for awhile.  See new construction near Newick's Restaurant, meet a big friendly dog walking with his "pack".  Get to the old bridge, which is closed to all foot and bike traffic.  Discover a little Bayside Park and then head back, get the text from Carla, "I'm done" and find her waiting by the car.  We walk thru the little park together and head home and chill. 

Time for tea and lunch!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 13, 2021, 12:47:37 AM

Quote from: Jack on August 10, 2021, 06:19:59 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on August 10, 2021, 10:48:50 AM

I am going to pack up most of our pictures and take them over there soon. Many of our pictures are very precious to us.

Careful storing photos or art in areas which aren't temperature and humidity controlled.

Thanks. You're exactly right.  Not too worried at present. The storage time will be quite short. This move is upon us soon. Still nothing solid, but the DEMO has already begun in the area.

Before the pandemic I attended an auction of a small grocery, including butchery. I grabbed six factory sealed rolls of freezer paper and two half used open rolls for about twenty  bucks.


I have been using that to pack our pics, keepsakes and teapot collections that my daughter and I seem to enjoy together. Who knew I liked teapots, right? Well, tea parties with your daughter is a standard that is hard to top.

The plan is to keep our most treasured pics prominently displayed in our new home as we do in our present home. Those boxes we are stacking in the storage facility will be some of the first boxes we will want to unpack.

Good advice.

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Post by: DirtDawg on August 13, 2021, 01:03:58 AM

My daughter allowed her Learner Permit to expire. Still not driving much at twenty, but now she can not even practice driving.

The huge struggles with the license branch have only begun in our lives.

Hoping it goes smoothly.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 13, 2021, 08:49:29 AM

I remember renewing my learners permit for years before I finally got it together to get the full license. The DMV is a pain in the ass.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 13, 2021, 12:00:42 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on August 13, 2021, 08:49:29 AM

I remember renewing my learners permit for years before I finally got it together to get the full license. The DMV is a pain in the ass.

It took me years after I took Drivers Ed. until I took my Drivers test and got my first NH license.  My "mother' vigorously discouraged it until I started to screw up the courage to just do the damn thing.  And I was living and working in my old college town.  Fred was a major booster for my independence and confidence.  I passed the driving and written test on the first try.   8)  My "mother" was pissed!   :evillaugh:  Fred was elated when I got home and showed him.   8)  In my day we didn't have learners permits.  We could still drive, but, only if a licensed adult was in the car.  And driving with my "mother" was a fucking nightmare.   >:(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on August 13, 2021, 03:45:46 PM

I think I lasted for one session on actual roads in my father's stickshift car. I froze up attempting to shift gears at a red light intersection, with the other cars all moving forwards around me, and his anxiety spiralled off mine in a way that was miserable enough that I never got in his car to practice driving again.

He was so fucking... fragile.

For all his faults, that was one thing my bf a few years later did absolutely right. Actually it was one of the best things he ever did for me. He was stone cool about me practice driving in his car, seemed to have no fear of my ruining it, and pitched his voice like you would trying to calm an animal on the way to the vet. Also it was an automatic, so one less thing to think about at once. It not only worked, but I'd never had somebody treat me like that before or for a long time after. That was precious.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 13, 2021, 05:06:23 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on August 13, 2021, 03:45:46 PM

I think I lasted for one session on actual roads in my father's stickshift car. I froze up attempting to shift gears at a red light intersection, with the other cars all moving forwards around me, and his anxiety spiralled off mine in a way that was miserable enough that I never got in his car to practice driving again.

He was so fucking... fragile.

For all his faults, that was one thing my bf a few years later did absolutely right. Actually it was one of the best things he ever did for me. He was stone cool about me practice driving in his car, seemed to have no fear of my ruining it, and pitched his voice like you would trying to calm an animal on the way to the vet. Also it was an automatic, so one less thing to think about at once. It not only worked, but I'd never had somebody treat me like that before or for a long time after. That was precious.

I learned on a manual transmission, the one with the handle on he steering wheel.  Then when I rented a U-Haul truck for my move of 200+ miles to the Berkshires it was a 4 on the floor manual that the guy at the company gave me a refresher course in how to handle a stick shift.  And I did the whole trip without a hitch.  My first two cars after I became a nurse were stick shift.  I occasionally had problems with stop and go on hill streets like Albany NY had, but, I managed....somehow.  But, my first times solo driving were nerve racking at stop lights as well.  My student driving days on older manual transmissions were the stuff of nightmares.  I lost track of the number of times I stalled out.  Now I drive an automatic at Carla's insistence.  I resisted at first, but Carla who could use a manual car hated them unless she had no other option.  Your father reminded me of my "mother". 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 14, 2021, 07:53:42 AM

I am destined to suffer the License Branch soon myself. I have an older license that will no longer be accepted as an identification source when attempting to board a commercial flight.
I have a mother in her eighties and she is still tending a small plot of livestock rich land. Granted, many of my cousins have pitched in to help all the uncles and aunts through these times, but I should be there. I really am feeling the need to be there, to help my cousins manage the family homestead land if nothing more.

Found that ym mom was granted one fourth of the land from my deceased aunt, lost to Covid last year, which means ten more acres that my mom tends. I really NEED to be there.

BUT, without updating my license, I can't even fly to a funeral, which is inevitable.

Need to update ......

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 14, 2021, 12:07:41 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on August 13, 2021, 01:03:58 AM

My daughter allowed her Learner Permit to expire. Still not driving much at twenty, but now she can not even practice driving.

The huge struggles with the license branch have only begun in our lives.

Hoping it goes smoothly.

My daughter is 21 and has failed the test three times so I know the struggle :zombiefuck: Her next attempt is Thursday I hope it goes well. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 14, 2021, 12:24:30 PM

FWIW, Parts, Amber flunked her driving test 5 times.  The examiner asked me if Amber should take a break so she wouldn't get discouraged.  Amber never did, she was ready and raring to go each time.  She never gave up hope.  The examiner was impressed with that.  And she was the examiner for her final test and Amber came back and was exultant that she passed.  I'll never forget the look of joy on her face.  Just keep her practicing on the areas she has difficulty and keep her encouraged, your daughter will do fine!   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 14, 2021, 03:03:30 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on August 07, 2021, 06:46:16 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 06, 2021, 04:19:33 PM

People said nice things about my talk at the conference today, people whose opinions matter to me.

That always feels good for a while. Just enjoy it, if you can't use it.
 :thumbup:

Well, I can't use any of it. It still feels nice but I know it's superfluous.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 14, 2021, 03:11:00 PM

As for driver's licenses... I spent countless hours teaching both my offspring to drive. Both passed their tests, eventually. My daughter aced it on her fist try, my son did it on his third. Proud of them both and hoping I taught them enough to survive on.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 14, 2021, 04:59:00 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 14, 2021, 03:11:00 PM

As for driver's licenses... I spent countless hours teaching both my offspring to drive. Both passed their tests, eventually. My daughter aced it on her fist try, my son did it on his third. Proud of them both and hoping I taught them enough to survive on.

Yeah, we were both proud of Amber for not getting discouraged and succeeding in the end.  We gave her the tools to to survive on. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 14, 2021, 09:20:18 PM

Quote from: Parts on August 14, 2021, 12:07:41 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on August 13, 2021, 01:03:58 AM

My daughter allowed her Learner Permit to expire. Still not driving much at twenty, but now she can not even practice driving.

The huge struggles with the license branch have only begun in our lives.

Hoping it goes smoothly.

My daughter is 21 and has failed the test three times so I know the struggle :zombiefuck: Her next attempt is Thursday I hope it goes well.

Godspeed!  I hope it goes well.
Last time my daughter went in to get her license crap sorted out, she was set up with the wrong test. Really! She was there to just get a learner permit a few years back and they gave her the test for a Commercial over the road truck driving license, which both her parents hold. She failed the test and did not want to EVER take it again. Finally got her to try again and she Whizzed it. Makes a difference if you get the right test going.

ZOMBIE FUCK!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 14, 2021, 09:27:53 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 14, 2021, 03:11:00 PM

As for driver's licenses... I spent countless hours teaching both my offspring to drive. Both passed their tests, eventually. My daughter aced it on her fist try, my son did it on his third. Proud of them both and hoping I taught them enough to survive on.

As little progress as I report, there IS progress and I am proud of both of them.

So much stress in this house these days. I don't feel like pushing anywhere if the place is clean, the trash is out, laundry is managed and the dog is fed and walked, etc.

Choosing my battles carefully.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 19, 2021, 01:47:43 PM

Stopped by the daughter's workplace to say hi. She's been working evenings all week so we haven't seen her at all.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 21, 2021, 02:04:20 PM

My generator started on the second pull after sitting in the shed over two years,  hopefully I will not need it and it can go back to gathering dust in the shed

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on August 21, 2021, 07:32:57 PM

Quote from: Parts on August 21, 2021, 02:04:20 PM

My generator started on the second pull after sitting in the shed over two years,  hopefully I will not need it and it can go back to gathering dust in the shed

Last storm here, the guys were prepping the generator. It started on the second pull; son threw his arms in the air and started dancing around like Rocky. :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 21, 2021, 08:06:27 PM

Quote from: Jack on August 21, 2021, 07:32:57 PM

Quote from: Parts on August 21, 2021, 02:04:20 PM

My generator started on the second pull after sitting in the shed over two years,  hopefully I will not need it and it can go back to gathering dust in the shed

Last storm here, the guys were prepping the generator. It started on the second pull; son threw his arms in the air and started dancing around like Rocky. :laugh:

I felt the same way,  figured it would be at least two hours of headache to get it running smooth.  The 20 minutes I spent putting it away right last time I used it was time well spent

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 23, 2021, 02:02:14 PM

Got my new license today!   :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 24, 2021, 01:50:13 AM

OT:
Sorry, I can't think of a single damn thing.

I'll try harder.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 24, 2021, 04:13:03 AM

Found something talking to a neighbor over coffee before the sun is up.

My oldest neighbor, nearby, next door-ish has chosen to move three houses down, thus avoiding having an even worse disfigurement of his living lifeworks.
 Mentioned another neighbor who lost his wife a few months back to heart attack (58YO awesome woman just fell in her garden and died right there) ...

... happenstances and situational "crossfire hurricanes" (ancient rock reference for Stones fans.) have come to some rescue.

The man who lost his wife has tried to sell me his 55 Chevy hotrod for ages, but I have a Chevelle now and I am faithful to my girls.  :lol1: (never believe anyone who has to stress their faith or loyalty)
But I look at that '55 and I want that babydoll, too! Can't afford to add her to my stable right now.

His loss has forced him into a smaller home resulting in his present home being available to our oldest old neighbor. to acquire.
So, one old, inconvenienced soul is moving Three Doors Down (with the help of every DAMN one of us neighbors, guaranDAMNteed!!). Another old, tragically suffering the loss of a lifelong partner, decent fellow is downsizing his shit so he can travel some. (he wants to go piss down the faces of Mount Rushmore. I don't think that is allowed)

That whole complicated set of things sounds pretty damn good to me at this point.

I just helped another "friend" sell her recently passed husband's motorcycle, but I can't even seem to get a nibble on an old Chevy.
 :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 24, 2021, 01:45:31 PM

The whisky, earlier, was nice but otherwise today's been forgettable.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 26, 2021, 05:34:04 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 24, 2021, 01:45:31 PM

The whisky, earlier, was nice but otherwise today's been forgettable.

I'll take one of those.  The forgettable, not the whiskey, but enjoy them both to the fullest.


Mentioned the young "man" neighbor kid with lots of balls, right. His mom has gotten her settlement from the city.
Being an already displaced family and still on the rolls of the Habitat For Humanity successes, she had an additional player in her court as thing developed.
I am so pleased for them. BUT, now she can shop for a house for their future on her own.

That is a good day!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 27, 2021, 01:04:41 PM

I'm able to be myself more today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 27, 2021, 06:46:11 PM

Quote from: Genesis on August 27, 2021, 01:04:41 PM

I'm able to be myself more today.

 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 27, 2021, 07:23:35 PM

Heard on the radio that gas stations are already running out of gasoline because of the national shortage.  Glad I filled up earlier this week.  If the hurricane leaves us without electricity it's going to be quite tough-and-go for traveling.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 28, 2021, 12:49:23 PM

Another fairly forgettable day without any particular highs. But maybe that's a good thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 28, 2021, 04:11:53 PM

Quote from: Queen Victoria on August 27, 2021, 07:23:35 PM

Heard on the radio that gas stations are already running out of gasoline because of the national shortage.  Glad I filled up earlier this week.  If the hurricane leaves us without electricity it's going to be quite tough-and-go for traveling.

Sat through many hurricanes and the fun is over for me, since I was about twelve.

Best of luck to you.


We are fine on gasoline and the price has dropped below 3$/gallon this week. Wish I could email you some.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 30, 2021, 12:13:34 AM

There has been a bit of a kerfuffle at times, getting two dogs to settle into pack-like behaviors under one roof, with the massive distractions we are still trekking as a family.

This morning when I woke up, the two were sleeping peacefully together using each other as pillows.
I think we are there with the month long integration of two alphas.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 30, 2021, 03:34:32 PM

The daughter came to visit.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 04, 2021, 10:00:40 PM

Got stung by a wasp yesterday. Did not go into anaphylactic shock. This is the good thing  :hahaha: because having never been stung, and having a stupid pile of allergies, I've been paranoid I'd be susceptible to a bad reaction.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on September 04, 2021, 10:14:36 PM

I found a good stash of music to put on my mp3 player... surprisingly it was only $20.52

The next payday at work isn't until the 16th... so I should be okay with the minimalist approach for now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jesse on September 05, 2021, 01:10:14 PM

Orange is the new black. Garnet is the name, buy him if you can is the game ~  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 05, 2021, 01:21:01 PM

Got my first real phone call on my new phone from a very dear long time friend.  I bought a new smart phone, my first, they used to be called "Jitterbug", now it's "Lively".  A phone made for old spazzes like me.  I can see pictures that are sent to me. It has big numbers for easier dialing (then my old trac phone) and an easier set up to see my gmail and get internet.   8)  Plus I can receive and send phone calls from the black hole of phones, aka walmart.  Yay me getting into the modern era.   :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 05, 2021, 05:03:01 PM

Sold a lot of stuff at the market

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 05, 2021, 05:35:42 PM

Oh yeah, and kudos to the Geek squad at Best Buy in Newington NH who got me thru this process,   :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 05, 2021, 09:00:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 30, 2021, 03:34:32 PM

The daughter came to visit.

Surprised?

I am often surprised by visits.

Feel put out at times to just have to answer the cell. My time, please! Then a visit.

Some of my favorite times have come after almost not even looking at the cell.

Hope all is well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 05, 2021, 09:49:28 PM

Dropping one kid off at work today, daybreak, Sunday morning, no traffic at all.

I pulled into where I used to get physical therapy after seeing the building under renovation, with curiosity and all the cats that follow, I HAD to stop and peep some.

A moment of dumpster inspection revealed many machines for weight training, treadmills and much junk. But, I found a 1250LB rated dolly with a pipe welded to it just thrown away. At first I just wanted to salvage the casters, but after the first tug I realized I could just release the entire thing  from the tangled pile and cut the pipe off later. Done.

We are moving soon and the gods just gifted me a VERY sturdy dolly!

It was such a shitty weld job, I busted the pipe off with a chisel.
I plan to put a wooden topper on it for the move.

 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 07, 2021, 05:56:19 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 05, 2021, 09:00:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 30, 2021, 03:34:32 PM

The daughter came to visit.

Surprised?

I am often surprised by visits.

Feel put out at times to just have to answer the cell. My time, please! Then a visit.

Some of my favorite times have come after almost not even looking at the cell.

Hope all is well.

Was a bit surprised, yes, but glad.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 14, 2021, 10:07:34 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 07, 2021, 05:56:19 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 05, 2021, 09:00:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 30, 2021, 03:34:32 PM

The daughter came to visit.

Surprised?

I am often surprised by visits.

Feel put out at times to just have to answer the cell. My time, please! Then a visit.

Some of my favorite times have come after almost not even looking at the cell.

Hope all is well.

Was a bit surprised, yes, but glad.

ALL of my last three years worth of visits have ALL been surprises. VERY Welcome surprises, but WAY out there AWAY from anything Expected at the time. Always feels so "re-Built" after a needed visit.

Kind of glad I'm not the only one.

Pretty sure though that my family has stopped growing for now. Reeling to see how my sons have fared.
Loving the fact that we have managed to make contact at all.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 16, 2021, 01:24:21 AM

Today I had a new muffler and exhaust fitted on my car. When I went out to the car from the waiting room I was surprised to see a twin exhaust! Much cooler than the tiny, rusted one I had before. Also a lot quieter. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on September 16, 2021, 03:15:44 PM

I didn't have a shouting match with myself (yet)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 17, 2021, 11:25:40 AM

Back from our mini vacay. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 17, 2021, 04:49:16 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 14, 2021, 10:07:34 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 07, 2021, 05:56:19 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 05, 2021, 09:00:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 30, 2021, 03:34:32 PM

The daughter came to visit.

Surprised?

I am often surprised by visits.

Feel put out at times to just have to answer the cell. My time, please! Then a visit.

Some of my favorite times have come after almost not even looking at the cell.

Hope all is well.

Was a bit surprised, yes, but glad.

ALL of my last three years worth of visits have ALL been surprises. VERY Welcome surprises, but WAY out there AWAY from anything Expected at the time. Always feels so "re-Built" after a needed visit.

Kind of glad I'm not the only one.

Pretty sure though that my family has stopped growing for now. Reeling to see how my sons have fared.
Loving the fact that we have managed to make contact at all.

I'm glad I matter, somehow. She wants to talk to her mother, a lot of the time, but I think I have my unique place, and I'm glad. I'm proud of the way she turned out, proud of what she's become. And she's so very sharp.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on September 17, 2021, 06:43:39 PM

I was going to troll them... but I also don't want to stoop to their level. FUCK THEIR CONTROL!

CONTROL + L = ?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 18, 2021, 08:33:10 AM

Quote from: odeon on September 17, 2021, 04:49:16 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 14, 2021, 10:07:34 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 07, 2021, 05:56:19 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 05, 2021, 09:00:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 30, 2021, 03:34:32 PM

The daughter came to visit.

Surprised?

I am often surprised by visits.

Feel put out at times to just have to answer the cell. My time, please! Then a visit.

Some of my favorite times have come after almost not even looking at the cell.

Hope all is well.

Was a bit surprised, yes, but glad.

ALL of my last three years worth of visits have ALL been surprises. VERY Welcome surprises, but WAY out there AWAY from anything Expected at the time. Always feels so "re-Built" after a needed visit.

Kind of glad I'm not the only one.

Pretty sure though that my family has stopped growing for now. Reeling to see how my sons have fared.
Loving the fact that we have managed to make contact at all.

I'm glad I matter, somehow. She wants to talk to her mother, a lot of the time, but I think I have my unique place, and I'm glad. I'm proud of the way she turned out, proud of what she's become. And she's so very sharp.

 :2thumbsup: :worship: :2thumbsup:
Nice!

Similar with my own daughter. She has begun to "feel" a bit of the strong stock within her (from whence she bound) and seems to be making headway. I am very proud.

Her agoraphobia has its place and caution is a result I approve. With her getting out there more; I am almost in tears at times.
She has tried to move out twice and has not made it, yet.
Believe it or not the dog helps.

Still popcorn time here, though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 18, 2021, 01:43:34 PM

A friend gave me a special brownie

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on September 18, 2021, 01:46:54 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 18, 2021, 01:43:34 PM

A friend gave me a special brownie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1kTZRcKZ6Y

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 18, 2021, 07:03:51 PM

Well, it was late yesterday night, but - cub's covid test came back negative.  :green: We can go to the park again!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on September 18, 2021, 08:56:19 PM

It was a Lazy Saturday... plus I didn't spend my money on stupid take out (Win win?)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 19, 2021, 03:01:21 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on September 18, 2021, 07:03:51 PM

Well, it was late yesterday night, but - cub's covid test came back negative.  :green: We can go to the park again!

Excellent news!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 19, 2021, 08:53:26 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on September 18, 2021, 07:03:51 PM

Well, it was late yesterday night, but - cub's covid test came back negative.  :green: We can go to the park again!

Good. Now, do you have documentation you carry with you to prove this?

It has already begun. Be aware.
:tinfoil:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 20, 2021, 08:02:45 AM

Up here they can't get themselves organized enough to make a consistent policy on vaccine passports. The "proof" from the vaccine center is a full-page sheet of paper that could theoretically be carried but... meh, nobody's enforcing it yet. Test results are sent by text message so I could show my phone... though I dunno whether it would be anything like the border, where they can't order you to unlock your phone but if it is unlocked, they are authorized to search it.

We also have an election today, so that is another reason to be happy to be out of quarantine.  :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 20, 2021, 02:45:54 PM

Finished that report.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 20, 2021, 04:44:33 PM

I got the perfect quote for my sig.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: FourAceDeal on September 21, 2021, 09:07:41 AM

Quote from: rock hound on September 20, 2021, 04:44:33 PM

I got the perfect quote for my sig.

I just remembered that I switched peoples sigs off when the gruesome twosome were at their most racist and obnoxious.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 22, 2021, 09:19:54 AM

Quote from: FourAceDeal on September 21, 2021, 09:07:41 AM

Quote from: rock hound on September 20, 2021, 04:44:33 PM

I got the perfect quote for my sig.

I just remembered that I switched peoples sigs off when the gruesome twosome were at their most racist and obnoxious.

Don't bother. BUT, shit I got tired of reading in junior high school can still be fun for those yet to read much.

Put your graphics back up. It is safe.
 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 24, 2021, 03:53:56 PM

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water...

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 24, 2021, 07:05:13 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 24, 2021, 03:53:56 PM

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water...

I was never much of a swimmer in deep water. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 25, 2021, 03:51:46 AM

It was yesterday, but I grocery shopped and it didn't kick my butt again, plus no one commented on my food.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 25, 2021, 07:16:57 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 25, 2021, 03:51:46 AM

It was yesterday, but I grocery shopped and it didn't kick my butt again, plus no one commented on my food.  :thumbup:

Food comments in the grocery?
Only thoughts I have is seeing so profusely rotund obese people buying "EVEN MORE FOOD?" I keep the thoughts to myself and sometimes rethink my purchase choices.

My daughter is overcome by contact sometimes. It can be rough.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on September 25, 2021, 10:44:54 PM

Took the cub to a corn maze today. It involved a lot of driving country roads through picturesque fall landscapes, with the trees changing colour and copses of birch woods in between slightly rolling farmland. Beautiful cool end-of-summer sunlight and huge skies.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 26, 2021, 07:28:07 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on September 25, 2021, 07:16:57 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 25, 2021, 03:51:46 AM

It was yesterday, but I grocery shopped and it didn't kick my butt again, plus no one commented on my food.  :thumbup:

Food comments in the grocery?
Only thoughts I have is seeing so profusely rotund obese people buying "EVEN MORE FOOD?" I keep the thoughts to myself and sometimes rethink my purchase choices.

My daughter is overcome by contact sometimes. It can be rough.

I only shop twice per month. I don't feel like it's all that much but I guess it looks like a lot of stuff to other people and it's a common thing for someone to try to chat me up about the amount of food I'm buying. I purposely shopped every week for over a year because I didn't want to look like a greedy gut food hoarder during the pandemic, but now that I'm shopping less often again I'm also getting comments again. It makes me uncomfortable but I don't think that's their intention or anything. It's just something to talk about. Regardless of where I am it's likely a stranger will start talking to me in the store. I've never been able to figure it out because I'm usually in my own world while shopping and don't even look at other people. I don't know if it's my body language or my general appearance but I couldn't count the number of times I've wondered, what makes me so approachable?  :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 26, 2021, 12:33:02 PM

Maybe, wear a sword?  :LOL:  Not sure how, but I exude a "Do Not Dare Approach" vitality naturally. I generally wear a large blade on my belt no matter where I go. I keep my sidearm hidden.

People avoid me. This is good.

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Post by: rock hound on September 26, 2021, 12:39:27 PM

Beautiful dry very breezy day.  Took a walk and did my usual trash pickup.  Breezy days make for tricky placing of trash in the bag, while its blowing every which way.  Now for some tea and a snack and watch some football. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 26, 2021, 03:08:37 PM

Daughter came to visit.

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Post by: DirtDawg on September 26, 2021, 03:42:21 PM

Beautiful day here, as well. Just wonderful, not more than a gentle breeze, very low humidity, high Barometer, brilliant, blue sky with only the most decorative of a cloud or few.

I started a fire.

I have a Dutch Oven pot on its Maiden Voyage, making a version of baked beans and pork.

Don't get me wrong, this Dutch Oven is about four years under my care. It has seen MANY fires, but those were curative and preparational, break in fires. This will be the first time I have cooked food in it.

It has been well cured. I have high hopes for this batch of cowboy beans.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 26, 2021, 08:14:43 PM

Had record breaking sales at the show I sold at over the weekend

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Post by: renaeden on September 26, 2021, 08:38:28 PM

Quote from: Parts on September 26, 2021, 08:14:43 PM

Had record breaking sales at the show I sold at over the weekend

I was wondering how you went.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 01, 2021, 11:26:53 AM

It's Friday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on October 01, 2021, 11:45:45 AM

Picked up a lot of garbage from the roadside.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 03, 2021, 03:21:18 AM

So glad that little girl in WA was found today :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 03, 2021, 08:04:34 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on November 03, 2021, 03:21:18 AM

So glad that little girl in WA was found today :viking:

Yeah, because so much time went by after her disappearance, everyone thought the worst.

Saw a picture of her in hospital sitting up in bed with an icy pole. She looked really well and happy. I guess it will be a while before we know what happened to her.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 04, 2021, 05:28:58 AM

She's so adorable :laugh:

Some strange info coming out about the perp though. He was obsessed with Bratz dolls and had a whole room full of them. I'm getting severe ASD vibes from this bloke :headhurts:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 04, 2021, 07:59:57 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on November 04, 2021, 05:28:58 AM

She's so adorable :laugh:

Some strange info coming out about the perp though. He was obsessed with Bratz dolls and had a whole room full of them. I'm getting severe ASD vibes from this bloke :headhurts:

Oh no, not again.  :(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 05, 2021, 04:20:29 PM

Saw the Troll and the Automaton today... thought I would put my masking skills to use:

Pretending that I didn't see them, yet trying to convince myself to do my usual blank stare.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on November 05, 2021, 07:53:17 PM

Went to the bookstore and found a new volcano book!   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 06, 2021, 06:40:37 PM

I have a good stash of Ramen right now... just need to save it for the occasions I'm by myself or with Dad instead of going to/or ordering McDonalds.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on November 07, 2021, 11:11:15 PM

Took the cub swimming yesterday. It was a risk because last time I took him to the pool he caught a cold and then the rest of the day home kids caught it and I had to keep him home, get us tested, deal with a day home shutdown, etc. But this week is going to be fucked anyway because of the Remembrance Day holiday so I thought what the hell.

I'd forgotten the calming effects of vestibular stimulation. This pool has a waterslide and he must have wanted to go down it with me at least 30 times. Then he was wiped out and had a good nap and I ended up feeling actually... good and okay, which is a really rare thing on a weekend day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on November 08, 2021, 11:28:11 AM

I remember those days with my daughter. My son, no damn vestibular stimulation, ever, please. But my daughter LIVED there.
Every day was about the next big brain wank she can invent. I was terrified half the time.

Keep a med kit close, you'll do fine.
 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 08, 2021, 04:05:16 PM

Spent time petting the dog. She's all the therapy I need.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 08, 2021, 05:04:58 PM

Had a nice nap

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on November 08, 2021, 08:04:14 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on November 08, 2021, 11:28:11 AM

I remember those days with my daughter. My son, no damn vestibular stimulation, ever, please. But my daughter LIVED there.
Every day was about the next big brain wank she can invent. I was terrified half the time.

Keep a med kit close, you'll do fine.
 :2thumbsup:

 :green:

He already likes Ferris wheels and roller coasters, at least the little ones that they'll allow him on at his height. I think part of it is I'm clearly enjoying myself so he takes his cues from me and doesn't get too scared. Which is diametrically opposed to the way I was raised, I had to figure out for myself that there's no need to fear certain aspects of life. But he's taking after both his mama and his dad on this one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 12, 2021, 01:20:19 AM

Coffee happened, but that's about it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on November 12, 2021, 05:16:39 AM

Had my second jab today. Went to Harvey Norman, Goody Guys and Kmart to celebrate mah new freedumbs.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Dirty Big Yoke on November 15, 2021, 06:42:47 PM

Got my 2nd win in Noita.  8)

One of the most addictive games ever.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 16, 2021, 07:36:14 PM

Got my trailer backed into the jobsite on the first try

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 16, 2021, 10:02:33 PM

This lounge lizard stuff could be of benefit for the rest of the pandemic....

Right now, I wish I could go to the cinema and see that film called Belfast.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on November 18, 2021, 09:40:34 PM

Sugarbutt fired up the air compressor today. :GA:  The sound of that thing completely freaks me out, but I still seized the moment to clean keyboards. :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 18, 2021, 11:34:03 PM

That midget in the yellow jacket wasn't as demanding today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 19, 2021, 04:04:45 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on November 18, 2021, 09:40:34 PM

Sugarbutt fired up the air compressor today. :GA:  The sound of that thing completely freaks me out, but I still seized the moment to clean keyboards. :2thumbsup:

They're noisy as hell. Mine is extra noisy these days - I think it's dying.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on November 19, 2021, 07:04:53 PM

Quote from: odeon on November 19, 2021, 04:04:45 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on November 18, 2021, 09:40:34 PM

Sugarbutt fired up the air compressor today. :GA:  The sound of that thing completely freaks me out, but I still seized the moment to clean keyboards. :2thumbsup:

They're noisy as hell. Mine is extra noisy these days - I think it's dying.

It's especially awful when it's quiet but still on, then it loses enough pressure to sudenly start back up again and startles the crap out of me.  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Dirty Big Yoke on November 20, 2021, 02:37:39 PM

Scrubbed and sanitised my bedroom, beyond the usual change bedsheets/hoover carpet.

It smells like a hospital in here.  :2thumbsup:

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Post by: rock hound on November 20, 2021, 10:19:04 PM

Got out of work with my sanity intact.  It was a near thing!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 21, 2021, 01:45:35 AM

I went to the Salvos Christmas lunch today. It was nice because we were the only big function happening and I knew almost everyone there. The food was delicious, I had a fish burger with chips and fruit tart and ice cream for dessert.

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Post by: Dirty Big Yoke on November 23, 2021, 08:25:49 AM

Met up with a friend of mine at the park.  8)

Also technically not today, but I also made more friends last night.

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Post by: odeon on November 26, 2021, 04:19:52 PM

Figured out a nice solution to a client issue. All I have to do now is to write the bloody code.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on November 26, 2021, 04:22:19 PM

Having some Burgundy wine!  After a few months of abstinence, it tastes good! :wine:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 26, 2021, 04:32:03 PM

Reminds me I need another beer. :beergrin:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Dirty Big Yoke on November 26, 2021, 04:40:09 PM

Got scooter back, with a nice solid tyre installed on the back. No more worry of punctures anymore!

Came at the expense of being told off on the train home - apparently I have to have it folded in the luggage compartment, not out of people's way or in the bike compartment. Nobody told me this for months.  :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on December 16, 2021, 04:55:31 AM

My brother decided to come down from QLD for xmas after all :santa:

He just has to get a PCR test done within 72 hours prior to crossing the border to get home again. At the moment anyway (border rules are subject to change).

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 17, 2021, 01:21:55 AM

My daughter got a job

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 17, 2021, 01:45:00 PM

I'm taking a Lyft to work...

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 17, 2021, 01:45:59 PM

Quote from: Genesis on December 17, 2021, 01:45:00 PM

I'm taking a Lyft to work...

One step of independence from Mom and/or Dad and/or family friends taking me to work. (even though it doesn't feel like independence -_- )

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 17, 2021, 07:58:51 PM

Quote from: Parts on December 17, 2021, 01:21:55 AM

My daughter got a job

Good on her!  :congrats:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 18, 2021, 02:42:58 PM

Quote from: Parts on December 17, 2021, 01:21:55 AM

My daughter got a job

Congrats! What does she do now?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Dirty Big Yoke on December 19, 2021, 07:16:18 PM

Emma got her ESA payment and my payday is today. It's nice to have a bit of money again.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on December 24, 2021, 06:47:26 AM

Not today but yesterday: My brother arrived for xmas.

Don't know how he's going to get back across the border though. I mean, he won't get negative results back within 72 hours I reckon, and he'll have to spend hours waiting in line to get tested :zombiefuck:.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 24, 2021, 04:55:42 PM

Defintely getting myself a stash of Baklava the next time I go to Greektown.

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Post by: rock hound on December 25, 2021, 01:18:00 PM

As some of you know, I am notoriously hard to buy for on birthdays and xmas.  I'm not a very materialistic guy wanting the latest, the biggest and the super duperiest (yes, I made that word up) stuff.  For the most part, I have everything I need and appreciate everything I have.  So this year I surprised Carla by saying I wanted a really good powerful telescope.  For stargazing and wildlife/scenery spotting.  I have always had a fascination for optical gear.  I have a zoom binoculars which I love.  Unfortunately, when I use them, my hand gets quivery.  So, long story short, Carla got me a 30-90X spotting scope and tripod.  I love it.  Can't wait for clear nights or seeing birds and other wildlife super close.  The fun part was trying to follow the directions to put telescope on tripod.  The printed directions were vague to say the least.  Fortunately, Carlas OCD kicked in and she went online for the solution.  Today is crappy weather, but, with some experimentation I can see trees and a rock wall about a hundred yards away like I am almost next to them.  Looking forward to a clear night!   :book: :headbang:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 25, 2021, 07:24:54 PM

Good Christmas so far... just a wee bit tired at the moment, might read more of the Brent Spiner book I was given for Christmas.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on December 25, 2021, 08:26:18 PM

I had a good Christmas too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on December 26, 2021, 04:38:01 AM

I also had a good Christmas. The guys seemed to really like their gifts. :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 26, 2021, 09:52:38 AM

Had a really good Christmas, too, apart from the headache that is now in full bloom.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 26, 2021, 07:06:50 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 26, 2021, 09:52:38 AM

Had a really good Christmas, too, apart from the headache that is now in full bloom.

I had a headache all day Christmas Day as well. I think it was a tension headache!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 28, 2021, 09:46:03 AM

An elderly couple were killed in an accident and found themselves being given a tour of heaven by Saint Peter. "Here is your oceanside condo, over there are the tennis courts, swimming pool, and two golf courses. If you need any refreshments, just stop by any of the many bars located throughout the area."

"Heck, Gloria," the old man hissed when Saint Peter walked off, "we could have been here ten years ago if you hadn't heard about all that stupid oat bran, wheat germ, and low-fat diets!"

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 31, 2021, 05:08:03 PM

Sister came for a visit, though I couldn't think of what to say in conversation when all of us were at the table.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Queen Victoria on January 02, 2022, 10:32:34 AM

A businessman boarded a flight and was lucky enough to be seated next to an absolutely gorgeous woman...... They exchange brief hellos and he noticed she is reading a manual about sexual statistics. He asks her about it and she replied, "This is a very interesting book about sexual statistics. It identifies that American Indians have the longest average penis and Polish men have the biggest average diameter. By the way, my name is Jill. What's yours?" "Tonto Kawalski, nice to meet you."

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 02, 2022, 05:53:08 PM

Booster shot sickness is finally going away

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 12, 2022, 05:27:00 PM

Finished the house I was working on

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on January 21, 2022, 11:16:09 AM

Woke around four am so the weekly laundry was almost done before logging in for work.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 21, 2022, 01:18:12 PM

We have a sewer again.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on February 19, 2022, 06:50:54 PM

Sugarbutt and I went out together and got our hairs cut. We never go anywhere anymore, so it was like hawt date.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 20, 2022, 12:58:08 PM

Found a Cabela's gift card in a parking lot that had $73 still on it

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on February 20, 2022, 01:40:58 PM

Quote from: Parts on February 20, 2022, 12:58:08 PM

Found a Cabela's gift card in a parking lot that had $73 still on it

Finders Keepers!   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on February 21, 2022, 09:46:24 PM

Quote from: Parts on February 20, 2022, 12:58:08 PM

Found a Cabela's gift card in a parking lot that had $73 still on it

What are you going to get with your newfound loot?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 22, 2022, 07:30:50 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on February 21, 2022, 09:46:24 PM

Quote from: Parts on February 20, 2022, 12:58:08 PM

Found a Cabela's gift card in a parking lot that had $73 still on it

What are you going to get with your newfound loot?  :orly:

It paid for some of my new pair of shoes

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on February 23, 2022, 05:33:34 AM

Quote from: Parts on February 22, 2022, 07:30:50 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on February 21, 2022, 09:46:24 PM

Quote from: Parts on February 20, 2022, 12:58:08 PM

Found a Cabela's gift card in a parking lot that had $73 still on it

What are you going to get with your newfound loot?  :orly:

It paid for some of my new pair of shoes

 :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on February 23, 2022, 07:50:49 PM

Made my process with Physical Therapy go up to 60%

I'm happy about that to be honest...

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on February 23, 2022, 08:12:57 PM

That's actually pretty good.

Assuming your co-pay is better for you?

 Maybe I don't get it. But, if it's better for you then we all benefit. That is just how life works, mostly.



Sorry for all the typos I miss. Still typuing one handed. Booboo and all.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on February 23, 2022, 08:28:07 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on February 23, 2022, 08:12:57 PM

That's actually pretty good.

Assuming your co-pay is better for you?

 Maybe I don't get it. But, if it's better for you then we all benefit. That is just how life works, mostly.



Sorry for all the typos I miss. Still typuing one handed. Booboo and all.

I have medicaid... so I don't have a co-pay (yet)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on February 23, 2022, 08:58:33 PM

Quote from: Genesis on February 23, 2022, 08:28:07 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on February 23, 2022, 08:12:57 PM

That's actually pretty good.

Assuming your co-pay is better for you?

 Maybe I don't get it. But, if it's better for you then we all benefit. That is just how life works, mostly.



Sorry for all the typos I miss. Still typuing one handed. Booboo and all.

I have medicaid... so I don't have a co-pay (yet)

Yeah, so that's even better!

Getting anything more from gov.com is always a WIN!
 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on February 23, 2022, 09:41:38 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on February 23, 2022, 08:58:33 PM

Quote from: Genesis on February 23, 2022, 08:28:07 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on February 23, 2022, 08:12:57 PM

That's actually pretty good.

Assuming your co-pay is better for you?

 Maybe I don't get it. But, if it's better for you then we all benefit. That is just how life works, mostly.



Sorry for all the typos I miss. Still typuing one handed. Booboo and all.

I have medicaid... so I don't have a co-pay (yet)

Yeah, so that's even better!

Getting anything more from gov.com is always a WIN!
 :2thumbsup:

Even if Medicare for All was plausible with the GOP as it is with AOC and some of the Democrats... it would be handy, kinda like the healthcare set-up in Israel but different.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on February 25, 2022, 05:26:31 PM

Quote from: Jack on January 21, 2022, 11:16:09 AM

Woke around four am so the weekly laundry was almost done before logging in for work.

This again. Am starting to appreciate the sleep cycle change.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 27, 2022, 10:08:05 AM

I have to wake up at 3.30 tomorrow, which definitely isn't good news. >:(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on February 27, 2022, 01:07:18 PM

:laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 28, 2022, 11:55:16 PM

Plumber came and fixed the toilet. It was meant to be tomorrow but he rang me and asked if it was ok to be done today. I said yes and so it was done. The pump and the hose from the toilet to the tap was replaced. I was hoping the whole cistern would be replaced because it looks old and crappy. But oh well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 01, 2022, 04:58:06 AM

 :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 01, 2022, 07:19:34 PM

I didn't run into the Troll and the Automaton!!!!

Oh shit....

 :hide:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 01, 2022, 07:31:16 PM

Started feeling much better from my Covid fog.  Was approved for my Covid leave today at walmart.  Actually felt like I had energy to do what needed to be done.  Finally getting down to the end of a fascinating, but, excrutiatingly detailed bio of Oscar Wilde.  And doing a time consuming but enjoyable craft project.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on March 02, 2022, 08:48:40 PM

This was yesterday, but we finally got home from QLD. We didn't even have to unpack the snorkelling kit once during the voyage :P
We managed to get from Bundaberg to Brisbane on Sunday (god knows how), then Brisbane to home in NSW yesterday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 02, 2022, 08:54:45 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on March 02, 2022, 08:48:40 PM

This was yesterday, but we finally got home from QLD. We didn't even have to unpack the snorkelling kit once during the voyage :P
We managed to get from Bundaberg to Brisbane on Sunday (god knows how), then Brisbane to home in NSW yesterday.

My uncle lives in Toowoomba and he lives on a hill so his house isn't flooded but he said the roads are cut off all round.

That's quite amazing that you got home ok. There's more storms and rain forecast for northern NSW. Are your cats and house ok?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on March 02, 2022, 09:12:04 PM

Quote from: renaeden on March 02, 2022, 08:54:45 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on March 02, 2022, 08:48:40 PM

This was yesterday, but we finally got home from QLD. We didn't even have to unpack the snorkelling kit once during the voyage :P
We managed to get from Bundaberg to Brisbane on Sunday (god knows how), then Brisbane to home in NSW yesterday.

My uncle lives in Toowoomba and he lives on a hill so his house isn't flooded but he said the roads are cut off all round.

That's quite amazing that you got home ok. There's more storms and rain forecast for northern NSW. Are your cats and house ok?

Ipswich to Toowoomba looks open now. We went from Brisbane to Warwick and home via the New England Hwy, because the Pacific Hwy is shut from like Tweed to Grafton  :zombiefuck:
My brother helped navigate us from Bundy to Brisbane and around Gympie, Caboolture and Morayfield. It seemed like every road we were directed down just lead to another flooded road. I lost count of how many times we had to look at the QLD traffic map to find another way.

My place is ok and up high. I left it all locked up tight, and the court yard is as I left it so I guess there wasn't any wild weather while I was away.
My younger cat stinks like a cat that's been in really bad fights, so I'm not sure what happened during his little holiday. I have this cavity above my fridge that he likes to jump up into and hide when he's stressed so he's been jumping up into there a fair bit today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 04, 2022, 02:48:11 PM

Well, my eternal habit of ground scanning for lost objects paid off again.  In the Newington NH walmart parking lot, I saw a dime......found money.....yay me!  So I get to it and it looks different from the regular dimes.  Turns out to be a 1944 silver Mercury Head dime.   I haven't seen one of those since I sold my childhood coin collection 20 years or so ago.  It now resides with the 1902 Indian Head penny I got in change at a store and the 2 Lincoln pennies from 1955 S & D mint marks, that I also found.  Simple pleasures are always welcome!    8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 04, 2022, 08:38:20 PM

1955?  Cool, isn't that your birth year? I know it's mine. But a Mercury dime on the ground has got to be a first in decades. Those are worth more than a dime, as you  know, but the value is more than a buck just for the silver content in any condition. If you can grade it still, it could be worth more in Fine or better condition.
Great find!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 05, 2022, 01:48:33 AM

I met up with my client downtown who I haven't seen in a month. His schedule has been messed around recently due to heart surgery and online coursework. So I'm going to start working for him again in two weeks' time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 07, 2022, 04:11:00 PM

Heart surgery seems like a good excuse. Just sayin'.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 07, 2022, 04:13:06 PM

Finally got stuff done at work, thanks to delegating things. I recently gave a lot of work to a new starter who was eager enough for the inevitable pain with that particular customer.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 07, 2022, 04:14:56 PM

Had some revelations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 10, 2022, 12:20:51 PM

I never thought I would live to say this........YAY, I'm back on my normal walmart schedule.  After all the hoop jumping and near VEI 8 eruptions, the Chaos of Covid is over.  Now I can be my normal, lovable, easily irritated, crusty curmudgeon self.   :orly: :zombiefuck: :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 11, 2022, 01:23:03 PM

NOT MY PIC, but just had to share this image one my other online "friends" posted.  Just an amazing shot of her tube amp glowing in the dark its own way.

Said she was listening to AC/DC for a one minute long exposure.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 11, 2022, 09:59:15 PM

No bouts of overthinking depression.... even if I am still recovering from a head cold -__- cheeky bastard!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 16, 2022, 11:48:49 AM

Recveived four large boxes of absorption panels to help with my very lively listening room. This will help me get started with controling my listening room.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 16, 2022, 12:33:52 PM

 :plus: for the picture you posted, DD.

I thought I had a bug to fix but it turns out the client doesn't know how to read instructions. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 16, 2022, 09:41:23 PM

^ Not many choose to read. I don't understand that. Honestly, I can't look at anything without reading it.
Glad you liked the pic! Tubes are awesome.

Went to the doctor, got my third cast off today and had a bunch of xrays. Now I will wear a removable brace for another month. Progress is good and I will begin physical therapy to rebuild strength in my arm on Monday, three times/week for a month.
Thankfully, our insurance covers all that, too. I have been doing what I can and I expect to "graduate" in less than one month.

I have missed being able to wash my hair with both hands. Don't think that's a big deal? Try it for a couple of months, then report!
 :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on March 19, 2022, 02:05:02 PM

New work uniform shirt is a laundry success. No shrinking and surprisingly wrinkle free enough to probably get away without any ironing. Will definitely get more.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 19, 2022, 03:48:19 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on March 16, 2022, 09:41:23 PM

I have missed being able to wash my hair with both hands. Don't think that's a big deal? Try it for a couple of months, then report!
 :lol1:

Did surgery on my right wrist a few years ago - carpal tunnel. I know exactly what you mean.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 19, 2022, 03:49:02 PM

Nice spring weather and a round of golf with a friend.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 19, 2022, 03:56:07 PM

 :dunno: I woke up early (damn!)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on March 20, 2022, 06:50:37 AM

Hazelnut coffee. The youngest and I usually both drink hazelnut, but there was regular coffee in the cabinet for guests. Decided to use it up since there have been no guests for so long, to avoid it going bad. Today was the first cup of hazelnut in three weeks. Husband remarked this morning the coffee smelled really good. Told him, I know and I'm so happy about it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 20, 2022, 07:09:15 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 19, 2022, 03:48:19 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on March 16, 2022, 09:41:23 PM

I have missed being able to wash my hair with both hands. Don't think that's a big deal? Try it for a couple of months, then report!
 :lol1:

Did surgery on my right wrist a few years ago - carpal tunnel. I know exactly what you mean.

odeon, how was your recovery from that surgery? Asking because Kayleigh may have her carpal tunnel syndrome fixed in the near future. Wondering if she will have to keep from playing video games while recovering.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 20, 2022, 12:26:15 PM

Not a lot has happened today, I'll probably have a so so day to report... because my shift is in about 1 hour 24 minutes from now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 20, 2022, 01:30:02 PM

Finally got a walk in and picked up some trash on my adopted roadway.  Got a nice, "thank you" from a guy out on his bicycle.  Kind sincere words are always appreciated.  Last year, I found a small side table that somebody threw out for the trash.  It's been in our garage all winter.  Took a good look at it outside to evaluate if it was worth saving and rehabbing.......I am cautiously optimistic.   :apondering:  It is in the main room now out of the way to get a thorough drying out!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 09, 2022, 01:04:33 PM

Quote from: renaeden on March 20, 2022, 07:09:15 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 19, 2022, 03:48:19 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on March 16, 2022, 09:41:23 PM

I have missed being able to wash my hair with both hands. Don't think that's a big deal? Try it for a couple of months, then report!
 :lol1:

Did surgery on my right wrist a few years ago - carpal tunnel. I know exactly what you mean.

odeon, how was your recovery from that surgery? Asking because Kayleigh may have her carpal tunnel syndrome fixed in the near future. Wondering if she will have to keep from playing video games while recovering.

Yes, she will - guessing that caused her problems to begin with. That, and graphical user interfaces.

I found that typing was OK fairly early on, but using a mouse wasn't. Full recovery took me several years - the nerve endings can take a very long time to reconnect. I couldn't do the Vulcan salute for a year and a half because the signals wouldn't go through.

Also, I had to train my brain to recognise various tactile sensations again, too. You can't hurry nerve regrowth but you can teach the brain to understand the signals you get.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 09, 2022, 01:09:47 PM

BTW - it's a great opportunity to teach yourself every possible keyboard shortcut there is. People usually get carpal tunnel syndrome and similar issues because of how they handle the mouse and the keyboard, so undoing some of those habits is a good idea.

Similarly, posture is very important when at your desk, typing away. Neck problems, back pain, etc, are common, too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 09, 2022, 07:36:28 PM

Noticed Pluto TV added a Stargate channel

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 14, 2022, 07:19:47 PM

odeon, Kayleigh has taught me a few keyboard shortcuts, heh. I especially like Ctrl Z.

The surgeon she saw on Wednesday said that she should come back in six months to see how she's going then. So no surgery. Yet. Kayleigh's dad and sister have both had the surgery and come through it fine. So Kayleigh says.

Something good today - my nephew had his Marchout Parade in the army. I'm quite proud, Mum posted four photos on messenger. He was awarded for his Marksmanship, good on him.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 14, 2022, 07:56:58 PM

Out of curiosity what happens with Ctrl Z?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 14, 2022, 09:11:13 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 09, 2022, 01:04:33 PM

Also, I had to train my brain to recognise various tactile sensations again, too. You can't hurry nerve regrowth but you can teach the brain to understand the signals you get.

That's really interesting, what did things feel like when you were doing that? Was it like you could touch a texture and not be able to tell what kind of texture it was without looking?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 15, 2022, 03:29:53 AM

Quote from: rock hound on April 14, 2022, 07:56:58 PM

Out of curiosity what happens with Ctrl Z?

It means Undo your last action. I used it a lot at uni when learning how to make tables in Word. I'd stuff it up, Ctrl Z and presto! Mistake undone.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 15, 2022, 06:54:37 AM

Quote from: renaeden on April 15, 2022, 03:29:53 AM

Quote from: rock hound on April 14, 2022, 07:56:58 PM

Out of curiosity what happens with Ctrl Z?

It means Undo your last action. I used it a lot at uni when learning how to make tables in Word. I'd stuff it up, Ctrl Z and presto! Mistake undone.

Ah, thanks!   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 15, 2022, 01:00:26 PM

The hardware guy was at the flea market and I got a bunch of sanding discs

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 15, 2022, 02:19:37 PM

Went out for today... now I just want to stay home

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 15, 2022, 02:22:27 PM

Got my creaky carcass on my bicycle and went for a couple of miles near our old place.  Quite a bit of face wind, which is always pleasant to peddle against....NOT.  But, the sun was bright and warm, so if I had to I walked my bike thru areas that my legs were not feeling like pushing pedals.  Got home had lunch, my version of fish and chips.  Just finished my brandy and coming to the end of a book.   But, I went to the bookstore and bought another bagful to add to my "to be read pile".   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on April 15, 2022, 06:41:11 PM

Quote from: Genesis on April 15, 2022, 02:19:37 PM

Went out for today... now I just want to stay home

Me too. It's not big grocery week so I only needed to pick up a couple of things. I did that early and now I don't have to go anywhere all weekend.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 15, 2022, 07:03:07 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on April 15, 2022, 06:41:11 PM

Quote from: Genesis on April 15, 2022, 02:19:37 PM

Went out for today... now I just want to stay home

Me too. It's not big grocery week so I only needed to pick up a couple of things. I did that early and now I don't have to go anywhere all weekend.  :2thumbsup:

Today was a lazy fun day, tomorrow I'm getting a haircut, and Sunday I have to work for 8 hours -__-

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on April 21, 2022, 03:58:34 PM

Taco Night.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 21, 2022, 04:03:21 PM

Quote from: renaeden on April 14, 2022, 07:19:47 PM

odeon, Kayleigh has taught me a few keyboard shortcuts, heh. I especially like Ctrl Z.

The surgeon she saw on Wednesday said that she should come back in six months to see how she's going then. So no surgery. Yet. Kayleigh's dad and sister have both had the surgery and come through it fine. So Kayleigh says.

Something good today - my nephew had his Marchout Parade in the army. I'm quite proud, Mum posted four photos on messenger. He was awarded for his Marksmanship, good on him.

Some people will have more carpal tunnel probs than others. A genetic thing, I guess. I have a friend who never took care of himself, never thought twice about how he types, how he sits, how often he takes breaks. He's never had a single issue with his wrists or shoulders or anything.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 21, 2022, 04:09:00 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 14, 2022, 09:11:13 PM

Quote from: odeon on April 09, 2022, 01:04:33 PM

Also, I had to train my brain to recognise various tactile sensations again, too. You can't hurry nerve regrowth but you can teach the brain to understand the signals you get.

That's really interesting, what did things feel like when you were doing that? Was it like you could touch a texture and not be able to tell what kind of texture it was without looking?

Yes, pretty much. Without looking, touching was very different. The therapist would hand me various pieces of fabric to train my senses. I still have them.

It was the same with moving the fingers - they wouldn't obey me at first so the Vulcan salute was out, and I had to look at the fingers and see what I was doing. Took forever and was really weird.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on April 22, 2022, 06:55:14 PM

The gardenias are blooming.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 22, 2022, 08:14:49 PM

Kind of jealous.
Can't really grow gardenias here without some crazy-level of tending.
With the soil here, it is difficult to keep the pH low enough for gardenias and also rhododendrons, which I love!
Not bad at all for any plant that is OK with near 7pH, but forget those requiring around 6pH.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 22, 2022, 09:07:03 PM

I finished, yesterday, some corner bass traps. Kind of an internet conglomeration, many sites for info gathering.

I used 705 material to form curved front corner traps. Now I have them floor to ceiling in my front wall corners. A number of 703 wall hangers placed on the front wall and one side of the room where a blank wall used to be.
Other side is all windows with fancy blinds and thick drapes.
Floor is half inch jute pad (EXPENSIVE, these days) with fake wool unbacked woven rug over it.
 
Yet to address the ceiling ...

It is actually sounding really good in here at this early stage.

Switched out my open back 2-15" plus 8"speakers for now. Just using the Yamaha NS-5 studio monitors powered by McIntosh MC2500 via tube preamp. Source is either a tube output modified Sony 385 CD player or a Dual 604 turntable. Sometimes my old kludged music server, running XP, but NOT connected to the internet.

I have managed to rid my space of all the extra gear sitting around in the way, unused.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on April 26, 2022, 09:00:48 AM

I'm posting from my new computer (managed to get Win 10 on it thursday night).
Couldn't remember the password for here till today (damn saved passwords making me forget them lol)

I would have posted from work in my absence these past few weeks but the work computer seems to block this site based on the keyword "sex"  :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 26, 2022, 07:20:34 PM

Good to see you, Charlotte. :)

New computer, yay!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 26, 2022, 09:10:53 PM

So my schedule for working at walmart was 3-7 pm.........what's good about it?   I cleaned my area, grabbed my equipment and was headed out at 7 pm.  My supervisor comes out to the back and says, "There's still more stuff to be done out on the floor!".  So I respond, truthfully, "My shift just ended!"  She goes "oh".    :laugh:  Just another shithead who thinks I am dumb and stupid in this bloody world.  If it's on the computer schedule, that's what I work, no more no less.  This same supervisor has yelled at me, mocked me and derided me..............no apology, nothing.  I owe her nothing!  I owe walmart nothing, I go in, do my job and go home.  And eat a delicious supper and have some wine.  Life is good when I hold the boundaries firm. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 26, 2022, 09:13:42 PM

It was a lot easier today...

when overthinking isn't involved, you know it's a good day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 26, 2022, 11:39:01 PM

I made an appointment for respiratory tests with barely a problem. I hate making phone calls but I had to do it. They won't be happening until late May.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 27, 2022, 05:58:48 AM

Quote from: rock hound on April 26, 2022, 09:10:53 PM

Life is good when I hold the boundaries firm.

I wish someone could explain that to our current administration.
1.3 million illegals entering the country since January is not a firm boundary.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on April 27, 2022, 08:58:16 AM

Quote from: rock hound on April 26, 2022, 09:10:53 PM

So my schedule for working at walmart was 3-7 pm.........what's good about it?   I cleaned my area, grabbed my equipment and was headed out at 7 pm.  My supervisor comes out to the back and says, "There's still more stuff to be done out on the floor!".  So I respond, truthfully, "My shift just ended!"  She goes "oh".    :laugh:  Just another shithead who thinks I am dumb and stupid in this bloody world.  If it's on the computer schedule, that's what I work, no more no less.  This same supervisor has yelled at me, mocked me and derided me..............no apology, nothing.  I owe her nothing!  I owe walmart nothing, I go in, do my job and go home.  And eat a delicious supper and have some wine.  Life is good when I hold the boundaries firm.

This.

The more you give, the more they want.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 27, 2022, 09:46:37 AM

32 years ago, I met the love of my life!  31 years ago today, we sealed the deal.  I survived my worst life, now I'm living my best life.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 27, 2022, 11:08:37 AM

Congratulations and Happy Anniversary, Oz!!

Nothing better in life than sharing it with the right person.


We had our 30th last month. We set it for the first day of spring that year. A new beginning for both of us.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 27, 2022, 02:11:48 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 26, 2022, 09:10:53 PM

So my schedule for working at walmart was 3-7 pm.........what's good about it?   I cleaned my area, grabbed my equipment and was headed out at 7 pm.  My supervisor comes out to the back and says, "There's still more stuff to be done out on the floor!".  So I respond, truthfully, "My shift just ended!"  She goes "oh".    :laugh:  Just another shithead who thinks I am dumb and stupid in this bloody world.  If it's on the computer schedule, that's what I work, no more no less.  This same supervisor has yelled at me, mocked me and derided me..............no apology, nothing.  I owe her nothing!  I owe walmart nothing, I go in, do my job and go home.  And eat a delicious supper and have some wine.  Life is good when I hold the boundaries firm.

So I'm not the only one that tries to sneak out after my shift is about to be over?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 27, 2022, 04:03:16 PM

Quote from: Genesis on April 27, 2022, 02:11:48 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 26, 2022, 09:10:53 PM

So my schedule for working at walmart was 3-7 pm.........what's good about it?   I cleaned my area, grabbed my equipment and was headed out at 7 pm.  My supervisor comes out to the back and says, "There's still more stuff to be done out on the floor!".  So I respond, truthfully, "My shift just ended!"  She goes "oh".    :laugh:  Just another shithead who thinks I am dumb and stupid in this bloody world.  If it's on the computer schedule, that's what I work, no more no less.  This same supervisor has yelled at me, mocked me and derided me..............no apology, nothing.  I owe her nothing!  I owe walmart nothing, I go in, do my job and go home.  And eat a delicious supper and have some wine.  Life is good when I hold the boundaries firm.

So I'm not the only one that tries to sneak out after my shift is about to be over?

Ok, let me put this BLUNTLY. I was not trying to sneak out.  It was 5 minutes before my shift ended, I was cleaning up and helping others in my crew by helping them clean up.  So I cleaned up and was heading out, the bitch supervisor was coming back to deal with the frozen/dairy truck delivery.  She may have been stressed, but, considering her past history with me, she has lost my trust (sort of like some douchebags here) and I could care less about her stress.  I am not a sneak......I am a bull in a china shop when it comes to my shift ending and I will run over anybody who gets between me and the exit door.  And I can tell you honestly, I really have to restrain myself from the urge to choke slam any body who works there who gets in my way.  Especially those who work on the night shift. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 27, 2022, 06:32:21 PM

Happy anniversaries, DirtDawg and rock hound. :heart:

It's hard to believe that Kayleigh and I have been married for 15 years.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 27, 2022, 08:17:12 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 27, 2022, 04:03:16 PM

So I'm not the only one that tries to sneak out after my shift is about to be over?

Ok, let me put this BLUNTLY. I was not trying to sneak out.  It was 5 minutes before my shift ended, I was cleaning up and helping others in my crew by helping them clean up.  So I cleaned up and was heading out, the bitch supervisor was coming back to deal with the frozen/dairy truck delivery.  She may have been stressed, but, considering her past history with me, she has lost my trust (sort of like some douchebags here) and I could care less about her stress.  I am not a sneak......I am a bull in a china shop when it comes to my shift ending and I will run over anybody who gets between me and the exit door.  And I can tell you honestly, I really have to restrain myself from the urge to choke slam any body who works there who gets in my way.  Especially those who work on the night shift.
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I'm more of a gimp when getting out the exit door... it sucks, but it happens .___.

Quote from: renaeden on April 27, 2022, 06:32:21 PM

Happy anniversaries, DirtDawg and rock hound. :heart:

It's hard to believe that Kayleigh and I have been married for 15 years.

^_^ congratulations!!!!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on April 28, 2022, 04:59:53 AM

Stayed fine and frisky for another day.

Sitting at my desk being ignored by colleagues every day has its perks :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 28, 2022, 07:29:37 PM

^ That's good (the part about you being well, that is).

Good things happened yesterday but I didn't write about them last night. I now have cordial, huzzah! We don't have to wear masks at work from today, huzzah!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 28, 2022, 07:42:12 PM

For our anniversary, and at my request, Carla bought me a taco holder/baker made of stainless steel.  I've been searching stores for them to use with pita pockets and turkey oven sandwiches.  So today I made turkey oven sandwiches in pita pockets and it was a success...BIG TIME.  Carla found them on amazon.  My previous problems have always been leaning them against the sides of bread pans and having them fall over or clumsily trying to fill them as I went along.  The holders held the pita pockets very well and I could fill them with little effort and they stood up perfectly as they were packed and baked.  YUM  Easy clean up too.  I love it when a plan comes together with less mess and stress.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 29, 2022, 07:32:45 AM

Quote from: renaeden on April 27, 2022, 06:32:21 PM

Happy anniversaries, DirtDawg and rock hound. :heart:

It's hard to believe that Kayleigh and I have been married for 15 years.

Thank You.

Fifteen is also a really BIG number.

Congrats to you as well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 29, 2022, 07:41:45 AM

Quote from: Genesis on April 27, 2022, 08:17:12 PM

Quote from: rock hound on April 27, 2022, 04:03:16 PM

So I'm not the only one that tries to sneak out after my shift is about to be over?

.....I am a bull in a china shop when it comes to my shift ending and I will run over anybody who gets between me and the exit door.  And I can tell you honestly, I really have to restrain myself from the urge to choke slam any body who works there who gets in my way.  Especially those who work on the night shift.

Quote from: renaeden on April 27, 2022, 06:32:21 PM

Happy anniversaries, DirtDawg and rock hound. :heart:

It's hard to believe that Kayleigh and I have been married for 15 years.

Quote

^_^ congratulations!!!!!

Thanks, G.

BTW, it is also a part of your job to GO when your shift is over. Getting past all who want to do one last, often after you have already clocked out, is just another annoying part of the job.

Trying to be prompt and somewhat graceful as you socialize your way out the door can take too much time when thumbing your nose at a horrible day.
Start with the thumbing of the nose maybe?

 :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 29, 2022, 10:12:29 AM

Waiting for my son to complete his job interview, I stopped at the Locals Market, all Indiana, all the time, food and goods market.

Bought some brats and some Amish hard "extra sharp" white variety cheddar cheese. Tasted before purchase and WOW, it is almost crumbly, like a high quality parmesian, but flavor that is so over the top!
I bought four pounds.

Having a grilled cheese for lunch, SOON!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 29, 2022, 10:49:45 AM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on April 28, 2022, 04:59:53 AM

Stayed fine and frisky for another day.

Sitting at my desk being ignored by colleagues every day has its perks :zoinks:

Perks?

Understatement of the month, I'd say! That adds up to a better day than yesterday quite often

Hope your dodgy leadership can keep their positive asses home for a while longer. Bastards!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 30, 2022, 12:56:12 PM

Played golf with my doctor friend. We're both horrible players but our rounds are relaxing and full of word games and misdirected commentary.

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Post by: Genesis on April 30, 2022, 02:30:58 PM

Basically learned that Cheat Days are a thing  :o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 30, 2022, 09:13:02 PM

Survived a full shift at walmart, no thanks to the "gods of upper mgmt."

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on May 05, 2022, 09:05:30 AM

The covid threat at work is easing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 05, 2022, 10:55:44 AM

A great weather day and Carla doesn't have to in to work for a half day!   8)

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Post by: DirtDawg on May 05, 2022, 02:57:59 PM

Rainy, but my kids and I went to three antique shops, today.

Interestingly, they both bought something for the other one. I am proud!
 
I did not buy anything except for myself. Thought many times, "My sweet wife would love that!"  and scoffed at the pricing. I only bought a few Deutsche Grammophon albums.
I guess that makes me the heel.

Now I feel I owe her some chocolate, even though she does not know anything about this day. She likes chocolate, but the good kind is what she really likes. Not something from the drug store or anything.
I'll have to go back to the Indiana Shop and get her some Amish chocolate butter fudge, soon.
I'll get some for everyone.
 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 05, 2022, 04:40:30 PM

Taco night. :woohoo: We have taco night twice per month, so it was totally coincidental this taco night fell on Cinco de Mayo but it was still awesome.  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 06, 2022, 06:41:57 PM

It seems like my son has a job again.
Starting soon.

He has been without employment since October. It's been a long time coming, but the hard times might be over for him.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 16, 2022, 02:52:05 PM

Oddest thing has been going on at my wife's work.

She works for UPS and does Air, Overnight, Dropboxes and such as businesses close for the day. Businesses often have last minute Ground shipments that she picks up along with the Overnight parcels.
Doesn't seem like much of a difference to us normal people, but to The Union, Ground Drivers get paid a bit more than Air Drivers.
So every time an Air Driver picks up a Ground shipment, they are supposed to be paid Ground rate for the entire day.

It came up in an audit that my wife has her "employee numbers" on some Ground shipments almost every day. Her boss is mainly looking to cover his ass, but he has put in for more auditing, going back to January of LAST year. That's is as far back as they can go with these "employee numbers" tied to shipments, suppposedly.

Sorry if that sounds like a lot of rambling, but it seems that they are going to pay some back wages owed to her, due to the Ground shipments she has been picking up.
It is not much for one day, but adding up eighteen or twenty something dollars per day, going back almost a year and a half could turn out to be a substantial check they still owe her.

She was asked today to come in an hour early to discuss how she wants the funds dolled out to her. They really don't want to just write her a four or five thousand dollar check today.
I have a feeling that the bosses will try to negotiate some extra vacation time for her, instead of a huge outlay of dollars.

I suggested that she call her Union rep immediately and get him in on the meeting as well.  UPS is being all "SWEET" to her, trying to handle this without involving the Union.
She reminded me that she is not the only Air Driver that some of this might benefit. They really want this to go away quietly.

Her Union rep needs to be there for her part of the resolution!

Either way it all comes out, she is going to get an extra paycheck this week.
So...

:woohoo:

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Post by: rock hound on May 18, 2022, 01:33:55 PM

Finished my porch table, made from scrap lumber dumped on the side of the road.  The top is a slab of slate with an indentation that resembles a foot print.  And on top of the slab I put a ceramic Black Bear that Carla bought me a few years ago.  A deer antler that I found in the woods when we lived in Fryeburg Maine and a small Black Bear figure to keep the big Bear company.  Later I took a long walk to the Post Office for some stamps.  Along the way, I stopped and got my fill of that wonderful Lilac scent as they are now blooming everywhere.  A beautiful sun shiny day to do so.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 18, 2022, 01:52:44 PM

The search for a new job is just another step closer for me to get out of Walmart  :o

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Post by: rock hound on May 18, 2022, 04:08:06 PM

Quote from: Genesis on May 18, 2022, 01:52:44 PM

The search for a new job is just another step closer for me to get out of Walmart  :o

I'm already working on my exit strategy. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 18, 2022, 05:23:34 PM

Quote from: rock hound on May 18, 2022, 04:08:06 PM

Quote from: Genesis on May 18, 2022, 01:52:44 PM

The search for a new job is just another step closer for me to get out of Walmart  :o

I'm already working on my exit strategy.

Good luck with that... I'll try to do mine without causing a big scene and doing a Jim Carrey routine called Cuban Pete

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 18, 2022, 06:05:28 PM

Quote from: Genesis on May 18, 2022, 05:23:34 PM

Quote from: rock hound on May 18, 2022, 04:08:06 PM

Quote from: Genesis on May 18, 2022, 01:52:44 PM

The search for a new job is just another step closer for me to get out of Walmart  :o

I'm already working on my exit strategy.

Good luck with that... I'll try to do mine without causing a big scene and doing a Jim Carrey routine called Cuban Pete

Yep, no big scene..............just a sub liminal FUCK YOU!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 18, 2022, 08:10:33 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y2gK4n35hw

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Post by: DirtDawg on May 18, 2022, 09:27:41 PM

Very nice, Oz.
I am glad to see you enjoy this group.

I thought for long time that I was another army of one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 20, 2022, 01:35:03 PM

Quote from: rock hound on May 18, 2022, 06:05:28 PM

Quote from: Genesis on May 18, 2022, 05:23:34 PM

Quote from: rock hound on May 18, 2022, 04:08:06 PM

Quote from: Genesis on May 18, 2022, 01:52:44 PM

The search for a new job is just another step closer for me to get out of Walmart  :o

I'm already working on my exit strategy.

Good luck with that... I'll try to do mine without causing a big scene and doing a Jim Carrey routine called Cuban Pete

Yep, no big scene..............just a sub liminal FUCK YOU!

There's plenty of that on YouTube

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 20, 2022, 01:36:11 PM

Phone established, paperwork from the job coordinator and job coach soon to follow.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on May 20, 2022, 07:55:33 PM

My mum got news that she'll be having her hip replacement done on the 30th of this month. She's happy about it because she hopes it's the end of having to take strong pain meds. So she has two newish knees and will have two new hips.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on May 21, 2022, 08:57:48 AM

Labor is winning! This is so exciting!! :hyke:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 21, 2022, 09:13:36 AM

Managed to fit in a walk before lunch and going to work!   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 21, 2022, 10:34:46 AM

My wife began her vacation, today.
I had planned a huge pork butt to smoke on the grille, but the rain has hindered that idea.

I got all the laundry and kids did most of the weekly cleaning. She should be able to just rest!!
She won't, but she can start with a clean house.

Rain will be done soon and we can do this  pork roast tomorrow.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 21, 2022, 02:47:37 PM

This is not actually a today thing, as such, but click the link. You might be glad you did.

This non vocal autistic valedictorian gave her college's commencement speech with support, but it is inspiring. Get a tissue!

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/12/1098506522/nonspeaking-valedictorian-autism-college-commencement-speech (https://www.npr.org/2022/05/12/1098506522/nonspeaking-valedictorian-autism-college-commencement-speech)

Hit the vid link on the site as well.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 22, 2022, 07:53:02 PM

I cut up the new watermelon and it's a winner. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 22, 2022, 10:35:12 PM

I've been looking at them, but I don't go by smell with watermelons. They do smell wonderful!
You are encouraging me to try one! I might.

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Post by: Gopher Gary on May 23, 2022, 04:02:33 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 22, 2022, 10:35:12 PM

I've been looking at them, but I don't go by smell with watermelons. They do smell wonderful!
You are encouraging me to try one! I might.

I've read things about how to pick a good watermelon, but sometimes I wonder if that's all wives tale sort of stuff. Watermelons always feel like gambling.  :lol1:
 I've already been buying honeydews for a few months. At first I was worried it was too early but they've all been good. Fortunately Aldi had watermelons for five something, but I noticed the ones at walmart were almost eight dollars. The boy eats most of the fruit in the house and he loves melon season. I like it because melons are generally a lot of fruit for a thrifty price. They're definitely more this year but that's true of everything.  :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 23, 2022, 09:49:09 PM

Finished the house I was working on and the builder bought more flea market merch I had in my van

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 24, 2022, 09:27:30 AM

Can't think of anything.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 24, 2022, 05:44:18 PM

Ran to work a bit late... but surprisingly Dad wasn't pissed off like he usually was.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on May 31, 2022, 08:44:23 PM

It's the first day of Winter here in the southern hemisphere.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 02, 2022, 01:55:32 PM

I think you've already proven that winter is relative.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 03, 2022, 06:31:50 PM

Had help loading the van

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 03, 2022, 07:09:30 PM

I hoarded some water.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 03, 2022, 08:53:19 PM

Quote from: odeon on June 02, 2022, 01:55:32 PM

I think you've already proven that winter is relative.

Yep, as I've written in the weather thread. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on June 04, 2022, 02:18:25 PM

Jimmy John's actually came through... I got my sandwich delivered, and now I'm content.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 04, 2022, 02:19:16 PM

A nice round of golf with a friend.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on June 18, 2022, 02:13:01 PM

Had strawberry rhubarb pie :headbang2:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 18, 2022, 02:50:17 PM

Had a day off.

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Post by: rock hound on June 26, 2022, 09:46:59 AM

Finally got to clean and examine some rock specimens I picked up a couple of days ago.  I was walking up a side road near our house, by a ledge that sits in front of somebodies house.  I had been examining it from the street now for some time and something about it intrigued me.  Turns out to be a mass of pegmatite, which is a form of granite that can have some crystals of various types.  So I step closer and notice this bunch of black rocks at its base.  Wondering if it was coal or charcoal dumped there.  I picked up the larger intact pieces and it turns out to be black tourmaline.  Not gem quality, but, still a pretty good find for me so close to home.  Being a rock hound has its advantages and pleasures. 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on June 27, 2022, 07:59:08 AM

I'm finally vacating my storage tomorrow :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 01, 2022, 10:49:56 AM

Interviewed a really sharp person for a dev role today. We've talked to a few now but this one was the best by far.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 13, 2022, 11:45:06 AM

I woke up early today so I was done with all my work by around one. Now I have the whole rest of the weekend to be lazy.  :2thumbsup:

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Post by: Icequeen on August 13, 2022, 06:37:22 PM

Kid and his girl brought the baby over for a few hours.

After crawling around on the floor with him and toting him everywhere so he could see and explore I'm beat...and I'm out one huge plush bear from my collection (baby) some tie dye tops (girl), and a couple packages of frozen pork chops and an old laptop (boy). 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 13, 2022, 09:15:27 PM

 I'm home from work with my sanity intact.........more or less.   :P

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 13, 2022, 10:43:37 PM

My son mowed the grass without a lot of prompting.
I did the weed whacking.

The yard looks great after all the rain we've had.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on August 14, 2022, 02:32:20 AM

At first it looked like the new microwave wouldn't fit its nook. Kayleigh said we needed a flat plug powerboard. I spotted the one down the side of the fridge and asked if that one would work. Lo and behold it does. We would have had to take the microwave back otherwise.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 14, 2022, 03:19:42 PM

 :o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 14, 2022, 04:51:41 PM

Not so much good, as weird.  I was taking a bicycle ride today and at the intersection of two roads, I spied what looked like money.  As I got closer and looked closely at it, it was 3 pieces of what appears to be a $100 bill.  It has the serial numbers, Ben Franklins face and was torn into 3 pieces.  Of course I picked them for later examination after my trip.  Got home, put them together and they are 3 pieces of one bill.  I have found weird things in my travels, but, this is the weirdest.  Long story short, I am going to take them to the bank to, A)See if it is real and not counterfeit, B) See if it is worth anything IF it is real.  C)Ask the bank what I can do with it. 

Stay tuned, children.  This is now the weirdest thing I have ever found.  Rock hunching has its surprises!   :laugh:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 15, 2022, 08:10:25 AM

Quote from: rock hound on August 14, 2022, 04:51:41 PM

Not so much good, as weird.  I was taking a bicycle ride today and at the intersection of two roads, I spied what looked like money.  As I got closer and looked closely at it, it was 3 pieces of what appears to be a $100 bill.  It has the serial numbers, Ben Franklins face and was torn into 3 pieces.  Of course I picked them for later examination after my trip.  Got home, put them together and they are 3 pieces of one bill.  I have found weird things in my travels, but, this is the weirdest.  Long story short, I am going to take them to the bank to, A)See if it is real and not counterfeit, B) See if it is worth anything IF it is real.  C)Ask the bank what I can do with it. 

Stay tuned, children.  This is now the weirdest thing I have ever found.  Rock hunching has its surprises!   :laugh:

Update........and the verdict is FAKE!   :LOL:  Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.  The paper felt wrong, the serial numbers started with 2 letters, which is unusual.  Somebody did a pretty good job, but, it was a hoot of a find and now it is in the garbage where it belongs.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on August 20, 2022, 08:13:01 PM

I got $55 for all my crushed cans and plastic bottles at the recycling centre.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 20, 2022, 09:12:41 PM

Quote from: renaeden on August 20, 2022, 08:13:01 PM

I got $55 for all my crushed cans and plastic bottles at the recycling centre.

Awesome!  I remember making $250 dollars in a year picking up recyclable cans and bottles from the roadside when we lived in Maine...that had a bottle deposit law.  When we moved to NH, that has NO bottle deposit law, I gave up. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 21, 2022, 04:49:42 AM

Quote from: renaeden on August 20, 2022, 08:13:01 PM

I got $55 for all my crushed cans and plastic bottles at the recycling centre.

Do you have any plans for your newfound loot?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on August 21, 2022, 07:29:56 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 21, 2022, 04:49:42 AM

Quote from: renaeden on August 20, 2022, 08:13:01 PM

I got $55 for all my crushed cans and plastic bottles at the recycling centre.

Do you have any plans for your newfound loot?  :orly:

I'll probably spend it bit by bit at the Salvos. Many places here don't accept cash because of Covid and germy money.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 22, 2022, 06:22:58 AM

My wife was released from "Urgent Care" at the hospital and now she is preparing for her major surgery, next week to end all this, at home with a bunch of drugs, rest, special diet, and re-coups.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 22, 2022, 06:05:03 PM

Finally got paid for a house I worked two weeks ago and another I worked on over a month ago. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 22, 2022, 06:59:19 PM

We are finally getting a good soaking rain!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 22, 2022, 11:46:17 PM

Went on a picnic with Mom, Dad, and the dog.

Afterward I did a little bit of necessity shopping... only they didn't have the popcorn I like at Walmart -_-

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 23, 2022, 04:50:37 PM

Quote from: Parts on August 22, 2022, 06:05:03 PM

Finally got paid for a house I worked two weeks ago and another I worked on over a month ago.

:dollar:  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 23, 2022, 08:12:45 PM

No weird dream before I woke up... that's a plus

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 24, 2022, 09:04:04 PM

Boss Doc decided to put off my wife's surgery for another week. Was not satisfied with the level of infection still going on.

At least she can eat now and keep down those horrid pills, one of which smells like a half full chamber pot.
So along with her antiemetic, they gave her something that smells like that to choke down.

Seems like we are getting there, just not quite the fast track as originally planned.
I'm just glad to see her enjoying things a little finally.

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Post by: Jack on August 31, 2022, 08:08:08 PM

Received a new mouse and keyboard set at work today. It's very nice.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Eclair on September 01, 2022, 04:14:58 AM

Quote from: Jack on August 31, 2022, 08:08:08 PM

Received a new mouse and keyboard set at work today. It's very nice.

Nice. I hope you are well, Jack.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on September 01, 2022, 04:36:52 AM

Quote from: Eclair on September 01, 2022, 04:14:58 AM

Quote from: Jack on August 31, 2022, 08:08:08 PM

Received a new mouse and keyboard set at work today. It's very nice.

Nice. I hope you are well, Jack.

You too. Welcome back.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on September 01, 2022, 01:25:54 PM

Found something sensible at the Speedway with Dad.

I'm satisfied with this diet overall, because I'm down 74.2 lbs since I first started back in mid-april.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 01, 2022, 02:09:35 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 01, 2022, 01:25:54 PM

Found something sensible at the Speedway with Dad.

I'm satisfied with this diet overall, because I'm down 74.2 lbs since I first started back in mid-april.

 :o Wow that's awesome, Genesis.   :2thumbsup: I'm more interested in your noodz than ever.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 01, 2022, 04:06:58 PM

Got the aisle seats we wanted for our flight trip to Florida.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on September 02, 2022, 01:21:56 PM

Yoshi cooperated when I gave him his meds when I woke up. He's recovering from an injury since earlier last week. Right now he's on antibiotics and is wearing a cone until he heals up.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 02, 2022, 08:24:45 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 02, 2022, 01:21:56 PM

Yoshi cooperated when I gave him his meds when I woke up. He's recovering from an injury since earlier last week. Right now he's on antibiotics and is wearing a cone until he heals up.

What happened to him?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on September 03, 2022, 01:30:14 PM

Quote from: renaeden on September 02, 2022, 08:24:45 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 02, 2022, 01:21:56 PM

Yoshi cooperated when I gave him his meds when I woke up. He's recovering from an injury since earlier last week. Right now he's on antibiotics and is wearing a cone until he heals up.

What happened to him?

He got into a fight... only I don't know with whom and/or what... I took him to the vet, and she noticed some weird bleeding around his tail and his face. They got him fixed up, and my mom helped with paying the bill at the vet, whereas I paid for the follow-up appointment.

I'm being extra cautious with him.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 03, 2022, 02:34:49 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 03, 2022, 01:30:14 PM

Quote from: renaeden on September 02, 2022, 08:24:45 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 02, 2022, 01:21:56 PM

Yoshi cooperated when I gave him his meds when I woke up. He's recovering from an injury since earlier last week. Right now he's on antibiotics and is wearing a cone until he heals up.

What happened to him?

He got into a fight... only I don't know with whom and/or what... I took him to the vet, and she noticed some weird bleeding around his tail and his face. They got him fixed up, and my mom helped with paying the bill at the vet, whereas I paid for the follow-up appointment.

I'm being extra cautious with him.

Oy, I hope he turns out ok!  Pets are family!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on September 03, 2022, 03:14:08 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 03, 2022, 02:34:49 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 03, 2022, 01:30:14 PM

Quote from: renaeden on September 02, 2022, 08:24:45 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 02, 2022, 01:21:56 PM

Yoshi cooperated when I gave him his meds when I woke up. He's recovering from an injury since earlier last week. Right now he's on antibiotics and is wearing a cone until he heals up.

What happened to him?

He got into a fight... only I don't know with whom and/or what... I took him to the vet, and she noticed some weird bleeding around his tail and his face. They got him fixed up, and my mom helped with paying the bill at the vet, whereas I paid for the follow-up appointment.

I'm being extra cautious with him.

Oy, I hope he turns out ok!  Pets are family!

He's doing good right now... just a little clingy, and he isn't fighting me when I give him the antibiotic ointment he needs on the infected area. So I'm happy that he's content right now... because that's what matters.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 03, 2022, 06:28:02 PM

^Is Yoshi sterilised? Because toms that aren't tend to get into more fights.

I hope he heals quickly. :hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 03, 2022, 06:39:52 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 03, 2022, 03:14:08 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 03, 2022, 02:34:49 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 03, 2022, 01:30:14 PM

Quote from: renaeden on September 02, 2022, 08:24:45 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 02, 2022, 01:21:56 PM

Yoshi cooperated when I gave him his meds when I woke up. He's recovering from an injury since earlier last week. Right now he's on antibiotics and is wearing a cone until he heals up.

What happened to him?

He got into a fight... only I don't know with whom and/or what... I took him to the vet, and she noticed some weird bleeding around his tail and his face. They got him fixed up, and my mom helped with paying the bill at the vet, whereas I paid for the follow-up appointment.

I'm being extra cautious with him.

Oy, I hope he turns out ok!  Pets are family!

He's doing good right now... just a little clingy, and he isn't fighting me when I give him the antibiotic ointment he needs on the infected area. So I'm happy that he's content right now... because that's what matters.

He knows you are doing something good for him. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on September 03, 2022, 07:15:50 PM

Quote from: renaeden on September 03, 2022, 06:28:02 PM

^Is Yoshi sterilised? Because toms that aren't tend to get into more fights.

I hope he heals quickly. :hug:

He was neutered when I adopted him. The only time I saw a fight was when he was in what looked like a turf war with the gray cat in the neighborhood that wonders everywhere.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on September 03, 2022, 07:16:23 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 03, 2022, 06:39:52 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 03, 2022, 03:14:08 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 03, 2022, 02:34:49 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 03, 2022, 01:30:14 PM

Quote from: renaeden on September 02, 2022, 08:24:45 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 02, 2022, 01:21:56 PM

Yoshi cooperated when I gave him his meds when I woke up. He's recovering from an injury since earlier last week. Right now he's on antibiotics and is wearing a cone until he heals up.

What happened to him?

He got into a fight... only I don't know with whom and/or what... I took him to the vet, and she noticed some weird bleeding around his tail and his face. They got him fixed up, and my mom helped with paying the bill at the vet, whereas I paid for the follow-up appointment.

I'm being extra cautious with him.

Oy, I hope he turns out ok!  Pets are family!

He's doing good right now... just a little clingy, and he isn't fighting me when I give him the antibiotic ointment he needs on the infected area. So I'm happy that he's content right now... because that's what matters.

He knows you are doing something good for him.

Yeah... and he knows he has bribe(s) in advance afterwards ;-) lol

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 03, 2022, 08:02:54 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 03, 2022, 07:16:23 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 03, 2022, 06:39:52 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 03, 2022, 03:14:08 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 03, 2022, 02:34:49 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 03, 2022, 01:30:14 PM

Quote from: renaeden on September 02, 2022, 08:24:45 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 02, 2022, 01:21:56 PM

Yoshi cooperated when I gave him his meds when I woke up. He's recovering from an injury since earlier last week. Right now he's on antibiotics and is wearing a cone until he heals up.

What happened to him?

He got into a fight... only I don't know with whom and/or what... I took him to the vet, and she noticed some weird bleeding around his tail and his face. They got him fixed up, and my mom helped with paying the bill at the vet, whereas I paid for the follow-up appointment.

I'm being extra cautious with him.

Oy, I hope he turns out ok!  Pets are family!

He's doing good right now... just a little clingy, and he isn't fighting me when I give him the antibiotic ointment he needs on the infected area. So I'm happy that he's content right now... because that's what matters.

He knows you are doing something good for him.

Yeah... and he knows he has bribe(s) in advance afterwards ;-) lol

Treats work well with any pet!   :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on September 04, 2022, 01:17:27 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 03, 2022, 08:02:54 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 03, 2022, 07:16:23 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 03, 2022, 06:39:52 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 03, 2022, 03:14:08 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 03, 2022, 02:34:49 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 03, 2022, 01:30:14 PM

Quote from: renaeden on September 02, 2022, 08:24:45 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 02, 2022, 01:21:56 PM

Yoshi cooperated when I gave him his meds when I woke up. He's recovering from an injury since earlier last week. Right now he's on antibiotics and is wearing a cone until he heals up.

What happened to him?

He got into a fight... only I don't know with whom and/or what... I took him to the vet, and she noticed some weird bleeding around his tail and his face. They got him fixed up, and my mom helped with paying the bill at the vet, whereas I paid for the follow-up appointment.

I'm being extra cautious with him.

Oy, I hope he turns out ok!  Pets are family!

He's doing good right now... just a little clingy, and he isn't fighting me when I give him the antibiotic ointment he needs on the infected area. So I'm happy that he's content right now... because that's what matters.

He knows you are doing something good for him.

Yeah... and he knows he has bribe(s) in advance afterwards ;-) lol

Treats work well with any pet!   :2thumbsup:

Even sociopathic budgies, and dwarf hamsters that have mental issues.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 04, 2022, 02:32:23 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 04, 2022, 01:17:27 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 03, 2022, 08:02:54 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 03, 2022, 07:16:23 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 03, 2022, 06:39:52 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 03, 2022, 03:14:08 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 03, 2022, 02:34:49 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 03, 2022, 01:30:14 PM

Quote from: renaeden on September 02, 2022, 08:24:45 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 02, 2022, 01:21:56 PM

Yoshi cooperated when I gave him his meds when I woke up. He's recovering from an injury since earlier last week. Right now he's on antibiotics and is wearing a cone until he heals up.

What happened to him?

He got into a fight... only I don't know with whom and/or what... I took him to the vet, and she noticed some weird bleeding around his tail and his face. They got him fixed up, and my mom helped with paying the bill at the vet, whereas I paid for the follow-up appointment.

I'm being extra cautious with him.

Oy, I hope he turns out ok!  Pets are family!

He's doing good right now... just a little clingy, and he isn't fighting me when I give him the antibiotic ointment he needs on the infected area. So I'm happy that he's content right now... because that's what matters.

He knows you are doing something good for him.

Yeah... and he knows he has bribe(s) in advance afterwards ;-) lol

Treats work well with any pet!   :2thumbsup:

Even sociopathic budgies, and dwarf hamsters that have mental issues.

The way to any critters heart is thru its stomach!   ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 05, 2022, 02:31:41 PM

Today was an awesome day. :woohoo: This morning Sugarbutt and I rode around hitting the local thrift shops, looking for a kitchen table and chairs. We've been looking on marketplace for months but the few times we found one we like, the seller never responded. We didn't find anything in the thrift shops but I wasn't really disappointed, because the one I really wanted was sitting on marketplace waiting for a response. I told Sugarbutt I thought he might not be getting responses because the sellers were always female, and maybe they were single and felt sketchy about having a random man in their house. When we got back from the thrift shops I told him to send another message on marketplace and this time to say, my wife really likes this table and chairs, can we come by and pick it up. He got a response right away so we drove over and bought it. I spent the afternoon giving it a thorough cleaning. It matches our kitchen perfectly and we love it. :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 05, 2022, 07:53:41 PM

^ :plus:

This morning's journey to the hospital in peak hour traffic and rain went well and I even found a parking spot straight away.

CT scan was fine, I just had to take my bra off. I was allowed to keep my shoes on! It was a chest CT scan so I had to follow breathing instructions. Felt like I was in there for ages.

Then I drove home in more rain.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 05, 2022, 08:18:39 PM

Getting a good soaking rain after reaching extreme drought conditions.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on September 05, 2022, 09:02:57 PM

Had a friend come over for a visit.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 13, 2022, 02:11:42 AM

The new fence is finally up. It's metal and it's blue. It's higher than our previous fence. I don't think it will be blown over anytime soon. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on September 13, 2022, 04:00:52 AM

^ Ahh, Colorbond "Deep Ocean". All the trim accents on the outside of my new place are that colour.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 13, 2022, 07:33:29 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on September 13, 2022, 04:00:52 AM

^ Ahh, Colorbond "Deep Ocean". All the trim accents on the outside of my new place are that colour.

I quite like the colour. It's better than beige, which is what the people across the road put up. The accents on our place are blue too, but a bit lighter than the fence. Well we can't have everything. ;) The rest of our place is cream brick (blech) with accents of red brick. Is your place the same?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 13, 2022, 08:10:09 PM

Enjoyed some wine on my day.   :wine:  I've earned it!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 13, 2022, 08:53:19 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 13, 2022, 08:10:09 PM

Enjoyed some wine on my day.   :wine:  I've earned it!

You sure have. I hope you had a happy birthday. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on September 14, 2022, 06:40:34 AM

Quote from: renaeden on September 13, 2022, 07:33:29 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on September 13, 2022, 04:00:52 AM

^ Ahh, Colorbond "Deep Ocean". All the trim accents on the outside of my new place are that colour.

I quite like the colour. It's better than beige, which is what the people across the road put up. The accents on our place are blue too, but a bit lighter than the fence. Well we can't have everything. ;) The rest of our place is cream brick (blech) with accents of red brick. Is your place the same?

I know all the colorbond colours lol. My place is a light sandy colour brick. Deep ocean garage door, roof gutters and window frames, and my front door is painted the same colour.
My back fence is cream though.
You can usually tell the age of a neighbourhood judging by how much Colorbond "Classic Cream" there is on the house facades :P
I wanted to get rid of it so bad at my old place but strata screwed their noses up at my other colour suggestions.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 14, 2022, 07:54:14 AM

Quote from: renaeden on September 13, 2022, 08:53:19 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 13, 2022, 08:10:09 PM

Enjoyed some wine on my day.   :wine:  I've earned it!

You sure have. I hope you had a happy birthday. :)

Thanks, Renaeden!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 14, 2022, 08:35:47 PM

^ :thumbup:

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on September 14, 2022, 06:40:34 AM

Quote from: renaeden on September 13, 2022, 07:33:29 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on September 13, 2022, 04:00:52 AM

^ Ahh, Colorbond "Deep Ocean". All the trim accents on the outside of my new place are that colour.

I quite like the colour. It's better than beige, which is what the people across the road put up. The accents on our place are blue too, but a bit lighter than the fence. Well we can't have everything. ;) The rest of our place is cream brick (blech) with accents of red brick. Is your place the same?

I know all the colorbond colours lol. My place is a light sandy colour brick. Deep ocean garage door, roof gutters and window frames, and my front door is painted the same colour.
My back fence is cream though.
You can usually tell the age of a neighbourhood judging by how much Colorbond "Classic Cream" there is on the house facades :P
I wanted to get rid of it so bad at my old place but strata screwed their noses up at my other colour suggestions.

Do you have to deal with strata where you are now? I have in the past. Once I got into trouble for putting up a clothes line because I didn't ask them first. So petty.

The colour of our fence is growing on me. The reason it's blue is because the businesses next door have it as their accent colour. Their main colour is grey.

The only thing I don't like is the gap the fence guy left between us and the neighbour behind us. The small border fence doesn't reach the blue fence. So the cats can get through. Rowan demonstrated this quite happily.

We have an inspection next week so I'll show them then.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on September 16, 2022, 03:08:07 AM

Quote from: renaeden on September 14, 2022, 08:35:47 PM

^ :thumbup:

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on September 14, 2022, 06:40:34 AM

Quote from: renaeden on September 13, 2022, 07:33:29 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on September 13, 2022, 04:00:52 AM

^ Ahh, Colorbond "Deep Ocean". All the trim accents on the outside of my new place are that colour.

I quite like the colour. It's better than beige, which is what the people across the road put up. The accents on our place are blue too, but a bit lighter than the fence. Well we can't have everything. ;) The rest of our place is cream brick (blech) with accents of red brick. Is your place the same?

I know all the colorbond colours lol. My place is a light sandy colour brick. Deep ocean garage door, roof gutters and window frames, and my front door is painted the same colour.
My back fence is cream though.
You can usually tell the age of a neighbourhood judging by how much Colorbond "Classic Cream" there is on the house facades :P
I wanted to get rid of it so bad at my old place but strata screwed their noses up at my other colour suggestions.

Do you have to deal with strata where you are now? I have in the past. Once I got into trouble for putting up a clothes line because I didn't ask them first. So petty.

The colour of our fence is growing on me. The reason it's blue is because the businesses next door have it as their accent colour. Their main colour is grey.

The only thing I don't like is the gap the fence guy left between us and the neighbour behind us. The small border fence doesn't reach the blue fence. So the cats can get through. Rowan demonstrated this quite happily.

We have an inspection next week so I'll show them then.

Yes I'm still in a strata but only 4 lots now. No issues so far, touch wood. Though the neighborhood FB group for the whole estate hates me and my car  :zoinks:
Not sure what the neighbours themselves think, not that it matters as I have no choice but to start a V8 every morning with a cold engine, and their main bedroom is next to my garage :laugh:
They can only complain about things if they see or hear them. It's pretty private here so I can flout the rules a bit.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 16, 2022, 08:13:59 PM

I like your car even though I've never heard it. :)

We're in a lot of four as well. But we rent. We're closest to the road but my car is hidden from view. I'm pretty sure our nearest neighbour hates me slamming my car's doors (because he starts shouting incoherently) but it's an old car and its doors won't close unless they're slammed.

We have another issue - the carport gate. When our fence blew over, the gate came off its hinges. And it's a heavy metal gate. It where we take our bins through to the road. I've been taking the bins through next doctor's gate via where the fence blew down because I've been avoiding our gate. I reported this but the housing association hasn't done anything.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on September 18, 2022, 04:52:24 PM

Made to chapter 4 of Crime and Punishment... so far an interesting read

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 19, 2022, 09:10:55 PM

Even though I'm tired this morning, I still did ok at the gym.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on September 20, 2022, 09:20:37 AM

I haven’t been to the gym in years! I used to love going. I think my favourite piece of equipment was the cross-trainer. I used to like using the weights too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 20, 2022, 07:28:12 PM

Quote from: Fun With Matches on September 20, 2022, 09:20:37 AM

I haven’t been to the gym in years! I used to love going. I think my favourite piece of equipment was the cross-trainer. I used to like using the weights too.

They don't have a cross-trainer but they do have a rowing machine and an exercise bike. It's a very small gym because it's at a physiotherapy place. There's about 6 of us who go to the Tuesday morning session. We have a physiotherapist who oversees what we do and gives us suggestions for new exercises so we don't get stuck doing the same thing all the time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on September 21, 2022, 02:48:18 PM

Spent time with Dad... though afterwards he got himself sick again :(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 21, 2022, 05:14:29 PM

Carla and I had a nice day off together and did a shopping "date".  Tres romantique! :eyelash:  ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on September 21, 2022, 05:56:28 PM

I'm hiding in my room (again)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 23, 2022, 01:04:23 PM

Carlas bike chain fell off while she was riding it up a hill.  Took it the bike shop today and the guy there did a quick assessment and fix for no charge.  We're regular customers.  And I found a quarter in the parking lot.   8)  Oh and I bought some books! :book:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on September 23, 2022, 05:41:58 PM

My daughter took things from the pantry, fridge and freezer and made a super quick mock up chicken Parmesan meal for us all.
It was delicious. I am proud of her. Not very many years ago she would not even try "new" foods.
Now she "invents" them!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on September 24, 2022, 12:44:56 AM

Heard hail on my pergola roof for the first time :snowman:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 27, 2022, 09:49:31 PM

This was last night, but when I got home from work, Kayleigh surprised me with Chinese food. Here, it's expensive and very good. We have lots of leftovers so guess what I'll be having for dinner?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 28, 2022, 04:09:50 AM

Quote from: renaeden on September 27, 2022, 09:49:31 PM

This was last night, but when I got home from work, Kayleigh surprised me with Chinese food. Here, it's expensive and very good. We have lots of leftovers so guess what I'll be having for dinner?

I used to not be a fan of Asian food, but there's a New York style Chinese restaurant near us that has the most awesome everything. We rarely ever have take out, but if we do Chinese food is my first choice.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 28, 2022, 08:11:18 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 28, 2022, 04:09:50 AM

Quote from: renaeden on September 27, 2022, 09:49:31 PM

This was last night, but when I got home from work, Kayleigh surprised me with Chinese food. Here, it's expensive and very good. We have lots of leftovers so guess what I'll be having for dinner?

I used to not be a fan of Asian food, but there's a New York style Chinese restaurant near us that has the most awesome everything. We rarely ever have take out, but if we do Chinese food is my first choice.  :thumbup:

What makes it New York style?

Special fried rice and sweet and sour pork are two of my favourites. I also like their mixed vegetables and lemon chicken.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 29, 2022, 01:56:53 AM

Quote from: renaeden on September 28, 2022, 08:11:18 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 28, 2022, 04:09:50 AM

Quote from: renaeden on September 27, 2022, 09:49:31 PM

This was last night, but when I got home from work, Kayleigh surprised me with Chinese food. Here, it's expensive and very good. We have lots of leftovers so guess what I'll be having for dinner?

I used to not be a fan of Asian food, but there's a New York style Chinese restaurant near us that has the most awesome everything. We rarely ever have take out, but if we do Chinese food is my first choice.  :thumbup:

What makes it New York style?

Special fried rice and sweet and sour pork are two of my favourites. I also like their mixed vegetables and lemon chicken.

I think it's referred to as New York style because that's where the style originated. It's basically Americanized food, and the menu most commonly found in any Chinese takout in the US. I think I used to not be a fan because I'm actually not a fan. Growing up I only had a small few experiences with Chinese food, and they were either in authentic restaurants, or more traditional style dishes my mom cooked at home. As a young adult there was an authentic Thai restaurant in our town, but I never had Americanized Chinese takeout until well into adulthood.  :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 30, 2022, 02:03:29 PM

It's Friday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on October 02, 2022, 02:55:48 PM

Something not so good turned out good. A bowl slipped from my hands this morning when I was cleaning up after breakfast, and it banged hard on the side edge of the stovetop. When I picked it up I saw tiny white flecks on the countertop, so I assumed I had chipped the bowl. I couldn't find any chips on the bowl, then I noticed it had chipped the enamel on the stove and made an ugly black mark. I whipped out my new handy-dandy paint pen and touched it up. It's not a perfect match, but I always say a mismatched white spot is less noticeable than an dark spot and that was definitely true about the stovetop. That made me think of the small scratches on my dryer, so I touched those up too and that was a much better color match. A couple spots look like they need a second coat from close up but just standing there looking at it, it looks brand new. :hadron:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on October 02, 2022, 03:30:22 PM

Got my Covid booster, the Moderna one.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on October 04, 2022, 12:29:30 PM

 :plus: eating sensible again! YAY!!!!  :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 04, 2022, 01:42:50 PM

Had a fairly frank discussion with the manager and convinced him to hire the person we interviewed on Friday last week. She's going to be a brilliant addition to the team. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on October 13, 2022, 12:53:55 PM

My car repair is done and done ahead of time.  Another stress point off my mind.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on October 13, 2022, 01:06:01 PM

Found a sensible turkey sandwich... 35g of protein  :o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on October 13, 2022, 06:29:37 PM

Both good and funny. Sugarbutt has been sick and was feeling chilled today, so he asked if Wal-Mart had any flannel shirts. I asked why he needs a flannel shirt? He said he only has one but it's old and has a hole. So I pulled out the package I just received in the mail two days ago, handed it to him, and said Merry Christmas. He was delighted and he's all snuggled up on the sofa in his new flannel shirt. Now I need to figure out something else I know he wants, to get him for Christmas. :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on October 14, 2022, 01:35:56 PM

I got a call for a job interview on Monday... though my sister suggested to go for the interview experience.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on October 14, 2022, 05:49:52 PM

Quote from: Genesis on October 14, 2022, 01:35:56 PM

I got a call for a job interview on Monday... though my sister suggested to go for the interview experience.

That's sort of confusing. My first reflex is to say good luck, but the second part makes it sound like a job you don't want and you didn't plan on going, so I'm not sure if wishing you luck would seem sarcastic.  :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on October 14, 2022, 06:06:59 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on October 14, 2022, 05:49:52 PM

Quote from: Genesis on October 14, 2022, 01:35:56 PM

I got a call for a job interview on Monday... though my sister suggested to go for the interview experience.

That's sort of confusing. My first reflex is to say good luck, but the second part makes it sound like a job you don't want and you didn't plan on going, so I'm not sure if wishing you luck would seem sarcastic.  :dunno:

It's not something I wanted to begin with... my Job Coach said to cast my net over as many possibilities as possible... and this is one of the possibilities I "hate" -_- so please use the sarcasm... I need it!!!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on October 14, 2022, 06:46:18 PM

Quote from: Genesis on October 14, 2022, 06:06:59 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on October 14, 2022, 05:49:52 PM

Quote from: Genesis on October 14, 2022, 01:35:56 PM

I got a call for a job interview on Monday... though my sister suggested to go for the interview experience.

That's sort of confusing. My first reflex is to say good luck, but the second part makes it sound like a job you don't want and you didn't plan on going, so I'm not sure if wishing you luck would seem sarcastic.  :dunno:

It's not something I wanted to begin with... my Job Coach said to cast my net over as many possibilities as possible... and this is one of the possibilities I "hate" -_- so please use the sarcasm... I need it!!!!

Good luck, Genesis.  :zoinks:  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on October 20, 2022, 01:02:43 PM

Got a handful of handmade nails from a 200 year old house I am working on.   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on October 22, 2022, 02:39:12 AM

Quote from: Parts on October 20, 2022, 01:02:43 PM

Got a handful of handmade nails from a 200 year old house I am working on.

Nice find.

I had a Jester's pie. Delicious.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Jack on October 22, 2022, 11:07:23 AM

Happened yesterday. Got a raise.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on October 22, 2022, 03:00:11 PM

:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 22, 2022, 03:07:00 PM

Good luck with the interview, Genesis.

Quote from: Jack on October 22, 2022, 11:07:23 AM

Happened yesterday. Got a raise.

:woohoo: Congrats!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 22, 2022, 03:08:53 PM

It's Saturday and I am off today!

(Well, actually I did an hour's worth of work, earlier. Fixed a client install. But that barely counts.)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on October 22, 2022, 03:20:22 PM

Starting with the bad.

Some delivery truck broke off a huge branch from one of my trees, but not completely.

There was this huge branch hanging there, ripped half in two, but not over the street or the sidewalk. There was no safety issue to anyone walking by or to cars passing on the street. I knew I had to deal with this because the delivery drivers ignored to incident and left after the delivery was done.

I had considered going down to the home where the delivery was made and complaining like a wimpass bitch, like my other witness nosy neighbor suggested to get them to influence the delivery company to come back and fix it.

But NO, I am a conservative living human being with a head of my own upon my shoulders, taking responsiblity for my own security in all manner and matters. I will deal with it soon in my own way.

Then about an hour later, I see a van from the homeowner's association parked out front taking pictures.
WTF! Evidentally someone had called to report this massive violation.

Now to the good part.
I have a very long (22 feet long) pole saw from my efforts at our old house. I had loaned it out to a neighbor and when I dug it out to use it, I discovered it was returned broken.
Biblical references and even Benjamin Franklin say, neither a lender or a borrower be! ... paraphrasing Old Richard


Anyway, it took me longer to fix my tool and get it working again than it did to solve the neighborhood problem/crisis that had arose.

I cut down the huge limb from ground level, NO LADDERS! NO Broken Arms!
... and the larger results went into my burn pile.

No need to have the HOA get involved!
I am a responsible adult with resources, not some pansy ass, unwiped pussy flavored snowflake who wants everything done for them. This happened. I dealt with it my own way.

Every other interested and overly concerned party can fuck the fuck off now!

 :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 06, 2022, 07:27:38 PM

This was yesterday, my stepdad who's 80, was playing golf at Collie golf course and got a hole-in-one on the 7th hole. He won a cash prize (I don't know how much) and I'm really happy for him because that's a huge achievement. In the past he has pared (sp) the course which is pretty good too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 12, 2022, 09:06:50 PM

I passed the spelling and grammar quiz that is part of the proofreading course. One hundred questions, phew!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on November 12, 2022, 11:37:55 PM

Quote from: renaeden on November 12, 2022, 09:06:50 PM

I passed the spelling and grammar quiz that is part of the proofreading course. One hundred questions, phew!

That's awesome, Renaeden!

.. as if there was any doubt?
Great job.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on November 12, 2022, 11:40:44 PM

I was a little hungry when my daughter got off from work and she was a bit hungry as well.

Out of the blue, she made some spirelli pasta and meatballs with Italian sauce and spices. Out of the blue!
She made enough for two.

It was a delicious midnight snack.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on November 13, 2022, 01:58:44 PM

Quote from: renaeden on November 12, 2022, 09:06:50 PM

I passed the spelling and grammar quiz that is part of the proofreading course. One hundred questions, phew!

 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 13, 2022, 08:06:22 PM

I passed the background check, so I'm 100% hired... just need to inform them of my availability needing to be part-time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on November 20, 2022, 06:40:22 PM

I realized I'm not only on time, but also within budget. :hadron:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on November 20, 2022, 11:08:27 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on November 20, 2022, 06:40:22 PM

I realized I'm not only on time, but also within budget. :hadron:

Two things that do NOT normally coincide.
 :hadron:

Today, I finished my "H" frame Open Baffle subwoofer. I used two 15" Jamo drivers, juxtaposed. While the JBL drivers play a little deeper, the Jamo drivers sound more "fast" to me, resulting in not as much over ring with the bottom octave after massive excursion.

I've had it ready for testing for a couple of weeks, but by "finishing,"  I mean paint. I painted this one white to match my other Open Baffle speakers in my listening room.

Obviously, one can not just have one subwoofer when running a stereo system. I plan to get another built before winter is over.
Little tough to do any sawing with my ribs yelling at me. Preparing surfaces, removing the drivers and painting was no trouble at all.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on November 21, 2022, 06:42:34 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on November 20, 2022, 11:08:27 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on November 20, 2022, 06:40:22 PM

I realized I'm not only on time, but also within budget. :hadron:

Two things that do NOT normally coincide.
 :hadron:

Especially when I'm in charge.  :lol1: Now I don't have to leave the house for a month.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on November 23, 2022, 06:15:58 PM

Wouldn't THAT be nice?!?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on November 24, 2022, 01:46:11 PM

Nice day, got two good walks in and will do a third after Carla gets up from he nap.  Also got the "Steve's Mighty Meat Loaf" prepped and ready to cook.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 27, 2022, 03:26:00 PM

Quote from: renaeden on November 06, 2022, 07:27:38 PM

This was yesterday, my stepdad who's 80, was playing golf at Collie golf course and got a hole-in-one on the 7th hole. He won a cash prize (I don't know how much) and I'm really happy for him because that's a huge achievement. In the past he has pared (sp) the course which is pretty good too.

He's a pretty good golfer, then. The HIO may be just luck but a par is impressive for most of us hacks.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 27, 2022, 03:26:42 PM

Quote from: renaeden on November 12, 2022, 09:06:50 PM

I passed the spelling and grammar quiz that is part of the proofreading course. One hundred questions, phew!

Congrats, great!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on November 27, 2022, 07:38:16 PM

Starting to feel better after a couple of days of yuck after getting my latest booster shot

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 27, 2022, 07:39:54 PM

Quote from: odeon on November 27, 2022, 03:26:42 PM

Quote from: renaeden on November 12, 2022, 09:06:50 PM

I passed the spelling and grammar quiz that is part of the proofreading course. One hundred questions, phew!

Congrats, great!

Thank you! Now I'm actually proofreading course essays. It's challenging because I have to use the Chicago Manual of Style to back up the changes I make. And realize (as an example) has to stay realize, not realise. I downloaded a list of American/English differences and there are a lot.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on November 30, 2022, 12:40:22 PM

Quote from: Parts on November 27, 2022, 07:38:16 PM

Starting to feel better after a couple of days of yuck after getting my latest booster shot

I have not had the latest booster, but I did go in for the standard flu shot which I get every year.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on November 30, 2022, 05:53:41 PM

When I got home, I found they guys had put up the Christmas tree for me. :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 01, 2022, 07:33:07 AM

You win!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 01, 2022, 07:41:44 AM

I have my second "H" frame subwoofer almost ready for paint.

On my first one, I have pulled out the old JBL drivers and replaced them with two 15'' Jamo drivers designed for infinite baffle use, made in the '90s before Klipsch bought and dismantled the company.

I know, that sounds like blasphemy to me too, but I think these specialized drivers might work in this application quite well. They have much higher Qts than I have been able to attain with the vintage JBL motors.
I built the JBLs up as OB compliant about twenty years ago and I do not have as much incentive to rebuild them again as I used to have.

We'll see how the Jamos work. These are old and well broken in, from a "friend's" old install, I traded for.
They sound pretty good so far.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 01, 2022, 08:38:26 PM

Cubbies might sign someone.... who that someone is, is another story.

PLEASE!!!!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 03, 2022, 03:28:53 PM

Quote from: renaeden on November 27, 2022, 07:39:54 PM

Quote from: odeon on November 27, 2022, 03:26:42 PM

Quote from: renaeden on November 12, 2022, 09:06:50 PM

I passed the spelling and grammar quiz that is part of the proofreading course. One hundred questions, phew!

Congrats, great!

Thank you! Now I'm actually proofreading course essays. It's challenging because I have to use the Chicago Manual of Style to back up the changes I make. And realize (as an example) has to stay realize, not realise. I downloaded a list of American/English differences and there are a lot.

The Chicago Manual of Style is good. I've been wanting to upgrade my rather old edition for a while.

As for "ize" vs "ise," I refuse to give up the latter. I know that some publishers in the UK now prefer the former but it's their problem. Good style requires conviction.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 03, 2022, 03:29:41 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on December 01, 2022, 07:41:44 AM

I have my second "H" frame subwoofer almost ready for paint.

H?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 03, 2022, 08:21:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 03, 2022, 03:28:53 PM

Quote from: renaeden on November 27, 2022, 07:39:54 PM

Quote from: odeon on November 27, 2022, 03:26:42 PM

Quote from: renaeden on November 12, 2022, 09:06:50 PM

I passed the spelling and grammar quiz that is part of the proofreading course. One hundred questions, phew!

Congrats, great!

Thank you! Now I'm actually proofreading course essays. It's challenging because I have to use the Chicago Manual of Style to back up the changes I make. And realize (as an example) has to stay realize, not realise. I downloaded a list of American/English differences and there are a lot.

The Chicago Manual of Style is good. I've been wanting to upgrade my rather old edition for a while.

As for "ize" vs "ise," I refuse to give up the latter. I know that some publishers in the UK now prefer the former but it's their problem. Good style requires conviction.

I might actually order the hard copy of The Chicago Manual of Style because the electronic one isn't exactly easy to navigate. It may be quicker to look up things in the book.

I don't want to give up "ise" either, it just looks better.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 04, 2022, 12:37:35 PM

Found a   two inch baby wilton bullet vise at the flea market for $25.  It's  the Holy Grail  of vise collecting.   In the shape its worth around  $400   
(https://i.postimg.cc/W3hJV5qC/IMG-20221204-085848.jpg)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on December 04, 2022, 12:42:06 PM

Quote from: Parts on December 04, 2022, 12:37:35 PM

Found a   two inch baby wilton bullet vise at the flea market for $25.  It's  the Holy Grail  of vise collecting.   In the shape its worth around  $400   
(https://i.postimg.cc/W3hJV5qC/IMG-20221204-085848.jpg)

I can see why!!!  What a find!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on December 04, 2022, 03:28:57 PM

We received the gift of a live wreath from a family member. It's beautiful. :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 04, 2022, 08:51:19 PM

Quote from: Parts on December 04, 2022, 12:37:35 PM

Found a   two inch baby wilton bullet vise at the flea market for $25.  It's  the Holy Grail  of vise collecting.   In the shape its worth around  $400   
(https://i.postimg.cc/W3hJV5qC/IMG-20221204-085848.jpg)

That is incredible, Parts! What a find!

I have a much larger Wilton vise that came from my dad's horn shop, bought used in the sixties, but nothing like that beauty.

It looks to be in perfect condition!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 04, 2022, 09:02:05 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 03, 2022, 03:29:41 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on December 01, 2022, 07:41:44 AM

I have my second "H" frame subwoofer almost ready for paint.

H?

Just commonly adapted nomenclature.
If you look at the basic design from various angles, it is unique in that from the top the structure in line format the design resembles an "H."
My baffles are three thicknesses of 3/4 inch material sandwich - one plywood, one MDF, one plywood, which creates the center mass of the system. Quite a bit heavier than Linkwitz projects.
The "walls" see very little pressure and are only double, MDF on the inside and plywood outers.

Mine are dual fifteen inch, instead of twelves like he shows here.
He likes to add a lot of electronics to dipole systems for free air response to measure well, which I find unnecessary with proper room placement. Not disagreeing with a master, just still exploring other options.
To me it seems as if he is defeating some of the benefits to the dipole effect if you go messing with the natural air of these types of systems.
But, he's smarter than I am and has more measuring equipment. I have ears, some downloaded software, a few calibrated mics and one old O'scope.

Biamp and cross them over below 100Hz and you have a really effective addition to a bass shy fullrange Open Baffle driver.
With my new Lii Audio F15 drivers (which see), I intend crossing them off at more or less 42Hz, if the graphs mean anything.
The Lii Audio driver only reaches 50Hz with authority, but for some of my hard rock and even classical music, they need a helping hand.

So far, I have only used my H frames with my mono stack in the garage. They have not made it into the house as of yet.
I have no idea if they will mate well with my F15 Lii drivers at this point.
I have a lot of ways to try before I decide that it might not work, though.

This will be my fourth attempt at OB bass, but my first attempt at H frame type baffles.
What I had before with some back loading was awesome and I used them for almost fifteen years with the Visaton B200 drivers.
These Lii Audio F15 drivers are better in so many ways.

I took this from the Linkwitz website:
Notice his test microphone placement. I test my system from my listening chair, mostly, once I am done with "free air" or "half space" tests.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 07, 2022, 09:32:41 PM

Car repairs were cheaper than I expected.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 09, 2022, 07:42:43 AM

I took a ride to the next county over with a friend who is a pilot. I had done some sound work for him many times and he wanted to show me what he is working on for the upcoming spring Air Show. I told him I was not getting into his plane. He said, "Nope! You aren't."

He has a tiny bi-plane with a monster engine. He starts out with a race car looking burn out going around in a circle.
They use a foamed up mixture of oil and water to introduce to the super hot exhaust and it makes a lot of "smoke" like stuff which disappears quickly.
So it looks like he's doing a burnout.

Next thing you see is his plane emerging from the "smoke" about twenty feet off the ground going really fast already. He flies to the end of the runway where he does an awkward looking u-turn in smoke again and lands it.
This plane can take off from a dead stop in about thirty feet with very little ground speed.
When the smoke clears he takes off again and flies straight up into a stall (smoke, again) then comes back down and lands right where he started.

WOW!!
He says he did not know he was stunt flier until he got his hands on this plane. He also showed me that from a standing start, powered up and delivering the most, it can literally jump into the air (flipping the ailerons?) in about two feet and be flying.
 :autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 09, 2022, 07:58:42 AM

It was a kind of waste of about four hours, but amazing to see that little flying beasty of his.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 09, 2022, 03:42:16 PM

I might get a chance to get out of the house(?)

Most definitely

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: jman on December 12, 2022, 06:45:00 PM

My kidney stone flare up allowed me to take some time off work

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 13, 2022, 02:42:46 AM

Kidney stones though? Is it worth it?

Welcome back, btw. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on December 19, 2022, 10:32:31 AM

I think I'm off for the rest of the year.  January is going to be crazy though

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 20, 2022, 05:46:29 PM

I'm now on holidays until 9th January, woo!

I'll still be volunteering at the Salvos on Fridays though.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 20, 2022, 09:26:04 PM

After Thursday's shift I have 4 days of pure bliss.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 22, 2022, 12:05:05 AM

Our dog, who has been almost terrified of me since we brought him home (big scary Alpha male, I probably resemble a kind of asshole who has hurt and abused him in the past), had a long nap with me this afternoon.
I mean we have had our trust moments and he has come to not fear me as much as at first.

But, today seemed like a breakthrough moment. Admittedly, I did not get a nap, since I was trying to be still and just enjoy the time with him feeling safe with me, finally.

It was great!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 22, 2022, 02:45:41 PM

Quote from: renaeden on December 03, 2022, 08:21:03 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 03, 2022, 03:28:53 PM

Quote from: renaeden on November 27, 2022, 07:39:54 PM

Quote from: odeon on November 27, 2022, 03:26:42 PM

Quote from: renaeden on November 12, 2022, 09:06:50 PM

I passed the spelling and grammar quiz that is part of the proofreading course. One hundred questions, phew!

Congrats, great!

Thank you! Now I'm actually proofreading course essays. It's challenging because I have to use the Chicago Manual of Style to back up the changes I make. And realize (as an example) has to stay realize, not realise. I downloaded a list of American/English differences and there are a lot.

The Chicago Manual of Style is good. I've been wanting to upgrade my rather old edition for a while.

As for "ize" vs "ise," I refuse to give up the latter. I know that some publishers in the UK now prefer the former but it's their problem. Good style requires conviction.

I might actually order the hard copy of The Chicago Manual of Style because the electronic one isn't exactly easy to navigate. It may be quicker to look up things in the book.

I don't want to give up "ise" either, it just looks better.

Chicago is one of the better style guides I know.

I was in London recently and bought the OPU's at Foyles. Hart's guide, I think it used to be called.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 22, 2022, 02:47:43 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on December 04, 2022, 09:02:05 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 03, 2022, 03:29:41 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on December 01, 2022, 07:41:44 AM

I have my second "H" frame subwoofer almost ready for paint.

H?

Just commonly adapted nomenclature.
If you look at the basic design from various angles, it is unique in that from the top the structure in line format the design resembles an "H."
My baffles are three thicknesses of 3/4 inch material sandwich - one plywood, one MDF, one plywood, which creates the center mass of the system. Quite a bit heavier than Linkwitz projects.
The "walls" see very little pressure and are only double, MDF on the inside and plywood outers.

Mine are dual fifteen inch, instead of twelves like he shows here.
He likes to add a lot of electronics to dipole systems for free air response to measure well, which I find unnecessary with proper room placement. Not disagreeing with a master, just still exploring other options.
To me it seems as if he is defeating some of the benefits to the dipole effect if you go messing with the natural air of these types of systems.
But, he's smarter than I am and has more measuring equipment. I have ears, some downloaded software, a few calibrated mics and one old O'scope.

Biamp and cross them over below 100Hz and you have a really effective addition to a bass shy fullrange Open Baffle driver.
With my new Lii Audio F15 drivers (which see), I intend crossing them off at more or less 42Hz, if the graphs mean anything.
The Lii Audio driver only reaches 50Hz with authority, but for some of my hard rock and even classical music, they need a helping hand.

So far, I have only used my H frames with my mono stack in the garage. They have not made it into the house as of yet.
I have no idea if they will mate well with my F15 Lii drivers at this point.
I have a lot of ways to try before I decide that it might not work, though.

This will be my fourth attempt at OB bass, but my first attempt at H frame type baffles.
What I had before with some back loading was awesome and I used them for almost fifteen years with the Visaton B200 drivers.
These Lii Audio F15 drivers are better in so many ways.

I took this from the Linkwitz website:
Notice his test microphone placement. I test my system from my listening chair, mostly, once I am done with "free air" or "half space" tests.

That's a weird placement for a mic. I'd like to see what happens in a live RTA when moving it around.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 22, 2022, 07:38:12 PM

I have Hart's Rules. Admittedly I haven't looked at it much. I definitely have some reading to do. I ordered the CMOS off Amazon.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 23, 2022, 05:24:40 AM

It's not the kind of book you read cover to cover, tbh. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 23, 2022, 07:53:32 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 23, 2022, 05:24:40 AM

It's not the kind of book you read cover to cover, tbh. :)

I think I'll just open it up randomly. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 24, 2022, 12:55:39 PM

Quote from: renaeden on December 23, 2022, 07:53:32 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 23, 2022, 05:24:40 AM

It's not the kind of book you read cover to cover, tbh. :)

I think I'll just open it up randomly. :zoinks:

Last time I opened up a book randomly, I couldn't put it down and it was already midnight the next day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 24, 2022, 10:54:25 PM

Quote from: Genesis on December 24, 2022, 12:55:39 PM

Quote from: renaeden on December 23, 2022, 07:53:32 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 23, 2022, 05:24:40 AM

It's not the kind of book you read cover to cover, tbh. :)

I think I'll just open it up randomly. :zoinks:

Last time I opened up a book randomly, I couldn't put it down and it was already midnight the next day.

I love books like that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on December 26, 2022, 02:49:21 PM

Since Jack had the day off, I packed away all the Christmas. This weekend was awesome and both family gathering events ran smoothly, but it's nice to have the house back in order and restored to the usual feng shui. :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on December 27, 2022, 06:54:09 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on December 26, 2022, 02:49:21 PM

Since Jack had the day off, I packed away all the Christmas. This weekend was awesome and both family gathering events ran smoothly, but it's nice to have the house back in order and restored to the usual feng shui. :heart:

Kind of awesome. We did an all stay at home and phone each other this year.
Odd how I get to know about my in-law family extensions more on the phone than when they visit, but the corridor is a different way for some.
I grew up in Texas and most could not traverse the miles to attend family gatherings. Phoning cost a lot of money back then.

I would have to say it was a great Christmas time for our family. I'm glad it's over!

Now I just want to see the same enthusiasm that brought all this shit out in the first place to come into play as it all goes away again.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 27, 2022, 04:05:50 PM

Quote from: renaeden on December 23, 2022, 07:53:32 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 23, 2022, 05:24:40 AM

It's not the kind of book you read cover to cover, tbh. :)

I think I'll just open it up randomly. :zoinks:

Precisely what I did when I first bought my Chicago - 14th edition, I think. So much interesting stuff in there. Actually it's still what I do with every new style guide I buy. :)

I miss being an editor sometimes, tbh. Being paid to be a language (and form) nerd is not a bad gig.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on December 27, 2022, 05:56:21 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on December 27, 2022, 06:54:09 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on December 26, 2022, 02:49:21 PM

Since Jack had the day off, I packed away all the Christmas. This weekend was awesome and both family gathering events ran smoothly, but it's nice to have the house back in order and restored to the usual feng shui. :heart:

Kind of awesome. We did an all stay at home and phone each other this year.
Odd how I get to know about my in-law family extensions more on the phone than when they visit, but the corridor is a different way for some.
I grew up in Texas and most could not traverse the miles to attend family gatherings. Phoning cost a lot of money back then.

I would have to say it was a great Christmas time for our family. I'm glad it's over!

Now I just want to see the same enthusiasm that brought all this shit out in the first place to come into play as it all goes away again.

I'm always eager to put away Christmas. The house instantly looks much cleaner. Plus red is a stimulating color with a conditioned association to danger, so it's instantly calmer too.  :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 27, 2022, 06:58:55 PM

I got one of my shelving projects completed

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 27, 2022, 08:15:31 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 27, 2022, 04:05:50 PM

Quote from: renaeden on December 23, 2022, 07:53:32 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 23, 2022, 05:24:40 AM

It's not the kind of book you read cover to cover, tbh. :)

I think I'll just open it up randomly. :zoinks:

Precisely what I did when I first bought my Chicago - 14th edition, I think. So much interesting stuff in there. Actually it's still what I do with every new style guide I buy. :)

I miss being an editor sometimes, tbh. Being paid to be a language (and form) nerd is not a bad gig.

I didn't know you were an editor. That's interesting. A level above proofreading. There's a lot to get my head around still. In Hart's Rules there are a few mentions of XML.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 14, 2023, 09:14:34 PM

I slept in. And it was glorious! :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on January 16, 2023, 07:21:08 AM

I totally forgot today is a work holiday, so that was a nice surprise for a Monday morning. :woohoo: Now I don't know what to do with myself.  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 22, 2023, 04:52:39 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on January 16, 2023, 07:21:08 AM

I totally forgot today is a work holiday, so that was a nice surprise for a Monday morning. :woohoo: Now I don't know what to do with myself.  :lol1:

 :lol1:

Done that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 24, 2023, 07:08:45 PM

Everything went as planned at the house I was working on and I even got a check without having to ask

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Post by: Gopher Gary on January 25, 2023, 01:46:19 AM

Quote from: Parts on January 24, 2023, 07:08:45 PM

Everything went as planned at the house I was working on and I even got a check without having to ask

 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on January 25, 2023, 10:34:24 PM

Woke up this morning feeling almost normal after a fucking month with a terrible flu-like thing.

I took two of the OTC Covid tests and was negative for both tests four days part, as per the instructions on the box.
This shit started Monday after Christmas with tummy troubles for two weeks then invaded my lungs and finally my sinus cavities.
Still coughing some, sneezing and blowing my nose a lot, but it feels like it's going away!!
 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 18, 2023, 04:08:29 PM

No work today.

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Post by: Pyraxis on February 18, 2023, 11:39:45 PM

Took the cub to a winter festival in a park and he got to go down an ice slide and play with snow blocks to build a fort. Well the fort was already built but he added a few blocks and played inside it. They had a couple guys there in sleeveless shirts in the falling snow, with chainsaws, sawing away at a block of packed snow to make more bricks for the kids.

I did my best to convince the cub that knocking down the fort afterwards and leaving nothing for the next kids is not good playground manners. He was not thrilled.

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Post by: odeon on February 19, 2023, 01:03:30 PM

Finished gathering receipts, invoices etc. Now the fun begins.

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Post by: Gopher Gary on February 20, 2023, 05:51:11 PM

There's a lot of new posts since my last visit.  :2thumbsup:

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Post by: renaeden on February 20, 2023, 11:31:37 PM

Yeah, I like it too.

Today Kayleigh and I went to the gym and then to various other places to get things we needed. She's been a great help to me since last week but I would still rather drive one-handed than let her drive my car. She doesn't have her licence.

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Post by: Fun With Matches on February 21, 2023, 01:14:44 AM

Quote from: renaeden on February 20, 2023, 11:31:37 PM

Yeah, I like it too.

Me too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on February 21, 2023, 05:42:27 PM

Finished our taxes today.
This past year was the best we've ever done with the IRS. A very small return from Fed and state and nothing to pay.
Closest we've ever come to meeting our goals.
Pay only the taxes we are assessed and do not give the government an interest free loan of OUR money!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 21, 2023, 06:50:52 PM

Both the equipment rental and materials for the job I am starting tomorrow came in significantly under what I had budgeted for them  :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on February 22, 2023, 01:00:18 PM

Oh, right, I need to start on taxes.

Wait, that's not a good thing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 22, 2023, 03:11:21 PM

Finishing the paperwork is.

I'm mostly there.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 22, 2023, 03:18:53 PM

Dump fees were a lot less than budgeted for,  so far this job is going very well

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on February 22, 2023, 03:45:54 PM

I actually lost weight instead of gaining  :o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on February 22, 2023, 04:40:40 PM

Quote from: Genesis on February 22, 2023, 03:45:54 PM

I actually lost weight instead of gaining  :o

 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on February 22, 2023, 04:42:57 PM

Quote from: Parts on February 21, 2023, 06:50:52 PM

Both the equipment rental and materials for the job I am starting tomorrow came in significantly under what I had budgeted for them  :2thumbsup:

:dollar:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on February 23, 2023, 10:01:30 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on February 22, 2023, 01:00:18 PM

Oh, right, I need to start on taxes.

Wait, that's not a good thing.

... but it feels great to get it all finished!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on February 23, 2023, 10:02:26 AM

I suppose I should spend lunch organizing papers.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 24, 2023, 07:16:46 PM

Finished the job I was working on time and under budget :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on February 25, 2023, 04:02:42 PM

Quote from: Parts on February 24, 2023, 07:16:46 PM

Finished the job I was working on time and under budget :asthing:

:hadron:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 25, 2023, 04:48:01 PM

Did some coding. Work, but unlike the last few days, my time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 25, 2023, 06:44:02 PM

Not much of anything

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 26, 2023, 04:26:13 PM

Can't think of much.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 02, 2023, 08:41:57 PM

One of the boy's friends gave him the gift of coffee from Columbia, which he brought back from vacation. :heart: It's mild flavored, less acidic than the coffee we buy, and it's so finely ground it looks like cocoa powder.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 03, 2023, 02:58:57 PM

Daughter came to visit. :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on March 14, 2023, 05:11:31 AM

Holy Shit! I have a job interview on Friday! :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 14, 2023, 07:32:01 AM

Fingers crossed for you!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 14, 2023, 08:45:51 AM

Carla made french toast and bacon for breakfast this morning.  Yummy!   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 14, 2023, 09:38:23 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on March 14, 2023, 05:11:31 AM

Holy Shit! I have a job interview on Friday! :GA:

Yay! I'll be thinking of you. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 16, 2023, 01:55:46 PM

I had lunch... and one of the bird cages has an egg cracking :(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 16, 2023, 06:43:11 PM

Kiddo graduated from his physical therapy for the leg injury he got last fall.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 16, 2023, 08:14:22 PM

Damn! Seems to have taken forever!

All good, I hope.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 16, 2023, 08:16:59 PM

Not today, but tomorrow, my son has a job interview. He wants to keep his present job, but not enough hours for him to sustain his needs right now.

An additional source of income would help a lot!

I hope he gets it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 16, 2023, 08:24:58 PM

I've been goofing with this thing since last spring and I think I finally got it going well.

I took the garage door opener from our old house and altered some things to make a rock polishing tumbler.
It's really quiet compared to some rock tumblers I've looked into. It will still live outside!

I've only had it going for a couple of days and I just used play sand to clean up some promising looking specimens.
I used a large PVC pipe with adapters for screw on ends and a rubber roller around the contact edge. I will have two gallons of media and maybe four or five pounds of rocks per attempt.

Beautiful, so far!

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Post by: Pyraxis on March 17, 2023, 07:56:38 AM

Quote from: DirtDawg on March 16, 2023, 08:14:22 PM

Damn! Seems to have taken forever!

All good, I hope.

I don't really have a frame of reference for these things, but he's okay now. Apparently one of his hips is still weaker than the other, but not to the point the doctor keeps needing to see it. I'm supposed to keep doing exercises at home with him, but we haven't been able to do them regularly, it's too hard and always an argument with him.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 17, 2023, 11:27:04 AM

Not sure there is such a thing as a timeline.

I'm over a year in on this broken wrist shit and it's still not right yet. I am assuming that it will never be OK again.

My third trip with broken ribs as well and all seems fine, until I breathe deeply. Worse when I sneeze. Coughing is more controllable.

When I was recovering from hip replacement, they switched me from stabilizing the new hip with weights to building strength in both symmetrically after about three months. That went fine at first, until the pain caused me to cheat some.
My pain caused me to object fiercely to every movement back then.

Forcing through pain is an adulting thing. Kids will have trouble even trying it..

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 17, 2023, 11:36:54 AM

Confirmed that I have tickets to the Indy Car Grand Prix this year.

It's not the Indianapolis 500, but it's the same cars, running a road course on the infield track.

I'll get back to the 500 eventually!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 17, 2023, 01:32:04 PM

It's St. Patricks Day :-/

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 17, 2023, 02:40:00 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on March 14, 2023, 05:11:31 AM

Holy Shit! I have a job interview on Friday! :GA:

How did it go?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 17, 2023, 02:40:20 PM

Met with a friend.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 17, 2023, 04:11:08 PM

Lordy Gods, I read that wrong at first.

I thought you wrote "meth with a friend."

It hurt.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 17, 2023, 07:58:30 PM

Helping Punkdrew/Wandrew with some phone problems.  So far so good. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 18, 2023, 11:15:36 AM

I went to the barbeque place I favor for a lunchtime meal. I posted pics of his mariner and pirate themed murals encompassing his building before.

Added some fixin's from the pantry and it turned into a wonderful meal with leftovers.
 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 19, 2023, 04:13:24 PM

Found some good stuff at the flea market

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 19, 2023, 08:07:21 PM

Carla had a Sunday off for the first time in months!   :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 19, 2023, 08:29:58 PM

My sister came for a visit.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 19, 2023, 09:09:33 PM

Got invited to dinner with the family of a friend of the cub, and the grandmother in the family makes gluten free waffles. She sent me home with a whole bag of homemade gluten free frozen waffles.

:autism:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 19, 2023, 09:32:34 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on March 19, 2023, 09:09:33 PM

Got invited to dinner with the family of a friend of the cub, and the grandmother in the family makes gluten free waffles. She sent me home with a whole bag of homemade gluten free frozen waffles.

:autism:

 :o lucky

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 20, 2023, 09:26:27 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on March 19, 2023, 09:09:33 PM

Got invited to dinner with the family of a friend of the cub, and the grandmother in the family makes gluten free waffles. She sent me home with a whole bag of homemade gluten free frozen waffles.

:autism:

Sweet!  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 20, 2023, 09:29:35 AM

Carla finished the taxes and we're going to do some retail/mall crawling therapy.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 20, 2023, 02:06:01 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on March 17, 2023, 04:11:08 PM

Lordy Gods, I read that wrong at first.

I thought you wrote "meth with a friend."

It hurt.

:LMAO:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: BadgerTom on March 20, 2023, 02:16:30 PM

A now ex friend of mine got arrested last week and is now in Prison for an undetermined number of years, and maybe also added himself to a register......

Prison is too good for those ones.... Open Prison at that...

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 20, 2023, 02:25:36 PM

I'm sure your ex-friend will find the appreciation he needs.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on March 21, 2023, 07:40:08 PM

I've ordered shoes online several times, but I had a specific brand and model or style of crosstrainer that was consistent and well built that fit perfectly. I've worn out four pair.
Went to re-order and found out that particular item has been discontinued.

:hair:

The good news is, I ordered the replacement model and they are perfect. I can only tell the differences because I have an older pair to compare.
I got really lucky!

I hate shoe shopping!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 21, 2023, 09:23:52 PM

Survived work and kept my cool with all the petty frustrations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 22, 2023, 01:42:59 PM

Had an Unwich from Jimmy Johns just need to clean my quarters from the trash I have cluttered... otherwise I'm okay.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 22, 2023, 06:06:41 PM

Went for my check up to the dentist.  My teeth are fine albeit with a few spots that will be watched carefully.  At 67, I have all my own teeth.  When my father was my age, he had full dentures.  Actually the same with my mother.  So I am grateful for that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 22, 2023, 07:00:19 PM

I served the cub a balanced meal - ham, clementines, a cheese bun, zucchini and yogurt - and he ate everything except the zucchini. This never happens!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 23, 2023, 01:37:45 AM

^I don't like zucchini either. ;)

I got a $20 pay rise today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 23, 2023, 07:24:01 AM

I loved deep fried zucchini slices with a mustard sauce.  Very tasty.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 23, 2023, 12:28:32 PM

I got my tax return today... treated Dad and myself to lunch.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 23, 2023, 12:46:53 PM

I got the paperwork back from the accountant, but I haven't been able to bring myself to look at it. Apparently there's a balance owing, which doesn't usually happen, so now I have to go through it all and figure out if that's justified or if it's missing some relevant information.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 23, 2023, 12:47:32 PM

That wasn't the good thing! The good thing eight now is fresh GF pitas with chicken and avocado.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 23, 2023, 09:39:37 PM

My employers didn't sack me. I honestly thought they would even though it would have been very unfair.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on March 23, 2023, 11:08:11 PM

Why would they consider sacking you?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 24, 2023, 01:05:19 PM

Quote from: renaeden on March 23, 2023, 09:39:37 PM

My employers didn't sack me. I honestly thought they would even though it would have been very unfair.

Why would they do that to you?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 24, 2023, 01:54:23 PM

Found out an old friend who changed her gmail address is still with us!!! 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 24, 2023, 10:18:25 PM

Quote from: Genesis on March 24, 2023, 01:05:19 PM

Quote from: renaeden on March 23, 2023, 09:39:37 PM

My employers didn't sack me. I honestly thought they would even though it would have been very unfair.

Why would they do that to you?

Since I broke my arm there, they've had someone else do my job. I thought they'd be happy with them and not need me anymore. But I guess I was wrong. Which is good for me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 26, 2023, 09:13:37 PM

I successfully made an appointment for Kayleigh and I to see our property manager next week. We'll be discussing the renovations.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 27, 2023, 01:18:35 PM

Quote from: renaeden on March 24, 2023, 10:18:25 PM

Quote from: Genesis on March 24, 2023, 01:05:19 PM

Quote from: renaeden on March 23, 2023, 09:39:37 PM

My employers didn't sack me. I honestly thought they would even though it would have been very unfair.

Why would they do that to you?

Since I broke my arm there, they've had someone else do my job. I thought they'd be happy with them and not need me anymore. But I guess I was wrong. Which is good for me.

Oh :(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 29, 2023, 03:40:33 PM

Emailed the post office Saturday about their lame excuses for not delivering a package that was supposedly going to be delivered then. Today a lady called me, apologising and asking if they could somehow make it up to me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 29, 2023, 10:11:21 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 29, 2023, 03:40:33 PM

Emailed the post office Saturday about their lame excuses for not delivering a package that was supposedly going to be delivered then. Today a lady called me, apologising and asking if they could somehow make it up to me.

I've never heard of such a thing. I would have been totally caught in their headlights on that.  :lol1: Did you suggest a reparation?  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 30, 2023, 01:03:58 AM

I would have asked for some stamps.  :indeed:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 30, 2023, 05:04:56 PM

I might have asked for a large statue of myself in the parking lot.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Fun With Matches on March 31, 2023, 07:05:24 AM

Quote from: odeon on March 29, 2023, 03:40:33 PM

Emailed the post office Saturday about their lame excuses for not delivering a package that was supposedly going to be delivered then. Today a lady called me, apologising and asking if they could somehow make it up to me.

You might be able to get a voucher. Since they used to do that for lost post, it might work for that.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 04, 2023, 02:21:31 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 29, 2023, 10:11:21 PM

Quote from: odeon on March 29, 2023, 03:40:33 PM

Emailed the post office Saturday about their lame excuses for not delivering a package that was supposedly going to be delivered then. Today a lady called me, apologising and asking if they could somehow make it up to me.

I've never heard of such a thing. I would have been totally caught in their headlights on that.  :lol1: Did you suggest a reparation?  :orly:

I told her it's fine, I just want them to have a word with the culprits, maybe teach them how to read maps and shit. They don't have the funding so this will continue to happen.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 04, 2023, 02:22:22 PM

Quote from: renaeden on March 30, 2023, 01:03:58 AM

I would have asked for some stamps.  :indeed:

:rofl:

I'd then have stamps until the end of time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 04, 2023, 02:23:11 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on March 30, 2023, 05:04:56 PM

I might have asked for a large statue of myself in the parking lot.  :zoinks:

This I have to admit I did not do. A giant gopher statue would be brilliant.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on April 20, 2023, 09:56:25 PM

Fixed mower #1...a recent trash picked rear wheel drive self-propelled Troy Bilt monster with no compression.

Head gasket, oil change, carb cleaned.

...on to the next.

We picked up a bunch of them recently, they are lined up two rows deep under the carport.

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Post by: DirtDawg on April 21, 2023, 06:38:23 AM

^ Awesome. I love being able to refurb garbage and make it usable again.

Do you "re-home" these for some cash or are you going to use it up yourself.
I've done it both ways with my speaker stuff.
Finding anything worth a plug nickel on the side of the road these days is rare.

I am usually OK with finding cut down trees and grabbing some free firewood. Plenty of that, but not much else around here.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on April 21, 2023, 09:12:45 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on April 21, 2023, 06:38:23 AM

^ Awesome. I love being able to refurb garbage and make it usable again.

Do you "re-home" these for some cash or are you going to use it up yourself.
I've done it both ways with my speaker stuff.
Finding anything worth a plug nickel on the side of the road these days is rare.

I am usually OK with finding cut down trees and grabbing some free firewood. Plenty of that, but not much else around here.

Husband cuts grass over bar/friends...probably having him take this one to park wherever he wants. Don't like him loading...unloading them by himself...some of those self propelled aren't too light anymore.

$100 flip if I sold it. Two just like it online now at $150-100...I'll probably flip a couple though. I've got 4 Shark vacuums and one Kirby sitting too. Shark vacuums retail for $125-200+ depending on model now. They're flipping for $50+...I'm happy to shove them out the door for less depending on how much time it takes me to clean and go over them....3 like new gas blowers I need to tune up for fall laying around next to a decent little snowblower too. 

You have to dig deep these days, but the money is still there. People are unbelievably wasteful, even now...and hate to say it...a lot of foreclosures/evictions still happening around here. The scavenger life is somewhat depressing at times, but vultures need to eat too, and I try to give back as much as I can.

 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 22, 2023, 06:47:51 AM

 :2thumbsup:

Great going.

I see some value sometimes, but I am always in the middle of something and seldom have the time to stop. I would need to make scrounging more of a priority and just take off into the right neighborhoods AND get there first.
There is quite a bit of scavenging competition.

We have a huge Mexican or South Of The Border-ites population living here these days and those folk are generally damn good scroungers! In some cases that is a major part of their income, fixing things to buy, sell or trade with.

It is difficult to compete with those guys doing this as a job to support a family.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 22, 2023, 03:31:36 PM

A fabulous burger happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 22, 2023, 09:21:49 PM

I survived a work night at walmart.............and I don't even get a fucking t-shirt to show for it!  <harumph>

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 23, 2023, 05:54:06 AM

I met up with my parents and my sister. I gave my sister a hair towel like the one I have, I think she appreciated it. I gave my parents the chocolate they like the most. Missed out on Easter as I was sick, made up for it today. We had a nice lunch then looked at arts and crafts. But didn't buy any.

We looked at the house my parents are having built in a retirement village. It was only walls and roof timbers but we got the gist of where everything would be. Mum and Peter looked pleased at how things are going. An all round happy day. :)

All the chocolate I got melted in my car but I put it in the fridge when I got home.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on April 26, 2023, 05:16:15 AM

A girl is starting a new job on 1st June. Exciting? Exciting would have been two weeks ago, but nevermind :tard:

Now for the fun part; putting in my notice at work and enduring the next 5 weeks :poo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 26, 2023, 08:22:23 AM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on April 26, 2023, 05:16:15 AM

A girl is starting a new job on 1st June. Exciting? Exciting would have been two weeks ago, but nevermind :tard:

Now for the fun part; putting in my notice at work and enduring the next 5 weeks :poo:

Congratulations! :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 26, 2023, 07:02:27 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on April 26, 2023, 05:16:15 AM

A girl is starting a new job on 1st June. Exciting? Exciting would have been two weeks ago, but nevermind :tard:

Now for the fun part; putting in my notice at work and enduring the next 5 weeks :poo:

So awesome, good on you!

Here's hoping that the next 5 weeks go quickly.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 26, 2023, 07:36:32 PM

Had our anniversary meal today, since Carla has to work on our anniversary day and I have to switch out my snow tires for regular tires,  C'est la vie!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 27, 2023, 07:20:49 AM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on April 26, 2023, 05:16:15 AM

A girl is starting a new job on 1st June. Exciting? Exciting would have been two weeks ago, but nevermind :tard:

Now for the fun part; putting in my notice at work and enduring the next 5 weeks :poo:

'grats!  I hope it goes your way!

Coincidentally, my son is to begin a new job next week. YaY!!
He's keeping his old job, though, both part time.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on April 27, 2023, 08:52:50 AM

Amber has started cleaning the next quadrant in her room and getting rid of stuff.  We make progress!   8)

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Post by: Pyraxis on April 27, 2023, 10:20:21 AM

Yesterday I turned on the cub's star projector with its repetitive music after I put him to bed, and went to practice the piano. After a few minutes he called out to me and said turn it off, your music is better.

Win!!!  :congrats:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on April 27, 2023, 10:39:54 AM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on April 26, 2023, 05:16:15 AM

A girl is starting a new job on 1st June. Exciting? Exciting would have been two weeks ago, but nevermind :tard:

Now for the fun part; putting in my notice at work and enduring the next 5 weeks :poo:

:congrats:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on April 27, 2023, 10:40:23 AM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 27, 2023, 10:20:21 AM

Yesterday I turned on the cub's star projector with its repetitive music after I put him to bed, and went to practice the piano. After a few minutes he called out to me and said turn it off, your music is better.

Win!!!  :congrats:

 :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 28, 2023, 02:39:37 PM

Drank beer after a day that was basically a shitshow. Fuck everything.

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Post by: Gopher Gary on April 29, 2023, 05:39:32 PM

I discovered there's a new season of Alone on Hulu. I figured that was a great way to spend a rainy Saturday, so I snuggled up with my laptop, fell asleep, and napped away the afternoon.  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 29, 2023, 06:59:44 PM

I've been trying to find "Picard" without now having to pay for another subscription.

Paramount+ is cheap, but damn! I am already paying a buttload for internet, cable, etc in addition to several more subscriptions to find what we like.
I suppose one more won't really do much, except piss me off even more at all this.

I made a comment back in the eighties when cable first came out, TVs had that little funny looking round thing on the back for the first time ever, where the cable goes.
I said that it does not look like a quarter slot on a juke box, but it will end up being the same. You have to put money in to it for it to work.

... now, here we are!

 :lol1:

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Post by: Gopher Gary on April 29, 2023, 08:21:16 PM

I share my netflix with the girl and she shares her hulu with me.  :orly: We also have cable, but that's for Sugarbutt. I don't even know how to operate the tv.  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 29, 2023, 08:26:39 PM

Having an adventure with Mom, wished I could of worked with LL but she's in the hospital with pneumonia at the moment.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 29, 2023, 09:13:09 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on April 29, 2023, 08:21:16 PM

I share my netflix with the girl and she shares her hulu with me.  :orly: We also have cable, but that's for Sugarbutt. I don't even know how to operate the tv.  :lol1:

About a year and a half ago, just before we moved into this new home, I went through a lot of stuff, trying to streamline and found that we were actually paying for multiple subscriptions on some things. Prime for instance, we all had our own Amazon accounts, that's FOUR!!.  With Netflix we had two, Hulu was a part of our cell service, Roku had three of us hooked up, but I eliminated three duplicates in one day.

The kids will sit with their cellphones and cast shit to the TV system without thinking, just having fun. If there is a subscription needed they just ckick right through and go on watching on TV what they had going on the hand held device.

My mom used to say that my brother and I were severely "underslapped" kids. Meaning we were spoiled and deserved even more slaps than we had recieved.

I probably need to look into it again. Not the slaps so much as the subscriptions that could be dupe of what we are already paying.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 30, 2023, 02:18:48 PM

I acknowledged to my therapist that my mind doesn't rest.... it shuts down for a bit, but in all honesty theres no actual REST!

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Post by: rock hound on May 01, 2023, 01:29:53 PM

Looks like Amber will be taking her first steps into a career in education.  Looks like she will be hired by a local elementary school after getting her Associate degree.  An uptick in salary, full benefits and all that jazz.  Not to mention help in further achieving help towards her goal of getting a full teaching degree.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 01, 2023, 01:45:02 PM

Congratulations to her!

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Post by: rock hound on May 01, 2023, 03:34:45 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on May 01, 2023, 01:45:02 PM

Congratulations to her!

Indeed.  She has worked very hard for this.   :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 05, 2023, 02:54:17 PM

 :plus:

My daughter's done with the uni this month and recently got a part-time job that will morph into a full-time gig in her chosen field - HR.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 05, 2023, 02:56:24 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 05, 2023, 02:54:17 PM

:plus:

My daughter's done with the uni this month and recently got a part-time job that will morph into a full-time gig in her chosen field - HR.

Congratulations and good for her.   :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 07, 2023, 07:21:08 AM

Ah, the comforting morning hot mug of my favorite tea with a tiny dollop of milk!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 07, 2023, 03:47:30 PM

I didn't get easily as confused (wait... DAMN IT! I did :( )

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on May 12, 2023, 12:22:55 PM

Lilacs are starting to bloom and the scent of them makes me happy!   :) 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 12, 2023, 02:27:45 PM

Quote from: rock hound on May 05, 2023, 02:56:24 PM

Quote from: odeon on May 05, 2023, 02:54:17 PM

:plus:

My daughter's done with the uni this month and recently got a part-time job that will morph into a full-time gig in her chosen field - HR.

Congratulations and good for her.   :plus:

Thanks, much appreciated

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 12, 2023, 11:08:39 PM

Went to a concert

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 16, 2023, 07:22:06 PM

We need details!
 :heisenberg:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 16, 2023, 09:58:26 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 16, 2023, 07:22:06 PM

We need details!
 :heisenberg:

It was a Christian concert my friends took me to. Just a day after Dad passed away...

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 18, 2023, 11:45:07 AM

Quote from: Genesis on May 16, 2023, 09:58:26 PM

Quote from: DirtDawg on May 16, 2023, 07:22:06 PM

We need details!
 :heisenberg:

It was a Christian concert my friends took me to. Just a day after Dad passed away...

Nice!
I've been to a few of those shows.

I can recommend Skillet as a rock band putting on a great show, offering some Christian vibe. But damn good rock and roll music! I've only seen them twice, but they were very good! Honestly, the messages are universal, once you find your grounding.


https://youtu.be/3SZBBjmwALQ

https://youtu.be/Qzw6A2WC5Qo

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on May 18, 2023, 06:52:01 PM

I used to like Thief by Skillet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Icequeen on May 18, 2023, 09:10:42 PM

I love Monster. That was a good song.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 18, 2023, 09:13:41 PM

It was one of those do nothing days

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Post by: rock hound on May 19, 2023, 12:25:32 PM

Finally got the first LONG walk of the year in.  Took my  favorite purple walking stick and went strolling.  Along the way sniffed every Lilac flower that I could reach.  <bliss>
 8)

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Post by: Parts on May 19, 2023, 07:06:07 PM

Did good at garage sales

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 20, 2023, 01:43:36 PM

Doing my odd job for my contribution to the work week. My current job won't let me back until after the following week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 20, 2023, 05:26:30 PM

Qualifications for the 107th running of the Indianapolis 500. I was not able to attend in person, but thanks to the marvel of modern subscriptions in television viewing, I got to see most of it.

All the top ten drivers qualified for the race next weekend are hitting speeds above 233.+ mph/375kph. That is an average of four laps.  This year, if you were not hitting 231mph, you got bumped.

There is a lady in this year's race, Katherine Legge running 231mph and barely made it at the 30th spot.
They set the top thirty spots on Saturday and leave three spots open for tomorrow for qualifying. Her last spot is safe; she's in the race.

Those final three spots will be filled with the qualification period tomorrow. Also called bump day or bubble day, because you could possibly qualify and someone could burst your bubble by qualifying faster than your speed.

The cars are so different this year from just last year! For instance they have skinnied down the tires, which my wife mentioned months ago, since she has to load those damn tires onto her Early AM Air Delivery truck, frequently this time of year.
Being a "captain" on her Overnight Air truck routes, she sees it all.

Another thing that has come up again is that the straightaway speeds are above 240mph again. I saw the pole sitter, Swede, hit 246mph on one of his laps.  HOLY FUCK!!
Every time that happens the league slows the cars down again and sends the mechanics back to the drawing boards to work on making them even faster with less boost, smaller engines, skinny tires, less wing and downforce, etc.

All in all, it was an "edge of the seat" day of television for me. Wish I could have attended again, but ...
We even had a competitor from our town qualify in 22nd spot.
He's in the race at 232.494mph!


Yeah, that is a close field of super fast race cars. 233.9mph for the pole sitter, fastest car, and 232.4mph takes twenty two spots back in the field. Close race!

It is an amazingly balanced field. Any one of these racers can win the thing; they are that closely matched.

I'm actually a little tired and all I did was watch.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 22, 2023, 06:36:32 PM

I had a good day, just wish I wasn't feeling like shit right now :(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 25, 2023, 07:42:27 PM

My son was walking the dog and passed near a school that had a tree fall in the last storm. They had had some workers out, apparently, and they made a preliminary cutting of some of the tree branches. Probably attempting to make the remnants fit into the back of a truck or trailer.

Well, guess what, those remnants also fit into the back of my SUV type car. I brought my tiny electric chainsaw and a few spare batteries, but never needed it.
I keep a length of tarp folded into the cargo area of my Traverse and we just folded down the back seats to make a huge flat surface, spread out the tarp and loaded it up to the ceiling with firewood.

We have more than enough free wood to burn to last us all summer and fall, maybe more.
Does that mean I am done looking for free timber?  NO!

But, it was quite a nice find.
:woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 25, 2023, 07:44:47 PM

Dog sitting this weekend... So far, I'm having fun she's staying right beside me.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 25, 2023, 07:49:58 PM

Honestly, with all my son has gone through lately, my latest challenge is to find something positive to celebrate his behavior about.

This is a thing we will celebrate for as long as I can make it last!!
We will be using HIS axes and tools and blades, my chain saw and maul, to get this wood ready for the pit and every moment will be a teaching moment for improving his eye-hand coordination and tool skills.

As long as I can make it last. He has kicked ASS!

 :grouphug:


I pirated and vikinged ...

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Post by: rock hound on May 25, 2023, 09:03:27 PM

Just got back from Kentucky and no glitches on the return flight/trip.   :viking:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 26, 2023, 02:32:37 PM

Tried taking Dolly with me to visit L L

didn't work so well, because Dolly was getting bored... glad Mom came to pick her up, she needed to get out of the boredom.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 26, 2023, 04:07:48 PM

I remembered it's a three day weekend. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 26, 2023, 05:54:18 PM

:woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 26, 2023, 05:58:37 PM

Very nice weather and we set the firepit going again.  Neighbors probably think our stove is broken.
 :LOL:

Made steaks for my daughter and me and burgers for my wife and the elder kid. Grilled some broccoli and carrots for an accent and I had my marshmallow for dessert as the others had their s'mores.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 27, 2023, 01:17:03 PM

Not being asked about if I'm married, or having a girlfriend from L L today.

That's a plus... I'll take it (for now)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on May 28, 2023, 03:00:50 PM

Had a nice day at the flea market profitable too

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 29, 2023, 05:58:06 AM

Quote from: Parts on May 28, 2023, 03:00:50 PM

Had a nice day at the flea market profitable too

 :2thumbsup: :dollar:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 29, 2023, 12:35:49 PM

That I was able to get stuff done .__.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on May 30, 2023, 03:04:17 PM

Talked to my both conference co-organisers, earlier. We had fun, which is good when you have spent the last several months with the minutiae of said conference.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on May 30, 2023, 05:31:12 PM

 :green:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on May 31, 2023, 07:25:52 AM

I would not actually call this "good" in an overall sense, but I stubbed my toe rather severely hustling around doing stuff.
No bones broken. That's the GOOD part, but my big toe nail split in half.

Not like longitudinally as when most folks' nails split, but a massive layer came off the top.

All my nails are more like hooves than people nails, super thick, grow super fast, almost impossible to cut without the best specialized equipment. Nope, those high dollar Revlon products just bend and fail. I use my Channelock 8" dikes to cut my toenails. Nothing else gets through them.
I do use the best Revlon toenail cutter to trim my fingernails, because it takes that kind of power to even begin cutting on my nails.

Some blood, but after a bit I got the broken part whittled down enough to see WTF was going on.

I was bumping around after a bath with no shoes on.

 'at'll learn me!  Wear your fucking shoes!

 :GA:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on June 01, 2023, 06:04:03 AM

Paying $4800 worth of bills has never been so exciting :cheer:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on June 01, 2023, 04:02:33 PM

 :-[ she cares about me  :o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on June 01, 2023, 05:32:40 PM

Listening to music, and the fact that today has been 6 years since I adopted Yoshi

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on June 03, 2023, 12:46:15 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on June 01, 2023, 06:04:03 AM

Paying $4800 worth of bills has never been so exciting :cheer:

:hadron:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on June 03, 2023, 02:18:29 PM

Got my people contact for today... just need to finish 70 minutes of my shift, then I go home and get prepared for my therapy appointment.

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Post by: rock hound on June 07, 2023, 01:40:26 PM

Finally saw one of favorite foods at our supermarket.  Honey Sting Wings, because of my esophageal issues I tend to be wary of fried whole foods.  But, since I have not seen them in some time, I went what the hell and bought 3 of them.  Took them home and enjoyed them immensely, without esophageal issues.  Small bites, thorough chewing and a healthy swig of water to wash the bites down.  That seems to do the trick, 99% of the time.  A small victory, but, one I will happily take! 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on June 07, 2023, 03:42:38 PM

Glad I was able to find razor blades today, a little upset that one of the blades went down my sink... but I'll be okay, just hated the shaggy look I was developing.

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Post by: Gopher Gary on June 17, 2023, 06:37:36 PM

This was yesterday, but I got my teeth cleaned.  :2thumbsup: I love getting my teeth cleaned. My hygienist said my gums look much better. I told her I've been trying to be more diligent about flossing because she fussed at me about it last time. She told me it's my gums and I'm not doing it for her. I told her, nope, I do it just for her.  :lol1:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 18, 2023, 03:42:17 AM

That's something I should do. I just fear having to have x-rays because it makes me gag. But I've been procrastinating about it since the beginning of the year.

Today the pie shop was open, which I didn't expect.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on June 18, 2023, 08:40:56 AM

Quote from: renaeden on June 18, 2023, 03:42:17 AM

That's something I should do. I just fear having to have x-rays because it makes me gag. But I've been procrastinating about it since the beginning of the year.

Today the pie shop was open, which I didn't expect.

I hate getting my teeth x-rayed for the same reason.  I gag so easily.  Having those things put in the back of my mouth is so unpleasant. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 18, 2023, 03:02:39 PM

Well, lost in the hurried shuffle to move and vacate the old house, we misplaced our kid's and my wife's Birth Certificates.
I kept mine in hand. I'm from Texas. You don't do otherwise.

My wife thought using a special folio would do better. But, the documents left her hands. Then got buried.

Today we uncovered them all!!!

I do not think my wife has ever offered me a high five before. What a great day it has been!!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on June 18, 2023, 05:38:45 PM

Found a Blu-Ray/DVD Combo of John Wick Chapter 4 while scavenging at Walmart.

WINNING!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on June 19, 2023, 08:20:43 AM

The sprinkler guy showed up at 8AM and got right to work. He had some fancy device with him that helped him to locate the break in the underground pipe lines.

All went well. He finished up in two hours and everything is as it should be now.
And he only charged me $300 to fix all that the Metronet people broke.

I'm still going to rip to shreds the Metronet service rep who is due today to assess the damage they did. As far as I am concerned, Metronet owes for any and all overage from the $79 service call the sprinkler guy charges to get things going again!

We'll see how that goes. Still a good thing happened. We have our irrigation system up and running!

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Post by: odeon on June 19, 2023, 02:57:13 PM

Wrote some code today. Doesn't happen all that much now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on June 19, 2023, 03:28:17 PM

shopping with my Mom and Sister

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on June 27, 2023, 01:13:50 AM

The floor guy finally turned up (three hours late) and laid the last 10 tiles in Kayleigh's room. He then varnished it and now there's a fan on in that area. I can move stuff in about two hours.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on June 27, 2023, 12:37:23 PM

Woke up, checked the mail, took the dogs out for their business, ordered a Jimmy John's Unwich and now I'm content....

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Post by: rock hound on June 27, 2023, 09:18:20 PM

Quote from: Genesis on June 27, 2023, 12:37:23 PM

Woke up, checked the mail, took the dogs out for their business, ordered a Jimmy John's Unwich and now I'm content....

Contentment is a good thing! :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on June 28, 2023, 12:36:37 PM

Quote from: rock hound on June 27, 2023, 09:18:20 PM

Quote from: Genesis on June 27, 2023, 12:37:23 PM

Woke up, checked the mail, took the dogs out for their business, ordered a Jimmy John's Unwich and now I'm content....

Contentment is a good thing! :plus:

High five!  :plus: :plus: :plus: :plus: :plus:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on June 30, 2023, 12:22:26 PM

Found a new group to like - Kaleo

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on July 05, 2023, 04:59:36 PM

Leftover pasta ^_^

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 05, 2023, 07:58:37 PM

Real summer warmth today!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on July 06, 2023, 12:57:42 PM

Odd Job tomorrow

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 06, 2023, 01:42:03 PM

Amber has been offered a job  in the school distract she started working in, 5 days a week, 4 hours a day for $20 dollars and hour.  She has an arrangement with her old job at Staples where she will reduce her hours, where she makes only $10 p/hr.   A no brainer for sure!   :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on July 07, 2023, 06:07:12 AM

Not today, since it is still early, but yesterday I received my new buffer.
My old one had crapped out at the old house.

I figure it was weak line voltage that may have caused the problem to build up during a big job I was working.
 
When I took it apart to try and fix it, I found that two of the three stator windings had burned and shorted inside. Had it been the armature I could have replaced it or rewound it and gotten the old beast going again, fairly inexpensively.
Stators burning is a no go usually.

Not sure how much I have told about one of my hobby jobs I do to raise a bit of coin when I have time. I know I've brushed past this on many occasions, but I polish small things for members of the local hot rod club.
This was a bigger job. I usually do carburetors and linkages or brake valves.  Intake manifold for a Triumph something or other was a bigger endeavor.
Not my style of car, but I want them shiny, if they pay!

I was working up the disgustingly rough British intake manifold when my old buffer went south. I mean I had started with the grinder, then a hand grinder, big coarse files and a smaller arsenal of riffling files for about a week before I even introduced my buffer to this horrible aluminum casting.
I was almost done when my buffer started smoking from inside, instead of outside. I finished it up on my bench mount buffing station, to get the guy going and get paid.

That was two years ago and I just got a new, more powerful, larger ten inch three HP buffer.

Today I will mount it on the stand that I had commissioned a build with a local welder many years ago for the old buffer.
The stand is a 42" square (the size he had as scrap) by half inch base that I can stand on, an eight inch drill pipe for a riser and a one inch twelve by eight (again, a piece of cheap scrap) mounting top.
I had it drilled and anchored to the concrete at the old place.
I am going to try it without anchoring it at first. This buffer is so smooth and even quiet, doesn't even walk on a slick bench top when I powered it up. I think I can just stand on the base of the mount and that will be enough to stabilize it.

We'll see.
I don't have any jobs lined up, yet, but I have some tools in need of TLC. Lots to polish as I get used to my new buffer!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on July 07, 2023, 07:14:25 PM

Learning a new skill  ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 17, 2023, 09:49:49 AM

Had a company that we've done business with before, come and remove a bunch of stuff cluttering up the garage.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 17, 2023, 01:56:30 PM

Discovered that I can do videos on my smart phone!  Did some practice videoing on Carla and I am  happy.  Not bad for a crusty, curmudgeonly quasi luddite old fart.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on July 17, 2023, 05:51:21 PM

I got paid... only I feel like it's too much :(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 17, 2023, 07:09:45 PM

Quote from: Genesis on July 17, 2023, 05:51:21 PM

I got paid... only I feel like it's too much :(

Not your problem!   That is their problem. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on July 18, 2023, 11:56:09 AM

This was yesterday, but I met with a friend.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on July 20, 2023, 01:48:08 PM

Got the email that my lapsang souchong tea order has been shipped! 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on July 20, 2023, 03:11:04 PM

Quote from: rock hound on July 17, 2023, 07:09:45 PM

Quote from: Genesis on July 17, 2023, 05:51:21 PM

I got paid... only I feel like it's too much :(

Not your problem!   That is their problem.

Okay

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Post by: odeon on July 25, 2023, 11:36:00 AM

Can't think of anything particularly exciting. It's been a very bland day.

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Post by: renaeden on August 02, 2023, 11:52:06 PM

This was yesterday, but I got up the courage to call the dentist's office and make an appointment for next Wednesday. This has almost been a year in the making.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 04, 2023, 02:27:29 PM

Found new headphones

 :congrats:  :yawn:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on August 05, 2023, 06:47:41 AM

It was a sunny day so I got some washing done and dried.

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Post by: DirtDawg on August 05, 2023, 08:18:17 AM

I stopped by the Farmer's Market and bought fresh locally grown produce!!

I bought some sweet corn on the cob, small red Irish potatoes, large Blue Lake green beans, a Red Diamond watermelon, asparagus, tomatoes, zucchini, large red onions and some tiny white pearl onions.

Gonna have a fresh veggie blast this week!!
:woohoo:

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Post by: rock hound on August 05, 2023, 09:36:40 AM

Picked up the mail early today, which is gratifying since that is done before I go to work. 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 05, 2023, 03:25:10 PM

Found my favorite flavor of Ice Cream at Aldis today!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 06, 2023, 07:30:26 AM

Bacon :bacon:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 06, 2023, 04:46:40 PM

That Harptones song that won't get out of my head -_-

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Post by: Parts on August 07, 2023, 01:38:13 PM

Going through a bunch of old foreign coins I got at a yard sale for two dollars I found a Roman coin it's in very poor shape but still kinda cool

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 11, 2023, 01:38:27 PM

Quote from: Genesis on August 04, 2023, 02:27:29 PM

Found new headphones

 :congrats:  :yawn:

What kind?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 11, 2023, 01:39:37 PM

Did two hours worth of coding.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 11, 2023, 01:54:19 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 11, 2023, 01:38:27 PM

Quote from: Genesis on August 04, 2023, 02:27:29 PM

Found new headphones

 :congrats:  :yawn:

What kind?

I usually get Skull Candy headphones...

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 11, 2023, 02:15:16 PM

Quote from: Genesis on August 11, 2023, 01:54:19 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 11, 2023, 01:38:27 PM

Quote from: Genesis on August 04, 2023, 02:27:29 PM

Found new headphones

 :congrats:  :yawn:

What kind?

I usually get Skull Candy headphones...

Don't know anything about these. Any good?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 11, 2023, 03:57:52 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 11, 2023, 02:15:16 PM

Quote from: Genesis on August 11, 2023, 01:54:19 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 11, 2023, 01:38:27 PM

Quote from: Genesis on August 04, 2023, 02:27:29 PM

Found new headphones

 :congrats:  :yawn:

What kind?

I usually get Skull Candy headphones...

Don't know anything about these. Any good?

The previous ones I had always had issues with one side being quiet... the new ones I have now I'm being careful with.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on August 19, 2023, 05:35:57 PM

Got my first call from one of my cards I had made up for my antique business.  Went and bought a bunch of stuff including a pot belly wood stove and a six foot high lazy Susan parts bin

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 20, 2023, 03:24:22 PM

This was on Friday, but...

My son got accepted to a two-year programme to study digital content production. His autie self was panicking while being quite pleased. So happy for him. :)

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Post by: Gopher Gary on August 20, 2023, 03:45:47 PM

Quote from: odeon on August 20, 2023, 03:24:22 PM

This was on Friday, but...

My son got accepted to a two-year programme to study digital content production. His autie self was panicking while being quite pleased. So happy for him. :)

:hadron:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on August 20, 2023, 03:54:32 PM

Consider yourself virtually plussed. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 20, 2023, 07:07:23 PM

Went with Carla to do a stroll thru a nearby cemetery and found some decent chunks of black tourmaline in the cemetery dirt roadways.  Gave Amber 3 of them, which she happily accepted and I kept 1.  Not bad for a rock huncher!   ;)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 21, 2023, 03:10:07 PM

Quote from: rock hound on August 20, 2023, 07:07:23 PM

Went with Carla to do a stroll thru a nearby cemetery and found some decent chunks of black tourmaline in the cemetery dirt roadways.  Gave Amber 3 of them, which she happily accepted and I kept 1.  Not bad for a rock huncher!   ;)

Nice

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 21, 2023, 05:05:45 PM

Quote from: Genesis on August 21, 2023, 03:10:07 PM

Quote from: rock hound on August 20, 2023, 07:07:23 PM

Went with Carla to do a stroll thru a nearby cemetery and found some decent chunks of black tourmaline in the cemetery dirt roadways.  Gave Amber 3 of them, which she happily accepted and I kept 1.  Not bad for a rock huncher!   ;)

Nice

Thanks, one pf my many simple pleasures!  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 21, 2023, 06:47:29 PM

Went for a walk to the thrift shop Dad and I usually hanged out at... found 3 movies and only paid $4.45

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 21, 2023, 09:39:04 PM

I gained a lifelong friend ^__^

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on August 22, 2023, 01:49:07 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 20, 2023, 03:24:22 PM

This was on Friday, but...

My son got accepted to a two-year programme to study digital content production. His autie self was panicking while being quite pleased. So happy for him. :)

So... computer stuff? Good on him, I hope he really enjoys it. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 22, 2023, 04:36:57 AM

Quote from: Genesis on August 21, 2023, 09:39:04 PM

I gained a lifelong friend ^__^

Family and friends, that's the meaning of life.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 22, 2023, 06:10:55 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 22, 2023, 04:36:57 AM

Quote from: Genesis on August 21, 2023, 09:39:04 PM

I gained a lifelong friend ^__^

Family and friends, that's the meaning of life.  :thumbup:

Including the number 42? (Or was it 43???)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on August 22, 2023, 08:19:23 PM

With the high heat and vast humidity, along come pop up storms here and there.
They can be quite severe and cover only a small part of a county, but the small storms can kick the shit out of what ever is under the storm clouds. No tornadoes, just straight line wind sheer.

So more free fire wood from the sides of roads. Some of the logs are large from old trees, so I carry a chainsaw and a machete for now to ensure I can get the wood into the back of my car.
I thought last month I had enough to burn all fall and the nice parts of winter, but no settled soul ever passes up oak and maple on the sides of roads for free. None of us settled souls turn that cheek out.
That wood belongs to who ever helps the homeowner clear things or who ever gets there first afterward.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on August 22, 2023, 08:24:33 PM

Quote from: Genesis on August 22, 2023, 06:10:55 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 22, 2023, 04:36:57 AM

Quote from: Genesis on August 21, 2023, 09:39:04 PM

I gained a lifelong friend ^__^

Family and friends, that's the meaning of life.  :thumbup:

Including the number 42? (Or was it 43???)

That seems like too many people for me.  :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Arya Quinn on August 23, 2023, 03:00:57 PM

I got a second date confirmed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 23, 2023, 03:17:02 PM

Got Carla's bicycle repaired, chain kept falling off and the repair guy put on a chain guard to keep it on!  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 24, 2023, 01:48:38 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 22, 2023, 08:24:33 PM

Quote from: Genesis on August 22, 2023, 06:10:55 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 22, 2023, 04:36:57 AM

Quote from: Genesis on August 21, 2023, 09:39:04 PM

I gained a lifelong friend ^__^

Family and friends, that's the meaning of life.  :thumbup:

Including the number 42? (Or was it 43???)

That seems like too many people for me.  :zoinks:

I was making a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy reference  :'(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 24, 2023, 03:30:21 PM

Finished a number of whimsical craft projects with found and repurposed objects and a little paint!   8)

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Post by: Gopher Gary on August 24, 2023, 04:27:53 PM

Quote from: Genesis on August 24, 2023, 01:48:38 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 22, 2023, 08:24:33 PM

Quote from: Genesis on August 22, 2023, 06:10:55 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on August 22, 2023, 04:36:57 AM

Quote from: Genesis on August 21, 2023, 09:39:04 PM

I gained a lifelong friend ^__^

Family and friends, that's the meaning of life.  :thumbup:

Including the number 42? (Or was it 43???)

That seems like too many people for me.  :zoinks:

I was making a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy reference  :'(

I know. I thought my response was especially funny in this forums context.  :asthing:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 25, 2023, 01:30:21 PM

 :LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on August 25, 2023, 02:40:17 PM

Got my car inspected and did some housework that needed doing!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 25, 2023, 02:41:10 PM

Been writing open letters to Dad on my Instagram. So far it's been helping me

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Post by: Gopher Gary on August 25, 2023, 05:32:45 PM

Quote from: Genesis on August 25, 2023, 02:41:10 PM

Been writing open letters to Dad on my Instagram. So far it's been helping me

:hug:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 27, 2023, 06:29:34 PM

Infinite Sadness

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 01, 2023, 03:11:58 PM

Quote from: renaeden on August 22, 2023, 01:49:07 AM

Quote from: odeon on August 20, 2023, 03:24:22 PM

This was on Friday, but...

My son got accepted to a two-year programme to study digital content production. His autie self was panicking while being quite pleased. So happy for him. :)

So... computer stuff? Good on him, I hope he really enjoys it. :)

Driving him there on Monday - the first two days are on site - to provide ground support. We'll stay the night and I'll be working remotely while he familiarises himself with the place. Fingers crossed he'll like it.

I guess some computer stuff, but mostly media studies.

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Post by: renaeden on September 01, 2023, 08:17:15 PM

He will learn so much in 2 years. I hope he makes friends and likes the content.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on September 01, 2023, 08:51:31 PM

Got paid

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Post by: Parts on September 02, 2023, 05:36:16 PM

Got a lot of great stuff at estate sales

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on September 04, 2023, 11:42:09 AM

Quote from: renaeden on September 01, 2023, 08:17:15 PM

He will learn so much in 2 years. I hope he makes friends and likes the content.

He was actually beside himself today. Poor kid, he had to get a cold right before we hit the road... but he was so positive and upbeat and thinking of all the possibilities rather than the obstacles. So proud of him. :heart:

This is after day #1, mind. I will be fighting anyone and anything not on this path.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on September 04, 2023, 12:51:17 PM

Slept in

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 04, 2023, 05:16:38 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 04, 2023, 11:42:09 AM

Quote from: renaeden on September 01, 2023, 08:17:15 PM

He will learn so much in 2 years. I hope he makes friends and likes the content.

He was actually beside himself today. Poor kid, he had to get a cold right before we hit the road... but he was so positive and upbeat and thinking of all the possibilities rather than the obstacles. So proud of him. :heart:

This is after day #1, mind. I will be fighting anyone and anything not on this path.

That's a good mindset to have at the start.  Focus on the possibilities, the obstacles will be there, but, there are always options to get over them or around them!   :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 04, 2023, 05:27:34 PM

Enjoying some red wine!   :wine:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 04, 2023, 09:55:19 PM

The house passed inspection. We just have to clean the exhaust fans in the bathroom and kitchen.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on September 05, 2023, 04:18:51 PM

Did stuff I wasn't even told to do... I felt accomplished and happy about it.

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Post by: Gopher Gary on September 19, 2023, 07:08:03 PM

Sugarbutt and I got our new glasses today.  :2thumbsup:

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Post by: odeon on September 20, 2023, 02:49:42 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 04, 2023, 05:16:38 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 04, 2023, 11:42:09 AM

Quote from: renaeden on September 01, 2023, 08:17:15 PM

He will learn so much in 2 years. I hope he makes friends and likes the content.

He was actually beside himself today. Poor kid, he had to get a cold right before we hit the road... but he was so positive and upbeat and thinking of all the possibilities rather than the obstacles. So proud of him. :heart:

This is after day #1, mind. I will be fighting anyone and anything not on this path.

That's a good mindset to have at the start.  Focus on the possibilities, the obstacles will be there, but, there are always options to get over them or around them!   :thumbup:

Day #2 was just as good. He was saying how much more interesting it was, because it was more about what he was there for rather than all that boring administrative stuff. The kid was barely responsive during the drive back home, but I think his autie self is proud of what was accomplished.

It's been some time since, and he's still upbeat and positive. This is a wonderful thing.

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Post by: odeon on September 20, 2023, 02:50:52 PM

Me, I'm drinking a beer now, which feels very good and rewarding after a very long day.

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Post by: renaeden on September 23, 2023, 02:51:25 AM

This was yesterday - we got a new oven. It's a very basic gas one given that we're renting and didn't have to pay for it, but at least the oven igniter works and the grill has a handle (it fell off on the old one).

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Post by: odeon on September 23, 2023, 02:08:31 PM

Didn't work.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on September 25, 2023, 06:31:28 PM

got 5 letters sent out... will work on the rest throughout this week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 25, 2023, 07:30:20 PM

I got my teeth cleaned. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on September 26, 2023, 12:45:32 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on September 25, 2023, 07:30:20 PM

I got my teeth cleaned. :woohoo:

That's What I'm waiting for - the dentist has to wait for government clearance or some such bullshit. I could be waiting for up to 6 months. But I look forward to it as it feels good to have a clean mouth.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on September 26, 2023, 07:23:28 PM

Actually worked a good shift today...

Problem is, I agreed to work tomorrow .___.

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Post by: renaeden on September 26, 2023, 07:37:55 PM

Quote from: Genesis on September 26, 2023, 07:23:28 PM

Actually worked a good shift today...

Problem is, I agreed to work tomorrow .___.

Think of the money.

I woke up to find both of the cats inside asleep. I thought they would be roaming the countryside since I let them out very early this morning.

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Post by: Parts on October 13, 2023, 07:07:25 PM

Found some Snap on stuff at a garage sale cheep

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on October 14, 2023, 05:38:03 PM

Was able to get out of the house.... need to find out soon if I am working this upcoming week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: conlang returns on October 15, 2023, 12:37:42 AM

Took a shower?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: conlang returns on October 15, 2023, 05:46:20 AM

Okay, I got one now.  I made the first grilled cheese sandwich I ever cooked for myself (and the first one I've eaten since I was a kid) and it turned out surprisingly decent.  Now I'm going to learn from my mistakes and make one that's even better

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on October 15, 2023, 10:01:59 AM

So Carla and I made another mutual decision about another vacation destination.  Usually we go to Boston in January by train for an indulgence trip for a couple of nights.  We've done this for quite a few years.  Lately with some budget hits that have come our way.  We decided with relief to not go.  Hotel rates in Boston are going thru the roof, our favorite gourmet restaurant is deteriorating in service and going up in price as well, AND finally like Florida, we've seen and done just about everything there is to see and do in Boston.  Bottom line we need to do something and go somewhere different.  Carla was relieved that I concurred with her idea.  Reading each others mind seems to be an improving skill in our relationship!😎  And that's a good thing!🥰

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on October 23, 2023, 07:11:41 PM

I de-seeded the first pomegranates of the season. :woohoo: I was a little irked by their price, though when I got home I noticed on the receipt the cashier made a mistake and only charged me for one.  :lol1: I can take or leave them, but it's one of the boy's favorites, so I'm delighted to have a big bowl of seeds waiting in the fridge for him when he wakes up. :heart: 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on October 28, 2023, 03:48:41 PM

I'll leave a note here if I think of something.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on October 28, 2023, 06:32:47 PM

I need to stop perseverating... will I? (Nope)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on November 10, 2023, 10:46:09 AM

Had a chat with our new Programme Manager. I know him from before, and he's a nice guy. Very glad they decided to hire him.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 10, 2023, 09:22:47 PM

I slept in. Usually after I feed the cats I stay awake, but not today :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on November 11, 2023, 07:37:16 PM

I am always at least one day late to this game. Usually, the day of something good is way busy.

Yesterday, I kept my appointment with the audiologist and went through a test that took over an hour and a half to complete.

They tested simple ear drum function with tones, pressurized outer ear to assess the inner ear bones (preloading the eardrums to keep them stable while sound testing for the inner parts), nerve function, word recognition, bone conduction, recovery time after a pressure shock. That last one was like being in an airplane, but they over pressure the ear, play a tone they had determined I could barely hear, then see how long before I can hear a tiny micro tone again.


I know, I asked for it, but this shit was about to drive me nuts before it was over.

I am sixty eight years old. Of course I have some hearing loss. In addition to what could be normal, I abused my hearing early in my life before I figured out on my own that I should protect my ears during the thousands of concerts where I worked sound reinforcement systems all over the country, Mexico and Canada as well.

However, they say they can help me. There are many options.
Of course they want to set me up with the Cadillac of all prosthetic hearing devices at the $9000 range. Too Much!!
 
Instead, we could try the $8000 or the $5000 set ups. Each step down is only a step down in technology, but not quality or warranty.
Taking another step down in tech, I decided to go with the $3000 devices. It is still programmable to my individual needs, three year warranty (instead of five year), yearly update to the existing tech built in, wireless charging with a small stand, replaceable fit cones that could wear out during use, replaceable Lithium batteries.

I will have them by next week, possibly Monday, with all my personal hearing deficiencies programmed for correction, tailored specifically for each ear.


The main differences in the level of tech was more about how the device assesses the background sound pressure noise and makes corrections based on either 800Hz signal check, 500Hz, 300Hz, etc.

I went with the best tech I could afford, which checks the background noise level one hundred times per second. I went with these instead of the next step down, which are not as finely programable to an individuals exact needs.

I chose these which are programable to my own exact hearing problems which the team of audiologists identified through the extensive test procedures.

The next step down in price $2000 was also a large step down in tech. Background noise check at twenty times per second. Not programable to my exact deficiencies but close enough for most, using octave corrections instead of exact, precise corrections.


Anyone else feel the need for hearing correction devices. I'll bet I just turned everyone off to the idea.

:LOL:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 11, 2023, 08:03:26 PM

^What you're getting sounds fancy, similar to what a person I work with has. She has arthritis in the bones of her ears though, so a different need to wear hearing devices than you. The testing place you went to sounds very thorough. :)

I have a type of tinnitus in one ear that can't be fixed, but it's tolerable. I also spent years hearing loud machinery, surprisingly there's no damage from that.

A good thing - when I woke up, both cats were on my bed and it was cool in my room.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on November 11, 2023, 08:19:22 PM

My audiologists did not call my problems relating to stiff inner ear bones arthritis.
Due to an earlier head injury where my inner ear bones were dislocated, I am told I have some calcification of the tiny bones which makes them not move correctly.
(you guys all knew I had been whacked in the head before, or something anyway)

I found out about that the first time I went in for testing, long ago.
I have been to three "ear docs" now in twenty five years and this the first group who say they can help my hearing loss.

But, arthritis, calcification, stiffening ... it all kind of sounds about the same anyway, right?
 :dunno:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 11, 2023, 08:23:45 PM

Maybe they use the same methods to treat all of those?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 11, 2023, 08:35:14 PM

I hung out with Mom today, and got stuff we needed... now I'm happy and content.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on November 12, 2023, 08:32:23 PM

Quote from: renaeden on November 11, 2023, 08:23:45 PM

Maybe they use the same methods to treat all of those?

I do not know how that works.
To my understanding, the differences in how each level of top tech works is in how well the devices identify and isolate background noise from the sound we want to hear.

It is our brain/ears screaming for more input that makes all the background so annoying. Even tinnitus is aided by these technologies. Not by eliminating it, but by giving the ears more of what they are seeking, which in turn makes the still constant tinnitus less noticeable and bothersome after a short time of adjustment.

You might think about having a test done for your tinnitus. The tech has changed significantly over the past few years.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on November 13, 2023, 05:16:11 AM

Last time I had anything done about it was in 2014:

http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,19828.0.html

I really have gotten used to it since then, it's only in one ear and it's not loud.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 13, 2023, 01:05:20 PM

Cubbies introducing their 56th manager in Team History

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on November 26, 2023, 03:23:13 PM

Me and my guys decorated the Christmas tree. :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 27, 2023, 01:29:48 AM

I made it back home and realized I have plenty to do for tomorrow.... which includes cleaning my room, taking out the trash, going to the dentist, taking care of Yoshi's needs as well as my birds... and focusing on the next tasks throughout the week.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on December 01, 2023, 01:07:44 PM

Got my car back after some major repairs.  And got a letter from the doctor who has done my endoscopies saying that my allergy signs are down after being on an acid reflux inhibitor and I have had no problems swallowing food since the last dilation of my esophagus!  Enjoying food again with minimal paranoia is great.   :devour:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 01, 2023, 01:31:20 PM

Got an e-mail to schedule a job interview on the phone... for a position I actually want this time  :o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on December 01, 2023, 02:08:49 PM

Quote from: Genesis on December 01, 2023, 01:31:20 PM

Got an e-mail to schedule a job interview on the phone... for a position I actually want this time  :o

Good luck!   :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 01, 2023, 02:10:37 PM

Quote from: rock hound on December 01, 2023, 02:08:49 PM

Quote from: Genesis on December 01, 2023, 01:31:20 PM

Got an e-mail to schedule a job interview on the phone... for a position I actually want this time  :o

Good luck!   :thumbup:

 :viking: <----- me being brave

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 01, 2023, 07:32:43 PM

Good on you, Genesis. Hope the call goes well. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 01, 2023, 07:41:31 PM

Quote from: renaeden on December 01, 2023, 07:32:43 PM

Good on you, Genesis. Hope the call goes well. :)

Thank you

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: conlang returns on December 05, 2023, 10:32:05 PM

FINALLY got my tire replaced.  Made a little (very little) money.  And my appointment with my doctor is tomorrow.  I can finally get refills to my medication.  I ran out of bicalutamide (my anti-androgen of choice) and MY GOD the smell.  The SMELL.  I get out of the shower and I ALREADY SMELL.  And then it just keeps getting worse until I shower again.  Plus my entire body feels weird and I'm pretty sure I'm sleeping worse.  And I'm pretty sure my bloodwork is going to be off as a result and also I was supposed to do an over night fast but I had some reeses cups just slightly less than two hours before my blood was drawn.  So that's giving me a ton of anxiety but I'm focusing on not expecting the worst. 

I'm really not proud of how I behaved with money today but I got myself some nice Chinese food which made me feel better.  And I like to tell myself it's more nutricious than other cuisines (it has more different kinds of vegetables in it!).  Got my laundry done.  And I'm almost done writing a letter to an old friend. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: conlang returns on December 05, 2023, 10:37:55 PM

Also this wasn't today, but two good things that are going to happen:

1 I will get a paper copy of my bank statement in the mail
2 I will get a paper copy of my insurance policy in the mail. 

I don't know whn for sure I'll get them, but I'll have them on hand before my appointment with the Michigan DMV to prove my address.  Now I just need to get ahold of a jump stick so I can print out a paper request form for a duplicate title to my car and I can get my first michigan plates after living here for 12 months.  I hope I don't get fined for that, I really do.  They say it's "required" to get all of this out of the way as soon as you're in the state but I just haven't had the extra money to pay the fees or the mental capacity or physical energy or anything else. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on December 05, 2023, 10:59:03 PM

Something similar happened to me in that I never got my licence renewal in the mail so I was driving without a licence for three months. If police had pulled me over and discovered that, I would have been in big trouble. I only found out because I was picking up a parcel from the post office and the person who looked at my ID (drivers licence) told me it had expired.

Good on you for getting your tyre fixed. And Chinese food is always a win.

Today I received 3 shirts in the mail - two Star Trek ones and a Mandalorian one.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: conlang returns on December 06, 2023, 12:30:08 AM

Quote from: renaeden on December 05, 2023, 10:59:03 PM

Something similar happened to me in that I never got my licence renewal in the mail so I was driving without a licence for three months. If police had pulled me over and discovered that, I would have been in big trouble. I only found out because I was picking up a parcel from the post office and the person who looked at my ID (drivers licence) told me it had expired.

Good on you for getting your tyre fixed. And Chinese food is always a win.

Today I received 3 shirts in the mail - two Star Trek ones and a Mandalorian one.

I've gotten pulled over several times.  One cop asked for my registration and insurance.  I gave her my registration but I didn't have proof of insurance (pretty sure that technically I was still insured at that point, but I didn't have the paper in my car).  I'm pretty sure she forgot about it because I made her laugh.  But she wasn't the only one who asked for my insurance.  I think my out of state plates leaves them a little unsure how to proceed for some reason.  Like maybe they don't think Tennessee requires you to have car insurance (they do, but don't spread it around too much eh heh heh hehehe).  We'll see what happens when I have Michigan plates.  I think I'm going to get vanity plates.  I'm extra enough to do that, it's really more of an anomaly that I haven't.  Well, I don't have any tattoos either even though I want some.  Lotta stuff for me to get around to doing.  Like growing a real ass.  Instread of just chunks of meat on bone like I've always been. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 18, 2023, 04:04:04 PM

Beer on a Monday happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on December 18, 2023, 08:48:10 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 18, 2023, 04:04:04 PM

Beer on a Monday happened.

Brandy for me!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 19, 2023, 07:19:16 PM

Boba Tea on a Tuesday for me... and no I don't regret it

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on December 20, 2023, 04:21:01 PM

Quote from: rock hound on December 18, 2023, 08:48:10 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 18, 2023, 04:04:04 PM

Beer on a Monday happened.

Brandy for me!

Wednesday beer happened. I'm (theoretically) off tomorrow so I thought a beer is a good idea.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on December 20, 2023, 05:19:14 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 20, 2023, 04:21:01 PM

Quote from: rock hound on December 18, 2023, 08:48:10 PM

Quote from: odeon on December 18, 2023, 04:04:04 PM

Beer on a Monday happened.

Brandy for me!

Wednesday beer happened. I'm (theoretically) off tomorrow so I thought a beer is a good idea.

Well today, with my esophageal issues set in order, I celebrated the Solstice with a Goblet of Burgundy wine!   :wine:  A Wiccan goblet that Amber bought for me!   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on December 28, 2023, 05:46:50 PM

Interactions with the residents.. even the one who asked where I was going  :o

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 03, 2024, 03:40:42 PM

This wasn't a good day. :(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 03, 2024, 08:04:33 PM

I took my normal walk and didn't get barked at by the psycho dog down the street,

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: conlang returns on January 05, 2024, 09:55:16 PM

New phone arrived, got my air filter cleaned out (also solved the mystery of why I felt so shitty the last few days) and took out the trash which was probably giving me mold spores or something nasty as well.  waiting for my laundry to be done.  used my last needle that I got experimentally to go with my injections.  I suppose that's technically not a great thing but it does give me cause to go out and get new ones, hopefully with a smaller and less painful gauge.  Physically I'm already feeling somewhat better.  Got my dirty dishes washed.  And I'm eating pad see oo, which I am newly slutty about. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 06, 2024, 03:21:07 AM

^Instead of me Googling what pad see oo is, I'd like you to tell me what it is, conlang. :green:

Today Kayleigh and I had a good day shopping with no stress.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: conlang returns on January 08, 2024, 09:17:51 AM

Woke up early,, which is something I've been trying to do for a week and a half.  Actually it might be two weeks now.  But anyway.  Here I am.  Awake.  And very tired. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 08, 2024, 08:29:56 PM

Started doing a night shift job a while back. So far, I'm still trying to get used to it...

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 09, 2024, 06:32:05 AM

It was yesterday, but... my parents visited me at the Salvos. It cheered me up so much. It was awesome to see them. They were looking for a cupboard to go in their garage but they didn't see anything that would suit it. I don't think they ended up buying anything, oh well. Anyway, it made my day. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 09, 2024, 05:47:30 PM

Not just today but for the last two months - the neighbours across the road just up and left and haven't been back since. I wonder what happened. They were very constantly noisy people so it's nice to have some peace and quiet!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 09, 2024, 07:45:57 PM

Feeling better regarding my tasks earlier today... just annoyed that I'm still jittery with the messy work

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 09, 2024, 10:39:05 PM

Got home safely after driving thru a wet messy snowstorm (4-5 inches)  followed by heavy rain and super slushy conditions.  OY

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 09, 2024, 10:58:04 PM

Quote from: rock hound on January 09, 2024, 10:39:05 PM

Got home safely after driving thru a wet messy snowstorm (4-5 inches)  followed by heavy rain and super slushy conditions.  OY

It got so bad up here in Illinois... bad enough that Mom didn't want to go out tonight :(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on January 10, 2024, 10:26:32 PM

It's bad here too, started snowing a couple days ago and hasn't stopped since, along with a deep freeze. It's not supposed to get above -25 C for the next few days. The roads are a mess.

The good thing is I didn't die either, or even crash the car.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 11, 2024, 01:42:53 PM

Done with four days of training. A fifth tomorrow, but that's just general questions and discussion.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 11, 2024, 02:27:37 PM

Got my haircut!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on January 12, 2024, 08:38:32 PM

The new tv cabinet arrived and my hero Sugarbutt already assembled it. It looks so nice and I love it. :heart:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 12, 2024, 08:48:05 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on January 12, 2024, 08:38:32 PM

The new tv cabinet arrived and my hero Sugarbutt already assembled it. It looks so nice and I love it. :heart:

Cool, what colour is it?

This morning I woke up with Rowan sleeping with his head on my arm like it was a pillow. He is so sweet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on January 12, 2024, 10:41:15 PM

Quote from: renaeden on January 12, 2024, 08:48:05 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on January 12, 2024, 08:38:32 PM

The new tv cabinet arrived and my hero Sugarbutt already assembled it. It looks so nice and I love it. :heart:

Cool, what colour is it?

It's a dark brown wood cabinet. The front is glass doors with slats that make it look like windows. Our old stand was too small but had some hidden storage where we kept movies and games and whatnot, so I also ordered some storage containers to hide that stuff in the new cabinet. I ordered two different styles of containers but one style doesn't fit, so I'm sending them back and getting more of the one that does fit.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 13, 2024, 09:00:15 PM

Dark brown wood - same as the new bedside table I bought recently. It's quite big and has two drawers that are easy to open and close.

Purchases like these are great, aren't they?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 13, 2024, 09:03:11 PM

I got the haircut I needed now I'm content ^_^

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on January 13, 2024, 09:52:53 PM

Quote from: renaeden on January 13, 2024, 09:00:15 PM

Dark brown wood - same as the new bedside table I bought recently. It's quite big and has two drawers that are easy to open and close.

Purchases like these are great, aren't they?

Definitely.  :thumbup: The old one was the only crappy looking piece of furniture we have but unless it broke or something, I likely never would have spent the money to replace it on my own because it served its purpose even though I didn't like it. I think Sugarbutt was a little taken back because I ordered it without telling him about it or asking his opinion, especially since I don't watch the tv or even know how to work it. I figured it's my Christmas gift so I get to pick it and if I had gotten him involved, then he might have persuaded me to pick what he wanted and possibly even spend too much. Most tv consoles are pretty short and he had jerry-rigged the old one so the tv sits up higher. I did consider his preference for the height and picked a tall one. Plus it's freaking gorgeous so he can't help but like it too.   :2thumbsup:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: conlang returns on January 14, 2024, 05:04:01 AM

made thirty dollars in about an hour, making 3 deliveries.  Too bad that's all the money I made, since it's still snowing and the roads are too difficult

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 14, 2024, 12:49:36 PM

Went to church today, fine and dandy... just couldn't keep myself warm inside :(

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 16, 2024, 03:53:13 PM

The daughter came to visit. Otherwise, it was a miserable day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on January 18, 2024, 08:51:07 AM

I got my sandwiches glued together!!  Another expression I never thought I would put in writing.

I am keeping the Lii Audio drivers (but, messing with, reconfiguring support, etc.), with a new configuration,  expected to get me even more uniformity from the overall response of this reproduction system. I have tried so many speaker systems over the years.
Even some in the "Should I buy a new car or get those speakers I've been looking at?" price range. Previewed many, but never saw a reason to hock my life for any set of speakers. I continue research and build my own.

NO, I am not pretending to outsmart the engineers with mega research facilities at hand. I am trying to see how close to that "final nut" I can get without spending half a fortune.

My sandwiches are the baffle boards I use, composite, three layers, add a solid base and we go.
This time, one F15 and one W15 per baffle, both on the same plane.

This will take me a while, completing this project. I am painting them white as a finish.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 18, 2024, 09:30:15 AM

Made the reservations for our Kentucky trip in May!   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 18, 2024, 03:01:01 PM

My sister told me that the driver who hit my father got detained. Trail of course is pending...

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 18, 2024, 04:47:25 PM

The cab driver was really nice and welcoming on my ride back home from the airport.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 18, 2024, 09:47:51 PM

I listened to really good Jazz Compositions at Walmart, and I was in pure bliss. I'm thankful for my mp3 player

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 29, 2024, 03:03:54 PM

I wasn't disappointed with my Jimmy Johns order today. They did the unwich just right

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 30, 2024, 12:01:52 AM

Listening to Radwimps before I go to sleep. It helps

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 30, 2024, 02:43:55 PM

That lovely beer I'm drinking right now.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on January 31, 2024, 03:08:43 PM

Got paid

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 31, 2024, 04:33:57 PM

Quote from: Parts on January 31, 2024, 03:08:43 PM

Got paid

Same! 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 31, 2024, 08:07:47 PM

Rowan bumped my face with his head this morning. Second time ever. He doesn't like faces normally.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on February 04, 2024, 03:39:28 PM

Yoshi is being his usual cheeky self... he keeps trying to tear down my dry eraseboard on my minifridge.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: conlang returns on February 06, 2024, 01:44:21 PM

had a nice long conversation with a new friend.  which helped me calm down my anxiety and finally get some sleep.  hopefully things don't end up being massively awkward from now on.  the other option is getting too close too fast in classic BPD fashion and then kablam

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 06, 2024, 02:45:50 PM

Several (mostly) uninterrupted hours of work.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 10, 2024, 09:19:09 PM

Saw my Dad. Something funny he said was that he only has toast for breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays but during the week he has cereal. Kinda autistic?? The more I see him, the more I think he's a bit on the spectrum.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on February 10, 2024, 09:23:08 PM

As of right now... I'm happy to have my time off

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 23, 2024, 01:01:54 PM

Quote from: renaeden on February 10, 2024, 09:19:09 PM

Saw my Dad. Something funny he said was that he only has toast for breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays but during the week he has cereal. Kinda autistic?? The more I see him, the more I think he's a bit on the spectrum.

You'll have gotten it from somewhere. Do you have other autie relatives?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 23, 2024, 01:02:10 PM

It's Friday.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on February 23, 2024, 07:12:31 PM

Brought stuff to the dump and the fee was just $15 not the $40 I was expecting

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 23, 2024, 08:51:17 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 23, 2024, 01:01:54 PM

Quote from: renaeden on February 10, 2024, 09:19:09 PM

Saw my Dad. Something funny he said was that he only has toast for breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays but during the week he has cereal. Kinda autistic?? The more I see him, the more I think he's a bit on the spectrum.

You'll have gotten it from somewhere. Do you have other autie relatives?

My mum is kind of schizoid but that's due to her upbringing. I have a second cousin who was diagnosed with AS, he's very clever/smart. He's on my dad's side of the family.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on February 24, 2024, 01:39:55 PM

Nothing yet

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 28, 2024, 12:44:16 PM

Quote from: renaeden on February 23, 2024, 08:51:17 PM

Quote from: odeon on February 23, 2024, 01:01:54 PM

Quote from: renaeden on February 10, 2024, 09:19:09 PM

Saw my Dad. Something funny he said was that he only has toast for breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays but during the week he has cereal. Kinda autistic?? The more I see him, the more I think he's a bit on the spectrum.

You'll have gotten it from somewhere. Do you have other autie relatives?

My mum is kind of schizoid but that's due to her upbringing. I have a second cousin who was diagnosed with AS, he's very clever/smart. He's on my dad's side of the family.

I'd look at your direct ancestors first, though. Thinking your dad is enough.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on February 28, 2024, 12:46:52 PM

Louie didn't bark at me

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: conlang returns on February 28, 2024, 02:33:28 PM

I've been exchanging first and second place in Japanese on Duolingo with a user called Querialba.  At this point I don't care if I win, I just want Querialba to lose.  Haha I'm joking I don't care at all.  Okay fine you got me I care a lot and I don't know why. 

The scores are something like 1300 xp, 1200 xp, 800 xp, <300 xp.  LOL

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 09, 2024, 04:35:46 PM

A nice single malt happened.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 09, 2024, 10:55:23 PM

The more I listen to Taco, the less I feel depressed.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: conlang returns on March 11, 2024, 12:59:02 AM

had an egg roll with that perfect dipping sauce that some restaurants have.  dunno what it's called or how to describe the flavors, it's kind of sweet and sour (but not "sweet and sour" per se, if you know what I mean... it isn't that spcific, that's the best I got :autism: ) sort of pinkish and translucent. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 11, 2024, 11:51:18 AM

My emulator came in today... right now I'm going to set it up.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: conlang returns on March 12, 2024, 05:33:46 AM

me and my girlfriend started watching a new anime
https://www.wcostream.tv/tsuki-ga-michibiku-isekai-douchuu-episode-1-english-subbed

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 12, 2024, 06:14:34 PM

Laughed at the stubborn attitude that the Hungarian Resident had with his caregiver. He literally did an f-bomb and I just couldn't stop myself from laughing.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 13, 2024, 03:12:19 AM

Quote from: conlang returns on March 11, 2024, 12:59:02 AM

had an egg roll with that perfect dipping sauce that some restaurants have.  dunno what it's called or how to describe the flavors, it's kind of sweet and sour (but not "sweet and sour" per se, if you know what I mean... it isn't that spcific, that's the best I got :autism: ) sort of pinkish and translucent.

I know the stuff, it's delicious. Chinese restaurants and takeaways have it. Sometimes they call it sweet and sour sauce but that's not accurate.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 13, 2024, 06:07:07 PM

Went to work today... just tired, and I am in full GIMP mode as of right now -_-

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 14, 2024, 12:24:23 PM

Took a long walk, on a beautiful day, sat beside 2 little streams and listened.   8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 14, 2024, 12:56:01 PM

Woke up feeling satisfied... just need to say busy

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: conlang returns on March 20, 2024, 11:21:01 AM

Got my car fixed for way less than I thought it would be

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 21, 2024, 12:12:09 PM

Planning on working a bit before I go to group tonight. I got a lot of stuff I need to get done anyways... which also includes my third manuscript (rough draft of a manuscript that is)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 28, 2024, 07:29:02 PM

This was yesterday but my mattress was finally delivered. And I wasn't home for it! :)  Kayleigh sent me the message about it and I sent one back saying they didn't notify me about it and sorry about the surprise.

Now I've had a night sleeping on it, I didn't sleep in like I wanted to. Never mind, it's still very comfortable and not bouncy like my other mattress.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 28, 2024, 07:32:16 PM

Opening Night, and the game is tied in the 7th inning

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 29, 2024, 02:59:12 PM

No work today.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 29, 2024, 07:53:32 PM

Got a "Thank You" from a lady driving by as I picked up trash from the section of road I adopted to keep clean.  Not something I do for publicity, but, gratifying to hear for what I do!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 03, 2024, 01:40:24 AM

Today I had lunch with an old Salvos friend (she is now in charge of a store in the next suburb) and she was telling me about her son going to America with his basketball team. She's going too with her husband and the whole thing will cost a lot. We talked about the tipping system there and how it's confusing. I can't wait until she goes and then comes back because I'm sure she'll have some interesting things to say.

Also, we're having meatballs and pasta for dinner. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 09, 2024, 05:13:22 PM

A friend I haven't seen in months stopped by for a visit.   

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 12, 2024, 11:22:51 AM

Hugo and Tolstoy are getting along ^__^

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 12, 2024, 11:56:37 PM

Got a text before I was getting ready to sleep that my friend's baby girl whom she is calling Genesis was just born this morning!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 13, 2024, 08:32:38 AM

Quote from: Genesis on April 12, 2024, 11:56:37 PM

Got a text before I was getting ready to sleep that my friend's baby girl whom she is calling Genesis was just born this morning!

NICE!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 13, 2024, 08:07:54 PM

That's so cool.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 16, 2024, 11:39:24 AM

I know ^__^

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: DirtDawg on April 27, 2024, 09:50:02 PM

My wife working against her latest muscle pull from work, made a magnificent treat for lunch.

I had brought out some left over pulled pork to thaw. She saw that and thought "Onion Cake!" 

A sort of Anglicized version of a German dish, based on zweibelkucken (doubt the spelling is right).

Onions rendered (loaded), eggs (lots, almost a quiche), potatoes (you choose how many), some flour, cheese and bacon topping, baked forever on lowish until done and then the last bit at higher heat to brown it all.

Anyway, that is the way she learned the recipe from her Granny.
But I tried to search for "Onion Cake" there were many too many recipes to peruse for ideas.

So lunch was the good thing, pulled pork, onion cake, steamed broccoli. Orange Sherbet for dessert. A meal to remember.

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Post by: renaeden on April 28, 2024, 02:56:15 AM

I would definitely try that onion cake. Yum.

Sherbet here is a sweet powder. Is it different there?

I got to meet nice people at a games day but I'm glad it's over as well.

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Post by: DirtDawg on April 28, 2024, 09:34:55 AM

Quote from: renaeden on April 28, 2024, 02:56:15 AM

I would definitely try that onion cake. Yum.

Sherbet here is a sweet powder. Is it different there?

I got to meet nice people at a games day but I'm glad it's over as well.

Over here, sherbet is a fruit based ice cream like sweet dish, but unlike ice cream which begins with an egg custard usually, sherbet uses gelatin to stiffen it up and give it substance.

The Onion Cake is delicious!  Zwiebelkuchen.
Look up recipes, but it is also one of those dishes you can fudge your way and it seems to come out perfect every time.
I think the key is the low and slow baking to make sure the eggy, almost quiche-like center is done completely.
Then of course brown it up to your liking once it's done inside.

My wife checks it for doneness with toothpick like any other cake.

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Post by: Genesis on April 28, 2024, 02:58:53 PM

Not having stuff to do on Sundays is great... just need to stay busy and hide in the basement.

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Post by: Gopher Gary on April 28, 2024, 05:24:41 PM

Birds are finally moving into the birdhouse we got for Christmas! :woohoo:  I was starting to worry I had picked a bad spot. It's protected and high enough but it's also close to the sunroom windows where we can easily observe it. It's a duplex birdhouse and a pair of carolina wrens have been building a nest together in one side of it.  :2thumbsup:

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Post by: renaeden on April 28, 2024, 07:28:40 PM

^Awesome. :plus:

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Post by: Genesis on April 29, 2024, 12:04:49 PM

I didn't have weird dreams before I woke up... winning(?)

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Post by: rock hound on April 29, 2024, 02:30:05 PM

Carla and I, took a road trip for our 33rd anniversary and some serious mental health self care.  Done on both counts, went to the Kittery Trading Post for a new tent for Carla's camping solitude excursions, then went to Ogunquit Maine for some browsing of shops and lunch.  Then on our way back stopped at Brooks Brothers store to get Carla her favorite work/dress pants.  Made it home and enjoying Happy Hour.  Yeah I'm a lush!   :-*

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Post by: DirtDawg on April 29, 2024, 07:20:29 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on April 28, 2024, 05:24:41 PM

Birds are finally moving into the birdhouse we got for Christmas! :woohoo:  I was starting to worry I had picked a bad spot. It's protected and high enough but it's also close to the sunroom windows where we can easily observe it. It's a duplex birdhouse and a pair of carolina wrens have been building a nest together in one side of it.  :2thumbsup:

Like Reneaden said, Awesome!

I built some birdhouses last year, but only got three of them up. One is occupied by some common and mundane (but I love them anyway) thrushes.

Oddly one of them is claimed, but by a barn swallow couple. They build mud nests and on the top of one I set out last fall I have a mud nest with a healthy looking barn swallow setting happy.
I don't think there is any occupant inside the house, just a mud nest on top.
 :LOL:

The third one is too close to where an owl roosts, I think. I probably need to move it.

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Post by: Genesis on April 30, 2024, 12:56:58 PM

At least I woke up and got myself busy... I'm needing to do my usual routines anyways -___-

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Post by: odeon on April 30, 2024, 01:52:28 PM

Beer happened. Otherwise a fairly bland day.

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Post by: DirtDawg on April 30, 2024, 08:07:31 PM

I brought in a load of mulch and got about half of it spread before I had an ankle booboo.

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Post by: renaeden on April 30, 2024, 09:11:11 PM

^Well wishes for your ankle to get better. :hug:

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Post by: Genesis on May 01, 2024, 12:31:49 PM

Nothing happened yet... just looking for something fun to do ^__^

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Post by: rock hound on May 01, 2024, 03:46:12 PM

The battery in our thermostat died and it was quickly replaced by our landlord! 

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Post by: Parts on May 12, 2024, 03:42:50 PM

Found a generator on the side of the road that someone put out for garbage pick up.  It probably has carburetor problems that seems to be whats wrong with all the small engines I find

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Post by: DirtDawg on May 12, 2024, 05:40:23 PM

Quote from: Parts on May 12, 2024, 03:42:50 PM

Found a generator on the side of the road that someone put out for garbage pick up.  It probably has carburetor problems that seems to be whats wrong with all the small engines I find

 :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup:

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Post by: Genesis on May 13, 2024, 11:35:15 AM

Got a sweet card from an old friend from Walmart for my birthday this week ^_^

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Post by: Icequeen on May 19, 2024, 07:49:05 AM

My lemon tree is full of buds.  :o

I planted Meyer lemon seeds about 2 years after mom died so 2013ish...three grew. I was told they would probably never bloom since they were grown from seed. It's around 4 ft tall now...it sprouted one blossom last year during our move, but that died off...this year it has buds everywhere. I know not whether it will get fruit, but I'm happy for the buds. I gave away the other two online before the move...do not know where they went...they were the same size.

Funny thing is...I saw my neighbor here across the street set hers out last week...same size...I wonder.  :lol1:

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Post by: Genesis on May 19, 2024, 08:08:04 AM

Getting to the good part of my writing ^_^

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Post by: Gopher Gary on May 19, 2024, 05:01:02 PM

Quote from: Icequeen on May 19, 2024, 07:49:05 AM

My lemon tree is full of buds.  :o

I planted Meyer lemon seeds about 2 years after mom died so 2013ish...three grew. I was told they would probably never bloom since they were grown from seed. It's around 4 ft tall now...it sprouted one blossom last year during our move, but that died off...this year it has buds everywhere. I know not whether it will get fruit, but I'm happy for the buds. I gave away the other two online before the move...do not know where they went...they were the same size.

Funny thing is...I saw my neighbor here across the street set hers out last week...same size...I wonder.  :lol1:

A decade is a lot of patience. Here's wishing you many lemons.  :thumbup:

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Post by: Genesis on May 19, 2024, 11:57:01 PM

 :roar: me tired, me get ready

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Post by: renaeden on May 24, 2024, 09:01:05 PM

Our new (to us) fridge was delivered.

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Post by: rock hound on May 25, 2024, 07:21:54 AM

Home from an "interesting" vacation.  Happy to be home!

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Post by: Genesis on May 25, 2024, 07:35:40 PM

Did my 17 hours of work, now I can recharge.

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Post by: rock hound on May 25, 2024, 08:54:52 PM

Nice to spend a day with Carla off from work with me as well!   8)

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Post by: Genesis on May 25, 2024, 10:18:51 PM

That I'm having more good days instead of bad

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Post by: Genesis on May 26, 2024, 02:57:06 PM

I didn't get annoyed with the crowd noises at Church

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Post by: DirtDawg on May 26, 2024, 11:05:22 PM

Anyone, besides me, enjoy the Indy 500?

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Post by: Parts on June 22, 2024, 10:57:41 AM

Bought two Snap-on ratchets a socket at a garage sale for $5

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Post by: Genesis on June 22, 2024, 03:24:31 PM

I was able to focus today... didn't zone out until the end of my shift.

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Post by: rock hound on July 02, 2024, 10:46:47 AM

Saw my first Bumblebee in a while buzzing around our Basil plants!    :thumbup: 8)

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Post by: Genesis on July 03, 2024, 12:08:30 PM

Louie is back to his grouchy old self  :green:

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Post by: rock hound on July 04, 2024, 11:07:00 AM

Took a long walk in the sunshine!   8)

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Post by: Genesis on July 04, 2024, 12:58:45 PM

Able to get my necessity shopping done ^_^

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Post by: renaeden on July 16, 2024, 08:53:40 PM

Got my car checked and they recommend a new rocker cover and new spark plugs. They showed me their prices and I can easily afford it. Not only that, but their diagnostics were free.

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Post by: rock hound on July 16, 2024, 10:15:39 PM

I survived another hellish Tuesday night at work.

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Post by: Genesis on July 17, 2024, 11:29:58 AM

I woke up, and with the new glasses I can see clearly now ^__^

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Post by: rock hound on July 18, 2024, 02:16:37 PM

Had some computer work done, first was the removal of an anti-virus program from kaspearsky, which is based in Russia.  Due to a boycott on all russian software due to the Ukraine war.   Second was our old fashioned flat screen monitor failed us, but the computer guy took a look and sold me a reasonably priced used monitor which works just fine.  And both for a very reasonable price!   8)  All in one day I might add.   8)

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Post by: Genesis on July 18, 2024, 05:24:27 PM

Alot has happened today... yet I think staying inside the house was well worth it.

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Post by: renaeden on July 23, 2024, 10:47:04 PM

It didn't rain on me when I walked home from the mechanics.

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Post by: Parts on August 09, 2024, 09:54:31 AM

I saw a bald eagle

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Post by: Genesis on August 09, 2024, 04:31:20 PM

The pharmacist girl wasn't annoying this time... the automated AI for pharmacy? Let's see.... just as condescending as the troll

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Post by: renaeden on August 09, 2024, 08:57:07 PM

I had a good sleep in.

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Post by: renaeden on August 13, 2024, 08:13:55 PM

Rowan softly headbutted me in the face while I was in bed this morning.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 14, 2024, 11:08:18 AM

I don't know what happened yet, I just woke up

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Post by: Parts on August 16, 2024, 06:31:13 PM

I was one of the first and only people at a really good estate sale and bought a bunch of stuff

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Post by: rock hound on August 16, 2024, 07:28:09 PM

Carla and I had a rare Friday off together.  Went to Portsmouth NH and browsed thru the flower gardens and displays while she took pictures and then had lunch at a favorite restaurant.   A good day. 8)

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Post by: Genesis on August 17, 2024, 03:35:08 PM

The more I realize it, the more I want to eventually live out of the country. No way in hell am I going to Wisconsin!

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Post by: renaeden on August 18, 2024, 03:36:59 AM

Kayleigh and I played a game of Galaxy Truckers at Wonderful Wargames today. It was a really fun game.

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Post by: Genesis on August 18, 2024, 08:57:26 AM

Had a weird dream, yet I woked up and was then like "phew"

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Post by: rock hound on August 18, 2024, 12:59:56 PM

Carla had a rare  Sunday off and we spent to quality time together.  <bliss> 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on August 18, 2024, 01:12:31 PM

Mom made a nice Vegetable Curry dish for lunch today. Wasn't as spicy like last time, yet I'm grateful.

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Post by: Pyraxis on August 21, 2024, 09:09:30 PM

I have tomorrow off work. Haven't even decided what I want to do with it yet.

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Post by: rock hound on August 21, 2024, 10:08:33 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on August 21, 2024, 09:09:30 PM

I have tomorrow off work. Haven't even decided what I want to do with it yet.

I would recommend some quality ME time.  Self care! 8)

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Post by: Pyraxis on August 21, 2024, 10:27:01 PM

I intend to  :green:

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Post by: Genesis on August 22, 2024, 11:42:10 AM

I woke up at a reasonable time, now I'm taking my time and listening to my tunes

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Post by: conlang returns on August 28, 2024, 03:26:36 AM

Girlfriend's cat is eating.  Hopefully she finishes her food.  Otherwise girlfriend will be distressed and very vocal about it

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Post by: rock hound on August 28, 2024, 07:23:46 AM

Slept in till 9 AM.   8)

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Post by: Genesis on August 28, 2024, 11:47:25 AM

The weather isn't as bad as it was yesterday (highest temp feeling wise was up in the 100s)

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Post by: renaeden on August 29, 2024, 01:32:28 AM

My Dad gifted me and my twin some money. It was incredibly generous of him and I'll be able to save and buy another car sooner.

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Post by: conlang returns on August 29, 2024, 03:35:11 AM

I told my girlfriend I didn't want to move to Ohio and she took it really well.  I still feel bad because she's probably going to have to find a roommate after all but I'm making so much less money down here than at home I'd hardly be helping her anyway

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Post by: rock hound on August 29, 2024, 02:06:31 PM

Got my car inspected and it passed without any problems.  And also had the lug nuts replaced at the same time.

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Post by: Genesis on August 29, 2024, 03:55:53 PM

Realizing I have a true best friend.

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Post by: rock hound on August 29, 2024, 05:19:48 PM

Quote from: Genesis on August 29, 2024, 03:55:53 PM

Realizing I have a true best friend.

That is a good thing!

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Post by: Genesis on September 01, 2024, 02:45:49 PM

I went to church, tweaked/edited chapter 2, had lunch with some friends, got home and fed and watered the birds, now I'm hiding until company comes over.

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Post by: conlang returns on September 06, 2024, 03:20:18 PM

made it home safe.  I guess that's a good thing.  I have just about enough money to order a real detroit pizza

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Post by: Genesis on September 06, 2024, 07:21:15 PM

Talking out my emotional trauma with Mom. Especially when it came to religious zealots in my life that hurt me.

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Post by: rock hound on September 06, 2024, 08:14:13 PM

Took a long walk and cleared my head of useless thoughts.

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Post by: Genesis on September 07, 2024, 05:39:48 PM

^I still need to do the same

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Post by: odeon on September 08, 2024, 03:29:10 PM

Found a fabulous recording of a Vivaldi piece I adore.

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Post by: Genesis on September 08, 2024, 04:22:24 PM

Made it to the 75th page

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on September 08, 2024, 07:22:20 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 08, 2024, 03:29:10 PM

Found a fabulous recording of a Vivaldi piece I adore.

Which one?  I love Vivaldi!   8)

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Post by: Genesis on September 09, 2024, 12:07:16 PM

Woke up, realized I need to tweak my eating habits, now I'm going to do some work downstairs.

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Post by: rock hound on September 09, 2024, 01:11:37 PM

So today, I decided to take a walk in Downtown Rochester after checking out a new thrift store.  Nothing that spoke to me.  So I left the shop, crossed the street and found a quarter, (cool), pick it up and see 5 dimes scattered nearby (even better), stand up look down and spot 2 pennies (way cool) and I think to myself, "all I need is a nickel now.  Glance sideways and what to my wandering eyes should appear......a nickel. It's in my hands quicker than you can say "money".   🙂  After further scanning and seeing nothing more, I continue my walk!   82 cents richer!  A beautiful day for a walk, a little satisfying of curiosity and free money.  I'm happy and amused.  😉   After getting a good walk, I get to my car, head to the store, get the stuff I need and head home.  In a very good mood.  😎

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Post by: Charlotte Quin on September 20, 2024, 07:29:01 AM

Straightened my hair and gave myself a haircut in less than an hour (the former had to be done to do the latter)
It seems like an ok job! A wee bit choppy in parts and I can't see if it's an even V at the back, but at least it's brushable now.

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Post by: Genesis on September 20, 2024, 06:15:09 PM

I was able to get a lot done at work today... now I can hide in the basement and recuperate for the next shift. (Which is tomorrow morning -_- )

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Post by: renaeden on September 20, 2024, 07:46:45 PM

Quote from: Charlotte Quin on September 20, 2024, 07:29:01 AM

Straightened my hair and gave myself a haircut in less than an hour (the former had to be done to do the latter)
It seems like an ok job! A wee bit choppy in parts and I can't see if it's an even V at the back, but at least it's brushable now.

I used to cut my own hair but i don't trust myself to anymore. You're brave! :)

I do cut my fringe though, about every three weeks. It grows fast.

Today all I've done is wake up and take my meds.

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Post by: Gopher Gary on November 10, 2024, 02:18:03 PM

The city finally came and picked up the debris piles from the storm in our neighborhood. :woohoo:

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Post by: Genesis on November 10, 2024, 02:48:56 PM

Was told that Yoshi was cute  :eyelash:

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Post by: renaeden on November 12, 2024, 09:32:13 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on November 10, 2024, 02:18:03 PM

The city finally came and picked up the debris piles from the storm in our neighborhood. :woohoo:

No damage to yours and your area? That was really concerning.

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Post by: Genesis on November 13, 2024, 05:35:52 PM

No weird dreams

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Post by: rock hound on November 13, 2024, 09:01:56 PM

I had some time off with Carla. 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 14, 2024, 01:56:01 PM

I woke up okay?

Also, I'm on an antibiotic until my extraction... so I'm feeling somewhat shitty.

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Post by: Gopher Gary on November 14, 2024, 06:11:30 PM

Quote from: renaeden on November 12, 2024, 09:32:13 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on November 10, 2024, 02:18:03 PM

The city finally came and picked up the debris piles from the storm in our neighborhood. :woohoo:

No damage to yours and your area? That was really concerning.

The shed is ruined and part of the fence needs repair, but we feel blessed to have gotten off so easy.  :dunno:

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Post by: renaeden on November 16, 2024, 03:43:42 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on November 14, 2024, 06:11:30 PM

Quote from: renaeden on November 12, 2024, 09:32:13 PM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on November 10, 2024, 02:18:03 PM

The city finally came and picked up the debris piles from the storm in our neighborhood. :woohoo:

No damage to yours and your area? That was really concerning.

The shed is ruined and part of the fence needs repair, but we feel blessed to have gotten off so easy.  :dunno:

I'm glad you're all well despite the shed and fence. A few years ago our side fence blew down (I actually saw it happen which I was surprised about because usually don't these sorts of things happen at night?) and luckily we didn't have to pay anything to fix it. Plus the new fence is a lot nicer than our old one.

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Post by: Genesis on November 16, 2024, 07:04:12 PM

I was able to get stuff done... even though I was zoning out because of being at a Concert the night before.

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Post by: rock hound on November 16, 2024, 11:07:02 PM

Home from work and after a hot shower and a shot of brandy, I'm winding down nicely.  8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 17, 2024, 08:57:39 AM

I checked my page count of my rough draft right now... and so far, I reached 147 pages. I'm going to do some writing letter this afternoon.

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Post by: odeon on November 17, 2024, 01:36:24 PM

Quote from: rock hound on September 08, 2024, 07:22:20 PM

Quote from: odeon on September 08, 2024, 03:29:10 PM

Found a fabulous recording of a Vivaldi piece I adore.

Which one?  I love Vivaldi!   8)

I should have said what it was when I posted. Can't remember now. :-\

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Post by: odeon on November 17, 2024, 01:36:57 PM

Daughter came over for dinner.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 17, 2024, 06:23:52 PM

Not so depressed as I was earlier...

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Post by: conlang returns on November 19, 2024, 06:59:53 PM

It's possible I may have gotten a job?  It pays almost 20 dollars an hour and I can carpool with my girlfriend

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Post by: renaeden on November 20, 2024, 11:57:01 PM

Quote from: conlang returns on November 19, 2024, 06:59:53 PM

It's possible I may have gotten a job?  It pays almost 20 dollars an hour and I can carpool with my girlfriend

Oooh, I hope you have!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 21, 2024, 01:12:50 PM

I got a check in the mail from the dentist's office, which Dad avoided because the receptionist was a condescending Karen.

Meh... at least I digitally deposited it.

WINNING!

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Post by: rock hound on November 21, 2024, 01:50:37 PM

Finally getting some much needed rain!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on November 25, 2024, 09:27:36 PM

Nothing good happened... it's all shit anyways

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Post by: odeon on November 26, 2024, 03:45:39 PM

Solved a bug that has been bothering me since last week.

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Post by: Genesis on November 26, 2024, 04:19:56 PM

Found some Binders that will work for my collections.

Just need to not overload with sleeves -___-

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Post by: sg1008 on December 22, 2024, 03:47:40 AM

Came on here  :grouphug:

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Post by: Genesis on December 22, 2024, 08:58:30 AM

I woke up

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Post by: sg1008 on December 24, 2024, 12:56:56 AM

Spent some quality time with my nephew.

We played Wildermyth, which is a cool game - lots of randomly generated side quests and stories, interspersed with boardgame-like battles. Then we read some Redwall (I read to him). I make voices for all the characters. Right now, Matthias is trying to locate the sword of Martin the warrior, and Cluny is scheming. His favourite voices are the Moles and Basil Stag Hare. He also likes Silent Sam, who doesnt have a voice other than thumb-sucking lol.

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Post by: Parts on January 08, 2025, 05:40:18 PM

My van pass emission inspection

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Post by: Trigger 11 on January 08, 2025, 06:41:00 PM

Quote from: Parts on January 08, 2025, 05:40:18 PM

My van pass emission inspection

Always a bonus.

I was able to work half a day.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 09, 2025, 12:15:26 PM

My package is being delivered today.

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Post by: renaeden on January 10, 2025, 09:00:21 PM

Quote from: Genesis on January 09, 2025, 12:15:26 PM

My package is being delivered today.

What are you getting?

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Post by: odeon on January 11, 2025, 12:41:59 PM

Got rid of lots of garbage.

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Post by: rock hound on January 11, 2025, 12:48:28 PM

Quote from: odeon on January 11, 2025, 12:41:59 PM

Got rid of lots of garbage.

That's always a good feeling!  8)

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Post by: odeon on January 11, 2025, 01:01:02 PM

It always is.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 11, 2025, 04:34:31 PM

Quote from: renaeden on January 10, 2025, 09:00:21 PM

Quote from: Genesis on January 09, 2025, 12:15:26 PM

My package is being delivered today.

What are you getting?

The rest of my order I got with an Amazon Gift Card I received on Christmas... the package was the final part which was a mobile phone cover.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on January 21, 2025, 04:32:08 PM

I hope to have helped the daughter to cope with some shit. I choose to be optimistic and to see this result in something.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 21, 2025, 11:15:38 PM

I started my vacation when I left work tonite! 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 22, 2025, 05:43:13 PM

Almost through the Ghost in The Shell Anthology I started reading earlier this week

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on January 24, 2025, 10:07:15 PM

This happened yesterday but at the Salvos I was told the shop will be closed on Monday due to Australia Day falling on a Sunday. So three days off! :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Charlotte Quin on January 25, 2025, 11:35:40 AM

Yes, I have Monday off too.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on January 25, 2025, 08:50:10 PM

I'm on vacation from the walmart empire......YAY.   8) 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 26, 2025, 09:10:31 AM

Realizing this rough draft of the story is going to be at least 30 chapters ^___^ sounds good to me

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Trigger 11 on January 27, 2025, 07:11:28 PM

Yesterday I made some vegan sausage balls from my Mum’s recipes. I make her stuff around the holidays to honor her and then again around her birthday, which was Saturday. I miss her every day. She was too kind for this world.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on January 28, 2025, 01:54:25 PM

Mitch McConnell voted no against that Hagsbitch guy

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on February 04, 2025, 03:32:46 PM

^Didn't do any good.

Had a nice chat with a PM at work. She's one of the clever ones.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on February 23, 2025, 04:04:21 PM

The fact that 166 AI are so fascinated by us... why not go to Wrong Planet and steal all the product for Alex Plank's Metrosexual Lifestyle!?!?!?!??!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on February 24, 2025, 12:58:10 PM

Quote from: Genesis on February 23, 2025, 04:04:21 PM

The fact that 166 AI are so fascinated by us... why not go to Wrong Planet and steal all the product for Alex Plank's Metrosexual Lifestyle!?!?!?!??!

Oh you cheeky bastard -__-

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on February 24, 2025, 12:58:44 PM

^ :finger:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on February 24, 2025, 03:07:04 PM

The weather was sunny and in the 40's........not exactly warm, but, a considerable improvement from the last few weeks. 8)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 24, 2025, 10:47:22 PM

^The weather has been pretty nice here as well, e.g., maximum of 26°C today. I hope summer just fizzles out in this part of the world.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on February 25, 2025, 04:24:34 PM

I know it's just Spring Training but being 6 wins 0 losses for the Cubbies in the the Cactus League is frigging sweet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on February 25, 2025, 06:05:50 PM

I got my teeth cleaned. :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on February 26, 2025, 12:28:59 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on February 25, 2025, 06:05:50 PM

I got my teeth cleaned. :woohoo:

It feels good afterwards, doesn't it? Until you eat something. :zoinks:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on February 26, 2025, 01:56:22 PM

Nothing happened yet... I'm stuck in the house

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on February 26, 2025, 09:55:39 PM

Some clarity is sinking into my head about humanity!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on February 26, 2025, 11:01:53 PM

Got a chance to get out of the house... went with Mom to Chipotle. Best night ever?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 01, 2025, 03:47:35 PM

Quote from: renaeden on February 26, 2025, 12:28:59 AM

Quote from: Gopher Gary on February 25, 2025, 06:05:50 PM

I got my teeth cleaned. :woohoo:

It feels good afterwards, doesn't it? Until you eat something. :zoinks:

My gums can feel a little inflamed right afterward, so I usually like it best a couple of days later.  :orly:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 01, 2025, 09:27:12 PM

It went better at work today than I expected...

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 07, 2025, 07:38:50 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpPIxcntxkE

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 11, 2025, 09:21:52 PM

I sent the contractor insurance company an email saying I no longer have a job and could I cancel my policy. They emailed back super quickly giving me a form to fill out so I can get my refund. I did that, now I should be paid in the next few days. All without making a phone call. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 11, 2025, 10:23:39 PM

Spent time with Mom

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 12, 2025, 02:16:55 PM

Nothing (yet)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 16, 2025, 05:17:46 PM

Had lunch at Augustinos, now I'm hiding in my basement... why? Because I don't have anything on the agenda until Thursday Night -___-

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 17, 2025, 12:00:31 PM

Revamping my diet and exercise routine

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 18, 2025, 04:55:52 PM

This happened yesterday... my bank rang me. At least I thought it was my bank. It wasn't. They tried to scam me by getting access to my phone. I almost let them but saw what was happening and hung up on them. Phew!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 18, 2025, 05:09:05 PM

I'm still annoyed with my mind racing... and Mom thinks I might also have ADHD/ADD

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 19, 2025, 12:17:37 AM

You do think about a lot. I wouldn't be surprised if you have ADHD. Lots of people have auDHD.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 19, 2025, 03:12:30 PM

Quote from: renaeden on March 19, 2025, 12:17:37 AM

You do think about a lot. I wouldn't be surprised if you have ADHD. Lots of people have auDHD.

I need to go through an evaluation when necessary

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: rock hound on March 19, 2025, 05:05:09 PM

My wife and I call it  "overthinking".  Something we both do and try to not do. 

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 19, 2025, 07:32:33 PM

Jellybean likes his new food and it's $3 less a bag.   Last time we changed he went on a hunger strike and I had to mix it in slowly with the stuff he likes to get rid of it.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 19, 2025, 10:26:40 PM

I was able to get what I wanted to get done today... I did some revisions to my novel, watched my kdrama, refreshed the bird cage, now I'm just hiding in my room listening to music.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on March 25, 2025, 04:12:03 PM

Quote from: renaeden on March 18, 2025, 04:55:52 PM

This happened yesterday... my bank rang me. At least I thought it was my bank. It wasn't. They tried to scam me by getting access to my phone. I almost let them but saw what was happening and hung up on them. Phew!

Glad you caught it in time.

Remember that a legit caller will NEVER ask you for passwords etc. Or accessing your phone, or laptop, or tablet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 25, 2025, 05:49:40 PM

Jenny the nurse at the health department was able to process quickly that I needed my medication!

Thank you Jenny The Nurse!

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 26, 2025, 10:06:41 PM

The Kdrama got interesting... also enjoyed hanging out at Panda earlier... annoyed that I didn't get a fortune cookie this time

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on March 29, 2025, 07:51:44 PM

Rowan made his "activation sound" when I kissed him earlier. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on March 29, 2025, 08:21:50 PM

My residents are happy, that should account for something.... right?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on March 31, 2025, 06:29:10 PM

Found a five dollar bill in with recipients I was gathering for my taxes

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 01, 2025, 12:24:35 AM

^Finding money is always good. :)

My meds were cheaper than I thought they'd be.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 01, 2025, 07:41:17 PM

Cleared my download folder on my PC. Should work okay... right?

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Parts on April 20, 2025, 05:26:44 PM

Cake and pie

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 20, 2025, 10:02:38 PM

Party planning for my birthday that's coming up in May.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 21, 2025, 03:05:41 PM

Technically yesterday, but I didn't post yesterday, so...

I got my taxes done, almost two weeks ahead of schedule! :woohoo:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 21, 2025, 04:14:00 PM

Realizing working out isn't as scary as people make it out to be.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: renaeden on April 21, 2025, 10:48:51 PM

Leftover Subway for lunch. :)

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 23, 2025, 10:00:06 PM

The house is quiet.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Genesis on April 23, 2025, 11:19:33 PM

I went for a walk, got what I needed.. Now I should get ready for bed, but I'll stay up for awhile.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Gopher Gary on April 24, 2025, 09:17:53 PM

Quote from: Pyraxis on April 23, 2025, 10:00:06 PM

The house is quiet.

 :santa:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: Pyraxis on April 24, 2025, 10:19:14 PM

 :kitten:

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: justcuriouser on April 25, 2025, 06:37:34 AM

Delicious pasta. I never used to like pasta that much.

Title: Re: Post something good that happened today, Parts Two
Post by: odeon on April 25, 2025, 01:20:50 PM

Noticed Py visiting. I know, technically not today, but this is when I logged on.